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Independence Day (1996) - IMDb | tc_1127 | Which 1996 film has its climax on 4th of July? | {
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A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth .
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Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion , Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat . But will mankind 's new space defenses be enough ?
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Jack Hall , paleoclimatologist , must make a daring trek across America to reach his son , trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age .
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Hancock is a superhero whose ill considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions . He changes when one person he saves helps him improve his public image .
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An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races , the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons , comes to Earth , with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager .
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A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind .
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On July 2nd , communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference . It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth . At first thought to be meteors , they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft , piloted by a mysterious alien species . After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere , David Levinson , an ex-scientist turned cable technician , discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day . On July 3rd , the aliens all but obliterate New York , Los Angeles and Washington , as well as Paris , London , Houston and Moscow . The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51 , a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own . The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens , and July |
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A FedEx executive must transform himself physically and emotionally to survive a crash landing on a deserted island .
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When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition , he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit .
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An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport , and must take up temporary residence there .
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A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity .
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The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama , the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years .
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Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet .
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A recently widowed man 's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner .
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After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month , N.A.S.A . recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet .
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Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission bound for the moon . Astronauts Lovell , Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14 , but are moved up to 13 . It 's 1970 , and The US has already achieved their lunar landing goal , so there 's little interest in this `` routine '' flight .. until that is , things go very wrong , and prospects of a safe return fade . Written by Rob Hartill
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A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter , and in the process teaches his cold hearted lawyer the value of love and family .
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Ben Sanderson , a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism , arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death . There , he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera .
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A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him . Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days , hours , and minutes tick down to the condemned man 's execution , powerful emotions are unleashed . While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts , scenes are intercut from the brutal crime , gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired . In addition to her temporal help , the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation . Written by Tad Dibbern < DIBBERN_D @ a1.mscf.upenn.edu >
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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 .
The film was a co-production between the motion picture studios of Centropolis Entertainment and TriStar Pictures . It was commercially distributed by TriStar Pictures theatrically , and by Sony Pictures Entertainment for home media . Godzilla explores nuclear mutation , crisis management and military warfare . [ 2 ] Following its wide release in theaters , the film won and was nominated for multiple mainstream awards , including Saturn Award nominations for Best Special Effects , Best Fantasy Film , and Best Director . The film also won the People 's Choice Award in the category of Best European Director for Emmerich from the European Film Awards . On May 19 , 1998 , the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released by the Epic Records label . It features songs written by several recording artists including The Wallflowers , Rage Against the Machine , Silverchair , and the Foo Fighters . The film score was composed and orchestrated by musicians David Arnold and Nicholas Dodd .
Godzilla premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on May 20 , 1998 grossing $ 136,314,294 in domestic ticket receipts . It earned an additional $ 242,700,000 in business through international release to top out at a combined $ 379,014,294 in gross revenue , but despite this it was considered a disappointment at the box office [ 3 ] . The widescreen DVD edition of the film featuring theatrical trailers , scene selections , and selected commentary , among other highlights was released in the United States on November 3 , 1998 . The film spawned an animated television spin-off sequel , titled Godzilla : The Series , which premiered September 12 , 1998 on the Fox Kids network .
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Following a nuclear test in French Polynesia in the early 70 's , an iguana nest is irradiated by the fallout of subsequent radiation , and all but one egg survives . Decades later , a Japanese fishing vessel is suddenly attacked by an enormous sea creature in the South Pacific ocean ; only one seaman survives . Traumatized , he is questioned by a mysterious Frenchman in a hospital regarding what he saw , to which he replies one word , `` Gojira '' . [ 2 ]
Dr. Niko `` Nick '' Tatopoulos ( Matthew Broderick ) , an NRC scientist , is in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine researching the effects of radiation on wildlife , but is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of an official from the U.S. State Department . He is sent to Tahiti and Jamaica , escorted by the military , to observe the wreckage of the recovered Japanese fishing trawler with massive claw marks on it . The Frenchman is also present , observing the scene , and introduces himself as Philippe Roaché ( Jean Reno ) , an insurance agent . Aboard a military aircraft , Nick identifies skin samples he discovered in the shipwreck as belonging to an unknown species . He dismisses the military 's theory that the creature is a living dinosaur , instead deducing that it is a mutant created by nuclear testing . The large reptilian creature dubbed as `` Godzilla `` by the media ( or more specifically by Charles Caiman ) , travels to New York City leaving a path of destruction in its wake . The city is evacuated as the military attempts to kill it but fails in an initial attempt . |
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Whoopi Goldberg plays in a recurring guest star role , as Guinan , the alien humanoid hostess of `` Ten Forward , '' the ship 's lounge . An avid Trekkie , Goldberg says , `` Star Trek is something I wanted to do since I was a little girl . It was the first show that said , yes , there 's a future for black folks . ''
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 .
Goldberg received an Oscar nomination and the Golden Globe Award in 1985 for her motion picture debut in Steven Spielberg 's film version of Alice Walker 's `` The Color Purple . '' She has since starred in such films as `` The Long Walk Home , '' `` Jumpin ' Jack Flash , '' `` Burglar , '' `` Fatal Beauty , '' `` Clara 's Heart , '' `` Soapdish , '' and `` The Player , '' among others .
Whoopi 's performance as Oda Mae Brown in `` Ghost '' earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress , the Golden Globe Award , and the NAACP Image Award . She was also named the NAACP 's `` Entertainer of the Year '' for 1990 .
In 1986 , her appearance on an episode of Moonlighting earned Goldberg an Emmy Award nomination as Best Guest Performer in a Dramatic Series . Her performance in the CBS Schoolbreak special , `` My Past Is My Own , '' garnered Goldberg a Daytime Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Performer in a Children 's Special . Her appearance on A Different World earned her yet another Emmy nomination . Her television credits include Baghdad Cafe ( in which she starred with Jean Stapleton ) , `` Scared Straight : 10 Years Later , '' `` Carol , Robin , Whoopi and Carl , '' `` Funny , You Do n't Look 200 , '' Marlo Thomas ' `` Free To Be ... A Family '' and `` Freedomfest -- Nelson Mandela 's 70th Birthday Special , '' which she co-hosted . Whoopi co-produced and appeared in `` Hot Rod Brown , '' the first two `` Tales from the Whoop '' for Nickelodeon , for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award . Whoopi Goldberg , along with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams , have also co-hosted HBO 's `` Comic Relief '' specials , which benefit the nation 's homeless .
Goldberg 's first album , a recording of her Broadway show , won a Grammy Award as Best Comedy Recording of the Year . Her second album , `` Fontaine ... Why Am I Straight ? '' based on her HBO special , also earned a Grammy Award nomination . In February 1992 , Whoopi hosted the `` 34th Annual Grammy Awards '' telecast . In 1990 , she hosted yet another special for HBO Comedy Hour , `` Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Connolly in Performance . '' She performed in three specials for HBO , including `` Whoopi Goldberg : Chez Whoopi , '' which debuted in August , 1991 .
In the summer of 1991 , Whoopi returned to legitimate stage to co-star with Timothy Dalton in A.R . Gurney 's two-person play , `` Love Letters . '' Among Goldberg 's stage credits are solo performances of `` The Spook Show , '' `` Moms , '' based on the legendary Moms Mabley , and `` Living on the Edge of Chaos . ''
Whoopi was named the NAACP 's Entertainer of the Year . Other recent honors include the `` Hollywood Woman 's Press Club 's Golden Apple '' for Female Star of the Year , UCLA 's `` Jack Benny Award , '' and Women in Film 's `` Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award , '' among others . Whoopi was honored for Distinguished Achievement in Film at the `` 9th Annual American Cinema Awards '' and at L.I.F.E . ( Love is Feeding Everyone ) `` Hunger Hero Awards . ''
She is well-known for her tireless humanitarian efforts on behalf of children , the homeless , human rights , substance abuse and the battle against AIDS . |
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This review is more about the special features that came with the bluray rather than the movie itself . The movie is a cult classic - as it should be - because it 's a beautifully shot film . I think this may have been my first full length feature film with Clint Eastwood . I did not grow up with Mr. Eastwood but was very well acquainted with his cowboy , tough guy image .
I was very disappointed that there was n't a director commentary track with this movie , but I think Eastwood actually does NOT do those on ANY of his movies ( not any of that I own at least ) . There is a nice featurette that I enjoyed thoroughly but it 's still not enough . There is a commentary track with the editor and someone else and I was bored to DEATH of their commentaries . So disappointing . But the film looks beautiful in letterbox though I 'm not sure it 's really HD quality . Such a beautifully shot film . |
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A dark , graphic view into the underworld of pornography
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Firstly , this film is hugely under-rated . For those reviewers who call this film a `` waste of time '' or place it in the `` hall of shame '' , maybe they should go back to watching more obvious and simple films .
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 ) .
What makes the film worth watching though is the emotion , dark imagery and tense moments throughout the film . The storyline too is very well thought out although does have a few holes and untouched areas that may have helped develop the film further . There is no Hollywood ending , forced propaganda , or marketing . What you do get is graphic scenes , moderate violence , and an insight into `` snuff '' movies ( which really is quite disturbing ) .
Having said that this movie is not for the faint hearted , so if you 're a `` puppy-dogs and ice-cream '' kind of person I 'd suggest watching something else . If however , you feel you will be able to stomach such a film then prepare yourself for a moving film , which will leave you feeling that little bit darker at the end .
I highly recommend this film . 8/10
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Well made , but disturbing . Watch with care .
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27 February 1999
I walked into the movie theater last Friday not expecting at all what I was about to see . I 'd heard about it , thought `` Oh , another Seven '' . Same screenwriter , but I was way off track . I can stomach a lot , having no problem stuffing down popcorn during very graphic scenes . In 8MM , my coke had trouble going down . 8MM did not have consistent gory/violent scenes , but the way the movie was made made you fill in the blanks of what the makers of the movie could not screen . And if you pay attention and immerse yourself , you fill in more blanks than you really think you could , or want . As Max put it : `` the devil changes you . '' The perversity and deep rottenness of the human minds displayed in 8MM is what disturbs you . Then you realize , that `` snuff '' -movies are real , that there are individuals twisted enough to endorse/enjoy/take part in it . And worst of all , that these individuals do n't look like monsters , they 're perhaps just overweight nearsighted men who look like your dad , your son , your brother , even yourself . And if you do n't look out , ( no matter how secluded you think you are in your suburban home , with a wife , a daughter , and a dog named Shep ) you dive into the pit of perversion and rottenness as well , finding no way out . In conclusion : excellent music , acting very sufficient , the plot : a must see . Just do n't bring popcorn , and prepare to walk out of the movie theatre disturbed , asking questions , and a little bit more suspicious of those walking around you , and yourself .
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A Haunting and disturbing Brilliant Realistic Masterpiece ! !
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26 February 1999
The intensely intriguing storyline of 8MM follows the haunting search by a private investigator ( played superbly by Nicolas Cage ) for the makers of a grotesque and disturbing snuff film in which a young woman is murdered . Starting by looking through endless missing persons files ( in an attempt to identify the victim ) , Cage ultimately follows leads to the world of underground seaze films and the people who are |
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Based on Charles Dickens ' timeless tale , this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman . Updated to modern day New York City , the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl . But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true , everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him ... Written by Steve Richer < sricher @ sympatico.ca >
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When Finn is holding Lustig on the subway , there is nothing on the floor of the train . When Lustig asks Finn to grab his suitcase for him , there it is on the floor , next to the knife , neither of which were seen in the first shot . See more »
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Great Expectations is one of the few films that can incorporate stunning visuals , one of the best soundtracks to ever grace a film and simply characters that you truly care about by the end of the film .
It 's true that the character development on the character of Finn is a little weak , but the characters of Estella and the over flamboyant and heartbroken Miss Dinnsmore certainly make up for Finn 's minor flaws . Personally i found the film very enjoyable and immersive , and the incredibly imaginative cinematography will certainly keep anyone 's attention as well .
This film is a stylish and brilliant remake of a classic and could almost be considered timeless compared to other recent attempts at `` updating '' the classics which fail in comparison ( such as the recent failed attempt at romeo and juliet ) . Great Expectations is certainly worth a rental ( or even purchase ) for anyone that enjoys simply a good , immersive movie with some absolutely beautiful imagery .
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Disney has done a lot of intense work marketing its new animated Star Wars series , Star Wars Rebels . This week , the Disney Channel premiered a 44-minute special episode called Star Wars Rebels : Spark of Rebellion to kick off the series . The special did quite well on The Disney Channel , and now Star Wars Rebels : Spark of Rebellion is headed to ABC for an additional second showing . The network 's airing of Spark of Rebellion will be extra special however , as it will come with a special bonus scene and a cameo from James Earl Jones .
That ’ s right , when Spark of Rebellion heads to ABC later this month , fans will be treated to an additional scene featuring none other than Darth Vader . And thanks to Jones ’ involvement , the iconic character will get his original voice . On Thursday , executive producer Dave Filoni explained why the new scene has been added in .
“ We wanted to do something special for the ABC broadcast . We ’ ve added a scene which gives audiences insight into the Inquisitor and includes a cameo by Darth Vader voiced by the distinguished actor James Earl Jones . ”
The animated series takes place in the time between Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope . A ragtag crew led by the soon-to-be powerful Jedi Ezra Bridger ( Taylor Gray ) and renegade Jedi Kanan Jarrus ( Freddie Prinze , Jr. ) are tasked with taking on threatening villains and saving the day . Their main threat will be the aforementioned Inquisitor ( Jason Isaacs ) , who has been tasked by Darth Vader to rid the universe of all Jedi . The show is also notable because it is expected to be canon .
As I noted prior , Disney is really crushing the marketing with its Star Wars Rebels stuff . Due to big buzz and a built-in audience , the show got off to a killer start on October 3 , pulling in more than 6.5 million total viewers , numbers that are high for The Disney Channel . Additionally , the network showed a boost of confidence in the series when it signed on for Season 2 before Season 1 even premiered . Star Wars Rebels will hit the schedule in its regular form on Monday , October 13 at 9 p.m . ET . Sixteen episodes are expected to be produced for Season 1 .
A scene with added information and a Darth Vader cameo might inspire fans to rewatch Star Wars Rebels : Spark The Rebellion when it re-airs on ABC on October 26 at 9 p.m . ET . Even if it doesn ’ t , it ’ s still an added reason for new viewers to give the show a shot , without having to add Disney or Disney XD to their cable package in order to do so .
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The 'Star Wars ' Sequel That Never Happened
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George Lucas had a backup plan .
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 . ’
Even after the enormous success of ‘ Star Wars , ’ its sequel , ‘ The Empire Strikes Back , ’ nearly bankrupted Lucasfilm – which financed the film independently instead of accepting backing from 20th Century Fox as Lucas had with the first film – and if ‘ Empire ’ had bombed , Lucasfilm itself would have gone bust . ( This , as we know , didn ’ t happen . ) The money Lucasfilm used to finance ‘ Empire ’ was basically what Lucas had earned on ‘ Star Wars ’ after Fox took their cut .
Now , in this aforementioned alternative universe , let ’ s pretend ‘ Star Wars ’ was a modest success and not an entity that changed movies and mainstream culture forever . Under this scenario , Lucas wouldn ’ t have the money to make a film on such a grand scale like ‘ Empire , ’ so – before ‘ Star Wars ’ was even released – he commissioned Alan Dean Foster to write a lower-budget sequel to 'Star Wars ' titled 'Splinter of the Mind ’ s Eye . '
`` I was originally brought in while 'Star Wars ' was still in production , on a two-book contract to do the novelization of the film , '' Alan Dean Foster told me by phone from his Arizona home , `` but he also instructed me to write a novel that could be filmed on a low budget . ''
'Star Wars' did become a huge hit , so the idea for a ‘ Splinter ’ film was scrapped for the much more ambitious ‘ Empire , ’ but the novel was still released in 1978 as a follow-up story to ‘ Star Wars ’ – due to rights issues with stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher , the book couldn ’ t even feature their faces , which is why Luke and Leia have their backs turned on the Ralph McQuarrie-painted cover – and the first book of the expanded universe of ‘ Star Wars ’ stories .
The original 'Splinter of the Minds Eye ' cover
The plot of 'Splinter ' is fairly simple . Taking place after the events of 'Star Wars , ' Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa – along with C-3P0 and R2-D2 – are on their way to an important meeting with representatives of a system that might join the Rebellion . On the way , the two crash-land on a swamp planet called Mimban ( Lucas asked Foster to scrap a space battle that originally led to the crash because it would be too expensive to film ) , where they soon discover that the Empire has a secret mining colony in operation in an effort to find something called a Kaiburr crystal . Eventually the two are discovered , ending with a showdown between Luke and Leia against Darth Vader .
One character missing from the book entirely and only referenced twice ( and only once by name ) is Han Solo .
`` I could n't use the characters of Han Solo and Chewbacca , '' Foster explains . `` Chewbacca because he 's Han Solo 's buddy and Han Solo because Harrison Ford had n't yet signed on to do anything related to future developments of 'Star Wars . ' '' Which , to Foster ’ s credit , didn ’ t seem to bother him too much , `` It was kind of liberating . The story idea I had in mind focused on Luke , Leia and , in the background of course , Darth Vader |
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Actress Catherine Keener turned hippie sage for Peace , Love & Misunderstanding co-star Jane Fonda , so the movie veteran could understand what it meant to be an earth mother , Woodstock festival-goer type in the late 1960s .
Fonda , 74 , had no idea how influential the inaugural music and arts event was to the hippie movement in 1969 , so Keener took it upon herself to school the Barbarella star about the alternative lifestyle .
In an interview on U.S. breakfast show Today , Fonda said , `` I play a hippie . People think that 's what I was but I never was a hippie and ( Keener ) was far more a hippie than I . She told me what music to listen to and ( in the film ) I had to say something to ( co-star ) Jeffrey Dean Morgan about how I was at the Woodstock festival and ( her character ) breached , the baby breached when ... Jimi Hendrix played The Star-Spangled Banner . ''
And Fonda only fully understood the gravity of rock icon Hendrix 's performance after watching 1970 's Woodstock , which documented the legendary festival on film .
She added , `` She ( Keener ) brought me the documentary so I could see what that ( performance was like ) . No wonder my ( character 's ) water broke ! It was an amazing experience . So she helped me understand what that was all about . '' »
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There are moments during certain romantic comedies when you might find yourself throwing up your hands and growling , “ come on ! ” under your breath . And with good reason : the improbability of plotlines and inconsistencies of characters are enough to drive even the sappiest of us screaming from the theaters , scouring the streets for the realism and even cynicism that seems to have deserted us over the course of the film . “ Peace , Love , & Misunderstanding , ” from director Bruce Beresford ( “ Driving Miss Daisy , ” “ Tender Mercies ” ) , is not one of these kinds of rom-coms . At least , not entirely . Though wildly predictable from the outset , and undoubtedly sentimental in its bits of hippie-dippie , lovey-dovey wisdom , the movie doesn ’ t stray too far from the real world , and ultimately drives home an honest and applicable moral about accepting your family , warts and all .
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Even as teens and adults , people tend to be all too eager to fight with their parents over their differences in lifestyles and opinions . But the new comedy-drama ‘ Peace , Love & Misunderstanding , ’ which hits select theaters on Friday , shows that once people are pushed outside their comfort zones , they ’ re more willing to accept their family ’ s diverse views . A seemingly mismatched family unpredictably comes together after unforeseen circumstances bring them together in the Bruce Beresford -directed film . ‘ Peace , Love & Misunderstanding ’ follows uptight Manhattan lawyer Diane ( Catherine Keener ) , who decides to visit her hippie mother Grace ( Jane Fonda ) in Woodstock for the first time in 20 years , after her husband Mark ( Kyle [ Read More ] »
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Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan hopes fans of The Band do n't turn on him when they hear his awful rendition of the late Levon Helm 's signature turn The Weight in new movie Peace , Love & Misunderstanding , insisting he begged film director Bruce Beresford to consider an alternative .
The actor croons the song with co-star Catherine Keener and accepts it 's a terrible way to remember Helm , who died in April .
He tells WENN , `` It was horrible . I think we butchered the song . Neither of us are probably the most musical people . We love music , but talent-wise you 're looking at the bottom of the talent |
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Reds ( 1981 )
Actor :
HENRY FONDA in `` On Golden Pond '' , Warren Beatty in `` Reds '' , Burt Lancaster in `` Atlantic City '' , Dudley Moore in `` Arthur '' , Paul Newman in `` Absence of Malice ''
Actress :
KATHARINE HEPBURN in `` On Golden Pond '' , Diane Keaton in `` Reds '' , Marsha Mason in `` Only When I Laugh '' , Susan Sarandon in `` Atlantic City '' , Meryl Streep in `` The French Lieutenant 's Woman ''
Supporting Actor :
JOHN GIELGUD in `` Arthur '' , James Coco in `` Only When I Laugh '' , Ian Holm in `` Chariots of Fire '' , Jack Nicholson in `` Reds '' , Howard E. Rollins , Jr. in `` Ragtime ''
Supporting Actress :
MAUREEN STAPLETON in `` Reds '' , Melinda Dillon in `` Absence of Malice '' , Jane Fonda in `` On Golden Pond '' , Joan Hackett in `` Only When I Laugh '' , Elizabeth McGovern in `` Ragtime ''
Director :
WARREN BEATTY for `` Reds '' , Hugh Hudson for `` Chariots of Fire '' , Louis Malle for `` Atlantic City '' , Mark Rydell for `` On Golden Pond '' , Steven Spielberg for `` Raiders of the Lost Ark ''
The Best Picture winner this year was a surprise and major upset win for British producer David Puttnam 's low-budget Chariots of Fire , directed by Hugh Hudson , with seven nominations and four wins . It also took top honors for Best Screenplay ( Colin Welland ) , Best Original Score ( Vangelis ' rich electronic , throbbing score , especially during the iconic opening credits sequence ) and Best Costume Design .
The win signaled the start of another mini-British renaissance of film awards for this year and the next - with Gandhi ( 1982 ) soon breaking all British film Oscar records . ( It had been 13 years since another British-made film had won Best Picture , Oliver ! ( 1968 ) ) Chariots of Fire was also the second sports film to win Best Picture ( the first was Rocky ( 1976 ) ) . It also marked the first of four biopics to win the top award during the 80s , joining Gandhi ( 1982 ) , Amadeus ( 1984 ) , and The Last Emperor ( 1987 ) .
Of the top five competitors for Best Picture , two were historical epics , two were about senior-citizens , and one was a throwback to the action/adventure films of the past :
Chariots of Fire was the inspirational story of the 1924 Olympics running event in Paris and the motivations of two of Britain 's runners , Cambridge University students - English Jew Harold Abrahams ( Ben Cross ) and Scottish Christian missionary Eric Liddell ( Ian Charleson ) . The film , which contained an anti-Semitism subplot , soon became the most-successful foreign film in US box-office history
Warren Beatty 's $ 35 million , three-hour long American epic masterpiece and front-runner in the competition , Reds ( with twelve nominations and three wins ) including Best Director ( Warren Beatty ) , Best Supporting Actress ( Maureen Stapleton ) , and Best Cinematography ( Vittorio Storaro , the winner of the same award for
Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) . ) Reds was the film biography of American communist and romantic figure John Reed , a left-wing radical journalist and author of Ten Days That Shook the World , who journeyed from Oregon to Greenwich Village and then to Russia to cover first-hand the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on the streets of Petrograd
[ Beatty received simultaneous nominations as producer , director , co-writer ( with English dramatist Trevor Griffiths ) , and star actor for the film . Only one other director , Orson Welles , had accomplished such a feat ( for
Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) ) . Beatty was repeating his acquisition of quadruple nominations - his earlier film Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 ) had earned him the same distinction . ]
director Mark Rydell 's favored , all-star family drama On Golden Pond ( with ten nominations and three wins ) , a screen adaptation of Ernest Thompson 's play about the members of the Thayer family who conflict and reconcile with each other during one summer at a lakeside New England cabin
The other Best Picture nominees were :
director Louis Malle 's long-shot Atlantic City ( with five nominations and no wins |
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'Forrest Gump ' Anniversary : Looking Back At The American Classic 19 Years Later
07/06/2013 01:13 pm ET
Matthew Jacobs Entertainment Reporter , The Huffington Post
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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 .
Based on the 1986 novel by William Groom , `` Gump '' held the No . 1 spot at the box office for a whopping 10 consecutive weeks , becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of all time after earning $ 677.4 million worldwide . It currently holds on to the No . 60 spot on the list .
The movie has since become a dividing point in American pop culture . Despite its historical stature , many critics and even some fans have lambasted the film 's immense adoration . Some feel it 's a saccharine melodrama that is far inferior to `` Pulp Fiction , '' its chief competition for that year 's Best Picture Oscar .
Still , at No . 71 on AFI 's 100 Years ... 100 Movies countdown , the movie is an undeniable piece of pop culture history , even if not all audiences find it as sweet as a `` box of chocolates . '' Join us in recalling the `` Forrest Gump '' premiere and the movie 's many accolades in the slideshow below .
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Working Girl ( 1988 )
Actor :
DUSTIN HOFFMAN in `` Rain Man '' , Gene Hackman in `` Mississippi Burning '' , Tom Hanks in `` Big '' , Edward James Olmos in `` Stand and Deliver '' , Max von Sydow in `` Pelle the Conqueror ''
Actress :
JODIE FOSTER in `` The Accused '' , Glenn Close in `` Dangerous Liaisons '' , Melanie Griffith in `` Working Girl '' , Meryl Streep in `` A Cry in the Dark '' , Sigourney Weaver in `` Gorillas in the Mist ''
Supporting Actor :
KEVIN KLINE in `` A Fish Called Wanda '' , Alec Guinness in `` Little Dorritt '' , Martin Landau in `` Tucker : the Man and His Dream '' , River Phoenix in `` Running on Empty '' , Dean Stockwell in `` Married to the Mob ''
Supporting Actress :
GEENA DAVIS in `` The Accidental Tourist '' , Joan Cusack in `` Working Girl '' , Frances McDormand in `` Mississippi Burning '' , Michelle Pfeiffer in `` Dangerous Liaisons '' , Sigourney Weaver in `` Working Girl ''
Director :
BARRY LEVINSON for `` Rain Man '' , Charles Crichton for `` A Fish Called Wanda '' , Mike Nichols for `` Working Girl '' , Alan Parker for `` Mississippi Burning '' , Martin Scorsese for `` The Last Temptation of Christ ''
Beginning this year , the trademark phrase : `` and the winner is ... '' was substituted with `` and the Oscar goes to ... ''
Director Barry Levinson 's critically and financially-successful Rain Man was the major Oscar winner in 1988 . It was the buddy-road saga of the human relationship that gradually develops between two sibling brothers : the elder one a TV-obsessed , institutionalized adult autistic ( Hoffman ) , the other an ambitious , hotshot money-maker/car salesman and hustler ( Cruise ) . The autistic savant 's kidnapping from an asylum by his fast-talking brother is with the intent to swindle him of his inheritance , but during a cross-country road trip , a loving relationship develops between the brothers with strong blood ties .
Rain Man had a total of eight nominations and four wins - for Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Director , and Best Original Screenplay ( by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow ) . It was the year 's highest-grossing picture as well , taking in $ 173 million ( domestic ) .
