Lisa is a film made in 1990 about a serial killer-stalker who rapes women then kills them.

Plot[link]

Fourteen-year-old Lisa Holland (Staci Keanan) lives with her mother Katherine (Cheryl Ladd) in Venice Beach, California. Lisa is beginning to show a keen interest in boys but is not allowed to date due to her mother’s strict rule about not dating until she is 16. It is revealed that Katherine had Lisa when she was 14 years old. Abandoned by Lisa's father, Katherine was forced to leave home after her parents demanded that she put Lisa up for adoption. These facts have made Katherine very wary about Lisa dating, feeling that it would further Lisa's desire to date and possibly have sex. Although she has a boyfriend, unbeknownst to Lisa, she keeps him at arm's length and around Lisa rejects the advances of flirtatious men. Despite years of hardship, however, Katherine has managed to build up her own successful florist business, which provides for the both of them very well. Aside from the issue of dating the two have a very good, almost sister-like relationship, although when they are at odds Katherine does make it clear that she is the mother. Lisa’s desire to have a boyfriend is furthered by her best friend Wendy Marks, whose less-strict mother and father have allowed her to start dating. Lisa keeps a secret scrapbook of men she encounters and would secretly like to date.

In the meanwhile there is a serial killer running loose in Venice, nicknamed the Candlelight Killer, so called because he seduces and rapes his victims by candlelight before killing them. The Candlelight Killer is a suave, good-looking, and successful restaurateur named Richard (DW Moffett), who looks more like a sexy model than a serial killer. Richard stalks good-looking women and then kills them once he finds out where they live. Uniquely, Richard calls his victims over the telephone leaving messages on their answering machines saying he's in their house and is going to kill them. As the women are listening to his message Richard grabs them from behind and then begins his candlelight rape and murder of them. In the opening of the film he does this to a woman named Mary (it's revealed later in the newspaper that Mary had been the Candlelight Killer's seventh victim), and later on to two other women named Allison and Judy.

One night Lisa is coming home from the grocery store and accidentally runs into Richard, knocking her groceries onto the sidewalk. Richard is leaving the house of Allison, whom he has just killed, and helps Lisa up while flirting with her. Lisa is mesmerized by his good looks and follows him to his car once he leaves, copying down his license plate number. Through the DMV she is able to get his address and telephone number. Upset that her mother has refused to allow her to go on a double date with Wendy, Lisa begins to call up Richard on the phone and engages him in seducing conversation. Richard is intrigued by their conversations, yet is more interested in finding out who she is, mainly because he is the one now being stalked. Lisa and Wendy follow Richard finding out where he lives and works. Lisa even gets into Richard's car alone at one point only to have to hide in the back seat when he unexpectedly shows up. All this goes on unknown to Katherine, and with each succeeding conversation, in which Lisa reveals more about herself including her scrapbook, Richard pushes Lisa towards meeting him for a date. Still at a standoff with her mother when it comes to dating, Wendy suggests that Lisa set up Katherine with Richard, implying that maybe if her mother gets some she will ease up and let Lisa date.

As Easter weekend approaches Lisa plans to go away with Wendy and her family to Big Bear, California as Katherine stays behind due to Easter being one of her busiest weekends. Katherine and Lisa decide to have a girls' night out dinner before she leaves and Lisa makes reservations at Richard's restaurant. Lisa calls Richard telling him that she will be at the restaurant that night and will wear a sexy white dress, the dress that her mother is wearing. While at the restaurant Lisa and her mother get into a quiet argument over dating again, with Lisa telling her mother that "if she got laid once in a while maybe she wouldn't be such a bitch about [her] dating". A furious Katherine goes to the bathroom telling Lisa to pay the bill with her credit card. As she is signing for the bill Lisa sees Richard and leaves him a love note with it. As Katherine comes out of the bathroom she bumps into Richard who recognizes her sexy white dress. Richard gets the love note with the bill, which reveals Katherine's credit card information, which he uses to track her down. Meanwhile a furious Katherine grounds Lisa due to the fight, forbidding her to go to Big Bear with Wendy. Despite this, Lisa goes anyway, leaving Katherine in their apartment all alone. Katherine calls Lisa in Big Bear telling her that she will deal with her when she comes home.

