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Beijing
Beijing (
/beɪˈdʒɪŋ/; Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng, [peɪ˨˩ t͡ɕiŋ˥]), formerly romanized as Peking ( /piːˈkɪŋ/ or /peɪˈkɪŋ/), is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The metropolis, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government, with 14 urban and suburban districts and two rural counties. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast.
Beijing is China's second largest city by urban population after Shanghai and is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's largest state-owned companies. Beijing is a major transportation hub in the national highway, expressway, railway and high-speed rail network. Beijing's Capital International Airport is the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic.
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Berlin
Berlin ( /bɜrˈlɪn/; German pronunciation: [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn] (
listen)) is the capital city of Germany and one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city proper and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has 5.9 million residents from over 190 nations. Located in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.
First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918), the German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and the Third Reich (1933–1945).Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world. After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin—the capital of East Germany—and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall (1961–1989). Following German reunification in 1990, the city regained its status as the capital of Germany, hosting 147 foreign embassies.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
The Broadway theatre district is a popular tourist attraction in New York. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately $1.081 billion worth of tickets in calendar year 2011, compared with $1.037 billion for 2010. Attendance in 2011 was 12.13 million.
New York did not have a significant theatre presence until about 1750, when actor-managers Walter Murray and Thomas Kean established a resident theatre company at the Theatre on Nassau Street, which held about 280 people. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggar's Opera. In 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice and The Anatomist. The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the year the 2,000-seat Park Theatre was built on Chatham Street (now called Park Row). The Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, and especially so with the arrival of the Virginia Minstrels in the 1840s.
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California
California (pronounced
i/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Chad
Chadi/ˈtʃæd/ (French: Tchad, Arabic: تشاد Tšād), officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country is sometimes referred to as the "Dead Heart of Africa".
Chad is divided into multiple regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanese savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second largest in Africa. Chad's highest peak is the Emi Koussi in the Sahara, and N'Djamena, (formerly Fort-Lamy), the capital, is the largest city. Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Arabic and French are the official languages. Islam and Christianity are the most widely practiced religions.
Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium BC, a series of states and empires rose and fell in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa.
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Ireland
Coordinates: 53°20′N 08°00′W / 53.333°N 8°W / 53.333; -8
Ireland (pronounced [ˈaɪrlənd] ( listen); Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann or Airlan) is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth. To its east is the larger island of Great Britain, from which it is separated by the Irish Sea.
Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.4 million. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
Relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain epitomise Ireland's geography with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild but changeable oceanic climate, which avoids extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered the island until the 17th century. Today, it is one of the most deforested areas in Europe. There are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland.
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Liberia
Liberia
i/laɪˈbɪəriə/, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Ivory Coast on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open to a plateau of drier grasslands. The country possesses 40% of the remaining Upper Guinean rainforest. Liberia has a hot equatorial climate, with significant rainfall during the May to October rainy season and harsh harmattan winds the remainder of the year. Liberia covers an area of 111,369 km2 (43,000 sq mi) and is home to about 3.7 million people. English is the official language, while over 30 indigenous languages are spoken within the country.
Along with Ethiopia, Liberia is one of the two modern countries in Sub-Saharan Africa without roots in the European colonization of Africa. Beginning in 1820, the region was colonized by freed American slaves with the help of the American Colonization Society, a private organization that believed ex-slaves would have greater freedom and equality in Africa. Slaves freed from slave ships were also sent there instead of being repatriated to their countries of origin. In 1847, these colonists founded the Republic of Liberia, establishing a government modeled on that of the United States and naming the capital city Monrovia after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States and a prominent supporter of the colonization. The colonists, known as Americo-Liberians, led the political and economic sectors of the country.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (i/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
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Rishikesh
Rishikesh (Hindi: ऋषिकेश), also spelled Hrishikesh, Rushikesh or Hrushikesh, is a city and a municipal board in Dehradun district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Located in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, it is known as The Gateway to the Himalayas. Rishikesh is surrounded by three other districts namely Tehri Garhwal, Pauri Garhwal and Haridwar. It is located around 25 km north of holy city, Haridwar. Rishikesh has a permanent population of around 75,000.
"Hṛṣīkeśa" (Sanskrit: हृषीकेश) is a name of Vishnu that means 'lord of the senses'. The root words Hrishik and ish join together to make Hrishikesh. Hrishik means Senses and ish means master or Lord. Hence the word means Lord of Senses or Lord Vishnu. The place gets its name after Lord Vishnu who appeared to 'Raibhya Rishi', as a result of his tapasya (austerities), as Lord Hrishikesh. In Skanda Purana, this area is known as 'Kubjamrak' as Lord Vishnu appeared, under a mango tree.
The name Rishikesh is loosely applied to an association of five distinct sections encompassing not only the town but also hamlets and settlements on both sides of the river Ganges. These include Rishikesh itself, the commercial and communication hub; the sprawling suburb Muni-ki-Reti or the "sands of the sages"; Shivananda Nagar the home of Sivananda Ashram and the Divine Life Society founded by Swami Sivananda, north of Rishikesh; the temple section of Lakshman Jhula, a little further north; and the assorted Ashrams around Swarg Ashram on the east bank. One can reach the famous Neelakanta Maha Deva Temple from here. The Ganga Aarti performed at dusk at the Triveni Ghat is popular with visitors. 'Neelkanth Mahadev Temple', situated 28 km from Rishikesh, amidst forest is also a popular local pilgrimage, along with 'Vasishtha Guha', (Cave of sage Vasishtha), 21 km up from the town by the Ganges.
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Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand[needs IPA] (Sanskrit: उत्तराखण्डम्, Uttarākhanḍam ?, Hindi: उत्तराखण्ड, Uttarākhanḍ ?), formerly Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the Land of Gods (Hindi: देव भूमि, Dēv bhūmi ?) due to the many holy Hindu temples and cities found throughout the state, some of which are among Hinduism's most spiritual and auspicious places of pilgrimage and worship. Known for its natural beauty and wealth of the Himalayas, the Bhabhar and the Terai, the state was carved out of the Himalayan and adjoining north-western districts of Uttar Pradesh on 9 November 2000, becoming the 27th state of the Republic of India. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region on the north, the Mahakali Zone of Far-Western Region, Nepal on the east and the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh to the south and Himachal Pradesh to the north west.
The region is traditionally referred to as Uttarakhand in Hindu scriptures and old literature, a term which derives from Sanskrit uttara (उत्तर) meaning north, and khaṇḍ (खण्ड्) meaning country or part of a country. It has an area of 20,682 sq mi (53,566 km²).
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Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival (Italian Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia) is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy. Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi and in other venues nearby. It is one of the world's most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale (Italian Biennale di Venezia), for over a century one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world (founded in 1895). It is known world-wide for the International Film Festival, the International Art Exhibition and the International Architecture Exhibition, and continues the great tradition of the Festival of Contemporary Music, the Theatre Festival, now flanked by the Festival of Contemporary Dance.
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Allison MacKenzie
Allison MacKenzie is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in the novel Peyton Place, its sequel Return to Peyton Place, the subsequent film adaptations of both, and the primetime television series and daytime soap opera they inspired.
In the film Peyton Place, she was portrayed by Diane Varsi; in the movie sequel, Return to Peyton Place, she was played by actress Carol Lynley; in the 1960s television serial Peyton Place, she was played by Mia Farrow; and in the 1974 daytime serial Return to Peyton Place, she was played by actresses Katherine Glass and Pamela Susan Shoop.
In the TV series she appeared from the first episode to the 263rd episode, between 1964 and 1966.
In the original novel, Allison was the illegitimate daughter of Constance MacKenzie, the owner of a clothing store in Peyton Place, a small community in New Hampshire, and an imported fabric store owner also named Allison MacKenzie (in the movie, her father was named Angus, and in the television series, he was a New York City businessman named James).
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André Previn
André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings.
Previn was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Charlotte (née Epstein) and Jack Previn, who was a lawyer, judge, and music teacher. He is said to be "a distant relative of" the composer Gustav Mahler. However, In a pre-concert public interview at the Lincoln Center, in May 2012, Previn laughed at the suggestion that he is related to Mahler. The year of his birth is uncertain. Whilst most published reports give 1929, Previn himself has stated that 1930 is his birth year. This situation is a consequence of his the family losing Previn's birth certificate when they left Germany in 1938.[citation needed] His elder brother was director Steve Previn.[citation needed] The Previn family, which was Jewish,[citation needed] emigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime in Germany.[citation needed]
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Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani (Italian pronunciation: [ˈanna maɲˈɲani]; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.
Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled.
She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse". Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.
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Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress associated with the method acting school, which she had studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was often acknowledged for her work in film, theatre and television. She won one Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, two Tony Awards and two Emmy Awards, and several other awards and nominations.
She made her film debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) and, following a string of supporting film roles during the 1950s, won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Miracle Worker (1962), receiving subsequent nominations for her roles in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977), and Agnes of God (1985). Bancroft's other acclaimed movies as a lead actress include Young Winston (1972), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
Later in her career, she made the transition back to supporting roles in theatrical films such as Point of No Return (1993), Home for the Holidays (1995), Great Expectations (1998), Antz (1998), Keeping the Faith (2000), and Heartbreakers (2001). She also starred in seven television films, the last of which was The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003) for which she received Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
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Annette Bening
Annette Carol Bening (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress. Bening is a four-time Oscar nominee for her roles in The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia and The Kids Are All Right, winning Golden Globe Awards for the latter two films. Bening is married to actor Warren Beatty, with whom she has four children.
Bening was born in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her mother, Shirley (née Ashley), was a church singer and soloist, and her father, Arnett Grant Bening, was a sales training consultant and insurance salesman. Her parents, natives of Iowa, were practicing Episcopalians and conservative Republicans. Her sister and two brothers are Jane, Bradley and Byron. The family moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1959, where she spent her early childhood. In 1965, her father took a job with a company in San Diego, California, and they moved there. She began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in The Sound of Music. She graduated in 1975, from Patrick Henry High School where she studied drama.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Beijing
Beijing ( /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/; Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng, [peɪ˨˩ t͡ɕiŋ˥]), formerly romanized as Peking ( /piːˈkɪŋ/ or /peɪˈkɪŋ/), is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The metropolis, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government, with 14 urban and suburban districts and two rural counties. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast.
Beijing is China's second largest city by urban population after Shanghai and is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's largest state-owned companies. Beijing is a major transportation hub in the national highway, expressway, railway and high-speed rail network. Beijing's Capital International Airport is the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic.
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Bernard Slade
Bernard Slade (born May 2, 1930) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.
Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Slade began his career as an actor with the Garden Center Theatre in Vineland, Ontario. In the mid-1960s, he relocated to Hollywood and began to work as a writer for television sitcoms, including Bewitched. When ABC gave him the opportunity to create a series, he devised Love on a Rooftop, similar in theme to Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, about a young couple living in a windowless walk-up apartment with access to a rooftop with a view of San Francisco.
The following year, Slade created The Flying Nun (adapted from Tere Rios' book, "The Fifteenth Pelican"), with Sally Field as a young novice whose habit's headgear enabled her to fly. He also was responsible for The Partridge Family, based on the real-life Cowsills, and Bridget Loves Bernie, inspired by the play Abie's Irish Rose.
Despite his success in TV, Slade returned to the theater in 1975 with his play Same Time, Next Year, about a couple who are married to others but meet once-a-year for sex and conversation. With Charles Grodin and Ellen Burstyn in the leads, the play was a major hit and ran for 1453 performances. Slade received the Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. In 1978, he followed with Tribute, the story of a man who learns to love his father, a successful actor who always had more time for his theatrical cohorts than his son. Even with Jack Lemmon heading the cast, it proved to be far less successful than its predecessor, closing after 212 performances. Slightly more successful was Romantic Comedy (1979), starring Anthony Perkins and Mia Farrow. Slade wrote the screenplays for the film versions of all three plays, and was Oscar-nominated for his screen adaptation of Same Time, Next Year.
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Carey Mulligan
Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She made her film debut as Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). She had roles in numerous British programmes and, in 2007, made her Broadway debut in The Seagull to critical acclaim.
In 2009, she gained widespread recognition for playing the lead role of Jenny in An Education, winning a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and also being nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for her performance. She went on to star in dramatic films such as The Greatest, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, Drive and Shame.
Mulligan was born in Westminster, London, England. Her father, Stephen, was originally from Liverpool, and her mother, Nano (née Booth), a college lecturer, came from Llandeilo in West Wales. Her paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland. Mulligan has one sibling, an elder brother. At the age of 3, she moved with her family from England to Germany after her father accepted the job of managing the European arm of Intercontinental Hotels. Due to her father's job, her family lived in expensive hotels for 8 years. She was "quite shy" during her childhood and a tomboy until the age of 15. She was also "quite straight-laced" and very academic until age 14, having then become more interested in acting. She was educated at Woldingham School, a girls' boarding school.
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Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for her Oscar-nominated role in the film Sounder and the television movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots.
Tyson was born and raised in Harlem, New York, the daughter of Theodosia, a domestic, and William Tyson, her father, who worked as a carpenter, a painter, or any other jobs he could find. Her parents were immigrants from the island of Nevis of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies; Her father arrived in New York City at the age of 21 and was processed at Ellis Island on August 4, 1919. Tyson married legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis on November 26, 1981. The ceremony was conducted by Atlanta mayor Andrew Young at the home of actor Bill Cosby. Tyson and Davis divorced in 1988. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. On May 17, 2009, Tyson received an honorary degree from Morehouse College, an all-male college.
Tyson was discovered or found by a photographer for Ebony magazine and became a popular fashion model. Her first credited film role was in Carib Gold in 1956, but she went on to do television such as the celebrated series East Side/West Side and the soap opera The Guiding Light. In 1961, Tyson appeared in the original cast of French playwright Jean Genet's The Blacks, the longest running off-Broadway non-musical of the decade, running for 1,408 performances. The original cast also featured James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Louis Gossett, Jr., Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone. She appeared with Sammy Davis, Jr. in the film A Man Called Adam (film) (1966) and starred in the film version of Graham Greene's The Comedians (1967). Tyson had a featured role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) and was in a segment of the movie Roots.
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Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol (French: [klod ʃaˈbʁɔl]; 1930–2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker.
Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme Infidèle (1969) and Le Boucher (1970) — all featuring his then-wife, Stéphane Audran.
Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary (1991) and La Ceremonie (1996).
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Danny Glover
Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is well known for his roles as Mr. Albert Johnson in The Color Purple, as Michael Harrigan in Predator 2, as corrupt cop James McFee in Witness, as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise, as Detective David Tapp in Saw as George Knox in Angels in the Outfield, and for his catch phrase "I'm too old for this shit." He has also appeared in many other movies, television shows, and theatrical productions. He is an active supporter of various humanitarian and political causes. He currently stars as Professor Arthur Teller in the Fox television series Touch.
Glover was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Carrie (née Hunley) and James Glover. His parents, postal workers, were active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), working to advance equal rights. Glover's mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia and graduated from Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. Glover grew up with a love for sports, like his father. Glover suffered from epilepsy in his teens and as a young adult. According to his own account, he "developed a way of concentrating so that seizures wouldn't happen." Using this technique, which he describes as "a type of self-hypnosis", Glover says he has not suffered a seizure since age 34.[citation needed]
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Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona. She became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and received Academy Award nominations for Reds (1981) and Marvin's Room (1996). Some of her popular later films include Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and The Family Stone (2005). Keaton's films have earned a cumulative gross of over US$1.1 billion in North America. In addition to acting, she is also a photographer, real estate developer, author, and occasional singer.
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Donovan
Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch, 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist. Initially labelled as an imitator of Bob Dylan, Donovan quickly developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music (notably calypso). He has variously lived in Scotland, London, California and Ireland, and currently lives with his family in County Cork in Ireland.
Emerging from the British folk scene, Donovan shot to fame in the United Kingdom in early 1965 with a series of live performances on the pop TV series, Ready Steady Go!. Initially signing with the British label Pye Records in 1965, he recorded a handful of singles and two albums in the folk music vein, but after signing a new contract with the US label Epic Records his popularity rapidly spread to the US and other countries. After extricating himself from his original management contract, he began a long and successful collaboration with Mickie Most, one of the leading British independent record producers of the era, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the US, Australia and other countries. His successful records in the 1960s included the UK hits "Catch the Wind" and "Colours" in 1965, while "Sunshine Superman" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year, and reached #2 in Britain. Donovan was the first artist to be signed to CBS/Epic Records by then-new Administrative Vice President Clive Davis, who later became head of the CBS Record empire.
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Dory Previn
Dory Previn, born Dorothy Veronica Langan (October 22, 1925 – February 14, 2012), was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet.
During the late 1950s and 1960s she was a lyricist on songs intended for motion pictures and, with her then husband, André Previn, received several Academy Award nominations. In the 1970s, after their divorce, she released six albums of original songs and an acclaimed live album. Previn's lyrics from this period are characterized by their originality, irony and honesty in dealing with her troubled personal life as well as more generally about relationships, sexuality, religion and psychology. She continued to work until her death as a writer of song lyrics and prose.
Previn was born in Rahway, New Jersey, the eldest daughter in a strict Catholic family of Irish origin. She had a troubled relationship with her father, especially during childhood. He had served in the First World War and been gassed, and experienced periods of depression and violent mood swings. He tended to alternately embrace and reject her, but supported her when she began to show talents for singing and dancing. However, his mental health deteriorated after the birth of a second daughter, culminating in a paranoid episode in which he boarded the family up in their home and held them at gunpoint for several months. Previn's childhood experiences, described in her autobiography Midnight Baby, had a profound effect on her later life and work.
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Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters.
He first drew critical praise for the play Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This was soon followed by his breakthrough movie role as the good-looking but troubled Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967). Since then Hoffman's career has largely been focused on cinema, with only sporadic returns to television and the stage. Some of his most notable films are Papillon, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Lenny, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, and Meet the Fockers.
Hoffman has won two Academy Awards (for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man), five Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999.
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Edith Evans
Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was a British actress. She was known for her work on the British stage. She also appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award.
Evans was particularly well known at portraying haughty aristocratic ladies, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (both on stage and in the 1952 film), and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones. By contrast, she played a poverty-stricken old woman in one of her most acclaimed film roles, in The Whisperers (1967).
Edith Evans was born in London, the daughter of Edward Evans, a civil servant, and his wife, Caroline Ellen Foster. She was educated at St Michael's Church of England School, Pimlico, before being apprenticed at the age of 15 in 1903 as a milliner.
Her first stage appearance was with Miss Massey's Shakespeare Players in the role of Viola in Twelfth Night in October 1910. In 1912 she was discovered by the noted producer William Poel and made her first professional appearance for Poel in August of that year, playing the role of Gautami in a 6th century Hindu classic, Sakuntala. She received much attention with her performance as Cressida in Troilus and Cressida in London and subsequently at Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.
