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[ "As few spaghetti westerns had yet been released in the United States, many of the European cast and crew took on American-sounding stage names. These included Leone himself (\"Bob Robertson\"), Gian Maria Volontè (\"Johnny Wels\"), and composer Ennio Morricone (\"Dan Savio\"). A Fistful of Dollars was shot in Spain, mostly near Hoyo de Manzanares close to Madrid, but also (like its two sequels) in the Tabernas Desert and in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, both in Almería province.", "A Fistful of Dollars (1964, �Per un pugno di dollari,� United Artists, dir. Sergio Leone), starring Clint Eastwood, was the first so-called �spaghetti western� (or �Italian western,� actually filmed on the arid central plateau of Spain. For A Few Dollars More (1965, �Per qualche dollaro in piu�) was the sequel, and  The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly (�Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo�) was the finale of this famous franchise. For a fellow grad student at KU we called the last movie, �The Good, the Bad, and The Cave� (no relation to the Screen Gems piece in 2005), a film that had a wistful theme song.", "A Fistful of Dollars was filmed on a low budget (reported to be $200,000), and Eastwood was paid $15,000 for his role. Released in Italy in 1964 and then in the United States in 1967, it initiated the popularity of the spaghetti western film genre. It was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, also starring Eastwood. Collectively, the films are known as the \"Dollars Trilogy\", or \"The Man With No Name Trilogy\". The film has been identified as an unofficial remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961), which resulted in a successful lawsuit by Toho, the producers of Yojimbo. In the United States, the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood's character in all three films as the \"Man with No Name\".", "A Fistful of Dollars (, lit. \"For a Fistful of Dollars\"), titled on-screen as Fistful of Dollars, is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger. ", "A Fistful of Dollars proved a landmark in the development of spaghetti Westerns, with Leone depicting a more lawless and desolate world than traditional westerns, and challenging American stereotypes of a western hero with a morally ambiguous antihero. The film's success made Eastwood a major star in Italy and he was re-hired to star in For a Few Dollars More (1965), the second of the trilogy. Through the efforts of screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni, the rights to For a Few Dollars More and the final film of the trilogy (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) were sold to United Artists for about $900,000. ", "Universal subsequently dropped Eastwood, but in 1959 he signed to star in the TV series \"Rawhide,\" which kept him busy for the next six years. During the 1964 hiatus, he flew to Italy to star in a Western quickie, and thought no more of it until he found out that A Fistful of Dollars was a titanic success. He went back the next summer and again donned his flat-brimmed sombrero and ragged poncho in a sequel, For a Few Dollars More and again for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (both 1966). That year, all three were finally released in the U.S., and \"The Man With No Name\" (as his character was billed) suddenly found himself atop the box-office charts. His icy, tightlipped, implacable character-a triggerhappy gunman with his own moral codestruck just the right chord with 1960s audiences, who were just discovering in Humphrey Bogart a Hollywood relic with similar existential appeal. (It hardly mattered that Eastwood's character parodied the traditional Western-movie hero.)", "Film actor and director, born in San Francisco, California, USA. He began acting in television Westerns, especially the Rawhide series (195965), and became an international star with three Italian-made spaghetti Westerns, beginning with A Fistful of Dollars (1964). In the USA his box-office status was confirmed with several violent crime thrillers, such as Dirty Harry (1971), and from that t…", "By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled \"spaghetti westerns.\" Leone approached the genre with great love and humor. Although the plot was admittedly borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), Leone managed to create a work of his own that would serve as a model for many films to come. Clint Eastwood plays a cynical gunfighter who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rivaling gangs. Neither gang is aware of his double play, and each thinks it is using him, but the stranger will outwit them both. The picture was the first installment in a cycle commonly known as the \"Dollars\" trilogy. Later, United Artists, who distributed it in the U.S., coined another term for it: the \"Man With No Name\" trilogy. While not as impressive as its follow-ups For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), A Fistful of Dollars contains all of Leone's eventual trademarks: taciturn characters, precise framing, extreme close-ups, and the haunting music of Ennio Morricone. Not released in the U.S. until 1967 due to copyright problems, the film was decisive in both Clint Eastwood's career and the recognition of the Italian western.", "“There were major threats, they were serious,” says Gianni Russo, the Mob-connected fixer who ended up memorably portraying Don Corleone’s abusive son-in-law Carlo Rizzi in the film. “[The Colombos] had idiots around them who would do anything. Francis [Ford Coppola] went to Little Italy to do some tests before filming in a movie mobile, like an Airstream. They went in for lunch and when they came back the truck was gone. A million dollars’ worth of equipment.”", "A Fistful of Dollars was an Italian/German/Spanish co-production, so there was a significant language barrier on set. Leone did not speak English, and Eastwood communicated with the Italian cast and crew mostly through stuntman Benito Stefanelli, who also acted as an unlicensed interpreter for the production and would later appear in Leone's other pictures. Similar to other Italian films shot at the time, all footage was filmed silent, and the dialogue and sound effects were dubbed over in post-production. For the Italian version of the film, Eastwood was dubbed by stage and screen actor Enrico Maria Salerno, whose 'sinister' rendition of the Man With No Name's voice contrasted with Eastwood's cocksure and darkly humorous interpretation. ", "eone had the equivalent of 120,000 euros back in 1964 when he made “For A Fistful of Dollars”. Nowadays that would not cover the cost of the leading actor's trailer for the shoot. And back then it forced the director to seek out the cheapest location he could find, and hire the little known actor Clint Eastwood to play the Man With No Name. MiniHollywood was built inland near Tabernas in 1965 and the rest is history.", "* For a Few Dollars More (1965), starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, is set in El Paso", "The Mexican jungles doubled for Vietnam, and the production cleverly inserted small details in an effort to make it seem like they were in Asia. For instance, the massive Buddha statue seen in the opening credit sequence was created entirely out of gold-painted Styrofoam and shot in the parking lot of the production’s Acapulco beach resort hotel. It was then painted over again and used in the jungle temple where Rambo meets Co Bao, which was a set created by the production only 10 minutes away from their hotel as well. The U.S. military base where Murdock oversees the operation actually belonged to the Mexican Air Force, as did most of the aircraft seen in the movie. The most costly location was an actual rice paddy that was planted by the production and used during the scene where Rambo attempts to escape with the POWs.", "Bronson made a serious name for himself in European films. In 1968, he starred as Harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West. The director, Sergio Leone, once called him \"the greatest actor I ever worked with\", and had wanted to cast Bronson for the lead in 1964's A Fistful of Dollars. Bronson turned him down and the role launched Clint Eastwood to film stardom. In 1970, Bronson starred in the French film Rider on the Rain, which won a Hollywood Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The following year, this overseas fame earned him a special Golden Globe Henrietta Award for \"World Film Favorite - Male\" together with Sean Connery. In 1972 he began a string of successful action films for United Artists, beginning with Chato's Land, although he had done several films for UA before this in the 1960s (The Magnificent Seven, etc.). One film UA brought into the domestic mainstream was Città violenta, an Italian-made film originally released overseas in 1970. ", "Ledger's relationship with the press in Australia was sometimes turbulent, and it led to his abandonment of plans for his family to reside part-time in Sydney. In 2004, he strongly denied press reports alleging that \"he spat at journalists on the Sydney set of the film Candy,\" or that one of his relatives had done so later, outside Ledger's Sydney home. On 13 January 2006, \"Several members of the paparazzi retaliated … squirting Ledger and Williams with water pistols on the red carpet at the Sydney premiere of Brokeback Mountain.\"", "Originally called \"The Magnificent Stranger\", the title wasn't changed to \"A Fistful of Dollars\" until almost three days before the movie premiered in theaters. In fact, nobody had bothered to inform its main star, Clint Eastwood , of the change, and as a result Eastwood remained virtually unaware of the positive buzz surrounding the movie until an agent pointed it out to him in a Variety Magazine article three weeks later. See more »", "Principal photography on Goldfinger started on in Miami, at the Fontainebleau Hotel; the crew was small, consisting only of Hamilton, Broccoli, Adam and cinematographer Ted Moore. After five days in Florida, production moved to England. The primary location was Pinewood Studios, home to sets including a recreation of the Fontainebleau, the South American city of the pre-title sequence, and both Goldfinger's estate and factory. Ian Fleming visited the set of Goldfinger in he died in August, shortly before the film's release. The second unit filmed in Kentucky, and these shots were edited into scenes filmed at Pinewood. Principal photography then moved to Switzerland for the car chase and additional footage for Goldfinger's factory sequence. Filming wrapped on at Andermatt, after nineteen weeks of shooting.", "Powell also directed The Conqueror (1956), starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan. The exterior scenes were filmed in St. George, Utah, downwind of U.S. above-ground atomic tests. The cast and crew totaled 220, and of that number, 91 had developed some form of cancer by 1981, and 46 had died of cancer by then, including Powell and Wayne. This cancer rate is about three times higher than one would expect in a group of this size, and many have argued that radioactive fallout was the cause. ", "Marty decides to face Buford, who then shoots Marty in the chest. Using a trick learned from the Clint Eastwood movie A Fistful of Dollars (which was being watched by Biff in 1985A, in timeline 5), Marty survives, much to Buford's surprise. Marty then throws several punches at Buford, finally knocking him face-first into a manure cart, to the delight of the townspeople.", "Careful viewers of the “Dollars Trilogy” will note that, though it’s the final film, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly actually takes place prior to the other two films. Among the clues: Eastwood acquires his iconic poncho , worn in both A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, in the final minutes.", "Although American Graffiti is set in 1962 Modesto, California , Lucas believed the city had changed too much in 10 years and initially chose San Rafael as the primary shooting location. [14] Filming began on June 26, 1972. However, Lucas soon became frustrated at the time it was taking to fix camera mounts to the cars. [17] A key member of the production had also been arrested for growing marijuana, [12] and, in addition to already running behind the shooting schedule , the San Rafael City Council immediately became concerned about the disruption that filming caused for local businesses and therefore withdrew permission to shoot beyond a second day. [17]", "The movie was partially made at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Other scenes were shot at the Republic Studios in Studio City, Calif. Remembering the time he spent with Wayne, he said, “John hung out mostly with the big shots, the director and the producer. When we went on the bus to the location shots with him he was friendly enough.", "During production, the cast's principals stayed at the now imploded Mapes Hotel in Reno. Film locations included the Washoe County Court House on Virginia Street and Quail Canyon, near Pyramid Lake. The bar scene wherein Monroe plays paddle ball and the rodeo scenes were filmed in Dayton, Nevada, east of Carson City. The climax of the film takes place during wrangling scenes on a Nevada dry lake 12 miles east of Dayton, near Stagecoach. The area today is known as \"Misfits Flat\". ", "Donald Lassere, Len Amato, Marilyn Williams, Muhammad Ali and Lonnie Ali appear as HBO Films and the Muhammad Ali Center co-host the U.S. Premiere of \"Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight\" at Muhammad Ali Center on October 2, 2013 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images for HBO)", "Fast Times was filmed in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles (though the location is never mentioned in the film) from November 10 through December 28, 1981. Many people identify the movie with that area and the teen culture associated with it in the early 1980s. \"Ridgemont\" is the name Crowe gave to Clairemont, the San Diego high school at which he posed as a student. (Spicoli mentions surfing at Sunset Cliffs, a genuine surf spot in San Diego.) Most of the exteriors of Ridgemont High School were shot at Van Nuys High School, and other scenes were shot at Canoga Park High School. The \"carrot\" scene and football game were shot at James Monroe High School in Sepulveda (now called North Hills). The \"Ridgemont Mall\" shown in the film was actually the Sherman Oaks Galleria, with its exterior shot at Santa Monica Place. Both have since been converted to open-air malls. \"The Point\" was filmed at the Encino Little League Field in Encino.", "The film, and the treacherous filming conditions required to make it, are the stuff of Hollywood legend. Neither Cox nor Beatty had ever appeared in front of a camera. The shoot reportedly went uninsured, even though the actors were required to do the vast majority of the stunt work on their own. Beatty almost drowned. Reynolds severely injured his back. Dickey was asked to leave the set because of his intimidating, abusive behavior. Locals were cast in many of the roles, including two for the banjo-playing kid -- one for his face and one to serve as the hand that fingers the banjo.", "* The 1998 film, Snake Eyes, was set at a boxing match inside Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.", "The rights to the song \"Misty\" were obtained after Eastwood saw Erroll Garner perform at the Concord Music Festival in 1970. Eastwood also paid $2,000 for the use of the song \"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face\" by Roberta Flack. Meticulous planning and efficient directorship by Eastwood (which would become one of his trademarks) enabled the film to be made nearly $50,000 short of its $1 million budget, and it was completed four or five days ahead of schedule.", "Mel Brooks's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles leaves its Western setting when the climactic fight scene breaks out, revealing the setting to have been a set in the Warner Bros. studio lot; the fight spills out onto an adjacent musical set, then into the studio canteen, and finally onto the streets. The two protagonists arrive at Grauman's Chinese Theater, which is showing the \"premiere\" of Blazing Saddles; they enter the cinema to watch the conclusion of their own film.", "Fonda directed his first feature film, The Hired Hand, in 1971. A critically acclaimed western in which he also starred, the film debuted with a restored version at the 2001 Venice Film Festival; it then screened at the Toronto Film Festival before reopening in theaters in 2003. Other directing credits include the science fiction feature Idaho Transfer, starring Keith Carradine and Wanda Nevada in which he starred as a gambler who wins Brooke Shields in a poker game.", "Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. This film is about an underappreciated boxing trainer, the mistakes that haunt him from his past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur boxer achieve her dream of becoming a professional.", "The creators of \"Bullitt\" got more than their money's worth. The movie starred McQueen as San Francisco police Lt. Frank Bullitt , with Robert Vaughn , Robert Duvall and Jacqueline Bissett in supporting roles, and took place almost entirely in the city. Filming occurred in at least nine city districts -- with a finale on the tarmac at San Francisco International Airport ." ]

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[ "Estonian serves as the official language of Estonia, located immediately south of Finland across the Gulf of Finland . Most of the more than 1,000,000 speakers of Estonian live within Estonia , but others can be found in Russia , North America , and Sweden . Modern Estonian is the descendant of one or possibly two of the original Baltic-Finnic dialects. The modern language has two major dialects, a northern one, which is spoken in most of the country, and a southern one, which extends from Tartu to the south. The northernmost dialects share many features with the southwestern Finnish dialect. The Estonians’ own name eesti came into general use only in the 19th century. The name aestii is first encountered in Tacitus , but it is likely that it referred to neighbouring Baltic-Finnic peoples.", "Finland, officially the Republic of Finland<ref>\"Republic of Finland\", or \"Suomen tasavalta\" in Finnish and \"Republiken Finland\" in Swedish, is the long protocol name, which is not defined by the law. Legislation only recognizes the short name.</ref> ( Modèle:Audio ), is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe . It has borders with Sweden to the west, Russia to the east, and Norway to the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland . The capital city is Helsinki .", "Estonia (; ), officially the Republic of Estonia (), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia (338.6 km). Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands and islets in the Baltic Sea, covering 45339 km2 of land, and is influenced by a humid continental climate.", "The Gulf of Riga is found to the southwest of mainland Estonia, directly south of Estonia's major islands, with Latvia on the far shore. It is about 145 kilometers (90 miles) long from north to south, and ranges from 72 to 129 kilometers (45 to 80 miles) wide from east to west.", "Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia (), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, one of the three Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, and Belarus to the southeast, as well as a maritime border to the west alongside Sweden. Latvia has 2,070,371 inhabitants and a territory of 64589 km2. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. ", "Destination Estonia, a virtual guide to Estonia, a Baltic country on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, which is part of the Baltic Sea. The Eastern European country is borded by Latvia and Russia , and shares a maritime border with Finland . The former Soviet republic became independent in 1991. With an area of 45,227 km2 it is slightly larger than Denmark or slightly smaller than the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Vermont combined.", "Estonia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea immediately across the Gulf of Finland from Finland on the level northwestern part of the rising East European platform between 57.3° and 59.5° N and 21.5° and 28.1° E. Average elevation reaches only 50 m and the country's highest point is the Suur Munamägi in the southeast at 318 m. There is 3794 km of coastline marked by numerous bays, straits, and inlets. The number of islands and islets is estimated at some 2,355 (including those in lakes). Two of them are large enough to constitute separate counties: Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. A small, recent cluster of meteorite craters, the largest of which is called Kaali is found on Saaremaa, Estonia.", "Baltic coastline is shared by nine countries. Sweden and Finland in the north, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the east, Poland in the south and Germany and Denmark in the west.", "Estonia is edged by Latvia, the Russian Federation, the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea. The first settlers arrived at the beginning of the 12th century and many communities soon evolved around the main rivers and their tributaries, such as the Narva and the Parnu. During the mid to late 20th century, Soviet forces occupied much of Estonia until the country finally achieved its independence in 1991, subsequently joining the European Union in the spring of 2004.", "Estonia is a democratic parliamentary republic divided into 15 counties which has over 1,500 islands.  Estonian capital and largest city is Tallinn. With a population of 1.29 million, it is one of the least-populous members of the European Union, Eurozone and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Geographically, Estonia is on the north-eastern edge of the European Union, bordering Russia and Latvia. Almost half of Estonia teritory in covered by forests.", "Between 57.3 and 59.5 latitude and 21.5 and 28.1 longitude, Estonia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea on the level northwestern part of the rising East European Platform. It borders the Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia. Average elevation reaches only 50 m.", "Three small republics bordering the Baltic were part of the USSR until 1991. From east to west, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania border the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. All three became members of the EU in 2004 (very passionately so, too), but only Estonia has a significant island group.", "Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, one of the three Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, Belarusand by a maritime border to the west with Sweden. Latvia has 1,997,500 inhabitants and a territory of 64,589 km2 (24,938 sq mi). The country has a temperate seasonal climate.", "The northwestern part of the country borders on the Baltic Sea, which is a part of the Atlantic Ocean. The rest of Estonia's coastline is on two major inlets of the Baltic: the Gulfs of Finland and Riga.", "Estonia's strategic location has precipitated many wars fought on its territory between other rival powers at its expense. In 1944, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) granted Russia the trans-Narva and Petseri regions on Estonia's eastern frontier. Russia and Estonia signed a border treaty in 2005 recognizing the current border. Estonia ratified the treaty in June 2005, but Russia subsequently revoked its signature to the treaty, due to a reference the Estonian Parliament inserted regarding the Peace Treaty of Tartu.", "Denmark is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, constituting Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark. Denmark is southwest of Sweden and south of Norway and the mainland is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark also borders both the Baltic and the North Sea. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland (Jylland) and many islands, most notably Zealand (Sjaelland), Funen (Fyn), Vendsyssel-Thy, Lolland, Falster and Bornholm as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are also parts of the Kingdom of Denmark, as members of Rigsfaellesskabet but have autonomous status and are largely self-governing, and are each represented by two seats in the parliament.", "Denmark (; ) is a Scandinavian country in Europe. The southernmost and smallest of the Nordic countries, it is south-west of Sweden and south of Norway,The island of Bornholm is offset to the east of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea. and bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark,. See also: Danish Realm is a sovereign state that comprises Denmark proper and two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has an area of , and a population of 5.7 million. The country consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, of which around 70 are inhabited, with Zealand, the largest and featuring the capital and largest city Copenhagen. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate.", "Tallinn is located on the northern coast of Estonia along the Gulf of Finland. It is Estonia’s largest city with a population of approximately 415,000.", "From 1228, after of the Livonian Crusade, through the 1560s, Estonia was part of Terra Mariana, established on 2 February 1207 as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and proclaimed by Pope Innocent III in 1215 as subject to the Holy See. The southern parts of the country were conquered by Livonian Brothers of the Sword who joined the Teutonic Order in 1237 and became its branch known as the Livonian Order. The Duchy of Estonia was created out of the northern parts of the country and was a direct dominion of the King of Denmark from 1219 until 1346, when it was sold to the Teutonic Order and became part of the Ordenstaat. In 1343, the people of northern Estonia and Saaremaa rebelled against German rule in the St. George's Night Uprising, which was put down by 1345. The unsuccessful rebellion led to a consolidation of power for the Baltic German minority. For the subsequent centuries they remained the ruling elite in both cities and in the countryside. ", "Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the Öresund Bridge in the south.  At 450,295 km², Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union in terms of area, and it has a total population of about 9.2 million. Sweden has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54 /sq mi), but with a considerably higher density in the southern half of the country.", "The autonomous Finnish province of Åland is located in the Baltic Sea, at the southern end of the Gulf of Bothnia between mainland Finland and Sweden.", "Estonia is mostly a low-lying plain, but there are some modest hills in the central and southern regions, known as the Pandivere, Otepää, and Haanja Uplands. The country's highest point, Suur Munamägi (318 meters/ 1,043 feet), is in the extreme southeast corner of the country near the Russian border.", "Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It is the eighth largest country in Europe in terms of area and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union.", "During Medieval times this land (including southern Estonia ) was called Livonia. In 1201, at the request of Pope Innocent III, German crusaders (knights) conquered large parts of it and founded Riga.", "The territory of Estonia covers17,462 square miles, and is influenced by a humid continental climate. The Estonians are a Finnic people, and the official language, Estonian, is a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Finnish, and distantly to Hungarian and to the Sami languages. Estonia is a democratic parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties, with its capital and largest city being Tallinn. Estonia's population of 1.3 million makes it one of the least-populous member states of the European Union, Eurozone and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A developed country with an advanced, high-income economy, Estonia has the highest gross domestic product per person among the former Soviet republics, and is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Estonia ranks high in the Human Development Index, and performs favourably in measurements of press freedom (third in the world in 2012), economic freedom, civil liberties and education. Estonia is often described as one of the most wired countries in Europe, and is recognised as a leader in e-government. According to Eurostat, Estonia had the lowest ratio of government debt to GDP among EU countries at 6.7% at the end of 2010. The world media has lately started to describe Estonia as a Nordic country, emphasising the economic, political and cultural differences between Estonia and its less successful Baltic neighbours.", "Since regaining independence, Estonia has pursued a foreign policy of close co-operation with its Western European partners. The two most important policy objectives in this regard have been accession into NATO and the European Union, achieved in March and May 2004 respectively. Estonia's international realignment toward the West has been accompanied by a general deterioration in relations with Russia, most recently demonstrated by the protest triggered by the controversial relocation of the Bronze Soldier World War II memorial in Tallinn. ", "Dubki is just one of many geographical curiosities in the Setumaa region. The Estonian-Russian border around Lake Pihkva is famously complicated, and the recent treaty has done nothing to change that. Drive the main road from Värska to Saatse, both Estonian villages, and you will find yourself traversing a short stretch of Russian territory. No Russian visa required, but no stopping o! for a picnic along the way either!", "Suure-Jaani , is located in the centre of Estonia . We could just estimate, as no official centre of this country has been nominated. It seems not to be the exact geographical centre, but the nearest town to this centre.", "The national flag of Estonia is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white. The normal size is 105 � 165 cm. In Estonian it is colloquially called the \"sinimustvalge\" (literally \"blue-black-white\") , after the colours of the bands. The tricolor was first adopted by students in 1881 during uprisings against occupying Russian Tsarist forces. It was readopted as the national flag in 1990 just prior to independence. The colors represent Estonian history, folk costumes, and landscape. Blue is the color of loyalty and also represents the sky, sea, and lakes. Black symbolizes the past suffering of the people, the soil, and the traditional black peasant's jacket. White represents virtue and the struggle for freedom. It is also the color of birch bark and snow.", "Estonian () is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 in various migrant communities. It belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family.", "* The Toompea (Domberg) or \"Cathedral Hill\", which was the seat of the central authority: first the Danish captains, then the komturs of the Teutonic Order, and Swedish and Russian governors. It was until 1877 a separate town (Dom zu Reval), the residence of the aristocracy; it is today the seat of the Estonian parliament, government and some embassies and residencies.", "Tartu hosted the 2013 Night Song Festival, celebrating the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Estonia. The Treaty of Tartu was signed in 1920 with the Soviet Union, bringing an end to the Estonian War of Independence from the Russian Empire. A prominent cultural myth is that Estonia sang its way to independence from the Soviet Union, with the so-called “ Singing Revolution ,” and the 1988 Song of Estonia, attended by 300,000 activists, eventually culminating in independence in 1991." ]

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[ "Each episode began with this familiar invitation - \"Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. The Lone Ranger rides again!\" The William Tell overture was the Lone Ranger theme song, chosen because of the \"galloping\" sound it had, and you would hear it playing in the background. You can click on the center button in the video box above to view an opening clip. Pay attention to the big rock formation. Some interesting details follow about that famous place.", "By the time it was on ABC at 7:30 pm Eastern Time, the introduction, voiced by Fred Foy, had become \"Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear\", followed by, \"From out of the west with the speed of light and a hearty hi-yo Silver.\" The intro was later changed to:", "The phrase was first introduced into Star Trek by Samuel Peeples, who is attributed with suggesting it be used as an episode name. The episode became \"Where No Man Has Gone Before\", the second pilot of Star Trek. The phrase itself was subsequently worked into the show's opening narration, which was written after the episode. Indeed, the introductory sequence was devised in August 1966, after several episodes had been filmed, and shortly before the series was due to debut. It is the result of the combined input of several people, including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and producers John D. F. Black and Bob Justman. Roddenberry's original narrative is as follows:", "   Yes, that's the opening theme of \"The Lone Ranger\" TV series, starring Clayton Moore. The music, Rossini's \"William Tell Overture\", was written in 1829. (It is said that the definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to this music and not think of the Lone Ranger.)", "Of course, there were plenty of dramas on TV as well, including medical shows, cop and detective shows, and a few remaining westerns from the 60s. Most were quite enthralling and not at all predictable, adding great suspense to your TV watching. Some of the most popular dramas of the era included Adam 12, Marcus Welby MD, Medical Center, Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, Baretta, Gunsmoke, Colombo, and McCloud.", "During the 1970s, many TV theme songs were produced (or older themes updated) with disco influenced music. Examples include S.W.A.T. (1975), Wonder Woman (1975), Charlie's Angels (1976), NBC Saturday Night At The Movies (1976), The Love Boat (1977), The Donahue Show (1977), CHiPs (1977), The Professionals (1977), Three's Company (1977), Dallas (1978), Kojak (1978), The Hollywood Squares (1979). The British Science Fiction program Space: 1999 (1975) also featured a soundtrack strongly influenced by disco. This was especially evident in the show's second season.", "How wonderful to see the re-runs now of \"Cheyenne\". Clint Walker was my mother's favourite western actor. She loved the way he looked and the way he talked and his soft-spokeness. I don't think she would have cared if Mr. Walker could even act because he was so 'gorgeous' to her. Fortunately, he was terrific in his role and we never missed an episode. Those were the days of real television..the 'Golden' days, I think they call them and you can see why. Families could sit down and watch such great shows together and not worry about bad language or overt violence. Since I was growing up in England, I learned a lot about America and the old western days. It was fascinating and gave me the courage to come over and see it,years later. It is still fascinating and thank goodness we can all see these shows again and truly realise how great they were.", "\"Rock Around the Clock\" and \"Mona Lisa\" were on the Hit Parade...Uncle Miltie was a household word...people held each other while dancing...the D.A. was a hairstyle...and everybody liked Ike. Those were the days of the 1950's...filled with innocence and the promise of even better days to come. (season 1)", "Nonetheless, Television was a force that could not be ignored. During the 1959-60 season CBS dropped three of its ten remaining daytime radio serials. NBC dropped its one remaining Soap, and ABC had cancelled all if its radio soaps the previous year. Most of the big sponsors had shifted their attention to television, feeling it was a better investment, and left their radio time to be sold as 'spot' advertising, much of which went unsold. In addition, as the national radio networks began to fade, local programming flourished. Station managers saw greater profits in spinning records and selling local advertising than providing air time for serials that weren't listened to. Many soap operas were played for a while on both radio and television, but the small screen eventually won the day. Shows that made the transition to television included Young Doctor Malone , The Guiding Light , The Road of Life , and The Brighter Day .", "   \"Who is that tall, dark stranger there?\" was the opening line to the theme song for \"Maverick,\" one of my all-time favorite TV westerns.", "The closing theme (an instrumental) was \"Remembering You\" played by Roger Kellaway with lyrics co-written by Carroll O'Connor. It was played over footage of the same row of houses in Queens as in the opening (but moving in the opposite direction down the street), and eventually moving back to aerial shots of Manhattan, suggesting the visit to the Bunkers' home has concluded. O'Connor recorded a vocal version of \"Remembering You\" for a record album, but though he performed it several times on TV appearances, the lyrics (about the end of a romance) were never heard in the actual series.", "The version played over the opening credits differs slightly from the full version recorded by Flanagan; an abrupt and rather conspicuous edit removes, for timing reasons, two lines of lyric with the \"middle eight\" tune: \"So watch out Mr Hitler, you have met your match in us/If you think you can crush us, we're afraid you've missed the bus.\" Bud Flanagan's full version appears as an Easter egg on the first series DVD release and on the authorised soundtrack CD issued by CD41. Arthur Lowe also recorded a full version of the theme. ", "\" Where No Man Has Gone Before \" was accepted by NBC and the first season of a regular series was ordered for broadcasting in the 1966-67 television season. History was made.", "I remember watching Joe Franklin's \"Memory Lane\" t.v. show on WOR-TV Channel 9, from NYC. It was fun being a kid in that epoch! --- (name, city, state, birth year???)", "At the conclusion of each episode, Jack Lord narrated a promo for the next episode, often emphasizing the \"guest villain\", especially if the villain is a recurring character, such as that played by actor Hume Cronyn. The line he spoke was, \"This is Jack Lord inviting you to be with us next week for \" and then, \"Be here. Aloha.\" The promos were removed from the syndicated episodes but most have been restored in DVD releases from the second season through the ninth. Most of the promos are slightly edited to remove references to \"next week\".", "One of the episodes George did on the police drama \"The Naked City\" series (\"Four Sweet Corners\") wound up being a roundabout pilot for the buddy adventure series that would earn him household fame. With the arrival of the series Route 66 , the actor earned intense TV stardom and a major cult following as a Brandoesque, streetwise drifter named Buzz Murdock. Partnered with the more fair-skinned, clean-scrubbed, college-educated Tod Stiles ( Martin Milner , later star of Adam-12 ), the duo traveled throughout the U.S. in a hotshot convertible Corvette and had a huge female audience getting their kicks off with \"Route 66\" and George. During its peak, the star parlayed his TV fame into a recording career with Epic Records, producing six albums in the process and peaking with the single \"Teach Me Tonight\".", "For tropes found in the original television show, the 1977 television movie with the original cast, or the 1990s live-action revival series, see below. For tropes found in other adaptations, follow the link in the paragraph above.", "This is one TV show in which the opening credit sequence was even better than the actual programme. To begin with, John Barry's theme music is still one of the best ever written for a TV show - a few years ago I heard it for the first time in nearly 20 years, and I absolutely stopped in my tracks! SO evocative. Then the montage, which begins by using images to tell the respective stories of the two main characters", "The show's theme song was created by composer/performer Stewart Copeland, both of whose parents had intelligence connections: his father, Miles Copeland, Jr. was one of the founding members of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency, while his mother, Lorraine Copeland, worked with British military intelligence during that war.", "Kingsley, Hilary, and Geoff Tibbals. Box of Delights: The Golden Years of Television. London: Macmillan, 1989.", "The closing theme, \"Remembering You\", also had lyrics (by Carroll O'Connor) but was always done as an instrumental. O'Connor supposedly sang them once on the Mike Douglas Show. They start out: \"Got a feelin' it's all over now / All over now we're through / And tomorrow I'll be lonesome / REMEMBERING YOU.\"", "Gould introduced topical story lines about television, Juvenile delinquency, graft , organized crime, and other developments in American life during the 1950s; and elements of Soap opera depicted Dick, Tess, and Junior (along with the Tracys' baby daughter, Bonnie Braids), at home as a family. Depictions of family life alternated with the story's crime drama, as in the kidnapping of Bonnie Braids by fugitive Crewy Lou, or Junior's girlfriend, Model, being accidentally killed by her brother.", "The TV western also marks its 50th anniversary with the DVD release of its first season.", "Another change came with a new opening sequence beginning with the January 22, 1959 episode. Instead of using a stock opening each week as had been done up to then, now each show used scenes from that week's episode in a bid to attract viewers who might be flipping channels and come across the show. Announcer Dick Tufeld provided narration for both the new opening scenes and for previews of next week's episode.", "Tellyspotting: Lee, how is it on your end going back to the 60’s to an era that you did not grow up in? Seems like you’re having a lot of fun with the 60’s.", "By far this emblematic show can be considered as the one that made most history on television, transcendings the barriers of generations and the differences between them, making it a favorite equally for Baby Boomers, Generation X'ers, Millennials or Generation Z'ers.", "The \"Theme From My Three Sons\" was a chart hit for Lawrence Welk and was the title theme song for the series that starred Fred MacMurray and ran from 1960-1972.", "The 1960s premiered some of the major series considered classic television today. It was also the decade that westerns and urban sitcoms flourished.", "(I remember as a boy recording this same broadcast with a wee tape recorder held in front of the tv! See: I told you I'd get nostalgic.)", "The 1960’s gave birth to some of the most entertaining “secret agent/spy” TV shows in American television history (thanks in part to the James Bond movies that were released at that time) and below are a few of my favorites that I enjoyed growing up during that era:", "TV westerns were very popular in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Can you match each of these classic westerns with one of its main characters?", "Elba remembers watching the original 1966 TV series with his parents while growing up. \"It was great to see a great diverse cast on TV, even before we knew what that was,\" he says. \"But it was very interesting to hear a Scotsman, a black woman, an Asian all in one TV show, flying around space. That was pretty out there.\"" ]

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[ "University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is a public university located in 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Established in 1954, it is the largest in the University of Alaska System due to it being in the much-more populous Anchorage area. UAA enrolls approximately 16,500 students annually, with about 14,000 of whom attend classes at the main campus in Goose Lake.", "The University of Alaska Anchorage traces its origins back to 1954, five years before Alaska became the 49th U.S. state. That year, Anchorage Community College (ACC) was founded and began offering evening classes to 414 students at Elmendorf Air Force Base. This was the first time that college-level courses were offered in the Anchorage area. In 1962, ACC, along with other community colleges around the state, was incorporated into the University of Alaska statewide system. Five years later, ACC began offering both day and evening classes at the current campus location. ACC provided academic study for associate degrees, the first two years of work toward baccalaureate degrees, and a wide variety of adult learning, career and continuing education programs.", "In the late 1960s, strong interest in establishing a four-year university in Anchorage brought about the birth of the University of Alaska, Anchorage Senior College (ASC). While ACC administered the lower division college, ASC administered upper division and graduate programs leading to baccalaureate and master’s degrees, as well as continuing education for professional programs. In 1971, the first commencement was held at Anchorage’s West High School, where 265 master’s, baccalaureate and associate degrees were awarded. ASC moved to the Consortium Library Building in 1973. The following year, when the first classroom and office facility was completed, daytime courses were offered for the first time. In 1977, ASC became a four- year university and was renamed the University of Alaska, Anchorage (UA,A). Ten years later, ACC and UA,A merged to become what is now known as the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA).", "The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is a public research university located in Anchorage, Alaska. UAA also administers four community campuses spread across Southcentral Alaska. These include Kenai Peninsula College, Kodiak College, Matanuska–Susitna College, and Prince William Sound College. Between the community campuses and the main Anchorage campus, over 20,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are currently enrolled at UAA. This makes it the largest institution of higher learning in the University of Alaska System, as well as the state.", "The city grew from its happenstance choice as the site, in 1914, under the direction of Frederick Mears a railroad-construction port for the Alaska Engineering Commission. The area near the mouth of Ship Creek, where the railroad headquarters was located, quickly became a tent city. A town site was mapped out on higher ground to the south of the tent city, greatly noted in the years since for its order and rigidity compared with other Alaska town sites. In 1915, territorial governor John Franklin Alexander Strong encouraged residents to change the city's name to one that had \"more significance and local associations\". In the summer of that year, residents held a vote to change the city's name; a plurality of residents favored changing the city's name to \"Alaska City\". However, the territorial government ultimately declined to change the city's name. Anchorage was incorporated on November 23, 1920.", "• The Alaska OCS may be one of the largest untapped oil and gas basins in the world. According to the University of Alaska Anchorage, an annual average of 54,700 new jobs would be created and sustained through the year 2057 by its development, with 68,600 during production and 91,500 at peak employment. (University of Alaska Institute of Social and Economic Research, 2011)", "Currently Alaska is governed as a State within United States with very limited autonomy for Alaska Native peoples. European Colonization of Alaska started in the 18th century by Russia. By the 1860s, the Russian government was considering ridding itself of its Russian America colony. Alaska was officially incorporated to United States on January 3, 1959.", "Nome (, Siqnazuaq in Iñupiaq) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. The 2014 population estimate was 3,788, suggesting a slight increase. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the most populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the Bering Straits Native Corporation.", "Alaska became the 49th state on January 3, 1959; it was the first new state in the Union since 1912. A district from Oct. 18, 1867, until it became an organized territory Aug. 24, 1912.", "The Idaho State Board of Education oversees three comprehensive universities. The University of Idaho in Moscow was the first university in the state (founded in 1889). It opened its doors in 1892 and is the land-grant institution and primary research university of the state. Idaho State University in Pocatello opened in 1901 as the Academy of Idaho, attained four-year status in 1947 and university status in 1963. Boise State University is the most recent school to attain university status in Idaho. The school opened in 1932 as Boise Junior College and became Boise State University in 1974. Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston is the only public, non-university 4-year college in Idaho. It opened as a normal school in 1893.", "There are more than 30 institutions of higher education in Nebraska; about one-half are private schools, and the rest are state-operated four-year colleges and publicly supported technical community (junior) colleges. The University of Nebraska (established in 1869) is the largest educational institution in the state and is composed of four campuses—the original and main campus in Lincoln, campuses in Kearney and Omaha, and the medical school, with facilities in Omaha and Lincoln. The University of Nebraska and Creighton University , a private Catholic institution in Omaha, both have schools of medicine, law, and dentistry. Other prominent private institutions include Hastings College (in Hastings), Concordia University (in Seward), and Nebraska Wesleyan University (in Lincoln); there are also state colleges in Chadron , Peru, and Wayne.", "1959:January 3, 1959, Alaska officially became the 49th state of the union. The Alaska State Capitol, located in Juneau, was originally constructed in 1931 as the Federal and Territorial Building. When Alaska became a state in 1959, the building became property of the state. Juneau is the only capitol city in the U.S. that is only accessible by boat or plane.", "The one hundred years between \"Seward's Folly\" (1867) and statehood (1959) comprise an intriguing though often ignored narrative about the importance of the \"great land\" to United States history. The following brief history of Alaska statehood considers the region in the political and imaginative contexts of (contiguous) United States history and emphasizes certain themes revealed in this effort. First, throughout the late-19th and early 20th century, Alaska serves as an advertisement for American colonialism. A colonial economy developed in which much of the territory's natural wealth (minerals, furs, salmon, timber) was extracted from the region and used elsewhere for the profit of absentee business interests. Second, Alaska served as an extension of the American frontier, a \"great northern and western citadel,\" in the words of one observer. This notion received a new resonance in the Cold War Years when Alaska represented the edge of American interests menaced by the Soviet Union.", "In 1912, the region was granted territorial status. Alaskans approved statehood in 1946 and adopted a state constitution in 1955. On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower announced Alaska’s entrance into the Union as the 49th state. It has a land mass larger than Texas, California and Montana combined.", "UAA is divided into six teaching units at the Anchorage campus: the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and Public Policy, the Community and Technical College, College of Education, College of Engineering and the College of Health. UAA offers Master's Degrees and Graduate Certificates in select programs, and the ability to complete certain PhD programs through cooperating universities through its Graduate Division.\"[http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/graduateschool/about/gradprograms.cfm UAA Graduate School Degrees]\". Accessed December 15, 2011. As of May 2012, the university is accredited to confer doctoral degrees. UAA is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. ", "This Date in Native History: On October 18, 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for two cents an acre, or $7.2 million in gold, which amounts to about $16.5 billion in 2007 currency according to an Economix blog .", "The Alaska Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) was established in 1898 in Sitka, Alaska, also the site of the first agricultural experimental farm in what was then Alaska Territory. Today the station is administered by the University of Alaska Fairbanks through the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences. Facilities and programs include the Fairbanks Experiment Farm (est. 1906), the Georgeson Botanical Garden, the Palmer Research and Extension Center, the Matanuska Experiment Farm, and the Reindeer Research Program.", "The current Alaska State Capitol is an office building in downtown Juneau, originally built as the Federal and Territorial Building in 1931. Originally housing federal government offices, the federal courthouse, and a post office, it became the home of the Alaska Legislature and the offices for the governor of Alaska and lieutenant", "Anchorage Community College (ACC), a joint venture of the Anchorage Independent School District and the University of Alaska, opens the second floor of what is now West High School.  It offers primarily academic and business related courses, 385 students enrolled in the first semester.  LeVake Renshaw, local consulting engineer, was the first student to enroll, and went on to earn a degree from UAF.", "William R. Wood named University of Alaska president.  He played a strong role in the expansion of UA into Anchorage.", "After the American purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, further development took place. New buildings included a Methodist mission and orphanage, and the headquarters for a considerable fleet of United States revenue cutters which patrolled the sealing grounds of the Pribilof Islands. The first public school in Unalaska opened in 1883.", "The largest, Anchorage, was home to 298,695 people in 2015, making it the 82nd largest city in the USA. Aside from Anchorage, there are only two cities with a population of more than 10,000 people - Juneau, the State capital, (pop: 32,756) and Fairbanks (pop: 32,325).", "The first institute of higher education was established in Tulsa when Kendall College, a Presbyterian school, moved from Muskogee to Tulsa in 1907. In 1920, the school merged with a proposed McFarlin College to become the University of Tulsa (abbreviated as TU). The McFarlin library of TU was named for the principal donor of the proposed college, oilman Robert M. McFarlin.", "July 16 thru August 20, 1741, Danish explorer Vitus Bering and Chirikov, who was working for Russia, landed a small party on an island near Prince William Sound, thus discovering Alaska. Alaska.", "Formation of Anchorage Higher Education Consortium between Alaska Methodist University (now Alaska Pacific University) and UA, allowing for ease of transfer credit and sharing of library resources.", "UAA's main campus is located approximately 4 mi southeast of its downtown area in the University-Medical District, adjacent to the Alaska Native Medical Center, Alaska Pacific University and Providence Alaska Medical Center. Nestled among an extensive green belt, close to scenic Goose Lake Park, UAA has been recognized each of the past three years as a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation. Much of the campus is connected by a network of paved, outdoor trails, as well as an elevated, indoor \"spine\" that extends east to west from Rasmuson Hall, continuing through the student union, and terminating inside the Consortium Library.", "September 19, 1952, the Alaska Air National Guard is established as the 8144th Air Base Squadron at Elmendorf AFB.", "Major archaeology sites at Gambell and Savoonga (Kukulik) were excavated by Otto Geist and Ivar Skarland of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Collections from these excavations are curated at the University of Alaska Museum on the UAF campus.", "* March 27 (Good Friday) – The Great Alaskan earthquake, the second most powerful known (and the most powerful earthquake in the United States) at a magnitude of 9.2, strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.", "On October 18, they staked a 160-acre town site on the beach where, the following month, they were joined by the first boatloads of prospectors bound for the new strike on Gastineau Channel. The stampede was on. The discovery was the first that resulted in the founding of an Alaskan town. Juneau was named after gold prospector Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called Rockwell and then Harrisburg, after prospector Richard Harris.", "Territorial Community College Act establishes a framework for cooperation between school districts and the University of Alaska.", "The Alaska State Capitol is located in the state capital of Juneau at the corner of East 4th Street and Main Street. It houses the Alaska Legislature and the offices for the governor of Alaska and lieutenant governor of Alaska." ]

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[ "Stevie Wonder (born Steveland Hardaway Judkins, name later changed to Steveland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure of 20th century popular music, Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won twenty-five Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame.", "Stevie Wonder (b. 1950) is a U.S. singer, songwriter, producer, and musician. Born on 13th May 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan, he was originally called Stevland Hardaway Judkins, later changed his surname to Morris, but is better known by his stage name of Stevie Wonder. His mother's biography states that his surname was legally changed to Morris, \"an old family name\", in 1961 when he signed with Motown.", "Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis in 1975, Gabriel launched a solo career, with \"Solsbury Hill\" his first single. His 1986 album, So, is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the U.S. The album's most successful single, \"Sledgehammer\", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and remains the most played music video in the history of MTV.", "Stevland Hardaway Judkins also known as Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, he became one of the most critically and commercially successful musical performers of the late 20th century. Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11 and has continued to perform and record for Motown as of the early 2010's. He has been blind since shortly after birth.", "May 13th 1950, Born on this day, Stevie Wonder singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Wonder who has been blind from shortly after birth, signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day. Wonder has scored over 40 other US & UK Top 40 singles.", "February 13th 1950, Born on this day, Peter Gabriel, singer, songwriter with Genesis who had the 1974 UK No.21 single 'I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe'. Gabriel left Genesis in 1975 to launch his solo career and had the 1986 US No.1 & UK No.4 single 'Sledgehammer' from the 1986 UK No.1 & US No.2 album 'So'.", "What do these pairs have in common? Lenny Henry and Michael Jackson - Peter Gabriel and Stevie Wonder - John Motson and Virginia Wade - Stanley Kubrick and Danny La Rue - Charles Dance and Chris Tarrant.", "Stevie \"Wonder\" Judkins/Morris (3), the blind multi-instrumentalist enfant prodige of Henry Cosby's Fingertips (1963), Henry Cosby's and Sylvia Moy's Uptight (1966) and My Cherie Amour (1969), Ron Miller's and Bryan Wells' A Place In The Sun (1966) and Yester-me Yester-day (1969), grew up to become an adventurous composer and arranger. Wonder crafted concept albums that moved from the format of the extended song towards the format of the electronic-funk-jazz-pop jam via production tours de force: Music Of My Mind (1972), a collaboration with electronic musicians Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil of the Tonto's Expanding Head Band, the first collection written, produced and played (mostly) by himself (already a veteran at the age of 22); Talking Book (1972), with the funky work-out Superstition and the romantic You Are The Sunshine Of My Heart; Innervisions (1973), a social fresco of symphonic proportions; the monumental and ambitious Songs In The Key Of Life (1976); and the mostly instrumental Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (1979). Till the end, his artistic life was schizophrenic in its attempt to please both the masses, with catchy tunes such as I Just Called To Say I Love You (1984) and Part-time Lover (1985), and his spiritual alter-ego.", "Incredibly, past and present members of Genesis accounted for seven of the Hot 100 songs in the last week of July, 1986, as either artists or producers. Aside from \"Invisible Touch\" there was Peter Gabriel's \"Sledgehammer\" and the Phil Collins-produced hit \"No One Is To Blame\" by Howard Jones, there was Collins' \"Take Me Home\" and Mike Rutherford's two singles, \"All I Need Is A Miracle\" and \"Taken In.\" The seventh was Steve Hackett and GTR's \"When The Heart Rules The Mind.\" The Invisible Touch album produced five Top 10 songs, including two # 3's (\"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight\" and \"In Too Deep\") and two # 4's (\"Throwing It All Away\" and \"Land Of Confusion\").", "Genesis are an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967. The most commercially successful and long-lasting line-up includes keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford and drummer/singer Phil Collins. Other important members were the original lead singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett. The band underwent many changes in musical style over its career, from folk music to progressive rock in the 1970s, before moving towards pop at the end of the decade. They have sold 21.5 million RIAA-certified albums in the US and their worldwide sales are estimated to be between 100 million and 150 million.", "\"Solsbury Hill\" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel, about a spiritual experience atop Solsbury Hill in Somerset, England. Gabriel wrote the song after his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis, of which he had been the lead singer since its inception, explaining the reasons behind his departure. Despite the eloquence and purity of the vision atop Solsbury Hill, there may be some ambivalence of being free or going solo: \"And liberty she pirouette when I think that I am free.\" It was his debut single. The single was a Top 20 hit in the UK and reached the Top 70 on the Billboard Hot 100.", "\"Dancing with the Moonlit Knight\" deserves a special paragraph, because the acapella intro by Peter GABRIEL is one of the best examples of how great vocalist he is, probably not as natural gifted as Greg Lake or Freddie Mercury but Peter always puts something extra that I like to call soul, remember it's a very hard task ro sing this kind of introductions while the instruments slowly start joining his voice without loosing the right key in any moment, and he does it as a real master.", "Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1950, the third of six children of Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. He was born six weeks premature, which, along with the oxygen-rich atmosphere in the hospital incubator, resulted in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a condition in which the growth of the eyes is aborted and causes the retinas to detach; so he became blind. When Wonder was four, his mother left his father and moved to Detroit with her children. She changed her name back to Lula Hardaway and later changed her son's surname to Morris, partly because of relatives. Wonder has retained Morris as his legal surname. Wonder began playing instruments at an early age, including piano, harmonica and drums. He formed a singing partnership with a friend; calling themselves Stevie and John, they played on street corners, and occasionally at parties and dances.", "Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder’s smash duet “Ebony and Ivory” was released March 29, 1982, and became by far the biggest hit of the latter’s stellar career, spending seven weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100. (His “Fingertips -- Part 2,” “Sir Duke” and “I Just Called to Say I Love You\" each topped the charts for three weeks.) Take away “Hey Jude,” and it’s the longest-running No. 1 for the former Beatle as well -- tied with the game-changing “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.”", "As much as we appreciated seeing him wear a flowerpot on his head as the lead singer of Genesis, Gabriel's solo triumphs (\"Sledgehammer,\" \"In Your Eyes\") made him a household name. Likewise, after Phil Collins stepped out from behind the drums for the band and set off on his own, he became an unstoppable commercial sensation, selling well over 150 million records.", "Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. His singles, often dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy \"In the Air Tonight\", to the dance pop of \"Sussudio\", to the political statements of his most successful song, \"Another Day In Paradise\". His international popularity transformed Genesis from a progressive rock group to a regular on the pop charts and an early MTV mainstay. Collins' professional career began as a drummer, first with obscure rock group Flaming Youth and then more famously with Genesis. In Genesis, Collins originally supplied backing vocals for front man Peter Gabriel, singing lead on only two songs: \"For Absent Friends\" from 1971's Nursery Cryme album and \"More Fool Me\" from Selling England by the Pound, which was released in 1973. On Gabriel's departure in 1975, Collins became the group's lead singer. As the decade closed, Genesis's first international hit, \"Follow You, Follow Me\", demonstrated a drastic change from the band's early years. His concurrent solo career, heavily influenced by his personal life, brought both him and Genesis commercial success. According to Atlantic Records, Collins' total worldwide sales as a solo artist, as of 2002, were 150 million.", "● Peter Gabriel —— Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ [Sndtrk] ► Prog Rock >> 1989", "1973, Stevie Wonder went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'You Are The Sunshine Of My Life'. His third US No.1, a No.7 hit in the UK.", "Gabriel achieved his greatest popularity with songs from the 1986 album So. The album charted at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart, and No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S. It is certified triple platinum in the UK, and five times platinum in the U.S. The album produced three UK Top 20 hits, \"Sledgehammer\", \"Big Time\", and \"Don't Give Up\" – a duet with Kate Bush. The album also produced three Top 40 hits in the U.S., \"Sledgehammer\", \"In Your Eyes\" (featured in the John Cusack film Say Anything), and \"Big Time\". \"Sledgehammer\" peaked at No. 1 in the United States, knocking Genesis' \"Invisible Touch\" off the top spot, and No. 4 in the UK. The ballad \"Don't Give Up\" was about the devastation of unemployment. Gabriel co-produced So with Daniel Lanois, also known for his work with U2 and Brian Eno. In 1990, Rolling Stone ranked So number No. 14 on its list of \"Top 100 Albums of the Eighties\". ", "[on Peter Gabriel ] I've known him for years and I put him very high on my list of people I admire. He's always ploughed his own furrow. I just adore his use of rhythm.", "George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, 25.6.1963) George Michael is an English pop singer / songwriter who first rose to fame in the 1980s as one half of the pop duo Wham!", "On 16 June 2016, Peter Gabriel released the single I'm Amazing. The song was written several years prior, in part as a tribute to Muhammad Ali. ", "Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (born 25 June 1963), better known by his stage name George Michael, is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. Michael rose to fame during the 1980s and 1990s with his style of post-disco dance-pop. He has also been characterised as a blue-eyed soul singer, although his material draws more from middle-of-the-road pop than soul music. As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Michael has sold more than 80 million records worldwide. His 1987 debut solo album, Faith, has on its own sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Michael has garnered seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Michael the 40th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists list. Michael has won numerous music awards throughout his 30-year career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male twice, four MTV Video Music Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, three American Music Awards, and two Grammy Awards from eight nominations. In 2004, the Radio Academy named Michael the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004. The documentary A Different Story, released in 2005, covered his career and personal life. In 2006, George Michael announced his first tour in 15 years, the worldwide 25 Live tour, spanning three individual tours over the course of three years (2006, 2007 and 2008).", "\"Ebony and Ivory\" is a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney, performed with Stevie Wonder. It was released on March 29 of that year. The song is featured on McCartney's album Tug of War as well as several of Wonder's Greatest Hits albums. The song reached number one on both the UK and the US charts in 1982.", "George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on June 25, 1963 in East Finchley, London, England died on December 25, 2016 in Goring Oxfordshire, England) was an English pop musician of English/Greek Cypriot ancestry. Michael began his career by forming a band called The Executive together with his best friend Andrew Ridgeley , a fellow pupil at Bushey Meads School, though it did not survive for long.", "George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in Finchley, north London, in the United Kingdom, to Lesley Angold (Harrison), a dancer, and Kyriacos Panayiotou, a restaurateur. His father was a Greek Cypriot, and his mother was of English background. He first discovered fame as a musician when he and school friend, Andrew Ridgeley , formed the pop group Wham! . Success came fast and furious with their first album, 'Fantastic' (1983) hitting the UK number one spot. Wham! survived for five years and during that time the group notched up four number one singles and two number one albums. Most of their other releases made top three. George also contributed to the Band Aid Single 'Do They Know It's Christmas' (1984), and scored two further solo number one hits with 'Careless Whisper' and 'A Different Corner'.", "Phil collins has one if the greatest voices of all time I did like peter gabriel's voice too though", "The tracklisting for �Scratch My Back�, an album on which Peter Gabriel does cover versions of other artists songs is:", "In 1987, Wonder appeared on Michael Jackson's Bad album on the duet \"Just Good Friends\". Michael Jackson also sang a duet with him titled \"Get It\" on Wonder's 1987 album Characters. This was a minor hit single, as were \"Skeletons\" and \"You Will Know\". In the fall of 1988, Wonder dueted with Julio Iglesias on the hit single \"My Love\", which appeared on Iglesias' album Non Stop.", "Gabriel sang (along with Jim Kerr of Simple Minds) on \"Everywhere I Go\", from The Call's 1986 release, Reconciled. On Toni Childs' 1994 CD, The Woman's Boat, Gabriel sang on the track, \"I Met a Man\".", "On which Stevie Wonder album did he team up with Michael Jackson to sing Get It?", "Peter Mark Sinclair \"Marc\" Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. He has also had a diverse career as a solo artist. His collaborations include a duet with Gene Pitney on the 1989 UK number one single \"Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart\". Almond has sold over 30 million records worldwide." ]

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[ "Based on the same name story from James Joyce’s short story collection Dubliners, The Dead turned out to be John Huston’s final film and a fitting end to the director’s lengthy and distinguished career. The film is also noteworthy for dealing with warmer and more intimate subject matter than most of Huston’s previous work, which probably has a lot to do with the fact the director knew his days were numbered even going as far as predicting himself that The Dead would be his last movie.", "director John Huston's The Dead (with only two nominations, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Costume Design) - it was Huston's last film (and released posthumously)", "John Huston, the legendary director and scenarist who made such classic films as ''The Maltese Falcon,'' ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,'' ''The Asphalt Jungle'' and ''The African Queen,'' died yesterday in Middletown, R.I., at the age of 81. Associates said he had died in his sleep of complications from emphysema.", "John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, won twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films.", "Welles's primary focus during his final years was The Other Side of the Wind, an unfinished project that was filmed intermittently between 1970 and 1976. Written by Welles, it is the story of an aging film director (John Huston) looking for funds to complete his final film. The cast includes Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Edmond O'Brien, Cameron Mitchell and Dennis Hopper. Financed by Iranian backers, ownership of the film fell into a legal quagmire after the Shah of Iran was deposed. While there have been several reports of all the legal disputes concerning ownership of the film being settled, enough disputes still exist to prevent its release.", "Huston lived the macho, outdoors life, unencumbered by convention or restrictions, and is often compared in style or flamboyancy to an Ernest Hemingway or Orson Welles . He was, in fact, the source of inspiration for Clint Eastwood in the helming of the film White Hunter Black Heart (1990) which chronicled the making of \"The African Queen.\" Illness robbed Huston of a good portion of his twilight years with chronic emphysema the main culprit. As always, however, he continued to work tirelessly while hooked up to an oxygen machine if need be. At the end, the living legend was shooting an acting cameo in the film Mr. North (1988) for his son Danny, making his directorial bow at the time. John became seriously ill with pneumonia and died while on location at the age of 81. This maverick of a man's man who was once called \"the eccentric's eccentric\" by Paul Newman , left an incredibly rich legacy of work to be enjoyed by film lovers for centuries to come.", "After directing the melodrama In This Our Life (1942), Huston was unable to complete his next project, the high-seas espionage tale Across the Pacific (1942), because he was drafted. For the U.S. Army’s Pictorial Service, Huston directed and narrated the renowned World War II documentaries Report from the Aleutians (1943), The Battle of San Pietro (1945), and Let There Be Light, the last a disturbing study of emotionally unstable veterans in a Long Island hospital that was so powerful that it was not given a public release until the early 1980s. Huston was discharged from the army in 1945 with the rank of major and awarded the Legion of Merit for making his films under perilous battle conditions.", "In the 5th edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (edited by Steven Jay Schneider), 9 of Huston's films are listed: The Maltese Falcon (1941), San Pietro (1945), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Beat the Devil (1953), Fat City (1972), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Dead (1987).", "Also in 1948 he directed his next film, Key Largo, again with Humphrey Bogart starring. It was the story about a disillusioned returning veteran clashing with gangsters on a remote Florida key. It co-starred Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, Edward G. Robinson, and Lionel Barrymore. The film was an adaptation of the stage play by Maxwell Anderson, and the film itself seemed overly stage-bound for many viewers. However, the \"outstanding performances\" by all the actors saved the film, and Claire Trevor won an Oscar for best supporting actress. Huston was annoyed that the studio cut several scenes from the final release without his agreement. That, along with some earlier disputes, angered Huston enough that he left the studio when his contract expired.", "Huston began working on David O. Selznick ’s remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957) but departed the production to instead direct the undistinguished period film The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958). Filmed in French Equatorial Africa with Errol Flynn and Trevor Howard , The Roots of Heaven (1958) followed and drew mixed reviews.", "By 1937, after five years, the 31-year-old Huston returned to Hollywood intent on being a \"serious writer.\" He also married Lesley Black. His first job was as scriptwriter with Warner Brothers Studio, with his personal longterm goal of directing his own scripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as Jezebel, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Sergeant York (1941). He was nominated for an Academy Award for his writing both Ehrlich and Sergeant York. Huston writes that Sergeant York, which was directed by Howard Hawks, has \"gone down as one of Howard's best pictures, and Gary Cooper had a triumph playing the young mountaineer.\"Huston, John. An Open Book, New York. Alfred A. Knopf (1980).", "Huston often directed films with the theme of a disparate group on a quest/search for wealth, e.g., The Maltese Falcon (1941) , The Asphalt Jungle (1950) , Beat the Devil (1953), The Kremlin Letter (1970), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). This was Huston's first post-war film. One of the film's posters clarified the theme: \"The Nearer They Get to Their Treasure, the Farther They Get From the Law!\"", "Huston returned to acting auspiciously with a major role in Otto Preminger 's epic film The Cardinal (1963) for which Huston received an Oscar nomination at age 57. From that time forward, he would be glimpsed here and there in a number of colorful, baggy-eyed character roles in both good and bad (some positively abysmal) films that, at the very least, helped finance his passion projects. The former list included outstanding roles in Chinatown (1974) and The Wind and the Lion (1975), while the latter comprised of hammy parts in such awful drek as Candy (1968) and Myra Breckinridge (1970).", "Huston returned to acting auspiciously with a major role in Otto Preminger 's epic film The Cardinal for which Huston received an Oscar nomination at age 57. From that time forward, he would be glimpsed here and there in a number of colorful, baggy-eyed character roles in both good and bad (some positively abysmal) films that, at the very least, helped finance his passion projects. The former list included outstanding roles in Chinatown and The Wind and the Lion , while the latter comprised of hammy parts in such awful drek as Candy and Myra Breckinridge .", "Huston’s follow-up was the revisionist western The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973), a loose biography of the notorious self-appointed hanging judge Roy Bean , which featured Paul Newman in the title role, an irreverent screenplay by John Milius, and a supporting cast that included Anthony Perkins , Ava Gardner , and Huston himself. Newman starred again in the Walter Hill-scripted espionage thriller The Mackintosh Man (1973). Then Huston managed to set a new acting standard for himself in Roman Polanski ’s classic film noir Chinatown (1974) as the loathsome, evil Noah Cross.", "The Great Actor: Considered a rebel and a pioneer in the filmmaking industry, Huston was an acclaimed director, screenwriter and actor with 15 Oscar noms to his name (and two wins) and is responsible for some of Hollywood’s greatest films, including The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King and Moulin Rouge among others.", "Huston’s debts to his own brilliant debut film remained clear throughout his working life. In films such as THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE, BEAT THE DEVIL, and THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, Huston retained his affection for hopeless little conspiracies, often undertaken by groups of three, echoing Gutman, Miss O’Shaughnessy, and Joel Cairo in THE MALTESE FALCON. Because of his microscopic attention to the mechanics of heists and scams and the structures of the gangs that pulled them, as well as his disinterest in moralizing on the place of the criminal in his society, no less a critic than James Agee called Huston \"the Eisenstein of the thriller.\"", "In 1967 Huston acted in and was one of five directors who had a hand in guiding Casino Royale , a parody of Ian Fleming ’s first James Bond thriller. His string of lacklustre films continued with A Walk with Love and Death (1969), a forgettable medieval drama that is most-notable today for having provided daughter Anjelica Huston with her first lead role in a movie; Sinful Davey (1969), with John Hurt ; and the Cold War thriller The Kremlin Letter (1970).", "His next picture, which he wrote, directed, and briefly appeared in as an American, asked to \"help out a fellow American, down on his luck\", was The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). It would become one of the films which established his reputation as a leading filmmaker. The film, also starring Humphrey Bogart, was the story of three drifters who band together to prospect for gold. Huston also gave a supporting role to his father, Walter Huston.", "It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Greenstreet and Best Adapted Screenplay for John Huston. This was also Huston’s directorial debut, along with Greenstreet’s screen debut, at the age of 61, after a long stage career.", "In making movies, Mr. Huston favored sequential shooting on location. He shot economically, eschewing the many protective shots favored by timid directors, and edited cerebrally so that financial backers would have trouble trying to cut scenes. He made brilliantly evocative use of color, particularly in ''Moulin Rouge'' (1953) and ''Reflections in a Golden Eye'' (1967), closely supervising all stages of production and invariably working under budget. He shot a picture intensely six days a week and, on Sundays, played equally intense poker with the cast and crew.", "The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Warner Bros. film based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett and a remake of the 1931 film of the same name. Written and directed by John Huston, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade; Mary Astor as his femme fatale client; Gladys George, who received third billing despite having a relatively minor role; Peter Lorre; and Sydney Greenstreet in his film debut. The film was Huston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.The story concerns a San Francisco private detective's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.The Maltese Falcon has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Roger Ebert, and Entertainment Weekly, and was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain, the first major work on film noir, as the first film of that genre.The film premiered on October 3, 1941, in New York City and was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 1989.", "John directed, Walter was in supporting - both Hustons won Oscars for Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)", "In 1934 Huston played the lead in the Chicago Works Progress Administration production of Robert E. Sherwood ’s play Abe Lincoln in Illinois . By 1937 Huston was back in Hollywood, where Warner Brothers signed him to a screenwriting contract. This time his career was on track. Huston collaborated on the scripts for William Wyler ’s Jezebel (1938), Anatole Litvak’s The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), and William Dieterle ’s Juárez (1939) before directing his father in A Passage to Bali on Broadway in 1940.", "A heavy smoker, he was diagnosed with emphysema in 1978. By the last year of his life he could not breathe for more than twenty minutes without needing oxygen. He died on August 28, 1987, in his rented home in Middletown, Rhode Island, from pneumonia as a complication of lung disease. Huston is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood with his mother.", "The next script he was given to work on was High Sierra (1941), to be directed by Raoul Walsh. The film became the hit Huston wanted. It also made Humphrey Bogart a star with his first major role, as a gunman on the run. Warners kept their end of the bargain, and gave Huston his choice of subject.", "10 Essential John Huston Films You Need To Watch « Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists", "** John in turn was the father of actress Anjelica Huston and actor and director Danny Huston. Danny was previously married to Virginia Madsen, sister of Michael Madsen.", "Another type of quest often seen in Huston's films involve a pair of potential lovers trying to face a hostile world. Flint adds, however, that he \"bucked Hollywood's penchant for happy endings\", and many of his stories ended with \"love unsatisfied\".", "John Huston directs the film with just the right pacing and style. It holds your attention from start to finish and the ending is especially rewarding.", "The Last Hurrah (Columbia, 1958). Dir John Ford. Wrt Frank Nugent, from the novel by Edwin O'Connor. With Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O�Brien, Basil Rathbone. (120 min, 35mm)", "Having directed his father to an Oscar win, John Huston had the honor of directing his daughter to one, too." ]

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[ "Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional American football, but the first to officially bear the name \"Super Bowl\" (The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games came to be known, retroactively, as \"Super Bowls\"). The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American sports history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16–7. This was the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL.", "Super Bowl III was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the first to officially bear the name \"Super Bowl\". The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American sports history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16–7. This was the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL.", "The NFL's Green Bay Packers dominated winning the Super Bowl for the few years.  Then, the New York Jets and their infamous star quarterback, Joe Namath aka \"Broadway Joe\" for his celebrity status, won Super Bowl III, proving that the NFL and AFL could compete equally and increasing it's popularity even more.", "While many AFL players and observers believed their league was the equal of the NFL, their first two Super Bowl performances did nothing to prove it. That perception changed on January 12, 1969, when the AFL Champion New York Jets shocked the heavily favored NFL Champion Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III . The Colts, who entered the contest favored by as many as 18 points, had completed the 1968 NFL season with a 13–1 record, and won the NFL title with a convincing 34–0 win of the Cleveland Browns. Led by their stalwart defense—which allowed a record-low 144 points—the 1968 Colts were considered one of the best-ever NFL teams. [31] [32]", "** The New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, 16-7. Joe Namath is the MVP of the game.", "Super Bowl III (1969) – The New York Jets came into Super Bowl III as 18-point underdogs, but quarterback Joe Namath famously guaranteed that his team would upset the Baltimore Colts. After Namath led the way to a 16-7 victory, he was named the game's Most Valuable Player.", "1969 - Super Bowl III (at Miami): NY Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7. Joe Namath and his Cinderella Jets snuck up on the heavily-favored Colts. MVP: Jets� QB Namath. Tickets: $12.00.", "Super Bowl V proves to be a game of significant firsts. Its the first championship tilt between representatives of the American (Baltimore) and National (Dallas) football conferences within the reorganized NFL. In addition, it is the first Super Bowl to be played on artificial turf, the first to be decided on its final play, and the first to produce a Most Valuable Player who is neither a quarterback or a member of the winning team. It is also the first Super Bowl match-up between two original NFL franchises. Before the 1970 season, Baltimore was one of three teams moved by the NFL to the AFC. The Colts waste little time avenging their Super Bowl III loss to the Jets and the old AFL, by losing only twice during the season and rolling through the AFC playoffs. Although the aged Colts are expected to fall to the younger Cowboys in the Super Bowl, Jim OBriens game-ending 32-yard field goal gives Baltimore the title. In a game marred by 11 turnovers, Dallas linebacker Chuck Howley is named MVP thanks in part to his two interceptions.", "The first AFL/NFL championship to be called a “Super Bowl” was Superbowl III; on January 12, 1969 the New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts 16 – 7 at the Orange Bowl. Super Bowl I was held on January 15, 1967 in Los Angeles where the Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs by 35 to 10.", "Super Bowl XLIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Arizona Cardinals to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2008 season. The Steelers defeated the Cardinals by the score of 27--23. The game was played on February 1, 2009, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.", "*January 12, 1969: In Super Bowl III, just before halftime, the Baltimore Colts, trailing 7–0 to the New York Jets, tried a flea flicker, but despite the fact that Jimmy Orr was wide open near the end zone, Earl Morrall threw the ball to fullback Jerry Hill. Jets safety Jim Hudson ended up intercepting the pass. During a regular-season game against the Atlanta Falcons, Morrall used the same play and was able to find Orr for a touchdown.", "This was the first Super Bowl played after the completion of the AFL-NFL Merger. As per the merger agreement, all 26 AFL and NFL teams were divided into 2 conferences with 13 teams in each of them. Along with the Colts, the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to join the 10 AFL teams to form the AFC. The remaining 13 NFL teams formed the NFC. This explains why the Colts represented the NFL in Super Bowl III, but not the NFC for Super Bowl V. Baltimore advanced to Super Bowl V after posting an 11-2-1 regular season record. Meanwhile, the Cowboys were making their first Super Bowl appearance after posting a 10-4 regular season record.", "The Patriots (18–0) entered the Super Bowl undefeated and were 12 point favorites going into game weekend. The Giants defeated the Patriots 17–14 in Super Bowl XLII, capped by the famous \"Manning to Tyree\" pass. It was the third biggest upset by betting line in Super Bowl history (The Baltimore Colts were favored by 17 over the New York Jets in Super Bowl III, and the St. Louis Rams were favored by 14 over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI.). Co-owner John Mara described it as \"the greatest victory in the history of this franchise, without question\". ", "Jets quarterback Joe Namath drops back to pass against the Baltimore Colts during Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl on Jan. 12, 1969. Namath completed 17 of 28 passes for 206 yards in New York’s 16-7 victory.", "Super Bowl XLII was the championship game of professional football for the 2007 season , played on February 3, 2008, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. [10] In one of the most significant upsets in Super Bowl history, [11] the NFC champion New York Giants (13-6), defeated the AFC champion New England Patriots (18-0), by the score of 17-14.", "MIAMI - JANUARY 12: QUarterback Joe Namath #12 of the New York Jets hands the ball to runningback Matt Snell #41 during the second quarter of Super Bowl III on January 12, 1969 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Kidwiler Collection/Diamond Images/Getty Images) less", "MIAMI - JANUARY 12: QUarterback Joe Namath #12 of the New York Jets hands the ball to runningback Matt Snell #41 during the second quarter of Super Bowl III on January 12, 1969 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, ... more", "*The Saints also became the seventh team to win a Super Bowl after trailing to start the fourth quarter. The others to do so were: the Giants in Super Bowl XLII, the 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII, the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVII, the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowls X and XIV and the Colts in Super Bowl V.", "The San Francisco 49ers captured their second Super Bowl title with a dominating offense and a defense that tamed Miami's explosive passing attack. Running back Roger Craig set a Super Bowl record by scoring three touchdowns on pass receptions of 8 and 16 yards and a run of 2 yards. San Francisco's Joe Montana was voted the game's most valuable player.", "For the first time, the Super Bowl hosts a rematch of previous opponents, with the winners taking home a record third Vince Lombardi Trophy. After Terry Bradshaws first of four touchdown passes gives Pittsburgh a 7-0 lead, the Cowboys respond with two scores of their own within a 3-minute span. However, two more Bradshaw touchdown passes, including his second to John Stallworth, give the Steelers a 21-14 halftime advantage. After a Dallas field goal cuts the lead to four points, Pittsburgh scores 14 points during a 19-second span, thanks in part to a fumbled kickoff by the Cowboys, midway through the fourth quarter. In the games final 3 minutes, Dallas rallies on Roger Staubachs second and third touchdown passes. However, a second Cowboys on-side kick attempt fails and the Steelers hang on. Super Bowl MVP Bradshaw completes 17 of 30 passes for 318 yards.", "Three more Super Bowls were contested under separate AFL and NFL flags. The next year the Packers handled the Oakland Raiders 33-14. In the third game, the first to be officially known as the Super Bowl, Joe Namath and the New York Jets shocked the Baltimore Colts.", "Super Bowl XLVIII, played at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium in February 2014, was the first Super Bowl held outdoors in a cold weather environment. The Seattle Seahawks won their first NFL title with a 43-8 defeat of the Denver Broncos, in a highly touted matchup that pitted Seattle's top-ranked defense against a Peyton-Manning-led Denver offense that had broken the NFL's single-season scoring record.", "The 1980s also produced the 1985 Chicago Bears , who posted an 18–1 record under head coach Mike Ditka ; colorful quarterback Jim McMahon ; and Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton . Their team won Super Bowl XX in dominating fashion. The Washington Redskins and New York Giants were also top teams of this period; the Redskins won Super Bowls XVII , XXII , and XXVI . The Giants claimed Super Bowls XXI and XXV . As in the 1970s, the Oakland Raiders were the only team to interrupt the Super Bowl dominance of other teams; they won Super Bowls XV and XVIII (the latter as the Los Angeles Raiders).", "The New England Patriots became the next AFC squad to win the title in Super Bowl XXXVI, taking a close game over the St. Louis Rams 20-17. That began an era of New England dominance: The Patriots won three Super Bowls in four years starting with that title. After missing out on the title game in Super Bowl XXXVII (when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Oakland Raiders), the Patriots won close games in Super Bowl XXXVIII and XXXIX, cementing their dominance in the AFC.", "The winning team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named after the coach of the Green Bay Packers, who won the first two Super Bowl games and three of the five preceding NFL championships in 1961, 1962, and 1965. Following Lombardi's death in September 1970, the trophy was named the Vince Lombardi Trophy, and was the first awarded as such to the Baltimore Colts following their win in Super Bowl V in Miami.", "On January 15, 1978, the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XII in front of the largest audience ever to watch a sporting event. CBS scored a 47.2/67 national household rating/share, the highest-rated Super Bowl to date.", "SAN DIEGO, CA- JANUARY 31: Doug Williams #17 of the Washington Redskins walks off the field holding his helmet in the air after the Redskins defeated the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII on January 31, 1988 at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, California. The Redskins won the Super Bowl 42-10. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)", "1984 - The Washington Redskins defeated San Francisco 24-21 after the 49ers staged a comeback with three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. With this victory for the NFC Championship, Washington earned its trip to Super Bowl XVIII.", "Super Bowl | NFL | Super Bowl XLVIII | American Football | USA | The Tour Expert", "Super Bowl XI (1977) – Oakland Raiders wide receiver Fred Biletnikoff caught four passes for 79 yards to win MVP honors in Super Bowl XI. 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[ "Marie Osmond (born Olive Marie Osmond; October 13, 1959) is an American singer, film screenwriter, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family the Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s. Her best known song is a cover of the country pop ballad \"Paper Roses\". From 1976 to 1979, she and her singer brother Donny Osmond hosted the television variety show Donny & Marie.", "Marie Osmond (born Olive Marie Osmond on October 13, 1959) \"is an American singer, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family The Osmonds.\" Marie has always wowed her audiences; it's clear that from a very early age Marie possessed huge natural talent. Indeed, this was Marie's first album recorded when she was just 13 years old! \"Paper Roses\" was also Marie's first hit single; it reached number 1 as a country hit and was ranked in the \"Top 5\" on the Billboard magazine pop chart.", "Marie Osmond was born on October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah, USA as Olive Marie Osmond. She is a producer and actress, known for Donny and Marie (1975), Marie (2012) and The Talk (2010). She was previously married to Brian Blosil and Steve Craig .", "Merrill Davis Osmond (born April 30, 1953) is an American actor the lead singer and bassist of the 1970s pop-rock music group The Osmonds and its 1980s country music spinoff, The Osmond Brothers. He continues to perform with his brothers and also without them as a solo act. He is releasing a new album, 'A Tribute to Classic Rock', and tours worldwide.", "In 1991, Osmond debuted her doll line on QVC. While QVC continues to be a primary source of distribution for her dolls, Osmond also carries her line in retail stores, through Internet sales in the United States and worldwide, and direct response. Her first sculpture, a toddler doll she created and named after her mother, \"Olive May\". set a collectible record on QVC. Since then, Osmond has sculpted several dolls, including \"Remember Me\", \"Baby Adora Belle\", \"Kissy and Huggs\" and her hallmark doll \"Adora Belle\". In 2009, Osmond debuted her dolls on The Shopping Channel in Canada. In 2009, a 16\" vinyl Fashion Doll of Marie Osmond \"Grand Finale Fashion\" was debuted at Osmond's 50th birthday party in Las Vegas in celebration of her 50th birthday. Osmond's doll collection has garnered numerous award nominations, including \"Trendsetter of the Year\" and Dolls magazine's \"Awards of Excellence.\" ", "In 1973, Olive Marie Osmond's brothers, The Osmonds , were already well-established as stars in the pop music world and as teen idols (especially Donny ). The Osmonds' management convinced Marie to try her hand at singing as well, and soon she was performing with her brothers on tour, but not officially a member. When Marie began to record, she took a different tack from her brothers musically: she decided to try to make it big in Country Music . She was soon signed to MGM Records in Los Angeles, California .", "Life Is Just What You Make It: The Autobiography by Donny Osmond with Patricia Romanowski & Jill Willis (�10.50)Publisher: Orion — 2005Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0752873326]Condition: Very Good � in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Description: 2nd printing. Illustrated with colour photographs. From the cover: �By the time Donny Osmond�s first solo single, �Puppy Love�, hit Number One in the summer of 1972, the 14-year-old was already a veteran of TV and Las Vegas. Part of the hit making family The Osmonds, and famed for his duets with sister Marie, with whom he went on to make the hugely popular series The Donny & Marie Show, Donny Osmond was THE teen pin-up of the 1970s. But after punk, the clean-cut approach wasn�t so popular, and record companies felt that there would be no interest in the grown man. In this revealingly honest memoir, Donny Osmond reveals how he kept faith, how he battled against a debilitating social phobia and made a hugely successful comeback, not just as a recording artist, but also as a star of stage in a record-breaking musical..�Notes: Size: 9�\" x 6�\". Grey boards with Purple titling to the Spine. 378 pages. Tags: arts autobiography biography donny entertainment film genres music osmond performing pop rock rockc singers states styles television theatre united", "Marie Osmond is a member of the Republican party. However, she has stated that she is not a political person.", "In the animated television series Johnny Bravo, Osmond voiced himself as a recurring character. He has also done guest spots on numerous other television shows such as Friends, Diagnosis: Murder, and Hannah Montana. He also appeared in a Pepsi Twist commercial during the Super Bowl with his sister, Marie, and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. In 1982, he co-starred with Priscilla Barnes and Joan Collins in the television movie The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch for Aaron Spelling.", "Olive Osmond, mother of the Osmond siblings, died in 2004. Their father, George Osmond, died at age 90 in 2007. Before his death, plans were being made for him and the 120+ members of the Osmond family to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show to celebrate the family's 50th anniversary in show business. He passed away just a few days prior to the show being taped. The family ultimately decided to go on with the show as scheduled, and on Thursday, November 9, the entire Osmond family appeared on stage with Oprah Winfrey as a tribute to their father. The show aired the following day, the same day as Mr. Osmond's funeral.", "Liza May Minnelli (; born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer. With a career spanning six decades, she has reached legendary status in multiple fields of entertainment and is among a small group of entertainers who have been honored with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award.", "Donny Osmond (born Donald Clark Osmond; December 9, 1957) is an American singer, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmonds. Osmond went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as \"Go Away Little Girl\" and \"Puppy Love\".", "Charisma Brands, Lake Forest, Calif., offers a Lavender Rose doll ($169.95)—the latest addition to Marie Osmond’s Coming Up Roses collection—that sits atop a garden bench adorned with purple and lavender roses. Her dress features a lavender rose print on a light flowing voile, embellished with a dozen rosettes. The doll plays the tune Paper Roses.", "On April 29, 2009, Osmond revealed that her oldest daughter, Jessica, is a lesbian and had been living in Los Angeles with her girlfriend. In interviews Osmond has expressed support for her daughter and for same sex marriage rights, and in 2010 was named Grand Marshal of the Ogden Gay Pride Parade. In 2013 Marie is quoted in the Huffington Post stating that civil rights needs to be for all. ", "Jay is the youngest of the original Osmond Brothers group. Jay says he was about eight years old when he learned to play the drums. During the 70s, Jay was voted one of the top ten drummers in the country. In 1972 when Jay shared the lead with brother Merrill in “Crazy Horses,” that single skyrocketed to being the Osmonds’ best selling single overseas. Jay co-produced “The Donny & Marie Show” in 1976, and was also the musical director and choreographer for Donny and Marie’s dance numbers. Jay also choreographed the Osmond Brothers’ numbers for television and stage. Jay became an executive producer of “The Donny & Marie Show” as well as “The Osmond Family Hour” during 1978.", "Today, Donny and Marie perform together in Las Vegas. Marie, 53, hosts a TV talk show on the Hallmark Channel, and Donny, 55, has starred in Broadway productions and continues to record and appear on television. Alan, the eldest performing Osmond at 63, developed multiple sclerosis and retired as the group’s leader and taskmaster in 1996. Wayne, 61, the group’s guitarist and source of comic relief, recovered from a 1997 brain tumor but suffered a major stroke in 2012.", "Co-founder/co-host, with John Schneider , of Children's Miracle Network, a project of The Osmond Foundation. The largest annual broadcast in fund raising history, it has raised in excess of 1.8 billion dollars since 1983, 100 percent of which has stayed in the local area in which it was raised for medical treatment, research and assistance, benefiting children's hospitals throughout the U.S. and Canada. In 1989, the Country Music Foundation presented Marie with the prestigious Roy Acuff Award in recognition of her efforts on behalf of children.", "The siblings' older brothers George Virl Osmond, Jr. (Virl) and Tom Osmond were born deaf and did not originally perform. They made several television appearances in later years, most notably on the family Christmas specials in the 1970s. All of the Osmonds were born in Ogden, Utah except the youngest, Jimmy, who was born in Canoga Park, California.", "Wayne Osmond (born Melvin Wayne Osmond; August 28, 1951) is the second oldest of the original Osmond Brothers singers and the fourth oldest of the nine Osmond children.", "'You have to keep shaking it up': Marie Osmond talks confidence... after being shamed when fans thought she'd sing for Trump", "In 1999, Osmond revealed that she suffered from severe postpartum depression. She co-authored a book called Behind the Smile with Marcia Wilkie and Dr. Judith Moore which chronicles her experiences with the illness. In August 2006, it was suggested by several U.S. tabloids that she had attempted suicide. These reports were denied by her publicity team, which claimed she had suffered an adverse reaction to a medication she was taking. ", "(1963- ) Youngest of the singing Osmond family from Utah, having a successful solo career at age nine. Best-known song \"Long-Haired Lover From Liverpool\".", "During the mid-1990s Osmond had a successful run performing Broadway musicals. She appeared as the lead actress playing Anna Leonowens along with Kevin Gray (as the King of Siam) in the 1994-95 production of The King and I and in 1997, she starred in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music (as Maria). She sold out many major cities with the productions and received glowing reviews from the critics. ", "The Osmonds performed a stage show in Washington, D.C.  for record executives.  Marie made her debut in Washington and accepted the gold record for Crazy Horses from the RIAA.", "In the 1980s, Osmond re-invented himself as a solo vocal artist and abandoned the earlier television show image crafted to appeal to young viewers. He made an unlikely appearance as one of several celebrities and unknowns auditioning to sing for guitarist Jeff Beck in the video for Beck's 1985 single \"Ambitious\" - which was produced by Paul Flattery and directed by Jim Yukich - followed in 1986 by an equally unlikely cameo in the animated Luis Cardenas music video \"Runaway\". He spent several years as a performer, before hiring the services of music and entertainment guru Steven Machat, who got Osmond together with Peter Gabriel to see whether Machat and Gabriel could turn the TV Osmond's image into a contemporary young pop act. They succeeded, returning Osmond to the US charts in 1989 with the Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 song \"Soldier of Love\" and its top twenty follow-up \"Sacred Emotion\". The campaign to market \"Soldier Of Love\" received considerable airplay with the singer being presented as a \"mystery artist\" before his identity was later revealed. Launching an extensive tour in support of the Eyes Don't Lie record, he enlisted Earth Wind & Fire and Kenny Loggins guitarist Dick Smith along with keyboardist Marc Jackson.", "Osmond appeared in the North American version commercial for the PlayStation 2 video game Buzz! the Mega Quiz.", "In 2009, Osmond won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars. Osmond appeared as a guest judge on Strictly Come Dancing on week 3 (movie week) of the 12th series.", "Forthcoming 60th album The Soundtrack of My Life features a collection of cover songs with personal meaning to Osmond. He enlisted Stevie Wonder to play harmonica on track \"My Cherie Amour\" ", "Osmond took a break from music during the 1990s. She released only one song that charted in 1995 titled \"What Kind of Man (Walks On a Woman)\".", "Alan Ralph Osmond (born June 22, 1949) was a member of the family musical group The Osmonds.", "In 1978, Osmond starred in the feature film The Great Brain. 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[ "Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, ONZ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_New_Zealand), AC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Australia), DBE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire), (IPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_English_pronunciation_key): /ˈkiːri ˈteɪ ˈkɑːnəwə/, born March 6 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6), 1944 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944)) is an internationally famous New Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand) opera singer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_singer#Operatic_voices). In 1981, she was seen and heard around the world by an estimated 600 million people when she sang Handel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel)'s \"Let the Bright Seraphim (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Let_the_Bright_Seraphim&action=edit)\" at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%2C_Prince_of_Wales) and Lady Diana Spencer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales).", "She was seen and heard around the world in 1981 by an estimated 600 million people[citation needed]. when she sang Handel's \"Let the Bright Seraphim\" at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer.", "Three of Prince Charles's  favourite orchestras - the Royal Opera Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra - played at the wedding and New Zealand-born soprano Kiri Te Kanawa sang an aria.", "The Prince asked three of his favourite orchestras - the Royal Opera Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra - to play at the wedding and New Zealand-born soprano Kiri Te Kanawa sang an aria.", "*In 1981 sang at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral, London.", "Updated Thursday April 28, 8.17am: The couple have confirmed the music to be played during the service at Westminster Abbey - a mix of classic and newly commissioned pieces, including three songs that were played at the wedding of Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall in 2005: Farewell to Stromness, Touch Her Soft Lips and Part and Romance for String Orchestra Op. 11. Middleton will walk up the aisle to I Was Glad by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry.", "After a brief courtship, the queen's eldest son and heir, Prince Charles, marries Lady Diana Spencer, a bride 13 years his junior and known at the time as shy, timid and wary of the public spotlight. Their July 29, 1981, wedding at St Paul's Cathedral before 3,500 guests and a television audience of around 750 million is seen as safeguarding the future of Britain's monarchy. Diana soon blossoms into a major figure in British public life, feted for her charity work and love of fashion.", "On 1 July 2007, Brightman appeared at the Concert for Diana held at Wembley Stadium, London, an event organised to celebrate the life of Princess Diana, where she sang \"All I Ask of You\" from The Phantom of the Opera with Josh Groban. Around 15 million people across the U.K. watched Concert for Diana at home, and it was broadcast to over 500 million homes in 140 countries. On 7 July 2007 Brightman performed four songs (\"Nessun Dorma\", \"La Luna\", \"Nella Fantasia\" and \"Time to Say Goodbye\") at the Live Earth Concert Serie, and debuted her single \"Running\" at the 2007 IAAF Championships in Osaka, Japan. In this period Brightman also recorded a duet with Anne Murray singing \"Snowbird\", which was included on Murray's 2007 album Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends. ", "1983 - Barry Manilow plays a concert for charity at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The show was attended by Prince Charles and Princess Diana.", "** 29 July – The Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer is produced by BBC Television & Radio with an audience of 750 million viewers and listeners in over 60 countries. Welsh Actor Richard Burton and Scottish writer, actor & Royal expert Tom Fleming are among the commentators.", "Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; [N 1] née Spencer ; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales , whom she married on 29 July 1981, and member of the British Royal Family [2] . She was also well known for her fund-raising work for international charities, and an eminent celebrity of the late 20th century. Her wedding to Charles, heir to the British throne and those of the then 18 Commonwealth realms , was held at St Paul's Cathedral and seen by a global television audience of over 750 million. While married she bore the courtesy titles Princess of Wales , Duchess of Cornwall , Duchess of Rothesay , Countess of Chester and Baroness of Renfrew . The marriage produced two sons, the princes William and Harry , [3] currently second and third in line to the throne, respectively.", "Best known for the song ‘Jerusalem’ and the coronation anthem ‘I Was Glad’, Hubert Parry is considered to be one of the most influential English composers of all time. As a professor at the University of Oxford and a director at the Royal College of Music, Parry’s compositional output was mildly compromised as a result of academic duties, but contemporaries considered Parry to be the finest English composer since Purcell. During the 2011 Royal Wedding, Prince William and Kate Middleton selected ‘March from the Birds’ for the procession of the Queen. Additionally the aforementioned ‘I Was Glad’ was used for the procession of the Bride.", "He has performed at Live Aid, Live 8, the Freddie Mercury Concert For Life and the Concert For Diana. He has also performed at the funeral for Princess Diana in 1997, singing a revised rendition of his 1973 hit \"Candle In The Wind.\" \"Candle In The Wind 1997,\" produced by Beatles producer Sir George Martin, became the most successful single of all time at 37 million copies, all royalties donated to the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.", "The launch of the musical coincided with Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee. As part of the Jubilee celebrations, Brian May performed a guitar solo of \"God Save the Queen\", as featured on Queen's A Night at the Opera, from the roof of Buckingham Palace. The recording of this performance was used as video for the song on the 30th Anniversary DVD edition of A Night at the Opera. ", "Sir Elton John is a singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He performed at the funeral of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.", "The BBC broadcast a 70-minute drama entitled Shirley on 29 September 2011, depicting Bassey's early life and career. Ruth Negga played the title role. Bassey was one of the line-up of artists on 4 June 2012 who performed at the Queen's 60th Jubilee Party at Buckingham Palace, singing \"Diamonds Are Forever\". She performed at the 2013 Academy Awards on 24 February 2013 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movie franchise. It was her first appearance at an Oscars ceremony as a performer. She sang \"Goldfinger\" to a standing ovation.", "British boy band JLS, Aston Merrygold, Oritse Williams, Jonathan Benjamin \"JB\" Gill and Marvin Humes perform during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace in London on June 4, 2012. The star-studded musical extravaganza comes on the third of four days of celebrations to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/GettyImages)", "Imogen Holst introduced early choral music, and soon works by European composers rarely heard at that time in England were in the repertoire, such as Berg, Mahler, Schoenberg, Poulenc, Boulez, and Webern. Later, Copland, Dutilleux, Lutoslawski and Kodály were to come to the Festival. In contrast, John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, Joyce Grenfell, Peggy Ashcroft and actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company made regular appearances; Princess Grace of Monaco came to take part in a poetry recital. Richter played for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.", "Cliff appears in Party at the Palace for the Queens 50th Jubilee with other artistes including Paul McCartney, Atomic Kitten and Ozzy Ozbourne.", "Sir James has played for such dignitaries as Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, President Clinton, President George W. Bush, President George H.W. Bush, President Mary McAleese, Prince Charles, HRH The Princess Royal, The Empress of Japan, The Queen of Norway, Princess Diana, TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex, TRH The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and most recently President Shimon Peres. He performed with Pink Floyd in their memorable concert at the Berlin Wall, was part of the Nobel Peace concert in Norway and performed at the G Seven summit hosted by Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace.", "Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II.", "Prince Henry of Wales (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984), commonly known as Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and fourth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. As such, he is third in the line of succession (behind his father and elder brother) to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Consequently, he is also third in line, again behind his father and elder brother, to the position Supreme Governor of the Church of England.", "After seeing Finch play at his 50th birthday celebrations, Prince Charles had described her as \"a credit to Wales\". She had no hesitation in accepting the invitation to perform at both public and private events in Buckingham Palace, Windsor, Highgrove House and St James' Palace.", "About 800 of the couple’s family and friends attended, including of course the Queen and Prince Philip. The Queen hosted a reception in Windsor Castle’s state apartments and guests said she made a speech in which she described how proud she was of Charles, and that she wished the couple well.", "Image caption Milestone, the booked wedding band were thrilled to duet on 'I Can't Explain' with The Who star", "In 2012, he performed at the Diamond Jubilee concert of HM Queen Elizabeth II outside of Buckingham Palace. He sang a medley of his hits from across the 60 years of the Queen's reign, including \"Congratulations.\"", "He was a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales . They raised money for the elimination of land mines worldwide. He was invited to sing at her funeral service, but declined to sing, as he felt he could not sing well \"with his grief in his throat\". Nonetheless, he attended the service.", "He was among the performers at the Diamond Jubilee concert held outside Buckingham Palace on 4 June 2012.", "He was a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales. They raised money for the elimination of land mines worldwide. He was invited to sing at her funeral service, but declined to sing, as he felt he could not sing well \"with his grief in his throat\". Nonetheless, he attended the service.", "1969 Investiture Choir at Caernarfon Castle for the Investiture of HRH Prince Charles as Prince of Wales", "He was among the performers at the Diamond Jubilee Concert held outside Buckingham Palace on 4 June 2012.", "Born of Persian parents, went on to become the lead singer of mega UK pop group \"Queen\". Their hits included \"Bohemian Rhapsody\", \"Crazy Little Thing Called Love\" and \"We Are The Champions\"." ]

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[ "This page provides all the information you need to know about Calabar Airport, Nigeria. This page is created with the aim of helping travelers and tourists visiting Nigeria or traveling to Calabar Airport.", "Looking for information on Calabar Airport, Calabar, Nigeria? Know about Calabar Airport in detail. Find out the location of Calabar Airport on Nigeria map and also find out airports near to Calabar. This airport locator is a very useful tool for travelers to know where is Calabar Airport located and also provide information like hotels near Calabar Airport, airlines operating to Calabar Airport etc... IATA Code and ICAO Code of all airports in Nigeria. Scroll down to know more about Calabar Airport or Calabar Airport, Nigeria.", "General information about Nigeria where Calabar Airport is located in the city of Calabar. General information include capital of Nigeria, currency and conversion rate of Nigeria currency, Telephone Country code, exchange rate against US Dollar and Euro in case of major world currencies etc...", "There are several Car Transportation services into Calabar from all parts of Nigeria including the Major Cities of Lagos,Port Harcourt, Abuja,Yola.They include ABC Tranport,The Young Shall Grow, Elim Tours Etc", "Calabar (also referred to as \"Canaan City\") is a city in Cross River State, in south southern Nigeria. The original name for Calabar was Akwa Akpa, from the Efik language. The city is adjacent to the Calabar and Great Kwa rivers and creeks of the Cross River (from its inland delta).", "Nigeria’s publicly owned transportation infrastructure is a major constraint to economic development. Principal ports are at  Lagos  ( Apapa  and  Tin Can Island ),  Port Harcourt , and  Calabar . Of the 80,500 kilometers (50,000 mi.) of roads, more than 15,000 kilometers (10,000 mi.) are officially paved, but many remain in poor shape. Extensive road repairs and new construction activities are gradually being implemented as state governments, in particular, spend their portions of enhanced government revenue allocations. The government implementation of 100% destination inspection of all goods entering Nigeria has resulted in long delays in clearing goods for importers and created new sources of corruption, since the ports lack adequate facilities to carry out the inspection. Five of Nigeria’s airports—Lagos,  Kano ,  Port Harcourt ,  Enugu  and  Abuja —currently receive international flights. Government-owned  Nigeria Airways  ceased operations in December 2002.  Virgin Nigeria Airways  started operations in 2005 as a replacement and serves domestic and international routes. Also, The  Nigerian Airforce  began a new airline called United Nigeria, with a  Boeing 737-500  in 2013. There are several domestic private Nigerian carriers, and air service among Nigeria’s cities is generally dependable. The maintenance culture of Nigeria’s domestic airlines is not up to internationally accepted standards.", "       The 3 Marine Commando opened another front on the south / south eastern border.  With the support of the Navy, Calabar was captured on the 13th October 1967.  The capture of Calabar, Warri, Escravos and Bonny established the supremacy of the Federal Government in Nigerian waters and international waters bordering Nigerian coast.  Biafra was sealed off leaving Portharcourt Airport as the only means of international communication and transportation with the outside world.  It was at this point that Biafran leadership decided to find alternative routes for importation of war materiel and medical aids into the enclave.  Three stretches of straight roads were developed into airstrips; Awgu, Uga and Ulli.  On 19th May 1968 Portharcourt was captured.  With the capture of Enugu, Bonny, Calabar and Portharcourt, the outside world was left in no doubt of the Federal supremacy in the war.  The mercenaries fighting for Biafra started deserting.  Biafra started to smuggle abroad photographs of starving children and to blackmail Nigeria of genocide.  This secured military, economic and political relief from international organizations for Biafra and further lengthened the war and the suffering of the people of Biafra.", "Nigeria is divided into a series of different regions, namely south-western, south-eastern, central, eastern, northern and north-eastern. Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, is situated at its geographical centre, within the area named the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Other significant cities include Benin City, Calabar, Ibadan, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Osogbo and Worri.", "Calabar is the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command. The city has a new model school, Nigerian Navy Secondary School, situated in Akpabuyo, about 10 minutes' drive from the airport. This new school complements the existing Nigerian Navy Primary School and Naval Officers Wives Association Primary School, both situated at Ikot Ansa Calabar.", "Seriously, materials in Calabar are second to none. Beautiful waxes from Ghana, stunning materials from all over Africa can be found in Calabar - all at prices that will amaze. There are many very professional tailors who can make wonderful clothing from linens etc.", "In 2006 Abuja had a population of 776,298 people.  In some areas the population is growing at about 30 percent each year. The FCT occupies 2,824 square miles and the city is 1,180 feet above sea level. The FCT is bordered on the northeast by Kano state, to the east and south by Plateau state, southwest by Kogi state, and to the west and northwest by Niger state. The Benue and Niger Rivers, the two major rivers in the nation, are also close to the FCT. Abuja is located 300 miles northeast of Lagos, Nigeria’s former capital and still the nation’s largest city.", ", Nigeria is the world's 20th largest economy, worth more than $500 billion and $1 trillion in terms of nominal GDP and purchasing power parity respectively. It overtook South Africa to become Africa's largest economy in 2014. Also, the debt-to-GDP ratio is only 11 percent, which is 8 percent below the 2012 ratio. Nigeria is considered to be an emerging market by the World Bank; It has been identified as a regional power on the African continent, a middle power in international affairs, and has also been identified as an emerging global power. Nigeria is a member of the MINT group of countries, which are widely seen as the globe's next \"BRIC-like\" economies. It is also listed among the \"Next Eleven\" economies set to become among the biggest in the world. Nigeria is a founding member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the African Union, OPEC, and the United Nations amongst other international organisations.", "Abuja is the capital metropolis of Nigeria. It is placed in the centre of Nigeria, inside the Federal Capital Territory(FCT). Abuja is a deliberate metropolis, which was once constructed almost always in the Nineteen Eighties. It formally became Nigeria’s capital on 12 December 1991, exchanging Lagos, although the latter stays the country’s most populous metropolis. Abuja’s geography is defined through Aso Rock, a 400-metre monolith left by way of water erosion. The Presidential intricate, national meeting, Supreme court docket and much of town extend to the south of the rock. Zuma Rock, a 792-metre monolith, lies just north of the town on the street to Kaduna State.", "Port Harcourt (; Pidgin: Po-ta-kot ) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta. According to the 2006 census, the Port Harcourt has a population of 541,115. As of 2015, it has an extended urban area of well over 2 million people. ", "The Government of Nigeria instituted the collection of biometric data for passport applications of all Nigerian citizens and upgraded the Nigerian machine-readable passports. Screening at the ports of entry of major airports in Nigeria including Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Kano improved, with passenger name records (PNR) being collected in advance for commercial flights. Border security at rural and extended land borders with Benin, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad were vulnerable to exploitation by BH and Ansaru.", "       Many  pilots and technicians formerly of the Nigerian Air Force of Eastern origin returned to the region to form the Biafran Air Force (BAF).  Two old planes, a B26 and a B25 were acquired with new helicopters. T he two bombers were fitted with machine guns and locally made rockets and bombs.  The BAF also acquired Minicon aircrafts.  A small Navy was established in Calabar with some patrol boat formerly used by the Nigerian Navy.  More boats were later manufactured locally and these were armored plated and fitted with light guns and machine guns.  A  peoples army called, the Biafra Militia, was formed.  Local leaders and ex - servicemen trained young men and women in the use of whatever weapon the indivIduals had.  These weapons were mainly imported and locally made short guns.  The militia were to provide a ready source of manpower re-enforcement for the regular army,  to assist with military administration immediately behind the frontline,  to garrison all the areas captured or regained from the enemy, and to help educate the population on the reason why Biafra was fighting.", "Nigeria is the largest economy and most populous country in Africa with an estimated population of more than 170 million and an estimated gross domestic product of 510 billion USD in 2013. Nigeria's economic growth has been largely fueled by oil revenues. Despite persistent structural weaknesses such as a deficient transportation infrastructure, the Nigerian economy grew briskly over the past decade. The growth rate slowed in 2014 and 2015, owing in large part to the fall in oil prices. The gains from economic growth have been uneven, as more than 60 percent of the population lives in poverty. During March and April of 2015, for the first time in the country’s history, an opposition party won the presidency and control of the National Assembly in generally clean and transparent presidential, legislative, and state-level elections. Although the country conducted successful elections in 2015, it faces formidable challenges in consolidating democratic order, including terrorist activities, sectarian conflicts, and public mistrust of the government. Nigeria has yet to develop effective measures to address corruption, poverty, and ineffective social service systems, and mitigate the violence.", "Ibadan is the capital city of Oyo State, the fourth largest state economy in Nigeria, and the second largest non-oil state economy in Nigeria after Lagos state. With its strategic location on the railway line connecting Lagos to Kano, the city is a major center for trade in cassava, cocoa, cotton, timber, rubber, and palm oil. The city and its environs is home to several industries such as Agro allied, Textile, Food processing, Health Care and Cosmetic, Tobacco processing and Cigarette manufacturing, Leatherworks and furniture making Etc. There is abundance of clay, kaolin and aquamarine in the city environs, and there are several cattle ranches, a dairy farm as well as a commercial abattoir in Ibadan. There are dozens of banks and Insurance firms spread out across the cityscape that service the city's millions of inhabitants.", "Nigeria has 72 (1998 estimate) airports, 36 of which have paved runways. Three major international airports—Murtala Muhammad International at Lagos, Aminu Kano International at Kano, and another at Port Harcourt—offer regularly scheduled international flights. Nigeria Airport Authority manages the airports. Nigeria Airways provides domestic service between the international airports and other Nigerian cities. On 26 August 2000, Nigeria and the United States signed an \"Open Skies Agreement\" to expand and enhance the overall aviation partnership between the 2 countries. Among others, the agreement provides for a direct flight between Lagos and John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. It is hoped that the direct flight will boost Nigeria's tourism sector and develop Lagos as a gateway to Africa.", "$400 million cement plant in Zambia owned by Dangote Group will commence operations by the end of March. Speaking to a group of journalists at Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport in Ndola, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and owner of the Dangote Group, said the commissioning of the new cement plant which is located in Masaiti district in Copperbelt, had been delayed as a result of flooding and a", "Porto-Novo is a port on an inlet of the Gulf of Guinea, in the southeastern portion of the country. It is Benin's second-largest city, and although Porto-Novo is the official capital, where the national legislature sits, the larger city of Cotonou is the seat of government, where most of the government buildings are situated and government departments operate. The region around Porto-Novo produces palm oil, cotton and kapok. Petroleum was discovered off the coast of the city in the 1990s, and has since then become an important export.", "Benazir Bhutto International Airport (, ) is the third-largest airport in Pakistan, serving the capital Islamabad and its twin city Rawalpindi in the province of Punjab. Previously known as the Islamabad International Airport, it was renamed after the late Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gillani on 21 June 2008. ", "* November 13 – Nigeria Airways Flight 357, a Boeing 737, overruns the runway while landing at Kaduna Airport, killing 11 of 138 on board.", "ed over to the Interpol Unit by the Sudanese authorities. Mba added that the suspect was flown into the country on a special flight from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. The plane landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at", "Birmingham Airport , formerly Birmingham International Airport is an international airport located east southeast of Birmingham city centre, at Bickenhill in Solihull, Birmingham, England. The airport is a base for Flybe, Monarch, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines and Thomson Airways. From March 2017 the airport will become a base for Jet2.com. The airport offers both domestic flights within the UK, and international flights to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, North America and the Caribbean. Passenger throughput in 2015 was over 10.1 million, making Birmingham the seventh busiest UK airport. Birmingham has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P451) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.", "Montana Villa, 7 MCC Road, Calabar, Cross River State, ☎ +234 (0) 87 838415 ( (villemontana@gmail.com) ). Exquisite architecture. The beauty once you drive in, is mind-blowing.   edit", "The main airport in the state is the Akanu Ibiam International Airport which can be accessed by buses and taxis. Renovations began on 30 November 2009 to upgrade it to accommodate wide-bodied aircraft. These plans include extending the 2400 m runway by 600 m to make it 3 km long; the runway will be widened from 45 to. It is estimated that the project will cost ₦4.13bn (27.3 million US Dollars ). ", "The Tinapa Resort, a development by the Cross River State government, lies to the north of the city beside the Calabar Free Trade Zone.", "The port is the western terminus of the nation's road and railway networks, and the airport at Ikeja provides local and international services.", "At the airport to receive Yar'Adua were Governors Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina) and Namadi Sambo (Kaduna). 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[ "516. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~ John Barrymore.", "The quote is from Othello ( II.i.187-88), spoken by Othello to Desdemona when they are reunited at Cyprus, before their troubles begin.  Clarissa recalls thinking of it during that summer houseparty at Bourton 33 years ago when she was 18 and enamored of Sally Seton (p 35), the same houseparty where she met Richard Dalloway, whom she chose over the more emotional and romantic suitor Peter Walsh.  At Bourton, it was herself she imagined dying happy, not for the love of Peter or Richard, but for lovely Sally Seton, who on the next page kisses her one the lips.  These love relationships of the past�who loves whom, who marries whom, what difference it makes�are the substance of Clarissa�s life, a life that she now fears is meaningless and wasted. ", "«Age 68»  Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young — I mean, for a whole day at a time. ~Mark Twain, letter to Mr. and Mrs. William Gordon, 1906 January 24th", "The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891", "Wodehouse has taken this quotation straight out of Bartlett. It comes from a poem in which the central conceit is that the poet addresses his love in the terms of a ruler to a subject. Perhaps fitting for a man who is said to have spent his wedding night playing golf.", "«Age 60»  A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head. ~Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time by Laurence J. Peter, 1977  [The Quote Investigator has tracked down the earliest known version of this to an 1875 French book, Portraits Contemporains by Jules Claretie, which reads: Anselme Polycarpe Batbie (1828–1887) \"in a much-celebrated letter, once quoted the [Edmund] Burke paradox in order to account for his bizarre political shifts: 'He who is not a républicain at twenty compels one to doubt the generosity of his heart; but he who, after thirty, persists, compels one to doubt the soundness of his mind.'\" (quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head) See also: \"I never dared be radical when young / For fear it would make me conservative when old.\" ~Robert Frost, \"Precaution,\" 1936", "Foremost among these advancing groups of well-clad people, there are some whom we shall recognize, in spite of Time, who has laid his hand on them all. The tall blond man of forty is not much changed in feature from the Godfrey Cass of six-and-twenty: he is only fuller in flesh, and has only lost the indefinable look of youth — a loss which is marked even when the eye is undulled and the wrinkles are not yet come. Perhaps the pretty woman, not much younger than he, who is leaning on his arm, is more changed than her husband: the lovely bloom that used to be always on her cheek now comes but fitfully, with the fresh morning air or with some strong surprise; yet to all who love human faces best for what they tell of human experience, Nancy’s beauty has a heightened interest. Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit. But the years have not been so cruel to Nancy. The firm yet placid mouth, the clear veracious glance of the brown eyes, speak now of a nature that has been tested and has kept its highest qualities; and even the costume, with its dainty neatness and purity, has more significance now the coquetries of youth can have nothing to do with it.", "[M]any appear to best advantage in old age, when their character assumes a gentler tone, as becomes men who have seen the world and take life easily. ~Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), \"The Ages of Life,\" Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit, translated by T. Bailey Saunders, 1891", "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde", "Benton had written his own version of her reply, a spin on Shylock’s “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” speech in The Merchant of Venice: “Just because I’m a woman, don’t I have a right to the same hopes and dreams as a man? Don’t I have a right to a life of my own? Is that so awful? Is my pain any less just because I’m a woman? Are my feelings any cheaper?”", "Virtually everyone I talked to for this article seemed to take it for granted that the King and Sayn-Wittgenstein have had a romantic relationship, but almost no one wanted to be quoted saying so. “They say the King is very much in love with her,” confided one of his American friends. “And I think he’s right to be, because she’s very beautiful.” A well-placed jet-setter was less kind: “She’s a bad-news girl. And he’s such an old fool. She knows exactly how to play him.”", "(Technically, as this is a reply, it should be indented.) The quote is \"The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life,\" and is said by Lady Bracknell in the third act of The Importance of Being Earnest. I am not sure if Wilde invented this quote or is merely using it.", "“I don’t feel well. [Silence.] I only hope that I shall live long enough to see my daughter married, for I know the meaning, now, of the expression so little understood by the young—the choice of a husband! Go to your amusements, Adolphe: a woman who thinks of the future, a woman who suffers, is not at all diverting: come, go and have a good time.”", "\"He DID feel the same, Elinor—for weeks and weeks he felt it. I know he did. Whatever may have changed him now, (and nothing but the blackest art employed against me can have done it), I was once as dear to him as my own soul could wish. This lock of hair, which now he can so readily give up, was begged of me with the most earnest supplication.” (Ch 29)", "\"... the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her immediately followed. He spoke well, but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride. His sense of her inferiority—of its being a degradation—of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding, but very unlikely to recommend his suit.\"", "In this dialogue, we learn that the sufferings of old age do not affect everyone equally but in fact are dependent on character; old men of good character continue to enjoy life, though in different ways than in their youth, while men of bad character have new miseries added to their previous ones. Nothing is more natural than to age and die, and if we are to live in accordance with nature (a Stoic teaching) we should face death calmly. If one has lived well, there are many pleasant memories to enjoy, as well as prestige and the intellectual pleasures that are highest of all.", "\"He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving-but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he tasted for a little while the deep happiness\"", "\"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.\"\"A woman should be an illusion.\"\"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.\"\"Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.\"\"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.\"", "Quote 17: \"Anon his herte chaunged and his mood, / So was he caught with beautee of this mayde, / And to hymself ful pryvely he sayde, / This mayde shal be myn, for any man.\" Physician's Tale, l.126-129", "The speaker of the poem starts by addressing a woman who has been slow to respond to his sexual advances. In the first stanza he describes how he would love her if he were to be unencumbered by the constraints of a normal lifespan. He could spend centuries admiring each part of her body and her resistance to his advances (i.e., coyness) would not discourage him. In the second stanza, he laments how short human life is. Once life is over, the speaker contends, the opportunity to enjoy one another is gone, as no one embraces in death. In the last stanza, the speaker urges the woman to requite his efforts, and argues that in loving one another with passion they will both make the most of the brief time they have to live.", "\" ... 'Which do you mean?' and turning, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said, 'She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. ...' \"", "He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family. In short, he was twenty-eight, and a bachelor.", "In his old age he was fond of telling with glee of his early troubles and their overcoming. \"My wife died over the seventh childbirth, and I was left with a house full of young children, whose support required me to work every hour. What was I to do? I must marry again, and that quickly, for someone to look after the children. But who could I get to be a martyr in bringing up another's children? I must try to find a woman who would not be likely to have any of her own after our marriage. Now in my class meeting were three women, sisters, of good mind, heart, and life, healthy and strong. The first had married, but had no children; the third likewise. If I married the middle one she, like her sisters, would probably have no children. I married her, and she gave birth to thirteen.\" A hearty laugh followed his little tale, in which he joined.", "The sentiment may have been phrased differently by past authors, but is there any earlier source for the exact quote in this case, which seems to me to be a particularly pithy formulation of the idea? BD2412 T 18:03, 11 July 2012 (UTC)", "Not that my Lady Fitz-Willis is any better than anybody else, being, on the contrary, a faded person, fifty-seven years of age, and neither handsome, nor wealthy, nor entertaining: but it is agreed on all sides that she is of the \"best people.\" (ibid.)", "[quote]She was at her peak of attractiveness when she died. She was always pretty, but in her 30's she became truly beautiful.", "44 \"I think marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or insecure.\" Just a brilliant quote! 44 \"So long as we learn it does not matter who teaches us.\" Another wonderful quote.", "\"It is ... common to hear both sexes repine at their change [Marriage], relate the happiness of their earlier years, blame the folly and rashness of their own choice, and warn those whom they see coming into the world against the same precipitance and infatuation. But it is to be remembered, that the days which they so much wish to call back, are the days not only of celibacy but of youth, the days of novelty and improvement, of ardour and of hope, of health and vigour of body, of gaiety and lightness of heart. It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn.\"", "  He is the one who tells Olivia that if she keeps on with the mourning for her brother�s death, life will pass without compassion. Beauty is not eternal and he says that someday soon she won�t be able to marry. That�s something she doesn�t want to hear.  ", "“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.”", "“He has been through a lot and is questioning the value of his life as it has taken shape,” Wadsworth observes. “So we are asking what he is really doing or thinking when he writes these identical love letters to two affluent women in town; what is he hoping for? It seems to me that he hopes fervently for some restoration of honor lost, for some restoration of dignity, for a chance to be seen as a viable man once again, and not just a fat pub-crawler.”", "[quote]I thought it was interesting that when asked about a girlfriend he said \"that's not my area\" but asked about a boyfriend he paused, and then talked about being married to his work." ]

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[ "1947 A six-man expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl sails from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, on a 101-day journey to Polynesia.", "Heyerdahl and his five-person crew set sail from Callao, Peru, on the 40-square-foot Kon-Tiki on April 28, 1947. The Kon-Tiki, named for a mythical white chieftain, was made of indigenous materials and designed to resemble rafts of early South American Indians. While crossing the Pacific, the sailors encountered storms, sharks and whales, before finally washing ashore at Raroia. Heyerdahl, born in Larvik, Norway, on October 6, 1914, believed that Polynesia’s earliest inhabitants had come from South America, a theory that conflicted with popular scholarly opinion that the original settlers arrived from Asia. Even after his successful voyage, anthropologists and historians continued to discredit Heyerdahl’s belief. However, his journey captivated the public and he wrote a book about the experience that became an international bestseller and was translated into 65 languages. Heyerdahl also produced a documentary about the trip that won an Academy Award in 1951.", "Thor Heyerdahl ( October 6 , 1914 Larvik , Norway – April 18 , 2002 Colla Micheri , Italy ) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography . Heyerdahl became famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4,300 miles (8,000 km) by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands .", "Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom \"Kon-Tiki\" was said to be an old name. Kon-Tiki is also the name of the popular book that Heyerdahl wrote about his adventures.", "Thor Heyerdahl was so convinced that the Polynesian Islands were settled by people from Peru, South America, that he needed to prove his theory.  He organized an expedition of six men, built a primitive raft of balsa wood and bamboo that had a small shelter, named it Kontiki and on April 28, 1947, left Peru on a voyage full of adventure, hoping the prevailing wind and ocean current would bring them to Polynesia.", "Heyerdahl will be forever remembered as the Kon-Tiki man. In 1947 he skippered the tiny balsawood raft on a 6,000 kilometre journey from Peru to Polynesia.", "In 1947, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers sailed from Peru to the Tuamotus, French Polynesia, in a pae-pae raft that they had constructed from balsa wood and other native materials, and christened the Kon-Tiki. The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old reports and drawings made by the Spanish Conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by native legends and archaeological evidence suggesting contact between South America and Polynesia. On August 7, 1947, after a 101-day, 4,300 nautical mile (4,948 miles or 7,964 km) journey across the Pacific Ocean, the Kon-Tiki smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands. Heyerdahl, who had nearly drowned at least twice in childhood and did not take easily to water, said later that there were times in each of his raft voyages when he feared for his life. ", "To explore this theory, he built a copy of a prehistoric South American raft out of balsa logs from Ecuador. Christened Kon-Tiki, after the Inca god, Heyerdahl and a small crew left Callao, Peru, in April 1947, traversed some 5,000 miles of ocean, and arrived in Polynesia after 101 days. Heyerdahl related the story of the epic voyage in the book Kon-Tiki (1950) and in a documentary film of the same name, which won the 1952 Oscar for Best Documentary.", "Established theory holds that Polynesia was colonised via Asia some 5,500 years ago. Based on similarities between statues on Easter Island and others in Bolivia, Heyerdahl believed that there had been contact from South America. To support that claim, he sailed from Peru with five other adventurers on a raft built in native style from balsa wood, bamboo, and hemp. After 101 days and 4,300 nautical miles on the open sea they arrived in the Tuamota Islands. [ Wikipedia ]", "After the war, Heyerdahl continued his research, only to meet a wall of resistance to his theories amongst comtemporary scholars. To add weight to his arguments, Heyerdahl decided to build a replica of the aboriginal balsa raft (named the \"Kon-Tiki\") to test his theories. In 1947, Heyerdahl and five companions left Callio, Peru and crossed 8000 km (4300 miles) in 101 days to reach Polynesia (Raroia atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago). Despite skepticisim, the seaworthiness of the aboriginal raft was thus proven and showed that the ancient Peruvians could have reached Polynesia in this manner.", "After the war, Heyerdahl continued his research, only to meet a wall of resistance to his theories amongst comtemporary scholars. To add weight to his arguments, Heyerdahl decided to build a replica of the aboriginal balsa raft (named the \"Kon-Tiki\") to test his theories. In 1947, Heyerdahl and five companions left Callio, Peru and crossed 8000 km (4300 miles) in 101 days to reach Polynesia (Raroia atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago). Despite skepticisim, the seaworthiness of the aboriginal raft was thus proven and showed that the ancient Peruvians could have reached Polynesia in this manner.", "Known For : Norwegian adventurer with a scientific background in geography, best known for organising the Kon-Tiki expedition sailing by balsa wood raft more than 4,000 miles from Peru in South America to the Tuamotu Islands part of the Polynesian Islands.", "Heyerdahl, born in Larvik, Norway, in 1914, originally studied zoology and geography at the University of Oslo. In 1936, he traveled with his wife to the Marquesas Islands to study the flora and fauna of the remote Pacific archipelago. He became fascinated with the question of how Polynesia was populated. The prevailing opinion then (and today) was that ancient seafaring people of Southeast Asia populated Polynesia. However, because winds and currents in the Pacific generally run from east to west, and because South American plants such as the sweet potato have been found in Polynesia, Heyerdahl conjectured that some Polynesians might have originated in South America.", "Heyerdahl set out on his epic trip to prove a theory that the Polynesian Islands had been populated from South America, based on the fact that wind and ocean streams flow across the Pacific from east to west. At that time, it had been generally accepted that the Pacific Islands had been populated by migrations from Indonesia. The main argument against Heyerdahl's theory was the lack of evidence of Pre-Columbian Indians having sea-going vessels capable of deep ocean voyages. The theory is still highly controversial, with strong advocates on both sides. Heyerdahl also constructed the reed ship\" RA \"and \"RA11\", \"RA\" making it across the Atlantic in 1969 but coming apart before reaching the Caribbean, and \" RA11 \"successfully transiting from Safi ,Morocco to Barbados in1970. He was involved in archeological studies in The Galapagos,Easter Island, The Maldives, Tucume Peru, Tenerife, Azov, Russia, and has written extensively ,including the books \"The Kon-Tiki Expedition\", and \"Aku-Aku, the Secrets of Easter Island \". The \"Kon-Tiki\" and \"RA 11\" are both housed at the \"Kon-Tiki\" Museum on the Bygdoy Peninsula, near Oslo.", "On his 1947 expedition on the Kon-Tiki, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers demonstrated that long-distance ocean voyages in ancient boat designs were possible. In the Kon-Tiki, Heyerdahl sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Island in a hand built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia.", "    Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. Although most anthropologists as of 2010 had come to the conclusion they did not,[1][2][3] in 2011, new genetic evidence was uncovered by Erik Thorsby that Easter Island inhabitants do have some South American DNA,[4] lending credence to at least some of Heyerdahl's theses. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, Heyerdahl argued they were incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.", "Kon-Tiki was the name of the raft built by 32-year-old Thor Heyerdahl who was a Norwegian writer and explorer. Thor Heyerdahl used the Kon-Tiki to travel across the Pacific Ocean in the 1947 expedition, covering his voyage from ‘South America to the Polynesian islands’. The Kon-Tiki was constructed with natural materials found in the pre-Columbian era. Thor Heyerdahl wanted to prove that it was possible for man to have sailed from East to West even in the pre-Columbian period and there was every possibility that people from South America came to inhabit the Polynesian Islands.", "1950: Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl published his account of the Kon-Tiki Expedition, which he undertook to demonstrate that the Polynesians came originally from South America. To do this, he built a balsa wood raft similar to those used by the Polynesians, and, with a Scandinavian crew, took 101 days to travel the possible route.", "Norway is great for maritime history. On the banks of Oslo Fjord on Bygdøy Peninsula, some of the mightiest vessels are permanently displayed in museums dedicated to Nordic prowess on the seas. Here, one finds immaculately preserved Viking longships, as well as polar explorer Roald Amundsen’s Fram and Gjøa. Nestled amongst the church-like exhibition buildings housing the remains of mighty vessels is the Kon-Tiki Museum, which exhibits the considerably less mighty balsa log raft. Opened in 1950 before being relocated in 1957 to its present site, the Kon-Tiki Museum was conceived by Heyerdahl and his fellow crew member Knut Haugland (Haugland, a highly decorated war hero who’d fought in the Norwegian resistance, served as director of the museum for its first 40 years). It currently operates as a privately funded nonprofit institution. The museum displays not only the Kon-Tiki, but also the papyrus boat Ra II (the Tigris was burned at the conclusion of its voyage as a protest against war in the Red Sea region). It also features an experiential Easter Island exhibit with walk-through simulations of underground tunnels, and displays devoted to Heyerdahl’s work as an environmental advocate and humanitarian. But the main attraction of the museum has always been the artifact for which it is named. As of the beginning of 2014, the Kon-Tiki Museum has had over 17 million visitors ( Kon-Tiki Museum 2014–15 ).", "1970 Between May & July, Thor Heyerdall and a small crew crossed the Atlantic in a reed boat, the Ra II. Thor Heyerdahl said Polynesians may have come from South America on rafts made of Balsa wood, Thor Heyerdahl sailed the Pacific on Kon Tiki", "In 1937–38 Thor Heyerdahl and his wife Liv spent a year on the island of Fatu Hiva in the Pacific Ocean. Thor studied zoology, and the couple conducted comprehensive fieldwork. One night Liv remarked that the ocean waves always struck the eastern shore of the island. This caught Thor’s attention. One of the elders on the island had told him that his ancestor, Tiki, had come to Fatu Hiva from a large country beyond the sea. Thor had also noticed that the stone statues on the island had a remarkable similarity to statues found in South America. Could science be wrong? Was it possible that East Polynesia [was] inhabited by people who had come, not from the West, but from the East? This idea would occupy Heyerdahl’s mind for the rest of his life.", "THE KONTIKI RAFT EXPEDITION SOUTH AMERICA TO POLYNESIA AND THOR HEYERDAHL GREAT EXPLORERS RAFTS AND RAFTING", "Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, Heyerdahl argued they were incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.", "Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. (Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, these were argued to be incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.)", "This photo was taken in 1947, the year in which Heyerdahl sailed the Pacific aboard Kon-Tiki.", "Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller. It was published in 1948 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. A documentary  film  about the expedition, also called  Kon-Tiki  was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an  Academy Award  in 1951. It was directed by  Thor Heyerdahl  and edited by  Olle Nordemar . The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdah. l The original Kon-Tiki raft is now on display in the  Kon-Tiki Museum  in  Oslo The Kon-Tiki had a six man crew.  All were Norwegian except for Bengt Danielsson, a Swede. Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) was the expedition leader. A crew member, Erik Hesselberg, was the navigator and artist. He painted the large Kon-Tiki figure on the raft's sail.", "Heyerdahl recounted the epic voyage in the bestselling 1950 book “Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft” and in a documentary the following year that won the Academy Award. He continued to conduct research expeditions to Easter Island, the Galapagos Islands and South America until his death in 2002, and he led voyages across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in primitive vessels similar to Kon-Tiki to prove how other ancient civilizations may have been interconnected. The raft he sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 is now on display at the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo.", "The crew's first sight of land was the atoll of Puka-Puka on July 30. On August 4, the 97th day after departure, Kon-Tiki reached the Angatau atoll. The crew made brief contact with the inhabitants of Angatau Island, but were unable to land safely. Calculations made by Heyerdahl before the trip had indicated that 97 days was the minimum amount of time required to reach the Tuamotu islands, so the encounter with Angatau showed that they had made good time.", "Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller. It was originally published in 1950 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl, directed by Bengt Jonson.", "*Heyerdahl's grandson, Olav Heyerdahl, retraced his grandfather's Kon-Tiki voyage in 2006 as part of a six-member crew. The voyage, organized by Torgeir Higraff and called the Tangaroa Expedition, was intended as a tribute to Heyerdahl, an effort to better understand navigation via centerboards (\"guara \") as well as a means to monitor the Pacific Ocean's environment.", "* The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas (Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen, also known as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft), 1948.", "A photo of Kon-Tiki at Sea, probably taken from the lifeboat tethered to the raft. (From Heyerdahl 1950 )" ]

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[ "LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), better known by her stage name, Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.", "Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines; December 31, 1948)[1] is an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music, earning the title \"The Queen of Disco\".", "LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.", "LaDonna Adrian Gaines, known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award ...", "Donna Summer, pseudoniem van LaDonna Adrian Gaines, (Boston, 31 december 1948 – Key West, 17 mei 2012), was een Amerikaans zangeres, songwriter en artieste. Ze was het bekendst van haar discohits uit de jaren 70, die haar de bijnaam \"koningin van de disco\" opleverden. Als een van de weinige discosterren slaagde ze er ook in om later met andere genres, zoals de r&b, hits te blijven scoren.", "Bio: LaDonna Adrian Gaines, known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s.", "LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 (birth time source: Frank C. Clifford) � May 17, 2012), known by the stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. She had a mezzo-soprano vocal range, and was a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the U.S. Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period. Born into a devoutly Christian lower middle class African-American family in Boston, Massachusetts, she first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she...", "Donna Summer, nom de scène de LaDonna Andrea Gaines (née le à Dorchester, un quartier de Boston et morte le à Key West en Floride), est une chanteuse disco et pop-rock américaine. Elle est un mythe de la musique disco des années 1970 et 1980.Elle fut l'interprète de nombreux succès comme : Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Last Dance (Grammy Award en 1978 dans la catégorie Best R&B vocal performance female), Hot Stuff (Grammy Award en 1979 dans la catégorie Best rock vocal performance female), Could It Be Magic, Bad Girls, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) en duo avec Barbra Streisand, On The Radio et She Works Hard For The Money. Elle a vendu plus de 130 millions de disques dans le monde.", "Donna Summer, nom de scène de LaDonna Andrea Gaines (née le à Dorchester, un quartier de Boston et morte le à Key West en Floride), est une chanteuse disco et pop-rock américaine. Elle est un mythe de la musique disco des années 1970 et 1980.Elle fut l'interprète de nombreux succès comme : Love to Love You Baby, I Feel Love, Last Dance (Grammy Award en 1978 dans la catégorie Best R&B vocal performance female), Hot Stuff (Grammy Award en 1979 dans la catégorie Best rock vocal performance female), Could It Be Magic, Bad Girls, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) en duo avec Barbra Streisand, On The Radio et She Works Hard For The Money.", "in 1948 - LaDonna Adrian Gaines \"Donna Summer,\" pop, disco, R&B, rock singer/songwriter and keyboardist, \"The Queen of Disco,\" member of the Dance Music Hall of Fame, nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is born.", "Born Donna Adrian Gaines (also cited variously as Donna Gaines and LaDonna Gaines), December 31,1948, in Dorchester, MA; married Helmut Sommer (an actor), 1971, (divorced, 1976); married Bruce Sudano (a musician), c. 1981; children: (second marriage) Brook Lyn (daughter).", "Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer, actress, record producer and an occasional songwriter. Born and raised in Detroit, she rose to fame as a founding member and lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motown's most successful act and is to this day America's most successful vocal group as well as one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. As part of the Supremes, Ross most notably rivaled the career of the Beatles in worldwide popularity, and her success made it possible for future African American R&B and soul acts to find mainstream success. The group set a record scoring twelve number-one hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100.", "b]† Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins on January 25, 1938, died January 20, 2012) was an American blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll and jazz singer and songwriter. She is the winner of four Grammys, seventeen Blues Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (in 1993), the Blues Hall of Fame (in 2001), and the Grammy Hall of Fame (in both 1999 and 2008). Having her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer in the 1950s and 60s, she is best known for her 1961 ballad “At Last”, classified as a “timeless classic” and which has featured in many movies and television commercials.", "Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music. In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart dĂŠbut, she remains one of the most-successful female artists in the history of the country genre which garnered her the title of 'The Queen of Country Music',with twenty-five number-one singles, and a record forty-one top-10 country albums.She has the distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five decades and is tied with Reba McEntire as the only country artists with No.1 singles in four consecutive decades. Beside her music, she is known for her distinctive soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure. Parton is a hugely successful songwriter,", "Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett (February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009) was an American actress and artist. A four-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she posed for her iconic red swimsuit poster – which became the best selling pin-up poster in history – and starred as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels (1976–77). In 1996, she was ranked No. 26 on TV Guide \"50 Greatest TV stars of All-Time\". ", "Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers.", "Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music.", "Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26 , 1944 ) is an American twelve-time Grammy and Oscar -nominated singer , record producer and actress , whose musical repertoire spans R&B , soul , pop , disco and jazz . During the 1960s, she shaped the sound of popular music and Motown Records as the lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970.", "Mary Elizabeth \"Sissy\" Spacek (; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She began her career in the early 1970s and first gained attention for her role in the film Badlands (1973). Her career-defining role came in 1976 when she played the title character of Carrie White in Brian De Palma's horror film Carrie, based on the first novel by Stephen King, for which she earned an Oscar nomination. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter, and also earned a Grammy nomination for the song \"Coal Miner's Daughter\" from the film's soundtrack. She went on to receive further Oscar nominations for her roles in Missing (1982), The River (1984) and Crimes of the Heart (1986). Coal Miner's Daughter and Crimes of the Heart also won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.", "Cassie Gaines - background singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd was killed on October 20th, 1977 when a plane carrying the band crashed into the Mississippi swamp lands, the result of a tragic pilot error. She was 29", "Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music.", "Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her performances in films and RKO's musical films in which she was partnered with Fred Astaire. She appeared on stage, as well as on radio and television throughout much of the 20th century.", "Donna Summer (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012) age 63 (cause of death: lung cancer): She gained prominence during the disco era of the late 70s. She was known as a five-time Grammy Award winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the United States Billboard charter, which further spawned four number one singles within a 13-month period. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, Summer died on May 17, 2012.", "Anna Mae Bullock is the birth name of Tina Turner, a popular singer, dancer, actress and author. Bullock began her career as a singer with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, performing under the name \"Little Ann.\" Starting in 1960, she began going by the name Tina Turner.", "Kathleen Marie \"Kathy\" Ireland (born March 20, 1963) is an American model and actress, turned author and entrepreneur. Ireland was a supermodel in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for appearing in 13 consecutive Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. In 1993, she founded a brand marketing company, \"kathy ireland Worldwide\" (kiWW), which has made her one of the wealthiest former models in the world.", "Debbie Reynolds - singer / actress who topped the Billboard and Cashbox charts in 1957 with \"Tammy\", died December 28th, 2016 at the age of 84. In early 1958 she reached #20 on the Most Played by Jockeys chart with \"A Very Special Love\", then scored two entries on the Hot 100 in 1960: \"Am I That Easy to Forget\" (#25) and \"City Lights\" (#55)", "Pauley Perrette (born March 27, 1969) is an American actress, best known for playing Abby Sciuto on the U.S. TV series NCIS. She is also a published writer, singer and civil rights advocate. Perrette also co-owns the \"Donna Bell's Bake Shop\" in Manhattan, which is named after her late mother. ", "Brenda Lee (born Brenda Mae Tarpley on December 11, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a Pop singer, who was immensely popular during the 50s and 60s and is probably best known for the hit song \"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree\". She was also one of the first teen idols in music. She was given the nickname Little Miss Dynamite for her big voice and short body frame. In the 70s, she became a popular Country singer.", "In 1972, Lynn became the first woman to be named entertainer of the year by the Country Music Association. She is known for hits, including \"Coal Miner's Daughter,\" ''You Ain't Woman Enough,\" ''The Pill,\" ''Rated X,\" and \"Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind).\" Her last top 10 record as a soloist was \"I Lie\" in 1982.", "Born in the small town of Eatonville, Florida, Zora Neale Hurston is known as one of the lights of the Harlem Renaissance. She first came to New York City at the age of 16 – having arrived as part of a traveling theatrical troupe. A strikingly gifted storyteller who captivated her listeners, she attended Barnard College, where she studied with anthropologist Franz Boaz and came to grasp ethnicity from a scientific perspective. Boaz urged her to collect folklore from her native Florida environment, which she did. The distinguished folklorist Alan Lomax called her Mules and Men (1935) \"the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore.\"", "in 1950 - Maureen Reillette \"Rebbie Jackson\" Brown, American R&B, pop and soul singer/songwriter and actress, is born.", "Donna Murphy , born in Corona, Queens, NY, of Czech ancestry, is an American stage, film, television actress and singer." ]