The other Best Picture nominees included the following :
director Lawrence Kasdan 's adaptation of Anne Tyler 's novel , the psychological drama The Accidental Tourist ( with four nominations and one win - Best Supporting Actress ) , with two co-stars - Kathleen Turner and William Hurt - that Kasdan had teamed together in an earlier film - Body Heat ( 1981 )
British director Steven Frears ' first American feature film , the lush , pre-Revolutionary France costume drama of competitive sexual seduction Dangerous Liaisons ( with seven nominations and three wins - Best Screenplay , Best Art/Set Direction , and Best Costume Design )
director Alan Parker 's propagandist account of the investigation of the disappearance of three civil rights activists in 1964 in the social drama Mississippi Burning ( with seven nominations and only one win - Best Cinematography )
director Mike Nichols ' sophisticated romantic comedy about 80s corporate ladder-climbing and office politics in Working Girl ( with six nominations and one win - Best Song by Carly Simon : `` Let the River Run '' )
Two of the five directors of Best Picture nominees were not included in the list of Best Director nominees . The two directors were Steven Frears ' Dangerous Liaisons , and Lawrence Kasdan 's The Accidental Tourist . The two directors substituted for them were British director Charles Crichton for the Monty-Pythonesque , farcical caper comedy A Fish Called Wanda ( with three nominations : Crichton 's two nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay - and one win for Best Supporting Actor ) , and Martin Scorsese for his controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis 's novel The Last Temptation of Christ ( the film 's sole nomination ! ) . [ This was Crichton 's sole directorial nomination in his over-four decades as director , and this was his last theatrical film directorial effort . ]
It was highly improbable that either Crichton or Scorsese would win the Best Director award - as predicted , they did n't . [ Only once in Academy history has a Best Director Oscar |
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The Full Monty ( 1997 , UK )
Actor :
JACK NICHOLSON in `` As Good As It Gets '' , Matt Damon in `` Good Will Hunting '' , Dustin Hoffman in `` Wag the Dog '' , Robert Duvall in `` The Apostle '' , Peter Fonda in `` Ulee 's Gold ''
Actress :
HELEN HUNT in `` As Good As It Gets '' , Judi Dench in `` ( Her Majesty ) Mrs Brown '' , Helena Bonham Carter in `` The Wings of the Dove '' , Kate Winslet in `` Titanic '' , Julie Christie in `` Afterglow ''
Supporting Actor :
ROBIN WILLIAMS in `` Good Will Hunting '' , Robert Forster in `` Jackie Brown '' , Anthony Hopkins in `` Amistad '' , Greg Kinnear in `` As Good As It Gets '' , Burt Reynolds in `` Boogie Nights ''
Supporting Actress :
KIM BASINGER in `` L.A . Confidential '' , Joan Cusack in `` In & Out '' , Minnie Driver in `` Good Will Hunting '' , Julianne Moore in `` Boogie Nights '' , Gloria Stuart in `` Titanic ''
Director :
JAMES CAMERON for `` Titanic '' , Peter Cattaneo for `` The Full Monty '' , Atom Egoyan for `` The Sweet Hereafter '' , Curtis Hanson for `` L.A . Confidential '' , Gus Van Sant for `` Good Will Hunting ''
Director-producer-screenwriter James Cameron 's three-hour mega-hit , Titanic - both the most expensive film ever made AND the number one , most successful box-office film of all-time ( shared by 20th Century Fox and Paramount Studios ) , was the fictionalized account of the 1912 White Star Line cruise-ship disaster . It was the first Best Picture winner to gross over $ 1 billion ( worldwide ) , and $ 600 million ( domestic ) . Cameron 's film was both a love story surrounded with the special-effects sinking of the 'unsinkable ' Titanic on its maiden voyage from Southampton , England to New York . The reconstructed ship in the film was three-quarters actual size .
Titanic had a record number of nominations and wins - fourteen , tying the all-time record set by
All About Eve ( 1950 ) . That made it the second of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations , including Best Picture .
It was also the second film to win 11 Academy Awards , including Best Picture - it tied
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 . ]
Both Titanic and
Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) failed to win Best Original Screenplay ( Titanic was n't even nominated in the category ) , although both films won Best Picture and Best Director honors . To date , it was the last film to win Best Picture without a Screenplay nomination ( Adapted or Original ) ; the last Best Picture to not have its screenplay nominated was The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) .
[ The earlier version , Titanic ( 1953 ) , lacked nominations for Best Picture and Best Director , but had two nominations , including Best Art Direction and it won an Oscar for Best Story and Screenplay - by Charles Brackett , Walter Reisch , and Richard Breen . ]
Its fourteen nominations included : Best Picture , Best Director , Best Actress , Best Supporting Actress , Best Art Direction , Best Cinematography , Best Costume Design , Best Film Editing , Best Make-up , Best Score , Best Song ( `` My Heart Will Go On '' ) , Best Sound , Best Sound Effects Editing , and Best Visual Effects . Titanic lost only three awards for which it was nominated - its two acting nominations , and the Best Make-up nomination . The film was n't even nominated for its screenplay , and it lost its two actress nominations , making it less of an acting film and more of a technical , craft-related masterpiece . Leonardo DiCaprio in a lead role opposite nominated Kate Winslet was denied a nomination . And 87 year-old veteran actress Gloria Stuart was denied an Oscar - the award would have made her the oldest recipient of an Oscar .
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1327 : after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey , the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming . With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan 's Order 's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth , William of Baskerville , a respected Franciscan friar , is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death . Alas , more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden , and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process . William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui . Written by Rick Munoz < rick.munoz @ his.com >
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The secret message on the parchment is exposed three times . The translator heated it to reveal the location of the library , William of Baskerville heated it again when he was in the scriptorium and yet again to show the others the message . When a message is written in lemon juice , heating it will cause it to be exposed because the sugar in the juice is caramelized . It does not disappear again . See more »
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Voice of Adso as an Old Man : Having reached the end of my poor sinner 's life , my hair now white , I prepare to leave on this parchment my testimony as to the wondrous and terrible events that I witnessed in my youth , towards the end of the year of our Lord 1327 . May God grant me the wisdom and grace to be the faithful chronicler of the happenings that took place in a remote abbey in the dark north of Italy . An abbey whose name it seems , even now , pious and prudent to omit .
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Julie Christie - Awards - IMDb | tc_1153 | Which Julie won an Oscar for Darling in 1965 and was Oscar nominated in 19987 for Afterglow? | {
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West Side Story (1961) - IMDb | tc_1154 | Which musical set in gangland New York won 11 Oscars in 1961? | {
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West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy , `` Romeo and Juliet '' . The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks , led by Bernardo . Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding . But when Riff 's best friend ( and former Jet ) Tony and Bernardo 's younger sister Maria meet at a dance , no one can do anything to stop their love . Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret , planning to run away . Then the Sharks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever wins gains control of the streets . Maria sends Tony to stop it , hoping it can end the violence . It goes terribly wrong , and before the lovers know what 's happened , tragedy strikes and does n't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending . Written by Anonymous
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About Ali MacGraw - The Steve McQueen Site | tc_1155 | Who did Ali McGraw marry after they had made The Getaway together? | {
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About Ali MacGraw
Ali MacGraw was born Alice MacGraw on April 1 , 1938 in Pound Ridge , New York . She was born to an Irish-American Father and a Jewish mother . She has one brother . Both parents were artists and coming from an artistic family , Ali realized from an early age she wanted a career in the arts . She attended the prestigious Wellesley College which boasts Hilary Rodham Clinton and Diane Sawyer as alumni .
At age 22 , Ali became an assistant to Diana Vreeland at Harper 's Bazaar and stylist at Vogue Her natural beauty and grace impressed the photographers and she was asked to move in front of the camera and do some photo shoots . Her clean , fresh look was a bit hit and she began a successful second career modeling and appearing in TV commercials . She started the Less-is-More look as she needed and used little make-up thus creating a huge trend in women wanting to look natural rather than made-up . She soon turned to acting .
She began her career in acting in 1968 in the movie A Lovely Way to Die but it was n't until she starred in the movie Goodbye Columbus that she caught the eye of Robert Evans , a Paramount executive . They fell in love and were married in 1971 and had one child , a son Josh . With Evans guiding her career , her next film role would be one with which she would forever be associated . In 1970 , she was cast as the beautiful Jennifer Cavalleri in the huge hit Love Story co-starring Ryan O'Neal for which she received an Academy Award nomination . The role she would play after Love Story would change her life dramatically .
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 .
She began discussing a return to films with Steve and to her dismay , Steve became furious and demanded she remain a housewife only . He did n't want her to take classes or have any outside interests because he wanted her to be at home and waiting for him when he decided to come home . With Steve living his double life , she was unable to maintain hers as the dutiful wife and began looking at scripts . In 1978 , she signed on for a role in Sam Peckinpah 's Convoy and her marriage to McQueen came to a very nasty end . She had signed a pre-nuptial agreement and had very little of her own money since she had n't worked in so long . Steve controlled everything . Consequently , he kicked Ali out of their marital home and moved the woman with whom he 'd been having his latest affair , into their home even as Josh was still living there and Ali 's clothes were still in the closet . Her name was Barbara Minty and she would become his third wife . Even Steve 's first wife Neile was disgusted by his behavior and made the remark that it was not his most shining moment . In Steve 's mind , because she had refused to do everything he 'd asked , he felt Ali had betrayed him and he would never forgive her . They divorced in 1978 .
Ali had always hoped to reconcile their differences with Steve but , on his deathbed , he would not see or speak to her . Some say it is because he did not want her to see him in his condition . According to Marshall Terrill 's biography , many of Steve 's |
Greatest Film Misquotes - Filmsite.org | tc_1158 | "Who uttered the famous line ""Frankly my dear I don't give a damn?" | {
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Greatest Movie Mis-Quotes : Some of the most classic film lines or scenes are really only legendary and/or apocryphal , or they are merely movie misquotes , but after many years of repetition and being misquoted in subsequent films , they have become part of the filmgoing public 's consciousness . Many of these examples are film quotes that were either commonly attributed wrongly , or in fact were never actually spoken .
The top 10 most misquoted film lines are marked with an icon
Rhett Butler 's ( Clark Gable ) scandalous , swear-word farewell to Scarlett ( Vivien Leigh ) in Gone With the Wind ( 1939 ) did not include Scarlett 's name . It was :
`` Frankly , my dear , I do n't give a damn . ''
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It was NOT : `` Frankly , Scarlett , I do n't give a damn . ''
The misquote was heard in Clue ( 1985 ) , when Miss Scarlet ( Lesley Ann Warren ) begged Wadsworth ( Tim Curry ) to forgive her for trying to shoot him :
Scarlet : `` Wadsworth . Do n't hate me for trying to shoot you . ''
Wadsworth : `` Frankly , Scarlet , I do n't give a damn . ''
Play clip from Clue ( 1985 ) :
And in The Mask ( 1994 ) , the Mask/Stanley Ipkiss ( Jim Carrey ) spoofed the line ( along with other semi-familiar lines ) after being shot :
- `` Tell Scarlett I do give a damn . ''
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The other lines were referential :
- `` Hold me closer , Ed . ''
Flo ( Esther Muir ) : `` I want to be near you . I want you to hold me . Hold me closer ! Closer ! Closer ! ''
Dr. Hackenbush ( Groucho Marx ) : `` If I hold you any closer , I 'll be in back of ya ! ''
Referencing both The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) and Old Yeller ( 1957 ) .
- `` Tell Tiny Tim I wo n't be comin ' home this Christmas . ''
Referencing A Christmas Carol .
- `` Thank you , You love me , you really love me . ''
This line misquoted the end of Sally Field 's Oscar acceptance speech in 1985 for her performance in Places in the Heart ( 1984 ) : `` ... The first time , I did n't feel it , but this time I feel it , and I ca n't deny the fact that you like me , right now . You like me ! ''
Play end of Sally Field 's speech :
Contrary to popular opinion , Gone With the Wind ( 1939 ) was not the first use of the word 'damn ' in a film . It reportedly was said a few times in Glorifying the American Girl ( 1929 ) and in Pygmalion ( 1938 , UK ) . Also , the phrase `` March and sweat the whole damned day '' appeared on a dialogue card in the silent epic war film The Big Parade ( 1925 ) .
In Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ) , Cary Grant said the name 'Judy ' numerous times to costar Rita Hayworth ( playing a character named Judith McPherson ) , such as : `` Hello , Judy '' - but never repeated her name in rapid succession .
`` Helly , Judy . ''
Play clip from Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ) :
`` Judy ... Judy ... Judy '' - was falsely attributed to Cary Grant .
Cary Grant vaguely recalled that at a party he attended , someone introduced Judy Garland by saying , `` Judy , Judy , Judy '' and the phrase was attributed to him . A 1960 New Yorker ad for several Judy Garland albums ( `` Judy ! Judy ! Judy ! '' ) reinforced the incorrect quote .
The most beloved family film , The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) has had problems with one of its most famous lines spoken by Judy Garland ( as Dorothy Gale ) to her dog Toto :
`` Toto , I 've a feeling we 're not in Kansas anymore . ''
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Marni Nixon - Biography - IMDb | tc_1159 | Whose voice did Marni Nixon dub in the classic My Fair Lady? | {
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`` Loverly '' soprano Marni Nixon has ensured herself a proper place in film history although most moviegoers would not recognize her if they passed her on the street . But if you heard her , that might be a horse of a different color . Marni is one of those unsung heroes ( or should I say `` much sung '' heroes ) whose incredible talents were given short shrift at the time . For those who think film superstars such as Deborah Kerr , Natalie Wood , and Audrey Hepburn possessed not only powerhouse dramatic talents but amazing singing voices as well ... think again . Kerr 's Anna in The King and I ( 1956 ) , Natalie 's Maria in West Side Story ( 1961 ) , and Audrey 's Eliza in My Fair Lady ( 1964 ) were all dubbed by the amazing Marni Nixon , and nowhere in the credits will you find that fact . Born Marni McEathron in Altadena , California , she was a former child actress and soloist with the Roger Wagner Chorale in the beginning . Trained in opera , yet possessing a versatile voice for pop music and easy standards as well , she not only sang for Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky but also recorded light songs . Marni made her Broadway musical debut in 1954 in a show that lasted two months but nothing came from it . In 1955 , the singer contracted to dub Deborah Kerr in The King and I ( 1956 ) was killed in a car accident in Europe and a replacement was needed . Marni was hired ... and the rest is history . Much impressed , the studios brought her in to `` ghost '' Ms. Kerr 's voice once again in the classic tearjerker An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ) . From there she went on to make Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn sound incredibly good with such classic songs as `` Tonight '' and `` Would n't It Be Loverly . ''
She finally appeared on screen in a musical in The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) starring Julie Andrews , who physically resembles Marni . The role is a small one , however , and she is only given a couple of solo lines in `` How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria ? '' as a singing nun . Marni 's vocal career in films dissolved by the mid 1960s , but she continued on with concerts and in symphony halls , while billing herself as `` The Voice of Hollywood '' in one-woman cabaret shows . Throughout the years , she has played on the legit stage , including the lead roles in `` The King and I '' and `` The Sound of Music , '' and in her matronly years has been seen as Fraulein Schneider in `` Cabaret , '' and in the musicals `` Follies '' and `` 70 Girls 70 . '' Her last filmed singing voice was as the grandmother in the animated feature Mulan ( 1998 ) in the 1990s . Married three times , twice to musicians ; one of her husbands , Ernest Gold , by whom she had three children , was a film composer and is best known for his Academy Award-winning epic Exodus ( 1960 ) .
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Hosted `` Boomerang , '' a Seattle children 's TV show .
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 ) .
Started out at the age of four as a violinist and had a singing act with her sisters by age eight .
Earned her reputation as `` Singing Voice of the Stars '' by `` ghosting '' other film luminaries as well , including Margaret O'Brien , Janet Leigh , and Jeanne Crain in some of their song sequences . She even touched up some singing parts for Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ) , dubbing the phrase `` These rocks do n't lose their shape '' and some higher |
The History of New York Scandals - Mae West’s ‘Sex’ Capade ... | tc_1160 | Who was jailed for her 'obscene' stage play Sex? | {
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In a 1925�26 New York theater season with acclaimed new plays by O ’ Neill ( The Great God Brown ) , O ’ Casey ( Juno and the Paycock ) , and Coward ( Hay Fever ) , critics agreed that the rock bottom was Sex , the first Broadway vehicle written by and starring the voluptuous vaudeville trouper Mae West . Sex was �street sweepings , � in the verdict of The New Yorker , and �a crude , inept play , cheaply produced and poorly acted , � according to the Times . The paper ’ s review did helpfully note that the show ’ s �one torrid love scene� lived up to its title . An ad warning patrons who �cannot stand excitement� to �see your doctor before visiting Mae West� didn ’ t hurt either . The play outlasted nearly all the competition . Variety christened its heroine , a Montreal lady of the evening with a fondness for sailors , �the Babe Ruth of stage prosties.�
Politics turned a hit into a Jazz Age phenomenon . When New York ’ s rakish mayor , Jimmy Walker , took a Havana holiday in February 1927 , the acting mayor , Joseph V. ( �Holy Joe� ) McKee , raided three risqué Broadway shows . West was the prime target : Sex , then in the tenth month of its run , had been seen by 325,000 theatergoers . To the delight of the tabloid press , its twenty actors were hauled off to a police station in Hell ’ s Kitchen . The star spent the night in the Jefferson Market Women ’ s Prison .
West bailed out her company . The court had offered to drop charges if she would close the show . But she knew that in showbiz , crime paid . The grand jury ’ s claim that her �obscene , indecent , immoral , and impure drama� would abet �the corruption of the morals of youth� was better than any rave review . Festooned with white roses , she rode a limo to incarceration on Welfare Island and boasted of wearing silk underwear throughout her eight-day stay there . When Liberty magazine paid her $ 1,000 for an exit interview , she used it to start a Mae West Memorial Library for female prisoners .
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 . |
Film History Milestones - 1997 - Filmsite.org | tc_1161 | Which 1997 movie equaled Ben Hur's record 11 Oscars? | {
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Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension ( aka Marvin the Martian in 3D ) , a 12-minute Warner Bros film , opened as a feature of the Warner Bros. ' theme park `` Movie World '' in Australia . It was the first computer-animated CG film that was to be viewed with 3-D glasses . It combined the experience of watching a fully CGI film with polarized/anaglyphic glasses .
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James Cameron 's Titanic ( 1997 ) , the most expensive film of all time at the time of its release , also soon became the highest grossing and most successful film of all-time in Hollywood history ( at $ 600.8 million domestic gross box-office receipts , and $ 1.8 billion total worldwide gross ) , surpassing the all-time box-office ( domestic ) record of Star Wars ( 1977 ) . ( Titanic remained at the top until Cameron 's own Avatar ( 2009 ) surpassed it 12 years later at $ 760.5 million ( domestic ) . ) It was the first film with a budget of $ 200 million , and it was the first movie to gross $ 1 billion ( worldwide ) . When adjusted for inflation , however , Cleopatra ( 1963 ) had the highest budget of any film , and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) remained the highest grossing .
Delays during production and a budget of $ 200 million threatened to 'sink ' the film , but did n't affect its overall success . Repeated theatrical viewings by young teens ( enthralled by the romance between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet ) were partly responsible for the film 's high returns . The bulk of the state-of-the-art visual effects ( CGI and miniature models ) were provided by Cameron 's own company , Digital Domain . And the film was backed or co-produced by two studios in order to foot the bill -- Fox and Paramount .
1997
The blockbuster film Titanic ( 1997 ) had a record-tying fourteen nominations and won a record-tying eleven Academy Awards ( duplicating the feat of All About Eve ( 1950 ) ) . That made it the second of only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations , including Best Picture . It was also the second film to win 11 Academy Awards , including Best Picture - it tied 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 . ]
1997
There were only two instances in which the same movie character was Oscar-nominated within the same film . The first instance was in Titanic ( 1997 ) , where the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater was played by nominees Gloria Stuart and Kate Winslet . [ Note : The second instance was the character of Iris Murdoch in Iris ( 2001 ) . ]
1997
The 18th official Bond film , Tomorrow Never Dies ( 1997 ) was the first film in cinematic history to have the largest product placement deal ever , covering its entire production budget of $ 110 million . The film was largely marketed through the film 's promotional partners . Sponsoring companies included BMW , Ericsson cellphones , Bollinger champagne , Omega watches , Dunhill , Brioni clothing , Avis rental cars , Golden Wonder potato chips , L'Oréal cosmetics , VISA , and Heineken beer . Some joked that the Bond films had now become the `` Licence to Sell . ''
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The first time product placement appeared in an animated picture was Chanel perfume in Anastasia ( 1997 ) .
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Due to its opening against James Cameron 's blockbuster Titanic ( 1997 ) , Tomorrow Never Dies ( 1997 ) was the first ( and only ) Pierce Brosnan Bond film to not open as the # 1 film at the box-office .
1997
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt won Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars for As Good As It Gets ( 1997 ) . This was only the seventh time in 70 years that the leading actor and actress from the same film received the Oscars .
1997
Slim DVDs ( Digital Versatile Discs ) , the new generation of optical disc storage technology , began to be sold to consumers . By 2003 , there were over 250 million DVD playback devices worldwide , one of the most successful consumer electronics |
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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 .
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A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads , and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated .
Director : Irvin Kershner
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own .
Directors : Clive Donner , Richard Talmadge
Stars : Peter Sellers , Peter O'Toole , Romy Schneider
James Bond woos a mob boss 's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld 's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world .
Director : Peter R. Hunt
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program .
Director : Terence Young
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas , where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon .
Director : Guy Hamilton
Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked .
Director : Lewis Gilbert
James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme .
Director : Terence Young
James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world 's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder .
Director : Guy Hamilton
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE .
Director : Terence Young
007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader .
Director : Guy Hamilton
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed .
Director : Lewis Gilbert
A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent 's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation , headed by the mysterious Octopussy , being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O . forces .
Director : John Glen
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After the death of M , Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH . In order to trick SMERSH and Le Chiffre , Bond thinks up the ultimate plan . That every agent will be named James Bond . One of the Bonds , whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat , but all the Bonds get more than they can handle . Written by simon
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The Sense and sensibility screenplay & diaries : bringing ... | tc_1165 | Which Emma won an Oscar for her screenplay of Sense and Sensibility? | {
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A young Shakespeare , out of ideas and short of cash , meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays .
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October 1944 in war torn Italy . Hana , a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit , feels like everything she loves in life dies on her . Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers , especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines , Hana volunteers to stay behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient , who is badly burned and disfigured . She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies . All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married . Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio , part of the Intelligence Service , who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans . Caravaggio believes that the patient 's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past , in part or in its entirety . The patient does open up about his past , all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa , which ... Written by Huggo
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One of the brightest , most tragic movie stars of Hollywood 's Golden Era , Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit , along with her rich and exuberant voice , kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals . She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in Minnesota , the youngest daughter of vaudevillians ... See full bio »
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Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London , to Ellen Frances Marie ( Burchell ) , a charlady , and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite , a fish-market porter . He left school at 15 and took a series of working-class jobs before joining the British army and serving in Korea during the Korean War , where he saw combat . Upon his return to England he gravitated toward the theater and got a job as an assistant stage manager . He adopted the name of Caine on the advice of his agent , taking it from a marquee that advertised The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ) . In the years that followed he worked in more than 100 television dramas , with repertory companies throughout England and eventually in the stage hit , `` The Long and the Short and the Tall . '' Zulu ( 1964 ) , the 1964 epic retelling of a historic 19th-century battle in South Africa between British soldiers and Zulu warriors , brought Caine to international attention . Instead of being typecast as a low-ranking Cockney soldier , he played a snobbish , aristocratic officer . Although `` Zulu '' was a major success , it was the role of Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File ( 1965 ) and the title role in Alfie ( 1966 ) that made Caine a star of the first magnitude . He epitomized the new breed of actor in mid-'60s England , the working-class bloke with glasses and a down-home accent . However , after initially starring in some excellent films , particularly in the 1960s , including Gambit ( 1966 ) , Funeral in Berlin ( 1966 ) , Play Dirty ( 1969 ) , Battle of Britain ( 1969 ) , Too Late the Hero ( 1970 ) , The Last Valley ( 1971 ) and especially Get Carter ( 1971 ) , he seemed to take on roles in below-average films , simply for the money he could by then command . There were some gems amongst the dross , however . He gave a magnificent performance opposite Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ) and turned in a solid one as a German colonel in The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 ) . Educating Rita ( 1983 ) and Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) ( for which he won his first Oscar ) were highlights of the 1980s , while more recently Little Voice ( 1998 ) , The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ) ( his second Oscar ) and Last Orders ( 2001 ) have been widely acclaimed .
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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 .
He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in a number of acclaimed British films , including Zulu ( 1964 ) , The Ipcress File ( 1965 ) , Alfie ( 1966 ) , for which he was nominated for an Academy Award , The Italian Job ( 1969 ) , and Battle of Britain ( 1969 ) . His most notable roles in the 1970s included Get Carter ( 1971 ) , The Last Valley ( 1971 ) , for which he earned his second Academy Award nomination , The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ) , and A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ) . He achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s , with Educating Rita ( 1983 ) earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor . In 1986 , he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Woody Allen 's Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) .
Caine played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol ( 1992 ) . Having by that time practically retired from acting on the big screen , he enjoyed a career resurgence in the late 1990s , receiving his second Golden Globe Award for his performance in Little Voice ( 1998 ) and receiving his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for |
Should Judi Dench keep her 'Shakespeare in Love' Oscar ... | tc_1169 | Judi Dench won an Oscar as which Queen in Shakespeare in Love? | {
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Judi Dench ’ s roughly eight minute performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love was not the briefest to ever win an Academy Award ; that record is still held by Beatrice Straight at six minutes for 1976 ’ s Network . But it ’ s still pretty friggin ’ short — and pretty friggin ’ memorable . Dench ’ s droll , deftly understated take on the monarch sets much of the film ’ s plot in motion , gives its theatrical climax a pungent grace note , and steals every square inch of the screen for every precious second she ’ s on it . And yet , when Dame Judi collected her Oscar for the performance , even she felt obliged to note , while regarding her statue , “ I feel for eight minutes on the screen , I should only get a little bit of him . ”
Should she have gotten any of him ? We ’ ve been looking back at all the major Oscar categories from 5 , 10 , 15 , 20 and 25 years ago and asking just that question in our Recall the Gold survey of the entertainment industry . For a decade , the performances of these five best supporting actress nominees — including Kathy Bates ( Primary Colors ) , Brenda Blethyn ( Little Voice ) , Rachel Griffiths ( Hilary and Jackie ) , and Lynn Redgrave ( Gods and Monsters ) — have percolated in the popular culture , and now we want to know if you , PopWatchers , think Dench ’ s still rates as the most Oscar-worthy .
Ten years ago , her win wasn ’ t a sure thing . Redgrave had won the Golden Globe for her role as the hilariously no-nonsense maid to Bride of Frankenstein director James Whale ( fellow nominee Ian McKellan ) . Bates had taken home the Screen Actors Guild award for her role as a hilariously take-no-prisoners political operative . Both were far more traditional supporting performances ( i.e . they we ’ re a fair shade longer than eight minutes ) . Bates ’ movie , however , was otherwise seen as a disappointment , and it was released way back in March 1998 — rarely an Oscar-friendly month . As for Redgrave , perhaps some voters thought Gods and Monsters should be recognized by McKellan ’ s performance instead ( er , whoops ) , or by screenwriter Bill Condon ’ s win for best adapted screenplay .
Blethyn and Griffiths were caught in a different bind : They arguably gave lead performances against a fellow actress with a far showier role . Blethyn tore into the chance to play an oft-sozzled stage mom to Jane Horrocks ’ meek title character ; the movie , however , was specifically created to show off Horrocks ’ jaw-dropping impersonations of legendary Hollywood singers ( Marilyn Monroe , Judy Garland ) , and Blethyn ’ s over-the-top scenery chewing may have turned off voters besides . ( The film , alas , has also lived up to its title : I can ’ t even find the trailer on the Web . ) Meanwhile , much of Hilary and Jackie , a biopic about sisters and musical rivals Hilary and Jacqueline du Pré , is told from Griffiths ’ perspective as the older , more ordinary sister Hilary…who is overshadowed by her brilliant , egomaniacal younger sister Jackie , played by ( ahem ) Best Actress nominee Emily Watson . Though the Griffiths stunning work in the film launched quite the healthy career ( HBO ’ s Six Feet Under , ABC ’ s Brothers & Sisters ) , she was , at the time , the designated “ now who is she again ? ” nominee .
So , PopWatchers , is there still , in the inimitable words of presenter Robin Williams , nothing like a Dame ? Or should another actress have be anointed with Oscar gold ? Vote in our poll below ; if you need a reminder of the performances , check out the clips after the jump . While you ’ re at it , if you haven ’ t already , vote in all the other polls from our ongoing walk down Oscar ’ s memory lane . Tomorrow , we ’ ll take a look at the 1993 Best Picture race ; also , check out coverage of this year ’ s awards contenders in Dave Karger ’ s Oscar Watch blog .