National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre.
Her much publicized personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the Legion of Honour, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, who named her seventh on their list of the "Greatest American Screen Legends". Taylor died of congestive heart failure in March 2011 at the age of 79, having suffered many years of ill health.
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Felicity Huffman
Felicity Kendall Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night (1998–2000), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate Housewives (2004–2012), which has earned her an Emmy Award.
In 2005, her critically acclaimed role as a trans woman in the independent film Transamerica earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. She has also starred in films such as Reversal of Fortune, The Spanish Prisoner, Magnolia, Path to War, Georgia Rule and Phoebe in Wonderland.
Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, the daughter of Grace Valle (née Ewing), an actress, and Moore Peters Huffman, a banker and partner at Morgan Stanley. Her parents divorced a year after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her mother. She has six sisters (Mariah, Betsy, Jane, Grace, Isabel, Jessie) and a brother (Moore Jr.).[citation needed] She attended The Putney School, a private boarding high school in Putney, Vermont and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan in 1980. After high school she went on to New York University where she graduated in 1984 from Circle In The Square, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama.[citation needed]
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Fernanda Montenegro
Fernanda Montenegro (born Arlete Pinheiro Esteves da Silva; October 16, 1929) is a Brazilian stage, television and film actress, mostly recognized for her leading role in Central Station, which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Brazilian actor to be nominated.
She is commonly revered as one of Brazil's finest actresses and referred to as "The First Lady of Brazilian Theater" and "The First Lady of Brazilian Television".
Montenegro was born Arlete Pinheiro Esteves da Silva in Rio de Janeiro, of Portuguese and Italian descent. Regarding the adoption of a stage name, the actress has stated that she chose Fernanda simply because of its sonority, whilst Montenegro was the surname of her family's doctor. Montenegro was married to Fernando Torres from 1954 until his death in 2008. They had two children: Fernanda Torres who is an actress and has been nominated for the Cannes Film Festival and film director Cláudio Torres.
In late 1940s, Montenegro was adapting famous theatre plays to radio. She began her artistic life in the theatre with the play Alegres Canções nas Montanhas (Happy Songs on the Mountain) in 1950. Among her mates was Fernando Torres, who would soon become her husband. In the next years she worked with other acclaimed actors like Sérgio Britto, Cacilda Becker, Nathalia Timberg, Cláudio Correa e Castro and Ítalo Rossi. In 1951 she become one of the TV's pioneers in Brazil, working in Rio de Janeiro's TV Tupi - the second TV station of South America. She played in several plays on TV between 1951 and 1970.
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Frances McDormand
Frances Louise McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an American film and stage actress. She has starred in a number of films, including her Academy Award-winning performance as Marge Gunderson in Fargo, in 1996. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2011 for her performance in Good People as Margie Walsh, having been nominated for the same category in 1988 for the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.
McDormand is a three-time nominee of the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Mississippi Burning, Almost Famous, and North Country, and has also been nominated for four Golden Globes, three BAFTA Awards, and an Emmy Award. She also starred in the Coen Brothers debut, Blood Simple.
McDormand was born in Chicago and was adopted by the McDormands, a Canadian couple – Noreen, a registered nurse and receptionist, and Vernon, a Disciples of Christ pastor. She has said that her biological mother may have been one of the parishioners at Vernon's church. She has a sister, Dorothy A. McDormand, who is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister and chaplain, as well as another sibling, both of whom were adopted by the McDormands, who had no biological children. As her father specialized in restoring congregations, he frequently moved their family, and they lived in several small towns in Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, before settling in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area town of Monessen, where she graduated from high school in 1976. She attended Bethany College, West Virginia, and earned a B.A. in Theater in 1979.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, /sɨˈnɑːtrə/, (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.
He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
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Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist. She is known for her roles in Stuart Little,The Fly, Beetlejuice, Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2005, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in Commander in Chief.
Davis was born in Wareham, Massachusetts. Her mother, Lucille (née Cook), was a teacher's assistant, and her father, William F. Davis, was a civil engineer and church deacon; her parents had both been from small towns in Vermont. She has a brother named Danforth ("Dan"). At an early age, she became interested in music. She learned piano and flute and played organ well enough as a teenager to serve as an organist at her Congregationalist church in Wareham. Davis attended Wareham High School and was an exchange student in Sandviken, Sweden, becoming fluent in Swedish. Enrolling at New England College, she eventually graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from Boston University in 1979. Davis is a member of Mensa, a social organization whose members are in the top 2% of intelligence as measured by an IQ test entrance exam.
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Gena Rowlands
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress of film, stage and television. The four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner is best known for her collaborations with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, in two of which, Gloria and A Woman Under the Influence, she gave Academy Award-nominated performances.
Rowlands was born as Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in Madison, Wisconsin. Her mother, Mary Allen (née Neal), was a painter and housewife originally from Arkansas. Her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was a banker and a state legislator who was of Welsh descent. Her family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1939 when Edwin was appointed to a position in the United States Department of Agriculture; moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1942 when he was appointed as branch manager of the Office of Price Administration; and later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1947-50, she attended the University of Wisconsin, where she was a popular student already renowned for her beauty. She left for New York City to study drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Geraldine Page
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an American actress. She starred in at least two dozen feature films, but she was primarily known for her performances in American theater. She was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful in March 1986, just over a year before she died.
Page was born in Kirksville, Missouri. She attended the Goodman School of Drama (later renamed The Theatre School at DePaul University) in Chicago and studied acting with Uta Hagen in New York. She began appearing in stock theatre at 17 years of age.
Page was a trained method actor and worked closely with Lee Strasberg.
Her appearance as Alma in the 1952 Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at the downtown Circle in the Square Theatre is as legendary as anything[peacock term] that has ever happened in the American theater. Summer and Smoke had not been particularly well received in its Broadway incarnation. Page's performance (as the minister's daughter consumed with infinite longing) and that 1952 production, directed by José Quintero, gave the play a new life, and, according to common wisdom[who?], it was that production (for its daring, for its fervor, for its being "downtown" rather than in the artistically "safe" realm of Broadway) which gave birth to the Off-Broadway movement in New York theatre. Her work continued, on Broadway, as the spinster in The Rainmaker and as the frustrated wife whose husband becomes romantically obsessed with a young Arab, played by James Dean, in The Immoralist.
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Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.
After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions as well as in more than forty episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, with the release of Mogambo, she became a movie star, a status confirmed in 1954 with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination as well as leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, in which she gave a deglamorized, Academy Award-winning performance. She retired from acting at 26 to enter upon her duties in Monaco. She and Prince Rainier had three children: Caroline, Albert, and Stéphanie. She also retained her American roots, maintaining dual US and Monégasque citizenships.
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Greer Garson
Greer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942).
Greer Garson was born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson in Manor Park, Essex (now Greater London), England in 1904, the only child of George Garson (1865–1906), a clerk born in London, but with Scottish lineage, and his wife, Nina (née Nancy Sophia Greer; died 1958). Her maternal grandfather was David Greer, a RIC sergeant in Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland in the 1880s and who later became a land steward to the Annesley family (wealthy landlords who built the town of Castlewellan). He lived in a large detached house built on the lower part of what was known as Pig Street or known locally as the Back Way near Shilliday's builder's yard. The house was called ‘Claremount’ and today the street is named Claremount Avenue. It was often reported that Garson was born in this house. She was, in fact, born in London, but spent much of her childhood in Castlewellan.
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Hal Wallis
Hal B. Wallis (born Harold Brent Wallis; September 14, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is known for producing Casablanca, and other important films featuring actors such as Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, John Wayne, and many others.
Wallis was born in Chicago in 1898, the son of Eva (née Blum) and Jacob Walinsky, Eastern European Jews. His family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923.
Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, he was involved with the production of more than 400 feature-length movies.
Among the many significant movies he produced was Casablanca, one of the most honored movies in Hollywood history. Others include: Dark Victory, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Now, Voyager, The Maltese Falcon and Sergeant York. Wallis left Warner Bros. in 1944, after a clash with Jack Warner over Warner's acceptance of the Best Picture Oscar to Casablanca, to work as an independent producer, enjoying considerable success both commercially and critically. The first screenwriters he hired for his new enterprise were Ayn Rand and Lillian Hellman. Among his financial hits were the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies, and several of Elvis Presley's movies. He produced True Grit, for which John Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor of 1969, and its sequel. He also produced Mary, Queen of Scots, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson, and Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
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Halle Berry
Halle Berry ( /ˈhæli ˈbɛri/; born August 14, 1966) is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2012, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the most highly paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokesmodel. She has been involved in the production side of several of the films in which she performed.
Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing as the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant (1986), and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. She made her film debut with a small role in 1991's Jungle Fever. This led to starring roles in The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and as Bond Girl Jinx in Die Another Day (2002). She also won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person—one of the few performers to do so.
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Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.
Mirren was born Helen Lydia Mironoff in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick, West London. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (1913–1980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kitty (née Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda Rogers; 1909–1996), was English. Mirren's paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Tsarist Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating an arms deal in Britain, when he and his family were stranded during the Russian Revolution. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family.
His son, Helen Mirren's father, changed the family name to the Scottish-sounding Mirren in the 1950s and became known as Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, and later drove a cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren's mother was from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist".
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Helen Slater
Helen Rachel Slater (born December 15, 1963) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.
She appeared in the title role in the 1984 film Supergirl. In the following years she starred in several successful comedy-drama films such as Ruthless People, The Secret of My Success, and City Slickers. Since then she has found work as an actress in film, television, and stage projects, including guest appearances on the series Smallville. As of 2012, She currently co-stars as Kristin Mercer on ABC Family series The Lying Game.
In the 2000s she recorded three albums, singing her own compositions and playing the piano.
Helen Slater was born in Bethpage, New York, the daughter of Alice Joan (née Citrin), a lawyer and nuclear disarmament peace activist based in New York City, and Gerald Slater, a television executive; the two divorced in 1974. She has a brother, David, who is a lawyer in New York City. Her family is Jewish. Slater attended Great Neck South High School and then transferred to the High School of Performing Arts from which she was graduated in 1982.
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Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter, CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane. She is known for her roles in films such as A Room with a View, Fight Club, and playing the villainess Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series, as well as for frequently collaborating with director and domestic partner Tim Burton in films such as Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows.
A two-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in The Wings of the Dove and The King's Speech, Bonham Carter's acting has been further recognised with six Golden Globe nominations, an International Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to drama, and received the award from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 2012.
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Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway (March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer. He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring Randolph Scott and John Wayne.
Born Henri Leonard de Fiennes in Sacramento, California, he was the son of an American actor and stage manager, Rhody Hathaway (1868–1944), and a Hungarian-born Belgian aristocrat, Marquise Lillie de Fiennes (1876–1938), who acted under the name Jean Hathaway. This branch of the de Fiennes family came to America in the 19th century on behalf of King Leopold I of Belgium and was part of the negotiations with the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Rogier (1800–1885), to secure the 1862 treaty between Belgium and what was then known as the Sandwich Islands and is now called Hawaii.
In 1925, Hathaway began working in silent films as an assistant to notable directors such as Victor Fleming and Josef von Sternberg and made the transition to sound with them. He was the assistant director to Fred Niblo in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur starring Francis X. Bushman and Ramon Novarro. During the remainder of the 1920s, Hathaway learned his craft as an assistant, helping direct future stars such as Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Wray, Walter Huston, Clara Bow, and Noah Beery.
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Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Hunter starred in The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for Oscars for her roles in Broadcast News, The Firm, and Thirteen. Hunter has also won two Emmy Awards with seven nominations and has won a Golden Globe Award with another six nominations.
Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Opal Marguerite (née Catledge), a housewife, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a farmer and sporting-goods manufacturer's representative. Hunter earned a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and for a while performed in the theatre scene there, playing ingenue roles at City Theatre, then named the City Players. She eventually moved to New York City and roomed with fellow actress Frances McDormand. Hunter, in 2008, described living in The Bronx "at the end of the D [subway] train, just off 205th Street, on Bainbridge Avenue and Hull Avenue. It was very Irish, and then you could go just a few blocks away and hit major Italian". A chance encounter with playwright Beth Henley, when the two were trapped alone in an elevator, led to Hunter's being cast in Henley's plays Crimes of the Heart (succeeding Mary Beth Hurt on Broadway), and Off-Broadway's The Miss Firecracker Contest. "It was like the beginning of 1982. It was on 49th Street between Broadway and Eighth [Avenue] [...] on the south side of the street", Hunter recalled in an interview. "[We were trapped] 10 minutes; not long. We actually had a nice conversation. It was just the two of us".
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Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), a World War II drama co-starring Humphrey Bogart and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller co-starring Cary Grant.
Before becoming a star in American films, she had already been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her first introduction to American audiences came with her starring role in the English remake of Intermezzo in 1939. In America, she brought to the screen a "Nordic freshness and vitality", along with exceptional beauty and intelligence, and according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, she quickly became "the ideal of American womanhood" and one of Hollywood's greatest leading actresses.
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Irene Papas
Irene Papas (Greek Ειρήνη Παππά; born 3 September 1926) is a Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over seventy films in a career spanning more than fifty years.
Irene Papas was born as Irini Lelekou (Ειρήνη Λελέκου) in Chiliomodi outside Corinth, Greece.
She sits on the board of directors of the Anna-Marie Foundation.
Papas began her early career in Greece (she was discovered by Elia Kazan), achieving widespread fame there, before starring in internationally renowned films such as The Guns of Navarone and Zorba the Greek, and critically acclaimed films such as Z and Electra. She is a leading figure in cinematic transcriptions of ancient tragedy since she has portrayed Helen in The Trojan Women, Clytemnestra in Iphigenia, and the eponymous parts in Electra and Antigone. She appeared as Catherine of Aragon in the film Anne of the Thousand Days, opposite Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold in 1969. She co-starred in The Trojan Women with Katharine Hepburn, who once said that Papas was "one of the best actresses in the history of cinema".[citation needed]
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Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born 27 June 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). She was also given a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1981 and a Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1989. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English and German.
Adjani was born in an immigrant neighborhood Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris to an Algerian father of Turkish origin from Constantine, Algeria, Mohammed Cherif Adjani. Her father was a soldier in the French Army in World War II. Her mother Augusta, called "Gusti", was German. She grew up bi-lingual, speaking German and French fluently. After winning a school recitation contest, she began acting in amateur theater by the age of twelve. At the age of 14, she starred in her first motion picture Le Petit bougnat (1970).
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Jack Black
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American comedian, actor and musician. He makes up one half of the comedy and satirical rock duo Tenacious D. The group has three albums as well as a television series and a film. His acting career is extensive, starring primarily as bumbling, cocky, but internally self-conscious outsiders in comedy films. He was a member of the Frat Pack, a group of comedians who have appeared together in several Hollywood films, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe award. He has also won an MTV Movie Award, and a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award as well as hosting the 2006, 2008, and 2011 Kids Choice Awards.
Black was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of two satellite engineers, Judith (née Cohen), who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, and Thomas William Black. His mother is Jewish and his father converted to Judaism (Black attended Hebrew school). On The Tonight Show, he said his surname may have come from the occupational name Blacksmith. Black's parents divorced when he was 10; Black moved to Culver City with his father and frequently visited his mother’s home. As a child, Black appeared in a commercial for the Activision game Pitfall! in 1982, which was later shown during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and again on The Tonight Show with Conan O' Brien. When Black entered high school, his parents enrolled him at the Poseidon School, a private secondary school engineered specifically for students struggling in the traditional school system. Black also attended the Crossroads School, where he excelled in drama. He later attended UCLA but dropped out during his sophomore year to pursue a career in entertainment, at which point his father discontinued his financial support.[citation needed] Fellow UCLA alumnus Tim Robbins later cast Black in Bob Roberts. He also had recurring roles on the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show.
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Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer, OBE (born 5 August 1961)Dubious: Discuss is an English actress.
McTeer was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the daughter of Jean (née Morris) and Alan McTeer, and spent her childhood in York. She attended the now defunct Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls, and worked at the Old Starre Inn, at York Minster and at the Theatre Royal. She then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, beginning a successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating.
McTeer's television work includes the BBC production of Nigel Nicolson's book Portrait of a Marriage in which she played Vita Sackville-West and the popular ITV series The Governor written by Lynda La Plante. She made her screen debut in Half Moon Street, a 1986 film based on a novel by Paul Theroux. In 1991, she appeared in Catherine Cookson's The Black Velvet Gown, with Bob Peck and Geraldine Somerville; this won the International Emmy award for best drama. She appeared in the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights (co-starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes) and the 1995 film Carrington (which starred Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce).
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Jean Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
Simmons was born in Lower Holloway, London, England, to Charles Simmons and his wife, Winifred (Loveland) Simmons. Jean was the youngest of four children with siblings Edna, Harold and Lorna. She began acting at the age of 14. During the war, the Simmons family was evacuated to Winscombe in Somerset. Her father, a physical education teacher (who had represented Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics), taught briefly at Sidcot School, and sometime during this period Simmons followed her elder sister on to the village stage and sang songs such as "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow". Returning to London and just enrolled at the Aida Foster School of Dance, she was spotted by the director Val Guest, who cast her in the Margaret Lockwood vehicle Give Us the Moon. Small roles in several other films followed including the high profile Caesar and Cleopatra, produced by Gabriel Pascal. Pascal saw potential in Simmons and in 1945 he signed her to a seven year contract. Prior to moving to Hollywood, she played the young Estella in David Lean's version of Great Expectations (1946) and Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948), for which she received her first Oscar nomination. It was the experience of working on Great Expectations that caused her to pursue an acting career more seriously:
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Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre.
Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled "box office poison".
After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company through her marriage to company Chairman Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973. She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer; after the release of the British horror film Trog in 1970, Crawford retired from the screen. Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life and became more and more reclusive until her death in 1977.
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Joanne Woodward
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).
Woodward was born in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor Gignilliat (née Trimmier) and Wade Woodward, Jr., who at one point was vice president of publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Her middle name, "Gignilliat", originates from distant Huguenot ancestry. She was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name "Joanne". Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's partner and future husband. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1977, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba. During rehearsals, she mentioned this incident to him and he told her he remembered her doing it.
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Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (born Alicia Christian Foster; November 19, 1962) is an American actress, film director, and producer.
Foster began acting in commercials at three years of age, and her first significant role came at age 13 in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Also that year, she starred in the cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell (1994). Other popular films include Bugsy Malone (1976); Freaky Friday (1976); Candleshoe (1977) Maverick (1994); Contact (1997); Panic Room (2002); Flightplan (2005); Inside Man (2006); The Brave One (2007); Nim's Island (2008) and Carnage (2011), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
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John Farrow
John Villiers Farrow, CBE KGCHS (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) was an Australian-born American film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Writing/Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island.