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[ "The element curium is named after both Pierre and Marie Curie. The Curies discovered the elements polonium and radium; Marie was awarded the Nobel Prize for these discoveries in 1903. Curium was named in honor of their contributions to the field of radioactivity.", "Curium, element 96, is named in honor of Pierre and Marie Curie. Francium, element 87, is named for France, site of the Curie Institute where it was discovered.", "As one of the most famous female scientists to date, Marie Curie has been an icon in the scientific world and has inspired many tributes and recognitions. In 1995, she was the first and only woman laid to rest under the famous dome of the Panthéon, in Paris, on her own merits, alongside her husband. The curie (symbol Ci), a unit of radioactivity, is named in her and/or Pierre's honour,[19][20] as is the element with atomic number 96 - curium.", "In 1898, Marie Curie began her doctoral study of Becquerel's rays. She and her husband, Pierre, soon discovered two new radioactive elements, which she named polonium, after her native land of Poland, and radium, because it radiates. These two new elements filled holes in the periodic table and displayed much higher levels of radioactivity than uranium. Over four years, working under poor conditions and spending their own funds, the Curies processed more than a ton of uranium ore to isolate a mere gram of radium salt .", "Curium, symbol Cm and atomic number 96, is a transuranic radioactive metal. It is named after Pierre and Marie Curie in recognition of their work on radioactivity. It was first intentionally produced in 1944 at the University of California, Berkeley and can be produced by bombarding uranium or plutonium with neutrons in nuclear reactors. It is a hard, dense, silvery metal with relatively high melting and boiling points. The known isotopes have half-lives ranging between 160 days and 15 million years.", "Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist and a pioneer in the study of radiation. She and her husband, Pierre, discovered the elements polonium and radium. Together, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, and she received another one, for Chemistry, in 1911. Her work with radioactive materials doomed her, however. She died of a blood disease in 1934.", "Caption: Photograph of the physicists Marie and Pierre Curie (1867-1934 and 1859-1906) taken soon after their marriage in Paris in 1895. Marie Curie (born Marya Sklodowska) began studying radioactivity in uranium shortly after its discovery by Bequerel in 1896. She studied the content of uranium ores by measuring their radioactive emissions and showed that thorium was radioactive. Working together they detected two new elements, polonium (named after Marie's native country, Poland) and radium, both highly radioactive. The Curies were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics for their work. Marie also won the 1911 chemistry prize, five years after Pierre's death in a street accident.", "Pierre Curie immediately understood the importance of this supposition and joined his wife's work. In the course of their research over the next year, they discovered two new spontaneously radiating elements, which they named polonium (after Marie's native country) and radium. A third element, actinium, was discovered by their colleague Andre Debierne. They now began the tedious and monumental task of isolating these elements so that their chemical properties could be determined.", "Pierre put aside his own work to help Marie with her exploration of radioactivity. Working with the mineral pitchblende, the pair discovered a new radioactive element in 1898. They named the element polonium, after Marie's native country of Poland. They also detected the presence of another radioactive material in the pitchblende, and called that radium. In 1902, the Curies announced that they had produced a decigram of pure radium, demonstrating its existence as a unique chemical element.", "A few days before the Christmas of 1898, Pierre Curie scrawled the word 'radium' in his notebook as the name for a new element he and his wife Marie had brought laboriously to light in their ramshackle laboratory in Paris. Radium is a brilliant white, luminescent, rare and highly radioactive metallic element. The name comes from the Latin word radius, meaning 'ray'. The notebook in which the name first appears is still highly radioactive and dangerous.", "Other scientists hard at work discovering radioactive elements were Polish scientist Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie, a French scientist. While working in France at the time of BecquerelÂs discovery, they became very interested in his work. They too suspected that a uranium ore, known as pitchblende, contained other radioactive elements. The Curies started looking for these other elements, and in 1898 they discovered another radioactive element in pitchblende. They named it `polonium in honor of Marie CurieÂs native homeland. Later that same year, the CurieÂs discovered another radioactive element which they named radium. Both polonium and radium were more radioactive than uranium.", "Lise Meitner - the only female scientist to have an element named after herself, Meitnerium (Mt). Marie Curie shares the honor with her husband, Pierre, who was included in the naming proposal to IUPAC for Curium (Cm).", "In 1898 the French physicists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered the strongly radioactive elements polonium and radium, which occur naturally in uranium minerals. Marie coined the term radioactivity for the spontaneous emission of ionizing, penetrating rays by certain atoms (see below).", "The Curies purchased pitchblende by the ton. They slowly purified the ore, getting rid of sand, clay, and other elements in the ore. After months of work, they finally isolated an element that had never been seen before. Marie Curie suggested the name polonium, in honor of her homeland, Poland. Polonium is hundreds of times more radioactive than uranium.", "Little by little, various components of the ore were tested. The Curies found that two of the chemical components, one containing mostly bismuth and another containing mostly barium, were strongly radioactive. In July 1898, the Curies published their conclusion: the bismuth compound contained a previously undiscovered radioactive element that they named polonium, after Marie's native country, Poland. By the end of that year they had isolated a second radioactive element they called radium, from radius, the Latin word for rays. In 1902, they announced success in extracting purified radium.", "Marie Curie discovered two new chemical elements – radium and polonium. She carried out the first research into the treatment of tumors with radiation, and she was the founder of the Curie Institutes, which are important medical research centers.", "While studying uraninite, on 21 December 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered that, even after uranium had decayed, the material created was still radioactive. The material behaved somewhat similarly to barium compounds, although some properties, such as the color of the flame test and spectral lines, were much different. They announced the discovery of a new element on 26 December 1898 to the French Academy of Sciences. Radium was named in 1899 from the word radius, meaning ray, as radium emitted power in the form of rays. ", "Marie Curie - French physicist; researched radioactivity; she and husband, Pierre, discovered radium and polonium (1898); they shared the Nobel Prize for physics (1903) with Becquerel; Marie received the Nobel Prize for chemistry (1911).", "While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie (she used both surnames) never lost her sense of  Polish identity . She taught her daughters the  Polish language  and took them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemical element  that she discovered—polonium, which she isolated in 1898—after her native country.", "In 1898 the Curies published their first account of a new radioactive substance. They named the element polonium in honor of Poland. Soon after, they isolated a second element, radium, a million times more radioactive than Becquerel’s original salts.", "Marie and Pierre Curie advanced the study of radiation and discovered the radioactive materials radium and polonium.", "Being a Polish chemist, Curie named the element after her home country, and her discovery won her the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, which was also a recognition of her discovery of another element, radium.10", "Polonium is a radioactive chemical element (atomic number 84) that was discovered in 1898 by Marie Curie.", "Marie Curie - French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)", "It's interesting to note that most of the elements named after famous people are recently discovered. It appears that this trend will continue as more elements are artificially synthesized. Before the names of the elements were assigned to honor scientists, names were derived from Greek and Latin and the names of towns and regions. With this trend, it is likely that the recently discovered unnamed elements with atomic numbers 113, 115,  117, and 118 will also be named after people. Also, only two elements are named after female scientists, Meitnerium and Curium. Meitner's elemental namesake is unshared with any male figure.", "The discovery took place at the Curie Institute in Paris. The element takes its name from the country of its discovery – France.", "Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist. Curie was a pioneer in researching radioactivity, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. Curie never worked on the Manhattan Project, but her contributions to the study of radium and radiation were instrumental to the future development of the atomic bomb.", "Many are the people who, for their contributions to science, have been honoured with an element named after them. Among the most illustrious are Nicolaus Copernicus (copernicum, Cn), first to publish the outrageous suggestion that the Sun did not revolve around the Earth; Alfred Nobel (nobelium, No), best known for inventing dynamite and founding the Nobel prizes, and Albert Einstein (Einsteinium, Es), who developed the general theory of relativity. Some names took a detour through other languages: gallium, Ga, was named after its French discoverer Lecoq, whose name translates to ‘the cockerel’ in English, ‘gallus’ in Latin.", "Marie Curie was a Polish scientist who won a Nobel prize in both Chemistry and Physics. She was the first female professor of the University of Paris, and made ground-breaking work in the field of Radioactivity.", "Using Mendeleev's nomenclature for unnamed and undiscovered elements, copernicium should be known as eka-mercury. In 1979, IUPAC published recommendations according to which the element was to be called ununbium (with the corresponding symbol of Uub), a systematic element name as a placeholder, until the element was discovered (and the discovery then confirmed) and a permanent name was decided on. Although widely used in the chemical community on all levels, from chemistry classrooms to advanced textbooks, the recommendations were mostly ignored among scientists in the field, who either called it \"element 112\", with the symbol of (112) or even simply 112.", "Etymology: Marie Skladowska Curie, Polish-born chemist and physicist, 1867-1934; Pierre Curie, French chemist and physicist, 1859-1906; both Nobel laureates", "Element 109 has historically been known as eka-iridium and was called unnilennium (symbol Une) as a temporary name until the official name was approved. The name meitnerium (Mt) was suggested in honor of the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, a co-discoverer of protactinium (with Otto Hahn), and one of the discoverers of nuclear fission, and was adopted as the official name for this element in 1997." ]

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[ "Meryl Steep is a talented celebrity Hollywood actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award 17 times and has won 3 Oscars (1980, 1983 and 2012) over her illustrious career. She has starred in some of the biggest movies since she began acting in feature films in the 1970′s. Today, Meryl Streep is one of the most widely respected actors that is still alive and working in the industry. The following is a list of movies that Meryl Streep has been involved with:", "The actress with the most Oscar nominations is Meryl Streep who was nominated 18 times.  She won three times – twice for Best Actor for her performances in “Sophie’s Choice” (1982), “The Iron Lady” (2011) and once for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in “Kramer vs Kramer” (1979).", "During her illustrious career, Streep has been nominated for an Oscar a total of eighteen times. She won Best Actress twice, for \"Sophie's Choice\" and \"The Iron Lady.\" She won Best Supporting Actress once for \"Kramer vs. Kramer.\"", "Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 19 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive. Her father was of German and Swiss-German descent, and her mother had English, Irish, and German ancestry.", "Meryl Streep has received a record 19 Oscar nominations in the last 37 years -- and she shows no signs of slowing down! Check out her many red carpet appearances at the Academy Awards from 1979 to 2014 Credit: Steve Granitz/WireImage", "8. With her nomination last year for \" Into the Woods ,\" Meryl Streep has been nominated a record 19 times. She has won three Best Actress Oscars -- the last for \" The Iron Lady \" (2011).", "“No matter how much you try to imagine what this is like, it’s just so incredibly thrilling right down to your toes.” Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice), the all-time record-holder, with 13 Oscar nominations to her credit.", "When it comes to the Oscars, it's Meryl Streep 's world and everyone else is just living in it. The Into the Woods star (who's nominated again at the 2015 Academy Awards) has earned 19 acting nominations in the last 37 years, more than any other actor or actress in the history of the show. At this point, if she's in a movie, it's more newsworthy when she doesn't get a nomination than when she does.", "Making films for ten years now, Meryl Streep had achieved many honors, honors which some actors wait an entire lifetime to achieve. She won two Oscars and eight nominations as well as three Golden Globes and five People�s Choice Awards. But it was another number that would dominate her career from now on. Turning 40.", "A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen).", "Meryl Streep (June 22, 1949) is an American actress and producer. A three-time Academy Award winner, she is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of all time.Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and went on to receive a 1976 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her screen debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season, and made her film debut later that same year in Julia. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust, and received the first of her 19 Academy Award nominations for The Deer Hunter. She has more Academy Award nominations than any actor or actress in history, winning Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Best Actress for Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).", "Meryl Streep , whose August: Osage County performance earned her a Best Leading Actress nod Jan. 16, has received more acting nominations (18!) than any other actress. The late Katharine Hepburn (who is the second most nominated actress with 12 nods) currently holds the record for being the actress with the most wins (four). Meryl, with three Academy Awards already under her belt, could tie for this honor if she scores a win this year for August: Osage County.", "57 year-old Meryl Streep (her incredible fourteenth nomination, her first since Adaptation (2002), with two Oscar wins in 1979 and 1982) as ruthless and tyrannical style-magazine editor Miranda Priestly (a thinly veiled caricature of real-life Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour) in The Devil Wears Prada (2 nominations including Best Costume Design) [Note: Two-time Oscar winner Streep's 14th nomination padded her record as the most-nominated actor ever, ahead of both Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson with 12 nominations]", "She continued to make periodic returns to the stage (notably as the title character in the 1969 Broadway musical Coco), but Hepburn remained essentially a film actor for the remainder of her career. Her stature increased as she chalked up such cinematic triumphs as The African Queen (1951), Summertime (1955), and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962). She won a second Academy Award for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), a third for The Lion in Winter (1968), and an unprecedented fourth Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981); her 12 Academy Award nominations also set a record, which stood until 2003, when broken by Meryl Streep . In addition, Hepburn appeared frequently on television in the 1970s and '80s. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her memorable portrayal of Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1973), and she won the award for her performance opposite Laurence Olivier in Love Among the Ruins(1975), which reunited her with her favourite director, George Cukor. Though hampered by a progressive neurological disease, she was nonetheless still active in the early '90s, appearing prominently in films such as Love Affair (1994) and writing several volumes of memoirs, including her autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life (1991).", "Meryl Streep Is the Most Oscar-Nominated Actress Ever, Jennifer Lawrence Becomes Youngest Three-Time Nominee | E! News", "[Coincidentally, Streep lost the Best Actress bid to Hepburn when she won her final Oscar with her 12th nomination. Eighteen years later in 1999, Streep would tie Hepburn with her 12th nomination, and in 2002, Streep would surpass Hepburn with her 13th nomination, and then in 2006 garner her 14th nomination.]", "Hepburn won four Academy Awards, the record number for a performer, and a total of 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress—a number surpassed only by Meryl Streep. Hepburn also holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years. She received two awards and five nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, one award and six nominations from the Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globe nominations, two Tony Award nominations, and awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the People's Choice Awards, and others. Hepburn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979. She also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1979 and received the Kennedy Center Honors, which recognize a lifetime of accomplishments in the arts, in 1990. ", "It’s a common complaint that there are no roles for actresses of a certain age. This is because a) there are not many written, and b) those that are all seem to go to Meryl Streep. Yet, who could begrudge her? Now entering her fourth decade of being dubbed \"the greatest living actress,\" she is the beloved grand dame of Hollywood, with everyone still rooting for her at the Oscars even though we all know that, with three, she has plenty, but it’s so entertaining to watch her gasp and fumble her glasses and act like it all still affects her after all the years of plaudits. And that’s part of her charm: always looking like she’s having fun.", "British actor Peter O’Toole died at the age of 81 in 2013 after being nominated a total of eight times for Best Actor. In 2002 the Academy tried to award O’Toole with an honorary Oscar that the actor famously declined with an open letter stating, “I am still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright. Would the Academy please defer the honor until I am 80?” He finally accepted the award later from Meryl Streep (the actress with the most Oscar nominations in history):", "Streep continued to produce quality work in the '90s, in such films as Postcards From the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and One True Thing (1998). In 1999 she received her 12th Academy Award nomination for her performance in Music of the Heart, tying a record held by Katherine Hepburn. Married since 1978 to sculptor Donald Gummer, Streep has four children -- Henry, Mary, Grace and Louisa -- and lives in Connecticut. She is regarded as perhaps the greatest actress of her time. \"Meryl's got to be one of those phenomena, like Garbo,\" said director Mike Nichols, \"that happens only once in a generation.\"", "In the 70s, she turned to making made-for-TV films, with The Glass Menagerie , Love Among the Ruins and The Corn Is Green . She still continued to make an occasional appearance in feature films, such as Rooster Cogburn , with John Wayne , and On Golden Pond , with Henry Fonda . This last brought her her twelfth Oscar nomination and fourth win - the latter currently still a record for an actress.", "Despite her successful forays into comedy, Meryl Streep is mostly known as a serious dramatic actress — talented, intelligent and a specialist in accents and dialects. Streep worked less while she raised a family during the 1990s, but she still turned in critically-acclaimed performances in television and film and racked up more Oscar nominations for films including The Bridges of Madison County (1995, opposite Clint Eastwood ), Music From the Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002, starring Nicolas Cage ), The Devil Wears Prada (2006, starring Anne Hathaway ) and Doubt (2008, with Philip Seymour Hoffman ).", "Is one of only six actors to be nominated for acting honors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over five decades (1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s). Laurence Olivier (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s), Katharine Hepburn (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s), Jack Nicholson (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) and Michael Caine (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) Meryl Streep (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s) are the others who have turned the trick.", "Hepburn (1907-2003) won four Academy Awards (out of 12 total nominations) over the course of her long career, more than any other actress. She collected her first Best Actress Oscar for 1933’s Morning Glory, with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and went on to earn Best Actress Oscar nominations for Alice Adams (1935), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), which marked her first movie with Spencer Tracy, The African Queen (1951), Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962). The legendary screen star followed her Oscar win for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner with Best Actress golden statues for The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). Her final feature film was 1994’s Love Affair, with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening.", "Is one of 13 actresses who won their Best Supporting Actress Oscars in a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for The English Patient (1996)). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King's Men (1949), Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity (1953), Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (1954), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Meryl Streep for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002) and Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave (2013).", "She holds the record with four separate Best Actress wins. During her sixty year film career, Hepburn won the award for “Morning Glory,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” “The Lion in Winter,” and “On Golden Pond.” She was also nominated eight times.", "This Hollywood pioneer holds the record with four separate Best Actress wins. During her sixty year film career, Hepburn won the award for \"Morning Glory,\" \"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,\" \"The Lion in Winter,\" and \"On Golden Pond.\" She was nominated an impressive eight more times for films including the classics \"The Philadelphia Story\" and \"The African Queen.\"", "Was the first actor/actress to win back-to-back Acadamy Awards for her performances in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937). She was also the first actor/actress to win two Academy Awards. The following year, 1938, Spencer Tracy , Bette Davis and Walter Brennan also became double Oscar winners.", "With The African Queen , Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film. She played more of these types of roles throughout the 50s, and won more Oscar nominations for many of them, including her roles in Summertime , The Rainmaker and Suddenly, Last Summer . Her film roles became fewer and farther between in the 60s, as she devoted her time to her ailing partner Spencer Tracy. For one of her film appearances in this decade, in Long Day's Journey Into Night , she received her ninth Oscar nomination. After a five-year absence from films, she then made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner , her last film with Tracy and the last film Tracy ever made; he died just weeks after finishing it. It garnered Hepburn her tenth Oscar nomination and her second win. The next year, she did The Lion in Winter , which brought her her eleventh Oscar nomination and third win.", "Though Katharine Hepburn made only some 40 films in a career that spanned more than half a century, she won four Oscars and was nominated for the award on eight further occasions - more than any other star.", "Is one of 13 actresses who won their Best Supporting Actress Oscars in a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King's Men (1949), Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity (1953), Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (1954), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2002) and Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave (2013).", "The actor or actress with the most Oscars is Katharine Hepburn, who starred in old-time classics like The Rainmaker and The African Queen. She won four best actress Oscars" ]

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[ "Richard and Karen Carpenter were born in New Haven, Connecticut but spent their formative years in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey.", "Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard Carpenter, formed the 1970s duo The Carpenters. Although her skills as a drummer earned admiration from drumming luminaries and peers, she is best known for her vocal performances. She had a contralto vocal range.", "The Carpenters were brother and sister Richard Carpenter and Karen Carpenter . Both grew up in Downey, California and were very musical at an early age. Richard Carpenter started his own instrumental band with his sister Karen called \"The Richard Carpenter Trio.\" Richard played the piano and organized the music, and Karen played the drums. The Richard Carpenter Trio won a 1966 \"Battle of the Bands\" contest. Richard helped Karen develop her singing voice and started to make demo tapes with her after the Richard Carpenter Trio split up. One of those demo tapes was sent to Herb Alpert at A&M Records and he immediately signed on Richard and Karen as \"Carpenters,\" after he liked what he heard.", "Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard Carpenter, formed the 1970s duo Carpenters. Although her skills as a drummer earned admiration from drumming luminaries and peers, she is best known for her vocal performances. She had a contralto vocal range. ", "Karen Carpenter was born in New Haven, Conn., on March 2, 1950. She and her older brother, Richard, started a pop-jazz trio with a friend in California in 1965, with Richard on keyboards and Karen on drums. The group won a battle of the bands at the Hollywood Bowl and was signed by RCA Records, but the two albums they recorded for the label were never released; they were considered ''too soft.'' The trio subsequently disbanded. Incorporated Vocals", "After beginning at the piano at the age of twelve, Richard was studying the instrument at Yale University four years later. In 1963, when the Carpenter family relocated to California, Richard continued his musical education at the Cal State University at Long Beach.", "Karen Anne Carpenter was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of Agnes Reuwer (née Tatum) (March 5, 1915 – November 10, 1996) and Harold Bertram Carpenter (November 8, 1908 – October 15, 1988). When she was young, she enjoyed playing baseball with other children on the street. On the TV program This Is Your Life, she stated that she liked pitching and later, in the early 1970s, she would become the pitcher on the Carpenters' official softball team.E! Channel, \"True Hollywood Story – Karen Carpenter\" Her brother Richard developed an interest in music at an early age, becoming a piano prodigy. Karen enjoyed dancing and by age 4 was enrolled in tap dancing and ballet classes. The family moved in June 1963 to the Los Angeles suburb of Downey.", "After a disappointing debut with the 1969 album \"Ticket to Ride,\" keyboardist Richard Carpenter and his sister, drummer Karen Carpenter, hit the big time with their second album, \"Close to You.\" Karen's mellow voice and Richard's arrangements produced such hits as the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song \"(They Long to Be) Close to You,\" \"We've Only Just Begun,\" and \"I'll Never Fall in Love Again.\"", "Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. ...  Mehr", "In late 1969, Burt Bacharach heard and admired the Carpenters� remake of Ticket To Ride, and asked them to perform a medley of his songs at an upcoming benefit. Herb Alpert, who had signed Karen and Richard to his A&M Records, suggested they include (They Long To Be) Close To You, which, despite covers by Dionne Warwick and Dusty Springfield, had never become a hit. Richard didn�t think the song was right for the medley, but Alpert was sure the song was right for the Carpenters. He urged Karen and Richard to record the song for their next album. Alpert was on to something. The Carpenters� light touch on Close To You was just right for the romantic creampuff. Karen�s lead vocal is engagingly coquettish. Richard�s slow-shuffle arrangement features a warm trumpet solo and a splash of mellow California harmonies. Bacharach, who arranged Warwick�s 1964 recording of the song, was impressed. �I think Richard Carpenter really nailed the essence of the song,� the pop titan says. �I never had it. We do that song (in concert) and I�m very aware as we do it, �Boy, I blew this one.� The facts speak for themselves. Of the hundreds of outside cover versions of Bacharach songs to be released over the past 40 years, this is the only one to reach No.1. Close To You brought the Carpenters two Grammy Awards � for Best New Artist of the Year and Best Contemporary Vocal Performance by a Group.", "Karen, meanwhile, was blossoming into her own person.  It wasn’t until after the Carpenters moved to Downey that the teen Karen took any interest in music (whereas Richard lived for music, for Karen it had only been incidental in her life).  Through Richard’s activities, however, Karen also developed a love of music and wanted something to play herself.  She decided to try out for the school marching band and was given the glockenspiel. After working at it a bit and practicing with her band mates she became more interested in the drums , particularly the playing style of one of the other band members. ", "in 1982 - Karen Carpenter made her last live appearance with The Carpenters when she performed in Sherman, California.", "Attended Karen Carpenter 's funeral on Tuesday, February 8, 1983. The services were held at United Methodist Church in Downey, California.", "That�s why Karen and Richard had one of the best batting averages in pop music in the 1970s. From Close To You in 1970 to There A Kind Of Hush in 1976, they never missed the Top 20. The Carpenters were the Number One American hit makers of the decade, according to Joel Whitburn�s authoritative Top Pop Singles. But Karen and Richard�s success went far beyond their homeland. They topped the charts from Holland to Hong Kong.", "1971 - Karen and Richard Carpenter hosted the summer series, Make Your Own Kind of Music, on NBC-TV.", "The year before she started her diet regimen, Karen had cut four songs for Joe Osborn’s newly-minted label, Magic Lamp Records, in 1966.  Because she was a minor, her parents had to sign a contract on her behalf (on May 13, 1966) to allow her to record for the Magic Lamp label.  Of the songs she cut, two were selected, “I’ll Be Yours” b/w “Looking For Love”, for release as a single.  [Both songs were written by Richard; the performance is credited on the single as a solo by Karen Carpenter.  She played drums on the songs, too.]  This 45-rpm disc was released in a limited run of 500 copies, but failed to garner much interest.  [The disc is very rare and highly collectible—a lone copy that found its way to eBay in recent years sold for almost $1800 US.  Magic Lamp Records folded within a year after its debut.]The RCA deal after the win at the Hollywood Bowl soured quickly.  Wes Jacobs’ contribution to The Richard Carpenter Trio, in addition to stand-up bass, was the tuba!  And RCA saw no future (after listening to the three demos—two covers and a Richard original—the Trio recorded) in a jazz band that highlighted the tuba as one of its main “voices”.  Richard, Karen, and Wes were offered $500 to sever their contract with RCA, which they took.  The Richard Carpenter Trio split up at that point (Wes Jacobs went on to Julliard).  ", "Even though they recorded as the Carpenters for just 13 years, Karen and Richard made a deep and lasting impact. A compilation of their hits topped the U.K. chart for seven weeks in 1990. A similar collection became the best-selling international release of 1996 in Japan.", "In addition to being a drummer and a singer, Karen Carpenter could also play the electric bass guitar. She played bass guitar on two songs on Offering/Ticket to Ride (the Carpenters first album released by A&M). The two songs were All of My Life and Eve. Although Karen's bass playing is heard on the original album(s), Richard remixed both songs (as he has done with almost every Carpenters song), and Joe Osborn's bass playing was substituted for later \"greatest hits\" releases. ", "Like his contemporary Burt Bacharach, Richard Carpenter fashioned a ‘signature sound’ by blending classically inspired combinations of strings, woodwinds and brass. Richard himself played keyboards on Carpenters’ songs and particularly favored the Wurlitzer electric piano, though he would also switch to grand piano, Hammond organ or harpsichord on various songs.  Between 1969 and 1980, the pair produced an astonishing number of top-40 easy-listening hits.", "\"In 1984, Richard married Mary Rudolph (whose brother, Mark Rudolph, was the Carpenters' road manager, as well as the radio call-in \"contestant\" in the [Oldies] \"Medley\" on the 1973 album, Now & Then). Richard and Mary have five children: Kristi Lynn, Traci Tatum, Mindi Karen, Colin Paul and Taylor Mary. \"", "In 1976 Jackson, Miss.-born Richard Ford (1944-) pub. his first novel A Piece of My Heart ; Robert Hewes and Sam Newell duke it out on an uncharted island in the Mississippi River. In 1986 he pub. The Sportswriter , first in a trilogy about 38-y.-o. Frank Bascombe, incl. \"Independence Day\" (1995), \"The Lay of the Land\" (2006). In 1995 he pub. Independence Day (Pulitzer Prize), 2nd in a trilogy about N.J. realtor Frank Bascombe (1986-2006); first novel to win Pulitzer and P.E.N. Faulkner awards in the same year; no connection with the sci-fi movie about aliens taking over Earth. In 1997 he pub. Women with Men: Three Stories . In 2001 he pub. A Multitude of Sins . In 2006 he pub. The Lay of the Land ; 55-y.-o. N.J. realtor Frank Bascombe in the innocent pre-9/11 year 2000 has prostate cancer; #3 in the Frank Bascombe Trilogy.", "1970 - Close to You, the Carpenter�s second album and the one that launched them to meteoric fame, was released by A&M Records. The title song, (They Long to Be) Close to You, became a pop music standard and the first of six million-sellers in a row for Karen and Richard. In all, The Carpenters would have 10 gold records for singles and a dozen top ten hits to their credit. The duo won Best New Artist honors at the Grammy Awards in 1970.", "An older brother, Richard Lynn Carpenter, (b: October 15, 1946) awaited her upon arrival in the Carpenter home after her hospital birth.  Richard (named for an uncle, his father’s younger brother, Richard Lynn) displayed an early musical “ear”.  He recalls listening to his father’s 78-rpm discs of music ranging from classical recordings to swing band material while still a toddler. ", "Karen did not possess a powerful singing voice, but when miked closely she conveyed a great deal of feeling. Tight miking required perfect pitch, which came easily to her. Richard Coles, a musician and broadcaster, commented: \"No singer is so closely miked up so unforgivingly as Karen Carpenter. That is frightening for singers because the closer the microphone the more unforgiving it is in exposing the weaknesses in a singer's voice.\" Karen's contralto voice was warm and distinctive. Though her vocal range spanned three octaves, Richard arranged their music to take advantage of the rich quality of Karen's lower range. Many of the Carpenters' songs are in the keys of D (\"You\", \"There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)\"), E flat (\"Only Yesterday\"), E (\"Hurting Each Other\", \"Yesterday Once More\"), F (\"I'll Never Fall in Love Again\"), and G (\"And When He Smiles\", \"Reason to Believe\", \"For All We Know\", \"You'll Love Me\"). ", "Following Karen's death, Richard Carpenter has continued to produce recordings of the duo's music, including several albums of previously unreleased material and numerous compilation albums. Voice of the Heart, an album that included some finished tracks left off of Made in America and earlier LPs, was released in late 1983. It peaked at No. 46 and was certified Gold. Two singles were released. \"Make Believe It's Your First Time\", a second version of a song Karen had recorded for her solo album (and a song which had been a minor hit in 1979 for Bobby Vinton), reached No. 7 Adult Contemporary but only reached No. 101 on the pop side. \"Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore\" got to No. 12 Adult Contemporary.", "What exactly is Richards's great \"genius\" talent? Most of their best songs were written by others. To me, The Carpenters were about Karen's incredible voice, and Richard was this insipid-looking character lurking around in the background in all of their TV appearances", "* Mary Chapin Carpenter (born 1958), Grammy-winning folk and country singer (born in Princeton; moved to Japan, then Washington, D.C.)", "* 1999 – VH1 ranked Carpenter at #29 on its list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll. ", "John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 1970s and 1980s. ", "2011 GRAMMY Nominated Vocalist JUDY PANCOAST in CLOSER TO YOU: A Live Tribute to The Carpenters at the Historic Regent Theatre February 10 & 12", "2011 GRAMMY Nominated Vocalist JUDY PANCOAST in CLOSER TO YOU: A Live Carpenters Tribute Sat 2/16/13", "Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some hugely popular 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977). Bach has authored numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including One (1989) and Out of My Mind (1999). " ]

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[ "{1949}: UPA's <a href=\"/character/ch0022585/\">Mr. Magoo</a> cartoon character (aka. Quincy Magoo) made his debut appearance in this theatrical short. The popular character (voiced by <a href=\"/name/nm0000822/\">Jim Backus</a>) was crochety, eccentric, bumbling, semi-senile, short-sighted, resembling <a href=\"/name/nm0001211/\">W.C. Fields</a>, and forever finding himself in trouble due to his eyesight problems (and denial that there was any problem). It was the studio's first popular success, leading to numerous theatrical shorts.", "Quincy Magoo (or simply Mr. Magoo) is a cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his nearsightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. However, through uncanny streaks of luck, the situation always seems to work itself out for him, leaving him no worse than before.", "Quincy Magoo (or simply Mr. Magoo) is a cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus , Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his nearsightedness , compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem. However, through uncanny streaks of luck, the situation always seems to work itself out for him, leaving him no worse than before.", "A nearsighted Quincy Magoo (a.k.a. Mr. Magoo) wears thick glasses and uses a cane. Alongside his nephew Waldo, Mr. Magoo first appeared in 1949 in the theatrical short \"Ragtime Bear.\" Created by writer Millard Kaufman and director John Hubley, Mr. Magoo was one of the only human characters to star in animated cartoons at the time.", "Henny Backus Speaks. Henny Backus was the wife of Jim Backus who voiced the character of Mr. Quincy Magoo. They were married in 1943 and wrote several books together. She provided the voice of Quincy’s mother, Mother Magoo, who was in her late Eighties and raced cars but still had to endure the misguided attentions of her son who thought she was a helpless old woman.", "Mr. Magoo’s first appearance was in the theatrical short cartoon The Ragtime Bear (1949), scripted by Millard Kaufman . His creation was a collaborative effort; animation director John Hubley is said to have partly based the character on his uncle Harry Woodruff, [3] and W. C. Fields was another source of inspiration. In a legend circulating among medievalists, Harvard professor Francis P. Magoun is also said to have been the model for the character. [4] However, there is no evidence that artist Hubley knew the scholar. Columbia was reluctant to release the short, but did so, only because it included a bear. However, audiences quickly realized that the real star was Magoo, one of the few “human” cartoon characters ever produced in Hollywood at the time. The short became a box-office success.", "Mr. Magoo's first appearance was in the theatrical short cartoon The Ragtime Bear (1949), scripted by Millard Kaufman . His creation was a collaborative effort; animation director John Hubley is said to have partly based the character on his uncle Harry Woodruff, [3] and W. C. Fields was another source of inspiration. In a legend circulating among medievalists, Harvard professor Francis P. Magoun is also said to have been the model for the character. [4] However, there is no evidence that artist Hubley knew the scholar. Columbia was reluctant to release the short, but did so, only because it included a bear. However, audiences quickly realized that the real star was Magoo, one of the few \"human\" cartoon characters ever produced in Hollywood at the time. The short became a box-office success.", "Mister Magoo was a popular cartoon character (voiced by Jim Backus) known for his bumbling through life despite the fact that he was nearly blind but refused to accept it. First appearing in the short film Ragtime Bear (1949), Magoo \"starred\" in a number of classic story adaptations, including one 1962 TV special doing Charles Dickens' Christmas tale A Christmas Carol (1843). Magoo played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, the cynical old man who learns to appreciate Christmas through the help of a series of spirit visits.", "* Dickie Valentine (UK: 1962) Live In Concert (UK: June 12, 2012; Record label: Master Classics Records) Comedy version featuring Valentine singing the song, then reciting it as Mr Magoo and Edward G. Robinson", "Mr. Magoo's first appearance was in the theatrical short cartoon The Ragtime Bear (1949), scripted by Millard Kaufman. His creation was a collaborative effort; animation director John Hubley is said to have partly based the character on his uncle Harry Woodruff, and W. C. Fields was another source of inspiration. In a legend circulating among medievalists, Harvard professor Francis P. Magoun is also said to have been the model for the character. However, there is no evidence that artist Hubley knew the scholar. Columbia was reluctant to release the short, but did so, only because it included a bear. However, audiences quickly realized that the real star was Magoo, one of the few \"human\" cartoon characters ever produced in Hollywood at the time. The short became a box-office success.", "McBarker (voiced by Frank Welker ) — Quincy Magoo's dog, in the 1970s cartoon series, What's New, Mr. Magoo? A talking bulldog , he shares his owner's facial features and poor eyesight.", "Moo goo gai pan is a stir-fry dish common to Cantonese (Chinese) cuisine. It consists of chicken, mushrooms, snow peas, and so on. Mr. Magoo was the elderly, nearsighted star of a series of short cartoons that first appeared in 1949 and lasted well into the late 1970s. He was voiced by Jim Backus, who played Thurston Howell on Gilligan’s Island.", "Charlie (Voiced By Benny Rubin )— Quincy Magoo’s houseboy . Charlie’s depiction as an Asian stereotype was controversial. The character was prone to unusual misuses of English, such as referring to himself in the third person as “Cholley”, and calling Mr. Magoo “Bloss” instead of “Boss”. In the late 1960s, episodes featuring Charlie were dropped from the series and his character was never mentioned again. A version of the series that runs on the Christian network KTV retains Charlie, but dubs over his ethnic-sounding voice track.", "* Charlie (Voiced By Benny Rubin)— Quincy Magoo's Chinese houseboy. Charlie's depiction as a Chinese stereotype was controversial. The character was prone to unusual misuses of English, such as referring to himself in the third person as \"Cholley\", and calling Mr. Magoo \"Bloss\" instead of \"Boss\". In the late 1960s, episodes featuring Charlie were dropped from the series and his character was never mentioned again. A version of the series that runs on the Christian network KTV retains Charlie, but dubs over his ethnic-sounding voice track.", "Wheeler and Dealer — Two children Quincy Magoo occasionally babysits in The Mr. Magoo Show (1960–1962)", "Tycoon Magoo (voiced by Mel Blanc ) — Quincy Magoo’s rich uncle. His catchphrase is “Worcestershire, get in here!”", "\"Mr. Magoo's King Arthur,\" The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, UPA, 1964. Version of Malory with Magoo as Merlin.  ", "In 1997, Mr. Magoo was portrayed by Leslie Nielsen in a live-action Mr. Magoo feature film. It failed to find critical or popular success, and some support groups for the disabled , including the National Federation of the Blind , protested it on behalf of the blind and sight impaired. [11]", "For the network, UPA developed a prime time program entitled THE FAMOUS ADVENTURES OF MR. MAGOO. Premiering on September 19, 1964, the series ran for 26 episodes and cast Magoo as a key character in stories based on famous novels. Magoo was Captain Ahab, Long John Silver, Dr. Watson and a host of other characters. Obviously Magoo was merely playing a role because none of the characters suffered from near-sightedness nor were confused old men like Magoo himself. Several episodes of this series have been retitled and issued to syndication seperately, such as MR. MAGOO'S TREASURE ISLAND.", "During the UPA television era came Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol , an abbreviated but largely faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ‘s tale. It was the first ever animated Christmas special made for television and is considered to be a holiday classic of the 1960s, ranking alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! . [10] The special inspired production of an animated TV series titled The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo , which placed Magoo as an actor in other well-known stories. After an introduction in Magoo’s backstage dressing room , Magoo was depicted in such roles as The Count of Monte Cristo , Merlin in an upbeat retelling of the story of King Arthur , Friar Tuck in Robin Hood , and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream .", "In the 16th episode of The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, which originally aired on January 16, 1965, Mr. Magoo (voiced by Jim Backus) plays Rip Van Winkle. ", "Mister Magoo's first cartoon was Ragtime Bear (1949) - also in the same series of Jolly Frolics cartoons. The first of the Mister Magoo series of cartoons was Spellbound Hound (1950). Mister Magoo starred in UPA's first feature-length cartoon film, the 76-minute 1001 Arabian Nights (1959).", "In the 1960s, UPA transferred its attention to television, and began producing the series The Mr. Magoo Show for the character. Because UPA shut down its animation studio in 1959, the animation for these cartoons was done by Jack Kinney Productions and Larry Harmon Pictures . Because of this, the cartoons suffered from varying character designs and choppier animation, due to rushed production schedules. Magoo's nephew Waldo (voiced, as in most of the theatrical cartoons, by Jerry Hausner) was seldom seen with his uncle, now appearing in his own episodes, introduced by a brief phone conversation from Magoo's point of view which acted as a teaser. The Waldo episodes also featured a slick-talking con man named Presley, and always ended with a return to Magoo saying, \"Oh, that Waldo and Presley. What'll they be up to next? Hee hee hee!\"", "In 1962, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, an adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, became the first made-for-TV holiday special, even before A Charlie Brown Christmas . Mr. Magoo continued to adapt stories from classic literature in 1964 in The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo NBC. Mr. Magoo moved to CBS in a new series titled What's New Mr. Magoo? on Saturday Morning TV in 1977.", "Under Burness, Magoo would win two Oscars for the studio with When Magoo Flew (1955) and Magoo’s Puddle Jumper (1956). Burness scrubbed Magoo of his politicized meanness and left only a few strange unempathic comments that made him appear senile or somewhat mad. Magoo was frequently accompanied in his on-screen escapades with his nephew Waldo, voiced at various times by Jerry Hausner or Daws Butler .", "Having had a success with RAGTIME BEAR, UPA used Magoo on and off. However, he quickly became the most popular of the UPA creations. Columbia Pictures, who released UPA cartoons in theaters demanded more. Director Pete Burness, who later worked for the Jay Ward Studios was made responsible for several Magoo shorts a year, including the two Academy Award winners, WHEN MAGOO FLEW (1954) and MISTER MAGOO'S PUDDLE JUMPER (1956).", "\"My favorite Magoo is FUDDY DUDDY BUDDY where he is playing tennis with a walrus and we wrote a scene where Magoo realizes he is nearsighted and says, 'Gee, I don't care. I like him.' We never did that again... [Hubley] felt we ruined the character.\" - Bill Scott, UPA storyman", "The later Magoo cartoons have a brighter color scheme and lighter story lines. BWANA MAGOO (1959) was one of the last theatrical Magoo cartoons. In the story, Magoo mistakes a lion for Waldo and traps Waldo in the cage.", "Magoo had a variety of pets including Bowser the cat who Magoo believed was a watchdog. Later, talking dogs like Caesar and McBarker came on the scene. He also had Hamlet, the Hamster, who battled Caesar in a series of shorts that were part of the 1960's TV group.", "Paramount Pictures. Animated musical version of Dickens' classic featuring the enormously near-sighted Mr. Magoo. 52 min. DVD X5009", "However, unlike Fields, Magoo genuinely loved the world and was a man of principle. Especially in the later cartoons, trouble usually began because Magoo was trying to help someone not because he was trying to take advantage of a situation or a person.", "Bruce Reitherman provided the voice of Mowgli , who is the main protagonist of the film. Mowgli is an orphaned boy, commonly referred to as \"man-cub\" by the other characters." ]

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[ "In October 1979, Alice Cooper was featured in the Marvel comic book Marvel Premiere, Vol 1, No 50. ", "David Bowie (born David Robert Jones) is recognised as one of the most influential rock stars of the Seventies and beyond. The Ziggy Stardust era ( 1971-1973 ), the subject of this web site, was one of the busiest and most successful periods of his continuing career and one in which he moved from relative obscurity to true superstar status.", "Wait, you say that you don't believe British rockers in the late 1960s were obsessed with American superhero comics? Au contraire! One thinks immediately of Donovan singing about Green Lantern in his chart-topping ditty \"Sunshine Superman,\" for example; and also of the fraught use of the comic book Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen in the Beatles' movie \"Help!\" (The comics can be spotted atop John Lennon's moviehouse organ, propped up where the sheet music ought to be.) Paul McCartney, as always, was the hipper Beatle: He was into Marvel, not DC. On Wings' 1975 album, Venus and Mars, he sings a silly love song that features the X-Men's enemy, Magneto, as well as not one but two of Iron Man's armor-clad opponents: Titanium Man and the Crimson Dynamo. 'Nuff said.", "David Bowie, (born David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Active in five decades of popular music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He has been cited as an influence by many musicians and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work. David Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of 1969, when the song \"Space Oddity\" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era as the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single \"Starman\" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The relatively short-lived Ziggy", "Iggy Pop (born James Newell \"Jim\" Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor. He is considered an influential innovator of punk rock , hard rock , and other styles of rock music. Pop began calling himself \"Iggy\" after his first band in high school (for which he was drummer), The Iguanas . He was lead singer/songwriter of influential protopunk band The Stooges and became known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics.", "Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel; May 9, 1949) is an American rock musician, singersongwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, \"Piano Man\", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA. Joel had Top 10 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and has 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote singlehandedly. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 100 million records worldwide. He was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006). Joel \"retired\" from recording pop music in 1993 but continues to tour. Upon seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as a teen, Joel decided to", "Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream commercial success, Iggy Pop is considered an influential innovator of punk rock , hard rock , and other related styles . He is sometimes referred to by the nicknames \"the Godfather of Punk \" and \"the Iguana\", and is widely acknowledged as one of the most dynamic stage performers of all time. Pop began calling himself Iggy after his first band in high school , The Iguanas .", "W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.; raised as William Bruce Bailey; February 6, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, a position he has held since its inception in 1985. Due to his powerful and wide vocal range and energetic live performances, Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including Rolling Stone and NME. ", "Iggy Pop (born James Newell \"Jim\" Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues. Pop became known as 'Iggy' in high school, during which time he served as drummer for local blues band The Iguanas. He is vocalist of influential protopunk band The Stooges (Pop and the other surviving members of the group reunited in 2003), having become known, since the late 1960s, for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics.", "In 1958, young Leslie Weinstein received a guitar as a Bar Mitzvah present. Almost ten years later, Weinstein, now calling himself Leslie West, formed the hard-rock band Mountain. West had a strong rock resume, having spent years playing Long Island venues as part of the local heroes the Vagrants, but it wasn’t until he teamed up with former Cream producer Felix Pappalardi for 1969’s Mountain that he really achieved rock star status. After the release of his solo album, West assembled other musicians to make up the band Mountain; they had an auspicious beginning, playing their fourth gig ever at Woodstock. In 1970, their album Mountain Climbing went gold, and its hit single \"Mississippi Queen\" still graces classic rock radio stations today.", "Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 - 16 September 1977), was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T. Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era and made him one of the most recognisable stars in British music of the time. His death, two weeks before his 30th birthday, contributed to giving him a cult status which remains to this day. Early life and career The son of a Jewish van driver and caretaker, Bolan grew up in post-war Hackney in East London and later lived in Wimbledon, southwest London. He fell in love with the rock and roll of Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry at an early age and became a Mod, hanging around coffee bars such as the 2 I's in Soho. He appeared in an episode of the telev...", "Bon Scott (9 July 1946 – 19 February 1980) was an Australian rock musician, most well-known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, and emigrated to Melbourne, Australia with his family in 1952 at age six.", "William Michael Albert Broad (born November 30, 1955), known professionally by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He first achieved fame in the 1970s as a member of the punk rock band Generation X. Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which led to an international recognition and made Idol one of the lead artists during the MTV-driven \"Second British Invasion\" in the United States.", "1947, Born on this day, Cynthia �Plaster� Caster, groupie who became famous for making plaster cast�s of rock star�s penises and breasts. Clients include Jimi Hendrix and members from MC5, Television, The Kinks and various road managers.", "Don Van Vliet (, born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called the Magic Band (1965–1982), with whom he recorded 13 studio albums. Noted for his powerful singing voice and his wide vocal range, Van Vliet also played the harmonica, saxophone, and numerous other wind instruments. His music integrated blues, rock, psychedelia, and jazz with contemporary experimental composition and the avant-garde; many of his works have been classified as \"art rock\". Beefheart was also known for often constructing myths about his life and for exercising an almost dictatorial control over his supporting musicians. ", "Gordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), best known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician and formerly bassist and lead singer of The Police.", "This Day in Rock... 1934 â Brian Epstein, the Beatlesâ future manager, is born in Liverpool, England. 1940 â Singer Bill Medley of pop duo the Righteous Brothers is born in Santa Anna , Calif. 1941 â Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas is born in Baltimore. 1958 â Rock siren Lita Ford (âKiss Me Deadlyâ) is born in London this day in rock! 1958 â Bye bye, Elvis. The Memphis Flash leaves Brooklyn, N.Y.âs naval base as a young soldier to be stationed in Germany. 1964 â John Lennon gives his permission for his drawing titled âThe Fat Budgieâ to be printed up on Christmas cards. 1964 â Marianne Faithfull goes to No. 9 in the U.K. with the Jagger/Richards composition âAs Tears Go By.â 1966 â John Lennon flies to Spain to shoot the Richard Lester film How I Won the War. 1968 â In the studio, recording starts on the Beatles song âPiggies.â 1970 â Neil Youngâs After the Gold Rush album enters the charts. 1970 â The Rolling Stonesâ Get Yer Ya Yaâs Out, the live album ...", "stroke. Stewart was the original keyboardist for the Rolling Stones who was relegated to a behind-the-scenes position as roadie becuase he lacked the look of a rock star. He stayed with the band (and out of sight) for over twenty years, and he played on several Stones' hits, including \"It's All Over Now,\" \"Star Star,\" and \"It's Only Rock 'n' Roll.\" In 1979, he formed the band Rocket 88. Stewart died of a stroke in 1985 while sitting in his doctor's waiting room. He was 47.", "Born and raised in South London, Bowie developed an interest in music as a child, eventually studying art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. \"Space Oddity\" became his first top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart after its release in July 1969. After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with his flamboyant and androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. The character was spearheaded by the success of his single \"Starman\" and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity. In 1975, Bowie's style shifted radically towards a sound he characterised as \"plastic soul\", initially alienating many of his UK devotees but garnering him his first major US crossover success with the number-one single \"Fame\" and the album Young Americans. In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station. The following year, he further confounded musical expectations with the electronic-inflected album Low (1977), the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno that would come to be known as the \"Berlin Trilogy\". \"Heroes\" (1977) and Lodger (1979) followed; each album reached the UK top five and received lasting critical praise.", "Marc Bolan (pron. ; born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, guitarist, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer of the glam rock band T. Rex. Bolan was one of the first pioneers of the glam rock movement of the 1970s. He died at age 29 in a car accident in September 1977.", "George Harrison, (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Often referred to as the \"quiet Beatle\", Harrison over time became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, introducing it to the other Beatles, as well as to their Western audience.Following the band's break-up, he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Among his many accomplishments, Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of \"100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time\".", "Stephen Richard \"Steve\" Hackett (born February 12, 1950, in Pimlico, England) is a writer and guitarist. He first gained prominence in the British rock group Genesis in 1970. Before joining Genesis as a 20-year-old, he played in a number of bands, his first recording being with Quiet World. Hackett's writing, combined with his unique sound and inventive playing contributed greatly to Genesis' success and he remained with the band for eight albums before leaving in 1977 to pursue a solo career.", "Richard Starkey, (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals, usually for one song on an album, including \"With a Little Help from My Friends\", \"Yellow Submarine\" and their cover of \"Act Naturally\". He also wrote the Beatles' songs \"Don't Pass Me By\" and \"Octopus's Garden\", and is credited as a co-writer of others, including \"What Goes On\" and \"Flying\".", "Richard Starkey MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer forthe Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of anotherLiverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, \"With a Little Help from My Friends\", \"Yellow Submarine\", and the Beatles' version of \"Act Naturally\"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs \"What Goes On\", \"Flying\", and \"Dig It\" and as the sole writer of \"Don't Pass Me By\" and \"Octopus's Garden\".", "April 23rd 1960, Born on this day, Steve Clark, guitarist with Def Leppard, who had a 1987 UK No.6 single with ‘Animal’, a 1987 worldwide No.1 album with Hysteria and a 1988 US No.1 single with ‘Love Bites’. Clark died on January 8th 1991, aged 30 after a night of heavy alcohol consumption combined with prescription drugs.", "The late 1970's saw him surprisingly re-invented as a mildly-heavy rocker, and he finally achieved the US recognition that had eluded him for so long when \"Devil Woman\" reached the top ten there. In 1979 he released \"We Don't Talk Anymore\", which became his biggest-selling single worldwide, and more hits followed. In 1983, he marked his 25th anniversary in the business with a retrospective album \"Silver\" and new material in unusual styles. In late 2013, he released his 100th album, \"The Fabulous Rock 'N' Roll Songbook\".", "Chris Robinson (Black Crowes, New Earth Mud, Phil Lesh and Friends, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, solo) – 50", "Beautiful and talented musician and spirit who was the lead of T. Rex (previously Tyrannosaurus Rex which was acoustic, and prior John's Children). Some of his best-known songs include: \"Get It On (Bang a Gong)\"; \"20th Century Boy\"; \"Jeepster\"; \"Metal Guru\"; \"Cosmic Dancer\"; \"Hot Love\"; \"Children of the Revolution\"; \"Telegram Sam\"; \"The Slider\"; and many others. He starred in a film (produced by Ringo Starr) called \"Born to Boogie.\"", "1946 Birthday - Howard Scott, born in San Pedro, California, rock guitarist and vocalist, War, Cisco Kid", "Billy Fury (17 Apr 1940 - 28 Jan 1983) was born in Liverpool, England.  He bought his first guitar at age 14, entered talent contests, and by 1958 was writing his own songs.  He was spotted by impresario Larry Parnes, who put him on tour, and arranged a recording contract with Decca.  He also appeared on the TV pop show \"Oh Boy!\", and released his first record in 1959.  He went on to considerable success, and had amassed 26 hit singles by the end of 1966.  Heart problems, which he suffered from childhood, led to surgery in the early 1970s.  He did some touring and recording in the very early 1980s, but his heart problems worsened, and died in London in January 1983, aged just 42.  On 19 April 2003 a bronze statue of Fury was unveiled at the National Museum of Liverpool Life.", "We Will Rock You\" is a song written by Brian May and recorded and performed by Queen for their 1977 album News of the World . Rolling Stone ranked it number 330 of \" The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time \" in 2004, and the RIAA placed it at number 146 on its list of Songs of the Century . In 2009, \"We Will Rock You\" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame .", "Her first hit record, \"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'\", became popular partly because of the prominent bass guitar riff played throughout the song. That riff was played by Chuck Berghofer , with Carol Kaye on rhythm guitar. Both are of the legendary Wrecking Crew ." ]

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[ "The 1979 Formula One season was the 30th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors which were contested concurrently over a fifteen round series which commenced on 21 January 1979, and ended on 7 October. The season also included three non-championship Formula One races. Jody Scheckter of Scuderia Ferrari won the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers while Scuderia Ferrari won 1979 International Cup for F1 Constructors. Gilles Villeneuve made it a 1-2 for Ferrari in the championship, concluding a successful second half of the 1970s for Ferrari (three drivers' and four constructors' titles). Alan Jones finished the season strongly for Williams, finishing third in the championship and with team mate Clay Regazzoni scoring Williams' first ever Grand Prix win as a constructor. Scheckter's title was Ferrari's last drivers' title for 21 years, before Michael Schumacher won five consecutive titles for the team between 2000 and 2004.", "He scored two more wins in 1977 , in Monaco - his own adopted home - and in Canada - Waiter's adopted country. Jody was competitive for most of the year but a troubled period in mid-season cost him any chance of the world title and he finished as runner up to Niki Lauda . Towards the end of 1977 Scheckter was approached by Ferrari as a replacement for Lauda but he opted to stay with Wolf who could give him the exclusive attention he demanded. The team's 1978 season started badly and it was not until the Monaco Grand Prix that Jody scored his first points - for a dogged third place. In that race he showed that he had lost none of his will to win and with a new car already in the wings his fortunes looked set for an upward turn.", "Scheckter very nearly won the 1977 championship in the Wolf, winning three Grands Prix but ending up as runner-up behind Niki Lauda. The 1978 season saw the Wolf squad lose momentum and when the offer of a Ferrari drive came up for 1979, Jody did not hesitate. Many observers felt that Jody was biting off more than he could chew throwing in his lot with Maranello, but he successfully saw off his tempestuous young team-mate Gilles Villeneuve to win the world championship in the bullet-proof Ferrari 312T4. In 1980, the Ferrari 312T5 was a hopeless successor to the title winning machine and Scheckter retired from racing at the end of that season.", "Jody Scheckter replacing the Lotus bound Argentinian in 1979, took the title, supported by Gilles Villeneuve (who dutifully followed the South African home at Monza), and won the last World Drivers’ Championship in a Ferrari until Michael Schumacher twenty one years later. The car was a compromise ground effect design due to the configuration of the Ferrari wide angle V12, which was overtaken in due course by the extremely successful Williams FW07 , but not before racking up the necessary points to take both titles that year.", "In 1974, with two races left in the season, Scheckter trailed Clay Regazzoni by just one point. Two retirements in Canada and the U.S. allowed Emerson Fittipaldi to snatch the title, with Regazzoni coming second.", "He would end the season in 7th place, and he left the team after the season to join Ferrari to partner Gilles Villeneuve in the team's ground effect 312T4 car. Critics felt he would not get along well with management at Ferrari, but he surpassed expectations and helped give F1's most recognizable team another constructors' championship, while Scheckter's consistent finishes, with three wins among them, gave him the driver's championship in 1979 . However, he struggled very badly in his 1980 title defense, even failing to qualify for one race. After only managing 2 points, Scheckter retired from the team and the sport. Scheckter was the last driver to win a driver's championship for Ferrari until Michael Schumacher did so 21 years later.", "In 2000 Schumacher had a close battle with rival Mika Häkkinen of McLaren but won the championship in the Ferrari F1-2000 , winning 9 races out of 17 that year. He was Ferrari’s first World Driver’s Champion in 21 years, since Jody Scheckter in 1979. Teammate Rubens Barrichello finished fourth in the championship, taking his maiden win at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim after Schumacher was taken out in the first corner and Barrichello qualified 18th.", "At Zandvoort, Jones qualified second once again, the Renault cars proving the only match to the Williams in qualifying with René Arnoux on pole. Nonetheless Jones stormed into the lead once again where he went on to take another victory, twenty seconds ahead of championship leader Jody Scheckter. By now Jones was third in the championship, only ten points behind Scheckter and only two behind Laffite ahead of him.", "Ferrari and Jody Scheckter's 1980 title defence was unsuccessful, as the team's rivals made up ground at the expense of the reigning champions. The team scored a meagre total of eight points all season, and Scheckter elected to retire at its conclusion. For the 1981 season, Ferrari signed Didier Pironi to partner Gilles Villeneuve and also introduced its own turbo-charged engine, which provided more power in a more compact design than the previous normally aspirated, twelve-cylinder arrangement. The season was a distinct improvement on the last, Villeneuve winning the Monaco and Spanish Grands Prix, but a potential championship challenge was stymied by the difficult handling and extremely poor aerodynamics of the car. However, the lessons learnt from the team's first racing experience with a turbo car in F1 prepared it well for 1982. Throughout this season, the Ferrari was the best package, in terms of a balance between speed and reliability.", "On 16 July 2005, Mansell took part in a Race of Legends exhibition event at the Norisring round of the DTM. He competed against other Formula One World Champions Jody Scheckter, Alain Prost and Emerson Fittipaldi, as well as Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champions Mick Doohan and Johnny Cecotto (himself a former F1 driver), each driver having an opportunity to drive Audi, Mercedes and Opel cars. Prost was announced as the winner by the DTM organisers. ", "21. (07) Tomas Scheckter, 30, Cape Town, South Africa; KV Racing Technology-SH Racing; 224.433 mph. Will make season-debut at Indy for second straight year. Son of 1979 F1 champion Jody Scheckter. Runner-up in British Formula 3 championship in 2000 and in Formula Nissan series in 2001. Led 85 laps and was co-rookie of year at Indianapolis in 2002. Finished fourth at Indy in 2003. Led five laps last year. Only other top 10 at Indy was seventh in 2007. Only IndyCar wins came at Michigan in 2002 and Texas in 2005.", "Then, in 1979, he moved to Ferrari. Scheckter won a season-long duel with teammate Gilles Villeneuve, finishing four points clear of the Canadian in the final standings. The duo also won Ferrari's fourth Constructors' title in five years, the Scuderia's best run until it won six championships in a row during the Schumacher years.", "When he returned, for the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Jody immediately collided with Francois Cevert's Tyrrell, putting them both out of the race. Nevertheless, following this contretemps Ken Tyrrell signed Scheckter to replace the retiring Jackie Stewart and become Cevert's team mate for 1974. Sadly, this partnership would never be, as Cevert was killed in a horrible accident during practice for the next race, the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. Jody Scheckter was the first driver on the scene and what he saw that day had a profound effect on the rest of his racing life. In fact, Jody said, \"From then on all I was trying to do in Formula One was save my life.\" ", "Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, (born 17 September 1929) is a British former Formula One racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he achieved success in several categories of competition and has been described as \"the greatest driver never to win the World Championship\". Moss finished as championship runner-up on four occasions and third a further three times between 1955 and 1961.", "The following year, Villeneuve battled his Ferrari teammate, Jody Scheckter, closely throughout the season. Both drivers won three times, but Scheckter was a more consistent points-scorer and won the title by four points.", "Another country's only world champion, South Africa's Jody Scheckter raced only seven full seasons in F1. In the first five, he came second or third in the championship three times.", "After a decent start to 1976 , Tyrrell introduced one of F1 's most iconic cars, the six wheeled P34 . The car was quick and reliable, and Scheckter constantly scored points, mostly second places, and even headed a Tyrrell one-two at the Swedish Grand Prix . Scheckter came third in the championship for the second time in three years.", "Watkins Glen, October 1972: Jody Scheckter made an impressive Formula One debut in the McLaren M19A at the United States Grand Prix. He was running third on lap 36 before a spin dropped him to an eventual ninth place. © Sutton", "At Paul Ricard — just his third GP — Scheckter found himself in Gordon Coppuck's new M23, a car that would turn out to be one of the most successful in F1 history. In France, Jody led sensationally until 12 laps from the end, when Emerson Fittipaldi made a move and the pair ended up in the catch fencing. If they hadn't already noticed before, they knew now: Scheckter had arrived.", "* Jody Scheckter, South Africa, Formula One driver, Formula One World Drivers champion (brother of Ian Scheckter and father of Tomas Scheckter)", "After the Silverstone debacle of '73, Jody flew out to the US, back to his dual campaign in Formula 5000 and Can-Am. The F5000 Trojan, run off the back of a trailer by Sid Taylor, would bring his first major international title after a season-long battle with Brian Redman. Scheckter's wild reputation would follow him across the Atlantic — and he didn't exactly dispel it with his antics in the big single-seater. In all, he would complete 19 races in the States during the most varied season of his career.", "After a couple of late-season appearances, Scheckter moved on from McLaren, frustrated by the lack of opportunity. As for the M23, it would rack up 16 GP wins over four seasons and carry James Hunt to the '76 world title.", "After moving to Britain in 1970, Scheckter quickly progressed up to F1, making his début with McLaren in the final race of the 1972 season, in which he finished ninth. He continued to drive for McLaren, albeit sparingly and without any success, in 1973 .", "Jody Scheckter was born on January 29, 1950, in East London, South Africa, where his father owned a Renault dealership. Jody worked there as an engineering apprentice and learned to drive when he was quite young, but only knew one speed: flat-out. This attitude naturally led him to try racing, at first on motorcycles and then in saloon cars. In his first national race he was black-flagged off the circuit for dangerous driving. Eventually he learned to temper his aggression with enough skill to become a regular winner. In 1970 he won the South African Formula Ford series and with it the Driver To Europe scholarship. With his prize - 300 pounds cash and air tickets to England for himself and his wife Pam - Jody set out to become the best driver in the world. That was always his goal but the route he took to achieving it was at first strewn with wreckage and many wondered if he would survive. ", "At the funeral in Berthierville former teammate Jody Scheckter delivered a simple eulogy: \"I will miss Gilles for two reasons. First, he was the most genuine man I have ever known. Second, he was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing. But he has not gone. The memory of what he has done, what he achieved, will always be there.\" ", "That was the remarkable record of Jody Scheckter's progress - club racer to Grand Prix professional in quicker time than most of his contemporaries. For Jody Scheckter, the real beginning of his career came in early 1971 . Until that time motor racing had been a hobby for him, passionately pursued, but nevertheless a secondary pursuit to an apprenticeship in his father's East London, South Africa garage.", "Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel had one of the best duels we've seen in recent years, Jules Bianchi showed admirable fight in his Marussia and Lewis Hamilton 's race-craft continues to impress.", "George Dario Marino Franchitti, MBE (born 19 May 1973), known professionally as Dario Franchitti, is a retired British racing driver. He is a four time IndyCar Series champion (2007,2009,2010,2011), a three time winner of the Indianapolis 500 (2007,2010,2012) as well as a winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona (2008). Franchitti started his career in his native United Kingdom in the early 1990s, competing in Formula Vauxhall and Formula Three and was also the winner of the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award in 1992. After Franchitti did not secure a single-seater drive in 1995, he was contracted by the AMG team to compete in touring cars in the DTM and its successor— the International Touring Car Championship. Despite 2 seasons with relative success, the series folded at the end of the 1996 season, again leaving Franchitti without a drive. Mercedes placed Franchitti in CART in 1997 with the Hogan Racing team.", "Damon Hill then made his second pit stop and rejoined 20secs behind Schumacher's Benetton, 'B194-05' purring home thereafter to record its fourth victory of the season, by 13secs from the Williams-Renault. This Formula 1 car was also driven by Michael Schumacher that season to finish second in both the Spanish and British GPs, being headed both at Barcelona and at Silverstone by Damon Hill's Williams-Renault FW16.", "Prior to entering the Grand Prix circuit, Scheckter was a prominent stockcar racer in his native South Africa, graduating to Formula Ford and Formula Two racing in the early 1970s. In 1972, he won the American Formula 5000 Championship and was awarded South Africa’s Springbok honors, his nation’s highest sports commendation.", "Having retired from racing, Scheckter moved from his Monaco home to live in America where he established FATS Inc., a business producing simulators for the firearm and security industry. During 1981, he was also an F1 pitlane commentator for CBS and won BBC Television's World Superstars competition that pitted sportsmen from different fields against each other.", "This Day in Motorsport History: Jody Scheckter Born In East London, South Africa - January 29, 1950" ]

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[ "Field hockey has been a men’s Olympic sport since the 1908 Olympic Games in London. The women’s game is a recent addition first recognized at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Field Hockey stages both a men’s and women’s World Cup as well as competitions at other International Games including the Commonwealth Games.", "The governing body is the 126-member International Hockey Federation (FIH). Men's field hockey has been played at each Summer Olympic Games since 1908 except for 1912 and 1924, while women's field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympic Games since 1980.", "The governing body is the 116-member International Hockey Federation (FIH). Men’s field hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 (except 1912 and 1924), while women’s field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympic Games since 1980.", "Men’s hockey was first featured in the Olympics in 1908. Women’s hockey debuted at the 1980 games in Moscow, Russia. In 2012, teams will compete on a water-based synthetic grass field, which allows the ball to move more smoothly and quickly.", "By the early 1970's there were 22 associations with women's sections in the FIH and 36 associations in the IFWHA. Discussions were started about a common rule book. The FIH introduced competitive tournaments in 1974, forcing the acceptance of the principle of competitive hockey by the IFWHA in 1973. It took until 1982 for the two bodies to merge, but this allowed the introduction of women's hockey to the 1980 Olympic Games, where, as in the men's game, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands have been consistently strong.", "India's association with the Olympics started when the country was still striving for its independence. The national sport, Hockey was the primary sport to give the country feel of gold. India's Men's Field Hockey Team won the gold for six successive Olympic years from 1928-1956. Though, nothing can beat the craze of the Indians for cricket but Abhinav Bindra's phenomenal performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has proven to be a catalyst to evoke interest of the Indians in the mammoth sporting event. The country for the first time welcomed and appreciated, a sports personality not hailing from the cricket background with so much admiration and reverence. Even the athletes were motivated to put up a better show. It is worth noting that India's performance at the Olympics has improved considerably after the year 1994 with more athletes getting individual medals for the country.", "Hockey-the game in which women’s team qualified for the next year’s Olympic at Rio de Janerio- entry to Olympic after 36 year long wait.", "Since the initial women's world championships in 1990, there have been fifteen tournaments. Women's hockey has been played at the Olympics since 1998. The 2006 Winter Olympic final between Canada and Sweden marked the only time the women's world championship or Olympic final did not involve both Canada and the United States.", "Field hockey was one sport where the women were in advance of the men and a national association had been formed in 1910, 15 years before the men. An English women's team visited Australia in 1927, playing one of its matches in Sydney, and an Australian women's team made an international tour to South Africa, Rhodesia and Europe in 1930.", "Since the initial women's world championships in 1990, there have been fifteen tournaments. [62] Women's hockey has been played at the Olympics since 1998. [64] The 2006 Winter Olympic final between Canada and Sweden marked the only time the women's world championship or Olympic final did not involve both Canada and the United States.", "The first women's Olympic field hockey competition was held at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Olympic field hockey games were first played on artificial turf at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.", "Ice Hockey is a fast paced team sport placed on ice, requiring good levels of skill, speed, agility and endurance. Ice hockey made its first appearance at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. Four years later, what is now known as the first Winter Olympics was held, and an Ice Hockey event was included. Women's ice hockey was added to the program in Nagano 1998. It was also the first time the ice hockey competition was open to professionals. There is a men's and women's ice hockey event.", "There is also a Women's Hockey World Cup, which has been held since 1974 and was organised by the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA) until 1981, when the governing bodies merged into the current International Hockey Federation in 1982.", "These gentleman made up the Great Britain field hockey Olympic team. Their first medal came at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics where they secured a bronze medal. Four years later, at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul they won the gold medal.", "There is also a Women's Hockey World Cup, which has been held since 1974 and was organized by the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA) until 1981, when the governing bodies merged into the current International Hockey Federation in 1982.", "The first women's world championship tournament, albeit unofficial, was held in 1987 in Toronto , Canada. This was followed by the first IIHF World Championship in 1990 in Ottawa. Women's ice hockey was added as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan . The United States won the gold, Canada won the silver and Finland won the bronze medal. [64]", "Although Coubertin opposed the participation of women in the Olympics and no women competed in 1896, a few female golfers and tennis players were allowed to participate in the 1900 Games. Female swimming and diving were added to the 1912 Games, and female gymnastics and track-and-field events were first held at the 1928 Games. Women’s Olympic sports have grown significantly since then, and currently women account for approximately half of the members of teams, except in teams from Islamic nations, where the level of female participation is generally lower.", "Main articles: Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics and Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team at the 1980 Summer Olympics", "Men's water polo at the Olympics was the first team sport introduced at the 1900 games, along with cricket, rugby, football, polo (with horses), rowing and tug of war. Women's water polo became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games after political protests from the Australian women's team.", "Field hockey is played in the United States predominantly by women. It is played widely at numerous NCAA colleges, where it is used as a sport to offset Title IX regulations assuring equal opportunities for men and women in sports (it thus offsets male-dominated sports such as college football).", "Women's ice hockey was added as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan . The United States won gold, Canada won silver and Finland won bronze. [55]", "Men- Great Britain defeated West Germany for the gold medal. It was Great Britain's first Olympic field hockey gold medal since 1920. ", "Ice hockey was already held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and has been played in every celebration of the Winter Games. A women's tournament was first conducted in 1998.", "Women’s field hockey was first introduced to British Universities and schools in the 1880s. The first field hockey club, Molesey Ladies Hockey Club, was founded in 1887. This club led to the formation of the International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations (IFWHA) in 1927. Following the establishment of this association, women’s field hockey grew rapidly around the world. It spread in many continental European countries and later to the USA.", "Field Hockey is continually growing in popularity throughout the world. In most countries there is an even balance between men and women who play the sport. In the United States, however, it is predominantly a female sport. This may be because there are very few clubs in the United States at the junior and adult level. Most teams are at the high school or collegiate levels and are entirely female. The strength of men’s college hockey in the United States reflects the impact of Title IX, which mandated that colleges put forth equal funding toward men’s and women’s sports.", "In the early 1970s, artificial turf began to be used. Synthetic pitches changed most aspects of field hockey, gaining speed. New tactics and techniques such as the Indian dribble developed, followed by new rules to take account. The switch to synthetic surfaces ended Indian and Pakistani domination because artificial turf was too expensive in developing countries. Since the 1970s, Australia, the Netherlands, and Germany have dominated at the Olympics.", "Women in Sports: The U.S. women’s hockey team wins the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.", "For the first time, the men’s ice hockey tournament was opened to all professionals, and women’s ice hockey was introduced to the Olympic programme. The inspired team from the Czech Republic scored a surprise victory.", "Water Polo first appeared as an Olympic sport at the Paris Games in 1900. Teams from Great Britain attained Gold medals in Water Polo at Paris in 1900, London in 1908, Stockholm in 1912 and Antwerp in 1920. Hungarian teams then dominated the event for much of the twentieth century. The Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 saw the first women�s water polo events.", "Women- Australia and South Korea met in the final of the women's tournament with Australia taking home the gold. It was the first Olympic field hockey medal for both nations. ", "Team sports, including men’s water polo, were introduced at the 1900 Olympics in Paris. Women’s water polo debuted at the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia.", "This is field hockey, of course, a game much played in girls schools in Britain. Ice hockey was relatively unknown in Britain." ]

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[ "* Major League Baseball players went on strike on 12 August 1994, thus ending the season and canceling the World Series for the first time in 90 years. The players' strike ended on 29 March 1995 when players and team owners came to an agreement.", "During the late 1960s, the Baseball Players Union became much stronger and conflicts between owners and the players' union led to major work stoppages in 1972, 1981, and 1994. The 1994 baseball strike led to the cancellation of the World Series, and was not settled until the spring of 1995. In the late 1990s, functions that had been administered separately by the two major leagues' administrations were united under the rubric of Major League Baseball.", "The players officially went on strike in August 1994. In September 1994 Major League Baseball announced the cancellation of the World Series for the first time since 1904.", "After surviving two world wars and an earthquake in 1989, the World Series was cancelled for only the second time in 1994 due to the players' strike.", "The previous collective bargaining agreement expired on December 31, 1993, and baseball began the 1994 season without a new agreement. Owners and players negotiated as the season progressed, but owners refused to give up the idea of a salary cap and players refused to accept one. On August 12, 1994, the players went on strike. After a month passed with no progress in the labor talks, Selig canceled the rest of the 1994 season and the postseason on September 14. The World Series was not played for the first time in 90 years. The Montreal Expos, now the Washington Nationals, were the best team in baseball at the time of the stoppage, with a record of 74–40 (since their founding in 1969, the Expos have never played in a World Series.)", "*1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.", "Beginning with the 1994 season, both the AL and the NL were divided into three divisions (East, West, and Central), with the addition of a wild card team (the team with the best record among those finishing in second place) to enable four teams in each league to advance to the preliminary division series . However, due to the 1994 strike (which canceled the 1994 World Series ), the new rules did not go into effect until the 1995 World Series .", "The 1994–95 strike lasted 234 days, erased 921 games (669 from the 1994 season, 252 from the 1995 season), forced the first cancellation of the World Series since 1904, disrupted the economies of cities and states, and disappointed millions of fans—all without reaching a resolution. As a result, there was an unprecedented decline in attendance during the 1995 season.", "The 1994 World Series was canceled on September 14 of that year due to an ongoing strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which had begun on August 12. It was only the second time in the event's history (the first was in 1904) that the Fall Classic was not played.", "The date wasn't chosen arbitrarily. \"In 1989, there was only one set of baseball playoffs instead of two, so Oct. 21 would have been a likely date for the World Series to end if the Cubs had swept the team from Miami,\" screenwriter Bob Gale says.", "\"What better way to give him the idea than with a really outrageous scenario, which is the Cubs win the World Series?\" Gale said. \"It's a double joke because they win the World Series against Miami — which [didn't have] major league baseball in 1989.\"", "Following the '89 World Series defeat, a local ballot initiative to fund a new stadium in San Francisco failed, threatening the franchise's future in the city. After the 1992 season, owner Bob Lurie, who had previously saved the franchise from moving to Toronto in 1976, put the team up for sale. A group of investors from St. Petersburg, led by Vince Naimoli , reached an agreement to purchase the team and move them across the country. However, Major League Baseball blocked the move, paving the way for the team to stay in San Francisco with an ownership group lead by Peter Magowan , the former CEO of Safeway. (As compensation, MLB granted Naimoli's group an expansion franchise, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays .)", "World Series games were contested outside of the United States for the first time in 1992, with the Toronto Blue Jays defeating the Atlanta Braves in six games. The World Series returned to Canada in 1993, with the Blue Jays victorious again, this time against the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. No other Series has featured a team from outside of the United States. Toronto is the only expansion team to win successive World Series titles. The 1993 World Series was also notable for being only the second championship concluded by a home run and the first concluded by a come-from-behind homer, after Joe Carter's three-run shot in the bottom of the ninth inning sealed an 8–6 Toronto win in Game 6. The first Series to end with a homer was the 1960 World Series, when Bill Mazeroski hit a ninth-inning solo shot in Game 7 to win the championship for the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "August 12 - Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually causing the cancellation of the World Series.", "Morris won 21 games the previous year but was ultimately left off the postseason roster. Still, they were not lacking for World Series heroes when the Blue Jays attempted a repeat in 1993.", "The World Series has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada since 1903, concluding the postseason of Major League Baseball. Since the Series takes place in October, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event the Fall Classic; it is also sometimes known as the October Classic or simply The Series.", "The Jays went on to become the first team since the 1977–78 New York Yankees to repeat back-to-back as World Series champions, defeating the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. Joe Carter hit a dramatic home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to drive in the winning runs. It was only the second time in World Series history that a series ended on a home run, and it was the first time that the series was clinched on Canadian soil. Paul Molitor, also new to the team in 1993, was voted MVP.", "The 1989 World Series featured the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants in the first cross-town World Series since 1956. Game 3 of the series was scheduled to begin at San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 17 at 17:35 PDT, and American TV network ABC began its pre-game show at 17:00 PDT. When the quake struck at approximately 17:04, sportscaster Tim McCarver was narrating taped highlights of Game 2, which had been played two days earlier across the Bay Bridge in Oakland. Television viewers saw the video signal begin to break up, heard McCarver repeat a sentence as the shaking distracted him, and heard McCarver's colleague Al Michaels exclaim, \"I'll tell you what, we're having an earth—.\" At that moment, the signal from Candlestick Park was lost. ", "In 1992, the Blue Jays won their first American League championship, defeating the Oakland A's. They then became the first team based outside the United States to capture the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves in a memorable six-game series. Dave Winfield drove in the winning runs in the 11th inning of the sixth game. Catcher Pat Borders won the series MVP award.", "In 1993, the Toronto Blue Jays won their second straight World Series championship, as Joe Carter hit a walk-off home run off of Mitch Williams in the bottom of the 9th of Game 6. To date, this is the last World Series to end on a home run.", "In Major League Baseball , the \"Core Four\" was a group of New York Yankees who all made the team's major-league roster in 1995 and went on to win five World Series together. Three of the four�shortstop Derek Jeter, catcher Jorge Posada, and closer Mariano Rivera�were together from 1995 to 2011 (when Posada retired), longer than any group of players of its size in the history of major North American sports. The fourth, starting pitcher Andy Pettitte, wasn't around for all of that period; he went to the Houston Astros in 2004, returned to the Yankees in 2007, retired in 2010 , came back in 2012 , and retired for good in 2013. Running the numbers, the Jeter/Posada/Rivera triumvirate stayed together for at least part of 17 seasons, while Pettitte was there for 13 of those seasons.", "*1993 – October 23 – The Blue Jays win their second straight World Series championship when Toronto outfielder Joe Carter hits a walk-off home run against Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Mitch Williams.", "In response to that, Major League Baseball, along with the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), the sport's international governing body, instituted the World Baseball Classic. This sixteen-team tournament -- first held in 2006, with the second edition held in 2009 and future tournaments to be held in 2013, 2017, etc. -- takes place in March, right before the MLB regular season, and many of the players are on MLB teams, unlike in most tournaments. Japan has won both WBCs played so far, and has a bit of a rivalry with South Korea for obvious reasons . The USA missed the semifinals in 2006, but made the semifinals in 2009.", "Before 1966, local announcers exclusively called the World Series. Typically, the Gillette Company, the Commissioner of Baseball and NBC television would choose the announcers, who would represent each of the teams that were in the World Series for the respective year. For the 1966 World Series, Curt Gowdy called half of each game before ceding the microphone to Vin Scully in Los Angeles, and Chuck Thompson in Baltimore. Scully was not satisfied with the arrangement as he said \"What about the road? My fans won't be able to hear me.\" In Game 1 of the 1966 World Series, Scully called the first 4½ innings. When Gowdy inherited the announcing reigns, Scully was so upset that he refused to say another word.", "In June of 1991, Major League Baseball announced that it had accepted bids from Miami and Colorado and awarded the cities their own MLB franchises.  ", "The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The Red Sox have won eight World Series championships and have played in 12. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox' home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The \"Red Sox\" name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around , following the lead of previous teams that had been known as the \"Boston Red Stockings\", including the forerunner of the Atlanta Braves.", "* October 21 – In Major League Baseball, The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League defeat the Kansas City Royals of the American League 4-1 in Game Six of the World Series to win the championship.", "This year: The World Series is scheduled to end no later than Nov. 1, featuring the American League's Detroit Tigers versus the St. Louis Cardinals or San Francisco Giants of the National League.", "#One World Series game has ended with a pick-off of a runner. Kolten Wong of the St. Louis Cardinals was picked off of first base in Game 3 of the 2013 World Series by Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara. The score was 4-2 and rookie Wong was a pinch runner.", "Notes: The Toronto Blue Jays became the first team from outside the United States to capture the World Series. ... Blue Jays catcher Pat Borders was named World Series MVP. ... Four of the six games were decided by one run.", "*July 10 – The National League shuts out the American League, 8–0, in the 83rd All-Star Game played in Kansas City's Kaufmann Stadium. NL starting pitcher Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants throws two shutout innings for the win, while teammates Pablo Sandoval and Melky Cabrera and Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun contribute most of the offensive firepower. Sandoval hits a bases-loaded triple and scores one run during a five-run first inning off Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander, while Braun doubles, triples and makes a fine catch in the outfield. Cabrera belts a two-run home run and scores two times to take home the MVP award. Atlanta Braves' 40-year-old Chipper Jones singles in his final All-Star at-bat as the NL, under retired manager Tony La Russa, once again claims home-field advantage in the World Series. ", "Famous for a controversial play in which Reggie Jackson breaks up a double play by using his hip to deflect the ball heading to first base away, allowing Thurman Munson to go to second base on the error. There will not be any repeat World Champions for the next fourteen years. This is also the first of 10 consecutive years that see 10 different teams win the World Series, a string unprecedented in MLB history." ]

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[ "Alberto Giacometti, (born October 10, 1901, Borgonovo, Switzerland —died January 11, 1966, Chur ), Swiss sculptor and painter, best known for his attenuated sculptures of solitary figures. His work has been compared to that of the existentialists in literature.", "Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker.", "Born in Switzerland in 1901, Alberto Giacometti received his early foundation in art from family members before pursuing formal training in Geneva and Paris. In the 1920s he began to develop his personal style, creating abstracted sculptures that showed the influence of Cubism and tribal art. During the 1930s he became a part of the Surrealist movement, with his work becoming more dreamlike in nature, but he later split with the group when he became focused on new ways to express the human form. Influenced by the emergence of Existentialism, his small, thin figurative sculptures resonated with the atmosphere of suffering that followed World War II, and they were soon highly sought after. Giacometti’s work continued to evolve in the 1950s and 1960s, during which time he also produced an extensive series of portraits and provided illustrations for numerous books. After receiving several awards, honors and retrospective exhibitions, and achieving international fame, Giacometti died in 1966.", "Alberto Giacometti is a famous Swiss sculptor and painter. He was a key member of the Surrealist Movement and created hundreds of pieces of art during his lifetime. His works are featured in museums all over the world and are extremely valuable, especially his sculptures. L'Homme qui marche I (The Walking Man) is the name given to any one of a series of cast bronze sculptures created by Alberto Giacometti in 1961. The sculptures comprise six numbered editions plus four artist proofs. They depict a lone man in mid-stride with his arms hanging at his side. The sculptures are life-sized and measure 183 cm (72 in). The collection has been described as \"both a humble image of an ordinary man and a potent symbol of humanity\". L'Homme qui marche has become one of the most iconic images of modern art.", "In June 1940, to escape the Nazi invasion, Giacometti and his brother Diego left Paris by bicycle and traveled to the south of France. They stayed there briefly and returned to Paris only to flee again in 1941 to Geneva, where they remained until 1946. During that tumultuous time, Giacometti arrived at matchstick-sized, coarsely textured sculptures of figures and heads that are so small that they appear far away in space. About 1947 he began to express his massless, weightless image of reality in a skeletal style, with figures thin as beanstalks. His new style projected an air of despair and loneliness. The frail scarred bodies he created reflected those of the survivors living in postwar Paris. Suddenly, Giacometti enjoyed a rapid rise to fame, especially in the United States , through two exhibitions (1948 and 1950) at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City and an essay on his art by the French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre , who described the artist and his work within the context of the existentialist worldview.", "By now acclaimed as one of the giants of modern art , Giacometti worked prolifically until this death in 1966. Commissions for public sculpture however tended to come to nothing, but in 1961 he made a tree for the stage of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In 1961 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale, which bought him worldwide fame. Despite the fame, Giacometti was rarely satisfied with his work - he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. Sartre was to remark of his friend 'He will never be finished with it; this is simply because a man is always beyond what he has done'. Despite declining health, the sculptor travelled to New York in 1965 to attend an opening of his work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) . He died a few months later in Switzerland.", "Despite his soaring reputation as a sculptor during the fifties and sixties, Giacometti craved equal recognition for his paintings. Those turbulently outlined compositions—which provide vivid evidence of this born sculptor's quest to achieve three-dimensional form within the two-dimensional confines of the picture plane—were usually executed in spectral tones of black and gray.", "Although Alberto Giacometti is primarily thought of as an intense Surrealist sculptor, he made intense expressionist paintings as well. In fact, the use of the shaped canvas is primarily associated with paintings of the 1960s and 1970s that are coolly abstract, formalistic, geometrical, objective, rationalistic, clean-lined, brashly sharp-edged, or minimalist in character.", "In 1935 Giacometti had an artistic crisis. Although his early works were already well known and in demand, the artist was still struggling to find his own unique style. The first sculptures he did during this period were so tiny that they threatened to fall apart. Gradually the figures developed with more lively surfaces, elongated limbs and narrow small heads. It was for these, more naturalistic works, that he would become famous. Working from his studio in Montparnasse, his figures grew and grew in size. At first he found his studio too small, but the longer he stayed there, the larger he said, it seem to become. Even one of his life-size standing figures, such as Man Striding (1960, Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul) were created in this studio. In 1934 Giacometti had his first solo exhibition in New York. A few later he also met the famous philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who became a good friend and wrote two essays about the artistic impact of Giacometti's art. During the war years, Giacometti lived in Zurich, only returning to his studio in Paris again in 1945.", "During the last years of his life, public fame claimed a significant amount of Giacometti’s time, as collectors, dealers, young artists, curators and the media flocked to his tiny studio. Both Matisse and Maeght presented successful exhibitions of his work in 1961, followed by a major showing of over 100 works at the Venice Biennale in 1962. The Kunsthaus in Zurich (1962-3), the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC (1963), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1965) and the Tate Gallery in London (1965) all showed large retrospectives. Early in 1963 he had surgery for stomach cancer, and he became increasingly unwell though he continued to work. /Source: by Valerie J. Fletcher © Oxford University Press.", "In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame. Even when he had achieved popularity and his work was in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti – The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust (Tudor 1970), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print. Some of his most important images were in editions of only 30 and many were described as rare in 1970.", "In 1962, he was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale , and the award brought with it worldwide fame. Even when he had achieved popularity and his work was in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti - The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust (Tudor 1970), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print. Some of his most important images were in editions of only 30 and many were described as rare in 1970.", "Alberto Giacometti was born son of the neo-impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti in the Swiss town of Borgonovo on October 10, 1901. He begins his art studies at the �cole des Beaux-Arts and the �cole des Arts Industriels in Geneva in 1919. Three years later he goes to Paris, where he attends the sculpting class of Antoine Bourdelle at the Acad�mie de la Grande Chaumi�re until 1925.", "Alberto Giacometti ~ Surrealist/Existentialist/Figure sculptor | Tutt'Art@ | Pittura * Scultura * Poesia * Musica |", "Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, now Switzerland on the border with Italy in 1901. His father, Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933) was also a painter, his uncle Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947) was a decorative artist, while his brother Diego became a furniture maker and sculptor. Giacometti attended the Fine Arts School in Geneva, studying figurative drawing, etching and painting. In 1920 he travelled with his father to the Venice Biennale to see the work of Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964), one of the great abstract sculptors from the Ukraine.", "Between 1936 and 1940, Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head, focusing on the sitter's gaze. He preferred models he was close to, his sister and the artist Isabel Rawsthorne (then known as Isabel Delmer). This was followed by a phase in which his statues of Isabel became stretched out; her limbs elongated. [2] Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisioned through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much to his consternation. A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, \"he would make your head look like the blade of a knife\". After his marriage to Annette Arm in 1946 his tiny sculptures became larger, but the larger they grew, the thinner they became. Giacometti said that the final result represented the sensation he felt when he looked at a woman.", "In the early 1930s, Giacometti’s emerging style endeared him to some of the Surrealist movement’s most important figures, such as André Breton , Man Ray and Georges Bataille. Their influence on his work can be seen in such dreamlike, metaphorical pieces as Suspended Ball (1931), Walking Woman I (1932) and The Palace at 4 a.m. (1932). The impact of these and similar sculptures would lead to his first solo exhibitions in Paris (1932) and New York (1934).", "Of Giacometti’s impressive body of work, the two major areas of interest that stand out are his investigations into the nature of the human head and his substantial work on utilitarian objects from ancient and primitive societies. In the second category, Giacometti contributed to the art of sculpture the idea of “mobile and mute objects.” He also began making utilitarian objects like wall light, lamps, and vases, which were sold by the interior designer Jean-Michel Frank. Giacometti and Frank collaborated over many years on projects in Europe and even as far as Buenos Aires. ", "In 1931, Giacometti became an active member of Andre Bretton’s group and the Surrealist movement. Surrealist techniques, including dreamlike visions and magical treatment of objects and figures remained an important part of his work even after he was expelled from the group in 1935, in spite of being one of its more prominent and gifted artists. “The Walking Woman,” a sculpture made in 1932 was included in the Surrealist exhibition of 1936 in London.", "Giacometti’s figures, with their seeming emaciation, anonymity and isolation in space, immediately struck a responsive chord in critics and collectors. His sculptures were perceived as appropriate metaphors for the human condition of post-war Europe: the horror of the concentration camps, displaced persons, destroyed lives. On a more philosophical level, critics also viewed Giacometti’s art as Existentialist, an interpretation introduced by Sartre in his two essays on Giacometti’s art (1948 and 1954). This Existentialist interpretation of his sculptures and paintings was the norm during the artist’s lifetime and precipitated a reaction by formalist critics (see Kramer). Both the contextual and historical interpretations of his art have much validity, but they limit his work to a kind of philosophical illustration, whereas his art expresses a more personal and universal Angst than one specifically of his time and place.", "The artist became popular for reinventing iconographical aspects in his portrait painting. He depicted his subject's naturally while at the same time ensuring their social status was intact.", "The skeletal, pterodactyl-like bird that hovers above Giacometti's primal cast of characters in The Palace alludes to the dread of mortality that was never far from his thoughts. Among the boy's earliest drawings were morbid depictions of Snow White in her glass coffin. At the age of 19, he went on a hiking trip with a friend old enough to be his grandfather who died en route of a heart attack. That horrifying event shook the young man so deeply that for the rest of his life he could not sleep without a light on. The death of his father in 1933 pushed him to a breakdown, and after his mother died many years later, the already-ill Giacometti gave up his will to live.", "Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease ( pericarditis ) and chronic bronchitis at the Kantonsspital in Chur , Switzerland. His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents. In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, former French foreign minister Roland Dumas , was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer, Jacques Tajan, who was also convicted. Both were ordered to pay €850,000 to the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation. [7]", "Giacometti died on January 11, 1966 in Chur. He was suffering from heart disease and chronic bronchitis. Around 5,000 of his works are held at the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti based in Paris. ", "He got married with Annette Arm. Alberto Giacometti passed away in Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. He was suffering from heart disease and chronic bronchitis.", "In context Andrew Warhola, Jr. (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.", "American photographer David LaChapelle is an interesting case of an artist at the crossroads of art and advertising, having made his name through his highly- colorful fashion photography and flamboyantly baroque and often carefree portraits of celebrities, together with an interest in the underside of the American dream, pop culture and the history of art. In his dream factory, beside popular icons of industry, fashion and music, elaborate stagings that tell entertaining stories emerge in the “tableau vivant” genre. In doing so, his compositions often refer to artworks from previous centuries, for example a recent photographic fresco reinterpreting Leonardo da Vinci’s \"Last Supper\" featuring figureless floating heads and expressive yet detached hands inside cardboard boxes, which compositionally represents the original. a recurrent subject for the artist who mixes the sacred and the profane, he continues to reflect on the renaissance of the spiritual in our material- dominated society.", " Andy Garcia stars as the painter Modigliani, an Italian Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a beautiful Catholic girl.", "Andy Warhol is perhaps one of the more famous names from this movement, who was known for his exploration of artistic expression, use of advertising and celebrity culture in his artwork.", "This portrait is of interest for whom it portrays and as the work of a well known artist", "A protégé of Andy Warhol, the celebrated photographer David LaChapelle is internationally known for taking the pop-art sensibility to heights Warhol probably couldn't have imagined. Whether you consider his extravagant celebrity portraits, fashion shots and elaborate tableaux to be works of imaginative virtuoso or over-the-top kitsch, they can often be as compelling as a car crash - a recipe for success that Warhol knew very well.", "In 2000, the biographical film Pollock, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, directed by and starring Ed Harris, was released. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Lee Krasner. The movie was the project of Ed Harris, who portrayed Pollock. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Harris himself painted the works seen in the film. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation did not authorize or collaborate with any production." ]

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[ "Most of the differences had been resolved by the first successful orbital flight of an unoccupied Mercury-Atlas combination in September 1961. On 29 November the final test flight took place, this time with the chimpanzee Enos occupying the capsule for a two-orbit ride before being successfully recovered in an ocean landing. Not until 20 February 1962, however, could NASA get ready for an orbital flight with an astronaut. On that date John Glenn became the first American to circle the Earth, making three orbits in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft. The flight was not without problems, however; Glenn flew parts of the last two orbits manually because of an autopilot failure and left his normally jettisoned retrorocket pack attached to his capsule during reentry because of a loose heat shield.", "On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn became the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth when he successfully completed three orbits aboard the space capsule “Friendship 7.” In the midst of Cold War tensions and the very real fear that the Soviet Union was winning the space race, Glenn’s accomplishment brought a sense of pride and relief to Americans and instantly made the 31-year-old Glenn a national hero. On the 50th anniversary of this historic flight, here are seven things you might not know about Friendship 7 and its pilot, John Glenn.", "* John Glenn: Flew the first American manned orbital mission termed \"Friendship 7\" on February 20.", "Astronaut John Glenn photographed in space by an automatic sequence motion picture camera during his historic orbital flight on \"Friendship 7\" on Feb. 20, 1962.", "John Glenn on Feb. 20, 2002 -- the 40th anniversary of his Project Mercury flight aboard Friendship 7.", "Freedom 7, America's first space capsule, was placed on display at the visitor center as the centerpiece of the \"Grads in Space\" exhibit on 23 September 1998. The late Rear Admiral Alan Shepard, class of 1945, had flown Freedom 7 into space on 5 May 1961. His historic flight marked America's first step in the space race.", "Philip played polo until 1971, when he started to compete in carriage driving, a sport which he helped expand; the early rule book was drafted under his supervision. He was a keen yachts sailor, striking up a friendship in 1949 with Uffa Fox in Cowes. He and the Queen regularly attended Cowes Week in HMY Britannia. His first airborne flying lesson took place in 1952; by his 70th birthday he had accrued 5,150 pilot hours. He was presented with Royal Air Force wings in 1953. In April 2014, it was reported that an old British Pathe newsreel film had been discovered of Philip's 1962 two-month flying tour of South America. Filmed sitting alongside Philip at the aircraft's controls was his co-pilot Captain Peter Middleton, the grandfather of the Duke's granddaughter-in-law, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. ", "Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett \"Al\" Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in May 1961 made the first manned Mercury flight. Shepard's craft entered space, but did not achieve orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft.", "The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts announced by NASA on April 9, 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1. They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963. These seven original American astronauts were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.", "An American aviator, Charles became famous in 1927 when he made the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. While on a goodwill trip to Latin America later that year he met and began seeing Morrow, the shy, self-conscious daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Their courtship gained international attention, and when the two married in 1929, they became one of America's first celebrity couples. Anne soon began flying the friendly skies—she was the first licensed female glider pilot in the country—and took to the air with her husband. Together they made history by charting potential air routes for commercial airlines, and they even set a Los Angeles-to-New York air speed record in 1930 when Anne was seven months pregnant. With her beloved husband's encouragement she wrote memoirs of their life together and became one of the country's most popular and famous diarists with 13 published books to her credit. But their storybook romance hit a few rough spots, including a few short-lived affairs, and the tragic and infamous kidnapping and murder of their infant first son in 1932.", "While sitting in the pilots seat..I wondered to myself who flew this wonderful aircraft and who had rank enough to be a Presidental pilot!!??", "The first female flight attendant flew the friendly skies 83 years ago today on a Chicago-bound flight.", "While in residence at the Repulse Bay, the couple became friends with senior CNAC executive W. Langhorne Bond, who had been in China for 10 years and who occupied the room next door. Bond was able to assist with the demanding logistics of flying them over enemy lines around Guangzhou to Chinese-held territory in northern Guangdong province, so they could visit what was known as the Canton Front. Gellhorn had already made a two-day solo reconnaissance flight to Kunming on a CNAC plane she described as a “flying beetle” and was instantly enthralled by the skill and phlegmatic bravery of the American pilots and their Chinese aircrew.", "Between 1910 and 1916 the Wright Brothers Flying School at Huffman Prairie trained 115 pilots who were instructed by Orville and his assistants. Several trainees became famous, including Henry “Hap” Arnold , who rose to Five-Star General, commanded U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, and became first head of the U.S. Air Force; Calbraith Perry Rodgers , who made the first coast-to-coast flight in 1911 (with many stops and crashes) in a Wright Model EX named the “ Vin Fiz ” after the sponsor’s soft drink; and Eddie Stinson, founder of the Stinson Aircraft Company .", "During the preparation for the Atlantic trip, Earhart's friendship with still-married George Putnam blossomed. Upon his divorce, and after signing a prenuptial agreement guaranteeing her continued independence, she married Putnam in December 1929. He would support and publicize her flying career.", "Jackie, aka \"Leo,\" in a Ryan Brougham airplane modified to take him on a transcontinental flight in 1927. Photo Courtesy of San Diego Air & Space Museum Flickr Stream", "If there was any bitterness between Donald Hall and Charles Lindbergh over the X-1, it was likely never discussed. The two friends kept in touch over the years, according to Nova Hall, maintaining a cordial correspondence and occasionally visiting one another. Perhaps on one of those visits they reminisced about the day, May 3, 1927 -- just before Lindy flew the Spirit from San Diego to St. Louis and on to glory -- when the pilot invited the designing engineer to ride in the cramped cockpit of the NYP plane. The sun ducked in and out of a light fog that day as Lindy put the aircraft through its paces, letting Hall handle the stick briefly so as to get a sense of the stability issues produced by the insufficiently large tail. True, the plane had some eccentricities, but it seemed to fly marvelously well.", "Between 1910 and 1916 the Wright Company flying school at Huffman Prairie trained 115 pilots who were instructed by Orville and his assistants. Several trainees became famous, including Henry “Hap” Arnold, who rose to Five-Star General, commanded U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, and became first head of the U.S. Air Force; Calbraith Perry Rodgers, who made the first coast-to-coast flight in 1911 (with many stops and crashes) in a Wright Model EX named the “Vin Fiz” after the sponsor’s soft drink; and Eddie Stinson, founder of the Stinson Aircraft Company.", "In 1931, he flew around the world in the Winnie Mae with his navigator, Harold Gatty. (Gatty was a renowned aviator in his own right. An Australian naval cadet, he had accompanied Roscoe Turner on a trans-contintental flight in 1929. In 1930, he flew with Harold Bromley on an unsuccessful Trans-Pacific attempt. He devised the ground-speed and drift indicator which formed the basis of the automatic pilot. During the War, he served on McArthur's staff as Director of Air Transport and wrote the Raft Book-a survival manual for downed Allied aircrews. He founded Fiji Airways, now Air Pacific, in 1951.)", "Before his flight training started, Ellyson assisted Curtiss in further demonstrating the military value of the airplane in warfare. He did this by making suggestions regarding the use and placement of the sandbag arresting gear used by Eugene Ely in his successful landing and take-off from the afterdeck of the anchored USS PENNSYLVANIA on January 18, 1911, during the San Francisco Air Meet. This event further demonstrated the potential use of airplanes for Naval operations and set the stage for the aircraft carriers of the future.", "1927: Birth of Sheila (Christine) Scott, English aviator who broke 104 light aircraft records and was the first to fly solo over the North Pole. Despite this, she failed her driving test three times. Her flying endeavours were always under-financed and when funds ran out, she was left to a sad and lonely retirement.", "On August 17, 1935, the first aircraft landing at Wake Island occurred when a PAA flying boat, on a survey flight of the route between Midway and Wake, landed in the lagoon. The aircraft, which crossed the International Date Line on its westward flight, was a Sikorsky S-42 renamed the Pan American Clipper and piloted by Captain Ed Musick with Fred Noonan (later famous as accompanying aviatrix Amelia Earhart when they disappeared on a pioneering around-the-world flight in 1937) as the navigator. During the landing the crosswind was strong and the S-42 stopped just in time to avoid striking a coral head. On November 26, 1935, the first trans-Pacific airmail flight stopped at Wake Island when Captain Musick landed in a Martin M-130 named the China Clipper (NC14716). Supplies unloaded at Wake included Thanksgiving turkeys, mail, newspapers and twenty-five yellow canaries.", "Toward the end of Eisenhower's term in 1958, the Air Force added three Boeing 707 jets (as VC-137s designated SAM 970, 971, and 972), into the fleet. Eisenhower became the first president to use the VC-137 throughout his \"Flight to Peace\" Goodwill tour, from 3 December through 22 December 1959. He visited 11 Asian nations, flying 22,000 miles (35,000 km) in 19 days, about twice as fast as he could have covered that distance via one of the Columbines.", "His first assignment was to Fleet Aircraft Service Squadron 7 at NAS San Diego (now known as NAS North Island). Two months later he was assigned to Fighter Squadron 51 (VF-51), an all-jet squadron, and made his first flight in a jet, an F9F-2B Panther, on January 5, 1951. In June, he made his first jet carrier landing on and was promoted the same week from Midshipman to Ensign. By the end of the month, Essex had set sail with VF-51 aboard, bound for Korea, where its VF-51 would act as ground-attack aircraft. ", "Unable to take on an active military role, Lindbergh approached a number of aviation companies, offering his services as a consultant. As a technical adviser with Ford in 1942, he was heavily involved in troubleshooting early problems encountered at the Willow Run B-24 Liberator bomber production line. As B-24 production smoothed out, he joined United Aircraft in 1943 as an engineering consultant, devoting most of his time to its Chance-Vought Division. The following year, he persuaded United Aircraft to designate him a technical representative in the Pacific War to study aircraft performances under combat conditions. He showed Marine F4U Corsair pilots how to take off with twice the bomb load that the fighter-bomber was rated for and on May 21, 1944, he flew his first combat mission: a strafing run with VMF-222 near the Japanese garrison of Rabaul , in the Australian Territory of New Guinea . [87]", "As a young LT (jg) aboard the USS Wasp he flew co-pilot for the air group commander on an anti-submarine hunter aircraft involved in the recovery of Gemini 6A and Gemini 7, the first space docking mission. Three years later, flying off USS Yorktown, he was also involved in the recovery of the Apollo 8 space capsule. He also flew McDonnell Douglas A-4 jet bombers. After six years in the Navy, he joined Pan American World Airways in 1968 as a flight engineer.", "SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: In nineteen twenty-eight, he got a job flying the plane that belonged to a rich oil producer from Oklahoma. The man's name was F.C. Hall. He bought a new airplane for Post to fly. Mister Hall named the airplane the \"Winnie Mae\" after one of his daughters.", "However, he did not solo until April, 1923, when he purchased his first plane, a Jenny, in Georgia. Shortly afterward he began to earn his living as a flier by taking up passengers in various towns at $5 a ride. It was all seat-of-the-pants flying and Lindbergh gloried in it; but he gave it up to enlist in the Army in March, 1924, so he could attend the Army flying school at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex. For the first time, he found some joy in textbooks and classes.", "During the mid-1950s, Reitsch was interviewed on film and talked about her wartime flight tests of the Fa 61,  Me 262 , and  Me 163 . In 1959 she was invited to India by prime minister  Jawaharlal Nehru  to begin a gliding centre. In 1961 Reitsch was invited to the  White House  by  US President   John F. Kennedy . From 1962 to 1966 she lived in  Ghana , where she founded the first black African national gliding school.", "In 1924, Lindbergh entered a U.S. Army flying school at San Antonio, Texas. He graduated first in his class the following year, then became the first air mail pilot between Chicago, Illinois, and St, Louis, Missouri. He became the first three-time member of the Caterpillar Club, that exclusive fraternity of people who had saved their lives with parachutes. While he loved flying of any sort, the airmail routine was tedious. He heard of a fine new airplane, the Wright Bellanca, whose engine promised to give it a range of 4,000 miles. He pondered what could be achieved in such a machine.", "My first organized club was the Duke City Modeleers in Albuquerque in the mid-1940's. In High School shop, we made recognition solids for the Air Corps and FF and C/L models. I dabbled in early R/C with a buddy who was a radio \"Ham\", building our own barely successful radio system. During World War II one of our star club members was Frank Hoover, an R/C pioneer and AMA Hall of Fame member. Frank was an Air Corps instructor at Kirtland Field and a great model instructor. We spent hours in Frank's garage learning to build model planes. I began competition flying and later became club president.", "During his time at BOAC he was an official in the British Air Line Pilots' Association. He flew Avro Yorks, Argonauts, Britannias, DC7Cs and the Boeing 707." ]

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[ "\"Stagger Lee\", also known as \"Stagolee\" and other variants, is a popular American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by \"Stag\" Lee Shelton in St. Louis, Missouri at Christmas, 1895. The song was first published in 1911, and was first recorded in 1923 by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. A version by Lloyd Price reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959.", "I started thinking about the significance of the African-American song tradition surrounding the legend of Stagger Lee after I heard the white rock musician Huey Lewis's recording  \"Stagger Lee\" which he based on Lloyd Price's classic hit from the late 1950s.  Lewis recorded a straight cover of Price's record, but he made a very significant change to the lyrics--the backup vocalists sing \"Whoa! Stagger Lee\" in Lewis's version, but they chant \"Go! Stagger Lee\" in Price's record. ", "Cole, Sinatra and Tony Bennett. Lloyd Price, who in 1952 had a #1 hit with \"Lawdy Miss Clawdy\" regained predominance with a version of \"Stagger Lee\" at #1 and \"Personality\" at #5 for in 1959. ", "Randolph Adolphus Turpin (7 June 1928 – 17 May 1966), better known as Randolph Turpin, and in the United States also as Randy Turpin, was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe's best middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1951 he became world middleweight champion when he defeated Sugar Ray Robinson. Turpin was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2001.", "Walter Albert Lindrum, OBE (29 August 1898 – 30 July 1960), often known as Wally Lindrum, was an Australian professional player of English billiards who held the World Professional Billiards Championship from 1933 until his retirement in 1950. He was named Walter Albert to have the initials of the state where he was born - W.A. (Western Australia). He was one of the most successful players ever seen in billiards, with 57 world records to his credit, some of which still stand. Lindrum is also considered amongst Australia's all-time greatest sportspeople.", "Francis Albert \"Frank\" Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. Sinatra's music has been considered timeless by many. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, he began his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He found success as a solo artist after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the \"bobby soxers\". He released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known performers as part of the Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity and his subsequent Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958) and Nice 'n' Easy (1960).", "Her recording successes continued throughout the period even if, on some occasions, she had to fight to persuade Capitol to record them. One such argument surrounded \"Lover,\" which executives felt would compete directly with the labels then popular version by Les Paul. Lee won out [sic; she left Capitol for Decca] and her performance of her own arrangement, played by a studio orchestra under the direction of Gordon Jenkins, was a sensation.", "Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., 17 January 1942 - 3 June 2016 ) was an American boxer who was the Heavyweight Champion of the World three times between 1964 and 1979.", "Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne and the nickname Duke, was an American actor, director, and producer. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades. ", "He is noted for his roles in five feature-length films: Lo Wei 's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest 's Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Lee; Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers ' Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death (1978), both directed by Robert Clouse . [9] Lee became an iconic figure known throughout the world, particularly among the Chinese , as he portrayed Chinese nationalism in his films. [10] He trained in the art of Wing Chun and later combined his other influences from various sources, in the spirit of his personal martial arts philosophy, which he dubbed Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist). Lee held dual nationality of Hong Kong and the US. [11] He died in Kowloon Tong on July 20, 1973 at the age of 32. [12]", "He formed a band in 1945 and had ten hits on the posted charts by 1947. “Heartaches” was number one and the following re-issues also became hits: “Piccolo Pete”, “Oh, Mona”, “Mickey” and “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”. The band did well until 1952. Mentioning these songs certainly brings back old memories.", "Samuel George \"Sammy\" Davis ,Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. Primarily a dancer and singer, he was also an actor of stage and screen, comedian, musician, and impressionist, noted for his impersonations of actors, musicians and other celebrities. At the age of three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father and Will Mastin as the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, Davis returned to the trio. Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist. In 1954, he lost his left eye in a car accident, and several years later, he converted to Judaism. ", "During the 1960s he firmly established himself on the British circuits as one of, if not the best of the best wrestlers around. He was the golden boy of British Heavyweight Wrestling and arguably the best wrestler that ever came out of Wigan. Of his contemporaries (the likes of Geoff Portz, Georgios Gordienko and Billy Joyce) there were few who could beat him and none who could match his technical skill. There was little doubt he would be British Heavyweight Champion before long and indeed he lived up to the expectations when he captured the Title on January 18, 1967 from Billy Joyce and would hold it for slightly over three years before he vacated the title so that he could travel to America and join the AWA.", "On radio, Charlie Chan was heard in several different series on three networks (the NBC Blue Network, Mutual, and ABC) between 1932 and 1948. Walter Connolly initially portrayed Chan on Esso Oil's Five Star Theater, which serialized adaptations of Biggers novels. Ed Begley, Sr. had the title role in N.B.C.'s The Adventures of Charlie Chan (1944–45), followed by Santos Ortega (1947–48). Leon Janney and Rodney Jacobs were heard as Lee Chan, Number One Son, and Dorian St. George was the announcer. Radio Life magazine described Begley's Chan as \"a good radio match for Sidney Toler's beloved film enactment.\" ", "Lee’s career has been remarkable for its constancy. From 1958 to 1976, Lee recorded almost exclusively with producer Owen Bradley at his studio in Nashville. Lee would cut country, rockabilly and pop material, claiming it all as her own. Moreover, she signed with Decca and remained on the label (which later became MCA) for nearly thirty years. Her precocious, throaty voice possessed a seasoned phrasing and emotional resonance that suggested wisdom and talent beyond her years. “She knows how to communicate, how to get to you, how to make you understand what she’s talking about,” said Bradley. “It’s something you’re just born with.”", "In 1955 Jimmy Young became the first UK artist to top the New Musical Express chart, (popularly known by initialism, NME). The first, Unchained Melody, made the top spot in spite of intense competition from Al Hibbler, Les Baxter, and Liberace. The second, the title song from the movie,", "7. Kato: Radio audiences in the 1930s thrilled to “The Green Hornet,” and the masked man and his sidekick, Kato, made the jump to film serials and comics as well. But in the 1960s, something interesting happened when the duo got their own TV show — all eyes were on the sidekick. The show, a sort of serious sister to the popular ”Batman” series, starred handsome Van Williams as  newspaper publisher Britt Reid, who battled crime as a vigilante-playing-villain called the Green Hornet. Bruce Lee took on the role of Hornet’s wheelman and hand-to-hand combat expert, Kato, and no one could have predicted that the short-lived role (26 episodes) would be the starting point of an American martial-arts craze and a superstar career for actor Lee. The role of Kato will be reprised by Jay Chou in the Michel Gondry’s “The Green Hornet” film this January.", "7. Kato: Radio audiences in the 1930s thrilled to “The Green Hornet,” and the masked man and his sidekick, Kato, made the jump to film serials and comics as well. But in the 1960s, something interesting happened when the duo got their own TV show — all eyes were on the sidekick. The show, a sort of serious sister to the popular “Batman” series, starred handsome Van Williams as  newspaper publisher Britt Reid, who battled crime as a vigilante-playing-villain called the Green Hornet. Bruce Lee took on the role of Hornet’s wheelman and hand-to-hand combat expert, Kato, and no one could have predicted that the short-lived role (26 episodes) would be the starting point of an American martial-arts craze and a superstar career for actor Lee. The role of Kato will be reprised by Jay Chou in the Michel Gondry’s “The Green Hornet” film this January.", "He is noted for his roles in five feature-length films: Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest's Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Lee; Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death (1978), both directed by Robert Clouse. Lee became an iconic figure known throughout the world, particularly among the Chinese, as he portrayed Chinese nationalism in his films. He trained in the art of Wing Chun and later combined his other influences from various sources, in the spirit of his personal martial arts philosophy, which he dubbed Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Intercepting Fist). ", "American crooner and one of the husbands of  Elizabeth Taylor , his heyday was the 50s", "In 1952, Ray rose very quickly from obscurity to stardom in the United States. He became a major star in the United Kingdom by performing and releasing recordings there in 1953 and was supported by many acts including Frank Holder. He matched these achievements in Australia the following year. His career in his native United States began to decline in the late 1950s, and his American record label dropped him in 1960. He never regained a strong following there and very rarely appeared on American television after 1973. His fan base in other countries, however, remained strong until his last year of performing, which was 1989. His recordings never stopped selling outside the United States.", "in 1971 - Harold McNair dies at age 39. Jamaican saxophone player and flautist player started out at the Alpha Boys School under the tutelage of Victor Tulloch, whilst playing with lifelong friend Joe Harriott, Wilton 'Bogey' Gaynair, and Baba Motta's band. He spent the first decade of his musical career in The Bahamas, where he used the name \"Little G\" for recordings and live performances. In 1960, he went to Miami to record his first album, a mixture of jazz and calypso numbers entitled Bahama Bash, and later that year he left for Europe. He toured Europe with Quincy Jones and worked on film and TV scores in Paris, before settling in London, where he was invited to a regular spot at Ronnie Scott's nightclub. He also worked with Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Tony Crombie, Jack Costanzo and many visiting Americans including vocalists Jon Hendricks and Blossom Dearie, Philly Joe Jones and saxophonist Eddie \"Lockjaw\" Davis among others (lung cancer)", "Career: Performed with the Beale Streeters, a band that toured and backed B. B. King, late 1940s and early 1950s; signed to Duke label, 1952; given name Johnny Ace by Duke label as part of band name Johnny Ace with the New Blues Sound; placed eight singles in rhythm-and-blues top ten, 1952-54; heavy touring schedule of up to 350 performances a year by 1954; single “Pledging My Love” posthumously topped rhythm-and-blues chart and rose to pop top 20, 1955.", "Often played the love interest of a significantly younger woman. A notable example is High Noon (1952) in which he and Grace Kelly played newlyweds. He was 51 and she was 22.", "In search of better acting roles than Hollywood was offering, Lee returned to Hong Kong in the early 1970s. He successfully established himself as a star in Asia with the action movies The Big Boss (1971) and The Way of the Dragon (1972), which he wrote, directed and starred in. Lee’s next film, Enter the Dragon, was released in the United States by Hollywood studio Warner Brothers in August 1973. Tragically, Lee had died one month earlier, on July 20, in Hong Kong, after suffering a brain edema believed to be caused by an adverse reaction to a pain medication. Enter the Dragon was a box-office hit, eventually grossing more than $200 million, and Lee posthumously became a movie icon in America.", "After returning from World War II military service, he got two very important roles: Joe Gillis, the gigolo, in Sunset Boulevard (1950), and the tutor in Born Yesterday (1950). These were followed by his Oscar-winning role as the cynical sergeant in Stalag 17 (1953). He stayed popular through the 1950s, appearing in such films as Picnic (1955). He spent much of his later time as co-owner of the Mount Kenya Safari Club, dividing his time between Africa and Switzerland.", " 1950 Tea for Two (performer: \"I Know That You Know\", \"Tea for Two\", \"I Want to Be Happy\", \"Do, Do, Do\", \"Oh Me! Oh My!\", \"No, No, Nanette\")", "He left Milwaukee and developed his unique act throughout the 1940s, first in New York, then Las Vegas and Hollywood. By 1950 he was a star live attraction and his national TV show that first aired in 1952 sealed his fame. He deliberately broke an established TV rule by looking directly into the camera as he played; he knew he could convince each one of his fans that he was playing specifically for her.", "Between the two Olympics, Lee made headlines of a different sort. In late 1948, in his hometown of Covington, Kentucky, Lee became one of the first blacks to defy the law which required blacks to sit in a separate section of local buses. Lee was arrested and fined, but appealed the ruling. Though he did not win that fight, the years have proven him a winner – in all ways.", "Lee held dual nationality of Hong Kong and the United States. He died in Kowloon Tong on July 20, 1973 at the age of 32.", "September 8: The Great Antonio, who wrestled briefly in the WWWF in the early-1960s, but was best known for a feud with Japanese icon Rikidozan, dies of a heart attack at age 77.", "What can be said about the King of Rock and Roll? He rocked our world in the 50's" ]

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[ "Anita Loos, (born April 26, 1893?, Sissons [now Mount Shasta], Calif., U.S.—died Aug. 18, 1981, New York , N.Y.), American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter celebrated for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which became the basis of a popular play , two musicals, and two films. By the time of her death it had run through 85 editions and translations into 14 languages.", "Subtitled The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, Anita Loos’s novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is the story of Lorelei Lee, a former actress and social climber who makes her way into the glittering social life of the Jazz Age. Told in the first person, the novel takes the form of Lorelei’s diary and records events in the final months before her marriage to the wealthy Henry Spoffard.", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub.", "The 100 best novels: No 49 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925) | Books | The Guardian", "Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes takes the form of Lorelei's diary, which is full of her attempts to snag a rich man. She thinks she's an intellectual, but she's actually a dumb blonde. She's also one of the most ironic, endearing, hilarious, charming characters ever.", "\"Anita Loos' irreverent novel about the boisterous misadventures of the delightful Lorelei Lee in Paris served as the basis for this exuberant musical (\"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes\") which opened on December 8, 1949 at the Ziegfeld Theater, where it enjoyed a run of 740 performances. A zany symbol of the 1920s, Lorelei Lee was born in the novel \"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes\" and made her first stage appearance in the 1926 comedy Ms. Loos and her husband, John Emerson, wrote after the book. When they created the musical, lyricist Leo Robin and composer Jule Styne fashioned an infectious score, well in keeping with the rich atmosphere of the original, and replete with show stopping numbers like \"Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend\", \"Bye Bye Baby\", and \"A Little Girl From Little Rock\". The show's other major asset was Carol Channing, hilarious as Lorelei Lee; her expressive persona and distinctive delivery captivated audiences and critics alike. \"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes\" received a London production in 1962, but it is primarily remembered today for the excellent film version made by 20th Century Fox in 1953, with Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei, and Jane Russell as Dorothy, her friend and chaperone.\"", "In 1926, a year after its serialization in Harper’s Bazaar, Loos’s first novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was published. Its success was immediate and astonishing. The tale of Lorelei Lee, the archetypal “dumb blonde” gold digger from Arkansas, made Loos an international celebrity. Her stage version of the story opened in New York in September 1926 and later toured successfully. More than two decades later she wrote with Joseph Fields the book for a successful musical version, and in 1953 Marilyn Monroe starred in a movie version of the musical. Her next book, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928), was also successful.", "The 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a massive hit—everybody from the Prince of Wales to William Faulkner loved it—and personifies the Jazz Age.", "[6] Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (New York: Liveright, 1973): 11-12. Hereafter cited as Blondes, with page number.", "Her husband and collaborator John Emerson convinced her to quit screenwriting for the sake of his own pride -- nevertheless, fate intervened in the form of \"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,\" an unassuming book she had compiled from a series of magazine stories she had based on the predilection of then-famous intellectual H.L. Mencken to be dazzled by gold-digging ditzes. The book was a surprise smash all over the world, later spawning a sequel (\"But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes\"), which became a not particularly successful silent movie but later a hugely successful film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell , and a hit Broadway musical.", "More reliably, she had five decades as a New York playwright, a novelist, a short story writer and one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters. But nothing captured the zeitgeist like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.", "In this novel the narrator’s insecurity is evident when he explains to Georgette the reason why he cannot have sex with her. Secondary characters include the wise Count Mippipopolous and the strong-willed American woman, Frances Clyne. The narrator is in love with the central female of the novel, who has a brief affair with young Romero. Set during one week in Pamplona, other characters include the writer Bill Gorton, a friend of the narrator, and another writer, Robert Cohn. Michael Campbell is the drunken fiancŽ of Lady Brett Ashley in this story told by Jake Barnes. FTP, identify this novel by Ernest Hemingway.", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes had been filmed before the musical, in 1928, when its roaring 20s satire would have been even more pointed. Loos, by then a fixture at Paramount, wrote the screenplay (with her husband, John Emerson ) and the intertitles (with Herman Mankiewicz , who would go on to write Citizen Kane ).", "Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (; 15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls.", "Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.", "Harry Sinclair Lewis (; February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded \"for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.\" His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, \"[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds.\" ", "Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ˈwʊdhaʊs/; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English humorist whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of a pre- and post-World War I English upper class society, reflecting his birth, education and youthful writing career.", "<p>If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!</p><p>Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists ever to use dialect in her works, finding often that no word but the vernacular would suffice to convey the meaning she wanted to achieve. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed and sometimes-reviled biography of her friend and peer.</p><p>Wives and Daughters revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. The novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. (Summary from Wikipedia)</p>", "William Somerset Maugham (pronounced 'mawm'), CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright , novelist and short story writer . He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.", "Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh / ˈ w ɔː / (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966), known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his trilogy of Second World War novels collectively known as Sword of Honour (1952–61). Waugh is widely recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century.", "When Holland reached the age of 21, Ross gave him \"a magnificent dinner party\" in Kensington, where he shared a house with another of Wilde's inner circle, More Adey. Attending were such figures as Henry James, Ronald Firbank (whom Holland had known at Cambridge), the painter Will Rothenstein, Reginald Turner, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon, and Cyril Holland. His friends now included Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Hardy, Arnold Bennett, and H. G. Wells, whom he saw frequently. When Wilde's Collected Works appeared in 1908, a dinner was given to celebrate Ross as its editor. Of the more than 200 guests, such luminaries as Edmund Gosse, H. G. Wells, William Archer, George Alexander, and Laurence Binyon attended in addition to the Holland brothers - the elder sitting between Rothenstein and the noted critic E. V. Lucas (who, it is said, had suggested the title De Profundis to Ross for Wilde's prison letter), the younger sitting next to Somerset Maugham.", "H.L. Mencken, with whom she had a flirtatious relationship, triggered her most famous novel after he briefly turned his attentions to an undistinguished blonde. \"Could her power, like that of Samson, have something to do with her hair?\" Loos asked.", "Feb. 27, 1912 Jullundur, India Nov. 7, 1990 Sommières, France English novelist, poet, and writer of topographical books, verse plays, and farcical short stories who is best known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet, a series of four interconnected novels.", "At the time of Orlando's publication in 1928, Woolf was 46 and one of the most prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of maverick scholars who devoted their lives to redefining current thought on intellectualism, morality, sexuality and politics. Unlike Woolf and her Bloomsbury peers, Sackville-West was part of the British aristocratic tradition, a fact that sparked Woolf's interest. She had grown up at Knole, a vast estate, almost a palace, that had been granted to her family by Queen Elizabeth I. Knole was the object of Vita's adoration – but a kingdom, which, as a girl, she could never inherit. She always wished, she said, that she had been born a boy. ", "The sight of an old woman in a restaurant in Paris in 1903 gave Bennett the idea for a novel that would, as he wrote, \"go one better\" than Guy de Maupassant's realistic novel Une Vie. While writing other books he nourished the idea, and in 1907 he began to write it. The novel came quickly, a thousand words or more each day. After various interruptions, including the writing of Buried Alive (1908) and the production of his play Cupid and Commonsense (1908), The Old Wives' Tale was completed and published in 1908. It is the story of the sisters Constance and Sophia Baines from their girlhood in Bursley, one of the \"Five Towns,\" to their deaths 50 years later. Constance stayed at home; Sophia, like Bennett, escaped to Paris. The story realistically depicts the minute changes by which the girls become old women.", "* The Black-Eyed Blonde (2014) by John Banville writing as \"Benjamin Black\" has the same title as a Marlowe short story Benjamin M. Schutz contributed to the 1988 collection, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration.", "Graham Greene, who was educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, knew many of the same people that Evelyn did. He would no doubt have sent Evelyn books by their peers, either because Evelyn asked him to, or because Graham would know that Evelyn would want to read and review them. And so we get to the five books that I’m most interested in from 1937. Five that were written by Waugh’s fellow Oxford-educated elite. His champagne-quaffing chums, if you like:", "In 1950 Evelyn Waugh wrote to Graham Greene saying \"I re-read Brideshead Revisited and was appalled.\" Because despite its honored pedigree and many film adaptations, Waugh's novel is so personal and sentimental in the best way that it must have been difficult on the ears of its author after it had been committed to print. Once the wife of an American theatrical producer said to Waugh at a party, \"Oh Mr. Waugh, I have just been reading your new book Brideshead Revisited and I think it's one of the best books I've ever read.\" Waugh replied, \"I thought it was good myself, but now that I know that a vulgar, common American woman like yourself admires it, I am not so sure.\"", "In 1950 Evelyn Waugh wrote to Graham Greene saying \"I re-read Brideshead Revisitedand was appalled.\" Because despite its honored pedigree and many film adaptations, Waugh's novel is so personal and sentimental in the best way that it must have been difficult on the ears of its author after it had been committed to print. Once the wife of an American theatrical producer said to Waugh at a party, \"Oh Mr. Waugh, I have just been reading your new book Brideshead Revisited and I think it's one of the best books I've ever read.\" Waugh replied, \"I thought it was good myself, but now that I know that a vulgar, common American woman like yourself admires it, I am not so sure.\"", "Sparkling Cyanide (1945). Fourth and last novel featuring Colonel Race, but the only one where he is clearly the protagonist. The story is a reworking of the short story 'Yellow Iris'', but features a different solution to the mystery. Rosemary Barton dies poisoned during a dinner at the restaurant \"Luxembourg\". Her death is declared a suicide. A year later her husband George Barton attempts to recreate the circumstances of the death, trying to determine if it was murder. He also dies poisoned. Iris Marle, younger sister of Rosemary, financially benefits from the deaths. But might be the next target. Race gets himself involved at this point. The books contains a straight use of the Murder by Mistake trope, which Christie typically subverted. The killers were after both sisters. George was killed by mistake. The true target was Iris. .", "During the following years in London, Wilde published many works, including a collection of fairy tales, \"The Happy Prince and Other Tales\" in 1888 and \"The Picture of Dorian Gray\" in 1891. In addition, he lectured in the United States and Canada, worked for the \"Pall Mall\" Gazette from 1887 to 1889, and subsequently edited the magazine \"Woman's World.\" Wilde wrote a new book nearly every year until 1895, primarily satirical social comedies. The most well known are \"Lady Windermere's Fan\" (1892), \"A Woman of No Importance\" (1893), \"An Ideal Husband\" (1895) and \"The Importance of Being Earnest\" (1895); this last piece satirizes the upper classes and is considered his best work.", "I think that Indian Summer, despite its immense [Pg 69] popularity at the time of publication, has never received the high praise it really deserves. It is written in a positive glow of artistic creation. I believe that of all its author's works, it is the one whose composition he most keenly enjoyed. The conversations—always a great feature of his stories—are immensely clever; I suspect that as he wrote them he was often agreeably surprised at his own inspiration. The three characters, the middle-aged man and woman, and the romantic young girl, are admirably set off; no one has ever better shown the fact that it is quite possible for one to imagine oneself in love when really one is fancy-free. The delicate shades of jealousy in the intimate talks between the two women are exquisitely done; the experience of the grown woman contrasting finely with the imagination of the young girl. The difference between a man of forty and a woman of twenty, shown here not in heavy tragedy, but in the innumerable, convincing details of daily human intercourse, is finely emphasised; and we can feel the great relief of both when the engagement tie is broken. This story in its way is a masterpiece; and anyone who lacks enthusiasm for its author ought to read it again." ]

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[ "Gulf Air ( Ṭayarān al-Khalīj) is the principal flag carrier of Bahrain. Headquartered in Muharraq, adjacent to Bahrain International Airport, the airline operates scheduled services to 42 destinations in 23 countries across Africa, Asia and Europe. Its main base is Bahrain International Airport. ", "Gulf Air is the flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain with its hub at Bahrain International Airport (BAH) close to Bahrain's capital Manama .", "Bahrain's flag carrier, Gulf Air (GF) was founded in 1950 as Gulf Aviation. It is headquartered in Muharraq and operates from a hub at Bahrain International Airport (BAH). Gulf Air flies to more than 40 destinations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe. These include Egypt, Germany, India, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. The airline also has codeshare agreements with nine other carriers. Gulf Air's fleet consists of 16 Airbus A320-200, six Airbus A321-200 and six Airbus A320-200 planes configured with two cabins, Falcon Gold (Business Class) and Economy Class.", "The new summer schedule commencing 28 April 2006 saw the complete withdrawal from Abu Dhabi as a hub following the decision on 13 September 2005 by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to withdraw from Gulf Air and establish its own airline, Etihad Airways. Gulf Air changed its operations to a dual hub basis between Bahrain and Muscat airports. The airline produced a series of adverts in local newspapers thanking Abu Dhabi for its contribution to Gulf Air. Due to the airline being the national carrier for the United Arab Emirates for over 35 years, it has a large customer base located in Abu Dhabi. Gulf Air endeavoured to show the continuing support for flights to Abu Dhabi from Bahrain and Muscat, connecting to the rest of the Gulf Air network, via advertisements placed in local newspapers.", "In the late 1940s Freddie Bosworth, a British pilot and entrepreneur, began an air taxi service to Doha and Dhahran from Bahrain. Bosworth later expanded service and on 24 March 1950 registered Gulf Aviation Company Limited as a private shareholding company. This makes its current operating company, Gulf Air, one of the oldest carriers in the Middle East. The early fleet contained seven Avro Ansons and three de Havilland DH.86B four-engine biplanes.", "Bahrain has one main international airport, the Bahrain International Airport (BIA) which is located on the island of Muharraq, in the north-east. The airport handled more than 100,000 flights and more than 8 million passengers in 2010. Bahrain's national carrier, Gulf Air operates and bases itself in the BIA.", "Bahrain is also famous for the hospitality and welcoming nature of its people. A quality reflected in the services offered on all Gulf Air flights to Bahrain and flights from Bahrain. Refreshingly unique in the Gulf is the fact that Bahrainis are involved in all tiers of society.", "Gulf Air celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1990. The light blue and peach Balenciaga-designed uniform was introduced. Singapore, Sydney and Thiruvananthapuram were launched and Gulf Air became the first Arab airline to fly to Australia. Gulf Air added service to Johannesburg and Melbourne in 1992, becoming the first Arab airline to fly directly to these cities. In 1993, it opened up a flight simulator centre in Qatar, and introduced service to Casablanca, Entebbe, Jakarta, Kilimanjaro, Madras, Rome, San'a', Zanzibar and Zürich.", "Oman Air is the national carrier of Oman. Formerly Gulf Air was the national carrier of the Sultanate, but as other Arab nations withdrew from the joint venture, Oman too withdrew. It was the last country to do so.", "* August 23 – Gulf Air Flight 072, an Airbus A320, crashes into the Persian Gulf off Manama, Bahrain, while attempting to land. All 135 passengers and eight crew members are killed.", "passengers more value for money, a network reflecting customer demand as well as new and improved products. In addition, the airline is continuing to strengthen its Middle East network, retaining Gulf Air’s position as the largest regional network carrier while connecting key global markets with Bahrain,” he says. Gulf Air’s restructuring strategy is aimed at taking the airline on a path towards sustainability. The main challenge for the airlines in the next five years, according to Maher Salman AlMusallam, is fuel prices, which continue to be a major challenge for the entire aviation industry. “Gulf Air, like other airlines, is impacted by the global economy in addition to the growing competition both regionally and globally,” he says. “The optimised fleet and network will see Gulf Air operating a mix of wide, and narrow body aircraft with one of the youngest fleets in the region (a little more than four years) offering best-in-class products and services,” he says.", "* September 23 – Gulf Air Flight 771, a Boeing 737, crashes near Mina Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates, after a bomb planted by the Abu Nidal Organization detonates on board; all 112 people on board perish.", "The 1980s saw an increase in air travel and growth for Gulf Air. In 1981 Gulf Air became an IATA member and in the following year became the first international airline to land at Riyadh. In 1985, Emirates, the national startup and national carrier of Dubai, United Arab Emirates began operating, which would later become a major rival of Gulf Air. In 1988 the Boeing 767s joined the fleet and the airline launched service to Frankfurt, Istanbul, Damascus, Dar es Salaam, Fujairah and Nairobi, and resumed service to Shiraz and Baghdad.", "*2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.", "2000: A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashed as it attempted to land at the airport in Bahrain. 143 people died in the crash. The plane circled the runway twice in attempting to land before it plunged into the sea and exploded into flames.", "      A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes just before approaching Bahrain International Airport in the capital, Manama, killing all 143 passengers and crew.", "In 2004, Gulf Air introduced direct flights between Dubai and London and Muscat and London, and a daily service between Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah and carried a record 7.5 million passengers during this year. Gulf Air's sponsorship of the Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix continued, with a record race crowd and a global TV audience. The airline announced a return to profit, with the best financial performance since 1997. Despite a BD30 million (US$80 million) cost to the business through fuel price rises during the year, Gulf Air recorded a profit of BD1.5 million (US$4.0 million) in the calendar year to December 2004, on revenues up 23.8% to BD476.3 million (US$1.26 billion) (2003: BD 384.6 million / USD1,020.2 million). The results meant the airline out-performed the targets set under Project Falcon, the three-year restructuring plan approved by the Board in December 2002.", "The air transport market in the Middle East is undergoing a rapid transformation as passenger traffic begins to surge in the region, primarily because of the swift expansion of airlines such as Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways. Meanwhile, the Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha airports have launched massive expansion projects to match future traffic forecasts. They will have a combined capacity of 340 million passengers per year by 2020. Qatar Today puts the spotlight on Hamad International Airport, the latest entrant to the competition, to find out how it will affect other hubs in the region. Dubai Airports talks about competition and how it fares, while Gulf Air talks about its plan for the future. In the highly competitive aviation industry, this technological age is a blessing and a curse for airlines seeking to stay afloat and keep consumers happy. Qatar Today finds out how well airlines in the region perform when it comes to social media.", "1990: The 360 passengers of a British Airways jet were taken hostage and used as human shields by Iraq when their plane landed at the Kuwait airport on the day that the Persian Gulf War began. Five years later, a French civil court ordered British Airways to pay $5 million to 61 French passengers.", "Meanwhile, Gulf Air CEO, Samer Majali, denied reports that the carrier is one of the 12 airlines being approached by British Airways for a possible merger, stating: \"Gulf Air have not been approached regarding this initiative”. He however stated that it is “something the company would consider positively at the appropriate time\".  Gulf Air is looking to join an alliance that would give it access to an enlarged global network.", "Etihad Airways is the national airline of the United Arab Emirates. In a very short period of time they have established themselves as a major player in the airline industry. Since their inception in 2003 their network has grown to include an impressive 84 passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.", "Etihad Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Arab Emirates. Established by royal decree in July 2003 and based in Abu Dhabi, Etihad commenced operations in November 2003. The name derives from the Arabic word for \"union\" The airline operates more than 1,000 flights per week to 96 passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas, with a fleet of 101 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. In 2012, Etihad carried 10.3 million passengers, a 23% increase from the previous year, delivering revenues of US$4.8 billion and net profits of US$42 million. Etihad Airways is the fourth largest airline in the Middle East and it is the second largest airline in the United Arab Emirates, after the Dubai-based airline Emirates.", "Etihad Airways is based in Abu Dhabi, and is (or claims to be) the national carrier of the UAE. Other UAE airlines include Air Arabia (Sharjah), Emirates Airline (Dubai), FlyDubai (Dubai), RAK Airways (Ras Al Khaimah, services suspended 31 Dec 2013), Rotana Jet (Abu Dhabi).", "Kingdom, and the Middle East even more convenient. “China is one of our key markets and we are excited to further expand our footprint in China, allowing us to provide greater options for business and leisure travellers ready to take advantage of new flights to and from another entry point in China,” said Akbar Al Baker, Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Airways.", "Oman Air is the national carrier and flies regularly between the two airports in the country (Muscat/Seeb, and Salalah). Air Arabia now offers flights to Salalah and Muscat from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).", "Domestic flying is not a popular means of transportation, however, Royal Air Maroc, the national flag carrier, has an excellent but expensive network to most cities. Other airlines include Air Arabia Maroc and Jet4you.com.", "RAK Airways is the national airline carrier of Ras al-Khaimah Emirate. It operates flights to Kozhikode (Calicut) Kerala State, India, to Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia , to Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh and to Cairo , Egypt . Rakairways has its hub at Ras Al Khaimah International Airport (RKT), Ras al-Khaimah (City), UAE.", "Sharjah is the headquarters of Air Arabia, the first low cost airline in the Middle East, which operates to the Middle East, Asia and Europe. The headquarters is in the Sharjah Freight Center, on the property of Sharjah International Airport. ", "Over the past decade, the three largest Gulf carriers have spent freely — more than $100 billion— to acquire massive fleets of modern wide-body airliners. Emirates is the world's largest operator of both the Airbus A380 superjumbo and the Boeing 777-300ER. ", "On 1 March 2010, Gulf Air launched its new \"Falcon Gold\" cabin, a single premium cabin that is aimed at offering higher standards of comfort for the standard premium price. As of August 2011, the new Flat Beds were installed on all aircraft except short-haul aircraft.", "Fourteen additional destinations were added to the Qatar Airways network during 2012, including Addis Ababa , Baghdad , Belgrade , Erbil , Gassim , Kigali , Kiliminjaro , Maputo , Mombasa , Perth , Saint Petersburg , Warsaw , Yangon , and Zagreb . [133] [134] [135]", "The subsidiary of Iran Air is a regional travel carrier, it operates scheduled domestic services and international services in the Middle East." ]

