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Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole (born 2 August 1932) is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most competitive Academy Award acting nominations without a win. He has won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA, and an Emmy, and was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 2003 for his body of work.
Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole was born in 1932. Some sources give his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, and others as Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, where he grew up. O'Toole himself is not certain of his birthplace or date, noting in his autobiography that, while he accepts 2 August as his birthdate, he has a birth certificate from each country, with the Irish one giving a June 1932 birthdate. O'Toole is the son of Constance Jane (née Ferguson), a Scottishnurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. When O'Toole was one year old, his family began a five-year tour of major racecourse towns in Northern England. He was brought up Roman Catholic. O'Toole was evacuated from Leeds early in World War II and went to a Catholic school for seven or eight years, where he was "implored" to become right-handed. “I used to be scared stiff of the nuns: their whole denial of womanhood – the black dresses and the shaving of the hair – was so horrible, so terrifying,” he later commented. “Of course, that's all been stopped. They're sipping gin and tonic in the Dublin pubs now, and a couple of them flashed their pretty ankles at me just the other day.”
Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role (without ever winning), and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news.
Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. He grew up in a working class, Welsh-speaking household, the twelfth of thirteen children. His father, Richard Walter Jenkins, was a short, robust coal miner, a "twelve-pints-a-day man" who sometimes went off on drinking and gambling sprees for weeks. Burton later claimed, by family telling, that "He looked very much like me...That is, he was pockmarked, devious, and smiled a great deal when he was in trouble. He was, also, a man of extraordinary eloquence, tremendous passion, great violence."
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in France for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.
Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Strongly influenced by James Joyce, he is considered one of the last modernists. As an inspiration to many later writers, he is also sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd". His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.
Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.
The Becketts were members of the Anglican Church of Ireland. The family home, Cooldrinagh in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock, was a large house and garden complete with tennis court built in 1903 by Samuel's father, William. The house and garden, together with the surrounding countryside where he often went walking with his father, the nearby Leopardstown Racecourse, the Foxrock railway station and Harcourt Street station at the city terminus of the line, all feature in his prose and plays. Beckett's father was a quantity surveyor and his mother a nurse.
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing National Service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1956 he married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Antonia Fraser in 1980.
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At the height of the London blitz Dr Lennox Collins,pioneer of the new forensic science,is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue. Wilkins' chief suspect is shy young Anglo-German Wilfred Ziegler,who found the body but Lennox dismisses this as Ziegler is left-handed and the killer was not.The trail leads to the Metropole club,frequented by Mary,where Lennox's new assistant Molly meets the sinister owner Danny Hastings but then two more women are killed in the same way. A rent boy places closet gay actor Ronald Terry at the scene of the last murder though Terry denies seeing anything. However Lennox and Molly are soon investigating Terry's apparent suicide - which they work out is murder. Lennox takes Hastings' DNA but is attacked by men in gas masks and,when Wilkins is taken off the case after bullying Ziegler into a confession, it looks as if Hastings has corrupt police officers in his pocket. Acting separately Lennox and Molly aim to build a case against Hastings but discover another possible suspect and finally have to challenge a government conspiracy in order to bring the killer to justice.
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NightDragon is a dark suspenseful drama, of love and forgiveness overcoming violence and betrayal. A small cabal of professional criminals attempt to extort information from a beautiful but naive lawyer, but are betrayed from within when Liz, one of their number falls in love with the victim.
Keywords: barbed-wire, bathroom, car-bomb, crime-and-punishment, lesbian-sex, london-england, mobster, shooting, stabbing
Betrayal. Torture. Love.
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In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.
Keywords: 1840s, based-on-novel, color-in-title, england, housekeeper, servant
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Boots Malone is jockey's agent and a bit of a wheeler-dealer who went from living at the Ritz to living in a room at the stables when his star jockey was killed in an accident. After nearly three years, he has yet to find a replacement for him. Along with his cronies at the track, he manages to buy a horse that's a bit of a sleeper. Their hopes of cashing in big take a positive turn when Boots decides to train an eager young man, who turns out to be a runaway from a rich family, as a jockey. When gangsters tell Boots to throw the race in favor of another horse, he faces a major dilemma.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, horse-racing
The story of a boy who left home... and a stumble bum who never had one!