Farrow was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of Lucy Villiers (née Savage), a dressmaker, and Joseph Farrow, a tailor's trimmer. He was educated at Newtown Public School and Fort Street Boys' High School, then passed the exams to get into the Australian Naval College at aged 12. However Farrow claims the Navy was downsizing and demobilising so decided to join the Merchant Service as a cadet instead. He travelled throughout the Pacific, including New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii and Canada. He later claimed to have fought in battles in Nicaragua and Mexico. He studied at St Ignatius College at the University of San Francisco in 1923 for one month, and resumed his travels.
Farrow started writing while working as a sailor and became interested in screenwriting after meeting Robert Flaherty. In 1927 it was reported he was working on a story called The Blue Danube, set in Austria.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $464 million worldwide. After receiving Golden Globe Awards and Academy Award nominations for Steel Magnolias (1989) and Pretty Woman, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich (2000). Her films My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Mystic Pizza (1988), Notting Hill (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), Valentine's Day (2010), The Pelican Brief (1993), Ocean's Eleven (2001), and Ocean's Twelve (2004) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2.4 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.
Roberts had become one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, topping the Hollywood Reporter's annual "power list" of top-earning female stars from 2005 to 2006. Her fee for 1990's Pretty Woman was $300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). As of 2010, Roberts's net worth was estimated to be $140 million.
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Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith on December 3, 1960) is a British-American actress and a children's book author. She has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Moore began her acting career in 1983 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the soap opera As the World Turns, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988. She began to appear in supporting roles in films during the early 1990s, in films such as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Fugitive. Her performance in Short Cuts (1993) won her and the rest of the cast a Golden Globe for their ensemble performance, and her performance in Boogie Nights (1997) brought her widespread attention and nominations for several major acting awards.
Her success continued with films such as The Big Lebowski (1998), The End of the Affair (1999) and Magnolia (1999). She received particular acclaim for her portrayal of a betrayed wife in Far from Heaven (2002), winning several critic awards as best actress of the year, in addition to several other nominations, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award. The same year, she was also nominated for several awards as best supporting actress for her work in The Hours. In 2010, Moore starred in the comedy drama The Kids Are All Right, for which she received a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination.
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Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances.
She began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City, New York. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase (1952), and starred in the Broadway productions of Picnic (1953) and Bus Stop (1955). Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet (1959) and A Far Country (1962).
During the 1950s, Stanley was a prolific performer in television, and later progressed to film, with a well-received performance in The Goddess (1959). She was the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and starred in Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was less active during the remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the mother of Frances Farmer in Frances (1982), for which she received a second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and as Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff (1983). She received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Big Mama in a television adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985).
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Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville (born 12 March 1956) is an English actress of film, theatre and television. She frequently collaborates with director Mike Leigh, twice being named British Actress of the Year at the London Film Critics Circle Awards for her performances in the Mike Leigh films, All or Nothing and Another Year. She is also a BAFTA and Olivier award nominee.
Born in Brighton, Manville was brought up in Hove, East Sussex, one of three daughters of a taxicab driver. Training as a soprano singer from age 8, she twice became under-18 champion of Sussex. She began acting as a teenager, appearing in television series such as King Cinder. As a result, at age 15, she gained a place at the Italia Conti Stage School.
After turning down teacher Arlene Phillips' invitation to join her new dance troupe Hot Gossip, she was taught improvisation by Italia Conti teacher Julia Carey.
Her first job was in West End theatre in the musical I and Albert directed by John Schlesinger, which was followed by television presentation on Westward Television's version of the BBC's Blue Peter. She paid for her first flat taking a part on Emmerdale Farm, which lasted for 80 episodes.
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Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was called "The First Lady of American Cinema".
She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation (1915). Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic, but included memorable roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter (1955). She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August.
The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time. She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.
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Linda Hunt
Lydia Susanna Hunter (born April 2, 1945), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage and television actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980), Hunt portrayed Billy Kwan, her breakthrough performance, in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Her role as Billy Kwan earned her an Academy Award, an Australian Film Institute Award, a Golden Globe nomination and various other awards.
She continued success in films such as The Bostonians (1984), Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), Eleni (1985), Waiting for the Moon (1987), She-Devil (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), If Looks Could Kill (1991), Rain Without Thunder (1992), Twenty Bucks (1993), Younger and Younger (1993), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), Pocahontas (1995), The Relic (1997), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998), Dragonfly (2002), Yours Mine and Ours (2005) and Stranger Than Fiction (2006).
Hunt has also had a successful television career. She played Rose in the television movie Basements (1987) and narrated in the television movie The New Chimpanzees. She guest starred on Hallmark Hall of Fame in both 1978 and 1987, Space Rangers in 1993, Carnivale in both 2003 and 2005, Without a Trace in 2008, The Unit in 2008 and Nip Tuck in 2009. From 1997-2002 Hunt played the recurring role of Judge Zoey Hiller on The Practice. She currently plays Henrietta 'Hetty' Lange on the CBS television series NCIS Los Angeles, a role she has played since its debut in 2009. The role earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination in 2011. She is also the narrator in the God Of War video game franchise.
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Liv Ullmann
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Nominated five times for a Best Actress Golden Globe, winning once for The Emigrants, Ullmann has also been nominated for the Palme d'Or, two times for the Academy Award, and two times for a BAFTA Film Award.
Ullmann was born in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Janna (née Lund) and Viggo Ullmann, an aircraft engineer who was working in Tokyo at the time. At age two, the family moved to Toronto, Canada where her father worked at the Norwegian air force base on Toronto Island during World War II. Four years later, her father died of a brain tumor, an event that affected her deeply. After the war, the rest of the family moved to Trondheim, Norway, where Ullman spent the rest of her youth. She currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ullmann began her acting career on the Norwegian stage in the mid 1950s. She continued to act in the theatre for most of her career, and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, but became wider known once she started to work with eminent Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. She went on to act to significant acclaim in 10 of his most admired films, including Persona in 1966, The Passion of Anna in 1969, Cries and Whispers in 1972 and Autumn Sonata, in which her co-star, Ingrid Bergman, made her return to Swedish cinema. She co-starred often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator, Erland Josephson, with whom she made the 1973 Swedish television drama, Scenes from a Marriage, which was also edited to feature-film length and distributed theatrically. Ullmann appeared with Laurence Olivier in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far in 1977.
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Luc Besson
Luc Besson (French pronunciation: [lyk bɛsɔ̃]; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, writer, and producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company. He has been involved with more than 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and/or producer.
Besson was born in Paris to parents who were both Club Med scuba diving instructors. This had a profound influence on his childhood as Besson planned on becoming a marine biologist. He spent much of his youth traveling with his parents to tourist resorts in Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece. The family returned to France when Besson was 10. His parents promptly divorced and were remarried to other people. "Here there is two families, and I am the only bad souvenir of something that doesn't work," he said in the International Herald Tribune. "And if I disappear, then everything is perfect. The rage to exist comes from here. I have to do something! Otherwise I am going to die."
At the age of 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive.
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Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen Paula O'Sullivan (May 17, 1911 – June 23, 1998) was an Irish actress. She was known as the "first Irish movie star".
O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland in 1911 to Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in the Connaught Rangers who served in World War I, and his wife, Mary. She attended a convent school in Dublin, then the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton (now Woldingham School). One of her classmates there was Vivian Mary Hartley, future Academy Award-winning actress Vivien Leigh. After attending finishing school in France, O'Sullivan returned to Dublin to work with the poor.
O'Sullivan's film career began when she met motion picture director Frank Borzage who was doing location filming on Song o' My Heart for 20th Century Fox. He suggested she take a screen test. She did and won a part in the movie, which starred Irish tenor John McCormack. She traveled to the United States to complete the movie in Hollywood. O'Sullivan appeared in six movies at Fox, then made three more at other movie studios.
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Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of all time.
Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Academy Award nomination and the latter her first win. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).
Streep has received 17 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 26 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, an Australian Film Institute Award, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2009 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actress in each award's history.
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Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, singer, humanitarian, and fashion model.
Farrow first gained wide acclaim for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the soap opera Peyton Place, and for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. An early film role, as the woman pregnant with Satan's baby in 1968's Rosemary's Baby, saw her portrayal nominated for many awards.
Farrow has appeared in more than 45 films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), three BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Farrow is also known for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She is involved in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic. In 2008, Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world.
Farrow was born as Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Australian film director John Farrow and Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She was raised Roman Catholic. Her sisters are Prudence and actors Stephanie and Tisa. She has three brothers: Michael Damien (1939–1958), Patrick Joseph (1942–2009) and John Charles (born 1946).[citation needed]
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Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963 in Versailles, France) is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.[citation needed]
Gondry was born in Versailles, France. He is the grandson of inventor Constant Martin. He has a teenage son named Paul, who is also an artist.
Gondry's vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion, according to Gondry himself in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life by journalist Robert K. Elder. Much of his inspiration, he says, came from the film Le voyage en ballon.
When I watch this movie, I dream I’m flying and then I do stories where people are flying. I think it’s directly influencing.
His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, in which he also served as a drummer. The style of his videos for Oui Oui caught the attention of music artist Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behaviour". The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry directing a total of seven music videos for Björk. Other artists who have collaborated with Gondry on more than one occasion include Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead, and Beck. Gondry has also created numerous television commercials. He pioneered the "bullet time" technique later adapted in The Matrix,[citation needed] in a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed advertisements for clothing retailer Gap, Incorporated.
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Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer ( /ˈfaɪfər/; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream attention with her performance in Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983). Pfeiffer has won numerous awards for her work. She received six consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama award in 1990 for The Fabulous Baker Boys. She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Dangerous Liaisons, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Love Field, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for the same films.
Pfeiffer rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with critically acclaimed performances in the films Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Russia House (1990), Frankie and Johnny (1991), Love Field (1992), Batman Returns (1992), and The Age of Innocence (1993).
She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 6, 2007. The star is located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard and is recognised as STAR 2,345.
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Mike Love
Michael Edward "Mike" Love (born March 15, 1941) is an American singer/songwriter and musician with The Beach Boys. He was a founding member of the band along with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine, and continues to perform with the band to the present day. Love, along with the other founding members of the Beach Boys, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
As young children, Mike Love's mother, Emily Glee (née Wilson), and her brother, Murry Wilson, had moved with their parents to Los Angeles in 1922. Emily married Edwin Milton Love, and Mike was born in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, in 1941. Murry Wilson was a songwriter and musician with a few minor triumphs to his credit, including a song performed on the Lawrence Welk radio show in 1952. The Wilson family home in nearby Hawthorne was a musical one, and Mike often sang with the Wilson family at get-togethers at the Wilson home during his childhood.
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Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English stage, film and television actor. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and has won two Golden Globes (with seven nominations) and a BAFTA (with seven nominations) during her career.
Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, to Marian Georgina (née Townsend), a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive. The second daughter of a middle class family, she revealed a talent for acting as a girl.
Richardson enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, having started out with juvenile performances in Cinderella and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime at the Southport Dramatic Club. Richardson enjoyed a successful and extensive theatre career, making her stage debut in Moving at the Queen's Theatre in 1981. Soon afterwards, she appeared in repertory theatre, until she found recognition in the West End for a series of stage performances, ultimately receiving an Olivier Award nomination for her performance in A Lie of the Mind, and in 1996, she is cited as "the greatest actress of our time in any medium" by one critic after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival. She returned to the London stage in May 2009 to play the lead role in Wallace Shawn's new play, Grasses of a Thousand Colours at the Royal Court Theatre.
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Mos Def
Dante Terrell Smith (born December 11, 1973) is an American actor and MC, known by the stage names Mos Def ( /ˌmoʊsˈdɛf/) and Yasiin Bey. He started his hip hop career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. With Talib Kweli, he formed the duo Black Star, which released the album Black Star in 1998. He was a major force in late 1990s underground hip hop while with Rawkus Records. As a solo artist he has released the albums Black on Both Sides in 1999, The New Danger in 2004, True Magic in 2006, and The Ecstatic in 2009.
Although he was initially recognized for his musical output, since the early 2000s, Mos Def's screen work has established him as one of only a handful of rappers who has garnered critical acclaim for his acting work. He is well known for his portrayal of Brother Sam in the American drama series Dexter. Mos Def has also been active in several social and political causes.
He was born Dante Terrell Smith in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Sheron Smith and Abdul Rahman. He was raised by his mother in Brooklyn; his father lived in New Jersey. While his father was initially a member of the Nation of Islam and later an active member in the community of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, who merged into mainstream Islam from the Nation, Mos Def was not exposed to Islam until the age of 13. At 19, he took his shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith. He is friends with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest.
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Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Mary de Havilland (born 1 July 1916) is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.
Olivia de Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan, to parents from the United Kingdom. Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland (31 August 1872 – 20 May 1968, aged 95), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta (née Ruse; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975, aged 88) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine. Her parents married in 1914 and they separated in 1919, when Lilian decided to end the marriage after discovering that her husband used the sexual services of geisha girls, but divorce was not signed until February 1925.
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Omar al-Bashir
Lieutenant General Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir (Arabic: عمر حسن أحمد البشير; born 1 January 1944) is the President of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi.
In October 2005, al-Bashir's government negotiated an end to the Second Sudanese Civil War, one of the longest-running and deadliest wars of the 20th century, by granting limited autonomy to Southern Sudan dominated by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). Since then, however, there has been a violent conflict in Darfur that has resulted in death tolls between 200,000 and 400,000. During his presidency, there have been several violent struggles between the Janjaweed militia and rebel groups such the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in the form of guerrilla warfare in the Darfur region. The civil war has resulted in over 2.5 million people being displaced, and the diplomatic relations between Sudan and Chad being at a crisis level.
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Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also played Olivia Walton in the 1971 made-for-television film The Homecoming, A Christmas Story, a role played in the regular series by actress Michael Learned.
Neal was born Patsy Louise Neal, in Packard, Whitley County, Kentucky, to William Burdette and Eura Petrey Neal. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended Knoxville High School, and studied drama at Northwestern University.
After moving to New York, she accepted her first job as understudy in the Broadway production of The Voice of the Turtle. Next she appeared in Another Part of the Forest (1946), winning the 1947 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, in the first ever presentation of the Tony awards.
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Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991) was an English actress.
Born as Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon, Surrey, Ashcroft attended the Woodford School, Croydon and the Central School of Speech and Drama. A prolific stage actress from a young age, she first gained notoriety playing Naemi in Jew Suss in 1929, and Desdemona opposite Paul Robeson's Othello two years later, during which time the two had a brief affair.
Stardom came in 1934 when she played Juliet in a legendary production of Romeo and Juliet, at the New Theatre, in which Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud alternated in the roles of Romeo and Mercutio. She and Gielgud would later be acclaimed as Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, which they played together a number of times, including a London engagement and European tour for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1955 (she also played Cordelia to his King Lear during that tour). When she first played Beatrice with him in 1950, Gielgud found her performance "a revelation - an impish, rather tactless girl with a curious resemblance to Bea Lillie," while a teenage Peter Hall observed in her "English containment and decency, contrasted with a wild passion." She stayed at the top of the British theatrical profession throughout her career, with some of the highlights Three Sisters (1937) in which she played Irina, The Heiress (1949), Antony and Cleopatra (1953), As You Like It and Cymbeline (as Imogen) (1957), The Taming of the Shrew (1960), and The War of the Roses, the Royal Shakespeare Company's massive landmark compendium of the three Henry VI plays and Richard III, directed by Peter Hall for the RSC in 1963. Her last appearances for the RSC were as the Countess of Rousillon in Trevor Nunn's 1981 All's Well That Ends Well, a "perfect…performance" according to Financial Times critic Bertram Young, and in a revival of The Hollow Crown for a gala performance at The Swan on 22 June 1986.
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People (magazine)
People (originally called People Weekly) is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. As of 2006, it has a circulation of 3.75 million and revenue expected to top $1.5 billion. It was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age in October 2005, for excellence in editorial, circulation and advertising.People ranked #6 on Advertising Age's annual "A-list" and #3 on Adweek's "Brand Blazers" list in October 2006.
The magazine runs a roughly 50/50 mix of celebrity and human-interest articles. People's editors claim to refrain from printing pure celebrity gossip, enough so to lead celebrity publicists to propose exclusives to the magazine, evidence of what one staffer calls a "publicist-friendly strategy".
People's website, People.com, focuses exclusively on celebrity news. In February 2007, the website drew 39.6 million page views "within a day" of the Golden Globes. However "the mother ship of Oscar coverage" broke a site record with 51.7 million page views on the day after the Oscars, beating the previous record set just a month before from the Golden Globes.[not in citation given]
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Prudence Farrow
Prudence Anne Villiers Farrow Bruns (born January 20, 1948, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American author, meditation teacher, and film producer. She is the daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan, and the younger sister of actress Mia Farrow. She is the subject of the Beatles song "Dear Prudence".
Farrow was raised in the Catholic faith and attended convent schools. Farrow first learned the Transcendental Meditation technique in 1966 at UCLA, In 1967, after contemplating joining a convent and then trying LSD, 19-year old Farrow became interested in yoga. She opened a yoga institute at a former church in Boston.
On January 23, 1968, Farrow, along with her sister Mia and brother John, traveled with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi by plane from New York to India, and then to the Maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh, India for a Transcendental Meditation teacher training course.[citation needed]
The Beatles arrived shortly thereafter, on the February 16 and 20. Farrow became so serious about her meditation while in India, that she "turned into a near recluse" and "rarely came out" of the cottage she was living in. Her sister reports she meditated 23 hours a day. John Lennon was asked to "contact her and make sure she came out more often to socialize". As a result Lennon wrote the song "Dear Prudence". Lennon said later that "She'd been locked in for three weeks and was trying to reach God quicker than anyone else".
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Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.
His films MASH (1970), McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), and Nashville (1975) have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Helen (née Matthews), a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler, who came from an upper-class family. Altman's ancestry was German, English and Irish; his paternal grandfather, Frank Altman, Sr., anglicized the spelling of the family name from "Altmann" to "Altman". Altman had a Catholic upbringing, but he did not continue to practice as a Catholic as an adult, although he has been referred to as "a sort of Catholic" and a Catholic director. He was educated at Jesuit schools, including Rockhurst High School, in Kansas City. He graduated from Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri in 1943.
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Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.
Mitchum was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, into a Methodist family. His mother, Ann Harriet (née Gunderson), was a Norwegian immigrant and sea captain's daughter, and his father, James Thomas Mitchum, was a shipyard and railroad worker. A sister, Annette, (known as Julie Mitchum during her acting career) was born in 1914. James Mitchum was crushed to death in a railyard accident in Charleston, South Carolina, in February 1919, when his son was less than 2 years old. After his death, Ann Mitchum was awarded a government pension, and soon realized she was pregnant. She returned to her family in Connecticut, and married a former British Army major who helped her care for the children. In September 1919 a second son, John, was born. When all of the children were old enough to attend school, Ann found employment as a linotype operator for the Bridgeport Post.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert ( /ˈiːbərt/; born June 18, 1942) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Ebert is known for his film review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert teamed with Richard Roeper for the television series Ebert & Roeper & the Movies, which began airing in 2000. Although his name remained in the title, Ebert did not appear on the show after mid-2006 after he suffered post-surgical complications related to thyroid cancer, leaving him unable to speak. Ebert ended his association with the show in July 2008, but in February 2009 he stated that he and Roeper would continue their work on a new show. Ebert's current show, Ebert Presents: At the Movies, premiered on January 21, 2011, with Ebert contributing a review voiced by someone else in a brief segment called "Roger's Office".