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[ "Cooke was born in Salford , Lancashire , England. His father was a lay Methodist preacher and metalsmith by trade; his mother's family were of Irish Protestant origin. [2] Originally named Alfred, he changed his name to Alistair when he was 22. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School , Blackpool and won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge , where he gained an honours degree (2:1) in English. He was heavily involved in the arts, was editor of Granta , and set up the Mummers, Cambridge's first theatre group open to both sexes, from which he notably rejected a young James Mason , telling him to stick to architecture. [3]", "Alistair Cooke, (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.", "Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British journalist, television personality and broadcaster. [1] Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America , he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke .", "It was at the prompting of friends, revealed Nick Clarke in our obituary columns yesterday, that the then Alfred Cooke changed his name to the \"more artistic\" Alistair in 1930. But could there have been something other than artistic impression involved in this rebranding? It seems possible. For our late and revered Guardian colleague was not the first or last of that ilk to feel the need for a new first name. The soul singer Sam Cooke, for instance, once favoured the name Dale rather than Sam, and was born without the \"e\" that he later added to his surname. The future foreign secretary was born Robert Cook, but has long preferred to be known as Robin. And Gloucestershire's legendary slow left-arm bowler, so celebrated in the writings of Frank Keating, may have been known to all as Sam Cook from Tetbury; his real name, however, was Cecil.", "Alfred Alistair Cooke was born in Salford, near Manchester in northern England, where his father was a lay preacher who founded a mission that provided aid to slum districts. As a child, Mr. Cooke, who did not enjoy church attendance, was permitted to stay home and pore over the newspapers instead of the Bible. He once said his youthful ambition was to be some combination of Noel Coward and Eugene O'Neill.", "* Alistair Cooke – broadcaster, presented Letter from America until October 2004, he died later in the same month.", "Alistair Cooke was a notable student of Quiller-Couch and Nick Clarke's semi-official biography of Cooke features Quiller-Couch prominently, noting that he was regarded by the Cambridge establishment as \"rather eccentric\" even by the university's standards.", "Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster famous for his Letters from America, moved here in 1917, later attending Blackpool Grammar School.", "The letter to the Daily Telegraph disputing the attribution to Mrs Thatcher is attributed to Alistair Cooke and dated November 2006 but he died in 2004. Is this an error or is it a different Alistair Cooke? Dudley Miles 14 March 2007.", "There was, of course, only one Alistair Cooke. To listen again to all these programmes is to judge for ourselves if the many things said about him by famous people were correct.", "Note also: As a performer Cook went by the name of Roger James Cooke, as a songwriter he used the name Roger Cook.", "America Observed: The Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke/selected and edited by Ronald A. Wells (1988) Penguin ISBN 0-14-011509-9", "During this time, as well, Cooke undertook a journey through the whole United States, recording the lifestyle of ordinary Americans during the war and their reactions to it. The manuscript was published as The American Home Front: 1941–1942 in the United States (and as Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War in the UK) in 2006.", "\"It's a great shame to lose someone like that at the age of 65. Alistair Cooke had a similar touch on the psyche of the UK, but he was an old man and had a fair innings. I don't think you could reasonable conclude the same about John Peel.\"", "Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (2006) ISBN 0-7139-9879-2", "Alistair Cooke devoted some of his Letter From America broadcast of [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040by88 15/17 Jun 1979] to Allen's achievement.", "Special thanks to Martin Killeen, Rare Books Librarian, Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham for his invaluable help with Harold Cooke's biography.", "Duncan Honeybourne is also due to record much of Cooke’s piano music for EM Records –‘Greville Cooke: A Forgotten English Romantic’. This album will be released (hopefully) in time for the Festival. The recording is being made at the Turner Sims Concert Hall in Southampton. I understand that the disc will include the rarely heard ‘Six Teaching Pieces’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams, which was later ‘rebranded’ as A Little Piano Book.  The ‘Nocturne’ by Gustav Holst is also on the batting list.", "Alistair Maclean Darling (born 28 November 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1987, currently for Edinburgh South West. He has been the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since May 2010, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2007 to 2010. Darling was one of only three people to have served in the Cabinet continuously from Labour's victory in 1997 until its defeat in 2010 (the others being Gordon Brown and Jack Straw).", "Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) – In ProfileBritish Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat StevenDOHA, QATAR: British Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, the pop singer-turned Islamic preacher and chairman of the International Board of Educational Research and Resources (IBERR), delivers a speech during a dinner with him as chief guest at the 7th IBERR conference held in Doha, 27 December 2004. The conference, hosted by the Doha Academy, is focusing on educational challenges in the 21st century and will discuss an action plan for Muslim schools all over the world to introduce an Islamic curriculum. AFP PHOTO/KARIM JAAFAR (Photo credit should read KARIM JAAFAR/AFP/Getty Images)", "In London, government minister Sir Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh) resolves to shut down pirate radio stations due to their commercialism and low morals, instructing his subordinate Twatt (Jack Davenport) to find legal loopholes that will serve this end. They attempt to cut off the stations' revenue by prohibiting British businesses from advertising on unlicensed radio stations. Quentin counters this by bringing massively popular DJ Gavin Kavanagh (Rhys Ifans) out of retirement and onto Radio Rock, enticing his advertisers to work around the law by paying their bills from abroad. Gavin's popularity creates a rivalry between himself and The Count, who was initially brought to Radio Rock as Gavin's replacement.", "Back in Cambridge, a number of his compositions were successfully performed, but he was insecure about their unfashionably conservative idiom, and eventually destroyed most of his works. After graduating in 1947 Cooke joined the BBC; apart from an interlude (1959–65) working as a freelance writer and critic, he worked for the corporation for the remainder of his life. His job involved writing and editing scripts for the music department and broadcasting for radio and television, where his thoughtful, unaffected manner made him an ideal communicator. In 1959 his first book The Language of Music argued that music is essentially a language of the emotions, and showed that composers throughout history had tended to choose the same musical phrases to express similar feelings or dramatic situations.", "Alistair Ian \"Ali\" Campbell is an English singer and songwriter who was the lead singer and a founding member of the English reggae band UB40. As part of UB40, Campbell sold over 70 million records...", "Alan Meale (born Joseph Alan Meale) now Sir Alan Meale, has been the Labour constituent Member of Parliament since 1987. Prior to this he had been a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.", "* Kenneth Branagh as Sir Alistair Dormandy, a strict government minister who endeavors to shut down pirate radio stations. Portrayed as a Conservative, but based on Labour Postmaster General Tony Benn.", "Olivia Cooke was born and raised in Oldham, a former textile manufacturing town in Greater Manchester, North West England. She comes from a family of non-actors; her father, John, is a retired police officer, and her mother is a sales representative. Cooke attended Royton and Crompton Secondary School and studied drama at Oldham Sixth Form College, leaving before the end of her A-levels to star in Blackout.", "Terence (Terry) Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith (June 23, 1940—March 8, 2003) was an English singer, actor and financial journalist. He was born in Acton in West London, and was unaware that his real surname was Nelhams-Wright until he applied for a passport and obtained his birth certificate. He was known as Terry Nelhams in early life.", "It was there that he was noticed by the BBC in 1997 after making an unscripted appearance in a documentary about the restaurant, “Christmas at the River Cafe”. That year, his show The Naked Chef debuted and his cookbook became a number one best-seller in the UK. That same year, Oliver was invited to prepare lunch for the Prime Minister of that time, Tony Blair at No. 10 Downing Street.", "It was there that he was noticed by the BBC in 1997 after making an unscripted appearance in a documentary about the restaurant, \"Christmas at the River Cafe\". That year, his show The Naked Chef debuted and his cookbook became a number one best-seller in the UK. That same year, Oliver was invited to prepare lunch for the Prime Minister of that time, Tony Blair at No. 10 Downing Street.", "He returned to Britain in 1995 and took up acting and hosting again. In the film \"Carry on Columbus,\" 1992, he played the prison governor Don Juan Diego. He was the subject of a biographical program in the series \"First on Four,\" shown on Channel 4 television in 1998. As of 2000, he was co-hosting \"Prickly Heat,\" a television game show on Sky Television that made its debut in 1998.", "Best known as the hapless MP Ben Swain in \"The Thick Of It\", Justin has also appeared in \"Father Brown\", \"Are You Being Served\", \"The Suspicions of Mr Whicher\", \"Veep\", \"The Old Guys\", \"The Trip\", and \"Skins\". His film work includes \"Love and Friendship\", \"The Death Of Stalin\", \"Paddington\" and \"Thor\". He is a regular voice on Radio Four as an actor and presenter and is well known to live comedy audiences for his Perrier nominated show as horrific children's entertainer Jeremy Lion.", "But I can't help but feel that David Henderson and Roy Whittaker paid him the best tribute of all: when Cooke spoke, they listened." ]

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[ "The next wealthiest man appearing on our list is renowned in many categories since Percy Robert Miller is an actor, musician, rapper, investor, filmmaker, producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. This clear indicates his net worth to be estimated around $350 million. He is the founder and CEO of Miller enterprises. Also, he owns ‘no limit forever records’ by Guttar music entertainment. All these forums make him touch the peak of his financial success and brings him to the third place in the list of richest musicians.", "Percy Miller also known as \"Master P\" was born on April 29, 1967 in New Orleans, LA. Although he was raised in the poverty of Calliope Housing Projects, he was motivated and determined to reach his goals and dreams, which led him to become a successful entrepreneur. As a student-athlete at the University of Houston, he studied Business Communications and later relocated to Richmond, CA where he opened his first small business, a record store he called No Limit Records. Within a few years, he turned it into a record label, which flourished into one of the biggest music brands in the industry. As a music mogul, he ventured off into the business of television, film, acting, producing, sports, clothing, and real estate.", "Businessman & Entrepreneur As founder and CEO of No Limit Entertainment, Percy Miller has taken No Limit Records to No Limit Forever Records. In 1998, Miller was ranked 10th on Forbes Magazine's List of America's 40 Highest Paid Entertainers was listed at #10 with an estimated income of $56.5 million. In 2001, Miller was one of only 6 celebrities to make Fortune Magazine's \"America's Richest Forty Under Forty\" list. His estimated worth of his business dealings put him at #20 with $361 million.", "After growing up in Oklahoma and serving in the United States military, Miller began his musical career as a Nashville songwriter in the late 1950s, penning such hits as \"Billy Bayou\" and \"Home\" for Jim Reeves and \"Invitation to the Blues\" for Ray Price. He later started a recording career and reached the peak of his fame in the late-1960s, but continued to record and tour into the 1990s, charting his final top 20 country hit \"Old Friends\" with Willie Nelson in 1982. Later in his life, he wrote the music and lyrics for the 1985 Tony-award winning Broadway musical Big River, in which he also acted. [1]", "Richard Doddridge Blackmore (7 June 1825 – 20 January 1900), referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Over the course of his career, Blackmore achieved a close following around the world. He won literary merit and acclaim for his vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, sharing with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. [1] Noted for his eye for and sympathy with nature, critics of the time described this as one of the most striking features of his writings.", "Sir Charles Spencer \"Charlie\" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.", "Alton Glenn Miller was an American big band musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known big bands. Miller's recordings include \"In the Mood\", \"Moonlight Serenade\", \"Pennsylvania 6-5000\", \"Chattanooga Choo Choo\", \"A String of Pearls\", \"At Last\", \" Kalamazoo\", \"American Patrol\", \"Tuxedo Junction\", \"Elmer's Tune\", and \"Little Brown Jug\". While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel.", "Sir Charles Spencer \"Charlie\" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comedian actor and film director . Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker , composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema . He was famous also for his great sense of humor and slapstick comedy skills.", "Finally it was decided that she undergo a lobotomy, a procedure which left her incapacitated and possibly had the biggest influence on Tennessee, who later suffered from alcoholism and depression. He won Pulitzer prizes for his famous works A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Street Car Named Desire. Williams finally died in 1983 after having choked on an eye cap lid following supposed drinking and prescription drug taking. ARTHUR MILLER 17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005 Miller was a Jewish- American playwright, born into Manhattan but then banished to Brooklyn following the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the subsequent failing of his father’s clothes making business. He is considered one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century and gave us some great works including The Man Who Had All the Luck, View From A Bridge, The Crucible (the film version starring", "Miller was born Alex Ford (pronounced \"Aleck\") on the Sara Jones Plantation in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. The date and year of birth are uncertain. He claimed to have been born on December 5, 1899, but David Evans, professor of music and an ethnomusicologist at the University of Memphis, claims to have found census records that he was born around 1912, being seven years old on February 2, 1920, the day of the census. His gravestone in or near Tutwiler, Mississippi, set up by record company owner Lillian McMurry twelve years after his death, gives his date of birth as March 11, 1908, but has no basis for being recognized as accurate. ", "Around that time, Miller moved to Hollywood began appearing regularly on The Jimmy Dean Show and The Merv Griffin Show, two of the most popular television programs in the country. His guest spots showcased his new style -- instead of concentrating on hardcore country, he had developed a willfully goofy persona, singing silly novelty songs. He signed a record contract with Smash Records and released his first single for the label, \"Dang Me,\" in the summer of 1964. It was an immediate smash, vaulting to number one and spending six weeks at the top of the charts; it also crossed over into the pop charts, peaking at number seven. \"Chug-a-Lug\" followed a few months after it, reaching number three on the country charts and nine on the pop charts. At the end of the year, \"Do-Wacka-Do\" was released, becoming a number 15 hit.", "In 1947, he topped the bill in Bernard Delfont presents International Variety at the London Casino. In his review of the show, Lionel Hale, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, described Miller as the \"Gold of the music hall\". ", "In 1988, Miller released a stand-up comedy CD, The Off-White Album, derived from an HBO special titled Mr. Miller Goes to Washington, which drew heavily from the observational and metaphor-driven style he was known for on Saturday Night Live, and showed glimpses of the political humor that would influence his later work. A well-received HBO special, Dennis Miller: Black and White, aired shortly after the release of the CD.", "Roger Miller is best known for his humorous novelty songs, which overshadow his considerable songwriting talents as well as his hardcore honky tonk roots. After writing hits for a number of artists in the '50s, Miller racked up a number of hits during the '60s which became not only country classics, but popular classics as well.", "Thomas Henry Sargent (21 November 1894 -- 7 May 1963), better known by the stage name Max Miller -- the Cheeky Chappie - was a British comedian who was top of the bill in variety in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. He made films, toured in revues and music hall, and sang and recorded songs, some of which he wrote. He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risqué jokes, which often got him into trouble with the censors.", "Arthur Stanley Jefferson (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965), better known as Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until after World War II.", "He also wrote the screenplay for the film The Misfits (1961). Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee; and was married to Marilyn Monroe. He received the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002 and Jerusalem Prize in 2003. See More on Arthur Miller at TheatreGold DataBase Here", "Daisy Miller, Henry James. According to Schmoop, “Daisy Miller might just be the most widely read and studied work of Henry James , an American novelist so great he eventually had to leave America—it wasn't big enough for the one of him. Despite all of this great greatness, the novella was initially rejected for publication. (Keep this in mind next time you go on a job interview.)", "Gordon \"Tex\" Beneke (band leader/saxophonist) -- Dead. Died May 30, 2000. Born February 12, 1914. Led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for years after Miller's death, lead singer for \"Chattanooga Choo Choo.\"   IMDb", "To protect himself and his family he changed the family name to Grey. He authored several best sellers, among them, \"Call Me Duke\", \"Portrait of a Mobster\" and \"The Hoods\", all translated into foreign languages and successes at home and abroad.", "* In the 2000 movie Almost Famous, directed by Cameron Crowe (himself a former writer for Rolling Stone), Bangs is portrayed by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman as a mentor to the film's protagonist William Miller. Hoffman himself had a drug related death.", "To add to his diverse portfolio, Dennis has also appeared in The Miller's Tale alongside James Nesbitt and Billie Piper and played sports commentator Frank Costello in three-part BBC drama Moses Jones.", "Max Miller, Britain’s top comedian in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s was born in Brighton, England. He excelled as a stand-", "In 1929 Seattle, Wash.-born Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust) (1892-1944) pub. Destry Rides Again ; big hit, even though the author knows little about the real Am. Old West and becomes single-handedly responsible for souping it up until Larry McMurtry and his \"Lonesome Dove\". In 1932 he pub. Montana Rides , a trilogy of Westerns featuring the Montana Kid; also Silver Tip , first of 13 novels about drifter gunman Jim Silver and his horse Parade, who stands guard as his master sleeps. He uses 20 pen names and writes 30M+ words in his 52-year life.", "Once one of Hollywood�s most sought-after superstars, Reynolds constantly peaked at No. 1 at the box-office polls throughout the mid 1970s till the early 1980s with such hits as The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Hooper (1978). The success was further flamed by taking home eight People�s Choice Awards for �Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer� and �Favorite Motion Picture Actor,� as well as two NATO Awards in 1978 and 1980 for �Male Star of the Year.�", "Marilyn Miller was one of Broadway’s biggest stars of the 1910s and 1920s. However– as noted before by TCM prime time host Robert Osborne– Miller’s onstage magic does not come across on screen.", "Since then he has gone on to become a household name. As talented a stand-up comedian as he is a razor sharp talk show host, Frank Skinner has earned his place at the top of the comedy game.", "On release he gained a profile as a media \"former criminal\" figure, and acted as a consultant on the film Buster, with Larry Lamb portraying Reynolds. Reynolds then published his autobiography The Autobiography of a Thief (1995). In the book, Reynolds commented that the Great Train Robbery had proved a curse that followed him around, as after it no-one wanted to employ him either legally or illegally:", "He and Oliver Hardy have been and continue to be very popular in Germany under the name of \"Dick und Doof\" (Fatty and Stupid).", "Fay Weldon, one of the world's most prolific novelists, gets a CBE, and cartoonist Bill Tidy is made an MBE.", "With his notorious ‘lovely jubbly’ catchphrase, terrible French language skills and penchant for extravagant cocktails, Del Boy became a household name.", "Glenn Miller was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star in recognition of his contribution to the war effort." ]

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[ "In November of 1992, having lived long enough to know how much his work had been appreciated by the world, Hal Roach died. He was 100 years old.", "Harold Eugene \"Hal\" Roach, Sr. (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director, and actor from the 1910s to the 1990s, best known today for producing the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals) film comedy series.", "Harold Eugene \"Hal\" Roach, Sr. (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director, and actor from the 1910s to the 1990s, best known today for producing the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals) film comedy series.", "Jay Leno chats to 100 year old Laurel & Hardy Producer Hal Roach - 1992 - YouTube", "In May 1954, Hardy suffered a mild heart attack. During 1956, Hardy began looking after his health for the first time in his life. He lost more than 150 pounds in a few months which completely changed his appearance. Letters written by Stan Laurel, however, mention that Hardy had terminal cancer, which has caused some to suspect that this was the real reason for Hardy’s rapid weight loss. Hardy was a heavy smoker, as was Stan Laurel. Hal Roach made the statement they were a couple of \"freight train smoke stacks\".[citation needed] [6] Hardy suffered a major stroke on September 14, which left him confined to bed and unable to speak for several months. He remained at home, in the care of his beloved Lucille. He suffered two more strokes in early August 1957, and slipped into a coma from which he never recovered. Oliver Hardy died on August 7, 1957, aged 65 years old.[7] His remains are located in the Masonic Garden of Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood. [8]", "Movie producer Hal Roach, who teamed Laurel with Hardy and turned a talented yet unaffected group of child actors into \"Our Gang\" during a career that spanned silent one-reelers and television situation comedies, died Monday at his Bel-Air home. His 100th birthday in January, celebrated at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills, produced what proved a final outpouring of sentiment and public attention to the film industry's oldest pioneer.", "Unfortunately for the Laurel & Hardy unit, Seiter didn't return to the Hal Roach Studios until 1943 when he directed John Wayne and Jean Arthur in LADY TAKES A CHANCE. His final directing chore was also for Roach -- the Gale Storm television series OH SUSANNA in the late 1950s. He was 72 when he passed away in 1964.", "Film Pioneer Hal Roach, Comedy King, Dies at 100 : Hollywood: Producer paired Laurel and Hardy, created 'Our Gang' series and was a key figure in TV.", "Movie producer Hal Roach, who teamed Laurel with Hardy and turned a talented yet unaffected group of child actors into \"Our Gang\" during a career that spanned silent one-reelers and television situation comedies, died Monday at his Bel-Air home.", "producer: Hal Roach Studios; director: One Million B.C., Road Show, The Devil�s Brother; died Nov 2, 1992", "John McCabe, a Shakespearean scholar and show business biographer whose 1961 book on Laurel and Hardy was considered the definitive work that brought the comedy duo the critical respect that had eluded them, has died. He was 84. McCabe died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, said his wife, Karen. \"Laurel and Hardy were not embraced by the intelligentsia like the Marx Brothers were,\" said film critic Leonard Maltin.", "Out of the vast array of comic talent found at the Hal Roach Studios during its heyday, Stan Laurel emerged as The Lot of Fun's supreme comic genius. Given carte blanche by Roach when it came to the writing, direction, editing and production design of the Laurel and Hardy films, he enjoyed a close and professional relationship with Roach until their falling out over the script of \"Babes in Toyland\" (1934). Nevertheless, 'The Boys' continued to work another six years at Roach without interference from the boss. Though his name never appeared on the credits as such, Laurel was the de facto director and head writer for virtually every L & H film, a fact which enabled him to make twice as much money as his portly partner, but despite rumors that the two were bitter enemies, they remained close friends until Hardy's death in 1957. Having had only modest success as a solo performer, Laurel readily acknowledged Hardy as the missing ingredient which made his own character more sympathetic. There simply was no viable Laurel without Hardy. They needed each other; it was the pairing that made them funny.", "    Stan was indeed fortunate to have a boss such as Hal Roach. Free from the assembly-line methods of the big studios, the Roach lot produced comedies at a relaxed pace. Roach himself had a keen insight into comedy, and allowed his people the time and freedom to get things just right. Because of this, Laurel and Roach enjoyed a close professional and personal relationship throughout the late twenties and early thirties. Things were to change in 1934 when the two of them locked horns over the script to the feature BABES IN TOYLAND, and their relationship was distant and strictly business from then on. Nevertheless, Laurel and Hardy continued to make films for Roach for another six years, where Stan enjoyed a degree of freedom he would not have found elsewhere.", "Under doctor's orders to improve a heart condition, Hardy lost over 100 pounds in 1956. Several strokes (that some doctors partly attribute to the rapid weight loss) resulted in loss of mobility and speech. He died of a major stroke on August 7, 1957. Longtime friend Bob Chatterton said Hardy weighed just 138 pounds at the time of his death. A depressed Laurel did not attend his partner's funeral, due to his own ill health, explaining his absence with the line \"Babe would understand.\" Just after Hardy's death, Laurel and Hardy returned to movie theaters, as clips of their work were featured in Robert Youngson 's silent-film compilation The Golden Age of Comedy.", "In 1956, while following his doctor's orders to improve his health due to a heart condition, Hardy lost over 100 lb. However, he suffered several strokes that resulted in the loss of mobility and speech. Despite having a long and successful career, it was reported that Hardy's home was sold to help cover the cost of his medical expenses during this time. He died of a stroke on August 7, 1957, and longtime friend Bob Chatterton stated that Hardy weighed just 138 lb at the time of his death. Hardy was laid to rest at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood. Following Hardy's death, Laurel and Hardy's films were returned to movie theaters as clips of their work were featured in Robert Youngson's silent-film compilation The Golden Age of Comedy.", "Unable to expand his studios in downtown Los Angeles because of zoning, Roach purchased what became the Hal Roach Studios from Harry Culver in Culver City, California. During the 1920s and 1930s, he employed Lloyd (his top money-maker until his departure in 1923), Will Rogers, Max Davidson, the Our Gang kids, Charley Chase, Harry Langdon, Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts, Lupe Vélez, Patsy Kelly and, most famously, Laurel and Hardy. During the 1920s Roach's biggest rival was producer Mack Sennett. In 1925, Roach hired away Sennett's supervising director, F. Richard Jones.", "Although Hal Roach employed writers and directors such as H. M. Walker, Leo McCarey, James Parrott and James W. Horne on the Laurel and Hardy films, Laurel would rewrite entire sequences or scripts. He would also have the cast and crew improvise on the sound stage; he would then meticulously review the footage during the editing process. By 1929 Laurel was the head writer and it was reported that the writing sessions were gleefully chaotic. Stan had three or four writers who joined in a perpetual game of 'Can You Top This?' As Laurel obviously relished writing gags, Hardy was more than happy to leave the job to his partner and was once quoted as saying \"After all, just doing the gags was hard enough work, especially if you have taken as many falls and been dumped in as many mudholes as I have. I think I earned my money\". From this point, Laurel was an uncredited film director for their films. He ran the Laurel and Hardy set, no matter who was in the director's chair, but never felt compelled to assert his authority. Roach remarked: \"Laurel bossed the production. With any director, if Laurel said 'I don't like this idea,' the director didn't say 'Well, you're going to do it anyway.' That was understood.\" As Laurel made so many suggestions there was not much left for the credited director to do. ", "Mr. Roach co-wrote many of Harold Lloyd's thrilling stunt comedies, including the classic \"Safety Last\"; directed \"Turnabout,\" a farce about a marital role-reversal, and produced two hit fantasies, \"Topper\" and \"Topper Returns,\" as well as \"Of Mice and Men,\" a poignant drama from the John Steinbeck novel. In the mid-1960's, he compiled and produced \"The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy.\"", "In 1950—51, Laurel and Hardy made their final film. Atoll K (also known as Utopia) was a simple concept; Laurel inherits an island, and the boys set out to sea, where they encounter a storm and discover a brand new island, rich in uranium, making them powerful and wealthy. However, it was produced by a consortium of European interests, with an international cast and crew that could not speak to each other.[5] In addition, the script needed to be rewritten by Stan to make it fit the comedy team’s style, and both suffered serious physical illness during the filming.", "1932. Comedy. The Taxi Boys get more than they bargained for when they pick up a wealthy woman in their cab produced by Laurel and Hardy’s long-time collaborator Hal Roach.", "The prison comedy silent film The Second Hundred Years (1927) marked the official debut of \"Stan\" Laurel and \"Ollie\" Hardy as a comedy duo, although they had previously worked together for about 10 years. It was the first of Hal Roach's comedy series that paired and featured the two as a formal screen team.", "The visionary Roach also recognized the value of his film library. Beginning in 1943, he licensed revivals of his sound-era productions for theatrical and home-movie distribution. Roach's films were also early arrivals on television. His Laurel and Hardy comedies were a smashing success in television syndication. He became one of the first significant film producers to venture into television.", "In all, Laurel and Hardy appeared in over 70 films for Roach between the years 1926 and 1940, excelling in the studio's best of all possible worlds working environment. Neither 20th Century-Fox nor MGM would allow Laurel to call the shots, sure that they knew more about L & H's humor than 'The Boys', and their films from 1941-45 were dismal failures. No longer the sweet innocents so carefully perfected at Roach, they came off simply as unendearing idiots in weary, unfunny, juvenile efforts. Though they would make one last disappointing film, \"Atoll K/Utopia\" (1950), Laurel and Hardy enjoyed phenomenal success on the live stage between 1947 and 1954, particularly in Great Britain. Drawing from his English music hall roots, Laurel wrote delightful sketches that the team performed before sellout crowds, and the rejuvenated pair returned to the USA with big plans for a series of TV comedy specials. Sadly, it was not to be. 'Babe' Hardy suffered a mild heart attack, Laurel, a paralyzing stroke, and though they posed for a series of publicity stills in 1956, Hardy's massive stroke that year dispelled all hope of subsequent triumphs.", "Hal Roach paired Laurel with Hardy at the Hal Roach Studios in 1926, as silent films were nearing their end; three of their films employ a comedy device variously known in the comedy vocabulary around Hal Roach Studios as civilized violence, mutual abuse, or reciprocal destruction. Laurel & Hardy adapted with ease to talking in movies. Their voices matched their screen personalities.", "In 1939 after a contract dispute with studio boss Hal Roach, Stan parted company with the studio but Hardy had time on his contract. By all accounts Roach tried to break up Laurel & Hardy by putting Roach in a film alongside fading comedy star Harry Langdon, Zenobia. Zenobia wasn't a great success, although it has some funny moments, audiences just wondered where Stan was.", "Oliver Hardy (January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted over 31 years, from 1926 to 1957.", "In 1950, Laurel and Hardy were invited to France to make a feature film. The film, a Franco-Italian co-production titled Atoll K, was a disaster. (The film was titled Utopia in the US and Robinson Crusoeland in the UK.) Both stars were noticeably ill during the filming. Upon returning to the US they spent most of their time recovering. In 1952, Laurel and Hardy toured Europe successfully, and they returned in 1953 for another tour of the continent. During this tour, Laurel fell ill and was unable to perform for several weeks.", "On May 7, 1934 Stan and Lois Laurel notified Hal Roach Studios, Inc. that all future compensation due Mr. Laurel should be paid, in half, separately, to each of the two parties.", "In 1950, Laurel and Hardy were invited to France to make a feature film. The film was a disaster, a Franco-Italian co-production titled Atoll K. (The film was entitled Utopia in the US and Robinson Crusoeland in the UK.) Both stars were noticeably ill during the filming. Upon returning to the US, they spent most of their time recovering. In 1952, Laurel and Hardy toured Europe successfully, and they returned in 1953 for another tour of the continent. During this tour, Laurel fell ill and was unable to perform for several weeks. ", "The loss of Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy did not concern Roach much, as he had been attempting to make more prestige pictures such as OF MICE AND MEN (1939), as fine a drama as anything that ever came out of one of the bigger studios. Other later Roach films fondly recalled today include the ghost-comedy TOPPER (1937) and the dinosaur epic ONE MILLION B.C (1940).", "In 1947, Laurel and Hardy went on a six week tour of Great Britain. Initially unsure of how they would be received, they were mobbed wherever they went. The tour was then lengthened to include engagements in Scandinavia, Belgium, France, as well as a Royal Command Performance for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Biographer John McCabe said they continued to make live appearances in the United Kingdom and France for the next several years, until 1954, often using new sketches and material that Laurel had written for them.", "Stan Laurel - United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)" ]

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[ "Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (December 18, 1913 – October 8, 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) (1964–1987). Because resistance from the opposition kept much of Brandt's domestic program from being implemented, his most important legacy is the Ostpolitik, a policy aimed at improving relations with East Germany , Poland , and the Soviet Union . This policy caused considerable controversy in West Germany, but won Brandt the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. The citation stated that \"the ideal of peace\" had been a \"guiding star\" to the chancellor throughout his active political career.\" [1]", "Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German statesman and politician, who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe. He was the first Social Democrat chancellor since 1930.", "Willy Brandt was a German statesman, leader of the German Social Democratic Party and chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1969–74).", "From 1969 until 1974, Chancellor Willy Brandt, of the Social Democrats (SPD) came to power. He enacted Ostpolitik, a policy of economic friendship and trade with the eastern bloc and East Germany. Though he supported the NATO alliance, Brandt's overtures to the east earned him suspicion in some Western circles that he might trade off the alliance for German unification. Ironically, Brandt's government fell in a scandal over an East German spy within his office. His successor as chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, was also from the SPD (1974-1982).", "Im Schatten der Macht (Willy Brandt) (2003) last days of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, (Chancellor from 1969-1974)", "1913-1992 - Willy Brandt - Chancellor 1969�1974. Espoused Ostpolitik to improve relations with East Germany, Poland etc.", "** The mayor of Berlin and later Chancellor of then-West Germany Willy Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Carl Frahm. He took up his ''nom de guerre'' when going into exile to escape the Nazis.", "A spy scandal forced Brandt to step down as Chancellor while remaining as party leader. He was replaced by Helmut Schmidt (b. 1918), of the SPD, who served as Chancellor in 1974–1982. Schmidt continued the Ostpolitik with less enthusiasm. He had a PhD in economics and was more interested in domestic issues, such as reducing inflation. The debt grew rapidly as he borrowed to cover the cost of the ever more expensive welfare state. After 1979, foreign policy issues grew central as the Cold War turned hot again. The German peace movement mobilized hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to protest against American deployment in Europe of new medium-range ballistic missiles. Schmidt supported the deployment but was opposed by the left wing of the SPD and by Brandt.", "In 1966 Erhard lost support and Kurt Kiesinger (1904–1988) was elected as Chancellor by a new CDU/CSU-SPD alliance combining the two largest parties. Socialist (SPD) leader Willy Brandt was Deputy Federal Chancellor and Foreign Minister. The Grand Coalition lasted 1966–69 and is best known for reducing tensions with the Soviet bloc nations and establishing diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia.", "Later in 1963, Adenauer retired and was replaced as chancellor by Ludwig Erhard, also a Christian Democrat and an expert on economics. Erhard's government was shaken by a downturn in the economic boom and by controversy over foreign policy. In 1966, Erhard resigned and was replaced by Kurt Georg Kiesinger, a Christian Democrat, who headed a grand coalition of the CDU-CSU and the SPD; SPD leader Willy Brandt assumed the posts of vice chancellor and foreign minister. Under Kiesinger, economic conditions improved, ties with France were strengthened, and talks with the nations of Eastern Europe (with whom West Germany did not have diplomatic relations) were initiated.", "It was Willy Brandt, Social Democratic candidate for chancellor and governing mayor of Berlin, who informed the city and the rest of the world about the construction of the Berlin Wall. He broke off his campaign travels and gathered the members of government in West Berlin for a special meeting. There, he protested before Western allied commanders of the United States, Great Britain, and France: \"The Berlin Senate publicly condemns the illegal and inhuman measures being taken by those who are dividing Germany.\"", "Even before his election as Chancellor, Willy Brandt, the Social Democratic mayor of West Berlin, argued for and pursued policies that would ease tensions between the two German states, generally in the interest of cross-border commerce. His proposed new Ostpolitik held that the Hallstein Doctrine did not help to undermine the communist regime or even lighten the situation of the Germans in the GDR. Brandt believed that collaboration with the communists would foster German-German encounters and trade that would undermine the communist government over the long term.", "Willy Brandt became the first democratically elected Social Democrat to hold the chancellorship. Born in L�beck in 1913, Brandt first joined the SPD in 1930 and later joined a smaller leftist grouping, the Socialist Workers Party (Sozialistiche Arbeiterpartei--SAP). After Hitler came to power, Brandt emigrated to Norway, where he became a citizen and worked as a journalist. After Germany occupied Norway in 1940, he fled to Sweden. Brandt returned to Germany after the war as a news correspondent and later as a Norwegian diplomat in Berlin. After he had again assumed German citizenship, Brandt rejoined the SPD in 1947. He became mayor of Berlin in 1957 and was the SPD candidate for the chancellorship in 1961. In the late 1950s, Brandt was a principal architect of the SPD's rejection of its Marxist past and adoption of the Bad Godesburg Program, in which the party accepted the free-market principle. The triumph of the CDU/CSU in the 1957 national elections and widespread and increasing prosperity made such a step necessary if the SPD were to win the electorate's favor. In 1964 Brandt became the chairman of the SPD. From 1966 to 1969, he served as minister for foreign affairs and vice chancellor in the Grand Coalition.", "The Social Democrats won the 1969 elections, reflecting a trend toward the left. Willy Brandt became chancellor and formed a coalition with the Free Democrats. His political strength lay largely in the fact that during the war he had actively opposed the Nazis while in Norway and Sweden. His main interest was foreign policy; he was less successful in dealing with domestic matters. He revived the pursuit of East-West detente, termed Ostpolitik (eastern policy), which he had begun as Erhard's foreign minister, and hoped for better relations with East Germany and Poland. At the end of 1970 he signed a treaty with Poland that recognized Poland's rights to the German territories Poland had annexed after the war. Brandt also visited Moscow that year to sign a treaty with the Soviet Union in which Germany agreed to respect the frontiers and territories of all states in Europe. By this act Germany renounced all claims to Polish and Czechoslovakian territory and recognized the boundary between West and East Germany. Brandt still refused to recognize fully the claim of East Germany to be a sovereign, independent state, as this would put the stamp of approval on the partition of Germany. Both Germanys, however, joined the United Nations separately in 1973.", "Brandt - German statesman who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992)", "Brandt resigned in May, 1974, after it was revealed that an East German spy had been on his personal staff. He was succeeded by Helmut Schmidt Schmidt, Helmut", "German Chancellor Willy Brandt poses after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize n Oslo on December 10, 1971.", "Ostpolitik was Brandt's particular form of détente, or de-escalation of Cold War tension. As West Germany's new chancellor in 1969 -- a Social Democrat riding a generational mood of change -- he advocated dialogue with the Soviet bloc. His so-called \"opening to the East\" would ease two decades of intensifying rhetoric between Moscow and Washington. Fear of nuclear war was so keen in those days that the controversial stance earned Brandt a Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.", "In 1970 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt traveled to Poland, where he signed the Treaty of …", "After the elections of 1969, again with Brandt as lead candidate, the SPD became stronger and after three weeks of negotiation formed a coalition government with the small liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP). Brandt was elected chancellor.", "In 1969, Brandt was elected chancellor and retained the post in the general election of 1972. His main policy was that of 'Ostpolitik', as he tried to create closer ties between West and East Germany and improve relations with Poland and the Soviet Union. In Germany, Brandt's 'Ostpolitik' was controversial, but in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his work.", "Though Brandt remained chancellor, he had lost his majority. Subsequent initiatives in parliament, most notably on the budget, failed. Because of this stalemate, the Bundestag was dissolved and new elections were called. During the 1972 campaign, many popular West German artists, intellectuals, writers, actors and professors supported Brandt and the SPD. Among them were Günter Grass, Walter Jens, and even the soccer player Paul Breitner. Brandt's ' as well as his reformist domestic policies were popular with parts of the young generation and he led the SPD to its best-ever federal election result in late 1972. The ', Brandt's landslide win was the beginning of the end; and Brandt's role in government started to decline.", "Walter Scheel, 97, German politician, President of West Germany (1974–1979), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1969–1974) and Vice-Chancellor (1969–1974).", "Previously, West Germany had refused to recognize even the existence of the East German government. And by the terms of the Hallstein Doctrine (named for one of Adenauer’s key foreign-policy aides, Walter Hallstein), the Bonn authorities had refused to maintain diplomatic relations with all those countries (other than the Soviet Union) that recognized the German Democratic Republic. Now the Brandt-Scheel cabinet reversed these policies by opening direct negotiations with East Germany in 1970 to normalize relations between the two German states.", "The general election of 1969 resulted in a small plurality for the CDU-CSU, but Brandt was able to become chancellor at the head of an SPD-FDP coalition government. In the 1972 general election the coalition was returned to power with a substantial majority. Brandt launched a major program, called the Ostpolitik [eastern policy], to improve relations with Eastern Europe. Important milestones in the Ostpolitik were the signing (1970) of treaties of nonaggression and cooperation with the Soviet Union and Poland (ratified in 1972); the signing (1972) of an agreement among the four former occupying powers improving access to West Berlin and permitting West Berliners to visit East Berlin and East Germany more often; and a treaty (1973) between East and West Germany that called for increased cooperation between the two states and prepared the groundwork for the establishment of full diplomatic relations. West Germany was admitted to the United Nations in 1973, after having held permanent observer status since 1953.", "As chancellor, Brandt developed his Neue Ostpolitik (New Eastern Policy). Brandt was active in creating a degree of rapprochement with East Germany, and also in improving relations with the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Eastern Bloc (communist) countries. A seminal moment came in December 1970 with the famous Warschauer Kniefall in which Brandt, apparently spontaneously, knelt down at the monument to victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The uprising occurred during the Nazi German military occupation of Poland, and the monument is to those killed by the German troops who suppressed the uprising and deported remaining ghetto residents to the concentration camps for extermination.", "Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (; born 3 April 1930) is a German retired politician, who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany 1982–90 and of the reunited Germany 1990–98) and as the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. From 1969 to 1976, Kohl was the 3rd Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate.", "Helmut Schmidt, the former West German Chancellor, has died at age 96. He's seen here with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a 1979 news conference in London. Steve Burton/Getty Images hide caption", "By the early 1960s, Brandt was the leading figure in the Social Democratic Party and its candidate for chancellor. He was unsuccessful in the 1961 and 1965 elections, but became vice chancellor and foreign minister in the coalition government of 1966.", "Helmut Kohl, (born April 3, 1930, Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Germany ), German politician who served as chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990 and of the reunified German nation from 1990 to 1998. He presided over the integration of East Germany into West Germany in 1990 and thus became the first chancellor of a unified Germany since 1945.", "Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German statesman and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1982.", "1967 Died: Konrad Adenauer, German statesman who served as the first post-war Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963." ]

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[ "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace is a 1999 Star Wars film written and directed by George Lucas . It was the fourth live-action film to be released in theaters and the first film of the prequel trilogy. It was also the first Star Wars film to be re-released in 3D. The film was produced by Rick McCallum and stars Liam Neeson , Ewan McGregor , Natalie Portman , Jake Lloyd , and Ian McDiarmid as the primary characters.", "George Lucas’s 1999 film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has long been a lightning rod for hatred, and for plenty of good reasons. However, revisiting the film, it’s kind of amazing to see just how badly it doesn’t understand what Star Wars actually is.", "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the first installment in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and stars Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Pernilla August and Frank Oz.", "In 1999, Neeson starred as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, in director George Lucas’ Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. As it was the first Star Wars film to be released in over sixteen years, it was surrounded by a large amount of anticipation from the media. Neeson’s connection to the Star Wars films started in the Crown Bar, Belfast. Neeson stated to Ricki Lake, “I probably wouldn’t have taken the role if it wasn’t for the advice of Peter King in the Crown during a Lyric reunion.” The Phantom Menace was an enormous box-office success and remains the most financially successful Star Wars film unadjusted for inflation.[17] Qui-Gon’s voice, provided by Neeson, would later be heard during a brief scene in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). Qui-Gon was supposed to make an appearance in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) as a Force Ghost, and Neeson had hinted at involvement.[18] However, he was ultimately unable to appear due to a motorcycle injury, and his character is only mentioned in the film.[19] In 2011, he reappeared as the voice of Qui-Gon Jinn in the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.", "The Phantom Menace was released in theaters on May 19 , 1999, becoming the first Star Wars film since Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi sixteen years earlier. The release was accompanied by extensive media coverage and great fan anticipation. Despite mixed reviews from critics and fans, the film grossed $924.3 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing Star Wars film when unadjusted for inflation. The film was re-released on Blu-ray in September 2011 , and was re-released in theaters in 3D on February 10 , 2012 .", "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace [9] was released in 1999. It was the start of a three-part prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy. The film follows the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi. While escorting and protecting Queen Amidala they meet Anakin Skywalker, a young slave boy who seems to be unusually strong with The Force. Along the way they must contend with the mysterious return of the Sith and the Sith apprentice Darth Maul.", "When “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” opened in theaters May 19, 1999 the anticipation for the continuation of the saga was palpable. Fans would finally get the first three installments leading up to “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.” All those hours of discussing what led Obi-Wan Kenobi to live in seclusion on Tatooine or why Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side to become Darth Vader would finally be revealed.", "In 1999, Jackson found popular success starring as Jedi Mace Windu in \"Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.\" Along with its two sequels, it is one of Jackson's highest-grossing films. His success in action movies continued throughout the 2000s, with roles in films such as \"XXX,\" \"S.W.A.T.\" and \"Jumper.\" He has also contributed voice work to animated films such as \"The Incredibles,\" \"Astro Boy\" and \"Turbo.\" As of 2015, Jackson has starred in more than 100 movies.", "Darth Maul , promotional clip for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), written by George Lucas", "George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) included characters that were entirely digitally rendered, such as Jar Jar Binks .", "Neeson starred in the box-office phenomenon \"Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace\" (1999) in the role of Qui-Gon Jinn, the Master Jedi Knight who bestows his Force-ful wisdom upon Obi-Wan Kenobi and the young Anakin Skywalker. In the same year, he starred opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Jan De Bont's \"The Haunting\" (1999).", "*Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, directed by George Lucas, starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd and Terence Stamp", "** Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires, Rob Coleman", "After his film was released on May 19, 1999 , Lucas soon started writing Episode II while Phantom Menace broke box-office records and grossed more than 900 million dollars worldwide, despite poor reviews and reaction to the acting and general appearance of characters, in particular the much maligned Jar Jar Binks .", "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Doesn't Really Get What It Means To Be A Star Wars Movie", "Two decades after the Star Wars trilogy was released, George Lucas directed this prequel with modern special effects. The film grossed $474,544,677 and was the top-grossing movie for 1999.", "After Lucas’ second feature film, American Graffiti (1973), became a hit, Fox agreed to put up $9.5 million for the writer-director’s next project. After four years in production, including location shots in Tunisia and Death Valley, California , Star Wars was ready for its release. Its relatively unknown cast featured Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, who teams with the roguish Han Solo (Harrison Ford) to rescue Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) from captivity on a space station commanded by the menacing Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones). The alien creatures, massive space station, elaborate space battles and other special effects came courtesy of Lucas’ company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).", "Ten years on since the last Star Wars film, director J.J. Abrams' problem is very much the same as Bond director Sam Mendes, with an added twist. On the one hand, Abrams has original cast members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and (a little bit of) Mark Hamill. Whilst presenting his new take on the franchise, Abrams also has to pay service to its roots, to the films which made these actors and characters household names. Abrams task though is complicated by the last time this franchise attempted this very manoeuvre. Looming over The Force Awakens like a spectral Jedi are George Lucas' prequels. Prequels which managed to retrospectively tarnish some of the lore of Star Wars (midichlorians, anyone?) and prove that going back to see beloved characters isn't always the best idea.", "The movie bears many similarities to Star Wars : There are several character-parallels ( Springer is a Han Solo-type and Arcee even has Princess Leia's hairdo!), the primary threat is similar (it's the Death Star ... but it transforms! ), and both feature a climactic battle where the young hero hears the voice of his wise mentor one last time before saving the day. Also, the sounds of lightsabers activating are used often throughout the film.", "The film is set three years after Star Wars. The Galactic Empire, under the leadership of the villainous Darth Vader and the Emperor, is in pursuit of Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebel Alliance. While Vader chases a small band of Luke's friends—Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, and others—across the galaxy, Luke studies the Force under Jedi Master Yoda. When Vader captures Luke's friends, Luke must decide whether to complete his training and become a full Jedi Knight or to confront Vader and save them.", "In an additional insert scene shot for the original Star Wars, the Captain America: The First Avenger director (and Oscar-winner for Best Visual Effects on Raiders of the Lost Ark) stands out on the Death Star surface looking over at the captured Millennium Falcon. Still a fetching costume to this day.", "After escaping stormtroopers and blasting off the planet in Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon, Kenobi began Skywalker's instruction in the ways of the Force, much to the mocking of Solo. This teaching, however, was soon interrupted by their arrival in the Alderaan system and their discovery of the planet's destruction. They then spotted a patrolling TIE Fighter, and, upon following it, found that it was approaching what appeared to be a small moon. To their horror, however, it turned out to be the Death Star. Caught by the Death Star's tractor beam, they were brought aboard the massive space station.[7][32]", "The film that gave one of Jabba's thugs his name, shares themes with Star Wars, and more.", "The original Death Star's completed form appears in Star Wars. Commanded by Grand Moff Tarkin, it is the Galactic Empire's \"ultimate weapon\", a huge spherical space station over 100 kilometers in diameter capable of destroying a planet with one shot of its superlaser. The film opens with Princess Leia transporting the station's schematics to the Rebel Alliance to aid them in destroying the Death Star. Tarkin orders the Death Star to destroy Leia's home world of Alderaan in an attempt to press her into giving him the location of the secret Rebel base; she gives them the false location of Dantooine, but Tarkin has Alderaan destroyed anyway, as a demonstration of the Death Star's firepower and the Empire's resolve. Later, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, and R2-D2 are pulled aboard the station by a tractor beam but they discover and manage to rescue Princess Leia and flee the station. Later, Luke returns as part of a fighter force to attack its weak point, a ray-shielded particle exhaust vent leading straight from the surface directly into its reactor core. The station was destroyed by Luke Skywalker when he shot torpedoes into the exhaust vent it before it annihilated the rebel base on Yavin IV, its intended target.", "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy....", "◦Virus-An electronic alien lifeform takes over a research vessel, and plans to wipe out humanity (1999)", "The opening scene is in space, and the camera features a Republic Star Destroyer , mirroring the openings of the original trilogy, all of which featured Imperial Star Destroyers . It also retains the theme of the prequel films to open with a Republic starship.", "X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, will hide the lightsaber in his droid BB-8, as the dreaded villain who is on a mission to destroy galactic peace follows the trails.", "Admiral Ackbar was not always supposed to be the commander of the Rebel fleet. The three-eyed Ree-Yees mask from Return of the Jedi was originally slated for the role, but George Lucas favored the fish-like Ackbar.", "It's hard to remember a time when Ewoks weren't simply a punchline and a punching bag for people who argued that they presaged the likes of Jar-Jar Binks and some of the least liked aspects of the prequel trilogy. But there was a time (the '80s) when they were insanely popular, so much so that they got two made-for-TV film spinoffs. The first \"Caravan of Courage,\" is the first, and the worst of the two, focusing on the friendship between Wicket (the hero Ewok from \"Return of the Jedi\") and little girl whose family crash lands on the moon of Endor a few months before the events of \"Jedi.\" It has some fun adventure moments and some cool stop-motion monsters, but it's probably the most juvenile entry in the canon.", "The 1997 film, Starship Troopers, brought to life Robert Heinlein’s same-titled book with Academy Award nominated Visual Effects and terrifying fight scenes against the Arachnids from Klendathu. One of the most memorable scenes of Starship Troopers is the Battle of Klendathu, where a Corvette Transport ship called the Rodger Young 176, is one of the few ships that manages to survive, piloted by Carmen Ibanez, played by Denise Richards. With her expertise, the Rodger Young 176 makes it out of the battle with only moderate damage, until later, in the Invasion of Planet P, the Rodger Young 176 is torn in two by a Plasma burst.", "Action Prologue : The very first scene of the film starts with the famous shot of the Star Destroyer chasing the Tantive IV." ]

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[ "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction fantasy film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison, featuring special effects by Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren, and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote and Pat Welsh as the voice of the title character. It tells the story of Elliott (Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed \"E.T.\" (Welsh), who is stranded on Earth. He and his siblings help it return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (often referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote. It tells the story of Elliott (played by Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed \"E.T.\", who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the extraterrestrial return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.", "Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, author, director, model and producer. She is a descendant of the Barrymore family of well-known American stage and cinema actors, and is a granddaughter of actor John Barrymore. Barrymore first appeared in an advertisement when she was eleven months old. In 1980, she made her film debut in Altered States. In 1982, she starred in her breakout role as Gertie in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.", "The movie E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was about a 10-year-old boy, Elliott (played by Henry Thomas ), who befriended a little, lost alien. Elliott named the alien \"E.T.\" and did his best to hide him from adults. Soon Elliott's two siblings, Gertie (played by Drew Barrymore ) and Michael (played by Robert MacNaughton ), discovered E.T.'s existence and helped.", "Yes, that Barrymore. Decades before his granddaughter Drew played Gertie in “E.T.”, John Barrymore was an extremely renowned and accomplished actor, considered by many to be the greatest of his generation. On Broadway since he was a young man, Barrymore established himself as a prolific stage talent, excelling in comedy and Shakespeare. He was a natural fit for the screen, and after a string of popular silent films like “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Eternal Love,” Barrymore’s booming stage-trained voice made him a force to be reckoned with in talkies as well, starring in huge hits like “Grand Hotel” and “A Bill of Divorcement.” ", "Then: A young Drew Barrymore played Elliott's younger sister Gertie, who is frightened of E.T. at first, but grows to love him. Barrymore had previously made her acting debut in the 1980 film 'Altered States,' and following 'E.T.,' she appeared in the '80s films 'Firestarter,' 'Cat's Eye,' and 'Far from Home.'", "E.T. is warm-hearted without descending into mawkishness. In part this is down to natural performances from Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore as the children who treat their alien visitor with respect and kindness – in contrast to most of the adults in the picture. In fact E.T. becomes kind of frightening in the second half with the doctors flocking around the little fellow and suits waving guns around (or rather less threatening walkie-talkies if you’re watching Spielberg’s revised version).", "Getting the right young actors to play the three main young siblings was a paramount problem for Spielberg. The first kid he cast was Drew Barrymore as Gertie, the youngest of the trio. During her audition, the six-year-old Barrymore allegedly told Spielberg that she wasn’t really an actress at all but rather the drummer of a loud and menacing punk rock band called the Purple People Eaters, who painted their faces with makeup for every show and who had played to an arena packed with thousands of people the night before. Spielberg recognized the value of her vivid imagination and she got the part.", "* Pat Welsh as the voice of E.T. (Short for Extra-Terrestrial), the friendly, cute, charming, sweet, lovable alien that Elliot adopted and helped to bring him to his home planet.", "* Drew Barrymore (Olive in Olive, the Other Reindeer, Akima in Titan A.E., Jillian in Family Guy, and Chloe in Beverly Hills Chihuahua)", "Peter Coyote was born on October 10, 1941 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA as Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon. He is an actor, known for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), A Walk to Remember (2002) and Sphere (1998). He was previously married to Stefanie Pleet and Marilyn McCann.", "Drew Barrymore, the 39-year-old “Charlie’s Angels” and “E.T.” star, and her half-sibling lived starkly different lives.", "Ever After (known in promotional material as Ever After: A Cinderella Story) is a 1998 American romantic drama film inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella. It was directed by Andy Tennant and stars Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, and Dougray Scott. The screenplay was written by Tennant, Susannah Grant, and Rick Parks. The original music score was composed by George Fenton. The film's closing theme song \"Put Your Arms Around Me\" is performed by the rock band Texas.", "The movie E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was a hit from the day it was released (June 11, 1982) and quickly became one of the most beloved movies of all time.", "Released by Universal Pictures, E.T. was a blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the most financially successful film released to that point. Critics acclaimed it as a timeless story of friendship, and it ranks as the greatest science fiction film ever made in a Rotten Tomatoes survey. The film was rereleased in 1985, and then again in 2002 with altered special effects and additional scenes.", "As to whether the acting bug skipped a generation, it didn’t entirely. Drew’s father John Drew acted in various film and television projects and his sister Diana did the same but neither succeeded and Diana died of a drug overdose at the age of 38. Steering Drew on the right path was godfather Steven Spielberg who gave her a leading role in E.T.", "In 1999, Barrymore was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star \"Lifetime Achievement\" Award commemorating her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress. In 2005, she began a recurring role in the animated comedy Family Guy as Brian Griffin's simple-minded girlfriend, Jillian Russell. She subsequently appeared in a total of eleven episodes. She was the subject of the 2005 documentary My Date with Drew. In it, an aspiring filmmaker, who was a fan of Barrymore's, used his limited resources in an attempt to gain a date with her. On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ", "Drew Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer, and model. She is a descendant of the Drew family and Barrymore family of iconic American stage and cinema actors, and she is the granddaughter of film legend John Barrymore.", "Christian Bale (Patrick Bateman), Justin Theroux (Timothy Bryce), Josh Lucas (Craig McDermott), Bill Sage (David Van Patten), Chloe Sevigny (Jean), Reese Witherspoon (Evelyn Williams), Samantha Mathis (Courtney Rawlinson), Matt Ross (Luis Carruthers), Jared Leto (Paul Allen), Willem Dafoe (Det. Donald Kimball), Cara Seymour (Christie), Guinevere Turner (Elizabeth), Stephen Bogaert (Harold Carnes), Monika Meier (Daisy), Reg E. Cathey (Al, homeless man)", "When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the mask, Ipkiss becomes a supernatural playboy exuding charm and confidence which allows him to catch the eye of local nightclub singer Tina Carlyle (Cameron Diaz). Unfortunately, under the mask's influence, Ipkiss also robs a bank, which angers junior crime lord Dorian Tyrell (Peter Greene), whose goons get blamed for the heist.", "John Travolta is an American actor, singer, producer and dancer who has a net worth of $170 million. John Travolta grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, and began his career as a member of the Broadway cast of Over Here! and the traveling cast of Grease. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film career, though his first significant role was in television, on the series Welcome Back, Kotter. At the same time, he landed his first notable film role: a bully in the 1976 horror film Carrie, opposite Sissy Spacek. He soon released his Billboard number-ten single, \"Let Her In,\" and was then catapulted to stardom by his performance in Saturday Night Fever, which he followed up with starring roles in Grease and Urban Cowboy.", "1999: \"Never Been Kissed,\" starring Drew Barrymore, opens in theaters. ( Watch this movie online with Starz )", "The original is the story of two high school couples.  There’s Tina (Amanda Wyss), a pretty blonde who doesn’t really have any defining characteristic besides being pretty and blonde.  Rod (Jsu Garcia) is her obnoxious boyfriend who in 2015 would likely be called a “dudebro.”  Tina has a somewhat mousy friend named Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and she has her own boyfriend, Glen (Johnny Depp), who is as feckless and ineffectual as a real high school kid.", "Drew Barrymore's marriage to Tom Green fizzled pretty quickly. Despite living together for two years prior to tying the knot, the pair didn't last five months as a married couple. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: David McNew/Getty)", "He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. He has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His most notable roles include Eddie in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Robert \"Bob\" Paulson in David Fincher's Fight Club (1999) and \"The Lizard\" in The 51st State (2002). He has also appeared in several television shows such as Monk, Glee, South Park, House, M.D. and Tales from the Crypt as a guest actor.", "Following a turbulent childhood that was marked by recurring drug and alcohol abuse, and two stints in rehab, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. She successfully made the transition from child star to adult actress with a number of films including Poison Ivy, Bad Girls, Boys on the Side, Scream and Everyone Says I Love You. Subsequently, she also starred in romantic comedies, such as The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates.", "In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part II, Peter is portrayed by Erik Odom, Charlotte by Valorie Curry, Mary by Toni Trucks and Randall by Bill Tangradi.", "Ben Stiller directs and stars in THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, James Thurber's classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.", "Lily told Crave, “Yeah, one of my first auditions actually was for Twilight which is really funny now thinking about it.” She definitely looks the part with her dark hair, red lips, and pale skin. However, it’s hard — no, impossible — to imagine anyone else but K-Stew caught up in a love triangle with Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner .", "Drew Barrymore looks effortlessly chic in simple and sophisticated black jumpsuit as she attends Madrid photocall for new Netflix zombie show ", "WINONA RYDER plays a producer who pretends to be someone else in order to get inside Deeds world and get the scoop on him. She starts to fall for him, however, and begins to have reservations about her ruse.", "And now, dear readers, here's a haircut that never really happened. Team Jacob adherents everywhere mourned the lustrous locks of Twilight star Taylor Lautner when he shed them for the second film in the franchise (FYI: werewolves apparently can't have long hair without suffering from awkwardly long fur when in wolf form). But turns out we'd all been conned; Lautner was in fact sporting a wig throughout the first Twilight movie." ]

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[ "ER star Anthony Edwards has launched his first lead role in a movie, in the new British film Don't Go Breaking My Heart.", "ER is the longest-running medical drama in American television history, and it also had an unforgettable theme which perfectly sets the tone for the show’s dramatic and exciting content. The tense music grips the viewer, and is is accompanied by dramatic footage of the staff at the hospital (this changed as characters came and went). The intro also has many unforgettable moments, such as Dr. Benton punching the air in success. Seeing as the show went on for so long, many characters came and went and it is famous for having a cast that included George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Sherry Stringfield, Eriq La Salle, Alex Kingston, Mekhi Phifer, Linda Cardellini and John Stamos throughout its history. With so many characters over the years, it needed stability and consistency, which was achieved with this unforgettable theme tune.", "Jenny Seagrove has played leading roles in almost every West End play house. Her most recent performances were in Rufus Norris’s production of Clifford Odets’ The Country Girl and Peter Hall’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce. Jenny’s illustrious career has also included roles in films such as Local Hero and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, and as ‘Emma Harte’ in the Emmy Nominated series A Woman of Substance. She is also known to television viewers as barrister ‘Jo Mills’ in BBC TV’s flagship legal series Judge John Deed - the Bafta award winning drama which ran for 6 years, and in which Jenny starred alongside Martin Shaw.", "Clooney achieved stardom when he played Dr. Doug Ross , alongside Anthony Edwards , Julianna Margulies , and Noah Wyle , on the hit NBC drama ER from 1994 to 1999. After leaving the series in 1999, he made a cameo appearance in the 6th season and returned for a guest spot in the show's final season. [19]", "Clooney rose to fame when he played Dr. Doug Ross, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, and Noah Wyle, on the hit NBC medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999. After leaving the series in 1999, he made a cameo appearance in the 6th season and returned for a guest spot in the show's final season. For his work on the series, Clooney received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1995 and 1996. He also earned three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1995, 1996, and 1997 (losing to co-star Anthony Edwards). ", "Clooney rose to fame when he played Dr. Doug Ross, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, and Noah Wyle, on the hit NBC medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999. After leaving the series in 1999, he made a cameo appearance in the 6th season and returned for a guest spot in the show's final season. For his work on the series, Clooney received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1995 and 1996. He also earned three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1995, 1996, and 1997 (losing to co-star Anthony Edwards).", "Dr. Douglas \"Doug\" Ross is a fictional character from the television series ER, portrayed by George Clooney. George Clooney's removal from the main cast opening credits was in the 16th episode of season 5.", "Mariska Hargitay (January 23, 1964 - ). She is actress and a talented daughter of Jayne Mansfeild and Hungarian actor Mickey (Miklós) Hargitay. Now starring in \"Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.\" Hargitay is also known to millions of viewers from her recurring role on ER as Dr. Greene's (Anthony Edwards) girlfriend Cynthia Hooper in the 1997-98 season of the top-rated show. She also gained notice as a cast regular in the sitcom: Can't Hurry Love, guest roles on NBC's Seinfeld, Ellen, Thirty something, Wiseguy, and In the Heat of the Night Hargitay was also seen in the made-for-television movies.", "Following the death of Dr. Jordan Kenley (John Sloman), Chief Webber (James Pickens, Jr.) replaces his head of pediatric surgery with Dr. Arizona Robbins, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Robbins has a romantic interest in orthopedic 5 resident Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez), and kisses her. The two embark on a relationship, but when Torres' father, Carlos (Héctor Elizondo), learns of the relationship, he threatens to cut her off financially unless she returns home with him. When Torres' father returns to Seattle and continues to reject his daughter's sexuality, Robbins is able to convince him to reconsider. She tells Mr. Torres that her father was able to accept her own sexuality, as she promised him she was still the \"good man in a storm\" he raised her to be, and that Torres is still the same person he raised. Torres is dismayed to learn that Robbins doesn't want children, and the two come to a conclusion that they cannot continue their relationship, since they both want different things. However, after a shooter enters Seattle Grace with a vendetta for Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh), and Richard Webber (James Pickens, Jr.), they are in lockdown together, and the two reconcile.", "Monica begins dating Dr. Richard Burke (Tom Selleck), an older man who is also one of her father's best friends and 21 years her senior. However, the couple mutually agrees to end their long-running relationship after realizing that Richard does not want children, while Monica aspires to eventually raise a family of her own one day. While in England attending Ross' second wedding, to Emily (Helen Baxendale), Monica sleeps with Chandler. Initially supposed to have been a casual, one-time thing which grew more recurrent, Monica and Chandler eventually develop feelings for each other, but attempt to conceal it from their friends for as long as possible. After finally revealing their relationship to their friends, who are delighted by the news, Monica proposes to Chandler, and they marry.", "Bedside manner: The idealistic and brooding surgeon (played by Vince Edwards) would often find himself at odds against the hospital's powers that be. To help off-set his surly nature, Casey sought the help of his two more compassionate confidantes at the hospital, Dr. Maggie Graham (played by Bettye Ackerman) and Dr. Ted Hoffman (Harry Landers). Together, the doctors dealt with a wide variety of issues like racial tension, immigration, child abuse , and euthanasia.", "Pulse-pounding surgeries, adrenaline-fueled breakthroughs and sultry romances fill the episodes of medical drama series Saving Hope. When tragedy strikes Chief of Surgery Charlie Harris (Michael Shanks, Stargate Atlantis), he leaves Hope Zion Hospital in chaos and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid (Erica Durance, Smallville), in a state of shock. Now trapped in a coma, Dr. Harris wanders the halls of the hospital in “spirit” form, as Alex and the rest of the staff make courageous decisions to keep hope alive.", "Medical shows have sure changed since the days of Marcus Welby, Ben Casey and James Kildare.  In contrast to House, they had a scrubbed and squeaky clean image.  When M.G.M. chose Dick Chamberlain for the role of Dr. Kildare, fellow actor Jack Nicholson quipped, “It was inevitable.  Who else could possibly look as antiseptic as Dick?”", "In season three, George's father, Harold O'Malley (George Dzundza), is diagnosed with cancer and dies, with his wife Louise (Debra Monk) and George's brothers Jerry (Greg Pitts) and Ronny (Tim Griffin) by his side. Louise goes on to appear occasionally, and was last seen in season eight. A ferryboat accident brings along Rebecca Pope (Elizabeth Reaser), who is initially introduced as a pregnant Jane Doe victim, suffering from Amnesia. Pope eventually embarks on a relationship with Karev, until she is diagnosed with a personality disorder in season four, and makes her final departure. Amidst the crisis of the ferryboat crash, Meredith falls into the water at the disaster site. Although rescued, she goes into cardiac arrest, waking up in what appears to be limbo. Within the limbo, Meredith is entertained by deceased acquaintances Duquette and Dylan Young (Kyle Chandler), who was killed during a bomb crisis in the second season, until eventually being resuscitated. Seeking a cure to her depression, Meredith undergoes therapy sessions with the hospital psychiatrist, Dr. Katharine Wyatt (Amy Madigan), who in addition, serves as a psychiatrist to Hunt.", "Keeley Hawes is an English actress and model, known for many television roles, notably those of Zoe Reynolds in MI-5 and Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes. Hawes is also known for voicing various roles in video games,such as the iconic Lara Croft from the long running Tomb Raider series. She is also well known for the charity work she does for CHASE hospice care for children in Surrey.", "Thatcher and Susan Grey (Jeff Perry and Mare Winningham), Meredith's estranged father and step-mother, are introduced in season two, with Susan making appearances until her death in season three, and Thatcher continuing to appear on the series. Adele Webber (Loretta Devine), is introduced as Richard's wife, who eventually acquires Alzheimer's, in the seventh season, and continued to make appearances until her death in season nine. Introduced as Preston's mother, Jane Burke (Diahann Carroll) makes occasional appearances until the fourth season. Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a patient suffering from congestive heart failure, originates as one of Burke's patients, who goes on to propose to Stevens, after weeks of bonding between the two. Facing death, Stevens cuts Duquette's left ventricular assist device (LVAD), to elevate his position on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) transplant list. This ultimately ends in his death, marking his initial departure from the show, and placing Stevens on disciplinary probation. Initially conceived as a veterinarian hired for Shepherd's dog, Doc, Dr. Finn Dandridge (Chris O'Donnell) soon becomes a love interest for Meredith, while Shepherd is with Montgomery. Dandridge is included in a multi-episode story arc, consisting of nine episodes, ending when Meredith reunites with Shepherd.", "As of July 2016, the main cast of characters includes CEO Henrik Hanssen (Guy Henry), Consultants Serena Campbell (Catherine Russell), Ric Griffin (Hugh Quarshie), Jac Naylor (Rosie Marcel), Guy Self (John Michie), Sacha Levy (Bob Barrett) Bernie Wolfe (Jemma Redgrave) and Mo Effanga (Chizzy Akudolu), registrars Oliver Valentine (James Anderson) and Raffaello \"Raf\" di Lucca (Joe McFadden), F2 doctors Dominic Copeland (David Ames) and Zosia March (Camilla Arfwedson), F1 doctor Morven Shreve (Eleanor Fanyinka), AAU Ward Manager Adrian \"Fletch\" Fletcher (Alex Walkinshaw), and transplant coordinator Estelle \"Essie\" Harrison (Kaye Wragg). ", "We don't actually know how she died, but the tenth season/2002 episode Frasier: Don't Go Breaking My Heart (#10.9) implies it was from an illness. In \"Room With a View\" Martin has a flashback to to 1986 or 1987 where the doctor show two chest x-rays and says \"Mr. Crane, I'm afraid your wife's x-ray's do not look good.\" Since they were chest x-rays, one could assume she had breast cancer, lung disease, or heart disease.", "* James Seay as Dr. Pierce, a geriatrics physician at the Brooks Memorial Home for the Aged", "Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. He suffered an accidental death at age 28.", "Heigl returned to Los Angeles to present at the 80th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, where she handed the Oscar for 'Best Makeup' to French film La Vie en Rose. A few days later, on February 29th, the cast of \"Grey's Anatomy and spin-off show Private Practice held a charity benefit at UCLA's Royce's Hall to assist crew members of television and film productions affected by the WGA strike. Entitled \"Good Medicine\", Katherine and her co-stars took to the stage to perform for the public at the event, with proceeds from ticket sales going to the strike Solidarity Fund.", "actor: Hotel, Marcus Welby, M.D., Angel Falls, Westworld, Von Ryan�s Express, Pee Wee�s Big Adventure, Fantastic Voyage, The Boston Strangler, The Amityville Horror; married to singer/actress, Barbra Streisand", "*Marcus Welby, M.D. (1972), playing Liz in episode: \"We'll Walk Out of Here Together\" (episode # 4.3)", "In 2003, she appeared in three episodes from the eighth season of The Practice . For her performances, she received an Emmy Award [15] for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.", "She appeared in the early 1960s in the medical dramas The Eleventh Hour and Breaking Point. She starred in a season 3 episode of Mission: Impossible (1968) titled \"The Elixir\" as Riva Santel, as well as a season 2 episode of Naked City. ", "In 2003, she appeared in three episodes from the eighth season of The Practice. For her performances, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.", "In 2003, she appeared in three episodes from the eighth season of The Practice. For her performances, she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.", "The veteran actor best known for his starring role in 1970s TV sitcom On the Buses had been admitted to a nursing home a few weeks earlier after developing a chest infection.", "On television, in addition to her current projects, Bates appeared in Syfy’s Alice, playing the “Queen of Hearts,” for which she earned an Emmy Award nomination for her performance. She won a Golden Globe and a SAG Award and earned an Emmy Award nomination for the 1996 HBO film The Late Shift. Her television honors also include Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations for her performance in the musical Annie; another SAG Award nomination for her role in the telefilm My Sister’s Keeper; and four additional Emmy Award nominations for her work on the projects 3rd Rock from the Sun, Six Feet Under, Warm Springs, and Ambulance Girl, which she also directed. She also guest starred on Mike & Molly, The Office and Two and a Half Men, winning her first Emmy® award for her work on the latter.", "She also appeared in a couple of episodes of the hit-American series, âCastleâ. On the big screen, she played the role of Mandy Mooreâs mother in the rom-com, âLove, Wedding, Marriageâ, released in 2011.", "Image caption Raine (left) is known to viewers for her role as Jenny Lee in Call the Midwife", "Sitcom star, famous for the catchphrase 'Don't panic' while playing Corporal Jones, dies in Portugal after a short illness" ]

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[ "Rick Deckard is the protagonist in Ridley Scott 's 1982 science-fiction film, Blade Runner . The character originally appeared in Philip K Dick 's novel, \" Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? \" on which the movie is based. Rick Deckard was played by Harrison Ford.", "Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), John Book in the thriller Witness (1985), and Jack Ryan in the action films Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). Most recently, Ford reprised his role of Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).", "The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants —visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as by other \"mega–manufacturers\" around the world. Their use on Earth is banned and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth's off-world colonies . Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and \"retired\" by police special operatives known as \"Blade Runners\". The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the burnt out expert Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.", "Then: Harrison Ford wasn't the first choice to play Rick Deckard in 'Blade Runner' -- that honor goes to Dustin Hoffman, who turned down the role because it was too \"macho.\" Other actors considered for the part before the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' star nabbed it include Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Al Pacino, Arnold Schwarzenegger and pretty much every name in town except Ford.", "The cult science-fiction classic from Ridley Scott, the futuristic, visually-bleak, film-noirish Blade Runner (1982) with a Vangelis soundtrack, set in a squalid 2019 Los Angeles (in an amazing opening sequence viewing the cityscape), was based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?. It unexpectedly grew in stature, popularity and acclaim over time as the decade advanced, but was originally pulled from theatres after an unsuccessful opening. Controversy arose over the voice-over of star Harrison Ford as the downbeat, called-out-of-retirement blade-runner Rick Deckard, and over the studio-appended 'happy' ending - both of which were excised in the Director's Cut released in 1991, that also restored a unicorn dream sequence.", "In the original “Blade Runner,” Rutger Hauer played the leader of a group of escaped “replicants” — genetically engineered androids used for work on Earth’s off-world colonies — who are hiding out in a 2019 version of Los Angeles. Ford’s Rick Deckard character is a “blade runner,” a police officer who kills replicants when necessary.", "Casting the film proved troublesome, particularly for the lead role of Deckard. Screenwriter Hampton Fancher envisioned Robert Mitchum as Deckard and wrote the character's dialogue with Mitchum in mind. Director Ridley Scott and the film's producers spent months meeting and discussing the role with Dustin Hoffman, who eventually departed over differences in vision. Harrison Ford was ultimately chosen for several reasons, including his performance in the Star Wars films, Ford's interest in the Blade Runner story, and discussions with Steven Spielberg who was finishing Raiders of the Lost Ark at the time and strongly praised Ford's work in the film. Following his success in films like Star Wars (1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Ford was looking for a role with dramatic depth. According to production documents, several actors were considered for the role, including Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino, and Burt Reynolds.", "Blade Runner is a 1982 American tech noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is a modified film adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.", "After the stunning success of Alien, Ridley Scott had his pick of projects in Hollywood. He took on the job of adapting Dune, Frank Herbert's 1865 science fiction novel. However, Scott's older brother Frank died in the middle of the development process and Scott decided to shift gears. He accepted Michael Deeley's offer to direct a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, based on a screenplay by Hampton Fancher. The lead role of Rick Deckard went to Harrison Ford, a newly minted action star who was coming off major successes in Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Unfortunately, Blade Runner was plagued by budget constraints and on-set tension. When it was released in 1982, it polarized critics and test audiences, and its box office performance was dismal. However, thanks to the growing popularity of home video, Blade Runner slowly gained momentum throughout the 1980s and 1990s and eventually, Scott re-cut, restored, and re-released the film in 2007. Today, many critics call Blade Runner one of the most important science fiction films ever made - mostly because of the lush visual landscape and mood Scott created for the film.", "Blade Runner is a 1982 American dystopian science fiction noir film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.", "Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott's classic cult film, with 'replicants' (androids considered \"more human than human\") that were hunted down by 'blade runner' Deckard (Harrison Ford); one was Rutger Hauer (as Replicant Roy Batty)", "Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.", "Blade Runneris a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford , Rutger Hauer , and Sean Young . The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples , is loosely based on the novelDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?by Philip K. Dick .", "Wikipedia | Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based loosely on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick.", "Released 31 years ago, Ridley Scott 's sci-fi masterpiece 'Blade Runner' follows an agent played by Harrison Ford who must track down and eliminate four bioengineered \"replicants\" who are seeking answers about their existence. Now that there's all this talk of a sequel , let's take a look back at the cast of this highly influential film and see what they're up to these days.", "Deckard watches a video of a Blade Runner named Holden administering the \"Voight-Kampff\" test designed to distinguish replicants from humans based on their emotional response to questions. The test subject, Leon (Brion James), shoots Holden after Holden asks about Leon's mother. Bryant wants Deckard to retire Leon and the other three replicants: Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), and Pris (Daryl Hannah). Deckard initially refuses, but after Bryant ambiguously threatens him, he reluctantly agrees.", "In assembling the 2007 \"Final Cut\" version of Blade Runner (1982), the scene in which Deckard is speaking with the snake dealer, Abdul Ben Hassan, was digitally altered so that Ford's lip movements matched the altered dialog. Since he was unavailable due to scheduling issues, his son Ben Ford , being about the same age as his father had been when filming the movie, was shot on an effects stage after being made up with his father's chin scar.", "A reluctant Deckard is brought to his old boss Bryant ( M. Emmet Walsh ), who informs him that the recent escape of Nexus-6 replicants is the worst yet. Bryant briefs Deckard on the replicants: A total of six replicants have escaped on Earth. Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer ) is a commando, Leon a soldier and manual laborer, Zhora ( Joanna Cassidy ) a sex worker retrained as an assassin, and Pris ( Daryl Hannah ) a 'basic pleasure model'. Bryant also explains that the Nexus-6 model has a four-year lifespan as a failsafe against their developing unstable emotions. Deckard is teamed up with Gaff ( Edward James Olmos ) and sent to the Tyrell Corporation to ensure that the Voight-Kampff test works on Nexus-6 models. While there Deckard discovers that Tyrell 's ( Joe Turkel ) young secretary Rachael ( Sean Young ) is an experimental replicant with implanted memories which provide a cushion for her emotions.", "Blade Runner‘s big mystery is whether Deckard is actually human or a replicant? Harrison Ford likes to think he isn’t, while director Ridley Scott says he is.", "1982: \"Blade Runner\" (Rick Deckard) - He appeared as a bounty hunter in the dystopian sci--fi film directed by Ridley Scott. Ford is signed on to appear in the sequel and production is scheduled to begin next summer.", "Rick Deckard is a Blade Runner , a special member of the L.A police department who is employed to hunt down and \"retire\" replicants (genetically manufactured humanoids). Since they were declared illegal on Earth , it is up to the Blade Runners to \"retire\" any that find their way to Earth. At the beginning of the film, Deckard is called out of retirement after a group of six clever and brutal replicants hijack a shuttle to Earth, intending to pass themselves off as normal humans.", "The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants—visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the all-powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as other mega manufacturers around the world. Their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth’s off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and “retired” by police special operatives known as “blade runners”. The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the burnt out expert blade runner, Rick Deckard, who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.", "SYNOPSIS: Blade Runner is based on the science fiction novel by Phillip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, who also authored the story behind the film Total Recall (1990). Set in the future, around the year 2020, Deckard is a retired law enforcement officer who is coerced back into service for a special mission. A group of enslaved replicants (genetically engineered human-like creatures) revolted on another planet. As the replicants were designed to live for only a few years, they returned to Earth to find a way of extending their lifespan. Deckard must hunt them down and kill them. He visits the Tyrell Corporation, manufacturers of the replicants, and meets Rachael, a worker there who is unaware that she is a replicant herself. Deckard discovers this fact and informs her of it, which forces her to be on the run as well. Deckard tracks down and kills all the rebel replicants but one, and in the mean time shelters Rachael and becomes her lover. The remaining replicant learns from Tyrell (founder of the corporation) that his lifespan cannot be extended. He then expires while in combat with Deckard. Deckard and Rachael make their escape together. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (art direction and visual effects).", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is Dick’s most well known novel (and rightfully so in my opinion), due to the fact that the movie Blade Runner was based on this story. It is the futuristic story of Rick Deckard, Blade Runner. He is a special police officer assigned to terminate human replicants who live unnoticed in the San Francisco of 2021. The replicants are perfect reproductions of humans who are manufactured to do hard physical labor in the colonization of distant planets. They also provide company to human settlers in space. When a group of replicants go on a murder spree, hijack a ship and return to Earth, it is Deckard’s job to search and destroy these villianous androids.", "Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Nighthawks (1981), cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terrorist named \"Wolfgar\" (after a character in the Old English poem Beowulf). The following year, he appeared in arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric, violent, yet sympathetic replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi thriller, Blade Runner.", "While not quite as famous as Han Solo or Indiana Jones, Ford's character in the bleak 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner is easily his best, and his best performance as well. He plays a cop whose job is to hunt down and kill 'replicatants', or robots that look identical to humans. It's an examination of what makes up human and leaves you with a chilled, haunted feeling. Ford has to use a lot of energy just to be subtle and he should have won an Oscar for the role, or at least been nominated.", "It is also worth noting that the existential nature of Rick Deckard remains an open question. Various times in the film it is hinted that he may in fact be a replicant, either a Nexus-6 like Roy or a higher model like Rachael. There is absolutely no confirmation either way, and it is up to the individual viewer to reach his or her own conclusion.", "Artificial Human : Possibly. A deleted scene shows Bryant and Gaff watching footage of him and Deckard talking from their direct VOP - suggesting the Bladerunners have cameras in their heads.", "Another \"Blade Runner\". It was originally his job to retire the Nexus-Six replicants who defected to Earth. His task is cut short when Leon shoots Holden and leaves him for dead. So the task ultimately falls to Deckard.", "Five replicants are loose in LA, led by the fearsome combat specialist Roy Batty. Deckard's job is to hunt them down. He stalks his prey through the neon-lit, future-noir city. The film climaxes in a showdown between the Blade Runner and his nemesis Batty.", "The title of his 2007 memoir, All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners, is taken from part of a speech made by his character in Blade Runner.", "This is far and away the most hotly debated topic concerning the film. In the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Deckard was not a replicant. He is even tested to make sure. Indeed, the idea that Deckard may be a replicant seems to go against Dick's intent;" ]

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[ "While fans and critics initially did not receive Alien 3 well, the film still did well at the box office worldwide and piqued Fox's interest in continuing the franchise. In 1996, production on the fourth Alien film, Alien: Resurrection, began. Ripley was not in the script's first draft, and Weaver was not interested in reprising the role, although she later joined the project after being given a reported $11 million salary and more creative control, including being able to approve director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The script, set 200 years after Alien 3, resurrected the Ripley character via human cloning. The film, released in 1997, experienced an extended production and was described by screenwriter Joss Whedon as having done \"everything wrong\" with his script.", "Originally, the fourth alien movie was to be a rendition of the popular comic Aliens Vs. Predator, which combined the Alien creatures with Predator (1987) since 1991. It took another 7 years before AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) saw the light. See more »", "In real time the films follow the chronology of (1) Alien, (2) Aliens, (3) Alien 3, (4) Alien; Resurrection, (5) Aliens vs Predator, (6) Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, and (7) Prometheus. In terms of the timeline (and excepting Predator 2 which is set in 1997 and features an Alien skull glimpsed amongst the Predators hunting trophies) the timeline is (1) Alien vs Predator (2004), (2) Alien vs Predator: Requiem (2004), (3) Prometheus (2093), (4) Alien (2122), (5) Aliens (2179), (6) Alien 3 (2179), and (7) Alien; Resurrection (2380).", "Alien is almost universally considered as an outstanding horror/science-fiction film, the sequel Aliens was even more succesful with both critics and audience and is considered by many as equal or superior; the third film Alien� is not necessarily a bad film, but is considered inferior to the previous films with an \"obscene\" Happy Ending Override . The fourth film , however, was disastrous and is loathed by fans of the saga and co-writer Joss Whedon ; it halted independent Alien films until 2012's Prometheus , and also mostly halted the careers of the producers and director.", "The success of Alien spawned a media franchise of novels, comic books, video games, and toys. It also launched Weaver's acting career by providing her with her first lead role, and the story of her character Ripley's encounters with the Alien creatures became the thematic thread that ran through the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997). A prequel series, which includes Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), continues in development. ", "The success of Alien spawned a media franchise of novels, comic books, video games, and toys, as well as three sequels and two prequel films. It also launched Weaver's acting career by providing her with her first lead role, and the story of her character Ripley's encounters with the Alien creatures became the thematic thread that ran through the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). The subsequent prequels Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) abandoned this theme in favor of a crossover with the Predator franchise.", "The alien, also called the xenomorph, [8] , [9] is a fictional parasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the primary antagonist of the Alien film series . The species made its debut in the 1979 film Alien and reappeared in its sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). It has also appeared in the series’s two spinoffs Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), as well as the series’s subsidiary literature and video games.", "Development of a fifth film in the series began in the early 2000s when both Ridley Scott and James Cameron began developing ideas for a story that would explore the origins of the Alien. By 2003, the development of Alien vs. Predator took precedence, and the fifth Alien film project remained dormant until 2009 when Scott again showed interest. Jon Spaihts wrote a script for an Alien prequel, but Scott then opted for a slightly different direction. In late 2010, Damon Lindelof joined the project to rewrite Spaihts's script, and he and Scott developed a story that precedes the events of Alien but is less of a direct prequel to it, concentrating more on discovering the advanced race that created the titular Aliens rather than the Aliens themselves (though variants of the Alien in its facehugger and full-sized form are seen in the film). According to Scott, although the film shares \"strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak\", and takes place in the same universe, Prometheus explores its own mythology and ideas. Prometheus was released in 2012 and stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, and Charlize Theron. The film grossed over $400 million worldwide and garnered mostly positive reviews, securing a 73% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.", "Development of the film began in the early 2000s as a fifth installment in the Alien franchise. Scott and director James Cameron developed ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film Alien. By 2003, the development of Alien vs. Predator took precedence, and the project remained dormant until 2009 when Scott again showed interest. Spaihts wrote a script for a prequel to the events of the Alien films, but Scott opted for a different direction to avoid repeating cues from those films. In late 2010, Lindelof joined the project to rewrite Spaihts's script, and he and Scott developed a story that precedes the story of Alien but is not directly connected to that franchise. According to Scott, although the film shares \"strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak\", and takes place in the same universe, Prometheus explores its own mythology and ideas.", "* Alien Quadrilogy, released only on DVD in 2003, considered one of the most exhaustive box sets of the DVD era in terms of content and special features, is spread over nine discs : four discs (one disc each) for the theatrical and extended cuts of each film (new \"2003\" cuts of Alien, Alien 3, and Alien: Resurrection and the previously released 1991 \"Special Edition\" cut of Aliens), four discs containing special features specific to each film, along with an extra disc of documentaries and other supplemental content. ", "Ellen Ripley is the central character in the Alien franchise, played by actress Sigourney Weaver. She first appeared in Ridley Scott’s Alien in 1979, then James Cameron’s Aliens in 1986, David Fincher’s Alien 3 in 1992 and followed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection in 1997. She is slated to appear in Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming Alien sequel too.", "Produced by 20th Century Fox, the series began with Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott. It was followed by three sequels, released in 1986, 1992 and 1997. A prequel series directed by Scott is in development, beginning with the 2012 release of Prometheus. ", "IGN listed Alien as the thirteenth best film franchise of all time. Alien was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning for Best Visual Effects. Aliens received seven nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver, and won for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Effects. Alien 3 was nominated for Best Visual Effects. Alien was also inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for historical preservation as a film which is \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The American Film Institute ranked Alien as the sixth most thrilling American movie and seventh-best film in the science fiction genre, and in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list, Ripley was ranked eighth among the heroes, and the Alien was fourteenth among the villains.", "Cameron next began the sequel to Alien, the 1979 film by Ridley Scott. Cameron named the sequel Aliens and again cast Sigourney Weaver in the iconic role of Ellen Ripley. According to Cameron, the crew on Aliens was hostile to him, regarding him as a poor substitute for Ridley Scott. Cameron sought to show them The Terminator but the majority of the crew refused to watch it and remained skeptical of his direction throughout production. Despite this and other off-screen problems (such as clashing with an uncooperative camera man and having to replace one of the lead actors when Michael Biehn of Terminator took James Remar's place as Corporal Hicks), Aliens became a box-office success. It received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Weaver, Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and won awards for Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects. In addition, the film and its lead actress made the cover of TIME magazine as a result of its numerous and extensive scenes of women in combat; these were almost without precedent and expressed the feminist theme of the film very strongly.", "Once Hill attended a screening of The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, he decided to invite said film's director, Vincent Ward. Ward, who was in London developing Map of the Human Heart, only accepted the project on the third call as he at first was uninterested in doing a sequel. Twohy's script was met with Ward's derision, so he had another idea, involving Ripley's escape pod crash landing on a monastery-like satellite. Developing this pitch on his flight to Los Angeles, once Ward got with the studio executives he saw his idea approved by the studio. Ward was hired to direct Alien 3, and writer John Fasano was hired to expand his story into a screenplay. Once Twohy discovered through a journalist friend that another script was being written concurrently to his, he went after Fox and eventually left the project. ", "With the success of Aliens, 20th Century Fox approached Brandywine Productions on further sequels. But Brandywine was less than enthused with an Alien 3 project, with producer David Giler later explaining he and partners Walter Hill and Gordon Carroll wanted to take new directions as \"we wouldn't do a reheat of one and two\". The trio opted to explore the duplicity of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, and why they were so intent in using the Aliens as biological weapons. Various concepts were discussed, eventually settling on a two-part story, with the treatment for the third film featuring \"the underhanded Weyland-Yutani Corporation facing off with a militarily aggressive culture of humans whose rigid socialist ideology has caused them to separate from Earth's society.\" Michael Biehn's Corporal Hicks would be promoted to protagonist in the third film, with Sigourney Weaver's character of Ellen Ripley reduced to a cameo appearance before returning in the fourth installment, \"an epic battle with alien warriors mass-produced by the expatriated Earthlings.\" Weaver liked the Cold War metaphor, and agreed to a smaller role, particularly due to a dissatisfaction with Fox, who removed scenes from Aliens crucial to Ripley's backstory.", "That same year, Cameron scripted Rambo: First Blood Part II (released 1985) for director George Pan Cosmatos, then signed to direct Aliens (1986), the sequel to the 1979 Ridley Scott sci-fi opus Alien. In retrospect, the connection between Cameron and the Alien franchise hardly seems capricious given Cameron's predilection for tough-as-steel heroines as his main characters, typified by Sigourney Weaver's Ripley.", "Alien originally was to conclude with the destruction of the Nostromo while Ripley escapes in the shuttle Narcissus. However, Ridley Scott conceived of a \"fourth act\" to the film in which the Alien appears on the shuttle and Ripley is forced to confront it. He pitched the idea to 20th Century Fox and negotiated an increase in the budget in order to film the scene over several extra days. Scott had wanted the Alien to bite off Ripley's head and then make the final log entry in her voice, but the producers vetoed this idea as they believed that the Alien had to die at the end of the film.", "James Cameron In this action-packed sequel to Alien, Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the monstrous Alien. Her account of the Alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism - until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 leads her to join a team of high-tech colonial marines sent in to investigate.", "Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: an unknown extraterrestrial creature (at the time simply referred to as \"the alien\"), later known as a \"Xenomorph\".", "Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/director James Cameron turned what should have been a by-the-numbers sci-fi sequel into both a blockbuster and a seven-time Oscar nominee. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew member of a corporate spaceship destroyed after an attack by a vicious, virtually unbeatable alien life form. Adrift in space for half a century, Ripley grapples with depression until she's informed by her company's representative, Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) that the planet where her crew discovered the alien has since been settled by colonists. Contact with the colony has suddenly been lost, and a detachment of colonial marines is being sent to investigate. Invited along as an advisor, Ripley predicts disaster, and sure enough, the aliens have infested the colony, leaving a sole survivor, the young girl Newt (Carrie Henn). With the soldiers picked off one by one, a final all-female showdown brews between the alien queen and Ripley, who's become a surrogate mother to Newt. Several future stars made early career appearances in Aliens (1986), including Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, and Reiser.", "\"The 1979 Alien is a much more cerebral movie than its sequels, with the characters (and the audience) genuinely engaged in curiosity about this weirdest of lifeforms...Unfortunately, the films it influenced studied its thrills but not its thinking.\"", "Aliens received four BAFTA award nominations and won in the category of Visual Effects. It won eight Saturn Awards in the film categories of actress (Sigourney Weaver), supporting actor (Bill Paxton), supporting actress (Jenette Goldstein), performance by a younger actor (Carrie Henn), direction (James Cameron), writing (James Cameron), special effects (Stan Winston and the L.A. Effects Group), and science fiction film.", "A Marine platoon fights to prevent the city of Los Angeles from being overtaken by a race of highly advanced alien invaders in this epic sci-fi action thriller from director Jonathan Liebesman (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) and producer Neal H. Moritz (I Am Legend, Fast & Furious). After decades of speculation about life on other planets, the people of Earth discover that extraterrestrials really do exist when destruction rains down from the stars on cities all across the globe. When the alien warships descend upon Los Angeles, however, the ferocious invaders discover that humankind won't go down without a fight as a gruff Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his fearless troop of jarheads point their weapons skyward and make one last stand for the entire human race.", "Alien garnered both critical acclaim and box office success, receiving an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright, and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, along with numerous other award nominations. It has remained highly praised in subsequent decades, being inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2002 for historical preservation as a film which is \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" and being ranked by the American Film Institute in 2008 as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre.", "Alien garnered both critical acclaim and box office success, receiving an Academy Award for best visual effects, Saturn Awards for Best science fiction film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright, and a Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation, along with numerous other award nominations. It has remained highly praised in subsequent decades, being inducted into the National film registry of the Library of Congress in 2002 for historical preservation as a film which is \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" and being ranked by the American film institute in 2008 as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre.", "That's what Shadowlocked discovered in the Charles De Lauzrika Alien franchise documentaries on the new Alien Anthology Blu-ray release. The site reports that:", "Bug-busting thrills from Paul Verhoeven, in his third film in our list. This one’s a very loose take on Robert A Heinlein’s novel about marines fighting an alien menace, and it can be taken both as an anti-Fascist anti-militarism satire or an exciting, gung-ho alien war movie.", "The Xenomorph has been portrayed in noticeably different ways throughout the film series. Much of this was due to the continuing advancements made in the field of special effects , technology, and techniques used to bring it to life.", "This page uses content from Wikipedia . The original article was at Alien (Alien franchise) . The list of authors can be seen in the page history .", "Directed by Ridley Scott; written by Dan O'Bannon, story by O'Bannon and Ron Shusett; photographed by Derek Vanlint; edited by Terry Rawlings; production designed by Michael Seymour; music by Jerry Goldsmith; alien design by H.R. Giger; concept artist Ron Cobb; produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill. A 20th Century Fox release; opens Wednesday. Running time:", "The film was followed by three sequels and a crossover film, and all are television/Syfy films and were not as successful as the original." ]

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[ "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the second feature based on the Star Trekscience fiction franchise. The plot features James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against the genetically-engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán), a character who first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek television series episode \"Space Seed\".", "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third feature film of the Star Trek science fiction franchise and is the center of a three-film story arc that begins with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. After the death of Spock (Leonard Nimoy), the crew of the USS Enterprise returns to Earth. When James T. Kirk (William Shatner) learns that Spock's spirit, or katra, is held in the mind of Dr. Leonard \"Bones\" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Kirk and company steal the Enterprise to return Spock's body to his home planet. The crew must also contend with hostile Klingons, led by Kruge (Christopher Lloyd), bent on stealing the secrets of a powerful terraforming device.", "16, 1967): Today, one could point to this episode as the most pivotal of the series because its antagonist Khan (Ricardo Montalban) would return in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), the \"Trek\" film which ensured that the franchise would thrive for years to come", "According to William Shatner’s Star Trek Movie Memories book, Meyer really, really wanted to have the subtitle of Star Trek II reference the famous “undiscovered country” line from Hamlet’s well-known “To be or not to be” soliloquy. Apparently, the studios were adamantly against this idea, and instead wanted to call the movie The Vengeance of Khan. At the time, the third Star Wars film was still know as Revenge of the Jedi, a point which Meyer made to the studio. (Reportedly, he also didn’t care for the Vengeance title.) In the end, it was changed to The Wrath of Khan, to avoid the Vengeance/Revenge problem, which didn’t matter with the re-titled Return of the Jedi. According to the same book, Meyer didn’t like that title either. Of course, Meyer eventually got his way when he directed Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, by calling the film well you get it.", "Is one of two very famous \"Star Trek\" movie villains to reprise his/her role. He played Khan Noonien Singh in both the television series episode Star Trek: Space Seed (1967) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).", "The Star Trek movies did this starting with Wrath of Khan and ending with Undiscovered Country , spanning all of the films based on the original series . Movies based on The Next Generation abandoned that though they are sometimes referred to as 7 through 10 by the fans. As the 2009 film is simply called Star Trek, it is also unofficially referred to as Star Trek XI.", "12.  Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan (1982): Still the best of all the Star Trek films, this excellent sequel corrected everything that went wrong with its disappointing predecessor, Star Trek : The Motion Picture. The action, the humor and the character interactions were all excellent. The comparisons to Moby Dick gave it a literary flavor, and Ricardo Montalban was fantastic as the villain, Khan Noonien Singh. The death of Spock was a surprise to long-time fans, even if it didn’t last. This film made the Trek film franchise fun and set the standard for the future films.    ", "It was on one of these training voyages that Kirk had his second encounter with Khan Noonien Singh , who had escaped from Ceti Alpha V (which had been turned into a barren waste following the destruction of its sister world Ceti Alpha VI ) and commandeered the USS Reliant in his quest for revenge upon Kirk. Khan had hoped to use the stolen Genesis device , created by Carol and David Marcus , and use it in his plans of galactic conquest. Kirk managed to stop Khan, but at a great price: Spock sacrificed his life to save the Enterprise when Khan detonated the device. ( TOS movie , novelization & comic adaptation : Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan )", "The best Trek films are The Wrath of Khan, First Contact and The Undiscovered Country. To me it’s hard to beat these three films.", "* the events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock take place in 2285", "Following the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Bennett was hired to oversee the production of what would become Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Bennett was credited with the idea of bringing Ricardo Montalban back as Khan Noonien Singh, a role he originated in the TV series.", "* Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, directed by Nicholas Meyer, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalbán", "The Wrath of Khan won two Saturn Awards in 1982, for best actor (Shatner) and best direction (Meyer). The film was also nominated in the \"best dramatic presentation\" category for the 1983 Hugo Awards, but lost to Blade Runner. The Wrath of Khan has influenced later movies: Meyer's rejected title for the film, The Undiscovered Country, was finally put to use when Meyer directed the sixth film, which retained the nautical influences. Director Bryan Singer cited the film as an influence on X2 and his abandoned sequel to Superman Returns. The film is also a favorite of director J. J. Abrams, producer Damon Lindelof and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the creative team behind the franchise relaunch film Star Trek. ", "*The events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan occur around 2222 (dialogue in the film says it is set \"fifteen years\" after the Season One episode \"Space Seed\").", "The Wrath of Khan was released in North America on June 4, 1982. It was a box office success, earning US$97 million worldwide and setting a world record for first-day box office gross. Critical reaction to the film was positive; reviewers highlighted Khan, the film's pacing and the character interactions as strong elements. Negative reaction focused on weak special effects and some of the acting. The Wrath of Khan is generally considered one of the best films of the Star Trek series and is credited with the creation of substantial renewed interest in the franchise.", "When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. The film concludes with the death of Enterprise crewmember Spock (Leonard Nimoy), beginning a story arc that continues through 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.", "As Star Trek sources go, The Wrath of Khan is a good one. Definitely more authoritative than, say, The Trouble with Tribbles.", "Released in North America on December 7, 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom faulted the film for its lack of action and over-reliance on special effects. The final production cost ballooned to approximately $46 million. The film earned $139 million worldwide, falling short of studio expectations but enough for Paramount to propose a cheaper sequel. Roddenberry was forced out of creative control for The Wrath of Khan. In 2001, Wise oversaw a director's cut for a special DVD release of the film, with remastered audio, tightened and added scenes, and new computer-generated effects.", "Critical response was positive. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 88% of selected critics have given the film a positive review based on a sample of 49. After the lukewarm reaction to the first film, fan response to The Wrath of Khan was highly positive. The film's success was credited with renewing interest in the franchise. Mark Bernardin of Entertainment Weekly went further, calling The Wrath of Khan \"the film that, by most accounts, saved Star Trek as we know it\"; it is now considered one of the best films in the series. ", "Star Trek (1966–1969), called Star Trek: The Original Series to distinguish it from its successors, is a legendary science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that has thus far spawned four live-action spinoff series, one animated series, twelve feature films (six featuring the entire original cast), and numerous written works (both professionally published novels and amateur \"fan-fiction\"). It features \"the voyages of the starship Enterprise \" and her crew, with Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), First Officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and Dr. Leonard \"Bones\" McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) as the central characters.", "After directing The Search for Spock, cast member Leonard Nimoy was asked to direct the next feature, and given greater freedom regarding the film's content. Nimoy and producer Harve Bennett conceived a story with an environmental message and no clear-cut villain. Dissatisfied with the first screenplay produced by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes, Paramount hired The Wrath of Khan writer and director Nicholas Meyer. Meyer and Bennett divided the story between them and wrote different parts of the script, requiring approval from Nimoy, lead actor William Shatner, and Paramount.", "After directing The Search for Spock, cast member Leonard Nimoy was asked to direct the next feature, and given greater freedom regarding the film's content. Nimoy and producer Harve Bennett conceived a story with an environmental message and no clear-cut villain. Dissatisfied with the first screenplay produced by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes, Paramount hired The Wrath of Khan writer and director Nicholas Meyer. Meyer and Bennett divided the story between them and wrote different parts of the script, getting approval from Nimoy, lead actor William Shatner and Paramount.", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the first Star Trek film and stars the cast of the original 1966–1969 Star Trek television series. The film is set in the twenty-third century when a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V'Ger approaches Earth, destroying everything in its path. Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) resumes command of his previous starship—the recently refitted USS Enterprise—to lead it on a mission to save the planet and determine VGers origins.", "On stardate 3141.9, the Enterprise encountered the sleeper ship SS Botany Bay , the ship used Khan Noonien Singh and his Augments to escape Earth following the Eugenics Wars . Following their revival, Khan and his followers tried to take the Enterprise, but were stopped by Kirk. Following the incident, Kirk left Khan and his followers on the planet Ceti Alpha V , a primitive world that Khan hoped to tame. Despite words of caution from Mr. Scott, Kirk took Khan, his crew, McGivers, and the Botany Bay to Ceti Alpha V. Before beaming back up, Kirk wished him luck. ( TOS episode : \" Space Seed \"; TOS novel : To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh ; TOS comic : \" Khan: Ruling in Hell \")", "Nicholas Meyer made the best of all the Trek films. In Wrath of Khan, the title character (the incomparable late Ricardo Montablan) does his level best to get revenge upon Kirk for abandoning him some decades earlier. Even though in the ‘70s list I said that the first Trek movie was truer to the Trek spirit, Wrath of Khan is the best one made—especially because it pulls no punches with the ending and has a terrific James Horner soundtrack. The director’s cut, occasionally seen on TV, is actually a better film, because it gives even more depth to Kirk’s character—he’s shown to be entirely fallible—and character is ultimately the key to great Trek.", "Admiral James T. Kirk faces his greatest challenge yet. Suffering through doubts about his place in the galaxy, he is thrust into action once more against his most bitter foe – Khan Noonien Singh, who has escaped his exile on Ceti Alpha V and now seeks revenge on Kirk. With a powerful new device in the wrong hands and a no-win scenario in play, the cost of victory for the starship Enterprise may prove too high.", "Chekov soon discovers that the derelict is the shelter for the crew of the SS Botany Bay , a ship he remembers all too well . Panicking, he rushes a confused Terrell toward the exit, only to find a group of cloaked figures waiting outside. Taken captive, their leader reveals himself as none other than Khan Noonien Singh , and it further turns out that the planet they are investigating is in fact Ceti Alpha V , which was devastated by the explosion of the sixth planet six months after Khan and his followers were exiled to the planet by Kirk fifteen years earlier. In order to not only find out why the two are there, but also Kirk's whereabouts, Khan forces juvenile Ceti eels into their ears , rendering them subservient to his every command. Khan and his Augment followers commandeer the Reliant, and Khan's second-in-command, Joachim , while pledging his loyalty and that of his comrades, tries to convince Khan that by escaping the planet, he has now evened the score with Kirk. Khan is not content to merely be even with Kirk, however, and reveals his intention to take revenge on the admiral.", "Star Trek: The Next Generation, also known as \"TNG\", takes place about a century after The Original Series (2364–2370). It features a new starship, the Enterprise-D, and a new crew led by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes). Some crewmembers represent new alien races, including Deanna Troi, a half-Betazoid counselor played by Marina Sirtis. Michael Dorn plays Worf, the first Klingon officer in Starfleet, alongside Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher, LeVar Burton as chief engineer Geordi La Forge, the android Data portrayed by Brent Spiner, and Dr. Crusher's son Wesley Crusher played by Wil Wheaton. The show premiered on September 28, 1987, and ran for seven seasons, ending on May 23, 1994. It had the highest ratings of any of the Star Trek series and became the #1 syndicated show during the last few years of its original run, allowing it to act as a springboard for ideas in other series. Many relationships and races introduced in TNG became the basis of episodes in Deep Space 9 and Voyager. During its run it earned several Emmy awards and nominations – including a nomination for Best Dramatic Series during its final season – two Hugo Awards and a Peabody Award for Outstanding Television Programming for the episode \"The Big Goodbye\". ", "Kirk is nevertheless able to beat Khan because of his superior starship combat experience. A shaken, but physically recovered, Chekov enters the bridge offering his assistance, which Kirk accepts and orders him to man the weapons control station. Khan, thinking in 2-D, isn't prepared for Enterprise to drop \"down\" its Z-axis as he passes overhead and then rise \"up\" directly behind him. Reliant's torpedo pod is destroyed by a torpedo, and a phaser blast and torpedo hit explode off its port nacelle . Reliant is crippled and drifts away, trailing plasma . Most of Khan's crew is killed in the process, and Khan himself is left crippled and barely alive.", "Meanwhile, the USS Reliant is on a mission to search for a lifeless planet for testing of the Genesis Device, a technology designed to reorganize matter to create habitable worlds for colonization. Reliant officers Commander Pavel Chekov and Captain Clark Terrell beam down to the surface of a possible candidate planet, which they believe to be Ceti Alpha VI; once there, they are captured by genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh. The Enterprise discovered Khan's ship adrift in space 15 years previously; Kirk exiled Khan and his fellow supermen from 20th-century Earth to Ceti Alpha V after they attempted to take over the Enterprise. After they were marooned, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, shifting the orbit of Ceti Alpha V and destroying its ecosystem. Khan blames Kirk for the death of his wife and plans revenge. He implants Chekov and Terrell with indigenous creatures that enter the ears of their victims and render them susceptible to mind control, and uses the officers to capture the Reliant. Learning of Genesis, Khan attacks space station Regula I where the device is being developed by Kirk's former lover, Dr. Carol Marcus, and their son, David. ", "The Enterprise embarks on a three-week training voyage. Kirk assumes command after the ship receives a distress call from Regula I. En route, the Enterprise is ambushed and crippled by the Reliant, leading to the deaths and injuries of many trainees. Khan hails the Enterprise and offers to spare Kirk's crew if they relinquish all material related to Genesis. Kirk stalls for time and uses the Reliants prefix code to remotely lower its shields, allowing the Enterprise to counter-attack. Khan is forced to retreat and effect repairs, while the Enterprise limps to Regula I. Kirk, McCoy, and Saavik beam to the station and find Terrell and Chekov alive, along with slaughtered members of Marcus's team. They soon find Carol and David hiding deep inside the planetoid of Regula. Khan, having used Terrell and Chekov as spies, orders them to kill Kirk; Terrell resists the eel's influence and kills himself while Chekov collapses as the eel leaves his body. Khan then transports Genesis aboard the Reliant. Though Khan believes his foe stranded on Regula I, Kirk and Spock use a coded message to arrange a rendezvous. Kirk directs the Enterprise into the nearby Mutara Nebula; static discharges inside the nebula render shields useless and compromise targeting systems, making the Enterprise and the Reliant evenly matched. Spock notes however that Khan's tactics are two-dimensional, indicating inexperience in space combat, which Kirk then exploits to critically disable the Reliant.", "For the first time in \"Star Trek\" history, five of the final frontier’s greatest names have been brought together for a 70-minute rare and unprecedented round table event. Filmed exclusively for \"Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection\", William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and host Whoopi Goldberg share candid insights, humorous moments, and intimate details about life on the set, working with each other and how Star Trek has affected their lives. Presented in HD." ]

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[ "The palpable chemistry between Adele August (Susan Sarandon) and her daughter Ann (played by a young Natalie Portman) is one of the quiet pleasures of this tale about a restless dreamer who leaves her marriage for the glamor of Hollywood, dragging her reluctant, wise child along. Once in California, Adele does a lot of growing up. (By the way, Portman originally turned down the role because it included a sex scene, but Sarandon and director Wayne Wang demanded a rewrite of the script.)", "In the 1998 movie Stepmom, Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris played Jackie and Luke, a divorced couple with two children, Anna and Ben. Luke is dating Isabel, a young and successful photographer (Julia Roberts), and the kids don’t like it. Isabel doesn’t much like playing the surrogate-mother role when the kids are staying with them in Luke’s loft, either. But they all have to learn to get along and become a family when Jackie is diagnosed with terminal cancer.", "Stepmom is a 1998 comedy-drama directed by Chris Columbus and starring Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, and Ed Harris. Sarandon won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress and Harris won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor, sharing the win with his role in The Truman Show.", "It's a toss-up who is the most memorable mother figure in \"Stepmom\"—traditionalist Jackie Harrison (Susan Sarandon) or younger fashion photographer Isabel (Julia Roberts), who awkwardly steps into the role of stepmother—but the impasse between them is certainly unforgettable. It continues well after Luke has proposed to Isabel and Jackie has been diagnosed with incurable cancer, but by the time the credits roll, the five have become a \"whole family\" for a special Christmas photo.", "In ''Stepmom,'' Julia Roberts plays the nicest person ever to wear black at a downtown photo shoot. She's a talented photographer so nice that she seems more interested in her boyfriend's children than in the man himself (Ed Harris). She's definitely too nice to have broken up his marriage to the suburban mama lion played by Susan Sarandon, in a story with enough suds to take care of all your 1999 laundry needs. What could be worse for this woman than learning she has terminal cancer? You know what: getting used to the prospect of Julia Roberts taking her place.", "Jena Malone (born November 21, 1984) is an American actress. She is widely known for starring in a large number of independent films. She made her film debut with a critically acclaimed performance in Bastard Out of Carolina (1996). Malone is perhaps best known for her roles in Donnie Darko (2001), Saved! (2004), and Stepmom (1997). Early life Malone was born in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and lived in 27 different locations by the age of nine. Malone was raised by her mother and her mother's girlfriend, whom Jena calls \"Godmom\". Malone discussed this on a March 2004 appearance on Loveline. She began taking an interest in acting after watching her mother, who was involved in community theatre. She briefly moved to Las Vegas, hated it, and persuaded her mother to move on to Los Angeles. ...", "Susan Sarandon has three children: a daughter from a relationship with writer Franco Amurri and two sons with actor Tim Robbins. She and Robbins split in the summer of 2009, they had been one of Hollywood's most enduring couples having been together for 23 years. She was also married to actor Chris Sarandon from 1967 to 1979.", "An Oscar-winner for her role in the somber drama Dead Man Walking (1995), Susan Sarandon's early stardom came from her performance as the wide-eyed bride in 1975's midnight-movie cult hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show (with Tim Curry). Since 1980's Atlantic City (starring Burt Lancaster, she has played worldy-wise women of a certain sexy maturity -- famous for loving it up with Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie in The Hunger (1983), for seducing baseball players Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins in Bull Durham (1988) and for leading Geena Davis down a dangerous path in Thelma and Louise (1991). A Hollywood leading lady of the 1990s, she starred in Lorenzo's Oil (1992, with Nick Nolte), The Client (1994, with Tommy Lee Jones) and Stepmom (1998, with Julia Roberts). Now she's equally famous as an outspoken opponent of Republican politics and the George W. Bush administration. A familiar face at the box office, Sarandon's other films include The Banger Sisters (2002, with Goldie Hawn), Moonlight Mile (2002, with Jake Gyllenhaal), Elizabethtown (2005, with Orlando Bloom) and Enchanted (2007, with Amy Adams).", "Susan Sarandon was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress. Ed Harris won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in Stepmom and The Truman Show.", "On the set of  Bull Durham, Sarandon met costar Tim Robbins, who became her long-term partner. The couple has had two children, Jack Henry and Miles. Their family also includes Sarandon’s daughter, Eva Maria Livia Amurri, from an earlier relationship with director Franco Amurri. Sarandon and Robbins have worked together on several projects, including Bob Roberts (1992) and The Cradle Will Rock (1999), both written and directed by Robbins. They also share an interest in social causes, such as women’s rights, homelessness, and help for people with AIDS. They angered many film industry insiders by speaking out against the United States’s immigration restrictions on Haitians while presenting an award at the 1993 Academy Awards ceremony. Sarandon’s political activism, however, seemed to have no ill effect on her career. At an age when many actresses have trouble finding work, she was offered some of her most interesting roles. In 1991, she costarred with Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise, a story of two friends on the lam from the police that sparked a national debate on the state of American feminism. Other notable parts included a frantic mother of a dying child in Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), a sympathetic drug dealer in Light Sleeper (1992), and a struggling lawyer in The Client (1994).", "In 1990, Leary's daughter, Susan, committed suicide after years of mental instability. After separating from Barbara Leary in 1992, Leary began to associate with a much younger, artistic and tech-savvy crowd that included people as diverse as actors Johnny Depp , Susan Sarandon and Dan Aykroyd , and his granddaughters, Dieadra Martino and Sara Brown; grandson, Ashley Martino; son, Zach Leary; author Douglas Rushkoff , publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. , and goddaughters: actress Winona Ryder and artist/music-photographer Hilary Hulteen. In spite of his declining health, Leary maintained a regular schedule of public appearances through 1994.", "Happy family: Sarandon and Robbins pictured five years ago with the actress's daughter Eve and their sons Miles and Jack", "Sarandon, 63, and Robbins, 51, met on the set of the 1988 film “Bull Durham.” They have two children together, sons Jack, 20, and Miles, 17. The actress also has another daughter, 24-year-old Eva, from her previous relationship with director Franco Amurri.", "Kirsten Caroline Dunst (; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Woody Allen's short film Oedipus Wrecks for the anthology film New York Stories (1989). At the age of twelve, Dunst gained widespread recognition as vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), a role for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in Little Women the same year and in Jumanji the following year. After a recurring role in the NBC medical drama ER (1996–97) as Charlie Chemingo and starring in films such as Wag the Dog (1997), Small Soldiers (1998), the English dub of Kiki's Delivery Service (1998) and The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dunst transitioned into romantic comedies and comedy-dramas, starring in Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Bring It On (2000), Get Over It and Crazy/Beautiful (both released in 2001).", "Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella; April 19, 1968) is an American actress and political activist. She grew up in a family of successful performing artists as the daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd and the sister of Wynonna Judd. While she is best known for an ongoing acting career spanning more than two decades, she has increasingly become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism.", "Sarandon joined the cast of the adaptation of The Lovely Bones, opposite Rachel Weisz, and appeared with her daughter, Eva Amurri, in Middle of Nowhere; both films were made in 2007. ", "Susan Sarandon (born Susan Abigail Sarandon on October 4, 1946 in in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York) is an American actress. Though born in Queens, Susan grew up in Edison, New Jersey, graduating from Edison High School in 1964, She enrolled in The Catholic University of America and graduated in 1968. Always interested in acting, Susan landed her debut role in 1969’s Joe. Afterwards, she appeared in two daytime soaps, A World Apart and Search for Tomorrow, before focusing her attention to film. One of her earlier roles was that of Janet in the cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Susan’s gained critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for her performance in 1980’s Atlantic City. From there, she starred in such highly regarded movies as The Witches of Eastwick, Bull Durham and A Dry White Season. In the 1990s, Susan’s acting earned her praise from critics for roles in Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil and Dead Man Walking, in which she won the Oscar for Best Actress. In addition to film and television, Susan has appeared on the stage, acting in Broadway and off-Broadway plays.", "After 23 years together, actress Susan Sarandon and actor Tim Robbins have called it quits! Read more on Sarandon and Robbins’ split below.", "Known for depicting complex, independent, and sensual women, film star Susan Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin on October 4, 1946, in Metuchen, New Jersey. The eldest of nine children, she left home to attend Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in drama. While still in college, she married her first love, actor Chris Sarandon. During this time, she also became politically active. As a student, she was arrested several times for participating in civil rights and antiwar rallies. Susan Sarandon won her first movie role when she accompanied her husband to a casting call for Joe (1970). She was given the female lead, playing an ill-fated young hippie. Soon Sarandon was being offered an array of ingenue roles. As she later admitted, she at first had trouble taking acting seriously, which led her to accept insubstantial parts that showcased her beauty more than her talent. Her best early role came in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), the cult horror movie spoof that gave Sarandon a rare chance to sing on screen. Sarandon found her breakout roles in two films directed by Louis Malle, with whom she was romantically linked after her 1979 divorce from Chris Sarandon. In Pretty Baby (1978), she played a prostitute in early 20th-century New Orleans, and in Atlantic City (1980), she depicted a croupier longing for a more glamorous life.", "In 1969, Susan Sarandon went to a casting call for the film Joe with her then husband Chris Sarandon; although he did not get a part, she received the major role of the disaffected teen who disappears into the seedy underworld (the film was released in 1970). Susan didn't follow up on the success of that movie, taking roles in lesser films such as Lovin' Molly; it was five more years before she appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult classic. That same year, she also played the female lead in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford . Susan was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for Atlantic City, but was still not a \"household name\" until the 1988 film Bull Durham.", "Sarah Paulson was born on December 17, 1974 in Tampa, Florida, to Catharine Gordon (Dolcater) and Douglas Lyle Paulson II. She spent most of her early years in New York and Maine, before settling in Manhattan to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the High School for Performing Arts. Although she made her Broadway debut in \"The Sisters Rosensweig\" and performed in the off-Broadway \"Talking Pictures\", she debuted on the small screen in late 1994 in a guest shot on NBC's Law & Order , then, in the following spring, landed her first TV-movie role in CBS' Friends at Last and finally became a TV series regular by fall 1995.", "Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American film actress known for roles in films like Bull Durham, Thelma and Louise and Dead Man Walking.", "Susan Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City to Phillip Leslie Tomalin (who had Irish, Welsh and English ancestry) and Italian-born Lenora Marie Criscione.  Susan grew up in a large Catholic family of nine children . She graduated Edison High School in 1964, and then attended The Catholic University of America from 1964 to 1968 where she attained a BA in Drama.", "Actress Susan Sarandon arrives with partner Tim Robbins for the 68th Academy Awards on March 25, 1995, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. She won the best actress award for her role in \"Dead Man Walking.\"", "Confessions: Susan Sarandon, seen at last month's premiere of Wall Street 2, has lifted the lid on the end of her relationship with Tim Robbins", "Actress Riley Keough is serious music royalty. Her mom, singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, is the only child of \"The King\" Elvis Presley. That's not all, Riley is also the former step-daughter of the late \"King of Pop\" Michael Jackson, who was married to Lisa Marie between 1994 and 1996. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Alberto E. rodriguez/Getty)", "She had a recurring role as Gary, owner of Gary's Shoes and Al Bundy's boss, in Married with Children from 1994-1997. Her many other sitcom guest appearances included The Golden Girls, Designing Women, 227, Empty Nest, Boy Meets World, Coach, Bonnie, Murphy Brown (as Doris Dial, stoic anchorman Charles Kimbrough's wife), Maggie, Norm, Still Standing (as Helen Michaels, Judy and Linda's mother) and Scrubs. She had a recurring role as Marion Shaw, Kimberly's mother, in Melrose Place from 1993-1997. She played Tom Cruise's oblivious mother in Risky Business.", "Her other movies include Little Women (1994), Anywhere but Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), Elizabethtown (2005) and Enchanted (2007). Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of The Simpsons, once as herself (\"Bart Has Two Mommies\") and as a ballet teacher, \"Homer vs. Patty and Selma\". She appeared on Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live, Chappelle's Show, 30 Rock, Rescue Me and Mike & Molly.", "An American actress, model and former child star who is better known for starring on Suddenly Susan. She holds bachelor's degree in French literature from Princeton University. She is daughter to Teri and Francis Alexander Shields. According to her father family paid her mother a sum to terminate the pregnancy. Her parents got divorced when she was just 5 months old. She started her career as model in Ivory Soap when she was just 11 month old. In 1978 when she was 12 years old she starred in role of child prstitute in Louis Malle's controversial film Pretty Baby. When she turned 16 years old she became famous as fashion model and controversial child actress. Beside movie she has also starred in popular shows like That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle. She is also guest co-anchor of show 9:00 hour which is aired in Today on NBC.", "actress: The Boys Next Door, Quiz Show, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Addams Family, The Graduate, Taken in Marriage, Doc, East Side/West Side", "Morning Trivia: This actress, comedian, writer, and producer, is best known for her work on the NBC's Saturday Night Live. She received acclaim for her impression of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and for creating the series 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She's also well known for appearing in films such as Mean Girls (2004), Baby Mama (2008), Date Night (2010), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), and Sisters (2015). Who is she?", "Actress Susan Sarandon signs autographs as she walks the red carpet during the \"The Lovely Bones\" premiere on Dec. 14, 2009, in Wellington, New Zealand." ]

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[ "Leonardo DiCaprio played the dual roles of King Louis XIV and Philippe, the king's identical twin brother, in the 1998 film adaptation - one of over a dozen - of the Alexander Dumas adventure, \"The Man in the Iron Mask.\"", "The following year, DiCaprio made a self-mocking cameo appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, based on the same-titled 1939 film. Despite receiving a rather mixed to negative response,[29] the film became a box office success, grossing US$180 million internationally.[30] Though DiCaprio's performance was generally well-received, with Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman writing that \"the shockingly androgynous DiCaprio looks barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones, but he's a fluid and instinctive actor, with the face of a mischievous angel,\"[31] he was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year.", "1998: DiCaprio rocked longer tresses to embody King Louis XIV in “The Man in the Iron Mask.\"", "It's not something I'm going to try to achieve either.\"<br /><br /> The following year, DiCaprio made a self-mocking cameo appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, based on the same-titled 1939 film. Despite receiving a rather mixed to negative response, the film became a box office success, grossing US$180 million internationally. Though DiCaprio's performance was generally well-received, with Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman writing that \"the shockingly androgynous DiCaprio looks barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones, but he's a fluid and instinctive actor, with the face of a mischievous angel,\" he was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. Read Less", "The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1998 American action drama film directed, produced, and written by Randall Wallace, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in a dual role as the title character and villain, Jeremy Irons as Aramis, John Malkovich as Athos, Gerard Depardieu as Porthos, and Gabriel Byrne as D'Artagnan. The picture uses characters from Alexandre Dumas' D'Artagnan Romances and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of The Vicomte de Bragelonne.", "The most popular of all the legends regarding this prisoner pertains to his lineage. It has been said that the Man in the Iron Mask was the twin brother of King Louis XIV. The story goes on to say that the man was kept hidden because of his rights to the throne. Another story says that the prisoner was indeed the king’s brother, but not his twin. This one varies too.", "The political prisoner of Louis XIV of France known as the Man in the Iron Mask was brought to the Bastille on Sept. 18, 1698. He died there on Nov. 19, 1703. He was named for the mask he was made to wear to keep his identity a secret. The mask was actually made of black velvet but was later mistakenly recorded in legend as consisting of iron. The identity of the prisoner was much speculated on. One popular theory was that he was Count Matthioli, who had double-crossed Louis XIV by refusing to betray a fortress. It is generally agreed, however, that Matthioli died in the Iles Sainte-Marguerite in April 1694 and that the prisoner in the mask was the valet Eustache Dauger. A favorite subject of literature, the Man in the Iron Mask was featured in Alexandre Dumas’s Dix Ans plus tard ou le Vicomte de Bragelonne (1848-50; Ten Years Later; or, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, translated into English as The Man in the Iron Mask).", " The most famous story with a royal connection holds that the masked prisoner was Louis XIV's identical twin brother, hidden at birth to avoid complications in the succession, raised secretly far away from court, and imprisoned when he discovered his true identity. The mask, obviously, was to hide the resemblance to the King. The ultimate version is \"The Man in the Iron Mask\" by Alexandre Dumas (père), published in 1850 as part of his trilogy on the Three Musketeers. All the movies (there have been at least a dozen in Europe and the U.S. since 1910) are based on this popular book. The story is tempting and romantic, but highly implausible and without any supporting evidence whatsoever.", "1.0 News at One 1.20 Thames News 1.30 The Man in the Iron Mask RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN PATRICK McGOOHAN LOUIS JOURDAN 1661. Paris, France is ruled by the weak and fopp sh King Louis XIV. But there are men determined that France shall have a real King. Among them are the legendary Captain of Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the bluff, honest Home Affairs Minister Colbert. These two have formulated a daring plan. See page 67 Louis X IV 1 Richard Phillippe J Chamberlain i", "November 19, 1703 - The \"Man in the Iron Mask,\" a prisoner of Louis XIV in the Bastille prison in Paris, died. The prisoner may have been Count Matthioli, who had double-crossed Louis XIV, or may have even been the brother of Louis XIV. His true identity has been the cause of much intrigue, and was celebrated in literary works such as Alexandre Dumas' The Viscount Bragelonne.", "Man in the Iron Mask, The Another version of the Dumas classic, about the Three Musketeers rescuing the true king of France from prison. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne. Directed by Randall Wallace. MGM, 1998, MPAA rating: PG-13, priced for rental.", "The song  Sun King draws his title from historical literature.  The Sun King was the name given to Louis XIV of France.  This powerful monarch was the subject of Alexander Dumas's Man in the Iron Mask—a piece of historical fiction about a twin brother of Louis who was sentenced to wear an iron mask to prevent his public identification.  However the twin, ended up replacing the real Louis without anyone but his closest associates knowing about the switch.  The whole scenario resembles the theory of Paul been replaced and the change being covered up.", "The identity of the man in the mask was already a mystery before his death, and, from the 18th century on, various suggestions as to his identity were made: in 1711, an English nobleman; in 1745, Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois, a son of Louis XIV and Louise de La Vallière; between 1738 and 1771, an elder brother of Louis XIV (Voltaire popularized this unlikely solution, which was later taken up by Alexandre Dumas in Dix Ans plus tard ou le Vicomte de Bragelonne [1848–50], translated into English as The Man in the Iron Mask); in 1883 Molière, imprisoned by the Jesuits in revenge for Tartuffe. Of the dozen or more hypotheses , only two have proven tenable: those for Ercole Matthioli and for Eustache Dauger.", "The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; c. 1640 – 19 November 1703) is the name given to an unidentified prisoner who was arrested under the name \"Eustache Dauger\" in 1669 or 1670 and subsequently held in a number of French prisons, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol (modern Pinerolo, Italy). He was held in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, for a period of 34 years. He died on 19 November 1703 under the name \"Marchioly\", during the reign of Louis XIV of France (1643–1715). Since no one ever saw his face because it was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth, the true identity of the prisoner remains a mystery even today; it has been extensively debated by historians, and various theories have been expounded in numerous books and films.", "Marcel Pagnol speculated in The Secret of the Iron Mask (1965) that Dauger was, in fact, the identical twin brother of Louis XIV. John Noone comments: \"\"That brings us back, with a cavalier flourish, to square one!\"\"", "** The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called \"Ten Years Later\", (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847): When published in English, it was usually split into three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask, of which the last part is the best known. (A third sequel, The Son of Porthos, 1883 (a.k.a. The Death of Aramis) was published under the name of Alexandre Dumas; however, the real author was Paul Mahalin.)", "Alexandre Dumas portrayed Louis in his two sequels to The Three Musketeers : first as a child in Twenty Years After , then as a young man in The Vicomte de Bragelonne , in which he is a central character. The final part of the latter novel recounts the legend that a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask was actually Louis's twin brother and has spawned numerous film adaptations generally titled The Man in the Iron Mask .", "In 1199 A.D., Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) is a common archer in the army of King Richard the Lionheart (Danny Huston). A veteran of Richard's crusade, he now takes part in the siege of Chalus Castle. Disillusioned and war-weary, he gives a frank but unflattering appraisal of the King's conduct after the King asks him to answer him honestly. Though the Kings commends him for his honesty Robin and his comrades – archers Allan A'Dayle (Alan Doyle) and Will Scarlett (Scott Grimes) and soldier Little John (Kevin Durand) – find themselves in the stocks.", "John Quincy Adams (Amistad 1997), William Bligh (The Bounty 1984), Charles Dickens (The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens 1970), John Frost (A Bridge Too Far 1977), Abraham Van Helsing (Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992), Adolf Hitler (The Bunker 1981), C. S. Lewis, (Shadowlands 1993)David Lloyd George (Young Winston 1972), Richard Nixon (Nixon 1995), Othello (Othello 1981), Pablo Picasso (Surviving Picasso 1996), Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1982), Yitzak Rabin (Victory at Entebbe 1976), Richard Lionheart (The Lion in Winter 1968), Titus Andronicus (Titus 1999), and Zorro (The Mask of Zorro 1998).", "*Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske (The Man in the Iron Mask), directed by Max Glass – (Germany)", "King John is there, played by Oscar Isaac as an almost exact recreation of Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as Commodus in Gladiator. He’s an interesting character, half an insecure dickwad in the Sir Peter Ustinov vein—giving a reward only to immediately take it back as taxes; worrying that his mother preferred his brother to himself; wearing a crown to big for his head—and half reasonable guy—Richard did bankrupt the country to fund his crusade; marrying the princess of France is not a betrayal of his country, but a way of securing a peace treaty and begetting offspring; he does ride into battle.", "The mystery of the Man in The Iron Mask has been a focal point for both doe eyed romantics and serious historians since the 17th century, generating countless theories about the identity of the masked prisoner. The interest continues even to this day, as evidenced by Di Caprio’s movie. But the world is still no closer to discovering who this tragic figure was, and as the years pass, the chances of discovering of his (or her) true identity continues to fade.", "I've never seen the film on the subject, and being quite certain I never want to see another film starring Leonardo DiCaprio I probably never will see it. So I ask you, who was the man in the iron mask? I've asked many people about this guy who apparently spent 34 years in the Bastille wearing a metal contraption on his face, and one passing know-it-all told me that apparently the masked man scratched some words on a plate and dropped it out the window into the river, where it was fished out by a fisherman. The fisherman handed it in to the authorities, who would have killed him, had they not discovered he couldn't read. I don't think I believe the above story, but I ask you, what should I believe?", "The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas · OverDrive: eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries", "Having just crushed an uprising by his half-brother, Don John (Keanu Reeves), Don Pedro of Aragon (Denzel Washington) and his noblemen visit their friend Leonato (Richard Briers) in Messina. Accompanying Don Pedro is the witty Benedick (Kenneth Branagh), former lover of Leonato's equally sharp-tongued niece, Beatrice (Emma Thompson). Also present are Benedick's friend Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), a young count; and Don John who, despite his rebellion, has apparently reconciled with his brother. Claudio has been thinking of Leonato's beautiful daughter Hero (Kate Beckinsale) since before he went to war, and returns to find her as attractive as ever. Don Pedro, learning of his friend's feelings, decides to act on his behalf and arranges the match at a party. An unrepentant Don John attempts to foil it, but unsuccessfully – the match is made. Needing something to pass the time until the wedding, Don Pedro decides to arrange a similar fate for Beatrice and Benedick, whose animosity for each other is clear.", "Loki is the owner of The Mask worn by the protagonist Stanley Ipkiss from the 1994 Hollywood live-action film which starred Jim Carrey into the title role. However, in the comics-based version that is published by Dark Horse Comics, the Mask was based from ancestor-worship rituals of African tribes. He appears as a god trying to locate the mask for his father Odin in Son of the Mask to return to Valhalla.", "The Man in the Iron Mask: English (Alexandre Dumas) | New and Used Books from Thrift Books", "The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 film which depicts the retirement of the aging Don Diego de la Vega as Zorro ( Anthony Hopkins ), and his training of a young punk ( Antonio Banderas ) as his replacement. There have so far been two films in the current treatment of the franchise, The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro (2005).", "Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it be Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), or Count Dooku in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), or as the title monster in the Hammer Horror film, The Mummy (1959).", "The Mask of Zorro is a swashbuckling adventure starring Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones in a story about the outlaw Zorro recruiting and training a young outlaw to help him avenge his wife's murder. The Mask of Zorro was directed by Martin Campbell in 1998.", "In the opening scene of King of Kings, he is portrayed by actor Conrado San Martin .", "*In the opening scene of the 1961 film King of Kings, he is played by actor Conrado San Martín." ]