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A United States Navy ship in the first half of the 19th century, under the command of Captain David Porter, is expecting to put ashore after a year on the seas; but the arrival of one of Porter's ex-students, the willful and independent Lieutenant David Farragut, brings a new mission: to disguise the ship and crew as a pirate ship and help the Navy locate the criminals who have been robbing America's merchant fleet. But as Farragut's disobedience threatens the safety of the crew, they stumble upon an international conspiracy.
Keywords: ambassador, bare-chested-male, buccaneer, caribbean-sea, chief-petty-officer, class-differences, conspiracy, countess, face-slap, fight-with-shark
SEA ADVENTURE! (original print ad - all caps)
Chief Petty Officer Link: [Speaking of Porter] As an instructor it was his job to chew midshipmen off, and just between us, you gave him plenty of cause.::Lt. David Farragut: When a man's religion is the book of Navy regulations, he gotta be sour inside, and your captain's a very sour man, Mr. Link.
Cmdr. David Porter: [to his crew] Gentlemen, we are now a ship without a country.
Cmdr. David Porter: I don't envy you, Mr. Farragut. You win't be the most popular nan after we ride out this storm - if we ride it out.
Lt. Romero: [Concerning their bringing the countess with them] Davy Lad, what's the skipper gonna say about her?::Lt. David Farragut: I shudder to think, Link. I shudder to think.
Cmdr. David Porter: Well, Mr. Link, you're probably witnessing the end of a long and honorable naval career.::Chief Petty Officer Link: Yes, sir! But what away to go, sir!
Cmdr. David Porter: I'm afraid there's a limit to nobility... even for Americans.
They've run me out of town
Put me in their lost and found.
Because I can’t find myself
And don’t wanna be anyone else.
I guess I feel it more than most
And I’m still dancing with your ghost
Yeah, I’m still waiting for you.
Hey, tell me how you are
I never got that far inside your head
You could teach me how to win
And please teach me not to sin, oh yeah.
I guess I feel it more than most
And I’m still dancing with your ghost
Yeah, I’m still waiting for you
Yeah, I’m still waiting for you.
In my dream
I felt your body
And I knew you were close to me
In my dream, I always dream
We’d run away just you and me.
I guess I feel it more than most
And I’m still dancing with your ghost
Yeah, I’m still waiting for you
Hold on with an iron will,
Do all that you can to,
Hold onto the steering wheel,
I’ve seen it, I know that,
The crash it is coming soon,
You can borrow the sun,
But please don’t steal the moon.
They say the good will come out,
Light the sky up,
Those angels are coming down,
To set us free,
Love will save us,
But cupid’s dangerous,
Those angels are coming down,
To set us free.
The secrets they lay underground,
The mad man he listens for hours,
But without a sound,
I know that he’s sane,
It’s just something you can not assume,
You can borrow her body,
Wake up,
We’re leaving,
The sparks have hit the ceiling,
Our world has fallen to the ground.
I’ll help you,
You need me,
Do my best to keep you breathing,
I can not make this on my own.
It’s funny how you see it clearly,
As the light begins to, fade away.
We, we’ve been lost for so damn long,
Don’t know how to sing along,
With society,
It was killing me,
Suffocating dreams.
Now you,
You need oxygen and me,
It’s only now I see,
How lovely life has been,
How lucky we have been.
Hold on, don’t leave me,
I’m so scared, you’re bleeding,
The walls are falling round us now.
You’re shaking, not making,
Sense of all this complication,
I will not leave you on your own.
Please don’t leave me on my own,
This is my situation
I’m standing lonely at my local station
It’s just me, I’m being silly now
It’s just me, feeling melancholy
You can make me smile
And you might just take these thoughts of frustration.