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Ronan Farrow
Ronan Farrow (born December 19, 1987) is an American human rights activist, freelance journalist, Rhodes Scholar, lawyer and government official. He is currently serving in the Obama administration as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Global Youth Issues and director of the State Department's Global Youth Issues office. He assumed his current role following two years as the State Department’s Special Adviser for Humanitarian and NGO Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. His writings have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and other publications, focused primarily on human rights issues in the Horn of Africa. He has appeared as a frequent commentator on major networks and as an expert witness before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus. A graduate of Yale Law School, much of his work has focused on engagement with marginalized actors such as youth and women’s groups.
In recent public appearances, including a keynote address at Amnesty International's inaugural Global Youth Summit at UC Berkeley and a commencement address at Bard College at Simon's Rock, later selected by the Huffington Post as one of 2011's top ten commencement speeches, Farrow has emphasized his work with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to elevate youth engagement in US foreign policy, leading a US government taskforce on the same subject.
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Ronan Seamus Farrow
Ronan Farrow (born December 19, 1987) is an American human rights activist, freelance journalist, Rhodes Scholar, lawyer and government official. He is currently serving in the Obama administration as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Global Youth Issues and director of the State Department's Global Youth Issues office. He assumed his current role following two years as the State Department’s Special Adviser for Humanitarian and NGO Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. His writings have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and other publications, focused primarily on human rights issues in the Horn of Africa. He has appeared as a frequent commentator on major networks and as an expert witness before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus. A graduate of Yale Law School, much of his work has focused on engagement with marginalized actors such as youth and women’s groups.
In recent public appearances, including a keynote address at Amnesty International's inaugural Global Youth Summit at UC Berkeley and a commencement address at Bard College at Simon's Rock, later selected by the Huffington Post as one of 2011's top ten commencement speeches, Farrow has emphasized his work with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to elevate youth engagement in US foreign policy, leading a US government taskforce on the same subject.
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Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for major roles in American TV/film culture, including: in the 1960s, for Gidget (1965–66) or Sister Bertrille on The Flying Nun (1967–70); in the 1970s, for Sybil (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Norma Rae (1979); in the 1980s, for Absence of Malice (1981), Places in the Heart (1984) and Steel Magnolias (1989); in the 1990s, for Not Without My Daughter (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Forrest Gump (1994) and Eye for an Eye (1996); and in the 2000s, on the TV shows ER and Brothers & Sisters (2006–11). She has also performed in numerous other roles.
Field won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role on two occasions, Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984). Field's professional achievements also include winning three Emmy Awards: for her role in the TV film Sybil (1976); her guest-starring role on ER in 2000; and for her starring role as Nora Holden Walker on ABC's series Brothers & Sisters in 2007. She has also won two Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. She also won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for Norma Rae (1979).
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Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an American actress.
Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she received a Tony Award in 1950. She made her film debut, reprising her role in the 1952 film version, and won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance. Despite her successful entry into films, she preferred stage acting, and made only four more films.
From 1961 until 1966, she played the title role in the sitcom Hazel, for which she won two Emmy Awards, and was acclaimed for her performance in the 1966 television production of The Glass Menagerie. She retired in 1974.
Booth was born as Marjory Ford, the daughter of Albert James Ford and Virginia Martha Wright. Her childhood was spent in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn where she attended P.S. 152. By the time of the 1910 census in April 1910, aged 11, she was known as Thelma by her family. She had only one sibling, a younger sister, Jean Valentine Ford, who died January 23, 2010.
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Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLean Beaty (born April 24, 1934), known professionally as Shirley MacLaine, is an American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, well known for her beliefs in New Age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career. She was nominated for an Academy Award five times before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1983 for her role in Terms of Endearment. Her younger brother is Warren Beatty.
Named after Shirley Temple, MacLaine was born in Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator, and real estate agent, and her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a drama teacher originally from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; MacLaine's grandparents were also teachers.The family was devoutly Baptist. Her uncle (her mother's brother-in-law) was A.A. MacLeod, a Communist member of the Ontario legislature in the 1940s.
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Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret (French pronunciation: [simɔn siɲɔˈʁɛ]; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top (1959). In her lifetime she also received a BAFTA, an Emmy, Golden Globe, Cannes Film Festival recognition and the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Signoret was born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany to André and Georgette (Signoret) Kaminker as the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers. Her father, a pioneering interpreter who worked in the League of Nations, was a French-born Jewish army officer of Polish descent, who brought the family to Neuilly-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris. Her mother Georgette, from whom she acquired her stage name, was a French Catholic. Signoret grew up in Paris in an intellectual atmosphere and studied the English language in school, earning a teaching certificate. She tutored English and Latin and worked part-time as a typist for a French collaborationist newspaper, Les nouveaux temps, run by Jean Luchaire.
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Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She came to international prominence for her role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie (based on the first novel by Stephen King) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. She has been nominated for an Oscar a total of six times, and is also known for her role as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands.
Spacek is mainly a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies. The films that Spacek has starred in have earned more than $1 billion worldwide.
Spacek was born on Christmas Day, 1949, in Quitman, Texas. She is the daughter of Virginia Frances (née Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Spacek's paternal grandparents, Mary Červenka and Arnold A. Špaček (who served as Mayor of Granger, Texas in Williamson County), were of Czech (Moravian) and German ancestry. Her mother, of English and Irish descent, was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
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Soon-Yi
Soon-Yi Previn (previously named Soon-Yi Farrow Previn) (born October 8, 1970) is the wife of film director Woody Allen. They have been together for 20 years.
Born in South Korea, Soon-Yi was about eight years old when she was adopted by André Previn and his then-wife, Mia Farrow. Mia Farrow and Woody Allen became a couple in 1980.
Previn gained international attention in 1992 when it was revealed that she was having a relationship with her own adoptive mother's long-time romantic partner, Woody Allen. The relationship began in late 1991 and became known to Farrow in January 1992.
The affair was covered by tabloids, focusing not only on her familial relation to Allen's long-time partner, her own adoptive mother, and to their children, but also the 34-year age difference between Previn and Allen.
Allen and Farrow's biological son, Ronan Farrow, said of Allen: "He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression." Soon-Yi Previn said in 1992 that she does not, and never did, consider Woody Allen to be her father, stepfather, or father figure; she said she considers André Previn to be her adoptive father. She also commented that "I was never remotely close to Woody. He was someone who was devoted exclusively to his own children and to his work, and we never spent a moment together."
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Soon-Yi Previn
Soon-Yi Previn (previously named Soon-Yi Farrow Previn) (born October 8, 1970) is the wife of film director Woody Allen. They have been together for 20 years.
Born in South Korea, Soon-Yi was about eight years old when she was adopted by André Previn and his then-wife, Mia Farrow. Mia Farrow and Woody Allen became a couple in 1980.
Previn gained international attention in 1992 when it was revealed that she was having a relationship with her own adoptive mother's long-time romantic partner, Woody Allen. The relationship began in late 1991 and became known to Farrow in January 1992.
The affair was covered by tabloids, focusing not only on her familial relation to Allen's long-time partner, her own adoptive mother, and to their children, but also the 34-year age difference between Previn and Allen.
Allen and Farrow's biological son, Ronan Farrow, said of Allen: "He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression." Soon-Yi Previn said in 1992 that she does not, and never did, consider Woody Allen to be her father, stepfather, or father figure; she said she considers André Previn to be her adoptive father. She also commented that "I was never remotely close to Woody. He was someone who was devoted exclusively to his own children and to his work, and we never spent a moment together."
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Stephanie Farrow
Stephanie Margarita Farrow (born 3 June 1949) is an American actress.
She is the daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She is also the sister of actress Mia Farrow, and has five other siblings: Michael (1939–1958), Patrick (1942–2009), John (born 1946), Prudence and Tisa.
Stephanie Farrow during her early career as a model and actress. She was featured on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, among others, and had supporting roles in the 1980s films Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Exposed. Farrow also appeared in several TV commercials during her modeling years.
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks movie studio.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg's wealth at $3.0 billion.
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Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon (born Susan Abigail Tomalin; October 4, 1946) is an American actress. She has worked in movies and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her work. She is also noted for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes.
Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin in New York City to a Roman Catholic family. She is the eldest of nine children of Lenora Marie (née Criscione) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, who worked as an advertising executive, television producer, and nightclub singer during the big band era. Her father was of English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry, his English ancestors being from Hackney in London. On her mother's side, she is of Italian descent, with ancestors from the regions of Tuscany and Sicily. Sarandon attended Roman Catholic schools.[citation needed] She grew up in Edison, New Jersey, where she graduated from Edison High School in 1964. She then attended The Catholic University of America, from 1964 to 1968, where she began dating actor Chris Sarandon whom she married in 1967.
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Tilda Swinton
Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, The Chronicles of Narnia, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performances in The Deep End and We Need to Talk About Kevin. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton.
Swinton was born in London, England. Her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, KCVO, OBE, DL, who was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (1989–2000), is Scottish, and her mother, Judith Balfour, Lady Swinton (née Killen), was Australian. Her paternal great-grandfather was Scottish politician and officer-of-arms George Swinton, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour. The Swinton family is an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the High Middle Ages.
Swinton attended three independent schools, Queen's Gate School in London, the West Heath Girls' School, and also Fettes College for a brief period.[citation needed] In 1983, she graduated from New Hall (now known as Murray Edwards College) at Cambridge University with a degree in Social and Political Sciences. While at Cambridge, she joined the Communist Party.
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Tisa Farrow
Theresa Magdalena 'Tisa' Farrow (born July 22, 1951) is an American actress and nurse.
Farrow, one of seven children, was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Irish-born actress Maureen O'Sullivan and Australian-born film director John Farrow. She was raised Roman Catholic. She is the youngest of four girls and three boys, her siblings being actresses Mia and Stephanie, Prudence, Michael Damien (1939–1958), Patrick Joseph (1942–2009), and John Charles (born 1946).
She took up acting shortly after her older sister Mia Farrow rose to stardom. Farrow's first film appearance was in Homer (1970), directed By John Trent. She has spent some of her career in lower-rung horror films and melodramas, while still pursuing higher profile projects with some of the better known American directors.
Farrow is perhaps most known for starring in the horror film, Zombi II, but she also appeared in James Toback's first feature production Fingers, opposite Harvey Keitel, as well in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) and Antonio Margheriti's The Last Hunter (1980) In addition to Zombi II, Farrow also appeared in Antropophagus, another "video nasty".
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Todd Solondz
Todd Solondz (born October 15, 1959) is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background in New Jersey. His work includes the cult hit Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), the award-winning Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001), Palindromes (2004), and Life During Wartime (2009).
Solondz was born in Newark, New Jersey. He is Jewish. Solondz wrote several screenplays while working as a delivery boy for the Writers Guild of America. Solondz earned his undergraduate degree in English from Yale and attended New York University's (NYU) Graduate MFA Program in film and television, but did not complete a degree.
During the early 1990s, Solondz worked as a teacher of English as a second language to newly arrived Russian immigrants at NYANA, a refugee resettlement agency in New York City (his co-workers there included Alexander Gelman, Gary Shteyngart and Roman Turovsky), an experience he has described as deeply rewarding.[citation needed] Interestingly, in his film Happiness, the character Joy finds a similar experience to be traumatic. It leads her to be more symphatetic to workers' strikes.
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Vietnamese people
The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt or người Kinh) are an ethnic group originating from present-day northern Vietnam and southern China. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population as of the 1999 census, and are officially known as Kinh to distinguish them from other ethnic groups in Vietnam. The earliest recorded name for the ancient Vietnamese people appears as "Lạc".
Although geographically and linguistically labeled as Southeast Asians, long periods of Chinese domination and influence have placed the Vietnamese culturally closer to East Asians, or more specifically their immediate northern neighbours, the Southern Chinese and other tribes within the South China. The word Việt is shortened from Bách Việt, a name used in ancient times. Nam means "south".
If regarded as a single ethnic group, the Vietnamese constitute one of the world's largest."CIA World Factbook". May 8th, 2012. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vm.html. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
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Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg ( /ˈhwʊpi/, born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her first Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man (Patrick Swayze) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost. This performance won her a second Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Notable later films include Sister Act and Sister Act 2, The Lion King, Made in America, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Girl, Interrupted and Rat Race. She is also acclaimed for her roles as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Terry Doolittle in Jumpin' Jack Flash. More recently, she had performed the voice of Stretch in Toy Story 3 and made an appearance in Glee as Carmen Tibideaux.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, December 1, 1935) is an award-winning American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright, whose career spans over half a century.
He began as a comedy writer in the 1950s, penning jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of short humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen started performing as a stand-up comic, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he insists is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics, while a UK survey ranked Allen as the third greatest comedian.
By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving into more dramatic material influenced by European art films during the 1970s. He is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late '70s. Allen often stars in his own films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. The best-known of his over 40 films include the Academy Award-winners Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Midnight in Paris (2011); and the Golden Globe-winning The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). Critic Roger Ebert has described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema."
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Farrow, Mia Filmography
- Dark Horse (2011)
- A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King (2011)
- An Cúpla Corr (2010)
- Arthur et la guerre des deux mondes (2010)
- David Wants to Fly (2010)
- The Darfur Archives (2010)
- Reporter (2009)
- Arthur et la vengeance de Maltazard (2009)
- 2009 Game Show Awards (2009)
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
- Familiar Voices (2008)
- Be Kind Rewind (2008)
- Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)
- Arthur and the Invisibles: The Making of the Year's Greatest Adventure (2007)
- Arthur and the Invisibles: The Making of the Year's Greatest Adventure (2007)
- Fast Track (2006)
- The Omen: Prophecy Fulfilled (2006)
- A Wedding: Altman Style (2006)
- The Omen (2006)
- Arthur et les Minimoys (2006)
- Omenisms (2006)
- Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004)
- 101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment (2003)
- The Secret Life of Zoey (2002)
- The 30th Annual International Emmy Awards (2002)
- The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
- Julie Lydecker (2002)
- Purpose (2002)
- A Girl Thing (2001)
- The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2000)
- Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000)
- Private View (2000)
- Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1 (1999)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (1999)
- Coming Soon (1999)
- Forget Me Never (1999)
- Junket Whore (1998)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998)
- Miracle at Midnight (1998)
- Redux Riding Hood (1997)
- Private Parts (1997)
- Angela Mooney (1996)
- Reckless (1995)
- Weddings of a Lifetime (1995)
- Miami Rhapsody (1995)
- Empire of the Censors (1995)
- Widows' Peak (1994)
- Widows' Peak (1994)
- Husbands and Wives (1992)
- Shadows and Fog (1991)
- Alice (1990)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
- New York Stories (1989)
- Another Woman (1988)
- The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987)
- September (1987)
- Radio Days (1987)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
- Supergirl (1984)
- Supergirl: The Making of the Movie (1984)
- Supergirl: The Making of the Movie (1984)
- Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
- Zelig (1983)
- The Last Unicorn (1982)
- Sarah (1982)
- The Compleat Beatles (1982)
- The Last Unicorn (1982)
- A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
- The 34th Annual Tony Awards (1980)
- The 5th Annual People's Choice Awards (1979)
- The 51st Annual Academy Awards (1979)
- The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock (1979)
- Hurricane (1979)
- A Wedding (1978)
- Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (1978)
- Death on the Nile (1978)
- The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978)
- Avalanche (1978)
- Full Circle (1977)
- Murder in Peyton Place (1977)
- The American Film Institute Salute to Bette Davis (1977)
- Peter Pan (1976)
- The Great Gatsby (1974)
- The Muppets Valentine Show (1974)
- Peyton Place Revisited (1973)
- Follow Me! (1972)
- Docteur Popaul (1972)
- Blind Terror (1971)
- The British Screen Awards (1971)
- Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971)
- John and Mary (1969)
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- Secret Ceremony (1968)
- Mia and Roman (1968)
- A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
- Johnny Belinda (1967)
- Guns at Batasi (1964)
- John Paul Jones (1959)
- Unusual Occupations (1947)
Famous quotes by Mia Farrow:
"I can match bottoms with anyone in Hollywood!"
"To meet in such a distant place. It's so random. Isn't it grand?"
"In the beginning, I tried to reach out to her, ... but I decided it would be best for me and the rest of the children to just close ranks and protect ourselves. I'll probably never see her again."
"I don't know how the courts permitted this, ... especially in light of a judge not allowing Mr. Allen to see his own children."
"Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too."
"I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between."
"There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist."
"I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous."
"I can match bottoms with anyone in Hollywood!"
"To meet in such a distant place. It's so random. Isn't it grand?"
"In the beginning, I tried to reach out to her, ... but I decided it would be best for me and the rest of the children to just close ranks and protect ourselves. I'll probably never see her again."
"I don't know how the courts permitted this, ... especially in light of a judge not allowing Mr. Allen to see his own children."
"Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too."
"I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between."
"There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist."
"I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous."
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WML? Frank Sinatra pt. 3
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
Frank Sinatra's wife Mia Farrow is the second mystery guest.
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Frank Sinatra's wife Mia Farrow is the second mystery guest.
Big Think Interview with Mia Farrow
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- Duration: 7:46
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
Big Think Interview with Mia Farrow
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Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow
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- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
Get married
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John and Mary - breakfast
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- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
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Mia Farrow - Love (Peter Pan 1976)
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- Duration: 3:13
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
Mia Farrow in Peter Pan television special Christmas adaptation 1976
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Mia Farrow in Peter Pan television special Christmas adaptation 1976
- published: 19 Jan 2008
- views: 29505
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mia farrow testimony
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
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Peyton Place - Mia Farrow & Ryan O' Neal
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- Duration: 6:28
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
The granddaddy of primetime soaps, "Peyton Place" was broadcast on the ABC television network from 1964-1969 for a total of 514 episodes. Here are the first season opening and closing credits plus a couple of brief scenes with a VERY young Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal and Barbara Parkins. The show is finally being released on DVD for all to enjoy.
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The granddaddy of primetime soaps, "Peyton Place" was broadcast on the ABC television network from 1964-1969 for a total of 514 episodes. Here are the first season opening and closing credits plus a couple of brief scenes with a VERY young Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal and Barbara Parkins. The show is finally being released on DVD for all to enjoy.