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JEREMY IRONS in `` Reversal of Fortune '' , Kevin Costner in `` Dances With Wolves '' , Robert De Niro in `` Awakenings '' , Gerard Depardieu in `` Cyrano de Bergerac '' , Richard Harris in `` The Field ''
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KATHY BATES in `` Misery '' , Anjelica Huston in `` The Grifters '' , Julia Roberts in `` Pretty Woman '' , Meryl Streep in `` Postcards from the Edge '' , Joanne Woodward in `` Mr. & Mrs. Bridge ''
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JOE PESCI in `` GoodFellas '' , Bruce Davison in `` Longtime Companion '' , Andy Garcia in `` The Godfather , Part III `` , Graham Greene in `` Dances With Wolves '' , Al Pacino in `` Dick Tracy ''
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG in `` Ghost '' , Annette Bening in `` The Grifters '' , Lorraine Bracco in `` GoodFellas '' , Diane Ladd in `` Wild at Heart '' , Mary McDonnell in `` Dances With Wolves ''
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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 Best Picture winner , co-producer/director/actor Kevin Costner 's three-hour epic and revisionistic western film Dances With Wolves was an anomaly win in Oscar history - it was only the second time that a western genre film won the Best Picture Oscar . [ The first Best Picture western film was Cimarron ( 1930-31 ) , sixty years earlier . ] However , some argued that Costner 's ( another actor-turned-director ) romantic-epic film should n't have been categorized as a Western .
Dances With Wolves was honored with twelve nominations and seven Oscar wins - Best Picture ( Costner ) , Best Director ( for Costner 's directorial debut film ) , Best Adapted Screenplay ( Michael Blake ) , Best Cinematography ( Dean Semler ) , Best Sound , Best Original Score ( John Barry ) , and Best Film Editing . The pretentious , but visually-impressive film told the saga of a Civil War Union officer , Lt. John W. Dunbar , who became disillusioned , headed west , and eventually found peace away from white civilization with nature and the Lakota Sioux . The film contained long portions of the Sioux-Lakota language and detailed the native American culture .
The other four Best Picture nominees were :
director Penny Marshall 's psychological drama Awakenings ( with three nominations and no wins ) , a semi-true account of a doctor who 'awakens ' catatonic patients with an experimental drug
director Jerry Zucker 's highly-successful , romantic comedy/fantasy Ghost ( with five nominations and two wins - Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay ) , about a murder victim who protects his wife through a psychic
director Francis Ford Coppola 's long-awaited gangster epic sequel The Godfather , Part III ( with seven nominations and snubbed with no wins , although both previous parts of the saga won Best Picture Oscars - and it was the first of only two trilogies to have all three films nominated for Best Picture ) - an extension of the Mafia-tale about an older crime kingpin Michael Corleone ( Al Pacino ) and his temperamental , trigger-happy nephew ( Andy Garcia ) and daughter ( Sofia Coppola )
director Martin Scorsese 's GoodFellas ( with six nominations and one win - Best Supporting Actor ) , a violent and foul-mouthed adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi 's non-fiction book Wiseguy , about thirty years in a contemporary Brooklyn Mafia family and about federally-protected witness Henry Hill
Two of the directors of Best Picture nominees were not selected as Best Director nominees : Jerry Zucker for Ghost , and female director Penny Marshall for Awakenings . [ Marshall 's failure to receive a Best Director nomination was interpreted as sexist . Up to this time in Oscar history , only one women had been nominated for Best Director - Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties ( 1976 ) , and female director Randa Haines had been passed over four years earlier as Best Director for her Best Picture-nominated Children of a Lesser God ( 1986 ) . ]
The two directors put into their slots for films without Best Picture nominations were Stephen Frears for The Grifters ( with four nominations and no wins ) , a shocking film-noirish tale of three con artists - |
'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for ... | tc_1171 | Which Jessica was the then oldest Oscar winner for Driving Miss Daisy? | {
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'Driving Miss Daisy ' Wins 4 Oscars , Including One for Jessica Tandy
By ROBERT REINHOLD , Special to The New York Times
Published : March 27 , 1990
LOS ANGELES , March 26— `` Driving Miss Daisy , '' a sentimental film about the relationship between an elderly Southern Jewish widow and her black chauffeur , won four Oscars tonight , including best picture of 1989 and best actress , in an Academy Awards presentation that offered many surprises and odd contradictions but few clear clues to trends in film .
No single film dominated the 62d annual awards , as has often happened in past years . And the film considered one of the heavy favorites to win best picture , `` Born on the Fourth of July , '' the story of a paraplegic Vietnam veteran 's passage into the antiwar movement , won only two Oscars , for best director for Oliver Stone and for film editing .
Bruce Beresford , the director of `` Miss Daisy , '' was not even nominated . But the film gave Jessica Tandy , the 80-year-old stage actress , the chance to win her first Oscar in six decades as a performer . There was also an Oscar for Alfred Uhry for his screenplay for `` Miss Daisy , '' which he adapted from his Pulitzer Prise-winning Off-Broadway play .
It was also a satisfying night for the makers of `` My Left Foot , '' the wrenching film about the Irish painter and writer Christy Brown , who suffered from cerebral palsy . The award for best actor went to the British actor Daniel Day-Lewis , for his performance as Brown . Brenda Fricker , the Irish actress , won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Brown 's mother .
And there was glory , too , for `` Glory , '' the Civil War epic about a black regiment fighting on the Union side . It won three awards , including best supporting actor for Denzel Washington , his first Oscar .
It was thus a diffused and surprising evening with no clearly dominant winners . Mr. Day-Lewis , who beat out the early favorite for best actor , Tom Cruise , in `` Born on the Fourth of July , '' used his victory to issue a plea for better treatment of the disabled and acknowledged that some disabled actors resented his taking the role . '' But due to the hypocrisy of financing , this film could never be made with a disabled actor , '' he said backstage after the awards . '' I very selfishly decided to put my name on it . ''
In accepting , the actor said that when the artist was alive he needed very little encouragement to make his voice heard . '' I 'm truly grateful to you for honoring me with this award , '' he said .
None were more delighted than Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck , producers of `` Driving Miss Daisy , '' which was rejected by all major studios at first .
Mis Tandy , the 80-year-old stage actress , had never been nominated for an Oscar before .
'' I never expected in a million years I 'd ever be in this position , '' Miss Tandy said . She was the oldest person ever to win an Oscar . The film , adapted from Alfred Uhry 's Pulitzer Prize-winning play , portrayed the slowly evolving relationship between the widow and her black chauffeur , played by Morgan Freeman .
In accepting , Miss Tandy thanked the Zanucks , the producers of the film , which had repeatedly been rejected by major studios . In an especially pointed mention , she gave special thanks to her director , Bruce Beresford , who was not nominated for best director even though `` Miss Daisy '' received nine nominations , including one for best picture .
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For his powerful performance as a mistreated runaway slave serving in a black Civil War regiment in the film `` Glory , '' Mr. Washington won his first Oscar , as best supporting actor .
The award to the young black actor came as something of a surprise in a category that included strong performances by Danny Aiello as the white owner of a pizza parlor in a black neighborhood of Brooklyn in `` Do the Right Thing '' and Dan Aykroyd as Miss Tandy 's son in `` Driving Miss Daisy . '' |
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As a child piano prodigy , David Helfgott 's musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father , Peter . When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship , his career as a pianist blossoms . However , the pressures of his newfound fame , coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous childhood , conspire to bring Helfgott 's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface , and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions . Written by Jwelch5742
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This was a very interesting movie and pleasant surprise , although sometimes that theme of the obsessive parent driving a kid crazy gets overworked . Nonetheless , it 's a very well-made movie .
Geoffrey Rush is fascinating in the lead role as `` David Helfgott . '' However , I would give equal kudos to Noah Taylor , who played Helfgott as a teenager , and to Armin Mueller-Stahl , who was Helfgott 's father . They were just as impressive as Rush .
This is a supposedly true-life story of child prodigy piano player from Australia . As you can imagine , the music in here is excellent . Even better is the cinematography . Wow , this looks and sounds fantastic on DVD .
Although not always pleasant to watch , the story is riveting ; hard to put down once you 've started watching . The ending turned me off a bit with the overt plug for astrology , but is a happy one for all parties and at least leaves the viewer feeling satisfied .
In all , a very intense , beautifully-photographed biography .
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BraveHeart – The 10 historical inaccuracies you need to know before watching the movie
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The 1995 movie , BraveHeart , is a cinematic master-piece . A multiple Oscar winner , an awe-inspiring cinematic portrayal of Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace and his greatest accomplishments . It ’ s also an extremely historically inaccurate film , but that doesn ’ t devalue it as a cinematic achievement . Star and director Mel Gibson himself notes that the film is a “ historical fantasy ” and shouldn ’ t be taken as the accurate portrayal of Wallace ’ s life .
Here is a list of the most important historical inaccuracies that people should be aware of before watching the movie . This is intended to enhance one ’ s enjoyment of the film and not berate it and its makers .
Disclaimer 2015 ( due to the huge amounts of traffic to this post and the ridiculous length of the comments section ) : I am not a historian and have never claimed to be . All the facts on this page are from my personal research done out of curiocity using a variety of sources . Feel free to like and share the blog if you found it an interesting read , but don ’ t get offended if I don ’ t reply to your comments since I ’ ve gotten quite sick of reading the comments section . Also , I ’ ve removed the whole “ fag = cigarette ” wordplay from the blog since it seemed to fly over too many peoples ’ heads .
Update ( May 2016 ) : Comments have now officially been closed . It ’ s nice that people find this blog a fun read while others still clearly miss the point which is not to belittle the movie in any way . However , I ’ m really getting tired of comments popping on this blog which I wrote ages ago , so I ’ m just doing this to stop it .
Error # 1 : William Wallace ’ s origins
Although Gibson can be excused on a lot of inaccuracies relating to Wallace ’ s early life on the basis that his pre-military life and career is not well documented , many historians may take offense to how Wee William is depicted in the film . The movie gives off the image of William being born to poverty and living the simple life of a farmer before being taken under the care of his uncle Argyle , when his father dies fighting the English .
In actuality , most historians believe Wallace was born to the Scottish aristocracy and was already a knight by the time of the Battle of Stirling ( and wasn ’ t knighted afterwards like the movie suggests ) . But again , no actual historical texts say one way or another , so Gibson could be just as right as the historians as far as we know .
As an added side-note : Wallace ’ s wife was called Marian , not Murron . Gibson changed the name because he wanted to avoid the audience confusing her with Maid Marian from Robin Hood .
Error # 2 : Wardrobe incongruities
There are two major wardrobe related errors in the film . Probably the most discussed and well-known is the portrayal of Scots wearing kilts in the 13th century . In actuality , kilts did not become a popular form of men ’ s wear until well into the 17th century , which means that the film ’ s portrayal can be considered grossly inaccurate . However , there might be a legitimate cinematic reason for it which I ’ ll get to in a bit .
Another inaccuracy is the fact that the English soldiers are shown wearing uniforms while such was not in fact the custom in Wallace ’ s age . Martial dress code didn ’ t become a norm in England until the 17th century . In the age of Wallace , soldiers would wear pretty much anything they could get their hands on ( as most were so poor they didn ’ t have two coins to rub together ) . Aristocratic knights did wear suits of armour head-to-toe , but the only insignia they would wear was frequently their family coat of arms which ensured that if they were captured alive , they would still have a chance of returning home once their family paid their ransom .
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Return to rockin ' Rydell High for a whole new term ! It 's 1961 , two years after the original Grease gang graduated , and there 's a new crop of seniors - and new members of the coolest cliques on campus , the Pink Ladies and T-Birds . Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he 's been branded a brainiac . Can he fix up an old motorcycle , don a leather jacket , avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds , and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie Zinone ? He 's surely going to try ! Written by Anonymous
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Johnny and Stephanie are trying to paddle the raft when Michael shows up . A few seconds later he jumps the pool on his motorcycle and we can see that now Johnny and Stephanie are n't moving at all , and the water is suddenly completely still . On top of that , a second later one of the motorcycle gang jumps his bike into the pool and it 's once again calm . Then his buddy also tries to jump the pool right after him and the water is still somehow flat as a pancake when he hits it . See more »
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I used to work in a record store in the late 80s/early 90s , and one thing we sold a copy of at least every week was the Grease 2 soundtrack . I used to ask the people buying about it , and they all acknowledged that it was one of the worst movies , but that there is something about it so lovable , and that the songs are terrible , but there 's something about them so charming Now that I 've seen the movie , I know what they mean .
This movie is appalling in nearly every respect , but there 's just something about it -- perhaps how brazenly appalling it is -- that gives it an almost hypnotic fascination .
I love how the producers made only the most surface-level attempt to even appear 50s . The clothes , hairstyles , songs , and ways of speaking all scream 80s . I have n't the slightest idea why they decided to dress Michelle Pheiffer in things that essentially look like sweatshirts for the first half of the movie . And she 's got on those huge dark glasses all the time making her look like early Debbie Harry . You just really have to wonder . As for the sets I do n't think I 've ever seen such low production values in a movie released by |
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The biography of Charlie Chaplin , filmmaker extraordinaire . From his formative years in England to his highest successes in America , Charlie 's life , work , and loves are followed . While his screen characters were extremely hilarious , the man behind `` The Little Tramp '' was constantly haunted by a sense of loss . Written by Murray Chapman < muzzle @ cs.uq.oz.au >
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In real life , Charles Chaplin 's eyes were reportedly very strikingly blue by those who knew him , but in the movie Robert Downey Jr. 's are a darker ; medium brown/green . ( They look dark brown at first glance , but the brighter lighting of his face in `` Restoration '' reveals a much lighter honey/syrup colour with hints of green . ) See more »
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During Chaplin 's 1921 trip to Great Britain , he rides a Southern Railway train , which pulls into St. Pancras Station . Southern Railway did n't exist until 1923 . St. Pancras Station was owned by the Midland Railway , which became the London , Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 . See more »
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George Hayden : Ha ha ha ha ha . Come on Charlie stop messing about , we really have to get down to it now . I just hope our friendship survives the day , that 's all .
Charlie Chaplin : Ha George , do n't be so melodramatic .
George Hayden : Well , it 's your autobiography Charlie . And as your editor I have to tell you that parts of the manuscript are pretty vague , to say the least . I mean for instance , your mother . Now when did she first lose control ? We need to know those facts .
Charlie Chaplin : It 's hard to say . She could be so wonderful , on good days ...
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Wow , this is one of the finest acting jobs I have seen as Robert Downey Jr. portrays the famous Charlie Chaplin . His performance includes some of Chaplin 's famous slapstick moves and Downey is tremendous at executing them .
To the film 's credit , it does show both the good and bad sides to this famous man . But it 's definitely biased . Just check out how they portray J. Edgar Hoover , a man Hollywood loves to hate ( along with any Conservative or Republican ) . Hoover is pictured as mean-spirited and nasty throughout , and is even blasted in the ending credits ! His first speech at a dinner table , intended to show him in a negative actually shows him to be prophetic whether Tinseltown ever admits it or not .
Regarding Chaplin , if the film was the truth ( that 's always a big `` if '' ) , then it WAS a real miscarriage |
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Natalie Wood was born on July 20 , 1938 , in San Francisco , California , as Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko . Her parents , Maria Stepanovna ( Zudilova ) and Nikolai Stepanovich Zakharenko , were Russian-born émigrés , of Ukrainian and Russian descent , who spoke barely comprehensible English ; they changed the family name to Gurdin after becoming US citizens .... See full bio »
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR ... | tc_1184 | Which lyricist who has worked with Elton John and Andrew Lloyd Webber won an award for A Whole New World from Aladdin? | {
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS : JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
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Like many musical partnerships , the collaboration of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice brought together the essential elements of musical creation : a passion for their art , astronomical talent , and enough diversity to keep things interesting . Andrew Lloyd Webber attacked his career with a single-minded vision that produced dramatic spectacles such as Cats ( 1981 ) , Starlight Express ( 1984 ) , and Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ) . Tim Rice , as a modern Renaissance man , has shown an amazing ability to diversify his interests . In addition to collaborating with Lloyd Webber on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ( 1968 ) , Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1971 ) , and Evita ( 1976 ) , he has been a successful non-fiction writer , publisher , cricket player , pop song writer , radio show host , and collaborator with other music heavyweights such as Alan Menken , Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast , and Elton John , The Lion King .
Andrew Lloyd Webber ’ s biography reads like the reincarnation of historic music geniuses . He was born into a musical family on March 22 , 1948 , and was raised in South Kensington , England . His father was a professor at the Royal College of Music and taught music theory and composition . His mother , also employed at the Royal College , taught piano and was a singer and violinist . At the age of three , Lloyd Webber was playing the violin ; at six , he was composing music , and at nine , he was published in the magazine Music Teacher .
At the age of seventeen , Lloyd Webber received the following letter from the then twenty one-year-old law student , Tim Rice : “ Dearest Andrew , I ’ ve been told you ’ re looking for a “ with it ” writer of lyrics for your songs , and as I ’ ve been writing pop songs for a while and particularly enjoy writing the lyrics I wonder if you consider it worth your while meeting me . Tim Rice . ”
He obviously did consider it “ worth his while ” and thus began the collaboration of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber .
Tim Rice was born November 10 , 1944 , in Amersham , Buckinghamshire , England . He briefly studied law , then ended up working for EMI Records while Lloyd Webber was studying serious music .
After their meeting in 1965 , they began working on their first musical , The Likes of Us , which was never performed . After this time Rice wanted to compose pop songs , but Lloyd Webber , true to his vision , wanted to work on another musical . It was during this impasse that they were contacted by Alan Doggett , the head of music at Colt Court , a small preparatory school in West London . He commissioned them to write an end-of-term religious concert . During the next two months a twenty-minute “ pop-cantata ” version of Joseph and his colored coat was born . ( Today Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a two hour stage spectacular . ) The play made its debut on March 1 , 1968 , and its immediate popularity demanded repeat performances in May and November of the same year . With each performance , “ Joseph ” got bigger and better . An early review notes that Tim Rice sang the part of Pharaoh in several of the early performances . The success of “ Joseph ” led to a record deal with Decca for an album that was cut in January of 1969 .
Perhaps Lloyd Webber and Rice felt they had really hit on something with their Bible theme and once again raided the Good Book to write Jesus Christ Superstar which premiered in 1969 .
In 1975 they began another venture based on the classic tales of P. G. Wodehouse and began writing the musical Jeeves . However , Rice soon lost interest and dropped out of the project . It wasn ’ t long , however , before they got back together to collaborate on Evita , which premiered successfully in 1976 .
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Michael Cimino , the American award-winning filmmaker best known for his Vietnam War classic “ The Deer Hunter , ” has died at the age of 77 .
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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 .
But Cimino ’ s career took a hit just two years later with “ Heaven ’ s Gate , ” a Western that went wildly out of budget , was a huge commercial flop and became a cautionary tale for giving directors too much power .
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Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino 's daughter Margarita studied dancing beginning in her girlhood . At age 12 , the mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo 's stage act , in which she was spotted three years later by Fox studio head Winfield R. Sheehan , leading to her first studio contract and film debut at age 16 in Dante 's Inferno ( 1935 ) . Fox dropped her after five small roles , but expert , exploitative promotion by her first husband Edward Judson soon brought Rita a new contract at Columbia Pictures , where studio head Harry Cohn changed her surname to Hayworth and approved raising her hairline by electrolysis . After 13 mainly minor roles , Columbia lent her to Warner Bros. for her first big success , The Strawberry Blonde ( 1941 ) ; her splendid dancing with Fred Astaire in You 'll Never Get Rich ( 1941 ) made her a star .
In person Rita was shy , quiet and unassuming ; only when the cameras rolled did she turn on the explosive sexual charisma that in Gilda ( 1946 ) made her a superstar . To Rita , though , domestic bliss was a more important , if elusive , goal , and in 1949 she interrupted her career for marriage - unfortunately an unhappy one almost from the start - to the playboy Prince Aly Khan . Her films after her divorce from Khan include perhaps her best straight acting performances , Miss Sadie Thompson ( 1953 ) and They Came to Cordura ( 1959 ) . Beginning in 1960 ( age 42 ) , early onset of Alzheimer 's disease ( undiagnosed until 1980 ) limited Rita 's ability . The last few roles in her 60-film career were increasingly small . Almost helpless by 1981 , Rita was cared for by her daughter Yasmin Khan until her death at age 68 .
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The annual Rita Hayworth charity gala , managed by daughter Princess Yasmin Khan , raised $ 1.8 million in 1999 alone for the Alzheimer 's Association .
She appeared in five movies with classic leading actor Glenn Ford : Affair in Trinidad ( 1952 ) , The Lady in Question ( 1940 ) , The Loves of Carmen ( 1948 ) , The Money Trap ( 1965 ) and Gilda ( 1946 ) .
Ranked # 98 in Empire ( UK ) magazine 's `` The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time '' list . [ October 1997 ]
Some legends say the Margarita cocktail was named for her when she was dancing under her real name in a Tijuana , Mexico nightclub .
Her dancer father , Eduardo Cansino , himself the son of a dancer , came to New York from Spain in 1913 with sister Elisa .
Mother , showgirl Volga Hayworth ( sometimes spelled Haworth ) , met Eduardo on Broadway in 1916 ; they married 1917 .
Her first ( uncredited ) appearance on film was with the dancing Cansino family in a Vitaphone short La Fiesta ( 1926 ) .
She appeared four times on the cover of `` Life '' Magazine ; 7/15/40 , 8/11/41 , 1/18/43 and 11/10/47 .
The famous Bob Landry photo of Rita in `` Life '' , 11 August 1941 , p. 33 , made her the number 2 soldier pin-up of World War II .
Her singing was dubbed by Nan Wynn ( 1941-1944 ) , Martha Mears ( 1945 ) , Anita Ellis ( 1946-1948 ) , and Jo Ann Greer ( 1952-1957 ) .
Her own singing voice is heard in the introductions to her songs ( otherwise dubbed by Jo Ann Greer ) in Pal Joey ( 1957 ) .
Owned the production company `` Hillworth Productions A.G. '' together with her fifth husband , James Hill .
She played the sister of Barbara Stanwyck in A Message to Garcia ( 1936 ) , but after a test screening all her scenes were cut at the request of Darryl F. Zanuck .
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Posted by : Stephen Flockton in Comment , Film August 16 , 2013 18 Comments 68,015 Views
Demolition Man is one of my favourite movies of all time ; it ’ s a super fun , early 90 ’ s action movie that doesn ’ t take itself too seriously . If you have not seen it , I strongly recommend you seek it out .
For those of you who don ’ t know , Demolition Man opens in a post-apocalyptic LA ( 1996 ) where gang warfare is the order of the day . Psychotic gang leader Simon Phoenix ( Wesley Snipes ) has taken a bus load of hostages and the John ‘ Demolition Man ’ Spartan ( Sylvester Stallone ) , disobeys orders to take down Phoenix .
Unfortunately , Spartan is falsely accused of manslaughter for the deaths of the hostages and both Phoenix and Spartan are sent to a ‘ cryo prison ’ . When Simon Phoenix escapes into a crime free utopian LA in 2032 , the police are not prepared to deal with his level of violence . They have no choice but to defrost John Spartan so he can take down Phoenix again .
Take a look at the trailer and bask in the 90 ’ s awesome !
Here are the ten things I think Demolition Man predicted about the future :
1 ) Arnie ’ s political career
We all laughed in 1993 at the concept of Arnold Schwarzenegger running for any kind of political office , never mind the presidency . But after two terms as the Governor of California it ’ s not looking so un-likely anymore . Sure he ’ s getting back into movies now but who ’ s to say that a 61st amendment allowing foreigners to run for the presidency is out of the question .
2 ) The rise of video calling
It ’ s not an early 90 ’ s action movie without some gratuitous nudity , in this case delivered through a video call . It ’ s an odd sort of video call that starts without you actually having to answer . Sure video calling existed before 1993 but it was not until broadband connections became more prevalent that it existed in the form shown in the movie . You could even argue that Demolition man invented ‘ Sexting ’ !
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3 ) Self-driving Cars
Almost all the cars in the film ( with the notable exception of the red oldsmobile ) are self-driving . With Google leading the charge on self-driving cars the technology is already here . Google ’ s latest cars have driven over 300,000 miles without an incident . It won ’ t be long until they are a common sight on our roads and you saw it on Demolition Man first !
4 ) Taco Bell is winning the franchise wars
In the film , the only restaurants are Taco Bell . They won the mysterious franchise wars and are the only chain left standing . While Taco Bell have not won the wars yet , they have just come up with the Waffle Taco breakfast . With technology that advanced no other chain can stand before them .
5 ) Wesley Snipes is a hardened criminal
Okay so he didn ’ t lead a gang of hardened criminals and murder a school bus full of children , but he did commit some pretty serious tax evasion . He had a prison sentence and everything ( admittedly it was not a cryro prision , but still ) .
6 ) Teleconferences
That ’ s right the modern office joy of teleconferences has made it to 2032 . For some reason however each of the TV screens has some nice table space which is a little odd considering they are not physically there . It ’ s a nice touch when they spin round and follow the speaker through the room . This was pretty novel stuff back in 1993 , but is common place now… just as they predicted .
7 ) Biometric implants
Everyone in the shiny utopia that is future LA has an implant they use as ID , as medical trackers and a virtual wallet . While we already have medical implants to monitor insulin levels and control pacemakers , with the rise of NFC on phones it ’ s only a matter of time until |
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Choreographing and picking dancers for his current show whilst editing his feature film about a stand-up comedian is getting to Joe Gideon . Without the chemical substances , he would not have the energy to keep up with his girlfriend , his ex-wife , and his special dancing daughter . They attempt to bring him back from the brink , but it 's too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart . He chain-smokes , uses drugs , sleeps with his dancers and overworks himself into open-heart surgery . Scenes from his past life start to encroach on the present and he becomes increasingly aware of his mortality . Written by Jeremy Perkins { J-26 }
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One of the first lines in the movie is , `` To be on the high wire is life . The rest is waiting . '' is a slightly changed version of a quotation of the great German racing driver of the 1930s , Rudolf Caracciola , : '' To race is to live . All the rest is simply waiting . '' See more »
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Bob Fosse 's autobiographical look at his life , with Roy Scheider fabulously standing-in for Fosse as Joe Gideon , pill-popping , womanizing director-choreographer on the verge of collapse in New York City . Fosse paints himself as suspicious , paranoid , driven , indifferent , exhausted and horny . It 's more than most of us want to know about the guy , who seems intent on showing us what a creep he is ... but a talented creep ! It 's a film that does n't particularly look good ( it 's a gray , chilly movie ) , but it has amazing musical flourishes and the self-styled bombast is actually rather amusing once you get the idea . Jessica Lange is beautiful in an early role as the Angel of Death ( imagine Fosse explaining that role to her ! ) , and Scheider 's performance is really something to see ( only occasionally does the camera catch him not knowing what to do ) . Fosse tries hard not to be pretentious , he keeps things playful and perky , and his ironic ending is wincingly funny . The film is alive and ticking -- but that 's not Fosse 's heart , it 's a time bomb . * * * from * * * *
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Evita Movie Review & Film Summary (1997) | Roger Ebert | tc_1196 | Where in Europe was much of Evita filmed? | {
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“ Evita ” allows the audience to identify with a heroine who achieves greatness by -- well , golly , by being who she is . It celebrates the life of a woman who begins as a quasi-prostitute , marries a powerful man , locks him out of her bedroom , and inspires the idolatry of the masses by spending enormous sums on herself . When she sings : “ They need to adore me -- to Christian Dior me , ” she 's right on the money .
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I begin on this note not to criticize the new musical “ Evita ” ( which I enjoyed very much ) , but to bring a touch of reality to the character of Eva Peron , who , essentially , was famous because she was so very well-known . Her fame continued after her death , as her skillfully embalmed body went on to a long-running career of its own , displayed before multitudes , spirited to Europe , fought over , prayed over , and finally sealed beneath slabs of steel in an Argentine cemetery . Eva Peron lived only until 33 , but she went out with a long curtain call .
She was not an obvious subject for a musical . Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice , who wrote the stage version of “ Evita ” and whose songs are wall-to-wall in the movie , must have known that ; why else did they provide a key character named Che Guevera ( onstage ) and Che ( on screen ) , to ask embarrassing questions ? “ You let down your people , Evita , ” he sings . She let down the poor , shirtless ones by providing a glamorous facade for a fascist dictatorship , by salting away charity funds , and by distracting from her husband 's tacit protection of Nazi war criminals .
