Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
Jonson claimed his family was of Scottish Border country descent, and this claim may have been supported by the fact that his coat of arms bears three spindles or rhombi, a device shared by a Borders family, the Johnstones of Annandale. His father died a month before Ben's birth, and his mother remarried two years later, to a master bricklayer. Jonson attended school in St. Martin's Lane, and was later paid for by a friend to go to Westminster School, where one of his teachers was William Camden. Jonson remained friendly with Camden, whose broad scholarship evidently influenced his own style, until the latter's death in 1623. On leaving, Jonson was once thought to have gone on to the University of Cambridge, but Jonson himself contradicts this, saying that he did not go to university, but was put to a trade, probably bricklaying, immediately: a legend recorded by Thomas Fuller indicates that he worked on a garden wall in Lincoln's Inn. He soon had enough of the trade and spent some time in the Low Countries as a volunteer with the regiments of Francis Vere. In conversations with poet William Drummond of Hawthornden, subsequently published as the Hawthornden Manuscripts, Jonson reports that while in the Netherlands he killed an opponent in single combat and stripped him of his weapons.
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Jill Johnson is being forced to babysit at a BIG house all by herself for exceeding her telephone minutes. Then all of a sudden a stranger calls making these weird remarks. Jill decides to call the police to trace the call. Jill is freaked out when she finds out that the call is coming from inside the house! Jill runs in a hurry trying to get the children and leave. Will Jill make it in the house in time? Will she live? Well you just have to watch the movie to find out!
Keywords: 555-phone-number, alarm, ambulance, aquarium, arrest, babysitter, babysitting, barefoot, based-on-urban-legend, bird
Evil Hits Home
Whatever You Do, Don't Answer The Phone.
Jill Johnson: [On phone] You really scared me, if that's what you wanted. Is that what you wanted?::Voice of the Stranger: No.::Jill Johnson: What do you want?::Voice of the Stranger: Your blood all over me.
Jill Johnson: [phone rings] Hello?::[no answer]::Jill Johnson: [sighs] Mandrakis Residence.::Voice of the Stranger: Have you checked the children?::Jill Johnson: What::[stranger hangs up. Jill runs and checks on the children. Comes Back downstairs]::Jill Johnson: [phone rings] Hello?::Voice of the Stranger: [pauses] How were the children?
Officer Burroughs: Jill, we've just traced the call... its coming from inside the house!
Jill Johnson: [phone rings] [answers] Stop calling me you sick...::Officer Burroughs: Jill, Jill. We traced the call! It's coming from inside the house! Do you hear me? It's coming from inside the house! You need to get out! Jill? [power goes out]
Jill Johnson: Where is he?::Officer Burroughs: We got him. He's in that police car right over there. In ankle cuffs, handcuffs. Enought sedatives to kill a horse. We're gonna take him to the hospital. We'll have four cops guarding him around the clock.::Jill Johnson: That's not enough.
Guy: Hi... What are you wearing?::Jill Johnson: Combat boots and a parka, you jerk. Who is this? This isn't funny!::Guy: Yes it is!
Officer Burroughs: Do you have any friends that can come stay with you?::Jill Johnson: They're all at the bonfire.
Tiffany Madison: I bet they have a killer bar!
Jill Johnson: Tiffany, I know it's you. I can see your name on Caller ID, genius.::Voice of the Stranger: This isn't Tiffany.::Jill Johnson: Who is this?::Voice of the Stranger: [pause] Who is this?::Jill Johnson: Cody?::Voice of the Stranger: Who's Cody?::Jill Johnson: You better cut this out! [stranger hangs up]
Officer Burroughs: Has he been using threatening language?::Jill Johnson: No, sometimes he doesn't even say anything, he just keeps on calling.
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In 1902 Texas, 13-year-old Horace goes to work on old Soll's farm to earn enough money to buy a headstone for his father's grave. Unfortunately for Horace, Soll's senility, ill health, and obsession with the convict labor he uses to work the farm, make it unlikely that Horace will ever be paid the $12.50 Soll owes him for 6 months work.
Keywords: 13-year-old, 1900s, absent-mindedness, african-american, american-civil-war-veteran, american-south, barn, based-on-play, beating, bible
Horace Robedaux: Martha, are you afraid of dying?::Martha Johnson: No, I ain't afraid. Just not ready to go yet.
Ben Johnson: Cane Land it was called once. Cane it'll be again.
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A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
Keywords: bad-guy, based-on-novel, blood, blood-spatter, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, christmas-lights, christmas-tree, christmas-wreath, detective, disease
He's searching for a killer. She's searching for a miracle .... And time is running out.
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Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. She needs a tough new top hand and uses all her means of persuasion to get Rae to take the job. But he doesn't like the way the other settlers are getting treated and starts to side with them, despite their introduction of the barbed wire he loathes.
Keywords: banjo, barbed-wire, based-on-novel, cattle, drifter, female-rancher, friendship, gunfighter, homestead, land
His home was his saddle...and his only friend...a six-gun!
a love-bargain is like barbed-wire...fight it and you'll get hurt!
[Dempsey has just given Jeff Jimson a quick-draw and gun-twirling lesson]::Jeff Jimson: Aw, Demps, when do I learn THAT?!::Dempsey Rae: You don't. That's all a lotta hogwash, kid. Look, know this: twirlin' a gun never saved a man's life. There's only one thing you gotta learn. (Pulls his gun and fires) Get it out fast! And then...put it...away...slow. Get what I mean, kid?
Dempsey Rae: A maverick...a calf with no mother. No brand neither.::Jeff Jimson: Why not?::Dempsey Rae: Oh, on account he was missing at roundup time. He outgrew his mother and wandered off. Sort of like you.
Jeff Jimson: [after prodding by Dempsey in front of the lady owner, Jeff has shown he can't shoot] You didn't have to make a fool out of me in front of her.::Dempsey Rae: I didn't make a fool out of you, kid. You have to do that yourself.
Dempsey Rae: You'll learn. Or you'll be up to your armpits in beef.
He had trouble in "the home stretch" when he bet his roll on a red hot tip!