- published: 21 Jun 2009
- views: 112180
- author: loafersguy
Mia Farrow
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- Duration: 2:43
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
a tribute to the beautiful and talented Mia Farrow music: honey pie by the beatles
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a tribute to the beautiful and talented Mia Farrow music: honey pie by the beatles
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 244
- author: xCowsCanFly
Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995)
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- Duration: 7:00
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
www.truetvmovies.net truetvmovies1.yolasite.com. Please e mail us for our list over 5000 made for tv movies available on dvd Based on the books "Mia & Woody: Love and Betrayal," by Kristi Groteke and Marjorie Rosen and "Mia: The Life of Mia Farrow," by Edward Z. Epstein, Joe Morella. The relationship between actress Mia Farrow and Woody Allen and the bitter custody battle and accusations that followed after the revelations of his affair with her adopted daughter Sonn-Yi. Also her marriages to Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn are highlighted.
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www.truetvmovies.net truetvmovies1.yolasite.com. Please e mail us for our list over 5000 made for tv movies available on dvd Based on the books "Mia & Woody: Love and Betrayal," by Kristi Groteke and Marjorie Rosen and "Mia: The Life of Mia Farrow," by Edward Z. Epstein, Joe Morella. The relationship between actress Mia Farrow and Woody Allen and the bitter custody battle and accusations that followed after the revelations of his affair with her adopted daughter Sonn-Yi. Also her marriages to Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn are highlighted.
- published: 01 Jun 2012
- views: 1766
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Eye To Eye: Mia Farrow
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- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
Actress Mia Farrow talks with Russ Mitchell about her trip to Darfur, genocide, and the international community's involvement withthe turbulent western region of Sudan.
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Actress Mia Farrow talks with Russ Mitchell about her trip to Darfur, genocide, and the international community's involvement withthe turbulent western region of Sudan.
- published: 26 Feb 2007
- views: 15769
- author: CBS
Mia Farrow
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- Duration: 5:15
- Updated: 14 Oct 2011
Actor Mia Farrow talks to reporters at We Day in Vancouver on October 13, 2011.
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Actor Mia Farrow talks to reporters at We Day in Vancouver on October 13, 2011.
- published: 13 Oct 2011
- views: 344
- author: TheGeorgiaStraight
Day 10: Mia Farrow: Hunger Strike for Darfur - May 06, 2009
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- Duration: 2:42
- Updated: 10 Dec 2012
fastdarfur.org No food for me for ten days now, to protest the expulsion of humanitarians from all of Sudan (including, of course, the Darfur region and the refugee camps). Please contact President Obama at http Tell him he must keep his promise to help the people of Darfur. For more information go to www.miafarrow.org.
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fastdarfur.org No food for me for ten days now, to protest the expulsion of humanitarians from all of Sudan (including, of course, the Darfur region and the refugee camps). Please contact President Obama at http Tell him he must keep his promise to help the people of Darfur. For more information go to www.miafarrow.org.
- published: 07 May 2009
- views: 7461
- author: fastdarfur
Mia Farrow Tribute
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 10 Sep 2012
Here is the song from the movie "Rosemary's Baby" (only vocalized in the film) with the lovely Mia Farrow, and performed here by the exquisite Rita Moss. Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow in 1945 to John Farrow - an Australian film director - and the late Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan) is an American actress. Farrow has appeared in more than 40 films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), three BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Farrow is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Mia Farrow began her acting career by appearing in supporting roles in several 1960's films. However, she achieved stardom on the popular soap opera, "Peyton Place", with co-star Ryan O'Neal. Her first leading film role was in 1968's "Rosemary's Baby", which was a major success at the time and is widely regarded as a classic. Farrow's performance in "Rosemary's Baby" garnered numerous awards and established her as a leading actress. Following "Rosemary's Baby", Farrow starred in "Secret Ceremony", opposite Elizabeth Taylor. Farrow's other late 60's films include "John and Mary", opposite Dustin Hoffman. In the 1970's, Farrow appeared in a number of notable films, including the 1971 thriller "See No Evil", legendary French director Claude Chabrol's 1972 film "Docteur Popaul", and the 1974 version of "The ...
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Here is the song from the movie "Rosemary's Baby" (only vocalized in the film) with the lovely Mia Farrow, and performed here by the exquisite Rita Moss. Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow in 1945 to John Farrow - an Australian film director - and the late Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan) is an American actress. Farrow has appeared in more than 40 films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), three BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Farrow is also notable for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Mia Farrow began her acting career by appearing in supporting roles in several 1960's films. However, she achieved stardom on the popular soap opera, "Peyton Place", with co-star Ryan O'Neal. Her first leading film role was in 1968's "Rosemary's Baby", which was a major success at the time and is widely regarded as a classic. Farrow's performance in "Rosemary's Baby" garnered numerous awards and established her as a leading actress. Following "Rosemary's Baby", Farrow starred in "Secret Ceremony", opposite Elizabeth Taylor. Farrow's other late 60's films include "John and Mary", opposite Dustin Hoffman. In the 1970's, Farrow appeared in a number of notable films, including the 1971 thriller "See No Evil", legendary French director Claude Chabrol's 1972 film "Docteur Popaul", and the 1974 version of "The ...
- published: 10 Jun 2008
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Mia Farrow auditioning for Liesl
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Mia Farrow auditioned for Liesl..so did Sharon Tate. Great actors...but Thnk God Charmian Carr got it !!
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Mia Farrow auditioned for Liesl..so did Sharon Tate. Great actors...but Thnk God Charmian Carr got it !!
- published: 19 Jun 2010
- views: 30780
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Mia Farrow's Tribute to Refugees
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- Duration: 3:11
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
Mia Farrow's Tribute to Refugees
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Radio Days (1987) - Sally and her diction lessons
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- Duration: 1:44
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Mia Farrow in Woody Allen's "Radio Days", trying to get rid of that Bronx accent on her way to stardom.
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Mia Farrow in Woody Allen's "Radio Days", trying to get rid of that Bronx accent on her way to stardom.
- published: 24 Jun 2010
- views: 14959
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The Omen (2006) Theatrical Trailer
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- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
The original theatrical trailer for the 2006 film "The Omen." Starring Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon. Directed by John Moore.
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The original theatrical trailer for the 2006 film "The Omen." Starring Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon. Directed by John Moore.
- published: 13 May 2011
- views: 7415
- author: ForeverHorror
Mia Farrow promotes polio vaccination in DR Congo
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- Duration: 2:29
- Updated: 14 Mar 2012
20 February 2012: UNICEF reports on UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow's visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to promote polio vaccination. To read the complete story, please visit: www.unicef.org
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20 February 2012: UNICEF reports on UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow's visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to promote polio vaccination. To read the complete story, please visit: www.unicef.org
- published: 27 Feb 2012
- views: 1014
- author: unicef
Mia Farrow promotes polio vaccination in Chad
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- Duration: 5:14
- Updated: 31 Mar 2012
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow attends the launch of a massive polio vaccination campaign in Chad. For more information, please visit: www.unicef.org
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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow attends the launch of a massive polio vaccination campaign in Chad. For more information, please visit: www.unicef.org
- published: 13 Mar 2012
- views: 1984
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Mia Farrow speaks at We Day Vancouver
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- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 31 Jul 2012
Mia Farrow inspires and moves 16000 youth in Vancouver's GM Place.
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Mia Farrow inspires and moves 16000 youth in Vancouver's GM Place.
- published: 28 Oct 2009
- views: 1699
- author: freethechildrenintl
Marshall Davis Jones (Sunset)
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- Duration: 2:42
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Commemorating actress Mia Farrow for her work with unicef and her amazing contributions to Africa
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Commemorating actress Mia Farrow for her work with unicef and her amazing contributions to Africa
- published: 05 Oct 2009
- views: 8993
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Mia Farrow witnesses dire situation facing women and...
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 14 Jul 2012
UNICEF correspondent David McKenzie reports on Mia Farrow's visit to Eastern Chad. Credits: Producer:David McKenzie
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UNICEF correspondent David McKenzie reports on Mia Farrow's visit to Eastern Chad. Credits: Producer:David McKenzie
- published: 03 May 2007
- views: 1256
- author: unicef
Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow highlights plight of CAR...
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- Duration: 1:52
- Updated: 14 Jul 2012
UNICEF Correspondent Jane O'Brien reports on Mia Farrow's recent visits to the Central African Republic and Chad Credits: Producer:Jane O'Brien
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UNICEF Correspondent Jane O'Brien reports on Mia Farrow's recent visits to the Central African Republic and Chad Credits: Producer:Jane O'Brien
- published: 03 May 2007
- views: 2630
- author: unicef
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Live from Second Life: Crisis in Darfur with Mia Farrow
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- Duration: 12:18
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Crisis in Darfur: Live from Second Life with Mia Farrow, John Heffernan, Ronan Farrow, Ron Haviv, and Bill Lichtenstein (moderator). Mia Farrow, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, appears live in the virtual 3-D on-line community Second Life to discuss and answer questions about the crisis in Darfur. The Second Life event in January 2007 takes place in front of a virtual replica of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a dramatic exhibit of photographs depicting the genocide emergency. Speakers include: John Heffernan, Director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience; Ron Haviv, an award-winning photojournalist, whose images of Darfur are part of the virtual event; Ronan Farrow, UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth in Sudan, Genocide Intervention Network representative, and author of numerous articles on the crisis in Darfur; and Bill Lichtenstein, president of Lichtenstein Creative Media, who served as moderator. The event in Second Life took place at a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?" the powerful, outdoor photography exhibition highlighting images of the Darfur crisis by leading photojournalists that were projected onto the exterior of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC during Thanksgiving Week 2006. The virtual event in Second Life allowed visitors from around the world to experience the traveling photography exhibit with its moving ...
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Crisis in Darfur: Live from Second Life with Mia Farrow, John Heffernan, Ronan Farrow, Ron Haviv, and Bill Lichtenstein (moderator). Mia Farrow, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, appears live in the virtual 3-D on-line community Second Life to discuss and answer questions about the crisis in Darfur. The Second Life event in January 2007 takes place in front of a virtual replica of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a dramatic exhibit of photographs depicting the genocide emergency. Speakers include: John Heffernan, Director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience; Ron Haviv, an award-winning photojournalist, whose images of Darfur are part of the virtual event; Ronan Farrow, UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth in Sudan, Genocide Intervention Network representative, and author of numerous articles on the crisis in Darfur; and Bill Lichtenstein, president of Lichtenstein Creative Media, who served as moderator. The event in Second Life took place at a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?" the powerful, outdoor photography exhibition highlighting images of the Darfur crisis by leading photojournalists that were projected onto the exterior of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC during Thanksgiving Week 2006. The virtual event in Second Life allowed visitors from around the world to experience the traveling photography exhibit with its moving ...
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Mia Farrow's Tribute to Refugees
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Mia Farrow's Tribute to Refugees
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Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Lou Reed, Robert Stanton, Mike Powers Release date (UK): 2010-12-24 Synopsis: When Arthur uncovers a distress call sent from Minimoys, the invisible people who live in his own back yard, he knows that once again, he must embark on a great adventure to battle against the evil Maltazard and save Princess Selenia. Little does he know that this is an evil trick by his arch nemesis to reverse the magic of transformation to become a giant when Arthur passes into the Minimoy's world. Now at less than half an inch tall, Arthur must save his own world from a giant evil Maltazard. Will this little hero have what it takes? Acclaimed and visionary director Luc Besson, in the follow up to Arthur and The Invisibles, brings us this brilliant, live action, computer animated, family adventure, starring Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow and Selena Gomez with Jimmy Fallon, Snoop Dogg, Will.i.am, Fergie (Black Eyed Peas), Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy Director: Luc Besson
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Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Lou Reed, Robert Stanton, Mike Powers Release date (UK): 2010-12-24 Synopsis: When Arthur uncovers a distress call sent from Minimoys, the invisible people who live in his own back yard, he knows that once again, he must embark on a great adventure to battle against the evil Maltazard and save Princess Selenia. Little does he know that this is an evil trick by his arch nemesis to reverse the magic of transformation to become a giant when Arthur passes into the Minimoy's world. Now at less than half an inch tall, Arthur must save his own world from a giant evil Maltazard. Will this little hero have what it takes? Acclaimed and visionary director Luc Besson, in the follow up to Arthur and The Invisibles, brings us this brilliant, live action, computer animated, family adventure, starring Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow and Selena Gomez with Jimmy Fallon, Snoop Dogg, Will.i.am, Fergie (Black Eyed Peas), Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy Director: Luc Besson
- published: 07 Jan 2011
- views: 4010
- author: תמיר מולא
The Omen (2006) Theatrical Trailer
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- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
The original theatrical trailer for the 2006 film "The Omen." Starring Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon. Directed by John Moore.
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The original theatrical trailer for the 2006 film "The Omen." Starring Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon. Directed by John Moore.
- published: 13 May 2011
- views: 7415
- author: ForeverHorror
Making of Arthur and the Minimoys part 3/3
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- Duration: 9:52
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Last part, the filming of the live sequences, including Mia Farrow.
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Last part, the filming of the live sequences, including Mia Farrow.
- published: 02 Jan 2008
- views: 25967
- author: Koolomassai
Day 2: Life in the Camps
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- Duration: 2:47
- Updated: 31 Mar 2012
In this webcast, Mia Farrow looks out across the expanse of a refugee camp for Darfurians, and describes how people live and still manage to hope after five years.
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In this webcast, Mia Farrow looks out across the expanse of a refugee camp for Darfurians, and describes how people live and still manage to hope after five years.
- published: 10 Aug 2008
- views: 776
- author: dream4darfur
LIVE PROPHECY BY PHONE $20 - www.masterprophetnoel.com!.
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- Duration: 0:36
- Updated: 18 Oct 2011
Mia Farrow, Mia Maestro, Mia Michaels, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Bolton, Michael Buble, Michael Caine, Michael Cera, Michael Chiklis, Michael Douglas, Michael Jackson, Michael Johns, Michael Jordan, Michael Keaton, Michael Kors, Michael Lohan, Michael Moore, Michael Phelps, Michael Pitt, Michael Richards, Michael Sheen, Michael Steger, Michael Stipe
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Mia Farrow, Mia Maestro, Mia Michaels, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Bolton, Michael Buble, Michael Caine, Michael Cera, Michael Chiklis, Michael Douglas, Michael Jackson, Michael Johns, Michael Jordan, Michael Keaton, Michael Kors, Michael Lohan, Michael Moore, Michael Phelps, Michael Pitt, Michael Richards, Michael Sheen, Michael Steger, Michael Stipe
- published: 08 Sep 2011
- views: 12
- author: LiveProphecy
Mia Farrow at We Day 2011 - Vancouver, BC
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- Duration: 1:21
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Actress and activist Mia Farrow spoke to thousands of students at We Day 2011 in Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC Kolby Solinsky / Black Press
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Actress and activist Mia Farrow spoke to thousands of students at We Day 2011 in Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC Kolby Solinsky / Black Press
- published: 23 Apr 2012
- views: 22
- author: BlackPressMedia
We Day 2011 - Recap and Post-Game - Vancouver, BC
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- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 21 Oct 2012
Shaquille O'Neal, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mia Farrow and Craig and Mark Kielburger took over Vancouver's Rogers Arena at We Day 2011. Kolby Solinsky / Black Press
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Shaquille O'Neal, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mia Farrow and Craig and Mark Kielburger took over Vancouver's Rogers Arena at We Day 2011. Kolby Solinsky / Black Press
- published: 23 Apr 2012
- views: 420
- author: BlackPressMedia
Frank Sinatra-"You and me (we wanted it all)"
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- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 21 Oct 2012
Film clips of Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra to the background music, "You and me we wanted it all."
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Film clips of Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra to the background music, "You and me we wanted it all."
- published: 15 Aug 2008
- views: 8279
- author: Gabe Quintanilla
Mark Davenport: One Hope (Standing Proud) - Save Darfur
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- Duration: 4:58
- Updated: 03 Sep 2012
A music video to help raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur. www.savedarfur.org. Written & performed by Mark Davenport. http Song available at: www.cdbaby.com Photos from Mia Farrow's Flickr site. Live video clips (Cabaret for a Cause: Boulder Theater, Boulder, Colorado, August 28, 2010) by Deborah Fryer/Lila Films. Live performers include Peter Yellen and his group "Dressed in Black" (Bill Kopper, guitar; Dan Geisler, keyboards; Mark Simon, bass; Mark Raynes, drums) with Ron Ivory and his R&B; vocal group "One on One."
http://wn.com/Mark_Davenport_One_Hope_Standing_Proud_Save_Darfur
A music video to help raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur. www.savedarfur.org. Written & performed by Mark Davenport. http Song available at: www.cdbaby.com Photos from Mia Farrow's Flickr site. Live video clips (Cabaret for a Cause: Boulder Theater, Boulder, Colorado, August 28, 2010) by Deborah Fryer/Lila Films. Live performers include Peter Yellen and his group "Dressed in Black" (Bill Kopper, guitar; Dan Geisler, keyboards; Mark Simon, bass; Mark Raynes, drums) with Ron Ivory and his R&B; vocal group "One on One."
- published: 09 Nov 2010
- views: 1190
- author: RunMDPhD
Adam Barber after his and Alices Hunger Strike with Mia Farrow, for the people of Darfur.
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- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 12 Jan 2010
Alice and Me don't actually live together! So we've recorded seperate final videos.. For more information on the situation in Darfur and what you can do to help, check out: www.miafarrow.org and tune into Alice Green and myself on www.lovegravity.com from 8pm on Sunday 16th May..and every Sunday thereafter.. Thanks again, xxx
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Alice and Me don't actually live together! So we've recorded seperate final videos.. For more information on the situation in Darfur and what you can do to help, check out: www.miafarrow.org and tune into Alice Green and myself on www.lovegravity.com from 8pm on Sunday 16th May..and every Sunday thereafter.. Thanks again, xxx
- published: 07 May 2009
- views: 198
- author: Alice Green
DN! Mia Farrow Testifies at Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial
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- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 24 Aug 2010
Mia Farrow Testifies at Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial At the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, actress Mia Farrow told a court hearing Monday that she had heard supermodel Naomi Campbell say she had been given a "huge diamond" by Taylor when he was Liberia's president. Prosecutors are hoping Farrow's claim will help establish that Taylor was involved in the trade of so-called blood diamonds illegally mined from Sierra Leone. Last week, Campbell appeared before the court in The Hague and admitted she had received diamonds after a 1997 charity dinner in South Africa, but did not know if they were from Taylor. On Monday, Farrow contradicted Campbell and described meeting with Campbell the morning after she received the diamonds. Mia Farrow: "From Miss Campbell, Miss Campbell entered the room. My children and I were already eating breakfast. And as I recall it, she was quite excited and said, in effect, 'Oh, my god! In the middle of the night last night,' or 'last night, I was awakened by knocking at the door, and it was men sent by Charles Taylor. And he sent me,' as I recall, 'a huge diamond.'"