Why , then , were Webber and Rice so right in choosing Eva Peron as their heroine ? My guess is that they perfectly anticipated “ Evita 's ” core audience -- affluent , middle-aged and female . The musical celebrates Eva Peron 's narcissism , her furs and diamonds , her firm management of her man . Given such enticements , what audience is going to quibble about ideology ? For years I have wondered , during “ Do n't Cry for Me , Argentina , ” why we were not to cry . Now I understand : We need not cry because ( a ) Evita got everything out of life she dreamed of , and ( b ) Argentina should cry for itself . Even poor Juan Peron should shed a tear or two ; he is relegated in the movie to the status of a “ walker , ” a presentable man who adorns the arm of a rich and powerful woman as a human fashion accessory .
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All of these thoughts , as I watched Alan Parker 's “ Evita , ” did not in the least prevent me from having a good time . I suspect Parker has as many questions about his heroine as I do , and I am sure that Che ( Antonio Banderas ) and Juan Peron ( Jonathan Pryce ) do -- not to mention Oliver Stone , co-author of the screenplay . Only Evita herself , magnificently embodied by Madonna , rises above the quibbles , as she should ; if there is one thing a great Evita should lack , it is any trace of self-doubt . Here we have a celebration of a legendary woman ( for those who take the film superficially ) and a moral tale of a misspent life ( for those who see more clearly ) .
Certainly Parker is a good director for this material . He has made more musicals than his contemporaries , not only “ Bugsy Malone , ” “ Fame ” and “ The Commitments , ” but especially “ Pink Floyd the Wall , ” one of the great modern musicals , where he uses similar images of marching automatons . Working with exteriors in Argentina and Hungary and richly detailed interior sets , he stages Evita 's life as a soap opera version of “ Triumph of the Will , ” with goose-stepping troops beating out the cadence of her rise to glory .
The movie is almost entirely music ; the fugitive lines of spoken dialogue sound sheepish . Madonna , who took voice lessons to extend her range , easily masters the musical material . As importantly , |
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It 's the weird and wonderful as newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when their car halts in the rain . They both look for contact , only to find themselves at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter , a transvestite . A place to stay is offered , but will Brad and Janet want to remain there ? Especially when a large group of Transylvanians dance to the 'Time Warp ' , Dr. Frank-N-Furter builds his own man and a whole host of participation for the audience to enjoy .
- Written by simon
After Janet accepts Brad 's marriage proposal , the happy couple drive away from Denton , Ohio , only to get lost in the rain . They stumble upon the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter , a transvestite who is holding the annual convention of visitors from the planet Transsexual . Frank-N-Furter unveils his creation , a young man named Rocky Horror , who fears the doctor and rejects his sexual advances . When Frank-N-Furter announces that he is returning to the galaxy Transylvania , Riff Raff the butler and Magenta the maid declare that they have plans of their own . ( An audience participation film )
- Written by Rick Gregory < rag.apa @ email.apa.org >
While driving home during a rain filled night , straight-laced lovebirds Brad and Janet , by chance , end up at the castle of one Dr. Frank-N-Furter and his strange and bizarre entourage , and find that he 's having a party . This is no ordinary party , no ordinary night . This is the unveiling of the Dr 's latest creation : Rocky ; A man-made Adonis that will give ... absolute pleasure . This is an exceedingly grand visual and musical camp satire of the golden days of the B-movie horror and science-fiction genres . Projected along with a musical soundtrack to give `` audience participation '' a new meaning in dimension , time and space , this shall be a night that both Brad and Janet will remember for a very , very long time in the sexually kinky , rock 'n roll ( f ) rock-opera world of a gender-bending scientist ... and his time warped plans .
- Written by Cinema_Fan
Brad and Janet , newly engaged , stumble onto the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter during a rainstorm . Taking refuge in the castle , they 're present for the doctor 's unveiling of his newest creation , Rocky . Over the course of the night , Frank seduces both Brad and Janet , Janet and Rocky become involved biblically , Dr. Everett Scott arrives looking for his son Eddie ( whom Frank killed earlier in the film ) , and it all goes to pot when the guests discover that Frank is actually an alien ( a transvestite from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy Transylvania ) who 's succeeded in creating the Sonic Transducer , `` an audio-vibratory physiomolecular transport device '' capable of `` breaking down solid matter and then projecting it through space and , who knows , perhaps even time itself . ''
- Written by Leo
A story of creation , love , hate , adventure , and , most of all , sex ; the story begins in Denton , Ohio as Brad Majors and Janet Weiss , after getting engaged ( Dammit Janet ) , travel to see `` the man who began it , '' but wind up at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter , a transvestite alien from the planet of Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania ( Sweet Transvestite ) . And they meet Riff Raff , Magenta , and Columbia which leads to `` doing the Time Warp again ! '' They discover they have been there on a `` special night . '' Frank 's creation is to be born ! As Rocky has been revealed ( Sword of Damocles / I Can Make You A Man ) , rebel Eddie , Frank 's last-recent creation , ponders in on his motorcycle ( Hot Patootie-Bless My Soul ) whom Frank kills . In comes Dr. Everett Von Scott , he 's come for Eddie ( Eddie 's Teddy ) which results in the discovery of Eddie 's deceased body . Frank chases Janet and Brad and Dr. Scott chase Frank ( Planet Schmanet Janet ) , which results in everybody ( but Frank ) getting frozen . Enter the floor show ( Rose Tint My World / |
Movie Review - - Review/Film; How American Soul Music ... | tc_1201 | Which film tells of the exploits of singer Deco Duffe? | {
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Review/Film ; How American Soul Music Conquered Dublin
By JANET MASLIN
Published : August 14 , 1991
`` When I was studying , I used to sing hymns , '' the young man whispers in the confessional . `` Now I 'm always humming 'When a Man Loves a Woman , ' by Marvin Gaye . ''
`` Percy Sledge , '' the priest corrects him in `` The Commitments , '' Alan Parker 's exuberant valentine to American soul music and the impoverished Dublin teen-agers who think of it as magic . That everyone in this film , from the priest to the street kids to the father who never got over Elvis Presley , is totally obsessed with popular music is simply taken for granted . As in his earlier `` Fame , '' Mr. Parker immerses his audience in a world in which popular art amounts to a communal high , a means of achieving identity and a great escape from the abundant problems of everyday life . As in `` Fame , '' he does this with a mixture of annoying glibness and undeniable high-voltage style .
The sound and the setting have changed , but these two films are at heart very similar . What Mr. Parker has done , in effect , is to remake `` Fame '' in a different language . Once again , a taste for slickness gives his film an air of unreality for all its ostentatious grit , but once again the energy level is so pumped up that it barely matters . `` The Commitments '' finds Mr. Parker again doing what he does expertly : assembling a group of talented newcomers , editing snippets of their exploits into a hyperkinetic jumble , and filling the air with song .
The song in this case is American soul music of the 1960 's , and it took more than a little nerve to devote an entire film to the efforts of an all-white band to master `` In the Midnight Hour '' and `` Mustang Sally . '' Similarly , it 's a stretch for this band to call itself the Commitments and claim the status of working-class heroes when they perform this music wearing evening dresses or black tie . ( This is because `` all the Motown brothers wore suits , '' as one of the wiser Commitments says . `` You play better in your suit . '' )
Any political earnestness the film may have is limited to its glimpses of north Dublin as a claustrophobic and impoverished but friendly place , and to the speeches made by Jimmy ( Robert Arkins ) , the budding impresario who initially assembles the band . `` You 're working-class , right ? '' he badgers one new recruit . `` Your music should be about work . ''
Relying on a cast of vigorous and unfamiliar players ( Andrew Strong , the ponytailed lead singer who does an estimable Joe Cocker imitation while performing a daunting array of soul standards , is only 16 ) , Mr. Parker tells the slow but lively story of how the Commitments came together . There is the cute , predictable bad-audition montage ; the surprisingly good singer discovered at a wedding ; the times when Jimmy practices giving interviews in the shower . ( Mr. Parker uses these interviews as bookends for the film , to wryly good effect . ) And during all of this , there is music everywhere . Jimmy 's family can even be glimpsed doing a jig to traditional Irish music while their errant son interviews potential Commitments in another part of the house .
Music also permeates all conversations , serving as kind of shorthand through which the characters identify one another as kindred spirits . `` I 'm blind without my glasses , '' says one . `` So is Ray Charles , '' another replies . Someone else observes , for no pressing reason , that nothing has been the same since Roy Orbison died . A priest offers tacit encouragement when two of his parishioners sneak in to practice `` A Whiter Shade of Pale '' on the church organ . Lest anyone doubt that to these characters music has become a kind of religion , Jimmy 's father keeps his framed portrait of Elvis just above his portrait of the Pope .
In this atmosphere , Mr. Parker is capable of whipping a series of quick , well-edited snippets into a happy collage of musical high spirits . The band 's rehearsal of `` |
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By Bambi L. Tuckey on July 18 , 2015
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This movie had me laughing so hard I actually got a headache ! Robin Williams is beyond funny in it , he 'll have you rolling on the floor laughing . Sally Field is brilliant in it , along with Mara Wilson and the other actors .
It 's a great blend of slapstick , comedy , heartfelt moments , touching scenes , and just downright hilarious lines that today are still classics . If this movie does n't make you laugh , then you have no sense of humor . Period . That is how funny it is .
Also , the Behind the Seams Edition has TONS of deleted , extended and alternate scenes , along with hilarious outtakes ! A couple deleted scenes are hilarious moments where Mrs Doubtfire gets back at the nosy neighbor next door by ruining her garden .
Another hilarious deleted scene includes her messing up the washer , flooding the floor , while on the phone with Sally Field . There 's also a deleted scene of the fight between the two at home after the restaurant scene when Sally Field finds out Doubtfire is really Robin .
As I stated , if this movie does n't make you laugh , you got NO sense of humor whatsoever . It is a brilliant film , one of the late Robin William 's BEST .
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By I am nobody are you nobody too ? on January 24 , 2015
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I watched this movie so many times when I was younger and loved it immensely now when I revisit it I just want to cry . I miss Robin Williams so much I adore quite a few actors but Robin will never have an equal.On a less depressing note what 's not to love about this movie it 's not only funny but quite touching and very entertaining . Plus a father has to be pretty freaking determined to see his kids to undergo a whole woman bodysuit plus makeup I 've never encountered someone who would go through such great lengths to see his kids ( and his wife of course ) more frequently having been divorced . It 's a beautiful film one of my favorites . I recommend this movie to anyone who has an appreciation of good film .
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MRS. DOUBTFIRE [ 1993/2015 ] [ Blu-ray + Digital HD ] Robin Williams is Hilarious ! The Film is Fall-Down Funny !
Comedy superstar Robin Williams is “ downright irresistible ” ( The Washington Post ) as Mrs. Doubtfire , the delightfully doting British housekeeper who ’ s much more than a woman – “ she ” is actually a well-meaning divorced father in disguise , trying to spend more quality time with his children without his ex-wife Sally Field catching on .
FILM FACT : 66th Academy Awards® Won for Best Makeup . 51st Golden Globe® Awards Won for Best Picture for Musical/Comedy . Robin Williams Won for Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy . 48th BAFTA Awards Nominated for Best Makeup and Hair .
Cast : Robin Williams , Sally Field , Lisa Jakub , Matthew Lawrence , Mara Wilson , Pierce Brosnan , Harvey Fierstein , Scott Capurro , Robert Prosky , Polly Holliday , Anne Haney , Martin Mull , William Newman , Todd Williams and Terry McGovern
Director : Chris Columbus
By Philip Scholz on July 2 , 2014
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While this is without a doubt one of Robin Williams 's better comedies , I like the man better in more dramatic roles where he subtly inserts his humor ( i.e . Dead Poets Society , Good Will Hunting . ) But as a comedy , this is still a very good film and it does allow Williams to go a bit more over-the-top than some of his other projects have |
The Real Rhett Butler - The New Yorker | tc_1203 | Which musical was Victor Fleming making the same time as he was making Gone With the Wind? | {
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The Real Rhett Butler
The forgotten man behind two of Hollywood ’ s most enduring classics .
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Victor Fleming ( seated second from right ) with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable on the set of “ Gone with the Wind , ” in 1939 , the year he also made “ The Wizard of Oz. ” Credit Photograph from MGM / Photofest
Howard Hughes , whose acumen outside certain areas of expertise ( aeronautics and the acquisition of beautiful actresses ) was rarely sound , once said something intelligent about the relative merits of two movie directors . The remark was delivered in early 1939 , when George Cukor had been shooting “ Gone with the Wind ” for about three weeks . An adaptation of Margaret Mitchell ’ s thousand-page blockbuster novel , from 1936 , about the Old South , the Civil War , and Reconstruction , the movie was the largest and most expensive production in Hollywood up to that time , with a huge cast , massive sets ( the city of Atlanta was burned down and then rebuilt ) , and hundreds of unshaven and bandaged extras trudging across the landscape . As half of Hollywood maliciously cheered , the production slipped into disaster . The script could be kindly described as a mess , and the star—Clark Gable—was in turmoil . The initial rushes displeased David O. Selznick , the legendary , manic producer who dominated every aspect of the film , and he suddenly fired Cukor , who , he later said , couldn ’ t have handled the more spectacular elements of the movie . In Cukor ’ s place , Selznick hired Victor Fleming , who was then directing the other big picture in town , “ The Wizard of Oz. ” Fleming was a vigorous and resourceful man , but few people considered him an artist . The change pleased Gable but distressed the two female leads—the young stage and film actress Vivien Leigh , just arrived from England and not yet a star , and Olivia de Havilland , who was then Howard Hughes ’ s girlfriend . Both women depended on Cukor , who was known as a “ woman ’ s director , ” and de Havilland brought her troubles to Hughes , who advised : “ Don ’ t worry , everything is going to be all right—with George and Victor , it ’ s the same talent , only Victor ’ s is strained through a coarser sieve . ”
Hughes was almost correct . Fleming ’ s talent was not “ the same ” as Cukor ’ s , yet he was definitely the right man for “ Gone with the Wind , ” and he did inventive and powerful work on “ Oz. ” But in the seventy years since the release of those films , Fleming , whose talent flowed not smoothly or subtly , but roughly , in surges of energy and feeling , has been largely forgotten . The auteur-theory critics who , in the nineteen-sixties and seventies , went wild over Cukor , Hitchcock , Preminger , John Ford , Howard Hawks , Ernst Lubitsch , Josef von Sternberg , Frank Capra , and many other directors of the late silent and early sound periods , ignored Fleming , though he had made a number of entertaining movies in the nineteen-twenties and thirties and his two super-productions of 1939 are very likely the most widely seen movies in American film history—not just good pictures but films that have entered the unconscious of generations of moviegoers . “ Gone with the Wind , ” with its happy plantation slaves—emblems of Noble Toil—posed against reddening skies , has its enraging and embarrassing moments ; the racist kitsch is , regrettably , part of the nation ’ s collective past . What remains remarkably modern in the film is the central combat of wills between Leigh ’ s Scarlett O ’ Hara and Gable ’ s Rhett Butler , each seeking the upper hand in and out of bed . Margaret Mitchell set up the conflict , but it was Fleming who got the two actors to embody it . As for “ The Wizard of Oz , ” the movie ’ s version of the magical land of Oz , in its combined freedom and unease , happiness and fear , has become a universally shared vision of the imagination itself . Since Fleming was the element common to both movies , it ’ s time for his contribution to be lifted out of the shadows .
The seventieth anniversary of these two classics has |
CABARET - Theatre in the Park | tc_1204 | Which Club featured in cabaret? | {
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Musicians/Party Guests : Laura Kariuki , Zach Russell , Christine Pascoe
Sailor/Pary Guest : Lucas Lowry
Young Boy Soloist : Ethan Wood
SYNOPSIS
Act I
At the dawn of the 1930s in Berlin , the Nazi party is growing stronger . The Kit Kat Klub is a seedy cabaret , a place of decadent celebration . The Klub 's Master of Ceremonies , or Emcee , together with the cabaret girls and waiters , warm up the audience ( `` Willkommen '' ) . In a train station , Cliff Bradshaw arrives , a young American writer coming to Berlin to work on his new novel . He meets Ernst Ludwig , a German who offers Cliff work and recommends a boardinghouse . At the boardinghouse , Fräulein Schneider offers Cliff a room for one hundred marks ; he can only pay fifty . After a brief debate , she relents and lets Cliff live there for fifty marks . Fräulein Schneider observes that she has learned to take whatever life offers ( `` So What ? `` ) .
As Cliff visits the Kit Kat Klub , the Emcee introduces a British singer , Sally , who performs a racy , flirtatious number ( `` Do n't Tell Mama '' ) . Afterward , she asks Cliff to recite poetry for her ; he recites `` Casey at the Bat '' . Cliff offers to take Sally home , but she says that her boyfriend Max , the club 's owner , is too jealous . Sally performs her final number at the Kit Kat Club aided by the female ensemble ( `` Mein Herr '' ) . The cabaret ensemble performs a song and dance , calling each other on inter-table phones and inviting each other for dances and drinks ( `` The Telephone Song '' ) .
The next day , Cliff has just finished giving Ernst an English lesson when Sally arrives . Max has fired her and thrown her out , and now she has no place to live , and so she asks him if she can live in his room . At first he resists , but she convinces him ( and Fräulein Schneider ) to take her in ( `` Perfectly Marvelous '' ) . The Emcee and two female companions sing a song ( `` Two Ladies '' ) that comments on Cliff and Sally 's unusual living conditions . Herr Schultz , an elderly Jewish fruit-shop owner who lives in her boardinghouse , has given Fräulein Schneider a pineapple as a gift ( `` It Could n't Please Me More '' ) . In the Kit Kat Klub , a young waiter starts to sing a song—a patriotic anthem to the Fatherland that slowly descends into a darker , Nazi-inspired marching song—becoming the strident `` Tomorrow Belongs to Me '' . He initially sings a cappella , before the customers and the band join in . ( In the 1998 and 2014 revivals , this is replaced by the Emcee playing a recording of a boy soprano )
Months later , Cliff and Sally are still living together and have fallen in love . Cliff knows that he is in a `` dream , '' but he enjoys living with Sally too much to come to his senses ( `` Why Should I Wake Up ? `` ) . Sally reveals that she is pregnant , but she does not know the father and reluctantly decides to get an abortion . Cliff reminds her that it could be his child , and seems to convince her to have the baby . Ernst enters and offers Cliff a job—picking up a suitcase in Paris and delivering it to his `` client '' in Berlin—easy money . The Emcee comments on this `` Sitting Pretty '' , or ( in later versions ) `` Money '' .
Meanwhile , Fräulein Schneider has caught one of her boarders , Fräulein Kost , bringing sailors into her room . Fräulein Schneider forbids her from doing it again , but Fräulein Kost threatens to leave . She also mentions that she has seen Fräulein Schneider with Herr Schultz in her room . Herr Schultz saves Fräulein Schneider 's reputation by telling Fräulein Kost that he and Fräulein Schneider are to be married in three weeks . After Fräulein Kost leaves , Fräulein Schneider thanks Herr Schultz for lying to Fräulein Kost . Herr Schultz says that he was serious and proposes to Fräulein Schneider ( `` Married '' ) .
At Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz 's engagement party , Cliff arrives and delivers the suitcase to Ernst . A `` tipsy |
Corn as High as an Elephant’s Eye - The Field Position® | tc_1205 | """The corn is as high as an elephant's eye is in which musical?" | {
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Corn as High as an Elephant ’ s Eye
Posted on July 9 , 2012 by : Laura Cunningham , Marketing Coordinator
“ Knee high by the Fourth of July ” was an expression used for many years by Midwest farmers , indicating their corn crop was expected to yield well if those “ knee-high conditions ” existed . These days the lyrics , “ The corn is as high as an elephant ’ s eye , ” from the song Oh , What a Beautiful Morning from the 1943 musical Oklahoma ! by Rodgers and Hammerstein , is more accurate .
This year you could even describe much of the corn crop as “ high as an elephant ’ s eye and tasseled by the Fourth of July. ” But a walk into Latham ’ s Genetic Garden will show you just how much corn varieties and hybrids have evolved from the 19th Century until now .
On July 4th we saw corn plants of every size : ankle high , knee high , head high and even some that had tasseled . Temperate teosinte , one of the first ancestors of corn , is about knee high . Wild teosinte is measuring around knee high . Northern flint , a red dent corn is tasseled . Current hybrids like LH 5494 3000 GT are “ as high as an elephant ’ s eye. ” This truly shows the evolution of hybrids at Latham Hi-Tech Seeds .
Many of the varieties aren ’ t equipped to handle the hot , humid and dry weather we have seen . Because the weather we ’ ve experienced this growing season is starting to take a toll on the Genetic Garden , we ’ ve begun to irrigate it .
Look to TheFieldPosition.com for continued updates on the Genetic Garden . We ’ d also like to invite you to see it for yourself ! Take a walk through our “ living museum of corn ” on Saturday , Aug. 25 , during the Latham Country Fair in Alexander , Iowa . |
Funeral Poems - Poems For Funeral - February 21 - Whose ... | tc_1212 | Whose poems returned to the bestsellers list after Four Weddings and a Funeral? | {
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If you saw the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral '
you 'd have been moved maybe to tears
by his 'Funeral Blues ' ;
If you were a college poetry student
the day after 9/11
you might have had your poet in residence
read his 'September 1,1939 '
and had your breath taken away
by its accidental appropriateness
and the last line , which he wanted to amend ,
'We must love each other , or die '
Two poems he himself did n't think quite good enough ..
this is posthumous fame beyond the control
of poets ;
this is what poetry can leave to the world ;
this is what poetry is .
Wystan Hugh Auden would have been 100 today .
Rest In Poetry .
Duncan Wyllie
( 2/21/2007 4:45:00 AM )
A mark of respect and acknowledgement for those that share their fine gifts with the rest of us , This write has alot of feeling contained
Thankyou Michael
Not a member No 4
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Having only recently been introduced to Auden and specifically Sept 1 1939 as my starting point , and been very moved by it and the rest of his work , I appreciate the importance of this very fine and important tribute and reminder . jim ( Report ) Reply
Tara very irritated with PH injustice
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'would have been ' ? Dammit , that is why the postman returned my cake . In seriousness .... top class as ever M. This moved me . t x ( Report ) Reply |
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A bandleader of the 1940s and a radio , film , and TV actor who always seemed to imply allegiance to the former Confederate States of America . Was a principal of long standing among the comedian Jack Benny 's radio retinue , parlaying his popularity into his own radio series , in which his wife , Alice Faye , co-starred . See full bio »
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1974 Here 's Lucy ( TV Series )
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1968 The Lucy Show ( TV Series )
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1995 Frank and Ollie ( Documentary ) ( performer : `` Bear Necessities '' - uncredited )
1991 Rock-A-Doodle ( performer : `` Tyin ' Your Shoes '' )
1991 Kidsongs : Very Silly Songs ( Video short ) ( writer : `` The Thing '' )
1973 Robin Hood ( performer : `` The Phony King of England '' ( 1972 ) )
1971 The Last Picture Show ( performer : `` The Thing '' - uncredited )
1970 The AristoCats ( performer : `` Thomas O'Malley Cat '' , `` Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat '' )
The Johnny Cash Show ( TV Series ) ( performer - 1 episode , 1969 ) ( writer - 1 episode , 1969 )
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1968 The Dean Martin Show ( TV Series ) ( performer - 1 episode )
- Episode # 3.21 ( 1968 ) ... ( performer : `` I 've Grown Accustomed to Her Face '' - uncredited )
1967 The Jungle Book ( performer : `` The Bare Necessities '' ( 1967 ) , `` I Wan na Be Like You ( The Monkey Song ) '' ( 1967 ) ( uncredited ) , `` The Bare Necessities ( Reprise ) '' ( 1967 ) )
1951 Starlift ( performer : `` Look Out , Stranger , I 'm a Texas Ranger '' - uncredited ) / ( writer : `` Look Out , Stranger , I 'm a Texas Ranger '' - uncredited ) |
All That Jazz was Bob Fosse’s portrait of the artist as ... | tc_1214 | What was the name of Bob Fosse's character in All That Jazz? | {
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Every day , WatchThis offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week . This week : With Battle Of The Year 3-D waltzing into theaters , we look back on other movies about dancers .
All That Jazz ( 1979 )
Strictly speaking , All That Jazz isn ’ t about a dancer . Bob Fosse was many things—dancer , choreographer , actor , director , writer , and some might say History ’ s Greatest Monster for beating out Francis Ford Coppola for Best Director at the 1973 Oscars . And strictly speaking , All That Jazz isn ’ t technically about Fosse , at least in that the lead character—a similar multi-hyphenate named Joe Gideon played by Roy Scheider—isn ’ t named “ Bob Fosse. ” But the film à clef is , for all intents and purposes , a Fosse biopic written and directed by the man himself . And it ’ s not a flattering portrait . But it is , in typical Fosse fashion , flashy and stylish , with a hint of the avant garde .
Scheider plays Gideon as a womanizing , speed-addled , chain-smoking workaholic , the kind of bastard who recognizes what a bastard he is , but doesn ’ t let his guilt force him into changing his ways . Anchoring the film are two elements : repeated short scenes of Gideon ’ s morning routine ( Alka Seltzer , eye drops , dexedrine , shower , Vivaldi ’ s “ Concerto In G Major , ” and “ It ’ s showtime , folks ! ” to himself in the mirror ) ; and dreamlike scenes where Gideon converses with a mysterious woman in white ( Jessica Lange ) about his life . In one , she asks , “ Family ? ” “ Screwed up , ” he replies . “ Work ? ” “ All there is . ”
As the film progresses , those scenes help elucidate Gideon ’ s deterioration , from his worsening cough to his interactions with Lange ’ s unnamed character ( listed as “ Angelique ” in the credits ) , whose identity becomes clear . The primary plot of the film follows Gideon as he works on two high-profile projects : a new Broadway musical about flight attendants and a stand-up film about a comedian played by Cliff Gorman ( likely reflecting Lenny , the Lenny Bruce biopic Fosse directed ) . Neither is going well ; the film is way overdue and over-budget , and the musical isn ’ t coming together like Gideon wants . His personal life is going no better as he cheats on his girlfriend and fails his daughter .
All That Jazz has been appropriately described as a song-and-dance film that people who don ’ t like musicals can enjoy ; there isn ’ t that much singing and dancing , and the other parts easily stand on their own thanks to the engrossing drama that unfolds . A lot of the credit goes to the incredible Scheider , who was neither Fosse ’ s nor the studio ’ s first choice . Richard Dreyfuss was originally cast—the studio wanted a big name to anchor this risky film , and he had just won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl—but he didn ’ t like the film or Fosse . Scheider had a reputation that was the opposite of Fosse ’ s—whom Scheider described as “ a guy who overdid everything ” —but had a history in the theater . As the actor tells it , he met Fosse at an office in the Brill Building and told him about every terrible play he ’ d ever done . That won Fosse over , so they spent the week reading the script every night at his apartment until Fosse felt like Scheider was the right choice . He was , though Dustin Hoffman beat him for Best Actor at the Oscars that year .
The drama of Gideon ’ s life may take precedence , but the song-and-dance scenes are pretty great , particularly the closer with Ben Vereen . Although that number , and the film preceding it , is clearly leading to one inevitable conclusion , the final shot of All That Jazz remains jarring—and , as it turns out for Bob Fosse , prescient .
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Macaulay Carson Culkin , one of the most famous American child stars , was born on August 26 , 1980 in New York City , New York , USA , as the third of seven children of his father Christopher Culkin ( a former stage and child actor and also Macaulay 's former manager ) and mother Patricia Brentrup . He is the brother of Shane Culkin , Dakota Culkin , Kieran Culkin , Quinn Culkin , Christian Culkin , and Rory Culkin , most of whom have also acted . Macaulay 's mother , who is from North Dakota , is of German and Norwegian descent . Macaulay 's father , from Manhattan , has Irish , German , English , Swiss-German , and French ancestry .
`` Mack '' , as he 's known to his close friends and family , first came into showbiz at the age of 4 , appearing in a string of Off-Broadway shows such as the New York City Ballet 's The Nutcracker and , by 8 years-old , the films Rocket Gibraltar ( 1988 ) and See You in the Morning ( 1989 ) , which included him in the rare company of kids who have received rave reviews from The New Yorker and The New York Times .