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[ "Nigel Hawthorne gives an inspired, funny and deeply moving performance in the title role of this celebrated, Oscar-winning film of Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III. The king is married to Charlotte (Helen Mirren), dallying with Lady Pembroke (Amanda Donohoe), and is not only father of 15 children (Rupert Everett plays the foppish Prince of Wales) but also of a nation and an empire. Problem is, Farmer George - a nickname the king delights in - is showing signs of madness, or at least that's the official diagnosis. Surgeon Ian Holm is brought in to put the king into a straitjacket (providing some of the film's most disturbing scenes), while the royal quacks examine the royal stool for traces of insanity. Behind the sardonic jokes and colloquialisms that are Bennett's trademark is a serious study of 18th-century politics and the monarchy, with a final scene that hints at the House of Windsor as much as that of Hanover. Immaculately directed by Nicholas Hytner, this is an unmissable treat and the finest vision of a bygone age since Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. It won the Oscar for best art direction and Bennett's screenplay was one of three other nominations.", "This is a marvelous period piece that deals with an intriguing subject: the apparently intermittent madness of King George III. Nigel Hawthorne brilliantly plays the role of the King, creating a benevolent personage, a sort of aristocratic populist, who is, at heart, a family man. Yet, he understands, all too well, his role as King. His Queen, a loving and caring wife, is played to perfection by Helen Mirren. Rupert Everett wonderfully plays the part of their eldest son, the indolent Prince of Wales.", "Based on Alan Bennett 's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. The film's story begins nearly three decades into George's reign, in 1788, as the unstable king ( Nigel Hawthorne , reprising his stage role) begins to show signs of increasing dementia, from violent fits of foul language to bouts of forgetfulness. This weakness seems like the perfect chance to overthrow the unpopular George, whom many blamed for the loss of the American colonies, in favor of the Prince of Wales ( Rupert Everett ), but the king's prime minister William Pitt ( Julian Wadham ) and his wife Queen Charlotte ( Helen Mirren ) are determined to protect the throne. Doctors are brought in, but the archaic treatments of the time prove of little value. In desperation, they turn to Dr. Willis ( Ian Holm ), a harsh, unconventional specialist whose unusual methods recall modern psychiatry. Willis struggles to break through to the mad king, treating him with an anger and haughtiness George has never before experienced. Stressing the absurdity of the entire situation, Bennett's witty screenplay emphasizes dry humor over tragedy, even utilizing references to King Lear for comic effect. Hawthorne's fiery yet vulnerable performance received much critical praise, including Best Actor at the British Academy Awards and a nomination for the same at the Oscars. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi", "British monarch George III's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, prompting fears that he is going insane. While physicians try to uncover the cause of his condition, the king's enemies in Parliament and the frustrated Prince of Wales conspire to have him declared insane and removed from the throne. Period drama based on Alan Bennett's play, starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren and Rupert Everett.", "The film primarily centres around four characters. As the King loses his mind, the spoilt and thoroughly bored Prince George (Rupert Everett on fine, flamboyant form) begins to dream of becoming King and tasks MP Mr. Fox to claim him Regency. Prime Minister Mr. Pitt (the now forgotten Julian Wadham delivering a standout performance) becomes concerned, and eager to hold onto his position drafts in the revolutionary Dr. Willis (Sir Ian Holm) to cure the King.", "The Madness of King George (1994) Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm - Three Movie Buffs Review", "\"The Madness of King George\" begins blithely and takes on substance as the King appreciates his own frailty, especially after he is forced to become a patient of Dr. Willis (Ian Holm). This doctor effectively scares the King back to his senses, understanding the problem at a time when ordinary doctors regarded even a physical examination as an impertinence. (The King's malady was eventually thought to be porphyria, a metabolic imbalance whose symptoms include mental disturbance.) Dr. Willis remarks that there are unhinged individuals who imagine themselves to be king. \"He is the King,\" he says of his royal patient. \"Where shall his fancy take refuge?\"", "Mr. Bennett explicates a convoluted governmental crisis in ways that are both lucid and sly. Challenged on all sides by Prime Minister William Pitt (Julian Wadham); a Member of Parliament, Charles James Fox (Jim Carter), and his own son, the scheming Prince of Wales (a flamboyantly memorable Rupert Everett), this King even winds up reading Shakespeare aloud with his Lord Chancellor one day. \" 'King Lear' -- is that wise?\" asks the Lord Chancellor, who has been enlisted to play Cordelia. \"I had no idea what it was about, sir,\" the King's physician replies.", "RUPERT EVERETT returns as the voice behind the vengeful, but strikingly handsome, Prince Charming. In recent years, Everett has attained international stardom due to a memorable array of both comedic and dramatic film roles. His scene-stealing performance as Julia Roberts’ confidant in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” earned him Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations, as well as American Comedy, Blockbuster Entertainment and London Film Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actor. Everett’s autobiography Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins was published by Hachette Book Group USA in January 2007 to rave reviews.", "*Rupert Everett as the voice of a fox who helps the children along their way to Aslan.", "The Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett) prances around in a shantung dressing-gown and conspires to have his father declared mad, so he can become Prince Regent. But he has compromised himself by his secret marriage to Maria Fitzherbert. This was illegal because he didn't have his father's consent, and because she was a Catholic. \"You performed an illegal marriage!\" says the king's agent to the guilty curate. \"And he only gave me £10,\" moans the curate. Robert Burt, the curate who really married the pair, got £500 and a never-fulfilled promise of appointment as a royal chaplain.", "Rupert Graves (born 30 June 1963) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. He is known for his roles in A Room with a View, Maurice, The Madness of King George and The Forsyte Saga. Since 2010 he has starred as DI Lestrade in the BBC television series Sherlock.", "Is one of 13 actors who have received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a real-life king. The others in chronological order are Charles Laughton for The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933), Robert Morley for Marie Antoinette (1938), Laurence Olivier for Henry V (1944) and Richard III (1955), José Ferrer for Joan of Arc (1948), Yul Brynner for The King and I (1956), John Gielgud for Becket (1964), Peter O'Toole for Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Robert Shaw for A Man for All Seasons (1966), Richard Burton for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Kenneth Branagh for Henry V (1989), Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George (1994), and Colin Firth for The King's Speech (2010).", "Helen Mirren (with her first nomination) as the devoted Queen Charlotte, wife of the king in The Madness of King George", "The Madness of King George debuted strongly at the box office. The film grossed $15,238,689 from 464 North American venues.", "the English monarch who was commonly said to have \"gone mad\" after losing England's North American colonies to the American Revolution. Modern medical experts now believe King George suffered from a metabolic disorder known as porphyria, and The Madness of King George deals with the political machinations that took place as the king's illness incapacitated him", "actor: The Madness of King George, Damage, Maurice, A Room with a View, Doomsday Gun, Mrs. Dalloway", "Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937. He was known for his beautiful speaking of verse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Sir Alec Guinness likened to &quot;a silver trumpet muffled in silk&quot;. Gielgud is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.", "Events like these convince those closest to King George that it may be time to question his authority. And Mr. Hytner, the prodigiously talented stage director (of \"Carousel\" and \"Miss Saigon\"), who directed \"King George\" for London's Royal National Theater and now makes a vigorous film debut, has no trouble explicating this chicanery in colorful, entertaining fashion. \"The Madness of King George\" mixes the ebullience of \"Tom Jones\" with a pop-theatrical royal back-stabbing that is reminiscent of films like \"The Lion in Winter.\" That makes it a deft, mischievous, beautifully acted historical drama with exceptionally broad appeal.", "* 1996 British Academy Film Award, Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film: The Madness of King George", "There had been some question as to whether Nigel Hawthorne should be cast in the movie, since he was 65 at the time of filming and King George III was only fifty at the time of his first bout of insanity. See more »", "Shakespeare is referenced several times during the film, including a topic appropriate reading of King Lear in one scene. It brought to mind another Shakespeare quote, but from Hamlet, \"Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.\" As Eric wrote, if George were just another George, he'd have been locked up somewhere or sent, if very lucky, to Dr. Willis's farm. As inhumane and archaic his treatment seems at times, compared to what any of his subjects would have been subjected to, it is the finest care then available. Although the film refers to porphyria as the cause of the King's madness, more modern theories tend to dismiss this idea. A 2013 study by St. George's University of London posited, after studying thousands of the King's personal letters, that the cause was indeed mental rather than the result of a disease, and concluded that were he diagnosed today, he would probably be deemed a manic-depressive. Their research also revealed that the King was given medicine derived from the plant gentian, one of the side effects of which is turning the patient's urine blue. Although the causes of his madness will probably continue to be debated by scholars.", "* The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Nigel Hawthorne (1991)", "David Tennant (born David John McDonald; 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the TV serial Casanova (2005) and as Barty Crouch, Jr., in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).", "Rupert grew up in Hertfordshire, the English county directly to the north of London, conveniently placed for commuting to Leavesden Film Studios. Before successfully auditioning for the Harry Potter films, Rupert attended Richard Hale Secondary School in Hertford: here he took an active interest in school plays, being cast as Rumplestilskin in the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. He was also a regular attendee at weekend drama classes at Top Hat Stage School, also in Hertford.", "Everett has also garnered critical acclaim for his dramatic work on stage. Most notably, he gained recognition for his performance in “Another Country,” a role that he had originated on stage in London. He then went on to star alongside Colin Firth in the film version in 1984.", "Meanwhile, Gulliver's wife Mary asks for the help of Dr. Bates (James Fox), a member of the mental institution in London who appears to help Gulliver, but is actually plotting how to get rid of him. He pretends to send Mary's letters to Gulliver in the institution, but actually intercepts them, saving them in a book shelf. Meanwhile, Gulliver is sent to a mental institution, and he is allowed to tell his tale to everyone present. He also appears to show signs of dementia, although these are just memories of his travels. Tom later discovers a small Lilliputian sheep (which he tries to retrieve towards the end of the series).", "In the way that it captures this cramped Englishness, “Paddington” is reminiscent, at times, of Mike Leigh, at least when Leigh is at his most forgiving. (Leigh, who typically snarls at the affluent, would likely be far less patient than King is with the Browns, who appear to have risen with the tide of gentrification, and inhabit a handsome house in one of London’s most desirable corners.) This impression is reinforced by King’s use of actors beloved by Leigh: Mrs. Brown, now mildly bohemian, is played by Sally Hawkins, who starred in Leigh’s “Happy Go Lucky”; Mr. Gruber, the Hungarian immigrant who owns an antique shop on Portobello Road, is played by Jim Broadbent, another Leigh favorite; Paddington’s Aunt Lucy has the voice of Imelda Staunton, who was remarkable in Leigh’s “Vera Drake.” King’s casting choices are often inspired, and, like the Harry Potter films, with which “Paddington” shares a producer, David Heyman, the movie is studded with appearances by celebrated British character actors and comic performers. These include Julie Walters—whose Mrs. Bird, in an acknowledgment of changing social mores, is now a relative of the Browns, rather than their housekeeper—and Geoffrey Palmer, a familiar face to anyone who grew up watching English television sitcoms of the seventies and eighties. Among other roles, Palmer was the phlegmatic guest at Fawlty Towers who insisted upon sausages for breakfast, even as the staff struggled to dispose of an inconvenient corpse.", "Spall has appeared in four other Leigh films, including Topsy Turvy and Secrets and Lies. He also played Winston Churchill in The King's Speech and may be best known to many Americans for his role in the Harry Potter films as Peter Pettigrew.", "In the Trevor Nunn production of King Lear, which was shown on PBS and stars Ian McKellen , the play is slightly revised so that the Fool (portrayed by Sylvester McCoy ) is hanged on stage, just after Gloucester is captured by Cornwall's men. [25]", "In the newsreel scene from 1936 showing the funeral procession of Edward's father the King, the voiceover announcer says that \"King George the Third has died and the nation mourns\". It should of course have been King George the Fifth. See more »", "Born in a seaside resort town, Britain's Rupert Graves was born a rebel, resisting authority and breaking rules at an early age. In his teens he became a punk rocker and even found work as a circus clown and in traveling comedy troupes. In 1983 he made his professional stage debut in \"The Killing of Mr. Toad\" and went on to co-star with Harvey Fierstein in the London production of \"Torch Song Trilogy.\" It didn't take long for somebody to take note of Rupert's boyish good looks and offbeat versatility. By the mid-80s he was a presence in quality films and TV, primarily period pieces such as his Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1985) and the gay drama Maurice (1987)." ]

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[ "Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the UK and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.", "Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. [1] He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley . [2]", "ir Cliff Richard  OBE  (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. He is the third-top-selling singles artist in the United Kingdom's history, with total sales of over 21 million units in the UK [2 ] and has reportedly sold an estimated 250 million records worldwide. [3 ] [4 ]", "Yusuf Islam,[1] formerly known by his stage name Cat Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948 in London, UK), is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam.", "Geldof has recently spoken out about environmental issues, taking some positions that may be considered unusual, compared to many other prominent artists and performers, such as advocating for the increased use of nuclear power , saying that \"In the UK, we'll soon have to scramble for more nuclear power. On this issue, I don't care what anyone says: we're going to go with it, big-time. We may mess around with wind and waves and other renewable energy sources, trying to make them sustainable, but they're not. They're Mickey Mouse.\" [39]", "11.20 Privilege PAUL JONES JEAN SHRIMPTON Steve Shorter, a FILM pop singer in the Britain of the future, has become the most popular figure in the country, despite his violent stage act. Manipulated by those who seek power, Steve attempts to escape. See page 33 Steve Shorter Paul Jones Vanessa Ritchie Jean Shrimpton Alvin Kirsch Mark London Julie Jordan' Martin Crossley A ndrew Butler Tatham", "Geldof has recently spoken out about environmental issues, taking some positions that may be considered unusual, compared to many other prominent artists and performers, such as advocating for the increased use of nuclear power, saying that \"In the UK, we'll soon have to scramble for more nuclear power. On this issue, I don't care what anyone says: we're going to go with it, big-time. We may mess around with wind and waves and other renewable energy sources, trying to make them sustainable, but they're not. They're Mickey Mouse.\"", "Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, actress Penelope Cruz and director Robert Redford have joined a campaign for a “global sanctuary” around the North Pole, Greenpeace announced Thursday. They are a...", "Geldof has recently spoken out about environmental issues, taking some positions that may be considered unusual, compared to many other prominent artists and performers, such as advocating for the increased use of nuclear power , saying that \"In the UK, we'll soon have to scramble for more nuclear power. On this issue, I don't care what anyone says: we're going to go with it, big-time. We may mess around with wind and waves and other renewable energy sources, trying to make them sustainable, but they're not. They're Mickey Mouse.\"", "In 2013, Brian Eno became a patron of Videre Est Credere (Latin for “to see is to believe”) a UK Human Rights Charity. Videre describes itself as “giving local activists the equipment, training and support needed to safely capture compelling video evidence of human rights violations. This captured footage is verified, analyzed and then distributed to those who can create change.” He participates alongside movie producers Uri Fruchtmann and Terry Gilliam – along with Executive Director of Greenpeace UK John Sauven.", "On 7 July 2007, Ross co-presented (with Graham Norton) BBC television coverage of the Live Earth climate change awareness concerts, which became the subject of controversy due to the foul language used by performers including Phil Collins, Madonna and Johnny Borrell, resulting in one of Ofcom's toughest sanctions to date on the BBC. Ross had been required to apologise on the day for the language used by Collins and Borrell. ", "\"Gimme Danger\" (Iggy Pop, James Williamson ) - performed by The Venus in Furs, vocals by Ewan McGregor", "Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July 1957 in Southport, Lancashire, (now in the county of Merseyside, England) is a popular English singer, songwriter and recording artist, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. Marc Almond has had a long and varied career spanning almost 30 years. During this time, after a career with Soft Cell and Marc and the Mambas, he has collaborated with an extremely wide range of artists including Antony and the Johnsons, Jools Holland, Siouxsie Sioux, Nick Cave, P.", "Empty Sky (Rocket/Island, 1969); Elton John (Rocket/Island, 1970); Tumbleweed Connection (Rocket/Island, 1971); Madman Across the Water (Rocket/Island, 1971); Honky Chateau (Rocket/Island, 1972); Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (Rocket/Island, 1973); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Rocket/Island, 1973), Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy (Rocket/Island, 1975); A Single Man (MCA, 1978); The Fox (MCA, 1981); Jump Up! (MCA, 1982); Too Low for Zero (MCA, 1983); Ice on Fire (MCA, 1985); Sleeping with the Past (MCA, 1989); Duets (MCA, 1993); Made in England (Rocket/Island, 1995); The Muse (Polygram, 1999); Prologue (MF, 2001); Songs from the West Coast (Universal, 2001).", "Ten minute 2009 documentary that does just what it says on the tin! Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years. Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. In 1978, at age 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single \"Wuthering Heights\", becoming the first woman to have a UK number-one with a self-written song.", "In 1997, MacGowan appeared on Lou Reed 's \" Perfect Day \", covered by numerous artists in aid of Children in Need . It was the UK's number one single for three weeks, in two separate spells. Selling over a million copies, the record contributed £2,125,000 to the charity's highest fundraising total in six years. [7]", "In 2010, Yorke performed a benefit concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange for the British Green party, and supported the 10:10 campaign for climate change mitigation. In 2011, he joined the maiden voyage of Rainbow Warrior III, a yacht used by Greenpeace to monitor damage to the environment. Yorke was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green party's Caroline Lucas at the United Kingdom 2015 general election. In December 2015, he performed during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris at a benefit concert in aid of 350.org, an environmental organisation raising awareness about climate change. His performance and others from the event were released on the Pathway to Paris live album in July 2016. In June 2016, following the Orlando nightclub shooting, Yorke was one of almost 200 music industry figures to sign an open letter published in Billboard urging the United States Congress to impose stricter gun control. ", "Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter , multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian and education philanthropist. He is a prominent convert to Islam.", "Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years. Bush was signed by EMI at the age of 16 after being recommended by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. In 1978, at age 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single \"Wuthering Heights\", becoming the first woman to have a UK number-one with a self-written song. She was also the most photographed woman in the United Kingdom the following year.", "Catherine \"Kate\" Bush, CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, who is known for her eclectic musical style and her idiosyncratic vocal performances. In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single \"Wuthering Heights\", becoming the first woman to have a UK number one with a self-written song. She has since released ten albums, three of which topped the UK Albums Chart. She has had 25 UK Top 40 hit singles, including the Top 10 hits \"Wuthering Heights\", \"The Man with the Child in His Eyes\", \"Babooshka\", \"Running Up That Hill\" (as well as its 2012 remix), \"Don't Give Up\" (a duet with Peter Gabriel), and \"King of the Mountain\". Ocultar", "On March 8, 2009, actors Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon, in character as Vanessa Jenkins and Bryn West from the hit BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, released a version of the song as a single for Comic Relief. Sir Tom Jones also features on the song, performing the final verse and chorus, whilst Robin Gibb appears on the single as a backing vocalist. Re-titled \"(Barry) Islands in the Stream\", in reference to the Barry Island setting of Gavin & Stacey, it entered the UK Singles Chart at #1 on March 15, 2009. By peaking at #1, this meant the Gibb Brothers had achieved #1 songs in five successive decades, the first songwriters to achieve this feat. The video was filmed in Barry Island, Las Vegas and the Nevada desert, with both Gibb and Jones appearing in the video alongside Jones and Brydon. Nigel Lythgoe also makes a cameo appearance as a talent competition judge.", " 2009 ...Sings The Beatles (TV Movie documentary) (performer: \"Lady Madonna\") / (writer: \"Can't Buy Me Love\", \"If I Fell\", \"Day Tripper/Ticket to Ride\", \"With a Little Help from My Friends\", \"Help!\", \"Hey Jude\", \"Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band\", \"Norwegian Wood\", \"She's a Woman\", \"I Saw Her Standing There\", \"Yesterday\", \"Dear Prudence\", \"Back in the USSR\", \"Strawberry Fields Forever\", \"I Am the Walrus\", \"Lady Madonna\")", "Michael Sarne scored a big hit in a duet with Wendy Richards with \"Come Outside\". The small speaking part for which Wendy Richards was reportedly paid only \"30 quid\" catapulted the snappy 18 year old to instant stardom and eventually made her one of England's most popular TV personalities. With long running roles on the series \"Are You Being Served\" and \"Eastenders\", Richards place in TV History is secure, even if her singing career began and ended with \"Come Outside\".", "Catherine \"Kate\" Bush, CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. She is known for her eclectic and experimental music as well as her idiosyncratic performances.", "Clare Grogan (born Claire Patricia Grogan, 17 March 1962) is a Scottish actress and singer, sometimes credited as C.P. Grogan. She is best known as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave music group Altered Images and for supporting roles in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf as the first incarnation of Kristine Kochanski.", "I've looked at all the nominations and can't believe that no-one has suggested Shirley Bassey. If ever there was a superb ambassador for Wales it is her. Originally from Tiger Bay, she has not only sung two bond themes, but has had a career that has spanned decades!", "Westwood attended the première of The Age of Stupid, a film aiming to motivate the public to act against climate change. She later created a manifesto of Active Resistance to Propaganda, which deals with the pursuit of art in relation to the human predicament and climate change. In her manifesto, she “penetrates to the root of the human predicament and offers the underlying solution. We have the choice to become more cultivated and therefore more human – or by muddling along as usual we shall remain the destructive and self-destroying animal, the victim of our own cleverness.”", "On 1 October 2009, Allen and several other musicians released the world's first digital musical petition aimed at pressuring world leaders attending the December 2009 climate change summit in Copenhagen. The petition included a cover of the song \"Beds Are Burning\" by Midnight Oil. ", "Her musical career led to film roles, beginning with a prominent role as The Acid Queen in the 1975 film Tommy, and an appearance in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. She starred opposite Mel Gibson as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, and her version of the film's theme, \"We Don't Need Another Hero\", was a hit single. She appeared in the 1993 film Last Action Hero.", "As a singer, his solo albums include \"Schizophonia\" and \"Tarot Suite\"(both with the London Symphony Orchestra). From these albums came the European hit songs \"Railway Hotel\", \"Lady Of The Dawn\", \"The Winds Of Change\" and \"The Ride To Agadir\". He achieved the number four position as an artist in the UK charts in 1976 with his single \"Summertime City\".", "(1948- ) British-born Australian singer and actress. Best-known movie role as Sandy in \"Grease\" (1978) with John Travolta. Songs include \"Banks Of The Ohio\", \"You're The One That I Want\" (duet with John Travolta), \"Magic\" and \"Physical\".", "According to BBC's Liquid News, the Swansea-born star, turned Hollywood legend, has recorded a single with co-star Renee Zellweger, of Bridget Jones fame." ]

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[ "Fifteen years ago, on July 16, 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final film, \"Eyes Wide Shut,\" opened nationwide. Setting records for the longest shoot in movie history, it was an excruciating labor of love for lead stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman -- one that would often be traced back to the alleged start of their marriage's decline. Throughout the process, cryptic reports implied that Kubrick's obsessive perfectionism had reached peak levels, which was especially eyebrow-raising given the film's sexual explicitness. The director, who won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects for \"2001: A Space Odyssey,\" died of a heart attack in March 1999, days after screening the final cut. Had he lived, perhaps we'd have more perspective on the movie's production -- or perhaps not, as Kubrick was notoriously reclusive.", "Kubrick's final film was Eyes Wide Shut (1999), starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a wealthy Manhattan couple on a sexual odyssey. The story is based on Arthur Schnitzler's Freudian novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story in English), which Kubrick relocated from turn-of-the-century Vienna to New York City in the 1990s. The film's theme has been described by actor Jack Nicholson as delving into questions of the \"dangers of married life,\" and the \"silent desperations of keeping an ongoing relationship alive\".", "The most anticipated film was legendary director Stanley Kubrick's psychosexual Eyes Wide Shut (1999), his final film released posthumously in the summer of 1999, with real-life husband/wife superstars at the time (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who would later divorce in 2001). The dreamy, visually-beautiful, thought-provoking film was a sexy adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Dream Story (Traumnovelle) and destined to become a Kubric classic. Although it was condemned as misogynistic, out-of-touch, and uncompelling, the story was about a Manhattan doctor (Cruise) who, after hearing an emotional confession from his wife (Kidman), explored his own sexuality during a tortuous, adventurous nocturnal journey (including a visit to a masked orgy in Long Island featuring all-nude naturally-endowed females). Segments of the orgy scene in the film were digitally-altered in order to bring the film an R-rating.", "'Eyes Wide Shut' is based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Dream Story and was Kubrick's last film before tragically dying of a heart attack in his sleep at his St Albans home on March 7th 1999, just five days after showing Warner Bros. his final cut.", "Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic drama film based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), with the story transferred from early 20th century Vienna to 1990s New York. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It was his last film, as he died four days after showing his final cut to Warner Bros. Pictures. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually charged adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, reveals that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier. He embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an unnamed secret society.", "From 1962 to 1999, he would only direct eight more movies. But during this time frame he directed the classic movies Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. In 1999, four days after screening a final cut of Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick died of a heart attack in his sleep at the age of 70. It should be noted all the people that lost money on Kubrick’s first two films were paid back when Kubrick became successful.", "On March 7, 1999, four days after screening a final cut of Eyes Wide Shut for his family and the stars, Kubrick died in his sleep at the age of 70, after suffering a massive heart attack. His funeral was held five days later at his home estate at Childwickbury Manor, with only close friends and family in attendance, totaling approximately 100 people. The media were kept a mile away outside the entrance gate. Alexander Walker, who attended the funeral, describes it as a \"family farewell, ... almost like an English picnic,\" with cellists, clarinetists and singers providing song and music from many of his favorite classical compositions. Kaddish, the Jewish prayer of mourning, was recited. A few of his obituaries mentioned his Jewish background. Among those who gave eulogies were Terry Semel, Jan Harlan, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. He was buried next to his favorite tree on the estate. In her book dedicated to Kubrick, his wife Christiane included one of his favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde: \"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.\"", "Although Kubrick was almost seventy years of age, he worked relentlessly for 15 months in order to get the film out by its planned release date of July 16, 1999. He worked 18 hours a day, all the while maintaining complete confidentiality about the film. Press releases were sent to the media, stating briefly that \"Stanley Kubrick's next film will be Eyes Wide Shut, a story of jealousy and sexual obsession . . . \"Eyes Wide Shut, like Lolita and A Clockwork Orange before it, faced censorship before release. Kubrick sent an unfinished preview copy to the stars and producers a few months before release, but his sudden death on March 7, 1999 came a few days after he finished editing. He never saw the final version released to the public.", "ST ALBANS, Hertfordshire -- The director of the original film of 'Lolita' (1962), Stanley Kubrick, died in this bijou town at the weekend. Reclusive and 'obsessional', the Bronx-born hyper-imaginative and perfectionist top film director ('2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968), 'A Clockwork Orange'(1971)) who inspired both love and loathing (said the Daily Mail, referring to the lack of compassion which some detected in the films) died as he would have wished, working with McDNL's erotic starlet, Nicole Kidman (McDNL 6 x '98, \"Phwoar!\").", "The film that first brought him attention to many critics was  Paths of Glory , the first of three films of his about the dehumanizing effects of war. Many of his films at first got a lukewarm reception, only to be years later acclaimed as masterpieces that had a seminal influence on many later generations of film-makers. Considered especially groundbreaking was  2001: A Space Odyssey  noted for being both one of the most scientifically realistic and visually innovative science-fiction films ever made while maintaining an enigmatic non-linear storyline. He voluntarily withdrew his film  A Clockwork Orange  from Great Britain, after it was accused of inspiring copycat crimes which in turn resulted in threats against Kubrick's family. His films were largely successful at the box-office, although  Barry Lyndon  performed poorly in the United States. Both living authors Anthony Burgess (over time) and Stephen King (immediately) were unhappy with Kubrick's adaptations of their novels A Clockwork Orange and  The Shining  respectively, and both authors were engaged with subsequent stage or TV adaptations. All of Kubrick's films from the mid-1950s to his death except for The Shining were nominated for Oscars, Golden Globes, or BAFTAs. Although he was nominated for an Academy Award as a screenwriter and director on several occasions, his only personal win was for the special effects in2001: A Space Odyssey.", "His next project after Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was to be A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which was taken over by Steven Spielberg . It is dedicated to Kubrick's memory.", "During the production of Paths of Glory in Munich in early 1957, Kubrick met and romanced the German actress Christiane Harlan, who played a small though memorable role in the film. Kubrick married Harlan in 1958, and the couple remained together 40 years, until his death in 1999. Besides his stepdaughter, they had two daughters together: Anya Renata (April 6, 1959 – July 7, 2009) and Vivian Vanessa (born August 5, 1960). In 1959 they settled into a home at 316 South Camden Drive in Beverly Hills with Harlan's daughter, Katherina, aged six. They also lived in New York, during which time Christiane studied art at the Art Students League of New York, later becoming an independent artist. The couple moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 to make Lolita, and Kubrick hired Peter Sellers to star in his next film, Dr. Strangelove, Sellers was unable to leave the UK, so Kubrick made Britain his permanent home thereafter. The move was quite convenient to Kubrick, since he shunned the Hollywood system and its publicity machine, and he and Christiane had become alarmed with the increase in violence in New York.", "12. Had Kubrick not died before the movie opened, he may still be making adjustments to it today, like he did with \"The Shining\" after its release. \"I think Stanley would have been tinkering with it for the next 20 years,\" Kidman said . \"He was still tinkering with movies he made decades ago. He was never finished. It was never perfect enough.\"", "Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999 ) was an American film director and film producer, generally considered one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers of his generation. Born in the Bronx in New York City to Jewish parents of Austro-Romanian and Polish origin, he became interested in photography at a young age, and after graduating high school he obtained a job with the primarily photographic magazine Look, first working freelance and eventually becoming a full-time staff member. He made his foray into filmmaking by directing several promotional and documentary shorts for RKO Pictures , most of which were financed and made solely by Kubrick himself.", "2001: A Space Odyssey may be Kubrick's most famous and influential film. Steven Spielberg has called it his generation's \"Big Bang\", focusing their attention on the race to space. The special effects techniques that Kubrick pioneered were later built upon by Ridley Scott and George Lucas for films such as Alien and Star Wars , respectively. 2001 is particularly notable as one of the few films in which space travel is presented in as realistic a manner as possible. For example, there is no sound in any of the space scenes, weightlessness is strictly adhered to, and sequences in which characters are wearing space suits often contain only the actor's breathing on the soundtrack. The only blemish in this regard is the series of shots inside on the moon, where gravity appears to be operating at Earth normal, despite no mention of \"artificial\" gravity. What keeps the film alive today is its sense of mystery. Its primary themes: the origins and meaning of life, super-intelligent computers, extraterrestrials, the search for God and a place in the universe, rebirth and evolution; all are conveyed in an artistically ambiguous and primal manner. This keeps the film ripe for debate and meditation. Whole books have been written about interpretations of it, and even Arthur C. Clarke has gone on record of not knowing exactly what Kubrick was up to when making the film, going as far to say that 2001 was 90% Kubrick's vision.", "Kubrick went on to win further acclaim with the films Clockwork Orange (1971); the costumer drama Barry Lyndon (1975), for which he personally approved each costume for thousands of extras in battle scenes; The Shining (1980), which evidenced his predilection for multiple takes (he shot one scene with star Jack Nicholson 134 times); and the popular drama Full Metal Jacket (1987), starring R. Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin and Vincent D'Onofrio.", "While pre-production work on \"AI\" crawled along, Kubrick combined \"Rhapsody\" and \"Blue Movie\" and officially announced his next project as Eyes Wide Shut , starring the then-married Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman . After two years of production under unprecedented security and privacy, the film was released to a typically polarized critical and public reception; Kubrick claimed it was his best film to date.", "Stanley Kubrick's 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange, which stars Malcolm McDowell as Alex, is the best known adaptation of Burgess' novel. The film is a largely faithful adaptation of the novel, although there are several differences. The most notable difference is that no material from the final chapter appears in the movie at all. The film ends with Alex once again enjoying listening to Beethoven and realizing that he has become his former violent and sexually agressive self again. Stanley Kubrick was unaware of the novel's final chapter, not included in American editions at that time, until after filming had begun. Other changes make Alex appear to be a more sympathetic character . For example, although Alex's age is never given in the film, he appears to be considerably older than fifteen. Instaed of raping two ten year-old girls, Alex has consensual sex with two young women who appear to be roughly the same age as him. The elderly woman who Alex kills is replaced by a middle-aged woman whose home is full of sexually explicit works of art. Those changes help to present Alex's point of view to the audience, demonstrating that he did not believe that he was really doing anything wrong before he underwent the Ludovico Technique treatment. Another notable change is that instead of becoming conditioned against all music, Alex only becomes conditioned against Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the movie.", "One Kubrick project was eventually completed by another director, Steven Spielberg . Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Kubrick collaborated with various writers (including Brian Aldiss , Sara Maitland and Ian Watson ) on a project called by various names, including \"Pinocchio\" and \"Artificial Intelligence.\" The film was developed expanding on Aldiss' short story \" Super-Toys Last All Summer Long ,\" which Kubrick and his writers turned into a feature-length film in three acts. It was a futuristic fairy tale about a robot which resembles and behaves as a child, who is sold as a temporary surrogate to a family whose only son is in a coma. The robot, however, learns of this, and out of sympathy is left abandoned in the woods by his owners instead of being returned to the factory for destruction. The rest of the story concerns the robot's programmed efforts to understand how he differs from humans, and whether it is worth remaining functional in a world on the brink of self-destruction.", "Setting records for the longest shoot in movie history, it was an excruciating labour of love for lead stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman — one that would often be traced back to the alleged start of their marriage’s decline. Throughout the process, cryptic reports implied that Kubrick’s obsessive perfectionism had reached peak levels, which was especially eyebrow-raising given the film’s sexual explicitness. The director, who won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey, died of a heart attack in March 1999, days after screening the final cut. Had he lived, perhaps we’d have more perspective on the movie’s production — or perhaps not, as Kubrick was notoriously reclusive.", "After 2001, Kubrick initially attempted to make a film about the life of  Napoleon . When financing fell through, Kubrick went looking for a project that he could film quickly on a small budget. He eventually settled on  A Clockwork Orange  (1971). His adaptation of  Anthony Burgess ' novel is a dark, shocking exploration of violence in human society. The film was initially released with an X  rating  in the United States [72]  and caused considerable controversy. The film's iconic poster imagery was created by legendary designer  Bill Gold .", "Just two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, Stanley Kubrick delivered his boldest and most ingenious film yet, a black comedy that satirizes the Cold War and the looming threat of nuclear destruction. The film tells the story of a paranoid U.S. Air Force General who orders B-52 bombers to carry out nuclear strikes against the Soviet Union while the socially inept U.S. President and his staff frantically try to recall the bombers. The President’s advisors include an overzealous General Turgidson and an eccentric wheelchair bound former Nazi scientist, Dr. Strangelove. The film deals with a very serious subject for its time and is hilarious in the way it’s played off. The actors are brilliant in their roles, especially Peter Sellers, who plays the U.S. President, Dr. Strangelove, and a clumsy British RAF Officer. In all its absurdities, the film is a cautionary tale of inept political and military leadership. Dr. Strangelove went on to earn four Academy Award nominations. It was ranked #3 by the American Film Institute in its list of the top 100 greatest laughs. In 1989, it was chosen by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant.”", "Kubrick, shortly before his death, for the first time in his career, offers us a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel, the dawn at the end of the nocturnal journey . . . Alice [Kidman] learns the lesson of her and Bill's emotional odyssey: \"Maybe, I think, we should be grateful ... grateful that we've managed to survive through all of our adventures, whether they were real or only a dream\". Work on A. I. Artificial Intelligence", "The witty screenplay, co-authored by the director (with Terry Southern), was based on Peter George's novel Red Alert (the U.S. title). [George's work, under his pseudonym Peter Bryant, was first published in England with the title Two Hours to Doom. Early drafts of the script were titled Edge of Doom and The Delicate Balance of Terror.] The novel's primary concern was the threat of an accidental nuclear war. Dr. Strangelove himself did not appear in the novel, however - he was added by Kubrick and co-screenwriter Southern.", "The film contains a posthumous producing credit for Stanley Kubrick at the beginning and the brief dedication \"For Stanley Kubrick\" at the end. The film contains many recurrent Kubrick motifs, such as an omniscient narrator, an extreme form of the  three-act structure , the themes of humanity and inhumanity, and a sardonic view of  Freudian psychology . In addition,  John Williams ' score contains many allusions to pieces heard in other Kubrick films. [97]", "After shooting completed, Kubrick entered a prolonged post-production process. On March 1, 1999, Kubrick showed a cut to Cruise, Kidman, and the Warner Bros. executives. The director died six days later.", "Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan.", "Kubrick's wife noted his long-standing interest in the project, saying \"over the years he would see friends getting divorced and remarried, and the topic [of the film] would come up\". She knew that this was a subject he wanted to make into a film. Co-star Nicole Kidman observed that \"Stanley's expectations of people were not really high\".", "Jennifer Jason Leigh and Harvey Keitel each were cast and filmed by Kubrick. Their roles were replaced by Marie Richardson and Sydney Pollack in the final cut.", "Although the film met with limited commercial success, film historian Alexander Walker notes that it was an \"oddly compelling work that tells much about the young Kubrick and explains why he stirred up immediate critical notice\". The film had a number of striking aspects, states Walker: \"Kubrick's talent for lighting and photographing a scene so as to abstract its latent emotional value\"; and the tone of the film with its urban loneliness and melancholy.", "The book does not finish like this, so I suppose the credit for this ending should go to Stanley Kubrick, who wrote the screenplay.", "22. Stanley Kubrick successfully requested the UK ban of his own film based on what Anthony Burgess book?" ]

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[ "Writers-directors Andy and Larry Wachowski's second feature film (following Bound (1996)) was the ambitious and inventive virtual-reality flick The Matrix (1999) . It starred Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves, and won four Academy Awards (all in sound, editing, and visual effects technical categories). Slacker hacker Thomas Anderson/Neo (Keanu Reeves) was called as a messianic figure to save the world (of approximately the year 2199) from virtually indestructible Sentient Agents. The blockbuster's wild popularity was due to its combination of comic-bookish plot, mysticism, philosophical complexity, computer-enhanced digital effects of its unbelievable action scenes, flying bullet-dodging (\"bullet-time\") and intriguing virtual worlds in which reality was redefined as a computer simulation. It helped to illustrate what the future would be of futuristic sci-fi action films with slick and smart plots, and jaw-dropping action.", "Writers-directors Andy and Larry Wachowski's second feature film (following Bound (1996)) was the ambitious and inventive virtual-reality flick The Matrix (1999). It starred Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves, and won four Academy Awards (all in sound, editing, and visual effects technical categories). Slacker hacker Thomas Anderson/Neo (Keanu Reeves) was called as a messianic figure to save the world (of approximately the year 2199) from virtually indestructible Sentient Agents. The blockbuster's wild popularity was due to its combination of comic-bookish plot, mysticism, philosophical complexity, computer-enhanced digital effects of its unbelievable action scenes, flying bullet-dodging (\"bullet-time\") and intriguing virtual worlds in which reality was redefined as a computer simulation. It helped to illustrate what the future would be of futuristic sci-fi action films with slick and smart plots, and jaw-dropping action.", "The story is set at an indeterminate point in the future, estimated by one character to be the 22nd century, in which human bodies are used for heat and electrical energy while their minds are held in a computer-generated, virtual reality simulation called the Matrix. Humans are essentially slaves in this world. People in the Matrix are subject to the lifelong, full-sensory illusion that they inhabit modern times at the turn of the century. Computer programmer/hacker Thomas \"Neo\" Anderson ( Keanu Reeves ), who may be \"The One,\" joins a Resistance led by Morpheus ( Laurence Fishburne ) and several other freed humans, including Trinity ( Carrie-Anne Moss ), Apoc ( Julian Arahanga ), Tank ( Marcus Chong ) and his brother Dozer ( Anthony Ray Parker ), Switch ( Belinda McClory ), Cypher ( Joe Pantoliano ), and Mouse ( Matt Doran ). They endeavor to expose the truth, overthrow the Matrix, and defeat the vengeful and warlike Machines behind it.", "What if virtual reality wasn't just for fun, but was being used to imprison you? That's the dilemma that faces mild-mannered computer jockey Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix. It's the year 1999, and Anderson (hacker alias: Neo) works in a cubicle, manning a computer and doing a little hacking on the side. It's through this latter activity that Thomas makes the acquaintance of Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who has some interesting news for Mr. Anderson -- none of what's going on around him is real. The year is actually closer to 2199, and it seems Thomas, like most people, is a victim of The Matrix, a massive artificial intelligence system that has tapped into people's minds and created the illusion of a real world, while using their brains and bodies for energy, tossing them away like spent batteries when they're through. Morpheus, however, is convinced Neo is \"The One\" who can crack open The Matrix and bring his people to both physical and psychological freedom. The Matrix is the second feature film from the sibling writer/director team of Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, who made an impressive debut with the stylish erotic crime thriller Bound.", "THE MATRIX Main actors Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss Date of release 1999 Audience rating on Rotten Tomato 85% Worldwide box office £332,427,225 PLOT Computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) learns about the true nature of his reality and his role in the battle against its controllers. His consciousness is embedded in the Matrix – a virtual-reality simulation created by a series of self-aware machines. Neo is given a choice: take the blue pill and return to his virtual existence, or take the red pill to find out “how deep the rabbit hole goes”. VR INFLUENCE A critical and commercial smash on release,", "During the years prior to the events of The Matrix, Anderson spent his time trying to find The one man whom he thought could tell him what the Matrix was: a supposed terrorist known only as Morpheus. Anderson is suddenly contacted by Morpheus, but is rapidly captured by the virtual reality's Agents, led by Agent Smith . After refusing to co-operate with the agents, Neo has an electronic bug implanted within his Matrix-simulated body, so that his actions can be tracked and those seeking to make contact from the free world can be traced and destroyed. He is contacted by Trinity, freed from the bug, and taken to meet Morpheus.", "During the years prior to the events of The Matrix, Neo has spent his time trying to find the one man who he thought could tell him what the Matrix was: a supposed terrorist known only as Morpheus. Anderson is suddenly contacted by Morpheus via a cell phone mailed to his office, but is almost immediately captured by the virtual reality's Agents, led by Agent Smith. After refusing to co-operate with the agents, Neo has an electronic bug implanted within his Matrix-simulated body so that his actions can be tracked and those seeking to make contact from the free world can be traced and destroyed. He is then contacted by Trinity, freed from the bug, and taken to meet Morpheus.", "Morpheus is the leader on one of these ships. He comes to believe that there is a captive human being who, if freed from the illusion of the Matrix, has the power to destroy it. His faith is absolute that that savior—“the One”—is a man who goes by the Internet name “Neo.” Morpheus has long sought this savior and Neo has long sought Morpheus because, disturbed over the shallowness of life, he has heard stories of the great Morpheus. Morpheus contacts Neo once he finds him. Before he can bring him out of the Matrix, however, the enforcers capture Neo. They tell him they know he has been living a “double life”; he has lived as a normal citizen but at home he has “committed every computer crime on the books.” They promise to overlook these crimes if Neo reforms and helps them find Morpheus, whom they call “the most dangerous man alive.” All they ask, they say, is for Neo to help them “bring a known terrorist to justice.”  Neo refuses but they plant a “bug” on him before they release him, knowing Morpheus will contact him.", "Suddenly, another ship sent a warning to the Nebuchadnezzar about a \"search and destroy\" attack of killing machines called Sentinels (nicknamed \"Squiddys\"), but Morpheus and his crew evaded detection. On the ship's control panel monitors, the Matrix appeared as downward columns of greenish, constantly-flowing code data. Cypher told Neo that he received quite a \"mind-job\" when told by Morpheus that he was the One to save the world. This duplicitous crew member, known as \"Mr. Reagan\" in the Matrix, met with Agent Smith at a fancy skyscraper restaurant for a juicy steak dinner, where he agreed to betray Morpheus (who had knowledge of the access codes to the Zion mainframe), in exchange for being permanently restored in the Matrix and employed in a power plant. Mr. Reagan requested afterwards that he didn't want to remember anything (\"Ignorance is bliss\") after the betrayal.", "The Matrix takes place in what appears to be a contemporary U.S. city. Neo, the protagonist, is a disheartened young man who is a computer hacker at night and an employee of a large conglomerate during the day. As a hacker, Neo has heard rumors of the Matrix and wonders what it is. Mysterious strangers whom he does not know visit him; however, they know what the Matrix is. These strangers inform Neo that the Matrix is a computer-generated reality in which he lives, and that the computer program is controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) that has taken over the earth. The year is actually sometime late in the 22nd century. The earth has been decimated due to a battle for control of the earth between the AI�s and humans; the Matrix camouflages this decimation. Humans are artificially created and sustained by the AI superstructure. Then they are plugged into a computer. A computer program generates a simulated reality called the Matrix. Humans live their lives in this computer-generated reality, but this reality is only in their minds. In fact, humans are kept in mechanical eggs filled with an amniotic-like fluid. The AI infrastructure keeps humans alive to tap the energy they produce.", "A small number of humans, including Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), live outside of The Matrix, in the real world, in an underground city (that we never see) called Zion. It is possible for humans in the real world to hack into The Matrix and liberate others, but inside The Matrix they must avoid the machines' indestructible Agents, including Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving). These Agents can bend the rules of The Matrix. They are stronger, move faster, and leap farther than normal people. Outsiders who hack into The Matrix also can bend its rules, just as a hacker can manipulate an infiltrated computer system. (For more on the plot and the premise, see Frequently Asked Questions , below.)", "At the start of the series, Thomas Anderson is one amongst billions of humans neurally connected to the Matrix, unaware that the world he lives in is a virtual reality. In his legitimate activities, he is a quiet programmer for the \"respectable software company\" Metacortex; but he is also a computer hacker who penetrates computer systems illicitly and steals information, under his hacker alias \"Neo\". During his time as a hacker, Anderson has learned about something known only as \" the Matrix \". It is described by Morpheus as a vague notion that Neo has felt his whole life that \"there is something wrong with the world\".", "Morpheus tells Neo that humans are fighting against  intelligent machines  that were created early in the 21st century and have since taken control of the Earth's surface. After the humans darkened the sky to cut off their solar power, the machines captured humans to use their bioelectric energy as a power source. Enslaved humans are kept docile within the \"Matrix\" – a  simulation  of the world as it was in 1999. Neo has lived in this simulated world since birth; in reality, the year is closer to 2199 . Morpheus explains that he and his crew belong to a group of free humans who \"unplug\" others from the Matrix and recruit them to their rebellion against the Machines.", "In the film's short epilogue, a cursor moved on a black screen, as Neo made a telephone call from a phone booth in a busy part of the downtown area, within the Matrix. During the call, considered an anomaly, it was traced on a computer, but the screen froze mid-call: \"SYSTEM FAILURE\". In voice-over, Neo promised to save the people imprisoned in the Matrix: \"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.\" He hung up the phone, stepped out of the booth, donned his sunglasses, and flew off straight up.", "Shortly after Neo first visits the Oracle, Morpheus is captured and interrogated by Agents after a crew member, Cypher, betrays the crew, killing several members before being stopped. Since Morpheus, as a hovercraft captain, possesses access codes to the Zion mainframe computer, the surviving members of the ship's crew are about to unplug Morpheus from the Matrix without the ability to retrieve his mind or his body, a process that will kill him. However, Neo had his own foretelling from the Oracle that told him that either Morpheus or Neo would die, but that he had the choice to save himself or Morpheus. Neo and Trinity reenter the Matrix to make a daring and successful rescue of Morpheus. Neo saves Trinity from a helicopter crash, confirming Morpheus' belief that Neo is indeed The One of legend.", "Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski In the second chapter of the Matrix trilogy, Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army. In their quest to save the human race from extinction, they gain greater insight into the construct of The Matrix and Neo's pivotal role in the fate of mankind.", "The plot deals with humanity being taken over by Artificial Intelligent Machines.  A small group of  humans have been in a battle against the machines to reclaim earth and reality.  The Machines have destroyed the real world, and created a simulation of the real world that only exist in the minds of those who are plugged into the Matrix.  The matrix is the name of the simulated world.  Those who have not been freed from the Matrix, believes everything they see, do, touch and feel is real.  There remains one human city where the Machines haven't conquered.  This city is located deep underground and is called by the name of Zion.  Those who are freed or unplugged from the Matrix, reside in the city of Zion.  This is what the movie is about in short.", "Wounded and restrained, Morpheus was chained to a chair in an office in a military-controlled, high-rise downtown building (within the Matrix) by Agent Smith, and hooked up to monitors by electrodes. Agent Smith threatened: \"The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.\" Morpheus was to be injected with virus-like serum to break down his system and 'hack into' his mind, to learn the access codes to Zion's mainframe computer - and destroy their cause. Agent Smith also ordered a Sentinel strike against Morpheus' hovercraft. The agent lectured Morpheus about how the era of humans, like the dinosaur, was ending, and that the human mammal was a \"disease\" - \"a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are the cure.\"", "The Keymaker explains that two power stations elsewhere in the Matrix must be disabled in a short time window to successfully disable the security system of a building where the door to the Source will appear, allowing Neo to reach it. This task is accomplished; but the Keymaker is killed, a hovercraft is destroyed, and Trinity is put in jeopardy by Agents of the Matrix; a vision that Neo has seen earlier in his dreams. Entering the door, Neo finds himself confronted by the Architect , a program which created and designed The Matrix.", "In the second film, The Matrix Reloaded, Morpheus is more confident than ever that the war is nearing its end. A spiritual as well as an influential leader, Morpheus convinces one hovercraft ship to stay in the Matrix to await contact from the Oracle, despite orders from Zion for all ships to return to the city. He incurs the wrath of Jason Locke, commander of the Zion defensive forces, but Morpheus' actions are easily defended by Councillor Hamann, a member of the Zion Council, the city's ruling body.", "        The next logical frontier in The Matrix series would seem to be Time. The one question that is never raised in the movie relates to this, namely: how is it that the simulation, of life on Earth circa 1999, is able to continue indefinitely? How can the AI incorporate changes that never took place, since the end of the world brought an stop to all that? Or, if not, how can it keep the human consciousness from noticing that time has effectively stood still? That it is always 1999, that the millennium never comes? Because the tyranny of the program relates directly to this�not that it is unreal (by the film�s own definitions there is ample room for ambiguity about that), but that it is used up, that there is no longer anywhere for it to go. Hence the need for a new program, since within the old one there is no longer the possibility of growth, of change. All novelty has been exhausted, leaving only endless repetition, rearrangement of the same elements over and over into tired and familiar patterns. This �end of novelty� has been posited, in relation to the information explosion of the present century, by the shaman-writer Terence McKenna, who imagines a point in time at which all (rational) knowledge will have been amassed, gathered, assimilated, and the program as it were completed.  This he refers to as �the eschaton,� or otherwise (to you and me): the end of the world (or word).(7)", "Computer programmer Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is secretly a hacker known by the alias \"Neo.\" He wishes to learn the answer to the question \"What is the Matrix?\" based on cryptic messages on his computer. He encounters three sinister Agents, led by Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), which leads him to a group led byMorpheus (Laurence Fishburne).", "* In 1999, The Matrix and later sequels explored the possibility that our world is actually a vast virtual reality (or more precisely, simulated reality) created by artificially intelligent machines.", "At his job at Metacortex, a leading software company housed in an ominous high rise, Neo is berated by his boss for having a problem with authority, for thinking he's special. Neo listens to his boss, but his attention is on the persons cleaning the window of the office. Back at his bleak cubicle Neo receives a delivery as \"Thomas Anderson.\" Upon opening the package he finds a cellphone which immediately rings. On the other end is Morpheus, who informs Neo that they've both run out of time and that \"they\" are coming for him. Morpheus tells him to slowly look up, toward the elevator. Agents Smith, Jones, and Brown are there, obviously looking for him, as a woman points towards Neo's cube. Morpheus tries to guide Neo out of the building but when he is instructed to get on a scaffolding and take it to the roof Neo rejects Morpheus's advice, allowing himself to be taken by the Agents.", "In the year 1999, hacker Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), with screen-name alias Neo, was asleep in front of his computer in his cluttered apartment, Room 101 - when the computer screen urged: \"Wake up, Neo...\" It further typed cryptic messages: \"The Matrix has you...\" and \"Follow the white rabbit.\" He answered a knock on his door, where a friend named Choi (Marc Gray) (with girlfriend Dujour (Ada Nicodernou)) purchased an illegal computer disk from him for two grand. Neo told them: \"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or dreaming?\" As they left, they invited him to join them at a techno party, when he noticed a white rabbit tattoo on Dujour's left shoulder - and followed. At the gathering, he was personally greeted by Trinity (she was the one who had summoned him on his computer) - she warned that he was in danger, whispering into his ear: \"They're watching you, Neo.\" She knew about his life in front of the computer, stating: \"You're looking for him.\" She said his search was similar to her earlier quest for \"an answer\" -- \"It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.\" He responded with the question he was seeking an answer to: \"What is the Matrix?\" She told him: \"The answer is out there, Neo. It's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.\"", "Q: How does Cypher get out of the Matrix after he meets with Agent Smith? When you hack into The Matrix, don't you need an operator to create an exit?", "The first Matrixes were built to keep humans under control so that they could be used as an energy source for the machines. For this to work, they must not ever be aware that they are living in a dream world. Every sense was being blinded by the Matrix and the memories of their former lives were presumably erased. Programs were put into place to keep the Matrix from ever being discovered. Everything was created to be perfect for humankind, with no disease, war, or suffering. But as Agent Smith said; \"Human beings define their existence through suffering and misery\". As a result, the first Matrix was a monumental failure, with \"entire crops\" of humans rejecting the program.", "Morpheus says farewell to Neo and Trinity a final time before they leave for the Machine City in the hovercraft Logos in a last-ditch attempt to stop the war. Morpheus aids Niobe as she flies the Mjolnir in a desperate ride back to Zion. The ship successfully stops the first onslaught of the Machine attack with the ship's electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon.", "Let's take a brief look at each side winning: If the machines win, it likely means Zion is destroyed and The One returns to the source, the Matrix is reloaded, and it all starts over again. That's status quo, and puts us back to where we were before the first movie. Where's the movie in that?", "The first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered and everyone was happy. But it was a disaster. No one would accept the program because it was unbelievable. Countless human minds disconnected themselves from the program, accidentally killing themselves.", "If the humans win, it likely means some destruction of the machines. Where does this leave the Matrix? The machines run it, they understand it, they upgrade it, and they have the help desk support for it. Do the humans destroy the Matrix and kill the millions still trapped in it? Do they free everyone simultaneously? Where would they put everyone? How would they feed everyone?", "Other:BEFORE THE REVOLUTION: A 3-D Matrix timeline FUTURE GAMER: THE MATRIX ONLINE: an introduction to the massively mulit-player game" ]

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[ "Gotta get back in time! The ingenious time travel comedy Back to the Future is a pitch-perfect combination of sharp satire, warm sentiment and sci-fi excitement. Michael J. Fox plays 1985 teen Marty McFly, whose mentor, Doc Brown (a brilliantly manic Christopher Lloyd), invents a time-tripping DeLorean that takes the kid back to 1955. When he inadvertently gets in the way of his teenage parents’ relationship (and causes his future mother, played by Lea Thompson, to develop a crush on him!), Marty has to figure out how to give his nerdy father (a gloriously odd Crispin Glover) confidence and get them back together to insure his own eventual existence. Funny, touching and suspenseful, this love letter to American pop culture is one of the most purely entertaining films of the 1980s. (Dir. by Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA, 116 mins., Rated PG)", "Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction adventure comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly, who is sent back in time to 1955, where he meets his future parents in high school and accidentally becomes his mother's romantic interest. Christopher Lloyd portrays the eccentric scientist Dr. Emmett \"Doc\" Brown, Marty's friend who helps him repair the damage to history by advising Marty how to cause his parents to fall in love. Marty and Doc must also find a way to return Marty to 1985.", "Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged jerk Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty's dad's supervisor. The one balm in Marty's life is his friendship with eccentric scientist Doc (Christopher Lloyd), who at present is working on a time machine. Accidentally zapped back into the 1950s, Marty inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his now-teenaged parents. Our hero must now reunite his parents-to-be, lest he cease to exist in the 1980s. It won't be easy, especially with the loutish Biff, now also a teenager, complicating matters. Beyond its dazzling special effects, the best element of Back to the Future is the performance of Michael J. Fox, who finds himself in the quagmire of surviving the white-bread 1950s with a hip 1980s mindset. Back to the Future cemented the box-office bankability of both Fox and the film's director, Robert Zemeckis, who went on to helm two equally exhilarating sequels.", "Spielberg also served as producer for a number of films: Barry Levinson's Indiana Jones type adventure The Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) with virtuoso special effects sequences created by Lucas' computer animators (Pixar), and the fantasy-comedy \"Back to the Future\" trilogy (with Robert Zemeckis as director). The first film in the enormously-successful film series was Back to the Future (1985), an inventive time-travel comedy starring Michael J. Fox as teenaged Marty McFly who cruised back to 1955 in a DeLorean with mad scientist-inventor Dr. Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and confronted intriguing 'what if' Oedipal questions regarding his parents (Lea Thompson and Crispin Glover).", "Marty arrived in a pivotal year, as it turned out. Even though Back to the Future is set in a small northern California town, Marty travels 30 years back in time to 1955, the same year that Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi. As a PG-rated ’80s sci-fi comedy with a nearly all-white cast the racial realities of Jim Crow aren’t addressed too explicitly, but it is notable that director Robert Zemeckis made sure that the most self-assured people in the film are the few black people who show up in Hill Valley. In a story that primarily centers on fostering one’s own self-confidence, it meant something to me as a boy to see the only folks who looked like me not backing down from anyone or anything.", "Back To The Future gets a lot of comic mileage out of the 1950s’ tame music and non-twist-off bottle-caps. But the film’s reliance on the Universal Studios backlot—particularly “ Courthouse Square ” as downtown Hill Valley—creates a deeper dissonance. This is “the 1950s” from the perspective of the 1980s: a Hollywood façade, familiar to fans of syndicated Leave It To Beaver reruns. In the 1985 scenes, Zemeckis and Gale try to make Hill Valley seedy by covering it with graffiti and trash, and replacing the old movie palaces and soda shops with adult bookstores and bars. But the muss-up is unconvincing. Hill Valley never looks like anything other than a set—which means that on some level, Back To The Future is pining for a past that never existed outside of a movie or TV screen.", "In the movie Back to the Future II, the main character, Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, travels from 1989 to October 21, 2015.", "From the moment Marty arrives in 1955, Zemeckis and Gale start winking. Everything Marty sees in downtown Hill Valley is meant to be funny: the swarming pump-jockeys at the Texaco station, the Ronald Reagan movie playing at the local cinema, and the low, low prices. The audience is supposed to notice how different everything used to be—cleaner, cheaper, friendlier. But now that we have the same 30-year gap between us and Marty that Marty had with 1955, there’s a double layer of “boy, those were the days” in play. Back To The Future isn’t just a look back at the 1950s any more. It’s a reminder of what people in the 1980s found curious about their recent past.", "If you were adolescent or thereabouts when Back to the Future came out in 1985, nothing that has happened to Fox in the years since will have unseated the image of him in that red body-warmer, standing in a car park at midnight as the souped-up DeLorean hit 88mph and disappeared back to 1955. The cute little face, the Calvin Klein underpants, the soft sable hair (I was the target audience. Does it show?) – we were so short ourselves, we didn’t even notice he was just 5ft6 3in, or, more incredibly, a 24-year-old playing a 17-year-old.", "Time travel a box office yet again Back To The Future may be 25 years old, and often repeated on our TV screens, but its silver anniversary cinema re-release has seen it bounce to No 7 in the UK box office top 10. The 80s time travel classic, starring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, has been screening in 200 UK cinemas since last Friday. The Back To The Future trilogy is released on Bluray later this month.", "So, the future Marty McFly stuck the letter \"J\" in there. But the other Michael Fox guy? He debuted in the mid-50s, in the same era Back to the Future is set. In other words, if there hadn't been a Michael Fox in the 50s, Michael J. Fox wouldn't exist--which is exactly like the plot of the first movie.", "In the hugely successful 1980s film franchise, director Robert Zemeckis aged his stars, including Michael J. Fox, with makeup and lighting as they traveled in time from 1985 to 1955, back to 1885 and forward to 2015. Now, 28 years after the first film, time has caught up with the stars.", "Back to the Future Part III(1990) : Back to the Future Parts I through III (1985, 1989, 1990): mentioned in Steven's Time Travel Page \"In this timetravel classic, Michael J. Fox plays Marty McFly, whose friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) builds a time machine from a modified DeLorean. Explores time paradoxes in great detail, these films are the best of the genre. Part One happens in 1955, where he arranges for his parents to meet and fall in love. Part Two happens in the future, where he has to save his kids. Part Three finds him and Doc in the Old West. (I've seen Part One at least 20 times!)\"", "In writing and directing the 1955 scenes, Zemeckis and Gale were dealing with a decade much of their audience had experienced firsthand. But when Marty and Doc Brown are stuck in 1885 in Back To The Future Part III, the filmmakers preferred to honor the memory of old Westerns, not “the Old West” per se. They do work in a good joke about the differences between movies and reality, by having the 1950s version of Doc Brown dress Marty in a Howdy Doody-ready cowboy outfit that gets Marty laughed out of a saloon in the 1880s. But Back To The Future Part III’s take on the West isn’t really any more accurate than the Doc’s. The film has its own cartoonish deceptions of gunslingers and Native Americans. That was clearly a big reason for traveling to 1885 in the first place: To return to a kind of moviemaking Hollywood didn’t often do in the late 1980s.", "Much of what the first Back To The Future reveals about 1985 is inadvertent. The advertising logos (Pepsi Free, Kal Kan, the Denver Broncos, etc.), the day-glo aerobics gear, the Walkman with foam headphones, even the use of “Libyans” as villains are all frozen in time, in a way Zemeckis and Gale couldn’t have recognized when they were making the film. Even some of the jokes are so 1980s-specific that they’ve lost their original meaning, or have seen that meaning undercut. When Marty auditions for the high-school talent show and gets told his band is “too darn loud,” the line is supposed to be ironic, because it’s spoken by rock star Huey Lewis. Today, Lewis is less instantly recognizable than he would’ve been in 1985, and even those who know him are more likely to remember him as a standard-bearer for middle-of-the-road mainstream pop than as some rowdy, noisy rebel.", "On Wednesday, we'll be in the future—well, the future that was imagined by Back to the Future Part II, the follow-up to the 1985 blockbuster, which sent Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) to October 21, 2015 to see what happened to Marty's kids. ", "But get this: the original Michael Fox played several roles in that same show , on the exact same year. Another episode , aired in 1955, featured a suburban couple finding out that their neighbors are time travelers from the future, hiding in the present of 1955--which is sort of like the plot of Back to the Future only seen from the opposite perspective.", "Back to the Future is an American science fiction/comedy movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1985 . It is about a young man named Marty McFly who accidentally travels into the past and jeopardizes his own future existence. The film was followed by two sequels, Back to the Future Part II ( 1989 ), and Back to the Future Part III ( 1990 ), forming a trilogy .", "Buckle up and get your flux capacitor firing, because the Back to the Future trilogy is headed back to the big screen on Oct. 21 for a one-night event. ( Go here for more details .) Universal made the announcement in London on Friday, where the trilogy’s cast — including stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and Lea Thompson — reunited for a 30th anniversary celebration of the franchise’s first film. The Robert Zemeckis-directed flick was the highest-grossing film of 1985. ", "n astonishing three decades ago, Steven Spielberg launched the first Back To The Future film upon the world… and popular culture would never be the same again. Created by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, the time-bending trilogy was not only a nearly-billion dollar franchise but a cherished series of films that earned their place in screen history. Marty McFly’s adventures are as popular as ever, and the sequel’s 2015 setting suddenly finds us living in the future. Riding the Delorean with us for a look at the making of the movies are Bob Gale (screenwriter/producer), Christopher Lloyd (the legendary Doc Brown), Lea Thompson (Marty’s mum), Kevin Pike (special effects supervisor on Part One), Andrew Probert (production illustrator on Part One) and poster artist Drew Struzan. Strap yourselves in and fire up the flux capacitor… >> 18 | ’80s Movies The Ultimate Celebration", "He didn’t realise it at the time, Fox says, but he was living “in fear”. In 1990, the Back to the Future franchise had finished, Family Ties had ended and he was at that difficult stage between teen and adult movie star.", "The date to which Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown time-travel in the 1989 film 'Back to the Future II' is upon us.", "The future is finally here: In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly travels to October 21, 2015, to save his eventual children. And in the movie, there were plenty of ideas of what today would be like. Some were a hit (drones and big screen TVs), some were a miss (hoverboards, anyone?), and some are still up in the air (Chicago Cubs winning the World Series).", "1988: \"Back to the Future\" actor Michael J. Fox marries Tracy Pollan in Arlington, Vermont. ( Rent \"Back to the Future\")", "Martin Seamus \"Marty\" McFly (portrayed by Michael J. Fox in the films and voiced by David Kaufman in the animated series and AJ LoCascio in Back to the Future: The Game) is the son of George McFly and Lorraine Baines McFly. Marty travels between the past and the future, encountering his ancestors and descendants. Marty and his friend Doc Brown help restore the space-time continuum while encountering Biff Tannen (or members of the Tannen clan) at various points in time.", "Great Scott! Has it really been 30 years? Back to the Future celebrates a landmark anniversary this week, so to mark the occasion we take a look back at the film to find out what the cast were doing then and where they are now.", "On the commentary of the first film, Robert Zemeckis confirmed that the \"Johnny B. Goode\" scene was nearly cut from the finished film because according to him, it was the only place in the film where the storyline stopped for Michael J. Fox to do the performance. However, Arthur Schmidt , one of the editors of Back to the Future, suggested keeping the scene for the preview screening of the film, and it was finally left in the finished film.", "Watch Michael F. Fox perform \"Johnny B. Goode\" at his benefit and in \"Back to the Future\" below.", "What do the cast of Back to the Future look like now? Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, more", "Back to the Future day is here and what the cult film got right is revealed | Daily Mail Online", "Thirty years after the \"Back to the Future\" series was released USA TODAY takes a look at where Christopher Lloyd is now. USA TODAY", "UPDATED: ‘Back to the Future’ Fan Celebration Is Coming The Real Twin Pines Mall In 2017" ]

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[ "Pacino received an Oscar nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit Dick Tracy (1990), followed by a return to one of his most famous characters, Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990).[6] In 1991, Pacino starred in Frankie and Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer, who co-starred with Pacino in Scarface. He would finally win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman (1992).[6] That year, he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Glengarry Glen Ross, making Pacino the first male actor ever to receive two acting nominations for two different movies in the same year, and to win for the lead role (as did Jamie Foxx in 2004).[6]", "Al Pacino won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as foul-mouthed, suicidal, blind (as a result of a boozing-related accident), retired Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)", "Pacino resumed his movie acting career in 1989, with 'Sea of Love', playing opposite Ellen Barkin. He then received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Big Boy Caprice in the high-earning movie, 'Dick Tracy' in 1990. Academy Award success eluded him, however, until 1992, when he finally, and most deservedly won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of the depressed, bad-tempered and suicidal blind Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in 'Scent Of A Woman'. The same year, he was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'Glengarry Glen Ross'. This astonishing achievement made him the first male actor ever to receive two such nominations for two different films in the same year.", "Pacino is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law — as a police officer, a detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1993 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year.", "Al Pacino finally won the Best Actor nomination for his role as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman, released in 1992.", "He and Jamie Foxx are two out of the only three actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year. ( Barry Fitzgerald did it first in 1945) Pacino was nominated in 1993 for Scent of a Woman (1992) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) / Foxx in 2005 for Ray (2004) and Collateral (2004). Both men won the Best Actor award, and they both played blind men in their roles: Pacino as Frank Slade and Foxx as Ray Charles .", "Sea of Love (1989), his biggest hit in years, reestablished Pacino as a major film star. He reprised the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Part III (1990), but it was his hilarious portrayal of grotesque gangster Big Boy Caprice in Dick Tracy (1990) that won him a supporting actor Oscar nomination. Frankie and Johnny (1991) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), both adaptations of plays, continued his string of well-received films, and he won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of a bitter blind man in Scent of a Woman (1992). Pacino’s other notable films of the 1990s include Carlito’s Way (1993); Heat (1995), a crime drama in which he played a detective hunting a thief ( Robert De Niro ); Donnie Brasco (1997), in which he starred as a low-level mobster who unknowingly befriends an FBI agent ( Johnny Depp ); and Oliver Stone ’s Any Given Sunday (1999). Also in 1999 Pacino appeared opposite Russell Crowe in The Insider ; based on real-life events, it examines tobacco companies and their efforts to conceal the dangerous side effects of cigarettes.", "The 1990s continued to be a lucrative time for Al Pacino, with films such as Carlito's Way, The Insider and Donnie Brasco all earning the actor a degree of critical praise. In 1995, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino shared screen time together for the very first time in Michael Mann's Heat. He followed this with 1997's The Devil's Advocate, in which he played Satan and Oliver Stone's 1997 film Any Given Sunday.", "Frankie and Johnny is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall, and starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer in their first film together since Scarface (1983). Héctor Elizondo, Nathan Lane and Kate Nelligan appeared in supporting roles. The original score was composed by Marvin Hamlisch.", "Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an surly, blind, retired Army officer. Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance and the film was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.", "Al Pacino (with his sixth nomination) as over-the-top crime boss Big Boy Caprice in director/producer/actor Warren Beatty's comic-bookish Dick Tracy (with seven nominations and three wins - Best Art/Set Direction, Best Song, and Best Makeup). [Pacino's nomination for Dick Tracy instead of for The Godfather, Part III was truly unexplainable, except for the fact that Andy Garcia was nominated in his stead, to avoid splitting the vote]", "The following year, Pacino kicked off the 1990s with another Oscar nomination. This time, it was for his role as Big Boy Caprice in Dick Tracy. In 1991, he appeared alongside his Scarface co-star, Michelle Pfeiffer, again in Frankie and Johnny.", "The film pits two characters who are diametrical opposites. Al Pacino plays the world weary retired Army Lt. Colonel who through a stupid accident looses his sight and his way of life. Chris Donnelly is a young prep school kid on a scholarship whose way of life may be coming to an end owing to the acts of richer kids at the exclusive prep school who pull a stupid stunt.", "In 1993, Pacino starred in the film, Carlito's Way as a former gangster released from prison who vows to go straight. In Donnie Brasco (1997), Pacino starred alongside Johnny Depp in the true story of undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone and his infiltration of the Bonanno crime family of New York City during the 1970s. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.", "Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irascible, blind, medically retired Army officer. The film stars Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell, with James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Gabrielle Anwar.", "In 1990, Warren Beatty directed and starred as the title character in a live action all-star cast film, along with Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Madonna.", "In 1990, Warren Beatty directed and starred as the title character in a live action all-star cast film, along with Al Pacino , Dustin Hoffman and Madonna .", "Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan, Paul Dooley, Jay Brazeau.", "*Heat (1995) — loosely based on Chicago police officer Chuck Adamson's pursuit of career criminal Neil McCauley in the 1960s, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, directed and produced by Michael Mann", "The actor portrayed the late mobster-turned-FBI informant -- who died Tuesday at age 69 -- in Martin Scorsese's 1990 movie.", "The 1990s brought Ford the role of Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), as well as leading roles in Alan Pakula's Presumed Innocent (1990) and The Devil's Own (1997), Andrew Davis' The Fugitive (1993), Sydney Pollack's remake of Sabrina (1995), and Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One (1997). Ford also played straight dramatic roles, including an adulterous husband in both Presumed Innocent (1990) and What Lies Beneath (2000), and a recovering amnesiac in Mike Nichols' Regarding Henry (1991).", "The greatest stars of the 1990s included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Julia Roberts, Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Michael Douglas, Macaulay Culkin, Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis, Steven Seagal, Tim Allen, John Travolta, Richard Gere, Jim Carrey, Winona Ryder, Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Mike Myers, Jodie Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, Michelle Pfeiffer, Billy Crystal, Sandra Bullock, Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Meg Ryan, and Meryl Streep.", "Washington proved time and again he could disappear into a role and mesmerize audiences. He appeared in several notable films throughout the 1990s, including Spike Lee collaborations like the jazz outing Mo’ Better Blues (1990) and biopic Malcolm X (1992; in another Oscar-nominated performance). Other projects from this era included The Pelican Brief (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Courage Under Fire (1996) and The Hurricane (1999), for which he received a Golden Globe for best actor and another Oscar nomination.", "1974 34 Years Old In 1974, Pacino reprised his role as Michael Corleone in the sequel The Godfather Part II, which was the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar; Pacino, meanwhile, was nominated for his third Oscar.", "4/23/10 [3295]: Al Pacino plays Dr. Jack Kevorkian in You Don't Know Jack. We've had suicide machines in New York City for a long time. / video:", "The film stars Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, as well as Glenn Close, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, and Paul Guilfoyle. A box office success with generally supportive critical reviews, the film was one of the most popular action films of the 1990s, and sitting U.S. President Bill Clinton praised it. A Wall Street Journal poll in 2016 named Harrison Ford's James Marshall as the greatest fictional president. ", "Directed by Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe. Dramatization of the true story of Frank Serpico, a young New York police officer who refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation. 130 min. DVD 9883", "A reluctant small-town war-hero gets an unlikely shot at redemption in this action thriller starring Ray Liotta, Michael Pare, and Dominic Purcell. Former Marine Tod Shaw saw his fair share of bloodshed on the battlefield, and to this day he remains haunted by memories of his best friend being killed in combat. Though his job on the Suddenly police force offers Shaw a chance to reconnect with the community, his crippling alcohol addiction soon takes its toll, and he is forced to turn in his badge. Later, when the locals receive word that the President will be passing through Suddenly, Shaw is placed back on duty. His resolve is put to the ultimate test, however, when three ruthless disguised as Secret Service agents take his lat friend's family hostage in their home in order to get the President in their crosshairs. Now, as the Commander in Chief draws near, Shaw must put the past behind him, and summon his inner hero for one last fight", "A 1990 novel by James Ellroy , L.A. Confidential was given a 1997 film adaptation directed by Curtis Hanson. Also in the cast are Kim Basinger , James Cromwell , Danny DeVito , and David Strathairn. The screenplay by Hanson and Brian Helgeland greatly condensed the plot and time frames of the book, but was widely praised for keeping almost all of the drama and noir feel.", "The Rat Pack is a 1998 HBO TV movie about the Rat Pack. The movie stars Ray Liotta as Frank Sinatra, Joe Mantegna as Dean Martin, Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis, Jr., and Angus Macfadyen as Peter Lawford.", "In 1963, teen-aged Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives in New Rochelle, New York with his father Frank Abagnale, Sr. (Christopher Walken), and French mother Paula (Nathalie Baye). When Frank Sr. is denied a business loan at Chase Manhattan Bank due to unknown difficulties with the IRS, the family is forced to move from their large home to a small apartment. Paula carries on an affair with Jack (James Brolin), a friend of her husband. Meanwhile, Frank poses as a substitute teacher in his French class. Frank's parents file for divorce, and Frank runs away. When he runs out of money, he begins relying on confidence scams to get by. Soon, Frank's cons increase and he even impersonates an airline pilot. He forges Pan Am payroll checks and succeeds in stealing over $2.8 million.", "* Christopher Walken as Frank Abagnale, Sr., Frank's father, and a World War II veteran. Frank, Sr. loses his wife Paula and most of his wealth after he committed tax evasion. Frank, Sr. dies after falling down a staircase in a train station." ]

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[ "Titanic is a 1997 American disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It features Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated voyage of the ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ship's crew) are based on real historical figures. Gloria Stuart plays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a modern day framing device.", "Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English actress. She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse characters over her career, but is probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Juliet Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994), Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, Titanic (1997) and Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others, and has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award for television acting, winning once for her role as Mildred Pierce in the 2011 mini-series of the same name. In 2012 she received the Honorary C�sar Award for her life and acting career.", "Kate Winslet is an Academy Award winner English actress, best known for her portrayal of characters like Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, and Hanna Schmitz in The Reader. She has won all the major awards in film industry, including the Academy Awards, the BAFTA and the Screen Actors Guild Award. She became the youngest actress to receive two Oscar nominations at the age of 22, in 1997.", "Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975 (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000701/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm)) is an English actress and occasional singer. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sarah Pierce in Little Children, April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, and Hanna Schmitz in The Reader. Winslet has been nominated for six Academy Awards and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader in 2009. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign P...", "Cast as the sensitive seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, a fictional first-class socialite who survives the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, Winslet's experience was emotionally demanding. \"Titanic was totally different and nothing could have prepared me for it. ... We were really scared about the whole adventure. ... Jim [Cameron] is a perfectionist, a real genius at making movies. But there was all this bad press before it came out, and that was really upsetting.\" Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing more than US$1.843 billion ($2.7 billion) in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed Winslet into a commercial movie star. Subsequently, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning a European Film Award.", "Titanic is a 1997 film released by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox . The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and is about Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, two fictional young lovers aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic during her maiden voyage in 1912. It won eleven Academy Awards , including Best Picture in 1997.", "In contrast to a real third class passenger Jack has no qualms or difficulty in roaming the first class areas and ultimately meets the wealthy if matronly Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslett), they fall in love and consumate their affair moments before the Titanic strikes an iceberg.", "Movie goers around the world were so taken by the movie's main characters, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, that the Titanic earned Oscar nominations for Best Actress and Best Picture. Surprisingly, there was no Oscar nomination for Leonardo DiCaprio, who played the role of the ill fated Jack Dawson. While the movie went on to snag the Oscar for Best Picture, along with a host of others, Kate Winslet failed to take home the Oscar for her portrayal of Rose.", "In 1997, Australian Vogue printed excerpts of Kate Winslet's diary from the filming of Titanic. Kate writes of her first meeting with James Cameron - he showed her a model of the Titanic and demonstrated how many special effects shots could be captured using a tiny camera with the model. She then goes on to express her admiration for two of Cameron's other films, True Lies and the Abyss, exclaiming at the end of the entry that, after reading the treatment for Titanic, she very much wants to play Rose.", "Winslet, a 35-year-old British actress, has been nominated for six Oscars, including one for her part as Rose, the love interest of Leonardo DiCaprio's character in \"Titanic.\" The actress won an Academy Award for her role in the 2008 movie \"The Reader.\"", "Rose and Jack. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio starred in James Cameron's beloved 1997 movie, \"Titanic.\"", "Cameron underscored the parallels between the young woman and the liner in other ways. The scene in which Jack holds Rose by the waist as she stands at the prow, arms outstretched, heading into what will be the Titanic’s last sunset, has become an iconic moment in American cinema. (And indeed in life: a couple was married in a submersible parked near that very spot.) But far more haunting is the way the image of the speeding prow in this scene morphs, seconds afterward, into a by now equally famous image from real life—the same prow as it looks today, half buried in Atlantic mud under two and a half miles of seawater, drained of color, purpose, and life. In this movie, there’s only one other beautiful “she” that is transformed in this way: we see the flushed face of Kate Winslet, as the young Rose on the night she poses nude for Jack, suddenly wither into the wrinkled visage of Gloria Stuart, the actress whom Cameron cannily chose to play Rose in the modern-day sequences of the narrative. Stuart, a star of the nineteen-thirties, was less than a generation younger than Dorothy Gibson, the lead in the 1912 film.", "Who knew Rose (Kate Winslet) was staring up at the wrong star patterns as she lay freezing on a piece of wood, awaiting to be rescued while her true love, Jack, died? Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson did.  (Titanic)  ", "Kate Winslet starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in \"Titanic\" (1997) and was nominated for a best actress Oscar. (The movie itself was nominated for 14 Academy Awards.)", "There was a Kate...\"Rose\" from \"Titanic\"... film about it. Can't recall her last name. It's RockNRoll now.", "After the release of the 1997 film Titanic, Kate Winslet was dubbed by one newspaper as \"the sinking man's crumpet\"; the moniker was repeated by only one other British newspaper.", "Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as the doomed lovers in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster, \"Titanic.\" Winner of 11 Academy Awards , including Best Picture, it became the highest-grossing film of all time (later supplanted by Cameron's \"Avatar\").", "* Eric Braeden as Colonel John Jacob Astor IV: A first-class passenger whom Rose calls the richest man on the ship. The film depicts Astor and his 18-year-old wife Madeleine as being introduced to Jack by Rose in the first-class dining saloon, during which he asks if Jack is connected to the 'Boston Dawsons' (Jack neatly deflecting the query by saying that he is instead affiliated with the Chippawea Falls Dawsons). He is last seen as the Grand Staircase glass dome implodes and water surges in. In reality, Astor died after being crushed when one of the ship's funnels collapsed.[25] Madeleine Astor survived in one of the last boats to leave the Titanic, but her survival is not shown.", "Kate Winslet totally just admitted that she KILLED Leonardo DiCaprio!!! Okay, well, sort of. As every ‘Titanic’ fan has been saying for years, Jack definitely could have fit on that door with Kate after the ship went under…and Kate agrees! Watch her interview here.", "Billy Zane – Caledon “Cal” Hockley – The rich fiance of Rose Bukater, Cal is the son of fictional steel tycoon Nathan Hockey. Hockley is aboard the Titanic for its maiden voyage on the way to New York from Southampton, England, to marry his 17 year old fiance Rose. Obvivi0us or choosing to ignore the fact that Rose hates him and doesn’t wish to marry him, he purchases a diamond known as the “Heart of the Ocean” and presents it to Rose. Hockley becomes one of the movie’s antagonists and the “Heart of the Ocean” becomes a crucial plot point.", "While making \"Titanic,\" directed by James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet became good friends. Her other leading men have included Geoffrey Rush (\"Quills\"), Jim Carrey (\"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,\" for which she was nominated for another Oscar), and Johnny Depp (\"Finding Neverland\").", "Near, far, wherever you are, you probably recognize this epic scene from James Cameron's 1997 film \"Titanic.\" The movie, which gave Leonardo DiCaprio official heartthrob status and Kate Winslet an Oscar nomination, is the second-highest grossing film of all time in the States. It also gave Celine Dion a huge hit in the theme song that you are probably hearing in your head right now.", "Actors Leonard DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in one of the key scenes in the film \"Titanic\": \"The Titanic gives away her mysteries at a very slow pace.\"", "After winning the Golden Globe for \"Best Supporting Actress\" for her role in \"Steve Jobs,\" Kate Winslet is expected to be up for the Oscar too. With six Oscar nominations already to her name, the \"Titanic\" star is popular with the Academy. Winslet could be nominated alongside Rooney Mara, who won \"Best Actress\" at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015 for her role in \"Carol,\" Alicia Vikander (\"The Danish Girl\"), Jennifer Jason Leigh (\"The Hateful Eight\"), Jane Fonda (\"Youth\") and Kristen Stewart, who won a French César in 2015 for \"Clouds of Sils Maria.\"", "Brought up in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from childhood, and began her career in British television in 1991. She made her film debut in Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which she received praise. She garnered recognition for her supporting role in Sense and Sensibility (1995) before achieving global stardom with the epic romance Titanic (1997), which was the highest-grossing film of all time at that point. Winslet's performances in Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), The Dressmaker (2015), and Steve Jobs (2015) continued to draw praise from film critics. In 2008, the critic David Edelstein described her as \"the best English-speaking film actress of her generation\". ", "\"Like throwing up.\" That's how Kate Winslet feels when she hears Celine Dion 's \"My Heart Will Go On,\" the once-inescapable theme to \"Titanic.\"", "Winslet and Tredre remained close after their separation in 1995. He died of bone cancer during the opening week of Titanic, causing her to miss the film's Los Angeles premiere to attend his funeral in London. Read Less", "British born actress Kate Winslet made her big break on \"Titanic\" and has since gone on to become an Oscar-winning actress. Here are 50 interesting things about this starlet.", "Kate Elizabeth Winslet CBE is an English actress whom personally saved the Queen from an assassination attempt in the Billiards Room in 1923. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008).…  Read More", "Winslet missed the premiere of Titanic (1997) because she was attending the funeral of close friend and former boyfriend, Stephen Tredre.", "While on the set of the 1991 TV series Dark Season, Winslet met actor and writer Stephen Tredre, with whom she had a four-and-a-half-year relationship. Winslet and Tredre remained close after their separation in 1995. 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[ "Based on the classic ‘60s TV sitcom, this 1999 movie stars Jeff Daniels and Christopher Lloyd as the title’s extra-terrestrial. While the TV series never traveled to Mars, the film’s opening sequence actually takes place on our neighboring planet.", "Mork And Mindy was a spin-off from the popular American 'Happy Days' series. Introduced in the episode 'My Favourite Orkan' (a play on 'My Favourite Martian', a 1960s sitcom which 'Mork & Mindy' is almost a reworking of) in early 1978, Mork (Robin Williams) arrives on 1950's Earth to abduct Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard, now a famous director) but he is saved by The Fonz (Henry Winkler). The character of Mork was an instant success, and the new series debuted on ABC in the autumn that same year. Updated to the present day, Mork finds a home with Mindy McConnell in 1970s Colorado, and continues to explore our world in his own zany and inimitable way.", "STARRING: Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Wallace Shawn, Christine Ebersole, Michael Lerner, Ray Walston", "Description: Adaptation of the popular '60s TV show of a friendly Martian who lives with an agreeable earthling. In this live-action remake by Disney, Jeff Daniels is the bemused earthling who gets to know Christopher Lloyd's alien ways. — Amazon.com", "The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968, which partially originated from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show. It stars Andy Griffith, who portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), a spinster aunt and housekeeper, and Opie (Ron Howard), a precocious young son. Local bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Regarding the tone of the show, Griffith said that despite a contemporary setting, the show attempted to emulate nostalgia, stating in a Today Show interview: \"Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the 1960s, it had a feeling of the 1930s. It was, when we were doing it, of a time gone by.\" ", "After appearing in Part II and Part III of the Back to the Future trilogy, Thompson was cast as the mother of the 5-year old title character in 1993 's Dennis the Menace. Christopher Lloyd was the villain in the same film; as in most of the trilogy, the two actors did not appear on screen at the same time, the exception being when Lorraine followed Marty to Doc 's home in Part I.", "In the mid-1990s several sitcoms have reintroduced the ongoing story line. Seinfeld , the most popular U.S. sitcom of the 1990s-2000s had an overall story arc similar to that of soap operas, in the tradition of earlier sitcoms such as The Beverly Hillbillies and One Day At A Time . Friends the second most popular U.S. sitcom of the 1990s-2000s also used other soap opera elements, such as regularly employing the device of an end-of-season cliffhanger and gradually developing the relationships of the characters over the course of the series. Frasier , Roseanne , Moesha , Seinfeld , Everybody loves Raymond , and The Nanny are also noted for their long-term story arcs.", "A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987 to July 9, 1993. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black college in the state of Virginia, inspired by student life at Hampton University. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy) and math whiz Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison).", "The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as acquaintances of Fonzie (Henry Winkler). Set in roughly the same time period, the timeline started in approximately 1958, when the series began, through 1967, when the series ended. As with Happy Days, it was made by Paramount Television, created by Garry Marshall, and executive produced by Garry Marshall, Edward K. Milkis, and Thomas L. Miller.", "Another film, Addams Family Reunion , was released direct-to-video on September 22, 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video division. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second live-action television version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada . The third movie's Gomez, played by Tim Curry , follows the style of Raúl Juliá, while the new sitcom's Gomez, played by Glenn Taranto , is played in the style of John Astin, who had played the character in the 1960s. The only actors in this Warner Brothers production to have played in the previous Paramount films were Carel Struycken as Lurch and Christopher Hart as Thing.", "Frasier is a sitcom that aired on NBC for eleven seasons from 1993 to 2004. A spin-off of Cheers , Frasier stars Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Jane Leeves and Peri Gilpin. It is one of the most successful spin-off series in television history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series of all time.", "*Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross, starring Tobey Maguire, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Don Knotts, J. T. Walsh and Jeff Daniels", "Starring stage and screen veteran Shirley Jones and then up-and-coming actor David Cassidy, The Partridge Family was loosely based on real-life family pop/rock band the Cowsills (\"Hair,\" \"The Rain, The Park & Other Things,\" \"Indian Lake,\" \"Love American Style\"). The other Partridge siblings were Susan Dey as Laurie, Suzanne Crough as Tracy, and Jeremy Gelbwaks as Chris during the first season. Gelbwaks' parents felt uncomfortable with the ensuing mania that surrounded the show and took the youngster out of the cast. He was replaced in the role by Brian Foster. The only members of the cast heard on the records are lead vocalist Cassidy and Shirley Jones on background vocals. All of the Partridge Family records were originally released on Bell Records. The harmonies on the Family's records were quite similar to another Bell act, the 5th Dimension.", "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: This popular sitcom of the 90s originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996 for 148 episodes of 23 minutes each divided into 6 seasons. This show starred by Will Smith in which he played a fictionalized version of himself pushed his performing career to unimaginable levels, to the point of becoming one of the top actors of Hollywood; and the only actor in history to have eight consecutive films grossing over $100 million in the domestic box office, as well as being the only actor to have eight consecutive films in which he starred open at the first spot in the domestic box office tally.", "Joey is an American sitcom, a spin-off from Friends, which stars Matt LeBlanc reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani. It premiered on the NBC television network, on September 9, 2004, in the former time slot of its parent series, Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m.", "He soon tasted big-screen success, starring in The Incredible Mr. Limpet . Don cut back his appearances on The Andy Griffith Show to concentrate on making movies after signing a five-year contract with Universal Pictures. For Universal, Don appeared in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken , The Reluctant Astronaut , The Shakiest Gun in the West , The Love God? and How to Frame a Figg . His mid-1960s popularity as a movie comedian began to wane towards the end of the decade, and the contract was not renewed. Don returned to television as the star of his own variety show, but it was quickly canceled.", "Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that began broadcast on CBS on September 22, 2003, and ended on February 19, 2015 after twelve seasons. Originally starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the series was about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother Alan; and Alan's son Jake. After Alan divorces, he moves with his son to share Charlie's beachfront Malibu house and complicates Charlie's freewheeling life.", "Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two black boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato), for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett (who ultimately spun off into her own successful show, The Facts of Life).", "Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom, starring Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, and Peter Boyle. It originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. It was a comic portrayal of a \"real\" American family that deals with everyday issues, most of those issues being conflicts amongst themselves. The show mostly revolved around the main character Ray (hence the name \"Raymond\" in the title). Ray is happily married to Debra (Patricia Heaton) and have three kids, oldest being a girl Ally (Madylin Sweeten) and the youngest two being twin boys Geoffrey (Sawyer Sweeten) and Michael ( Sullivan Sweeten).", "The Jeffersons is a sitcom that aired on CBS from 1975 until 1985 that chronicled the Afican-American Jefferson family who had recently moved up the socioeconomic ladder. The Jeffersons is the longest-running sitcom with a predominantly African American cast in the history of American television.", "Beginning in 1960, Griffith starred as Sheriff Andy Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show for the CBS television network alongside other successful 1960s family-oriented situation comedies that dealt with widowhood, such as: My Three Sons, Family Affair, Beulah, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, The Lucy Show, Julia, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and, a decade later, The Brady Bunch.", "Charlie's Angels is a 2000 American action comedy film that is based on the television series of the same name created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Unlike the original series which had dramatic elements, the film featured more comedic elements than were seen in the series. The film was directed by McG, adapted by screenwriters Ryan Rowe, Ed Solomon, and John August, and starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Tim Curry, Kelly Lynch, Crispin Glover, and John Forsythe reprising his role as the unseen Charlie's voice from the original series. Making cameo appearances are Tom Green, who was dating Barrymore at the time that the film was made, and LL Cool J.", "Pleasantville . The main character, David, watched the show on TV and always saw it as a utopia. When he and his sister end up getting sucked into the TV, though, things aren't as great as they appeared. The place starts out as a nostalgic and pretty view of the 1950's, but later on the uglier side of the decade (like sexual repression and racial discrimination) start to rear their ugly heads.", "During the shows' fourth season,Jenilee Harrison had a short stint as Chrissy's cousin Cindy Snow,who was another ditzy,not so bright,clumsy blonde. After Harrison's departure from the show,former \"Dallas\" star Priscilla Barnes tied things up as registered nurse Terri Alden,who was not like Chrissy or Cindy but this blonde had style and wasn't clumsy or ditzy and very bright. Also during that season,Don Knotts(aka Deputy Fife on Andy Griffith) filled in the gap as the \"bachelor at large\",Ralph Furley. Richard Kline starred as the lovable stud Larry who was a used car salesmen and swinger extraordinaire who was always getting Jack blind dates. In was here that Knotts and Ritter kept the show in the Top 10 for the next five seasons including Emmy nominations for Best Actor.", "Reprised signature childhood role of Opie Taylor in NBC reunion movie \"Return to Mayberry,\" executive produced by Andy Griffith", "It begins with the numb grief of a punctilious Baltimore travel writer, Macon Leary (William Hurt), whose 12-year-old son was senselessly shot by a gunman in a Burger Bonanza. Macon has become such a depressed loner that his wife (Kathleen Turner) leaves him. The movie, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote the screenplay with Frank Galati, closely follows the 1985 Anne Tyler novel, and it's about Macon's coming to life. A fiercely eager oddball (Geena Davis) who pulls him into her bed turns out to be his salvation. The plot construction is that of a screwball comedy of the 30s: poor working girl has the life force that upper-class prig needs. But people talk a formal, affected English that sounds…", "Directed by Scott Teems. Starring Hal Holbrook, Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Preston, Barry Corbin, Dixie Carter.", "Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross that stars Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah and Julia Roberts.", "The film spawned a TV series of the same name, starring JoBeth Williams and John Heard. The show lasted one season (1995–1996).", "After forming the production company Memorial Enterprises Ltd. alongside actor Michael Medwin in 1965, Finney made his directional debut with the drama/comedy film \"Charlie Bubbles\" (1967), in which he also starred as the title character of a successful, married writer who grows bored with his life and begins an affair with his younger secretary (played by a very young Liza Minnelli, in her first film role). Also that year, he co-starred with Audrey Hepburn as a bickering married couple in Stanley Donen's Oscar-nominated romantic drama/comedy film \"Two for the Road.\"", "Semi-autobiographical sitcom starred Paul Reiser as a former TV star who hasn't worked in several years, opting to spend that time with his family. He enlists his friends to help him find the next gig to occupy his time. Original Run: April 14, 2011 - April 21, 2011", "Awww, this is one of my favorite movies. It came out in 1968 and I was a young child but it never scared me. It always came on TV around Thanksgiving and since my birthday is usually around that time, it was always a sort of birthday event for me, and Dick Van Dyke is one of my all-time favorite performers." ]

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[ "Emma is a 1996 period film based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Directed by Douglas McGrath, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam.", "Kate Beckinsale is an English actress who made raves because of her beauty and acting talent. She was famous first in the television series “Emma“ -- the title role. She was also great in the movie “Much Ado About Nothing“", "In 2009, she played the title role in a television adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, a four-hour miniseries that premiered on BBC One in October 2009, co-starring Jonny Lee Miller and Sir Michael Gambon. Garai was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance. Emma then appeared on American television as part of PBS' Masterpiece Classic anthology series, airing in most U.S. markets over three consecutive Sunday evenings during January and February 2010.", "In 1996, Paltrow played the title character in Emma to critical acclaim, particularly in the United Kingdom, where her perfection of the English accent was appreciated. She had leading roles in several films throughout 1998, including Sliding Doors and the adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations with Ethan Hawke, Robert De Niro, Anne Bancroft and Chris Cooper. She also appeared in two thrillers, Hush, opposite Jessica Lange, and A Perfect Murder, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film, Dial M for Murder. In the latter film, Paltrow starred opposite Michael Douglas, playing Emily Taylor, who was based on Grace Kelly's character from the original film, though the film was met with mixed reviews. She was also considered for the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 film Titanic. ", "She has appeared in many television series, notably the 1997 adaptation of Emma starring Kate Beckinsale. She is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and starred opposite Dame Judi Dench in David Hare's award-winning play Amy's View at the Royal National Theatre.", "Synopsis: Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her screenplay - an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name. This 19th Century story begins with the death of Mr. Dashwood, and the passing of his estate to John (James Fleet) his son by his first marriage, as required by law. This leaves his second wife and three daughters - Elinor, Marianne, and young Margaret - in difficult circumstances. Elinor (Emma Thompson), the oldest, is attracted to Edward Ferris (Hugh Grant), the younger brother of John's wife Fanny. Marianne (Kate Winslet) is courted by wealthy Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman) but prefers the wildly handsome John Willoughby (Greg Wise). The two, lacking a dowry, may well end up as spinsters in this complex romantic tale.", "* Emma Approved (2013–2014), an Emmy-winning YouTube adaptation in which Emma Woodhouse (Joanna Sotomura) is a matchmaker who documents her ventures into the matchmaking business with her assistant Harriet Smith (Dayeanne Hutton) and confidant Alex Knightley (Brent Bailey).", "Starring as Emma Woodhouse in the British small screen version of Jane Austen's novel Emma was Beckinsale�s first project in 1996 (aired on USA in 1997). A year later, Beckinsale had a victory on her hands when she teamed up with Stuart Townsend and Dan Futterman for director Stefan Schwartz�s quirky romantic comedy Shooting Fish (1997). Portraying philanthropic con artist Georgie, she gained positive feedback and took home a Catalonian International Film Festival award for Best Actress in 1997. The film itself was an unqualified hit in its native country, landing in the third position of the highest grossing film in Britain for 1997.", "2011 saw Emma in Simon Curtis's My Week With Marilyn (2011), alongside a stellar cast of Oscar nominees including Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe and Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, in addition to Eddie Redmayne, Dame Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Zoe Wanamaker, Toby Jones and Dominic Cooper. Chronicling a week in Marilyn Monroe's life, the film featured Emma in the supporting role of Lucy, a costume assistant to Colin Clark (Redmayne). The film was released by The Weinstein Company and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical. In 2012 Emma was seen in Stephen Chbosky's adaptation of his coming-of-age novel The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (2012), starring opposite Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller. This independent drama centered around Charlie (Lerman), an introverted freshman who is taken under the wings of two seniors (Watson and Miller) who welcome him to the real world. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and received rave reviews. The film won the People's Choice Award for Favourite Dramatic Movie and Emma also picked up the People's Choice Award for Favourite Dramatic Movie Actress. Emma was awarded a second time for this role with the Best Supporting Actress Award at the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards where the film also won the Best Ensemble Performance Award.", "Although English actress Emma Thompson is best known for starring in lush period pieces such as 1992’s Howard’s End and 1995’s Sense and Sensibility, the then 31-year-old actress was offered the lead role in Pretty Woman, despite having only two screen credits at the time. Thompson instead starred in the modestly successful 1991 reincarnation noir, Dead Again, with her then husband Kenneth Branagh.", "Gwyneth Paltrow is an American actress known for such films as Se7en, Emma and Great Expectations. In 1998, she won an Academy Award for her role in Shakespeare in Love.", "Principal Cast: Anthony Hopkins (James Stevens), Emma Thompson (Miss Sally Kenton), James Fox (Lord Darlington), Christopher Reeve (Jack Lewis), Peter Vaughan (Mr. Stevens, Sr.), Ben Chaplin (Charlie), Hugh Grant (Cardinal), Tim Piggott-Smith (Tom Benn), Lena Headey (Lizzie).", "Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (née Wells; born 1 October 1935) is a British film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known.", "The 1992 film version stars Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins, and Samuel West. Thompson won an Academy Award for her performance.", "A theatrical film adaptation of the musical was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Rob Marshall, and starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Billy Magnussen, and Johnny Depp. The film was released on December 25, 2014. It was a critical and commercial hit, grossing over $213 million worldwide. Streep was nominated for many accolades for her performance as the Witch, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. ", "Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen, and Stephen Fry.", "Rachel Billington, Emma and Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury (2008), a sequel to Emma about the early married life of Emma and Mr. Knightley.", "Thompson has picked up Golden Globe and Critics' Choice nominations for her portrayal of Travers. \"Emma could not have been more acerbic,\" says Andrews. \"I just love whatever she does.\"", "The original cast album was released on 10 January 2006. On 12 May 2006, the three original Billys appeared together in a performance of the musical to celebrate its first anniversary. The three rotated the role during the performance and were joined at the end by Elton John. In 2013, the show won another Olivier Award, the BBC Radio 2 Audience Award (voted for by theatre goers), after many years of being finalists for the award. After Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, according to director Stephen Daldry, the audience were given the choice to decide whether the song \"Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher\" would be included in the performance that day, since the lyrics include the sentence: \"We all celebrate today 'cause it's one day closer to your death\". As only 3 audience members voted against it, the performance went ahead as normal. On 3 July 2015, 12 year old Nat Sweeney from Birmingham became the forty-first actor to play the role of Billy, making him the 100th to play the role worldwide. ", "Dame Judith Olivia \"Judi\" Dench is an award winning stage and tv/film actress. She is also regarded as one of the greatest British actress and she won the following awards : BAFTAs, 7 Laurence Olivier Awards, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards, and one Academy award. She also won a Tony award. She started her career in 1957 in stage plays and in several Shakespearean plays. She became more famous in he role in the musical movie \"Cabaret\" in 1968.", "Professor Trelawney is portrayed by Emma Thompson in the Prisoner of Azkaban, Order of the Phoenix, and Deathly Hallows Part 2.", "Windsor provided the voice of the Dormouse in Walt Disney’s 2010 live action adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton. The cast of the film also included Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway.[10][11]", "Along with her \"Harry Potter\" co-star Radcliffe, Emma Watson's proving that she's not little Hermione anymore. The actress played a thief in 2013's \"The Bling Ring\" and an ax-carrying marauder in \"This Is the End.\"", "Contemporary residents include the actor Sir Ian McKellen, Matthew Parris, and comedy actress Cleo Rocos, actor Steven Berkoff, comedian Lee Hurst , as well as politician Lord David Owen.[http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/Owen/biog.htm David Owen biography] accessed 28 March 2007", "Maggie Smith's career began at the Oxford Playhouse in the 1950s . She made her film début in 1956 as one of the party guests in a film called Child in the House. After that she has been acting with the most prominent actors and actresses in the world in over sixty films and TV-series, which include Othello ( 1965 ) with Laurence Olivier (as well as her future Potter co-star Michael Gambon in his film début), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ), California Suite ( 1978 ) with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda, A Room with a View ( 1985 ), Hook (1991) with Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Julia Roberts, Sister Act and Sister Act II: Back In The Habit (1992-1993) with Whoopi Goldberg, Richard III ( 1995 ) with Ian McKellen and Jim Broadbent , Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini ( 1999 ) with Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Cher; and Gosford Park ( 2001 ) with Kristin Scott Thomas and Clive Owen, directed by Robert Altman. Maggie Smith has also been nominated for an Oscar six times, and won twice for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978).", "* Shared wins: In 2006, all three actors sharing the role of Billy Elliot received the Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical and in 2012, all four actresses sharing the role of Matilda received the Olivier for Best Actress in a Musical.", "* 1989 – Great Expectations, a Disney Channel two-part film starring Anthony Hopkins as Magwitch, John Rhys-Davies as Joe Gargery, and Jean Simmons as Miss Havisham, directed by Kevin Connor.", "As a theatrical performer John has starred in all the classics from Hair to Godspell, Dracula, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady, The Sound Of Music, They're Playing Our Song, The Hunting of the Snark, A Little Night Music, Love Letters, Children of a Lesser God, Oliver, The Graduate, An Ideal Husband , Influence, The Rocky Horror Show and The Swimming Club. In 2013 John starred as Gomez Addams in The Addams Family Musical.", "In 1999 , she played Mrs Micawber in David Copperfield, which Daniel Radcliffe starred in as young David Copperfield. Alongside David Tennant she reprised her antagonist role as the voice of Queen Victoria in The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists!", "The actor behind Arthur Weasley, Mark Williams, is an accomplished actor with nearly 100 credits to his name. The actor won a SAG Award in 1999 for his performance in \"Shakespeare in Love.\"", "Lady Edith, the Crawley's middle child, constantly feels like she's being overlooked, but no one would overlook the star who plays her. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: ITV/PBS)", "He was already a star before \"Love Actually.\" His credits include \"Pride and Prejudice,\" \"The English Patient,\" \"Shakespeare in Love,\" \"Bridget Jones' Diary,\" \"The Importance of Being Earnest,\" \"Hope Springs,\" \"What a Girl Wants\" and \"Girl With a Pearl Earring.\"" ]

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[ "Is the second actor to play Batman in the movie franchise. He succeeded Michael Keaton ( Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992)) and preceded #3 George Clooney ( Batman & Robin (1997)); #4 Christian Bale ( Batman Begins (2005); The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012)) and #5 Ben Affleck ( Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)). If counting the two different film serials and the television series, then Kilmer is the fifth actor to play Batman. The first 15-chapter film serial, Batman (1943), was released in 1941 and starred Lewis Wilson . The second 15-chapter film serial, Batman and Robin (1949), was released in 1949 and starred Robert Lowery . The TV series, Batman (1966), starred Adam West .", "Then: George Clooney played Bruce Wayne/Batman, replacing Val Kilmer, who played the hero previously in 'Batman Forever.' Clooney was the star of the medical drama series 'ER' and also appeared in the film 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but the latter was his first blockbuster film role.", "Tim Burton gave Michael Keaton another break the following year when he cast him as the lead in his comic book adaptation, Batman. The film also starred Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger. Keaton returned to the role in 1992 for Batman Returns, which featured Michelle Pfeiffer and Danny DeVito. Michael Keaton had been lined up to play Batman once more in Batman Forever but left the franchise when Tim Burton was dropped by Warner Bros. in favour of Joel Schumacher. The role went to Val Kilmer and later George Clooney and Christian Bale.", "Keaton relaunched the character's popularity (we'd never forget Adam West!), but played Bruce Wayne only once more, in 1992's \"Batman Returns.\" Since then, four others have taken on the iconic role for the big screen: Val Kilmer (1995's \"Batman Forever\"), George Clooney (1997's \"Batman & Robin\"), Christian Bale (2005's \"Batman Begins,\" 2008's \"The Dark Knight\" and 2012's \"The Dark Knight Rises\") and Ben Affleck (the upcoming \"Batman v Superman\" and \"Justice League\").", "Batman & Robin marked the end of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher era of movies. Likely due to the film's poor reception, all future Batman movies were cancelled and the franchise was put on hold for nearly eight years. A new Batman franchise was launched in 2005, with Batman Begins , a darker film that was both critically and financially successful ($366 million worldwide gross as of September 4, 2005), with no continuity to Burton's and Schumacher's movies. George Clooney did not participate in the project and was succeeded by the much-younger Christian Bale , who was widely praised for his portrayal of both Bruce Wayne and his alter ego.", "Batman initiated the original Batman film series and spawned three sequels: Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997); the latter two of which were directed by Joel Schumacher instead of Burton, and replaced Keaton as Batman with Val Kilmer and George Clooney, respectively.", "Parallel to the Superman casting, a who's who of Hollywood top stars were considered for the role of Batman, including Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, Charlie Sheen, Tom Selleck, Bill Murray, Harrison Ford and Dennis Quaid. Burton was pressured by Warner Bros. to cast an obvious action movie star, and had approached Pierce Brosnan, but he had no interest in playing a comic book character. Burton was originally interested in casting an unknown actor, and offered Ray Liotta a chance to audition after having completed Something Wild, but Liotta declined, a decision he regrets. Willem Dafoe, who was falsely reported to be considered for the Joker, had actually been considered for Batman early in development. Producer Jon Peters suggested Michael Keaton, arguing he had the right \"edgy, tormented quality\" after having seen his dramatic performance in Clean and Sober. Having directed Keaton in Beetlejuice, Burton agreed.", "4. Joel Schumacher cast George Clooney as Batman after he drew a cowl over Clooney’s face in the From Dusk Til Dawn movie poster. He thought he’d be great based on that image.", "The huge success of Batman Forever resulted in Schumacher being tapped again to direct the next Batman film, Batman & Robin (1997) with George Clooney in the bat suit. The fourth installment was a major disappointment, however, and the franchise wasn't revisited again until the summer of 2005 with Batman Begins. This time, Christopher Nolan (Memento [2000]) was in the director's chair and Christian Bale in the bat suit.", "Batman & Robin is a 1997 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. It is the fourth and final installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series. The film was directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Akiva Goldsman. It stars George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Alicia Silverstone, Uma Thurman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.", "Batman Begins is a 2005 American-British superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, co-written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, and Morgan Freeman. The film reboots the Batman film series, telling the origin story of the title character (Bale), from his alter ego Bruce Wayne's initial fear of bats, the death of his parents, his journey to become Batman, and his fight to stop Ra's al Ghul (Neeson) and the Scarecrow (Murphy) from plunging Gotham City into chaos. It draws inspiration from classic comic book storylines such as The Man Who Falls, Batman: Year One, and Batman: The Long Halloween.", "The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Featuring the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the second part of Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins, starring an ensemble cast including Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman. In the film, Bruce Wayne/Batman (Bale), James Gordon (Oldman) and Harvey Dent (Eckhart) form an alliance to dismantle organised crime in Gotham City, but are menaced by a criminal mastermind known as the Joker (Ledger) who seeks to undermine Batman's influence and create chaos.", "When the Batman franchise was turned over to director Joel Schumacher, Keaton decided not to return. Daniel Day-Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, William Baldwin, and Johnny Depp were reportedly considered as replacements. But the job was won by Val Kilmer – probably the most forgettable of the modern Batmen. Go ahead – try to remember. See? You can’t.", "In the Christopher Nolan reboot of the Batman film franchise, James Gordon is played by Gary Oldman and given a much larger role than he had in previous films. Batman Begins drew heavily from Batman: Year One , and therefore, Gordon was not yet commissioner in the movie. He spent the majority of the film with the rank of sergeant and was portrayed as perhaps the only good cop in the corrupt Gotham City Police Department. As such, Bruce Wayne reached out to him as Batman to form an alliance. It was his use of the Batmobile that saved Gotham City from Ra's al Ghul, and he ended the film with the rank of lieutenant.", "By going to the Internet Movie Database and looking up the 1989 movie, you can see that Michael Keaton beat out Adam West for the part of Bruce Wayne/Batman. In fact, it was Batman's creator, Bob Kane, who gave Keaton the nod over West.", "Tim Burton choose not to continue as director of Warner Bros. franchise, so Joel Schumacher was chosen to direct 1995's Batman Forever. Warner Bros. made the decision to install a new director for the series as they felt Batman would become more commercially successful if it was designed as a family film. Michael Keaton was reportedly unhappy with the new direction the series was taking, so opted not to stay on as Batman. Instead, Val Kilmer was cast for the role of Batman.", "In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a cathedral of crime. Upon overhearing these plans, Schreck's mousy secretary Selena Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer) is tossed from a high-rise window by her boss. Rescued by a covey of kittens, Selena transforms into the leather-clad Catwoman. In this guise, she teams with the Penguin and Schreck to divvy up their ill-gotten gains and help discredit Batman-but she also has her own scores to settle. Paul \"Pee-Wee Herman\" Reubens, Vincent Schiavelli and Jan Hooks play significant bits, while Pat Hingle and Michael Gough make returns as, respectively, Commissioner Gordon and Alfred the Butler.", "Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film, directed and produced by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman. It is the second installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, with Michael Keaton reprising the title role of Bruce Wayne/Batman. The film introduces the characters of Max Shreck (Christopher Walken), a business tycoon who teams up with the Penguin (Danny DeVito) to take over Gotham City, as well as the character of Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer).", "Kilmer was handsomer and buffer than Keaton, but Keaton’s success had established that a believable Bruce Wayne/Batman didn’t need to be impossibly comic book gorgeous or particularly imposing physically. But as a blond man his casting was somewhat sacrilegious to Batman fans, not unlike the furor we saw when Daniel Craig was cast as James Bond a decade later. Of course, Craig made the role his own. Kilmer…didn’t. Sleepy, bored and almost totally disengaged in or out of the rubber cowl, Kilmer seemed to be as unsure and irritated by the material as just about everyone who sat through the movie. Indeed, the actor would go on to regret participating in the entire Batman Forever enterprise.", "The Late Movies: 7 Actors Who Played Batman Before Ben Affleck (And What Fans Had to Say About Them) | Mental Floss", "The Late Movies: 7 Actors Who Played Batman Before Ben Affleck (And What Fans Had to Say About Them)", "This live-action film featured some of Batman's most notorious villains such as Joker, Riddler, Catwoman, and Penguin, who was played by Burgess Meredith. Penguin and the villains try their hardest to outsmart and outmatch Batman and the boy wonder, but are thwarted and unable to succeed. The late Burgess Meredith was the first person to ever play the Penguin and pulled it off with class and elegance, different from his counterpart Danny DeVito in Tim Burton's film \"Batman Returns\".", "In 2004, Oldman returned to prominence when he landed a significant role in the Harry Potter film series, playing Harry Potter's godfather Sirius Black. Oldman and star Daniel Radcliffe reportedly became very close during the filming of the series. The following year, Oldman starred as James Gordon in Christopher Nolan's commercially and critically successful Batman Begins, a role that he reprised in the even more successful sequel The Dark Knight (2008) and once more in the conclusion, The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Prominent film critic Mark Kermode, in reviewing The Dark Knight, downplayed claims that Heath Ledger's Joker was the highlight of the film, saying, \"the best performance in the film, by a mile, is Gary Oldman's ... it would be lovely to see him get an Academy Award nomination because actually, he's the guy who gets kind of overlooked in all of this.\"", "At one point Warner Bros., the series’ studio, did reportedly push for the final Christian Bale installment, The Dark Knight Rises (2012), to feature the Riddler, but their choice was another Nolan cohort, Inception star Leonardo DiCaprio. In the end, they matched Batman up against both Bane (Tom Hardy) and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway).", "Actor George Clooney portrays \"Batman\" in the new film \"Batman & Robin\" in this undated publicity photograph. (Photo : Reuters)", "Cillian Murphy reprises his role as Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow from the previous films. Other cast members include Aidan Gillen as CIA agent Bill Wilson; Rob Brown and Desmond Harrington as police officers; Josh Stewart as Bane's right-hand man Barsad, Christopher Judge as one of Bane's henchmen, Noel Gugliemi as Bane's exile compeller and Tom Conti as a prisoner. William Devane portrays the President of the United States. Aaron Eckhart expressed enthusiasm in returning for a sequel if asked, although he later stated Nolan verified that his character, Harvey Dent / Two-Face, is dead, and only archive footage of Eckhart from The Dark Knight appears in the film. ", "Bale's abilities to transform his body and to disappear into a character influenced the decision to cast him in Batman Begins (2005), the first chapter in Christopher Nolan 's definitive trilogy that proved a dark-themed narrative could resonate with audiences worldwide. The film also resurrected a character that had been shelved by Warner Bros. after a series of demising returns, capped off by Batman and Robin's massive commercial and critical failure. A quiet, personal victory for Bale: he accepted the role after the passing of his father in late 2003, an event that caused him to question whether he would continue performing.", "Christopher Nolan's \"Dark Knight\" trilogy was the latest in a long line of successful Batman franchises. Check out the men and women who donned capes, cowls and villainous grins long before Ben Affleck. What do they look like? What are they up to?", "Christian Bale: Christopher Nolan cast Bale as the vigilante in 2005's \"Batman Begins,\" a welcome reboot to the franchise that lead to spectacular sequel, \"The Dark Knight,\" and another massive hit, \"The Dark Knight Rises.\"", "On Friday, Michael Caine further fueled anticipation about the late Australian actor ‘s performance.  On The Tonight Show, Caine, who plays Bruce Wayne’s butler in The Dark Knight, told Jay Leno that Ledger’s performance deserved, at the very least, a best supporting actor Oscar nomination.   ", "Cast as Lieutenant Gordon, a detective on the Gotham police force in Christopher Nolan's commercially and critically acclaimed \"Batman Begins\"", "'Batman' by the numbers: 25 years, 5 actors, 7 movies and billions of dollars - TODAY.com" ]

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[ "Ewan Gordon McGregor, OBE (/ˌjuːən məˈɡrɛɡər/; born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a leading role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. He is best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting (1996), the young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge! (2001), and Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011).", "Ewan Gordon McGregor, (; born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a leading role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. He is best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting (1996), the young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge! (2001), and Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011).", "Ewan Gordon McGregor (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a leading role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. He is best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting (1996), the young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge! (2001), and Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011). He received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge! and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.", "The prequel films depict the Jedi in their prime, dealing with the rising presence of the dark side of the Force and determined to fight their mortal enemies, the Sith. In Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) discovers nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), whom he believes to be the \"Chosen One\" of a Jedi prophecy who is destined to bring balance to the Force; the boy is eventually paired with Qui-Gon's apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), who promises to train him. The sequel, Attack of the Clones, establishes that the Jedi forswear all emotional attachments, including romantic love, which proves problematic when Anakin, now a young adult (Hayden Christensen), falls in love with Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), whom Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi had served ten years before. In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who is later revealed to be the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, manipulates Anakin's love for Padmé and distrust of the Jedi in order to turn him to the dark side and become his Sith apprentice, Darth Vader. Once corrupted, Vader helps Palpatine hunt down and destroy nearly all of the Jedi, leaving very few left, such as Jedi Master Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi.", "Obi-Wan Kenobi is one of the more beloved of the “Star Wars” characters. Kenobi was portrayed by two fabulous actors in the series of films. As a young man he is played by Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, and as an older man he is played by Alec Guinness.", "McGregor played the male romantic lead role in the 1998 British film Little Voice. In 1999, McGregor starred in the blockbuster Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as the young Obi-Wan Kenobi, a role originally made famous by Sir Alec Guinness in the original Star Wars trilogy. His uncle, Denis Lawson, had played Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy. In 2001, he starred in Moulin Rouge! as the young poet Christian, who falls in love with the terminally-ill courtesan Satine, played by Nicole Kidman. McGregor reprised his role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the subsequent prequel Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones in 2002. In 2003, he starred alongside Renée Zellweger in Down With Love. He also portrayed the younger Edward Bloom in the critically acclaimed film Big Fish alongside Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman and Billy Crudup. During that year, he also received critical acclaim for his portrayal of an amoral drifter mixed up with murder in the drama Young Adam, which co-starred Tilda Swinton. ", "Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness in \"Star Wars,\" was the noble warrior who helped guide young Luke Skywalker.", "2000 - Principal photography for Star Wars: Episode II started in Australia, where shooting would last for two months before moving on to Italy, Tunisia and Spain. George Lucas directs Hayden Christiansen who plays the young Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker). Natalie Portman is Padm Amidala and Ewan McGregor plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Mace Windu, Christopher Lee plays Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Jimmy Smits is Bail Organa.", "Even with all these notable works under his belt, Alec Guinness might still be most widely known for playing Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi in Star Wars (1977). The film was an international sensation, and Guinness’ quietly powerful portrayal of the wise Jedi knight brought his name to a whole new generation of film audiences. After Star Wars’ nearly unprecedented success, Guinness reprised the role in the film’s equally successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Guinness reportedly hated working on Star Wars so much that he claims Obi-Wan’s death was his idea, as a means to limit his involvement in the film. ", "When I played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels, I had to transform myself into a young Alec Guinness . I watched his early work to see what he was like on screen. It is interesting how he is only remembered by people younger than myself for appearing in Star Wars. He played a wealth of characters in lots of films - it was like he was the British film industry.", "Ewan, 30, has just finished making the latest instalment of the Star Wars saga in which he plays the young Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi, and is currently appearing on screen in Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman.", "Ben Burtt, George Lucas3.5B00006HBUJIf The Phantom Menace was the setup, then Attack of the Clones is the plot-progressing payoff, and devoted Star Wars fans are sure to be enthralled. Ten years after Episode I, Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), now a senator, resists the creation of a Republic Army to combat an evil separatist movement. The brooding Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) is resentful of his stern Jedi mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), tormented by personal loss, and showing his emerging \"dark side\" while protecting his new love, Amidala, from would-be assassins. Youthful romance and solemn portent foreshadow the events of the original Star Wars as Count Dooku (a.k.a. Darth Tyranus, played by Christopher Lee) forges an alliance with the Dark Lord of the Sith, while lavish set pieces showcase George Lucas's supreme command of all-digital filmmaking. All of this makes Episode II a technological milestone, savaged by some critics as a bloated, storyless spectacle, but still qualifying as a fan-approved precursor to the pivotal events of Episode III. —Jeff Shannon", "Tim Rose and Mike Quinn reprise their respective roles as Admiral Ackbar and Nien Nunb, both from Return of the Jedi. Kipsang Rotich returns as the voice of Nien Nunb and Erik Bauersfeld returns to voice Ackbar. Kenny Baker, originally announced as part of the cast, was credited as \"consultant\" for R2-D2. Ewan McGregor has an uncredited vocal cameo as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Rey's vision sequence, while archival audio of Frank Oz and Alec Guinness as Yoda and Kenobi, respectively, are also used in the same scene; Oz recorded new dialogue for the film, but it was replaced with pre-existing audio from The Empire Strikes Back. ", "* Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan \"Ben\" Kenobi: an aging Jedi Master who fought during the Clone Wars, survivor of the Great Jedi Purge, and who introduces Luke to the Force.", "Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor and Samuel L. Jackson get their Jedi on in the Star Wars prequels.", "In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), set 32 years before A New Hope (which makes the Alec Guinness version of Obi-Wan less than 60. I don't think so...), Obi-Wan, now played by Ewan McGregor , is seen as a young Jedi Padawan. At the start of the film, Obi-Wan accompanies his master Qui-Gon Jinn on a mission to Naboo", "Obi-Wan Kenobi is a main character in the animated micro-series Star Wars: Clone Wars and the CGI animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, voiced by James Arnold Taylor. In both series, he is a general in the Clone Wars, and he and Anakin have many adventures fighting the Separatists. The latter series highlights his numerous confrontations with General Grievous, his adversarial relationship with Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress, his romance with Duchess Satine Kryze, and the return of his old enemy Darth Maul.", "George Lucas draws the Star Wars film series to a close with this dark sci-fi adventure which sets the stage for the events of the first film and brings the saga full circle. After a fierce battle in which Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin (Hayden Christensen) join Republic forces to help free Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) from the evil Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) and his minions, Anakin is drawn into Palpatine's confidence. Palpatine has designs on expanding his rule, and with this in mind he plants seeds of doubt in Anakin's mind about the strength and wisdom of the Jedis. Anakin is already in a quandary about how to reveal to others the news of his secret marriage to Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) now that she is pregnant, and visions which foretell her death in childbirth weigh heavy on his mind. As Anakin finds himself used by both the Jedis and the Republic for their own purposes -- particularly after Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) expresses his distrust of the young Jedi -- he turns more and more to the Force for help, but begins to succumb to the temptations of its dark side. Many of the Star Wars series regulars returned for Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith, including Frank Oz as the voice of Yoda, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Kenny Baker as R2-D2, and Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca.", "Among the host of new characters, there are a few familiar walk-ons. We witness the first meeting between R2-D2 and C-3PO, Jabba the Hutt looks younger and slimmer (but not young and slim), and Yoda is as crabby as ever. Natalie Portman's stately Queen Amidala sports hairdos that make Princess Leia look dowdy and wields a mean laser. We never bond with Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), and Obi-Wan's day is yet to come. Jar Jar Binks, a cross between a Muppet, a frog, and a hippie, provides many of the movie's lighter moments, while Sith Lord Darth Maul is a formidable force. Baby-faced Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) looks too young and innocent to command the powers of the Force or wield a lightsaber (much less transmute into the future Darth Vader), but his boyish exuberance wins over skeptics.", "Among the host of new characters, there are a few familiar walk-ons. We witness the first meeting between R2-D2 and C-3PO, Jabba the Hutt looks younger and slimmer (but not young and slim), and Yoda is as crabby as ever. Natalie Portman's stately Queen Amidala sports hairdos that make Princess Leia look dowdy and wields a mean laser. We never bond with Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), and Obi-Wan's day is yet to come. Jar Jar Binks, a cross between a Muppet, a frog, and a hippie, provides many of the movie's lighter moments, while Sith Lord Darth Maul is a formidable force. Baby-faced Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) looks too young and innocent to command the powers of the Force or wield a lightsaber (much less transmute into the future Darth Vader), but his boyish exuberance wins over skeptics.", "Was originally considered for the part of the younger Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).", "OBI WAN – The only redeeming character in the whole lot. Ewan has a certain charm and charisma very few young actor’s posses. His freaky and uncanny impression of Alec Guinness sent chills down my spin. I’m looking forward to this character’s growth in the next two installments.", "A cautionary tale if there ever was one — and not because of his story arc. I don’t blame Jake Lloyd or even Hayden Christensen for Anakin sitting at the top of this list. I blame Lucas and his casting director, Robin Gurland. In both cases, they picked the absolute wrong actor for the role. This is all the harder to swallow when you consider how many truly great actors appear in the prequels: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Terrence Stamp, etc. But the ones we remember are Lloyd and Christensen, and for all the wrong reasons.", "Lucas originally had Cushing in mind for the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but Lucas believed that \"his lean features\" would be better employed in the role of Grand Moff Tarkin instead. Lucas commended Cushing's performance, saying \"[He] is a very good actor. Adored and idolized by young people and by people who go to see a certain kind of movie. I feel he will be fondly remembered for the next 350 years at least.\" Cushing, commenting on his role, joked: \"I've often wondered what a 'Grand Moff' was. It sounds like something that flew out of a cupboard.\" ", "Ewan McGregor was not the only actor in the Star Wars prequels to study his performances. The voice for the character Watto was modeled after Guinness's performance as Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948).", "* Natalie Portman as Queen Padmé Amidala: Amidala, the 14-year-old Queen of Naboo, hopes to protect her planet from a blockade by the Trade Federation. Over 200 actors auditioned for the role. The Production notes stated; \"The role required a young woman who could be believable as the ruler of that planet, but at the same time be vulnerable and open\". Portman was chosen especially for her performances in Léon: The Professional (1994) and Beautiful Girls (1996), which impressed Lucas. He stated, \"I was looking for someone who was young, strong, along the lines of Leia [and] Natalie embodied all those traits and more\". Portman was unfamiliar with Star Wars before being cast, but was enthusiastic about being cast as a character she expected to become a role model. Portman said, \"It was wonderful playing a young queen with so much power. I think it will be good for young women to see a strong woman of action who is also smart and a leader.\" ", "John Adedayo Adegboyega (born 17 March 1992), known professionally as John Boyega is a British actor best known for playing Finn in the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh film of the Star Wars series. Boyega rose to prominence in his native United Kingdom for his role as Moses in the 2011 sci-fi comedy film Attack the Block.", "actor: Star Wars [Darth Vader], The Hunt for Red October, The Lion King, Sneakers, Roots, The Great White Hope; voice: �This... is CNN�", "** \"Stranger in a Strange Land\", depicts Eddie as Clint Eastwood in a Star Wars-esque bar. ", "He added a bit of class to Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, as Count Dooku:", "He once got an audition for a Star Wars film as a character who has a monologue.", "Is the only person to receive a best acting nomination in any of the Star Wars movies." ]

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[ "Directed by Andy Tennant (Hitch), with a screenplay co-written by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich), Ever After transports the Cinderella story to Renaissance-era France. Barrymore plays Danielle, whose blissful childhood came to an end when her widowed father re-married and promptly died of a heart attack. At age 18, she is now a servant on her family’s farm where she’s treated badly by her domineering stepmother Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent (the incomparable Anjelica Huston) and her stepsisters Marguerite and Jacqueline (Megan Dodd and Melanie Lynskey, both hilarious). Instead of pouring her heart out to pet mice, Danielle finds companionship in nature, books, and her fellow servants. And then there’s Prince Henry ( would-be Wolverine Dougray Scott ), who hates his life in the castle and has taken to roaming the countryside on horses stolen from peasants. He makes the mistake of attempting to steal one from Danielle, who lobs an apple at him. And so their love story begins.", "Ever After (known in promotional material as Ever After: A Cinderella Story) is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella, directed by Andy Tennant and starring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, and Dougray Scott. The usual pantomime and comic/supernatural elements are removed and the story is instead treated as historical fiction, set in Renaissance-era France. It is often seen as a modern, post-feminism interpretation of the Cinderella myth.", "Ever After (known in promotional material as Ever After: A Cinderella Story) is a 1998 American romantic drama film inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella. It was directed by Andy Tennant and stars Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, and Dougray Scott. The screenplay was written by Tennant, Susannah Grant, and Rick Parks. The original music score was composed by George Fenton. The film's closing theme song \"Put Your Arms Around Me\" is performed by the rock band Texas.", "In 1995, Barrymore starred in Boys on the Side with Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker, and in her cameo appearance in Joel Schumacher's film Batman Forever, she played Sugar, a moll to Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones). The following year, she made a cameo in the successful horror film Scream. Barrymore continued to be highly bankable, and a top box office draw. She also starred in romantic comedies, such as Wishful Thinking (1997) and The Wedding Singer (1998) and Home Fries (1998). Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After (1998) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore \"can hold the screen and involve us in her characters.\" In 2000, Barrymore was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer. Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore also starred in Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), as a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father (based on the real-life story of Beverly Donofrio). In 2002, Barrymore starred in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, with Sam Rockwell and Julia Roberts. ", "Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Regarded as the \"First Lady of the American Theater\", Barrymore was a preeminent stage actress in her era and her career spanned six decades.", "Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and producer. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.", "Renée Kathleen Zellweger (born April 25, 1969) Katy, TX American actress, producer and voice artist. She first gained attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002). Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003).", "Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, film director, screenwriter, producer, and model. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore . She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered States in 1980. Afterwards, she starred in her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial . She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.", "* Ever After (1998), starring Drew Barrymore, a post-feminist, historical fiction take on the Cinderella story.", "Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014), Willow Rosenberg in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), and Michelle Flaherty in the American Pie film series (1999–2012).", "Disney’s new Cinderella (in theaters Friday) updates the animated classic with live action, digital effects, and a newly empowered heroine. But this isn’t the first time the glass-slipper story has been given a feminist slant. In 1998, Drew Barrymore revolutionized the Cinderella tale in Ever After, a film that gives depth and strength to its fairy-tale princess without sacrificing an ounce of charm. What’s most unusual about Ever After is what it does sacrifice: the whole idea of magic.", "Zooey Deschanel is the quirky and funny girl next door. She has had a phenomenal movie career and as appeared in films, such as, Yes Man, Elf and Almost Famous. She currently stars on the hit Fox series New Girl. She was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy award for her role on New Girl. In addition to her successful film and TV career, she has also lent her voice to animation. She voiced the character Lani Aliikai in the 2007 animated mockumentary film, Surf’s Up. She will also be providing the voice of Bridget in the upcoming animated film, Trolls starring Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick.", "Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Michelle Flaherty in the four main original American Pie film series.", "A member of America's multi-generational acting dynasty, Ethel Barrymore established herself as \"the first lady of the American stage\" prior to following her brothers, Lionel and John, to the land of Hollywood and motion pictures. After paying her dues with smaller roles on the stages of New York and further honing her craft abroad in the U.K., Barrymore became a bona fide Broadway star with her 1901 performance in \"Captain Jinx of the Horse Marines.\" So popular was she during her heyday, that her good-humored admonition to persistent theater audiences wanting another curtain call - \"That's all there is, there isn't any more,\" became an oft-quoted catchphrase throughout the 1920s and '30s. Barrymore's five-year dalliance with silent films in the late-teens was pushed aside in favor of theater and family. A chance to work with both Lionel and John lured her back in front of cameras for \"Rasputin and the Empress\" (1932), although not for long. Her final, permanent return to film came 11 years later, at the behest of Cary Grant, with whom she co-starred in \"None But the Lonely Heart\" (1944). The role won her an Academy Award and paved the way for more turns, usually as stern but caring maternal figures, in films like \"The Spiral Staircase\" (1946), \"The Paradine Case\" (1947) and \"Pinky\" (1949). Immortalized as the namesake of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Barrymore's legacy lived on with her memorable film roles and the career of great-niece, Drew Barrymore, who carried on the family tradition.", "She has been portrayed on film and television by Dolores Sutton in F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1976), Rosemary Murphy in Julia (1977), Bebe Neuwirth in Dash and Lilly (1999) and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). Neuwirth was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance, and Leigh received a number of awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination.", "Nicollette Sheridan has won a worldwide audience with her past television and film roles. She exploded on the small screen with her Golden Globe-nominated role of \"Edie Britt\", the blonde bombshell of Wisteria Lane, on ABC's hit show Desperate Housewives . Sheridan was honored in her native England, receiving the 2006 Glamour Women of the Year Award for Best U.S. TV Actress, adding to her back-to-back 2005-2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards.", "The shortlist for Best Actress in a motion picture musical or comedy is Thora Birch (Ghost World), Cate Blanchett (Bandits), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge), Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde). Renee Zellweger (Bridget Jones's Diary).", "Ever After is regarded as one of the best interpretations of the Cinderella story. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 91% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 64 reviews, with an average score of 7.5/10. The critical consensus states: \"Ever After is a sweet, frothy twist on the ancient fable, led by a solid turn from star Barrymore.\" Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a favorable score of 66 based on 22 reviews. ", "In 1999, Barrymore was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star \"Lifetime Achievement\" Award commemorating her outstanding achievements within the film industry as a child actress. [48] In 2005, she began a recurring role in the animated comedy Family Guy as Brian Griffin 's simple-minded girlfriend, Jillian. [49] She has since appeared in a total of eleven episodes. [49] [50] [51] [52] She was the subject of the 2005 documentary My Date with Drew . In it, an aspiring filmmaker and a fan of Barrymore's, uses his limited resources in an attempt to gain a date with her. [53] On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . [54]", "Actress. She was the daughter of actor John Barrymore, half-sister of actor John Barrymore, Jr. and the aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.", "* Drew Barrymore (Olive in Olive, the Other Reindeer, Akima in Titan A.E., Jillian in Family Guy, and Chloe in Beverly Hills Chihuahua)", "She took the role of Gillian Lewis in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996), which was adapted by her husband David Kelley from Michael Brady's play of the same name. Pfeiffer and her producing partner Guinzburg were on a winning streak of producing three back to back films next under their Via Rosa Productions header that included, One Fine Day (1996), A Thousand Acres (1997), and The Deep End of the Ocean (1998). She served as an executive producer and starred as the divorced single mother architect Melanie Parker in the romantic comedy One Fine Day (1996) opposite George Clooney, Subsequent performances included Rose Cook Lewis in the film adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres (1997) with Jessica Lange and Jennifer Jason Leigh; Beth Cappadora in The Deep End of the Ocean (1998) about a married couple who found their son who was kidnapped nine years ago; Titania the Queen of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) with Kevin Kline, Rupert Everett and Stanley Tucci; and Katie Jordan in Rob Reiner's comedy-drama The Story of Us (1999) opposite Bruce Willis. ", "That same year, Winslet co-starred as a code-breaker in the World War II-era spy drama Enigma (2002). She also appeared as a reporter interviewing a death-row inmate in The Life of David Gale, co-starring Kevin Spacey and Laura Linney . In 2004, Winslet starred opposite Jim Carrey in Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which earned her another Academy Award nomination for her performance. She also co-starred with Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland (2004), which explored J.M. Barrie 's inspiration for his best-known work, Peter Pan. In the film, Winslet played the widowed mother of four boys whom Barrie befriended.", "Elizabeth Hurley Talks About Playing the Devil in 'Bedazzled'; J.K. Rowling Discusses the Surprising Success of 'Harry Potter'", "In 1995, she and business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films , [3] with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed . Flower Films has gone on to produce the Barrymore vehicle films Charlie's Angels , 50 First Dates , and Music and Lyrics , as well as the cult film Donnie Darko . Barrymore's more recent projects include He's Just Not That into You , Beverly Hills Chihuahua , Everybody's Fine and Going the Distance . A recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , Barrymore appeared on the cover of the 2007 People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful issue.", "In 2002, Leigh appeared in the crime-drama Road to Perdition. In 2007, she starred in Margot at the Wedding, which was directed by her then-husband, Noah Baumbach. She had a recurring role on the Showtime television series Weeds as Jill Price-Gray. In 2015, she received critical acclaim for her voice-work as Lisa in Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, and for her role as Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe, Critic's Choice, BAFTA and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.", "In 1997, she and her business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films, with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed. Flower Films went on to produce the Barrymore vehicle films Charlie's Angels, 50 First Dates and Music and Lyrics, as well as the cult film Donnie Darko. Her more recent projects include He's Just Not That Into You, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Everybody's Fine and Going the Distance. A recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Barrymore appeared on the cover of the 2007 People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful people.", "Actress Drew Barrymore arrives at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards in a light blue Dior by John Galliano creation on Jan. 11, 2009, in Beverly Hills, Calif.", "Her life as an actress-turned-princess is usually found only in the movies (or fairy tales). The Hollywood actress was known for her classic beauty as well as her regal and tasteful style. The floaty blue dress she wore in “To Catch a Thief” was perhaps her most famous on-screen moment, while her sophisticated lace wedding dress to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco was and is still her most memorable off screen look.", "Drew Barrymore looks effortlessly chic and sophisticated as she attends Madrid photocall for new Netflix zombie show Santa Clarita Diet The 41-year-old actress ", "Won the 2001 Teens Choice Drama Award for her role in Save the Last Dance (2001).", "Drew Barrymore looks effortlessly chic in simple and sophisticated black jumpsuit as she attends Madrid photocall for new Netflix zombie show " ]

