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Stanley Gordon Long (born November 6, 1929 in Owen Sound, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played three games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens. Died January 10, 1982 in Strathroy, Ontario
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.
Alexandra Stan (sometimes stylized as Alexandra Staи) (born June 10, 1989) is a Romanian singer-songwriter. She released her debut single, "Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)", in late 2009. The song impacted Romanian mainstream radios in early 2010, peaking at number-eighteen. Her sophomore release, "Mr. Saxobeat", became her worldwide breakthrough hit, selling almost 1,000,000 copies in less than a year and reaching the top five in over twenty countries such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom and the top thirty in Australia, Canada and United States. She released her debut album in August 2011, entitled Saxobeats. The album spawned another single called "Get Back (ASAP)".
Alexandra Stan was born in Constanța. She studied at the "Traian" High School in Constanța, and as of 2011 she is enrolled in her second year as a student at the Faculty of Management Andrei Saguna. In the past, she took part in various music-related contests with a notable appearance at the Mamaia Festival vocal performance-section. She took one year of canto lessons. During an interview, she stated that she believes in God and she has her religious principles, and she does believe in the Church.
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For Manny Forskinn being the fifty-fifty man, "half truth and half tale makes a better sale", has become a way of life. As a writer looking to create the ultimate story, Manny seeks out what others shy away from, using confrontation and mind games to find a "story worth telling". In doing so, Manny looses his grasp of what is real or dream and disappears into a violent, sexy world where nothing is what it seems and the only motto to live by is "DON'T TRUST ANYONE".
Keywords: drug-use, frank-zappa, imagination, independent-film, insane-asylum, surrealism, violence, writer
When your dreams become your reality.....Don't trust anybody!
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Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, and sets out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Keywords: african-american, aids, based-on-novel, bedford-stuyvesant, black-cop, brooklyn-new-york-city, brother-brother-relationship, child-with-gun, crack-cocaine, crime-scene
When there's murder on the streets, everyone is a suspect.
Andre The Giant: [to Strike] You even glance in the direction of that little kid Tyrone, and I'm a fuck you up so bad you're gonna wish I had killed you.
Rodney: Errol told me you talked to the homicide cop. How'd that go?::Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: It was a-ight.::Rodney: 'A-ight' or 'all right'?::Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: It was a-ight. All right?
Rodney: [sigh] If God created anything better than crack cocaine he kept that shit for hisself.
Andre The Giant: [to Strike] Dont you want to go some place you've never been before? I mean, you love trains, but you've only ridden the subway.
Det. Rocco Klein: Errol. I thought you were dead.::Errol Barnes: I was. I came back.
Errol Barnes: My old man... was a preacher. And when I started messin' with this shit, he said, "you gonna pay for that. You gonna pay for that shit, boy." He was right. You can't cheat this shit no... mo'.
Rodney: Rocco Klein... Rocco Klein, you know, I've always wanted to ask you... you Italian, you a jew? I mean, what are you? You can't make up your mind?::Det. Rocco Klein: Me?::Rodney: Yeah, you.::Det. Rocco Klein: I'm from the lost black tribe of Israel, the Yos.
Det. Rocco Klein: I read you like a Marvel fuckin' Spiderman comic book.
Andre The Giant: [beating up Strike] It's motherfuckers like you that mugged Rosa Parks.::Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Who the fuck is Rosa Parks?::Andre The Giant: Who the fuck is Rosa Parks? Who's Rosa Parks?::Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: It's hard on brothers out here.::Andre The Giant: Brothers? You stupid ignorant motherfucker.
Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Why was you so gung-ho about all this shit, man? Most cops... Brothers killin' other brothers aint no big thing. Blasé, blasé. What made you care about me, my brother Victor, Darryl Adams, Tyrone? Huh? What made you give a shit?::Det. Rocco Klein: If I ever see you again... I'll book you on charges of criminal solicitation and conspiracy to commit murder. I'll let Andre beat you down again, then pick up Rodney on the same charges and I'll make sure you two share the same cell, the same fuckin' bed. Do you understand me clearly?::Ronald 'Strike' Dunham: Yeah, I understand you clearly.
Lowisa: In this business you gotta have smarts.
Star: My nipple's killing me.
Diamond Jim: I'm so rich I own my own S-and-L.
Diamond Jim: A gambler has a death wish - tonight I'm betting my whole future on you, and I don't wanna come up snake eyes.
Diamond Jim: You and old what's-his-name ride the bucking bronco last night?
Miguelito: Keep an eye on that long-haired punk over there.
Miguelito: I killed a lot of gooks in Nam just like you.
Bobby: Did that cowboy make it with you yet?
Mercedes: This chocolate popsicle will melt in your mouth.
He'll Love You To Death.
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A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. A father looking for pride in his son's eyes, a timid clerk who is a peeping tom by night, a man striving to rewin his wife's love, an Amish farmer faced with viciousness, and a proper older woman turned thief, all find themselves entangled with the bank robbers as a peaceful weekend turns violent.
Keywords: 1950s, alcoholic, amish, bank-manager, bank-robber, bank-safe, bank-vault, barn, based-on-novel, best-friend
Bobby Martin: [while bank is being robbed] Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!::Chapman, Bank Robber: C'mere kid. C'mere! [offers candy] Stick these in your kisser and go suck on 'em. Now go back to your mother.::Chapman, Bank Robber: Thank you!::Chapman, Bank Robber: You're welcome.