By the age of 9 , the young actor had nearly upstaged star John Candy in Uncle Buck ( 1989 ) ( his deadpan interrogation of Candy was Buck 's funniest scene ) . Then , in 1990 , writer John Hughes turned his finished Home Alone ( 1990 ) script over to director Chris Columbus with a suggestion to consider Culkin for the lead . Though Macaulay was the first kid Columbus saw , he was skeptical about having him in the lead and saw over 200 other possible actors and he admitted that no one came as close to being as good as Culkin . By the callback interview , Mack had memorized two scenes , and Columbus was sure he found his `` Kevin McCallister '' . The movie grossed more than $ 285 million in the US alone , becoming one of the highest grossing movies of all time and making Macaulay Culkin one of the biggest movie stars of the time .
His next big project was My Girl ( 1991 ) in which he played `` Thomas J. Sennett '' , a boy who seems to be allergic to everything . Despite some controversy over the ending , the film was released anyway and proved to be another hit film for Mack ( and featured his very first kiss ) . In 1992 came Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York ( 1992 ) , which grossed more than $ 172 million in the US alone . In 1993 came The Good Son ( 1993 ) , which was the first role to depart from his cute kid comedies . He played a murderous little demon named Henry . He got the role when his powerhouse negotiator/manager/father Kit Culkin said that he would pull Mack out of Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York ( 1992 ) unless he was given the psychotic boy lead in The Good Son ( 1993 ) . He was also given a salary of $ 5 million for the film .
In 1994 , at the age of 14 , came a string of duds , The Pagemaster ( 1994 ) , Getting Even with Dad ( 1994 ) and Ri¢hie Ri¢h ( 1994 ) . He was paid $ 8 million for the last two , the highest salary ever paid for a child star . Many people believed Mack had lost his touch , though , because he was no longer that cute tiny kid they saw in Home Alone ( 1990 ) . In 1995 his parents , who were never married , separated and started a greedy legal battle over the custody of their kids and Mack 's fortune . In 1996 , the young actor had reportedly said he would n't accept any roles until his parents settled their custody dispute . That case would not be resolved until April 1997 when Kit Culkin relinquished control to Brentrup .
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Eileen Brennan as Capt . Doreen Lewis in `` Private Benjamin . '' Credit Warner Brothers Pictures , via Associated Press
Eileen Brennan , a smoky-voiced actress who had worked in show business for more than 20 years before gaining her widest attention as a gleefully tough Army captain in both the film and television versions of “ Private Benjamin , ” died on Sunday at her home in Burbank , Calif. She was 80 .
Her manager , Kim Vasilakis , confirmed the death on Tuesday , saying the cause was bladder cancer .
Ms. Brennan had had a solid career on the New York stage and in films like “ The Last Picture Show ” and “ The Sting ” when she was cast for the film “ Private Benjamin , ” a 1980 box-office hit starring Goldie Hawn in the title role .
Ms. Brennan played Capt . Doreen Lewis , the slow-burning commanding officer of a pampered , privileged young woman who joins the Army and finds that she isn ’ t anybody ’ s little princess anymore . The performance brought Ms. Brennan an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress . She reprised the role in 1981 in a CBS sitcom based on the film , with Lorna Patterson in the Goldie Hawn role . The TV performance brought Ms. Brennan the Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a comedy , variety or music series .
But she was forced to leave “ Private Benjamin ” when she was hit by a car and critically injured in Venice , Calif . Without her , the series died in 1983 .
While recovering Ms. Brennan became addicted to pain medication and underwent treatment . She later developed breast cancer .
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She returned to television in 1985 in a new sitcom , “ Off the Rack , ” with Edward Asner , but the show lasted only six episodes . Afterward she made guest appearances on other shows , but she never recaptured the attention she had known in the past — as the toast of Off Broadway in “ Little Mary Sunshine , ” as a film actress in the 1970s , and as an honored comedy star just before her accident .
Verla Eileen Regina Brennen was born on Sept. 3 , 1932 , and grew up in Los Angeles , the daughter of a newspaper reporter who also worked in sales and a former actress . Later in life , dealing with her own alcohol dependency , she talked about the alcoholism in her family when she was a child .
After attending Georgetown University , she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York , performed in summer stock and worked as a singing waitress .
Her first big role was as the title character in Rick Besoyan ’ s “ Little Mary Sunshine , ” a 1959 parody of operettas that played at the Orpheum Theater . She won an Obie Award for her portrayal of the show ’ s spunky , fluttery-eyed heroine . A year later she complained to The New York Times that she had been “ hopelessly typecast as that kookie girl . ”
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Ms. Brennan in the 1971 film `` The Last Picture Show . '' Credit Columbia Pictures , via Photofest
Perhaps to prove otherwise , she promptly starred in the national tour of “ The Miracle Worker , ” as Helen Keller ’ s gravely serious teacher , Annie Sullivan .
In 1963 , Ms. Brennan earned positive reviews as Anna in a City Center revival of “ The King and I. ” In 1964 , she was cast as Irene Molloy , the young widow , in the original Broadway production of “ Hello , Dolly ! , ” with Carol Channing .
Among later stage performances , she appeared in John Ford Noonan ’ s “ A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking , ” a critically praised 1980 two-woman show with Susan Sarandon , and Martin McDonagh ’ s dark comedy “ The Cripple of Inishmaan ” ( 1998 ) , in which she played an alcoholic Irishwoman .
Ms. Brennan made her television debut in “ The Star Wagon , ” a 1966 PBS special , based on Maxwell Anderson ’ s play about a man who invented a |
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María Eva Duarte de Perón , more commonly known as Evita was born on 7 May 1919 , and died of cancer aged 33 on 26 July 1952 . We were wondering about the origin of the signature song Don ’ t Cry For Me Argentina and who was the real Eva Perón ?
The song was of course immortalized in the hit musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber ( 1976 ) , and later turned into the movie starring Madonna and co-written by Alan Parker , Oliver Stone , Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice . Not long after Parker ’ s movie came out in 1996 , Argentine director Juan Carlos Desanzo released his own film biography of Evita called Eva Perón : The True Story . The two film portrayals of Eva are so contrasting , it ’ s as if they depict two different characters . So which version of Evita is the most accurate ?
The song lyrics in Don ’ t Cry For Me Argentina are openly critical of Eva and her penchant for designer clothes and jewellery with lyrics such as : “ All you will see is a girl you once knew . Although she ’ s dressed up to the nines . At sixes and sevens with you. ” Parker ’ s production is extremely lavish with Madonna holding the record for the most costume changes in a movie – an estimated 85 times ( including 39 hats , 45 pairs of shoes and 56 pairs of earrings ) .
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Another song entitled “ The Money Kept Rolling In ( And Out ) ” refers to Eva ’ s charitable work and allegations of money laundering , while also implying that she cultivated a glamourous image to impress the poor people of Argentina and to help promote Perónism . Another song ( “ You Must Love Me ” ) suggests that it ’ s only when Eva realises that she ’ s dying from cancer does she renounce her pursuit of the vice-presidency and realise that Perón loves her for herself with the words : “ How can I be of any use to you now ? ”
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Desanzo ’ s film , though much lower budget , focuses on Eva ’ s political career and last years . It portrays her as a brave , charismatic . passionate woman , and a champion of women ’ s and workers ’ rights . The Eva of Desanzo is conscious of her roots , she is a sensitive , tearful woman with a human touch , holding babies and hugging pensioners . The movie was released while Carlos Menem ’ s government was in power and is perhaps the reason why there is no shortage of Perónist propaganda .
Esther Goris , who plays Eva , gives a rousing speech at a school that includes the frequent use of the words ‘ Peronista ’ and ‘ Peronismo ’ before she had even met her future husband . There is also a scene when she meets Juan Domingo Perón for the first time at Luna Park and flatters him saying that the people call him ‘ Colonel of the people ’ .
Clip from Desanzo ’ s film
The cast and crew of Parker ’ s movie faced protests in Argentina upon arrival over fears that the project casting The Queen of Pop in the lead role would tarnish Eva ’ s image . Madonna ’ s forays into acting had previously included the abysmal erotic thriller Body of Evidence and Desperately Seeking Susan . Indeed she did seem to be making a mockery of Argentina ’ s most loved lady and many movie critics panned her performance . Eva Perón wasn ’ t the saint as portrayed by Desanzo , neither was she the star-gazing child who went from slutty gold-digger to talentless actress to wife of the president , as portrayed by Stone and Parker . But Desanzo ’ s version is a truer reflection of Eva than is so often the case when Hollywood gets its hands on a biographical movie script
Portrait of Eva on the Ministry of Health building in 9 de Julio
A feature entitled ‘ Eva Peron The Myth ’ in La Nación newspaper unravels her legacy : “ She lives on as a myth with her unique personality that is constantly associated with all political solidarity . Insolent , scarastic , spiteful , with a natural elegance that chose Coco Chanel when she was advised not to overdress . Born with |
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In 1954 , a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to help their buddy lose his virginity , which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them .
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The naughty high schoolers of Angel Beach High now seek revenge on a group of KKK religious fanatics and corrupt politicians who want to shut down their Shakespeare production after they cast a Seminole transfer student in the lead .
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1954 . The sexual hijinks of a group of mid-teen male students of Angel Beach High School in Florida are presented . Their main goal is to lose their collective virginity . In the process , they embark on games of sexual innuendo with their female classmates , as witnessed by the activities of Billy , Tommy and Pee Wee in their secret surveillance . Pee Wee is the most desperate , that desperation which gets him into one predicament after another , especially as he is the butt of many a prank . A side issue for Tim , basically a good guy , is dealing with his learned racism , which comes to the surface with the arrival to their school of new student , Jewish Brian Schwartz . The sexual pursuits at the school are not limited to the student body as new boys Phys Ed coach , Roy Brackett , has a mutual attraction with cheer-leading coach , Miss Lynn Honeywell , who does n't want to go all the way ; Coach Brackett 's goal is to find out why Coach Warren has nicknamed Miss Honeywell `` Lassie '' . All these goings-on ... Written by Huggo
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There is so much more to this film than Dustin Hoffman running around in a dress trying to act like a woman . Tootsie is one of the most intelligent comedies I 've ever seen . It is perfectly cast , well-layered , and full of surprises .
Dustin Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey . He seems to know everything about acting except how to stay employed as an actor . In an early montage we see him auditioning for numerous plays where he is either too old , too young , too short , simply not the right guy for the part , or in some cases impossible to work with . We also see him trying to teach his craft to some young wannabe actors , and working at a restaurant to pay the bills . After a hilarious argument with his agent , he is simply told `` No one will hire you ! '' The very next shot has Hoffman in drag walking down the street to an audition for a soap opera part his friend ( Terri Garr ) was unable to land . So intent is the chauvinistic director ( Coleman ) on casting a woman that looks tough enough for the part of a hospital administrator , Hoffman is denied without so much as a reading . He responds with a hilarious tirade that opens the door to his television career . Hoffman lands the part , and is soon winning over fans all over the country .
While Hoffman finds it wonderful to be working regularly , his personal life is understandably put to the test . He alienates Garr , is constantly made fun of by his roommate ( Murray ) and falls in love with one of his co-stars ( Lange ) who of course can not learn his secret or he 's out of a job . Things are further complicated when two older men fall in love with him . It would be pointless to try and describe some of the awkward situations he finds himself in . You must see the movie to experience them for yourself .
The film is so well-cast it 's incredible . There are so many fine actors at work here that it almost becomes a contest of who can steal the scene first . Murray gets his share with his improvised lines . His lamenting of the state of his plays during a party scene will have you howling . The icing on the cake was director Sydney Pollack agreeing to play Hoffman 's agent . They only have a few scenes together , but they are the film 's best .
Tootsie is head and shoulders above other films I 've seen that deal with men in women 's clothing . Mrs. Doubtfire for example was all slapstick without much heart . In the end it tried to redeem itself in that department and just got way too sappy . Tootsie also wisely holds back in the feminism department . Although Hoffman 's Dorothy Michaels is clearly a woman who inspires others to stand up for themselves , he is advised to tone it down by Pollack in one scene . Hoffman feels his Dorothy character should be doing specials and giving advice and whatnot , but Pollack reminds him , `` You have NOTHING to say to women , Michael . '' In other words , you 're lucky you 've gotten away with the stunt up to this point , now you should be looking for a way to get out .
Overall Tootsie is wonderful experience . It made a fortune when released , and is still very relevant today . Do n't miss it ! 10 of 10 stars from the Hound .
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If you 're in the mood for a great movie that will get you to cough up a boatload of honest laughs , then you ai n't gon na do better than TOOTSIE . You |
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Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice , and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance , this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot . Too often mis-labeled a musical , this film is a `` rock opera . '' There are no spoken lines , everything is sung . Written by Ralf Southard < rps8 @ psu.edu >
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Ted Neeley almost missed out on being cast in Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1973 ) . After inviting director Norman Jewison to see him in a matinee performance of The Who 's Tommy ( 1975 ) , he was injured during a show just prior to the one Jewison had bought a ticket to see . He recovered in time for the next show . Immediately following this , he drove from Los Angeles to Jewison 's hotel in Palm Springs and dressed up as Jesus Christ . ( Norman was leaving for Israel soon thereafter , to shoot the movie . ) Not only did Jewison accept his explanation and apology , but he also gave him the title role in the film . See more »
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Pontius Pilate : [ to Jesus after the 39 lashes ] You 're a fool , Jesus Christ ! How can I help you ?
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I 've heard much criticism of this film over many years , and the most annoying criticism is that it did n't have the vitality of the stage productions back `` in the day '' . There is n't much many of us can do about that , though I did see a road production of it about 7 or 8 years ago .
The most interesting thing about this film is that it was set in `` modern '' times , rather than in biblical times . Roman soldiers wearing shiny helmets , and carrying machine guns is a real attention grabber . The ruins used in the film added another fascinating aspect to the production . In short , the anachronistic approach in the visuals , the lyrics , and the music itself make this a genuinely unique , |
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Did you know that the song `` New York , New York , '' which Frank Sinatra made so famous , was originally written for the 1977 Martin Scorsese film of the same name and first performed in that film ? I ca n't believe it , but I did n't know that . I thought it was a song from the 1940s originally recorded by Sinatra . The song was written by the legendary Broadway team of John Kander and Fred Ebb specifically for Scorsese 's film and first sung by Liza Minnelli , who starred in the film opposite Robert de Niro . It 's good to get that history finally straight . Now for the movie . It 's known as Scorsese 's only bomb , with the famous theme song its only redeeming quality . I would n't go quite that far . There are things about the film that I find wonderful . But overall , it is a failure . I love what Scorsese tried to do . Fresh from his triumph with `` Taxi Driver '' ( 1975 ) , Scorsese could easily have gone on auto-pilot , churning out another gritty , masculine , urban neo-noir . Instead he did the complete opposite . He follows `` Taxi Driver '' up with a musical ! My God , that is gutsy . I admire the cojones but not the final product . Scorsese stumbled awkwardly through the whole film ; almost every scene has a false tone . The editing is atrocious , with every scene twice as long as it should be . The sets are so cheap and fake that at one point Minnelli virtually rips a railing apart with her bare hands . And they did n't cut out that scene ! Scorsese surely chose the cheesy sets intentionally . I think he was trying to pay homage to the movies of the 1940s , particularly the female-driven melodramas ( so-called `` women 's pictures '' ) , which were always filmed on cheap Hollywood backlots . I absolutely love this idea . But it just does not come off well . The only way this could have worked is if the melodrama had been so captivating that it transported you back to the first time you saw `` Mildred Pierce . '' ( I can still remember seeing it for the first time on television as a teenager . Unforgettable . ) But Scorsese really fell down on the job when it comes to story development -- always a disaster when you 're trying to do melodrama . I really never cared about either of the two main characters . So rather than getting swept up by emotion , I found myself limply watching actors pretend to have feelings . It 's actually hard to get through this movie . Its running time is also particularly long . It was a courageously un-hip and un-masculine tribute to old movies , but it just does n't come together . Save for the title song , which is an old-fashioned masterpiece , `` New York , New York '' is a misfire .
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This is a Scorsese film that typically gets overlooked , and , while I can see why ( to a degree ) , I think it 's actually pretty good , and probably one of his most underrated- and that last little bit is something that needs to change . The film was a departure and an experiment for Marty . It was his follow-up to Taxi Driver , and needless to say , this did n't make the impression left by that one . For this , Scorsese decided to abandon the gritty realism of his previous works and craft a loveletter to his city , big band ( and some jazz ) music , and the lavishly produced movie musicals of Old Hollywood . It was a noble effort , and no one can deny the fact that this is made with tons of love , care , and respect . The film follows a go-getter sax player named Jimmy Doyle who 's got talent , but can also be overwhelmingly obnoxious , stubborn , and hard to deal with . He meets a low level club singer with big hopes and the two form a perfonal and professional relationship with one another . Over time though , the pressure of show biz see the fall of their love as their careers rise . In order to bring his vision to life , Scorsese and his director of photography Laszlo Kovacs and production designer Boris Levin used |
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Mike Brady and his wife Carol Brady have just only one week to come up with $ 20,000 in back taxes or their house is sold and they 'll have no choice but to move . And it 's up to the Brady kids to secretly raise money and save the homestead before they lose their house to their scheming neighbor Mr. Larry Dittmeyer . Written by Anthony Pereyra < hypersonic91 @ yahoo.com >
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The judges at the `` Search for the Stars '' are Davy Jones , Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork - three of the original The Monkees ( 1966 ) . Michael Nesmith is the only one missing . See more »
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When Cindy Brady delivers the Dittmeyer 's mail , Larry Dittmeyer is running on his treadmill . The Bloody Mary , in the drink holder , has no celery stick in the glass but , in a following close-up , a celery stick appears in the drink from nowhere . See more »
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[ Mrs. Dittmeyer tucks mail into Greg 's pants ]
Mrs. Dena Dittmeyer : My , you 've gotten so big . You 're almost as big as your daddy .
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During the closing credits , which mimic the television series , Florence Henderson ( playing the Grandmother ) is seen with a bottle of Wesson Cooking Oil . In the 1980s , Henderson did commercials for Wesson . See more »
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Extremely funny , very clever too
11 September 2000 | by Boyo-2
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Out of all the movies that have been made from old TV shows , this is perhaps the best . The plot is as thin as one you see on the show and . The dialogue is killer - when Marcia is insecure about her injured nose on a date , the guy reassures her , `` its not your nose I 'm after '' . Quite alot of the jokes are of the double-meaning style and most of them are very funny . Gary Cole takes the acting honors , as he is just as sincere are Robert Reed was . I was never the biggest fan of the show , but this movie made me wish I were . Also it was great seeing Davey Jones of the Monkees !
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42nd Street (film) - Wikiquote | tc_1231 | "In which film was chorus girl Peggy Sawyer told to ""come back a star?""" | {
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42nd Street is a 1933 musical film about a producer who puts on what may be his last Broadway show , and at the last moment must replace the star with a chorus girl .
Directed by Lloyd Bacon . Written by Rian James and James Seymour , based on the novel by Bradford Ropes .
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Julian Marsh [ edit ]
[ to his financiers ] You 'll get your Pretty Lady . You have n't got anything to worry about . I 'm not gon na let you down because I ca n't afford to . I 've given everything I 've had to that gulch down there and it 's taken all I had to offer . Oh , it paid me , sure , in money I could n't hang on to - fair-weather friends , women , headlines ! Hah ! Why even the cops and the newsboys recognize me on sight . 'Marsh , the Magnificent . ' 'Marsh the Slave-Driver ! ' Actors tell ya how Marsh drove 'em and bullied 'em and even tore it out of 'em ! And maybe there 's a few that 'll tell ya how Marsh really made 'em . And they 've all got somethin ' to show for it - except Marsh .
Well , this is my last shot ! I 'll make a few more actors . But this time , I 'm gon na sock my money away so hard that they 'll have to blast to find enough to buy a newspaper . That 's why I 'm goin ' ahead with Pretty Lady . And Pretty Lady 's got to be a hit . It 's my last show and it 's got to be my best . You 're counting on me . Well , I 'm counting on Pretty Lady , because it 's got to support me for a long time to come .
All right , now , everybody . Quiet , and listen to me . Tomorrow morning , we 're gon na start a show . We 're gon na rehearse for five weeks and we 're gon na open on scheduled time . [ He brandishes his cigarette ] - And I mean scheduled time . You 're gon na work and sweat and work some more . You 're gon na work days and you 're gon na work nights . And you 're gon na work between time when I think you need it . You 're gon na dance until your feet fall off and you 're not able to stand up any longer . BUT five weeks from now , we 're going to have a show ! Now , some of you people have been with me before . You know it 's gon na be a tough grind . It 's gon na be the toughest five weeks that you ever lived through . Do you all get that ? Now anybody who does n't think he 's gon na like it had better quit right now . What do I hear ? Nobody ? Good . Then that 's settled . We start tomorrow morning .
Sawyer , you listen to me , and you listen hard . Two hundred people , two hundred jobs , two hundred thousand dollars , five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you . It 's the lives of all these people who 've worked with you . You 've got to go on , and you 've got to give and give and give . They 've got to like you . Got to . Do you understand ? You ca n't fall down . You ca n't because your future 's in it , my future and everything all of us have is staked on you . All right , now I 'm through , but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out , and Sawyer , you 're going out a youngster but you 've got to come back a star ! |
The Muppet Movie - Muppet Wiki - Wikia | tc_1234 | In The Muppet Movie what was the name of the restaurant Doc Hopper wanted to open? | {
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The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring the Muppets . The film is a movie-in-a-movie , as we see Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppets gathering for the first screening of `` The Muppet Movie . '' Kermit notes to his nephew Robin as the lights dim that the movie is a somewhat fictionalized account of the true story of how the Muppets first got together .
The movie was a critical and commercial success . In 2009 , the film was selected by the U.S. National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress . [ 1 ]
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As the story opens , Kermit is enjoying a relaxing afternoon in the swamp , singing a tune and strumming his banjo , when he is approached by an agent who recognizes his talents and encourages Kermit to pursue a career in Hollywood . Inspired by the idea of making millions of people happy , Kermit sets off on his trusty bicycle . Almost immediately , he is pursued by the conniving Doc Hopper ( Charles Durning ) , owner of a struggling french-fried frog legs restaurant franchise who has set his sights on Kermit as a potential new mascot .
Kermit stops at the El Sleezo Cafe , where he meets Fozzie Bear working the place as a stand-up comedian . Kermit invites Fozzie to join him on his quest for stardom , and together they continue on their journey . They make several new friends along the way , including Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem rock band ( whom they bring up to speed on current events by giving them a copy of the movie script ) ; Gonzo the traveling plumber and Camilla , his chicken girlfriend ; and the inimitable Miss Piggy , who leaps at the chance to accompany the group to Hollywood .
After Kermit manages to evade Doc Hopper 's persuasive tactics a number of times , Doc Hopper responds by capturing Miss Piggy in order to lure Kermit into his clutches . Kermit is very nearly lobotomized by a mad scientist 's electronic cerebrectomy device , intended to brainwash him into performing in Doc Hopper 's TV commercials , until Miss Piggy , after being insulted by said mad scientist , manages a last-minute rescue with some black belt karate maneuvers .
Refusing to run from a bully for the rest of his life , Kermit resolves to face Doc Hopper in a showdown . He gives an impassioned plea to allow him and his friends to continue on their way and make their dreams come true . Although the speech falls on deaf ears , Kermit and friends are saved at the last moment by Animal , who has gotten into Dr. Bunsen Honeydew 's growth pills and successfully scares away Hopper and his henchmen .
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A 1979 Muppet Show Fan Club newsletter ( vol . 2 , no . 1 ) featured an article with behind the scenes information about the movie :
`` The Muppet Movie comes to your neighborhood theaters this summer . If you think it 's a film version of The Muppet Show , you 're in for a surprise . For one thing , it does n't take place in the theater . The Muppet Movie is set in the real world -- it 's like waiting in line at a gas station and looking up to find Fozzie and Kermit driving the next car over . After you 've seen the movie , you 'll ask , 'How did they do it ? ' -- Well , here is some inside information so that you can whisper to the person sitting next to you in the movie theater , ' I know how they did that . '
`` How does Kermit sit on a log in the middle of a swamp ? Simple . Jim Henson squeezed into a specially designed metal container complete with an air hose ( to breathe ) , a rubber sleeve which came out of the top ( to work Kermit ) and a monitor ( to see what Kermit was doing ) , and positioned himself under the water , under the log , under the Frog . Jim spent about five days in this bathysphere . ( It 's not easy ... )
`` How does Fozzie drive a car ? |
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The Klump family eats a hearty dinner as they discuss weight and formerly overweight black celebrities .
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Eddie Murphy gives one of Jerry Lewis ' best-remembered vehicles a 1990s overhaul in this hit comedy . Sherman Klump ( Murphy ) is a college professor and respected biochemistry researcher who is kind , considerate , and a genuinely nice guy . Sherman is also appallingly overweight ; coupled with the fact that he 's painfully shy and a bit clumsy , his romantic prospects are rather bleak . When Sherman finds himself working with a pretty graduate student , Carla Purty ( Jada Pinkett ) , he falls in love and is eager to impress her , but at an upscale nightclub , his weight attracts the attention of an insult comic ( Dave Chappelle ) and his bumbling spoils the evening . Sherman 's latest project is a genetic weight loss formula , and despondent over his failure to win Carla 's heart , he subjects himself to a massive dose . Suddenly , Sherman is transformed into the slim , trim , and handsome Buddy Love ; however , the drug also boosts his testosterone level , turning the likable Sherman into the arrogant , skirt-chasing Buddy . In addition to playing Sherman and Buddy , Eddie Murphy also plays four other members of the porcine Klump family , as well as eccentric exercise guru Lance Perkins .
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Washingtonpost.com: Hillary Clinton and the Whitewater ... | tc_1238 | Which First Lady had to give evidence over the Whitewater scandal? | {
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Hillary Clinton and the Whitewater Controversy : A Close-Up
By David Maraniss and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday , June 2 , 1996 ; Page A01
The First Lady and Whitewater : Who 's Who
JAMES B. McDOUGAL
Friend of Bill Clinton and gubernatorial aide during Clinton 's first term , he was a partner with the Clintons in the Whitewater real estate venture and owned the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan . He was convicted last week on federal fraud and conspiracy charges .
SUSAN McDOUGAL
James McDougal 's former wife and partner in the Whitewater real estate venture . She was also convicted last week in the Whitewater-related fraud trial .
RICHARD MASSEY
Young associate at the Rose Law Firm when Madison Guaranty became a client in 1985 . Hillary Rodham Clinton has said Massey played a key role in bringing in Madison as a Rose client , but he does not remember the events in the same way .
RONALD CLARK
Current managing partner of the Rose Law Firm . While Hillary Clinton has said Massey asked for her help in getting McDougal to pay his outstanding legal bills in April 1985 , Clark maintains that they were already paid by November 1984 .
GARY BUNCH
Onetime president of Madison Bank & Trust , another McDougal-owned financial entity that owed money to the Rose Law Firm .
BEVERLY BASSETT SCHAFFER
A Gov . Bill Clinton appointee to the Arkansas Securities Commission , she took a telephone call from Hillary Clinton in April 1985 , six days after McDougal put Rose Law Firm on retainer .
SETH WARD
Arkansas businessman hired by McDougal to assist in land acquisition for the Castle Grande project , and Webster Hubbell 's father-in-law . Hillary Clinton worked with Ward on certain legal details of the project she knew as IDC .
WEBSTER L. HUBBELL
President Clinton 's appointee as associate U.S. attorney general and former partner in the Rose firm , he pleaded guilty to defrauding the firm and its clients through false billings .
JIM GUY TUCKER
Arkansas governor convicted last week on mail fraud and conspiracy charges linked to the Castle Grande deal . He announced his intention to resign this summer .
DAVID HALE
Former Arkansas municipal judge and owner of a small business investment company , he pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal Small Business Administration and was the chief government witness in the trial of the McDougals and Gov . Tucker .
SAM BRATTON
An aide to Gov . Clinton who oversaw regulatory issues , he was alerted by Arkansas Securities Commissioner Schaffer that McDougal 's S & L was in trouble with federal authorities .
VINCENT FOSTER
Former Rose Law Firm partner who went to the Clinton White House as deputy counsel . At Rose , Foster had been billing partner in work the firm did for Madison Bank & Trust .
CAROLYN HUBER
Former Rose Law Firm office manager who worked in the White House residence handling the Clintons ' personal correspondence . She packed away Hillary Clinton 's law firm records in a box of `` knickknacks '' and said she was unaware they were the long-sought Rose billing records .