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[ "Two blockbuster Hollywood films released in the summer of 1998 portrayed the threat of Earth-threatening asteroids: Mimi Leder's character-driven sci-fi action film Deep Impact (1998) (Tagline: Heaven and Earth are about to collide), with Robert Duvall as an astronaut heading up a government mission in outer space to destroy the comet; and Michael Bay's Armageddon (1998) (Tagline: It's Closer Than You Think), with Bruce Willis and his core drilling team called to thwart the space rock by the use of nuclear weapons.", "Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It features an ensemble cast including Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Keith David, and Steve Buscemi.", "1998 - Armageddon opened in U.S. theatres. The plot: Asteroid on collision course with Earth; must knock it off course; have to drill into surface and detonate nuclear weapon; will use expert oil drillers for the job; Harry S. Stamper (Bruce Willis) is leader of team including: Rockhound (Steve Buscemi), Charles �Chick� Chapple (Will Patton), Jayotis �Bear� Kurleenbear (Michael Duncan), A.J. Frost (Ben Affleck), Oscar Choi (Owen Wilson). Running time: 2 hours and 24 minutes; seems a lot longer. Gross: $36.09 million opening weekend.", "Michael Bay's fast-paced Armageddon (1998), with Bruce Willis (as Harry Stamper) and Billy Bob Thornton cast as two members of a crew of Texas oil-drillers called upon by NASA to save the Earth from a huge meteor headed its way; also with a romantic subplot featuring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler", "1998’s much more serious and somber disaster movie chronicles the attempts to destroy a seven-mile-wide comet (discovered by a teenage amateur astronomer played by Elijah Wood) that’s set to collide with the Earth and cause mass extinction; unfortunately, the nuclear bomb planted on the thing by the spacecraft “Messiah” (a join venture between the U.S. and Russia, notch) only succeeds in splitting it in two, which means there’s now a pair of 3.5-mile-wide comets en route to kill us all. “Deep Impact” was released in May and received praise for its (relative) scientific credibility; however, “Armageddon” had Bruce Willis, Aerosmith on the soundtrack and a Fourth of July weekend release date, so it ultimately made more money. Directed by Mimi Leder, a protege of Steven Spielberg’s; oddly enough, she’s barely been heard from since.", "Armageddon The Earth faces destruction from an asteroid in this smash summer blockbuster. With only 18 days before impact, Bruce Willis (in typical gonzo mode) heads a crew of misfit roughnecks on a mission to outer space to detonate a nuclear device inside the rock to knock it out of orbit. In widescreen and pan-and-scan versions. Stars Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Keith David, Steve Buscemi. Directed by Michael Bay. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 154 min., Action, Box office gross: $200.00 million, Buena Vista, $22.99 SRP.", "Think back to 1979 and a disaster movie called Meteor; Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Russian and American scientists united in a desperate attempt to stop a giant asteroid ploughing into the Earth. Twenty years on and Meteor has spawned itsThink back to 1979 and a disaster movie called Meteor; Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Russian and American scientists united in a desperate attempt to stop a giant asteroid ploughing into the Earth. Twenty years on and Meteor has spawned its very own trend. Bar a certain giant lizard, 1998 is the year of the asteroid disaster-movie. And while action junkies should gear up for Jerry Bruckheimer's explosive Armageddon (big rock threatens the Earth, Bruce Willis dives into a space shuttle to destroy it), DreamWorks' more thoughtful Deep Impact (same plot, no Bruce Willis, more human drama) has managed to get its foot in the door first.", "The only Bruckheimer film in the top five not having to do with pirates, Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster thriller, directed by Michael Bay, that follows a group of deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi, Armageddon was a box office smash that received mixed critical reviews.", "“Bad Boys” was great, but Michael Bay really got to flaunt his genius in what would be the first of his many large-scale sci-fi action adventures. No giant robots in this one, though; here it’s a giant hunk of space rock that’s threatening to collide with the planet, leaving it up to Bruce Willis and his crack team of oil drillers (including Ben Affleck, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi and Michael Clarke Duncan) to hop on the next shuttle and blast the Texas-sized thing into a bunch of much less-threatening smaller chunks. It’s the kind of life-or-death situation and seemingly insurmountable task that calls for at least one Aerosmith song on the soundtrack and a few tears from the lead singer’s daughter as she prays for Affleck’s safe return; luckily, the Ground Control to Willis’ Major Tom is played by Billy Bob Thornton, a fella you’d definitely want to have your back if this kind of crazy shit actually happened. And to think, first contact with the asteroid was established by Eddie Griffin and his dog.", "Armageddon [1] Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity's last chance...", "Battle Zone 1998 : depicts an Alternate History space race, where the Apollo program was a masquerade in order to cover up a full-on interplanetary war between the USA and USSR over Un Obtainium scattered throughout the solar system.", "In this classic sci-fi film set in the 23rd century, Willis tries to once again save the Earth as Korben Dallas, a taxicab driver and former special forces major. When a mysterious woman named Leeloo ( Milla Jovovich ) in an outfit repeatedly cosplayed at conventions, falls into his cab, he embarks on a journey to retrieve four very special stones to help defend the planet. If you’ve ever heard anyone refer to “Multipass,” this is the movie it’s from.", "space game (ed. was an adaption of the arcade classic Defender in which you were needed to protect a city's inhabitants from alien obduction)", "Nothing gets your adrenaline rushing like saving the earth from an asteroid about to hit the planet. And with a star cast that includes Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck – the drama is so much more heroic.  © Touchstone Pictures", "Following the \"swallowing up\" of an American space shuttle in orbit by an unmarked enemy shuttle, the U.S angrily accuses Russia of stealing their spacecraft and threatens to declare war if any similar incidents take place during their forthcoming launch. The British remain unconvinced that the Russians had anything to do with the crime, as they suspect the enemy shuttle (the one which swallowed up the American craft) actually came down somewhere in Japan. James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Japan to figure out what is going on before it's too late. He quickly establishes that his old adversaries SPECTRE are the masterminds behind the scheme, but try as he might he cannot trace their operations base, which seems to be concealed in a remote volcanic region. Aided by the head of the Japanese Secret Service, Tiger Tanaka (Tesuro Tamba), Bond races against the clock as Armageddon beckons in an effort to find the criminal lair and put an end to SPECTRE's sinister plot.", "Deep Impact Opens May 15 President Morgan Freeman discovers that Earth is going to be hit by a comet. Robert Duval heads up the team of astronauts tasked to blow the thing up.", "Description : A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.", "Houston, we have a problem... Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton play the beleaguered, real-life astronauts of what turned out to be NASA's most nail-biting mission when their spacecraft develops a crippling fault. Director Ron Howard cranks up the suspense while Ed Harris plays Gene Krantz, the ground controller who tries to guide them home. Based on the book by Hanks' character Jim Lovell, this technical wonder won Oscars for editing and sound.", "2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke’s short story The Sentinel. The story deals with a series of encounters between humans and mysterious black monoliths that are apparently affecting human destiny, and a space voyage to Jupiter tracing a signal emitted by one such monolith found on the moon. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star as the two astronauts on this voyage, with Douglas Rain as the voice of the sentient computer HAL who “seems human” and has full control over their spaceship.", "Even though we know in advance the outcome, it still has a riveting plot to keep viewers glued to their seats. The movie is especially a testament to the dangers inherent in space flight even to this very day, the training and courage of astronauts, and the anxiety that must be experienced by their families, especially when something goes amiss during the flight. Personally, I found The Right Stuff just a wee bit dull, but rate very highly this movie that put the phrase 'Houston, we have a problem' into our everyday vocabulary.", "For years there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world – but in 2011 what were just sightings become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As the world’s great cities fall, mankind has to make a stand in a battle that noone expected as Los Angeles becomes the last bastion of hope. Marine staff sergeant Michael Nantz ( Eckhart) was on the verge of retiring but now must forge a new platoon of soldiers and", "The film's title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship.", "The 1987 original has become a modern classic, remembered as an ultra-tough action film, led by the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger . In the original, Arnie starred as Dutch, the commander of an elite task force sent into Val Verde; the group is ambushed by an alien hunter who has gone on an intergalactic safari. The Predator picks off each member of Dutch's team until he is forced to fight the creature in violent hand-to-hand (and booby-trap) combat.", "The film follows Royce (Adrien Brody), a mercenary, who wakes up finding himself falling from the sky into a jungle. Once on the ground, he meets other people who have arrived there in the same manner, all of whom have questionable backgrounds, except for a doctor (Topher Grace). As the film progresses, the group discovers that they are on an alien planet that acts as a game preserve where they are being hunted by a merciless race of aliens known as Predators.", "In the pre-credits title sequence set during the Cold War era in 1967, a manned, orbiting American NASA space capsule, Jupiter 16, was conducting routine functions when a strange, unknown \"unidentified object\" (another intruding spacecraft, later identified as Bird One) unexpectedly approached, opened its front hatch metal jaws, and consumed the entire US spacecraft. During the hijacking, one of the astronauts during his space-walk maneuvers had his life-line cut and he expired (# 1 death). The fate of the second astronaut was unknown. Radio and radar contact were entirely lost.", "DESCRIPTION: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.", "The main plot of the movie revolves around a \"Bug\" (code word for a member of an insectoid alien species that is similar in many ways to a very large cockroach) searching for a miniature galaxy, which is also a vast energy source in 1997 New York. Upon landing on Earth, the Bug kills a farmer named Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio) and uses his skin as a disguise to aid in the hunt. A member of an alien royal family, masquerading as a diamond merchant, has concealed the galaxy on his cat's collar.", "Plot: In the year 2038, the Earth has run out of natural resources and has begun mining on other planets. A renegade company is attacking the interplanetary shuttles and must be stopped.", "Martian ships surround Earth eliciting varying responses from different people in different places. President Dale (JACK NICHOLSON), and his press secretary Jerry Ross (MARTIN SHORT) see this as a good public relations opportunity, while First Lady Marsha Dale (GLENN CLOSE) and daughter Taffy (NATALIE PORTMAN) aren't as crazy about the idea. Professor Donald Kessler (PIERCE BROSNAN) thinks the Martians come in peace while warmonger Gen. Decker (ROD STEIGER) wants to attack right away. In Las Vegas, real estate mogul Art Land (JACK NICHOLSON) is busy building a casino while wife Barbara (ANNETTE BENING) attends AA meetings. Casino employee and former boxer Byron Williams (JIM BROWN) wants to go to D.C. to visit his wife Louise Williams (PAM GRIER) and kids, while Vegas star Tom Jones (as himself) keeps belting out the tunes. Meanwhile the Norris clan, including dad Glenn (JOE DON BAKER), donut store employee Richie (LUKAS HAAS) and Sharona (CHRISTINA APPLEGATE) watch army inductee Billy Glenn Norris (JACK BLACK) head of to defend the planet. Finally, competitive reporters and lovers Jason Stone (MICHAEL J. FOX) and Nathalie Lake (SARAH JESSICA PARKER) race to the location of the first contact to cover the story and get the possible first interview with the Martians. But when the Martians kill the military representative, Gen. Casey (PAUL WINFIELD), and others, mass panic ensues. The Martians then scheme to rid the planet of humans, while the survivors fight to defend themselves.", "Three of the seven-person crew (Dallas, Kane, and Lambert) don space suits, \"break out the weapons\" and embark to investigate. In the quiet of the shuttle, Ash will monitor their movements from within via closed circuit screens. Lambert complains: \"I can't see a god-damned thing.\" Meanwhile, back in the hold of the shuttle amidst shafts of steam, Parker and Brett humorously pressure Ripley with more talk regarding their share:", "Director, Danny Boyle. Cast: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Cillian Murphy, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mark Strong, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh. It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all. Special features: Deleted scenes with audio commentary by Danny Boyle; alternate ending; web production diaries; two short films with intro by Danny Boyle; audio commentary by director Danny Boyle; audio commentary by Dr. Brian Cox, University of Manchester. 107 min. DVD X549", "Philip Kaufman's 1983 film The Right Stuff includes a dramatization of the Friendship 7 mission in which Ed Harris plays Glenn. The sequence depicts the spacecraft's three orbits and Glenn's responses to what he saw, sometimes quoted verbatim, as well as the concerns over the heatshield during reentry. The mysterious \"fireflies\" are also shown, but their true explanation is not revealed; instead they are depicted as magical protection summoned by Australian Aborigines at the Muchea Tracking Station." ]

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[ "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is an epic film based on the book called The Sentinel written by Arthur C Clarke in 1951. Arthur C. Clarke when comparing the book to the movie is quoted as saying; “it is like comparing an acorn to the resulting oak-tree”. This quote is very true to how Kubrick has taken Clarke’s words and developed them into a classic movie of the era.", "2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author. The story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke, most notably \"The Sentinel\" (written in 1948 for a BBC competition, but first published in 1951 under the title \"Sentinel of Eternity\"). By 1992, the novel had sold three million copies worldwide. An elaboration of Clarke and Kubrick's collaborative work on this project was The Lost Worlds of 2001.", "2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, was partially inspired by Clarke's short story \"The Sentinel\". Clarke concurrently wrote the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, published soon after the film was released. The film follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer Hal after the discovery of a mysterious black monolith affecting human evolution. The film deals with the themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life. It is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. It uses sound and minimal dialogue in place of traditional narrative techniques; the soundtrack consists of classical music such as The Blue Danube and Also sprach Zarathustra.", "Arthur C. Clarke (1917-), British science-fiction author and inventor. Ardent atheist. The film 2001: A Space Odyssey was based on his short story \"The Sentinel.\" In the future envisioned in his novel 3001, religion has become taboo; the blood-soaked religions of the past, are viewed as barbaric. The dinosaur species Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei is named after him, or else its an extraordinarily serendipitous coincidence.", "Kubrick spent five years developing his next film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), having been highly impressed with science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End, about a superior race of alien beings who assist mankind in eliminating their old selves. After meeting Clarke in New York City in April 1964, Kubrick made the suggestion to work on his 1948 short story The Sentinel, about a tetrahedron which is found on the Moon which alerts aliens of mankind. That year, Clarke began writing the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the screenplay was written by Kubrick and Clarke in collaboration. The film's theme, the birthing of one intelligence by another, is developed in two parallel intersecting stories on two very different times scales. One depicts transitions between various stages of man, from ape to \"star child\", as man is reborn into a new existence, each step shepherded by an enigmatic alien intelligence seen only in its artifacts: a series of seemingly indestructible eons-old black monoliths. In space, the enemy is a supercomputer known as HAL who runs the spaceship, a character which novelist Clancy Sigal described as being \"far, far more human, more humorous and conceivably decent than anything else that may emerge from this far-seeing enterprise\".", "Kubrick spent five years developing his next film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The film was adapted from the short story The Sentinel, by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, and the screenplay was written by Kubrick and Clarke in collaboration. The film's theme, the birthing of one intelligence by another, is developed in two parallel intersecting stories on two very different times scales. One depicts transitions between various stages of man, from ape to \"star child\", as man is reborn into a new existence, each step shepherded by an enigmatic alien intelligence seen only in its artifacts -a series of seemingly indestructible eons-old black monoliths. It also depicts human interaction with our own more directly created and controlled offspring intelligence (which we were evidently not quite ready for). The film was conceived as a Cinerama spectacle and was photographed in Super Panavision 70.", "A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the \"Dawn of Man,\" a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path.", "2001: A Space Odyssey began as an idea by director Stanley Kubrick [1928-1999] to create the \"proverbial good science fiction movie.\" He developed the screenplay in collaboration with British science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke [1917-2008] based on Clarke's 1950 short story 'The Sentinel'. As they were working on the screenplay, they were also placing their ideas into a book that was subsequently published in 1968 by Clarke under the same title as the movie. The novel was scheduled to be released prior to the film pending Kubrick's approval of the book's content. It was Clarke's belief that Kubrick intentionally delayed signing off on Clarke's version so that the movie would be released first. In 1972, Clarke published The Lost Worlds of 2001, a compilation of behind-the-scenes notes about the script and production issues. It also included a copy of The Sentinel and excerpts from the early screenplay that did not make it into the final version of the film. A sequel movie, 2010 , was released in 1984.", "In 1948 he wrote \" The Sentinel \" for a BBC competition. Though the story was rejected, it changed the course of Clarke's career. Not only was it the basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey , but \"The Sentinel\" also introduced a more cosmic element to Clarke's work. Many of Clarke's later works feature a technologically advanced but still-prejudiced mankind being confronted by a superior alien intelligence. In the cases of The City and the Stars (and its original version, Against the Fall of Night), Childhood's End , and the 2001 series, this encounter produces a conceptual breakthrough that accelerates humanity into the next stage of its evolution. In Clarke's authorised biography, Neil McAleer writes that: \"many readers and critics still consider [Childhood's End] Arthur C. Clarke's best novel.\" [29]", "Using Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel” and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film based on Clarke’s story, compare and contrast the short story with the film, with special attention to discontinuities between the written and visual form. Analyze both forms using terms drawn from narrative fiction (plot, character, setting, point of view, metaphor, etc.).", "Arthur C. Clarke is the renowned author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The novel, published after the release of the film in 1968 was written with the help of Stanley Kubrick himself.", "The early sections of 2001 (set on the Moon) were based on Arthur C. Clarke 's short story, \"The Sentinel\".", "from the classic Stanley Kubrick-directed film , the original story and novel were developed by Arthur C. Clarke, based on a short story called The Sentinel. And while Kubrick’s unique vision doesn’t give the viewer a lot of explanation for the events that take place, Clarke’s novel provides a much clearer picture of the relationship between the black monolith that appears to the group of early human ancestors and the eventual first contact that human civilization has with an alien life form.", "Kubrick told Clarke he wanted to make a film about \"Man's relationship to the universe\", and was, in Clarke's words, \"determined to create a work of art which would arouse the emotions of wonder, awe ... even, if appropriate, terror\". Clarke offered Kubrick six of his short stories, and by May 1964, Kubrick had chosen \"The Sentinel\" as the source material for the film. In search of more material to expand the film's plot, the two spent the rest of 1964 reading books on science and anthropology, screening science fiction films, and brainstorming ideas. They spent two years transforming \"The Sentinel\" into a novel, and then into a script for 2001. Clarke said that his short story \"Encounter in the Dawn\" inspired the film's \"Dawn Of Man\" sequence. ", "The movie, like the book was filmed and released prior to the first landing on the moon by mankind in 1968. The film takes the viewer on the journey described by the author but with the use of other creative means to extend, elaborate and embellish the story told by Clarke. Kubrick has used Clarke’s 1951 book “The Sentinel” and expanded on it to produce the film. Arthur C. Clarke is quoted as saying; it is like comparing “an acorn to the resulting oak-tree”. As mentioned previously this is a true summation of the way Kubrick has taken this story and developed it into a 141 minute movie and made it an all time epic movie that won Academy Awards.", "Stanley Kubrick's quiet masterpiece probes the mysteries of space and human destiny. While investigating the appearance of mysterious monoliths throughout the universe, astronauts David (Keir Dullea) and Frank (Gary Lockwood) battle their ship's intelligent computer, HAL-9000. This epic sci-fi drama based on Arthur C. Clarke's story \"The Sentinel\" was nominated for four Academy Awards and won for its stunning special effects.", "Published in 1968, this novel, even today, is years ahead of its time. Set in the future, the World War had obliterated millions with entire species extinct. This causes the humans to look for a new home planet. However, large corporations build artificial animals, which look extremely realistic, and are successful in creating artificial humans, used for slave labor. This causes great fear amongst the human population and the androids are subsequently banned. The androids are on the run, and Rick Deckard is brought in to hunt down the escapees to “retire” them. This book was the inspiration for Blade Runner.", "An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears. The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicle's puzzles. From the ubiquitous trilateral symmetry of its structures to its cylindrical sea and ma...", "Clarke and Kubrick jointly developed the screenplay and treatment, which were loosely based on The Sentinel and incorporated elements from various other Clarke stories. Clarke wrote the novel adaptation independently. Although the film has become famous due to its groundbreaking visual effects and ambiguous, abstract nature, the film and book were intended to complement each other.", "After Dr. Strangelove’s release, Kubrick became fascinated with the idea of space travel and extraterrestrial life. He became determined to make “the ultimate science fiction movie” and sought out a partner to help in his endeavor. Roger Caras, a staffer at Columbia Pictures, suggested the author Arthur C. Clarke as a possible collaborator. Caras cabled the film proposal to Clarke, who was living in Sri Lanka at the time. The two met in New York City in April of 1964 and began working on a film about “man’s relationship to the universe.”", "The classic sci-fi series of the '60s returns as one man, Scott Bakula, tries to stop an invasion of the earth by aliens disguised as humans.", "Screenplay by Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, based on Clarke’s novel. With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain. Stanley Kubrick’s oblique art-film-in-outer-space left many critics and initial road-show audiences bored and confused, but in that summer of 1968 younger viewers took to the film, hypnotized by its prophetic tone and psychedelic finale. Campaign director Mike Kaplan took note of the new demographic and had new posters designed, emphasizing the ending and rebranding the film as “the ultimate trip.” Digital restoration courtesy Warner Bros.", "Heston played 20th-century American astronaut George Taylor, who travels to a strange planet where intelligent apes dominate mute, primitive humans. Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall played the sympathetic chimpanzees Zira and Cornelius, and Linda Harrison portrayed Taylor's love interest Nova. Maurice Evans played the villain, orangutan science minister Dr. Zaius. The finale, in which Taylor comes upon a ruined Statue of Liberty and realizes he has been on Earth all along, became the series' defining scene and one of the most iconic images in 1960s film. The film was released on February 8, 1968, and was a smash success with both critics and audiences, breaking contemporary box office records and earning rave reviews. John Chambers received an honorary Oscar at the 41st Academy Awards for his make-up effects, the first ever given to a make-up artist. Jerry Goldsmith's score and Morton Haack's costume design also earned Oscar nominations. Fox approached Jacobs and Abrahams about filming a sequel. Though they had not made the film with sequels in mind, its success led them to consider the prospect.", "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) directed by Stanley Kubrick • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd", "\"2001: A Space Odyssey\" was Stanley Kubrick's epic, groundbreaking film from 1968, and HAL 9000 was unquestionably its star.", "Clarke's third novel fuses science and mysticism in an optimistic treatise describing the transcendence of humankind from petty, warring beings to the guardians of utopia, and beyond. One of the first major works to present alien arrival as beneficent, it describes the slow process of social transformation when the Overlords come to Earth and guide us to the light. Humanity ultimately transcends the physical and joins a cosmic overmind, so ushering in the childhood's end of the title", "Yet in 1964, before the film was made, Stanley Kubrick originally decided that he and Arthur C Clarke would work on the novel together first, as a basis of what the film would be. However, as Arthur C Clarke wrote:", "The 1960 film was remade in 2002, starring Guy Pearce as the Time Traveller, a mechanical engineering professor named Alexander Hartdegen, Mark Addy as his colleague David Filby, Sienna Guillory as Alex's ill-fated fiancée Emma, Phyllida Law as Mrs. Watchit, and Jeremy Irons as the Uber-Morlock. Playing a quick cameo as a shopkeeper was Alan Young, who featured in the 1960 film. (H.G. Wells himself can also be said to have a \"cameo\" appearance, in the form of a photograph on the wall of Alex's home, near the front door.)", "Directed by Irving Pichel and producer George Pal along with a screenplay by Robert Heinlein took a very documentary approach to the narrative and the landscapes. The film stars John Archer as Jim Barnes, Warner Anderson as Dr. Charles Cargraves, with Tom Powers and Dick Wesson. The film was a critical success an revived the Sci-Fi genre.", "Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59) is a British television serial in which a crashed spacecraft is discovered in London. The wreck evidences that the human population of Earth resulted from the experiments of a Martian civilisation, now long dead. A film remake was released in 1967.", "NOTE // ABSTRACT --- analog, stereo., Dolby processed. Fully dramatized adaptation, based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Participants: Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, Roxann Dawson, Richard Doyle, Ethan Phillips, Marnie Mosiman, Dwight Schultz, Armin Shimerman. [script by Nat Segaloff & John de Lancie ; produced by Alien Voices ; directed by Leonard Nemoy]. //", "90 mins Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy. Stars Gillian Anderson, Ben Kingsley" ]

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[ "Mr. Freeze is one of the two main antagonists of the critically bombed Batman & Robin; however, in this movie, he was greatly altered from almost every other incarnation to the point that many would consider this campy ala his first appearance as Mr. Zero. He is portrayed by Austrian actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who also played the Terminator .", "Mr. Freeze was played by several actors (George Sanders, Otto Preminger and Eli Wallach) in the original Batman television series, by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, and by Nathan Darrow on the 2010s series Gotham; he was voiced by Michael Ansara in Batman: The Animated Series, by Clancy Brown in The Batman, and by Maurice LaMarche in the Batman: Arkham video game franchise.", "Batman & Robin is a 1997 superhero movie and the sequel to 1995's smash hit Batman Forever, starring George Clooney and Chris O'Donnell as the eponymous dark knight and his loyal sidekick, as well as Uma Thurman and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the villains Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze. The film features several other characters from the classic comic book series, including Batgirl (played by Alicia Silverstone), Commissioner Gordon (Pat Hingle), Bane (Jeep Swanson), and Bruce Wayne's devoted butler, Alfred (Michael Gough). In this installment, Batman and Robin face great odds as three powerful villains conspire to take over Gotham City and bring an end to Batman's campaign of vigilante justice. However, with the help of their new crime-fighting partner, Batgirl, they just might be able to take down the terrible trio. Batman & Robin was another big success at the box office, featuring an original score from composer Elliot Goldblatt.", "Was considered for the role of Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin (1997) until director Joel Schumacher decided that Mr. Freeze must be \"big and strong like he was chiseled out of a glacier\". The role went to Arnold Schwarzenegger .", "12.  Arnold Schwarzenegger – “Kill the heroes!”  Before he created a soundboard solely from his quotes as Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin (1997), Arnold cut his teeth as the title character in Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Conan the Destroyer (1984).  Essentially reprising Conan in everything but name, Arnie technically plays a totally different character in the spin-off film, Red Sonja (1985).", " 1998 Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (Video) (Batman created by) / (characters: Bruce Wayne/Batman, Richard \"Dick\" John Grayson/Robin, Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth, Commissioner James 'Jim' Worthington Gordon & Mr. Zero as Mr. Freeze - uncredited)", "\"Deep Freeze\" finds the Caped Crusaders avoiding the Frosty Freezies treatment by opening the steam valve with their feet, but in the wake of unpleasant rumors tarnishing their reputations, Batman decides it's time to hang up their capes and cowls. Meanwhile, Mister Freeze (Otto Preminger), believing the Dynamic Duo to be on ice for good, implements his diabolical scheme to hold Gotham City for a cool billion dollar ransom, or face being frozen solid in 90 degree summer heat. This is too much for Batman, who cannot stand by any longer with his beloved Gotham City in peril, going into action to put away the frosty culprit's best laid plans once and for all. Byron Keith is again on hand as Mayor Linseed, the seventh of his ten appearances, while the stunning Dee Hartford, in one of her last roles, turns up the heat in her one piece bathing suit. As difficult in front of the camera as he was behind it, 'wild' Otto Preminger sealed his own fate in not returning to play Mister Freeze for his next and final two parter, which saw Eli Wallach inherit the part in \"Ice Spy\"/\"The Duo Defy.\"", "Mr. Freeze (George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach) - Featured in 6 Episodes. He is very different from the way he is in the comics, though the later Batman and Robin film based the Arnold Schwarzenegger version of the character on the TV show.", "Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero Direct-to-video animated adventure with Batman and Robin going after cryogenic super criminal Mr. Freeze, who has kidnapped Batgirl in a plot to save the life of his wife. In clamshell packaging. Voices of Kevin Conroy, Michael Ansara, Loren Lester, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Warner Home Video, 1997, MPAA rating: NR, $19.96.", "Batman & Robin is the fourth and final installment in the comic book-inspired film series initiated by Tim Burton and the second directed by Joel Schumacher . Released in 1997, it starred George Clooney replacing Val Kilmer as Batman with Chris O'Donnell returning as Robin and introduced Batgirl ( Alicia Silverstone ), a niece of Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth ( Michael Gough ).", "* George Dzundza (Perry White in Superman: The Animated Series, Dr. Gregory Belson in Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero, and Arnold Wesker/Ventriloquist in Batman: The Animated Series)", "Before Tom Hardy was hijacking airplanes and blowing up football stadiums as Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises,” the muscle-bound Batman villain was portrayed by former professional wrestler Robert Swenson in 1997’s “Batman & Robin.”", "George Clooney became the next star to play Batman in 1997 for Batman & Robin. The film also saw Chris O'Donnell reprising his role as Robin and Uma Thurman and Arnold Schwarzenegger playing Batman's enemies. Despite some commercial success, the film was heavily criticized for taking an extremely light hearted approach. After the film, Clooney himself reportedly said “I think we may have killed the franchise” and called it  a waste of money.", "Despite the regular fighting on the show, Batman and Robin typically use non-lethal force; only three criminal characters die during the series: the Riddler's moll Molly (played by Jill St. John in episode two), who accidentally falls into the Batcave's atomic reactor, and two out-of-town gunmen who shoot at Batman and Robin, but kill each other instead, toward the end of \"Zelda The Great/A Death Worse Than Fate\". Twice, the Catwoman (Julie Newmar) appears to fall to her death (into a bottomless pit and from a high building into a river), but since she returned in later episodes, as a \"cat\", she presumably has nine lives, thus has several more left. In \"Instant Freeze\", Mr. Freeze freezes a butler solid and knocks him over, and sound-effects suggest that he is shattered into pieces. A later reference suggests the butler survived. In \"Green Ice\", Mr. Freeze freezes a policeman solid; it is left unclear whether he survived. In \"The Penguin's Nest\", a policeman suffers an electric shock at the hands of the Penguin's accomplices, but he is presumed to survive, as he appears in some later episodes", "The Christopher Nolan Batman movies didn’t include Robin, but he did appear, played by Chris O’Donnell, in both Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. The character will always be linked with Batman due to their long history, but various versions of Robin have gone on to become superheroes in their own right, such as Dick Grayson’s transition into Nightwing.", "* Mr. Freeze appears in the direct-to-video original animation DC Super Friends: The Joker's Playhouse (2010), voiced by Eric Bauza.", "An American cultural icon, Batman has been licensed and adapted into a variety of media, from radio to television and film, and appears on a variety of merchandise sold all over the world, such as toys and video games. The character has also intrigued psychiatrists, with many trying to understand the character's psyche. In May 2011, Batman placed second on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time, after Superman. Empire magazine listed him second in their 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters of All Time. Kevin Conroy, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller, and Jason O'Mara, among others, have provided the character's voice for animated adaptations. Batman has been portrayed in both film and television by Lewis Wilson, Robert Lowery, Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, and Ben Affleck.", "Plus, he got loads of fan mail for playing Mr. Freeze (the third actor to do so) on TV’s Batman in the 1960s.", "Stunt Double : Rather blatantly so in most of the fight scenes. [6] Robin's stunt double doesn't look much like him at all. Averted toward the end of \"The Ring of Wax,\" where Burt Ward enters the shot as Robin, is confronted by a Mook, and gets into a fairly lengthy fight with him in a single continuous take, a fairly impressive stunt performance by the actor himself.", "Batman and Robin are back working side-by-side to stop the villains of Gotham City, but is there tension appearing between them, especially when one villainess who calls herself Poison Ivy can make anyone fall in love with her...literally. Along with Poison Ivy, the icy Mr. Freeze is freezing anything which gets in his way from achieving his goal. Written by FilmFanUk", "Actor Burt Ward played Bruce Wayne's friend and sidekick Dick Grayson, who fought crime with Batman as the \"boy wonder\" called Robin.âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)", "This is the first (and only one) of the four Batman movies in the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher series in which neither main antagonist is killed: In Batman , the Joker falls to his death. In Batman Returns , the Penguin dies of his severe injuries after falling into the toxic water of his lair. In Batman Forever , Two-Face falls into a deep pit. In this movie, the only villain who dies is Jason Woodrue. Poison Ivy is committed to Arkham Asylum and Mr. Freeze turns good and goes to Arkham Asylum with his cryogenically frozen wife to finish his research, spending the rest of his time there as Poison Ivy's cell mate, making her life a living hell. Bane was presumed dead after accidentally being crushed by Mr. Freeze, but his death remains ambiguous.", "The pride of Frostbite Falls and Whatsamatta U's most famous alumni find their way onto the big screen (and the real world) in this comedy inspired by the popular cartoon series. Years after their TV show is cancelled, Rocky the Flying Squirrel (voice of June Foray) and Bullwinkle J. Moose (voice of Keith Scott) are barely getting by on residual checks; they're wondering what to do next when Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro), the evil genius of Pottsylvania, transforms himself from a cartoon into a living, breathing, nasty human being, thanks to the assistance of television executive Minnie Mogul (Janeane Garofalo). With the help of his newly flesh-and-blood henchmen Boris Badenov (Jason Alexander) and Natasha Fatale (Rene Russo), Fearless Leader plots to take over the world by using television to zombify people and then persuading the masses to elect him president. Can the daring flying squirrel and the well-meaning but not especially bright moose stop them? Unlike the TV show, which made a virtue of its unsophisticated animation, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle employs a technically sophisticated blend of computer-generated animated characters (Rocky and Bullwinkle) and live actors (Fearless Leader, Boris, and Natasha). Human beings making guest appearances include Randy Quaid, John Goodman, and Jonathan Winters.", "Best known for his work as Batman's diesel arch nemesis Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy's true physical peak was achieved before that blockbuster, in 2011's underrated MMA drama Warrior. As a ferocious bruiser pitted against his brother in a championship bout, Hardy's body boasts not an ounce of fat, with the actor looking so bulked up that he comes across as infinitely more menacing than he did wearing his voice-altering Bane mask.", "BURT: Yes. Bruce Lee and I lived in the same condominium complex. We were friends before he got the role of Kato. Bruce and I used to spar and practice together. You know he was a fantastic martial artists. Probably more responsible then anyone in North America for bringing the martial arts. On BATMAN we did have our fight and in fact that was Bruce Lee's first televised or filmed fight seen. That was with me.", "Brad has actually worked with Jack before, in the 1975 film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Jack played patient R.P. McMurphy while Brad took on the part of suicidal Billy Bibbit (coincidentally, Danny DeVito - who stepped into the role of The Penguin in 1992's Batman Returns - was also in that classic movie, playing Martini). Both Brad and Jack were nominated for Academy Awards for their work, but only Jack won.", "* In Batman Begins, Joe Chill is played by Richard Brake. This version of Chill claims to have been \"driven to mug\" the Waynes by poverty (as Gotham had suffered an economic depression because of an unspecified plot by the League of Shadows). Chill mugs the Waynes at gunpoint, demanding their wallets and jewelry. Thomas willingly gives him his wallet, but quickly moves to defend his wife when Chill grabs her necklace. In the ensuing scuffle, Chill shoots them both dead. He is caught very shortly thereafter, convicted, and sentenced to prison. After serving 14 years in prison, Chill makes a deal to be released and put on parole in return for testimony against his cellmate, Gotham mob boss Carmine Falcone. During the hearing, he claims to regret his crime as Bruce leaves the courtroom. After the hearing, as Chill is escorted out of the courthouse, he is shot and killed by a female assassin of Falcone's who is posing as a reporter, which deprives Bruce of his own chance for revenge. Bruce later confronts Falcone, who taunts him by saying that Chill bragged that Thomas Wayne \"begged like a dog\" before his death. Later on in the film, Batman relives his parent's murder under the influence of the Scarecrow's fear toxin. As in the Year Two storyline, it is left ambiguous whether or not Bruce would have actually killed Chill.", "Contrary to popular belief, he didn't audition for the role of Robin/Dick Grayson in Batman Forever (1995). He said, \"I'd never have auditioned to be bloody Robin\".", "Paul Reubens as Lock . Reubens previously worked with Burton on Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Batman Returns (1992).", "Voiced the mutant villain Clayface on Batman: The Animated Series (1992), a character who, ironically, was a disfigured actor, then voiced the villain Slade on Teen Titans (2003), and also did the voice of the Hulk/Bruce Banner twice on two separate series, one for a guest spot on Fantastic Four (1994) and one for a guest spot on Iron Man (1994), in addition to providing the voice of Orion for Justice League (2001). He then played the comic book character Hellboy in Hellboy (2004). He went on to portray Batman in Justice League Heroes (2006).", "He turned down the role of Harvey Dent/Two Face in Batman Forever (1995), due to scheduling conflicts with Braveheart (1995). See more »", "I have a definative answer for you. Batman was originally aimed at kids. Your question was not who is the toughest batman or who is the best actor, but who is the real Batman?" ]

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[ "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (also referred to as simply Terminator 2 or T2) is a 1991 American science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by James Cameron. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong. It is the sequel to the 1984 film The Terminator, and the second installment in the Terminator franchise. Terminator 2 follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her ten-year-old son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator, the liquid metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John Connor and prevent him from becoming the leader of the human resistance. A second, less advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent back in time to protect John.", "Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the 1991 sequel to the original Terminator film released by TriStar Pictures. It is co-written, directed, and produced by James Cameron and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick. After the machines failed to prevent John Connor from being born, they try again in 1995, this time attempting to kill him as a child with a more advanced terminator, the T-1000. As before, John sends back a protector for his younger self, a reprogrammed Terminator, identical to the one from the previous film. After eleven years of preparing for the future war, Sarah decides to use the same tactics the machines used on her: prevent Skynet from being invented by destroying Cyberdyne Systems before they create it. Also starring Emmy winner Joe Morton. It was released on July 3, 1991 to critical acclaim and grossed $519.8 million worldwide", "Added missins subtitles, re-sync Terminator.2.Judgment.Day.1991.Special.Edition.Bluray.Skynet.Edition.1080p.DTS-HD-6.1.x264-Grym.Fr.srt Also added and translated from English the subtitle for the alternate ending. Encoded in UTF-8", "Terminator 2, or T2, as it was abbreviated, broke box-office records (including the opening weekend record for an R-rated film), earning over $200 million in the United States and Canada, and over $300 million in other territories, and became the highest-grossing film of that year. It won four Academy Awards: Best Makeup, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Visual Effects. It was also nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing, but lost both Awards to JFK.", "·         Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.", "\"Hasta la vista, baby\" is a catchphrase associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger's title character from the 1991 science fiction thriller film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.", "Following the movie, Terminator 2: Judgment Day has the T-800 say \"Hasta la vista, baby\" if you drain on the outlanes with the last ball.", "Though not expected to be either a commercial or critical success, The Terminator topped the American box office for two weeks and helped launch the film career of Cameron and solidify that of Schwarzenegger. Three sequels have been produced: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), and Terminator Salvation (2009), as well as a television series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008\"2009). In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\"", "\"The Terminator\" was a 1984 sci-fi/action film directed and co-written by James Cameron who would also direct \" Aliens (1986) \" and \"The Abyss (1989)\" - all three films starred Michael Biehn as a military guy/soldier - before returning to \" Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) \".", "In the T2 commentary, Cameron states that the Model 101s all look like Schwarzenegger, with a 102 looking like someone else, leading to speculation that the 101 refers to the physical appearance while the 800 refers to the endoskeleton common to many models. A scene deleted from the theatrical cut, but restored in the Terminator 2 Special Edition, lends the most credence to this explanation. In this scene, John and Sarah shut down The Terminator for modification according to his instructions. When he reboots, the upper-left of his HUD reads \"Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Model 101 Version 2.4\". Additionally, the original Terminator 2 teaser trailer further verifies this on a display monitor during cyborg tissue generation, referencing the Series 800 Model 101.", "It's pretty hard to beat the first 15 minutes of Terminator 2. You knew right away that this movie was going to be awesome as Schwarzenagger drives off on а Harley to the tune of Bad to the Bone. Here is the opening sequence...", "The 137 minute theatrical cut of the movie was first released on VHS in November 1991. On November 24, 1993, the Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Special Edition cut of the film was released to Laserdisc and VHS, containing 15 minutes of previously unseen footage including scenes with Michael Biehn reprising his role as Kyle Reese in a dream sequence. Some scenes, however, were still not included in the two-cassette VHS cut. In October 1997, the film received its first DVD release which included only the theatrical cut. The subsequent \"Ultimate Edition\" and \"Extreme Edition\" DVD releases also included the extended version of the film.", "An unprecedented budget of $102 million (1991 dollars)—3.5 times the cost of the average film and approximately 15 times the $6.4 million budget of The Terminator —was reserved for Terminator 2. A significant proportion of this was for actor and film-crew salaries. According to The Daily Sentinel and The Daily Beast, Arnold Schwarzenegger was given a $11–12 million Gulfstream III business jet, while $5–6 million was allocated towards James Cameron's salary. The production itself, which included special effects and stunts, totalled $51 million. Despite the significant expenditure, the film had nearly recovered its budget prior to its release. Worldwide rights were sold for $65 million, video rights for $10 million, and television rights for $7 million.", "Who can forget the buff, toned arms of Sarah O'Connor (Linda Hamilton), who has been preparing her son John (Edward Furlong) throughout childhood for his future role as leader of the Human Resistance against Skynet . In this \"Terminator\" sequel, androids arrive (including one played by Arnold Schwarzenegger), mayhem ensues and the world is saved, at least until 2003, when it's time for \"T3.\" Fun fact: Hamilton underwent a grueling 13-week regimen with a personal trainer and lost 12 pounds before shooting began. What a woman.", "A Terminator (Robert Patrick) arrives from the future, programmed to kill John – but another Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), reprogrammed to protect John, also arrives. This Terminator has been sent back in time by the now-adult John, to save the life of his younger self.", "As promised, the big guy returns in Cameron’s follow up to The Terminator that set the standard for the bigger, better, and louder blockbuster sequel. This time, Arnie’s good, and he has to save John Conner from the T1000, a deadly cyborg made of a deliciously diabolical liquid metal that marked a breakthrough in special effects.", "The Terminator is a 1984 American science-fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron . It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator , a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor ( Linda Hamilton ), whose son will one day become a savior against machines in a post-apocalyptic future. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese , a soldier from the future sent back in time to protect Connor.", "Back in 2029 (ahead in 2029?), Reese and a Terminator get sent back to 1984, as per the first film – but because this is a whole new Timeline, the Terminator sent back to kill Sarah (a “young” Arnold Schwarzenegger, thanks to some helpful CGI) ends up getting dispatched by her Guardian Terminator, in an epic Arnie-on-Arnie fight.", "While the first film of the series, directed by Ridley Scott, was successful, Fox did not consider a sequel until 1983, when James Cameron expressed his interest to producer David Giler in continuing the Alien story. After Cameron's The Terminator became a box office hit, Cameron and partner Gale Anne Hurd were given approval to direct and produce the sequel to Alien, scheduled for a 1986 release. Cameron wrote the screenplay from a story he developed with Giler and Walter Hill.", "Cameron’s fortunes took a major upturn in 1984, when he wrote and directed The Terminator (1984). The movie told the gripping science-fiction tale of a robot from the future (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) who travels to the present day to hunt down the leader of the resistance in a yet-to-occur battle between humans and machines. The film became a critical and commercial hit and helped Cameron land his next project, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), which featured Sigourney Weaver as a female action hero in space. Aliens (1986) received several Academy Award nominations, including one for Weaver for Best Actress.", "1984 saw the beginning of the Terminator (franchise) starring Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger. This story provides one of the grittiest roles for a woman in action and Hamilton was required to put in extensive effort to develop a strong physique. ", "Around and shortly after The Terminator's release in theaters, a number of merchandise items and media were released and sold to coincide with the film. Shaun Hutson wrote a novelization of the film which was published in 1984. In September 1988, NOW Comics released a comic based on the film. Dark Horse Comics published a comic in 1990 that took place 39 years after the film. Several video games based on The Terminator were released between 1991 and 1993 for various Nintendo and Sega systems. A soundtrack to the film was released in 1984 which included the score by Brad Fiedel and the pop and rock songs used in the club scenes.", "Next, the professional relationship between Cameron and Hollywood mega-producer Gale Anne Hurd yielded one of the top grossers of 1984, which Hurd and Cameron co-scripted, Cameron directed, and Hurd produced. Something of an unofficial, moderately budgeted Americanization of George Miller's Mad Max series, The Terminator opens in the year 2024, when the ongoing battles between humankind and \"The Machines\" have sparked a nuclear holocaust and reduced much of contemporary civilization to dust. When humankind ultimately wins out, however, The Machines send a seemingly unstoppable warrior (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back in time to 1984 with a mission to kill the infant who would grow up into the man ultimately responsible for their destruction, which sends his mother (Linda Hamilton) and her futuristic warrior-protector (Michael Biehn) on the lam. When it premiered in October 1984, The Terminator earned sensational reviews and became an instant runaway smash.", "A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly mission. He has to kill Sarah Connor, a young woman whose life will have a great significance in years to come. Sarah has only one protector - Kyle Reese - also sent from the future. The Terminator uses his exceptional intelligence and strength to find Sarah, but is there any way to stop the seemingly indestructible cyborg ? Written by Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>", "Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines by Jonathan Mostow |Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes | 883929018567 | DVD | Barnes & Noble®", "This article is about the 1984 film. For the franchise it initiated, see Terminator (franchise) . For the eponymous character, see Terminator (character) . For other uses, see Terminator (disambiguation) .", "Predator is a 1987 science fiction flavoured action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the muscular hero fighting an evil alien creature. Director John McTiernan later on directed the classic action movie Die Hard with Bruce Willis and the less successful Last Action Hero which also featured Arnold the Austrian Oak. The screenplay was written by the unknown brothers Jim and John Thomas who also wrote the Predator sequels and spinoffs.", "James Cameron's The Terminator (1984) continues to be among the most influential sci-fi movies of all time.", "James Cameron originally wanted him for the role of Kyle Reese in The Terminator (1984), but after reading the script, Arnold asked Cameron to let him play the part of the Machine. Cameron replied \"No, no! Reese is the star! He's the big hero! And the Terminator hardly has any lines!\" but Arnold asked him to \"trust me\".", "The Terminator (1984) was an early, low-budget James Cameron-directed action film. It told about a bleak future run by cyborgs and endo-skeletal robots.", "In 1984, Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayed an emotionless, homicidal android  in James Cameron's The Terminator...and an iconic movie villain was born. ", "In the Terminator movie, who was the boy who would become the leader of the humans?" ]

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[ "Independence Day (sometimes styled as ID4) is a 1996 American epic, science fiction film. Directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich, it is now considered a significant turning point in the history of the Hollywood blockbuster. The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a calamitous attack by an ostensibly powerful extraterrestrial race from an unknown origin. Along with the rest of the human population, they launch a last-ditch counterattack on July 4 – the same date as the Independence Day in the United States.", "The sci-fi action disaster film Independence Day (1996) debuted in the summer on the weekend of its namesake July 4th, earning over $50 million on its opening weekend. It was the first feature-length movie to make $100 million in its first week (at $104.3 million), breaking the record set earlier by Jurassic Park (1993) . It was the top earning domestic film of the year at $306 million, followed by Twister (1996) in second place with $241.7 million and the film adaptation Mission: Impossible (1996) from the popular TV show in third place with $181 million. It inaugurated Will Smith's streak of major July hits - Men in Black (1997), Bad Boys II (2003), I, Robot (2004), and Hancock (2008).", "Oliver Stone - Born on the 4th of July .. Buffalo Springfield; For What It's Worth 1996", "The film was scheduled for release on July 3, 1996, but began showing on July 2 (the same day the film's story begins) in many theaters the result of a high level of anticipation among moviegoers. The film grossed over $817.4 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1996, and briefly, the second highest-grossing film worldwide of all time behind 1993's Jurassic Park. , it ranks 55th among the highest-grossing films worldwide, and was at the forefront of the large-scale disaster film and sci-fi resurgence of the mid-1990s. The film received positive reviews upon its release, with critics praising its groundbreaking special effects, musical score, patriotic theme, and acting, which focused primarily on the performances of Smith and Goldblum. Others criticized its storyline and character development. It won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. A sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, was released on June 24, 2016. ", "Steven Spielberg's and Universal's f/x laden Jurassic Park (1993) (based upon Michael Crichton's 1990 novel) with photo-realistic, computer-generated dinosaurs spliced into live-action sequences, i.e., the car-crunching T-Rex sequence; Adrian Lyne's Indecent Proposal (1993), in which wealthy Robert Redford offered one million dollars as the price-tag for one night with married Demi Moore; Chris Columbus' Mrs. Doubtfire (1993); Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump (1994); The Lion King (1994); The apocalyptic disaster film (\"Earth! Take a good look. It could be your last\") from director Roland Emmerich Independence Day (1996) - that set a record by grossing $100 million in box-office receipts during its first six days, and won a Best Visual Effects Oscar - mostly for the sequence of the White House exploding; Twister (1996) - about the chasing of tornadoes by researcher Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) while trying to divorce his wife Jo (Helen Hunt); Titanic (1997); Men in Black (1997) - with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as black-clad buddies on a mission; The Mummy (1999), a glossy remake of the original, with French Foreign legion hero Brendan Fraser stumbling upon an ancient city in Egypt and awakening high priest Imhotep.", "The film was considered a box office bomb in the US but generally achieved greater success both critically and commercially in Europe. Many observers found similarities with Independence Day, which also came out in 1996. \"It was just a coincidence. Nobody told me about it. I was surprised how close it was,\" director Tim Burton continued, \"but then it's a pretty basic genre I guess. Independence Day was different in tone – it was different in everything. It almost seemed like we had done kind of a Mad magazine version of Independence Day.\" During Mars Attacks! theatrical run in January 1997, TBS purchased the broadcasting rights of the film. ", "Independence Day was the highest-grossing film of 1996. In the United States, Independence Day earned $104.3 million in its first full week, including $96.1 million during its five-day holiday opening, and $50.2 million during its opening weekend. All three figures broke records set by Jurassic Park three years earlier. That film's sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, claimed all three records when it was released the following year. Independence Day stayed in the number-one spot for three consecutive weeks, and grossed $306,169,268 in North America, and $511,231,623 in other territories during its theatrical run. The combined total of $817,400,891 once trailed only the worldwide earnings of Jurassic Park as the highest of all time. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 69.26 million tickets in the US. It has been surpassed by multiple 21st century films since, and currently holds the 51st-highest worldwide gross of all time for a film. Hoping to capitalize on the film's success, several studios released large-scale disaster films, and the already rising interest in science fiction-related media was further increased by the film's popularity.", "The highest grossing movie of 1996 was Independence Day ($817,400,891), starring Will Smith. Some other major releases in this year were: Major releases this year included Swingers, Fargo, Trainspotting, The Rock, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna. A funny fact is that in 1996 James Cameron officially begins writing the future blockbuster and highest grossing film of all time; Avatar.", "Has appeared in three science fiction films in 1996: Phenomenon (1996), Independence Day (1996) (both released on the same day; July 3, 1996), and Star Trek: First Contact (1996).", "Born on the Fourth of July (1989) presented the screen biography of paralyzed, wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet and anti-war activist hero Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise)", "Here are a few quick facts to supplement my rambling, irrelevant, often incoherent anecdotes that will follow: Independence Day was released in 1996. It grossed 800 million worldwide, so it wasn't a box office flop at all, as were the other two guilty pleasure movies I will be discussing here. It scores a 60% review on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie had a rather illustrious cast, including an up and coming star in Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum of Jurassic Park and The Fly fame; an actor that will appear more than once in this article.", "\"Independence Day\" is a popular 1996 science fiction movie starring Will Smith and Bill Pullman. Aliens invade Earth, killing a large portion of the world's population. While Smith, Pullman, and others fight aliens throughout the movie, a pivotal part of the film is when the First Lady's rescue helicopter crashes when it gets caught up in an explosion. ", "the apocalyptic disaster film (\"Earth! Take a good look. It could be your last\") from director Roland Emmerich Independence Day (1996) - that set a record by grossing $100 million in box-office receipts during its first six days, and won a Best Visual Effects Oscar - mostly for the sequence of the White House exploding", "As an encore, he returned to familiar ground with the inevitable sequel \"The Lost World: Jurassic Park\" (1997) which merely rehashed the story of the far superior original. Spielberg then tackled the tricky historical drama \"Amistad\" (also 1997), based on a true story of a mutiny on a slave ship that spawned a legal battle in the USA. Meticulously staged, the film was noted for its depiction of the Middle Passage, a harrowing portrayal of the conditions of slavery. The following year, Spielberg returned to WWII for one of his most acclaimed films, \"Saving Private Ryan\". A nearly three-hour fictionalized look at a unit sent to locate the sole survivor of four brothers serving in the military. the film earned praise for its no-holds-barred depiction of the battlefield, although the characters bordered on cliche. Critics anointed the picture one of the year's best on its release in July and it subsequently earned over $200 million at the box office and received 11 Academy Award nominations. Although favored to take home the Best Picture award, it didn't, but Spielberg was crowned with a Best Director statue.", "in space; near the Pautauxent River, in Maryland, President Clinton watches as an eagle called \"Freedom\" is released (Washington Post, 5 July 1996, A5); Secretary of Defense William Perry visits 18,000 troops in Bosnia; the 20th anniversary with Willie Nelson at Luckenback, Tex. occurs; at Monticello, 66 persons representing 33 countries take the oath of naturalization; The Nix Ya Wii Warriors Memorial on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon is dedicated and includes about 400 names of tribal warriors", "Classic! Independence Day its a powerful movie. A classic of 1996. I can watch it over and over again, and never get bored.", "After a six-week, $30 million marketing campaign, Independence Day was released on VHS on November 22, 1996. It became available on DVD on June 27, 2000, and has since been re-released, in several different versions of this format, with varying supplemental material, including one instance where it was packaged with a lenticular cover. Often accessible on these versions is a special edition of the film, which features nine minutes of additional footage not seen in the original theatrical release. Independence Day became available on Blu-ray discs in the United Kingdom on December 24, 2007, and in North America on March 11, 2008 and in Australia on March 5, 2008. The Blu-ray edition does not include the deleted scenes. It was re-released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD on May 3, 2016 and was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on June 7, 2016 for the 20th Anniversary Edition. The new Blu-ray edition includes both the theatrical and special edition, unlike the original. ", "In 1996, Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day. The film was a massive blockbuster, becoming the second highest-grossing film in history at the time and establishing Smith as a prime box office draw. In the summer of 1997 he starred alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the summer hit Men in Black playing Agent J. In 1998, Smith starred with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State.", "In 1996, Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day. The film was a massive blockbuster, becoming the second highest grossing film in history at the time and establishing Smith as a prime box office draw. He later struck gold again in the summer of 1997 alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the summer hit Men in Black playing Agent J. In 1998, Smith starred with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State.", "The film begins with Ron Kovic's childhood during the summer of 1956 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York. He plays war in the woods, attends a Fourth of July parade, plays and wins at a local neighborhood baseball game, and watches President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, which later inspires him to enlist in the Marines (it appears to be a chronological inconsistency that the introductory scenes bridge a period of five years, 1956–1961, while Ron and his friends seem to linger in the same childhood age).", "The film grossed $70,001,698 nationwide. In 1989, when BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY was released, movie tickets cost five dollars. Therefore, over fourteen million American people went to the theater to see this movie. The number of viewers increases when you take into consideration the people who rented it on video or watched a television broadcast. It had that special something that made people think about issues that they might not have thought about before. It is lamentable that by 1989, many of the members of Generation X had paid little or no attention to the Vietnam War, even though only sixteen years had passed since the war's end. The younger generation was reminded that the war did, indeed, happen, and that the country was still being lambasted with the side effects.", "Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgård. Written by Affleck and Damon (and with Damon in the title role), the film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor. Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend and himself, facing the significant task of confronting his past and thinking about his future.", "1997 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Evita (�The Most Anticipated Motion Picture Event of The Year�), starring Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce and Jimmy Nail; Jackie Chan�s First Strike (�Jackie Chan fights for America in his biggest action film ever.�; The Relic (�They did the unthinkable. They brought it back.�), with Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt and James Whitmore; and Turbulence (�If you weren�t afraid of flying before, you will be now.�, starring Ray Liotta Lauren Holly Hector Elizondo Brendan Gleeson.", "Kill Bill is the fourth film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate \"volumes\" (in Fall 2003 and Spring 2004) due to its running time of approximately four hours. The movie is an ambitious, epic-length revenge drama, notable for its homages to earlier film genres, such as Hong Kong martial arts movies and Italian westerns; for its extensive use of popular music and pop culture references; and for its deliberately over-the-top bloodletting. Its stars include Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Michael Parks, Sonny Chiba, and Gordon Liu. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill [Jul 2006]", "The film had its official premiere held at Los Angeles' now-defunct Mann Plaza Theater on June 25, 1996. It was then screened privately at the White House for President Bill Clinton and his family before receiving a nationwide release in the United States on July 2, 1996, a day earlier than its previously scheduled opening. ", "The film had its premiere on June 19, 1996 at the Superdome in New Orleans, utilizing six enormous screens, and was preceded by a parade through the French Quarter. The song \" Someday \" was sung over the credits by the group All-4-One, but the European version replaced them with the British band Eternal.", "What 1996 movie was hyped with the line: \"It Will Blow Audiences Right Out of the Theater\"?", "This noisy fourth film, set in Washington DC, was a summer blockbuster replete with non-stop gun battles, chase scenes, car crashes, and explosions. Based on the article 'A Farewell to Arms\" by John Carlin.", "Two soundtrack albums were released for this film in January 1996. One is the original motion picture score, and includes all of the original music written for the film by Michael Kamen. The second album is a collection of popular music featured in the film:", "The film was released on July 12, 2002 and eventually grossed over $180 million worldwide. The cinematography, setting, and the lead performances by Newman (in his final theatrical screen appearance) and Hanks were well-received by critics. 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[ "Apollo 13 is a 1995 American drama film directed by Ron Howard . The film stars Tom Hanks , Kevin Bacon , Bill Paxton , Gary Sinise , Kathleen Quinlan and Ed Harris . The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell (the story's protagonist ) and Jeffrey Kluger . Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA 's technical assistance in astronaut and flight controller training for his cast, and even obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the \"weightlessness\" experienced by the astronauts in space.", "Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama space adventure film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr., and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.", "Apollo 13 is a 1995 American historical docudrama film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.", "Tom Hanks gets to be practically weightless as astronaut Jim Lovell, in Apollo 13, Ron Howards 1995 film about the ill-fated NASA mission, based on the book by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, Last Moon.", "After winning consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks was nominated a third time for his role as drifting astronaut Jim Lovell in 1995’s Apollo 13. (He did not win, proving he is human after all.) The consolation prize: the dramatisation of the 1970 space shuttle crisis that kept the world on its seat was the third highest-grossing film of the year, and remains one of the most faithful depictions of NASA operations ever put on film.", "The movie Apollo 13 was made in 1995. It was directed by Ron Howard and starred Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinese, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. Ron Howard utilized Jim Lovell’s and Jeffrey Kluger’s book, Lost Moon: Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, in the process of making the film. He captured major events from the book and put them in the movie. The events included Lovell being awarded the flight, the broadcast to mission control in which they thought they were being televised, the oxygen escaping from the tank that was visible from the window, the freezing conditions in the lunar and command module, Lovell’s crucial guidance-coordinate calculating, the swing around the moon, the CO2 threat and the plunge into the earth’s atmosphere.", "Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks, and Bill Paxton talking in ship in a scene from the film 'Apollo 13', 1995. (Photo by Universal/Getty Images)", "Tom Hanks and Kathleen Quinlan looking at each other at doorway in a scene from the film 'Apollo 13', 1995. (Photo by Universal/Getty Images)", "At first, it seemed the perfect mission--too perfect, even, to make headlines. After three days in space, three Apollo astronauts--Jim Lovell (two- time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon)--were finally approaching a long-cherished destination. Apollo 13 was going to the Moon.", "Directed by Ron Howard, this biopic tells the story of NASA mission Apollo 13 – America's third attempt to land a man on the moon. An on-board explosion while en route begins to deplete the craft of its oxygen and power, and what had been a mission for the moon becomes a mission to get the astronauts on board (Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon and Gary Sinise) home safely. The film speaks to the American spirit of discovery, as well as our never-leave-a-person-behind creed.", "Apollo 13 might be based on the problematic journey of the 1970 lunar mission, but the original line of dialogue received the Hollywood treatment and was actually delivered as the much-less glamorous “Houston, we’ve had a problem here”. In the 1995 film, the fateful phrase is spoken by Jim Lovell ( Tom Hanks ) as he and his crew make contact with ground control from space to report a significant technical problem. While it became the most famous line from a movie that stole the box office and impressed the critics, it has gained enough ground to be used in a wide variety of ways for those who find themselves in a suddenly troubling situation.", "The Apollo program, or certain missions, have been dramatized in Apollo 13 (1995), Apollo 11 (1996), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), The Dish (2000), Space Race (2005), and Moonshot (2009).", "APOLLO 13 (1995) - Apollo 13 lifts off for a trip to the moon in this scene from \"Apollo 13,\" in this undated handout photo. (AP Photo/Imagine/Universal). HOUCHRON CAPTION (09/21/2002): Apollo 13 lifts off for a trip to the moon in this scene from the movie released in 1995. The IMAX version will not play in Houston. less", "Ron Howard and Tom Hanks teamup again to give a powerful movie of a very courageous historical event. Apollo 13 is an epic film that tells a story about how to get back home which is one of the most important stories of literature. It is a must-see movie which will fill you in suspense and joy for the whole family. It's an extraordinary triumph.", "was one of the co-authors of a book about the Apollo 13 experience called ďż˝Lost Moonďż˝, which was made into the film ďż˝Apollo 13ďż˝ starring Tom Hanks. (Czech, ďż˝, 2002; Saxon-Ford, 1998.)", "* The Apollo 1 accident is briefly depicted in the opening scene of the 1995 film Apollo 13. ", "While planning the film, director Ron Howard decided that every shot of the film would be original and that no mission footage would be used. [10] The spacecraft interiors were constructed by the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center 's Space Works, who also restored the Apollo 13 Command Module . Two individual Lunar Modules and two Command Modules were constructed for filming. While each was a replica, composed of some of the original Apollo materials, they were built so that different sections were removable, which enabled filming to take place inside the capsules. Space Works also built modified Command and Lunar Modules for filming inside a Boeing KC-135 reduced gravity aircraft , and the pressure suits worn by the actors, which are exact reproductions of those worn by the Apollo astronauts, right down to the details of being airtight. When the actors put the suits on with their helmets locked in place, oxygen was pumped into the suits to cool them down and allow them to breathe, exactly as in launch preparations for the real Apollo missions. [11]", "At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, with the world watching, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins aboard. Armstrong, a 38-year-old civilian research pilot, was the commander of the mission. After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19. The next day, at 1:46 p.m., the lunar module Eagle, manned by Armstrong and Aldrin, separated from the command module, where Collins remained. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at 4:18 p.m. the craft touched down on the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong immediately radioed to Mission Control in Houston, Texas, a famous message: �The Eagle has landed.�", "Bill Paxton played the role of Haise in the 1995 film Apollo 13. Haise enjoyed the movie and saw it multiple times. Adam Baldwin also played Haise in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.", "Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the moon. The crew members, from left, were Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin \"Buzz\" Aldrin. The mission launched on July 16, 1969.", "The mission plan of Apollo 11 was to land two men on the lunar surface and return them safely to Earth. The launch took place at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on July 16, 1969, at 08:32 a.m. EST. The spaccraft carried a crew of three: Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. The mission evaluation concluded that all mission tasks were completed satisfactorily.", "Apollo 11 was the first lunar-landing mission. Launched on July 16, 1969, the crew of Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins flew the spacecraft Columbia (CSM) and Eagle (LM). On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin landed the Eagle at the relatively flat and unobstructed Tranquillity site on the moon, while Collins remained in the CSM. The LM spent 21 hours 36 minutes on the lunar surface, and the crew spent 2 hours 31 minutes outside the LM in a local area excursion on foot to a distance of approximately 50 m (160 ft) from Tranquillity Base.", "In addition to fulfilling President Kennedy's mandate to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s, Apollo 11 was an engineering test of the Apollo system; therefore, Armstrong snapped photos of the LM so engineers would be able to judge its post-landing condition. He removed the TV camera from the MESA and made a panoramic sweep, then mounted it on a tripod 68 ft from the LM. The TV camera cable remained partly coiled and presented a tripping hazard throughout the EVA.", "*In the 1996 TV movie Apollo 11, Collins was played by Jim Metzler. In the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, he was played by Cary Elwes. In the 2009 TV movie Moon Shot, he was played by Andrew Lincoln.", "By the time veteran American astronauts Neil Alden Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Eugene \"Buzz\" Aldrin Jr. were in preparation for their 1969 attempt at the moon, it appeared NASA had finally taken the lead over the Soviet Union in the race to conquer this next frontier. Apollo 11, 6.5 million pounds of space-age technology, lifted off on July 16, 1969, thrust toward space from Cape Kennedy, Fla. Three days later, Commander Armstrong, a former U.S. Navy pilot with a degree in aeronautical engineering; Aldrin, a former Air Force pilot with a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in aeronautics and astronautics; and Collins, a former Air Force pilot each of them born in 1930 were hundreds of thousands of miles from home, circling the moon. The amazing drama was unfolding.", "The Apollo 11 mission's Saturn 5 rocket climbs toward orbit after liftoff from Launch Pad 39A at 9:32 a.m. ET on July 16, 1969. This photo was taken with a 70mm telescopic camera mounted on an Air Force EC-135N plane. Onboard were astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. (Science Society Picture Library via Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation", "FILE - In this July 16, 1969 file photo provided by NASA, the Saturn V rocket that launched Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their Apollo 11 moon mission lifts off at Cape Kennedy, Fla. For the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Aldrin asked everyone to remember where they were when he and Armstrong became the first humans to step onto another heavenly body, and to share their memories online. (AP Photo/NASA, File)", "FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo, astronaut Michael Collins wears the space helmet for the Apollo 11 moon mission. Collins, now 83, the command module pilot who stayed behind in lunar orbit as the gatekeeper, also spent decades sidestepping the spotlight. He is making an exception for the 45th anniversary where he plans to take part in a NASA ceremony at Kennedy Space Center on Monday, July 21, 2014, to add Armstrong's name to the historic Operations and Checkout Building. (AP Photo, File)", "Astronaut Michael Collins wears the space helmet for the Apollo 11 moon mission, on July 20, 1969. He'll be in the command module when fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. descend on the lunar surface in the lunar module to take a walk on the moon early Monday. (AP Photo)", "On January 27, 1967, the same day the US and USSR signed the Outer Space Treaty, the crew of the first manned Apollo mission, Command Pilot Virgil \"Gus\" Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, were killed in a fire that swept through their spacecraft cabin during a ground test, less than a month before the planned February 21 launch. An investigative board determined the fire was probably caused by an electrical spark, and quickly grew out of control, fed by the spacecraft's pure oxygen atmosphere. Crew escape was made impossible by inability to open the plug door hatch cover against the greater-than-atmospheric internal pressure. The board also found design and construction flaws in the spacecraft, and procedural failings, including failure to appreciate the hazard of the pure-oxygen atmosphere, as well as inadequate safety procedures. All these flaws had to be corrected over the next twenty-two months until the first piloted flight could be made. ", "In the launch pad's White Room, STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., U.S. Senator from Ohio, has his flight suit checked by closeout crew members before climbing into space shuttle Discovery for his second flight into space, which came 36 years after his Mercury launch. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. The image was taken Oct. 29, 1998.", "The actors then traveled to Johnson Space Center in Houston where they flew in NASA's KC-135 Reduced gravity aircraft to simulate weightlessness in outer space. While in the KC-135, filming took place in bursts of 25 seconds, the length of each weightless period that the plane performed. The filmmakers eventually flew 612 parabolas which added up to a total of three hours and 54 minutes of weightlessness. Parts of the Command Module, Lunar Module and the tunnel that connected them were built by production designer Michael Corenblith, art directors David J. Bomba and Bruce Alan Miller and their crew to fit inside the KC-135. Filming in such an environment, while never done before for a film, was a tremendous time saver. In the KC-135, the actors moved wherever they wanted, surrounded by floating props; the camera and cameraman were weightless so filming could take place on any axis from which a shot could be set up." ]

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[ "A series of high-profile roles followed with The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Bull Durham (1988) and Thelma & Louise (1991). In 1995, Sarandon won the Best Actress Oscar playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking. She earned an Emmy nomination in 2010 for her supporting work in the HBO biopic You Don't Know Jack.", "Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the non-fiction book of the same name. Sister Helen Prejean (Sarandon) establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet (Penn), a prisoner on death row in Louisiana, acting as his spiritual adviser after carrying on correspondence with him.", "Susan Sarandon won the Best Actress Oscar as anti-death penalty, real-life Catholic nun - Sister Helen Prejean, who spiritually advised a condemned, death-row murderer (Sean Penn) in Dead Man Walking (1995)", "In 1994, Sister Helen Prejean released a book [titled Dead Man Walking] about her role as spiritual adviser for two death row inmates. The book was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. The popularity of the film [Dead Man Walking] led to increased levels of public discourse on the morality of the death penalty.", "Sister Helen Prejean is a best-selling author and a leading voice in the movement to end the death penalty in the U.S. After founding her New Orleans prison ministry in 1981, she began exchanging letters with Patrick Sonnier, a convicted killer of two teenagers on death row at Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. Sister Prejean soon after became his spiritual advisor, visiting him in prison, where she got a firsthand look at the Louisiana execution process. Inspired by her experience with Patrick, Sister Prejean penned her seminal book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Susan Sarandon.", "Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American film actress known for roles in films like Bull Durham, Thelma and Louise and Dead Man Walking.", "Susan Sarandon is an American actress best known for her roles in movies Thelma & Louise and Dead Man Walking.", "Dead Man Walking by Catholic nun Helen Prejean was a best seller thanks to the 1995 movie starring Susan Sarandon. This week, Vintage releases a 20th-anniversary edition of the 1993 book with a new subtitle: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate. It has three new afterwords written by the author; Sarandon, who won an Oscar for her role as Prejean; and Tim Robbins, the movie's director. Prejean, 74, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph in New Orleans, spoke to USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer:", "Susan Sarandon (born Susan Abigail Sarandon on October 4, 1946 in in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York) is an American actress. Though born in Queens, Susan grew up in Edison, New Jersey, graduating from Edison High School in 1964, She enrolled in The Catholic University of America and graduated in 1968. Always interested in acting, Susan landed her debut role in 1969’s Joe. Afterwards, she appeared in two daytime soaps, A World Apart and Search for Tomorrow, before focusing her attention to film. One of her earlier roles was that of Janet in the cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Susan’s gained critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for her performance in 1980’s Atlantic City. From there, she starred in such highly regarded movies as The Witches of Eastwick, Bull Durham and A Dry White Season. In the 1990s, Susan’s acting earned her praise from critics for roles in Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil and Dead Man Walking, in which she won the Oscar for Best Actress. In addition to film and television, Susan has appeared on the stage, acting in Broadway and off-Broadway plays.", "Sarandon received four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s, finally winning in 1996 for Dead Man Walking. Her other movies include, Stepmom (1998), Anywhere But Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999) (portraying Mussolini's mistress), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005) and Elizabethtown (2005).", "Her other movies include Little Women (1994), Anywhere but Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), Elizabethtown (2005) and Enchanted (2007). Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of The Simpsons, once as herself (\"Bart Has Two Mommies\") and as a ballet teacher, \"Homer vs. Patty and Selma\". She appeared on Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live, Chappelle's Show, 30 Rock, Rescue Me and Mike & Molly.", "After appearing in several largely forgettable movies, Sarandon broke through in 1975 in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. She honed her talents when she became involved with director Louis Malle, who cast her in the controversial Pretty Baby (1978) and then in Atlantic City (1980), for which she nabbed the first of five Oscar nods for Best Actress.", "Perhaps Sarandon’s most powerful performance of the 1990s was in Dead Man Walking (1995). Written and directed by Robbins, the film told the true story of a nun who befriended a killer on death row. After four Oscar nominations, Sarandon’s deft handling of the challenging and unglamorous lead role finally won her the Academy Award for best actress. Sarandon has since earned critical acclaim in such serious films as Safe Passage (1995), while also scoring popular hits with such crowd-pleasers as Stepmom (1998) and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000). At the same time, she has emerged as one of Hollywood’s best character actors by seeking out a wide array of parts. As Sarandon herself has explained. “[T]he whole point of acting is to experiment and learn—it’s like living hundreds of lives in one lifetime.”", "Thelma & Louise is a 1991 American road film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri. It stars Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, two friends who embark on a road trip with disastrous consequences. The supporting cast include Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, and Brad Pitt, whose career was launched by the film.", "Director/screenwriter Tim Robbins has crafted and delivered a faithful adaptation of the novel by Sister Helen Prejean, in which she discusses her involvement with the death-row inmates to whom over the years she has ministered her faith in God. As chronicled in the film, what for her was to become a lifelong pursuit of not only justice, but human dignity, began with a simple letter from a death-row inmate at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola. Sentenced to death for rape and murder, Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) was reaching out to anyone who would listen, when his letter ended up in the hands of Sister Prejean (Susan Sarandon), who soon found herself venturing into a territory of which she had absolutely no knowledge or experience. And Robbins has successfully captured Sister Prejean's emotional and turbulent journey succinctly, while managing to keep it devoid of any maudlin sentimentality, which makes it not only real, credible and believable, but makes it a poignant and thoroughly emotionally involving experience for the audience. Through the medium of the cinema, what was once a personal, significant emotional experience for Sister Prejean, becomes one for everyone who sees this film, as well.", "Known for depicting complex, independent, and sensual women, film star Susan Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin on October 4, 1946, in Metuchen, New Jersey. The eldest of nine children, she left home to attend Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in drama. While still in college, she married her first love, actor Chris Sarandon. During this time, she also became politically active. As a student, she was arrested several times for participating in civil rights and antiwar rallies. Susan Sarandon won her first movie role when she accompanied her husband to a casting call for Joe (1970). She was given the female lead, playing an ill-fated young hippie. Soon Sarandon was being offered an array of ingenue roles. As she later admitted, she at first had trouble taking acting seriously, which led her to accept insubstantial parts that showcased her beauty more than her talent. Her best early role came in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), the cult horror movie spoof that gave Sarandon a rare chance to sing on screen. Sarandon found her breakout roles in two films directed by Louis Malle, with whom she was romantically linked after her 1979 divorce from Chris Sarandon. In Pretty Baby (1978), she played a prostitute in early 20th-century New Orleans, and in Atlantic City (1980), she depicted a croupier longing for a more glamorous life.", "Now: Sarandon's myriad film credits include 'Thelma and Louise,' 'The Client,' and 'Dead Man Walking.' She most recently starred in 'Cloud Atlas,' 'Snitch,' and 'The Big Wedding,' and will star alongside her daughter and fellow actress Eva Amurri Martino in an upcoming television series.", "Her most controversial film appearance was in Tony Scott's The Hunger in 1983, a modern vampire story in which she had a lesbian sex scene with Catherine Deneuve. In 1987, she appeared in the hit comedy-fantasy The Witches of Eastwick alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher, and Michelle Pfeiffer. However, Sarandon did not become a \"household name\" until her A-list breakthrough opposite Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins (who became her real-life live-in lover) in the 1988 film Bull Durham, which became a huge commercial and critical success. ", "Five years later, Sarandon made the film where fans of cult classics have come to know her as \"Janet\", who gets entangled with transvestite \"Dr. Frank 'n' Furter\" in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). More than 15 years after beginning her career Sarandon at last actively campaigned for a great role, Annie in Bull Durham (1988), flying at her own expense from Rome to Los Angeles. \"It was such a wonderful script ... and did away with a lot of myths and challenged the American definition of success\", she said. \"When I got there, I spent some time with Kevin Costner , kissed some ass at the studio and got back on a plane\". Her romance with the Bull Durham (1988) supporting actor, Tim Robbins , had produced two sons by 1992 and put Sarandon in the position of leaving her domestic paradise only to accept roles that really challenged her. The result was four Academy Award nominations in the 1990s and best actress for Dead Man Walking (1995). Her first Academy Award nomination was for Louis Malle 's Atlantic City (1980).", "On the set of  Bull Durham, Sarandon met costar Tim Robbins, who became her long-term partner. The couple has had two children, Jack Henry and Miles. Their family also includes Sarandon’s daughter, Eva Maria Livia Amurri, from an earlier relationship with director Franco Amurri. Sarandon and Robbins have worked together on several projects, including Bob Roberts (1992) and The Cradle Will Rock (1999), both written and directed by Robbins. They also share an interest in social causes, such as women’s rights, homelessness, and help for people with AIDS. They angered many film industry insiders by speaking out against the United States’s immigration restrictions on Haitians while presenting an award at the 1993 Academy Awards ceremony. Sarandon’s political activism, however, seemed to have no ill effect on her career. At an age when many actresses have trouble finding work, she was offered some of her most interesting roles. In 1991, she costarred with Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise, a story of two friends on the lam from the police that sparked a national debate on the state of American feminism. Other notable parts included a frantic mother of a dying child in Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), a sympathetic drug dealer in Light Sleeper (1992), and a struggling lawyer in The Client (1994).", "Susan Sarandon will always be the Louise to Geena Davis' Thelma! The Oscar winner's film career has spanned a remarkable 50 years, but Sarandon is perhaps best known for her role as Louise Sawyer in the 1991 classic Thelma & Louise.", "Sister Helen, as played here by Sarandon and written and directed by Tim Robbins (from the memoir by the real Helen Prejean), is one of the few truly spiritual characters I have seen in the movies. Movies about \"religion\" are often only that - movies about secular organizations that deal in spirituality. It is so rare to find a movie character who truly does try to live according to the teachings of Jesus (or anyone else, for that matter) that it's a little disorienting: This character will behave according to what she thinks is right, not according to the needs of a plot, the requirements of a formula, or the pieties of those for whom religion, good grooming, polite manners and prosperity are all more or less the same thing.", "Helen Prejean, C.S.J. (born April 21, 1939 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Roman Catholic nun, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.", "Susan Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City to Phillip Leslie Tomalin (who had Irish, Welsh and English ancestry) and Italian-born Lenora Marie Criscione.  Susan grew up in a large Catholic family of nine children . She graduated Edison High School in 1964, and then attended The Catholic University of America from 1964 to 1968 where she attained a BA in Drama.", "Actors of movie :Charlotte de Turckheim (Marie Antoinette), Thandie Newton (Sally Hemings), James Earl Jones (Madison Hemings), Greta Scacchi (Maria Cosway), Jean-Pierre Aumont (D'Hancarville), Lambert Wilson (Marquis de Lafayette), Michael Lonsdale (Louis XVI), Nancy Marchand (Madame Abbesse), Nick Nolte (Thomas Jefferson), Seth Gilliam (James Hemings), Simon Callow (Richard Cosway), Gwyneth Paltrow (Patsy Jefferson)", "In 1968, the novel was adapted into a movie starring Mia Farrow, with John Cassavetes as Guy. Ruth Gordon, who played Minnie Castevet, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Roman Polanski, who wrote and directed the film, was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The movie was filmed partially on location at the Dakota, off Central Park West in New York City. ", "[reviewed by Sylvain Richard] A powerfully inspirational film, based on true events, about a sister�s unwavering devotion and deep love for her brother. In 1983, Kenny Waters (Sam Rockwell) was charged and convicted for the 1980 murder of Katharina Brow in Ayer Massachusetts. He was sentenced to life. His sister, Betty Ann (Hilary Swank) believing that he was innocent, finishes high school, goes to college and finally passing the bar exam. Dedicating her whole life to proving her brother�s innocence, his conviction is overturned after 18 years based on DNA evidence. Hilary and Sam both give excellent performances and the script riveting.", "In 1987, Condon directed his first film, Sister, Sister . This thriller was set in the South and centered around a crime which occurs in an unusual household headed by two sisters. Masculine Charlotte, played by Judith Ivey, and catatonic Lucy, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, live in a plantation house and take in boarders. The home is surrounded by a swamp and they keep local men like the sheriff away with a shotgun. This idyllic domestic situation is affected by the weekend visit of a matron from up north with her daughter and son-in-law as well as a handsome charmer played by Eric Stoltz.", "The film starred Dolly Parton (Truvy Jones), Olympia Dukakis (Clairee Belcher), Shirley MacLaine (Louisa \"Ouiser\" Boudreaux), Sally Field (M'Lynn Eatenton), Julia Roberts (Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie) and Daryl Hannah (Annelle Dupuy-Desoto). Julia Roberts received her first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actress. The location for the filming was Natchitoches, Louisiana. Historian Robert DeBlieux, a former mayor of Natchitoches, was the local advisor on the film.", "Cast: Stephen DeWoody, Janie Michele Simms, Patty Bender, Chris Dinger, Ana Eligio, Sallie Glaner, Lauren O’Quinn, Tracy Wiu Dir. Jon Binkowski Thriller Psychological thriller starring Janie Michele Simms. Samantha (Simms) is a fairground fortune teller but despite her professional role, she does not believe in paranormal activities or ghosts and is reluctant to accept there is any truth in the supernatural. But when tragedy strikes one night, Samantha, alone in her house, is plagued by powerful dark forces who do not care for her beliefs and she is forced to face the source of her terror, whether it be supernatural or a fabrication of her mind.", "The story is about two sisters who are very close who live with their aunts in what I assume is a New England town. They have the reputation of being \"witches\" who curse any man who dares love an Owens woman. Of course, Gillian (Nicole Kidman) and Sally (Sandra Bullock) get into a bit of trouble as Gillian's evil boyfriend Jimmy (Goran Visnjic) accidently ends up dead at their hands through self-defense that can be deemed suspicious by anyone else and they try to figure out a way to cover it up. 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[ "Godzilla (also titled GODZILLA and Godzilla - The Movie) is a 1998 science fiction monster disaster film co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich . It is a loose remake of the 1954 giant monster film classic Gojira and its 1956 Americanized version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! . The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin . The film relates to a fictional tale involving a nuclear incident in the South Pacific which causes an abnormal mutation to occur in a reptile. The beast migrates to North America and wreaks havoc on Manhattan . Incorporated in the plot is the character of Dr. Niko \"Nick\" Tatopoulos , played by actor Matthew Broderick . Tatopoulos, an American scientist whose work involves the effects of exposed nuclear radiation on species; is recruited by the military to help contain and subdue the creature referred to as \" zilla \". The ensemble cast also features Maria Pitillo , Hank Azaria , Kevin Dunn , along with French actor Jean Reno in principal supporting roles.", "Godzilla Online is a fast-paced action game that takes place soon after the events of the 1998 reboot film Godzilla. New York City has come under attack by newly hatched Baby Godzillas. Players can assume the role of a soldier with his sights set on eradicating the baby Godzillas. Scientists attempt to take blood samples of the baby Godzillas while defending themselves from the soldiers and the new baby godzilla threat. Baby Godzillas strive to evolve into a larger Godzilla while defending themselves against soldiers and scientist. The Reporters main goal is to film all the chaos between the three opposing groups and avoiding getting killed at all costs. Godzilla Online is further noteworthy, as it is one of the few games (and fewer multiplayer games) to use voxels to render its characters and environments. [3]", "GODZILLA: Online is a fast-paced action game that takes place soon after the events of the 1998 film GODZILLA . New York City has come under attack by newly hatched Baby Godzillas . Players can assume the role of a soldier with his sights set on eradicating the baby Godzillas. Scientists attempt to take blood samples of the baby Godzillas while defending themselves from the soldiers and the new baby Godzilla threat. Baby Godzilla strive to evolve into a larger adult Godzilla while defending themselves against soldiers and scientists. The reporters' main goal is to film all the chaos between the three opposing groups and avoiding getting killed at all costs. GODZILLA: Online is further noteworthy, as it is one of the few games (and fewer multiplayer games) to use voxels to render its characters and environments.", "The original stompin’ monster movie! Godzilla (or Gojira, depending on your phonetic preference) sees the titular atomic bomb-awakened creature lay waste to Tokyo. A destructive and sometimes frightening manifestation of atomic angst that sparked off the craze for man-in-a-suit-stomping-on-cardboard-sets action. An edited version of the movie was released in the States under the title Godzilla: King of the Monsters.", "Ford and some other soldiers are doing a HALO jump into San Francisco, which Franchise/{{Godzilla}} has recently ravaged. As they get into visual range of the city, Ford scans over the numerous burnt and ruined skyscrapers. Then he catches on to one \"structure\" that is moving, and sees several of his guys diving right past it....", "\"From Madison Square Garden to the depths of the New York City subways, from midtown Manhattan to the Fulton Street Fish Market, Godzilla Online is a massive, action-packed adventure -- ever changing, always enthralling, and forever challenging.", "Battle in the Rain : The scene where Godzilla and the flying MUTO first fight in San Francisco takes place in the rain.", "The HALO jump scene has the soldiers diving down to a San Francisco engulfed in flames and smoke. As Ford Brody is scanning over the city the closer he gets, he catches sight of Godzilla, who would otherwise be really hard to make out from the dark, smoke-covered city were it not for the frequent flashes of lightning that brighten the view.", "* In the last Japanese Godzilla film, Godzilla: Final Wars, the tower is destroyed when the alien antagonists teleport Zilla (the monster from the late 1990s American remake starring Matthew Broderick) into the city. Zilla is later defeated by the real Godzilla, destroying the Sydney Opera House in the process.", "Although viewers appreciate some of the features of the film, such as the ethereal cinematography, the unusual final battle scene set in an amusement park, and the typically beautiful score by Akira Ifukube , some critics charge that the film is burdened by a confluence of over-the-top themes and moments. For example, there is a blatant Indiana Jones influence in a beginning scene, when Takuya escapes from a crumbling ancient temple. Another example is the heavy environmentalist message, with a character musing in almost every scene about the destructiveness caused by human misdeeds. Although there has always been some element of this in Godzilla films, since Godzilla was created by nuclear tests and in ways recalls the devastation caused by atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, critics argue that the topic is handled here too heavy-handedly.", "Godzilla manages to pull this off several times despite his enormous size. For instance, during the Honolulu airport attack a helicopter shoots at the MUTO only to suddenly have to dodge Godzilla's dorsal spikes. Said MUTO itself doesn't notice Godzilla until he stomps down just a few dozen feet away from him.", "By 1954 cinema culture had planted firm roots in Japan.  It was the year that the science fiction classic Godzilla hit the world�s screens, a movie that was in fact inspired by the Bikini Atoll H-Bomb test in which fallout contaminated the entire crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru.  Godzilla became the country�s biggest ever box office hit, outstripping Kurosawa�s classic �The Seven Samurai�, which won the Venice Film Festival award for best movie.  The year also saw Audrey Hepburn in �Roman Holiday� and the first ever Japanese dubbed version of �Dumbo� reached the screens.", "In 1993 , one year after the Futurians attacked Japan with King Ghidorah and the attempt to remove Godzilla from history resulted in the Monster King growing larger and more powerful, a large meteorite crashes to Earth and lands in the Ogasawara Trench, causing massive environmental destruction around the world. In addition, Godzilla, who had been hibernating at the bottom of the Trench, awakens once again. Meanwhile, in Thailand, fortune-hunter/thief Takuya Fujita robs a temple and barely escapes with his life. However, as he crawls out of the temple, he is greeted by armed policemen, who promptly arrest him. Soon after, Secretary Ruzo Dobashi and Takuya's ex-wife Masako Fujita arrive from Japan and visit the thief in jail. They reveal that they are studying the effects of the meteorite's impact on the environment, and they have discovered something strange: a large object has been uncovered on the remote Infant Island in Indonesia. The development company Marutomo is planning to develop the island, but the giant mystery object is standing in their way. Marutomo has the backing of the Japanese government, and the Environmental Planning Bureau is sending a team to the island to investigate. Dobashi and Masako offer to get Takuya out of Thailand and suspend his 15 year prison sentence if he will lead the expedition and give the salary he receives to his daughter Midori as child support. With the threat of nearly two decades in prison, Takuya accepts.", "Osaka is the working heart and economic powerhouse of the Kansai region, Japan. It is the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and forms the largest part of Keihanshin Industrial Zone, the second biggest industrial and urban conglomeration in Japan. Located at the Yodo river, Osaka Bay, Osaka is the third biggest city of Japan in terms of population after Tokyo 23 wards and Yokohama. It spans a total area of 86 square miles with a population of about 2.5 million.", "In the 1998 American remake of the film Godzilla , the main character Dr. Niko Tatopoulos sings \"Singin' in the Rain\".", "Monsters, Inc. is set in Monstropolis , a city inhabited by monsters, some of whom are those who emerge from bedroom closets to scare human children. This is used to collect the screams of kids, which power the city. The main power company in the city is called Monsters, Inc. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is a crab-like monster, Henry J. Waternoose . The top scarer at Monsters, Inc. is James P. Sullivan , a.k.a. \"Sulley\", a blue-furred giant who is partnered with the green, one-eyed Mike Wazowski .", "In the 1998 American version of Godzilla, Godzilla runs across the bridge, toppling one of the towers and ending up tangled in the suspension cables.", "*Godzilla, directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Kevin Dunn and Hank Azaria", "This movie is the most commercially successful Toho-produced Godzilla film of all time, even coming close to beating Jurassic Park in Japan when it was released in 1992. Although King Kong vs. Godzilla still holds the record for the highest attendance of any film, Godzilla vs. Mothra still performed slightly better at the box office.", "Pride of place, however, must go to Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit!, a Japanese creature feature in the Godzilla mould.", "Godzilla premiered in cinemas on May 20, 1998 in wide release throughout the United States for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. [1 ] During that 4-Day period, the film opened in 1st place grossing $55,726,951 in business showing at 3,310 locations. [11 ] The film Deep Impact opened in 2nd place during that weekend with $19,381,788 in revenue. [11 ] The film's revenue dropped by 59% in its second week of release, earning $18,020,444. For that particular weekend, the film remained in 1st place as the romantic drama Hope Floats overtook Deep Impact for 2nd place with $14,210,464 in box office business. [39 ] During its final week in release, Godzilla opened in 19th place grossing $202,157. For that weekend, Lethal Weapon 4 starring Mel Gibson made its debut, opening in 1st place with $34,048,124 in revenue. [40 ] Godzilla went on to top out domestically at $136,314,294 in total ticket sales through an 8-week theatrical run. Internationally, the film took in an additional $242,700,000 in business for a combined worldwide total of $379,014,294. [1 ] For 1998 as a whole, the film worldwide would cumulatively rank at a box office performance position of 3, behind Saving Private Ryan and Armageddon. [41 ]", "Hiroshima, first city on earth to be the target of the \"Cosmic Bomb,\" is a city of 318,000, which is- or was- a major quartermaster depot and port of embarkation for the Japanese. In addition to large military supply depots, it manufactured ordinance, mainly large guns and tanks, and machine tools, and aircraft-ordinance parts.", "The soundtrack for the 1998 film was composed by David Arnold . The sounds and roars of Godzilla and the Baby Godzilla were made by Frank Welker .", "Godzilla himself had a cartoon in the 1970s and the 98' Godzilla had an animated sequel starring its son. Logically, both cartoons featured Godzilla fighting other giant monsters.", "The success of \"Monsters\" resulted in Edwards getting offers from the major studios, especially Warner Bros., who tapped him to direct an English-language reboot of the 1954 Japanese classic \"Gojira\". Produced by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, \"Godzilla\" began development in 2011 with Edwards at the helm, and was released on May 16, 2014 to mixed reviews and tremendous box office success, grossing $529 million worldwide against a $160 million budget.", "Godzilla: Final Wars, which ignores the continuity of the previous film, establishes that Mothra protected the Earth 10,000 years ago from the cyborg Gigan. In the distant future, Gigan returns, under the control of the Xiliens, and is confronted by Mothra. In the ensuing battle, Mothra catches fire, but manages to kill Gigan by ramming into it and exploding. ", "The Godzilla franchise film, The Return of Godzilla (1984), (aka Godzilla 1985, or Gojira) was a reboot and direct sequel to the original film Godzilla (1954) (aka Gojira). It returned to the original horror elements without schlocky, goofy, or campy scenes.", "Japan (and its Toho studios) gave birth to the long-running series of Godzilla monster films with Ishiro Honda's Gojira (1954, Jp.), featuring Godzilla in his screen debut. The monster was a fire-breathing metaphor for the fear of the nuclear age. It was soon followed by the release of Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956), the US remake of Honda's original 1954 film. The 1956 film included new footage with Raymond Burr (known more recognizably as Perry Mason), to bring in more post-war audiences.", "When he was created in 1954, no one thought that the dinosaur with a difference would be so popular. Indeed, Godzilla was to be a one-shot, an exploitation of monster movies that explored the nuclear threat. He was the creation of four men: director Ishiro Honda, a colleague of famed director Akira Kurosawa, screenwriter Shigeru Kayama, Toho Studios producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, and special effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya.", "Bandai Namco has released a new trailer for its upcoming Godzilla game that shows a few of its terrifying monsters fighting and destroying the city.", "The failure to drop Fat Man at the precise bomb aim point caused the atomic blast to be confined to the Urakami Valley. As a consequence, a major portion of the city was protected from the explosion. The Fat Man was dropped over the city's industrial valley midway between the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works in the south and the Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance Works in the north. The resulting explosion had a blast yield equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT, roughly the same as the Trinity blast. Nearly half of the city was completely destroyed.", "Okihiro Yoneda's 1998 film Rebirth of Mothra III portrays King Ghidorah as an extraterrestrial which landed on earth during the Cretaceous and wiped out the dinosaurs by draining them of their life-force. Ghidorah left earth, only to return in modern times to feed on humans. Mothra fails to defeat the monster, so it travels back to the Cretaceous in order to kill Ghidorah retroactively. Mothra defeats the younger Ghidorah, but the monster's severed tail allows it to regenerate back into its adult form in modern times. Mothra finally kills the monster by transforming into \"Armor Mothra\"." ]

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[ "Made in America is a 1993 comedy film released on May 28, 1993 by Warner Bros. starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, and featuring Nia Long, Jennifer Tilly and Will Smith. The film was directed by Richard Benjamin. It was shot in various locations in Oakland, California and at Oakland Technical High School.", "Cheers was an American situation comedy television series based in the bar Cheers ( was actually called The Bull & Finch Pub ) in Boston, Stars on the series included Sam Malone played by Ted Danson, Diane Chambers played by Shelley Long and Kelsey Grammer played by Frasier Crane . Series ran from 1982 - 1993.", "There have been numerous references to Danson's former series Cheers . Cheers co-stars George Wendt , Rhea Perlman and Kelsey Grammer have all appeared on the show: Wendt playing the barman to…", "Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg famously dated in 1993 . The two played on-screen love interests in the comedy \"Made In America,\" and they were soon moving the romance off screen as well.", "The main cast of Cheers after season 7(from left to right): (top) John Ratzenberger, Roger Rees, Woody Harrelson (middle) Rhea Perlman, Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, George Wendt (bottom) Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth.", "After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied drama, Danson appeared on the 1970s soap opera Somerset and starred in TV commercials, most notably for the men’s fragrance Aramis. Danson catapulted to Hollywood stardom with his role as Sam Malone, a former professional baseball player and ladies man who runs a Boston-based bar called Cheers in the sitcom of the same name. The show, which premiered on NBC on September 30, 1982, and opened with the now-classic theme song “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” centers around a group of regulars who hang out at Cheers, including lovable but dim-witted bartender Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), know-it-all mailman Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger), frequently unemployed Norm Peterson (George Wendt), feisty waitress Carla (Rhea Perlman) and snooty psychiatrist Fraser Crane (Kelsey Grammer). (Crane later got his own long-running sitcom, Frasier, which originally aired from 1993 to 2004). Among the main storylines on Cheers were Sam Malone’s lengthy on-again, off-again romantic relationships with waitress-grad student Diane Chambers (Shelley Long, who was a Cheers cast member from 1982-1987) and businesswoman Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley, a regular from 1987-1993). During its 11-season run, Cheers featured guest appearances by a number of celebrities and public figures, including Johnny Carson, then-Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek.", "Whoopi starred in the box-office hit \"Sister Act.\" She also starred in \"Sarafina!,\" a film adaptation of the stage musical, shot on location in South Africa. Whoopi also co-starred in the film \"Made in America\" opposite Ted Danson.", "Edward Bridge \"Ted\" Danson III (born December 29, 1947) is an American actor, author, and producer well known for his role as lead character Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom Cheers and for his role as Dr. John Becker on the CBS sitcom Becker. He also starred in the CBS dramas CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Cyber as D.B. Russell. He also plays a recurring role on Larry David's HBO sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, starred alongside Glenn Close in legal drama Damages and was a regular on the HBO comedy series Bored to Death.", "The idea of place where everybody knew your name was central to the success of Cheers, even as Coach (Nicholas Colasanto) was replaced by Woody ( Woody Harrelson ), Diane (Shelley Long) was replaced by Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) and Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) found his own stool at the bar. This was the idea of a “third place,” after home and work, where a community could gather to socialize. Tackling sometimes serious issues in an always hilarious manner, the show created a place without class, where Frasier could grab a bar stool across from Norm and Cliff with an equal sense of belonging. Anchoring it all was Sam Malone (Ted Danson), the womanizing former ball player, who grew a little more with each passing season.—Josh Jackson", "The musician Harry Connick, Jr. appeared in an episode as Woody's cousin and plays a song from his Grammy-winning album We Are in Love (c. 1991). John Cleese won an Emmy for his guest appearance as \"Dr. Simon Finch-Royce\" in the fifth season episode, \"Simon Says\". Emma Thompson guest starred as Nanny G/Nannette Guzman, a famous singing nanny and Frasier's ex-wife. Christopher Lloyd guest starred as a tortured artist who wanted to paint Diane. Marcia Cross portrayed Rebecca's sister Susan in the season 7 episode Sisterly Love. John Mahoney once appeared as an inept jingle writer, which included a brief conversation with Frasier Crane, whose father he later portrayed on the spin-off Frasier. Peri Gilpin, who later played Roz Doyle on Frasier, also appeared in one episode of Cheers, in its 11th season, as Holly Matheson, a reporter who interviews Woody. The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley, also guest starred in different episodes, and Kate Mulgrew appeared in the three-episode finale of season four. In the final episode of Kirstie Alley's run as Rebecca, she was wooed away from Cheers by the guy who came to fix one of the beer keg taps – surprising for a \"high-class\" lady – who happened to be Tom Berenger.", "Whoopi Goldberg, original name Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955, New York , New York, U.S.), American comedian, actress, and producer known for her work in theatre , film , television , and recordings. An accomplished performer with a wide repertoire , her work ranged from dramatic leading roles to controversial comedic performances.", "Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally by her stage name, Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar.", "WHOOPI GOLDBERG – American actress (November 13th 1955) and comedian who has one daughter from her first marriage to Alvin Martin. Alexandrea Martin was born in 1973 when Whoopi herself was only 17 years old (in 1973).", "Jay Thomas, now 67, reportedly lost his role as Eddie LeBec on \"Cheers\" after making nasty comments about Rhea Perlman's appearance. Thomas went on to guest star as talk show host Jerry Gold on \"Murphy Brown,\" a role that earned the actor two Emmy Awards. He recently appeared on Showtime's \"Ray Donovan.\" âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images)", "Check out this video with actor John Ratzenberg (who played the mailman Cliff Clavin in “Cheers”), who shares his feelings about keeping manufacturing jobs in the U.S. And feel free to share your view in the Comments field below.", "Frasier Winslow Crane is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, portrayed by Kelsey Grammer. Grammer received award recognitions for portraying this character in these two shows, in addition to a 1992 one-time appearance in Wings.", "Several months later- in mid- August of 1982- Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo (now using her married name) were in East Haddam, Connecticut working on an “out-of-town” production of their musical, “Preppies”. One day Gary Portnoy received a call from an associate producer of “Cheers” that would change his life forever.", "While a guest on the The Arsenio Hall Show in late 1988, he met actress Whoopi Goldberg, whom he described as \"a sexy, funny woman\". The two became friends, co-hosting Help Save Planet Earth in 1990, a video guide to saving the environment (Danson played himself, Goldberg played the role of Mother Earth). However, upon the filming of Made in America together in April 1992, the two became romantically involved—a pairing which was heavily featured in gossip tabloids such as the National Enquirer. The couple also appeared on the Rock the Vote TV special that same year, as well as being set to star in a Paramount-produced version of Neal Barrett Jr.'s Pink Vodka Blues, written by Marshall Brickman.", "In 1993, the actress returned to Cheers for its series finale, and picked up another Emmy nomination for her return as Diane. She also starred in the sitcom Good Advice with Treat Williams and Teri Garr, but the show lasted just two seasons. She later resurfaced as Diane for several episodes of the Kelsey Grammer spinoff series Frasier, for which she was nominated for another Emmy Award.", "Goldberg starred in Soapdish (1991) and had a recurring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan, which she would reprise in two Star Trek films. On May 29, 1992, Sister Act was released. The motion picture grossed well over US $200 million and Goldberg was nominated for a Golden Globe. Next, she starred in Sarafina!. During the next year, she hosted a late-night talk show titled The Whoopi Goldberg Show and starred in two more motion pictures: Made in America and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. From 1994 to 1995, Goldberg appeared in Corrina, Corrina, The Lion King (voice), The Pagemaster (voice), Boys on the Side, and Moonlight and Valentino. Goldberg guest starred on Muppets Tonight in 1996. She became the first African-American woman to host the Academy Awards show in 1994, and the first woman to solo host. She hosted the awards show again in 1996, 1999 and 2002.", "* Cheers (episode \"Simon Says\") (1987), he won an Emmy Award for best actor in a guest starring role", "Although Connolly had performed in North America as early as the 1970s, and had appeared in several movies that played in American theatres, he nonetheless remained relatively unknown until 1990 when he was featured in the HBO special Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Connolly in Performance, produced by New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music. Goldberg introduced Connolly, and his performance has been cited as the moment that officially launched his career in the States. Soon after, Connolly succeeded Howard Hesseman as the star of the sitcom Head of the Class for the 1990-1991 season, but the series was cancelled during his tenure.", "Although Connolly had performed in North America as early as the 1970s, and had appeared in several movies that played in American theatres, he nonetheless remained relatively unknown until 1990 when he was featured in the HBO special Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Connolly in Performance, produced by New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music. Goldberg introduced Connolly, and his performance has been cited as the moment that officially launched his career in the States. Soon after, Connolly succeeded Howard Hesseman as the star of the sitcom Head of the Class for the 1990–1991 season, but the series was cancelled during his tenure.", "After leaving Screen Gems, Goldberg formed a partnership with Aaron Spelling, a partnership that launched a generous portion of the most influential and popular series in television history. These include \"Charlie's Angels,\" \"T.J. Hooker,\" \"Starsky and Hutch,\" \"The Rookies,\" \"Fantasy Island,\" \"Hart to Hart\" and the beloved, award-winning \"Family.\" The Goldberg and Spelling collaboration also presented some thirty-five movies for television, among them the highest movie ever made for television, \"Little Ladies of the Night\" and the movie which called national attention to John Travolta, \"The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.\"", "The two main settings show the work and home life of Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), the head writer of a comedy/variety show produced in Manhattan. Viewers are given an \"inside look\" at how a television show (the fictitious The Alan Brady Show) was written and produced. Many scenes deal with Rob and his co-writers, Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally Rogers (Rose Marie). Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon), a balding straight man and recipient of numerous insulting one-liners from Buddy, was the show's producer and the brother-in-law of the show's star, Alan Brady (Carl Reiner). As Rob, Buddy, and Sally write for a comedy show, the premise provides a built-in forum for them to be making jokes constantly. Other scenes focus on the home life of Rob, his wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), and son Richie (Larry Mathews), who live at 148 Bonnie Meadow Road in suburban New Rochelle, New York. Also often seen are their next-door neighbors and best friends, Jerry Helper (Jerry Paris), a dentist, and his wife Millie (Ann Morgan Guilbert).", " 1993 Cheers: Last Call! (TV Short) (performer: \"Where Everybody Knows Your Name\") / (writer: \"Where Everybody Knows Your Name\")", "Made in Jersey (TV series, CBS, 2012). Stars Donna Murphy, Erin Cummings, Kyle MacLachlan, Janet Montgomery as Martina Garetti. Originally called Baby Big Shot. Cancelled after eight episodes. All available on iTunes.", "Comedian and actress Gilda Radner, best known as one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy show \"Saturday Night Live,\" died of ovarian cancer on May 20, 1989, at the age of 42 in Los Angeles. While on \"Saturday Night Live,\" Radner created recurring characters such as obnoxious personal advice expert Roseanne Roseannadanna, the Barbara Walters parody \"Baba Wawa,\" and Emily Litella, an elderly hearing-impaired woman who gave angry and misinformed editorial replies on the \"Weekend Update\" segment. She met actor Gene Wilder while filming the 1982 comedy \"Hanky Panky\" and the two were later married. She also starred with Wilder in the movies \"The Woman in Red\" and \"Haunted Honeymoon\" (pictured), her last role prior to her death.", " 1985 Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway (TV Special documentary) (original stage director) / (original stage producer)", " 2005 Whoopi: Back to Broadway - The 20th Anniversary (TV Special documentary) (performer: \"Under Pressure\") / (writer: \"Under Pressure\")", "Later in 1986, Bakula had the lead role in the short-lived sitcom Gung Ho, which co-starred fellow Trek alumni Clint Howard and Patti Yasutake . Also in 1986, Bakula appeared in the first episode of the sitcom Designing Women, playing Dr. Ted Shively. He reprised the role of Shively in several more episodes between 1987 and 1988. Among his co-stars on this series was \" By Any Other Name \" actress Julie Cobb .", " 1986 The 40th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) (lyrics: \"America\", \"Some People\") / (writer: \"Everybody Ought to Have a Maid\", \"You Could Drive a Person Crazy\", \"Broadway Baby\", \"Weekend in the Country\", \"Not While I'm Around\")" ]

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[ "On the 8th of June 1994, on the set of the fated 17th James Bond film, Pierce Brosnan was introduced to the world as the new 007. His first film as Bond would be \"GoldenEye\", which ultimately cleared $350 million at the box office, and marked a big-time comeback for Bond producers. While he might have had a shot at clinching the role in '87, 1994 proved to be a far more appropriate year for Brosnan - he was older and far more worldly and jumped into 007's shoes with vigor and determination.", "Brosnan finally landed the role in 1994 when Dalton called it quits on Bond after two films and an extended court battle between the producers and MGM over rights to the series. Brosnan made his debut in GoldenEye (1995). The film scored at the box office, grossing $352.2 worldwide, and Brosnan’s ride as 007 was off to a promising start.", "Brosnan was signed for a four-film deal and first appeared as agent 007 in 1995's GoldenEye to much critical praise. GoldenEye more than doubled the gross of Dalton's previous film in worldwide ticket box office sales. Pierce returned as Bond in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies and 1999]'s The World Is Not Enough to virtually the same success. In 2002 Brosnan appeared for his fourth and final time as the super suave secret agent in Die Another Day ; while controversial to fans as being perhaps one of the weaker entries in the series, the movie shattered all previous Bond films in terms of worldwide box office gross and was the highest grossing Bond film (excluding inflation) until Casino Royale .", "It introduced us to a new James Bond, the fifth, first met wearing a baggy black playsuit and running along the top of a dam. Where were we? Hundreds of feet above a Soviet munitions factory. A swan dive, a bungee rope, and a grappling-hook gun with laser cutter attachment got our agent inside. We didn't get a good look at him until he crawled into a communal toilet to waylay a henchman. \"Sorry,\" he purred, the accent faintly Irish, a tanned and leathery face coming into view, \"forgot to knock.\" It was Pierce Brosnan! Only just holding back a smile, and quipping while he clobbered enemies exactly as Bond should. (For comparison we first glimpsed Timothy Dalton as 007, in 1987's The Living Daylights, playing paintball in Gibraltar. Literally his first close-up involved getting frightened by a monkey.)", "Those with short memories or that only hopped onboard the Bond train when Craig assumed the role may not realize that Dench also played M in the Pierce Brosnan Bond universe. Her character is based on Stella Rimington, the real-life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996. In GoldenEye —Dench's first appearance as M as well as Brosnan's first turn as Bond—M openly dislikes 007, calling him a \"sexist, misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War.\" In 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies , M sends Bond to investigate the psychopathic media mogul Elliot Carver, memorably played by Jonathan Pryce.", "Pierce Brosnan first began playing James Bond in the seventeenth movie, \"Goldeneye,\" in 1995. The critical reviews of the film stated that it was the most enjoyable Bond movie yet, and Brosnan played Bond better than anyone has since Sean Connery. In the second movie starring Pierce Brosnan as Bond, \"Tomorrow Never Dies\" (1997), the reviews only got better. While the movies starring Connery were better acted, and the movies starring Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton had lots of action, the Brosnan films make the best combination of the two, and the result is definitely impressive.", "Brosnan first met James Bond films producer Albert R. Broccoli on the sets of For Your Eyes Only because his first wife, Cassandra Harris , was in the film. Broccoli said, \"if he can act… he's my guy\" to inherit the role of Bond from Roger Moore . [8] In 1982, Brosnan rose to popularity in the United States playing the title role in the NBC romantic detective series Remington Steele . [9] The Washington Post noted that same year that Brosnan \"could make it as a young James Bond.\" [10]", "File this under Too Good To Make Up: the first Technicolor movie Pierce Brosnan remembers ever seeing was Goldfinger, the 1964 James Bond film starring Sean Connery as Agent 007.", "Ultimately, Remington Steele cost Brosnan the 007 role in 1986, when MTM refused to release him from his contract. (subsequently the role went to Timothy Dalton). However, after a six-year absence from the cinema screens due to legal wrangles, James Bond bounced back in 1995 with Brosnan as 007 in the phenomenally successful GoldenEye.", "In Autumn 1985, following the financial and critical disappointment of A View to a Kill, work began on scripts for the next Bond film with the intention that Roger Moore would not reprise the role of James Bond. One of the actors being considered as Moore’s replacement was Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan had first met producer Albert R. Broccoli on the set of 1981’s For Your Eyes Only when Brosnan’s wife, Cassandra Harris, was appearing in the film as Countess Lisl von Schlaf. Beginning in 1982, Brosnan would star as a criminal-turned-private investigator in the NBC TV series Remington Steele, where he captured some of the traits of previous Bonds in playing the Steele role. Like Moore, he exemplified a high degree of suaveness, elegance, charm and wit while, on occasion, displaying a masculinity and grittiness reminiscent of Sean Connery’s Bond successfully “combining the character’s Englishness with a classless internationalism that is highly knowing”.", "The 1990s saw a revival and renewal of the series beginning with GoldenEye in 1995. Pierce Brosnan filled 007's shoes with a mix of Sean Connery cool and Roger Moore wit. The combination saw Bond's success return to a level it hadn't enjoyed since 1979's Moonraker. In all, Brosnan made four films before being replaced in 2006 by Daniel Craig, who stars in a reboot of the series. Although Craig's Casino Royale is the 21st film of the series, it is Bond's first mission after obtaining his double-0 status from MI6.", "GoldenEye (1995) is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 officer James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming. The story was conceived and written by Michael France, with later collaboration by other writers. In the film, Bond fights to prevent an ex-MI6 agent, gone rogue, from using a satellite against London to cause global financial meltdown.", "In 1979, Brosnan began dabbling in television, including successful searies' such as \"The Professionals\" and \"Murphy's Stroke\". By 1980 he had made his first feature film, \"The Long Good Friday\". The same year, he went on to play in Guy Hamilton directed, Agatha Christie classic \"The Mirror Cracked\". Brosnan held small role but during the shooting was able to shake hands with the likes of Tony Curtis and Angela Lansbury as well as the director of \"his\" first Bond film!", "Trivia: Future James Bond Piers Brosnan makes his film debut as an IRA gunman who takes Harold Shand (Hoskins) hostage.", "Fortunately, everything 'worked'. Brosnan, now 42, was more ruggedly believable as 007 than he would have been, at 34, and Dame Judi Dench, as the first woman 'M' (referring to Bond as a \"sexist, misogynist dinosaur\"), proved a perfect successor to the late Bernard Lee. While the plot of the film, involving the master plan of a renegade Russian General (Gottfried John) and an assumed dead 006 (Sean Bean) to use an electronic warfare system (GoldenEye) against England was nothing new, Brosnan's daring-do and one-liners (with humor restored to the franchise), as he proved his value in the new world 'order', found an audience 'primed' for James Bond's return...and the welcome cameo of the series' last original 'regular', \"Q\" (Desmond Llewelyn, 81, and as cranky as ever), cemented 007's links to both the past and the future.", "Before taking up the mantle of James Bond, Pierce Brosnan played the bad guy in this 1987 thriller based on a Frederick Forsyth novel. Brosnan plays a KGB agent hell-bent on smuggling a nuclear bomb into the UK and destroying a US air base. The film is relatively short on action until the climax which sees the SAS, with a little help from Michael Caine, assaulting a house in order to stop Brosnan completing his mission. Of note is the depiction of the SAS team being transported in Agusta A109s, as they would be by 8 Flight - a nice detail.", "He has two roles in common with Sean Connery : (1) Connery played James Bond in Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983) while Brosnan played him in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002) and (2) Connery played King Arthur in First Knight (1995) while Brosnan played him in in The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot (1998).", "He has two roles in common with Pierce Brosnan : (1) Connery played James Bond in Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983) while Brosnan played him in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002) and (2) Connery played King Arthur in First Knight (1995) while Brosnan played him in in Quest for Camelot (1998).", "THE FILE Brosnan had been offered the role in 1986, but contractual complications with the US television detective series Remington Steele meant he had to wait nearly 10 years for it. Brosnan is the paint-by-numbers Bond of his predecessors, a jack-of-all trades Bond but a master of none. He could adopt the attitude of Connery, the bon mots of Moore and the destructiveness of Dalton, just not as well as any of them. Lethal but laid-back, charming but ruthless, Brosnan was the most stylish Bond and a transient Bond, the first to work for a female boss (M, played by the peerless Judi Dench) who calls him a \"sexist, misogynist dinosaur\".", "Composite Character : After the release of GoldenEye, critics and fans have observed that Pierce Brosnan 's interpretation of 007 is an amalgamation of his predecessors; he has Connery's charisma, Lazenby's vulnerability, Moore's humour and Dalton's grittiness.", "Die Another Day (2002) is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and final film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film follows Bond as he leads a mission to North Korea, during which he is betrayed and, after seemingly killing a rogue North Korean colonel, is captured and imprisoned. Fourteen months later, Bond is released as part of a prisoner exchange. Surmising that someone within the British government betrayed him, he attempts to earn redemption by tracking down his betrayer and killing a North Korean agent he believes was involved in his torture.", "Some years before, during the For Your Eyes Only shoot, Cubby Broccoli had been impressed by a young actor married to Cassandra Harris (Countess Lisl von Shlaf), whom he visited on set. Pierce Brosnan went on to star in the TV series Remington Steele and when it was cancelled in 1987 Broccoli offered him the role of James Bond.", "Brosnan make a streak of Hollywood blockbusters in the '90s including the comic \"Mars Attacks!\", a dramatic adventure \"Dante's Peak\" and a slick and sophisticated remake of the \"Thomas Crown Affair\". On top of these successes, Pierce Brosnan made three further Bond films (\"Tomorrow Never Dies\", \"The World Is Not Enough\" and \"Die Another Day\"), becoming an increasingly popular Bond for the new generation.", "In the 1990s, Brosnan reinvigorated the popularity of the Bond franchise in box-office blockbusters including Goldeneye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). Brosnan’s first three Bond films earned over a billion dollars at the international box-office and Die Another Day alone garnered nearly half-billion dollars worldwide.", "In his post-Bond years, Brosnan has never disparaged his stint as 007. At the same time, he has always made it clear that he never intended to let the role define him or his career.", "In James Bond’s final adventure of the 20th Century, Pierce Brosnan proved The World Is Not Enough for 007.", "Pierce Brosnan - GoldenEye , Tomorrow Never Dies , The World Is Not Enough , Die Another Day (1995-2002)", "True Lies, 1994. This action-comedy film emerged a year prior to the Bond franchise returning with Pierce Brosnon as the lead star. In it are some of the same type of scenarios that James Bond tends to face.", "The first James Bond film, made by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman's Eon Productions, which was shot on location in Jamaica and looked far more expensive than it actually was (production budget: $1 million). The hi-tech sets (by Ken Adam), main title sequence (by Maurice Binder) and fast-paced editing style (by Peter Hunt) all became hallmarks of the 007 series and their influence on the action film genre endures today. Opinion varies, of course, as to who is the best Bond and which is the best film, but this one certainly helped to make an international star of Connery and a screen icon of Ursula Andress.", "The greatest of all the James Bond movies, GoldenEye, opens with Pierce Brosnan taking a bungee jump off the Contra Dam , presumably for cinematic reasons.", "With the departure of Connery after You Only Live Twice, Broccoli and director Peter R. Hunt chose Australian George Lazenby to play the role of Bond. He first came to their attention after seeing him in a Fry's Chocolate Cream advertisement. Lazenby dressed the part by sporting several sartorial Bond elements such as a Rolex Submariner wristwatch and a Savile Row suit (ordered, but uncollected, by Connery), and going to Connery's barber at the Dorchester Hotel. Lazenby consolidated his claim during a screen test, when he accidentally punched a professional wrestler, who was acting as stunt coordinator, in the face, impressing Broccoli with his ability to display aggression. Lazenby never signed a contract, with negotiations dragging on during production, and he was subsequently convinced by his agent Ronan O'Rahilly that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s; as a result he left the role before the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969. For his performance as Bond, Lazenby was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor at the 27th Golden Globe Awards.", "Directed by Terence Young. Cast: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi. Agent 007 goes above the call of duty and to the bottom of the ocean to track down a villainous criminal who's holding millions hostage and threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust. 130 min. DVD 6787; DVD 5891 [single-disc version]" ]

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[ "The Bridges of Madison County is a romance starring Clint Eastwod, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley and Victor Slezak in a story about a brother and sister reading their mother's diary about a love affair she had with a photographer. The Bridges of Madison County was directed by Clint Eastwood in 1995.", "At the May 1994 Cannes Film Festival Eastwood received France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal then on March 27, 1995, he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 67th Academy Awards. His next appearance was in a cameo role as himself in the 1995 children's film Casper and continued to expand his repertoire by playing opposite Meryl Streep in the romantic picture The Bridges of Madison County in the same year. Based on a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller and set in Iowa,The Bridges of Madison County relates the story of Robert Kincaid (Eastwood), a photographer working for National Geographic, who has a love affair with middle-aged Italian farm wife Francesca (Streep). The film was a hit at the box office and highly acclaimed by critics, despite unfavorable views of the novel and a subject deemed potentially disastrous for film. Roger Ebert remarked that \"Streep and Eastwood weave a spell, and it is based on that particular knowledge of love and self that comes with middle age.\"The Bridges of Madison County was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Picture and won a César Award in France for Best Foreign Film. Streep was also nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.", "One of the original bridges of Madison County, this beauty is located just outside Winterset. It's shown during the movie, \"Bridges of Madison County,\" when Robert (Clint Eastwood) is looking for this bridge, and he meets Francesca (Meryl Streep). It's also shown later in the film when the ashes are scattered at the bridge. Roseman Bridge is also known as the “haunted bridge.” The legend goes that two sheriff’s posses trapped a county jail escapee in the bridge in1892. It is rumored that the man rose up straight through the roof of the bridge, uttered a wild cry and disappeared. He was never found.", "They had four children: the actors Beau Bridges (born in 1941) and Jeff Bridges (born in 1949); a daughter, Lucinda Louise Bridges (born in October 1953); and another son, Garrett Myles Bridges, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome on August 3, 1948. The actor Jordan Bridges is Beau's son and Lloyd's grandson. Dorothy and Lloyd exchanged vows again for their 50th wedding anniversary.<br /><br /> A world federalist, Bridges once said, \"The devastation caused by war and the pollution of our environment knows no boundaries. Only an effective world government could provide sufficient law and have the power to control these destructive forces.\" He was also involved in several organizations, including the American Oceans Campaign and Heal the Bay, a Los Angeles-based group. Read Less", "Bridges met his wife, Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson) in his fraternity; they married in 1938 in New York City. They had four children: the actors Beau Bridges (born in 1941) and Jeff Bridges (born in 1949); a daughter, Lucinda Louise Bridges (born in October 1953); and another son, Garrett Myles Bridges, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome on August 3, 1948. The actor Jordan Bridges is Beau's son and Lloyd's grandson. Dorothy and Lloyd exchanged vows again for their 50th wedding anniversary.", "Bridges died of natural causes at the age of eighty-five. His ashes were given to his family. He was married to Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson) (1915–2009), from 1938 until his death. They had four children: the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges; a daughter, Lucinda Louise Bridges; and another son, Garrett Myles Bridges (born between Beau and Jeff), who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome on August 3, 1948. The actor Jordan Bridges is Beau's son and Lloyd's grandson.", "Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, the most popular syndicated American TV series in 1958. He was the father of actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.…  Read More", "Jeffrey Leon \"Jeff\" Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor, singer and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family, and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt (1958–60), with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis \"Bad\" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart, and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Starman (1984), The Contender (2000) and True Grit (2010). His other films include Tron (1982), Jagged Edge (1985), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Fisher King (1991), Fearless (1993), The Big Lebowski (1998), Seabiscuit (2003), Iron Man (2008), Tron: Legacy (2010) and The Giver (2014).", "Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch) is an American actor and film producer recognized for his prominent cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as \"sons of bitches\". He is the father of Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. He was #17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time.", "TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Olivia de Havilland is 99. Actress-dancer Leslie Caron is 84. Actress Jean Marsh is 81. Actor Jamie Farr is 81. Bluesman James Cotton is 80. Actor David Prowse is 80. Cookiemaker Wally Amos is 79. Dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is 74. Actress Genevieve Bujold is 73. Rock singeractress Deborah Harry is 70. Movie-TV producer-director Michael Pressman is 65. Actor Daryl Anderson is 64. Actor Trevor Eve is 64. Actor Terrence Mann is 64. Rock singer Fred Schneider (B-52’s) is 64. Pop singer Victor Willis (Village People) is 64. Actor-comedian Dan Aykroyd is 63. Actress Lorna Patterson is 59. Actor Alan Ruck is 59. Rhythm-andblues singer Evelyn “Champagne” King is 55. Olympic gold medal track star Carl Lewis is 54. Country singer Michelle Wright is 54. Actor Andre Braugher is 53. Actor Dominic Keating is 53. Actress Pamela Anderson is 48. Rock musician Mark Pirro is 45. Rock musician Franny Griffiths (Space) is 45. Actor Henry Simmons is 45. Hip-hop artist Missy Elliott is 44. Actress Julianne Nicholson is 44. Actress Melissa Peterman is 44. Rock musician Bryan Devendorf (The National) is 40. Actress Liv Tyler is 38. Bluegrass musician Adam Haynes (Dailey & Vincent) is 36. Actress Hilarie Burton is 33. Actress Lynsey Bartilson is 32. Actress Lea Seydoux (LEE’-uh sayDOO’) is 30. Actor Evan Ellingson is 27. Actors Andrew and Steven Cavarno are 23.", "In November 2005, he guest-starred as Carl Hickey, the father of the title character in the hit NBC comedy My Name Is Earl. Bridges' character became recurring. Bridges received a 2007 Emmy Award nomination for his performance.", "He left Columbia Pictures during World War II to enlist in the United States Coast Guard. Following his discharge, he returned to acting. In later years he was a member of U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, 11th District (California) and did several public service announcements for the Coast Guard. Because of his support, he was made an honorary commodore. Bridges' sons, actors Beau and Jeff, also served in the Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve.<br /><br /> Bridges was blacklisted briefly in the 1950s after he admitted to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had once been a member of the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, a group found to have had links to the Communist party. He returned to acting after he was cleared by the FBI, achieving his greatest success in television. Read Less", "Eddie Fisher - whose 11 Billboard Top 40 hits were often eclipsed by his scandalous personal life with Elizabeth Taylor, died of complications from hip surgery on September 22nd, 2010 at the age of 82. He cracked the Top Ten with \"Count Your Blessings\" (#5 in 1955), \"Heart\" (#6 in 1956) and \"Dungaree Doll\" (#7 in 1956) and was also the father of Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy", "Jeff Bridges is an American actor, musician and producer. He began his first televised acting in 1958 as a child with his father, Lloyd Bridges, and brother Beau on television’s Sea Hunt. Some of his best-known major motion films include: Tron, Fearless, Iron Man, The Contender, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds, The Fisher King, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Seabiscuit, Arlington Road, and The Big Lebowski. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis “Bad” Blake in the film Crazy Heart (2009) and earned his sixth Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (2010).", "The Thompson family resided in the Cherokee Triangle neighborhood of the Highlands in Louisville. Jack Thompson died of myasthenia gravis , a neuromuscular disease , on July 3, 1952, when Hunter was 14 years old, leaving three sons—Hunter, Davison, and James (February 2, 1949 – March 25, 1993) [2] —to be brought up by their mother. Contemporaries indicated that after Jack's death, Virginia became a \" heavy drinker .\" [1] [3]", "Mr. Bridges and his wife, the former Dorothy Simpson, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1989. Besides his wife, Mr. Bridges leaves his two sons; a daughter, Cindy, and 11 grandchildren.", "Otis \"Bad\" Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a 57-year-old alcoholic singer-songwriter who was once a country music star. He now earns a modest living by singing and playing his guitar at one-night stands, in small town bars, in the southwestern United States. Having a history of failed marriages (four that he admitted to, although a reference is made to a fifth he does not discuss) Blake is without a family. He has a son, aged 28, with whom he has not had contact in 24 years. He is mostly on the road performing, staying in cheap motels and traveling in his old '78 Suburban alone. The film opens with his arrival at a bowling alley for a show.", "\"...Press Veteran actor Lloyd Bridges, who died Tuesday at age 85, had a 60-year career that included the television hit \"Sea Hunt\" and f...", "Lloyd Vernet \"Beau\" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director. He is a three-time Emmy, two-time Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner. He is also a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee. Bridges was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 7, 2003 at 7065 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the television industry. ", "The late actor Lloyd Bridges, center, and his actor sons Beau, left, and Jeff, pose for a 1989 photo. Lloyd Bridges was 85 when he died in 1998.", "Country singer-songwriter who issued his acclaimed debut CD, This Weary Way, at age 70 in 2005. Father of stellar songwriter, singer and instrumental Darrell Scott.", "Bridges was a veteran of more than 100 movies and six TV series. His last two movies, Meeting Daddy and Jane Austen's Mafia will be released this summer. 'He never retired,' Dorothy says.", " Geoffrey Lewis, veteran western actor and father of actress Juliette Lewis died April 7 of natural causes. He was 79.", "On March 10, 1998, Bridges died of natural causes at the age of 85. He was married to Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson; 1915–2009), from 1938 until his death.", "Bridges played significant roles in several mini-series, including Roots, How the West Was Won, The Blue and the Gray and Battlestar Galactica . For more than forty-five years, Bridges was a frequent guest star on television series. He earned two Emmy Award nominations four decades apart. The first came in 1957 for an episode of The Alcoa Hour. Then he was nominated again in 1998 for his role as Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld.", "Later success includes the 2006 album release, Water & Bridges, an across the board hit, that hit the Top 5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting in the Top 15 of the Billboard 200. The first single from the album, \"I Can't Unlove You,\" was also a sizable chart hit. Remaining a popular entertainer around the world, the following year he completed a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland, telling BBC Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright his favourite hit was \"The Gambler\". He has also acted in a variety of movies and television shows, most notably the title roles in Kenny Rogers as The Gambler and the MacShayne series as well as his appearance on The Muppet Show. ", "Cagney's son married Jill Lisbeth Inness in 1962. The couple had two children - James III and Cindy. Cagney Jr. died from a heart attack on January 27, 1984 in Washington D.C., two years before his adoptive father's death. He had become estranged from his father and had not seen or talked to him since 1982. Cagney's daughter Cathleen married Jack W. Thomas in 1962. She too was estranged from her father during the final years of his life. She died August 11, 2004.", "Bobby Russell was married to Vicki Lawrence (who played Mama Thelma Harper on the TV sitcom Mama's Family in the 1980s) from June 1972 until November 1974. He wrote several other songs other than \"Honey\", including The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, which was sung by his then wife Vicki Lawrence (they got divorced in 1974), and the O.C. Smith song Little Green Apples, which was a big hit in 1969. Russell died of a heart attack on November 19, 1992, in Nicholasville, Kentucky, which is near Lexington. He was only 52 years old when he passed away in November 1992.", "The 82-year-old honoree has had a career in film and television that has spanned 66 years.", "A member of the \"Greatest Generation\" was honored Monday in Hazard, Ky., reports WYMT-TV. His voice was heard on WSGS and the East Kentucky Sports Network for decades, now a bridge is named in honor of 79-year-old Jay Lasslo. ( Read more )", "He was 93, and leaves a legacy of music and humor, bound together in some of country music�s most smile-provoking songs, including �Did You Have To Bring That Up (While I Was Eatin�),� �Hole in the Bottom of the Sea� and signature tune, �I�m My Own Grandpa.�", "Walter Brennan - a well known actor who reached number five on the Hot 100 in 1962 with \"Old Rivers\", died on September 21st, 1974, at the age of 80" ]