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Mia Farrow Testifies at Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial At the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, actress Mia Farrow told a court hearing Monday that she had heard supermodel Naomi Campbell say she had been given a "huge diamond" by Taylor when he was Liberia's president. Prosecutors are hoping Farrow's claim will help establish that Taylor was involved in the trade of so-called blood diamonds illegally mined from Sierra Leone. Last week, Campbell appeared before the court in The Hague and admitted she had received diamonds after a 1997 charity dinner in South Africa, but did not know if they were from Taylor. On Monday, Farrow contradicted Campbell and described meeting with Campbell the morning after she received the diamonds. Mia Farrow: "From Miss Campbell, Miss Campbell entered the room. My children and I were already eating breakfast. And as I recall it, she was quite excited and said, in effect, 'Oh, my god! In the middle of the night last night,' or 'last night, I was awakened by knocking at the door, and it was men sent by Charles Taylor. And he sent me,' as I recall, 'a huge diamond.'"
- published: 10 Aug 2010
- views: 354
- author: StartLoving3
Arthur & The Invisibles- Official Trailer
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
From the creative mind of talented filmmaker Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element), comes a larger-than-life, family adventure about a boy who, after his grandfather disappears, sets out to save his family home from emerging real estate developers. Arthur learns that he must follow his grandfather's ancient clues to a vast treasure -- and unlock the passageway to a spectacular new world filled with mysterious little people, so tiny they are considered invisible, and enlist their help. But once in the magical land, Arthur must join swords with a beautiful princess and a reckless army of defenders to save the land from the evil wizard. It seems like an impossible task, but as he discovers along the way, sometimes the smallest heroes can make the biggest difference. Using a dazzling new combination of live-action and ground-breaking CGI technology, ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES is the story about the true meaning of courage and the endless power of imagination. The film is scheduled for release on January 12, 2007, and stars Mia Farrow and Freddie Highmore, featuring the voices of Madonna, David Bowie and Snoop Dog. ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES was written and directed by Luc Besson and is based on the best selling children's book, "Arthur and the Minimoys."
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From the creative mind of talented filmmaker Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element), comes a larger-than-life, family adventure about a boy who, after his grandfather disappears, sets out to save his family home from emerging real estate developers. Arthur learns that he must follow his grandfather's ancient clues to a vast treasure -- and unlock the passageway to a spectacular new world filled with mysterious little people, so tiny they are considered invisible, and enlist their help. But once in the magical land, Arthur must join swords with a beautiful princess and a reckless army of defenders to save the land from the evil wizard. It seems like an impossible task, but as he discovers along the way, sometimes the smallest heroes can make the biggest difference. Using a dazzling new combination of live-action and ground-breaking CGI technology, ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES is the story about the true meaning of courage and the endless power of imagination. The film is scheduled for release on January 12, 2007, and stars Mia Farrow and Freddie Highmore, featuring the voices of Madonna, David Bowie and Snoop Dog. ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES was written and directed by Luc Besson and is based on the best selling children's book, "Arthur and the Minimoys."
- published: 15 Sep 2006
- views: 283279
- author: TheWeinsteinCompany
Arthur and the Revenge Of Maltazard Movie Preview
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- Duration: 1:33
- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
Twitter.com - Follow Us! We've got a star-studded movie preview right now. Stay tuned! Hey everyone. I'm your host Dana Ward and you are watching Clevver TV. Today we're talking about the new movie, Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard. Right off the bat, I must mention that this French film rocks a super cast including Selena Gomez, Freddie Highmore, Jimmy Fallon, Mia Farrow, Snoop Dogg, Stacy Ferguson - that's Fergie - Will.i.Am, Robert Stanton and more. Keep in mind that you may only be hearing some of these celebs via voiceover simply because the movie is a live-action, 3D action trilogy. So Arthur et la vengeance de Maltazard is the 2nd in the 3 part series and thus jumps right into the storyline, no introductions about how the main character shrunk himself to a pint-sized gnome. On his journey to return to the kingdom of the Invisibles, Arthur comes across new adventures in a bug-land of sorts, meets up with a Princess Selenia - guess who plays her - and the evil Maltazard returns to the story. Keep in mind that this movie is still based on 2006's popular 'Arthur and the Invisibles.' So are you revved up to see this French flick or not so much? Let us know your thoughts and be sure to check out ClevverTV.com for all of your movie and entertainment news. I'm Dana Ward and thanks for watching!!!
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Twitter.com - Follow Us! We've got a star-studded movie preview right now. Stay tuned! Hey everyone. I'm your host Dana Ward and you are watching Clevver TV. Today we're talking about the new movie, Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard. Right off the bat, I must mention that this French film rocks a super cast including Selena Gomez, Freddie Highmore, Jimmy Fallon, Mia Farrow, Snoop Dogg, Stacy Ferguson - that's Fergie - Will.i.Am, Robert Stanton and more. Keep in mind that you may only be hearing some of these celebs via voiceover simply because the movie is a live-action, 3D action trilogy. So Arthur et la vengeance de Maltazard is the 2nd in the 3 part series and thus jumps right into the storyline, no introductions about how the main character shrunk himself to a pint-sized gnome. On his journey to return to the kingdom of the Invisibles, Arthur comes across new adventures in a bug-land of sorts, meets up with a Princess Selenia - guess who plays her - and the evil Maltazard returns to the story. Keep in mind that this movie is still based on 2006's popular 'Arthur and the Invisibles.' So are you revved up to see this French flick or not so much? Let us know your thoughts and be sure to check out ClevverTV.com for all of your movie and entertainment news. I'm Dana Ward and thanks for watching!!!
- published: 20 Jan 2010
- views: 33639
- author: clevverTV
![Krzysztof Komeda - Rosemary's Lullaby [live recording]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121215032051im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2U0NAbnjNX0/default.jpg "Krzysztof Komeda - Rosemary's Lullaby [live recording]")
Krzysztof Komeda - Rosemary's Lullaby [live recording]
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- Duration: 6:18
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Unique, home recordings of Krzysztof Komeda playing "Lullaby" from Roman Polański's movie "Rosemary's Baby", 1968. Domowe, amatorskie nagrania komponującego przy pianinie Krzysztofa Komedy. Genialny Mistrz, nieco fałszujący, podsłuchany w kapciach, w domowych pieleszach, gra "Kołysankę" z filmu "Dziecko Rosemary". The Complete Recordings of Krzysztof Komeda vol.16, Private Conversation. Krzysztof Komeda - solo piano, voice, whistling, murmur. *** Wszelkie prawa do zamieszczonych kompozycji posiada Polonia Records. Niektóre zdjęcia są własnością Stowarzyszenia Astigmatic, niektóre moją :)
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Unique, home recordings of Krzysztof Komeda playing "Lullaby" from Roman Polański's movie "Rosemary's Baby", 1968. Domowe, amatorskie nagrania komponującego przy pianinie Krzysztofa Komedy. Genialny Mistrz, nieco fałszujący, podsłuchany w kapciach, w domowych pieleszach, gra "Kołysankę" z filmu "Dziecko Rosemary". The Complete Recordings of Krzysztof Komeda vol.16, Private Conversation. Krzysztof Komeda - solo piano, voice, whistling, murmur. *** Wszelkie prawa do zamieszczonych kompozycji posiada Polonia Records. Niektóre zdjęcia są własnością Stowarzyszenia Astigmatic, niektóre moją :)
- published: 06 Apr 2010
- views: 93454
- author: pmsmorga
OCCC Library "Life in The Gatsby Era" event with Prof. Richard Rouillard
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- Duration: 0:09
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Life in the Great Gatsby Era with Prof. Richard Rouillard-- Thursday, Oct. 11th, 2012 at 2:30pm in CU 1&2 For more information, please see: www.occc.edu Image source: Robert Redford & Mia Farrow In 'The Great Gatsby'.Photographer. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 5 Oct 2012.quest.eb.com Music source: Red Hook Ramblers "Ain't Gonna Give Jelly Roll" Live @ WFMU on Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC, Feb. 8 2011 (freemusicarchive.org
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Life in the Great Gatsby Era with Prof. Richard Rouillard-- Thursday, Oct. 11th, 2012 at 2:30pm in CU 1&2 For more information, please see: www.occc.edu Image source: Robert Redford & Mia Farrow In 'The Great Gatsby'.Photographer. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 5 Oct 2012.quest.eb.com Music source: Red Hook Ramblers "Ain't Gonna Give Jelly Roll" Live @ WFMU on Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC, Feb. 8 2011 (freemusicarchive.org
- published: 05 Oct 2012
- views: 27
- author: occclibrary
200 year old Volkswagen discovery scene from Woody Allen's, "Sleeper" (1973)
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- Duration: 0:14
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
This is one of my favorite scenes in the Woody Allen classic, "Sleeper" (1973). While running form the government of the future, Allen portraying the character, "Miles Monroe" discovers a Volkswagen Bug hidden away in a cave. The female companion (Luna Schlosser) as played by Diane Keaton asks, "What is it?" and he replies, "It's a two hundred year old Volkswagen." He walks to the side, looks inside of the Beetle and he turns the key. To his amazement, it starts right up. Allen then exclaims, "Shhwa, - they really built these things, didn't they?!" Miles Monroe, a jazz musician and owner of the Happy Carrot Health-Food store living in Manhattan in 1973, is cryonically frozen without his consent, and not revived for 200 years. The scientists who revive him are members of an underground movement: 22nd-century America seems to be a police state ruled by a dictator, about to implement a secret plan known as the "Aires Project" (sic). The underground movement hopes to use Miles as a spy to infiltrate the Aires Project, because he is the only member of this society without a known biometric identity. *** Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a Jewish-American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright. His films often draw heavily on sexuality, comedy, literature, philosophy and of course his views on Jewish Identity. Being a New Yorker, a lot of his comedy seems to focus on the the mindset of the European Jewish (Ashkenazi ...
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This is one of my favorite scenes in the Woody Allen classic, "Sleeper" (1973). While running form the government of the future, Allen portraying the character, "Miles Monroe" discovers a Volkswagen Bug hidden away in a cave. The female companion (Luna Schlosser) as played by Diane Keaton asks, "What is it?" and he replies, "It's a two hundred year old Volkswagen." He walks to the side, looks inside of the Beetle and he turns the key. To his amazement, it starts right up. Allen then exclaims, "Shhwa, - they really built these things, didn't they?!" Miles Monroe, a jazz musician and owner of the Happy Carrot Health-Food store living in Manhattan in 1973, is cryonically frozen without his consent, and not revived for 200 years. The scientists who revive him are members of an underground movement: 22nd-century America seems to be a police state ruled by a dictator, about to implement a secret plan known as the "Aires Project" (sic). The underground movement hopes to use Miles as a spy to infiltrate the Aires Project, because he is the only member of this society without a known biometric identity. *** Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a Jewish-American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright. His films often draw heavily on sexuality, comedy, literature, philosophy and of course his views on Jewish Identity. Being a New Yorker, a lot of his comedy seems to focus on the the mindset of the European Jewish (Ashkenazi ...
- published: 04 Dec 2011
- views: 5772
- author: backyardsounds
The Great Gatsby (1/9) Movie CLIP - What Gatsby? (1974) HD
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- Duration: 2:41
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
The Great Gatsby Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Nick (Sam Waterston) reunites with his cousin Daisy (Mia Farrow) and meets her husband, Tom (Bruce Dern), and friend, Jordan (Lois Chiles). TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Bruce Dern, Sam Waterston, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow Director: Jack Clayton MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Hank Moonjean Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola, F. Scott Fitzgerald Film Description: This third film version of F. SCOTT FITZGERALD's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby wants to win back the love of socialite Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), now married to "old money" Tom Buchanan (Bruce Dern). Calmly observing the passing parade is Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston), Gatsby's best friend, who narrates the film. Francis Ford Coppola's screenplay is meticulously faithful to the original novel, but Theoni V. Aldredge's costume design and Nelson Riddle's nostalgic musical score won the film its only Oscars. The huge supporting cast includes Howard da Silva, who played Wilson in the 1949 Great Gatsby, and a very young Patsy Kensit as Daisy's daughter. "the great gatsby","the great gatsby clip","the great gatsby trailer","the great gatsby 2012 ...
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The Great Gatsby Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Nick (Sam Waterston) reunites with his cousin Daisy (Mia Farrow) and meets her husband, Tom (Bruce Dern), and friend, Jordan (Lois Chiles). TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Bruce Dern, Sam Waterston, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow Director: Jack Clayton MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: amzn.to Producer: Hank Moonjean Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola, F. Scott Fitzgerald Film Description: This third film version of F. SCOTT FITZGERALD's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby wants to win back the love of socialite Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow), now married to "old money" Tom Buchanan (Bruce Dern). Calmly observing the passing parade is Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston), Gatsby's best friend, who narrates the film. Francis Ford Coppola's screenplay is meticulously faithful to the original novel, but Theoni V. Aldredge's costume design and Nelson Riddle's nostalgic musical score won the film its only Oscars. The huge supporting cast includes Howard da Silva, who played Wilson in the 1949 Great Gatsby, and a very young Patsy Kensit as Daisy's daughter. "the great gatsby","the great gatsby clip","the great gatsby trailer","the great gatsby 2012 ...
- published: 22 Nov 2011
- views: 31086
- author: movieclips
GARY LUCAS PLAYS "ROSEMARY'S BABY"
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- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 06 Nov 2012
¨The Thinking Man´s Guitar Hero¨(The New Yorker) GARY LUCAS performs Kyrzystof Komeda´s Lullaby from Roman Polanski´s mid-60´s shocker ¨Rosemary´s Baby¨¨with Polish actress/singer Anna Podolak singing to a montage of clips from the famous Polanski film, edited by Paul Chisefsky. This sequence is available as an extra from Gary Lucas´new DVD double-bill ¨Sounds of the Surreal/Monsters from the Id¨, available at garylucas.com. The track is also featured on the forthcoming Some Bizzare album ¨Gary Lucas Vs. The Dark Poets--´Beyond the Pale¨, released March 23rd 2008.
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¨The Thinking Man´s Guitar Hero¨(The New Yorker) GARY LUCAS performs Kyrzystof Komeda´s Lullaby from Roman Polanski´s mid-60´s shocker ¨Rosemary´s Baby¨¨with Polish actress/singer Anna Podolak singing to a montage of clips from the famous Polanski film, edited by Paul Chisefsky. This sequence is available as an extra from Gary Lucas´new DVD double-bill ¨Sounds of the Surreal/Monsters from the Id¨, available at garylucas.com. The track is also featured on the forthcoming Some Bizzare album ¨Gary Lucas Vs. The Dark Poets--´Beyond the Pale¨, released March 23rd 2008.
- published: 01 Feb 2008
- views: 7612
- author: OutFromUnderLive
Bobby Darin - Documentary Footage 1966
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- Duration: 11:09
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
Bobby Darin Facebook fanpage: www.facebook.com Bobby Darin. Sometimes I don't have words for this man. For his talent and versatility, his stage presence and drive, his timing, phrasing and intelligence. This is some footage of the unfinished documentary on Bobby's 1966 return to nightclub performing, which he had given up in 1963 to spend more time with Sandy and Dodd. In the meantime Bobby bought and successfully ran his own music publishing company. The session of "Weeping Willow" was recorded in Las Vegas on February 4, 1966. I hope this song will be released one day. At the end of this footage is a fantastic performance of "Some Of These Days".
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Bobby Darin Facebook fanpage: www.facebook.com Bobby Darin. Sometimes I don't have words for this man. For his talent and versatility, his stage presence and drive, his timing, phrasing and intelligence. This is some footage of the unfinished documentary on Bobby's 1966 return to nightclub performing, which he had given up in 1963 to spend more time with Sandy and Dodd. In the meantime Bobby bought and successfully ran his own music publishing company. The session of "Weeping Willow" was recorded in Las Vegas on February 4, 1966. I hope this song will be released one day. At the end of this footage is a fantastic performance of "Some Of These Days".
- published: 16 Dec 2011
- views: 2993
- author: BalticSeaChris
DREAMS DO COME TRUE -- The Day WE Change the World
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- Duration: 6:14
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
The World Change Foundations is pleased to announce the official launch of a symbolic coin that will unite mankind and raise money for children all around the world. On September 29, 2009 at the GM place in Vancouver and on October 5, 2009 at the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Canada, "CHANGE" The World Peace Coin was officially launched in conjunction with "Free the Children, the largest network of children helping children through education" on their National "We Days." The CHANGE Coin was given to 32000 student leaders from across Canada to honour them for their vision, passion and humanitarian actions that are making our world a better place for everyone. This history making events includes guest speakers such as the Honorary Dalai Lama, Dr. Jane Goodall, Mia Farrow, Robert Kennedy Jr., Scott Hood, the creator of the World Peace Coin and performers like Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber, Jason Mraz and many more. Check out highlight of the show at www.theworldchangefoundation.com The World coin was created with love for all humanity. The message encapsulated in the World Coin captures and embraces the essence of life. It is a message of hope for the world and for each of us to help guide everyone reach for a better life. The Coin will remind and inspire the world to see the power and beauty that lives in all of us, and the opportunities we have all been given to make a difference in the world. The Coin is a memorandum to the world that it is time for "CHANGE". We have all ...
http://wn.com/DREAMS_DO_COME_TRUE_-_The_Day_WE_Change_the_World
The World Change Foundations is pleased to announce the official launch of a symbolic coin that will unite mankind and raise money for children all around the world. On September 29, 2009 at the GM place in Vancouver and on October 5, 2009 at the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Canada, "CHANGE" The World Peace Coin was officially launched in conjunction with "Free the Children, the largest network of children helping children through education" on their National "We Days." The CHANGE Coin was given to 32000 student leaders from across Canada to honour them for their vision, passion and humanitarian actions that are making our world a better place for everyone. This history making events includes guest speakers such as the Honorary Dalai Lama, Dr. Jane Goodall, Mia Farrow, Robert Kennedy Jr., Scott Hood, the creator of the World Peace Coin and performers like Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber, Jason Mraz and many more. Check out highlight of the show at www.theworldchangefoundation.com The World coin was created with love for all humanity. The message encapsulated in the World Coin captures and embraces the essence of life. It is a message of hope for the world and for each of us to help guide everyone reach for a better life. The Coin will remind and inspire the world to see the power and beauty that lives in all of us, and the opportunities we have all been given to make a difference in the world. The Coin is a memorandum to the world that it is time for "CHANGE". We have all ...
- published: 29 Jun 2010
- views: 1472
- author: TheWORLDPEACECOIN
Neil Sean meets Stephen Triffitt
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- Duration: 9:31
- Updated: 30 Jul 2012
Neil chats to world class Frank Sinatra tribute act Stephen Triffitt about his latest tour 'Frank Sinatra Live at the Sands'.
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Neil chats to world class Frank Sinatra tribute act Stephen Triffitt about his latest tour 'Frank Sinatra Live at the Sands'.