DAVID R. GERGEN
As counselor to the president , Gergen advised the Clintons to share all Whitewater-related documents with The Washington Post in December 1993 . In an interview in January , Hillary Clinton suggested that she and the president had done just that with the New York Times during the 1992 campaign , but five days later the White House issued a clarification saying she was mistaken .
ALSTON JENNINGS
Prominent Little Rock lawyer who represented businessman Seth Ward . He visited the White House residence and talked with Hillary Clinton and her lawyer David Kendall around the time the first lady 's law firm billing records appeared on a table in the third-floor book room of the White House residence .
DAVID KENDALL
The first lady 's personal lawyer on Whitewater issues announced discovery of the billing records and turned them over to the independent counsel . Kendall called the billing records episode `` another of the meaningless mysteries of Whitewater . ''
In the four years that Hillary Rodham Clinton has been
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questioned about her role in the related events known as Whitewater , her public posture has changed very little . She has asserted that she has done nothing wrong and that |
In quotes: Margaret Thatcher - BBC News | tc_1239 | "About which British politician did Francois Mitterrand say, ""She has the mouth of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula?""" | {
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Media captionMargaret Thatcher in her own words
Baroness Thatcher was seldom one to hold back her views . Here are some of the things she said - and which were said about her .
CONVICTION POLITICIAN
`` I love argument . I love debate . I do n't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me - that 's not their job . '' 1980
`` I am not a consensus politician . I 'm a conviction politician . '' 1979
`` I do n't mind how much my ministers talk , as long as they do what I say . '' 1980
`` Where there is discord , may we bring harmony . Where there is error , may we bring truth . Where there is doubt , may we bring faith . Where there is despair , may we bring hope . '' Quoting St Francis of Assisi , on her 1979 election victory .
`` To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase , the U-turn , I have only one thing to say . You turn if you want to . The lady 's not for turning . '' 10 October 1980 , Conservative party conference
SPEAKING HER MIND
`` Nobody would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only good intentions . He had money as well . '' 1980
`` We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands . We always have to be aware of the enemy within , which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty . '' On the 1984-85 miners ' strike
`` There is no such thing as society . There are individual men and women and there are families . '' 1987
WOMAN IN A MAN 'S WORLD
`` No woman in my time will be prime minister or foreign secretary - not the top jobs . Anyway , I would n't want to be prime minister . You have to give yourself 100 % to the job . '' 1969 , in opposition as Conservative MP for Finchley
`` Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country . '' 1979 , the year she became prime minister
`` We have become a grandmother . '' On the birth of her first grandchild , 1989
ON EUROPE
`` We are not asking for a penny piece of Community money for Britain . What we are asking is for a very large amount of our own money back . '' At the European Union summit in Dublin , 1979
`` We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them re-imposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . '' 1988
`` No ! No ! No ! '' House of Commons 20 October 1990 , the climax of an anti-European outburst that moved Geoffrey Howe to quit as deputy prime minister and deliver the resignation speech calling for her to be challenged for her job
THE END OF THE AFFAIR
`` I fight on , I fight to win . '' 21 November 1990 , after failing to win enough votes to avoid a second round in the Tory leadership contest . She resigned the next day
`` It 's a funny old world . '' 27 November 1990 , at her last cabinet meeting
`` It was treachery with a smile on its face . Perhaps that was the worst thing of all . '' 1993 , on the cabinet colleagues who had advised her to stand down .
LIFE AFTER OFFICE
`` Home is where you come to when you 've got nothing better to do . '' May 1991 , six months after leaving Number 10
... AND WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT HER
`` She has the eyes of Caligula but the mouth of Marilyn Monroe . '' French President Francois Mitterrand
`` She was always an attractive woman . She had not merely a film star 's attractiveness ; she could also behave like a film star when she chose to do so . '' Sir Bernard Ingham , her Downing Street press secretary
`` This woman is headstrong , obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated . '' ICI personnel department assessment , rejecting job application from the then Margaret Roberts in 1948 |
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IM ( 1979 ) ; GM ( 1984 ) ; British Champion ( 1984 , 1987 , 1998 ) ; English Champion ( 1991 ) ; European Union Champion ( 2001 ) ; Commonwealth Champion ( 2006 & 2008 ) ; Candidate ( 1985 , 1988 , 1991 , 1994 ( PCA ) ) ; World Championship Challenger ( PCA ) ( 1993 ) .
Background
Nigel David Short was born in Leigh in Lancashire , the second son of Jean and David Short . A bona fide chess prodigy , Short defeated Viktor Korchnoi in a simul at the age of 10 and was the youngest ever qualifier for the British Championships at the age of 11 . When he earned his International Master title at the age of 14 , he was at that time the youngest ever to earn that title . When he won the Grandmaster title at the age of 19 , he was the youngest GM in the world at the time . He subsequently rose to dominate English chess in the 80s and 90s following in the wake of Anthony Miles , culminating in a challenge for the World Championship in 1993 .
Championships
< Youth > Short was =1st in the World U16 Youth Championship held in Belfort in 1979 .
< Junior > He participated in four World Junior Championships from 1980 to 1983 . He achieved his best result during his first attempt in which he placed second to Garry Kasparov in 1980 at Dortmund .
< National > In 1977 he became the youngest ever participant in the British Chess Championship by qualifying three days before his twelfth birthday . When Nigel was 14 , he tied for 1st place in the British Championship of 1979 with John Nunn and Robert Bellin , earning his first IM norm . Short won the British Chess Championship in 1984 , 1987 , and 1998 , and the English Championship in 1991 . He came =1st in the British Championships ( 2011 ) at the age of 46 , but lost the tie breaker to Michael Adams .
< Commonwealth and Continental > He won the Commonwealth Championships in 2004 ( 7.5/9 ) and 2006 ( 9/10 ) , the Commonwealth Championship ( 2008 ) ( 9.5/11 ) and came =1st in the Commonwealth and South African Open ( 2011 ) ( 7.5/9 ) . He scored 7.5/13 in the 2nd European Individual Championship held in Ohrid in the FYROM in 2001 , won the European Union Individual Championships ( 2006 ) held in Liverpool with 7.5/10 , and took a share of second place in the European Individual Championship ( 2008 ) .
< World > Short qualified to play in the Biel Interzonal when he placed =1st alongside Jonathan Speelman in European Zonal 1A held in Brighton in December 1984 . Subsequently , in July 1985 , he placed =4th at the Biel Interzonal with 10.5/18 ( +6 =9 -2 ) , holding off John van der Wiel and Eugenio Torre in a play off for the fourth qualifying position to the Montpellier Candidates , thereby becoming Britain 's first-ever candidate . Short did not win through to the semi-final Candidate Matches from the preliminary Candidates Tournament , scoring 7/15 to finish in equal tenth place , and exited the World Championship challenge at this stage . However , his participation in the Montpellier Candidates Tournament qualified Short to compete in the 1987 Subotica Interzonal in which he scored 10.5/16 to place equal first with Speelman and Gyula Sax . In the preliminary match held in Saint John in Canada in 1988 , Short defeated Sax ( +2=3 ) , but then lost by 3.5-1.5 ( −2=3 ) to Speelman in London later that year . This cycle was the last full undisputed FIDE controlled World Championship cycle until the Kramnik - Topalov World Championship Match ( 2006 ) Unification Match . During the next World Championship cycle , a last round victory over Mikhail Gurevich enabled Short to finish equal third with Viswanathan Anand , behind Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand at the Manila Interzonal in July 1990 , thereby qualifying as a Candidate for the third successive time .
In London in February 1991 , he bested Speelman in the tiebreaker by 1.5-0.5 after drawing the preliminary best-of-8 match 4-4 ( +2 =4 -2 ) . He then proceeded to defeat Gelfand ( +4=2�2 ) in the best-of-8 quarter final match played in Brussels in August 1991 , and then overcame the former World Champion Anatoly Karpov by 6-4 ( +4=4�2 ) in the best-of-10 semi-final match played in Linares in April |
Will and Kate Take Legal Action Over Topless Photos ... | tc_1244 | Which princess took out an injunction against a photographer after he tried to take photographs of her? | {
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Britain ’ s beloved royal couple is taking legal action against a magazine that published photos of Catherine , the Duchess of Cambridge .
Attorneys for Prince William and Kate filed a criminal complaint on Monday against the photographer who took the shots , according to the UK Independent .
They will also be seeking an injunction against Closer magazine using more pictures and to prevent further publication of the photographs in France .
“ We can confirm that a criminal complaint has been made to the French Prosecution Department today , ” said a spokesperson for Clarence House .
The photos in question show Kate sunbathing in private during a vacation at a private chateau belonging to William ’ s uncle in Provence , in southern France .
Some have questioned all the uproar over the images , as topless sunbathing is a commonly accepted practice in many parts of Europe .
But royal biographer Christopher Andersen told CNN the issue is less about nudity and more about privacy .
According to Andersen , William and his brother Prince Harry still blame the media for the 1997 death of their mother , Princess Diana , in a traffic accident as her driver fled paparazzi . As a result , the royal family is concerned about similar invasions , particularly if William and Catherine have a child
“ This is a deterrent . They ’ re drawing a line in the sand , ” he said .
Will and Kate have remained cool and collected throughout the storm of publicity surrounding the photos . The couple is currently on a goodwill tour of Asia related to the Queen ’ s Diamond Jubilee . |
Infant receives baboon heart - Oct 26, 1984 - HISTORY.com | tc_1252 | In 1984 how was the baby who received the heart of a baboon known? | {
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At Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda , California , Dr. Leonard L. Bailey performs the first baboon-to-human heart transplant , replacing a 14-day-old infant girl ’ s defective heart with the healthy , walnut-sized heart of a young baboon .
The infant , known as “ Baby Fae , ” was born with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome , a deformity that is almost fatal and is found in newborns in which parts or all of the left side of the heart is missing . A few days after Baby Fae ’ s birth , Loma Linda heart surgeon Dr. Bailey convinced Baby Fae ’ s mother to allow him to try the experimental baboon-heart transplant . Three other humans had received animal-heart transplants , the last in 1977 , but none survived longer than 3 1/2 days . Bailey argued that an infant with an underdeveloped immune system would be less likely to reject alien tissue than an adult .
Baby Fae survived the operation , and her subsequent struggle for life received international attention . After living longer than any other human recipient of an animal heart , Baby Fae ’ s body made a concerted effort to reject the alien transplant . Doctors were forced to increase dosages of an immuno-suppressive drug , leading to kidney failure . Ultimately , doctors were defeated by the swift onset of heart failure , and on November 15 Baby Fae died after holding on for 20 days .
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Mystery of murdered Russian Tsar's missing children solved ... | tc_1256 | Which daughter of the last Tsar of Russia was said to have escaped to America? | {
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Mystery of murdered Russian Tsar 's missing children solved by DNA study
All five children of Russia 's last Tsar were murdered by the Bolsheviks , according to a new DNA analysis that ends decades of conspiracy theories about family members who had escaped abroad .
Russia 's last tsar Nicholas II ( L ) and his wife Tsarina Alexander Fyodorovna ( 2ndR ) and children Prince Alexei and Princesses Olga , Tatyana , Maria and Anastasia Photo : EPA
By Alastair Jamieson
8:13AM GMT 11 Mar 2009
A study based on detailed evidence from the exhumed remains of the Romanovs concludes the whole family was slaughtered in 1918 in the wake of the Russian revolution .
The results show none of the children of Tsar Nicholas II or his wife Tsarina Alexandra survived the execution , ending speculation that surviving members of the dynasty had fled the country to start a new life elsewhere .
The gunshot-and-bayonet murders took place in July 1918 in a cellar in the city of Ekaterinburg , central Russia .
Since then , about 200 people have claimed to descend from one or other of the Romanovs who had somehow survived the slaughter in the basement of Ipatiev House .
The claims were bolstered by the fact that the grave in which the Romanovs were buried was found to contain the bodies of only three of the children when it was finally examined following the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 .
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Whitney Houston funeral: Singer's godmother Aretha ... | tc_1257 | Which soul singer is Whitney Houston's god mother? | {
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Aretha Franklin has cancelled her appearance at Whitney Houston 's funeral today .
The 69-year-old soul singer had been due to perform at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark , New Jersey , but is suffered from 'leg spasms and locked leg ' syndrome into the early hours of this morning and is therefore unfit to attend , according to her statement .
She was scheduled to sing The Greatest Love of All , but will now grieve for her goddaughter privately at home .
Pulling out : Aretha Franklin performing at Radio City Music Hall last night has cancelled her appearance at Whitney Houston 's funeral today
Passing of an icon : Whitney , picture two days before her death
She said via her spokesperson : 'Regretfully , I am so sorry that I was unable to be with you at Whitney 's service today .
' I had every intention of being there .
'But unfortunately I had terrible leg spasms and locked leg muscles until 4:00AM this morning following my concert last night , which I 've been having for the last few days .
' I feel it necessary and very important to stay off my leg today as much as possible until concert time this evening .
'My heart goes out to my dear friend Cissy , Dionne , Bobbi Kristina and the rest of the family .
May God keep them all .
Last night Franklin performed a New York City concert at Radio City Music Hall - and was reported to be exhausted and overwhelmed afterwards .
She will rest for the day before performing again tonight .
A representative for Franklin told Forbes : 'She would have had to be back in New York by three o ’ clock at the latest . She feels terrible about it . But she ’ s got to rest . '
R.E.S.P.C.T singer Aretha paid tribute to Houston during her gig last night , calling her 'one of the greatest singers that ever stood behind a microphone ' .
'She 's moved on up just a little bit higher now , ' she added .
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Today 's service will feature musical tributes from Stevie Wonder , R. Kelly , Alicia Keys and gospel greats Kim Burrell and BeBe Winans .
The New Hope Baptist Church Mass Choir and the New Jersey Mass Choir will open the service .
Pastor Marvin Winans will deliver the eulogy while Houston 's Bodyguard co-star Kevin Costner and music mentor Clive Davis will speak .
Close : Whitney and Aretha pictured together back in 1997 with singer-producer Babyface . A spokesman for the soul singer says she will grieve privately for Houston today
Send off : The New Hope Baptist Church Mass Choir and the New Jersey Mass Choir pictured warming up before the funeral . They will open the ceremony |
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Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born , American author , a professor of biochemistry , and a highly successful writer , best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books .
Professor Asimov is generally considered the most prolific writer of all time , having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards . He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System ( lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy ) .
Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and , along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke , was considered one of the `` Big Three '' science-fiction writers during his lifetime . Asimov 's most famous work is the Found Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born , American author , a professor of biochemistry , and a highly successful writer , best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books .
Professor Asimov is generally considered the most prolific writer of all time , having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards . He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System ( lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy ) .
Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and , along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke , was considered one of the `` Big Three '' science-fiction writers during his lifetime . Asimov 's most famous work is the Foundation Series ; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series , both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified `` future history '' for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson . He penned numerous short stories , among them `` Nightfall '' , which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time , a title many still honor . He also wrote mysteries and fantasy , as well as a great amount of nonfiction . Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French .
Most of Asimov 's popularized science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way , going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage . He often provides nationalities , birth dates , and death dates for the scientists he mentions , as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms . Examples include his Guide to Science , the three volume set Understanding Physics , and Asimov 's Chronology of Science and Discovery .
Asimov was a long-time member and Vice President of Mensa International , albeit reluctantly ; he described some members of that organization as `` brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs '' He took more joy in being president of the American Humanist Association . The asteroid 5020 Asimov , the magazine Asimov 's Science Fiction , a Brooklyn , NY elementary school , and two different Isaac Asimov Awards are named in his honor .
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This Day in History : 05/23/1934 - Police Kill Bonnie and Clyde
In this This Day in History video , take a look at May 23 , the day in 1934 when police finally caught up to Bonnie and Clyde and killed them . In 1701 , Captain William Kidd was hanged in London for piracy and murder .
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On this day in 1934 , notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police while driving a stolen car near Sailes , Louisiana .
Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when she was 19 years old and her husband ( she married when she was 16 ) was serving time in jail for murder . Shortly after they met , Barrow was imprisoned for robbery . Parker visited him every day , and smuggled a gun into prison to help him escape , but he was soon caught in Ohio and sent back to jail . When Barrow was paroled in 1932 , he immediately hooked up with Parker , and the couple began a life of crime together .
After they stole a car and committed several robberies , Parker was caught by police and sent to jail for two months . Released in mid-1932 , she rejoined Barrow . Over the next two years , the couple teamed with various accomplices to rob a string of banks and stores across five states–Texas , Oklahoma , Missouri , New Mexico and Louisiana . To law enforcement agents , the Barrow Gang–including Barrow ’ s childhood friend , Raymond Hamilton , W.D . Jones , Henry Methvin , Barrow ’ s brother Buck and his wife Blanche , among others–were cold-blooded criminals who didn ’ t hesitate to kill anyone who got in their way , especially police or sheriff ’ s deputies . Among the public , however , Parker and Barrow ’ s reputation as dangerous outlaws was mixed with a romantic view of the couple as “ Robin Hood ” -like folk heroes .
Their fame was increased by the fact that Bonnie was a woman–an unlikely criminal–and by the fact that the couple posed for playful photographs together , which were later found by police and released to the media . Police almost captured the famous duo twice in the spring of 1933 , with surprise raids on their hideouts in Joplin and Platte City , Missouri . Buck Barrow was killed in the second raid , and Blanche was arrested , but Bonnie and Clyde escaped once again . In January 1934 , they attacked the Eastham Prison Farm in Texas to help Hamilton break out of jail , shooting several guards with machine guns and killing one .
Texan prison officials hired a retired Texas police officer , Captain Frank Hamer , as a special investigator to track down Parker and Barrow . After a three-month search , Hamer traced the couple to Louisiana , where Henry Methvin ’ s family lived . Before dawn on May 23 , Hamer and a group of Louisiana and Texas lawmen hid in the bushes along a country road outside Sailes . When Parker and Barrow appeared , the officers opened fire , killing the couple instantly in a hail of bullets .
All told , the Barrow Gang was believed responsible for the deaths of 13 people , including nine police officers . Parker and Barrow are still seen by many as romantic figures , however , especially after the success of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde , starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty .
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Legendary Tennis player Boris Becker was joined by his family as they hosted a party celebrating the 25th Anniversary of his first win at Wimbledon . Pictured are ( LtoR ) Noah , 16 , wife Sharley Lily Kerssenberg , 10-year-old Elias and Boris .
Boris and Lilly welcomed their first child together four months ago . |
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On September 16 , 1908 , one of Americas best known companies was born . That was the day that Billy Durant founded General Motors . When the local gossips heard what he had done , some were shocked because Durant actually made his first fortune betting against cars : he was the largest maker of carriages in the U. S. The recent UAW strike against GM has been hard on all parties , but both labor and management have good reason to come together and celebrate the man who started it all , ninety years ago this month .
Most carriage makers avoided the auto , but not Billy Durant . He was one of the most remarkable entrepreneurs Michigan has ever produced . Friends said Durant could sell sand to the Arabs and then sell them sieves to sift it . Walter Chrysler once said of Durant , `` He could coax a bird right down out of a tree . ''
After a successful stint as a cigar salesman in Flint , Durant moved to carriages . In 1886 , he started the Flint Road Cart Company and , after fifteen years traveling the country hawking a variety of carriages in all sizes and colors , he had transformed $ 2,000 in start-up capital into a $ 2 million business with sales around the world .
By 1900 , several mechanics had been tinkering with gas-powered horseless carriages , but costs were high and quality was low . Durant thought cars were smelly , noisy , and dangerous . He had even refused to let his daughter ride in one . But instead of calling for government safety regulations , he thought about improving the Buick , a local car with few sales and large debts .
In 1904 , after test-driving a Buick over the potholes in Flint and the mud of the countryside , he took the challenge of building the car industry almost from scratch . Durant the salesman sprang into action . He entered the Buick in a New York auto showand came home with orders for 1,108 cars : not bad considering that only 37 Buicks had ever been made . In 1908 , after just four years making cars , he had the best-selling car in the business . The carriage king had become the auto genius .
Durant and his main rival , Henry Ford , both envisioned mass appeal for the car . Ford , however , thought his company should be built around one standard car , his low-priced , no frills Model T. Durant , from his years in the carriage business , knew that if he were to prevail as the auto leader he needed many different types of vehicles to cater to different incomes and tastes . He scoured the country with the idea of having Buick merge with other companies that could carve out a niche in the auto market . He bought Cadillac for its luxury cars . He formed General Motors in 1908 by consolidating thirteen car companies and ten parts-and-accessories manufacturers .
By 1911 , however , General Motors was losing money and Ford was selling more cars , prompting a group of Boston stockholders to oust Durant from leadership at General Motors . Thinking that the losses were due to Durants risk-taking brashness , they tried to run the company more cautiously .
Durant was resilient , however . With capital and expertise he mustered from friends , he started making the Chevrolet , a new economy car that quickly captured a large share of the market . Durant then cleverly traded much of his Chevrolet stock for GM stock , and soon held a controlling interest in both companies . In 1916 , he triumphantly returned to GM for a final four-year term in the drivers seat .
During his second presidency , Durant bought Fisher Body and Frigidaire to add to his Chevrolet , Oldsmobile , Cadillac , and Buick . Joining the GM team were Charles Kettering , who invented the self-starter , and Alfred Sloan , a brilliant organizer who wanted annual model changes .
The problem was that GM began to receive less and less of Durants time while the stock market on Wall Street captured more and more . The gambling bug bit him hard and he lost touch with the company . In 1920 , Pierre du Pont , chairman of the board , helped oust Durant again and worked out an arrangement to buy his GM |
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Nicoletta Mantovani was studying natural sciences at university in her home city of Bologna when she first met operatic titan Luciano Pavarotti . She was 23 . He was 58 .
To earn some money in the holidays , she ’ d applied for a job at an international equestrian competition .
A keen horseman , Pavarotti happened to be in the offices that day in 1993 and fell into conversation with Nicoletta . Over the ensuing weeks , he ’ d turn up on numerous occasions . ‘ And I didn ’ t understand why at the time , ’ she says now .
When he finally asked her to accompany him on tour around the world , she declined .
He was more than twice her age and besotted with her . But by the time he died it was said he hated her . Now Nicoletta Mantovani , Pavarotti 's second wife , reveals the truth ...
‘ Then he asked if I ’ d at least come to the airport to wave him off . When I got there , I somehow couldn ’ t resist going with him . I said it could only be for two or three weeks . But I never came back because , of course , we ’ d fallen in love by then. ’ So what made him special ?
‘ His charm , his voice , his charisma but , most of all , his gift for happiness . Everyone remembers his smile . He was such a positive man , so full of joy , so happy to be in this world . And it was contagious . ’
The fact that he was well over twice Nicoletta ’ s age was of no concern , she says . ‘ The soul has no age . Anyway , Luciano always said he was much younger than me . And he was right . You can not be a great artist unless you ’ re a child inside . ’
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There was , however , the small matter of Pavarotti already having a wife , Adua , and three daughters , Lorenza , Cristina and Giuliana , all of them older than Nicoletta . She smiles . ‘ He had not lived as a family man for some time , ’ she says . ‘ You can ’ t fall in love if you ’ re already in love , can you ? ’
Six months after they met , Nicoletta was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis . For weeks at a time , she would lose the vision in her right eye or have little or no feeling below her waist .
‘ I was 24 and it felt like the end of the world . I told Luciano I would have to leave him. ’ He wouldn ’ t hear of it . ‘ He said , “ Up until this point , I loved you . Now I adore you. ” This sickness , he said , wasn ’ t bad luck ; it was a great thing for me . It would help me to sort out what really mattered in life . I could properly appreciate the sunset now and so on . ’
A keen horseman , Pavarotti happened to be in the offices that day in 1993 and fell into conversation with Nicoletta . Over the ensuing weeks , he 'D turn up on numerous occasions
Then in 2003 , Nicoletta gave birth at 31 weeks to twins . Daughter Alice struggled to survive but is now ten and the apple of her mother ’ s eye , as she was of her father ’ s . Sadly , her brother Riccardo died in infancy as a result of the complications of his premature birth . ‘ Such a mix of emotions , ’ she says now . ‘ Both a miracle and a tragedy . But it forged an even stronger bond between me and Luciano . ’
The couple married in December 2003 , but in September 2007 Pavarotti succumbed to pancreatic cancer . He was 71 . Just days later , a highly coloured interview appeared in the Italian newspaper La Stampa .
Written by its respected opera critic Alberto Mattioli , it quoted conductor Leone Magiera and his wife , Lidia , who claimed that Nicoletta had made her husband ’ s life a misery , that Pavarotti had wanted the world to know |
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January 10 , 1985 : The C5 , Clive Sinclair 's battery-powered tricycle , hits the road
The Sinclair C5 was hailed by its creator as the future of personal transport but at £399 , the lightweight trike did n't have many takers .
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The Sinclair C5 , a battery-operated electric tricycle invented by computing tycoon Sir Clive Sinclair , was launched on this day in 1985 .
Advertised as “ a new power in personal transport ” , the C5 was expected to revolutionise the electric vehicle market by the man who had created the ZX Spectrum , the best-selling British computer of all time .
It was driven in the sitting position , with legs outstretched , and controlled by a handlebar located between the knees . Designed for short journeys around town , its electric motor could manage a top speed of 15mph .
Sinclair had envisaged the C5 , which retailed at £399 , as appealing to both drivers and cyclists , but it soon became apparent that its shortcomings pleased neither group .
Standing only 2ft 6ins high , the vehicles suffered from poor visibility on the road , and their 12-volt battery offered a range of just 20 miles . Drivers were also uncovered and open to the elements .
It also raised a number of safety concerns : the body was lightweight and offered little protection in a crash , and drivers were not required to have a licence or even wear a helmet . The British Safety Council issued a highly critical report on the vehicle .
Sinclair ’ s expectations were soon shown to be wildly over-optimistic . By the end of July , only 5,000 had been sold . Production was halted the following month , with most of the other 7,000 of the tricycles built remaining unsold .
Did you ever own or drive a Sinclair C5 ? Could you see yourself using one today ? Let us know in the Comments section below .
The Sinclair C5 – Did you know ?
Sir Clive Sinclair was a well-established and highly-successful inventor and businessman , having created and sold the world ’ s first pocket calculator as well as the hugely successful ZX range of home computers .
He first made enquiries about the possibility of electronic personal vehicles while still at school and working in a holiday job at an electronics company .
He started his first company , Sinclair Radionics , in 1961 , five days before his twenty-first birthday , Sinclair launched his first kit computer , the ZX80 , in February 1980 , and the ZX Spectrum was introduced the following April .
Sinclair was knighted in 1983 , and sold the computer arm of his business to Amstrad for £5 million in 1985 .
Final design modifications on the C5 were carried out by 23-year-old Gus Desbarats , who had won a Sinclair-sponsored electric vehicle design competition at the Royal College of Art . One of his modifications was to add a small luggage compartment .
The contract to assemble the C5 was given to the Hoover Company , who carried out manufacture at their washing machine factory in Merthyr Tydfil , Wales – leading to the spurious rumour that the vehicle was powered by a washing machine motor .
Despite safety concerns and questions over its usefulness , the C5 was actually praised for its handling and control , being called `` stable , comfortable and easy to handle '' and “ very easy to master ” in the British press .
The company created by Sinclair to manufacture and sell the C5 was placed in receivership in October 1985 and liquidated the following month .
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Victoria (Posh Spice) and David Beckham Wedding | tc_1268 | "Who designed Posh ""Spice Victoria Adam's wedding dress?" | {
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Victoria and David Beckham ( pictured ) were guest presenters at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards . PICTURE CREDIT ©JON FURNISS ; photo courtesy papicselect.com
Who : Singer Victoria Adams ( Posh Spice ) and footballer David Beckham
When : July 4 , 1999
Where : Luttrellstown Castle , near Dublin , Ireland
The Dress : The former Spice Girl wore a champagne colored satin dress designed by Vera Wang .
The Ceremony : Although the reception was enjoyed by hundreds , the wedding ceremony itself was held in a small , private room of the castle and witnessed only by family and closest friends .
The Reception : Wedding guests drank rose champagne by Laurent Perrier and enjoyed an elaborate spread of food , a reception that required over 400 attendants . One of the top dishes was sticky toffee pudding , Beckham 's favorite .
Special Moments : The guests at the wedding were asked to dress in either black or white , lending an elegant air to a very elegant ceremony . To celebrate the wedding , the couple released doves and later lit the skies with a fireworks show .
