| Name | Kiss the Girls |
|---|---|
| Caption | Theatrical release poster |
| Director | Gary Fleder |
| Writer | David KlassBased on the novel by James Patterson |
| Starring | Morgan FreemanAshley JuddCary Elwes |
| Producer | David BrownJoe Wizan |
| Music | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography | Aaron Schneider |
| Editing | Armen MinasianHarvey RosenstockWilliam Steinkamp |
| Distributor | Paramount Pictures |
| Budget | $27,000,000 |
| Gross | $60,527,873 |
| Released | October 3, 1997 |
| Runtime | 117 minutes |
| Country | |
| Language | English |
| Followed by | Along Came a Spider |
Kiss the Girls is a 1997 American thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. The screenplay by David Klass is based on the best-selling 1995 novel of the same name by James Patterson. Although Kiss the Girls was the second book in Patterson's Alex Cross series, it was filmed before its predecessor, Along Came a Spider, which was adapted for a feature film in 2001.
When she awakens from a drugged state, Kate discovers she is being held captive by a masked man calling himself Casanova, and she is one of several prisoners trapped in his lair. She manages to escape and is severely injured when she jumps from a cliff and into a river to escape from his clutches. After she recuperates, she joins forces with Cross to track down her sadomasochist captor, who Cross concludes is a collector, not a killer, unless his victims fail to follow his rules. This means there is time to rescue the other imprisoned women, just as long as they remain subservient.
Clues lead them to Los Angeles, where a series of gruesome kidnappings and murders have been credited to a man known as the Gentleman Caller. Cross deduces he is working in collusion with rather than imitating his East Coast counterpart, but his efforts to capture and question him are foiled and the man escapes. Upon returning to North Carolina, he eventually discovers the underground hideaway used by, as well as the true identity of, the man who calls himself Casanova.
The film premiered at the Deauville Film Festival in September 1997 before opening on 2,271 screens in the US the following month. It earned $13,215,167 in its opening weekend and a total of $60,527,873 in the US, ranking #30 in domestic revenue for the year.
In the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert said, "David Klass, the screenwriter, gives Freeman and Judd more specific dialogue than is usual in thrillers; they sound as if they might actually be talking with each other and not simply advancing plot points.... [They] are so good, you almost wish they'd decided not to make a thriller at all - had simply found a way to construct a drama exploring their personalities."
Rita Kempley of the Washington Post called the film "a tense, scary, perversely creepy thriller" and added, "David Klass ... blessedly deletes the graphic descriptions of torture and rape included in the novel. Unfortunately, he also neglects to include any explanation of Casanova's behavior. Otherwise Kiss the Girls does what it's supposed to do. A solid second film from director Gary Fleder, it's sure to set pulses racing and spines tingling." In the same newspaper, Desson Howe felt "The movie ... operates on the crime-movie equivalent of automatic pilot. It takes off, flies and lands without much creative intervention."
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Peter Stack thought "the story ... goes on too long. It has too many confusing plot twists and keeps losing energy. Blame it on Hollywood excess, or director Gary Fleder's uncertain hand. A cut of 15 minutes would have helped." He was more impressed by the film's stars, calling Morgan Freeman "compelling" and "a hero of extraordinary power that comes almost entirely from his unemotional, calculating calm," and stating that Ashley Judd "gives the sometimes plodding drama a dose of intense vitality. This young actress is getting awfully good at turning potentially gelatinous characters into substantive people who spark viewer interest."
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Reshma, SI, is a renowned folk singer of Pakistan, who is popular in India too.
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| Name | Sukanya |
|---|---|
| Birthdate | July 08, 1963 |
| Birthplace | Chennai, Tamilnadu, India |
| Birthname | Sukanya |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Yearsactive | 1989 - present |
| Awards | Tamil Nadu State Award for Best Actress |
She has to her credit five Best Actress Filmfare awards for her performance in the Tamil films Puthu Nellu Puthu Nathu, Walter Vetrivel, Rajarajan.
She is a very versatile actress and also a good singer.She can also speak Malayalam and Telugu She has also learnt Bharatanatyam and has performed worldwide. She is also the younger cousin of actress Jaishree. Sukanya has a penchant for costume designing and hair make-up. She is known for her friendly nature and has helped her co-stars like Saranya Ponvannan, Kushboo, Ranjitha, Kasthuri, and Anu Hassan. In Telugu, Sukanya and Kushboo co-star a telugu serial in which Sukanya acts as Kushboo's elder sister.
She also acted in some Sandalwood Movies, namely Guru Brahma co-starred by V. Ravichandran, which is a comedy mixed family movie.
She is a versatile actress and prefers doing homely roles than glamarous roles.
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| Name | Namitha |
|---|---|
| Birthname | Namita Mukesh Vankawala |
| Birth place | Surat, Gujarat, India |
| Othername | Bhairavi |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Yearsactive | 2002-present |
Namitha (Telugu: నమిత,Tamil: நமிதா; born as Namita Mukesh Vankawala in Surat, Gujarat, India) is an Indian actress, who has appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam & English films.