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[ "When I watched 8 MM, I didn't know what to expect, but I noticed that Joel Schumacher directed it and I am a fan of his. Also it stars two other terrific actors like Nicholas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix, so usually that equals a great film. 8 MM turned out to be a terrific dark drama that I'm not so sure that I understand it's low rating. I was actually expecting it to be in the 7.0 range when I went to check it out on IMDb, but it's in the low 6.0's. I understand that it's an extremely dark movie that not too many people would wanna take a look at, but for what it was, I thought it was great. It took us into the deep dark world of porn and what some sick people get off on. It's not just about that, but also it takes us into a detective type of drama that makes it into a scary type of thriller.", "Original starring Nicholas Cage as a private eye on the case of a most mysterious snuff film, Schumacher’s low-key picture also featured Joaquin Phoenix in one of his earlier forays into cinema. In hindsight, 8MM is a startlingly dark thriller, dipping its toe into the underbelly of illegal pornography without batting an eyelid – particularly for a studio movie.", "8mm focuses on \"snuff\" movies and follows Nicholas Cage as he ventures into the dark underworld of the pornographic industry. I'm not a great fan of Nicholas Cage (I still wonder how he ever made it as a movie star), but in 8mm felt he redeemed himself from past performances. Other actors in the film put on great performances, notably Joaquin Pheonix, and James Gandolfini (of Sopranos).", "In his next film, 8mm (1999), Phoenix co-starred as an adult video store employee who helps Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) penetrate the underworld of illegal pornography. The film turned out be a box office success, grossing $96 million worldwide, but found few admirers among critics. ", "25 years after testifying against her brother as the person responsible for massacring her entire family, a haunted woman (Charlize Theron) is approached by a secret society that specializes in complex, unsolved cases. Nicholas Hoult, Corey Stoll, and Chloe Moretz co-star in this Mandalay Pictures thriller directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.", "The Hateful Eight (released in December 2015; available on DVD and VOD in April 2016).  Quentin Tarantino directs Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson in this hard, gritty tale about eight individuals, including bounty hunter Russell and a murderous female captive being brought to justice, all trapped together during a Wyoming blizzard.  The eight also include Tim Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern, Walton Goggins and Michael Madsen.  Available in some locations in a 70 mm. version, it’s almost three hours long.", "As helmed by Gilles Bourdos, this supernatural thriller - a Franco-German-Canadian co-production - continues John Malkovich's career-long tradition of playing offbeat, enigmatic figures with a menacing air. Romain Duris stars as Nathan Del Amico, an attorney doubly haunted by his past, as the survivor of a near-death experience as a child and a witness of his own baby's death. As a product of these crises, Nathan has buried himself in his work and now suffers from a bad case of familial estrangement from his separated wife Evangeline Lilly and little girl. Then the mysterious Dr. Kay (Malkovich) turns up, claiming that he has clairvoyant visions informing him when someone is about to die - a gift as a \"messenger\" that enables him to make each person's transition out of life a smooth and easy one. Suddenly, upon hearing Kay's claims, Nathan feels his death-laden memories double in intensity - and grows increasingly convinced that either he now stands on the verge of death, or that he has the same messenger abilities as Kay.", "His first, Revenge of the Colossal Beasts , was shot in 1962 when the fledgling filmmaker was just 14. Using an 8mm, he went on to direct other grisly titles like Terror from Space , Gorgo Versus Godzilla and Gorgon, the Space Monster .", "Jennifer 8 is a 1992 crime-mystery/thriller film starring Andy García, Uma Thurman, and John Malkovich. Former Los Angeles cop John Berlin is spiraling downward after the collapse of his marriage. At the invitation of an old friend, Berlin moves to rural northern California, for a job with the Eureka police force. That’s where he meets music student who is blind named Helena Robertson and becomes romantically involved with her. When researching this film, I saw a lot of excitement from people about Uma Thurman’s topless scene but they may be disappointed to know a body double was used.", "Mulholland Drive (stylized onscreen as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, and Robert Forster. It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), newly arrived in Los Angeles, California, who meets and befriends an amnesic woman (Harring) hiding in an apartment that belongs to Betty's aunt. The story includes several other seemingly unrelated vignettes that eventually interlock, as well as some surreal and darkly comic scenes and images that relate to the cryptic narrative.", "V for Vendetta is a 2005 political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by The Wachowski Brothers, based on the 1982 comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set in London in a near-future dystopian society, Hugo Weaving portrays V \"? a bold, charismatic freedom fighter, attempting to ignite a revolution against the brutal fascist regime led by Adam Sutler ( John Hurt ) that has subjugated his country. Natalie Portman plays Evey, a working-class girl caught up in V's mission and Stephen Rea portrays the detective leading a desperate quest to stop V.", "2000 - These films opened in the U.S.: Girl, Interrupted (based on Susanna Kaysen�s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s), starring Angelina Jolie (Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), Winona Ryder, Elisabeth Moss, Brittany Murphy, Clea Duvall and Whoopi Goldberg; The Hurricane (the story of boxer Rubin �Hurricane� Carter, with Denzel Washington, John Hannah and Deborah Kara Unger; and Supernova (about the search and rescue patrol of a medical spaceship in the early 22nd century), starring James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney and Wilson Cruz.", "Aileen Wuornos: Charlize Theron won the Academy Award for playing America’s most famous female serial killer in the 2003 movie Monster. Between 1989 and 1990, Wuornos, while working as a prostitute, killed seven men in Florida for their money so that her lesbian lover, Ty Moore, wouldn’t have to work anymore. The troubled drifter confessed to shooting the men but claimed all of them had raped or attempted to rape her. Wuornos was sentenced to death; she died in 1992 by lethal injection.", "21 Grams (2003) Drama/Mystery Complicated, well-integrated stories of an ex-con and recovering alcoholic (Benicio Del Toro), a cocaine addict (Naomi Watts), and a terminal man awaiting a transplant (Sean Penn), all brought together by an accidental death.", "In the uncertain zone between dumb and truly twisted lies \"8MM,\" a movie that will baffle and disgust you in one disconcerting experience.", "David Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American music video and film director known for his dark and stylish portraits of the human experience.", "In Cronenberg's \"The Fly\", Jeff Goldblum (title character) picks up a girl and brings her back to his lair for experimentation. Geena Davis, his ex-girlfriend, is already there. Goldblum tells the new girl not to be afraid, but Geena contradicts him using the words which the publicists decided were ideal to trail the film.", "Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996) Based on Carl Panzran: A biography starring James Wood., as Panzram with Robert Sean Leonard as his jailer. An extremely good movie. One of my favourites.", "Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer found popularity not only in America, but across the world, although their international success was not as immediate. Hong Kong's The Deadly Camp (1999) took inspiration from backwoods slashers of the 1980s, while South Korea had a string of prolific slasher film hits, starting with Bloody Beach (2000), The Record (2001), and Nightmare (2000), the latter mixing the slasher film with the supernatural chills of Japanese ghost films such as Ringu (1998). Australia's postmodern slasher film Cut (2000) cast Molly Ringwald, a 1980s icon from John Hughes films, as its heroine. India's Bollywood produced the first ever musical-slasher hybrid with Kucch To Hai (2003) as well as the more straightforward Dhund: The Fog (2003). Britain also had a release with Lighthouse (1999), and the Netherlands produced teen slashers School's Out (1999) and The Pool (2001).", "British writer/director Clive Barker made his directorial debut with the graphically grisly Hellraiser (1987) featuring nasty Cenobites, followed by innumerable sequels. Another British director, Bernard Rose, made the nightmarish fantasy Paperhouse (1989) and directed Clive Barker's terrifying, violent tale Candyman (1992) about a reincarnated, hook-handed, formerly-tortured and murdered slave nicknamed \"Candyman\" who enticed female urban legends researcher Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) to \"Be my victim.\" In 1990, Kathy Bates won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a sick celebrity fan in Misery (1990), based on another Stephen King novel.", "Dark City Sci-Fi film noir about a haunted everyman (Rufus Sewell) who awakens one day with amnesia to find a mutilated female body in his apartment. Soon he's being chased by both the police and a cult of ominous beings known only as the Strangers. Co-stars Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt. Directed by Alex Proyas. New Line, 1998, MPAA rating: R, priced for rental.", "MCEVERS: Jennifer Jason Leigh was everywhere in the '80s and '90s. And then she wasn't. But now she's been nominated for an Oscar for playing Daisy Domergue in \"The Hateful Eight.\" She came into our studio here in Culver City, and I asked her if this is her comeback.", "‘8 ½’ (1963, film) Freaking out over how to follow-up the monster hit “La Dolce Vita,” Federico Fellini turned an abandoned sci-fi project into a ground-breaking movie about movies, concerning a philandering, depressed film director (Marcello Mastroianni) having phantasmagoric visions while struggling to piece together a follow-up to a monster hit.", "Two Evil Eyes (Italy, 1990), with Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeline Potter.  Directed by George Romero, Dario Argento.", "mysterious traveler opposite Woody Harrelson He also starred in �50 Dead Men,�a thriller set against the dangerous backdrop of 1980s", "Butch's girlfriend. Tarantino met the Portuguese actress while traveling with Reservoir Dogs around the European film festival circuit. She had previously co-starred with Thurman in Henry & June (1990), playing Anaïs Nin.", "Nicolas Roeg’s Gothic tale Don’t Look Now writhes with uncertainty, a vagueness that underlines everything revealed to intensify our unease. And yet, this feeling becomes prey to a confident, ingenious style of filmmaking that calculates every move, every cut, to evoke a growing sense of terror. Based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier, the 1973 film places a moving study of a couple in the throes of grief against the canals and shadowy passageways of Venice, where a series of murders and psychic phenomena establish an unsettling tone. Roeg’s impressionistic style makes leaps in chronology, jumping forward or backward through time in his editing to reinforce an emotion or forewarn of something dreadful to come. His structure follows a symbolic code, employing numerous recurring motifs like scattered pieces to a puzzle, whose picture never becomes whole until the shocking conclusion.", "Was the 8th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Dangerous (1935) at The 8th Academy Awards on March 5, 1936.", "He has had many supporting appearances in movies including The Day After Tomorrow , Blood Work , Hostel , Cellular , and Lions Gate Films The Condemned . He suffered a near-death experience during the filming of the latter in Australia.", "*Jennifer Eight, also known as Jennifer 8, is a 1992 film written and directed by Bruce Robinson", "A little-known flick, Ally Farson, from 1999 was about a 20-something film student who goes on a killing spree. The movie, like The Blair Witch Project , hyped itself as footage from a real incident, however Ally is played by a woman who is clearly in her 40s or even 50s.", "By the 1980s, cinema had changed, and an entire new genre of stalk and slash horror flicks had followed in the wake of Psycho, the film that redefined acceptable levels of cinematic violence. There were by then other popular cinema serial killers to compare and contrast Norman with." ]

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[ "It is set among marshes in Kent , and in London , in the early to mid-1800s, [2] and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening, in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch . [3] Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty; prison ships and chains, and fights to the death [3] – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham , the cold and beautiful Estella , and Joe, the kind and generous blacksmith . Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. [3] Great Expectations is popular both with readers and literary critics, and has been translated into many languages, and adapted numerous times into various media.", "The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century, [3] and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening, in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch . [4] Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty; prison ships and chains, and fights to the death [4] – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham , the beautiful but cold Estella , and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith . Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. [4] Great Expectations is popular both with readers and literary critics, and has been translated into many languages, and adapted numerous times into various media.", "The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty; prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations (popular both with readers and literary critics) has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media.", "Great Expectations is set in early Victorian England, a time when great social changes were sweeping the nation. The Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries had transformed the social landscape, enabling capitalists and manufacturers to amass huge fortunes. Although social class was no longer entirely dependent on the circumstances of one’s birth, the divisions between rich and poor remained nearly as wide as ever. London, a teeming mass of humanity, lit by gas lamps at night and darkened by black clouds from smokestacks during the day, formed a sharp contrast with the nation’s sparsely populated rural areas. More and more people moved from the country to the city in search of greater economic opportunity. Throughout England, the manners of the upper class were very strict and conservative: gentlemen and ladies were expected to have thorough classical educations and to behave appropriately in innumerable social situations.", "In 2011 Gupta’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations transports the classic Victorian tale to 1860s Calcutta in India during the time of the British Raj. Pip is a poor Indian youth, Magwitch has become a black convict from the Cape, Miss Haversham is a decrepit incarnation of imperial severity while the beautiful, proud Estella is of African/Asian mixed-race.", "SynopsisGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens is the classic story of \"rags to richesaE seen from the eyes of a young boy, Pip. ... He lives in his imagination assuming that it is Miss Havisham, preparing him to marry Estella the girl of Pip\"s dreams. He has great expectations of himself as he tries to improve himself morally and socially.Joe-Pip\"s brother-in-law and village blacksmith. ... Estella-raised by Miss Havisham after being orphaned as a young child. ... Time and SettingGreat Expectation is set in early Victorian England, a time a great social change. ...", "Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself. show more", "Charles Dickens lived at Gad's Hill Place, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Gravesend and specifically mentions the town and its environs in at least two of his novels. In David Copperfield Mr. Peggotty, Ham and the Micawbers say their goodbyes and sail away from Gravesend to begin a new life in Australia. In Great Expectations, Pip, with accomplices, rows Magwitch from London downriver in expectation of waylaying a regular steamer (whilst under way in the Lower Hope, off Gravesend) bound for Hamburg. Gravesend is briefly mentioned in two other novels: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley during Victor's travels through the United Kingdom with Clerval; ultimately culminating in Victor's residence in the Orkney Islands; and also in the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.", "While it is London and the Kent marshes that immediately come to mind when one thinks of Great Expectations, references to Portsmouth appear in three of its chapters: when Jaggers returns to England, he lands at Portsmouth, and a letter received by Jaggers, asking for Pip’s whereabouts, is postmarked ‘Portsmouth’. Perhaps this is unsurprising, given that in September 1960, shortly after accompanying his son Sydney to Portsmouth where the latter was due to join his training ship, Dickens began work on Great Expectations", "Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens and it was first published in 1861. It is a classic novel that starts with a young seven-year-old Philip Pirrip, also known as “Pip”, who happened to be in a churchyard on a Christmas eve for he was visiting his parent’s tombstones, was threatened by a man smothered in mud, an escaped convict named Abel Magwitch. The convict demands Pip to bring him food and a file. In early chapters, we can say that Pip is a very brave and a kind protagonist because he obeyed Abel’s demand. Maybe he done such thing because he is just an innocent boy and wants to be generous with everyone or maybe because he’s afraid of what the convict said, that if he doesn’t obey the man’s order, the convict will have his heart and liver out.", "Pip thinks Miss Havisham is the source of his fortune. She allows him to think so. In London, Pip becomes a snob. He comes to know Estella better and becomes her closest friend. She marries a wealthy but stupid man called Bentley Drummle. She aims to make Drummle miserable, but he is too brutal for this, and it is she who suffers more. In London, Pip befriends Herbert, with whom he shares rooms (and whom he met years before at Miss Havisham's house). When Joe visits Pip in London, Pip is embarrassed and patronizes Joe, who promises he will not come to London again. One day Pip receives a visit from the convict he met years before, Abel Magwitch, who has prospered in sheep farming but has returned (illegally) from Australia. He is the source of Pip's Great Expectations.", "Like many of Dickens' works, the novel has a contemporary setting. Much of the action takes place in London, with several chapters taking place in Dickens' birthplace of Portsmouth, as well as settings in Yorkshire and Devon.", "Diane Boissonneau March 26th 1999 Great Expectations: The Book Verses the Movie Charles Dickens wrote many famous works, including Great Expectations. Recently, a movie loosely based upon this book was directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starred Gweynth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke. Great Expectat ... Diane Boissonneau March 26th 1999 Great Expectations: The Book Verses the Movie Charles Dickens wrote many famous works, including Great Expectations. ... (Movieweb) In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, a boy named Philip Pirrip (called Pip) was an orphan, raised by his sister who was twenty years older than he was. ... In Satis House, the name of Miss Havisham's home, Pip met Mr. ... Matthew Pocket, a relative of Miss Havisham. ... The story ends with Pip going back to Miss Havisham's old mansion in England, which has been pulled down. ...", "This portion of Smith's 1815 Map and Delineation of the Strata of England [etc.] shows the area with which Chapters 8-10 of Great Expectations are concerned. Miss Havisham lives in Rochester; Dickens was composing the novel at Gads Hill, near Chatham.", "By Dickens' time, a new factor had entered this situation, which had hardly changed for centuries: the industrial revolution and foreign trade had enabled men of very humble backgrounds to achieve immense wealth. They might eventually retire, move to a part of the country where they were not known, buy a title, and thus gain entry to the higher social circles. These were the nouveaux riches and might be disapproved by the more \"established\" families. In Great Expectations we meet no one from the highest social ranks (no aristocrats, for example). Bentley Drummle is from a landed family but is Mr. Drummle (he has no title, though he is \"next heir but one to a baronetcy\"). We are told in Chapter 25 that Drummle's family is from Somerset, but in Chapter 43 Pip speaks to him of \"your Shropshire\", and Drummle does not correct him.", "The moral theme of Great Expectations is quite simple: affection, loyalty, and conscience are more important than social advancement, wealth, and class. Dickens establishes the theme and shows Pip learning this lesson, largely by exploring ideas of ambition and self-improvement—ideas that quickly become both the thematic center of the novel and the psychological mechanism that encourages much of Pip’s development. At heart, Pip is an idealist; whenever he can conceive of something that is better than what he already has, he immediately desires to obtain the improvement. When he sees Satis House, he longs to be a wealthy gentleman; when he thinks of his moral shortcomings, he longs to be good; when he realizes that he cannot read, he longs to learn how. Pip’s desire for self-improvement is the main source of the novel’s title: because he believes in the possibility of advancement in life, he has “great expectations” about his future.", "Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel after David Copperfield to be fully narrated in the first person.Bleak House alternates between a third-person narrator and a first-person narrator, Esther Summerson, but the former is predominant. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.", "She starred in two adaptations of Charles Dickens ' 1861 novel \"Great Expectations\": Great Expectations (1946) and Great Expectations (1989). She played Estella in the former and Miss Havisham in the latter.", "While the length of his novels is, without a doubt, an obstacle to some contemporary readers, the fact that 10-year-olds read and love the hefty Harry Potter books (which are very influenced by Dickens, by the way) gives me hope that Dickens will continue to find new readers. And excellent stage and film adaptations of his novels keep emerging, with a new major film version of Great Expectations due out this year, directed by Mike Newell (who directed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and starring Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter. The film and stage versions will continue and will extend Dickens’ popularity even with those who don’t have the patience to read 900-page novels.", "* 1999 – Great Expectations, a film starring Ioan Gruffudd as Pip, Justine Waddell as Estella, and Charlotte Rampling as Miss Havisham (Masterpiece Theatre—TV)", "Great Expectations’ place on school reading lists can’t be the only reason for its triumph, however, with the school perennial Oliver Twist only picking up 4.6% of the readers’ votes. Pip’s place in readers’ affections was also attributed to the wealth of film and television adaptations which have been made of the novel over the years. A new version from BBC One starring David Suchet as Jaggers, Ray Winstone as Magwitch and Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham is out for Christmas, and  a new film adapted by One Day novelist David Nicholls starring Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch is due to start shooting shortly.", "Dickens was always very careful in his choice of names and titles, and the evolution of some of the latter is very interesting. One of the many he conceived for the magazine which was to succeed Household Words was Household Harmony, while another was Home Music. Considering his dislike of bells in general, it is rather surprising that two other suggestions were English Bells and Weekly Bells, but the final choice was All the Year Round. Only once does he make use of a musician's name in his novels, and that is in Great Expectations. Philip, otherwise known as Pip, the hero, becomes friendly with Herbert Pocket. The latter objects to the name Philip, ‘it sounds like a moral boy out of a spelling-book,’ and as Pip had been a blacksmith and the two youngsters were ‘harmonious,’ Pocket asks him:", "Slightly shorter at about five hours is the 1989 Great Expectations series that some (although not I) think the best ever made for television. It is also faithful to the novel, without being not slavishly so.", "Charles Dickens was a friend of the family of Mary Ann Cooper (n�e Mitton), and sometimes visited them; they lived in The Cedars, a house on the east side of Hatton Road, Hatton, London; the site of the house is now under the east end of London Heathrow Airport. She was the inspiration for his character Little Dorrit.", "This page presents a summary of the plot and characters of Great Expectations, a novel by Charles Dickens .", "The working notes for Great Expectations show that Dickens created a timeline for the characters’ ages. Pip, Estella, and Herbert are all 23 at the climax of the novel. Magwitch is 60, Biddy is 24, Joe is 45, and Miss Havisham is a relatively youthful 56. ", "In late November 1851, Dickens moved into Tavistock House where he would write Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854) and Little Dorrit (1857). It was here he indulged in the amateur theatricals which are described in Forster's \"Life\". In 1856, the income he was earning from his writing allowed him to buy Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent. As a child, Dickens had walked past the house and dreamed of living in it. The area was also the scene of some of the events of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and this literary connection pleased him.", "The house at 48 Doughty Street still stands, and at the end of 1839 the novelist removed to the \"handsome house with a considerable garden\" in Devonshire Terrace, near Regent's Park, the subject [Pg 55] of a sketch by Maclise which is here given. His holidays during his early and busy years were spent at Broadstairs, Twickenham, and Petersham on the Thames, just above Richmond. Dickens was always a great traveller, and his journeys often took him far afield.", "At any rate the London that Dickens knew clung somewhat to Wordsworth's happy description written but a half century before:", "In January 1815 John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia. When Charles was four, they relocated to Sheerness, and thence to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11. His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he thought himself a \"very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy\".", "In January 1815 John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia. When Charles was four, they relocated to Sheerness, and thence to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11. His early life seems to have been idyllic, though he thought himself a \"very small and not-over-particularly-taken-care-of boy\". ", "Elson, John. \"Middlemarch Madness? PBS imports a fine British adaptation of a classic.\" Time Domestic 11 April 1994 Vol.143 Number 15: n. pag. Online. Internet. 11 April 1994. Available http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/940411.television.html. " ]

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[ "* In Superman II (1980), Ursa (Sarah Douglas) uses a flagpole to knock Superman (Christopher Reeve) into the tower of the Chrysler Building. He ducks with Non (Jack O'Halloran) taking the blast. However, scenes showing the tower falling and being flown back to the top by Superman are of the Empire State Building.", "When filming was suspended on Donner's Superman II in October 1977, the director had completed almost all of the major character-based sequences in the film. All scenes in the Daily Planet and most scenes set in the Fortress of Solitude were completed. All scenes featuring Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper and Gene Hackman were also completed. What remained to be filmed was the villains' arrival on Earth, and their rampage through mid-west America as well as exteriors at Washington D.C. during which Zod announces his takeover of the Earth from the tip of the Washington Monument. Most of the battle scenes between Superman and the super-villains had yet to be shot, as well as both the interiors and exteriors at Niagara Falls. Several minor scenes including a love-struck Superman deliberately tilting over the Leaning Tower of Pisa (later adapted in Superman III) and a scene in which Superman warns off some English fox-hunters were also not filmed.", "As Tom Mankiewicz, the Creative Consultant who had worked for Richard Donner, chose not to return to work on Superman II, the previous writing team of David and Leslie Newman were re-hired to rewrite the script accordingly. They removed many of Mankiewicz's changes to their original re-write based on Mario Puzo's script, and restored many of their scenes that Mankiewicz had removed. This included the beginning where terrorists with a nuclear bomb seize the Eiffel Tower – in their original script, terrorists with a nuclear bomb seized a building in Metropolis.", "Superman II is a 1980 British-American superhero film directed by Richard Lester, based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is a sequel to the 1978 film Superman and stars Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, and Jack O'Halloran. The film was released in Australia and mainland Europe on December 4, 1980, and in other countries throughout 1981. Selected premiere engagements of Superman II were presented in Megasound, a high-impact surround sound system similar to Sensurround.", "The villains attack the White House and force the President to kneel before Zod. This Donner-filmed scene was featured in Lester’s Superman II. The new cut features extended footage throughout.", "The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, New York at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, the Empire State Building became for the second time, the tallest building in New York City.", "If you have ever seen the movie \"King Kong,\" you may remember the building that the giant ape climbs. The Empire State Building officially opened on this day in history, May 1, 1931. President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C., and on came the lights in the world's tallest skyscraper. Before that, the Chrysler Building briefly held the record at 1046 feet. Now, the tallest building in the United States is the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago.", "In the music scene, Meat Loaf's 1993 album Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell's cover art depicts a demonic bat clinging to the top floors of the Chrysler Building. The artwork was by done by Michael Whelan.[31] The Chrysler building is widely known to be depicted in many films, such as the 1998 film Deep Impact, where the wall of water that surrounds the skyscraper, people can be seen on the 61st floor observation deck fleeing to the other side of the building.[32] In another film, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, while Johnny Storm chases the Silver Surfer through Manhattan, The Silver Surfer flies straight through the Chrysler Building.[33][34] Towards the end of Steven Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, the Chrysler Building is seen totally submerged underwater as the aliens guide their spacecraft through the submerged ruins of Manhattan.[35] In the first movie series of Spider-man, Spiderman perched on top of one of the building's gargoyles, mourning of a beloved relative's murder.[35]", "Providence's Hospital Trust Tower is seen in every episode as one of the three skyscrapers in the background of the establishing shot of the Griffins' house. In night scenes it's often even lit up with a ring of lights around the top, just like the real building. The same three buildings can be seen on a calendar hanging in the Griffins' kitchen. In S2E6, \"Death Is a Bitch,\" Peter jumps off this building after realizing he is immortal. A cartoon version of Providence City Hall is visible in the background as Quagmire and Cleveland look on.", "The Bank of America Building (Providence) was opened in 1928 as the Industrial Trust Building. It was, and is, the tallest building in Rhode Island. Through a number of mergers it was later known as the Industrial National Bank building and the Fleet Bank building. The building was leased by Bank of America from 2004 to 2012 and has been vacant since March 2013. The building is commonly known as the Superman Building based on a popular belief that it was the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comic books.", "The Empire State Building was intended to end the competition for tallest building. It was to tower 102 stories, 1,250 ft (381 m) above Manhattan's streets. Its developers, John J. Raskob and Pierre Samuel Du Pont, along with former New York Governor Alfred E. Smith, announced in August 1929 their intention to build the world's tallest building. They chose the construction firm Starrett Brothers and Eken, and the architectural firm Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon for the project with William F. Lamb as the chief designer. If is set back from the street above the fifth floor and then soars uninterrupted for more than 1,000 ft (305 m) to the 86th floor. The exterior is limestone and granite and vertical chrome-nickel-steel alloy columns extend from the sixth floor to the top. The building contained 67 elevators and 6,500 glass windows, topped with a 200-ft (61-m) mooring mast for dirigibles.", "Yes, but we are talking about one of the most important buildings in the US here.", "The Empire State Building became the tallest building in New York City again after the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001. In April 2012 the new One World Trade Center surpassed the Empire State Building in height.", "In 1977, director Richard Donner set about simultaneously filming an epic two-part adaptation of the Superman comic book series. With approximately 70% of Superman II made and after significantly going over budget and over schedule on both movies, filming on Superman II was suspended in October 1977 so that Donner could focus on completing the first film, Superman. Following the release of Superman in 1978, it was widely assumed that Donner would be re-called to complete the remaining 30% of the film. However, a number of events led to Donner’s eventual replacement as director of the movie. Most importantly, the producers (Alexander and Ilya Salkind) announced that Marlon Brando’s completed scenes for Superman II would be excised from the movie in order to prevent them having to pay the actor the reported 11.75% of gross US box-office takings he was now demanding for his performance in the sequel.", "The Space Needle in Seattle was built for the 1962 World's Fair and is a major landmark in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It was built to withstand strong winds (up to 320 km/h, Category 5 hurricane-force winds) and high earthquake magnitudes (up to 9.1 on Richter scale). Standing at 184 metres tall, it features an observation deck at 160 metres that opens to magnificent view of Downtown Seattle, as well as the surrounding islands and mountain ranges (including Olympic Mountains). There is also a rotating restaurant at 152 metres for those willing to splurge to dine with a view. Photographs of Seattle often include the Space Needle as part of its skyline, and often appearing to tower over the skyscrapers, thanks to its location over 1.3 kilometres away in the northwest of the downtown buildings.", "* In The Divide (2011), the building is destroyed by a nuclear bomb detonated on New York. It was heavily featured on posters promoting the film.", "In Batman Begins the art deco Chicago Board of Trade Building was used for the film's Wayne Tower, which in the film, was also as the hub of Gotham's water and elevated railway systems. Garrick Theatre stood in as Gotham's opera house. 35 East Wacker was used as the Gotham courthouse. Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire was used to portray Wayne Manor. Nolan desired that Gotham appeared as a large, modern city that nonetheless reflected a variety of architecture styles and periods, as well as different socioeconomic strata. The production's approach depicted Gotham as an exaggeration of New York, with elements taken from Chicago, the elevated freeways and monorails of Tokyo, and the \"walled city of Kalhoon\" in Hong Kong, which was the basis for the slum in the film known as The Narrows.", "The Chicago Spire which was under construction in Chicago, would have been the tallest building in the United States, rising 2,000 ft into the sky. The project was halted several years ago but the developer has recently announced that he is trying to move the project forward. Other tall buildings that are under construction include the Wilshire Grand Tower in Los Angeles (1,100′), 432 Park Avenue in New York City (1,397′), Salesforce Tower in San Francisco’s Transbay development (1,070′), One57 in New York City (1,005′), and Panorama Tower (831′) in Miami, Florida.", "Centennial Park (sometimes labelled as Metropolis Park) is Metropolis' largest city park and is based on real life Central Park of New York City . Its most noteworthy feature is a statue of Superman with an American bald eagle erected after his obvious death fighting Doomsday. A statue of Superboy Conner Kent was built next to it after the events of Infinite Crisis .", "The \"Statue of Freedom\" can be found on top of the dome of which famous building in the U.S.?", "In 2006's Superman Returns, the bridge is seen in several scenes, although the movie is set in the fictional city of Metropolis, rather than New York. In addition, Superman and Lois Lane fly parallel to the bridge.", "Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st streets in New York City, United States. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.", "July 4, 2004 - The groundbreaking ceremony for the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center complex destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks, occurs in New York City.", "Hi Jonathan – as I explain in my book, Bill Strother climbed the International Bank Building (1907-1954) formerly at Temple and Spring for the wide shots. The building did not have a clock, so the prop department had to put up a phoney clock on the real building to match shots with Harold on the clock set.", "Date of the building's demise has been surmised by a visit of a New York architectural collector by the name of Ivan Karp. In a 1967 article, Mr. Karp mentioned that he had removed a architectural mask from the front of 2222 South Wabash when he happened to be passing through Chicago. This was at the time of 2222 S. Wabash's destruction. He brought the mask to New York with him. My research has pinpointed him in Chicago March of 1964, which is probably when the building went down. My special thanks to Mr. Bryan Lloyd for his Karp reference which helped pinpoint the date of the Four Deuces destruction, and for his assistance on researching the Four Deuces.", "Calder created a sculpture called WTC Stabile (also known as The Cockeyed Propeller and Three Wings), which in 1971 was installed at the entrance of the World Trade Center's North Tower. When Battery Park City opened, the sculpture was moved to Vesey and Church Streets. It stood in front of 7 World Trade Center when it was destroyed on September 11, 2001.", "One of the first large buildings to use metal extensively on the exterior, the building's ornament makes reference to the automobile, the quintessential symbol of the machine age. Metal hubcaps, gargoyles in the form of radiator caps, car fenders and hood ornaments decorate shaft and setbacks of the white and black brick building. This aluminum trim culminates in a beautiful, tapered stainless steel crown that supports the famous spire. A private lounge called the Cloud Club and an observation area were located at the top of the building. A particularly beautiful example of the Art Deco style, the lobby is clad in different marbles, onyx and amber. It is decorated with Egyptian motifs and a ceiling fresco by Edward Trumbull entitled \"Transport and Human Endeavor\" that depicts buildings, airplanes, and scenes from the Chrysler assembly line. The building was landmarked in 1978 and it is now owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.", "Tesla ran out of money while building the tower and was foreclosed on twice. As with his previous Colorado Springs lab, assets were sold to pay down his debts. In 1917, the U.S. government blew up the tower, fearing that German spies were using it in World War I. The metal was sold for scrap, according to Alcorn. For decades, the building was used for photo processing.", "former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site; it was destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.", "The building, constructed of Montana sandstone and granite, is in Greek neoclassical architectural style, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The exterior of the dome is covered with copper. Atop the dome is a feminine statue affectionately dubbed \"Lady Liberty.\"", "Some of the reinforced concrete buildings in Hiroshima had been very strongly constructed because of the earthquake danger in Japan, and their framework did not collapse even though they were fairly close to the blast center. Since the bomb detonated in the air, the blast was directed more downward than sideways, which was largely responsible for the survival of the Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall , now commonly known as the Genbaku (A-bomb) dome. This building was designed and built by the Czech architect Jan Letzel , and was only 150 m (490 ft) from ground zero. The ruin was named Hiroshima Peace Memorial and was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 over the objections of the United States and China, which expressed reservations on the grounds that other Asian nations were the ones who suffered the greatest loss of life and property, and a focus on Japan lacked historical perspective. [138]", "On July 28, 1945, a ten-ton B-25 bomber, lost in the fog, slammed into the north wall of the 78th and 79th floors. The plane's wings were sheared off by the impact, while the fuselage and other parts tore through inner walls, some parts coming out the opposite side of the building. Despite massive holes in those two walls, as well as damage to two supporting steel beams, there was no important structural damage done to the building." ]

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[ "The prequel films depict the Jedi in their prime, dealing with the rising presence of the dark side of the Force and determined to fight their mortal enemies, the Sith. In Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) discovers nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), whom he believes to be the \"Chosen One\" of a Jedi prophecy who is destined to bring balance to the Force; the boy is eventually paired with Qui-Gon's apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), who promises to train him. The sequel, Attack of the Clones, establishes that the Jedi forswear all emotional attachments, including romantic love, which proves problematic when Anakin, now a young adult (Hayden Christensen), falls in love with Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), whom Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi had served ten years before. In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who is later revealed to be the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, manipulates Anakin's love for Padmé and distrust of the Jedi in order to turn him to the dark side and become his Sith apprentice, Darth Vader. Once corrupted, Vader helps Palpatine hunt down and destroy nearly all of the Jedi, leaving very few left, such as Jedi Master Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi.", "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace [9] was released in 1999. It was the start of a three-part prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy. The film follows the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi. While escorting and protecting Queen Amidala they meet Anakin Skywalker, a young slave boy who seems to be unusually strong with The Force. Along the way they must contend with the mysterious return of the Sith and the Sith apprentice Darth Maul.", "For the first prequel, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Lucas made Anakin nine years old to make the character's separation from his mother more poignant. Movie trailers focused on Anakin and a one-sheet poster showing him casting Vader's shadow informed otherwise unknowing audiences of the character's eventual fate. The movie ultimately achieved a primary goal of introducing audiences to Anakin.", "Darth Vader is the central antagonist in George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy and his final prequel, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. In the original Star Wars trilogy, Vader is embodied by David Prowse, though Sebastian Shaw makes a brief cameo as the unmasked Vader in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Vader is played by Hayden Christensen. In the original trilogy and Episode III, James Earl Jones provides Vader's voice when he is masked, although Jones was uncredited for this role.", "Darth Vader (born Anakin Skywalker) is a central character in the Star Wars saga, appearing as one of the main antagonists in the original trilogy and as the main protagonist in the prequel trilogy.", "In 1999, Liam Neeson was cast as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn for the first film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor were also cast in the film as Obi Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala, respectively.", "Among the host of new characters, there are a few familiar walk-ons. We witness the first meeting between R2-D2 and C-3PO, Jabba the Hutt looks younger and slimmer (but not young and slim), and Yoda is as crabby as ever. Natalie Portman's stately Queen Amidala sports hairdos that make Princess Leia look dowdy and wields a mean laser. We never bond with Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), and Obi-Wan's day is yet to come. Jar Jar Binks, a cross between a Muppet, a frog, and a hippie, provides many of the movie's lighter moments, while Sith Lord Darth Maul is a formidable force. Baby-faced Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) looks too young and innocent to command the powers of the Force or wield a lightsaber (much less transmute into the future Darth Vader), but his boyish exuberance wins over skeptics.", "Among the host of new characters, there are a few familiar walk-ons. We witness the first meeting between R2-D2 and C-3PO, Jabba the Hutt looks younger and slimmer (but not young and slim), and Yoda is as crabby as ever. Natalie Portman's stately Queen Amidala sports hairdos that make Princess Leia look dowdy and wields a mean laser. We never bond with Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), and Obi-Wan's day is yet to come. Jar Jar Binks, a cross between a Muppet, a frog, and a hippie, provides many of the movie's lighter moments, while Sith Lord Darth Maul is a formidable force. Baby-faced Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) looks too young and innocent to command the powers of the Force or wield a lightsaber (much less transmute into the future Darth Vader), but his boyish exuberance wins over skeptics.", "Because the movie tells the story of young Anakin Skywalker - a fallen Jedi knight who later becomes Darth Vader - DAVID PROWSE, who played Darth Vader in the first three films, won''t be appearing this time round. However he told APTN that he would like to play Darth if he appears in the next two prequels.", "2000 - Principal photography for Star Wars: Episode II started in Australia, where shooting would last for two months before moving on to Italy, Tunisia and Spain. George Lucas directs Hayden Christiansen who plays the young Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker). Natalie Portman is Padm� Amidala and Ewan McGregor plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Mace Windu, Christopher Lee plays Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Jimmy Smits is Bail Organa.", "2000 - Principal photography for Star Wars: Episode II started in Australia, where shooting would last for two months before moving on to Italy, Tunisia and Spain. George Lucas directs Hayden Christiansen who plays the young Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker). Natalie Portman is Padm Amidala and Ewan McGregor plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Mace Windu, Christopher Lee plays Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Jimmy Smits is Bail Organa.", "Anakin Skywalker appears as a nine-year-old slave in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999). He is raised on the planet Tatooine by his mother, Shmi Skywalker (Pernilla August), who says Anakin had no father, implying miraculous birth. He is a gifted pilot and engineer, and has the ability to \"see things before they happen\". He even creates his own protocol droid, C-3PO. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) meets him after an emergency landing on Tatooine and becomes convinced the boy is the \"Chosen One\", foretold by a Jedi prophecy as the one who will bring balance to the Force. Anakin wins his freedom in a podrace, but is forced to part with his mother. Qui-Gon takes Anakin to the Jedi Council, who forbid training on the grounds that the boy's future is clouded by the fear he exhibits. During the invasion of Naboo, Anakin helps defeat the Trade Federation by destroying their command ship. After Qui-Gon is killed in a duel with Sith Lord Darth Maul (Ray Park), his apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), promises to train Anakin, a proposal the Jedi Council reluctantly accepts. During the film, Anakin forms a close bond with Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), Naboo's queen. Palpatine, newly elected as the Republic's Supreme Chancellor, befriends the boy, telling him that \"we will watch your career with great interest.\"", "Darth Vader is introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) as a ruthless cyborg pursuing the film's protagonists. Vader is charged with recovering technical schematics of the Death Star stolen by the Rebel Alliance, who seek to overthrow the Galactic Empire. Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker that Vader is a former Jedi who \"betrayed and murdered\" Luke's father. Obi-Wan and Luke — along with smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca , and droids R2-D2 and C-3PO — help Princess Leia Organa escape the Death Star. Vader kills Obi-Wan in a lightsaber duel, and later escapes the Death Star's destruction during the film's climactic battle scene.", "While the first draft of Star Wars includes a tall, grim general named Darth Vader, the character came closer in line with his final depiction in the second revision. A character named \"Anakin Starkiller\" also appears in an early draft of Star Wars, playing a role similar to Luke Skywalker's, as the 16-year-old son of a respected warrior. Vader's mask was originally designed by Ralph McQuarrie as part of Vader's spacesuit, and not intended to be part of the regular costume. Brian Muir sculpted Darth Vader's costume based on McQuarrie's design.", "In Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan Kenobi appears as the Jedi Padawan (or student) of Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. He accompanies his master in negotiations with the Trade Federation, which is blockading the planet Naboo with a fleet of spaceships. After they are attacked by battle droids and forced to retreat to Naboo, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon rescue Queen Padmé Amidala through the help of native Gungan Jar Jar Binks and escape in a spaceship toward Coruscant, the Republic capital. Their ship is damaged in the escape, however, and they are forced to land on Tatooine, where they discover a young Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon senses Anakin's extraordinarily strong link to the Force and brings the boy to Coruscant to begin Jedi training, although Obi-Wan expresses concerns.", "On the asteroid Polis Massa , Obi-Wan regroups with Yoda and Padmé gives birth to twins Luke and Leia before dying. A funeral is held for Padmé on Naboo. On Mustafar, Palpatine finds Vader badly burnt, but still alive. After returning to Coruscant, he rebuilds Vader's mutilated body and outfits him in a black armored suit. Palpatine tells Vader that he killed Padmé in his anger. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan and Yoda decide to hide the twins from the Sith, as they are the galaxy's only hope for freedom. Yoda exiles himself to the planet Dagobah , while Vader and the Emperor oversee the construction of a massive space station, the Death Star . Bail Organa adopts Leia as his own daughter and takes her to Alderaan , while Obi-Wan delivers Luke to his step-family Owen and Beru Lars on Tatooine , where Obi-Wan intends to watch over Luke until the time is right to challenge the Empire.", "*Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, directed by George Lucas, starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd and Terence Stamp", "A protocol droid who appears in the beginning of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. ", "Darth Vader appeared in Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith with Hayden Christensen wearing the suit. Vader will appear in December's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, with Spencer Wilding stepping into the physical role and Jones once again providing the voice.", "Prowse played the physical form of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy. James Earl Jones, however, provided the voice for the character. Prowse spoke the dialogue during filming and although he was never going to be used as the voice of Darth Vader, Prowse claims he was originally told that he would be seen and heard at the end of Return of the Jedi when Vader's mask was removed. Instead, actor Sebastian Shaw was used. Lucas claims he wanted a \"darker voice\"—that is, a deeper, more reverberating voice—and never intended to use Prowse, who has a West Country accent. In the 2004 documentary Empire of Dreams, actress Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original trilogy films, quipped that they nicknamed Prowse \"Darth Farmer\" because of his un-intimidating accent. In the lightsaber fight scenes between Vader and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Prowse, who wasn't a very skilled swordsman (he kept breaking the poles that stood in for the lightsabers), was replaced by the scene's fight-choreographer, the stuntman and fencing coach Bob Anderson.", "In the 1980 sequel The Empire Strikes Back, Vader leads the Imperial attack of the Rebel base on Hoth, but the Rebels escape. The Emperor tells him that Luke has become a threat and must not become a Jedi. Vader persuades the Emperor that Luke can be turned to the dark side of the Force. Vader negotiates with Cloud City administrator Lando Calrissian to capture Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO on Cloud City, luring Luke into a trap. Vader tortures Han, freezes him in carbonite, and delivers him to bounty hunter Boba Fett. Calrissian betrays Vader and helps the other prisoners flee. A lightsaber battle between Vader and Luke ensues, and Vader easily defeats him. Revealing that he is Luke's father, Vader implores Luke to join the dark side. Horrified, Luke falls through an air shaft and escapes. Vader telepathically tells Luke that it is his destiny to come to the dark side.", "Schmoes Know reported last night (at the time of writing this) that Han Solo will appear in the Boba Fett movie – now on the lookout for a new director, as former helmsman Josh Trank (the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot) has stepped down. The site’s sources are also claiming that “conversations” are currently underway between Disney/Lucasfilm and Ewan McGregor – who played the younger version of Obi-Wan featured in the Star Wars prequel movie trilogy (Episodes I-III) – and that the talks involve an “unknown” project, rather than the aforementioned Boba Fett film.", "Phantom Menace. Star Wars: Episode 1: Jedi knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi are responsible for Queen Amidala's safety. Their mission takes them to Tatooine, where they meet the young slave Anakin Skywalker, who dreams of becoming a Jedi knight. Based on George Lucas's screenplay. For grades 4-7. 1999. DB054479 , DB050064", "Two Jedi Knights discover a young boy who may bring balance to the Force as the evil Sith rise up in this first installment in the prequel trilogy. Three Oscar nominations and decent box office take did little to improve the reputation of perhaps the most controversial addition to the franchise and the first of prequels. Hugely anticipated but largely poorly received by fans and critics alike, the film also introduced Jar Jar Binks, one of the most maligned characters in cinema history.", "Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, marketed as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is the seventh film in the Star Wars saga and the first in the Star Wars sequel trilogy . The film was directed by J.J. Abrams ; co-written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan , and Michael Arndt ; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions . The film stars Harrison Ford , Mark Hamill , Carrie Fisher , Anthony Daniels and Peter Mayhew reprising their original roles. The original actors are joined by a host of new actors including Adam Driver , Daisy Ridley , John Boyega , and Oscar Isaac , among many others.", "The Dark Lord of the Sith: Darth Vader at last joins Voice Compare.  In the movies, Darth Vader was portrayed physically by David Prowse (save Revenge of the Sith, where he was portrayed by Hayden Christensen), while his voice in each appearance was provided by James Earl Jones.", "Following the attack on the Jedi Temple, Vader returns to Padmé at the Senate Apartment Complex, from where the smoke rising from the wrecked Temple can be seen. He tells her the Jedi have tried to take over the Republic, and there are traitors in the Senate. He asks for her loyalty to the Chancellor, then tells her that he will go to the Mustafar system , where the remaining Separatists have gathered, to end the war.", "8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucas, on the possibility of another \"Star Wars\" trilogy: (Q: \"Do you ever see a possibilty of an episode seven, eight or nine?\") \"No. The story is really about Darth Vader and you start with him as a nine year old and the end dead (laughs)\"", "Episode III Preview: The Return of Darth Vader - a featurette about the then-upcoming Episode III", "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Official Teaser Trailer #1 (2015) - J.J. Abrams Movie HD", "Riz Ahmed, left, Diego Luna, Felicity Jones, Jiang Wen and Donnie Yen in \"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.\"", "The Cameo : In The Force Awakens . During Rey's vision, he can be heard addressing her directly." ]

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[ "The film series began with Star Wars , released on May 25, 1977. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back , released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi , released on May 25, 1983. The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as \"Episode V\" and \"Episode VI\" respectively, though the films were generally advertised solely under their subtitles. Though the first film in the series was simply titled Star Wars, with its 1981 re-release it had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to remain consistent with its sequel, and to establish it as the middle chapter of a continuing saga. [9]", "The film series began with Star Wars , released on May 25, 1977. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back , released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi , released on May 25, 1983. The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as \"Episode V\" and \"Episode VI\" respectively, though the films were generally advertised solely under their subtitles. Though the first film in the series was simply titled Star Wars, it later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels. [9]", "The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25, 1977. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983. The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as \"Episode V\" and \"Episode VI\" respectively, though the films were generally advertised solely under their subtitles. Though the first film in the series was simply titled Star Wars, with its 1981 re-release it had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to remain consistent with its sequel, and to establish it as the middle chapter of a continuing saga.", "The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars, (subtitled Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) by 20th Century Fox, which became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. It was followed by the similarly successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983); these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was later released between 1999 and 2005, which received a more mixed reaction from critics and fans in comparison to the original trilogy. A sequel trilogy is also currently being produced with the first installment as The Force Awakens (2015). All seven films were nominated for or won Academy Awards, as well as being commercial successes, with a combined box office revenue of $6.46 billion, making Star Wars the fourth highest-grossing film series. ", "The Force Awakens is the first film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy announced after Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012. It was produced by Abrams, his longtime collaborator Bryan Burk, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of the original trilogy films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), rewrote an initial script by Michael Arndt. John Williams, composer for the previous six films, returned to compose its score. Star Wars creator George Lucas served as creative consultant during the film's early production. Filming began in April 2014 in Abu Dhabi and Iceland, with principal photography also taking place in Ireland and Pinewood Studios in England, and concluded in November 2014. It is the first live-action film in the franchise since Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, released in 2005.", "The Star Wars franchise began as a film series. The initial trilogy was comprised of three films: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope , released on May 25 , 1977 , Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back , released on May 21 , 1980 , and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi , released on May 25 , 1983 . The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as \"Episode V\" and \"Episode VI\" respectively, though the films were generally advertised solely under their subtitles. Once Star Wars became a success and sequels were realized, Lucas numbered the initial film as the fourth episode in his series, and gave it the subtitle A New Hope when the film was re-released in 1981. This was among the first of what would become many changes Lucas has retroactively made to his original Trilogy.", "The Sequel Trilogy is an upcoming film trilogy in the Star Wars franchise, sequel to the original trilogy. Following the Walt Disney Company 's October 30, 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm Ltd. from George Lucas, Disney announced Star Wars Episode VII is scheduled for a 2015 release, with Star Wars Episode VIII and Star Wars Episode IX to be released in 2017 and 2019 , respectively. [1]", "Star Wars is an epic space opera franchise initially developed by George Lucas during the 1970s and significantly expanded since that time. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars, but later had the subtitle A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels. Star Wars was released on May 25, 1977 by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, initially spawning two sequels. Twenty-two years after Star Wars was released, Lucas began the release of a second trilogy as a prequel to the original trilogy . The franchise has also spawned other media including novels , television series, video games , comic books, and other merchandise. These supplements to the film trilogies comprise the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and have resulted in significant development of the series' fictional universe.", "While the original Star Wars made a splashy entrance, each subsequent installment saw diminishing returns when it came to awards. The Empire Strikes Back (1980), directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan (the latter is a co-writer on the new film), is regarded as the series' critical high, but it received just three noms, winning for sound (along with getting a special award for visual effects). Return of the Jedi (1983) earned four noms but won none, though it also picked up a special achievement citation for its VFX.", "Star Wars: Episode VIIThe Force Awakens (2015) is the seventh installment in the nine-episode Star Wars saga. Although it's the sequel to Episode VI (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, 1983), it basically recycles the plot of the original 1977 movie (Star Wars, Episode IV). A young person scratching out a hard living on a backwater planet becomes embroiled in galactic warfare against a brutal dictatorship that has created a planet-destroying superweapon. Rebel forces must eliminate the weapon, and they get both assistance and opposition from a mysterious \"Force\" that confers supernatural powers on the few people who can control it. Despite the obvious similarities with Episode VI, the sequel succeeds in rejuvenating the series. All of the original actors from the first three movies reprise their roles. That they're nearly 40 years older isn't a handicap. Indeed, it adds gravity while stirring nostalgia in longtime fans. And the new actors hold their own. A surprise ending sets the stage for Episode VIII.", "It was reported in August 2014 that beginning in 2015, Disney planned to expand the presence of Star Wars throughout their theme parks (although unclear which ones) and could also include an entire theme park area dedicated to the film franchise. Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger indicated that plans were to match what Universal Studios Florida did when they expanded and added a Harry Potter themed section to their park. In 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm, which includes the rights to the Star Wars franchise and Indiana Jones franchise (which is also expected to see an increase in presence at the theme parks), and in December 2015, Disney released Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first of a new trilogy of films. ", "It might not seem like such a bold move today – in the era of blockbuster franchises – to be planning for a sequel before the first movie has even been released. But, in the 1970s, this was downright revolutionary thinking. Especially considering that we’re talking about a movie set in another galaxy in an era where such films were considered inane. (Granted, some people still consider them inane.) But not only did Lucas have a plan for a ' Star Wars ' sequel, he had two plans. One, as you know, became ‘The Empire Strikes Back.’ The other exists as a sort of alternative universe oddity of what could have been – a story titled ‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.’", "Originally entitled \"Revenge of the Jedi,\" Return of the Jedi was the triumphant conclusion to the original trilogy of Star Wars films. It introduced Ewoks, a second Death Star, and gave us a peek of what Darth Vader looked like without his mask (spoiler alert: it ain't pretty). In bonus creepy points, Luke also learned that in The Empire Strikes Back, he'd totally kissed his own sister. (\"Noooooooo!\")", "When Star Wars proved successful, Lucas decided to use the film as the basis for an elaborate serial, although at one point he considered walking away from the series altogether. However, Lucas wanted to create an independent filmmaking center—what would become Skywalker Ranch—and saw an opportunity to use the series as a financing agent. Alan Dean Foster had already begun writing the first sequel novel, but Lucas decided to abandon his plan to adapt Foster's work; the book was released as Splinter of the Mind's Eye the following year. At first, Lucas envisioned a series of films with no set number of entries, like the James Bond series. In an interview with Rolling Stone in August 1977, he said that he wanted his friends to each take a turn at directing the films and giving unique interpretations on the series. He also said that the backstory in which Darth Vader turns to the dark side, kills Luke's father and fights Ben Kenobi on a volcano as the Galactic Republic falls would make an excellent sequel.", "Rumors of a sequel trilogy had been talked about for decades, ever since George Lucas , the creator of Star Wars, stated that he had plans for films that would take place after the original Star Wars trilogy . As the canon saga developed, however, Lucas denied that a sequel trilogy would ever be made, stating that Star Wars was the story of Anakin Skywalker and that his story ended in Return of the Jedi. The development of the sequel trilogy was made official on October 30 , 2012 , when The Walt Disney Company announced that it was acquiring Lucasfilm from Lucas and that they would be producing new Star Wars films beginning in 2015. Although Lucas has retired, he continues to serve as a creative consultant on the films.", "Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 science fantasy film written and directed by George Lucas . Ground-breaking in its use of special effects , this is among a handful of the most successful films of all time and is generally considered one of the most influential as well. The film was selected to be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry . The film was selected in 1989, the program's first year in existence.", "As officially announced back in February, the future of Star Wars on the big screen is bright. Following J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII in 2015, Walt Disney Pictures plans to release a series of standalone spinoff films focusing on different characters from throughout the franchise's fantasy universe. Today, Disney CFO Jay Rasulo described the projects (via Variety) as \"origin story film[s],\" suggesting that some of the planned features might provide insight into how fan-favorite characters began their adventures a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.", "In the late ’80s, Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams had a discussion with producer Steven Spielberg about possibly writing the sequel.", "Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, marketed as simply The Empire Strikes Back, is the second Star Wars film and the second chapter of the original trilogy. Originally released in 1980 , the film has proved to be one of the most popular films of the series among many fans and critics. It was re-released with changes in 1997 and (on DVD) in 2004 . The film was re-released on Blu-ray format in September of 2011 . A radio adaptation was broadcast on National Public Radio in the U.S. in 1983. The film was selected in 2010 to be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry .", "*Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, directed by George Lucas, starring Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd and Terence Stamp", "After Lucas’ second feature film, American Graffiti (1973), became a hit, Fox agreed to put up $9.5 million for the writer-director’s next project. After four years in production, including location shots in Tunisia and Death Valley, California , Star Wars was ready for its release. Its relatively unknown cast featured Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, who teams with the roguish Han Solo (Harrison Ford) to rescue Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) from captivity on a space station commanded by the menacing Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones). The alien creatures, massive space station, elaborate space battles and other special effects came courtesy of Lucas’ company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).", "What comes after that (besides Episode IX, that is)? Well, the same rumors continue to persist about what the next two Anthology movies could be. Namely, that the second Anthology installment (after Rogue One) is going to center around the infamous bounty hunter Boba Fett – while the third Star Wars spinoff project will focus on Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (originally brought to life as an older man by Alec Guinness in 1977).", "[George Lucas' first feature film was the dystopic thriller THX 1138 (1971), an atmospheric film about a repressive Orwellian futuristic, dehumanized, subterranean society that forbade love and sexual intercourse.] By the late 1970s and early 1980s, films by Lucas and Spielberg consciously paid tribute to serials of the 1930s, with hero Luke Skywalker, swooping space battles, imaginative bar creatures in Mos Eisley's Cantina, revolutionary special effects, Harrison Ford at the controls of the Millennium Falcon spacecraft, and a vast universe. Aliens could be more friendly and benevolent, evidenced by loveable robots (R2D2 and CP-30) and Chewbacca in the popular Star Wars fantasy space epic \"trilogy\" - all modern blockbusters. The first in this space opera trilogy set another standard for action-propelled, special-effects science-fiction:", "When Star Wars made an unprecedented second opening at Mann's Chinese Theatre on August 3, 1977, after William Friedkin's Sorcerer failed, thousands of people attended a ceremony in which C-3PO, R2-D2 and Darth Vader placed their footprints in the theater's forecourt. At that time Star Wars was playing in 1,096 theaters in the United States. Approximately 60 theaters played the film continuously for over a year; in 1978, Lucasfilm distributed \"Birthday Cake\" posters to those theaters for special events on May 25, the one-year anniversary of the film's release. Star Wars premiered in the UK on December 27, 1977. ", "In 1971, United Artists agreed to make American Graffiti and Star Wars in a two-picture contract, though they would reject Star Wars in its early concept stages. Graffiti was made first and when it was completed in 1973, Lucas set to work on making his space adventure movie. In early 1973, Lucas wrote a short summary called \"The Journal of the Whills\", which told the tale of the training of apprentice C.J. Thorpe as a \"Jedi-Bendu\" space commando by the legendary Mace Windy.", "1999: \"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace\" is released. ( Watch \"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace\" on TNT)", "It is the first Star Wars film, the first chapter of the original trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise.", "In May 1977, George Lucas released his sci-fi Western about a young boy and his mentor, a Jedi, joined by a cocky pilot, a wookie and two droids on a mission to save Princess Leia from the ruthless Darth Vader and destroy the Death Star. Expected to be a flop, it was actually a huge hit and received 10 Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture. Star Wars is regarded, by many, as one of the greatest films of all time.", "* Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing", "Richard Marquand helms the final film in the original trilogy. The rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force. The film split critics but gained four Oscar nominations. The film introduced the Ewoks however the word Ewok is never spoken in the movie and none of them are ever referred to by name.", "When the eighth word of the first Star Wars movie is “taxation,” you know there’s going to be a problem. Welcome to our Star Wars movie rewatch!", "Review: Excellent follow up to the Star Wars blockbuster. Added to the National Film Registry of The Library of Congress in 2010." ]

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[ "The cult film opened with an infamous credits sequence that teasingly stripped French comic-strip heroine Barbarella (Jane Fonda) of her black space-suit outfit in zero gravity. Her gloves, leggings, and then helmet were gradually removed, before she became completely exposed and nude, although often obscured by floating and jiggling white letters.", "Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 American comedy film. The film stars Jane Fonda as Corie and Robert Redford as Paul. Based on Neil Simon's 1963 play of the same name, it focuses on newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule sixth floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone. Stuffed-shirt Paul is a hard-working young attorney just starting his practice, while spontaneous bride Corie is determined to create a romantic environment in one room with no heat, a hole in the skylight, and oddball neighbors.", "\"Hanoi Jane\" redeemed herself in this Alan J. Pakula film noir thriller and won the Best Actress Oscar. Jane Fonda was one of many such actresses who were nominated for or won an award for playing a prostitute, including Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite (1995).", "When a young Beatty auditioned for a teen movie, “Parrish,” in 1960, his scene partner was a fresh-faced actress named Jane Fonda.", "In 1968, she played the title role in the science fiction spoof Barbarella, which established her status as a sex symbol. In contrast, the tragedy They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) won her critical acclaim, and she earned her first Oscar nomination for the role. Fonda was very selective by the end of the 1960s, turning down lead roles in Rosemary's Baby and Bonnie and Clyde, which went to Mia Farrow and Faye Dunaway, respectively.", "Her stage work in the late 1950s laid the foundation for her film career in the 1960s. She averaged almost two movies a year throughout the decade, starting in 1960 with Tall Story, in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins. Period of Adjustment and Walk on the Wild Side followed in 1962. In Walk on the Wild Side, Fonda played a prostitute and earned a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer.", "Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966) featured Pauline Collins and April Wilding and was directed by Arnold L. Miller. The film has some fan dancing scenes danced by an ex-Windmill Theatre artiste. The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) gives a possibly legendary account of the birth of striptease at Minsky's Burlesque theatre in New York. In 1968, the sci-fi film Barbarella depicted Jane Fonda stripping in zero-gravity conditions whilst wearing her spacesuit. Marlowe (1969) stars Rita Moreno playing a stripper, in the finale of the movie simultaneously delivering dialogue with the title character and performing a vigorous dance on stage. The Beatles movie Magical Mystery Tour has a scene where all the men on the tour bus go to a gentleman's club and watch a woman strip on stage.", "Jane Fonda has always straddled the line between hot and crazy. In the campy 1968 science fiction film Barbarella, her title character was brimming with so much sexual energy that she broke a machine designed to kill her with orgasms. Only a few years later, Fonda stirred up controversy while protesting the Vietnam War, denying POWs’ claims of torture and earning the nickname “Hanoi Jane.” By the eighties, thankfully, Fonda was back to hot again after filming a series of exercise videos that popularized aerobics, spandex, and lonely guys watching videos of spandex-clad women doing aerobics. (It was before there was an Internet, okay?)", "While off-screen Jane Fonda’s style was all-American-girl, on-screen she took the lead in the space-age cult-classic Barbarella and in doing so created one of the most iconic images of Sixties cinema.", "Her politics hurt her career, but not for long. In the late 1970s she played Lillian Hellman in Julia, won a second Oscar for the Vietnam war-themed Coming Home, and her political yet entertaining statement against nuclear power The China Syndrome became a huge hit when Three Mile Island had its little accident mere days after the movie opened. In 1980, Fonda bought the rights to On Golden Pond, hoping her father would play the lead, and she would play his daughter. When he won his Oscar for that role, he was not healthy enough to attend, but his daughter accepted the statuette on his behalf. The elder Fonda said it was \"the happiest night of my life.\"", "Daughter of the celebrated actor Henry Fonda (star of 1940’s The Grapes of Wrath), Jane worked as a model before joining Lee Strasberg’s famed Actors Studio. She broke out in 1960 with a Tony-nominated performance in Broadway’s There Was a Little Girl and a starring role in the big-screen comedy Tall Story. She soon established a reputation as both sexpot (1968’s Barbarella) and serious actress, earning her first Oscar nomination for 1969’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and taking home the Best Actress statuette two years later for Klute. As an outspoken member of the opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam, Fonda was famously photographed behind enemy lines next to an anti-aircraft gun during a visit to North Vietnam in 1972. Dubbed “Hanoi Jane,” she earned the lasting scorn of many Vietnam veterans and has since expressed deep regret about posing for the photograph.", "That was true as early on as Barbarella. The 1968 sci-fi sex spoof, directed by Fonda's then-husband Roger Vadim, was daring then and plays as an embarrassing kitsch delight now - a stoned fusion of late-'60s Playboy and Star Trek. Worse, Fonda is much too businesslike to believably play the space nymphet of the title. She suggests a student government president trying to shock dad.", "Jane Fonda in \"Walk on the Wild Side\" (1962), a rather scandalous romantic drama set during the Depression, which also starred Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Anne Baxter and Barbara Stanwyck.", "Between Klute in 1971 and Fun With Dick and Jane in 1977, Fonda did not have a major film success. She appeared in A Doll's House (1973), Steelyard Blues and The Blue Bird (1976). From comments ascribed to her in interviews, some have inferred that she personally blamed the situation on anger at her outspoken political views: \"I can't say I was blacklisted, but I was greylisted.\" However, in her 2005 autobiography, My Life So Far, she rejected such simplification. \"The suggestion is that because of my actions against the war my career had been destroyed ... But the truth is that my career, far from being destroyed after the war, flourished with a vigor it had not previously enjoyed.\" She reduced acting because of her political activism providing a new focus in her life. Her return to acting in a series of 'issue-driven' films reflected this new focus.", "10. Jane Fonda in Klute(1971) She could have probably gone on to bigger things, but shortly after winning, she stepped up her anti-war activities and became known as \"Hanoi Jane.\" I'm sure the studios and her agent were not exactly thrilled by her political stance, but neither were millions of Americans. But, to be fair, she was also cheered on by millions of other Americans for her outspoken anti-war views.", "By contrast, the movies that have jibed most closely with Fonda's social concerns often contain her least impressive performances, even if they've proven to be commercial hits. China Syndrome is the exception. Fonda plays a TV news reporter shaken out of her complacency by the nuclear-power meltdown of the title and the role lets her toy with the idea of control - the superficial control of a media personality.", "The 1960s saw Fonda perform in a number of war and western epics, including 1962's The Longest Day and How the West Was Won, 1965's In Harm's Way and Battle of the Bulge, and the suspense film Fail-Safe ( 1964), about possible nuclear holocaust. He also returned to more light-hearted cinema in Spencer's Mountain ( 1963) with actors Kym Karath and Veronica Cartwright, which was the inspiration for the TV series, The Waltons.", "Each film role gave her more cover. On screen, boring Elizabeth could win the Grand National, or tussle with horrific memories of murder in “Suddenly Last Summer”, or seduce both Caesar and Mark Anthony in real-gold robes in “Cleopatra” (1962), then the costliest film ever made. Decorous, timid Elizabeth could be a needy, whining, abandoned wife in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958), or a disturbing prostitute in “Butterfield 8” (1960), the film for which she won her first Oscar, though she hated it. She never found acting hard, had no lessons, simply tried to become the other person, grateful to inhabit an alternative to herself. On screen she radiated a thoughtfulness in those blue-violet eyes which she defined as “concentration”. She brought it even to the dishevelled, bawling Martha baiting Burton's George in “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966), a film that epitomised her louder life and won her her second Oscar.", "56) Jane Fonda - Fonda could rock the Barbarella outfits, but it was her darn near perfect features that would make some guys run barefoot in a park. Great brow line and a perfect nose. She became bigger off-screen than on-screen and that's unfortunate since she had a well rounded film career. She lifted the shag haircut (Klute) to huge heights. She defines the concept of aging well.", "Directed by Ted Kotcheff. Cast: George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon, Richard Gautier, Allan Miller. Dick Harper and his wife have always lived way beyond their means. Just because Dick has just lost his high-paying job is no reason for Jane to stop spending like there's no tomorrow. To make ends meet, Dick and Jane take up a new career: burglary. 95 min. 999:3835", "The 60s was a busy time for Fonda, with 17 films to her name in the decade. While the productions’ quality wasn’t consistent, she proved a versatile screen presence, adept at both comedy and drama. Her light touch was on show in this comedy western, which proved she was also a bankable star. The film itself may have been patchy, but Fonda’s star potential was never brighter.", "After a series of B pictures, she escaped to Broadway in 1958 and won her first Tony opposite Henry Fonda in “Two for the Seesaw.” The stage and movie versions of “The Miracle Worker” followed. Her other Academy nominations: “The Pumpkin Eater” (1964); “The Graduate” (1967); “The Turning Point” (1977); “Agnes of God” (1985).", "\"If you were from the south and had relatives from the era of that t.v. movie, you would be able to understand how Jane Fonda nailed that role.\"", "The truth could well have been that by the 1960s her personality and style were largely out of fashion, except for \"costume drama\" set in quite different eras. A quiet church-going person, she maintained that \"you don't need to strip to be sexy\" - a truth that was rapidly going out of circulation.", "María de Lourdes \"Mia\" Villiers Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, activist and former fashion model. She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. An early film role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968), saw her nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for Best Actress. She went on to appear in films such as John and Mary (1969), Follow Me! (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974) and Death on the Nile (1978).", "In the film, Farrow can be seen in every chic clothing item from the late '60s, including a plaid, maxi-style kilt and a Peter Pan-collared mini dress. (It's also where the actress first showed off her now-iconic pixie—which she cut herself , the world recently learned.)  \"I love the accessibility of these crazy little things,\" Mizrahi says. \"You wore these tiny little babydolls with tights and Mary Janes if you were a 30-year-old woman...[The characters] were eccentric, they were strange, but somehow everybody in New York at that time just looked like that.\"", "The liberal-minded Elizabeth immediately embarked upon an acting career following her education and relocated to New York. Briefly using her real name, her big, breakthrough year occurred in 1959 when she made her off-Broadway debut with \"Dirty Hands\", played \"Esmeralda\" in the Neighborhood Playhouse production of \"Camino Real\" and took on Broadway with Dore Schary 's \"The Highest Tree\". Now using the marquee name of Elizabeth Ashley, the 1960s proved to be even better, taking her to trophy-winning heights. After understudying the lead roles in Broadway's \"Roman Candle\" and \"Mary, Mary\", she won the role of \"Mollie\" in the delightful comedy \"Take Her, She's Mine\" and won both the \"supporting actress\" Tony and Theatre World Awards for it. Neil Simon was quite taken by the new star and created especially for her the role of \"Corie Bratter\" in 1963's \"Barefoot in the Park\" opposite 'Robert Redford'. She received another Tony nomination, this time for \"Best Actress\". In addition to these theatrical pinnacles, Elizabeth also found happiness in her private life when she met and married (in 1962) actor James Farentino , who was also on his way up. This happiness, however, was short-lived...the marriage lasted only three years. The attention she earned from Broadway led directly to film offers and she made a highly emotive debut in Harold Robbins glossy soaper The Carpetbaggers , headlining handsome George Peppard . The critics trashed the movie but Elizabeth sailed ahead...temporarily.", "The shortened garment emerged in the 1960s as a symbol of rebellious youth culture – and endures to this day. Katya Foreman looks back at the style icon.", "Which movie from the 1960s was said to have made thousands of people afraid of taking a shower?", "Both of these dresses are from 1968. They aptly illustrate the choices. At left, the style is still pure Jackie Kennedy. At right, the mod influence is evident. Only in the 1960s would anyone be bold enough to wear this shift out in public. With matching orange stockings, no less! The look was bold, daring and adventurous – how 60’s.", "By the mid-1960s, Peter Fonda was not a conventional \"leading man\" in Hollywood. As Playboy magazine reported, Fonda had established a \"solid reputation as a dropout\". He had become outwardly nonconformist and grew his hair long, alienating the \"establishment\" film industry. Desirable acting work became scarce. In the 1963–1964 season, he appeared in an episode of the ABC drama about college life, Channing.", "Indeed, in the Fifties, Diana Dors and Marilyn Monroe were infamous for their unnaturally cone-shaped bosoms that helped shape that Fifties icon 'the sweater girl'. Flash-forward 50 years and it looks like this particular silhouette is back with a bang." ]

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[ "During her 66-year acting career, Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars, but she never came to a ceremony to receive them. “As for me, prizes are nothing,” she once said. “My prize is my work.” Still, four best actress — or actor — awards is an unbeaten feat, akin to Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in an NBA game. Hepburn’s first came for 1933’s Morning Glory, whose title derived from whether her actress character would have a long career or fade “like a morning glory.” And Hepburn’s award winning did fade: She went from a 26-year-old phenom getting a statuette for her third film to being labeled “box-office poison” in a 1938 exhibitors poll.", "Top female legend and actress Katharine Hepburn, four-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress, died at the age of 96 on June 29, 2003. During her long career of 62 years, she had received a total of 12 Oscar nominations, and was the only performer in Academy history to have won four Academy Awards for acting.", "Bergman won three Academy Awards for acting, two for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress. She ranks tied for second place in terms of Oscars won, with Walter Brennan (all three for Best Supporting Actor), Jack Nicholson (two for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor), Meryl Streep (two for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record with four (all four for Best Actress).", "Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 (birth time source: Astrodatabank) � June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen). Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1975 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys and two Tony Awards during the course of her more than 70-year acting career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the top female star in their Greatest American Screen Legends list (AFI's...", "Fortunately for filmgoers everywhere, Katharine Hepburn overcame this great tragedy of her childhood to become one of the most enduring legends in cinema history. Over the course of more than six decades in Hollywood, she earned twelve Academy Award nominations and won an unprecedented four Best Actress Oscars.", "9. Katharine Hepburn won a record four Academy Awards -- all Best Actress Oscars -- the last for \"On Golden Pond\" (1981), which starred another Hollywood legend, Henry Fonda.", "When it comes to Oscar records, Katharine Hepburn is the queen. Not only is she the person with the most wins – four, for Morning Glory, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond – she’s also famous for being one of the celebs who always declined to accept her award. She won in 1968 for Coming to Dinner, and then in 1969 she won again for Lion, though in that year she tied with Barbra Streisand , who also won Best Actress for Funny Girl.", "Actress. (b. May 12, 1907, Hartford, Conn.) She was branded \"box-office poison\" by the nation's exhibitors in 1938, but Katharine Hepburn has come to be regarded as a national treasure. One of the most frequently honored screen actresses (with eight Academy nominations and four Oscars to her credit), Hepburn came to films inA Bill of Divorcement (1932), as John Barrymore's daughter, following a sometimes tempestuous career on stage in amateur theatricals, college shows, stock, and finally on Broadway. Her unusual looks and manner-and her unique New England voice-put off some moviegoers at first, but her endearing performance as a naive, impulsive young actress trying to crash Broadway, in 1933'sMorning Glory won her her first Academy Award. Hepburn proved her versatility in such pictures asLittle Women (1933),The Little Minister (1934),Alice Adams (1935, for which she received an Oscar nomination),Mary of Scotland (1936), and the wonderfulStage Door (1937, an interesting companion piece toMorning Glory But for every success in her early Hollywood career, there was also a major misfireincluding such all-time oddities asChristopher Strong (1933, in which she played an aviatrix) andSylvia Scarlett (1935, in which she disguised herself as a boy).", "KATHERINE HEPBURN achieved and still holds the record of four Oscars for Best Female Acting in a Leading and/or Supporting role. Nominated 12 times (and all for Leading Roles only) during a span of 48 years, her four Oscars were awarded for 1933 (\"Morning Glory\"), 1967 (\"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner\"), 1968 (\"The Lion In Winter\") and 1981 (\"On Golden Pond\").", "Four time Academy Award winning actress Katharine Hepburn maintained a successful acting career for over 70 years. Her notable performances in The African Queen and On Golden Pond, as well as countless other films, contributed to her title as the AFI's Greatest American Female Star. Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four out of 12 nominations.", "Katharine Hepburn was one of the brightest Hollywood stars of all. She had a career of unparallelled success, spanning seven decades, in which she appeared in over fifty movies, and won four Best Actress Oscars, three of them after passing the age of sixty. She formed several unforgettable screen partnerships with acting giants such as Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, and her work spanned a variety of genres from screwball comedy to powerful drama.", "Katharine Hepburn - Mini Biography (TV-PG; 3:30) Katharine Hepburn became an unlikely Hollywood star with her wit, and outspokenness. Her career spanned over 7 decades and included the hits \"The Philadelphia Story\" and \"The African Queen.\" She won four Academy Awards for Best Actress.", "The question of “who wears the pants?” can only be answered, “Katherine Hepburn.” Hepburn wore pants like no one else in an era were women seldom wore pants. She disliked wearing makeup, spoke her mind, and didn't fit the “blonde bombshell” type of that time. Her unconventional approach to Hollywood set her apart from other actresses and at times hurt her popularity with audiences and the press. Ultimately, Hepburn won four Best Actress Oscars, more than anyone else, and became recognized as the greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.", "Katharine Hepburn hadn't won an Oscar since 1933 - 34 years earlier, although she had been in many fine roles since then. She finally won her second Oscar (and it wouldn't be her last) as liberal-thinking Christina Drayton whose daughter is considering inter-racial marriage with a distinguished black surgeon (Sidney Poitier) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. It was Hepburn's tenth career nomination, tying her with Bette Davis (also with two Oscars) as the most-nominated actress. Hepburn would go on to surpass Davis with two more Oscars and a total of twelve career nominations.", "Katharine Hepburn would be eventually nominated for the year's Best Actress Oscar, but somewhat ironically lost to another Howard Hughes girlfriend, Ginger Rogers , in the RKO release Kitty Foyle. Hepburn, however, was chosen as the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Actress of the year.", "Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award(r) for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. In GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER,director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of society's prejudices.", "Hepburn won four Academy Awards, the record number for a performer, and a total of 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress—a number surpassed only by Meryl Streep. Hepburn also holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years. She received two awards and five nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, one award and six nominations from the Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globe nominations, two Tony Award nominations, and awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the People's Choice Awards, and others. Hepburn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979. She also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1979 and received the Kennedy Center Honors, which recognize a lifetime of accomplishments in the arts, in 1990. ", "Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut, also known as Kate. She was the daughter of a doctor and his wife, a leading suffragette of the time. Katharine attended Bryn Mawr College. It was there that she decided to become an actress. She was known for playing strong independent women with minds of their own. This classic award winning actress has starred in several well known films, also in many Broadway theatrical plays. Katharine was married to Ludlow Ogden Smith from 1928 to 1934, when they divorced. She had a long term relationship with Spencer Tracy from 1940 until his death in 1967. Katharine's nickname was the First Lady of Cinema, and that she was. She died June 29, 2003, at the age of 96, and will be remembered for portraying a grand representation of 20th century women in films.", "Katharine Hepburn (with her seventh nomination) for her portrayal of Lizzy Curry - a lonely spinster who falls in love with itinerant con man Burt Lancaster in director Joseph Anthony's The Rainmaker (with two nominations and no wins). [Hepburn was the only other actress who eventually earned more Oscars than Bergman did, but Hepburn's loss of this award put Bergman one up on her for a while.]", "After a three year break from moviemaking, Katharine gave another spellbinding performance as Mary Tyrone in O'Neill's 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' for which she received another Best Actress Academy Award nomination (her ninth). She devoted the next five years to caring for Spencer Tracy in his final long illness. They were able to make one last film together, the moving 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' in 1967. Katharine won her second Best Actress Award for the film but always believed that it was meant to honor Tracy, who had died shortly after completion of filming.", "In 2003, she became the seventeenth performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscars: Best Actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) & Best Supporting Actress, California Suite (1978), Tony: Best Actress - Play, \"Lettice and Lovage\" (1990), and Emmy: Best Actress - Miniseries/Movie, My House in Umbria (2003).", "Mary Astor (with her sole career nomination) won the Best Supporting Actress award and her first and only Oscar for her performance as Sandra Kovak - a sharp-tongued, selfish and ambitious concert pianist who gives away her baby (when befriended by Bette Davis, wife of her former lover George Brent) in The Great Lie (the film's sole nomination). The defeated nominees included two co-stars from The Little Foxes: Teresa Wright (with her first nomination in her debut performance) as Alexandra Giddens (daughter of co-stars Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall), and Patricia Collinge (with her sole nomination) as Aunt Birdie Hubbard. The remaining nominees were Sara Allgood (with her sole career nomination) as the loving, supportive, and gentle mother figure Mrs. Morgan in How Green Was My Valley , and Margaret Wycherley (with her sole career nomination) as devoted Mother York in Sergeant York.", "Directed four different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Amy Irving , Nick Nolte , Kate Nelligan and Lauren Bacall .", "Famous for: American actress whose career spanned over 40 years. Notable roles are Josephine from The Wedding Party, Naomi from Portnoy’s Complaint, Jackie from The Thief Who Came to Dinner, Angela Black from The Terminal Man, Carole Lombard from Gable and Lombard, Hilly Burns from Silver Streak, Erica from An Unmarried Woman, Caterina Silveri from La Luna, Marilyn Holmberg from Starting Over, Ruth Loomis from First Monday in October, Nan Whitman from Fools Rush In, Agnes Finch from Running with Scissors, Mrs. Randall from Love & Other Drugs, and Judy Walker from Bridesmaids.", "Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was an English-American actress, businesswoman and humanitarian. She began as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. The American Film Institute named her the seventh greatest female screen legend in 1999.", "Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Oscars and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan).", "Geraldine Page (4) - with one win (The Trip to Bountiful (1985)); nominations in 1961, 1962, 1978, 1985", "Hepburn became one of the most successful film actresses in the world and performed with such notable leading men as Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Peter O'Toole, and Albert Finney. She won BAFTA Awards for her performances in The Nun's Story (1959) and Charade (1963), and received Academy Award nominations for Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967).", "Hepburn became one of the most successful film actresses in the world and performed with notable leading men such as Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Fred Astaire, James Garner, Peter O'Toole and Albert Finney. She won BAFTA Awards for her performances in The Nun's Story (1959) and Charade (1963) and received Academy Award nominations for Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967).", "Was the 14th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind (1939) at The 12th Academy Awards on February 29, 1940.", "Famous for: American actress and major star at Paramount during the 1940s. Started in Hollywood as an extra and rose through the ranks. Notable roles are Ellen Peterson – A Gamine from Modern Times, Leslie Saunders from The Young at Heart, Nana from Dramatic School, Mimi Aarons from The Women, Hannah from The Great Dictator, Molly McCorkle from Pot o’ Gold, Anita Dixon from Hold Back the Dawn, Loxi Claiborne from Reap the Wild Wind, Lt. Joan O’Doul from So Proudly We Hail!, Kitty, Celestine from The Diary of a Chambermaid, Abigail “Abby” Martha Hale from Unconquered, Mrs. Laura Cheveley from An Ideal Husband, Anna Lucasta, Jezebel from Sins of Jezebel, Angie from A Stranger Came Home, and Mariagrazia from Time of Indifference.", "For the rest of the 1960s, Hepburn took on a variety of roles. She starred with Cary Grant in the romantic thriller Charade (1963). Playing the lead in the film version of the popular musical My Fair Lady (1964), she went through one of the most famous metamorphoses of all time. 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[ "Nineteen years ago today, on July 6, 1994, one of the great American epics was released. \"Forrest Gump\" became a staple of movie culture, producing one of the most indelible title characters of all time. Tom Hanks went on to win his second consecutive Oscar for the performance, and \"Gump\" has seen been catalogued in Americana via countless television re-airings, a themed chain restaurant and a coveted spot in the United States National Film Registry.", "Tom Hanks won his second Oscar in a row for his expertly sympathetic performance as the kind-hearted man-child who introduces himself with the line, \"My name is Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.\" Waiting for a bus, Forrest relates his amazingly eventful life story through a series of flashbacks that span thirty years of post-war American history. He lives through the Vietnam war and - thanks to director Robert Zemeckis' dazzling use of digital effects - crosses paths with everyone from former US President Richard Nixon to Beatle John Lennon.", "1994 - 'Forrest Gump' | Tom Hanks won the best-actor Oscar, his second in a row.", "Perhaps his most iconic role, Hanks won his second consecutive Oscar when he followed Philadelphia with Forrest Gump. Taking viewers on an odyssey through a tumultuous period in American history, Gump proves to be the ultimate tour guide through all the events.", "Tom’s big break also arrived in 1993 when director Jonathan Demme cast him for \"Philadelphia\" in the starring role of Andrew Beckett, an attorney with AIDS who bring suit against his former employee for discrimination after getting fired. Delivering a spectacular acting performance (one example is the weight loss needed for the role: 37 pounds), Tom was honored with a prestigious Oscar for Best Actor, as well as took home several awards like a Golden Globe, a Berlin Film Festival and a MTV Movie Award. The phenomenal triumph subsequently launched Tom Hanks as a Hollywood’s A-List actor and cemented his standing as a leading dramatic actor. With Robert Zemeckis at the helm, Hanks’ dazzling performance in one of the most famous movies of all time \"Forrest Gump\", won him countless awards, including an Actor, a National Board of Review, a Golden Globe, a Chicago Film Critics Association and an American Comedy for Best Actor as well as a second Academy Award : Tom Hanks becomes the only actor ever, along with Spencer Tracy in 1937, to win two consecutive Oscars. The film itself received enormous success at the box office and won another Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director.", "Butterbean. Turns 50 – Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but there was a late-night showing on cable TV on Aug. 1 of one of my favorite movies, “Forrest Gump,” which I watched in its entirety for what must have been at least the 10th time. It’s the Academy Award-winning 1994 film (Tom Hanks received his second Oscar in the lead role) about a slow-witted, kind-hearted and athletically gifted Alabama country boy who, by chance or fate, happened to be a participant in or witness to many of the most notable events of a 30-year span in the 20th century.", "Hanks has been nominated for five Oscars and won twice. He won for Best Actor two years in a row: first for “Philadelphia” in 1993 and then for “Forrest Gump” in 1994.", "Hanks has been nominated for five Oscars and won twice. He won for Best Actor two years in a row: first for \"Philadelphia\" in 1993 and then for \"Forrest Gump\" in 1994.", "Probably the best-known celeb to win consecutive Oscars in recent memory, Hanks won his first Best Actor Oscar at the 1994 Academy Awards for his groundbreaking role in Philadelphia. The following year, Hanks won again for Forrest Gump. And that’s what you call a matching set.", "Tom Hanks : Winning back-to-back Best Actor Oscars for his performances in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, Hanks is also one of the top box office draws in the world. His other movies include Apollo 13, Big, the Toy Story franchise, and Saving Private Ryan. Hanks made $70 million as Forrest Gump in 1994.", "Tom Hanks, already a two-time Oscar winner (for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994)) received his fourth Oscar nomination for his role as the restrained Captain John Miller in Saving Private Ryan", "Tom Hanks is not Tom Hanks in this picture. He is Forrest Gump. Hanks lost something like 30 pounds to play this role, and clich�d as it may sound, Tom Hanks is amazing as Forrest Gump. Hot off the heels of his Oscar win for Philadelphia, Tom won another for his incredible performance as the simplistic but kindly Forrest. It isn't Tom Hanks we are watching, it's Forrest Gump. Good actors make you forget who they are; Tom does that here, too.", "ROBERT ZEMECKIS for \"Forrest Gump\", Woody Allen for \"Bullets Over Broadway\", Krzysztof Kieslowski for \"Three Colors: Red\", Robert Redford for \"Quiz Show\", Quentin Tarantino for", "As of 2014, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995) and The Green Mile (1999). Forrest Gump (1994) won the award in the category. Coincidentally, all three movies star Tom Hanks in the leading role and were all released in the 1990's.", "Forrest Gump won Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing at the 67th Academy Awards. The film was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, winning three of them: Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Best Director – Motion Picture, and Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film was also nominated for six Saturn Awards and won two for Best Fantasy Film and Best Supporting Actor (Film).", "Throughout the 1990s -- actually, between 1989 and 2001 -- Hanks was a constant presence at the Oscars. He earned his first nomination in 1989 as a kid in a grown-up's body in \"Big,\" and went on to win in 1994 for \"Philadelphia\" and again in 1995 for \"Forrest Gump,\" becoming one of only a handful of actors to nab back-to-back Oscars. (Jennifer Lawrence has a chance to join him this year.)", "By the early 1990s, Zemeckis was recognized as a director of great technical skill but little personal viewpoint, something that changed with the 1994 release of Forrest Gump . Beyond its top-heavy special effects, the film was a distinctly human drama about a mildly retarded young man who achieves professional and personal success by refusing to see anything but the good in people. Expected to be a moderately profitable feature, Forrest Gump amazed everyone by being the top money spinner of the summer of 1994and one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. As an added bonus, it helped Zemeckis snag a Best Director Oscar, as well as several other awards.", "After accepting the Oscar for co-writing Pulp Fiction, Roger Avary said he had to “take a pee.” He was referencing Forrest Gump, which won six Oscars that night.", "* 1994 - Forrest Gump – Ken Ralston, George Murphy, Stephen Rosenbaum, Doug Chiang, Allen Hall", "Forrest Gump won four of the �Big Five� (Actor, Director, Screenplay, and Picture) plus two more in 1994, and it centered around a mentally handicapped man. It�s considered a textbook example of how to win an Oscar because of its historical setting and social commentary.", "On this day in 1994, the movie Forrest Gump opens in U.S. theaters. A huge box-office success, the film starred Tom Hanks in the title role of Forrest, a good-hearted man with a low I.Q. who winds up at the center of key cultural and historical events of the second half of the 20th century.", "With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, and Meryl Streep for the second-most Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Hepburn, with four Oscars, has won more.", "With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan , Daniel Day-Lewis , Ingrid Bergman , and Meryl Streep for the second-most Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Hepburn , with four Oscars, has won more.", "Starred in \"Forrest Gump\" as a slow-witted Southerner who lives an extraordinary life; first collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis", "In 1994 this movie was nominated for 7 awards including Best Movie and Best Actor, but again the feel good Americana of Forrest Gump ensured that this movie would go empty handed. The movie is narrated by a character Red, played by one of the most underrated actors but brilliant actor.. –Name the actor and the movie.", "As Forrest Gump, he plays a man with a slight mental handicap who faces the major historical changes of century. In \"Big,\" he portrays a boy caught in the body of a grown man. And in \"Philadelphia,\" he raises awareness for AIDS with his brilliant performance of someone suffering from the disease.", "[Note: With his two Academy Awards Oscars, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, he became the first person to have written two consecutive Best Pictures (he wrote the screenplay for last year's Million Dollar Baby (2004))]", "Nicholson won Best Actor twice for leading roles in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “As Good As It Gets.” He also won Best Supporting Actor for “Terms of Endearment.” Nicholson has been nominated for an additional nine Oscars.", "Nicholson won Best Actor twice for leading roles in \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\" and \"As Good As It Gets.\" He also won Best Supporting Actor for \"Terms of Endearment.\" Nicholson has been nominated for an additional nine Oscars.", "Playing \"Chef Hicks\" in Apocalypse Now garnered Forrest the best notices of his career, and he parlayed that into Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Supporting Actor for The Rose , his second hit that year. He was named Best Supporting Actor by the National Society of Film Critics for both films, and once again he seemed poised on the verge of stardom. Like the first time, stardom did not come.", "Washington has won two Oscars. He won Best Actor for \"Training Day\" and Best Supporting Actor for \"Glory.\" He has been nominated for an additional four Oscars.", "Although Eastwood never won an Academy Award for acting, he was nominated twice for acting in the films, “Unforgiven”, in 1992, and “Million Dollar Baby”, in 2004. He did, however, receive considerable recognition for being awarded several awards for film directing, as well as being awarded the Cecil B. De Mille Award in 1988, and the American Film Institute [AFI] Life Achievement Award, in 2004." ]

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[ "Dustin Hoffman (with his sixth nomination) won his second Oscar for his role as the institutionalized, ultimately loveable, autistic idiot savant Raymond ('Ray(n)' 'Man(d)') Babbitt who is kidnapped by his ambitious brother Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and taken on a cross-country trip in Rain Man. In one memorable scene, Raymond nervously told his brother that he might miss his favorite TV program (The People's Court): \"Uh, oh, 12 minutes to Wapner.\"", "Dustin Hoffman, heavily favored in the pre-Oscar handicapping, received his second best actor Oscar for playing \"Rain Man's\" numbers-crunching Raymond, an autistic savant who comes to terms with his younger brother, played by Tom Cruise.", "Rain Man usually, and justifiably, receives plaudits for Dustin Hoffman’s performance as the autistic Raymond Babbitt, a role for which Hoffman won his second Oscar (after Kramer vs. Kramer), but it is the performance of Charlie Babbitt by Tom Cruise that should receive accolades too. His Charlie is wound up a little too tightly by the wishes of his recently deceased father to leave his fortune to Charlie’s brother Raymond, a brother Charlie didn’t know he had. He’s angry at his father, angry at his brother, and everyone around him as he struggles to come to terms with the aftermath of his father’s death. I don’t mean to underrate Hoffman’s performance at all, his is the stronger of the two, and it is the little moments that make it so, such as the moment of childlike confusion on the escalator.", "Rain Man is one of my favorite films, although at times the plot became slightly tedious. Academy Award Winner Dustin Hoffman gives a stellar performance as Raymond, Charlie Babbitt's (Tom Cruise) autistic brother. Hoffman does a wonderful job showing the emotional detachment that lies at the heart of the movie. Cruise portrays an emotional detachment of another kind as the egocentric Charlie. Together they unknowingly undergo a journey on a path of discovery about their past together and their future as individuals. I gave Rain Man an 8 out of 10.", "Dustin Hoffman won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as institutionalized, ultimately loveable, autistic idiot savant Raymond ('Ray(n)' 'Man(d)') Babbitt in Rain Man (1988)", "Barry Levinson’s Rain Man is mostly remembered in caricature: “Uh oh, fart,” or “I’m definitely not wearing my underwear,” or “three minutes to Wapner,” all in Dustin Hoffman’s invented monotone as the brilliant, autistic Raymond. Naturally and deservedly, it was Hoffman who won Best Actor, but it’s Tom Cruise’s performance — as the person who changes — that is so impressive on repeated viewings. Cruise had already begun his forays into Oscar-bait movies with 1986’s The Color of Money, but was still two years from getting his own nomination for Born on the Fourth of July. (He has since gotten two more, for Jerry Maguire and Magnolia, but has never won.)", "         A tangent: It’s something I’ve long thought about Rain Man, which I couldn’t help but think of here. I’m not comparing autism to dementia, but I will compare two stories about family members connecting on a road trip. Dustin Hoffman got a Best Actor award for playing Raymond, but I didn’t think the movie was about him. Raymond was never going to change – the movie was about Tom Cruise.", "The 1988 Oscar-winning movie Rain Man also heavily references the sketch. The movie's main character, Raymond (played by Dustin Hoffman), who is autistic, uses the comedy routine as a defense mechanism when others become upset with him or something doesn't go his way.", "The film Rain Man, however, is not based on Kim Peek’s life, but tells the fictional story of Raymond’s brother Charlie (played by Tom Cruise), who discovers his brother after their father dies and leaves his multi-million dollar estate to Raymond. Charlie sets out initially to use Raymond’s abilities for his own gain, but through spending time with him, grows to love him. Throughout the film, Dustin Hoffman’s performance is flawless and brilliant.", "Next came director Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988), where Hoffman starred as an autistic savant, opposite Tom Cruise. Levinson, Hoffman and Cruise worked for two years on the film, and Hoffman's performance gained him his second Academy Award. Behind Hoffman's motivation for doing the film, he has said, \"Deep inside, Rain Man is about how autistic we all are.\" In preparation for the part, Hoffman spent two years befriending autistic people, which included taking them bowling and to fast food restaurants. \"It fed my obsession,\" he has stated. ", "Next came director Barry Levinson's Rain Man (1988), where Hoffman starred as an autistic savant, opposite Tom Cruise. Levinson, Hoffman and Cruise worked for two years on the film, and Hoffman's performance gained him his second Academy Award. Behind Hoffman's motivation for doing the film, he says, \"Deep inside, Rain Man is about how autistic we all are.\" In preparation for the part, Hoffman spent two years befriending autistic people, which included taking them bowling and to fast food restaurants. \"It fed my obsession,\" he said.[50]", "Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise in \"Rain Man,\" but the individual who really lights up the screen and makes us believe is Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt, his autistic brother. Actors Aside, People consider Raymond a wandering innocent who has no idea what he's doing, but as his friendship with his brother proceeds so does the fact that Raymond, though obviously unable to comprehend all his surroundings, recognizes his brother and the bond between them.", "Rain Man won Academy Awards for Best Picture; Best Actor in a Leading Role (Dustin Hoffman); Best Director; and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Ida Random, Linda DeScenna); Best Cinematography (John Seale); Best Film Editing; and Best Music, Original Score (Hans Zimmer). ", "I thought it prudent to take a moment to recognize not an actor, but a real person who inspired a classic film. Kim Peek , the man who was the real-life basis for Rain Man , passed away this weekend from a heart attack at the age of 58. The role won Dustin Hoffman an Oscar, and he thanked Peek in his acceptance speech, as writer Barry Morrow ’s meeting with Peek was the catalyst for his script for Rain Man . Peek possessed expertise in about 15 different subjects including history, »", "Dustin Hoffman reportedly fought hard for this movie's production even after several directors (including, inter alia, Stephen Spielberg) had bowed out; and in one of those rare un-Hollywood-like moments even managed to maintain the movie's sense of authenticity up to the very end by prevailing on the writers to drop the projected ending, which would have had Raymond staying with Charlie. - In addition to Hoffman's awards, \"Rain Man\" received the coveted Oscars for Best Movie, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director (Barry Levinson, who also played the psychiatrist called upon to evaluate whether Raymond is fit to stay with Charlie), plus a number of other American and international awards. For once, the industry collectively got it right. But even if this movie hadn't received a single award, it would still remain one of recent film history's greatest and truly unforgettable moments - definitely, it would.", "Rain Man is my all-time favorite movie. Even though it is Rated \"R\" I believe it should only be rated PG 13. Also they need to get rid of the \"F\" word because it ruins the movie. But... this is one of best movies made... lots of Action, Laughs, and Sadness. Dustin Hoffman is a great actor as Rain Man. And So is Tom Cruise. This is movie is great!! Also \"I'm an excellent Driver!!!\"", "1988 - 'Rain Man' | Dustin Hoffman, left, won for best actor playing Tom Cruise's brother.", "Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Levinson's best-known works are comedy-drama and drama films such as, Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Rain Man (1988), Bugsy (1991), and Wag the Dog (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for his work on Rain Man, which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture.", "As of 2014, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Rain Man (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), A Few Good Men (1992) and Jerry Maguire (1996). Rain Man (1988) won in the category.", "Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Rain Man a \"becomingly modest, decently thought-out, sometimes funny film\"; Hoffman's performance was a \"display of sustained virtuosity . . . [which] makes no lasting connections with the emotions. Its end effect depends largely on one's susceptibility to the sight of an actor acting nonstop and extremely well, but to no particularly urgent dramatic purpose.\" Canby considered the \"film's true central character\" to be \"the confused, economically and emotionally desperate Charlie, beautifully played by Mr. Cruise.\"", "The Best Actor nominations were dominated (4/5) by actors playing real-life figures - all of the nominees had a single prior nomination - except for Don Cheadle. The category's favored pick was the ultimate winner, 37 year-old Jamie Foxx (with his second nomination in a supporting category also) as legendary blues singer and pianist Ray Charles in Ray. [Jamie Foxx also set a record for being the first black to debut as a nominee in two categories in the same year, lead and supporting, for Ray (2004) and Collateral (2004). He also became only the second actor in Oscar history to receive Oscar nominations for two different performances in the same year - the first was Al Pacino in 1992]. His win made him the third African-American actor to win the Best Actor Oscar in Academy history.", "\"Rain Man\" deservedly won the 1988 Academy Award for best picture is is a true classic.", "Rain Man debuted on December 16, 1988, and was the second highest grossing film at the weekend box office (behind Twins), with $7 million. It reached the first spot on the December 30 – January 2 weekend, finishing 1988 with $42 million. The film would end up as the highest-grossing U.S. film of 1988 by earning over $172 million. The film grossed over $354 million worldwide.", "Though Mr. Cruise says that he improvised ''far more'' with Mr. Hoffman than he did with his ''other master,'' his ''Color of Money'' co-star, Paul Newman, ''and probably more than I ever have on a movie,'' ad-libbing was not for him the ultimate challenge of ''Rain Man.''", "\"Rain Man\" is a reasonable movie. It might be classified as a drama, but let's face it: it is both drama and comedy because it has lots of hilarious moments.", "The plot may stumble, but the acting never does. Rain Man uses a far-fetched premise to launch a road trip between these two men -- a hotshot, unethical dealer in imported sports cars and his institutionalized older brother who has just been left $3 million in their father`s will.", "William Claude Rains (10 November 188930 May 1967) was an English-born American film and stage actor whose career spanned 46 years. After his American film debut with The Invisible Man (1933) he played in classic films like The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Wolf Man (1941), Casablanca (1942; as Captain Renault), Notorious (1946), and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He was a four-time nominee for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award, but never won. Rains was considered to be \"one of the screen's great character stars\" with an extraordinary voice who was, according to the All-Movie Guide, \"at his best when playing cultured villains\". ", "Would someone give John Cusak an umbrella, already! If he's going to be out in the rain after being dumped in every movie he makes, he could at least have a poncho or a newspaper or something to keep him dry. But, then again, one always looks more pitiful dripping wet.", "- It's Raining Men (2004) ... (performer: \"Eyes Without a Face\" - uncredited) / (writer: \"Eyes Without a Face\" - uncredited)", "actor: The Rainmaker, Sorry Wrong Number, Rear Window, Buckskin, The Astro-Zombies, The Light in the Forest; died Nov 8, 1968", "Singin' in the Rain (1952) , Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), The Pajama Game (1957), Funny Face (1957) and Damn Yankees (1958). He was also responsible for Indiscreet (1958), The Grass is Greener (1961), Charade (1963) , and Two for the Road (1967).", "on Rain who starred as Raizo in Ninja Assassin. Yes, he goes by the name of Rain." ]

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[ "Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as the doomed lovers in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster, \"Titanic.\" Winner of 11 Academy Awards , including Best Picture, it became the highest-grossing film of all time (later supplanted by Cameron's \"Avatar\").", "A self-made giant of Hollywood, James Cameron went from set-builder to art director (for 1981's Escape From New York) to writer and then on to director of some of the biggest films of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He directed Arnold Schwarzenegger in his career-making role in The Terminator (1984) and its sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Cameron also directed Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (1986) and Ed Harris in The Abyss (1989). His 1997 film Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, broke box office records and won 11 Oscars, including awards for best picture and best director. After the success of Titanic Cameron worked on a variety of non-feature projects, including the TV series Dark Angel (2000-02, starring Jessica Alba) and documentaries based on his love of diving and the ocean, including Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) and Aliens of the Deep (2005). After 12 years away from feature films, he made a spectacular return in 2009 with the effects-heavy film Avatar. The sci-fi epic was nominated for an Oscar as best film (eventually losing out to The Hurt Locker), and in only its second month of release surpassed Titanic as the highest-grossing movie of all time.", "James Cameron's Titanic (1997) was not only the winner of 11 Academy Awards (predating the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's 11 oscars) for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Visual Effects, defeating Starship Troopers (1997) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) (which made Jurassic Park go jump the shark!!!), but also the most expensive film ever made - up to its time, at approximately $200 million.", "Hill co-starred with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas in “ The Ghost and the Darkness” (1996), an American adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by William Goldman, played The Engine Driver in the film adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic novel, “Mr. Toad's Wild Ride” (1996), helmed and scripted by Terry Jones, and appeared with Emily Watson, Cheryl Campbell and James Frain in the TV film “The Mill on the Floss” (1997) before landing the iconic role of Captain Edward James Smith in the James Cameron blockbuster movie “Titanic” (1997), opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The film grossed a total of $1,843,201,268 worldwide against a budget of $200 million, making it the highest grossing film in history for 12 years until “Avatar” (also directed and written by Cameron) surpassed it in 2010. “Titanic” gained mostly positive reviews from critics, and picked up 11 Oscars, including Best Director, Best Picture and Best Costume Design, to name a few. For his acting, Hill shared a 1998 Screen Actors Guild nomination in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Cast. Hill went on to appear in films like “The Titanic Chronicles” (1999, as Captain S. Lord), “The Criminal” (1999, as Det. Insp. Walker), Clint Eastwood's box office dud, “True Crime” (1999, as Warden Luther Plunkitt), “A Midsummer Night's Dream” (1999, as Egeus) and “The Loss of Sexual Innocence” (1999, as Susan's Father).", "Writer/director James Cameron solidified his reputation as the undisputed king of mega-blockbusters in this decade with his studio-shared (Fox and Paramount) Titanic (1997) (grossing $600 million in the US alone, and $1.8 billion worldwide for the studios). It was the first film with a budget exceeding $200 million. Titanic retold the spectacular, epic-disaster of the 1912 ill-fated, maiden voyage cruise of the R.M.S. Titanic, when it was pierced by an iceberg. The tense scene of the sinking of the ship was created with state-of-the-art digital effects and a life-size version of the ship. In addition, a secondary love story between star-crossed lovers - poor passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and upper-class Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), told in flashback by an older Rose (Gloria Stuart) slowly built to the inevitable conclusion. [Titanic became the highest grossing and most successful film of all time (passing the megahit of the past Gone with the Wind (1939)); It was the most expensive film in Hollywood history estimated at about $200 million; It tied Ben-Hur (1959) with its eleven Oscar wins]", "Near, far, wherever you are, you probably recognize this epic scene from James Cameron's 1997 film \"Titanic.\" The movie, which gave Leonardo DiCaprio official heartthrob status and Kate Winslet an Oscar nomination, is the second-highest grossing film of all time in the States. It also gave Celine Dion a huge hit in the theme song that you are probably hearing in your head right now.", "James Cameron's Avatar (nine nominations, with three technical wins for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects), a 20th Century Fox blockbuster spectacle, reportedly budgeted at over $300M that was ballyhooed by its incredible visual effects and 3D IMAX presentation. It was the first Best Picture nominee to be entirely filmed using 3-D technology. It was a futuristic, sci-fi adventure-action story about humans invading a fantastic planet inhabited by blue-skinned aliens for its rare radioactive natural resource - unobtanium. Avatar lacked a Best Screenplay nomination -- coincidentally, the last film to win Best Picture without a screenplay nomination was Cameron's own mega-blockbuster film, Titanic (1997).", "The unadjusted list, with Avatar at the top of the heap, suggests a relentlessly positive trajectory, with Hollywood regularly outdoing itself — churning out one blockbuster after another, each more appealing to mass audiences than the last. Six of the top 10 movies on the list were released after the turn of the millennium. James Cameron secured the No. 1 position with 1997's Titanic, then bested himself with Avatar.", "Writer/director James Cameron solidified his reputation as the undisputed king of mega-blockbusters in this decade with his studio-shared (Fox and Paramount) Titanic (1997) (grossing $600 million in the US alone, and $1.8 billion worldwide for the studios). It was the first film with a budget exceeding $200 million. Titanic retold the spectacular, epic-disaster of the 1912 ill-fated, maiden voyage cruise of the R.M.S. Titanic, when it was pierced by an iceberg. The tense scene of the sinking of the ship was created with state-of-the-art digital effects and a life-size version of the ship. In addition, a secondary love story between star-crossed lovers - poor passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and upper-class Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), told in flashback by an older Rose (Gloria Stuart) slowly built to the inevitable conclusion.", "Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in a scene from James Cameron's 1997 film \"Titanic.\" After \"Titanic,\" Cameron took time off from directing fictional films and focused mainly on documentaries. 2009's \"Avatar\" marks his return to feature films.", "* Titanic (1997) – James Cameron's film of the ill-fated ocean liner RMS Titanic. Ron Donachie plays the master-at-arms, Thomas Walter King on board the Titanic who arrests Leonardo DiCaprio's character twice in the movie. The RMS Titanic, however had two master-at-arms working on board the ship.", "Also in 1984, the real titan of grown-up sci-fi appeared on the scene. James Cameron, fresh from working on the set designs for Escape From New York (and directing the disastrous Piranha II: The Spawning), established himself as a champion of sci-fi with brains. With the triple whammy of The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986) and The Abyss (1989), he gifted Arnold Schwarzenegger the best role of his career, Sigourney Weaver an Oscar nod, and special effects a giant leap forward. “Science-fiction is the Rodney Dangerfield of movie genres,” Cameron told The LA Times in 1991. “As a filmmaker, it’s a question of what you want out of life: Do you want to create the greatest impact on the greatest number of people? Or do you want a claim as an intellectual, auteur filmmaker. I don’t think you can have it both ways.” If Cameron represented the more grown-up side of sci-fi, he never went quite as dark as some of his contemporaries. Like Carpenter, David", "James Cameron may have gotten some flak after declaring himself “King of the World” when he scooped up the award for Best Director at the 1998 Oscars, but he wasn’t too far off. Between Avatar (more on that later) and Titanic, which took in $1,100,052,700 during its theatrical run, Cameron holds the top two spots on the highest-grossing films worldwide .", "Titanic is a 1997 romance disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron , starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet . Titanic tells the story of of the RMS Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage from the perspective of fictional characters, Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater and shows the two passengers from different social classes meeting and falling in love on the Titanic before it sinks after colliding with an ice berg.", "• December 19 - James Cameron's Titanic, the highest-grossing film of all time until his other film Avatar, premieres in the US.", "Amongst the talented supporting players are Cameron regulars Michael Biehn (THE TERMINATOR, THE ABYSS) and Bill Paxton (bit part in THE TERMINATOR, TRUE LIES, TITANIC), and Cameron's punchy dialogue includes such suitably macho wisecracks as - Hudson (Paxton): \"Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?\" Vasquez (a pumped-up Jenette Goldstein): \"No, have you?\" Nominated for 7 Oscars, including Weaver as Best Actress (again this confirms the general class on display, as it is fairly rare for the Academy to recognize the acting qualities inherent in this type of predominantly action-driven movie), the film went on to win for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Effects Editing. Further, almost inevitable sequels followed in 1992 and 1997, but I prefer to think of the terrifying perils of Ellen Ripley as ending on this high note.", "Writer/director Cameron's next film (with secret agent Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry) was True Lies (1994) - a Bond-like spy-adventure packed with special effects, thrills, an exciting jet and car chase over the Florida Keys, and tongue-in-cheek comedy about how Harry's wife Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis) didn't know his occupation. [It was the first movie with a budget to exceed $100 million, and eventually grossed $365 million.] Ridley Scott closed the decade with the Best Picture, multiple-Oscar winner Gladiator (2000), a computer-enhanced Roman Empire sandals-toga epic with Australian actor Russell Crowe as the virtuous and wronged Maximus who sought revenge in the Coliseum.", "As an encore, he returned to familiar ground with the inevitable sequel \"The Lost World: Jurassic Park\" (1997) which merely rehashed the story of the far superior original. Spielberg then tackled the tricky historical drama \"Amistad\" (also 1997), based on a true story of a mutiny on a slave ship that spawned a legal battle in the USA. Meticulously staged, the film was noted for its depiction of the Middle Passage, a harrowing portrayal of the conditions of slavery. The following year, Spielberg returned to WWII for one of his most acclaimed films, \"Saving Private Ryan\". A nearly three-hour fictionalized look at a unit sent to locate the sole survivor of four brothers serving in the military. the film earned praise for its no-holds-barred depiction of the battlefield, although the characters bordered on cliche. Critics anointed the picture one of the year's best on its release in July and it subsequently earned over $200 million at the box office and received 11 Academy Award nominations. Although favored to take home the Best Picture award, it didn't, but Spielberg was crowned with a Best Director statue.", "Leonardo DiCaprio won Favorite Actor and Claire Danes won Favorite Actress in a Romance at the 1997 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. At the 1997 MTV Movie Awards, Danes won Best Female Performance. DiCaprio was nominated for Best Male Performance, and DiCaprio and Danes were both nominated for Best Kiss and Best On-Screen Duo. At the 51st BAFTA Film Awards, director Baz Luhrmann won Best Direction, Luhrmann and Mary Haile won the Best Adapted Screenplay, Nellee Hooper won the Best Film Music, and Catherine Martin won the Best Production Design. The film was also nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Sound.", "Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 British-American war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay by Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford was based on Hasford's novel The Short-Timers (1979). The film stars Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, and Ed O'Ross. Its storyline follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their training and the experiences of two of the platoon's Marines in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The film's title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by soldiers. The film was released in the United States on June 26, 1987.", "The other Oscars it won: Cameron (Best Director); Russell Carpenter (Best Cinematography); Peter Lamont and Michael Ford (Best Art Direction); Deborah L. Scott (Best Costume Design); Conrad Buff, Cameron, and Richard A. Harris (Best Film Editing); James Horner (Best Original Score — Dramatic); Horner and Will Jennings (Best Original Song); Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano (Best Sound); Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes (Best Sound Effects Editing); Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, and Michael Kanfer (Best Visual Effects)", "Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is an adaptation of the 1979 novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Arliss Howard and Adam Baldwin. The film follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their training and the experiences of two of the platoon in the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. The film title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by infantry riflemen.", "The movie received four Academy Award nominations, winning an Oscar for the Best Visual Effects and grossing $90 million worldwide. Even though Cameron was getting the opportunity to excel even further professionally, his personal life was yet again paying the price. Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd were departing ways during the production and ended up divorcing right after the movie was finished.", "Schindler's List (1993) and previous nominations were for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) , Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) , and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) ). Spielberg's win marked the first time in nine years that the Best Picture Oscar was awarded to a film whose director was not also honored. (In 1989, director Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy (1989) won Best Picture when Oliver Stone was named Best Director for Born on the Fourth of July (1989).)", "The 1997 movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, is the second highest-grossing film on record after Avatar, bringing in nearly $2.2 billion worldwide.", "Taking Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Cinematography at the Oscars,  Alejandro G. Iñárritu 's \" The Revenant \" undoubtedly won the awards where they were most deserved, honoring the director's uncompromising filmmaking, Emmanuel Lubezki 's impeccable eye for imagery, and Leonardo DiCaprio 's commanding performance. And today we have a terrific prize pack for fans of the film. To refresh your memory, \" The Revenant \" is based on the true story of Hugh Glass , a frontiersman and trapper who is left for dead after being mauled by a bear, and fights to survive. In the film, DiCaprio takes the role of Hugh, with Tom Hardy as John Fitzgerald , the man who becomes the target of his vengeance. Read More: Review: Alejandro G. Iñárritu 's Fierce And Unremitting ' The Revenant ' Starring Leonardo DiCaprio And Tom Hardy The prize pack we have available features a Blu-ray along with a hand-crafted book by artist Blaine Halvorson, »", "In 1996, Cameron directed an attraction at Universal Studios Theme Parks, titled T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, which saw the return of Schwarzenegger, Hamilton, Patrick, and Furlong to their respective roles. Costing $60 million to produce, with a running time of only 12 minutes, it became the most expensive venture per minute in the history of film. The attraction opened in the Universal Studios Florida in mid-1996, with additional venues opening in the Universal Studios Hollywood in May 1999, and the Universal Studios Japan in March 2001. ", "16. The film was a smash, earning $173 million in North America and another $142 overseas. It was the fifth-highest grossing movie of 1997.", "2000: director Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) won Best Picture, but Steven Soderbergh won Best Director for Traffic (2000)", "Subsequently, Cameron cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Victor Garber, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Suzy Amis, and Bill Paxton as the film's principal cast. Cameron's budget for the film reached about $200 million, making it the most expensive movie ever made at the time. Before its release, the film was widely ridiculed for its expense and protracted production schedule.", "The major part of the film takes place in August 2154, 200 years after James Cameron's birth (* 16. August 1954).", "Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. Screenplay by Laura Jones; based on the novel by Jane Smiley. 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[ "In 1993 Aardman passed another milestone with the completion of Nick Park's Oscar winning The Wrong Trousers, Aardman's first 30 minute film. Acclaimed world-wide and winner of over thirty awards, The Wrong Trousers has become one of the most successful animated films ever made.", "Nicholas Wulstan \"Nick\" Park, CBE (born 6 December 1958) is an English director, writer, and animator best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times, and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995), and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). ", "[Nick Park's prior Wallace and Gromit short films, A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), and A Close Shave (1995) were all nominated for Best Animated Short Oscars, with the latter two winning, and the former losing to another of Park's nominated short films Creature Comforts (1989) - giving him his first Oscar. This Oscar, his fourth, maintained Park's streak of winning every category he'd been nominated for.]", "The Wrong Trousers was voted as the 18th best British Television Show by the British Film Institute. It has a unanimously positive score on Rotten Tomatoes with 24 reviews, 100% positive and an average score of 9.1/10. The film was awarded the Grand Prix at the Tampere Film Festival in 1994. The Wrong Trousers won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.", "The Wrong Trousers: a short film issued in 1993 (won an Oscar as the best animated short)", "From the Oscar-winning creator of A Grand Day Out and The Wrong Trousers. See more  »", "The Wrong Trousers was aired on Boxing Day 1993 by the BBC, following on from A Grand Day Out on Christmas Day - a true television event! The film received great critical acclaim for being even more accomplished than its predecessor - a sharper plot, wittier script, and even more stylish and lovingly detailed. The Wrong Trousers went on to win over forty top international awards including the Academy Awards®, and has become one of the most successful animated short films ever made.", "* Christopher Walken as Cpl. Nikanor \"Nick\" Chevotarevich. His performance garnered his first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor.", "Honorable Mentions: We may well return to this subject in the near future, so we won’t go into too much detail, but among the directors that we’d argue won for the wrong movie are Danny Boyle, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Zemeckis, Bernardo Bertolucci and George Cukor. As far as actors go, there’s Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Duvall, Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster and James Cagney, while among actresses, there’s Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Lange, Anne Hathaway, Melissa Leo, Penelope Cruz and Juliette Binoche, to name but a few.", "Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher - The 87th Annual Oscars - Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and The Beverly Hills City Hall - Arrivals at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Oscars - Beverly Hills, California, United States - Sunday 22nd February 2015", "Andrews deserved the Oscar just for keeping a straight face whenever Dick Van Dyke spoke in that horrible accent.", "Matt Damon (with his first nomination) - the only Best Actor nominee newcomer - for his title role as a brilliant physics genius and janitor at MIT who must work on his anger, the result of childhood abuse in Good Will Hunting (instead of winning the acting award, Damon and co-writer Ben Affleck won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar)", "Born in London, England, one of Britain’s greatest actors, Alec Guinness won a Best Actor Oscar for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), he was also nominated for The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Horses Mouth (1958), Star Wars (1977 as Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Little Dorrit (1988).", "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 British-American comic science fiction film directed by Garth Jennings, based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name, created by Douglas Adams. It stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and the voices of Stephen Fry (the guide book) and Alan Rickman (Marvin, the Paranoid Android). ", "Kline won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Cleese and Crichton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Crichton was also nominated for Best Director, Cleese won a BAFTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Curtis received nominations for Leading Actress at the Golden Globes and BAFTA awards. Michael Palin won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Role and Maria Aitken received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress ", "He, Marisa Tomei , Marcia Gay Harden and Adrien Brody are the only actors to win an Oscar without being awarded for the same performance in none of its predecessor awards (Golden Globe, Critics Choice Awards, SAG and BAFTA). Marisa Tomei and Marcia Gay Harden were not even nominated for those awards for their performances in My Cousin Vinny (1992) and Pollock (2000), and Crowe's only award for Gladiator (2000) before the Oscar was the Critics Choice award.", "Actor Eddie Redmayne is congratulated by his wife Hannah Bagshawe (R) after winning the Oscar for best actor for his role in ''The Theory of Everything'' during the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 22, 2015.", "Golden gaffes: 11 actors who won Oscars for the wrong movies (part 1 of 2) · Inventory · The A.V. Club", "Samuel Alexander Joseph West, also known as Sam West (born 19 June 1966), is an English actor and director. He is best known for his role in the film Howards End and his work on stage (including the award-winning play Enron).", "As of 2014, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Tom Jones (1963), The Dresser (1983), Traffic (2000) and Erin Brockovich (2000). Of those, Tom Jones (1963) won in the category.", "It was on AMC - they were doing an Oscar tribute - the host specifically mentioned \"Sir John\" was \"Cornelius Fudge\", but made no mention of Alan Rickman or Emma Thompson being in the films. He did say however that Emma is the first actor to receive an Oscar for acting (Howard's End) and one for writing (Sense & Sensibility).", "He has five Oscar nominations but has never won. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich (2000).", "Guinness won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1957 for his role in The Bridge on the River Kwai after having been unsuccessfully nominated in 1952 for his performance in The Lavender Hill Mob. He was nominated in 1958 for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for his screenplay adapted from Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars in 1977. He received an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1980. In 1988, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Little Dorrit. He received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award for lifetime achievement in 1989.", "Australian actor Geoffrey Rush for his role as the buffoonish, debt-ridden Elizabethan theater owner and impresario Philip Henslowe in Shakespeare in Love. (Rush won the Best Actor Oscar in 1996 for his role as piano savant David Helfgott in Shine (1996), defeating Billy Bob Thornton who was also nominated as Best Actor for his role as Karl Childers in Sling Blade (1996) in the same year.)", "One of Britain's most versatile presenters whose popularity rocketed when he took to the small screen in DIY SOS. Other recent presenting credits include, Who Dares Wins and currently Last Choir Standing. Nick is also in demand as a writer and director", "Best known as the hapless MP Ben Swain in \"The Thick Of It\", Justin has also appeared in \"Father Brown\", \"Are You Being Served\", \"The Suspicions of Mr Whicher\", \"Veep\", \"The Old Guys\", \"The Trip\", and \"Skins\". His film work includes \"Love and Friendship\", \"The Death Of Stalin\", \"Paddington\" and \"Thor\". He is a regular voice on Radio Four as an actor and presenter and is well known to live comedy audiences for his Perrier nominated show as horrific children's entertainer Jeremy Lion.", "His other notable film roles include the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), the comic science fiction film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), the semi-improvised comedy Nativity! (2009), and the comedic Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, most prominently in the sci-fi comedy The World's End (2013). Among other accolades, he has won an Emmy Award, BAFTA Award and an Empire Award, with nominations including two other Emmy Awards, two other BAFTA Awards, a Saturn Award, and a Golden Globe Award.", "Director, writer, producer Alan Parker wrote and directed his first film, \"Bugsy Malone\" in 1975. The film was a musical pastiche of 1920s gangster films with an entire cast of children. The highly original film received eight British Academy Award nominations and five Awards. His second film was the controversial \"Midnight Express\" (1977) which won two Oscars and six Academy Award nominations, including one for Parker as Best Director. The film received six Golden Globe Awards and four awards from the British Film Academy. This was followed in 1979 by Parker's film \"Fame,\" a celebration of youth and the arts, which won two Academy Awards, six nominations, four Golden Globe nominations and was later adapted into a successful television series.", "He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It, and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character. He subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series Happy Families and in the film The Big Tease. He is also known for his roles in the TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News, Help, Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123. In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Help.", "He is a prolific writer in addition to being an accomplished actor. His first novel, \"For Love and Country\", was published in December 2015 and is on Amazon's \"Recommended Reading\" list. His screenplay \"Don't Call Me Sir!\" won the 2015 New York Screenplay Contest's \"Park Avenue Prize for Drama\", 1st Place in Drama at the 2015 Los Angeles Screenplay Contest, Best Original Screenplay at the 2016 All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival, Best Screenplay at the 2016 Artemis Film Festival, and a Gold Award for Best Screenplay at the 2016 International Independent Film Festival. Another screenplay \"For Love and Country\" won two Gold Awards at the International Independent Film Awards and Best Screenplay at the 2016 Illinois Independent Film Festival.", "9 Q Who became the youngest recipient of a Best Actor Oscar, in 2003, for his role in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist?", "Rhys Jones was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1984 (1983 season) for Best Comedy Performance in Charley's Aunt and in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Comedy Performance for his performance in An Absolute Turkey. He also played Toad in The Wind in the Willows at the National Theatre in 1990, as well as a number of other theatre roles." ]

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[ "The Name of the Rose (German: Der Name der Rose, Italian: Il nome della rosa, French: Le nom de la rose) is a 1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk, who are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.", "The Name of the Rose is a 1986 Italian-French-German drama mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk, who are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey. Although the film refers to the Franciscans as monks, it would be more appropriate to use the term friar. ", "His breakthrough to a far wider audience came in 1980 with the success of novel The Name of the Rose, which has since been translated into 43 languages and sold millions of copies. A gothic murder mystery set in an Italian medieval monastery, it combines semiotics, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. It was adapted for the big screen by Jean-Jacques Annaud in 1986, starring Sean Connery as the detective monk William of Baskerville and Christian Slater as his young assistant, Adso of Melk.", "The Name of the Rose was made into a film in 1986, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Sean Connery as William of Baskerville and Christian Slater as Adso.", "* A film adaptation, eponymously titled The Name of the Rose (1986), was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, and starred Sean Connery as William of Baskerville and Christian Slater as Adso. ", "Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond , starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six Eon Productions films and the non-canonical Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again ). [2] In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables . [3] His film career also includes such films as Marnie , The Name of the Rose , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , The Hunt for Red October , Highlander , Murder on the Orient Express , Dragonheart , and The Rock . He was knighted in July 2000. [4] [5] Connery has been polled as \"The Greatest Living Scot\" [6] and \"Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure\". [7] In 1989, he was proclaimed \"Sexiest Man Alive\" by People magazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted \"Sexiest Man of the Century\".", "After Bond, Connery continued to work regularly—Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Robin and Marian (1976), with Audrey Hepburn , The Great Train Robbery (1979), Time Bandits (1981), Highlander (1986) and The Name of the Rose (1986), winning a British Film Academy award for the latter project, which was based on the book by Umberto Eco . Connery finally won an Academy Award (best supporting actor), for his role as a Chicago cop on the trail of Al Capone in 1987's The Untouchables, co-starring Kevin Costner , Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro .", "Bartholomew \"Barley\" Scott-Blair (Sean Connery), the head of a British publishing firm, is on a business trip to Moscow. He attends a writers' retreat near Peredelkino where he speaks of an end to tensions with the West. Attentively listening is a mysterious man called 'Dante' (Klaus Maria Brandauer). Dante later demands from Barley a promise to do the right thing if the opportunity arises.", "Sean Connery is a Scottish actor, best known for starring as the lead role in seven James Bond films. He was knighted in July 2000, by Queen Elizabeth II of England.", "Thomas Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, to Euphemia “Effie” (née Maclean), a cleaning woman, and Joseph Connery, a factory worker and lorry driver.[8] Both his mother’s parents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers[9] from Fife and Uig on the Isle of Skye.[10] His father was a Roman Catholic Scot of Irish desent with roots in County Wexford, while his mother was a Protestant. He has a younger brother, Neil (b. 1938). Connery claims he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present.", "Thomas Sean Connery was born on August 25, 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother, Euphemia McBain (née McLean), was a cleaning lady, and his father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and truck driver. He has a brother, Neil Connery , who works as a plasterer in Edinburgh. He is of Irish and Scottish descent. Before going into acting, Sean had many different jobs, such as a milkman, lorry driver, a laborer, artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, coffin polisher and bodybuilder. He also joined the Royal Navy, but was later discharged because of medical problems. At the age of 23, he had a choice between becoming a professional footballer or an actor, and even though he showed much promise in the sport, he chose acting and said it was one of his more intelligent moves.", "Set in a northern Italian monastery, Umberto Eco's best-selling novel The Name of the Rose (1980)--made into a film (1986) starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, and F. Murray Abraham--provides a learned and entertaining portrayal of heretics and their persecutors only a few decades after the time of Dante's poem.", "He was considered for Sean Connery 's roles in Highlander (1986) and The Name of the Rose (1986).", "After his experience with Never Say Never Again in 1983 and the following court case, Connery became unhappy with the major studios and for two years did not make any films. Following the successful European production The Name of the Rose (1986), for which he won a BAFTA award, Connery's interest in more commercial material was revived. That same year, a supporting role in Highlander showcased his ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which would become a recurring role in many of his later films. The following year, his acclaimed performance as a hard-nosed Irish-American cop in The Untouchables (1987) earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his sole nomination throughout his career. Fellow nominees included Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, both of whom would go on to win the award. His subsequent box-office hits included Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), in which he played Henry Jones, Sr., the title character's father, The Hunt for Red October (1990) (where he was reportedly called in at two weeks' notice ), The Russia House (1990), The Rock (1996), and Entrapment (1999). In 1996, he voiced the role of Draco the dragon in the film Dragonheart. In 1998, Connery received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award.", "Sir Sean Connery, original name Thomas Connery (born Aug. 25, 1930, Edinburgh , Scot.), Scottish-born actor whose popularity in James Bond spy thrillers led to a successful, decades-long film career.", "James Bond is a fictional character created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. Bond is a British secret agent working for MI6 who also answers by his codename, 007. He has been portrayed on film by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, in twenty-six productions. Only two films were not made by Eon Productions. Eon now holds the full adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.", "After Never Say Never Again Connery began acting in more films. He went on to win an Academy Award in 1988 for his supporting role of Malone in The Untouchables. Connery continues to prove his versatility and maturity as an actor. More recent films include The Name of the Rose (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Rising Sun (1993), Just Cause (1995), First Knight (1995), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).", "Sean Connery (born 1930) is a widely-popular Scottish actor who is perhaps best known for being the first to play James Bond in feature films. He portrayed Bond in seven films, beginning with Dr. No in 1962 and ending with Never Say Never Again in 1983. He has also acquired great fame as a movie star for his roles in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964, with Meg Wyllie ), The Longest Day (1962, with Jeffrey Hunter , Richard Beymer , and John Crawford ), The Man Who Would Be King (1975, co-starring Christopher Plummer ), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986, with Clancy Brown ), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, with John Rhys-Davies ), The Hunt for Red October (1990, with Gates McFadden and music by Basil Poledouris ), The Rock (1996, with Tony Todd ), Entrapment (1999), and Finding Forrester (2000, with F. Murray Abraham and Michael Nouri ). He also won an Academy Award for his supporting role in 1987's The Untouchables.", "Signor Chaliapin Jr. also made an eerie guest appearance with Sean Connery and Christian Slater in 1986’s The Name of the Rose, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and adapted from the book by Umberto Eco. Junior’s well-nigh devilish countenance in that piece conjures up images of one of his father’s most infamous stage roles, that of Satan in Boïto’s opera Mefistofele.", "11.05 BBC News: The Editors (S,HD). 6/11. 11.35 The Name of the Rose (S) (1986). Mystery based on Umberto Eco’s novel, starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater and F Murray Abraham. ●●●●", "Sir Sean Connery is definitely one of the most iconic and recognized actors in the history of cinema. He is perhaps most well-known as being the first James Bond, starring in seven 007 films between 1962 and 1983. Moreover, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables (and many other awards for that matter). Finally, we also know him as Indiana Jones' father, Allan Quatermain, Captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and many other unforgettable characters.", "Early on in his career, Sean Connery aimed to establish himself as a multifaceted actor. In 1964, he worked with legendary director Alfred Hitchcock on the psycho-thriller \"Marnie,\" playing a wealthy widower who tries to help a kleptomaniac.", "...Sean Connery! In 1987, he received Hollywood's highest honor for his supporting role as Jimmy Malone in the mafia drama \"The Untouchables.\" He also won a Golden Globe and was nominated for a BAFTA.", "In 1962 Eon Productions, the company of Canadian Harry Saltzman and American Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, released the first cinema adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, Dr. No, featuring Sean Connery as 007. Connery starred in a further four films before leaving the role after You Only Live Twice, which was taken up by George Lazenby for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Lazenby left the role after just one appearance and Connery was tempted back for his last Eon-produced film Diamonds Are Forever.", "Sean Connery : Starring in seven James Bond films, it’s no wonder that Connery is forever linked with the sexy British spy. Nevertheless, he’s also appeared in The Untouchables, The Hunt for Red October, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and The Rock. Connery was paid a base salary of $1.25 million for his first Bond movie.", "While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Apart from The Man Who Would Be King and The Wind and the Lion, both released in 1975, most of Connery’s successes in the next decade were as part of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier.[20]", "Life After Bond: Following his departure from the Bond franchise, Connery featured in films such as Murder On the Orient Express and A Bridge Too Far, whilst his role as Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in The Wind and The Lion earned him substantial acclaim, silencing critics who felt that he was a one-dimensional actor.", "He has two roles in common with Pierce Brosnan : (1) Connery played James Bond in Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983) while Brosnan played him in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002) and (2) Connery played King Arthur in First Knight (1995) while Brosnan played him in in Quest for Camelot (1998).", "Noted to be one of James Bond's favorite actors in the novel \"Scorpius.\" Connery previously played James Bond in seven films.", "Author Ian Fleming at first didn’t like the casting of Connery, instead wanting Cary Grant, who played a similar role in Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest” (1959). Like Grant, Connery became the man all the ladies wanted and every man wanted to be.", "In 2005, From Russia with Love was adapted by Electronic Arts into a video game, titled James Bond 007: From Russia with Love, which featured all-new voice work by Connery as well as his likeness, and those of several of the film's supporting cast. While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964).", "While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Apart from The Man Who Would Be King and The Wind and the Lion, both released in 1975, most of Connery's successes in the next decade were as part of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud and A Bridge Too Far (1977) co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier." ]