- published: 14 Sep 2010
- views: 578
- author: Showbizhome2
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Live from Second Life: Crisis in Darfur with Mia Farrow
Crisis in Darfur: Live from Second Life with Mia Farrow, John Heffernan, Ronan Farrow, Ron...
published: 10 Feb 2007
author: lcmedia
Live from Second Life: Crisis in Darfur with Mia Farrow
Crisis in Darfur: Live from Second Life with Mia Farrow, John Heffernan, Ronan Farrow, Ron Haviv, and Bill Lichtenstein (moderator). Mia Farrow, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, appears live in the virtual 3-D on-line community Second Life to discuss and answer questions about the crisis in Darfur. The Second Life event in January 2007 takes place in front of a virtual replica of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a dramatic exhibit of photographs depicting the genocide emergency. Speakers include: John Heffernan, Director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience; Ron Haviv, an award-winning photojournalist, whose images of Darfur are part of the virtual event; Ronan Farrow, UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth in Sudan, Genocide Intervention Network representative, and author of numerous articles on the crisis in Darfur; and Bill Lichtenstein, president of Lichtenstein Creative Media, who served as moderator. The event in Second Life took place at a virtual replica of "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?" the powerful, outdoor photography exhibition highlighting images of the Darfur crisis by leading photojournalists that were projected onto the exterior of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC during Thanksgiving Week 2006. The virtual event in Second Life allowed visitors from around the world to experience the traveling photography exhibit with its moving ...
- published: 10 Feb 2007
- views: 18960
- author: lcmedia
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Mia Farrow's Tribute to Refugees
Mia Farrow's Tribute to Refugees...
published: 19 Nov 2010
author: MiaFarrow2009
Mia Farrow's Tribute to Refugees
Mia Farrow's Tribute to Refugees
- published: 19 Nov 2010
- views: 6897
- author: MiaFarrow2009
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"trailer move Arthur and the Great Adventure
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Lou Reed, Robert Stanton, Mike Powers Release date...
published: 07 Jan 2011
author: תמיר מולא
"trailer move Arthur and the Great Adventure
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Lou Reed, Robert Stanton, Mike Powers Release date (UK): 2010-12-24 Synopsis: When Arthur uncovers a distress call sent from Minimoys, the invisible people who live in his own back yard, he knows that once again, he must embark on a great adventure to battle against the evil Maltazard and save Princess Selenia. Little does he know that this is an evil trick by his arch nemesis to reverse the magic of transformation to become a giant when Arthur passes into the Minimoy's world. Now at less than half an inch tall, Arthur must save his own world from a giant evil Maltazard. Will this little hero have what it takes? Acclaimed and visionary director Luc Besson, in the follow up to Arthur and The Invisibles, brings us this brilliant, live action, computer animated, family adventure, starring Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow and Selena Gomez with Jimmy Fallon, Snoop Dogg, Will.i.am, Fergie (Black Eyed Peas), Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy Director: Luc Besson
- published: 07 Jan 2011
- views: 4010
- author: תמיר מולא
1:39
The Omen (2006) Theatrical Trailer
The original theatrical trailer for the 2006 film "The Omen." Starring Liev Schreiber, Jul...
published: 13 May 2011
author: ForeverHorror
The Omen (2006) Theatrical Trailer
The original theatrical trailer for the 2006 film "The Omen." Starring Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon. Directed by John Moore.
- published: 13 May 2011
- views: 7415
- author: ForeverHorror
9:52
Making of Arthur and the Minimoys part 3/3
Last part, the filming of the live sequences, including Mia Farrow....
published: 02 Jan 2008
author: Koolomassai
Making of Arthur and the Minimoys part 3/3
Last part, the filming of the live sequences, including Mia Farrow.
- published: 02 Jan 2008
- views: 25967
- author: Koolomassai
2:47
Day 2: Life in the Camps
In this webcast, Mia Farrow looks out across the expanse of a refugee camp for Darfurians,...
published: 10 Aug 2008
author: dream4darfur
Day 2: Life in the Camps
In this webcast, Mia Farrow looks out across the expanse of a refugee camp for Darfurians, and describes how people live and still manage to hope after five years.
- published: 10 Aug 2008
- views: 776
- author: dream4darfur
0:36
LIVE PROPHECY BY PHONE $20 - www.masterprophetnoel.com!.
Mia Farrow, Mia Maestro, Mia Michaels, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Bolton, Michael Buble, Mich...
published: 08 Sep 2011
author: LiveProphecy
LIVE PROPHECY BY PHONE $20 - www.masterprophetnoel.com!.
Mia Farrow, Mia Maestro, Mia Michaels, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Bolton, Michael Buble, Michael Caine, Michael Cera, Michael Chiklis, Michael Douglas, Michael Jackson, Michael Johns, Michael Jordan, Michael Keaton, Michael Kors, Michael Lohan, Michael Moore, Michael Phelps, Michael Pitt, Michael Richards, Michael Sheen, Michael Steger, Michael Stipe
- published: 08 Sep 2011
- views: 12
- author: LiveProphecy
1:21
Mia Farrow at We Day 2011 - Vancouver, BC
Actress and activist Mia Farrow spoke to thousands of students at We Day 2011 in Rogers Ar...
published: 23 Apr 2012
author: BlackPressMedia
Mia Farrow at We Day 2011 - Vancouver, BC
Actress and activist Mia Farrow spoke to thousands of students at We Day 2011 in Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC Kolby Solinsky / Black Press
- published: 23 Apr 2012
- views: 22
- author: BlackPressMedia
2:13
We Day 2011 - Recap and Post-Game - Vancouver, BC
Shaquille O'Neal, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mia Farrow and Craig and Mark Kielburger took over Va...
published: 23 Apr 2012
author: BlackPressMedia
We Day 2011 - Recap and Post-Game - Vancouver, BC
Shaquille O'Neal, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mia Farrow and Craig and Mark Kielburger took over Vancouver's Rogers Arena at We Day 2011. Kolby Solinsky / Black Press
- published: 23 Apr 2012
- views: 420
- author: BlackPressMedia
4:10
Frank Sinatra-"You and me (we wanted it all)"
Film clips of Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra to the background music, "You and me we wanted ...
published: 15 Aug 2008
author: Gabe Quintanilla
Frank Sinatra-"You and me (we wanted it all)"
Film clips of Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra to the background music, "You and me we wanted it all."
- published: 15 Aug 2008
- views: 8279
- author: Gabe Quintanilla
4:58
Mark Davenport: One Hope (Standing Proud) - Save Darfur
A music video to help raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur. www.savedarfur.org. Writt...
published: 09 Nov 2010
author: RunMDPhD
Mark Davenport: One Hope (Standing Proud) - Save Darfur
A music video to help raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur. www.savedarfur.org. Written & performed by Mark Davenport. http Song available at: www.cdbaby.com Photos from Mia Farrow's Flickr site. Live video clips (Cabaret for a Cause: Boulder Theater, Boulder, Colorado, August 28, 2010) by Deborah Fryer/Lila Films. Live performers include Peter Yellen and his group "Dressed in Black" (Bill Kopper, guitar; Dan Geisler, keyboards; Mark Simon, bass; Mark Raynes, drums) with Ron Ivory and his R&B; vocal group "One on One."
- published: 09 Nov 2010
- views: 1190
- author: RunMDPhD
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Adam Barber after his and Alices Hunger Strike with Mia Farrow, for the people of Darfur.
Alice and Me don't actually live together! So we've recorded seperate final videos.. For m...
published: 07 May 2009
author: Alice Green
Adam Barber after his and Alices Hunger Strike with Mia Farrow, for the people of Darfur.
Alice and Me don't actually live together! So we've recorded seperate final videos.. For more information on the situation in Darfur and what you can do to help, check out: www.miafarrow.org and tune into Alice Green and myself on www.lovegravity.com from 8pm on Sunday 16th May..and every Sunday thereafter.. Thanks again, xxx
- published: 07 May 2009
- views: 198
- author: Alice Green
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DN! Mia Farrow Testifies at Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial
Mia Farrow Testifies at Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial At the war crimes trial of former ...
published: 10 Aug 2010
author: StartLoving3
DN! Mia Farrow Testifies at Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial
Mia Farrow Testifies at Charles Taylor War Crimes Trial At the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, actress Mia Farrow told a court hearing Monday that she had heard supermodel Naomi Campbell say she had been given a "huge diamond" by Taylor when he was Liberia's president. Prosecutors are hoping Farrow's claim will help establish that Taylor was involved in the trade of so-called blood diamonds illegally mined from Sierra Leone. Last week, Campbell appeared before the court in The Hague and admitted she had received diamonds after a 1997 charity dinner in South Africa, but did not know if they were from Taylor. On Monday, Farrow contradicted Campbell and described meeting with Campbell the morning after she received the diamonds. Mia Farrow: "From Miss Campbell, Miss Campbell entered the room. My children and I were already eating breakfast. And as I recall it, she was quite excited and said, in effect, 'Oh, my god! In the middle of the night last night,' or 'last night, I was awakened by knocking at the door, and it was men sent by Charles Taylor. And he sent me,' as I recall, 'a huge diamond.'"
- published: 10 Aug 2010
- views: 354
- author: StartLoving3
2:31
Arthur & The Invisibles- Official Trailer
From the creative mind of talented filmmaker Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Elemen...
published: 15 Sep 2006
author: TheWeinsteinCompany
Arthur & The Invisibles- Official Trailer
From the creative mind of talented filmmaker Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element), comes a larger-than-life, family adventure about a boy who, after his grandfather disappears, sets out to save his family home from emerging real estate developers. Arthur learns that he must follow his grandfather's ancient clues to a vast treasure -- and unlock the passageway to a spectacular new world filled with mysterious little people, so tiny they are considered invisible, and enlist their help. But once in the magical land, Arthur must join swords with a beautiful princess and a reckless army of defenders to save the land from the evil wizard. It seems like an impossible task, but as he discovers along the way, sometimes the smallest heroes can make the biggest difference. Using a dazzling new combination of live-action and ground-breaking CGI technology, ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES is the story about the true meaning of courage and the endless power of imagination. The film is scheduled for release on January 12, 2007, and stars Mia Farrow and Freddie Highmore, featuring the voices of Madonna, David Bowie and Snoop Dog. ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES was written and directed by Luc Besson and is based on the best selling children's book, "Arthur and the Minimoys."
- published: 15 Sep 2006
- views: 283279
- author: TheWeinsteinCompany
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Exhibit Darfur: Mia Farrow
Exhibit Darfur is a photographic journey through the lenses of 6 notable artists, led by M...
published: 22 Jun 2009
author: Jeff Smith
Exhibit Darfur: Mia Farrow
Exhibit Darfur is a photographic journey through the lenses of 6 notable artists, led by Mia Farrow, shedding a light on the genocide in Darfur. See Mia Farrow now.
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Arthur and the Revenge Of Maltazard Movie Preview
Twitter.com - Follow Us! We've got a star-studded movie preview right now. Stay tuned! Hey...
published: 20 Jan 2010
author: clevverTV
Arthur and the Revenge Of Maltazard Movie Preview
Twitter.com - Follow Us! We've got a star-studded movie preview right now. Stay tuned! Hey everyone. I'm your host Dana Ward and you are watching Clevver TV. Today we're talking about the new movie, Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard. Right off the bat, I must mention that this French film rocks a super cast including Selena Gomez, Freddie Highmore, Jimmy Fallon, Mia Farrow, Snoop Dogg, Stacy Ferguson - that's Fergie - Will.i.Am, Robert Stanton and more. Keep in mind that you may only be hearing some of these celebs via voiceover simply because the movie is a live-action, 3D action trilogy. So Arthur et la vengeance de Maltazard is the 2nd in the 3 part series and thus jumps right into the storyline, no introductions about how the main character shrunk himself to a pint-sized gnome. On his journey to return to the kingdom of the Invisibles, Arthur comes across new adventures in a bug-land of sorts, meets up with a Princess Selenia - guess who plays her - and the evil Maltazard returns to the story. Keep in mind that this movie is still based on 2006's popular 'Arthur and the Invisibles.' So are you revved up to see this French flick or not so much? Let us know your thoughts and be sure to check out ClevverTV.com for all of your movie and entertainment news. I'm Dana Ward and thanks for watching!!!
- published: 20 Jan 2010
- views: 33639
- author: clevverTV
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Krzysztof Komeda - Rosemary's Lullaby [live recording]
Unique, home recordings of Krzysztof Komeda playing "Lullaby" from Roman Polański's movie ...
published: 06 Apr 2010
author: pmsmorga
Krzysztof Komeda - Rosemary's Lullaby [live recording]
Unique, home recordings of Krzysztof Komeda playing "Lullaby" from Roman Polański's movie "Rosemary's Baby", 1968. Domowe, amatorskie nagrania komponującego przy pianinie Krzysztofa Komedy. Genialny Mistrz, nieco fałszujący, podsłuchany w kapciach, w domowych pieleszach, gra "Kołysankę" z filmu "Dziecko Rosemary". The Complete Recordings of Krzysztof Komeda vol.16, Private Conversation. Krzysztof Komeda - solo piano, voice, whistling, murmur. *** Wszelkie prawa do zamieszczonych kompozycji posiada Polonia Records. Niektóre zdjęcia są własnością Stowarzyszenia Astigmatic, niektóre moją :)
- published: 06 Apr 2010
- views: 93454
- author: pmsmorga
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OCCC Library "Life in The Gatsby Era" event with Prof. Richard Rouillard
Life in the Great Gatsby Era with Prof. Richard Rouillard-- Thursday, Oct. 11th, 2012 at 2...
published: 05 Oct 2012
author: occclibrary
OCCC Library "Life in The Gatsby Era" event with Prof. Richard Rouillard
Life in the Great Gatsby Era with Prof. Richard Rouillard-- Thursday, Oct. 11th, 2012 at 2:30pm in CU 1&2 For more information, please see: www.occc.edu Image source: Robert Redford & Mia Farrow In 'The Great Gatsby'.Photographer. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 5 Oct 2012.quest.eb.com Music source: Red Hook Ramblers "Ain't Gonna Give Jelly Roll" Live @ WFMU on Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC, Feb. 8 2011 (freemusicarchive.org
- published: 05 Oct 2012
- views: 27
- author: occclibrary
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200 year old Volkswagen discovery scene from Woody Allen's, "Sleeper" (1973)
This is one of my favorite scenes in the Woody Allen classic, "Sleeper" (1973). While runn...
published: 04 Dec 2011
author: backyardsounds
200 year old Volkswagen discovery scene from Woody Allen's, "Sleeper" (1973)
This is one of my favorite scenes in the Woody Allen classic, "Sleeper" (1973). While running form the government of the future, Allen portraying the character, "Miles Monroe" discovers a Volkswagen Bug hidden away in a cave. The female companion (Luna Schlosser) as played by Diane Keaton asks, "What is it?" and he replies, "It's a two hundred year old Volkswagen." He walks to the side, looks inside of the Beetle and he turns the key. To his amazement, it starts right up. Allen then exclaims, "Shhwa, - they really built these things, didn't they?!" Miles Monroe, a jazz musician and owner of the Happy Carrot Health-Food store living in Manhattan in 1973, is cryonically frozen without his consent, and not revived for 200 years. The scientists who revive him are members of an underground movement: 22nd-century America seems to be a police state ruled by a dictator, about to implement a secret plan known as the "Aires Project" (sic). The underground movement hopes to use Miles as a spy to infiltrate the Aires Project, because he is the only member of this society without a known biometric identity. *** Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935) is a Jewish-American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, and playwright. His films often draw heavily on sexuality, comedy, literature, philosophy and of course his views on Jewish Identity. Being a New Yorker, a lot of his comedy seems to focus on the the mindset of the European Jewish (Ashkenazi ...