She was crowned Miss Surat during the year 1998. She was a contestant in the 2001 Miss India pageant. She did a number of TV commercials like Himani cream & hand soap, Arun Ice Cream, Manikchand Gutka, and Nile herbal shampoo.
She made her acting debut in the Telugu film Sontham. Subsequent to that, she starred in the Tamil film "Aai".
On 26 October 2010 , there was an attempt made at kidnapping her by a fan at Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu
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| Name | Nagma |
|---|---|
| Birthname | Nandita Morarji |
| Birth date | December 25, 1974 |
| Birth place | Mumbai, India |
| Othername | Namratha Sadhana |
| Heightft | 5'5'' |
| Heightm | 1.68 |
| Yearsactive | 1990- present |
| Mail id | rajnagma@gmail.com |
| Religion | Christian-Protestant |
Nandita Morarji or Namratha Sadanah better known as Nagma () (born 25 December 1974), is an Indian actress who as acted in films in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and various other Indian languages. At her peak in the 1990s, The Hindu states that she "dominated Tamil cinema". Interestingly, her last lead role in a major Bollywood film was opposite fellow Congress Party member and now M.P. Govinda, who continues to film movies while a member of the Lok Sabha.
Perhaps mindful of her nascent political career, Nagma has said that she medidates daily and considers herself to be "a very God-loving person." In line with her own family's mixed religious background, she has stated that she has read the Qur'an, Bhagavad Gita, and Bible. "Since I was spiritually inclined I read a lot of books in that genre. I also started practicing meditation. I was teaching Art of Living for nearly 12 years. But Jesus continued to intrigue me. Since one of my aunties was a Christian, I kept urging her to tell me more about Christ. In the year 2000, in one such discussion, I said my salvation prayer. While reading the New Testament, I realized the importance of baptism and also of joining a church. Therefore, I immediately joined Pastor Shekhar Kalyanpur’s New Life Fellowship in Juhu, Mumbai. I took baptism on Jan 4. Since 2007 was a year of rest I decided to take a break from films and continued my Bible study fervently".
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| Caption | Freeman at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival |
|---|---|
| Birth date | June 01, 1937 |
| Birth place | Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Birth name | Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. |
| Spouse | Jeanette Adair Bradshaw (1967–1979; divorced)Myrna Colley-Lee (1984–2010; divorced) |
| Occupation | Actor, director, narrator |
| Years active | 1964–present |
Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice.
Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Unforgiven, Glory, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears, Bruce Almighty, Batman Begins, March of the Penguins , The Bucket List, Evan Almighty, Wanted, The Dark Knight, and Red.
Freeman moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and worked as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles Community College. During this period, he also lived in New York City, working as a dancer at the 1964 World's Fair, and in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Opera Ring music group. Freeman acted in a touring company version of The Royal Hunt of the Sun, and also appeared as an extra in the 1965 film The Pawnbroker. He made his off-Broadway debut in 1967, opposite Viveca Lindfors in The Nigger Lovers (notably as Easy Reader and Vincent the Vegetable Vampire) which he later said he should have left earlier than he did.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Freeman began playing prominent supporting roles in many feature films, earning him a reputation for depicting wise, fatherly characters. As he gained fame, he went on to bigger roles in films such as the chauffeur Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy, and Sergeant Major Rawlins in Glory (both in 1989). In 1994 he portrayed Red, the redeemed convict in the acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption. He also starred in films such as , Unforgiven, Seven, and Deep Impact. In 1997, Freeman, together with Lori McCreary, founded the movie production company Revelations Entertainment, and the two co-head its sister online movie distribution company ClickStar. Freeman also hosts the channel Our Space on ClickStar, with specially crafted film clips in which he shares his love for the sciences, especially space exploration and aeronautics.
After three previous nominations—a supporting actor nomination for Street Smart, and leading actor nominations for Driving Miss Daisy, and The Shawshank Redemption—he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Million Dollar Baby at the 77th Academy Awards. Freeman is recognized for his distinctive voice, making him a frequent choice for narration. In 2005 alone, he provided narration for two films, War of the Worlds and the Academy Award-winning documentary film March of the Penguins.
Freeman appeared as God in the hit movie Bruce Almighty and its sequel, Evan Almighty, as well as Lucius Fox in the critical and commercial success Batman Begins and its 2008 sequel, The Dark Knight. He starred in Rob Reiner's 2007 film The Bucket List, opposite Jack Nicholson. He teamed with Christopher Walken and William H. Macy for the comedy The Maiden Heist, which was released direct to video due to financial problems of the distribution company. In 2008, Freeman returned to Broadway to co-star with Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher for a limited engagement of Clifford Odets's play, The Country Girl, directed by Mike Nichols.
He had wanted to do a film based on Nelson Mandela for some time. At first he tried to get Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, adapted into a finished script, but it could never be finalized.
As of 2010, Freeman is the host and narrator of the Discovery Channel television show Through the Wormhole. Freeman supported the defeated proposal to change the Mississippi state flag, which contains the Confederate battle flag.
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| Name | Mike Connors |
|---|---|
| Birthname | Krekor Ohanian |
| Birthdate | August 15, 1925 |
| Birthplace | Fresno, California |
| Yearsactive | 1952–present |
| Spouse | Mary Lou Willey (1949–present) |
Mike Connors (born August 15, 1925) is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.