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[ "Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19, 1962),[2] known professionally as Jodie Foster, is an American actress, film director, and producer. Foster began acting in commercials at the age of three, and her first significant role came in 1976 as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her third Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing a backwoods hermit in Nell (1994). Her other best-known work includes Contact (1997), Panic Room (2002), Flightplan (2005), Inside Man (2006) and The Brave One (2007).", "Two-time Oscar Best Actress winner Jodie Foster garnered rave reviews for her fabulous portrayal of rape victim Sarah Tobias in Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused (1988) and of young FBI agent Clarice Starling in Jonathan Demme's adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel, The Silence of the Lambs (1991). First gaining notice while costarring with Robert De Niro as teenage prostitute Iris Steensma in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), Foster later received more applause for starring in such films as Bugsy Malone (1976), Five Corners (1987), Little Man Tate (1991, also directing) and Nell (1994, also produced). An accomplished actress since the 1970s, Foster has starred in more recent films like Anna and the King (1999), Panic Room (2002) and A Very Long Engagement (2004).", "*Clarice Starling is an FBI agent in the 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs and its 1999 sequel Hannibal, both by Thomas Harris; played by Jodie Foster in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, and by Julianne Moore in the 2001 sequel Hannibal.", "Jodie Foster plays Special Agent Clarice Starling, the protagonist of The Silence of the Lambs. Starling is an autonomous woman; her mother died at childbirth, and her father was killed in the line of duty when he was ten. She is intelligent (graduated magna cum laude), skilled at her work, and intrepid. Significantly, the film opens with a shot of Starling running alone in the woods, completing an obstacle course in the type of dark sodden forest where one might expect to find a naked dead body. The viewer's attention is immediately drawn to Starling, and we already sense that she will be in danger. It is the movie's triumph that it sets our expectation to see her as a doomed victim, and then subverts it by establishing her as a multi-dimensional person in the following scenes.", "Following the credits, Jodie Foster (as FBI trainee Clarice Starling, her Academy Award-winning role), summoned by behavioral sciences chief Crawford (Scott Glenn), in Jonathan Demme's The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991. >", "A second Oscar Best Actress followed in 1991. Jodie played ambitious FBI agent Clarice Starling in the thriller drama, adopted from Thomas Harris' novel, The Silence of the Lambs (opposite Anthony Hopkins). Meanwhile, she made her directional debut in Little Man Tate, in which she also starred as a single mother who raised a genius (played by Adam Hann-Byrd), and set up her own production company, Egg Productions, in 1992.", "Because, for now, Julianne Moore is one of America's sweethearts. So when Jodie Foster announced her decision to bow out of Hannibal , the long-awaited sequel to The Silence of The Lambs, to be directed by Ridley Scott, it seemed perfectly logical that Moore would make the short list. And it also reflects our rather perverse fascination with serious crime. Looking at the other names considered for the role of FBI agent Clarice Starling, the plucky young hick who develops a dangerous empathy with jailed murderer Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, there's a curious consistency. Gillian Anderson, Hilary Swank. Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow. The keywords here seem to be intelligent, vulnerable, fearless and - most important of all - beautiful.", "If nothing else, Backtrack served as a warm-up for The Silence Of The Lambs, in which Foster plays Clarice Starling, another type of self-invented woman. Forced to form an alliance with psychiatrist and serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), she shares stories from her life in exchange for guidance with an ongoing case, reluctantly giving away pieces of her past as a means to an end. Directed by Jonathan Demme, the film is a stunning example of what happens when everything that can go right with a movie does go right, even when things seem to go wrong. Foster was Demme’s second choice for the part, after Michelle Pfeiffer, but now it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the role. (Even Julianne Moore’s turn as Starling in the sequel, Hannibal, has largely faded from memory.) Foster turns her face into a mask of competency and assurance, then lets Clarice’s involuntary blinks and unplanned pauses reveal just how scared she is beneath the surface.", "Ten years after the events in The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling ( Julianne Moore ) is assigned to the case of Mason Verger ( Gary Oldman ), the only surviving, but severely disfigured, victim of cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ), and Verger wants revenge. Lecter, who disappeared (after the events in The Silence of the Lambs), is currently living in Florence, Italy as a library curator under the assumed name of Dr Fell. Recently disgraced for a bungled drug raid, Clarice is contacted by a sympathetic Lecter. Now that Lecter's whereabouts are known, the hunt for Lecter begins.", "This would cause problems for the studio, Universal and partner MGM. \"The studio is just back from the holiday and is regrouping based on the news, and has no cohesive game plan at the moment,\" said Kevin Misher, Universal's President of Production. Misher added that, \"It was one of those moments when you sit down and think, 'Can Clarice be looked upon as James Bond for instance? A character who is replaceable?' Or was Jodie Foster Clarice Starling, and the audience will not accept anyone else?\" Foster said in December 1999 that the characterization of Starling in Hannibal had \"negative attributes\" and \"betrayed\" the original character.", "While studying at Yale, Jodie worked in films and television, first as a member of an unusual family in the film \"The Hotel New Hampshire\" (1984) with a young Seth Green, and then \"Five Corners\" (1987) starring Tim Robbins. She locked in her Hollywood celebrity status with Oscar winning role of a rape victim in \"The Accused\" (1988), and followed with “The Silence of the Lambs,” playing a rookie FBI agent trying to track down a serial killer (Ted Levine) by faking a close bond with the legendary Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lector played by Anthony Hopkins. Also that year, Foster made her directorial debut with \"Little Man Tate\" (1991), a drama about a young child phenomenon (Adam Hann-Byrd) who is caught in a battle between his working mother and his teacher. Based on her demonstrated drawing power the previous year with “Silence of the Lambs,” in 1992, she signed a five-year contract with Polygram Filmed Entertainment, which promised to finance the films under her \"Egg Pictures\" production company. She was now able to choose whether or not to act, direct or simply produce the films, achieving unusual control and flexibility for a Hollywood actress.", "Jodie Foster plays FBI agent Clarice Starling investigating a disturbing case that forces her to communicate with a killer played by Anthony Hopkins. The film won numerous Oscars including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Best Actress in a Leading Role.", "Hannibal was directed by Ridley Scott in 2001, and drew a mixed response from viewers. One major reason for this reception included the “romance” storyline between Lecter and Clarice Starling. Rumor stated that Jodie Foster refused to reprise the role in this sequel because of this, something that has never been confirmed. Hollywood.com detailed a more plausible explanation. Julianne Moore would be cast in the role instead.", "Yes, he's back, and he's still hungry. Ten years after The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal \"the Cannibal\" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it. A botched drug raid results in her demotion--and a request from Lecter's only living victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a little Q and A. Little does Clarice realize that the hideously deformed Verger--who, upon suggestion from Dr. Lecter, peeled off his own face--is using her as bait to lure Dr. Lecter out of hiding, quite certain he'll capture the good doctor.", "Alicia Christian \"Jodie\" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director and producer who has worked in films and on television. She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. Foster began her career at the age of three as a child model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. being her debut. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series and starred in children's films. Foster's breakthrough came in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a teenage prostitute; the role garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award. Her other critically acclaimed roles as a teenager were in the musical Bugsy Malone (1976) and the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), and she became a popular teen idol by starring in Disney's Freaky Friday (1976), Candleshoe (1977) and Foxes (1980).", "A remarkably artistic child actor from the 1970's who made the changeover to adult stardom, Jodie Foster gave one of the film worlds most brilliant roles in “Taxi Driver” (1976), portraying an 11-year-old prostitute who receives Robert De Niro's distinctive style of revenge. Originally managed by her divorced mother, Brandy, the young actress was the main source of income after becoming a celebrity. She then took control of her own career while developing her style through a good selection of films and attention to her public image – which took a big hit when she was linked to assassin John Hinkley, Jr. after he attempted to kill President Ronald Reagan in 1981. ", "In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into this case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Lecter does indeed know something of Buffalo Bill, but his information comes with a price: in exchange for telling what he knows, he wants to be housed in a more comfortable facility. More important, he wants to speak with Clarice about her past. He skillfully digs into her psyche, forcing her to reveal her innermost traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter's slow-motion interrogation of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it. - Mark Deming", "In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into this case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Lecter does indeed know something of Buffalo Bill, but his information comes with a price: in exchange for telling what he knows, he wants to be housed in a more comfortable facility. More important, he wants to speak with Clarice about her past. He skillfully digs into her psyche, forcing her to reveal her innermost traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter's slow-motion interrogation of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it.", "In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into this case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Lecter does indeed know something of Buffalo Bill, but his information comes with a price: in exchange for telling what he knows, he wants to be housed in a more comfortable facility. More important, he wants to speak with Clarice about her past. He skillfully digs into her psyche, forcing her to reveal her innermost traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter's slow-motion interrogation of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it.", "Moore and Foster have similar personas. They’re both brilliant at playing damaged, fragile women with tremendous inner strength. That seems to make each of them perfect for the role of the conflicted Clarice Starling. Hannibal claims she holds the world record for the female FBI agent who’s shot and killed the most people. (Who even knew the Guinness folks were monitoring it that closely?) And yet she radiates anger and uncertainty. She’s all the more heroic for constantly having to overcome her fear.", "Jodie only worked on a handful of films in the early 2000's. In director David Fincher’s \"Panic Room\" (2002), she played a single mom opposite her daughter stuck in their home's panic room during a home invasion by three robbers. Foster won the role after Nicole Kidman quit two weeks before shooting due to a knee injury. She started the project six months pregnant with her second son, Kit. Nevertheless, she was able to pull off the role with her usual confidence. Her next movie was \"Flightplan\" (2005) that cast her as an aeronautics engineer and very protective mother of a six-year-old daughter who disappears while on an airplane flight. When she tries to find her child, the airline crew claims the girl was never on the plane. ", "Contact (1997, Warner Bros., dir. Robert Zemeckis, based on a novel by Carl Sagan, PG, 153 min).  I saw this film the night my first �Do Ask Do Tell� book was officially published (7/11/1997), so it was a bit of a celebration. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) finds a message through the New Mexico Very Large Array and directions for building a spaceship. She and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) build the ship, which looks like a huge gyroscope. It blows up once, but eventually they take the ride in it, and find out what is really out there.", "Spike Lee Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, Academy Award nominee Clive Owen and Academy Award winner Jodie Foster star in this intense and explosive crime thriller. The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind (Owen), a determined detective (Washington), and a power broker with a hidden agenda (Foster). As the minutes tick by and the situation becomes increasingly tense, one wrong move could mean disaster for any one of them. From acclaimed director Spike Lee comes the edge-of-your-seat, action-packed thriller that The Wall Street Journal calls \"a heist film that’s right on the money.\"", "The film was well received. Jodie Foster portrayed Sarah Tobias, the victim, earning the Academy Award for Best Actress, the film's sole nomination. This was the first time that the lead actress won the Best Actress Academy Award without the film being nominated in any other category since 1957, when Joanne Woodward won Best Actress for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve.", "B What was the name of the 2001 sequel to Silence Of The Lambs, in which Julianne Moore took over the role played in the original by Jodie Foster?", "There were plenty of people in talks for the role of rape victim Sarah Tobias in The Accused; Jennifer Connelly auditioned, Jennifer Jason Leigh tried out, Demi Moore did the same, but the part was supposedly meant for then-two-time (and now-three-time) Oscar nominee Debra Winger. But, for some unknown reason, she said no. The part eventually went to Jodie Foster. It was only after the fact that Debra said, \"Jodie Foster is better actress than me.\"", "In the rest of the 1990s, Foster starred as Dr. Ellie Arroway in Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan's novel, the sci-fi Contact (1997).", "(Jodie Foster was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as 12 year-old runaway and prostitute Iris Steensman in", "The Performance: Clarice attracts undue attention as a woman in a man's world, and builds a frosty exterior to cloak her femininity. Foster, having made her name playing a teenage prostitute and inspired an Presidential assassination attempt by the age of 20, totally gets it.", "Madeleine White ( Jodie Foster ), a shady figure who is contracted by Case to bring a discreet end to the situation", "Amy Foster or Swept from the Sea has it was called when released in America, is a 1997 movie based on a 1903 story, Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad. It stars Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen, Kathy Bates and Zoe Wanamaker and was directed by Beeban Kidron. The story concerns a Russian, unable to speak English but able to play chess, shipwrecked on the coast of Cornwall on his way to America.", "Brian Howe, Frank John Hughes and Chris Ellis portray FBI agents. Jennifer Garner cameos as a call girl. Ellen Pompeo, Elizabeth Banks, and Kaitlin Doubleday have small roles. The real Frank Abagnale appears in a cameo as a French police officer arresting his character." ]

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[ "Julie Christie won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Diana Scott - an ambitious, vain, irresponsible, ruthless, promiscuous, and selfish hip, mini-skirted London model, in Darling (1965)", "66 year-old British actress Julie Christie (with her fourth Best Actress nomination and fourth career nomination) for her role as afflicted Alzheimer's patient Fiona Andersson in actress-turned-director Sarah Polley's debut feature film, Away From Her, Polley's Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Alice Munro short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain [Note: Julie Christie won the Best Actress Oscar for Darling (1965), and was also nominated as Best Actress for McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Afterglow (1997).]", "Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp, a free-spirited young Austrian woman, studying to become a nun. Due to her often singing and running seeming somewhat out of place in the abbey, Mother Abbess sends her to the nearby city of Salzburg to be governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She later marries Captain von Trapp, after realizing her feelings towards him. She was the frontrunner to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role of 1965, but lost to Julie Christie (for Darling); Andrews did, however, win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical or Comedy of 1965.", "Julie Christie didn’t have to wait too long for her next gig, however, as she spent the next several years working steadily in both films and television shows. Her work in the critically acclaimed 1963 John Schlesinger film Billy Liar earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress, though it wasn’t until 1965’s Darling (also directed by Schlesinger) that Julie Christie really broke through on the international stage. The film, which cast Julie Christie as a promiscuous London model, earned the up-and-coming actress her first Academy Award nomination, and she eventually went on to beat established performers like Simone Signoret and Julie Andrews to win the prize on Oscar night.", "Julie Christie (with her third nomination - coming 32 years after her Oscar win in 1965 and 26 years after her previous Oscar nomination in 1971) as ex-B-movie actress Phyllis Mann in director Alan Rudolph's Afterglow (the film's sole nomination), about two couples with marital difficulties who mix and match", "She worked with Schlesinger again on his next film, 1965's ``Darling,'' for which she won an Academy Award for best actress for her role as a ruthless model who bullies her way to success. Schlesinger was nominated for best director.", "In 1962 she moved to the big screen with The Fast Lady and gained greater exposure in 1963 with Billy Liar. She won the Oscar for best actress in 1965 for Darling and in 1966, the 25-year-old Christie was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role when she played a double role in Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451.", "Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE ( n�e Wells; 1 October 1935) [2] is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe , Emmy , Grammy , BAFTA , People's Choice Award , Theatre World Award , Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend , and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot , and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1998.", "Although first appearing on the stage in a 1959 production, most people know the film version which was released in 1965 and won five Oscars. The film featured musical actress Julie Andrews of Mary Poppins fame in her role as the musical's leading protagonist, Maria, who is the governess of a rich Captain von Trapp's children.", "Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for La Vie en Rose (2007). The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class (1973), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012).", "Julie Andrews is a singer and actress, best known for her family-friendly roles in the 1960s, as Mary Poppins, and as the wayward nun Maria in The Sound of Music. Despite doing raunchy comedies and even a topless scene in S.O.B., her image remains perpetually wholesome.", "In 1996, after a somewhat lengthy absence from the screen, Christie co-starred in the fantasy adventure film DragonHeart, and appeared as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. Her next critically acclaimed role was the unhappy wife in Alan Rudolph's 1997 domestic comedy-drama Afterglow, which gained her a third Oscar nomination. Also in 1997, she received the British Academy's highest honour, the BAFTA Fellowship.", "Christie's last box-office hit in which she was the top-liner was Petulia (1968) for Richard Lester , a film that featured one of co-star George C. Scott 's greatest performances, perfectly counter-balanced by Christie's portrayal of an \"arch-kook\" who was emblematic of the '60s. It is one of the major films of the decade, an underrated masterpiece. Despite the presence of the great George C. Scott and the excellent Shirley Knight , the film would not work without Julie Christie. There is frankly no other actress who could have filled the role, bringing that unique presence and the threat of danger that crackled around Christie's electric aura. At this point of her career, she was poised for greatness as a star, greatness as an actress.", "Christie's last box-office hit in which she was the top-liner was Petulia (1968) for Richard Lester, a film that featured one of co-star George C. Scott's greatest performances, perfectly counter-balanced by Christie's portrayal of an \"arch-kook\" who was emblematic of the '60s. It is one of the major films of the decade, an underrated masterpiece. Despite the presence of the great George C. Scott and the excellent Shirley Knight, the film would not work without Julie Christie. There is frankly no other actress who could have filled the role, bringing that unique presence and the threat of danger that crackled around Christie's electric aura. At this point of her career, she was poised for greatness as a star, greatness as an actress.", "Review: Great film with great music. Best Picture Oscar. Julie Andrews received Best Actress Academy Award. Added to the National Film Registry of The Library of Congress in 2001.", "Julie Andrews portrayed Lawrence in the musical biographical film Star!, released to cinemas in 1968. It was loosely based on the period of her life from her days as an unknown aspiring performer until her wedding to Richard Aldrich. Richard Crenna appeared as Aldrich. The real Aldrich, who in the 1960s no longer worked in the entertainment business, was a consultant on the film. Noël Coward was portrayed by Daniel Massey. Star! was a box office flop. Its failure damaged the movie career of Julie Andrews, who three years earlier had been the most visible movie actress worldwide. ", "Is one of 20 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for Guys and Dolls (1955). The others, in chronological order, are: June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot (1959), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Patty Duke for Me, Natalie (1969), Twiggy for The Boy Friend (1971), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Kathleen Turner for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies (1994), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Renée Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), and Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014).", "Is one of 20 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for The Boy Friend (1971). The others, in chronological order, are: June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Jean Simmons for Guys and Dolls (1955), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Marilyn Monroe for Some Like It Hot (1959), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Patty Duke for Me, Natalie (1969), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Kathleen Turner for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies (1994), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Renée Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), and Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014).", "Bacall came back in 1959 to star on Broadway in Goodbye Charlie, a play written for her by George Axelrod, and created a new career as one of the theater’s greatest stars. In 1965 she had a long-running hit with Cactus Flower, following it five years later with her greatest success, the smash musical Applause, which won her the 1970 Tony Award as Best Actress. In 1981 she had another Broadway success with Woman of the Year, winning another Tony as Best Actress, and then in 1985 received rave reviews in the London revival of Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth. Meanwhile, she continued her movie career, appearing in Harper with Paul Newman in 1966, in 1974’s Murder on the Orient Express, and in Robert Altman’s Ready To Wear in 1994. Last year saw her performances in My Fellow Americans, co-starring James Garner and Jack Lemmon, and Le Jour et La Nuit, for the French director Bernard Henri-Levy. Additionally, she has authored two autobiographical books: By Myself, which won a National Book Award, and Now.", "In 1995, Barrymore starred in Boys on the Side opposite Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker , [22] and had a cameo role in Joel Schumacher's film Batman Forever , in which she portrayed a moll to Tommy Lee Jones ' character, Two-Face . [23] [24] The following year, she made a cameo in the successful horror film Scream . Barrymore has continued to be highly bankable , and a top box office draw. [1] [25] She was frequently cast in romantic comedies such as Wishful Thinking (1997), The Wedding Singer (1998), [26] and Home Fries (1998). [27] Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After (1998) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore \"can hold the screen and involve us in her characters\". [28]", "Quality film scripts now started coming her way and the 1990s proved to be a rich and rewarding time for her. First, she and another older \"overnight\" film star, fellow Oscar winner Jessica Tandy , starred together in the modern portion of the beautifully nuanced, flashback period piece Fried Green Tomatoes . She then outdid herself as the detached and depressed housekeeper accused of murdering her abusive husband ( David Strathairn ) in Dolores Claiborne . Surprisingly, she was left out of the Oscar race for these two excellent performances. Not so, however, for her flashy political advisor Libby Holden in the movie Primary Colors and her quirky, liberal mom in About Schmidt , receiving \"Best Supporting Actress\" nominations for both. She also turned in a somewhat brief but potent turn as Gertrude Stein in Woody Allen 's Midnight in Paris .", "The film was a critical and box-office hit. She and Richard Brooks worked together only twice on screen but on the second occasion, in The Happy Ending (1969), he helped her to secure an Oscar nomination as a woman reflecting on a lifelong unhappy marriage. Once more, she did not win, losing to Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.", "Bacall's movie career waned in the 1960s, and she was seen in only a handful of films. She starred on Broadway in Goodbye, Charlie in 1959, and went on to have a successful on-stage career in Cactus Flower (1965), Applause (1970), and Woman of the Year (1981). She won Tony Awards for her performances in the latter two. ", "Awards: Academy Award, Best Actress for Moonstruck, 1988; Golden Globe, Best Actress for Moonstruck, 1988; Vanguard Award and star on the Walk of Fame, both for “Sonny and Cher,” 1998; Grammy Award, Best Dance Recording for “Believe,” 1999.", "During the filming of The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Bacall traveled to France to accept a special César Award for her lifetime achievement in film. For her role in Mirror , which cast her as Barbra Streisand 's mother, Bacall earned a Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination. She continued to work on a number of projects into the next decade, including Diamonds , in which she appeared alongside Kirk Douglas , with whom she last co-starred in the 1950 romantic drama Young Man With a Horn .", "When she was 80 years old, she brought that purity and rightness to her portrayal of an aging and fiercely independent Southern lady in \"Driving Miss Daisy.\" It was a performance that won her critical acclaim from Los Angeles to Berlin and, at last, an Academy Award. When she received the Oscar in March 1990 she was the oldest person ever to win one. She vowed to go on working, although she said she hoped she would know when to stop, \"before they have to get the hook.\" The Academy Award came one year after she won an Emmy for her performance in the television adaptation of \"Foxfire,\" of which her husband was was a co-writer. Even after she became seriously ill she continued to work, completing three films and two television dramas.", "Hepburn's career blossomed after \"Roman Holiday.\" Not only did she win the Academy Award in 1954 but she also snagged a Tony Award for \"Ondine.\" She would go on to earn Oscar nominations for 1954's \"Sabrina,\" 1959's \"The Nun's Story,\" 1961's \"Breakfast at Tiffany's\" and 1967's \"Wait Until Dark,\" and also starred in such classics as 1957's \"Funny Face,\" 1963's \"Charade,\" 1964's \"My Fair Lady\" and 1967's \"Two for the Road.\"", "Bacall returned to Broadway in \"Goodbye Charlie\" (1959), \"Cactus Flower\" (1965), \"Applause\" (1970), \"Woman of the Year\" (1981), and \"Waiting in the Wings\" (1999). She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for \"Applause\" and \"Woman of the Year.\"", "In 1996, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in The English Patient (1996). Legendary actress Lauren Bacall was roundly expected to win in that category for her performance in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), but Binoche won the Oscar instead, in one of the biggest surprise wins in Oscar history. In her acceptance speech, she said, \"I don't have a speech prepared. I thought Lauren would get it.\"", "She continued to appear in classic films such as “The Black Swan” (1942); “Sentimental Journey” (1946); “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947); the popular John Wayne classic “The Quiet Man” (1952); and many others. She effectively retired in the early 1970s, but returned to acting in 1991 to star with the late John Candy in “Only the Lonely.”", "Her screenplay of Sense and Sensibility also earned Thompson her second Oscar (for Best Adapted Screenplay), making her the first person to win both acting and writing Oscars. After playing a thinly disguised Hilary Clinton in Primary Colors (1998), Thompson also did award-winning work in TV movies, including Wit and Angels in America.", "In 1966, the play became the hit musical Cabaret. Six years later came Bob Fosse's massively successful movie version, starring Liza Minnelli." ]

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[ "Richard Beymer as Tony and Natalie Wood as Maria in the Oscar-winning musical \"West Side Story\" (1961). The film received 11 Academy Awards .", "“West Side Story”. This classic musical film, which garnered ten Oscars including Best Picture, is an updated tale based on “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare. Released in 1961, the story is set in New York City and instead of rival families the lovers are on opposite sides of rival gangs.", "In the 1960s, mainstream studios fell into decline and some were acquired or diversified. UA prospered while winning 11 Academy Awards, including five for best picture, adding relationships with the Mirisch brothers, Billy Wilder, Joseph E. Levine and others. In 1961, United Artists released West Side Story, an adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim stage musical, which won a record ten Academy Awards (including Best Picture).", "The most famous musical theatre adaptation is West Side Story with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It débuted on Broadway in 1957 and in the West End in 1958, and became a popular film in 1961. This version updated the setting to mid-20th-century New York City, and the warring families to ethnic gangs. Other musical adaptations include Terrence Mann's 1999 rock musical William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, co-written with Jerome Korman, Gérard Presgurvic's 2001 Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour and Riccardo Cocciante's 2007 Giulietta & Romeo. ", "Essentially a modern, urban retelling of the Romeo and Juliet tale, \"West Side Story\" was a story of ill-fated love and bigotry set among rival American and Puerto Rican street gangs in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. Its score included several pieces that would become classics of the American musical theater, among them “One Hand, One Heart,” “Tonight,” “Maria” and “Somewhere.” But apart from a couple of rollickingly funny songs — “America” and “Gee, Officer Krupke” — its score bore little resemblance to anything musical theater audiences had seen before.", "Set in New York in the mid-1950s, the musical explores the rivalry between two teenage gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The young protagonist, Tony, who belongs to the Anglo gang (Jets), falls in love with Maria, the sister of the rival Puerto Rican gang's (Sharks) leader. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical has become extremely popular; it includes \"Something's Coming,\" \"Maria,\" \"America,\" \"Somewhere,\" \"Tonight,\" \"Jet Song,\" \"I Feel Pretty,\" \"One Hand, One Heart,\" and \"Cool.\"", "The story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. (In the early 1960s much of the neighborhood would be cleared in an urban renewal project for the Lincoln Center, changing the neighborhood's character.) The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theater. Bernstein's score for the musical includes \"Something's Coming\", \"Maria\", \"America\", \"Somewhere\", \"Tonight\", \"Jet Song\", \"I Feel Pretty\", \"A Boy Like That\", \"One Hand, One Heart\", \"Gee, Officer Krupke\", and \"Cool\".", " Bernstein composed West Side Story (1957 - 732 performances) in collaboration with lyricist Stephen Sondheim , director/choreographer Jerome Robbins and librettist Arthur Laurents . Inspired by Shakespeare, it set a Polish-American Romeo and a Puerto Rican Juliet in the middle of a New York City street gang war. This show combined glorious music, a finely wrought libretto and unforgettable dancing. Bernstein's melodies had a steamy vitality that gave the score tremendous appeal. \"Maria\" and \"Somewhere\" soared with operatic grandeur, \"Dance at the Gym\" was a jazz explosion, \"America\" had an irresistible Latin sound, and \"Gee Officer Krupke\" was a variation on classic vaudeville. The original cast included Chita Rivera , the first in a string of show-stealing performances that she would offer right into the next century. Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert played the doomed lovers and introduced the hit ballad \"Tonight.\" Revived successfully on Broadway in 1980 and 2009 (both times with the original Robbins choreography), West Side Story remains one of the most popular musicals of all time.", "The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Robbins won the Tony for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor, Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress, and the Best Picture.", "1961 - 'West Side Story' | Rita Moreno, center, won the Oscar for best supporting actress for this musical about doomed young lovers.", "Another factor contributing to the musical's success was its strong dance element, evident in songs such as \"America\" as well as in confrontations between the rival gangs. The setting for the gangs' \"neutral turf\" negotiations, for example, is a gymnasium dance at which a distinctive mambo serves as the musical backdrop. Bernstein , even as he broke new ground, drew on a tradition of Broadway choreography that was reaching its high point as the work took shape, and the result was a work that combined rhythmic energy, kinetic appeal, romance, and compositional sophistication. The action on-stage may seem a bit dated in this day of the modern gangster, but the work's virtues are undimmed. It may well be a strong candidate for an innovatively updated production.", "The movie West Side Story (1961) is an updated version of Romeo & Juliet as told through the lives of two Upper West Side street gangs in New York City: The Sharks (mostly recent Puerto Rican immigrants) and the Jets (mostly second generation European immigrants) circa 1960.", "New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for The Glass Menagerie (1945), Pulitzer Prize for A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Gay themes in Suddenly Last Summer (1958) and Night of the Iguana (1961).", "After the release of the 1961 film version, the musical was rarely produced, as it presented casting issues and fears that Asian-Americans would take offense at how they are portrayed. When it was put on the stage, lines and songs that might be offensive were often cut. The piece did not return to Broadway until 2002, when a version with a plot by playwright David Henry Hwang (but retaining most of the original songs) was presented after a successful Los Angeles run. Hwang's story retains the Chinatown setting and the inter-generational and immigrant themes, and emphasizes the romantic relationships. It received mostly poor reviews in New York and closed after six months but had a short tour and has since been produced regionally.", "The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances (a successful run for the time), before going on tour. The production garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Musical in 1957, but the award went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It won a Tony Award in 1957 for Robbins' choreography. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international success, and spawned an innovative, award-winning 1961 musical film of the same name. West Side Story is produced frequently by schools, regional theaters, and occasionally by opera companies.", "# This song is from the stage musical \"West Side Story\" which opened on Broadway, New York in 1957.  A film version was released in 1961, which may have prompted this recording.", "Seriously campaigned for the role of \"Tony\" in West Side Story (1961). Ironically, he would wind up winning his only Golden Globe in 1962 for \"Most Promising Newcomer\" in a virtual tie with with Richard Beymer , who got the role as \"Tony\" and Warren Beatty , who had also seriously campaigned for the same role.", "* West Side Story (1961)takes place in tenements where Lincoln Center is today, around 66th Street", "West Side Story set the standard for all movie musicals that came after it. The story successfully took Shakespeare’s traditional tragic love story and reworked it to address modern inner-city problems such as prejudice, conflict, power, and class struggle. Not only did West Side Story tackle these dark themes, the musical did so in exhilarating style, with Jerome Robbins’ innovative, volatile choreography on display as the star of the film. Robbins’ used his background in ballet to stage sequences that make the most difficult dance moves in the movie appear almost effortless, a true testament to his brilliance as a choreographer.", "Won a 1961 Special Tony Award (New York City) for his work with young people in the theater and putting the orchestra on the stage in his production \"No Strings.\".", "Musicals are easily dismissed by those not predisposed to them, but Bob Fosse’s adaptation of a sixties Broadway smash won eight Oscars, only losing Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay to The Godfather. The movie details a bisexual love triangle at the tail end of the Weimar Republic, under the perpetual ascendance of the Nazi party and features completely diegetic musical numbers mostly performed by Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, who both took home Academy Awards for their performances.", "The film won 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, becoming the record holder for most wins for a movie musical.", "Directed by multi-award-winning director and musical star Maria Friedman (director of Merrily We Roll Along, Olivier Award-winner for Best Musical Revival, Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard Awards for Best Musical). High Society is based on The Philadelphia Story and the 1956 film musical. Featuring hit songs including ‘True Love’, ‘You’re Sensational’ , ‘Well did you Evah?’ and the unforgettable ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’", "Strongly influenced by the city's immigrants, productions such as those of Harrigan and Hart, George M. Cohan and others used song in narratives that often reflected themes of hope and ambition. Today these productions are a mainstay of the New York theatre scene. The city's 39 largest theatres (with more than 500 seats) are collectively known as \"Broadway,\" after the major thoroughfare that crosses the Times Square theatre district.[84] This area is sometimes referred to as The Main Stem, The Great White Way or The Realto.", "Sondheim next agreed to write lyrics to Jule Styne 's music for Gypsy, based on the memoirs of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and starring Ethel Merman . It opened May 21, 1959, and ran 702 performances. The cast recording reached the Top Ten and won the Grammy for Best Show Album. When a movie version appeared in 1962, the soundtrack album made the Top Ten. Gypsy was revived on Broadway in 1974, 1989, 2003, and 2008.", "In 1957, the show became a hit on Broadway, winning five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and running for 1,375 performances. The cast album won the first Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and spent 245 weeks on the Billboard charts. The show's success led to revivals, including a long-running 2000 Broadway revival, a popular 1962 film adaptation and a 2003 television remake. It is frequently produced by both professional and amateur theater companies.", "The musical comedy was first produced on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre, opening on Nov. 24, 1950. It was directed by George S. Kaufman and starred Robert Alda, Sam Levene, Isabel Bigley and Vivian Blaine. The musical played 1,201 performances, winning five 1951 Tony Awards including Best Musical.", "1950 Tony Awards went to the show and its producers, performers, director (Joshua Logan) and composers nine statuettes. It also earned a Pulitzer Prize in the same year and in 1958 was made into a movie.", "...whose two biggest cities have lent their names to a Tony-winning musical and an Oscar-winning film, respectively?", "Casino is an Academy Award nominated 1995 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandling. Robert De Niro stars as Sam \"Ace\" Rothstein, a Jewish chain-smoking top gambling handicapper who is called by the Mob to oversee the day-to-day operations at the fictional Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. The story is based on the late Frank \"Lefty\" Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit from the 1970s until the early 1980s.", "The Broadway hit show of 1960 was adapted for the screen by Irving Brecher and directed by George Sidney. It was the first Broadway musical to include rock songs.", "A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American drama film, with elements of film noir, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play of the same name. It is the story of a southern belle, Blanche Dubois, who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans tenement. The Broadway production and cast was converted to film with only minor changes. True to the play, the film is both lyrical and gritty, with complex and contradictory characters. Chief among these was Blanche Dubois who has become a legendary and iconic figure in film history. " ]

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[ "The 1970s were incredibly busy for Hollywood actress Ali MacGraw . Professionally, she had skyrocketed to international fame in the movie \"Love Story,\" and went on to star in two more major hits during that decade. One of those films was \"The Getaway,\" where MacGraw worked alongside screen icon Steve McQueen. MacGraw was married to producer Robert Evans at the time, but ended up falling for her co-star -- and McQueen became her third husband in 1973.", "Off the screen, Steve married actress Ali McGraw. In 1972 she co-starred with Steve McQueen in the heist thriller The Getaway and it's said the pair 'instantly fell in love.' His attitude towards women has been highly criticised after he reportedly refused to let McGraw appear in any films during their marriage.  The marriage fell apart in 1978 and he want on to marry fashion model Barbara Minty in the year of his death - 1980.", "In 1973, she was cast as Carol McCoy in the hit The Getaway in which she co-starred with Steve McQueen.  They fell madly and passionately in love while filming and Ali would eventually leave Robert Evans to be with McQueen.  The Getaway would be her last role while she was married to him.  She gave up her career to become a full-time wife to placate McQueen, he preferred his wife to be in the role of a homemaker rather than a career woman.  While Ali was happy to give up her interests to make Steve happy, he was unwilling to do the same. While he was a talented and well-loved actor, he was not a supportive or faithful husband.  Soon after they were married, he returned to his old ways of drinking, taking drugs and having numerous affairs.  Ali was devastated and soon realized she needed more than to be just Mrs. Steve McQueen to fulfill her life. ", "He has re-invented himself from pop has-been to ‘reality TV personality’ — the highlight of which was a stint in the I’m A Celebrity jungle in 2008. He went on to marry Sue, a former model, in 2010.", "She later married director Sam Mendes in 2003 in a private ceremony whilst on holiday in the West Indies in May 2003.", "She was in three year relationship with Canadian singer Michael Bublé. In November 2008 she began dating American actor John Krasinski and the couple announced their engagement in August 2009. The couple married on 10 July 2010 in Italy.", "Riley met her husband, Jamie Gilbert, while they were both studying at Oxford University . The couple split up at the end of 2009 after four and a half years together. [25] They later got back together and became engaged after he proposed to her on her 25th birthday on 11 January 2011. [26] She told viewers about the engagement on the 25 February edition of Countdown and their wedding was on 11 August 2012. [27] It was announced on 29 November 2013 that she was splitting with her husband after 16 months of marriage. [28] [29] [30]", "Former Dorito girl Ali Landry wed Mario Lopez on April 24, 2004 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Two weeks later, before the pair had even finished their honeymoon, she had the marriage annulled after discovering Lopez had cheated on her during their relationship. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty)", "Sheeran was in a relationship with Scottish singer-songwriter, Nina Nesbitt (who was in his music video for \" Drunk \") in 2012, before breaking up. [120] Nesbitt is the subject of Sheeran's songs, \"Nina\" and \" Photograph \", while most of Nesbitt's album, Peroxide , is about Sheeran. [120] In January 2014, Sheeran started dating Athina Andrelos, who works for British celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver . [121] She is the inspiration of Sheeran's song, \" Thinking Out Loud \". [122] They broke up in February 2015. [122] As of September 2015, Sheeran is dating his former high school friend, Cherry Seaborn. [123]", "Dec. 8, 2011: The singer gets married to Barry Herridge during a quickie ceremony in Las Vegas. After the ceremony, Sinead told The Sun she went on a hunt for marijuana . \"We ended up in a cab in some place that was quite dangerous. I wasn't scared - but he's a drugs counselor. What was I thinking?\" From there, things continued to go downhill. \"I was handed a load of crack,\" Sinead was quoted as saying. \"Barry was very frightened - that kind of messed everything up a bit, really.\" The marriage lasted 18 days.", "Kardashian began dating American rapper and longtime friend Kanye West in April 2012, while still legally married to Humphries. Her divorce was finalized on June 3, 2013, while Kardashian gave birth to her first child with West, daughter North West, on June 15, 2013. Kardashian and West became engaged on October 21, Kardashian's 33rd birthday, and married on May 24, 2014 at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy. Her wedding dress was designed by designer Michael Costello. Kardashian gave birth to her second child, son Saint West, on December 5, 2015. The couple's high status and respective careers have resulted in their relationship becoming subject to heavy media coverage; The New York Times referred to their marriage as \"a historic blizzard of celebrity.\"", "She has been in a relationship with the lead singer of band Lawson, Andy Brown , as well as with John Mayer and Jordan Omley. She then began dating model David Gandy .", "In 1987, while playing Lord Byron in the Spanish production Remando Al Viento (1988), Grant met actress Elizabeth Hurley, who was cast in a supporting role as Byron's former lover Claire Clairmont. Grant began dating Hurley during filming and their relationship was subsequently the subject of much media attention. After 13 years together, they separated amicably in May 2000 . He is godfather to her son Damian, born in 2002. Grant subsequently began dating heiress Jemima Khan under the intense scrutiny of British tabloids. Three years later, in February 2007, Grant and Khan separated amicably. ", "She married American director Taylor Hackford (her partner since 1986) on December 31, 1997, his 53rd birthday. The ceremony took place at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. ", "A bereaved Ms. Taylor was consoled by her husband’s best friend, the singer Eddie Fisher, who in a storybook romance was married to the actress Debbie Reynolds, one of America’s sweethearts. Soon a shocked nation learned that Debbie and Eddie were over and that Mr. Fisher was marrying Ms. Taylor, continuing what turned out to be a chain of marital events. (In 1993, at an AIDS benefit, Ms. Reynolds appeared on stage 20 minutes before Ms. Taylor and said, to waves of laughter, “Well, here I am, sharing something else with Elizabeth.”) Mr. Fisher died in 2010.", "The Glee star, better known as cheerleader Brittany, married her long-term love and the father of her child Taylor Hubbell in May. The couple exchanged vows in the Old Canyon Ranch in California – a beautiful outdoor space in Topanga Canyon, not far from the pair's home in Los Angeles.", "Country singer Brad Paisley, who’s scored number 1 singles with “Mud On The Tires,” “Waiting on a Woman” and other hits, married actress Kimberly Williams (known for her breakout role in Father of the Bride) in 2003.", "Overwhelmed by all the attention from the paparazzi in New York City, Kourtney and Kim take an impromptu trip to a small town in Connecticut to relax and unwind for the weekend. However, their girls-only excursion rubs Scott the wrong way, and he's tempted to leave the country with Kris without telling Kourtney. See how much trouble the fellas get into at a club appearance in Toronto, Canada. Plus, find out how Kim reacts when Kris goes against her wishes of staying put when she's out of state.", "On New Year’s Day in 2008, Murphy married Tracey Edmonds, the former wife of Kenneth \"Babyface\" Edmonds, in Bora Bora. The private ceremony was not legally binding, and Murphy and Edmonds planned to repeat their vows on American soil. However, the couple released a statement that they had jointly decided against a legal ceremony. In 2012, Murphy began dating Paige Butcher. ", "In 2008, Beyoncé married rapper and music mogul Jay-Z in a small, private ceremony in New York City. Among the guests sighted at the wedding were Beyoncé's mother Tina Knowles; her father and manager Matthew; her sister Solange ; Destiny's Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams ; and friend Gwyneth Paltrow .", "She was a photographer/groupie. Whatever was going on when the got together, they had a very successful marriage.", "During his time on I'm A Celebrity, Andre developed an on-screen romantic relationship with fellow contestant, Katie Price. Andre and Price got married two years after the show's finale; they had two children, and released the 2006 album A Whole New World together, before divorcing in 2009.", "On May 9, 2005, Chesney married actress Renée Zellweger in a ceremony on the island of St. John. They had met in January at a tsunami relief event. On September 15 of that same year, after only four months of marriage, they announced their plans for an annulment. Zellweger cited fraud as the reason in the related papers, and after media scrutiny of her use of the word \"fraud\", she qualified the use of the term, stating that it was \"simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character.\"", "Young met future wife Pegi Young in 1974 when she was working as a waitress at a diner near his ranch, a story he tells in the 1992 song \"Unknown Legend\". They married in 1978 and have two children together, Ben and Amber. Ben has cerebral palsy. On July 29, 2014, Young filed for divorce after 36 years of marriage. The couple were musical collaborators and co-founded the Bridge School in 1986.", "Keys met her future husband, record producer Swizz Beatz, when the pair wrote and produced Million Dollar Bill for Whitney Houston's album, I Look to You. In May 2010, the couple confirmed they were engaged and were expecting a child together. Egypt Daoud Dean was born on October 14, 2010 in New York.", "in 1985 - Billy Joel married model Christie Brinkley on a boat moored alongside the Statue Of Liberty. They divorced in 1993.", "Taylor married former Teamster Larry Fortensky, 20 years her junior, at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch on Oct. 6, 1991. The two met while patients at the Betty Ford Clinic. The couple divorced on Oct. 31, 1996.", "With the help of Mary Taylor and her wedding dossier, Hayley set about planning her dream wedding. Fiz and Becky agreed to be bridesmaids, and Mary found the perfect venue: the Shawbrooke Country House Hotel , which had a function room overlooking the East Lancs steam railway. As a surprise for Roy, Hayley arranged for the wedding bus to stop at the train station and for Roy to drive a steam engine to the venue, with the bridal party in the rear carriage. Hayley's hen night, planned by Becky, saw her blindfolded and led to the cafe, which had been transformed into a salsa bar, where Sean Tully had hired a friend to pose as a Latin lothario and salsa dance with Hayley. Initially helpful, Mary had railroaded Hayley into accepting her suggestions but Hayley had been too polite to tell her to back off. Mary realised she wasn't wanted when she didn't receive an invite to the wedding, and in revenge she disconnected the rear carriage, stranding the bridal party. Commandeering a pump wagon, Fiz and Becky got the bride to the hotel in time, and Hayley and Roy were married legally.", "Met husband-to-be Taylor Hackford when he directed her in White Nights (1985). When the couple married in the Scottish Highlands, Hackford was dressed in a traditional Scottish tartan kilt.", "Married director Sam Mendes in a private ceremony whilst on holiday in the West Indies. [May 2003]", "Voted Best Dressed Pop Artist for the year 2000 by \"Heat\" magazine. Also voted Best Dressed Couple (shared with her husband).", " 2003 American Wedding (performer: \"The Long Day is Over\") / (writer: \"The Long Day is Over\")" ]

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[ "On 15 December, 1939, Gone with the Wind premiered at Loew’s Grand Theatre in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The occasion remains an important one in cinematic history not only because of the film’s unprecedented critical and popular reception (it won 10 Academy Awards and remains the highest grossing film ever, adjusting for inflation), but also because of Clark Gable’s iconic line, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” That inclusion of that line helped deal a critical blow to the nascent Hollywood production code (popularly known as the Hays Code), which had banned the use of a wide variety of words from American movies just five years earlier.", "\"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn\" is a famous line from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. It was spoken by Gable, as Rhett Butler, in his last words to Scarlett O'Hara. It occurs at the end of the film when Scarlett asks Rhett, \"Where shall I go? What shall I do?\" when he leaves her. The line is memorable not only because it contains profanity (which was generally not allowed in films of that time period), but because it demonstrates that Rhett has finally given up on Scarlett and no longer cares what happens to her.", "Gone with the Wind is one of the most famous films ever, like, and pretty much everyone knows the famous line from Clark Kent, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Now, come on admit it, most people reading this haven’t seen the film. We sure as hell haven’t – for some reason sitting through 4 solid hours for one line from Superman doesn’t seem worthwhile.", "Rhett Butler’s phrase “My dear, I don’t give a damn’’ — which was altered in the film to the more famous “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn’’ — picked up the most votes.", "TOP: Clark Gable's iconic 'I don't give a damn' line in Gone With The Wind won the vote", "1. \"My dear, I don't give a damn.\" - Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell - (Character: Rhett Butler)", "David O. Selznick was fined $5,000 for the line “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” in Gone with the Wind (1939). The Catholic Legion of Decency gave the movie a B rating, citing that the film was “morally objectionable in part for all.”c", "In 2005, the American Film Institute released its list of 100 greatest movies quotes of all time. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” from “Gone with the Wind” topped the list while “Who’s on First?” from “The Naughty Nineties” ranked 91st.", "As you probably know, the punch line of Gone With the Wind, the one bit of dialogue which forever establishes the future relationship between Scarlett and Rhett, is, \"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.\"", "In the novel Gone with the Wind , Rhett does not say \"Frankly,\" but simply \"My dear, I don't give a damn.\" The context is also different; he is speaking quietly to Scarlett in a room, not storming dramatically out of the house.", "Gone with the Wind: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” Quote Off Extravaganza! – Professional Moron", "Julius Henry Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), known professionally as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian and film and television star. He was known as a master of quick wit and is widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators.", "Based on current information QI believes that Sid Ziff was the most likely creator of this humorous expression. Yet, the joke was reassigned to Dorothy Parker within a few years by Bennett Cerf who specialized in collecting and popularizing quotations. Cerf included the saying in his widely-syndicated newspaper column in October 1962: 2", "Frankly My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn - Gone with the Wind (6/6) Movie CLIP (1939) HD - YouTube", "Update : More Celebrity Killers.  Yet more celebrities were reputed to have come up with some dandy lines for their gravestones.  Never at a loss for words, Dorothy Parker is credited with two: “Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”  And, “Excuse my dust.”  W.C. Fields is said to have said, “On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.”  Fields, perhaps like Oscar Wilde, simply spat out quotes like grape seeds; you might look for a wonderful sampling at www.csmngt.com/w__c__fields.htm .  Then there was Winston Churchill: “I am prepared to meet my Maker; whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”  Frank Sinatra: “The Best is Yet to Come.”  (11/16/05)", "Quote Investigator: The saying was ascribed to Dorothy Parker in the 1968 volume “The Algonquin Wits” edited by Robert E. Drennan. The section about Parker included a miscellaneous collection of her witticisms, and the following was listed without any additional context: 1", "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn | Civil War Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia", "Several quotation references list Parker’s statement, but the earliest citation I’ve seen is indirect; a friend named Alexander Woollcott attributed the quip to her in 1934. Would you please help me to find better evidence?", "Rogers's vaudeville rope act led to success in the Ziegfeld Follies, which in turn led to the first of his many movie contracts. His 1920s syndicated newspaper column and his radio appearances increased his visibility and popularity. Rogers crusaded for aviation expansion, and provided Americans with first-hand accounts of his world travels. His earthy anecdotes and folksy style allowed him to poke fun at gangsters, prohibition, politicians, government programs, and a host of other controversial topics in a way that was appreciated by a national audience, with no one offended. His aphorisms, couched in humorous terms, were widely quoted: \"I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat.\" Another widely quoted Will Rogers comment was \"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.\"", "In May 1937 the mass-circulation periodical “The Saturday Evening Post” published as its cover story the first installment of a serialization of a biography titled “The Great Goldwyn” by Alva Johnston. According to Johnston the remark was spoken by Samuel Goldwyn when he quit an association of movie producers: 7 8", "[quote]If Cate wins and give up a tender moment about Shirley Temple than that will erase the awkwardness of her Judy Garland comment.", "What did the shortstop become in Abbott and Costello's \"Who's On First\" routine when censors objected to \"I don't give a damn\"?", "While giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Ward, charged with living off the immoral earnings of Keeler and Rice-Davies, the latter made a famous riposte. When James Burge, the defence counsel, pointed out that Lord Astor denied an affair or having even met her, she replied, \"Well (giggle) he would, wouldn’t he?\" (often misquoted \"Well he would say that, wouldn't he?\").This has become a popular phrase among politicians in Britain. Examples of this phrase:", "In a 1979 interview on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Lerner discussed some of his lyrics for My Fair Lady. They were not grammatically correct, but they were written that way for the sake of the rhyme; Henry Higgins sings, \"Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter, condemned by every sentence she utters. By right she should be taken out and hung. But it rhymes with the tongue,\" Lerner said, \"so for the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue. And I thought, oh well, maybe nobody will notice it, but not at all. Two nights after it opened, I ran into Noel Coward in a restaurant, and he walked over and he said, Dear boy, it is hanged, not hung. I said, Oh, Noel, I know it, I know it! You know, shut up! So, and there's another, then to have ever let a woman in her life. It should be as to ever let a woman in her life. but it just didn't sing well.\"", "Whenever asked whether he received any residuals from telecasts of the 1939 classic, Bolger would reply: \"No, just immortality. I'll settle for that.\" He was good friends with actress Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, until her death, and gave a eulogy at her memorial service in 1985. Judy Garland often referred to Bolger as \"My Scarecrow\". Upon the death of Haley in 1979, Bolger said, \"It's going to be very lonely on that Yellow Brick Road now.\" ", "An actor, perhaps, yes. They’ll say, But that’s my big laugh. I say, But it hurts the scene. It’s very hard to convince them. Walter Matthau was after me constantly on The Odd Couple, complaining not about one of his lines, but one of Art Carney’s. He’d say, It’s not a good line. A few days later, I received a letter from a doctor in Wilmington. It said, Dear Mr. Simon, I loved your play but I find one line really objectionable. I wish you would take it out. So, I took the line out and said, Walter, I’ve complied with your wishes. I got a letter from a prominent doctor in Wilmington who didn’t like the line . . . He started to laugh and then I realized, You son of a bitch, you’re the doctor! And he was. Those quick lines, the one-liners attributed to me for so many years—I think they come purely out of character, rather than out of a joke. Walter Kerr once came to my aid by saying “to be or not to be” is a one-liner. If it’s a dramatic moment no one calls it a one-liner. If it gets a laugh, suddenly it’s a one-liner. I think one of the complaints of critics is that the people in my plays are funnier than they would be in life, but have you ever seen Medea? The characters are a lot more dramatic in that than they are in life.", "Shapiro is less sure that unusual word choice helps a quote stick in audiences' minds. He cited quotes from \"Casablanca\" (\"Play it again, Sam.\"), \"Back To The Future\" (\"Where we're going, we don't need roads.\") and \"All About Eve\" (\"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night.\") as examples of fame defying ordinary diction.", "Unfortunately, no one seems to know when this line was written or spoken. Also, I have not been able to determine the name of the book that was being slammed. Could you explore this?", "An American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.", "her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for   inspiration, people said it didn’t matter.", "The idiom \"couldn't care less\", meaning \"doesn't care at all\" (the meaning in full is \"cares so little that he couldn't possibly care less\"), originated in Britain around 1940. \"Could care less\", which is used with the same meaning, developed in the U.S. around 1960. We get disputes about whether the latter was originally a mis-hearing of the former; whether it was originally ironic; or whether it arose from uses where the negative element was separated from \"could\" (\"None of these writers could care less...\") Meaning- saving elaborations have also been suggested; e.g., \"As if I could care less!\"; \"I could care less, but I'd have to try\"; \"If I cared even one iota -- which I don't --, then I could care less.\"", "[quote]I know from bloated film musicals -- Hello, Dolly or Camelot, anyone -- and MFL ain't one of them." ]

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[ "The singing of both leads was dubbed: Jimmy Bryant for former child actor Richard Beymer, and Marni Nixon for Natalie Wood, and the vocals by Rita Moreno were enhanced by Betty Wand for \"A Boy Like That\". [Marni Nixon also dubbed Audrey Hepburn's singing voice in My Fair Lady (1964) .] (Visit the official West Side Story website at: http://www.westsidestory.com .)", "'The Sound of Music' (1965) – Forget the recent live broadcast of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein musical on NBC with Carrie Underwood. For many movie fans, Julie Andrews remains the one and only Maria, governess to the von Trapp children in Austria on the eve of World War II. Marni Nixon, who dubbed the singing voices of Natalie Wood in \"West Side Story,\" Deborah Kerr in \"The King and I\" and Audrey Hepburn in \"My Fair Lady,\" had her first on-screen role as a nun. Not only did \"The Sound of Music\" win best picture, it was also for a time the biggest moneymaker ever.", "It was first performed by Julie Andrews in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady. In the 1964 film adaptation of the musical, the song was sung by Marni Nixon, dubbing the singing voice of Audrey Hepburn, who played Eliza Doolittle. In 2004, Nixon's version finished at #17 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.", "Marni Nixon (who dubbed for Natalie Wood ) had to do the end of quintet for Rita Moreno . The reason was that Betty Wand and Moreno both had colds and could not sing, so the filmmakers asked Nixon to do the end. So she is singing two voices at once. See more »", "Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn, vocal by Marni Nixon) demonstrates her improved elocution to Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in the Lerner and Loewe number, The Rain In Spain, in My Fair Lady, 1964.>", "The birthday of singer Marni Nixon. Marni Nixon became famous as the singing voice of Deborah Kerr in Rodger & Hammerstein?s film THE KING AND I, as well as Audrey Hepburn in MY FAIR LADY and Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY. Nixon finally appeared as a performer on camera while singing the part of Sister Sophia in the film THE SOUND OF MUSIC.", "Margaret Nixon McEathron (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016), better known as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and playback singer for featured actresses in movie musicals. She is best known for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in films, including The King and I, West Side Story and My Fair Lady.Fox, Margalit. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/arts/music/marni-nixon-singer-soprano-dies-86.html?_r", "My Fair Lady currently holds a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 46 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The general consensus states: \"Fans of the play may miss Julie Andrews in the starring role—particularly when Marni Nixon's singing comes out of Audrey Hepburn's mouth—but the film's charm is undeniable.\" Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four, and, in 2006, he put it on his \"Great Movies\" list, praising Hepburn's performance, and calling the film \"the best and most unlikely of musicals.\" ", "Ms. Nixon did the same for Natalie Wood in 1961's West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn in 1964's My Fair Lady, which had starred Julie Andrews on stage. Earlier, she had added a few notes to Marilyn Monroe's \"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend\" in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.", "Although she never dubbed the voice of Julie Andrews, Marni Nixon sang the role of Mary Poppins on the kids' version (Disneyland label) of the music from the film.", "NEW YORK — Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon, whose singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in such classic movie musicals as “West Side Story,” “The King and I,” and “My Fair Lady,” has died. She was 86.", "Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon, whose singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in such classic movie musicals as “West Side Story,” “The King and I” and “My Fair Lady,” has died. She was 86.", "Though the recording industry is in an uproar over the Milli Villi scandal, lip-syncing--or ghost singing--has been a common practice in the movie industry almost since the advent of talkies. Marni Nixon is the best known of the ghost singers. An accomplished soloist in her own right, her lilting vocals can be heard on the sound tracks of many classic screen musicals. It was Nixon, not Deborah Kerr, who sang \"Shall We Dance\" and other Rodgers and Hammerstein standards in 1956's \"The King & I.\"", "October 21 – The film version of the hit Broadway stage musical My Fair Lady premieres in New York City. The movie stars Audrey Hepburn in the role of Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison repeating his stage performance as Professor Henry Higgins, and which will win him his only Academy Award for Best Actor. The film will win seven other Academy Awards, including Best Picture , but Audrey Hepburn will not be nominated. Critics interpret this as a rebuke to Jack L. Warner for choosing Ms Hepburn over Julie Andrews.", "Andrews auditioned for a part in the Richard Rodgers musical Pipe Dream . Although Rodgers wanted her for Pipe Dream, he advised her to take the part in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady if it was offered to her. In 1956, she appeared in My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison 's Henry Higgins . Rodgers was so impressed with Andrews' talent that, concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady, she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella . Cinderella was broadcast live on CBS on 31 March 1957, under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini and attracted an estimated 107 million viewers.", "Andrews auditioned for a part in the Richard Rodgers musical Pipe Dream. Although Rodgers wanted her for Pipe Dream, he advised her to take the part in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady if it were offered to her. In 1956, she appeared on stage in My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison’s Henry Higgins. Rodgers was so impressed with Andrews’ talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady, she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella. Cinderella was broadcast live on CBS on 31 March 1957 under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini and attracted an estimated 107 million viewers.", "Vocalist Marni Nixon, Lip-Syncer Extraordinary : 'Ghost' singing: She supplied the vocals for Deborah Kerr in 'The King and I' and backed Natalie Wood in 'West Side Story.'", "*1987 – Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick 'Fritz' Loewe – My Fair Lady – a studio cast recording with Te Kanawa singing the role of Eliza Doolittle and Jeremy Irons singing the role of Henry Higgins [Polygram 421200]", "Disneyland for “Davy Crockett.”  Best Variety Series - Ed Sullivan… Broadway Open To Rave Reviews - “My Fair Lady” opens at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. It’s Alan Jay Lerner’s adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. Herman Levin is the producer. Cast includes: Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle  Rex Harrison - Henry Higgins  Stanley Holloway - Alfred P. Doolittle  Robert Coote - Colonel Pickering  Viola Roache - Mrs. Eynsford Hill  Cathleen Nesbitt - Mrs. Higgins…", "Was originally cast as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady , but later dropped out of the project. Carey Mulligan was then cast instead.", "1987 – Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick 'Fritz' Loewe – My Fair Lady – a studio cast recording with Te Kanawa singing the role of Eliza Doolittle and Jeremy Irons singing the role of Henry Higgins [Polygram 421200]", "1964: My Fair Lady — beat Alexis Zorbas, Becket, Dr. Strangelove, Mary Poppins (Presented by Gregory Peck)", "Invaluable list of movie dubbers, broken down by film. %0D %0D What's sadly missing is a breakdown by dubbers.%0D %0D (Marni Nixon also dubbed the singing geese in MARY POPPINS. She was everywhere!)", "Audrey Hepburn starred in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady, but she only lip-synced the songs. Who supplied Eliza Doolittle’s singing voice? Who or what is a “Wankel” ?", "The singing voice for Natalie Wood as Maria in West Side Story (1961). Nixon also sang some parts of the score of Anita played by Rita Moreno , sharing the load with co-dubber Betty Wand and Moreno herself. In parts of the quintet setting of the song “Tonight”, she sings both Maria and Anita’s lines, according to her autobiography.", "Marni Nixon, Voice of Classic Movie Songs, Has Died at 86 | Art Wire | KQED Arts", "Nixon's first onscreen appearance was as Sister Sophia in the 1965 film The Sound of Music. In 1967, she was the singing voice of Princess Serena in a live action and animated version of Jack and the Beanstalk on NBC.", "12. Verna Felton , whose Disney voice roles had included Dumbo 's mother, the Fairy Godmother in \"Cinderella,\" the Queen of Hearts in \"Alice in Wonderland,\" and Aunt Sarah in \"Lady in the Tramp,\" voiced both the fairy Flora and Queen Leah, Aurora's mother.", "13. Barbara Luddy, who had starred as Lady in \" Lady and the Tramp ,\" voiced the fairy Merryweather. Another Barbara, Barbara Jo Allen , voiced the role of fairy Fauna.", "Provided the singing voice for Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). She also was Deborah Kerr 's singing voice in both An Affair to Remember (1957) and the musical classic The King and I (1956).", "17. The actress who voiced Disney’s Snow White made a voice cameo during the Tin Man’s “If I Only Had a Heart” (She’s the one who says, ‘Wherefore art thou, Romeo?’)", "Verna Felton (Flora) previously lent her voice to the Elephant Matriarch and Mrs. Jumbo in Dumbo , the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland and Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp. After Sleeping Beauty, her last film for Disney was providing the voice for Winifred in The Jungle Book ." ]

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[ "1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity in her play \"Sex\"", "February 1927 – While New York City’s mayor is on a trip to Havana, acting mayor Joseph V. (“Holy Joe”) McKee raids three Broadway shows and closes them for obscenity. The prime target of this is Mae West ‘s Sex, then in its 44th week of playing. The play, written by West, tells the story of a prostitute who falls in love with a rich boy and how his family reacts; by the end of the play, West’s character is neither redeemed nor punished. West choose to stand trial for the obscenity charges, and was charged as guilty. She was sentenced to 10 days in prison and a $500 fine. The judge chastised West for making Sex, “as obscene and immoral as possible.”", "1927: Hollywood actress Mae West is found guilty of indecent behaviour in her production of 'Sex' on Broadway. She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined 500 dollars.", "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London,[1][2] it is considered \"the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel.\"[3] One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history,[4] it has become a synonym for obscenity.[5]", "A later West play�The Pleasure Man, awash in female impersonators and homosexuality�would be raided and shut down at its second Broadway performance in 1928. Undaunted, she eventually revived Sex and toured the Depression-era Midwest without incident, before arriving in Hollywood, where, paired with Cary Grant and W. C. Fields, she hit superstardom as she was reaching 40. The Bushwick-born, self-invented West (1893�1980) wrote the Ur-text for Madonna and Lady Gaga, repeatedly breaking gender and sexual barriers over a marathon career as a writer, performer, free-speech provocateur, and showbiz entrepreneur. Her pioneering playbook for turning scandal into profits remains the gold standard in American pop culture to this day.", "Sex was \"one of the all-time greatest shops in history,\" recalled pop star Adam Ant. The shop sign was in padded pink letters and the window was covered, except for a small opening, through which one could peep and see items like pornographic t-shirts. Westwood, in fact, was prosecuted and convicted for selling a t-shirt depicting two cowboys with exposed penises. Other shirts referred to child molesting and rape, or bore aggressive slogans like \"Destroy\" superimposed over a swastika and an image of the Queen.", "There is a substantial overlap between legal erotic literature and illegal pornography, with the distinction traditionally made in the English-speaking courts on the basis of perceived literary merit. No prosecutions of purely textual pornography took place following the Inside Linda Lovelace trial of 1976 until October 2008 when a man was charged (but later cleared) under the Obscene Publications Act for allegedly posting fictional written material to the Internet describing kidnap, rape and murder of pop group Girls Aloud (the R v Walker trial). In late August 2005, the government announced that it planned to criminalise possession of extreme pornographic material, rather than just publication, and the law came into force as Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.", "The first example concerns Mrs Whitehouse, who in 1981 managed to make life hell for the director and writer of a play that had been put on at the National Theatre . The play was The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton , and because it contained a scene which showed an attempted homosexual rape, its director, Michael Bogdanov, was charged under Section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act of 1956. Oddly enough, this is a law which is usually used against anyone who's suspected of pimping or procuring 'an act of gross indecency'. It's usually invoked in cases of indecency in public toilets, so Mrs Whitehouse's prosecution seemed to suggest that she equated the National Theatre with a public loo. (4)", "Within weeks, this crudely exotic/erotic spectacle acquires new complexities of meaning. Saartjie fell ill. Newspapers reported that she was evidently unwilling to perform, and that Cesars would brandish a stick at her, as a tamer might at a recalcitrant lion. Coercion and the threat of violence were now parts of the performance. When a man in the audience laughed at Saartjie, she hit him with her guitar, while Cesars warned that she was �wild as a beast��. The tension between sulky female subordinate and brutal master was received by most of the public as as  titillating drama, but the British slave trade had been abolished only four years before, and the Abolitionists were still vigilantly monitoring apparent breaches of the new law. A writ of habeas corpus was issued against Cesars and Dunlop. In the short term, the ensuing court case achieved little beyond free publicity for the defendants� show, but in retrospect (and this is what takes Rachel Holmes� thoughtfu1 book so timely) it provides an illuminating case history of the way illegal immigration, slavery and the sale of sexuality can form a tangle and a trap.", "Gielgud lived and worked in an era when there was a conspiracy of silence around homosexuality outside of theatrical circles. Shortly after he was knighted, Gielgud endured a horrific humiliation. In 1953, he was convicted of “persistently importuning for immoral purposes” (cottaging) in a Chelsea mews, having been arrested for trying to pick up a man in a public lavatory.[9][10] Gielgud would avoid Hollywood for over a decade for fear of being denied entry because of the arrest. There was much discussion behind closed doors about whether his career could endure the ignominy, but he continued to rehearse the play in which he was scheduled to direct and act. Instead of being rejected by the public, he received a standing ovation at the play’s initial opening in Liverpool, in part because of his co-star Sybil Thorndike; Thorndike seized him as he stood in the wings unable to bring himself to make his first entrance and brought him onstage, whispering “Come on, John darling, they won’t boo me.” Biographer Sheridan Morley writes that while Gielgud never denied being homosexual, he always tried to be discreet about it and felt humiliated by the ordeal. Some speculate that it helped to bring to public attention a crusade to decriminalise homosexuality in England and Wales.[11][12]", "The former children’s entertainer was stripped of his CBE by the Queen – which he received after painting her 80th birthday portrait – after being jailed for almost six years for a string of sex attacks on girls as young as seven.", "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 � November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of \"gross indecency\". The scholar H. Montgomery Hyde suggests this term implies homosexual acts not amounting to buggery in British legislation of the time....", "One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, known for his barbed and clever wit, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after being convicted in a famous trial of \"gross indecency\" for homosexual acts.", "1895 Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of \"committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons\" and sentenced to serve 2 years in prison", "The cast includes an ingénue (Sarah Kolozsvary) whose theatrical training consists of wearing sexy undergarments while striking affected poses, and a would-be Shakespearean actor (Christian DeKett) who can't stay sober long enough to make his entrances on cue. The doltish young leading man (Peter Hiebert) is so inarticulate, he's probably incapable of understanding his character's lines. One indefatigable actress (Ceara Ledwith) has been onstage since she was 4 and now serves as the company gossip.", "In her struggle to make this conviction flesh through drama (a childhood teacher told her: \"You pronounce the word art the way a nun might say the word Jesus\"), she was one of the bonniest fighters and intractably cussed personalities the theatre has known. Although celebrity did not help or console her, she has long been acknowledged, with Peter Brook, whom she despised, as the most galvanising director in mid-20th century Britain.", "Helen Mirren appeared in Caligula (1980), which also starred Malcolm MacDowell and Peter O'Toole. The film, controversial for its strong violence and explicit sex scenes, had a self-imposed X rating.", "While in prison John Cleland composed one of the longest banned, most reprinted, most well-known novel in history, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (also known as Fanny Hill). And he wrote the story not for monetary gain (Cleland in fact earned only 21 pounds), and not because he particularly liked erotica, but he wrote it largely because he was bored sitting in prison day after day.", "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre \"Erotica.\" It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor's prison in London. Over the centuries, the novel has been repeatedly banned by authorities, assuring its preeminent role in the history of the ongoing struggle against censorship of free expression.", "In \"The Stolen Musicians\", being locked into a cell with Rolf Harris is considered a Fate Worse Than Death . Now a colossal \"Funny Aneurysm\" Moment due to his prison sentence in 2014 for historical sex offences.", "Both men were found guilty and sentenced to two years' penal servitude with hard labour. The two known persons with whom Wilde was found guilty of gross indecency were male prostitutes, Wood and Parker. Wilde was also found guilty on two counts charging gross indecency with a person unknown on two separate occasions in the Savoy Hotel . These may in fact have related to acts committed by Douglas, who had also been Wood's lover.", "According to James Martin Harding, the play is \"based on a plot about a woman who 'is a man-hating hustler and panhandler' and who... ends up killing a man\" and is more a \"provocation than... a work of dramatic literature\" and \"rather adolescent and contrived.\" The short story was published in Cavalier magazine in July 1966. Up Your Ass remains unpublished. Harding described her as \"an avant-gardist\". Read Less", "A tall author who came to media attention with the staunchly feminist views she espoused in her book The Female Eunuch (1970). Her childhood was anything but happy, and she ran away from home twice seeking the happiness that eluded her at home. Convinced she could find fulfullment in art, music, and literature (as these things were not present in her home), she earned honors in English and French Literature at Melbourne University, then went on to study at Cambridge University in England. She received a Ph.D. and became a lecturer at the University of Warwick. She wrote articles and appeared on television talk shows while lecturing on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, but maintained contacts with the counterculture of the period, once appearing in the nude for a Dutch magazine of which she was a co-founder. At the urging of a literary agent in 1968, she began committing her thoughts to paper, eventually publishing The Female Eunuch (1970), The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings, 1968–85 (paperback, 1990), Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse (1989), Women, Sex, & Desire: Understanding Your Sexuality at Every Stage of Life(1996), and The Whole Woman (1999), among others.", "91 Q Name the play currently running in the West End in which Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe performs a nude scene.", "There are three people in a room: Alice, Bob, and Cathy. Bob approaches Alice, and with her consent, engages with her in several varieties of \"deviate sexual intercourse,\" the conduct at issue here. Bob then leaves the room. Cathy approaches Alice, and with her consent, engages with her in several kinds of \"deviate sexual intercourse.\" Cathy is promptly arrested for violating section 21.06.", "Stage Tour: \"Prisoner Cell Block H - The Musical\" (1995) (as Lily Savage) See more »", "Zazie, the foul-mouthed pubescent star of Raymond Queneau's breakneck Parisian romp Zazie in the Metro, doesn't just leap off the page, she also kicks you in the shins and loudly accuses you of a sex offence.", "Her single was promptly banned by the BBC because of the 'high content of Romeo and Juliet.' This hypocritical attitude of the state radio is made fun of in scenes about who will use the f-word in broadcasts for the first time in history.", "A young lesbian engineers her arrest to be nearer her borstal inmate lover. From the writer of ‘Scum’.", "The actress is about to appear in a new play on knife crime in the West End. 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[ "The epic drama Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars and broke the all-time record of nine set the year before by Gigi. Ben-Hur remained the most honored motion picture in Academy Award history until Titanic equaled the feat in 1997. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King equalled the feat again in 2003.", "Following a $14.7 million marketing effort, Ben-Hur premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959. It was the fastest-grossing as well as the highest-grossing film of 1959, in the process becoming the second-highest-grossing film in history at the time after Gone with the Wind. It won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Wyler), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Griffith), and Best Cinematography – Color (Surtees), an accomplishment that was not equaled until Titanic in 1997 and then again by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. Ben-Hur also won three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Stephen Boyd. Today, Ben-Hur is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, and in 1998 the American Film Institute ranked it the 72nd best American film and the 2nd best American epic film in the AFI's 10 Top 10. In 2004, the National Film Preservation Board selected Ben-Hur for preservation by the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being a \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" motion picture.", "In 1997 James Cameron’s Titanic received 11 Oscars, sharing the record of the most Oscars awards for a single film with William Wyler’s Ben Hur (1959). The closest runner-up is West Side Story with 10 Oscars in 1961.", "Three movies have tied for being awarded the most Oscars with 11 each – “Ben Hur” (1959), “Titanic” (1997) and “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” (2003).", "* November 18 – MGM's widescreen, multimillion-dollar, Technicolor version of Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time. It is critically acclaimed and eventually wins 11 Academy Awards – a record held until 1998, when 1997's Titanic becomes the first film to equal the record. To the present day, the 1959 Ben-Hur remains the last MGM film to win a Best Picture Oscar, though Doctor Zhivago, another MGM film, was nominated in 1965.", "One of the great movie spectacles, BEN HUR is a tour de force for Heston. In remaking the silent classic (1927, with Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman), quality-conscious director Wyler presented a modern interpretation of the 1880 novel by General Lew Wallace. Majesty is in almost every frame of this film directed by Wyler, who tells the story in human, understated terms, except for the great chariot race, which was directed by action expert Andrew Marton. Everything about BEN HUR was enormous; more than 300 sets were employed, covering more than 340 acres. BEN HUR held the record for winning the most Academy Awards (11 won) for 38 years till 1997, tying with TITANIC and also in 2004 with THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING for that honor.", "At the 76th Academy Awards, it won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated, therefore holding the record for highest Oscar sweep. The wins included the awards for Best Picture, the first and only time a fantasy film has done so; it was also the second sequel to win a Best Picture Oscar (following The Godfather Part II) and Best Director. The film jointly holds the record for the largest number of Academy Awards won with Ben-Hur (1959) and Titanic (1997).", "Ben-Hur (1959) with eleven Oscar wins - the most Oscar wins of any film in Academy Awards history. [ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) would equal the feat in six years with 11 wins.]", "Titanic (1997), Ben Hur (1959), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)", "The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Make-up, Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing. At the 76th Academy Awards in 2004, the film won all the categories for which it was nominated and it holds the record for highest Academy Award totals along with Titanic and Ben Hur. ", "Finally budgeted at an unheard of $3.97 million (approx. $53 million today), Ramon Novarro's Ben-Hur became the costliest movie ever, and would remain so until Gone with the Wind 14 years later. With a worldwide (probably net) take of $10.73 million (approx. $350 million today; including the 1931 reissue with sound effects – a flop in North America, but a huge hit overseas), Ben-Hur also became the biggest box office hit ever, and would remain so until Gone with the Wind.", "William Wyler directed the award-winning remake of Ben-Hur (1959) with its celebrated, live-action chariot race, a much-celebrated film in 65 mm big-screen format that won 11 Oscars out of twelve nominations (more than any other movie in Academy Award history to that time). At $15 million, it was the most expensive film ever made up to its time, and the most expensive film of the 50s decade. It told the story of Prince Judah (Charlton Heston) who was cruelly sent into slavery after an accident, and returned to seek revenge on his oppressors. A similar Roman epic at the end of the decade, Kubrick's Spartacus (1960) starred Kirk Douglas in the title role as a gladiator and the leader of a slave revolt.", "4 ‘Ben-Hur’ This 1959 classic put the Everlasting Father at the periphery of the story (the actor playing him didn’t even get a credit). But it won 11 Oscars, so Someone was clearly pleased.", "CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. -- For many, watching the movie \"Ben-Hur\" has become an Easter tradition. The 1959 blockbuster, starring Charlton Heston, made history with a record 11 Academy Awards.", "Ben-Hur, which originated as a 1925 silent film, tells the story of two friends, the Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur and the Roman citizen Messala, living in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus Christ. When their loyalties clash, Messala destroys his friend’s life, leading Ben-Hur to seek his revenge in the chariot arena. In addition to Huston, Morgan Freeman has been cast as Ildarin, the man who teaches Ben-Hur to race chariots like a champion. The 1959 film, directed by William Wyler (coincidentally  a close friend of Jack’s grandfather John Huston), won a record 11 Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Actor.", "Directed by William Wyler, this epic won 11 out of its 12 nominations, and only missed out on the best and supporting actress award. Ben Hur, played by Charlton Heston, is betrayed by his childhood friend and made a galley slave. The story depicts his struggle with slavery, the loss of his family, and finally gaining his freedom. This film was lauded for its religious backdrop, rich settings, and impressive storyline.", "AT THE 32ND ACADEMY AWARDS CEREMONY, BEN-HUR WINS A RECORD NUMBER OF OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE. Clocking in at three hours and 32 minutes, William Wyler’s Technicolor epic Ben-Hur is the behemoth entry at the 32nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, held on this day in 1960, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Setting an Oscar record, the film swept 11 of the 12 categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Charlton Heston). Wyler’s 1959 film was the latest dramatic adaptation of the mega-bestselling novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, published in 1880 by Lew Wallace. Wallace, a former general in the American Civil War, wrote his most successful novel after experiencing a new awakening of his Christian faith. The book told the story of a young Jewish aristocrat, Judah Ben Hur, who chafes against the repressive Roman rule in Judea, loses his fortune and his family, but eventually triumphs over obstacles (thanks partially to the intervention of Jesus Christ). After Wallace’s novel was adopted into a long-running stage play in 1899 and a short film in 1907, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought the film rights and produced a major motion-picture version, directed", "The project began taking shape in 2013 when MGM acquired Clarke’s script, an adaptation of Lew Wallace ’s 1880 novel “ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ .” That story focuses on the years prior to those portrayed the 1959 film, centering on the characters Judah Ben-Hur , a Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem, and his childhood friend Messala, who returns home as a commanding officer of the Roman legions and betrays the Ben-Hur family.", "BEN-HUR is the epic story of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother Messala (Toby Kebbell), an officer in the Roman army. Stripped of his title, separated from his family and the woman he loves (Nazanin Boniadi), Judah is forced into slavery. After years at sea, Judah returns to his homeland to seek revenge, but finds redemption.", "Charlton Heston, in his Oscar-winning role, is Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ. \"Best Director\" Oscar-winner William Wyler masterfully grips the reins of this enduring and spellbinding spectacular.", "^ a b c Crowther, Bosley. \"The Screen: 'Ben-Hur,' a Blockbuster.\" The New York Times. November 19, 1959.", "But the following year Mr. Heston stepped back into the world of the biblical epic, this time for the director William Wyler. The movie was “Ben-Hur.” Cast as a prince in ancient Judea who rebels against the rule of Rome, Mr. Heston again dominated the screen. In the film’s most spectacular sequence, he and his co-star, Stephen Boyd, as his Roman rival, fight a thrilling duel with whips as their horse-drawn chariots career wheel-to-wheel around an arena filled with roaring spectators.", "Is uncredited as a screenwriter on Ben-Hur (1959), although producer Sam Zimbalist had promised Vidal and Christopher Fry, who worked on the script independently from Vidal, screen credit. Karl Tunberg, who wrote the original screenplay before many rewrites by Vidal and Fry produced the final shooting script, claimed the credit. Zimbalist died before the movie ended, and thus could not testify at the Writers Guild arbitration hearing. Tunberg won the credit, but failed to win the Oscar. The film had been nominated for 12 Oscars, and won a record 11, a record that has since been tied. The movie's sole loss was for best writing-screenplay based on material from another medium. The loss is usually attributed to the fallout over the credit dispute, which Vidal made widely known.", "When I was nine years old, I saw \"Ben-Hur\" at New York City's majestic Palace Theater. It was the tenth anniversary re-release of the all-time Oscar champ, and the movie was being shown in all its magnificent 70-millimeter glory. Walking into the Palace, seeing the famous portrait of Judy Garland, who had just passed away, and then taking in some three and a half hours of ancient Roman spectacle, was an overwhelming experience. I loved the story and was as deeply moved by its characters and themes as any nine-year-old could be.", "\"Ben-Hur\" is based on the post-Civil War novel (1880) written by General Lew Wallace. Translated into a well-known play, and into three cinematic versions (the one-reeler 1907 version, the sprawling 1925 MGM version with Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman, and the 1959 MGM epic), the book, says C. L. Bennet, is \"one of the most successful works of fiction ever written in any language.\" As a film, it is at once passionate and subtle, both action-packed entertainment and a testament to aesthetic symbolism. No brief summary of the story can do it justice, for there are many interconnected characters and subplots. Here, I present the essentials.", "Somehow the makers of the first Ben-Hur film, a silent movie from 1907, condensed all the action into a nine-minute one-reeler. The 1959 remake (there was another in 1926) was a landmark achievement in grand biblical storytelling for the cinema, and lasts three hours and 32 minutes. Ben-Hur was the most expensive film ever made at the time, costing $15 million to shot in Technicolour. Its success ultimately saved MGM Studios from bankruptcy.", "The film currently has an 88% \"Certified Fresh\" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The consensus reads, \"Uneven, but in terms of epic scope and grand spectacle, Ben-Hur still ranks among Hollywood's finest examples of pure entertainment.\" ", "* Ben-Hur — 1925 film by Fred Niblo in which a Jewish nobleman is sentenced to the galleys after a perceived assassination attempt on Valerius Gratus, the Roman Procurator of Judea", "The first film version of Ben-Hur was pirated in 1907, and ran for 15-minutes. This led to a law suit by Wallace that set the precedent for future book-to-movie copyright cases. Eventually, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought the rights and produced the first legitimate adaptation in 1925. It was silent, 35 mm black-and-white (1.33:1 ratio) with some tinting and a few 2-strip Technicolor scenes. Fred Niblo directed Ramon Novarro as Ben-Hur, Francis X. Bushman as Messala and May McAvoy as Esther in an outstanding production. But it was plagued with many problems, including a sea battle shot in Italy, in which one of the ships actually caught fire, sending the extras into the sea, some of which may have drowned. In the famous chariot race, which was shot in LA, there was a big pile-up of chariots that injured numerous drivers and killed quite a few horses. All of these scenes were left in the final cut.", "Other:The 1925 Feature-length Silent Version of Ben-Hur with a stereophonic orchestral score by composer Carl Davis. Vintage Newsreels Gallery Highlights from the 1960 Academy Awards Ceremony Theatrical Trailer Gallery", "In 1955, MGM began planning for a new version of the film with William Wyler as its director, who had worked as an assistant director of the chariot race in the 1925 film. The 1959 film adaptation of Ben-Hur starred Charlton Heston as Judah, with Stephen Boyd as Messala. It was shot on location in Rome. Filming wrapped up on January 7, 1959Smith, p. 34–35. at a cost of an estimated $12.5 to of $15 million; it became the most expensive motion picture made up to that time. It was also among the most successful films ever made. The film premiered at Loews State Theater in New York City on November 18, 1959. It earned more than $40 million at the box office and an estimated $20 million more in merchandising revenues.Boomhower, 142–4.", "* Ben-Hur (1959 film), an MGM sound film starring Charlton Heston; it premiered in New York City on November 18, 1959." ]

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[ "Barbra Streisand presents John Wayne with the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role during the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970. This was the first and only Oscar win for the three-time nominee, who won for his role as eye patch-wearing Rooster Cogburn in 'True Grit.' During his acceptance speech, John Wayne joked that had he known he'd win, he would've put on an eye patch 35 years prior. Watch LIVE OSCAR SUNDAY on ABC.", "Bridges also received high praise for his interpretation of Reuben J. \"Rooster\" Cogburn, the eye patch-wearing U.S. Marshall originated by the venerable John Wayne. Wayne won an Oscar for his role in \"True Grit\" and Bridges has the same Academy Award buzz surrounding his performance in the 2010 remake.", "Based on Charles Portis' novel, the original \" True Grit \" starred an eye patch-wearing John Wayne as 'Rooster' Cogburn, an aging U.S. marshal who helps a 14-year-old girl find the man who killed her father. Also along for the ride in the original is country singer Glen Campbell, who additionally performed the film's Oscar-nominated theme song. \"Grit\" is mostly remembered for being the film that finally won Wayne his only Academy Award, which many fans consider to be one of those career-honoring Oscars.", "John Wayne was one of the greatest limited-range actors to ever grace a screen—a big guy with a catlike gait and a sing-song cadence, who could be credibly pathetic or fearsome, sensitive or hard-edged, charismatic or standoffish, all the while never coming across as anyone other than John Wayne. Wayne’s iconic work with John Ford and Howard Hawks never earned him as much as a nomination; instead, he won the Oscar for his self-deprecating turn as one-eyed marshal-for-hire Rooster Cogburn in the original True Grit. It remains one of the definitive legacy Oscars, the American Western’s most iconic leading man winning Best Actor for a comic role, well after the genre had passed into its sunset years.", "The Searchers (1956) continues to be widely regarded as perhaps Wayne's finest and most complex performance. In 2006 Premiere Magazine ran an industry poll in which Wayne's portrayal of Ethan Edwards was rated the 87th greatest performance in film history. He named his youngest son Ethan after the character. John Wayne won a Best Actor Oscar for True Grit (1969). Wayne was also nominated as the producer of Best Picture for The Alamo (1960), one of two films he directed. The other was The Green Berets (1968), the only major film made during the Vietnam War to support the war.[12] During the filming of Green Berets, the Degar or Montagnard people of Vietnam's Central Highlands, fierce fighters against communism, bestowed on Wayne a brass bracelet that he wore in the film and all subsequent films.[18] His last film was The Shootist (1976), whose main character, J. B. Books, was dying of cancer—the illness to which Wayne himself succumbed 3 years later.", "At the end of the decade, in homage to one of the greatest Western stars in cinematic history, director Henry Hathaway saluted John Wayne with True Grit (1969) - a film for which Wayne, as one-eyed, pot-bellied Marshal Rooster Cogburn, received deserved critical recognition and a sentimental Academy Award for Best Actor - his first and sole Oscar victory.", "Both Norwood and True Grit were adapted as movies starring fellow Arkansan Glen Campbell and Kim Darby, and were commercially successful. John Wayne won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, one of the top box office hits of 1969. True Grit was released on June 11, 1969, earning USD$14.25 million at the box office. A second film version, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, debuted in December 2010. ", "True Grit is a 1969 American western film. It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts. The film was directed by Henry Hathaway and starred Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. Wayne won his only Academy Award for his performance in this film and reprised his role for the 1975 sequel Rooster Cogburn.", "1968. Charles Portis’s satirical Western adventure True Grit, which is told from the perspective of a 14-year-old girl seeking retribution for the murder of her father. Considered one of the great American novels. John Wayne would win a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 movie adaptation; the 2010 Coen Brothers adaptation is also excellent.", "He received his sixth Academy Award nomination for his role in True Grit, a collaboration with the Coen brothers in which he starred alongside Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and Hailee Steinfeld. Both the film, and Bridges' performance as Rooster Cogburn, were critically praised. Bridges lost to Colin Firth, whom he had beaten for the Oscar in the same category the previous year. It marked the first time two actors had been nominated for the award for playing the same character; Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards for playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II .", "\"It's hard to imagine bigger boots to fill than the ones that earned John Wayne his Oscar in True Grit, and yet Jeff Bridges handily reinvents the iconic role,\" said Variety's Peter Debruge.", "In the original 1969 film True Grit and its sequel in 1975, Cogburn was portrayed by John Wayne, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor because of the role in the 1969 film. In True Grit: A Further Adventure, Cogburn was portrayed by Warren Oates. The 2010 remake of the original film featured Jeff Bridges as Cogburn, who was also nominated for an Academy Award.", "Bridges received his sixth Academy Award nomination for his role in True Grit, a collaboration with the Coen brothers in which he starred alongside Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and Hailee Steinfeld. Both the film, and Bridges' performance as Rooster Cogburn, were critically praised. Bridges lost to Colin Firth, whom he had beaten for the Oscar in the same category the previous year.", "A month before John Wayne won the 1969 best actor Oscar for True Grit , Richard Nixon wrote him a \"Dear Duke\" fan letter from the Oval Office: \"I saw it in the Wh with my family and for once we agree with the critics – you were great!\" Some four decades later, his rave was echoed by another Republican warrior, this time in praise of the True Grit remake with Jeff Bridges in the role of the old, fat, hard-drinking, half-blind 19th-century Us marshal Rooster Cogburn . Shortly after New Year, Liz Cheney, daughter of former vice-president Dick, told the New York Times that her parents saw True Grit at the Teton theatre in Jackson, Wyoming, and gave it \"two thumbs up »", "Paramount Pictures released the first image of “True Grit” today which features Bridges and co-star Hailee Steinfield.  Most intriguing is the eyepatch Bridge’s character wears is on his right eye.  Wayne wore it on left.  A nod to the original film? ", "“If I’d known what I know now, I’d have put a patch on my eye 35 years ago,” John Wayne (True Grit).", "Famed actor John Wayne (born Marion Morrison) spent his career making classic films with fellow Irish American John Ford, among them The Quiet Man. In 1969, Wayne finally won a Best Acting Academy Award for his role in True Grit.", "True Grit (2010) is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Charles Portis. Filming was done in Texas and New Mexico. Hailee Steinfeld stars as Mattie Ross along with Jeff Bridges as Marshal Rooster Cogburn. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin also appear in the movie. True Grit was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture. ", "2010s[edit] True Grit (2010) is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Charles Portis.[19] Filming was done in Texas and New Mexico. Hailee Steinfeld stars as Mattie Ross along with Jeff Bridges as Marshal Rooster Cogburn. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin also appear in the movie.[20] True Grit was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[21][22]", "Wayne’s Oscar for True Grit at the 42nd annual Academy Awards in 1970 was generally considered to be a largely sentimental win, and a long-overdue reward for one of Hollywood’s most enduring performers. The Academy had failed to even nominate Wayne for any of his most celebrated performances, in films such as Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948), The Quiet Man (1952), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and especially Ford’s The Searchers (1956), considered by many to be the greatest Western ever made. In True Grit, Wayne played a drunken, foul-tempered but endearing U.S. marshal named Rooster Cogburn, who becomes an unlikely hero when he helps a young girl avenge the murder of her father. He would reprise the role in the film’s sequel, Rooster Cogburn (1975), opposite Katharine Hepburn.", "John Wayne won a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Actor. Upon accepting his Oscar, Wayne said, \"Wow! If I'd known that, I'd have put that patch on 35 years earlier.\" The title song, by composer Elmer Bernstein and lyricist Don Black, and sung by Glen Campbell, who co-starred in the movie, received nominations for both the Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe.", "True Grit - Ethan & Joel Coen (Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper)", "Rooster Cogburn, the charismatic rogue played by Jeff Bridges in the Coen Brothers entertaining 2011 film True Grit, is fearsome enough – a one-eyed, whiskey-guzzling, trigger-happy US marshal. But his creator, Charles Portis, the reclusive and somewhat forgotten American novelist who wrote the 1968 book on which the film is based, wasn’t someone to mess with either.", "The 2010 remake of True Grit uses \"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms\" as the theme for Mattie Ross, the main character, among other hymns. Unfortunately, because they were all pre-composed music, Mr. Carter Burwell was denied an Academy Award nomination.", "• In the remake of True Grit, Jeff Bridges starred in the role that was originally played by whom? John Wayne", "He won an Oscar for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), making him one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)_, Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and most recently Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).", "Yes, he was nominated for best actor as Sgt Striker in Sands of Iwo Jima which he did not win. He was nominated again for Rooster Cogburn in True Grit which he did win.", "In 2007, Day-Lewis starred in director Paul Thomas Anderson's loose adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!, titled There Will Be Blood. Day-Lewis received the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (which he dedicated to Heath Ledger, saying that he was inspired by Ledger's acting and calling the actor's performance in Brokeback Mountain \"unique, perfect\"), and a variety of film critics' circle awards for the role. In winning the Best Actor Oscar, Day-Lewis joined Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson as the only Best Actor winners awarded an Oscar in two non-consecutive decades.", "As of 2016, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: True Grit (2010), The Revenant (2015) and Brooklyn (2015).", "The versatile actor’s star continued to rise as he picked up another Best Actor Oscar award in 1997 for his role as Melvin Udall, a neurotic author with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), in the romance 'As Good as It Gets'. His co-star Helen Hunt won the award for Best Actress.", "Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2001 cop thriller Training Day, where he played Detective Alonzo Harris, a corrupt Los Angeles cop with questionable law-enforcement tactics. He was the second African-American performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. The first was Sidney Poitier, who was presented with an Honorary Academy Award the same night. Washington currently holds the records for most Oscar nominations (six) and the most wins (two) by an actor of African descent.", "Tough as nails on-screen and off, with a military record to prove the latter. Yet it was for his dual roles in the comedy Cat Ballou that he won his Oscar. Always worth watching because of the conviction with which he portrayed each of his characters." ]

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[ "David Niven (1910-1983) was a British actor. He plays James Bond in the 1967 spoof of Casino Royale . He was the second actor to play the role in a film outside the official franchise.", "Casino Royale is a 1967 spy comedy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. The film stars David Niven as the \"original\" Bond, Sir James Bond 007. Forced out of retirement to investigate the deaths and disappearances of international spies, he soon battles the mysterious Dr. Noah and SMERSH. The film's slogan: \"Casino Royale is too much... for one James Bond!\" refers to Bond's ruse to mislead SMERSH in which six other agents are pretending to be \"James Bond\", namely, baccarat master Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers); millionaire spy Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress); Bond's secretary Miss Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet); Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet), Bond's daughter with Mata Hari; and British agents \"Coop\" (Terence Cooper) and \"The Detainer\" (Daliah Lavi).", "In the second unofficial version, David Niven was James Bond in the Columbia Pictures spy spoof Casino Royale, in 1967.", "When Sean Connery had been cast in November 1961, David Niven had been Fleming's choice for the role as the actor reflected his image of the character. In 1965 producer Charles Feldman signed Niven to play Sir James Bond for Casino Royale, a film not made by Eon Productions. Connery and Peter Sellers had both turned down the role. Niven was 56 when he played Bond and his characterisation was that of an elderly man who had won the Victoria Cross at the Siege of Mafeking, had a daughter by his lover, the spy Mata Hari, played Claude Debussy on the piano, ate royal jelly and cultivated black roses. The concept of Bond is that once Niven's Bond retired, his name and 007 designation was passed to another agent to keep the legend alive; James Chapman notes that the implication was that the \"other Bond\" was that played by Connery.", "Casino Royale (1967) - A 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the original Bond, Sir James Bond 007. Forced out of retirement to investigate the deaths and disappearances of international spies, he soon battles the mysterious Dr. Noah and SMERSH .", "In which the un-retired James Bond (David Niven) meets the new Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet) and introduces his errant nephew Jimmy (Woody Allen), in the 007 spoof Casino Royale, 1967.", "In which the un-retired James Bond (David Niven) meets the new Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet) and introduces his errant nephew Jimmy (Woody Allen), in the 007 spoof Casino Royale, 1967.>", "But now a cinematic showdown, as unusual as any 007 has faced in 21 years on the screen is in the offing. There will be two Bond movies released this summer: Connery returns to the screen as Bond in Never Say Never Again, and Moore essays the secret agent once again in Octopussy. The big-screen Bond is based on the hero of the highly successful series of books created by Ian Fleming, an upper-crust former British naval officer who had been involved in espionage activities during World War II. Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, drawing on his wartime intelligence work and his skills as a journalist (he had covered Moscow spy trials in the 1930s and later worked for the Sunday Times of London) to create the suave and dangerous secret agent with a license to kill.", "You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.", "In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond (David Niven) comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following Sean Connery's decision to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby, to play the part of James Bond. During the making of the film, Lazenby decided that he would play the role of Bond only once.", "Diamonds Are Forever (1971) is the seventh spy film in the James Bond series by Eon Productions, and the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.", "Live and Let Die (1973) is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series to be produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, it was the third of four Bond films to be directed by Guy Hamilton. Although the producers had wanted Sean Connery to return after his role in the previous Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, he declined, sparking a search for a new actor to play James Bond. Moore was signed for the lead role.", "Pierce Brosnan makes his fourth appearance as suave super-spy James Bond in this espionage thriller, the 20th film in the official Bond series. While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond finally wins his freedom, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job, but after Zao (Rick Yune), the North Korean operative who snared Bond, is discovered to be in cahoots with unscrupulous entrepreneur Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world. As Bond hops from England to Cuba to Korea to Iceland in pursuit of his quarry, he (as usual) makes the acquaintance of two beautiful and mysterious women, Jinx (Halle Berry) and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike). Judi Dench and John Cleese return in Die Another Day as, respectively, Bond's superior M and gadget-master Q; Madonna contributes the film's theme song and makes a cameo appearance as a fencing instructor. - Mark Deming", "The pre-title credits action sequence was set in a mansion's sculptured gardens (on SPECTRE island) at nighttime - a cat-and-mouse game between two black-dressed men: British agent James Bond (Sean Connery) in a tuxedo, and blonde, psychopathic Russian assassin Donald \"Red\" Grant (Robert Shaw). The stalking ended when Grant pulled a razor-wire garrotte from his wristwatch and strangled the agent (# 1 death). Lights illuminated the scene, and Grant was evaluated on his SPECTRE training mission by Bond enemy Morzeny (Walter Gotell): \"Exactly one minute, 52 seconds. That's excellent.\" The dead agent's Bond face-mask was removed, revealing the face of another man.", "The film is notable for depicting Felix Leiter , Bond's CIA colleague, as an African-American, something which would not occur in the EON series until Casino Royale in 2006. The film also makes a major departure from official continuity by ending with Bond indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, he is shown to be unsure of the decision and later chooses to stay with the service. In the scene where Bond states his intention to quit, Connery breaks the fourth wall by winking at the camera; while this is incorrectly considered by many as being unique to this film, George Lazenby was in fact the first Bond to break the fourth wall almost 15 years earlier when he told the audience, \"This never happened to the other fellow\" (referring to Connery, the man he had replaced as Bond).", "The James Bond novels and films have ranged from realistic spy drama to science fiction. The original books by Fleming are usually dark — lacking fantasy or gadgets. Instead, they established the formula of unique villains, outlandish plots, and voluptuous women who tend to fall in love with Bond at first sight — the feeling often being mutual. The films expanded on Fleming's books, adding gadgets from Q Branch, death-defying stunts, and often abandoning the original plotlines for more outlandish and cinema-friendly adventures. The cinematic Bond adventures were initially influenced by earlier spy thrillers such as North by Northwest, Saboteur, and Journey Into Fear, but later entries became formulaic dramas where Bond saves the world from apocalyptic madmen. Inevitably, Bond's nemesis tries to kill him with a death-trap, during which the villain reveals vital information. Bond later escapes and uses this intelligence to thwart the evil plot. In many cases, Bond then kills his opponent himself, although early films often ended with the enemy either escaping or dying by someone else's hand.", "M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond book and film series; the character is the Head of the Secret Intelligence Service—also known as MI6—and is Bond's superior. Fleming based the character on a number of people he knew who commanded sections of British intelligence. M has appeared in the novels by Fleming and seven continuation authors, as well as appearing in twenty-four films. In the Eon Productions series of films, M has been portrayed by four actors: Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes, the incumbent; in the two independent productions, M was played by John Huston, David Niven and Edward Fox.", "He decides to rename all of the agents to James Bond to confuse the enemy. This results in David Niven, Terence Cooper, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress all playing James Bond!", "* The World Is Not Enough — 1999 film by Michael Apted in which James Bond is assigned to retaliate for the assassination of a business tycoon within MI6 headquarters", "During the series' fifty-year history only a few of the films have remained substantially true to their source material; Dr. No has many similarities to the novel and follows its basic plot, but there are a few notable omissions. Major elements from the novel that are missing from the film include Bond's fight with a giant squid, and the escape from Dr. No's complex using the dragon-disguised swamp buggy. Elements of the novel that were significantly changed for the film include the use of a (non-venomous) tarantula spider instead of a centipede; Dr. No's secret complex being disguised as a bauxite mine instead of a guano quarry; Dr. No's plot to disrupt NASA space launches from Cape Canaveral using a radio beam instead of disrupting US missile testing on Turks Island; the method of Dr. No's death by boiling in overheating reactor coolant rather than a burial under a chute of guano, and the introduction of SPECTRE, an organisation absent from the book. Components absent from the novel but added to the film include the introduction of the Bond character in a gambling casino, the introduction of Bond's semi-regular girlfriend Sylvia Trench, a fight scene with an enemy chauffeur, a fight scene to introduce Quarrel, the seduction of Miss Taro, Bond's recurring CIA ally Felix Leiter, Dr. No's partner in crime Professor Dent and Bond's controversial cold-blooded killing of this character.", "Broccoli and his team briefly considered making this new movie a prequel, in order to re-launch the series with a new actor (as they would go on to do nearly twenty years later when Daniel Craig took over the role).  But since the core creative lineup and supporting cast was not going to change, the filmmakers opted to keep the distinctive form and style of the last three Bond pictures, albeit with a noticeably less comedic tone.  The pre-credit sequence follows 007 and two other agents engaged in a dangerous field exercise on the Rock of Gibraltar.  One by one the men appear, and each time we think we might be seeing the face of the new Bond, until he gets bumped off. The delay of Dalton’s eventual reveal echoes Connery’s introduction in Dr. No.", "The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, \"007\", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. It is one of the longest continually-running film series in history, having been in on-going production from 1962 to the present (with a six-year hiatus between 1989 and 1995). In that time Eon Productions has produced 24 films, most of them at Pinewood Studios. With a combined gross of over $7 billion to date, the films produced by Eon constitute the third-highest-grossing film series, behind the Harry Potter and Marvel Cinematic Universe films (accounting for the effects of inflation the Bond films are the highest-grossing series amassing over $13 billion at 2011/2012 prices). Six actors have portrayed 007 in the Eon series, the latest being Daniel Craig.", "This film also inaugurates many of the recurring roles in the series, including Bond’s Secret Service Chief, known only as M and portrayed by the wonderful English character actor Bernard Lee (The Third Man, Beat the Devil), and M’s secretary Miss Moneypenny, played by the lovely Lois Maxwell.  Maxwell’s playful banter with Connery, which always hinted at a fondly remembered long-ago fling between their characters, was so charming and successful that she carried on in the role in fourteen consecutive films.  Peter Burton plays Q, the MI5 armorer. Burton could have had a job for life if he had wanted to continue in the role. Instead, he turned down From Russia with Love and was replaced by Desmond Llewelyn, who would appear as Q in sixteen subsequent pictures.", "Q is not referred to in this movie, though the film does feature a man who provides Bond with weapons named \"Major Boothroyd\" both on-screen and in the end credits. Although the character is played by Peter Burton , the armourer would seem to be the same person as Q, since Ian Fleming's novels refer to Q as Major Boothroyd. Usual Q actor Desmond Llewelyn would appear as \"Boothroyd\" in the following film, From Russia with Love , due to Burton being unavailable. Although Q-Branch is first mentioned in that film, it would not be until Goldfinger that the armourer would be referred to as Q.", "The filmmakers boldly omit many of the signature elements; including the opening gun barrel logo, the iconic “James Bond Theme,” the double-entendres and one-liners, and the well-known characters Q and Moneypenny. But most of the major roles, plot points, and sequences from Fleming’s book survive the update, as does the story’s dark tone. Title designer Daniel Kleinman references the playing-card imagery of the novel’s original British edition book jacket in his credit sequence. With the exception of the faces of the queens on the cards, Kleinman's titles (the first that live up to the promise he displayed in GoldenEye) forgo any female imagery, indicating that Bond's relationships with women in this movie will differ from preceding pictures. Despite the less than spectacular title song by David Arnold and Soundgarden front man Chris Cornell, this title sequence grabs and holds the attention of the viewer.  The determination of Martin Campbell and cinematographer Phil Méheux to shoot the brief pre-credit sequence in a 1960s widescreen process with actual black-and-white film stock also helps declare that we are no longer watching the James Bond series of the 1990s.", "To play the lead role of Bond, Sean Connery was not Broccoli or Fleming's first choice, but he was selected after Patrick McGoohan had turned down the role, [27] and Eon had rejected Richard Johnson . [28] [29] After Connery was chosen, Terence Young took the actor to his tailor and hairdresser [30] and introduced him to the high life, restaurants, casinos and women of London. In the words of Bond writer Raymond Benson , Young educated the actor \"in the ways of being dapper, witty, and above all, cool\". [31]", "Director Guy Hamilton returned for what would be his last entry in the series.  He and Tom Mankiewicz were not getting along by this point, so he brought Richard Maibaum back to rewrite Mankiewicz’s script.  The novel is set in Jamaica, like so many of Fleming’s books, but for the movie, the filmmakers planned to shape the story to fit a new location, somewhere the James Bond company hadn’t yet been to.  Thailand and Hong Kong were chosen as the settings, capitalizing on the current martial arts mania that had hit cinemas, in much the same way the preceding picture had hooked into the blaxploitation craze.  The mostly original plot, which concerned the quest for solar power, made the film especially timely as the Western world was grappling with a serious energy crisis at that point.", "Directed by Guy Hamilton. Cast: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Herve Villechaize, Clifton James. Roger Moore returns as Agent 007 and faces off in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with assassin Francisco Scaramanga. Features a wild car chase through Bangkok and Bond's stunning confrontation with an entire martial arts school. 125 min. DVD 6739", "Bond is played by Roger Moore for the second time. Moore is relaxed and easy-going in his usual manner, but shows a bit of the old Connery toughness during a couple of martial arts fight sequences. His mission is simply to stay alive this time, having been targeted by world renowned hitman Francisco Scaramanga (chilling Christopher Lee). Moore decides that rather than waiting around to be shot, he will hunt for Scaramanga himself, and his search takes him to Beirut, Macao, Hong Kong and, finally, a privately owned Thai island. En route, he discovers that Scaramanga has bigger fish to fry than simply killing 007, as he also plans to use a powerful solar device to power-up a deadly laser gun that he has had built.", "When Agent Amasova appeared before Russian KGB General Anatol Gogol (Water Gotell), he told her that there was a single lead to follow in Cairo, Egypt. She was offered condolences about the tragic death of fellow agent/lover Borzov on his mission in Austria involving the British Secret Service. Commander Bond took a Royal Navy helicopter to the Faslane Submarine Base in Scotland for a briefing with \"Q\" (Desmond Llewelyn), the British Minister of Defence Frederick Gray (Geoffrey Keen), Admiral Hargreaves (Robert Brown) and other naval officers regarding the disappearance of the HMS Ranger. They viewed the tracing of a submarine's top secret route, suggesting that the Russians could track (by heat signature recognition) British submarines underwater and sink them.", "James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov." ]

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[ "Emma Thompson won an Oscar in 1995 for her screenplay adaptation of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. This paperback includes the screenplay, her Golden Globe acceptance speech, her diaries written during the film's production, a full list of cast and crew credits, and more than 50 photos including stills, cast photos, and behind-the-scenes shots. In the introduction, producer Lindsay Doran comments:", "When I first saw Ang Lee’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility , I had just finished reading the book and to be quite honest, I didn’t care for it all that much. Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her adapted screenplay and, when I first saw it, I was really unhappy with the changes she’d made to the story and some of the characters. But after repeat viewings, I fell deeply in love with the film, despite said changes. I think it’s really one of those times where you have to suit the story for a new medium and modern audiences (kind of like the 2006 version of The Painted Veil ). Sense and Sensibility was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one: Best Dramatic Score, Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay Emma Thompson (won), Best Supporting Actress Kate Winslet, Best Actress Emma Thompson and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were Apollo 13 , Babe , Il Postino and winner Braveheart . Both Ron Howard (Apollo 13) and Ang Lee were not nominated for Best Director, despite their films being nominated for Best Picture. Those two spots were given to Tim Robbins (Dead Man Walking) and Mike Figgis ( Leaving Las Vegas ). Lee, however, was nominated for Best Director by several critic associations, as well as at the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes and the DGA. He was also named Best Director by the National Board of Review.", "Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 American period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. Actress Emma Thompson wrote the script and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. Actors Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman play their respective suitors. The film was released on 13 December 1995 in the United States and on 23 February 1996 in the United Kingdom.", "Sense & Sensibility (1995) - published in 1811; director Ang Lee, a tale of 19th century manners, morals and romantic fulfillment; garnered 7 Oscar nominations (including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress-Kate Winslet, Best Actress-Emma Thompson, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Dramatic Score) with only one Oscar win (Best Adapted Screenplay-Emma Thompson); also a BBC-TV miniseries in 1985", "Emma Thompson became the only individual to have won an Academy Award for both acting (Best Actress for Howards End (1992)) and screenwriting (Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995))", "One of the first ladies of contemporary British stage and cinema, Emma Thompson has won equal acclaim for her work as an actress and a screenwriter. For a long time known as Kenneth Branagh 's other half, Thompson was able to demonstrate her considerable talent to an international audience with Oscar-winning mid-1990s work in such films as Howards End and Sense and Sensibility.", "Still a relative unknown, Winslet attended a cattle call audition the next year for Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility (1995). She made an immediate impression on the film’s star, Emma Thompson, and beat out more than a hundred other hopefuls for the part of plucky Marianne Dashwood. Her efforts were rewarded with both a British Academy Award and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Winslet followed up with two more period pieces, playing the rebellious heroine in Jude (1996) and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996).", "*Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee, starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant - (U.K.) - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama) and Golden Bear award (for 1996)", "Emma Thompson (won best screenplay for \"Howard's End\" and nominated for best actress in \"Sense and Sensibility\")", "By the mid-1990s, Thompson's marriage to Branagh had ended. She took on a great creative challenge around this time, writing the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, based on the popular novel by Jane Austen. In this historical drama, Thompson played Elinor, one of the Dashwood sisters who are left to fend for themselves after the death of their father. Kate Winslet played her sister Marianne, and the two women set to improve their situation through marriage.", "Thompson made Academy Award� history as the first Oscar� -winning actor (for her role in Merchant Ivory's Howard's End) to also win an Academy Award� for Best Screenplay Adaptation (for Sense and Sensibility). The script also won Thompson the Golden Globe Award, the USC Scripter Award and Best Screenplay awards from the Writers Guild, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Broadcast Film Critics, the Chicago Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the New York Film Critics and National Board of Review. Additionally, her performance in Sense and Sensibility earned her a BAFTA award and Oscar� , Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations as Best Actress.", "During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Austen's writings have inspired a large number of critical essays and literary anthologies, establishing her as a British author of international fame. Her novels have inspired films, from 1940's Pride and Prejudice starring Laurence Olivier to more recent productions: Emma Thompson in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Kate Beckinsale in Love & Friendship (2016).", "Written by Jane Austen and published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility is one of her best-known novels, not least because of the 1995 Ang Lee film. It tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who, on the death of their father, are forced to move (along with their mother and younger sister) into rather more straitened circumstances. The novel follows Elinor's quiet, restrained love affair with Edward Ferrars (her sister-in-law's brother who is expected to marry a rich woman) and Marianne's more overtly-romantic love triangle with the dashing Willoughby and the older, reliable Colonel Brandon.", "Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975 (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000701/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm)) is an English actress and occasional singer. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sarah Pierce in Little Children, April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, and Hanna Schmitz in The Reader. Winslet has been nominated for six Academy Awards and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader in 2009. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign P...", "Also in 1995, Thompson accepted the role of Elinor Dashwood in Ang Lee’s version of Jane Austen’s novel, 'Sense and Sensibility'. Whilst filming this movie, Thompson met and fell in love with fellow actor Greg Wise, who played the role of Willoughby, Kate Winslet’s paramour. 'Sense and Sensibility' became recognised as an all-time classic rendering of the novel; Thompson had also been hard at work behind the scenes, however, as it was she who adapted the novel for the big screen. Her excellent screenplay was justly rewarded when she received the Oscar for Best Adaptation for Sense and Sensibility. Soon afterwards, she received an Emmy Award for her role as a guest star in a 1997 episode of the show 'Ellen'; in this episode, she played a fictionalised parody of herself", "It was on AMC - they were doing an Oscar tribute - the host specifically mentioned \"Sir John\" was \"Cornelius Fudge\", but made no mention of Alan Rickman or Emma Thompson being in the films. He did say however that Emma is the first actor to receive an Oscar for acting (Howard's End) and one for writing (Sense & Sensibility).", "Academy Award–winning actress Emma Thompson starred in films like Howards End, Sense and Sensibility and Nanny McPhee.", "The novel’s anniversary means it’s a good time for Austen fans to visit Jane Austen’s house, Chawton, near Alton in Hampshire, south England – around an hour by train from London. The charming house was where she spent the last eight years of her life and it’s where she did the majority of her mature writing. She wrote Emma here, as well as Mansfield Park and Persuasion, in addition to revising Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey.", "Based on the novel by Jane Austen (who in the '90s seemed to be in the running alongside William Shakespeare and Stephen King for the honors of most adapted author in Hollywood), this period romantic comedy stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse, a young woman who imagines herself an authority on matters of the heart. With the best of intentions, Emma plays matchmaker for her friends, most notably her friend Harriet (Toni Collette), who Emma links up with the Reverend Elton (Alan Cumming), and her governess, (Greta Scacchi), who she introduces to her future husband, Mr. Weston (James Cosmo). However, Emma is not nearly as good at playing Cupid as she likes to imagine, and she spends so much time trying to solve everyone else's romantic problems that it takes her quite some time to realize that she's fallen in love with Mr. Knightly (Jeremy Northam). A television miniseries based on Austen's book appeared a year later, while a year prior to Emma, the story appeared in modernized form in the popular teen comedy Clueless.", "With a background in comedy, Thompson's performances are typically delivered with an ironic touch. Ang Lee, director of Sense and Sensibility stated that Thompson's comedic approach may be her greatest asset as an actress, remarking, \"Emma is an extremely funny lady. Like Austen, she's laughing at her own culture while she's a part of it.\" Thompson has stated that the \"most moving things are often also funny, in life and in art\" which is present in her film work. She often brings her real personality to her roles, and Kellaway believes that her lack of conventional beauty contributes to her likeability as an actress.", "With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work. Beautiful, clever, rich-and single-Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.", "Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose social commentary and masterly use of both free indirect speech and irony eventually made her one of the most influential and honoured novelists in English literature. In popular culture, Austen's novels and her personal life have been adapted into film, television, and theatre, with adaptations varying greatly in their faithfulness to the original.", "Books and scripts that use the general storyline of Austen's novels but change or otherwise modernise the story also became popular at the end of the 20th century. For example, Clueless (1995), Amy Heckerling's updated version of Emma, which takes place in Beverly Hills , became a cultural phenomenon and spawned its own television series . [119] In a 2002 vote to determine whom the UK public considers the greatest British people in history, Austen was ranked number 70 in the list of the \" 100 Greatest Britons \". [120] In 2003, Austen's Pride and Prejudice came second in the BBC's The Big Read , a national poll to find the \"Nation's best-loved book.\" [121]", "In the novel Emma, the author, Jane Austen, uses many different techniques to characterize Miss Bates as a woman with no intellect, but a very", "Emma occupies a special place in this list because it is supremely English – in character, landscape, sensibility and wit. It's provincial, opaque, sparkling and wonderfully optimistic while being at the same time tinged with intimations of sorrow and mortality. In the end, it answers Jane Austen's own high-spirited prescription for the novel, expressed in Northanger Abbey: \"in short, only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language\".", "Thompson has picked up Golden Globe and Critics' Choice nominations for her portrayal of Travers. \"Emma could not have been more acerbic,\" says Andrews. \"I just love whatever she does.\"", "Dame Judi Dench is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in 'Shakespeare in Love.'", "Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985 directed by James Ivory and starring Maggie Smith as \"Charlotte Bartlett\", Helena Bonham Carter as \"Lucy Honeychurch\", Judi Dench as \"Eleanor Lavish\", Denholm Elliott as \"Mr. Emerson\", Julian Sands as \"George Emerson,\" Daniel Day-Lewis as \"Cecil Vyse\" and Simon Callow as \"The Reverend Mr. Beebe\".", "Blanchett is one of only five actors, and the only actress, to receive Academy Award nominations for portraying the same role in two films, as well as the only Australian to win two acting Oscars. A six-time Oscar nominee, she has also received nominations for Notes on a Scandal (2006), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and I'm Not There (2007). Her other notable films include The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Peter Jackson 's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and The Hobbit trilogy (2012–14), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), Cinderella (2015), and Carol (2015).", "Mirren earned her first Oscar® nomination for her portrayal of Queen Charlotte in Nicholas Hytner’s “The Madness of King George,” for which she also won Best Actress honors at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Her second Oscar® nomination came for her work in Robert Altman’s 2001 film “Gosford Park.” Her performance as the housekeeper also brought her Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations, several critics groups’ awards, and dual SAG Awards®, one for Best Supporting Actress and a second as part of the winning ensemble cast. Most recently, Mirren earned both Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations for her performance in “The Last Station,” playing Sofya Tolstoy.", "Through her marriage to Laurence Olivier, she became closely associated with his work at the National Theatre from 1963 onwards. From the 1980s she began to appear more regularly in films, including Enchanted April (1992), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination, Dennis the Menace (1993), a cameo in Last Action Hero (also 1993), and Tea With Mussolini (1999). She was also Nanny in 101 Dalmatians (1996). Among her television roles, she won another Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy Award nomination for the HBO film Stalin in 1992 as the Soviet dictator's mother-in-law. In 1994, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.", "In 1996, Dench won an unprecedented two Lawrence Olivier Awards for Best Actress and Best Actress in a Musical. In 1999, the same year she won her Oscar, Dench earned a Tony Award for her leading role in Amy's View. " ]

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[ "Minghella won the Academy Award for best director in 1996 for the wartime romance \"The English Patient\" starring Ralph Fiennes.", "Director Anthony Minghella , who won an Academy Award for directing the 1996 epic The English Patient , has died at age 54, his agent announced today. Variety reports that a spokesman for Mr. Minghella said he suffered a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, while in for a routine neck operation. A director who worked in theater and television (most notably for the series Inspector Morse and the lush, haunting The Storyteller series), Minghella made his feature film directorial debut with the ghost story/romance Truly, Madly, Deeply , which starred Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman . The film won Minghella a BAFTA award for his screenplay and effectively launched his film career. The little-seen indie romance Mr. Wonderful followed in 1993, but it was three years later that Minghella had his biggest success with The English Patient , an adaptation of the novel by Michael Ondaatje . Aggressively marketed by Miramax and arriving near the height of the independent film movement (though the film, with its epic scope, pushed the definition of indie filmmaking), the film became a surprise success, ultimately taking in $78 million in the US and winning a whopping nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture as well as Director for Minghella. Three of the film's stars, Ralph Fiennes , Kristin Scott Thomas and Juliette Binoche , were Oscar-nominated, with Binoche taking home the Best Supporting Actress award in a shocking upset over Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall .", "Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in The English Patient, for which Anthony Minghella won the Oscar in 1997 for best director. Credit Phill Bray/Miramax", "Anthony Minghella, the Academy Award-winning director of \"The English Patient\" whose other acclaimed films include \"The Talented Mr. Ripley\" and \"Cold Mountain,\" died Tuesday in London. He was 54.", "In 1996 he starred as the mortally wounded pilot in Anthony Minghella's brilliant and moving adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. The film garnered acclaim around the world, won the Academy Award® for Best Picture and garnered Fiennes his second Oscar® nomination, this time as Best Actor.", "RALPH FIENNES (Christopher Marshall) has emerged as one of the leading actors of his generation, with acclaimed screen performances in films such as the Oscar®-winning The English Patient and Schindler's List, as well as Quiz Show, Sunshine, The End of the Affair, Oscar and Lucinda and Onegin. Fiennes has also garnered a great deal of critical acclaim for his performances in the theater, both here and in the U.K., for the title roles in such classics as \"Hamlet,\" \"Ivanov,\" \"Richard II,\" and \"Coriolanus.\" This past year he was also seen in two thrillers, Red Dragon and David Cronenberg's Spider.", "Born to Italian immigrant parents who ran a successful ice-cream business on the Isle of Wight, Anthony Minghella studied at Hull University, where he then lectured in drama. His broadcast career began in the early 1980s as a script editor on Grange Hill. He later wrote early episodes of ITV's Inspector Morse. His big break came in film, directing Truly, Madly, Deeply in 1991. His feature film Mr Wonderful (1993) was his first venture into Hollywood. Huge successes followed with adaptations of novels, such as The English Patient (1996), winning nine Oscars, including Best Director; The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), and Cold Mountain (2003), with a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. He was awarded a CBE in 2001.", "Director Anthony Minghella's multi-Oscar-winning romantic drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas as a desert explorer and a married Englishwomen who are drawn into a passionate but doomed affair. Based on Michael Ondaatje's bestselling novel, it's epic duration may daunt but it's never less than compelling. Juliette Binoche won Best Supporting Actress as burn victim Fiennes' firm but understanding nurse.", "Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as \"The English Patient,\" \"The Talented Mr. Ripley\" and \"Cold Mountain\" into acclaimed movies, has died. He was 54.", "The 1990s saw a large number of traditional British period dramas, including Sense and Sensibility (1995), Restoration (1995), Emma (1996), Mrs. Brown (1997), The Wings of the Dove (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Topsy-Turvy (1999). Anthony Minghella's biggest directorial success was The English Patient (1996), winning nine Academy Awards. English film composer Michael Nyman wrote the critically acclaimed score for The Piano (1993). Elton John and lyricist Sir Tim Rice collaborated to write music for Disney's The Lion King (1994), winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as did Phil Collins for Disney's Tarzan (1999). Scottish composer Craig Armstrong wrote the award winning score for the modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996). BAFTA award winning British films included Danny Boyle's drama Trainspotting (1996) that centres on life in Edinburgh, the 1997 comedy The Full Monty set in Sheffield, and the biographical drama Elizabeth (1998). Richard Curtis's 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral set a pattern for British-set romantic comedies, including Sliding Doors (1998) and Notting Hill (1999).", "After his movie-directing debut in “Truly Madly Deeply,” a made-for-television production that was released theatrically in 1990, Mr. Minghella went on to adapt a number of novels for a series of well-reviewed films. In addition to winning the directing Oscar in 1997 for “The English Patient” — which garnered a total of nine Oscars, including best picture — Mr. Minghella also received an adapted-screenplay nomination. In 2000 his screenplay for “The Talented Mr. Ripley” was nominated as well.", "Anthony Minghella, nominated for best director for his work on \"Cold Mountain,\" arrives with his wife, Caroline for the 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 25, 2004, in Beverly Hills, Calif. His 1999 film \"The Talented Mr. Ripley,\" earned five Oscar nominations.", "STEPHANIE KENNEDY: Anthony Minghella also directed The Talented Mr Ripley, another Oscar-winning film which starred Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow.", "Cold Mountain is a 2003 British-American-Romanian-Italian epic war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. It stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger in leading roles as well as Natalie Portman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters, Jena Malone, Donald Sutherland, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Winstone, Jack White, Kathy Baker, Cillian Murphy and Giovanni Ribisi in supporting roles.", "Minghella received Oscar nominations for two screenplays: \"The English Patient\" (adapted from the Michael Ondaatje novel) and \"The Talented Mr. Ripley\" (adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel), a 1999 drama starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law.", "2012 – Great Expectations , a film directed by Mike Newell , starring Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and Jeremy Irvine as Pip.", "This powerful motion picture is an experience you will never forget. During World War II, a mysterious stranger (Ralph Fiennes) is cared for by British allies unaware of his dangerous past. Yet, as the mystery of his identity is revealed, an incredible tale of passion, intrigue, and adventure unfolds.", "Fiennes has been the recipient of many significant awards and nominations for his work in film and  theatre. He was nominated for Academy Awards®, Golden Globes and BAFTAs for his roles in both The English Patient and Schindler’s List, winning the BAFTA for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the latter. He was also nominated for BAFTAs for The End of the Affair and The Constant Gardener. He was nominated for the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for Coriolanus. Most recently he was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for his leading role in The Grand Budapest Hotel. Fiennes has also been honoured with the Variety Award for Film Achievement, The Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards and The Empire Film Legend Award.", "An epic, moving adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's acclaimed novel which beautifully recounted tragic relationships against the backdrop of a confused ending to World War II. Director Minghella, who wrote the screenplay with Ondaatje, crafted a film that allows for glorious acting against stunning vistas (the desert has not burned the screen like this since Lean's Lawrence of Arabia), and proved that epic cinema still had a place in the '90s. Excellent, romantic performances from Fiennes and Scott-Thomas, while Juliette Binoche, who won one of the film's nine Oscars®, created the perfect balance to their story.", "The result, a considerable leap in scale and ambition for Minghella, was an impressive, if somewhat languorous, epic love story set during the second world war, which won nine Academy awards, including best director and best picture. Certainly Minghella showed he was able to get fine performances from his cast and control a complex structure - the plot moves between the Italian front near the end of the war, where a French-Canadian nurse (Juliette Binoche) cares for a seriously burned patient (Ralph Fiennes), and North Africa during the late 1930s, when the patient, revealed as a Hungarian count and mapmaker, fell in love with a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas).", "An epic, moving adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's acclaimed novel which beautifully recounted tragic relationships against the backdrop of a confused ending to World War II. Director Minghella, who wrote the screenplay with Ondaatje, crafted a film that allows for glorious acting against stunning vistas (the desert has not burned the screen like this since Lean's Lawrence of Arabia), and proved that epic cinema still had a place in the '90s. Excellent, romantic performances from Fiennes and Scott-Thomas, while Juliette Binoche, who won one of the film's nine Oscars, created the perfect balance to their story.", "The success of the film, which also starred Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas, was evidence of Minghella’s strengths. It was adapted from a poetic, multi-stranded novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje that many considered unfilmable. In Minghella’s hands it was lush, evocative and epic.", "The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella. An adaptation of the 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name, the film stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood and Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue.", "In 1997, Fiennes starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Oscar and Lucinda, an eccentric love story adapted from Peter Carey's celebrated novel and directed by Australia's Gillian Anderson. He then starred in and executive produced the feature film version of Pushkin's classic verse novel, \"Eugene Onegin.\" Directed by his sister Martha Fiennes, and co-starring Liv Tyler, this visually stunning production was shot on location in Russia. In 1999, Fiennes starred in Neil Jordan's film adaptation of novelist Graham Greene's The End of the Affair opposite Julianne Moore and Stephan Rea, as well as writer/director Istvan Szabo's epic Sunshine, which spans three generations, from the fall of the Hapsburg Empire to the 1965 Hungarian Revolution. Fiennes portrayed the central character in each of the three linking stories.", "John Madden’s romantic comedy about William Shakespeare stars Joseph Fiennes, as the struggling poet and playwright searching for a muse. This he finds in the form of Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow), a passionate actor auditioning for all-male casts in the guise of Thomas Kent. The eighth British film to ever win Best Picture, it featured Judi Dench as Elizabeth I and Colin Firth as Lord Wessex. It scooped 7 oscars in all, with Paltrow and Dench securing best actress and supporting actress.", "Star studded: Ralph Fiennes also stars in the film which will show at Toronto film festival", "The film was directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography (Pasqualino De Santis) and Best Costume Design (Danilo Donati); it was also nominated for Best Director and Best Picture, making it the last Shakespearean film to be nominated for Best Picture to date. Sir Laurence Olivier spoke the film's prologue and epilogue and reportedly dubbed the voice of the Italian actor playing Lord Montague, but was not credited in the film.", "Award shared with:Ben Affleck,Simon Callow,Jim Carter,Martin Clunes,Joseph Fiennes,Colin Firth,Gwyneth Paltrow,Geoffrey Rush,Antony Sher,Imelda Staunton, Tom Wilkinson,Mark Williams", "1998 - 'Shakespeare in Love' | Joseph Fiennes dances with Gwyneth Paltrow, who won the Oscar for best actress.", "The film also won Best Make Up/Hair at the BAFTA Awards, and was nominated for Best British Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jim Broadbent), Best Supporting Actor (Timothy Spall) and Best Original Screenplay. Broadbent also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, and the film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the same festival.", "Directed by Peter Callahan. Starring Joseph Fiennes, Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Reaser, Mary Tyler Moore, Michelle Trachtenberg.", "1998 Best Picture nominees set in the Elizabethan era featuring Oscar-nominated performances for the character of Queen Elizabeth I and both featuring Joseph Fiennes ." ]

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[ "I Could Go On Singing (1963): Judy Garland's last film. In it her son is shown playing some muddy U-14 schoolboy rugby. The sequence only lasts five minutes or so.", "I Could Go On Singing is a 1963 musical drama film directed by Ronald Neame, starring Judy Garland (in her final film role) and Dirk Bogarde.", "Garland's films after A Star Is Born included Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (for which she was Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated for Best Supporting Actress), the animated feature Gay Purr-ee (1962), and A Child Is Waiting (1963) with Burt Lancaster. Her final film was I Could Go on Singing (1963), co-starring Dirk Bogarde.", "8.  Judy Garland 31 Movies Ranked…from A Star Is Born (1954) to I Could Go On Singing (1963)", "Sir Charles Spencer \"Charlie\" Chaplin, (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona \"the Tramp\" and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.", "Astaire was also given complete autonomy over how the dances would be presented, allowing him to revolutionize dance on film. He is credited with two important innovations in early film musicals. First, he insisted that an almost stationary camera film a dance routine in a single shot, if possible, while holding the dancers in full view at all times. Astaire famously quipped: \"Either the camera will dance, or I will.\" Astaire maintained this policy from The Gay Divorcee in 1934 onwards until his last film musical, Finian's Rainbow, made in 1968, when he was overruled by director Francis Ford Coppola. ", "Frank Sinatra, in full Francis Albert Sinatra (born December 12, 1915, Hoboken , New Jersey , U.S.—died May 14, 1998, Los Angeles , California ), American singer and motion-picture actor who, through a long career and a very public personal life, became one of the most sought-after performers in the entertainment industry; he is often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music .", "Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 � February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain, he dominated the Hollywood musical film from the mid 1940s until its demise in the late 1950s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Kelly among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 15. Early life Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and Harriet Curran, who were both children of Irish Roman Catholic immigrants. He was b...", "Frank Sinatra (December 12, 1915 May 14, 1998) was a very popular American singer and film actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era as the boy singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found unprecedented success as a solo artist from the early to mid-1940s. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity. He was a founding member of the \"Rat Pack\" and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.", "Chaplin's final two films were made in London: A King in New York (1957) in which he starred, wrote, directed and produced; and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), which he directed, produced, and wrote. The latter film stars Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando , and Chaplin made his final on-screen appearance in a brief cameo role as a seasick steward. He also composed the music for both films with the theme song from A Countess From Hong Kong, \" This is My Song \", reaching number one in the UK as sung by Petula Clark . Chaplin also compiled a film The Chaplin Revue from three First National films A Dog's Life (1918), Shoulder Arms (1918) and The Pilgrim (1923) for which he composed the music and recorded an introductory narration. As well as directing these final films, Chaplin also wrote My Autobiography, between 1959 and 1963, which was published in 1964.", "Chaplin's final two films were made in London: A King in New York (1957) in which he starred, wrote, directed and produced; and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), which he directed, produced, and wrote. The latter film stars Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando , and Chaplin made his final on-screen appearance in a brief cameo role as a seasick steward. He also composed the music for both films with the theme song from A Countess From Hong Kong, \" This is My Song \", reaching number one in the UK as sung by Petula Clark . Chaplin also compiled a film The Chaplin Revue from three First National films A Dog's Life (1918), Shoulder Arms (1918) and The Pilgrim (1923) for which he composed the music and recorded an introductory narration. As well as directing these final films, Chaplin also wrote My Autobiography, between 1959 and 1963, which was published in 1964.", "Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award, won a Golden Globe Award, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her work in films, as well as Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. She had a contralto singing range.", "Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.", "Frank Sinatra, the singer and actor whose extraordinary voice elevated popular song into an art, died on Thursday night in Los Angeles. He was 82.", "Francis Albert \"Frank\" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, director, and producer. Beginning his musical career in the swing era as a boy singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found success as a solo artist from the early to mid-1940s after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the \"bobby soxers\", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity. He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.", "By the mid-1950s the era of the classic Hollywood musical as Astaire had experienced it—indeed, defined it— was coming to an end, and Astaire moved into other fields. On television he produced four multiple award-winning musical specials with Barrie Chase as his partner. He also tried his hand at straight acting roles with considerable success in eight films between 1959 and 1982. Over the years he played a number of characters on television— usually suave ones—in dramatic specials and series. As he entered his 80s, Astaire, a life-long horse racing enthusiast, romanced, and in 1980 married, Robyn Smith, a successful jockey in her mid-30s. He died seven years later.", "The actor was only 23 years old when he died suddenly in 1993. But almost 20 years later, his final film will be released.", "Dancer, film actor, singer, director and choreographer Gene Kelly died at the age of 83. He was noted for his energetic and athletic dancing style, in contrast to Fred Astaire. Kelly was best known as the dancing star of Singin' in the Rain (1952), but he had been in numerous other musicals in the 40s and 50s, including For Me and My Gal (1942) opposite Judy Garland, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), On the Town (1949), and An American in Paris (1951) . In 1952 (at the ceremony honoring 1951's films), Kelly received an Honorary Academy Award \"in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.\"", "The late 1950s was a time of great stress for Lauren because Bogie was severely ill. On January 14, 1957, Humphrey Bogart died of throat cancer. In his funeral, his window reverently placed a whistle inside his coffin in memory of their first film To Have and Have Not, where this famous line was stated: “You know how to whistle don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow”.", "She was the third daughter of Daniel and Anne MacDonald, younger sister to Blossom (MGM's character actress Marie Blake ), whom she followed to New York and a chorus job in 1920. She was busy in a string of musical productions. In 1928 Paramount tested and rejected her, but a year later Ernst Lubitsch saw her test and picked her to play opposite Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1929). Musicals went into decline and Paramount dropped her in 1931; her next pictures with Chevalier went nowhere. She went to Europe where she met Irving Thalberg and his wife Norma Shearer (whom she loaned both her hairdresser and chauffeur). She got the lead in Thalberg's property The Merry Widow (1934), and her next MGM vehicle, Naughty Marietta (1935) brought her together with Nelson Eddy . For her next project she insisted Clark Gable should co-star. He at first refused - \"I just sit there while she sings. None of that stuff for me.\" - the movie, of course, was San Francisco (1936). During World War II she often did USO shows. She hoped to enter grand opera; she did take lessons and gave concert recitals. Her last public appearance, singing \"Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life\", was at the funeral of Louis B. Mayer . She suffered heart ailments and, after an arterial transplant in 1963, died of a heart attack in Houston in 1965. Hysterical crowds listened to recordings of \"Ah, Sweet Mystery\" at her Forest Lawn funeral.", "His final acting role on the silver screen was in 1973 when he starred in the film  Take Me High .", "Actor 16 May 1927 — 23 April 2015 D EB O R A H S H I PL E Y", "Disc Jockey (1951)� Tom Drake, Ginny Simms, Jane Nigh, Michael O�Shea, Jerome Cowan, Tommy Dorsey. A radio disc jockey is about to lose his sponsor because they think TV is cutting into the listening audience. He enlists twenty-eight disc jockeys around the country to prove the claims false. Noted for the rare film footage of the Weavers singing five of their songs: \"Goodnight, Irene\", \"Tzena, Tzena, Tzena\", \"So Long\", \"Around the World\" and \"The Roving Kind\". The film also features the Western band, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage.", "The actor was one of the last living links to Hollywood's silent era, and did not earn residuals from early classics like 1944's \"National Velvet.\"", "Veteran: The star has been a fixture of the big and small screens for 60 years", "The singer, who was married five times and in 1958 divorced Debbie Reynolds to hook up with Elizabeth Taylor , died Wednesday night at a Berkeley hospital of complications following hip surgery. He was 82.", "His film, stage and television career spanned more than 60 years. The actor died on Tuesday.", "Bobby Darin - actor and singer whose hits included, \"Splish Splash\" and \"Mack The Knife\", died Dec. 20th, 1973 after unsuccessful heart surgery at the age of 37", "Singin' in the Rain is a timeless musical about a cast moving from silent films to talkies. Gene Kelly starred in and co-directed the film.", "actor: With a Song in My Heart, Bus Stop, It Happened to Jane, The Music Man, Sixteen Candles, Racing with the Moon; died July 30, 2000", "May have been the only actor in history to appear in at least one film in ten consecutive decades.", "American entertainer who danced in many film Musicals with partners. admired for his speed and grace and for his apparently effortless approach to dancing" ]