The Honeymoon : According to New Zealand 's Sunday Times , the couple took a short honeymoon in a villa in the south of France , just the two of them and their infant son , Brooklyn .
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consider a color scheme for your guests . It does n't cost a cent and not only does it make for great wedding photos of the whole group but it also serves as a conversation starter for all the guests .
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Julian Lennon - Biography - IMDb | tc_1269 | Who is Julian Lennon's step-mother? | {
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Julian Lennon was born on April 8 , 1963 in Liverpool , England as John Charles Julian Lennon .
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Half-brother of Sean Lennon and step brother of Kyoko Ono Cox .
Father John Lennon 's song `` Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds '' was inspired by a drawing Julian had made at school .
Was the inspiration for Paul McCartney 's song `` Hey Jude '' , and was mentioned in father John Lennon 's song `` Mother . `` .
Was engaged to Lucy Bayliss ; however , the relationship ended in early 2007 .
Has admitted he actually prefers Paul McCartney 's work in The Beatles to his father John Lennon 's , while he especially admires John 's `` Isolation '' , among his solo material .
When 11-year-old Julian visited John Lennon in the recording studio during the `` Walls and Bridges '' sessions , the two played an impromptu version of `` Ya Ya '' , with John on piano and Julian on drums . John surprised Julian afterwards by revealing there 'd been tape rolling -- and their performance was going on the album . It turned out to be their only collaboration .
Julian 's inheritance from father John Lennon 's estate was a small one -- a $ 250,000 trust fund set up when he was a toddler , which he refused to touch when he received it at age 25 . Was given several large cash gifts from Yoko Ono years later ; nonetheless , he has said he 'd rather have had some of John Lennon 's song copyrights and other possessions of his to share with his Lennon relatives in England .
Claimed early in his career to be looking for a mystical sign John Lennon had promised to send him if he died ; a white feather floating evenly across the room . His song `` Well I Do n't Know '' mentions his `` feeling the presence of the dead '' , a reference to sensing John 's presence in a house ( which he later learned John had visited in life ) , when he was writing material for his first album . Years later in Australia , an Aboriginal native presented Julian with a white feather , causing him to re-examine his feelings toward his father , and toward promoting peace .
After the relative failure of `` Help Yourself '' , he took a five-year break from recording , to do some soul-searching and especially to come to terms with being John Lennon 's son ; he realized he 'd been very angry with John , who had publicly preached about peace and love while privately being rather harsh and neglectful toward his own family . His comeback album `` Photograph Smile '' was dedicated to his stepfather Roberto Bassanini , who 'd `` really raised me . `` .
Had a rough time growing up , with schoolmates who automatically assumed that being the son of a pop star meant he was rich and snobbish ; in fact , he and his mother lived in a modest house on a small income , and he had a hard time persuading father John Lennon to buy him things , or send him money - even when he related tales of what he was expected to live up to .
Fought a long battle in the late 1990s , to acquire the Internet domain name `` johnlennon.com '' from its registered owner . Has also spent the last several years ( and thousands of dollars ) collecting items that once belonged to his father .
When Julian decided to pursue a music career , he submitted demo tapes to record companies without his name on them , wanting to be signed on the strength of his own talents , rather than the Lennon name . Charisma Records in the UK offered his band a recording contract , not knowing until the signing who the lead singer was .
Had a `` bad boy '' period in his teen years , forming and dissolving bands overnight with names like `` The Lennon Drops '' and `` The Lennon Kittens '' , and letting himself be photographed washing dishes in a hotel , much the same as his grandfather `` Freddy '' Lennon had |
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Marian Anderson - Brief Summary - An African American operatic and concert singer that was renowned thoughtout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice . The first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera . The following web resource has related information : Marian Anderson - A Voice of Hope
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Twenty years ago , the results of the U.S. Olympic diving trials would have all but foretold the results of the Olympics . .... `` It used to be that sports added something to the rest of your life , '' O'Brien said . `` Now they 're what you do instead of the rest of your life . '' more
Controversy at diving trials
... U.S. diving 's glory days are graying alongside four-time gold medalist Greg Louganis , who worked the trials crowd one day last week with a signing pen and a handshake ... That reality has U.S. diving officials trying to maximize the U.S. team 's medal potential , even at the cost of some trials controversy .
HIS Olympic dream will have to wait
Thomas Finchum ended up making American diving history after all ... Except it was n't history with a storybook ending .... For the first time , someone finished second at the Olympic Trials and did not qualify for the Olympics . That someone was Finchum , 14 , of Indianapolis , who has become big in the sport despite his 5-3 , 92-pound dimensions .
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Fearful Ruiz abruptly pulls out ; Soldati onto 1st Games with win in women ’ s springboard Mark Ruiz climbed to the next-to-last ledge of the 33-foot-high tower — and couldn ’ t go any farther . It was still bright red as he prepared to compete in the evening . He broke down in tears during in the introductions , unsure if he even wanted to compete . more |
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William Jefferson `` Bill '' Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19 , 1946 ) was the 42nd President of the United States , serving from 1993 to 2001 . Before his election as President , Clinton served nearly 12 years as the 50th and 52nd Governor of Arkansas . His wife , Hillary Rodham Clinton , is the junior United States Senator from New York , where they both reside . Clinton founded and heads the William J. Clinton Foundation .
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William Jefferson Blythe III was born in Hope , Arkansas , and raised in Hot Springs , Arkansas . He was named after his father , William Jefferson Blythe , Jr. , a traveling salesman who died in a car accident three months before he was born . [ 1 ] His mother , born Virginia Dell Cassidy ( 1923–1994 ) , remarried in 1950 to Roger Clinton . Roger Clinton owned an automobile dealership business with his brother , Raymond . The young Billy , as he was called , was raised by his mother and stepfather , assuming his last name `` Clinton '' throughout elementary school but not formally changing it until he was 14 . Clinton grew up in a traditional , albeit blended , family ; however , according to Clinton , his stepfather was a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused Clinton 's mother and sometimes Clinton 's half-brother Roger , Jr .
Bill Clinton as a child went to St. John 's Catholic School and Ramble Elementary School . While at Hot Springs High School , Clinton was an excellent student and a talented saxophonist . He considered dedicating his life to music , but a visit to the White House to meet then-President John F. Kennedy following his election as a Boys Nation Senator led him to pursue a career in politics . Clinton was a member of Youth Order of DeMolay but never actually became a Freemason . [ 1 ]
Clinton received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service ( B.S.F.S . ) degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. , where he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega , worked for Senator J. William Fulbright , was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College , Oxford . While at Oxford , he played rugby union as a lock , and later in life he played for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas . There he also participated in the Vietnam War protest movement . After Oxford , Clinton obtained a Juris Doctor ( J.D . ) degree from Yale Law School in 1973 . While at Yale , he began dating classmate Hillary Rodham . They married in 1975 and their only child , Chelsea , was born in 1980 . Clinton is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity , Inc .
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In 1974 , his first year as a University of Arkansas law professor , Clinton ran for the House of Representatives . The incumbent , John Paul Hammerschmidt , defeated Clinton with 52 % of the vote . In 1976 , Clinton was elected Attorney General of Arkansas without opposition in the general election .
In 1978 , Bill Clinton was first elected Governor of Arkansas , the youngest to be elected governor since 1938 . His first term was fraught with difficulties , including an unpopular motor vehicle tax and popular anger over the escape of Cuban prisoners ( from the Mariel boatlift ) detained in Fort Chaffee in 1980 .
In the 1980 election , Clinton was defeated in his bid for a second term by Republican challenger Frank D. White . As he once joked , he was the youngest ex-governor in the nation 's history . But in 1982 , Clinton won his old job back , and over the next decade he helped Arkansas transform its economy . He became a leading figure among the New Democrats , a branch of the Democratic Party that called for welfare reform and smaller government , a policy supported by both Democrats and Republicans alike .
Clinton 's approach mollified conservative criticism during his terms as governor . However , personal and business transactions made by the Clintons during this period became the basis of the Whitewater investigation , which dogged his later presidential Administration . After very extensive investigation over several |
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Paul McCartney 's son speaks of drugs , family rifts and his 'new mother '
Paul McCartney ’ s son James has spoken for the first time about the pair ’ s former rift , his past drug habit and how he “ didn ’ t like ” stepmother Heather Mills .
Paul McCartney 's son James McCartney at the New York City Ballet gala Photo : Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage
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James McCartney , a 35-year-old musician , has disclosed how he had slept in a bed with his father Paul , to cope with the grief of losing his mother Linda .
He said he now considers Paul ’ s third wife Nancy Shevall as his “ new mother ” , admitting he “ didn ’ t like ” his second , Heather Mills .
In an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper , he added he has now “ re-bonded ” with Paul after years of drug-taking , as he admits it was a “ little bit hard ” to watch the success of his fashion designer sister , Stella
It is an unusually candid disclosure for McCartney , who is currently touring America as a musician and claims he has always been “ naturally guarded ” as a result of his upbringing .
Saying he is now ready for people to know the real him , he has now confessed : “ It ’ s hard to live up to The Beatles . Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles . ”
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James McCartney , brother to Stella and Mary , a photographer , said he has spent years developing his music and “ serving his time ” before embarking on a career to “ earn his own living ” .
His mother Linda McCartney died after a three-year battle with breast cancer in 1998 , when he was 20 years old .
Speaking of rumours he had slept in a bed with his father for “ month ” after her death , he told the newspaper : “ We were both grieving together .
“ That first night , in Arizona , when she ’ d just died I thought it would be too sad for Dad to sleep on his own so I kept him company . ''
He added he then went into a “ rough ” period where he “ got more and more into drugs ” . He is now “ several months sober ” and has “ re-bonded ” with his family after drifting apart .
Speaking of his family life , with the new addition of stepmother Nancy Shevall , he said : “ Nancy ’ s my new mother . I feel that . Definitely . She ’ s very genuine . She makes Dad very , very happy . We all adore her . ”
His opinion is in stark contrast to his thoughts on his father ’ s former wife Heather Mills , who had a daughter Beatrice in 2003 .
“ My relationship with Heather was not very good , ” said McCartney . “ I didn ’ t like her . “ But I wouldn ’ t want to say anything negative about her because she ’ s a good mother to Beatrice and that ’ s the most important thing . ”
McCartney has a new album , entitled Me , and is currently touring the US .
He has previously disclosed he would consider forming a “ next generation ” Beatles with the offspring of other band members , saying : “ `` I 'd be up for it . Sean [ Lennon ] seemed to be into it , Dhani [ Harrison ] seemed to be into it . I 'd be happy to do it . '' |
U.S. Open - Tennis Topics - ESPN | tc_1275 | Who won the first men's US Tennis Open, in 1968? | {
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Past Winners
The U.S. Open is the final Grand Slam tournament of each season , held in late August and early September at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows , N.Y. Having originated in 1881 as the United States National Championship -- a men's-only event -- the tournament now consists of championships in men 's and women 's singles , as well as men 's , women 's and mixed doubles . It also hosts junior , senior and wheelchair divisions .
Currently held on hard courts , the U.S. Open had been played on grass and clay surfaces prior to the event 's move to the USTA National Tennis Center ( in 1978 ) . In men 's and women 's singles at the U.S. Open , the final set is determined by a tiebreaker if it reaches six games all . That differs from the other three Grand Slam events in which the deciding set continues on indefinitely until a two-game lead is reached .
The inaugural U. S. Open was held in 1881 in Newport , R.I. That year , only men 's singles was featured , with Richard Sears capturing the championship after a 6-0 , 6-3 , 6-2 victory over William Glyn in the finals .
Sears went on to win the singles championship in each of the first seven years the tournament was held . By the time of his last title , women had begun contesting a singles championship at the U. S. Women 's National Singles Championship . ( Various divisions were held separately as national championship events , before all five major divisions -- men 's and women 's singles and doubles , plus the mixed doubles -- were consolidated into one tournament in 1968 . )
Throughout its early years , the U. S. Open men 's championship was dominated by several players . Oliver Campbell won three straight competitions from 1890 to 1892 . Malcolm Whitman won it from 1898 to 1900 . William Larned won five titles in a row from 1907 to 1911 , while `` Big Bill '' Tilden -- one of the first American superstars in the sport -- won six straight from 1920 to 1925 .
Molla Bjurstedt of Norway captured four straight women 's championships from 1915 to 1918 . Helen Wills won six times in a seven-year span from 1923 to 1929 , and Helen Jacobs claimed four straight during the 1930s .
The 1930s also saw Fred Perry and Don Budge emerge as international stars , and the two combined to win five of six U.S. men 's singles titles between 1933 and 1938 . The two met in the 1936 final , an epic match won by Perry after a 10-8 fifth set . That year marked the last time a British man has won the U.S. Open .
American players proved dominant in the following decade , with Frank Parker , Jack Kramer and Pancho Gonzalez each winning two men 's titles during the 1940s . U.S. women won each year between 1938 and 1958 , with Pauline Betz winning four times in that period and Margaret Osbourne-Dupont and Maureen Connolly taking three titles each .
Australians came into prominence in the sport and at the U.S. open during the 1960s . Neale Fraser , Roy Emerson and Rod Laver won multiple men 's titles in that decade , while Margaret Smith Court claimed four women 's trophies .
The start of the Open era of tennis in 1968 provided a couple of major surprises at the U.S. Open that year , when all championship divisions were played together at Forest Hills in New York . Arthur Ashe won the men 's singles crown -- the first time it was officially termed the `` U.S. Open '' -- defeating Tom Okker of the Netherlands in the final , 14-12 , 5-7 , 6-3 , 3-6 , 6-3 . Because of his amateur status , the 25-year-old Ashe , a lieutenant in the U.S. Army , was ineligible to receive the $ 14,000 first prize in the $ 100,000 event . ( At the time , the Open was the richest tournament in tennis history . ) Instead , Ashe received his $ 20 per diem . Ashe was the first American to win the U.S. men 's singles title since 1955 and the first-ever African-American to win a men 's singles title at a Grand Slam Championship .
The women 's tournament in 1968 also saw a shocker as Britain 's Virginia Wade won the title , upsetting top-seed and heavy favorite Billie Jean King |
McVeigh convicted for Oklahoma City bombing - History.com | tc_1276 | Timothy McVeigh was convicted for which bombing? | {
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Timothy McVeigh , a former U.S. Army soldier , is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City .
On April 19 , 1995 , just after 9 a.m. , a massive truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building . The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story building , instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more in the rubble . Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma City from across the country , and when the rescue effort finally ended two weeks later , the death toll stood at 168 people , including 19 young children who were in the building ’ s day-care center at the time of the blast .
On April 21 , the massive manhunt for suspects in the worst terrorist attack ever committed on U.S. soil resulted in the capture of Timothy McVeigh , a 27-year-old former U.S. Army soldier who matched an eyewitness description of a man seen at the scene of the crime . On the same day , Terry Nichols , an associate of McVeigh ’ s , surrendered at Herington , Kansas , after learning that the police were looking for him . Both men were found to be members of a radical right-wing survivalist group based in Michigan , and on August 8 , John Fortier , who knew of McVeigh ’ s plan to bomb the federal building , agreed to testify against McVeigh and Nichols in exchange for a reduced sentence . Two days later , a grand jury indicted McVeigh and Nichols on murder and conspiracy charges .
While still in his teens , Timothy McVeigh acquired a penchant for guns and began honing survivalist skills he believed would be necessary in the event of a Cold War showdown with the Soviet Union . Lacking direction after high school , he enlisted in the U.S. Army and proved a disciplined and meticulous soldier . It was during this time that he befriended Terry Nichols , a fellow soldier who , though 13 years his senior , shared his survivalist interests .
In early 1991 , McVeigh served in the Persian Gulf War and was decorated with several medals for a brief combat mission . Despite these honors , he was discharged from the army at the end of the year , one of many casualties of the U.S. military downsizing that came after the collapse of the Soviet Union . Perhaps also because of the end of the Cold War , McVeigh shifted his ideology from a hatred of foreign communist governments to a suspicion of the U.S. federal government , especially as its new elected leader , Democrat Bill Clinton , had successfully campaigned for the presidency on a platform of gun control .
The August 1992 shoot-out between federal agents and survivalist Randy Weaver at his cabin in Idaho , in which Weaver ’ s wife and son were killed , followed by the April 19 , 1993 , inferno near Waco , Texas , which killed some 80 Branch Davidians , deeply radicalized McVeigh , Nichols , and their associates . In early 1995 , Nichols and McVeigh planned an attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City , which housed , among other federal agencies , the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco , and Firearms ( ATF ) –the agency that had launched the initial raid on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993 .
On April 19 , 1995 , the two-year anniversary of the disastrous end to the Waco standoff , McVeigh parked a Ryder rental truck loaded with a diesel-fuel-fertilizer bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and fled . Minutes later , the massive bomb exploded , killing 168 people .
On June 2 , 1997 , McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy , and on August 14 , under the unanimous recommendation of the jury , he was sentenced to die by lethal injection . In December 2000 , McVeigh asked a federal judge to stop all appeals of his convictions and to set a date for his execution by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute , Indiana . McVeigh ’ s execution , in June 2001 , was the first federal death penalty to be carried out since |
The Iran-Contra Affair - The Authentic History Center | tc_1279 | Who was Oliver North's secretary during the Irangate scandal? | {
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Nicaraguan `` Contra '' rebels on Patrol , 1987
The foreign-policy scandal known as the Iran-contra affair came to light in November 1986 when President Ronald Reagan confirmed reports that the United States had secretly sold arms to Iran . He stated that the goal was to improve relations with Iran , not to obtain release of U.S. hostages held in the Middle East by terrorists ( although he later acknowledged that the arrangement had in fact turned into an arms-for-hostages swap ) . Outcry against dealings with a hostile Iran was widespread . Later in November , Attorney General . Edwin Meese discovered that some of the arms profits had been diverted to aid the Nicaraguan `` contra '' rebels at a time when Congress had prohibited such aid . An independent special prosecutor , former federal judge Lawrence E. Walsh , was appointed to probe the
activities of persons involved in the arms sale or contra aid or both .
Reagan appointed a review board headed by former Republican senator John Tower . The Tower Commission 's report in February 1987 criticized the president 's passive management style . In a nationally televised address on March 4 , Reagan accepted that judgment without serious disagreement . Reagan said :
A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages . My heart and my best intentions still tell me that 's true , but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not .
Fawn Hall testifying , 6/9/87
Congressional Hearings : May-August 1987
Select Congressional committees conducted joint televised hearings from May to August . They heard evidence that a few members of the NSC staff set Iran and Nicaragua policies and carried them out with secret private operatives , that the few officials who knew about these policies lied to congress and others , and that the contras received only a small part of the diverted money . Former national security advisor John Poindexter stated that he personally authorized the diversion of money and withheld that information from the president . William J. Casey , former director of the Central Intelligence Agency , who died in May 1987 , was implicated in some testimony , but the extent of his involvement remained unclear . Most interesting to American viewers of the televised congressional hearings was the testimony of
National Security Council staffer Marine Lieutenant Cololonel Oliver North , and his secretary Fawn Hall . Hall testified on June 8 and 9 , 1987 , and North testified from July 7 to July 14 . Both became nationally known . So many viewers considered North 's demeanor to be so professional and patriotic that he became somewhat of a national hero . Not all the popular culture about Oliver North , however , is supportive . Whenever President Reagan shows up in the Iran-Contra pop culture , it is always in the context of questioning the credibility of his stated knowledge of actions of his subordinates .
Walsh Findings and Penalties
Following the hearings , Special Prosecutor Walsh continued his investigation . On March 11 , 1988 , Poindexter 's predecessor as national security advisor , Robert McFarlane , pleaded guilty to criminal charges of withholding information from Congress on secret aid to the contras . A year later McFarlane was fined $ 20,000 and given two years ' probation . On March 16 , 1988 , a federal grand jury indicted North , Poindexter , and two other persons on a number of charges including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government . The trials were delayed by legal maneuvering that in part involved questions of releasing secret information .
During North 's Fawn Hall testified extensively about helping North alter , shred , and remove official United States NSC documents from the White House . According to The New York Times , enough documents were put into a government shredder to jam it . North 's explanation for destroying some documents was to protect the lives of individuals involved in Iran and Contra operations . During the trial North testified that on November 21 , 22 , or 24 , 1986 , he witnessed Poindexter destroy what may have been the only signed copy of a presidential covert-action finding that sought to authorize CIA participation in the November 1985 Hawk missile shipment to Iran .
In May 1989 a jury convicted North of 3 of the 12 criminal counts he was ultimately tried on ; in July the court fined him $ 150,000 and gave him a three-year suspended sentence . On April 7 , 1990 , Poindexter |
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Blake Edwards ' stepfather 's father J. Gordon Edwards was a silent screen director , and his stepfather Jack McEdward was a stage director and movie production manager . Blake acted in a number films , beginning with Ten Gentlemen from West Point ( 1942 ) and wrote a number of others , beginning with Panhandle ( 1948 ) and including six for director Richard Quine . He created the popular TV series Peter Gunn ( 1958 ) , Mr. Lucky ( 1959 ) and Dante ( 1960 ) . He directed a diverse body of films , from comedies to dramas to war films to westerns , including such pictures as Operation Petticoat ( 1959 ) , Breakfast at Tiffany 's ( 1961 ) , Experiment in Terror ( 1962 ) , Days of Wine and Roses ( 1962 ) , The Pink Panther ( 1963 ) and A Shot in the Dark ( 1964 ) . After The Great Race ( 1965 ) he began fighting with studios . In England he surfaced again with The Return of the Pink Panther ( 1975 ) , then went back to Hollywood and a real hit , 10 ( 1979 ) . Victor Victoria ( 1982 ) won him French and Italian awards for Best Foreign Film .
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Grandson of silent screen director J. Gordon Edwards .
Was the original writer and director on City Heat ( 1984 ) . He stepped aside as director after creative differences with star Clint Eastwood .
When asked , `` If you could work with one actor for the rest of your career , who would it be ? '' he answered , in a heartbeat , `` Jack Lemmon . `` .
Met actor David Niven , when Edwards was writing and directing films for Four Star Television , a production company partly owned by Niven .
The Honorary Oscar Award that he received in 2004 was presented to him by personal fan Jim Carrey .
Met wife-to-be Julie Andrews after she 'd heard that he once described her as being , `` ... so sweet she probably has violets between her legs . '' Andrews was so entertained by the remark she sent Edwards a bunch of violets accompanied by a note . They began dating and later married .
As of 2007 , he is one of six directors who has directed his wife to a Best Actress Oscar nomination ( Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria ( 1982 ) ) . The other five are Joel Coen directing Frances McDormand in Fargo ( 1996 ) , John Cassavetes directing Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence ( 1974 ) & Gloria ( 1980 ) , Richard Brooks directing Jean Simmons in The Happy Ending ( 1969 ) , Paul Czinner directing Elisabeth Bergner in Escape Me Never ( 1935 ) and Paul Newman directing Joanne Woodward in Rachel , Rachel ( 1968 ) . Jules Dassin also directed his future wife Melina Mercouri in an Oscar-nominated performance ( Never on Sunday ( 1960 ) ) , but they were n't married yet at the time of the nomination .
He has two great-grandchildren , Shaely and Kaden , from granddaughter Kayti .
Daughter , Amy Edwards , married rock musician Lauren Scheff on October 24 , 2004 . They are now divorced .
His grandchildren are : Kayti and Hannah Schneider , from daughter Jennifer Edwards ; Isabelle and Hank , from son Geoffrey Edwards ; Max Scheff , from daughter Amy Edwards ; and Sam and Hope , from stepdaughter Emma Walton .
His son , Geoffrey Edwards , was once married to Denise Crosby , Bing Crosby 's granddaughter .
Was one of the first directors to employ video playback of shot film footage on set . He did this with The Party ( 1968 ) .
Stepfather-in-law of Steve Hamilton .
Named the inaugural distinguished fellow in film writing directing and producing at Arizona State University 's film school , August , 2005 . [ August 2005 ]
Still an active writer and producer with several projects in various stages of |
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Stuart Kelly Member
Hi there ,
I saw from the Times of 21 September 1911 that one of the Olympic 's passengers at the time of the collision with HMS Hawke in the Solent was a Mr Waldorf Astor , then a Conservative member of the House of Commons . I wonder if he is any relation to John Jacob Astor who , as we all know , went down with the Olympic 's sister ship ? With a name like Waldorf , I recokon it can not be mere co-incidence .
The Times report also , prophetically , says that the Olympic is insured for a million pounds and that her watertight compartments do n't make her immune from loss . It remarks that the effect of the sinking of the Republic in 1909 to London 's insurance markets would be :
`` a fleabite as compared with what would have happened had the Olympic seriously come to grief in the Atlantic ''
One wonders if someone somewhere had a crystal ball ?
Stuart
Eliza 1801-1838 ) ,
and an unnamed son ( 1802 , died ) .
Fourth child and second son William Backhouse Astor was the grandfather of John Jacob Astor IV , who died on the Titanic , and William Waldorf Astor , who founded the British line of Astors and was the father of the the member of Parliament Waldolf Astor .
Here are the 7 children of William Backhouse Astor ( 1792-1875 ) and his wife Margaret Rebecca Armstrong :
Emily ( 1819-1841 ) ,
John Jacob Astor III ( 1822-1890 ) ,
Laura ( 1824-1902 ) , who married Franklin H. Delano , and became the aunt of Sarah Delano , the mother of FDR ,
Mary Alida ( 1826-1881 ) ,
William Backhouse Astor , Jr ( 1830-1892 ) ,
Henry Astor ( 1830-1918 ) ,
and Sarah ( 1832 , died ) .
Their oldest son John Jacob Astor III married Charlotte Augusta Gibbes and they had one son , William Waldorf Astor ( First Viscount ) .
JJA III 's brother William Backhouse Astor , Jr. married Caroline Webster Schermerhorn and they had five children :
Emily ( 1854-1881 ) ,
Caroline Schermerhorn ( 1861-1948 ) ,
and John Jacob Astor IV ( 1864-1912 ) who died on Titanic .
William Waldorf Astor ( First Viscount ) , cousin of JJA IV , married Mary Dahlgreen Paul and they had five children :
Waldorf Astor ( Second Viscount ) ( 1879-1952 ) ,
Pauline ( 1880-1972 ) ,
John Rudolph Astor ( 1881 , died ) ,
John Jacob Astor V ( Baron Astor of Hever ) ( 1886-1971 ) ,
and Gwendolyn Enid ( 1889-1902 ) .
It was William Waldorf Astor who established the English line of Astors . After a bitter argument with his cousin Caroline ( JJA IV 's older sister ) , William moved his family to England in 1891 . He became an English citizen in 1899 .
Son Waldorf Astor ( Second Viscount ) , the nephew of JJA IV , was Oxford educated . He married the beautiful Nancy Langhorne in 1906 . He became a member of the House of Commons from Plymouth in 1910 and in 1916 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Lloyd George . His political career soon stalled , however .
In 1919 his wife Nancy ran for the Parliamnent from Plymouth and became the first woman in the House of Commons .
The Astor line is often confusing . Note that JJA II had no children , while his brother William Backhouse Astor was the father of JJA III . JJA III 's son was William Waldorf Astor , while his brother William Backhouse Astor Jr 's son was JJA IV . William Waldorf Astor had a son JJA V ( younger brother of Waldorf ) , while the son born posthumously to JJA IV was named JJA VI .
Later , Waldorf Astor ( Second Viscount ) would have a son named JJA VII , but none of his younger brother JJA VI 's three sons would carry the JJA name . Instead , the grandson |
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Meryl Streep , photographed by Brigitte Lacombe in 1988 .
Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe .
On March 12 , 1978 , the man Meryl Streep had been dating for nearly two years died as she sat at his hospital bed . She had met John Cazale , the crane-like character actor best known for playing Fredo Corleone in the Godfather films , when they starred together in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Measure for Measure in the summer of 1976 . From the beginning , they were an unusual pair : a pellucid 27-year-old beauty just a year out of the Yale School of Drama and a 41-year-old oddball with a forehead as high as a boulder and a penchant for Cuban cigars .
But the romance was tragically short-lived . Only months after she moved into his Tribeca loft , Cazale was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer . When he was cast in the Vietnam epic The Deer Hunter , Meryl joined the film , in part , just to be with him . Cazale didn ’ t live to see the completed work . A few weeks after he died , Meryl ’ s brother helped her pack up her belongings . He brought along a friend she had met once or twice—a sculptor named Don Gummer , who lived a few blocks away , in SoHo . Only weeks after losing the love of her life , she had found the second love of her life , the man who would become her husband .