Meanwhile Richard begins to stalk the unsuspecting Katherine. He hides in her car, smoking cigarettes, which unnerves Katherine when she gets in the car and sees the cigarettes yet no one there. While in Big Bear, Lisa decides to give Richard a call. He reveals to her that he knows her name is Katherine, thinking Lisa is her mother, and that he knows where she lives. Fearing that her mother will find out about her calls to Richard, she phones Katherine and leaves a message telling her to ignore Richard if he calls, saying that he is a kid from school who is playing a joke. Richard meanwhile prepares to kill Katherine, buying candles at the local grocery store and asking the cashier for change so that he can use the pay phone.

On the night Lisa is to return from Big Bear, Katherine enters the apartment and plays her answering machine. She hears Richard's message and discounts it as a joke, based on Lisa's earlier message. Thinking Lisa is home, she goes into her room only to be attacked by Richard. Meanwhile Lisa returns home and enters the apartment. She sees her bedroom door open and sees her secret scrapbook opened on the floor with a lamp shining onto it. Running into her room she is attacked by Richard who has knocked her mother unconscious. Richard brings Lisa into Katherine's bedroom and plans to rape and kill her; Lisa sees the candles and realizes he is the Candlelight Killer. Katherine regains consciousness, however, and stabs Richard with a butcher knife and maces him. A maimed Richard grabs the knife attempting to kill both ladies and, while trying to regain his sight from the mace, trashes their apartment. However, Katherine is able to take a baseball bat and knock Richard out a window in which he is killed as he falls to the alley below. The movie ends with Katherine and Lisa holding one another close and crying, while the knocked-over answering machine continuously plays Richard's macabre message over and over again.

Cast[link]

• Staci Keanan as Lisa Holland
• Cheryl Ladd as Katherine Holland
• DW Moffett as Richard aka The Candlelight Killer
• Tanya Fenmore as Wendy Marks
• Jeffrey Tambor as Mr. Marks Wendy's father
• Julie Cobb as Mrs. Marks Wendy's mother
• Edan Gross as Ralph Marks Wendy's brother

DVD release[link]

MGM has yet to announce any plans to release the film onto DVD. As of December 27th, 2010, Lisa is streaming on Netflix "Watch Instantly."

External links[link]

• Lisa at the Internet Movie Database

Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Hannigan in Temple Bar, Dublin
Background information
Birth name	Lisa Margaret Hannigan[1]
Born	(1981-02-12) 12 February 1981 (age 31)
Origin	Kilcloon, County Meath, Republic of Ireland
Genres	Indie folk
Occupations	Musician
Years active	2001–present
Labels	Barp/ATO Records/Play It Again Sam[2]
Associated acts	Damien Rice, Vyvienne Long, Tom Osander, The Frames, Mic Christopher, David Kitt, Herbie Hancock, Paul Noonan, David Geraghty, Bell X1, The Cake Sale, Gary Lightbody,[3] Cathy Davey,[4] Jason Mraz,[5] Mick Flannery.[6][7]
Website	http://www.lisahannigan.ie/

Lisa Margaret Hannigan (born 12 February 1981) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. For several years she was a member of Damien Rice's band before beginning her solo career in 2008. To date she has released two albums: Sea Sew (2008) and Passenger (2011).

Hannigan has been the recipient of various award nominations and critical praise both in Ireland and the USA. She has performed and been associated with Cathy Davey, Mic Christopher, Mick Flannery, David Kitt and members of Snow Patrol, The Frames and Bell X1. She has performed at the Glastonbury Festival both as a solo artist and with Damien Rice.

Early life and education[link]

Hannigan was born in Dublin but grew up in Kilcloon, County Meath, Ireland.^[8] She attended primary school at Scoil Oilibhéir Naofa^[9] in Kilcloon and secondary school at The King's Hospital in Palmerstown.^[10] At the age of eighteen, she enrolled at Trinity College, Dublin, where she studied Art History.^[11]

Career[link]

2001–2007[link]