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[ "In the 1960s, Stamp shared a house with actor Michael Caine before and during their rise to fame. In his autobiography, What's it All About, Caine states that he \"still wakes up sweating in the night as he sees Terence agreeing to accept my advice to take the role in Alfie\".", "1992: Actor Michael Caine and David Bowie attend the book party for Michael Caine \"What's It All About\" on November 15, 1992 at Elaine's Restaurant in New York City.", "Sir Michael Caine has won two Academy Awards during his distinguished five-decade career on screen. Knighted in 2000, Caine was born in working-class Sussex, England, and served in the British Army before landing his first film role in Zulu (1964). His films include The Ipcress File, Alfie, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules, and Harry Brown. He is the author of the bestselling What's It All About?. He lives in Surrey with his wife of thirty-seven years.", "Also an author, Caine wrote an autobiography entitled What's It All About?, as well as Acting on Film, a book based on a series of lectures he gave on BBC Television. His latest memoir, The Elephant to Hollywood, was published to much acclaim in 2010 by Henry Holt and Co. in the United States.", "Caine lives near Leatherhead, Surrey, and is patron to the Leatherhead Drama Festival.[22] He has also lived in North Stoke, Oxfordshire, Clewer near Windsor, Berkshire, Lowestoft in Suffolk and Chelsea Harbour in London. In addition, Caine owns a unit at The Apogee in Miami Beach, Florida. He still keeps a small flat near where he grew up in South East London.[23] Caine published a volume of memoirs, What’s It All About? in 1992 and told BBC Radio in 2010 he was preparing another, especially for aspiring actors.[24]", "A 60 minute documentary produced by the BBC and broadcast on 25 December 2008, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the show. It featured interviews with all of the major cast members and other contributors, including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny and Tony Robinson. [13]", "Michael Caine is an English actor and author. Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon.", "Anthony John \"Tony\" Hancock (12 May 1924 – 24 June 1968) was a British actor and comedian.", "Who: Kenneth Williams , British actor and raconteur. This was the final entry in his diary.", "‘He loved it. He loved the people in it, it was a big part of his life and he used to have a lot of fun with Clive Dunn and John Le Mesurier and Frank Williams and all of them. They just had a great bod,’ he said.", "In addition to being an actor, he is a writer, poet, musician and photographer. His show biz idol has long been the late David Bowie.", "Sir David John White, OBE known by his stage name David Jason (born 2 February 1940) is a highly regarded English actor, admired equally for his dramatic work as for his comedy roles. He is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of \"Del Boy\" in the BBC television situation comedy Only Fools and Horses which made him a household name in the United Kingdom, and for playing detective chief inspector Jack Frost on A Touch of Frost.", "David Edward Williams (born 20 August 1971), known as David Walliams, is an English comedian, actor, author, presenter, television presenter and activist, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the BBC One sketch shows Little Britain, Rock Profile and Come Fly with Me.", "Trivia books written by Caine include Not Many People Know That!, And Not Many People Know This Either!, Michael Caine's Moving Picture Show and Not A Lot of People Know This is 1988. Proceeds from the books went to the National Playing Fields Association (now Fields In Trust) of which Caine was a prominent supporter.Unlike many actors who adopt their stage name for everyday use, Caine still uses his real name when he is not working.", "In England he became very ill and was in and out of work, supplementing his acting assignments with odd jobs such as waiting in a cafeteria, doorman at the Odeon Theatre and even busking on the streets of London. Even as things turned for the worst, he would always write back to his mother that all was well and things were moving along so as not to alarm her in any way or make her worry. Sir Michael Redgrave discovered him one night at the Odeon Theatre and arranged an introduction to the Windsor Repertory Company. The Arts Council of Great Britain was looking for a leading man and part-time director for the only major repertory company that was left in England, The Arts Council Midland Theatre Company, and he got the job. During his stay in England he went into television with the BBC, and for 18 months he was in every big play on TV. One of the major roles in his early career was the one in the play \"Barnett's Folly\", which he himself ranked as one of his favorites.", "The play has been a revelation to people who knew Mr. Corden only from television, just as the existence of his other life as a screenwriter has been a revelation to those who saw him only as a comic actor. But Mr. Corden sees it all as of a piece. A few years ago he found himself at a wedding in a Welsh seaside town. He knew almost no one, so he hung back and observed.", "Hedison was featured on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as one of the actors who was interviewed for the premiere episode of Season 8, in which Roger Moore was profiled. The program aired on September 14, 2012, on ITV1 in the United Kingdom.", "9.00 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories Actor Warwick Davis, who stands at 3ft 6, reflects on his career, offering an entertaining and revealing account of some of the routine realities of life as a little person. (S)", "With an introduction by Richard Curtis, the book features delicious extra bits of material, such as the out-takes and a look behind the scenes, stories of the actors' first loves and their favorite love songs. A 192-page trade paperback, with full-color photographs throughout.", "Sir Patrick Stewart OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film. ", "Doonican won the BBC Television Personality of the Year award in 1966. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1970. Eamonn Andrews met him at the 18th green of the South Herts Golf Club as Doonican played a round of golf. He wrote two volumes of autobiography, The Special Years (1980) and Walking Tall (1985)", "As well as acting on stage, in film and on television, Owen also had a successful career as a songwriter, penning the lyrics for the Cliff Richard's 1960's hit \"Marianne\". In partnership with Mike Sammes, he also wrote lyrics for pop songs performed by Englebert Humperdinck, Harry Secombe, Sacha Distel and Pat Boone. Owen also wrote numerous one-act plays for boys clubs and was arts adviser to the National Association of Boys Clubs, for which he was made an MBE in 1976. His dancing skills weren't bad either, in fact Gene Kelly once called him a 'born dancer'. All of these achievements though were often overlooked in favor of the role that made Owen a household name. \"Compo\" the scruffy, woolly capped, welly wearing, lecherous, incorrigible prankster, whose passionate pursuit of the formidable \"Nora Batty\" lasted 26 years. In real life, Owen was married for 17 years to Edith Stevenson with whom he had a son, Tom who joined the cast of LOTSW after Owen's death, playing his long lost son Tom Simmonite. Owen married former actress Kathleen O'Donoghue in 1977 and the couple made Holmfirth their home.", "Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English actor, best known for his comedy roles and in later life as a raconteur and diarist.", "He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1987 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.", "He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1981 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.", "He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1971 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.", "In 1966 he turned to acting, first in films and television, and then on stage. His films include 'Privilege' and 'The Committee'. His television credits include 'Z Cars', 'Space 1999' and 'The Sweeney'. In the 80s he hosted 'Weekend for Granada' and 'A Plus 4' on Channel Four. More recently he starred in four series of the children's favourite, Uncle Jack. At the Royal National Theatre he starred in 'The Beggar's Opera' and 'Guys And Dolls', and for the RSC, 'Kiss Me Kate'. Other West End shows include 'Conduct Unbecoming' (also on Broadway), 'Cats', and 'Pump Boys' and 'Dinettes'. He has worked with directors such as Sir Richard Eyre, Peter Gill and Toby Robertson. His numerous gold albums include one for the original recording of Evita.", "But beside all that he is one of the greatest actors of all times and here is presented a little bio about his life:", "He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It, and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character. He subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series Happy Families and in the film The Big Tease. He is also known for his roles in the TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News, Help, Kiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123. In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Help.", "Comedies / Television / Actors / British / British Television / Film About Film / Series / Television Shows", "After 58 years of silence, one of Britain's premier entertainers finally reveals all his showbiz secrets! Read our exclusive interview here!", "Comic actor whose camp style and catchphrase âIâm freeâ made him a star of sitcom and pantomime" ]

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[ "Dame Judi Dench is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in 'Shakespeare in Love.'", "Dame Judi Dench is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love.", "Dame Judi Dench was born on December 9th, 1934 in York, Yorkshire, England. She made her stage debut in 1957 as Ophelia in Hamlet. She also performed in musical roles, starring in the London premiere of Cabaret in 1968. She won an Oscar for her role as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. Currently she is portraying James Bond's boss M in the Bond film series.", "She and her The Shipping News (2001) and Notes on a Scandal (2006) co-star Judi Dench both received Oscar-nominations for playing Queen Elizabeth I in 1999. Dench won for her supporting role in Shakespeare in Love (1998) while Blanchett was nominated for Elizabeth (1998).", "Also in 1998 British actress Judi Dench won an Academy Award for her supporting performance as the Virgin Queen in the popular Shakespeare in Love, a performance of only eleven minutes.", "Interestingly Jean Simmons is said to have turned down the role of Jean Pargetter in the sitcom As Time Goes By *. The role of course eventually went to Dame Judi Dench who took the role of Queen Elizabeth in the film Shakespeare in Love *. This time Queen Elizabeth was not the main focus of the film, but just an incidental character. It didn't stop Dame Judi taking home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar from that year's awards!", "As well as the BAFTAs, Dench has also been rewarded with an Academy Award for her role in \"Shakespeare in Love\", in which she portrayed Queen Elizabeth I. Widely regarded as one of the finest actors of stage and screen in anyone's lifetime, Dench was honoured with an OBE and the title of Dame Judi Dench in 1988.", "In 1997, she endeared herself to movie audiences in her first leading role as Queen Victoria in the biopic Mrs. Brown. But it was another royal performance, this time as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998), that proved Oscar worthy. Despite an on-screen time totaling just eight minutes, Dench's performance was so dazzling she walked away with the Best Supporting Actress Award.", "23. In 1999, Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench were both nominated for playing Queen Elizabeth in \"Elizabeth\" and \"Shakespeare in Love.\" Dench won Best Supporting Actress despite only appearing in the film for a total of eight minutes. Meanwhile, Blanchett lost the Best Actress Oscar to Gwyneth Paltrow -- also for \"Shakespeare in Love.\"", "24. In 1999, Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench were both nominated for playing Queen Elizabeth in \" Elizabeth \" and \" Shakespeare in Love .\" Dench won Best Supporting Actress despite only appearing in the film for a total of eight minutes. Meanwhile, Blanchett lost the Best Actress Oscar to Gwyneth Paltrow -- also for \"Shakespeare in Love.\"", "She has won multiple awards for performances on the London stage, including a record six Laurence Olivier Awards. She also won the Tony Award for her 1999 Broadway performance in the role of Esme Allen in David Hare’s Amy’s View. She has taken on the role of Director for a number of stage productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Elizabeth I in the film Shakespeare in Love.", "(Runner up: Judi Dench for about ten minutes of screen time as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998), with 14 speaking parts (of approx. 446 words).)", "Number 46: Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in \"Shakespeare in Love\" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)", "Dench's other film of 1997 was Roger Spottiswoode 's Tomorrow Never Dies , her second film in the James Bond series . The spy film follows Bond, played by Brosnan, as he tries to stop a media mogul from engineering world events and starting World War III . Shot in France, Thailand, Germany, the United Kingdom, Vietnam and the South China Sea , [31] it performed well at the box office and earned a Golden Globe nomination despite mixed reviews. [32] The same year, Dench reteamed with director John Madden to film Shakespeare in Love (1998), a romantic comedy-drama that depicts a love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare , played by Joseph Fiennes , while he was writing the play Romeo and Juliet . On her performance as Queen Elizabeth I , The New York Times commented that \"Dench's shrewd, daunting Elizabeth is one of the film's utmost treats.\" [33] The following year, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role . [30] On her Oscar win, Dench joked on-stage, \"I feel for eight minutes on the screen I should only get a little bit of him.\" [34]", "Two Gentlemen is also featured in Shakespeare in Love (1999). Directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, the film tells the fictional story of William Shakespeare's (Joseph Fiennes) composition of Romeo and Juliet. Early in the film, Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench) attends a production of Two Gentlemen, greatly enjoying William Kempe (Patrick Barlow) being thoroughly outperformed by Crab, and then falling asleep during Henry Condell's (Nicholas Boulton) recitation of Proteus' soliloquy from Act 2, Scene 1. Later, after reading the first draft of Romeo and Ethel, theatre manager Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) suggests that Shakespeare add a dog to liven the play up.", "Elizabeth is focused entirely on the reign of the young Elizabeth I, while Shakespeare in Love is focused on William Shakespeare and his what-if love life, with Elizabeth getting only a few minutes of screen time (though Judi Dench , as the Queen, steals every scene she's in.)", "In a night of surprises and upsets, the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love won seven Academy Awards on Sunday, including best picture, best actress for Gwyneth Paltrow, and best supporting actress for Judi Dench. Steven Spielberg's bloody World War II epic Saving Private Ryan won the prize for directing and four other Oscars.", "Queen Elizabeth I of England has been a frequent character in movies and is perhaps the monarch most depicted on screen. She has been played by such actresses as Sarah Bernhardt (1912), Bette Davis (1939 and 1955), Jean Simmons (1953), Glenda Jackson (1971, on TV and film), Cate Blanchett (1998 and 2007), Judi Dench (1998, an Oscar® winner), and Helen Mirren (2005, on TV). Flora Robson played her twice, inThe Sea Hawk and previously in Fire Over England (1937). Some film historians consider Robson's portrayals among the best.", "- The same year that Dench won an Academy Award for Shakespeare In Love, Cate Blanchett was nominated for playing the younger version of the character in Elizabeth (1998).", "JUDI DENCH in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (Best Actress in Supporting Role Academy Award Winner in 1998)", "Dame Judith Olivia \"Judi\" Dench is an award winning stage and tv/film actress. She is also regarded as one of the greatest British actress and she won the following awards : BAFTAs, 7 Laurence Olivier Awards, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards, and one Academy award. She also won a Tony award. She started her career in 1957 in stage plays and in several Shakespearean plays. She became more famous in he role in the musical movie \"Cabaret\" in 1968.", "Dame Judi Dench [7] is a widely acclaimed English actress who has received many awards for her acting in theatre, film and television including six British Academy Film Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, seven Olivier Awards (for excellence in professional theatre in London), two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award (for achievement in live Broadway theatre).", "It’s okay when they give Dame Judi Dench an Oscar for barely appearing in a film — look up ‘Shakespeare In Love’ — but she’s a Dame. We aren’t sure it’s cool if the actress hasn’t been recognized by the Queen.", "Dench studied at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art in London . In 1957 she gave her first important critically acclaimed performance, as Ophelia in the Old Vic production of Hamlet. The following year she made her Broadway debut in Twelfth Night. Her performance as Lady Macbeth in the Royal Shakespeare Company ’s Macbeth (1977) earned her a Laurence Olivier Award from the Society of West End Theatre Managers (now the Society of London Theatre). It was her first of eight Olivier Awards; she also won for Juno and the Paycock (1980), Pack of Lies (1983), Antony and Cleopatra (1987), Absolute Hell (1996), A Little Night Music (1996), and The Winter’s Tale (2016), and in 2004 she received a special Olivier Award.", "Her first high-profile international role was as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett lost out to Gwyneth Paltrow for her role in Shakespeare in Love, but won a British Academy Award (BAFTA) and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. The following year, Blanchett was nominated for another BAFTA Award for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley.", "Became the third person, after Sigourney Weaver and Joan Plowright , to win two Golden Globes for acting in the same year. The characters she played were both Queens of England, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II .", "127. Orlando (1992): Based on Virginia Woolf's fantasy novel of the same name, Tilda Swinton plays the young nobleman who, at Queen Elizabeth I's command, stays young forever. But Orlando also changes gender and becomes a woman of keen insight and delicate irony. Director Sally Potter got the tone just right here, and of course there is Tilda handling nobility and gender fluidity as only she can. Bon vivant Quentin Crisp has a star turn as Queen Elizabeth. The sets and costumes are superb, which makes the two Oscar nominations in those categories no surprise. —C.H.", "1998 Best Picture nominees set in the Elizabethan era featuring Oscar-nominated performances for the character of Queen Elizabeth I and both featuring Joseph Fiennes .", "Sir Kenneth Branagh arrived at the event with Dame Judi Dench, who presented him with the Dilys Powell Award for excellence in film. The pair have recently appeared together on stage in A Winter's Tale.", "Keeping in mind the duration of her reign, Elizabeth has been played by a number of well-known actresses on both stage and screen. She has perhaps most famously been portrayed by Helen Mirren , who received an Oscar and Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her starring role in 2006's The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears. Mirren later played Elizabeth in The Audience, a West End and Broadway play which chronicled the Queen's aforementioned meetings with various prime ministers and for which the actress earned a 2015 Tony Award. Elizabeth later received a dramatic stage treatment from the formidable Kristin Scott Thomas , who starred in The Audience in 2015.", "1999 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for: Shakespeare in Love (1998)", "Much Ado About Nothing is a 1993 British/American romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the film. The film also stars Branagh's then-wife Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves, and Kate Beckinsale in her film debut." ]

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[ "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.", "'Dances With Wolves' (1990) – In what was essentially a two-horse race, Kevin Costner's three-hour \"Dances With Wolves\" faced off against one of Martin Scorsese's best, \"Goodfellas.\" \"Dances With Wolves,\" about a Civil War soldier who falls in with a Lakota tribe in the American West, was the decisive winner, earning best picture, best director for Costner and best adapted screenplay for Michael Blake, three of its seven Oscars. \"Goodfellas\" won just one: Joe Pesci's best supporting actor trophy.", "Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic film which tells the story of a Unite States Lieutenant who travels to the American Frontier to find a military post. He eventually befriends a local Sioux tribe. Developed by director/star Kevin Costner over 5 years, the film (released November 9, 1990) has high production values and won 7 Academy Awards (1990) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. Much of the dialogue is in the Lakota language with English subtitles, unusual for a film at the time of its release.", "Dances with Wolves stars and was directed by Kevin Costner. The movie won seven Oscars including Best Picture and made $184,208,848 at the box office.", "Annie Hall (1977) ), Warren Beatty (for Reds (1981)), and Kevin Costner (for Dances With Wolves (1990)) as one of four actors who won a Best Director award for the film he also starred in. Actor Robert Redford had also accomplished the same thing as a director - when he won as Best Director for Ordinary People (1980) and lost as Best Actor for The Sting (1973).", "*Dances with Wolves, directed by and starring Kevin Costner - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture", "“Dances with Wolves” was Kevin Costner’s passion project. He produced, directed, and starred as Lt. John Dunbar, a Civil War officer posted in the frontier. He befriends and immerses himself in Native American Culture while falling in love with a white woman (Mary McDonnell) who lives with the tribe. In one scene Costner, even eats a raw bison heart. Sound familiar?", "Epic, sprawling 181-minute films don’t tend to be the stuff of Best Picture winners, though star actor-cum-director Kevin Costner’s filmmaking debut was not your average blockbuster. Set in the 1860s, Dance with Wolves ostensibly follows Costner’s First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar who is wounded in the midst of the American Civil War, yet it contains much more: with a relatiely frugal $19 million budget, the film features 300 horses, 3,500 buffalo, 250 Indians, 150 cavalry, and 48 speaking roles.", "Tough luck was also the crucial variable when the Academy snubbed GoodFellas and honoredDances With Wolves, Kevin Costner’s epic ode to a West long gone, with seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Director. The success of Dances With Wolves, Costner’s first feature, made him Hollywood’s new Golden Boy, and his film the first Western to win the Oscar since Cimarron in 1933. Scorsese’s crime-gangster GoodFellas, which swept all the critics awards (L.A., N.Y., National Society) was a better picture but, like Raging Bull, it didn’t have the reassuring, positive message that Costner’s film had.", "Dances with Wolves is the original soundtrack of the 1990 Academy Award and Golden Globe winning film Dances with Wolves produced, directed, and starring Kevin Costner. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by John Barry.", "Based on the 1988 Civil War novel by Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves was produced and directed by Kevin Costner, who also happened to star in it as Blake's main character, Lieutenant Dunbar.", "Lt. John J. Dunbar is the protagonist of Dances with Wolves. He is played by Kevin Costner, who also directed the film.", "Along with Delbert Mann , Jerome Robbins , Robert Redford , James L. Brooks and Kevin Costner , he is one of only six people to win the Academy Award for Best Director for their directorial debut: Mann for Marty (1955), Robbins for West Side Story (1961) (which he co-directed with Robert Wise , Redford for Ordinary People (1980), Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Costner for Dances with Wolves (1990) and Mendes for American Beauty (1999).", "KEVIN COSTNER for \"Dances With Wolves\", Francis Ford Coppola for \" The Godfather, Part III \", Stephen Frears for \"The Grifters\", Barbet Schroeder for \"Reversal of Fortune\", Martin Scorsese for \"GoodFellas\"", "The Globes awarded each film with three awards. Both won Best Drama and Best Director. ‘The Revenant” also picked up Best Actor (Drama) and was nominated for Score. “Dance with Wolves” took Screenplay and was also nominated for Actor (Drama), Supporting Actress,and Score. Both Hardy and Greene were snubbed but ended up picking up Oscar nominations.", "Dances with Wolves HUM/150 August 1, 2012 Dances with Wolves There was a time when the western... theme was one of the most popular movie genres. Crowds would flock to the theatre to see John Wayne or Clint Eastwood on the big screen, expecting them to fulfill the role of the hero as they took on the villains. This was in the 1950’s and 1960’s, since that time the public had lost interest in the well-known western genre. Kevin Costner directed and starred in the all-time classic movie “Dances...", "\"Dances With Wolves\" is an adventure story set in the 1860's, during the final years of the Indian wars. A Union soldier, Lieut. John J. Dunbar (Mr. Costner) is transferred to the farthest edge of the Western frontier after a brutal Civil War battle. Isolated and lonely, Dunbar finds himself befriending animals and ultimately a Sioux tribe. As he is slowly adopted into its way of life, shedding his uniform and marrying, the once-loyal Union soldier eventually collides with his former military career.", "Kevin Costner A \"truly spectacular\" (The New York Times) film that combines action, romance and breathtaking adventure, Dances With Wolves is \"a cinematic masterpiece\" (American Movie Classics) that is nothing short of \"a triumph\" (Roger Ebert)!Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choiceone that will forever change his destiny and that of a proud and defiant nation.", "Dances with Wolves is a 1990 film about a man who is exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, where he befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.", "\"My Native American brothers and sisters across the country, especially the Lakota Sioux, will never forget,\" Mr. Costner said upon receiving the statuette for Best Picture. When Michael Blake, who wrote both the screenplay for \"Dances With Wolves\" and the novel from which it was adapted, came to the podium of the Shrine Auditorium here to receive his award, he had his remarks translated into Lakota by Doris Leader Charge, a Sioux adviser to the film. Going Against Type", "High Noon (with six nominations and four wins - Best Actor, Best Song - Dimitri Tiomkin's \"Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'\", Best Dramatic Score, and Best Film Editing). The Academy followed its familiar pattern of snubbing western genre films by denying the Best Picture Oscar to a western. [Very few westerns have ever been nominated for Best Picture. By century's end, only three have won the top award, Cimarron (1930/31), Dances With Wolves (1990), and Unforgiven (1992) .]", "2009110900 김건태 Kun Tae Kim 미국 문화와 영화 Dances With The Wolf. “This had not been a fight for territory or riches or to make men free.... This battle had no ego.” The film Dances With the Wolves depicts a man's story who became the part of Indian society, and eventually one who became one of them. Who is John Dunbar? Is he an American Army Lieutenant John Dunbar? Or part of Sioux Tribe warrior, Dances with the Wolf? Watching this film has made me thought about various different things. First one...", "In addition to becoming the first Western film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture since 1931's Cimarron, Dances with Wolves won the following additional awards, thereby being established as one of the most honored films of 1990: ", "[Hanks had won Best Actor the previous year for his performance in Philadelphia (1993). He became the fifth performer to win back-to-back acting Oscars. The first actor to receive consecutive Best Actor Oscars was Spencer Tracy - for his back-to-back wins for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938) many years earlier. Other performers who have won consecutive acting awards include Jason Robards for Best Supporting Actor in All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977), Luise Rainer for Best Actress in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937), and Katharine Hepburn as Best Actress for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968).]", "Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award , Golden Globe , and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer .", "The director with the most Oscars is John Ford; he won for “The Informer” (1935), Grapes of Wrath” (1939), “How Green Was My Valley” (1941) and “The Quiet Man’ (1951).", "Walter Charles Dance, OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains. Some of his most high-profile roles are Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Dr. Jonathan Clemens in Alien 3 (1992), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Benedict in Last Action Hero (1993), and Lord Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones .", "He was awarded Best Director from the Directors Guild of America and Best Writer three times from the Writers Guild of America. He has received the Milestone Award from the Producers Guild, the Board of Governors Award from the American Society of Cinematographers, the Directors Award from the Costume Designers Guild, the Life Achievement Award from the Publicists Guild, and the Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award from the Art Directors Guild. The National Association of Theater Owners has honored him as Director of the Year, as Producer of the Year and as Actor of the Year.", "He received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge! and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. McGregor has also starred in theatre productions of Guys and Dolls (2005–07) and Othello (2007–08). He was ranked No. 36 on Empire magazine's \"The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time\" list in 1997. In 2010 he won Best Actor for playing the title role in Roman Polanski's film The Ghost Writer at the 23rd European Film Awards. ", "He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Hamlet (1948) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He is the only actor to appear in two films which were released more than 50 years apart and both won Best Picture.", "His greatest achievement in his immediate post-Oscar period was his triumphant characterization of grizzled Texas Ranger Gus McCrae in the TV mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989), for which he received an Emmy nomination. He received a second Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Stalin (1992), and a third Emmy nomination playing Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996).", "After defecting from Russia, he later became artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre. In 1977, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Turning Point. " ]

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[ "Jessica Tandy is the oldest winner of an Academy Award. She won the 1989 Best Actress award for Driving Miss Daisy at the age of 80 years and 9 ", "The oldest actress to win an Oscar is Jessica Tandy – at 81 she won the Best Actress Oscar in 1990 for her performance in Driving Miss Daisy.", "Octogenarian Jessica Tandy won the Best Actress award for her performance as wealthy, 72 year-old Atlanta resident and eccentric, cantankerous Jewish matron/matriarch Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Tandy's win set a record at the time - she became the oldest performer (and nominee, at 80 years and 252 days old) to ever win a Best Actress Oscar. She was just three months away from her 81st birthday when she accepted the Oscar (at 80 years and 292 days old).", "Plummer, 82, a veteran screen and stage star best known as Captain von Trapp in \"The Sound of Music,\" became the oldest person to receive an Oscar in the history of the Academy Awards. That title had previously been held by \"Driving Miss Daisy\" star Jessica Tandy, who won an Oscar at the age of 80.", "1990/--/-- 42 - Actress Jessica Tandy wins the Academy Award for her role in Driving Miss Daisy.", "The previous oldest winner was best-actress recipient Jessica Tandy for “Driving Miss Daisy,” at age 80.", "[It was the first time in Oscar history that two performers - Kate Winslet as young Rose, and Gloria as Old Rose - were nominated for playing the same character in the same film. (This would also occur in 2001, when Judi Dench and Kate Winslet were both nominated for playing Iris in Iris (2001).) Gloria Stuart's nomination made her the oldest performer ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her closest elderly performer was 82 year-old Jessica Tandy nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). Tandy, who won the Oscar two years earlier for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), was the oldest performer ever to win a Best Actress Oscar.]", "1989 Driving Miss Daisy - filmed here in Atlanta (another buddy film;-), it's about a twenty year relationship between an old jewish woman who needs a driver (played by Best Actor nominee Morgan Freeman). A weird year at the Academy Awards - http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1990/ - Octogenarian Jessica Tandy wins the Best Actress Oscar on her first nomination. Only the third BP whose director wasn't nominated. Personally, I preferred watching Ray (and Terence Mann) \"go the distance\".", "At the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990, Driving Miss Daisy received nine nominations, including Best Actor (Morgan Freeman), and won four awards: Best Picture, Best Actress (Jessica Tandy), Best Makeup, and Best Adapted Screenplay. ", "Based on Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy traces the quarter-century long relationship between a Black chauffeur, Hoke (Morgan Freeman) and a matriarchal Southerner Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy). This is a complex and compelling portrait of old age, dealing with the thorny issue of race. It received nine nominations, winning four for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Makeup, and Best Adapted Screenplay.", "In 1948, Mrs. Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy, (Jessica Tandy), a 65-year-old wealthy, white, Jewish, widowed, retired school teacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for a black housemaid named Idella (Esther Rolle). When Miss Daisy wrecks her car, her son, Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), hires Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), a black chauffeur. Miss Daisy at first refuses to let anyone else drive her, but gradually gives in.", "'Driving Miss Daisy' (1989) – Stage actress Jessica Tandy finally became a movie star at age 80 as an Atlanta Jewish matriarch who develops a close relationship with her driver, Hoke, played by Morgan Freeman, in Bruce Beresford's film of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. \"Driving Miss Daisy\" didn't compete for best picture against some of the year's most acclaimed movies -- \"Sex, Lies, and Videotape,\" \"Do the Right Thing\" and \"Drugstore Cowboy\" weren't nominated for the top award.", "The delicate relationship between an elderly white woman and her black chauffeur in the Civil Rights Era South isn’t actually as touchy-feely and toothless as some seem to think it is. Yes, it’s atrocious the Academy chose to award this while not even nominating Do the Right Thing, but Driving Miss Daisy has an unusual spark because Jessica Tandy’s title character is actually Jewish and faces discrimination of her own, including even a synagogue bombing. CREDIT: Warner", "The Oscar talk is driven by Miss Tandy's portrayal of Miss Daisy Werthan, an eccentric, highly independent Southern Jewish woman who ages from 72 to 97 during the film. More than four decades ago Miss Tandy achieved theatrical stardom with her acclaimed portrayal of another Southerner, Blanche DuBois, in the 1947 Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams's ''Streetcar Named Desire.'' She went on to win a Tony Award for ''Streetcar'' (1948), and two more for her roles in ''The Gin Game'' (1979) and ''Foxfire'' (1983).", "Driving Miss Daisy (1989)   / Warner Bros. Pictures ; Zanuck Company production ; screenplay by Alfred Uhry ; produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck ; directed by Bruce Beresford.  [New York : Jewish Media Fund, 1997]  1 VHS videocassette (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.  PN1995.9.C55 D75 1997 Videocassette : It tells the story of genteel but strong-willed Southern matron Daisy Werthan and her patient but equally determined chauffeur Hoke. For two people so different, they have a lot in common. And the bumpy road they travel ultimately leads to the friendship of a lifetime.  Other copies available.  Want more info?  Try Movie Review Query Engine .", "Driving Miss Daisy (1989, Warner Bros., 99 min, dir. Bruce Beresford, play by Alfred Uhry) An elderly Jewish woman in Atlanta in the 1950s hires an African American chauffeur (Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn) as her driver, and a friendship develops.", "The Best Actress category had no real front-runner and was composed of weak performances, for the most part. The winner - 45 year old Jessica Lange (with her sixth nomination and second Oscar), who won the Best Actress award as Carly Marshall, the unstable, manic-depressive, out-of-control, sexually-promiscuous wife of a military nuclear engineer/officer (co-star Tommy Lee Jones) at a 1960s Nevada test site in director Tony Richardson's last film - Blue Sky (the film's sole nomination).", "As of 2015, a total of only three minors (including Duke) have won Oscars, all in the Best Supporting Actress category. The other two are Anna Paquin, who was 11, for The Piano (1993), and Tatum O'Neal, who was 10, for Paper Moon (1973).", "Olivia de Havilland is now the film's oldest surviving cast member. She celebrated her 100th birthday in July 2016.", "The youngest actress to win a competitive Academy Award is Tatum O’Neal , who was 10 years old when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in “Paper Moon”. The film was adapted from “Addie Pray” (1971), a well crafted novel written by Joe David Brown. Tatum O’Neal starred as a child also in other notable movies such as “The Bad News Bears” with Walter Matthau, “International Velvet” with Anthony Hopkins, and “Little Darlings” with Kristy McNichol.", "Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won at age 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon (1973) opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal. She then starred in The Bad News Bears in 1976, followed by Nickelodeon, and Little Darlings.", "Thirty-three year-old box office queen Julia Roberts (with her third nomination) received her first Oscar for her role as the real-life Erin Brockovich - a twice-divorced, unemployed, cleavage-enhanced mother of three, and a self-righteous legal researcher who becomes a badgering, environmental activist against a major California utility company. Roberts had a previous Best Supporting Actress nomination for Steel Magnolias (1989) and a Best Actress nomination the next year for Pretty Woman (1990).", "In the 2005 feature film The Dukes of Hazzard, Daisy Duke is portrayed by Jessica Simpson. Film critics were disappointed in Simpson's performance, claiming that her portrayal had little in common with the character Catherine Bach created, and that she was merely cast because of her celebrity status.", "Having made her mark in the music industry, it wasn’t long before Hollywood was knocking on her door. In addition to a recurring role on That 70's Show, Jessica’s MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica launched in 2003, making her a household name. In 2005, Jessica made her film debut as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard and released a cover of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made For Walkin’” for the movie’s soundtrack. The song topped the Billboard Hot Digital Tracks charts and was certified platinum. Jessica has also starred in Employee of the Month for Lions Gate Films and Sony Pictures’ Blonde Ambition in which she co-starred with Luke Wilson. She recently completed Major Movie Star for Nu Image/ Millennium Films.", "She was the younger sister, by almost 16 months, of De Havilland, who could lay claim to more fame and an overall greater film career. De Havilland, now 97, won Oscars for “To Each His Own” (1946) and “The Heiress” (1949) and was nominated for three others, including as supporting actress in “ Gone With the Wind ” (1939).", "In the 1954 White Christmas , 32-year-old Vera Ellen plays Judy Haynes; Judy's age is never expressly given, but based on comments made by other characters (she is repeatedly called \"kid\" and \"little Judy\"), that she orders a malted when the others order alcohol, and that 25-year-old Rosemary Clooney plays her older sister Betty, it appears that she's supposed to be about 19.", "Actress. Born Lucille Fay Le Sueur in San Antonio, Texas, but christened Joan Crawford by Hollywood, she exemplified the 1920s carefree \"flapper\" era to a 'T'. Her beauty and vivacity catapulted her to stardom in the late 1920s in the hugely popular silent classic \"Our Dancing Daughters\". Ever since that point, the resilient actress with the ever expressive eyes, the famous overpainted lips and the will of steel created for herself one of the most legendary and enduring Hollywood personae of all time. Receiving 3 best actress oscar nominations throughout her long career and winning once for the 1945 classic noir \"Mildred Pierce\", Joan seemed to personify the ideal american woman of every decade, from the uprorious 1920s right up until her death as a semireclusive corporate widow on May 10th, 1977. Her 5th and last marriage was to Pepsi Cola chairman Alfred Steele, who died in 1959. She was described by some as \"the face\" owing to her classically beautiful features and even the great Hollywood studio photographer George Hurrell dubbed her \"camera proof\" as she photographed perfectly from every angle. She also won a British BAFTA award for the 1957 movie \"The Story of Esther Costelllo.\" She's best remembered for classic roles in \"Our Dancing Daughters,\" \"Grand Hotel,\" \"The Women,\" \"Mildred Pierce,\" \"Humoresque,\" \"Possessed,\" \"Harriet Craig,\" \"Sudden Fear\" and the 1962 horror classic \"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?\" Her film career spanned nearly 50 years.", "Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is best known for her role as Alexandra \"Alex\" Owens in the 1983 romantic drama film Flashdance, and starred as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. Beals earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films.", "In the film adaptation of My Fair Lady , Audrey Hepburn was 34 years old while playing the 21-year-old Eliza Doolittle.", "Model and actress Bo Derek broke into the Hollywood scene in a major way by starring in the hugely successful 1979 romantic comedy, 10. Unfortunately, Derek was struggling to find a project that was appropriate for her specific talents by the mid-80s, with back to back Razzie Nominations for her work in 1981’s Tarzan, the Ape Man and 1984’s Bolero. In 1990, a 34-year-old Derek chose to turn down Pretty Woman to star in Ghosts Can’t Do It, a film that landed her a third Razzie nom.", "Gloria Stuart was a 1930s actress who starred in a variety of films before abandoning her film career in the next decade and returning nearly 30 years later. Like her iconic role as Old Rose, she also lived to 100, though she was 87 when she played her.", "The Cotswolds 1928. Fourteen-year-old Winnie is nervous about her new job as maid-of-all-work to an unpredictable old lady of 90. Abide With Me won the Critics Prize and the UNDA Award at the 1977 Monte Carlo Festival" ]

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[ "During her 66-year acting career, Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars, but she never came to a ceremony to receive them. “As for me, prizes are nothing,” she once said. “My prize is my work.” Still, four best actress — or actor — awards is an unbeaten feat, akin to Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in an NBA game. Hepburn’s first came for 1933’s Morning Glory, whose title derived from whether her actress character would have a long career or fade “like a morning glory.” And Hepburn’s award winning did fade: She went from a 26-year-old phenom getting a statuette for her third film to being labeled “box-office poison” in a 1938 exhibitors poll.", "Bergman won three Academy Awards for acting, two for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress. She ranks tied for second place in terms of Oscars won, with Walter Brennan (all three for Best Supporting Actor), Jack Nicholson (two for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor), Meryl Streep (two for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record with four (all four for Best Actress).", "Since its inception, the award has been given to 74 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars. Meryl Streep has been nominated on 15 occasions (resulting in two awards). As of the 2016 ceremony, Brie Larson is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Joy \"Ma\" Newsome in Room.", "9. Katharine Hepburn won a record four Academy Awards -- all Best Actress Oscars -- the last for \" On Golden Pond \" (1981), which starred another Hollywood legend, Henry Fonda .", "In 1971, Katherine Hepburn received the high honor of being awarded the Screen Actor’s Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1981, Hepburn was cast in the movie On Golden Pond, opposite Henry Fonda. They play an old couple who summer on a lake and get a visit from their estranged daughter and her stepson. Hepburn earned her fourth Academy Award for her work in this film. Hepburn’s record four Academy Awards and 12 nominations is a record that is only broken by Meryl Streep with 13 nominations. No other actor has ever earned as many Oscars as Hepburn did. It is not question that Hepburn was a talented actress, she was once quoted saying, “I’m a personality as well as an actress, Show me an actress who isn’t a personality and you’ll show me a woman who isn’t a star.”", "Diane Keaton scored her first, and so far only, Best Actress Oscar for the title role of \"Annie Hall.\" The movie won four Oscars overall; the actress has since been nominated for three roles with other directors.", "Meryl Streep beat her in the number of Oscar nominations, when she received her 13th Oscar nod for Adaptation. (2002). However, Hepburn still reigns as the only 4-time Oscar recipient for acting.", "When it comes to Oscar records, Katharine Hepburn is the queen. Not only is she the person with the most wins – four, for Morning Glory, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond – she’s also famous for being one of the celebs who always declined to accept her award. She won in 1968 for Coming to Dinner, and then in 1969 she won again for Lion, though in that year she tied with Barbra Streisand , who also won Best Actress for Funny Girl.", "Hepburn is the most winning actor of all time with four leading Oscars, and won her fourth and final golden statue opposite Henry Fonda in “On Golden Pond” at 74. She previously won for 1933’s “Morning Glory,” 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” and 1968’s “The Lion in Winter” (in a tie with “Funny Girl” star Barbra Streisand). Hepburn is the second oldest female actor to win for a leading role after Jessica Tandy. The actor impressively collected throughout her career 12 nominations over a span of 48 years.", "Highest number of acting Oscars won by a single person, a record held by Katharine Hepburn . She won Best Actress statuettes for: \"Morning Glory\" (1933), \" Guess Who's Coming to Dinner \" (1967), \"The Lion in Winter\" (1968), and \"On Golden Pond\" (1982).", "Holds the Guiness World Record as the only movie star to win four Academy Awards, all for her leading roles in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).", "Most wins for a leading actress: Katharine Hepburn, with 4 awards (for Morning Glory in 1934, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1968, The Lion in Winter in 1969, and On Golden Pond in 1982)", "Is one of 5 actors to have won the Academy Award 3 times in their career; the others in chronological order are Walter Brennan , Ingrid Bergman , Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep . These actors have only been surpassed by Katharine Hepburn , who won the Academy Award 4 times during her career.", "Is one of 15 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony); the others in chronological order are: Helen Hayes , Ingrid Bergman , Shirley Booth , Liza Minnelli , Rita Moreno , Maureen Stapleton , Jessica Tandy , Audrey Hepburn , Anne Bancroft , Vanessa Redgrave , Ellen Burstyn , Helen Mirren , Frances McDormand and Jessica Lange .", "Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person, Crawford's being for Mildred Pierce (1945). The others are Katharine Hepburn , Claudette Colbert , Judy Holliday , Vivien Leigh , Anna Magnani , Ingrid Bergman , Sophia Loren , Anne Bancroft , Patricia Neal , Elizabeth Taylor , Maggie Smith , Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn .", "Her first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), an artistic and commercial success, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress , sharing it with Katharine Hepburn ( The Lion in Winter ), the first time there was a tie in this Oscar category. Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman 's Hello, Dolly! (1969) and Alan Jay Lerner 's and Burton Lane 's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970).", "She won an Oscar for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), making her one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Jim Broadbent for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).", "Is one of 22 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of New York. The others are Alice Brady , Teresa Wright , Anne Revere , Celeste Holm , Claire Trevor , Judy Holliday , Shirley Booth , Susan Hayward , Patty Duke , Anne Bancroft , Jane Fonda , Lee Grant , Beatrice Straight , Whoopi Goldberg , Mercedes Ruehl , Marisa Tomei , Mira Sorvino , Susan Sarandon , Jennifer Connelly , Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway .", "During her 60-year career, she earned 12 Oscar nominations, which stood as a record until Meryl Streep surpassed her nomination total in 2003. She won the Academy Award for \"Morning Glory,\" 1933; \"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,\" 1967; \"A Lion in Winter,\" 1968; and \"On Golden Pond,\" 1981.", "Barbra Streisand (born April 24 , 1942 as Barbara Joan Streisand), is a two-time Academy Award -winning American singer , theatre and film actress , composer , film producer and director . She has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards , Grammy Awards , Golden Globe Awards and an honorary Tony Award .", "Citizen Kane (1941) .] Barbra Streisand's Oscar win for Best Song (\"Evergreen\") for A Star is Born made her the first Oscar-winning actress to receive an award for music. She had won her sole Oscar for Best Actress for Funny Girl (1968).", "Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier of Brighton, DBE (born 28 October 1929), commonly known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English retired actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy and two BAFTA Awards. She is also one of only four actresses to have won two Golden Globes in the same year.", "Susan Hayward (with her fourth nomination) as star-crossed alcoholic Broadway/Hollywood actress and singer Lillian Roth in I'll Cry Tomorrow (with four nominations and one win - Best B/W Costume Design) [Hayward's earlier nominations were for Smash up - The Story of a Woman (1947), My Foolish Heart (1949), and With a Song in My Heart (1952) - she would finally win three years later for her role as a woman on death row in I Want to Live! (1958)]", "Throughout her career as an actress, she was a recipient of numerous accolades, including Grammy, Emmy, Tony, and Academy Awards. She was also the first actress to have won a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and an Oscar Award in a single performance.", "Hepburn became one of the most successful film actresses in the world and performed with notable leading men such as Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Fred Astaire, James Garner, Peter O'Toole and Albert Finney. She won BAFTA Awards for her performances in The Nun's Story (1959) and Charade (1963) and received Academy Award nominations for Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967).", "Hepburn became one of the most successful film actresses in the world and performed with such notable leading men as Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Peter O'Toole, and Albert Finney. She won BAFTA Awards for her performances in The Nun's Story (1959) and Charade (1963), and received Academy Award nominations for Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967).", "Her first major film role made her a star. In the 1953 romance \"Roman Holiday,\" she played a princess who runs from her duties and falls in love with a journalist played by Gregory Peck. Audiences were enchanted by her combination of grace, elegance and high spirits, and she won an Academy Award as best actress.", "Of the four acting winners at The 87th Annual Academy Awards (2015), she was the only one with a previous nomination.", "Was the 14th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind (1939) at The 12th Academy Awards on February 29, 1940.", "Four Best Actress winners won the Oscar for an acclaimed stage role that they reprised on the screen:", "Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; Poltergeist, Bloodline, Endless Love; Tony Award: The Crucible [1953]; died Apr 7, 2001", "She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career. In 1983, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Terms of Endearment. She was nominated for an Academy Award five times before her win." ]

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[ "Paramount Pictures released the film The Brotherhood starring Kirk Douglas as a mafia don. While it was a financial flop, Paramount's production chief Robert Evans commissioned Mario Puzo to finish a novel with similar themes and plot elements, and bought the screen rights. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather became a huge success, both critically and financially (it won the Best Picture Oscar and for a year was the highest grossing film ever made). It immediately inspired other mafia-related films, including a direct sequel, The Godfather Part II (1974), also (partly) based on Puzo's novel, and yet another big winner at the Academy Awards, as well as films based on real Mafiosi like Honor Thy Father and Lucky Luciano (both in 1973) and Lepke and Capone (both in 1975). An ambitious 13-part miniseries by NBC called The Gangster Chronicles based on the rise of many major crime bosses of the 1920s and 1930s, aired in 1981. ", "Oscar winners of the decade were Patton (1970), The French Connection (1971), The Godfather (1972), The Sting (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Rocky (1976), Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).", "Oscar winners of the decade were Patton (1970), The French Connection (1971), The Godfather (1972), The Sting (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Rocky (1976), Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).", "In 1972, a film adaptation of the novel was released, starring Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola . Mario Puzo assisted with writing the screenplay and with other production tasks. The film grossed approximately $269 million worldwide and won various awards, including three Academy Awards , five Golden Globes and one Grammy and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The sequel, The Godfather Part II won six Oscars, and became the first sequel to win the Oscar for Best Picture.", "After directing The Rain People (1969), he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer, with Edmund H. North, of Patton in 1970. His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of The Godfather , a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre,", "Also in 1974: \"The Godfather Part II\" told of the origin of Don Corleone (with Robert DeNiro recreating Marlon Brando's character) and a parallel story, set decades later, of threats facing Al Pacino as government and competing criminal organizations threaten the family business. With its predecessor, it is generally acclaimed as the greatest movie crime saga, and became the first sequel to win an Oscar for Best Picture.", "The superb, three-part gangster saga was inaugurated with this film from Italian-American director Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (1972). The first two parts of the lush and grand saga are among the most celebrated, landmark films of all time. Many film reviewers consider the second part equal or superior to the original, although the first part was a tremendous critical and commercial success - and the highest grossing film of its time. This mythic, tragic film contributed to a resurgence in the American film industry, after a decade of competition from cinema abroad.", "After Wayne finally won the Best Actor Oscar for True Grit (1969) his career declined. Chisum (1970), seemingly having little to do with Wayne, was released to mixed reviews and moderate business. Rio Lobo (1970) attracted poor reviews and proved to be a commercial disappointment. Big Jake (1971), pumped up with graphic action scenes and plenty of humor, made twice as much money as either of the previous two films. However, The Cowboys (1972) struggled to find an audience when first released, despite the fact that it received positive reviews and featured a very different performance from Wayne as an aging cattleman. The Train Robbers (1973) was largely forgettable and Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) won him his worst reviews since The Conqueror (1956). Wayne's attempts to emulate Clint Eastwood as a tough detective were generally ridiculed due to his age, increasing weight and the predictable nature of the plots. McQ (1974) was only a moderate success and Brannigan (1975), although it was a better picture, made even less money. A sequel to True Grit (1969) titled Rooster Cogburn (1975), co-starring Katharine Hepburn, was critically reviled, but managed to be a minor hit. For the first time Wayne gave serious thought to retirement, however he was able to make one final movie, a low budget story of a gunfighter dying of cancer called The Shootist (1976), which struggled to get its money back.", "The early 1970s also brought a rebirth of gritty crime film, three years after the influential Bullitt. William Friedkin's The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman as a drug detective and Sidney Lumet's Serpico, starring Al Pacino in the true-life story of an honest cop who fought corruption, were two of the most famous ones. Films like Get Carter featured gratuitous nudity, while Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking A Clockwork Orange featured much physical and sexual violence to complement its complex story. African American filmmakers also found success in the 1970s with such hits as Shaft and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Like other sequels in the 1970s, Shaft went on to have two more adventures, each less successful than the last.", "Coppola first gained international critical attention for his screenwriting talents, earning an Academy Award for 1970’s Patton. Two years later, he released what is considered to be one of his best works, The Godfather (1972). Based on a novel by Mario Puzo, the critically acclaimed saga centered on the Corleones, an Italian American family involved in organized crime. Marlon Brando played the family’s patriarch and Al Pacino as his son and reluctant successor. Coppola received his first nomination as director from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He also scored second screenplay win, and the film won for Best Picture. The sequel, The Godfather Part II (1974) was equally well received.", "1974 The Godfather: Part II - The first and only (so far) sequel to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. Rated #3 on imdb.com (another very popular \"family\" film;-) Five acting Oscar nominations but only Best Actor Robert DeNiro took home the (supporting) gold, on his first nomination. Pacino's Michael Corleone was voted AFI's #11 villain.", "1972 The Godfather - rated #1 on imdb.com (what more can one say;-) An look at life inside the Mafia. Brando tried to pull a George C. Scott at the Academy Awards ceremony, did it poorly with a fake Indian actress, and yet still got a Best Actor nomination for The Last Tango in Paris the following year. Go figure! Also, Best Picture nominee Cabaret won 8 Oscars, a record for films not also winning BP. Lots of great trivia about this film - http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0068646", "Chinatown is one of history’s best film noirs, but it does not compare to The Godfather, Part Two (1974), arguably the best sequel ever made. Pacino gets more time to shine, and De Niro is mesmerizing as his younger father. Those last ten minutes are as haunting as anything you will see on film.", "De Niro (right) won a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 follow up \" The Godfather: Part II ,\" playing the young Vito Corleone. It was also the first sequel to win best picture.", "actor: Academy Award-winning actor: Raging Bull [1980], The Godfather II [1974]; Brazil, The Deer Hunter, The Untouchables, Taxi Driver, Awakenings, Cape Fear, Frankenstein, Back Draft, Search for Tomorrow; director: Bronx Tale", "The Godfather Part II is a 1974 motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script he co-wrote with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the continuing saga of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also providing an in-depth look at the rise to power of a young Vito Corleone.", "The Godfather Part II (1974) ). Further connections can be made for the Coppolas - the only father-daughter-nephew grouping to win Oscars:", "In 1973, Pacino starred in the popular Serpico, based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico who went undercover to expose the corruption of fellow officers. That same year he co-starred in Scarecrow, with Gene Hackman, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1974, Pacino reprised his role as Michael Corleone in the successful sequel The Godfather Part II, acclaimed as being comparable to the original. In 1975, he enjoyed further success with the release of Dog Day Afternoon, based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz.[6] It was directed by Sidney Lumet, who also directed him in Serpico a few years earlier, and for both films Pacino was nominated for Best Actor.", "Penn's masterpiece won two Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons in an over-the-top performance) and Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey) for its great evocation of period detail, with eight other nods for Best Picture and Best Actor (producer/actor Warren Beatty), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman), Best Supporting Actor (Michael J. Pollard), Best Director (Arthur Penn), Best Story and Screenplay (Newman and Benton), and Best Costume Design (Theadora Van Runkle, who later worked on The Godfather, Part II (1974) ). (Although Robert Towne, who later wrote Chinatown (1974) , worked on the final form of the screenplay and served as a special consultant, he took no screen credit.)", "1971 proved to be his best year in films, or at least one of his best. He starred in the thriller Play Misty for Me (1971), which was also his directorial debut. L:after that year, he played the hard edge police inspector in Dirty Harry (1971) that gave Eastwood one of his signature roles and invented the loose-cannon cop genre that has been imitated even to this day. Eastwood also found work in American revisionist westerns like High Plains Drifter (1973) -- which he also directed, and Joe Kidd (1972). Eastwood had constant quality films, first teaming up with Jeff Bridges (I) in the buddy action flick Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), followed by the \"Dirty Harry\" sequels Magnum Force (1973) and The Enforcer (1976/I), and then The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), considered to perhaps be one of the quintessential westerns.", "But Eastwood found even bigger and better things with Per un pugno di dollari (1964) (\"A Fistful of Dollars\"), and Per qualche dollaro in pi� (1965) (\"For a Few Dollars More\"). But it was the second sequel to \"A Fistful of Dollars\" where he found one of his trademark roles: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966) (\"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly\"). The movie was a big hit and he became an instant international star. Eastwood got some excellent roles thereafter: Where Eagles Dare (1968) found him second fiddle to Richard Burton (I) but to the tune of 800,000 dollars in this classic World War II movie. He also starred in Coogan's Bluff (1968), (the loose inspiration to the TV series \"McCloud\" (1970)), the western Hang 'Em High (1968) and the unusual but successful Paint Your Wagon (1969). Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with the offbeat but well-received films Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970).", "The Godfather is a 1972 crime film directed and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola based on the the novel of the same name authored by the screenplay's co-writer Mario Puzo. The film starred Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and James Caan. The film was subsequently followed with The Godfather Part II in 1974, The Godfather Part III in 1990, and a 2006 video game based on the film.The film's story spans nine years from late 1945 to late 1954 as the leader of a New York mafia organization hands his family business over to his reluctant son.", "The Godfather: Part II (1974) aka Mario Puzo’s The Godfather: Part II, plays Vito Corleone. Oscar Award For Best Supporting Actor.", "Sergio Leone \"The leading icon of a generation\" (Roger Ebert), Academy Award(r) winner* Clint Eastwood continues his trademark role as the legendary \"Man With No Name\" in this second installment of the famous Sergio Leone trilogy. Scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni and featuring Ennio Morricone's haunting musical score, For A Few Dollars More is a modern classicone of the greatest Westerns evermade. Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio, the territory's most treacherous bandit. But his ruthless rival, Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef, High Noon), is determined to bring Indio in first...dead or alive! Failing to capture their preyor eliminate each otherthe two are left with only one option: team up, or face certain death atthe hands of Indio and his band of murderous outlaws.", "The Godfather was an unparalleled critical and financial success, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year and winning the Best Picture Oscar of 1972. … Read More", "'The Godfather: Part II' - Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall; directed by Francis Ford Coppolla; Best Picture Oscar.", "8. Which sequel to a 1971 Oscar winning film set in New York, sees its hero, Popeye Doyle, travel to Marseilles to catch the drug smuggler that eluded him in the original?", "Martin Guigui directed \"Raging Bull II,\" with William Forsythe playing LaMotta, a role that won De Niro his only Best Actor trophy. (De Niro had previously won Best Supporting Actor for his role in \"The Godfather Part II.\")", "Gene Hackman plays short-tempered cop Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in this fast-paced action thriller directed by William Friedkin. Along with his partner Buddy Russo (Roy Schneider), Doyle tails two French nationals to intercept a large shipment of heroin. The film is inspired by the late 60s and early 70s drug trade, when swathes of the illegal heroin in the East Coast was smuggled in via France; Doyle and Russo were based on real life narcotics detectives. Containing one of the most famous movie car chases in which Popeye chases an elevated subway train, the film won 5 Oscars proving popular with both the critics and the box office.", "Interestingly, He returned to more familiar territory in 1971, with the race film Le Mans (1971), a rather self-indulgent exercise, and its slow plotline contributed to its rather poor performance in theaters. It wasn't until many years later that it became something of a cult film, primarily because of the footage of Porsche 917s roaring around race tracks in France. McQueen then teamed up with maverick Hollywood director Sam Peckinpah to star in the modern western Junior Bonner (1972), about a family of rodeo riders, and again with Peckinpah as bank robber Doc McCoy in the violent The Getaway (1972). Both did good business at the box office. McQueen's next role was a refreshing surprise and Papillon (1973), based on the Henri Charri�re novel of the same name, was well received by fans and critics alike. He plays a convict on a French penal colony in South America who persists in trying to escape from his captors and feels their wrath when his attempts fail.", "1. What was the first sequel to win the Best Picture award at the Oscars, taking the prize for 1974?", "The Godfather: Part II 1974 AA's for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Adapted Screenplay; GG noms for Best Director and Best Screenplay, AFI's Top 100 Films-#32 Director, writer, producer" ]

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[ "Australian actor Geoffrey Rush (with his first nomination) won the Best Actor Oscar for his star-making performance as talented but agonizingly-troubled, mentally-disabled Australian concert pianist David Helfgott who suffers a crippling nervous breakdown when pushed to the breaking point in Shine.", "Geoffrey Rush won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as talented but agonizingly-troubled, mentally-disabled Australian concert pianist David Helfgott who suffered a crippling nervous breakdown in Shine (1996)", "Geoffrey Rush won an Academy Award as Best Actor portraying the psychologically disturbed but musically gifted pianist David Helfgott in \"Shine\" (1996).", "Geoffrey Rush stars as a messed up but brilliant musician, coping with personal and professional trials and triumphs.", "Shine (1996, Australia) brought Geoffrey Rush a Best Actor Oscar for his role as troubled Australian pianist David Helfgott", "A fellow Australian, Mr. Rush won the best actor Oscar in 1996 as a mentally disabled piano player in “Shine.” in recent years, he’s played roles in films as varied as “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Frida.” He won an Emmy last year for his amazing portrayal of film legend Peter Sellers in the HBO biopic.", "One of Australia's most popular and distinguished actors, Geoffrey Rush came to the attention of the international community in 1996 with his performance as pianist David Helfgott in Shine (1996). Rush won an Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe, and Australian Film Institute Award for his work, and he subsequently began appearing in films that would further make him known to audiences all over the world.", "Australian actor Geoffrey Rush was nominated as Best Actor for Shine (1996) (win) and Quills (2000) - Geoffrey Rush became the first Australian actor to win Best Actor (for the role of the mad pianist in Shine (1996)) since Peter Finch won posthumously for Network (1976)", "Susan Sarandon presenting Geoffrey Rush the Oscar® for Best Actor for his performance in \"Shine\" at the 69th Academy Awards® in 1997.", "Australian actor Geoffrey Rush (his third nomination with one past win) as the infamous, controversial, impious late 18th century artist and French novelist Marquis de Sade, a tortured Charenton Asylum for the Insane patient in director Philip Kaufman's Quills (adapted by Doug Wright from his 1995 play). Rush had won Best Actor for Shine (1996) and was Best Supporting Actor-nominated for Shakespeare in Love (1998).", "Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He was a musical innovator and known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, extravagant dress and makeup, and wide vocal range. His music integrates a wide variety of styles, including funk, rock, R&B, new wave, soul, psychedelia, and pop. He has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. He won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award for the film Purple Rain. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the first year of his eligibility. Rolling Stone ranked Prince at number 27 on its list of 100 Greatest Artists—\"the most influential artists of the rock & roll era\". ", "Sting, CBE (born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner; 2 October 1951) is a British musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist.", "Stewart Armstrong Copeland – Stewart Copeland, (July 16, 1952 - ) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police and is an influential drum stylist. During the group's extended hiatus from the mid-1980s to 2007, he played in other bands and composed soundtracks. Copeland was born in Alexandria, Virginia. Copeland is known for his precise, energetic, and creative rock drumming along with a reggae and jazz influenced style. His distinctive sound centers on a hard, high-pitched crack on a snare drum or rimshot, subtle hi-hat work with understated flourishes, while often playing only hi-hat with bass drum. Copeland is a master of the syncopated beat, and his distinct approach consolidates his position as an important drummer on the world stage, subsequently influencing generations of drummers. His credit on Curved Air's Airborne album was \"Heavy Artillery\" rather than \"drums.\" ' Artist Discography '", "Thomas Alan Waits (born 7 December 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding \"like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car.\" With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and as a supporting actor in films, including The Fisher King, Coffee & Cigarettes, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Short Cuts. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.", "Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like \"it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car.\" With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musicals and has acted in supporting roles in films, including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.", "Sting is an English singer, multi-instrumentalist, and philanthropist best known as the lead singer of the British new wave rock band The Police. As a solo artist and a member of The Police, Sting has 16 combined Grammys, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and three Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song. Multiple songs written by Sting, such as “Roxanne” and “Every Breath You Take” appear on Rolling Stone 's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. His music, often combining elements of jazz, reggae, and worldbeat, has been praised for introducing new influences to mainstream pop. In 2002 Sting was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police. In 2014, he made his Broadway debut in the musical The Last Ship. On November 11, 2016, Sting will release \"57th & 9th,\" his first album in over a decade.", "Jeffrey Leon \"Jeff\" Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor and musician. His most notable films include The Big Lebowski, King Kong , The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Tron, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Seabiscuit, K-PAX, The Fisher King, Fearless, The Contender, Iron Man , Tron: Legacy , True Grit and Crazy Heart, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 82nd Academy Awards.", "Gary Alan Sinise (; born March 17, 1955) is an American actor, director and musician. Among other awards, he has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award.", "2007: Robin Williams and Freddie Highmore in 'August Rush', where Williams played a homeless musician who teaches children living on the streets music and employs them as performers.", "He was well known for his musical score for the film Shaft (1971). For the \"Theme from Shaft\", he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1972. He became the third African-American, after Sidney Poitier and Hattie McDaniel, to win an Academy Award in any competitive field covered by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He also won two Grammy Awards for that same year. Later, he was given his third Grammy for his music album Black Moses.", "Jeffrey Leon \"Jeff\" Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor and musician. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis \"Bad\" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart.", "US musician Isaac Hayes, who has died aged 65, achieved universal fame with what became his signature song, the theme from the 1971 movie Shaft.", "As stated, his career has been multi-dimensional, from stage performances in two Broadway shows during the 1980s, including The Pirates of Penzance, to roles on the silver screen. He appeared as Herman in two films, 1966's Hold On and 1968's Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter; was one of the few bright spots in 1978's Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; and performed in 1982's Rockin' the Night Away: Life from Palm Springs, 1996's Hullabaloo, Vol. 8, and 2000's The British Invasion Returns. In 1999, he sang the end theme to the Kirk Douglas film Diamonds.", "The Academy Award-nominated original score and songs were composed by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, and musical direction was by Walter Scharf. The soundtrack was first released by Paramount Records in 1971. On 8 October 1996, Hip-O Records (in conjunction with MCA Records, which by then owned the Paramount catalog), released the soundtrack on CD as a \"25th Anniversary Edition\".", "Hayes is well known for his musical score for the film Shaft (1971). For his composition of the \"Theme from Shaft\", Hayes was awarded the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1972. Other than such distinguished actors as Sidney Poitier and Hattie McDaniel, Hayes became the first African-American to win an Academy Award in any field whatsoever covered by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hayes also won two Grammy Awards for that same year. Later, he was given his third Grammy Award for his music album Black Moses.", "The song \"Say You, Say Me\", the theme of the movie \"White Nights\" starring Gregory Hines and Mikhael Baryshnikov, hit number 1 on December 21st. With this hit, Lionel became the only songwriter in history to write nine #1 songs in nine consecutive years. \"Say You, Say Me\" also won Richie an Oscar for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards in 1986.", "Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special \"The Empire Strikes Back\" (CED) John Williams, composer", "Gregory Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was an American award-winning actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer.", "Martin composed, arranged, and produced film scores since the early 1960s, including the instrumental scores of the films A Hard Day's Night (1964, for which he won an Academy Award Nomination), Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965), Yellow Submarine (1968), and Live and Let Die (1973). Other notable movie scores include Crooks Anonymous (1962), The Family Way (1966), Pulp (1972, starring Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney), the Peter Sellers film The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973), and the John Schlesinger directed Honky Tonk Freeway (1981).", "JK Simmons won best supporting actor for Whiplash, in which he played a strict drumming teacher at a music conservatory.", "Director, writer, producer Alan Parker wrote and directed his first film, \"Bugsy Malone\" in 1975. The film was a musical pastiche of 1920s gangster films with an entire cast of children. The highly original film received eight British Academy Award nominations and five Awards. His second film was the controversial \"Midnight Express\" (1977) which won two Oscars and six Academy Award nominations, including one for Parker as Best Director. The film received six Golden Globe Awards and four awards from the British Film Academy. This was followed in 1979 by Parker's film \"Fame,\" a celebration of youth and the arts, which won two Academy Awards, six nominations, four Golden Globe nominations and was later adapted into a successful television series.", "Martin has composed, arranged and produced film scores since the early 1960s, including the instrumental scores of the films A Hard Day’s Night (1964, for which he won an Academy Awards Nomination), Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965), Yellow Submarine (1968) and Live and Let Die (1973). Other notable movie scores include Crooks Anonymous (1962), The Family Way (1966), Pulp (1972) starring Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney , the Peter Sellers film The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973), and the John Schlesinger directed Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)." ]

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[ "With the release of Mad Max 2 (1981; U.S. title The Road Warrior [1982]), Gibson became an international star. He subsequently established himself as a top box office draw with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and the action-packed Lethal Weapon series. In addition, he earned critical praise for more-serious fare, including The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) and Hamlet (1990), the first film made by his production company, ICON Productions. In 1993 he made his directorial debut with The Man Without a Face , in which he also starred. Gibson next directed the epic Braveheart (1995), in which he portrayed the Scottish national hero Sir William Wallace . The film won five Academy Awards, including best picture and best director .", "Director/star Mel Gibson took home Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards for this historical epic about 13th-century Scottish hero William Wallace, a farmer forced into fighting the forces of England's King Edward I after they kill his father and new wife. Highlighted by amazing battle scenes, the passionate saga also stars Patrick McGoohan, Sophie Marceau, and Catherine McCormick. 177 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English; audio commentary by Gibson; \"making of\" documentary; theatrical trailers. NOTE: This Title Is Out Of Print; Limit One Per Customer.", "The major Oscar winner of the year was the Best Picture award winner, producer / star / director Mel Gibson's and Paramount's stirring and violent historical action-epic tale Braveheart, about 13th century Scottish folk rebel hero and warrior Sir William Wallace, who led a vengeful, bloody revolt composed of guerrilla strikes against the treachery of villainous King Edward I.", "Gibson's first major roles were in the Mad Max series, with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome commanding his first million-dollar salary. His first American film was the 1984 drama The River; he then appeared in 1987's Lethal Weapon, which placed him squarely on the Hollywood A-list. Notable films for Gibson include Braveheart—for which he won two Academy Awards, including Best Picture—Ransom, Conspiracy Theory, The Patriot, What Women Want, and Signs. Gibson directed his first film, The Man Without a Face, in 1993, and went on to win the Oscar for Best Director with Braveheart. He went on to direct The Passion of the Christ in 2004 and Apocalypto in 2006. Gibson married Robin Moore in 1980; the couple had seven children before divorcing in 2009, and Gibson has a daughter with his girlfriend, Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva, the same year.", "And producer/actor/director Mel Gibson's historical Scottish epic Braveheart (1995) also won the Best Picture and Best Director honors, among others. Gibson starred as the Scottish hero William Wallace, and Patrick McGoohan played the role of Edward Longshanks. Robert Redford directed his third film, A River Runs Through It (1992), a beautifully-evocative film made on location in Montana about two brothers of the MacLean family (headed by minister Tom Skerritt) who followed different paths: older serious son Craig Sheffer and impetuous, wild gambling younger son Brad Pitt. He also directed Quiz Show (1993), about the TV game show \"Twenty-One\" cheating scandal involving Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes) and unfairly beaten Herbie Stemple (John Turturro).", "During 1995 we had not one but two films based on Scottish folk heroes. Michael Caton-Jones gave us the story of Rob Roy MacGregor a Seventeenth Century cattle drover with Irishman Liam Neeson in the lead role. American action hero Mel Gibson however would take the more prominent role as William Wallace in the Oscar winning Braveheart, a historical epic of huge proportions.", "The unforgettable historical epic ‘Braveheart’ (1995) was Gibson’s second opportunity as Director, in which he played the lead role of 13th century Scottish rebel and hero William Wallace. The film was signed by Icon Productions, a company co-owned by Gibson and Bruce Davey, and Gibson achieved invigorating performances, brutal battle scenes and touching story telling. In short, with very little prior experience at directing, Gibson surpassed everyone’s expectations by winning two Oscars at the 1996 Academy Awards, for Best Picture and Best Director, as well as a 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Also released in 1995 was Disney’s animated movie ‘Pocahontas’ for which Gibson provided the voice of John Smith, proving his singing abilities.", "'Braveheart' (1995) – Mel Gibson directed and starred in the story of Scottish warrior William Wallace, who led the Scottish army against English invaders led by King Edward I. The film won five Oscars, including best picture and best director, and has led to countless sports teams yelling \"Freedom!\" as they go up against opponents.", "the brave and bold love of one's country and one woman (Catherine McCormack) by a Scottish patriot (Mel Gibson) in the Best Picture-winning Braveheart (1995)", "Inspired by the film Braveheart, Brechin stone mason Tom Church talks revealingly about his statue of one of Scotland's national heroes, William Wallace. The statue, in the guise of Braveheart star Mel Gibson, has been returned to the sculptor after a rather eventful ten years at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.", "Mel Gibson (b. 1958) is an Academy Award winning actor and director. He co-wrote, directed, produced, and financed the \"The Passion of the Christ.\" The main actors are:", "(1) The Comyns do not appear in the film, though Mel Gibson's best friend Hamish with the red hair seems reminiscent of \"Red Comyn.\" The moment in the film where the nobles on horseback deliberately desert the field at Falkirk and leave Mel Gibson in the lurch is the historical event, unexplained, in which Red Comyn left the battlefield. Interestingly, the screenwriter (Randall Wallace) makes the leader of these nobles, not the Red Comyn, but \"Mornay,\" a slight alteration of \"Moray\" (Sir Andrew) a Comyn kinsman who historically was a faithful ally of Wallace, helped him win at Stirling Bridge, was wounded and died shortly thereafter--before the Battle of Falkirk ever took place. As noted earlier, whether Wallace was in fact betrayed is impossible to know. It is historical fact that he had very little support from the nobility and as such, his chances for success against the mighty King Edward I were greatly reduced and in this sense, the nobility of Scotland did betray the spirit of independence. The part of the film where Wallace hunts down the offending nobles and murders them in their beds, however, is pure Hollywood.", "Mel Gibson, left, Bruce Davey, center, and Alan Ladd Jr. with their Oscars for \"Braveheart.\" (Los Angeles Times)", "A ceremony took place in front of gathered nobles and clergy in the Kirk o’ the Forest, in Selkirk. The scene was depicted in Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning epic Braveheart, but the church itself was demolished and later churches built on the site in the 16th and 18th centuries.", "1995 Braveheart - outstanding ... FREEDOM!!! A fictionalized account of William Wallace. Like Costner and Eastwood before him, popular actor Mel Gibson got his turn to take home his only Oscars (Director and Producer) on his only nominations so far. But unlike the other two, Gibson was snubbed, didn't even receive a Best Actor nomination, in this year that Hollywood was obviously on drugs (Nicolas Cage won the Best Actor award for Leaving Las Vegas).", "The life of William Wallace was portrayed in a recent motion picture called Braveheart, but Hollywood is more interested in profit than accuracy in making historical films. Wallace was the heroic defender of the liberty of Scotland from the usurper, King Edward I of England who liked to refer to himself as The Hammer of the Scots.", "In 1995, a film named Braveheart, starring Mel Gibson, came out which was loosely built around the biography of William Wallace. In the American Historical Review, historian Elizabeth Ewan describes Braveheart as a film which \"almost totally sacrifices historical accuracy for epic adventure\". Unfortunately, in the popular mind, the film, rather than the historical facts, has become the true version of the life of William Wallace.", "Mel Gibson was too busy directing and starring in this epic account of William Wallace's battle against King Edward of England that he seemingly didn't have time to perfect a Scottish accent. The film took more than $200m at the box office and transformed the market in blue face paint. Altogether now: \"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freeddddddooOOOMMMM!\"", "In 1280, King Edward \"Longshanks\" (Patrick McGoohan) invades and conquers Scotland following the death of Alexander III of Scotland, who left no heir to the throne. Young William Wallace (James Robinson) witnesses Longshanks' treachery, survives the deaths of his father (Sean Lawlor) and brother (Sandy Nelson), and is taken abroad on a pilgrimage throughout Europe by his paternal Uncle Argyle (Brian Cox), where he is educated. Years later, Longshanks grants his noblemen land and privileges in Scotland, including Prima Nocte (or droit du seigneur, the right of the lord to have sex with female subjects on their wedding nights). Meanwhile, a grown Wallace (Mel Gibson) returns to Scotland and is reunited with his childhood friend, Hamish Campbell (Brendan Gleeson). Wallace falls in love with his other childhood friend, Murron MacClannough (Catherine McCormack); they marry in secret so she will not have to spend the night with the local English lord. Wallace rescues Murron from being raped by English soldiers, but as she fights off their second attempt, Murron is captured and publicly executed by having her throat slit. In retribution, Wallace leads his clan to slaughter the English garrison in his hometown and send the occupying garrison at Lanark back to England.", "A wonderful day following in the footsteps of William Wallace, Rob Roy and Robert the Bruce, all recently portrayed in films - Braveheart (Mel Gibson): Rob Roy (Liam Neeson) and The Bruce (Sandy Welch).", "Although he did not write the screenplay, in his film Braveheart Prince Edward of Carnarvon (later King Edward II of England ) was depicted as an effete homosexual who was not the true father of his son, the future Edward III of England . The film also made use of the concept of Droit de seigneur although this is historically inaccurate. Gibson has stated that it was more cinematically compelling to falsely include the Droit de seigneur because it portrayed Edward Longshanks , the King of England played by Patrick McGoohan as a sinister tyrant.", "Summary: Based on a novel by Dick King-Smith, author of \"The Sheep Pig\" (from which \"Babe\" was adapted), the touching and often spectacular \"The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep\" ingeniously presumes to explain the truth behind \"Nessie,\" i.e., the Loch Ness Monster. The story, told in present day to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman (Brian Cox) in a pub, begins with a lonely boy, Angus (Alex Etel), pining for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister (Priyanka Xi) and mother (Emily Watson), live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop’s commander (David Morissey) has an eye for mom, suspicions about a mysterious handyman, Lewis (Ben Chaplin), who is also a war hero, and an absurd contention that the Highlands are the real frontline in the war against Germany.", "William Wallace gained worldwide fame in the 1995 movie Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson.", "Wallace's emotional speech at the battle of Stirling still is inspirational and I think that the REAL William Wallace would be proud of the way Mel Gibson portrayed him.", "Just enough of the typical Gibson persona shows through to make Wallace accessible and likable in modern terms. The love affair with Murron plays off the actor's heartthrob image. And there are flashes of irreverent wit, including a weirdly zany rock-throwing contest between Wallace and his loyal friend Hamish (Brendan Gleeson). Wallace is a warrior with wit and a romantic soul. But when someone he loves is murdered by the English, he is capable of slitting the murderer's throat in revenge. From then on, \"Braveheart\" becomes a film of sly political treachery and extravagant, unrelenting battles.", "Much imitated but never bettered, Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting is my personal numero uno 20th century Scottish book. This novel is now so embedded in Scottish culture that it’s hard to remember it's only been around since 1993. In that time, it’s spawned Harry Gibson’s excellent stage play, a seminal album that introduced Iggy Pop to a new generation, and a major movie , which helped establish several Scottish movie stars including Ewan McGregor , Kelly Macdonald and Robert Carlyle .", "After appearing in smaller roles in The Chain Reaction (1980) and Mad Max 2 (1981), the actor got his next major hit with Gallipoli, an Australian drama war film directed by Peter Weir. Upon release in August 1981, the film not only received wide positive reviews from the critics but also won several awards including AACTA Awards for Best Film and AWGIE Award for Feature Film -- Original and Gibson for his outstanding performance in the film won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.", "With his Best Director win, actor/director/producer Mel Gibson became the sixth actor-turned director to win a Best Director Oscar. He joined five other actors-turned-filmmakers with Best Director Oscars:", "(born 1956). With lead roles in two blockbuster action trilogies and several critically acclaimed dramas already to his credit, Mel Gibson launched a career as a director in the 1990s and won an Academy Award for his second effort.", "Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award , Golden Globe , and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer .", "When Eight Bells Toll is a 1971 action film set in Scotland, based upon Scottish author Alistair MacLean's 1965 novel of the same name. Producer Elliott Kastner planned to produce a string of realistic gritty espionage thrillers to rival the James Bond series, but the film's poor box office receipts ended his plans.", "The Culloden battle will be constructed by Seoras Wallace, who shot to fame when he directed the fight scenes in Braveheart. He has worked on more than 100 major films including Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan." ]

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[ "Grease 2 is a 1982 American musical romantic comedy film and the sequel to Grease, which is based upon the musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The film was produced by Allan Carr and Robert Stigwood, and directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch, who also choreographed the first film. It takes place two years after the original film at Rydell High School, with an almost entirely new cast, led by actors Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer.", "Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and occasional singer. She began her acting career in 1978 and had her first starring film role in Grease 2 (1982), before receiving mainstream attention for her breakout performance in Scarface (1983). Her greatest commercial successes include Batman Returns (1992), Dangerous Minds (1995), What Lies Beneath (2000) and Hairspray (2007).", "Grease 2 (1982) was a sequel to Grease starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. As mentioned, only a few cast members from the original movie such as Dody Goodman, Sid Caesar, Eddie Deezen, Didi Conn, Dennis Stewart and Eve Arden reprise their respective roles. Dick Patterson returned, playing a different character. It was not nearly as successful, grossing just $15 million on its $13 million budget. Patricia Birch, the original movie's choreographer, directed the ill-fated sequel. It would be the only movie that she would direct. After the success of the original, Paramount intended to turn Grease into a multi-picture franchise with three sequels planned and a TV series down the road. When Grease 2 flopped at the box office, all the plans were scrapped.[27] On July 8, 2010, a sing-along version of Grease was released to select theaters around the U.S.[28] A trailer was released in May 2010 with cigarettes digitally removed from certain scenes, implying heavy editing; however, Paramount confirmed these changes were done only for the film's advertising,[29] and the rating for the film itself changed from its original PG to that of PG-13 for \"sexual content including references, teen smoking and drinking, and language.\"[30] The movie was shown for two weekends only; additional cities lobbied by fans from the Paramount official website started a week later and screened for one weekend.[31]", "** Michelle Pfeiffer appears in her first leading role, in Grease 2, the sequel to the top-grossing film of 1978 (her film debut had come as Tony Danza's character's girlfriend in the 1980 movie The Hollywood Knights).", "Get out your poodle skirts and penny loafers and get ready to rock 'n' roll with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in \"Grease\" (1978), the hit screen rendition of the Broadway musical look at '50s high school life. Songs include \"Greased Lightning,\" \"Summer Nights,\" \"You're the One That I Want\" and the title track; with Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden. And, it's time for more marvelous musical fun in \"Grease 2\" (1982)! Rydell High is up in the air over a mysterious motorcycle master who's charming Pink Lady Michelle Pfeiffer away from T-Bird leader Adrian Zmed. Could it possibly be quiet new student Maxwell Caulfield? Fun-filled '60s sequel also stars Lorna Luft, Tab Hunter, Arden, Conn. 3 3/4 hrs. total on two dis", "       The film was followed by a sequel, Grease 2 (1982, see entry), which marked the directorial debut of choreographer Patricia Birch. It was also developed into an ice skating show called Grease – On Ice, as announced in the 11 Jun 1998 HR. On 18 Apr 2000, The Times (London) reported speculation that Britney Spears had agreed to star in a third film in the Grease series, “focusing on the lives of the children of the characters originally played by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta.” As of Jan 2014, this third Grease feature film remains unproduced.", "The film's popularity has endured through the years. It was re-released for its 20th anniversary in 1998 and ranked as the second highest-grossing film behind Titanic in its opening weekend. It was most recently re-released in July 2010 as a sing-along version in select American theatres. The soundtrack still sells strongly enough to often appear on Billboard Top Soundtracks chart. <br /><br />In June 2006, Newton-John's company ON-J Productions Ltd filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group for $1 million in unpaid royalties from the \"Grease\" soundtrack. <br /><br />Newton-John's transformation in Grease from goody-goody \"Sandy 1\" to spandex-clad \"Sandy 2\" emboldened Newton-John to do the same with her music career. Read Less", "\"Michelle Pfeiffer, undeterred by the fiasco of Grease 2, makes one of the sexiest entrances in screen history.\"", "While modeling, she attended acting classes, as her real dream and ambition was to be an actress. In 1984, she landed herself a small part in one episode of As the World Turns (1956) as a young débutante named Bunny. Her first big break, however, was being cast by Brian De Palma in the Bruce Springsteen video \"Dancing in The Dark\". In 1985, she moved to LA to star alongside Dean Paul Martin in Misfits of Science (1985). It was a flop, but a few years later, she was chosen out of thousands of hopefuls to play Michael J. Fox 's girlfriend, psychology major Lauren Miller in Family Ties (1982).", "Interestingly, Boyz II Men will also appear in the live musical, but they’ll play a trio of Teen Angels.  Julianne Hough , Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hudgens , Carly Rae Jepsen , Keke Palmer , Carlos PenaVega , and Kether Donahue are also starring in the Fox broadcast of Grease , so it’s sure to be a good time! We can’t wait to watch and DNCE our butts off. Oh, whoops — we mean dance. Sorry, we’ve got Joe Jonas on the brain!", "In 1978, a new film burst onto the American scene whose popularity has not yet diminished among moviegoers and popular music fans. The film is a musical called \"Grease,\" and it is an attempt to depict the life of teenagers during the late 1950s--the classic era of bobby socks, convertible cars, and rock and roll. The film's leading male, John Travolta, and the dress and life-style he espouses have once again become ideals among many American children and. interestingly, also among the young people of eastern Europe, who are ever ready to rebel against the restrictions of their own societies by copying any new fad from the West. The female star of \"Grease\" is the talented Australian-born pop singer, Olivia Newton-John, who plays the character of Sandy Olsen, a naive and properly-mannered American teenager, compared to Sandra Dee in the song \"Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee\", who is eventually swayed over to the more flamboyant, motorcycle gang life-style of the \"ultimately cool\" Danny (John Travolta). Many people who have seen \"Grease\" believe that Sandra Dee is simply the character depicted in \"Grease.\" Little do they know that a real Sandra Dee actually exists.", "*Grease, directed by Randal Kleiser, starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway, Stockard Channing, Sid Caesar, Eve Arden", "Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer. She is one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses, and is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winner. She was named \"Most Beautiful Woman\" by People magazine in 2015. ", "In 1978, Frankie Valli scored again with the title track, \"Grease\", from the best selling soundtrack of the popular movie starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta.", "Producers Ken Waissman and Maxine Fox saw the show and made a deal to produce it Off-Broadway. The team headed to New York City to collaborate on the New York production of Grease. The new production, directed by Tom Moore and choreographed by Patricia Birch (who later choreographed the film adaptation, and directed the ill-fated sequel), opened Off-Broadway at the Eden Theatre in downtown Manhattan on February 14, 1972. Though Grease opened geographically off-Broadway, it did so under first class Broadway contracts. The show was deemed eligible for the 1972 Tony Awards, receiving seven Tony Award nominations.", "WATCH: Your First Look at Julianne Hough & Vanessa Hudgens Revamping a Classic in 'Grease: Live'", "Her TV and film work has become stronger and more frequent with each decade. She has shown that, even in the smallest role, she can draw attention to herself, as witnessed by her hysterically funny bit as a sexual compulsive in the gay film Jeffrey . She has played various mom parts, some more stable than others, in such films as Harriet the Spy , and The Rage: Carrie 2 . J. met and, later married, playwright/film writer Kenneth Lonergan . They are the parents of daughter, Nellie. She was featured as \"Mabel\", the secretary, in Lonergan's Oscar-nominated breakthrough play-turned-film You Can Count on Me , which made film stars out of Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo . One of her latest roles of interest was as a shifter/lowlife mother in the cult TV favorite True Blood . The diverse range of her talent is what still separates J. from the much of the pack, and should certainly serve her well for years to come.", "After a series of B pictures, she escaped to Broadway in 1958 and won her first Tony opposite Henry Fonda in “Two for the Seesaw.” The stage and movie versions of “The Miracle Worker” followed. Her other Academy nominations: “The Pumpkin Eater” (1964); “The Graduate” (1967); “The Turning Point” (1977); “Agnes of God” (1985).", "Famous for: American actress often featured as an ingénue at first, before establishing herself as a leading lady. Nicknamed, “The Sweater Girl.” Notable roles are Cynthia Potter from Love Finds Andy Hardy, Rosalie Lewett from Calling Dr. Kildare, Patty Marlow from The Dancing Co-Ed, Sheila Regan from Ziegfeld Girl, Bea Emery from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Elizabeth Cotton from Honky Tonk, Lisbeth Bard from Johnny Eager, Cora Smith from The Postman Always Rings Twice, Crystal Radek from The Merry Widow, Samarra from The Prodigal, Georgia Lorrison from The Bad and the Beautiful, Diane de Poitiers from Diane, Constance MacKenzie from Peyton Place, Lora Meredith from Imitation of Life, Sheila Cabot from Portrait in Black, Rosemary Howard from Bachelor in Paradise, and Holly Parker from Madame X.", "Grease was re-released to theaters in 1998 to mark the 20th anniversary; this re-release contained (before and after the mastering) the old Viacom variation of the 1986 logo with the fanfare used on Black Rain, Wayne's World, The Accused, Pet Sematary, and Fatal Attraction; in turn this is similar to how the original master began with its original theme (accompanied with 1975 logo), which seems to be a horn re-orchestration of the intro to \"Love is a Many-Splendored Thing\". That version is shown on TV to this day, however a few select Viacom networks run the original master instead. The film was also ranked number 21 on Entertainment Weeklys list of the 50 Best High School Movies. ", "In this sequel to Pitch Perfect, the collegiate a cappella group called the Barden Bellas enter into an international competition which they are told is impossible to win because they are Americans. The girls refuse to give up and vow to be the first Americans to take home the top prize. Directed by Elizabeth Banks and stars: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Hailee Steinfeld.", "Breslin was seen in The Weinstein Company film \"August: Osage County\" opposite Meryl Streep, Ewan McGregor, Julia Roberts, Sam Shepard, Dermot Mulroney and Juliette Lewis. She starred in the coveted role of 'Jean Fordham' the daughter of Julia Roberts' and Ewan McGregor's characters. Most widely recognized for her role in the critically-acclaimed \"Little Miss Sunshine,\" the irreverent, antic comedy which created a sensation at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Breslin played the role of 'Olive,' an ambitious young girl who is obsessed with winning a beauty pageant. For her performance, she received a Best Actress Award from the Tokyo International Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award, SAG and BAFTA Best Supporting Actress awards. In addition, she was honored as ShoWest's \"Female Star of Tomorrow\" in 2008, and made her Broadway debut in 2010 in \"The Miracle Worker.\"", "While simultaneously appearing on Cheers, she continued starring in several motion pictures. In 1984, she was nominated for a Best Leading Actress Golden Globe for her performance in Irreconcilable Differences. She then starred in a series of comedies, such as The Money Pit, with Tom Hanks, Outrageous Fortune, with Bette Midler and Peter Coyote, and Hello Again, with Corbin Bernsen. She was also offered lead roles in Working Girl, Jumpin' Jack Flash and My Stepmother Is an Alien, but did not accept those roles.", "<p style='text-align: center'><img src='http://tm.tm-cdn.com/photos/whatsonstage/v1finw130x152y124w248h248width130/87480.jpg' /></p>Full casting has been announced for the <em>Grease</em> sequel, which plays a week-long run next month", "She co-produced and starred in the critically acclaimed, \"If Love Were All\" in New York directed by Leigh Lawson. Her autobiography, \"Twiggy In Black and White\" entered the bestseller list and her new album Romantically Yours was released to lauded reviews in the music press. Her timeless beauty transcends the decades and she continues to model, featuring on the cover of numerous magazines, \"Vogue\", \"Tatler\" etc.", "2013 marks the 35th Anniversary of the 1978 film musical GREASE that premiered on the stage at the Off-Broadway Eden Theatre in downtown Manhattan, before transferring to Broadway in June 1972.", "After the decline of the Hollywood musical in the late 1950s, Charisse retired from dancing but continued to appear in film and TV productions from the 1960s through the 1990s. She had a supporting role in Something's Got to Give (1962), the last, unfinished film of Marilyn Monroe . A striptease number by Charisse set to the movie's theme song opened the 1966 Dean Martin spy spoof, The Silencers , and she played a fashion magazine editor in the 1967 caper film Maroc 7 . She frequently performed dance numbers on TV variety series such as The Ed Sullivan Show and The Dean Martin Show , with seven appearances on The Hollywood Palace , a show she also hosted three times.", "dancer; Tony Award-winning Actress: Damn Yankees [1956], Can-Can [1954]; High Button Shoes; films: Damn Yankees!, The Cotton Club, Cocoon; died Oct 18, 2000", "The 29-year-old actress, a first-time nominee, is a one-time model who made her acting debut in the 1982 hit, \"Tootsie,\" which starred Hoffman.", "actress: Sugartime, A Place for Annie, The Client, Bullets over Broadway, Naked in New York, Fried Green Tomatoes, Signs of Life", "Jennifer earned her SAG card by dancing in the 2005 Universal remake of The Producers. She can be seen in two production numbers in the film: I Wanna Be A Producer (girl in pearls) and Along Came Bialy (little old lady dancing with a walker in Central Park).", " 2008 Divas II (TV Movie) (performer: \"What the World Needs Now Is Love\", \"That's What Friends Are For\" - uncredited)" ]

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[ "Chaplin is a 1992 biographical comedy-drama film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey, Jr., Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller, and Kevin Kline. It also features Geraldine Chaplin in the role of her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin.", "In 1992 a film was made about his life entitled Chaplin, directed by Oscar-winner Richard Attenborough, and starring Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, and Geraldine Chaplin (Charlie's daughter, portraying Charlie's mother, her own grandmother). Downey was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in 1993 for his portrayal of Chaplin.", "His later films as director and producer include “Chaplin” (1992), starring Robert Downey Jr. as Charles Chaplin, and “Shadowlands” (1993), based on the relationship between C.S. Lewis and Joy Gresham. Both films starred Anthony Hopkins , who also appeared in three other films for Attenborough: “Young Winston,” “A Bridge Too Far” and the thriller “Magic”  (1978).", "Everyone knows the late great Richard Attenborough is a wonderful actor. And of course, everyone knows Attenborough is also a talented director, having directed gems like Magic and Gandhi. In 1992, Attenborough directed and produced a biopic on comedy legend and United Artists co-fonunder Charlie Chaplin, with Magic writer William Goldman co-penning the script and Robert Downey, Jr. as Chaplin. Despite mixed critical reviews, I’ve always been a fan of this one. For starters, Downey’s performance. Just like Tony Stark in the MCU, Downey gets completely into Chaplin’s character and ends up embodying him. He’s not playing Chaplin, he is…", "Chaplin is the subject of a biographical film , Chaplin (1992) directed by Richard Attenborough , and starring Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role. [59] He is additionally a character in the period drama film The Cat's Meow (2001), played by Eddie Izzard , and in the made-for-television movie The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), played by Clive Revill . [61] [63] A television series about Chaplin's childhood, Young Charlie Chaplin, ran on PBS in 1989, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program. [64]", "\"Chaplin,\" which has been rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned), has some female nudity. Chaplin Directed by Richard Attenborough; screenplay by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman, from the story by Diana Hawkins, based on \"My Autobiography,\" by Charles Chaplin and \"Chaplin: His Life and Art,\" by David Robinson; director of photography, Sven Nykvist; edited by Anne V. Coates; music by John Barry; production designer, Stuart Craig; produced by Mr. Attenborough, Mario Kassar and Terence Clegg; released by Tri-Star Pictures. Running time: 142 minutes. This film is rated PG-13. Charlie Chaplin . . . Robert Downey Jr. Hannah Chaplin . . . Geraldine Chaplin Charlie Age 5 . . . Hugh Downer Charlie Age 14 . . . Tom Bradford Sydney Chaplin . . . Paul Rhys Fred Karno . . . John Thaw Hetty Kelly/Oona O'Neill . . . Moira Kelly George Hayden . . . Anthony Hopkins Stan Laurel . . . Matthew Cottle Mack Sennett . . . Dan Aykroyd Mabel Normand . . . Marisa Tomei Edna Purviance . . . Penelope Ann Miller Douglas Fairbanks . . . Kevin Kline J. Edgar Hoover . . . Kevin Dunn Paulette Goddard . . . Diane Lane Joan Barry . . . Nancy Travis Lawyer Scott . . . James Woods", "“I was devastated by the skills of an actor who could make you laugh and cry at the same time,” Attenborough told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1993, after the release of his movie “Chaplin,” starring Robert Downey Jr.", "More recent films as director and producer include Chaplin (1992) and Shadowlands (1993). Both films starred Anthony Hopkins, who appeared in another three films for Attenborough. He also directed the screen version of musical A Chorus Line (1985) and the apartheid drama Cry Freedom (1987). He was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Director for both films. He has since directed Grey Owl (1999) and Closing The Ring (2007).", "Sir Charles Spencer \"Charlie\" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 25 December 1977) was an English comedian actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. He was famous also for his great sense of humor and slapstick comedy skills.", "Biopic chronicling the life and career of the film comedian - including his many love affairs and the scandals he faced. Directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Robert Downey Jr, Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, John Thaw, Kevin Kline and Chaplin's real-life daughter Geraldine, who plays her own grandmother.", "Sir Charles Spencer \"Charlie\" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 â�� 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era. [2] He became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War . Chaplin used mime , slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies , though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp , which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. [3] From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing, and from 1918 composing the music. With Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith , he co-founded United Artists in 1919. [4]", "Robert Downey, Jr. (with his first nomination) as The Tramp in director Richard Attenborough's portrait of the classic comedian Chaplin (with three nominations and no wins)", "Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born August 1, 1944. Geraldine was an actress known for many roles, but first recognized for her work in Dr. Zhivago. She also played her own grandmother in the 1992 Richard Attenborough film of Chaplin. Her first film appearance was in Limelight with brother Michael and sister Josephine at the beginning of the film.", "Robert Downey Jr. Pays Tribute To Chaplin Director Richard Attenborough: \"I Wouldn't Be Who I Am\" If", "Attenborough was also noted as a director. In 1969 he directed his first film, the musical Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). Gandhi (1982)—his biographical film about Mohandas K. Gandhi—earned eight Academy Awards, including those for best picture and best director. Further directorial efforts included A Bridge Too Far (1977), the antiapartheid film Cry Freedom (1987), the Charlie Chaplin biopic Chaplin (1992), and Shadowlands (1993), a depiction of the relationship between American poet Joy Gresham and English writer C.S. Lewis. He also helmed Closing the Ring (2007), a World War II romance told in flashbacks.", "English actor, director and producer Richard Attenborough, whose powerful movies including “Gandhi” brought awareness of subjects like war, pacifism and apartheid to millions, has died. He was 90.", "Richard Attenborough , who has died aged 90, had three distinct personas for those who followed his career in the entertainment world: the baby-faced, pint-sized actor, at turns, cocky and cowardly, later rotund in mostly creepy character roles; the film director of epics such as Gandhi, and Chaplin; and Lord \"Dickie\", ubiquitous, ebullient and lachrymose, presiding over a host of charitable organisations. However, each image merges into one complete picture of a cheerful humanitarian and imperishable idealist who, for over half a century, played an integral part in British cultural life.", "1993 Actors/Filmmakers/Visitors Michael Relph (Saraband for Dead Lovers) The Gas Giants (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) Retrospectives/Tributes/ Centenaries/Themes Richard Attenborough (7 Film Retrospective)", "For the next thirty years, Richard Attenborough worked tirelessly in British films, appearing in, among others: Private’s Progress, I’m All Right, Jack, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, and Guns at Batasi, for which he won a BAFTA Best Actor award for his portrayal of the Regimental Seargent Major.  He was also part of the West End production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, which started in 1952 and is still running.  He also appeared in the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster The Great Escape, which introduced him to American audiences.", "Richard Attenborough won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 1967 for the film The Sand Pebbles, opposite Steve McQueen.  The next year, he won the same award, this time for the film Doctor Doolittle, starring Rex Harrison.", "In the late 1950s, Attenborough formed a production company, Beaver Films, with Bryan Forbes and began to produce projects including The League of Gentlemen (1959), The Angry Silence (1960) and Whistle Down the Wind (1961). Over the next ten years he expanded his range of character roles in films such as Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and Guns at Batasi (1964), for which he won the BAFTA for Best Actor. In 1963, he appeared in the ensemble cast of The Great Escape. In 1967 and 1968, Attenborough won two Golden Globes as Best Supporting Actor. He would win another Globe for Best Director, for Gandhi, in 1983.", "Attenborough was indeed a talent for the ages. His memorable roles later in life, usually sporting a snowy white beard, included prominent parts in Jurassic Park and Kenneth Branagh 's Hamlet, and he played Kris Kringle in the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street.", "Although he was loved and appreciated throughout the world as the inimitable Charlie, Chaplin’s personal life including four marriages, a 1944 paternity suit, and his refusal to accept U.S. citizenship gained him adverse publicity in America. In 1953, accused of Communist sympathies, he was denied re-entry into the country. Thereafter, he settled in Switzerland with his wife, Oona O’Neill and a family of nine children. Initially embittered, he returned in triumph to the United States in 1972 to receive a special achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, followed in 1973 by an Academy Award for his score to Limelight. In 1975, at age 86, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died on December 25, 1977.", "He worked prolifically in British films for the next 30 years, and in the 1950s appeared in several successful comedies for John Boulting and Roy Boulting , including Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959). Early in his stage career, Attenborough starred in the London West End production of Agatha Christie 's \"The Mousetrap\", which went on to become one of the world's longest-running stage productions. Both he and his wife were among the original cast members of the production, which opened in 1952 and (as of 2007) is still running.", "He then starred in the final Beaver production, Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964). His uncompromising performance as the fraught husband of a crazed medium (Kim Stanley) was a role he used to cite as his favourite. Though a failure in its day, the film now has a cult reputation. Arguably at his peak as an actor, Attenborough was superb as a sadistic sergeant in Guns at Batasi (1964), and as the navigator of an aeroplane that crashes in the Sahara Desert in Flight of the Navigator (1965).", "Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not like the term. In 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough, and older brother of motor executive John Attenborough.", "Acclaimed actor-director Richard Attenborough died on August 24, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported, citing his son. Attenborough was 90.", "And the performances are memorable. It's probably Attenborough's finest. In make-up, his head appears shiny and bulbous, like a character in a comic book. He's a frightening villain. But he speaks softly and slowly and with sweet reason.", "People we lost in 2014 – Acclaimed actor-director Richard Attenborough died on August 24, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported, citing his son. Attenborough was 90.", "He has played Pablo Picasso, while his friend and frequent collaborator, Richard Attenborough, is an avid collector of Picasso's artwork.", "He has played Pablo Picasso , while his friend and frequent collaborator, Richard Attenborough , is an avid collector of Picasso's artwork.", "Attenborough died at the age of 90 on 24 August 2014. His remarkable career spanned 6 decades." ]

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[ "Russian American actress, (1938-1981) most famous for appearing in Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story , marrying Robert Wagner twice, and sadly, for drowning in mysterious circumstances aged 43.", "Wood married Robert Wagner twice. They married in 1956, divorced in 1965, and remarried in 1972. She later starred in such films as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Meteor. She was working on the MGM production Brainstorm with Walken when she drowned over Thanksgiving weekend.", "Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko was born July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, California.  Her parents were Russian immigrants.  When Natalia began acting, the studio she worked for changed her name to Natalie Wood.  Her younger sister Svetlana also an actress, used the stage name Wood and was known as Lana Wood.  Natalie is best known for her role as little Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street.  She also starred in Rebel Without A Cause with James Dean, West Side Story, and played Gypsy Rose Lee in the film Gypsy.  Natalie was married to actor Robert Wagner with whom she co-starred in several films.", "\"Rebel Without a Cause\" actress Natalie Wood knew she wanted to date actor Robert Wagner from the moment she saw him. The 18-year-old Wood walked into the studio where Wagner was working and arranged a date for the following night. They married one year later, in 1957, despite great protest from Wood's mother. The pair divorced for the first time in 1962, only to remarry a decade later in 1972 and remained together until Wood's mysterious death in 1981. âXFINITY Entertainment Staff (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)", "West Side Story is a film adaptation of 1957 Broadway musical of the same title, and which was based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The 1961 film production is brilliantly reimaged and set in New York’s West Side where the Capulets and the Montagues are transformed into the Sharks and the Jets, two ethnically marginalized factions fighting for control of their neighborhood. When Maria and Tony fall in love, the familiar scenarios of missed opportunities, poor timing and miscommunication unravel through a singing and dancing frenzy orchestrated by the spectacular work of Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents. In this version, Romeo is now Tony (Richard Beymer), and Juliet is Maria, played by Natalie Wood.", "Natalie Wood star of Rebel Without A Cause, West Side Story, Gypsy, and Miracle on 34th St", "On December 28, 1957, Wagner married 19-year-old actress Natalie Wood. They separated in June 1961 and divorced on April 27, 1962.", "actress: From Here to Eternity, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, Marjorie Morningstar, Gypsy, Love with the Proper Stranger; died Nov 29, 1981", "Mr. Klugman also appeared in a 1952 revival of Clifford Odets’s “Golden Boy,” which starred John Garfield and Lee J. Cobb, and the musical “Gypsy,” in which he was paired with Ethel Merman, playing Herbie, the reluctant theatrical agent who loves Merman’s Momma Rose.", "In the 1940s, stripper Gypsy Rose Lee fell in love with Todd, who was then famous as a Broadway theatrical impresario. Todd produced two Broadway shows starring Lee, \"Star and Garter\" and \"The Naked Genius\" (the latter of which was written by Lee). Gypsy married William Alexander Kirkland in 1942 in an attempt to make the already-married Todd jealous. They divorced in 1944.", "Peters is particularly noted for her starring roles in stage musicals, including \"Song and Dance\", \"Sunday in the Park with George\", \"Into the Woods\", \"Annie Get Your Gun\" and \"Gypsy\", becoming closely associated with composer Stephen Sondheim . She had a four-year romantic relationship with comedian Steve Martin and was married to investment adviser Michael Wittenberg for over nine years until he was killed in a helicopter crash on September 26, 2005. Peters is known for her charitable work, including as a founder of the Broadway Barks animal charity.", "This screen version of the 1959 Broadway musical play (starring Ethel Merman) by Warners, with a Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim score, was suggested by the lives of American ecdysiast-actress Gypsy Rose Lee (Natalie Wood), her sister June Hovick (Suzanne Cupito/Morgan Brittany as younger 'Baby' June, and Ann Jillian as older 'Dainty' June), and their bullying and domineering mother known as Mama Rose (Rosalind Russell, singing voice of Lisa Kirk) who pushed Gypsy into show business.", "She was billed as “Louise Hovick” by 20th Century Fox which upset Lee as she was known nationwide as Gypsy Rose Lee. To legitimize herself, she married Arnold Bob Mizzy on August 25, 1937 at the studio’s insistence. Lee’s early film work was unacceptable so she decided to go back to New York City where she knew she could find work and regain her fame. She invested in business with theater impresario Mike Todd and went on to star in Streets of Paris, and the Theater Cafe, Gay New Orleans and Star and Garter.", "In 1942, although Lee was romantically involved, and in love, with Michael Todd, in an attempt to make him jealous, Gypsy Lee married William Alexander Kirkland in 1942. They divorced in 1944. On the day of her divorce, her only son, Erik, was born. His birth was extremely controversial since Erik was not Kirkland’s son, but the son of Otto Preminger. Lee was married for a third time in 1948, to Julio de Diego, but they eventually divorced.", "Musical about striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee and her relationship with her ambitious mother, who was determined to make stars of both her daughters. The only place Rose can find work is in a burlesque house, where the established strippers help her make it to the top. Starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood. Stephen Sondheim's songs include Everything's Coming Up Roses, Let Me Entertain You and Small World.", "Born Rosa Dolores Alverio on December 11, 1931, in Humacao, Puerto Rico, Rita Moreno is best known as Anita in West Side Story in 1961, a role that earned her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first Latina actress to win the honor. Moreno also appeared on the children's shows Sesame Street and The Electric Company, and is one of only 11 people to have received the four major entertainment honors—Emmy, Oscar, Tony and Grammy awards.", "Company , and Zorba , as well as participating in the touring companies of such musicals as Gypsy . As she reached age 50, her television career took off, with guest roles on shows like Fantasy Island and The Love Boat . On the 25th annual Tony Awards in 1971, she appeared as a guest performer and sang “ Adelaide’s Lament ” from Guys and Dolls , providing a visual recording of the performance for posterity. [1]", "American Ballet Theatre & Broadway musicals (Fancy Free 1944, Gypsy 1959). Dancer, choreographer, joint director of New York City Ballet for 40+ years. Awards incl. Oscars for Hollywood's West Side Story 1961.", "Personal Life: (1908-1990) Born Eunice M. Quedens in Mill Valley, California. Parents divorced when she was still a child. Dropped out of high school at 16 and joined a stock theater company. Made her first film in 1929. Adopted her stage name during her Broadway debut in 1934. Married twice and had 4 children to second husband Brooks West to whom she was married to for 32 years. Died of colorectal cancer and heart disease at 82.", "Directed by Emile Ardolino. With Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb, Edward Asner. Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie.", "Sarah Jane Mayfield (Jane Wyman), actress: born St Joseph, Missouri 14 January 1917; married 1937 Myron Futterman (marriage dissolved 1938), 1940 Ronald Reagan (died 2004, marriage dissolved 1948; two daughters deceased, one adopted son), 1952, 1961 Fred Karger (marriage dissolved 1955, 1965); died Rancho Mirage, California 10 September 2007.", "Later in 1950, Fonda married Susan Blanchard , with whom he had been having an affair since sometime in 1948. She was twenty-one years old, the daughter of Australian-born interior designer Dorothy Hammerstein , and the step-daughter of Oscar Hammerstein II . [38] Together, they adopted a daughter, Amy Fishman (born 1953). [39] They divorced three years later. Blanchard was in awe of Fonda, and she described her role in the marriage as \"a geisha,\" doing everything she could to please him, dealing with and solving problems he would not acknowledge. [40]", "Arthur Laurents: Playwright and screenwriter who wrote the books for 'West Side Story' and 'Gypsy' | The Independent", "Charisse's first husband, whose surname she kept, was Nico Charisse (March 1906 – April 1970); [14] they were married in 1939 and had a son, Nico \"Nicky\" Charisse, before divorcing in 1947. In 1948, Charisse married singer Tony Martin . They had a son, Tony Martin, Jr. (August 28, 1950 – April 10, 2011), and remained married until her death. [15]", "(1924–  ) movie actress; born in New York City. Although she had attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and appeared in a few Broadway plays, she was called to the attention of movie director Howard Hawks while working as a model. She made her screen debut in To Have and Have Not (1944), and nicknamed \"the Look,\" she immediately caught the public's fancy with her feline grace and husky voice. She married her costar, Humphrey Bogart , in 1945 and made three more movies with him. After his death she was married for some years to Jason Robards Jr. (1961–69). Her screen career tended to decline after Harper (1966) but she enjoyed a new popularity in musicals on Broadway, particularly Applause (1970).", "Early in his career, while playing double roles in the play Drifting at the Playhouse Theatre in 1922, Bogart met actress Helen Menken. They were married on May 20, 1926, at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City. Divorced on November 18, 1927, they remained friends. On April 3, 1928, he married Mary Philips, whom he'd met when they appeared in the play Nerves during its very brief run at the Comedy Theatre in September 1924, at her mother's apartment in Hartford, Connecticut. She, like Menken, had a fiery temper, and, like every other Bogart spouse, was an actress.", "Charisse, was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, in 1922. She married Nico Charisse, a dancer she had trained with in Los Angeles, in Paris in 1939. That marriage produced a son Nicky, and ended in divorce in 1947. She married Martin a year later, and entered a long double act with him of singing and dancing. The couple had a son, Tony Jr.", "Geraldine's later theater included her Tony-nominated role in \"Brightower\" (1970) (despite it closing after only one performance) on Broadway and as wife \"Golde\" in the musical \"Fiddler on the Roof\". Her final movie part came in the rather ho-hum crimer Mr. Ricco alongside Dean Martin . A short-lived series regular as the matriarch of The Dumplings , a rare comedic venture for her, and a stage production of Jules Feiffer 's \"Hold Me!\" in 1977 capped her capable but somewhat unsatisfying career. She deserved much better attention than she got, especially in films. Divorced from TV writer Herbert Sargent after only three years (1958-1961), she married author Budd Schulberg (best known for his screenplay of On the Waterfront ), in 1964. The couple moved to Los Angeles and opened a writers' workshop together for the underprivileged. She also collaborated with Schulberg on the book Swan Watch (1975), a study on the elegant birds in which she also took photographs. In addition, she wrote poetry for children although she herself never had any. Sadly, Geraldine died in 1977 at age 51 of a heart attack while battling cancer, thus depriving the entertainment industry of a valuable talent. She was survived by her husband, mother and sister.", "During the 1970s Kline was in a relationship with his Juilliard classmate Patti LuPone. He met actress Phoebe Cates in 1983 and they were married in 1989. The couple live in New York City and they have two children, including a daughter, Greta, a musician currently performing as Frankie Cosmos. ", "Very popular actress/singer best known for her roles in \"The Sound of Music\" and \"Mary Poppins\". Was once married to Blake Edwards . Starred on Broadway with Rex Harrison in \"My Fair Lady\".", "Baer was now at the height of his fame. He starred in a movie, The Prizefighter and the Lady (banned in Germany because Baer's grandfather was Jewish), and lived the high life. He was romantically linked to innumerable starlets, socialites, chorus girls, and Broadway actresses before marrying in 1935.", "Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of The Innocents, before going on to star in the title role of the Broadway musical, Annie, in 1979. She appeared in the 1984 films Footloose and Firstborn, and returned to Broadway in the 1989 play, The Heidi Chronicles. Other film roles include: L.A. Story (1991), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Ed Wood (1994), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family Stone (2005), and Failure to Launch (2006). She is set to star in the upcoming HBO series, Divorce (2016)." ]

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[ "Tim Rice’s other musical theater credits include Blondel with Stephen Oliver, Chess with Benny Andersson and Bjorn Uvaeus (from the pop group Abba). In 1986 he co-wrote the smaller scale Cricket, again with Lloyd Webber. In 1991 he produced Tycoon from his translation of the hit French musical, Starmania. In 1993, Rice replaced the late Howard Ashman as Alan Menken’s lyricist on Disney’s Aladdin. Their song, “A Whole New World,” won them a Golden Globe and Academy Award. He also was awarded, with Elton John, the Golden Globe, Academy Award, and Ivor Novello Award for his work on Disney’s Lion King and the song, Circle of Life.", "Sir Timothy Miles Bindon “Tim” Rice (born 10 November 1944) is a British lyricist and author. An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of The Wizard of Oz, and for his work for Walt Disney Studios with Alan Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, King David), Elton John (The Lion King, Aida) and Ennio Morricone.", "Tim was signed to Disney in 1991 to begin work on a film that would become The Lion King but when Alan Menken's collaborator, friend and lyricist, Howard Ashman, passed away Tim was asked to step in complete the songs for Aladdin. In 1992 Tim Rice and Alan Menken won best Oscar for Best Original Song for A Whole New World. The Lion King was released in 1994 and this time Tim had collaborated with Pop Superstar and Songwriter Elton John. Can You Feel The Love Tonight from the film won he and John another Oscar, again for Best Original Song in 1995. With the Oscar in 1996 for the song You Must Love Me from Evita Tim had collected three Oscars in only 5 years for Best Original Song.", "\"A Whole New World\" is a song from Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. The song is a ballad between the primary characters Aladdin and Jasmine about the new world they are going to discover together while riding on Aladdin's magic carpet. The original version was sung by Brad Kane and Lea Salonga during the film. They also performed the song in their characters at the 65th Academy Awards, where it won Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as the first and only Disney song to win a Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards. In 2014, Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed performed the song as Aladdin and Jasmine in the film's Broadway adaptation.", "Rice has collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cricket, and The Likes of Us. For The Walt Disney Company, Rice has collaborated individually with Alan Menken and Elton John, creating productions including Aladdin (winning an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the song \"A Whole New World\") and The Lion King (winning the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song for \"Can You Feel the Love Tonight\"). In 1996, his collaboration with Lloyd Webber for the film version Evita won Rice his third Academy Award for Best Original Song with the song \"You Must Love Me\". Rice has also collaborated with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA on Chess and with Rick Wakeman on the albums 1984 and Cost of Living. He is writing eight lyrics to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker. The working title is The Nutcracker: The Untold Story. ", "Rice had contributed lyrics to several songs used in features including “Hearts Not Diamonds” (music by Marvin Hamlisch) in THE FAN (1981) and “All Time High” (music by John Barry) in OCTOPUSSY (1983). In 1992, he was selected to help augment the score for Disney’s animated feature ALADDIN after lyricist Howard Ashman had succumbed to AIDS. Collaborating with composer Alan Menken, Rice provided the words for the Oscar-winning “A Whole New World.” He and Menken further collaborated on the stage version of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” (1993). Rice then teamed with Elton John for the songs for Disney’s THE LION KING (1994), for which he received his second Oscar for “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” Rice picked up a third Oscar for the ballad “You Must Love Me” written for Madonna to sing in EVITA (1996). The song also marked the first collaboration between Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber in over a decade.", "Was nationally released on 11/25/92. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken teamed up again for Music and Score, but Howard Ashman died of AIDS before completion. Tim Rice was hired to complete the remaining songs. Ashman wrote the lyrics to Arabian Nights, Friend Like Me, and Prince Ali. Rice wrote the lyrics to One Jump Ahead, A Whole New World, and Prince Ali (reprise). This film reportedly cost $35 million to produce. Aladdin continued the winning streak and won the two Academy Awards for Best Song (A Whole New World) and Best Original Score.", "1992: \"A Whole New World\" Lyrics by Tim Rice, Music by Alan Menken, performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle – Aladdin +", "A prolific composer of musical theatre in the 20th century, Andrew Lloyd Webber has been referred to as \"the most commercially successful composer in history\". [39] His musicals, which include The Phantom of the Opera , Cats , Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita , have dominated the West End for a number of years and have travelled around the world as well as being turned into films. Lloyd Webber has worked with producer Cameron Mackintosh , lyricist Tim Rice , actor Michael Crawford , actress and singer Sarah Brightman , while his musicals originally starred Elaine Paige , who with continued success has become known as the First Lady of British Musical Theatre. [41]", "Sir Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe (born 28 March 1943) is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician, best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber.", "Lloyd Webber and director Trevor Nunn turned T.S. Eliot's Book of Practical Cats poems into Cats (1981), the longest running musical in Broadway and West End history. Because Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Company acted as co-producer, Cats made him a multi-millionaire. After collaborating with lyricist Don Black on Song and Dance (1982) and lyricist Richard Stilgoe on Starlight Express (1984), Lloyd Webber achieved another mega-hit with Phantom of the Opera (1986). With lyrics by the otherwise unknown Charles Hart, Phantom went on to gross over $2 billion worldwide by the century's end. (Claims of plagiarism by the Puccini estate were settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.)", "**Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) for \"A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)\" performed by Regina Belle & Peabo Bryson ", "Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. ", "Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt. (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.", "Creative Team: Music by Elton John, Lyrics by Tim Rice, and Book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi. ", "Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre . He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine.", "The Academy Award for best song went to ''You Must Love Me,'' written for ''Evita'' by the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and the lyricist Tim Rice.", "1948 ● Andrew Lloyd Webber → Highly successful Grammy-winning songwriter, producer and composer of musicals, often as collaborator with Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), Evita (1976) and Phantom Of The Opera (1986)", "The famous musical adaptation began in 1980 with the French language lyrics written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel and the libretto (the spoken portion of a musical) written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil. The lyrics to the English version of the musical were written by Herbert Kretzmer and James Fenton and the libretto was written by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. The musical went on to become an international sensation and multi award winnner.", "Lyricist, writer, and broadcaster, born in Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Lancing College, then took up law, but left a lawyer's firm to join the EMI recording company. He has co-written lyrics on many award-winning records, has appeared on numerous radio and TV quiz shows, and written several books. He is best known for writing the lyrics to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber for Joseph…", "Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway . He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle , a set of variations , two film scores , and a Latin Requiem Mass . He has also gained a number of honours, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from the British Government for services to Music, six Tony Awards (and 40 nominations), three Grammy Awards (with an additional 60 nominations), an Academy Award (two other nominations), seven Olivier Awards (with 100 nominations), a Golden Globe , and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006. Several of his songs, notably \" The Music of the Night \" from The Phantom of the Opera , \" I Don't Know How to Love Him \" from Jesus Christ Superstar , \" Don't Cry for Me, Argentina \" from Evita , \" Any Dream Will Do \" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and \" Memory \" from Cats have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals. His company, the Really Useful Group , is one of the largest theatre operators in London.", "An album containing remixes of songs that he recorded in the 1970s called Good Morning to the Night was released in July 2012. The remixes were conducted by Australian group Pnau and the album reached No. 1 in the UK. At the 2012 Pride of Britain Awards on 30 October, Elton John, along with Michael Caine, Richard Branson, Simon Cowell and Stephen Fry, recited Rudyard Kipling's poem \"If—\" in tribute to the 2012 British Olympic and Paralympics athletes. ", "Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has written some of the most commercially successful musicals of the last quarter of the 20th century. Among his most popular shows are “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (1967), “Jesus Christ Superstar” (1971), “Evita” (1974), “Cats” (1981), “The Phantom of the Opera” (1986), and “Sunset Boulevard” (1993). Lloyd Webber’s gift for melody has spawned such classic musical theater songs as “Memory” and “Music of the Night.”", "\"Amigos Para Siempre\" (Friends for Life) was the other musical theme. It was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black, and sung by Sarah Brightman and José Carreras during the closing ceremonies.", "Lloyd Webber was asked to write a song for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and composed \" Amigos Para Siempre  — Friends for Life\" with Don Black providing the lyrics. This song was performed by Sarah Brightman and José Carreras .", "March 22, 2008 -- Multi award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has dominated musical theatre in recent decades with productions such as Phantom of the Opera, Evita and Cats, celebrates his 60th birthday.", "From left, Marvin Hamlisch, Mr. Lewis and Rupert Holmes. Mr. Hamlisch wrote the new musical’s score; Mr. Holmes, its book and lyrics. Credit Josh Anderson for The New York Times", "Now and Forever: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Box Set - Andrew Lloyd Webber | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic", "15 selections from the Broadway bio of this silver screen icon, arranged as vocal lines with piano accompaniment. Songs: If I Left London · Just Another Day in Hollywood · The Life That You Wished For · Look at All the People · The Man of All Countries · Overture · Sennett Song · This Man · Tramp Shuffle Pt. 1 · What Only Love Can See · When It All Falls Down · Where Are All the People? · and more. SERIES: Vocal Selections. Media: Softcover. . Composer: Christopher Curtis. EAN: 9781480332454", "The Essential Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber - Andrew Lloyd Webber | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic", "Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard \"Memory\".", " 2015 The 69th Annual Tony Awards (TV Movie) (lyrics: \"Getting to Know You\", \"Something Wonderful\", \"Shall We Dance?\", \"You'll Never Walk Alone\")" ]

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[ "\"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head\" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. The song was recorded by B. J. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. In the film version of the song, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound hoarser than in the 7-inch release. The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts.", "The song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” is a former number 1 hit that was released in 1969. It reached the top of the charts in January 1970 and remained there for four weeks. It was written for the 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and was awarded an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Ray Stevens and Bob Dylan were offered the job to record the song, but declined. Let’s find out who wrote and sang this famous song.", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Robert Redford and Paul Newman collaborate on one of the best western movies of all time. Features B.J. Thomas\\' rendition of Burt Bacharach\\'s Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head. Steve McQueen and Warren Beatty were both offered the role of the Sundance Kid.", "In the pantheon of great male cinematic double acts, Robert Redford and Paul Newman are up there with Laurel and Hardy. So memorable was their on-screen chemistry, it's easy to forget they only appeared in two films together. Their first collaboration, the lyrical, vaguely comic western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), was directed by George Roy Hill and saw Redford and Newman pour charisma into their roles as insouciant outlaws. Their next film was even better. A crafty, good-natured crime caper, The Sting (1973) reunited Hill with Redford and Newman and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the \"Sundance Kid\" (played by Robert Redford), based loosely on historical fact.", "UPDATED: Hal David, the Oscar-winning songwriter who wrote “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” for Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid , died today after suffering a stroke, according the Associated Press. He was 91. David, a longtime collaborator with Burt Bacharach, was nominated alongside Bacharach three other times during his career. The first was for penning “What’s New Pussycat?” for the 1965 film, then for the title theme in 1966′s Alfie, and again for “The Look Of Love” featured in 1967′s Casino Royale . David and Bacharach’s writing partnership produced some of the best-known songs inside and outside of the film and TV business, including “Close To You,” “Magic Moments,” “What The World Needs Now Is Love,” “Walk On By” and “I Say A Little Prayer.” In May, David and Bacharach received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during a White House tribute concert attended by President Barack Obama. David also served as president of ASCAP and was a longtime member. ASCAP’s current president, the songwriter Paul Williams, said in a statement: “As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic — conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music. It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs… the backdrop of our lives.”", "Bacharach's chart-topping song \"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head\" (sung by B.J. Thomas ) was used in the British TV commercial for \"Walkers\" crisps featuring Gary Lineker and Cat Deeley in the bicycling roles originated by Paul Newman and Katharine Ross in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). [2009]", "Allen adapted her play into a film, which was directed by Ronald Neame. Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. There was also a notable performance from Pamela Franklin as Sandy, for which she won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress. It was entered in the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. Rod McKuen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song for \"Jean\", but lost to Burt Bacharach and Hal David's \"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head\" from another 20th Century Fox film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. \"Jean\" also became a huge hit for the singer Oliver in the autumn of 1969.", "Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy), Robert Redford (The Sundance Kid), Katharine Ross (Etta Place), Strother Martin (Percy Garris), Henry Jones (Bike Salesman), Jeff Corey (Sheriff Ray Bledsoe), George Furth (Woodcock), Cloris Leachman (Whore), Ted Cassidy (Harvey Logan), Kenneth Mars (Marshal), Donnelly Rhodes (Macon), Jody Gilbert (Large woman), Timothy Scott (News Carver), Don Keefer (Fireman), Charles Dierkop (Flat Nose Curry)", "Neither Paul Newman nor Robert Redford (in their first teaming together) received Best Actor nominations as the title characters in the box-office success, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . Shirley Knight and James Caan were both ignored for their performances in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People: Knight as Natalie Ravenna - an on-the-road pregnant housewife, and Caan as brain-damaged ex-football player 'Killer' Jimmie Kilgannon. And ex-model Ali McGraw was unnominated for her role as Jewish princess Brenda in Goodbye, Columbus (with only one nomination - Best Adapted Screenplay).", "28 years - Paul Newman was first nominated in 1958 as Best Actor for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) , and won Best Actor for The Color of Money (1986), 28 years later; he was the only actor with six unsuccessful Best Actor nominations before finally winning Best Actor with nomination # 7 - and he later added another nomination as Best Actor for Nobody's Fool (1994), and his first Best Supporting Actor nomination also came later for Road to Perdition (2002)", "B.J. Thomas, Burt Bacharach & Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head Lyrics", "Robert Redford – Best Director winner (“Ordinary People,” 1980); Best Director nominee (“Quiz Show,” 1994); Best Actor nominee (“The Sting,” 1973)", "Newman began his career on the stage, making his Broadway debut in the 1953 production of William Inge's \"Picnic. \" The following year, Newman made his first appearance on the big screen in \"The Silver Chalice,\" but it was his portrayal of boxer Rocky Graziano in 1956's \"Somebody Up There Likes Me\" that catapulted him to stardom. Over the next decade, the actor starred in two dozen films, including \"The Long, Hot Summer,\" for which he was named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, \"The Left-Handed Gun,\" \"Exodus,\" and \"Sweet Bird of Youth,\" as well as his aforementioned Oscar-nominated roles in \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,\" \"The Hustler,\" \"Hud\" and \"Cool Hand Luke. \"", "Thomas was recording for Scepter Records, which was also home of Dionne Warwick, who recorded many Bacharach/David hits like \"Don't Make Me Over\" and \"I Say A Little Prayer.\" She took a copy of Thomas' song \" Hooked On A Feeling \" to Bacharach, who was working on a score for the film. She convinced him to consider Thomas, and although he was reluctant at first, Burt asked Thomas to sing the main theme: \"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.\" What he didn't tell Thomas was that the song had already been turned down by Bob Dylan and Ray Stevens.", "Directed by Jack Clayton. Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston, Lois Chiles, Howard Da Silva, Roberts Blossom. In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth results in tragedy. Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 143 min. DVD 4499", "Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book Shadows on the Grass and other sources. This film received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.", "Paul Newman as the Brick Pollitt in the 1959 film version of Tennessee William's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' Photo: AP", "The Way We Were is a romance starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford in a story about a political activist and a wealthy socialite. The Way We Were was directed by Sydney Pollack in 1973.", "Rain Man (1988) – The critically acclaimed film starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise that won four Academy Awards in 1989: best picture, best original screenplay, best director (Barry Levinson), and best actor (Hoffman). The plot concerns a cross-country journey of two brothers, with Hoffman as an institutionalised autistic savant and Cruise as a selfish, abrasive man previously unaware of his brother's existence. They stop in Las Vegas, stay in Caesars Palace, and Raymond (Hoffman's character) uses his mathematic and mnemonic skills to win at blackjack.", "This final scene at the mirror brings out the best in Alfred Newman’s musical score . Those gut-wrenching violins. The score earned Newman the 28th of 45 career Oscar nominations, tied with John Williams for the second most in history (both behind Walt Disney). Seeing as Newman had already won four previous Oscars, the statue instead went to Franz Waxman for one of the greatest film scores of all time in Sunset Blvd. While Waxman’s score is clearly superior, Eve‘s is superb.", "Sydney Pollack directed a film adaptation in 1985, starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Klaus Maria Brandauer.", "The prolific popular songwriter RANDY NEWMAN was nominated 15 times (8 for Best Score, 7 for Best Song) before finally winning at his 16th attempt with the song \"If I Don't Have You\" at the ceremony for 2001. Since then \"We Belong Together\", his 20th nomination, has won him a second Oscar.", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson and features a supporting cast of Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, and Brad Dourif.", "Splash is a 1984 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, and Dody Goodman. The film involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge.", "This is one of the best movies I have ever seen!! Rain Man has won for Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman) and Best Director (Barry Levinson). If you haven't seen that excellent movie, see it! My favorite part in that movie is when Raymond (Hoffman) and Charlie (Cruise) Babbitt went to Las Vegas to play card games. That is great!!", "Review: One of the best (if not the best) musical to come out of Hollywood, including the title sequence that may well be the most popular song from a musical ever to grace the screen. Gene Kelly is at his peak here, dancing with Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and the sultry Cyd Charisse - its just wonderful to watch. The story is just as much fun as the rest of the film and bridges the different musical numbers very well, on top of giving a light-hearted (if simplistic) look at an exciting time in Hollywood history. Mingling inventive choreography, beautiful sets, and an engaging story, Singin' in the Rain is just wonderful Hollywood entertainment.", "\"Rain Man\" is a 1988 American drama film directed by \"Barry Levinson\".It stars \"Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman & Valeria Golino\".", "“Singin’ in the Rain” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” were two highly successful box office hits made in 1952 that only received 2 Oscar nominations each but didn’t win anything. The former is now recognized as the greatest musical of all time. The latter is now in the public domain and can be seen in its entirety on youtube.", "*A Hatful of Rain, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa", "Singing in the Rain (1952) (directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Doneen) (starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor)", "\"Singin' in the Rain\" by Nacio Herb Brown, performed by Gene Kelly - This is played during the closing credits. See here ." ]

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[ "The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steelworkers and their service in the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale (in his final role), Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza. The story takes place in Clairton, a small working class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then in Vietnam and in Saigon, during the Vietnam War.", "Cimino won two Academy awards for his 1978 masterpiece “The Deer Hunter” – the story of three Pennsylvania steelworkers who go off to fight in the Vietnam War, starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage.", "The Deer Hunter was the first significant film made about the Vietnam War as America was struggling to recover from the traumatic experience of the conflict. The film examines the emotional and psychological effects of the war on a group of friends and their loved ones. The story is about three Russian-American steelworkers from a small Pennsylvania town who enlist in the U.S. Army to serve in Vietnam. During the war, all three are captured and sent to a brutal Vietcong prison where they endure appalling conditions. The Deer Hunter is a haunting and unforgettable experience. The Russian roulette scenes, while controversial, have become iconic in popular culture. This brilliant film touches upon, not only the horrors U.S. troops experienced in Vietnam, but also the struggles veterans endured after returning home. Film critic Roger Ebert called it, “One of the most emotionally shattering films ever made.” The Deer Hunter went on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken). The American Film Institute ranked The Deer Hunter #53 in its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.", "\"The Deer Hunter,\" which explored the impact of the Vietnam War on a small town of steel workers in Pennsylvania, was also a big boost for the careers of Meryl Steep and Christopher Walken, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.", "The Deer Hunter is an expansive portrait of friendship in a Pennsylvania steel town, and of the effects of the Vietnam War. Led by the trio of Robert De Niro, John Savage and Christopher Walken (who won a supporting actor Oscar), the first hour is dominated by an engrossing Russian Orthodox wedding and reception. When the drama moves overseas it switches from anthropologically realistic documentation of a community's rituals to highly controversial and still shocking Russian Roulette scenes, symbolising the random horror of war. Unforgettable as they are, the Vietnam sequences occupy less than a third of the three-hour running time; defying movie convention The Deer Hunter is fundamentally a before-and-after ensemble character study anchored by De Niro's great performance.", "Cimino’s masterpiece was 1978’s The Deer Hunter won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cimino.", "The Vietnam War has been the subject of many Hollywood movies in the 70s – and this is probably one of the best. Starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, ‘The Deer Hunter’ is an in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam War affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.  © EMI Films", "9. The Deer Hunter – A poignant movie about the Vietnam War – Robert DeNiro was magnificent.", "John Savage is an actor, producer, and activist whose star-turning performance in the 1978 war film “The Deer Hunter” led to a successful career. With Robert de Niro and Christopher Walken, John played one of three men sent to Vietnam at the height of the war. The film became an instant classic and is often cited as a masterpiece of American cinema. John has since appeared in dozens of films and television shows, including “The Onion Field,” “Hair,” “Salvador,” and Fox’s “Dark Angel.” Off screen, John is a social rights activist. In the early ‘90s he put his career on hold to work alongside Nelson Mandela in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.", "De Niro in “The Deer Hunter.” The film’s harrowing depiction of a prisoner of war camp and the soldier’s re-assimilation back home were among Hollywood’s first serious instances tackling the experiences of Vietnam War veterans. De Niro received his third Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor.", "\"I just thought it was like [the movie] 'The Deer Hunter.' You know, guys go off to war, they come back, they're all messed up, and there are steelworkers who don't have jobs - OK, I get that. But did they have to be taking a shower with their bare asses hanging out? Maybe there's something artsy-fartsy about that, I don't know.\"", "The Deer Hunter began principal photography on June 20, 1977. This was the first feature film depicting the Vietnam War to be filmed on location in Thailand. All scenes were shot on location (no sound stages). \"There was discussion about shooting the film on a back lot, but the material demanded more realism,\" says Spikings. The cast and crew viewed large amounts of news footage from the war to ensure authenticity. The film was shot over a period of six months. The Clairton scenes comprise footage shot in eight different towns in four states: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Ohio. The initial budget of the film was $8.5 million.Deeley, p. 171", "Directors Guild of America president Paris Barclay also issued a statement on the news late on Saturday: “With his visionary approach and attention to every detail, Michael Cimino is forever etched in the history of filmmaking. In his most iconic work, the DGA and Academy Award-winning film ‘The Deer Hunter,’ Michael captured the horrors of war through a personalized lens – captivating a nation in the process.”", "The 1978 film The Deer Hunter and the 1980 book America in Vietnam changed the way Americans saw the Vietnam War.", "In \"The Deer Hunter,\" the enemies in Vietnam are ugly, sadistic torturers, while the American boys are noble; the Saigonese are greedy gamblers willing to bet on an American's blowing his brains out--they show no concern over the imminent collapse of their city. The movie was touted as being a major antiwar film, but it is packed with simplistic answers to some of our most enduring anxieties.", "The Deer Hunter is my favorite. It shows the way war destroys the soldiers who are asked to fight and how they do it and even SEEK to do it without catching on to the stupidity at bottom.", "1978: \"The Deer Hunter\" starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep premieres and proceeds to win Best Picture.", "The Deer Hunter was a game-changer. After a disastrous preview screening, the studio brought in Allan Carr as a consultant. He concluded that the film was so grim and depressing that people would only watch it if they had heard that it had been nominated for Oscars. Before then, it was the other way around; films got Oscar nominations based on their popular reception. Carr turned the system on its head and gave the film only a short screening in New York and Los Angeles near the end of 1978; the audience was mostly limited to film critics and Academy members. The former raved about the film, and the latter nominated it for multiple Oscars. Only then was it put into wide release to the general public.", "[on being cast in The Deer Hunter (1978)] I talked with the millworkers, drank and ate with them, played pool. I tried to become as close to being a steelworker as possible, and I would have worked a shift at the mill but they wouldn't let me.", "[on being cast in \"The Deer Hunter\"] I talked with the millworkers, drank and ate with them, played pool. I tried to become as close to being a steelworker as possible, and I would have worked a shift at the mill but they wouldn't let me.", "THE DEER HUNTER, directed by Michael Cimino; screenplay by Deric Washburn; story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker; director of photography, Vilmos Zsigmond; production consultant, Joann Carelli; art directors, Ron Hobs and Kim Swados; editor, Peter Zinner; music by Stanley Myers; produced by Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, and John Peverall; released by Universal studios. At the Coronet Theater, 59th Street and Third Avenue. Running time: 183 minutes. This film is rated R.", "The Searchers (1956) continues to be widely regarded as perhaps Wayne's finest and most complex performance. In 2006 Premiere Magazine ran an industry poll in which Wayne's portrayal of Ethan Edwards was rated the 87th greatest performance in film history. He named his youngest son Ethan after the character. John Wayne won a Best Actor Oscar for True Grit (1969). Wayne was also nominated as the producer of Best Picture for The Alamo (1960), one of two films he directed. The other was The Green Berets (1968), the only major film made during the Vietnam War to support the war.[12] During the filming of Green Berets, the Degar or Montagnard people of Vietnam's Central Highlands, fierce fighters against communism, bestowed on Wayne a brass bracelet that he wore in the film and all subsequent films.[18] His last film was The Shootist (1976), whose main character, J. B. Books, was dying of cancer—the illness to which Wayne himself succumbed 3 years later.", "Agree with you with THE GREEN BERETS. THE DEER HUNTER is one of the all time greats in cinema.", "5  A 1980 America Western based on a range war. Even though this film was directed by Michael Cimmo, who directed the blockbuster \"The Deer Hunter\", it is regarded as one of the biggest box office failures of all time.", "This film shows scenes in the town of Umatilla where shop owners close down for the day with signs that say, \"Gone Hunting.\" It shows a man loading dogs into a truck. There is a shot of a deserted town street. We see hunters and families at campsites and a group of men and boys with rifles starting out. A hunter shoots and bags a buck. A man in a butcher's apron weighs the deer and the proud hunter shows it off in the bed of a pickup truck.", "Ridley Scott's first feature film was The Duellists which opened in 1977 to critical acclaim. The Duellists of 1977 was Ridley Scott's first feature film. It was produced in Europe and won a Best Debut Film medal at the Cannes Film Festival but made limited commercial impact in the US. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it featured two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud (played by Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel ). Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out feud over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. The film is lauded for its historically authentic portrayal of Napoleonic uniforms and military conduct, as well as its accurate early-nineteenth-century fencing techniques recreated by fight choreographer William Hobbs.", "The Duellists (1977) marked Ridley Scott's first feature as director. Shot in Europe, it was nominated for the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and won an award for best film. The Duellists had limited commercial impact internationally. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it follows two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud (Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel) whose quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter extended feud spanning fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. The film has been acclaimed for providing a historically authentic portrayal of Napoleonic uniforms and military conduct. The 2013 release of the film on Blu-ray coincided with the publication of an essay on the film in a collection of scholarly essays on Scott. ", "Cooper, James Fenimore. The Deerslayer, or the First Warpath. Ed. Allan Nevins. New York: Signet, 1963.", "The title Foxcatcher refers to the 800-acre Pennsylvania estate owned by the wealthy du Pont family, where hunters on horseback chased foxes through the fields and packs of beagles tore the prey to bits. This is the blood sport of the privileged, which Oscar Wilde characterized as “the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible,” which is something of the spirit of Bennett Miller’s superb new film.", "1913: The Deerslayer, starring Harry T. Morey and Wallace Reid. Filmed at Otsego Lake, the actual setting of the novel. Filmed in 1911, released two years later.", "As Tom Chaney, Brolin is a complete and unadulterated villain, a rattlesnake who would as soon shoot Mattie as Rooster. In the Western genre, evil can be less nuanced than in your modern movies with all their psychological insights. Barry Pepper plays Lucky Ned Pepper, leader of a gang Chaney ends up with, and part of the four-man charge across the meadow into Rooster's gunfire, a charge as lucky for them as the Charge of the Light Brigade.", "1920: The Deerslayer and Chingachgook, a German film with Béla Lugosi as Chingachgook. This was the first part of the two-part Lederstrumpf silent film." ]

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