He played basketball for Coach John Wooden at UCLA.
Connors recalled in an interview that he was renamed by Henry Willson saying that "Ohanian" was too close to the actor George O'Hanlon and came up with "Touch Connors".
He appeared in numerous television series, including the co-starring role in the 1955 episode "Tomas and the Widow" of the NBC western anthology series Frontier. He guest starred on Jeannie Carson's unsuccessful 1956-1957 situation comedy Hey, Jeannie!. He appeared in two Rod Cameron syndicated crime dramas, City Detective and the western-themed State Trooper, and played the villain in the first episode filmed (but second one aired) of ABC-TV's smash hit Maverick opposite James Garner in 1957. He also appeared on two other syndicated series, The Silent Service, based on true stories of the submarine section of the United States Navy, and Sheriff of Cochise, set about Bisbee, Arizona. In 1965, he co-starred in one of Robert Redford's earliest film roles, a WWII black comedy, Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious alongside Sir Alec Guinness.
Connors thereafter launched his own series: (1) CBS's Tightrope (September 8, 1959–September 13, 1960), (2) CBS's Mannix (September 16, 1967–August 27, 1975) and (3) ABC's Today's F.B.I. (October 25, 1981–August 14, 1982). His Tightrope series was very popular in Mexico during the early 1960s, so the local recording company Discos Orfeon released a 45 rpm single of Connors singing in Spanish.
Connors' long history of police and military roles very possibly was the reason he was chosen to play Air Force Colonel Harrison "Hack" Peters in Herman Wouk's 1988 World War II-based miniseries War and Remembrance.
Connors lives in Encino, California.
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| Name | Henry Levin |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 5 June 1909 |
| Birth date | June 05, 1909 |
| Birth place | American |
| Death date | May 01, 1980 |
| Death place | American |
| Occupation | stage actor and director and film director |
Henry Levin (5 June 1909 - 1 May 1980) began as a stage actor and director but was most notable as an American film director of over fifty feature films. He broke into film in 1943 as a dialogue director for the films Dangerous Blondes and Appointment in Berlin. At the end of his career, he finally did some television work, directing some episodes of Knots Landing in 1979 and his last work, the television movie Scout's Honor where he died on the last day of production. Despite having been a stage actor, his only screen acting credit was in an episode of the 1974 television series Planet of the Apes.
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| Imagesize | 119px |
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| Birth date | April 19, 1968 |
| Birth place | Granada Hills, California, U.S. |
| Birth name | Ashley Tyler Ciminella |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1991 – present |
| Spouse | Dario Franchitti (2001-present) |
Judd has also donated her time and resources towards filming three award-winning documentaries for YouthAIDS which aired internationally on the Discovery Channel, in National Geographic, and on VH1. She personally advocates for a balanced and integrated approach to empower human rights and global health, and to prevent social atrocities.
Other organizations Judd have been involved with include the Women for Women International, and Equality Now, along with other non-governmental organizations which center around bringing attention to social, educational, health, economic, cultural, and financial funding of the unfortunate.
Ashley Judd has supported the following Charities & Foundations:
Judd is active in humanitarian and political causes. She was appointed Global Ambassador for YouthAIDS, an education and prevention program of the international NGO Population Services International (PSI), promoting AIDS prevention and treatment, and speaks and demonstrates at pro-choice events. Judd was honored November 10 as the recipient of the fourth annual USA TODAY Hollywood Hero, awarded for her work with PSI. Judd received the award at a private award gala on the evening of November 10, 2009 at The Montage Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills. Guests enjoyed special celebrity tributes to Ashley Judd, dinner, a silent auction and an exciting live auction, with all proceeds to benefit PSI. On October 29, 2006, Judd appeared at a "Women for Ford" event for Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. She has also campaigned extensively locally and nationally for a variety of Democratic candidates, including President Barack Obama in critical swing states.
On September 8, 2010, CNN interviewed Ashley Judd about her second humanitarian mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Judd traveled with the Enough Project, a project to end genocide and crimes against humanity. In the interview, Judd discussed her efforts to raise awareness about how conflict minerals fuel sexual violence in Congo. During her trip, Judd visited hospitals for victims of sexual violence, camps for displaced persons, mines, and civil society organizations. On September 30, 2010, CNN.com published an Op-ed titled "Ashley Judd: Electronics fuel unspeakable violence" by Ashley Judd and the Enough Project's co-founder John Prendergast regarding the continued violence in Congo. Her Op-ed discusses the recent provision in the Dodd-Frank Reform bill that requires companies to prove where their minerals originated. On November 26, 2010, The Huffington Post published an Op-ed by Ashley Judd titled "Costs of Convenience". The Op-ed is excerpted from Ashley Judd's trip diary from her trip to eastern Congo. Judd describes the link between her cell phone, laptop, MP3 player, and e-reader and the continued rape and sexual violence in Congo. Judd also explains the immediate need for electronics companies to commit to tracing, auditing, and certifying the minerals in their products to guarantee a clean supply chain.
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