Hannigan began her six year collaboration with Damien Rice at a concert in the Temple Bar Music Centre in Dublin in early 2001.^[12][13][14] She sang on most of the tracks for Rice's 2002 album O. In 2006, she sang the lead vocal on Rice's song "9 Crimes" and performed at the Electric Picnic music festival in Stradbally, County Laois.^{[12][13][13][15]} As a member of Rice's live performance band, she contributed vocals and on occasion electric guitar, bass and drums.^[12][13]

In 2007, Hannigan left the Damien Rice band to pursue a solo career.^[14][16] “It was upsetting, but worse things have happened. For everybody it was coming to the end of its cycle.”^[15] Hannigan returned to Dublin and began her solo career.^[7][8][16] The singer later said of the split: "I suppose it was coming for a long time. I had become pretty outspoken about my frustrations at the direction the band was going in, and I'm sure he was starting to find me a pain."^[8] Rice said that their incompatible song writing styles were to blame for the inadequacies in his song "Unplayed Piano".^[17] She was comforted by members of The Magic Numbers and has not spoken to Rice since the split.^[8]

2008–2010[link]

Some of Hannigan's live recordings were made available through trading networks radio shows. These recordings included: "Willy" by Joni Mitchell, "Be My Husband" by Nina Simone (from the 1965 album Pastel Blues), "Mercedes Benz" by Janis Joplin and "Love Hurts" by Roy Orbison.^[13] Hannigan also performed live with her own band, called The Daisy Okell Quartet and contributed guest vocals to the recordings of Mic Christopher, The Frames and Herbie Hancock.^[13]

Lisa Hannigan's debut solo album, titled Sea Sew, was rehearsed in a barn in Thomastown and recorded in Dublin before being released in Ireland in September 2008.^[18] The lead single, "Lille", was made available as a free Internet download and other tracks were available for preview on her Myspace page.^[19] The sleeve featured needle-work by Hannigan.^[4][20] Some music critics called the recording one of the best Irish albums of the year.^[21][22]

Sea Sew was played on the American radio station KCRW and received favourable reviews in the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.^[8][23] The single "Lille", released in August 2008 on Irish and American radio stations.^[7] Hannigan performed at Electric Picnic 2008.^[24] Hannigan supported singer-songwriter Jason Mraz on a 42-date U.S. tour in 2008.^[5]

Also in 2008, she appeared on the charity album Even Better Than the Disco Thing and performed a duet of Mick Flannery's new song "Christmas Past" with Flannery on Tony Fenton's Christmas Special on Today FM.^[6][25] In December 2008, she made her UK solo debut at St Johns Church in London.^[26] Hannigan signed with ATO Records in the U.S., where her album was released in February 2009.^[27]

Sea Sew was nominated for the Choice Music Prize and Best Irish Album at the Meteor Music Awards in January 2009.^[28][29][30]

That same year, Hannigan appeared on the American television shows Jay Leno, The Colbert Report and was well received by their respective hosts.^[8][15][31] In 2009, Hannigan also appeared on the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland, performing her song "I Don't Know".^{[15][32][33][34]} Sea Sew rose in the UK charts following this appearance^{[citation needed]} and she performed at Glastonbury 2009 music festival and went on tour later in the year.^{[26][34][35][36]} She performed at the nomination ceremony and she was greeted by confused journalists wondering "Lisa who?".^[18]

Hannigan performed at Electric Picnic 2009^{[8][37][38][39][40][41]} and Le Chéile.^[42] Later in 2009, she toured the United States with David Gray and performed solo shows in New York, Los Angeles and London.^[43] She then began a tour of Ireland to finish the year.^[43] Hannigan's song "Ocean and Rock" was used in a 2009 Irish video supporting same-sex marriage entitled "Sinéad's Hand".^[44]

In 2009, a broadcast of Other Voices was recorded.^[45]

2011–present[link]

Hannigan recorded her second album, titled Passenger, at Bryn Derwen Studios in North Wales with producer Joe Henry and engineer Ryan Freeland. The album was released in the US and Canada on 20 September 2011, and on 7 October in Ireland and the UK.^[46][47]

Hannigan performed at the Eurosonic Festival in 2012 when Ireland was the "Spotlight Country".^[48]

Reception[link]

Her music has received critical praise, airplay and award nominations both in her native Ireland and the United States. In 2008, her debut album Sea Sew spawned the single "Lille", a Choice Music Prize nomination, two Meteor Music Awards nominations and a Mercury Prize nomination. There has also been praise from fellow musicians and, in recent times, Jools Holland of the United Kingdom and US television hosts Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert.