- published: 04 Dec 2011
- views: 5772
- author: backyardsounds
photo: AP / Nick Ut
14 Dec 2012
Former President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, meet 55-year-old Martha Sellers. For the past nine years, Sellers has worked as a Walmart cashier in Paramount, California ... More than 10,000 community members joined more than 30 striking employees who walked off the job to demand better working conditions. . "It was wonderful ... That's not too much to ask for." ... 1698 ... ....(size: 23.6Kb)
photo: AP / Manu Brabo
13 Dec 2012
MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) – Syrian rebels behind the kidnapping of Ukrainian journalist Ankhar Kochneva have released a video threatening more attacks on Russians and Ukrainians, as a deadline for her execution approaches on Thursday. Kochneva, a 40-year-old Ukrainian citizen, was abducted in October by Syrian rebels as she traveled to the city of Homs, and has been held there by them since, they claim ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
photo: AP / Jessica Hill
14 Dec 2012
More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC News. The massacre involved two gunmen at a Connecticut school this morning, prompting the town of Newtown to lock down all of its schools and draw SWAT teams to the school, authorities said today. State Police confirm that one shooter is dead ... at ABCNews.com ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
photo: AP / KCNA
14 Dec 2012
North Koreans have gathered in Pyongyang for a mass rally to celebrate Wednesday's long-range rocket launch. State television showed huge crowds cheering to mark the launch, which has been condemned by many nations as a banned test of missile technology. South Korea, meanwhile, says it has retrieved debris from the rocket and will study it to assess its technology. The first stage of the rocket fell west of the Korean peninsula ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
photo: AP / Manu Brabo
14 Dec 2012
One of Syria's key allies has admitted for the first time the Assad regime is losing the 20-month ground war. Russia’s deputy foreign minister’s comments are significant because Russia has blocked action to stem the violence, supplied weapons to the Assad regime, and vetoed three UN resolutions -- even as other countries called for Assad to step down. The comments are expected to put new pressure on the Syrian leader ... Reporter ... ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
The Inquisitr
15 Dec 2012
Posted. December 14, 2012. Michael Moore has taken to Twitter to call for tighter gun controls after a shooter killed 27 people – including 20 children – at a Newtown grade school. The Bowling for Columbine director tweeted.. “Too soon to speak out about a gun-crazy nation? No, too late. At least THIRTY-ONE school shootings since Columbine.”. He later added. ... And actress Mia Farrow tweeted. ... ‘. — mia farrow (@MiaFarrow) December 14, 2012....(size: 7.6Kb)
The Examiner
15 Dec 2012
To see such a tragedy like we all did today in Connecticut at an elementary school was horrifying and shocking. The Sandy school shooting not only touched many locally, but all over the world. Celebrities are speaking out about the horrific tragedy of the loss of innocent children and adults. As the tragedy unfolded today, after the 9.30 a.m. shooting, many celebrities began to speak out ... Kelly Osbourne ... Lenny Kravitz ... Mia Farrow ... Vivica A ... ....(size: 3.7Kb)
IMDb
14 Dec 2012
Only a few hours after the horrific elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, celebrities and other familiar names have already expressed shock, sorrow and a few calls to action ... Mia Farrow (actress) ... Piers Morgan (CNN host) ... ....(size: 1.1Kb)
IMDb
14 Dec 2012
Among those demanding new gun laws are Piers Morgan, Michael Moore, Mia Farrow and Sarah Silverman ... ....(size: 0.5Kb)
Huffington Post
14 Dec 2012
Among those demanding new gun laws are Piers Morgan, Michael Moore, Mia Farrow and Sarah Silverman. A selection of tweets on the matter is available below ... Like ... ....(size: 3.3Kb)
Zap2it
14 Dec 2012
Only a few hours after the horrific elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, celebrities and other familiar names have already expressed shock, sorrow and a few calls to action. Here is a roundup of messages left by many on Twitter ... Michael Moore (documentarian behind "Bowling for Columbine"). "Too soon to speak out about a gun-crazy nation? No, too late ... Mia Farrow (actress) ... Piers Morgan (CNN host) ... ... Never was. #newtown"....(size: 2.3Kb)
The Hollywood Reporter
14 Dec 2012
share. AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks. Industry responses to the mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school have called for stricter gun control regulations in light of the tragedy ... Bob Costas to Debate Bill O'Reilly Over Gun Control on Fox News (Video). STORY. 27 Dead in Connecticut Elementary School Shooting ... YESTERDAY was the day to debate it ... — mia farrow (@MiaFarrow) December 14, 2012 ... There are no words... _ ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
WorldNetDaily
14 Dec 2012
In the wake of the horrific Connecticut kindergarten massacre today, gun-control advocates are taking to Twitter in droves and blaming firearms for the murders of 27 people, including 18 children. “Too soon to speak out about a gun-crazy nation? No, too late,” tweeted “Bowling for Columbine” Director Michael Moore ... CNN’s Piers Morgan tweeted ... He tweeted ... Actress Mia Farrow took to Twitter to declare ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
Daily Press
14 Dec 2012
Dec 14 (TheWrap.com) - The Connecticut school shooting that killed 27 -- including up to 20 children -- horrified Hollywood along with the rest of the nation, prompting one of the most pro-gun control segments of the country to again demand better restrictions and more mental health services ... I'm so saddened ... Actress Mia Farrow tweeted that "gun control is no longer debatable -- it's not a 'conversation' -- It's a moral mandate." ... 0 ... ....(size: 23.6Kb)
The Times of India
13 Dec 2012
In the 1960s, the western world could not be bothered with things Indian; to them our country was a god-forsaken third world nightmare in the back of beyond, dying of starvation and poverty and disease, an ex-colony whose grandeur belonged in the faded past ... The Maharishi soon fell out of grace, having tried to allegedly make sexual advances toward Mia Farrow and other women in 'The Beatles' entourage ... A global legend has passed away ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)
New York Magazine
12 Dec 2012
Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow were no match for his chiseled face and those piercing blue eyes, and there’s no question he has us transfixed as well ... Tags ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)
The Times of India
09 Dec 2012
The late Princess Diana played around with the styling, but kept the basic length of her mane the same ... The Rachel cut ... Ace hairdresser Vidal Sassoon worked his magic on American actress Mia Farrow's hair before she starred in the horror classic Rosemary's Baby. After viewing the film, many women asked their local hairstylists to copy the Mia Farrow pixie, a sign of rebellion to the highly styled standard hairstyles of the 1960s ... ....(size: 4.2Kb)
Herald Tribune
09 Dec 2012
His famed Masked Black and White Ball of 1966 drew the likes of Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow and Henry Ford ... last work, proclaimed as a new standard for nonfiction writing, that propelled Capote to the upper reaches of society.</p><p>His famed Masked Black and White Ball of 1966 drew the likes of Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow and Henry Ford....(size: 8.6Kb)
| Mia Farrow | |
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 Farrow at the 2012 Time 100 |
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| Born | Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow (1945-02-09) February 9, 1945 (age 67) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, model, humanitarian |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Spouse | Frank Sinatra (m. 1966–68; divorced) André Previn (m. 1970–79; divorced) |
| Partner | Woody Allen (1980-92) |
| Children | 15 |
Mia Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, singer, humanitarian, and fashion model.
Farrow first gained wide acclaim for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the soap opera Peyton Place, and for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. An early film role, as the woman pregnant with Satan's baby in 1968's Rosemary's Baby, saw her portrayal nominated for many awards.
Farrow has appeared in more than 45 films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award (and seven additional Golden Globe nominations), three BAFTA Film Award nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.[1] Farrow is also known for her extensive humanitarian work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She is involved in humanitarian activities in Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic. In 2008, Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world.[2]
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Early life[link]
Farrow was born as Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Australian film director John Farrow and Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. She was raised Roman Catholic.[3][4] Her sisters are Prudence and actors Stephanie and Tisa. She has three brothers: Michael Damien (1939–1958), Patrick Joseph (1942–2009) and John Charles (born 1946).[citation needed]
She grew up in Beverly Hills, California, and often traveled with her parents as they worked on films that were produced on location.[citation needed] She made her film debut in a 1947 short subject with her mother; the short was about famous mothers and their children modelling the latest fashions for families.[citation needed] When she was nine she came down with polio but eventually recovered.[5]
Career[link]
Farrow screen-tested for the role of Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music, but did not get the part. The footage has been preserved, and appears on the fortieth Anniversary Edition DVD of The Sound of Music. Farrow began her acting career by appearing in supporting roles in several 1960s films. However, she achieved stardom on the popular primetime soap opera Peyton Place as naive, waif-like Allison MacKenzie, a role she later abandoned at the urging of first husband Frank Sinatra. Her first leading film role was in Rosemary's Baby (1968), which was a critical and commercial success at the time and continues to be widely regarded as a classic of the horror genre.
Farrow's performance in Rosemary's Baby garnered numerous awards, including the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress, and established her as a leading actress. Film critic and author Stephen Farber described her performance as having an "electrifying impact… one of the rare instances of actor and character achieving a miraculous, almost mythical match. If Ira Levin's story shrewdly taps into every pregnant woman's fears about the stranger growing inside her, Mia Farrow gives those fears an achingly real and human force".[6][dead link] Film critic Roger Ebert noted that "the brilliance of the film comes more from Polanski's direction, and from a series of genuinely inspired performances… The characters emerge as human beings actually doing these things. A great deal of the credit for this achievement must go to Mia Farrow, as Rosemary".[7] Following Rosemary's Baby, Farrow was to be cast as Mattie in True Grit and was keen on the role. However, prior to filming she made Secret Ceremony in England with Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Mitchum. While filming, Mitchum told her about True Grit director Henry Hathaway having a reputation for being rude to actresses. Farrow asked producer Hal Wallis to replace Hathaway, Wallis refused. Farrow quit the role which was then given to Kim Darby.[8] Secret Ceremony divided critics, but has gone on to develop a devoted following. Farrow's other late '60s films include John and Mary, opposite Dustin Hoffman.
In the 1970s, Farrow appeared in a number of notable films, including the thriller See No Evil (1971), French director Claude Chabrol's Docteur Popaul (1972) and The Great Gatsby (1974), in which Farrow played Daisy Buchanan. She also appeared in director Robert Altman's cult classic A Wedding (1978). In 1977, she played the title role in The Haunting of Julia. Farrow also appeared in a number of made-for-television films in the 1970s, most notably portraying the title role in a musical version of Peter Pan (1976). In 1979, Farrow appeared on Broadway opposite Anthony Perkins in the play Romantic Comedy by Bernard Slade.
In the 1980s and early '90s, Farrow's relationship with director Woody Allen resulted in numerous film collaborations. She appeared in nearly all of Allen's films during this period, including leading roles in Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters (playing the principal title role), Radio Days and Alice (1990), again as the title character. Farrow also played Alura, mother of Kara (Helen Slater), in Supergirl (1984) and voiced the title role in the animated film The Last Unicorn (1982). She also narrated several of the animated Stories to Remember.
Citing the need to devote herself to raising her young children, Farrow worked less frequently during the 1990s. Nonetheless, she appeared in leading roles in several notable films, including the Irish film Widows' Peak (1994), Miami Rhapsody (1995) and Reckless (also 1995). She also appeared in several independent features and made-for-television films throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. She also wrote an autobiography, What Falls Away (New York: Doubleday, 1997).
Farrow appeared as Mrs. Baylock, the Satanic nanny, in the remake of The Omen (2006). Although the film itself received a lukewarm critical reception, Farrow's performance was widely praised, with the Associated Press declaring "thank heaven for Mia Farrow" and calling her performance "a rare instance of the new Omen improving on the old one."[9][dead link] Filmcritic.com added "it is Farrow who steals the show",[10] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer described her performance as "a truly delicious comeback role for Rosemary herself, Mia Farrow, who is chillingly believable as a sweet-talking nanny from hell."[11]
Farrow worked on several films released in 2007, including the romantic comedy The Ex and the first part of director Luc Besson's trilogy of fantasy films, Arthur and the Invisibles. In 2008, in director Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, she appeared opposite Jack Black, Mos Def and Danny Glover.
In 2011, Farrow worked in the film Dark Horse, directed by Todd Solondz. The film will be shown at the Venice Film Festival in September 2011, as well as the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival the same month.
Activism and Africa[link]
Farrow has been a high profile advocate for children's rights, working to raise funds and awareness for children in conflict-affected regions, predominantly in Africa. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has worked extensively to draw attention to the fight to eradicate polio, which she survived as a child. She has traveled to Darfur three times to advocate for Darfuri refuges. She traveled there in November 2004 and June 2006, joining her son Ronan Farrow, who has also worked for UNICEF in Sudan.[12] Farrow visited 2006 Berlin to be part of a charity auction of United Buddy Bears, which feature designs by artists representing 142 U.N. member states.[13]
Her third trip was as part of a documentary film expedition in 2007.[14] Farrow's photographs of Darfur appeared in People magazine in July 2006 and she authored an article on the crisis, published in the Chicago Tribune on July 25, 2006. On February 5, 2007, Farrow authored an editorial for the Los Angeles Times.[15] On August 7, 2007, Farrow offered to "trade her freedom" for the freedom of a rebel leader being treated in a UN hospital, but afraid to leave. She wanted to be taken captive in exchange for his being allowed to leave the country.
Since 2007, Farrow has been involved with the Dream for Darfur campaign, which has made a major effort to focus public attention on China's support for the government of Sudan, with a special focus on the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing. Swayed by Farrow's campaign to pressure him, on February 12, 2008 filmmaker, Steven Spielberg withdrew as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympics broadcast. During the Olympics broadcast, Farrow televised via the internet from a Sudanese refugee camp to highlight China's involvement in the region.[16]
Farrow has recently agreed to narrate a documentary film relating the struggle of many of the survivors of the Rwandan Genocide to forgive those who murdered family and friends. The documentary has been completed and is titled As We Forgive.[17]
Farrow has set up her own website, Mia Farrow.org, which features a guide on how to get involved with Darfur activism, along with her photographs and blog entries from Darfur, Chad, and the Central African Republic.[18]
The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on March 4, 2009, after which Sudan expelled 13 international aid agencies from Darfur. To raise awareness of this situation, Farrow began a water-only fast on April 27.[19] Farrow's goal was to fast for three weeks. On May 8, after 12 days of fasting, she called a halt to the fast due to a downturn in her health.[20]
In 2008, Farrow received three awards: the France Legion of Arts and Lettres award, the Refugees International McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award for "extraordinary service to refugees and displaced people"[21]; and the Tiannamen Square Award.[22]
In 2009, Farrow was the recipient of the Leon Sullivan International Service award.[citation needed] She testified in the trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor in August 2010.[citation needed]
Personal life[link]
Farrow married singer Frank Sinatra on July 19, 1966, when she was 21 and he was 50 years old.[23] During the production of Farrow's 1968 film Rosemary's Baby, after she refused Sinatra's demand that she quit the film to work on his movie The Detective, he served her with divorce papers on the Rosemary's Baby set.[24] The divorce was finalized in 1968.
Also in 1968, Farrow traveled to India, where she spent the early part of the year at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, studying Transcendental Meditation. Her visit received worldwide media attention due to the presence of all four members of The Beatles, Donovan, and Mike Love, as well as her sister Prudence Farrow, who inspired John Lennon to write the song "Dear Prudence".
In 1970, Farrow married the musician André Previn. His former wife, songwriter Dory Previn, blamed Farrow for the end of her relationship with Previn and wrote a scathing song, entitled "Beware of Young Girls", about the incident.[25] Farrow and Previn had three biological children (twins Matthew and Sascha, born February 26, 1970, and Fletcher, born March 14, 1974). In 1973 and 1976, respectively, they adopted Vietnamese infants Lark Song and Summer "Daisy" Song (born October 6, 1974), followed by the adoption of eight-year-old Soon-Yi (born October 8, 1970) from Korea around 1978. André and Mia divorced in 1979.[citation needed] Lark died on Christmas Day of 2008.[26]
In 1980, Farrow began seeing film director Woody Allen. Together they adopted Moses "Misha" Farrow (born January 27, 1978, adopted 1980) and Dylan "Eliza" Farrow (born July 11, 1985, now called Malone). On December 19, 1987, Mia gave birth to Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow, now known as Ronan Seamus Farrow. During their relationship, Farrow starred in many of Allen's films, and several of their children also made appearances.[citation needed]
Farrow and Allen parted after Farrow discovered a sexual relationship between Allen and her adopted daughter Soon-Yi. During the subsequent custody battle involving Farrow's and Allen's three children, Farrow filed charges that Allen had molested their daughter Dylan, then seven years old. Allen has adamantly denied the charges. A doctor concluded that Dylan "either invented the story under the stress of living in a volatile and unhealthy home or that it was planted in her mind by her mother" because of the inconsistent presentation of the story by Dylan.[27] In September 1993, Connecticut State Attorney Frank Maco announced that, while he had "probable cause" to prosecute Allen on charges of sexual molestation of Dylan, he was dropping the case to spare her the trauma of appearing in court.[28] Farrow has been estranged from Soon-Yi since Soon-Yi's 1997 marriage to Allen.[citation needed]
Between 1992 and 1995, Farrow adopted 6 more children: Tam Farrow (born 1979); Quincy Farrow, now known as Kaeli-Shea Farrow; Frankie-Minh (born 1991); Isaiah Justus (born 1992); Thaddeus Wilk Farrow (born 1988); and Gabriel Wilk Farrow, adopted in 1995 and named after Elliott Wilk, the judge who oversaw Farrow's 1993 legal battle with Allen.[citation needed] Her adopted daughter Tam Farrow died of heart failure in 2000 at the age of 19.[dead link][29] On Christmas Day 2008, her adopted daughter Lark Previn died after a long illness. Although no official cause was released, her death was rumored to be AIDS-related.[30]
As of March 2012, Mia Farrow has thirteen living children and nine grandchildren.[31]
Filmography[link]
References[link]
- ^ Mia Farrow - Awards
- ^ Mia Farrow - The 2008 Time 100
- ^ Pringle, Gill (2006-06-02). "Mia Farrow: 'My faith helps me through hard times'". London: The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/mia-farrow-my-faith-helps-me-through-hard-times-480665.html. Retrieved 2010-05-15. "If you're brought up a Catholic and you've had 13 years of convent education with nuns, there's no way you ever get out from under that. I've accepted that fact about myself so there are certain things - like my lost saint - that sometimes are not so lost."
- ^ Wood, Gaby (2006-01-29). "'I've always had a sense of the unworthiness of myself'". The Observer (London: The Guardian). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/jan/29/2. Retrieved 2010-05-15. "This seems more than a little harsh, and I ask Farrow whether she thinks she would have felt less guilty about things if she had not been brought up a Catholic."
- ^ "Polio Strikes Los Angeles.". The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) (Perth, WA: National Library of Australia): p. 4. 14 August 1954. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49874251. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ Movieline.com
- ^ "Rosemary's Baby". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680729/REVIEWS/807290301/1023.
- ^ p.286 Davis, Ronald L. Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne 2003 University of Oklahoma Press
- ^ http://wcbstv.com/moviereviews/movies_story_154012813.html
- ^ The Omen (2006) Movie Review, DVD Release - Filmcritic.com
- ^ Arnold, William (May 6, 2006). "Final warning: Don't see 'Omen'". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/272809_omen06q.html.
- ^ Overview | Genocide Intervention Network
- ^ Mia Farrow in Berlin 2006
- ^ "Mia Farrow's mission". CBC News. October 10, 2007. http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sudan/mia-farrow.html.
- ^ 25 July 2006 The Chicago Tribune - World must not turn away from Darfur's desperation; By Mia Farrow
- ^ Farrow Going to Darfur for China Protest. San Francisco Chronicle. 2008-04-04. Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20080410233747/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/03/entertainment/e161624D52.DTL. Retrieved 2008-06-07
- ^ Movie web site
- ^ Homepage Mia Farrow web site
- ^ Mia Farrow to start fast over Darfur
- ^ Mia Farrow ends fast after health concerns
- ^ McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award press release
- ^ "UNICEF Mia Farrow Goodwill Ambassador" UNICEF web site
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000069/bio
- ^ Santopietro, Tom (2009). Sinatra in Hollywood. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-36226-3.
- ^ Nelson, Valerie J. (February 16, 2012). "Dory Previn dies at 86; Oscar-nominated songwriter". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dory-previn-20120216,0,2450227.story?page=1.
- ^ Mia Farrow mourns the death of adopted daughter Lark Previn on Christmas Day
- ^ Perez-Pena R. (1993). Doctor Cites Inconsistencies In Dylan Farrow's Statement. New York Times.
- ^ Woody Allen-Mia Farrow Custody Trial: 1993 - The Custody Trial Begins.
- ^ Mia Farrow Mourns Daughter NY Daily News, March 15, 2000
- ^ Lark Previn, Mia Farrow's Daughter, Dies On Christmas The Huffington Post, December 30, 2008
- ^ Mia Farrow grandchildren
External links[link]
Informational
- Official MiaFarrow.org website
- Mia Farrow at the Internet Movie Database
- Mia Farrow at the TCM Movie Database
- Mia Farrow at the Internet Broadway Database
- Mia Farrow at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
Interviews and articles
- Interview with Mia Farrow about Darfur on Guernica: a magazine of art and politics
- "A sorry Hollywood story", commentary by Philip Cunningham on Mia Farrow and Hollywood politics"
- Mia & Ronan Farrow Report from Darfur, published on the Genocide Intervention Network website
- London Observer interview, printed on The Guardian
- Farrow Interview on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
- Farrow Interview as part of Public Relations Society of America International Conference Overview on WebmasterRadio.FM with Brandy Shapiro-Babin
- Interview with David Freudberg on public radio's Humankind describes her efforts to increase awareness about the ongoing slaughter in Darfur, her history of having adopted ten children, and her reflections on ego
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Farrow, Mia |
| Alternative names | Villiers-Farrow, Maria de Lourdes |
| Short description | Actress, singer |
| Date of birth | February 9, 1945 |
| Place of birth | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Date of death | |
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