It was this Meryl Streep—simultaneously grieving and infatuated , a theater actress new to movies—who got word from her agent , Sam Cohn , about a possible role in Kramer vs. Kramer , based on a novel by Avery Corman . Corman wanted to counteract the “ toxic rhetoric ” he had been hearing from feminists , who he felt lumped all men together as “ a whole bunch of bad guys , ” he says now . His protagonist was Ted Kramer , a thirtysomething workaholic New Yorker who sells ad space for men ’ s magazines . He has a wife , Joanna , and a little boy named Billy . In the early chapters , their marriage is portrayed as superficially content , with wells of ennui underneath .
The problem is Joanna Kramer , who finds motherhood , by and large , “ boring. ” She starts taking tennis lessons . Sex with Ted is mechanical . About 50 pages in , Joanna informs Ted that she ’ s “ suffocating. ” She ’ s leaving him , and she ’ s leaving Billy . ( “ Feminists will applaud me , ” she says . ) Ted overcomes his shock and gets back into the swing of single life . More important , he learns how to be a good father . It is then that Joanna does the unthinkable : she returns from California and tells Ted she wants Billy back . The ensuing custody battle , which gives the novel its title , lays bare the ugliness of divorce proceedings and the wounds they allow people to inflict on each other .
Before Kramer vs. Kramer even hit the bookstores , the manuscript fell into the hands of Richard Fischoff , a young film executive who had just accepted a job with the producer Stanley Jaffe . Ted and Joanna Kramer , Fischoff thought , were like Benjamin and Elaine in The Graduate 10 years later , after their impulsive union has collapsed from the inside . The movie would be a kind of generational marker , tracking the baby-boomers from the heedlessness of young adulthood to the angst of middle adulthood . No one was yet calling people like the Kramers “ yuppies , ” but their defining neuroses were already in place .
Jaffe took the novel to the director Robert Benton , best known for co-writing Bonnie and Clyde . Everyone liked the idea of a spiritual sequel to The Graduate , which meant that the one and only choice for Ted Kramer was Dustin Hoffman . Midnight Cowboy and All the President ’ s Men had made the 40-year-old actor the era ’ s antsy Everyman , but he was now at one of the lowest points of his life . Amid contentious experiences filming Straight Time and Agatha , he was mired in lawsuits and countersuits , and was in the middle of an emotional separation from his first wife , Anne Byrne .
Streep in New York City , 1979 . |
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Babrak Karmal
27 December 1979 – 24 November 1986
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3rd Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
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27 December 1979 – 11 June 1981
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Babrak Karmal ( 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996 ) was the third President of Afghanistan ( 1979 - 1986 ) during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan . He is the best known of the Marxist leadership .
Having been restored to power with Soviet support , he was unable to consolidate his power and , in 1986 , he was replaced by Dr. Mohammad Najibullah . He left Afghanistan for Moscow , where he died in 1996 .
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Early years
The son of a well-connected army general , although born into a wealthy family in the village of Kamari ( east of Kabul ) , Babrak Karmal lived in hardship following the death of his mother .
He was an indifferent student in high school and in the law school of Kabul University , quickly gained a reputation as an orator and activist in the university ’ s student union in 1951 . He became involved in Marxist political activities while a student at Kabul University , and was imprisoned for five years as a result .
In prison , Karmal was befriended by a fellow inmate , Mir Akbar Khyber . A third inmate , Mier Mohammad Siddiq Farhang , initiated both to pro-Moscow leftist views . After graduation he entered the Ministry of Planning , keeping in close touch with those who had special knowledge on communism , among them Mier Mohammad Siddiq Farhang and Ali Mohammad Zahma , a professor at Kabul University .
Political career
On 1 January 1965 the People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) was founded in Kabul , with Karmal serving as one of its twenty-eight founding members in its founding congress . Karmal was appointed its Secretary . As a result , he was elected and served in the quasi-democratic National Assembly of Afghanistan from 1965 until 1973 during the constitutional monarchy of King Zahir Shah . Karmal is known for his revolutionary and open speeches in the parliament against the ruling classes . In most of his parliamentary speeches , Karmal urged the people of Afghanistan to unite and stand up against the ruling classes and fight the status quo . Karmal and a few of his other comrades in the National Assembly , represented the only leftist group at the time .
In 1967 , when the party split into the Khalq and the Parcham factions , Karmal became the leader of the more moderate Parcham faction . When Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrew the monarchy and instituted the Republic , Karmal was asked by President Daoud to share power with him . Karmal replied that he needed to consult his with comrades on this issue and inform Daoud later . However , he never returned and did not serve in Daoud 's government , though some of the people who did serve eventually assumed important positions in Karmal 's government .
The factions reunited in 1977 , and in April 1978 seized control of Afghanistan through a military coup . Karmal was initially Deputy Prime Minister but , following the rise of the rival Khalq faction , he and other important members of the Parcham faction such as Dr. Najibullah , Noor Ahmad Noor , Anaita Ratebzad , and Mahmood Baryalai , were essentially exiled by being appointed ambassadors to other countries , while others , such as Sultan Ali Keshtmand , were put in jail .
Note may be taken of the fact that Karmal and his Parcham faction , arguing that the country was not yet ready for the socialist transformation of society , opposed any move that would result in the seizure of state power by the PDPA and did not support the military coup that resulted in the overthrow of Daoud 's government . Keshtmand , one of the founding members of PDPA , emphasized this in 2002 . [ 2 ] Indeed , the initiative of |
Anne Sullivan - Bio, Facts, Family | Famous Birthdays | tc_1292 | Who was Anne Sullivan's most famous pupil? | {
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Teacher who famously broke through to Helen Keller and taught her how to read and write .
BEFORE FAME
She studied at the Perkins School for the Blind .
TRIVIA
She lost most of her eyesight at age twenty , which made it easy for her to relate to her famous pupil , Helen Keller .
FAMILY LIFE
She married Harvard instructor John Albert Macy in May of 1905 ; the couple separated in 1914 .
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Debbie Reynolds - Biography - IMDb | tc_1293 | Which actress was voted Miss Burbank 1948? | {
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Debbie Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso , Texas , the second child of Maxine N. ( Harmon ) and Raymond Francis Reynolds , a carpenter for the Southern Pacific Railroad . Her film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton . Reynolds was n't a dancer until she was selected to be Gene Kelly 's partner in Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ) . Not yet twenty , she was a quick study . Twelve years later , it seemed like she had been around forever . Most of her early film work was in MGM musicals , as perky , wholesome young women . She continues to use her dancing skills with stage work .
She was 31 when she gave an Academy Award-nominated performance in The Unsinkable Molly Brown ( 1964 ) . She survived losing first husband Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor following the tragic death of Michael Todd . Her second husband , shoe magnate Harry Karl , gambled away his fortune as well as hers . With her children as well as Karl 's , she had to keep working and turned to the stage . She had her own casino in Las Vegas with a home for her collection of Hollywood memorabilia until its closure in 1997 . She took the time to personally write a long letter that is on display in the Judy Garland museum in Grand Rapids , Minnesota and to provide that museum with replicas of Garland 's costumes . The originals are in her newly-opened museum in Hollywood .
Nearly all the money she makes is spent toward her goal of creating a Hollywood museum . Her collection numbers more than 3000 costumes and 46,000 square-feet worth of props and equipment .
With musician/actor Eddie Fisher , she was the mother of filmmaker Todd Fisher and actress Carrie Fisher . Debbie died of a stroke on December 28 , 2016 , one day after the death of her daughter Carrie . She was survived by her son and granddaughter , up-and-coming actress Billie Lourd .
Mother of Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher .
She appeared as Dan 's mother , fresh out of the mental ward , during an episode of the sitcom Roseanne ( 1988 ) . When she later appeared on Roseanne Barr 's talk show , she revealed that during the filming of that episode , while she and Roseanne were wrestling in the back yard , Roseanne , quite unknowingly , accidentally broke one of her ribs .
In 1984 , with friends like Shelley Winters and Terry Moore , she made a rather restrained exercise video for `` women of a certain age '' .
Won the 1948 Miss Burbank contest and was offered a screen test by Warner Bros. the day after her win . She initially entered the contest because everyone who entered received a silk scarf , blouse and free lunch .
Ex-mother-in-law of Paul Simon .
She made her first appearance at the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show on April 6th and 7th , 2002 , at Beverly Garland 's Holiday Inn in North Hollywood , California .
In 1975 she sold the Beverly Hills mansion she had lived in with Harry Karl . The house was reputed to be worth over $ 1,000,000 . The buyer was Jim Randall , an industrialist who made aircraft rivets . When he married Marisa Berenson , the wedding was held in the redecorated home and his best man was his friend George Hamilton .
Considers herself a `` movie-oholic '' and has an extensive collection of memorabilia , with over 4,000 costumes from the silent screen period to the 1970s . She has been known to gather posters from her collection of 3,000 and drive to homes of actor pals for autographs . In the 1990s she turned her collection into a Las Vegas movie museum , but had to shut it down in 1997 because of financial problems . Recently she has looked into the possibility of opening up a hall of fame museum in Hollywood near Grauman 's Chinese Theatre .
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Billy Ocean - Biography - IMDb | tc_1295 | What is Billy Ocean's real name? | {
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Billy Ocean was born on January 21 , 1950 in Trinidad , British West Indies as Leslie Sebastian Charles . He has been married to Judy Bayne since October 1982 . They have three children .
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O. Henry Short Story Writer born on September 11, 1862 ... | tc_1296 | How was writer William Sydney Porter better known? | {
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September 11 , 1862 – Birthday of Austin resident and short story writer , William Sydney Porter better known as O. Henry .
Porter was born North Carolina and moved to Austin , Texas in 1884 . In Austin Porter worked as a draftsman for the general land office and later as a teller for the First National Bank . Porter left the bank a few years later and founded the Rolling Stone , a weekly humor newspaper . The newspaper was not successful and he became a columnist for the Houston Daily Post .
In 1898 Porter was found guilty of embezzlement during his employment at the First National Bank in Austin and sentenced to five years in prison . While in prison Porter wrote dozens of short stories .
On or about 1901 , Porter was released from prison and changed his name to O. Henry to hide his true identity . Porter moved to New York City where he published over 300 short stories and was fondly thought to be America ’ s favorite short story writer .
Porter was an alcoholic and penniless when he died on June 5 , 1910 at the age of forty-seven . |
A brief history of the Congo later to be known as Zaire | tc_1297 | What was The Zaire River called before 27th October 1971. | {
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1600 's to 1700 's The British , Dutch , Portuguese and French merchants exploited the slave trade .
1870s The Belgian King Leopold II set up a private venture to colonise the Congo .
1874-77 The British explorer Henry Stanley navigated the Congo river to the Atlantic Ocean .
1879-87 King Leopold II commissioned Henry Stanley to establish the King 's authority in the Congo basin .
1884-85 European countries at a Conference in Berlin recognised King Leopold 's claim to the Congo basin .
1885 King Leopold II announced the establishment of the ‘ Congo Free State ’ , to be headed by himself .
1891-92 Belgian troops conquered the state of Katanga .
1892-94 The Eastern Congo is taken from the control of East African Arabs and Swahili-speaking traders .
1908 The Belgian state annexed the Congo amid protests over killings and atrocities carried out on a mass scale by Leopold 's agents . Millions of Congolese were said to have been killed or worked to death during Leopold 's control of the territory .
1955 Belgian Professor Antoin van Bilsen published a `` 30-Year Plan '' for granting the Congo increased self-government .
1959 Belgium begins to lose control over events in the Congo following serious nationalist riots in Leopoldville by now renamed Kinshasa .
15th March 1960 Martial Law is proclaimed .
30th June 1960 The Republic of Congo gained its independence from Belgium . Patrice Lumumba became the countries first prime minister while Joseph Kasavubu was made president .
11th July 1960 The copper rich state of Katanga secedes from the rest of the country .
15th July1960 The Congolese army mutinies and Moise Tshombe declared Katanga to be independent . Belgian troops were sent in to protect Belgian citizens and mining interests . The United Nations Security Council voted to send troops to help establish law and order in the country , however the troops were not allowed to intervene in internal affairs ( they left in 1964 ) .
14th September 1960 Colonel Joseph Desire Mobutu , the army 's 29-year-old chief of staff , lead a coup to break up a power struggle between President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Patrice Lumumba , and arrested Lumumba after President Kasavubu had dismissed him as prime minister .
November 1960 Congolese and United Nations troops clashed .
January 1961 Colonel Joseph Desire Mobutu returned power of the country to Joseph Kasavubu .
17th January 1961 Patrice Lumumba was handed over to the Katanga rebels and murdered . Fierce fighting broke out between the United Nations troops and pro Lumumba supporters . Evidence later emerged connecting Colonel Joseph Desire Mobutu and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) to Lumumba 's murder . However , Belgium also played a part in Lumumba ’ s death .
22nd January 1961 Belgian paratroops flew into Stanleyville to rescue European settlers .
February 1961 A federation was formed of all the sovereign states , replacing the existing republic .
August 1961 Cyrille Adoula was appointed prime minister of the country .
August 1961 United Nation troops began disarming Katangese soldiers .
September 1961 United Nations troops for the second time tried to crush the Katangan rebels .
18th September 1961 Dag Hammarskjold Secretary General of the United Nations , died in an air crash as he flew out of the country .
31st October 1961 A third attempt was mounted by United Nation troops to once again try and crush the Katangan rebels .
29th December 1962 United Nation troops occupied the Katangan capital city Elizabethville .
1st January 1963 President Tshombe appealed to the United Nations to declare a cease fire .
8th January 1963 President Tshombe was placed under house arrest by the United Nations .
15th January1963 Moise Tshombe bowed to United Nations pressure and agreed to end Katanga 's secession .
1964 President Joseph Kasavubu appointed Moise Tshombe as prime minister .
Early 1964 A minor Communist inspired revolt took place in the Kwilu Provence . Within five months this minor revolt would become a major uprising that would involve half of Congo 's 14 million people . This would also lead to the recruiting of western mercenaries to fight in the Congo under the command of South African Mike Hoare .
July 1964 Mike Hoare was approached by Gerry Puren to see if he would recruit a mercenary force to help his friend Moise Tshombe keep in power . At |
Top 10 Most Important Astronomers - Listverse | tc_1301 | Who is credited with the discovery of galaxies outside of our own? | {
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Eduardo Jaramillo
September 8 , 2011
Since the very dawn of humankind , our species has looked out upon the cosmos in awe of the glory of the heavens above . While the spectacular views offered by our night sky haven ’ t changed a great deal over the eons , our understanding of them has . Knowledge of our universe has gradually expanded over the last few thousand years thanks to the efforts of astronomers through the ages . We know what we do about the universe today thanks to the discoveries of all of these astronomers , the ten most important of whom are listed here .
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Charles Messier
Charles Messier was a French astronomer who was obsessed with discovering and studying comets and their orbits . However , his search for the elusive comets ended up leading him to create one of the most famous catalogues of deep sky objects . He realized these deep sky objects could distract other comet-chasers , and so he decided to distinguish them as immobile objects in the night sky . The resulting catalogue , published in 1774 when the astronomer was 44 years old , contains over one hundred deep sky objects , including nebulae and galaxies . Being among the most beautiful objects in the night sky , you most likely have seen images of many of them taken by high aperture telescopes , such as the Hubble Space Telescope . Along with being among the first to catalogue these wonderful objects , Messier was also successful in discovering thirteen comets .
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Ptolemy
Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer , geographer and mathematician of Greek ancestry . He lived from 90 to 168 AD , and was the last great astronomer before the known world ’ s descent into the Dark Ages . He is important for preserving the Greek astronomer Hipparchus ’ star catalogue , which he included in his astronomical magnum opus , Amalgest . The Amalgest was the most important astronomical text in existence for close to fifteen hundred years after the death of Ptolemy , and because of this , its author gained a near legendary status . He also included in his work a set of tables ( known almost comically as the Handy Tables ) , which made it much easier to calculate the positions of the planets , the sun and the moon , the rising and setting of the stars , and the dates of lunar and solar eclipses . Without Ptolemy ’ s preservation of Hipparchus ’ work , and his own advances in the field of astronomy , much of the astronomical work done during the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution may not have been possible .
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Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe , whose defining physical characteristic was no doubt his metallic nose ( he lost his real one in a duel ) , was a famed Danish astronomer . Up until his observations , which occurred largely in the late 1500s , no other astronomer had tallied as many , or as accurate of observations as Brahe . He catalogued hundreds of objects , and aspired to a level of accuracy such that each star was catalogued within one arc-minute of its real celestial location . To put that into perspective , hold your little finger at arms length – it is 1 degree in width . Now divide it into 60 parts ; take one of those parts , and you have an arc-minute . While he didn ’ t always achieve this level of accuracy , the fact that he set the standard so high with the technology available at that point in history is commendable .
Brahe is probably best known for his work with new stars , or novae , which in his day was cutting-edge astronomy . In 1572 , he observed a bright star that appeared to be a newcomer onto the celestial scene . While some argued that this was an atmospheric phenomenon , Brahe showed through use of parallax that the object was much too far away to be inside the Earth ’ s atmosphere . Although other supernova events had been observed in the past , Brahe was the first to scientifically observe and acknowledge one . This was a strong argument against the , then , predominant belief that the heavens were fixed on colossal dome-like structures , the idea of which Brahe openly contradicted .
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Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
These two astronomers come in one package , because their main contribution to the astronomical field |
Ranking the 10 Most Unlikely Wimbledon Winners in History ... | tc_1302 | Who was the defending champion when Andre Agassi first won Wimbledon singles? | {
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Ranking the 10 Most Unlikely Wimbledon Winners in History
By Jake Curtis , Featured Columnist
Jul 6 , 2013
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Marion Bartoli 's victory in the women 's singles final at the All England Club raises an obvious question : Was she the most unlikely Wimbledon winner in history ?
Before the tournament began , few would have picked the 15th-seeded Bartoli , who , at 28 , had never won a Grand Slam singles event and seemed to be past her prime .
However , a number of other men and women have defied expectations , logic or past performances to win singles titles at Wimbledon . Sometimes , upsets produced unanticipated winners . Other times , circumstances yielded unlikely champions .
After taking a look at the paths taken by all the champions , we composed a countdown of the 10 most unlikely Wimbledon winners in history .
10 . Bob Falkenburg , 1948
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Bob Falkenburg 's 1948 Wimbledon triumph barely edged out Michael Stich 's 1991 title and Petra Kvitova 's 2011 championship for the final spot on our list .
Falkenburg advanced past the quarterfinals at Wimbledon only once , and that was the year he won it . His Wimbledon victory as a No . 7 seed in 1948 was the only time he got past the semifinals of any Grand Slam event .
However , it was the way Falkenburg won the final against John Bromwich that earned him a place among the most unlikely champions .
Bromwich , the 1946 Australian Open champion and the No . 2 seed at Wimbledon in 1948 , had three match points against Falkenburg at 5-3 in the fifth set , according to a The New York Times obituary on Bromwich . But Falkenburg fought off all three match points , won four straight games and beat Bromwich 7-5 , 0-6 , 6-2 , 3-6 , 7-5 .
Falkenburg 's career took another unlikely turn when he passed on a $ 100,000-a-year professional tennis contract so he could introduce soft ice cream and American fast food in Brazil , according to the Wimbledon website , it became a highly successful business .
9 . Arthur Ashe , 1975
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The fact that Arthur Ashe got to the 1975 Wimbledon final was a mild surprise . That he then beat Jimmy Connors 6-1 , 6-1 , 5-7 , 6-4 in the final was a shocker .
Connors was an overwhelming 3-to-20 betting favorite against Ashe , according to an ESPN.com article . In fact , he was a 9-to-10 favorite to win in straight sets .
Ashe , then 31 , was in the Wimbledon final for the first time , making it as the No . 6 seed following a five-set victory over Tony Roche in the semifinals . The 22-year-old , top-seeded Connors had not lost a set en route to the final and had lost only six games while beating Ken Rosewall in the 1974 Wimbledon final .
But against Connors , Ashe took the pace off his shots , relying on angles and finesse to frustrate Connors ' powerful groundstrokes . Ashe 's insightful strategy made it a memorable match and resulted in one of the biggest upsets in a Wimbledon final .
A 2011 The New York Times article extolled the brilliance of Ashe 's strategy , while questioning whether such an approach would work today .
8 . Andre Agassi , 1992
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Andre Agassi would win eight Grand Slam titles , but when he began the 1992 Wimbledon tournament , he had not won any . With a No . 14 ranking at the time and the knowledge that grass was Agassi 's worst surface , few figured the 1992 event at the All England club would produce his first major title .
In his two previous Wimbledons , Agassi had lost in the first round in 1990 and in the quarterfinals ( against David Wheaton ) in 1991 .
Agassi 's 1992 season before Wimbledon had been mediocre . He had lost four matches to players ranked outside the Top 50 , and his only good results had come at Atlanta and the French Open on clay , Agassi 's best surface .
He did not play a grass-court warmup event before Wimbledon , where |
Boukhalef Airport (TNG), Morocco: Location Map, Address ... | tc_1306 | Boukhalef International airport is in which country? | {
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Our History - Kellogg's | tc_1311 | In what year was the Kellogg Company set up to manufacture cornflakes? | {
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Our Best Days Are Yours
From one great day over 100 years ago all the way to today , Kellogg 's has continued to fuel better days for American families . From going to the moon to feeding the U.S. Army to making your days great , some of our best days have been in your home country , the United States .
Discover our best days in the U.S .
1898 — In a fortunately failed attempt at making granola , our company ’ s founder , W.K . Kellogg , and his brother , Dr. John Harvey Kellogg , changed breakfast forever when they accidentally flaked wheat berry . W.K . kept experimenting until he flaked corn , and created the delicious recipe for Kellogg ’ s Corn Flakes .
1906 — W.K . Kellogg opened the “ Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company ” and carefully hired his first 44 employees . Together they created the initial batch of Kellogg ’ s® Corn Flakes® and brought to life W.K. ’ s vision for great-tasting , better-for-you breakfast foods .
1914 — Kellogg ’ s® Corn Flakes® was introduced to a new country : Canada . ( Later the Kellogg Company will spread the goodness of grain around the world by opening factories in Australia , England , Mexico , Japan , India and more . Today Kellogg brightens breakfast in over 180 countries around the world ) .
1915 — Kellogg introduced Bran Flakes , the first high-fiber cereal , promptly followed by the introduction of Kellogg ’ s® All-Bran™ one year later .
1923 — The Kellogg Company made another bold move and become the first in the food industry to hire a dietitian . Mary Barber started the Kellogg ’ s Home Economics Department and began defining the roles different foods played in proper diets .
1930 — As the United States sunk into the Depression , W.K . Kellogg declared , “ I ’ ll invest in people. ” He split shifts and hired new employees to work them . He also founded the W.K . Kellogg Foundation , whose mission — to help children realize their potential — complements that of the Kellogg Company to this day .
To further our commitment to people , Kellogg became one of the first companies to proudly display our cereals ’ recipes and nutritional info on our boxes — so our consumers knew exactly what they were eating .
1942-1945 — Kellogg ’ s employees proudly produced K-rations for the U.S. armed forces overseas during World War II , and our engineering teams helped manufacture supplies in Kellogg machine shops . We continued to help America get nutrition by bringing new , whole-grain cereal to life when we introduced Kellogg ’ s® Raisin Bran® .
1969 — The Kellogg Company was honored to provide breakfast for the legendary Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins during their groundbreaking Apollo 11 trip to the moon .
1997 — We opened the W.K . Kellogg Institute for Food and Nutrition Research — where food scientists , nutritionists and engineers transform wholesome grains and other ingredients into great-tasting and good-for-your-family foods .
2006 — The Kellogg Company celebrated our 100-year commitment to nutrition , health and quality . We also celebrated our future — by creating new Kellogg ’ s® Special K® Bars and other innovative ways of giving your family the delicious nutrition you need to make the most of every day .
2009-2010 — After discovering that many people in the U.S. don ’ t get enough fiber , Kellogg increased the fiber in many of our most popular cereals — including Kellogg ’ s® Froot Loops® . Now , in the U.S. , Kellogg Company offers more ready-to-eat cereals that provide at least one good source of fiber ( 3 grams ) and one-half serving of whole grains ( 8 grams ) than any other U.S. food company .
Today — We ’ re proudly upholding the values W.K . Kellogg instilled more than 100 years ago — but now we ’ re doing it in 180 countries across the world . We still provide you and your family with better breakfasts that lead to better days , and we flake corn the same way W.K . Kellogg did back in 1898 . It just tastes better that way . |
Gunsmoke: Radio's Last Great Dramatic Series | tc_1314 | Who was the voice of Matt Dillon for 11 years on radio's Gunsmoke? | {
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Gunsmoke 's four continuing characters on both radio and television were
Matt Dillon , United States Marshall ,
Chester Wesley Proudfoot , his middle aged `` helper , ''
Charles `` Doc '' Adams , the town physician , and
Kitty Russell , a `` saloon girl '' at the Texas Trails .
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Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City , Kansas between 1872 , when the Santa Fe Railroad reached town , and 1885 , when local farmers forced the end of the Texas cattle drives along the Western Trail . Dodge City , known as the `` Queen of the Cow Towns , '' the `` Wicked Little City , '' the `` Gomorrah of the Plains , '' had a reputation as a hostile , lawless town where the `` fastest gun '' ruled . As the opening of the show proclaimed : `` Around Dodge City and in the territory on west , there 's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that 's with a U.S . Marshal and the smell of gunsmoke . '' That marshall , Matt Dillon , was modeled after the real lawmen who `` tamed '' ( or at least kept a lid on ) Dodge City : US Deputy Marshall Wyatt Earp ( 1848-1929 ) , Sheriff Bat Masterson ( 1856-1921 ) , Sheriff Bill Tilghman ( 1854-1924 ) , and Sheriff Charlie Bassett ( c.1847-1869 ) .
After Gunsmoke ...
During Gunsmoke 's nine years on the radio , CBS presented 480 performances of 413 scripts . Many of these radio plays were adapted to television . One , The Ride Back by Anthony Ellis , became a full length movie starring William Conrad and Anthony Quinn . When the series went off the air in 1961 , the four actors who played the continuing characters moved on to other things .
William Conrad
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William Conrad as Frank Cannon
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William Conrad ( 1920-1994 ) , who was the original Marshall Dillon and one of radio 's most prolific actors ( he claimed he performed in 7500 radio programs ) became a television producer and director . According to a `` TV Episode List '' published on Gunsmoke : The Great American Western , he directed two television episodes of Gunsmoke : `` Panacea Sikes '' ( April 13 , 1963 ) and `` Captain Sligo '' ( January 4 , 1971 ) , and narrated a third -- `` Women for Sale '' ( September 10 & 17 , 1973 ) .
Between 1963 and the series finale in 1967 his deep , resonant voice was heard under the opening credits of The Fugative . He was also the voice of the unseen narrator on The Bullwinkle Show ( 1961-1962 ) , The Wild , Wild World of Animals ( 1973-1978 ) , Tales of the Unexpected ( 1977 ) and How the West Was One ( 1978-1979 ) . His first major on camera , television role was Frank Cannon in Cannon ( 1971-1976 ) . This was followed by Nero Wolf ( 1981 ) and J.L . McCabe , the Fatman , in Jake and the Fatman ( 1987-1992 ) . In addition to radio and television , Conrad appeared in at least 25 films between 1946 and 1960 . His first on screen appearance was as Max , one of the killers in The Killers ( 1946 ) . In most of these films he was cast as the villain or heavy . In his last movie Hudson Hawk ( 1991 ) he was once again the narrator .
Between 1957 and 1968 he directed four and produced ten feature length films . The first film he produced was The Ride Back ( 1957 ) ( also known as `` The Way Back '' ) , a western based on a 1952 Gunsmoke radio script . According to Leonard Maltin 's Movie and Video Guide it is a `` Well-handled account of a sheriff ( William Conrad ) and prisoner ( Anthony Quinn ) who find they need each other 's help to survive the elements and Indian attacks . '' He died of cardiac arrest in February 1994 and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1997 .
Howard McNear
Howard McNear ( 1905-1969 ) , Gunsmoke 's Doc Adams , was in |
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