Hannigan performs using "broken-down, wheezy old instruments", assisting her band members in the transportation of this equipment. Her blog posts are noted for containing recipes for baking cakes.^[15] Herbie Hancock said of her vocals, "there's so much jazz in the notes and phrases that she picks. She was singing the ninths, the elevenths of the chords...I mean some of the things sound like choices that Miles would have made." Possibilities DVD.^[13]

To date,^[when?] Sea Sew has sold 45,000 copies worldwide – with 15,000 of those copies sold in Ireland.

Personal life[link]

As part of an advertisement campaign for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair, Hannigan was drenched in melted chocolate and she participated in the Irish musical collective The Cake Sale with lead vocal on the track Some Surprise, which was played on the US television series Grey's Anatomy.^{[3][12][13][16][49][50]}

Hannigan also contributed to the 2009 charity album, Sparks n' Mind, released in aid of Aware.^[51]

Discography[link]

• Sea Sew (2008)
• Passenger (2011)

Awards[link]

[edit] Hot Press Readers' Poll

Hannigan has four Hot Press Readers' Poll awards. She won Best Debut Album, Best Irish Album, Best Irish Track and Best Female in 2009.^[26]

Choice Music Prize[link]

Hannigan's debut album, Sea Sew, was nominated for the Choice Music Prize in January 2009.^[52] The award was won by Jape for the album Ritual on 4 March 2009.^{[53][54][55][56][57][58][59]}

Hannigan's second album, Passenger, was nominated for the Choice Music Prize in January 2012.^[60]

Meteor Music Awards[link]

Hannigan and her work was nominated in the Best Irish Female and Best Irish Album categories at the Meteor Music Awards in 2009.^[61] She was the only solo artist nominated in more than one category at the awards. She lost to Imelda May and The Script's self-titled album respectively.^[62]

Mercury Prize[link]

Sea Sew was nominated for the Mercury Prize on 21 July 2009.^{[63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70]} It was Hannigan's first nomination.

Hannigan was referred to as 2009's "token folk nominee" in the UK,^[16] with the NME calling her a "token folkie".^[71] One British journalist even claimed she was "truly obscure" and part of the "moribund sensitive singer-songwriter genre".^[16] Ed Power, writing in the Irish Independent, criticised such claims, wondering if Jape (whose album Ritual beat Hannigan to the Choice Music Prize) had come close to receiving a Mercury nomination—"Or, for that matter, how many of the judges had even heard of him".^[16]

See also[link]

Side projects of Lisa Hannigan

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Official biography
• Lisa Hannigan Refined an unofficial website
• Lisa Hannigan on Other Voices
• Lisa Hannigan interview on LAist
• Lisa Hannigan at Eskimo Friends, a Damien Rice site
• Lisa Hannigan Review Fazer.ca March 2009
• Mercury nomination photos at the Irish Independent

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Paolo Soleri (born June 21, 1919^[1] ) is an Italian architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri is a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.

Early life[link]

Soleri was born in Turin, Italy. He was awarded his "laurea" (PhD degree with highest honors) in architecture from the Politecnico di Torino in 1946. He visited the United States in December 1946 and spent a year and a half in fellowship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona, and at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. During this time, he gained international recognition for a bridge design displayed at the Museum of Modern Art.

Soleri returned to Italy in 1950 where he was commissioned to build a large ceramics factory, "Ceramica Artistica Solimene" in Vietri on the Amalfi coast.^[2] The ceramics industry processes he became familiar with during its construction led to his award-winning designs and production of ceramic and bronze windbells and siltcast architectural structures. For over 40 years, proceeds from sales of the windbells have provided funds for construction to test his theoretical work. Ceramic and bronze bells are still produced and sold at Arcosanti and Cosanti in Arizona.

In 1956 he settled in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his late wife, Colly, and their two daughters. Dr. and Mrs. Soleri made a life-long commitment to research and experimentation in urban planning, establishing the Cosanti Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation. Soleri's philosophy and works have been strongly influenced by the Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Arcosanti[link]

The Cosanti Foundation's major project is Arcosanti, a community planned for 5,000 people, designed by Soleri; Arcosanti has been in construction since 1970. Located near Cordes Junction, about 70 miles (110 km) north of Phoenix and visible from Interstate I-17 in central Arizona, the project intends to provide a model demonstrating Soleri's concept of "Arcology", architecture coherent with ecology. Arcology is envisioned by Soleri as a hyperdense city, designed to maximize human interaction; it should maximize access to shared, cost-effective infrastructural services, conserve water and reduce sewage; minimize the use of energy, raw materials and land; reduce waste and environmental pollution; and allow interaction with the surrounding natural environment. Arcosanti is a prototype of a desert arcology. Soleri's other arcology designs envisioned sites such as the ocean (Nova Noah), et al. (see: Arcology: City in the Image of Man).

Since 1970, well over 6000 people have participated in Arcosanti's construction. Their international affiliation group is called the Arcosanti Alumni Network. As of 2010, construction is underway to complete Arcosanti's Greenhouse Apron.

Other achievements[link]

The International Architecture Symposium "Mensch und Raum" (Man and Space) at the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Universität Wien) in 1984 received international attention. Paolo Soleri participated, among others: Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, Bruno Zevi, Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Pierre Vago, Ernst Gisel, Ionel Schein.

Soleri is a distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a member of the Lindisfarne Association.

In 1966, Paolo Soleri began working on the design for the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was built on the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School using large silt cast forms. The amphitheater is owned by the nineteen Native American Pueblos of New Mexico and is therefore not protected by local or state preservation laws.^[3]

A landmark exhibition, "The Architectural Visions of Paolo Soleri," organized in 1970 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada, breaking records for attendance. "Two Suns Arcology, A Concept for Future Cities" opened in 1976 at the Xerox Square Center in Rochester, New York. In 1989 "Paolo Soleri Habitats: Ecologic Minutiae," and exhibition of arcologies, space habitats and bridges, was presented at the New York Academy of Sciences. More recently, "Soleri's Cities, Architecture for the Planet Earth and Beyond" was featured at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Scottsdale, AZ. A Soleri bell appears in the film What the Bleep Do We Know? His work has been exhibited worldwide.

The Paolo Soleri Archives, the collection of all of Soleri's art and letters, is located at Arcosanti. The Soleri Archives is managed by Sue Kiersch under the direction of Cosanti Board Trustee Director of Special Projects Tomiaki Tamura, who resides at Arcosanti.

Soleri was interviewed in the 2007 environmental documentary "The 11th Hour (film)".

December 10, 2010 - Completion of Soleri Bridge and Plaza commissioned by Scottsdale Public Art. The 130-foot (40 m) pedestrian bridge, based on Paolo Soleri's design, is located on the South Bank of the Arizona Canal and connects newly developed retail area Scottsdale Waterfront with Old Town Scottsdale. The bridge is incorporated into a 22,000 sq ft (2,000 m²) plaza including silt cast artwork and a large bell assembly, The Goldwater Bell, also designed by Paolo Soleri.

Awards[link]

Soleri has received fellowships from the Graham Foundation and from the Guggenheim Foundation (1964, Architecture, Planning, & Design^[4]).
He has been awarded three honorary doctorates and several awards from design groups worldwide:

• 1963 - American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Craftmanship
• 1981 - Gold Medal at the World Bienniale of Architecture held by the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1984 - Silver Medal of the Academie d' Architecture in Paris
• 1996 - Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects
• 2000 - Leone d'oro at the Mostra di Architettura di Venezia (Venice Architecture Biennale) for his lifelong achievement
• 2006 - Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for lifetime achievement

Writings[link]

He has written six books and numerous essays and monographs. When he is not traveling on the international lecture circuit, Soleri divides his time between Cosanti, the original site for his research located in Scottsdale, and Arcosanti.

See also[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Arcosanti

• Arcology
• Arcosanti
• Yavapai County, Arizona
• Mayer, Arizona
• Cosanti
• List of architects
• List of urban planners
• Paolo Soleri Amphitheater
• Lisa A. Scafuro. Phoenix Home & Garden. March, 2008, Page 270. “Paolo Soleri: The Lifetime Achievements of a Living Legacy”

References[link]