I know we’re all the same
We lose all faith every now and then
And there’s gonna be those bright days
But till then, I’ll be standing in the rain.
So I wait in anticipation
I hope I live to fill all your expectations, but you say
Live for today, not tomorrow
Live for today, forget yesterday
And love this life, with all it's strife
And dance like no one can see you.
I know we’re all the same
We lose all faith every now and then
And there’s gonna be those bright days
Hello again
I said that we’d be friends until the end
But everything’s turned around.
We’ve been left with different plans
And I’m suppressing all my fears
I don’t want any other tears, oh no.
I’ll go driving in my car
And I’ll drive and drive so far
And I cannot feel my body
It looks as though I’m gonna hurt somebody.
Then you come around
You say I’ve made a mess of it all
And you’re making me feel so small
My life’s this lucid dream
And I’m living it on my own
For a minute I thought I was home
And you cared.
I’ll go driving in my car
And I’ll drive and drive so far
And I cannot feel my body
It looks as though I’m gonna hurt somebody.
I don’t wanna hurt nobody
Live life in the country
I’m looking for salvation
In the hope, that it will spread right across this god damn shallow nation
Oh yeah.
In a lucid dream
In a lucid dream
In a lucid dream, nothing’s what it seems
In a lucid dream
Growing and learning and letting go
Everyday I’m getting better you know
It’s something we don’t like to talk about
It’s something you know we need to let out
So come on, can you feel it in this song?
Look at me what am I looking for
Everything I want is on this floor
It doesn’t really matter what you think of me
It doesn’t really matter about everything I used to be
Because it’s falling all around us now
And when they see us they say we cannot waste, cannot waste our time
This may be the song that makes you change
I can't stop the rain that falls and you take it all
And you lose it to the thing you want
The most I know this love will grow and grow
Because it’s falling all around us now
And when they see us they say we cannot waste, cannot waste our time
Karma’s coming down
Karma’s coming down
Karma’s coming down, all around this town
Karma’s coming down
Karma’s coming down
Because it’s falling all around us now
And when they see us they say we cannot waste, cannot waste our time
I said I was yours, but you know I was mine
I said I was yours, but you know I was mine
It's been a long, long hard day
I thought there is nothing you could say, to take my blues away
Yeah I've been running for too long
And all my feet are bruised
All I can seem to do is lose, lose, lose, lose, lose
And then you come along and you know just what to say
Yeah you come along and you brighten up my day, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah you, yeah you, I'll do anything that you want me too for you
Yeah I'll bruise my feet for you, yeah I'll bruise my feet for you
Yeah I was wondering why I try with all these dreams when they all seem so far away
But there's nothing i can do, I'm a hopeless dreamer it's true and my faith in me was through
Until you came along and you knew just what to say
Yeah you came along and you brightened up my day, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah you, yeah you, I'll do anything that you want me too for you
Yeah I'll bruise my feet for you, yeah I'll bruise my feet for you
Yeah you, yeah you, I'll do anything that you want me too for you
I’ll follow the wind,
Let it take me home,
I have become someone,
I do not know,
I’ve fallen in love,
With everyone I see,
What must these strangers,
Think of me.
So I look to the east,
Then I deal with the west,
I’m not gonna loose to this test.
You can do anything you want,
You can do anything you want,
The road is long, the road is full of nails,
But you can, you can do anything you want.
I make no apologies,
If you don’t like what you see,
I’m sick of dancing,
To your melody,
It’s a long, long show,
But we’ll make it through,
What’s the point in dreams,
If dreams don’t come true,
So I look to the left,
Then I deal with the right,
I’m not gonna loose,
To this fight.
You can do anything you want,
You can do anything you want,
The road is long, the road is full of nails,
But you can, you can do anything you want,
Anything at all,
Anything your heart has been searching for.
You can do anything you want,
So make your life how you want it now,
Do not listen to,
The ones that bring you down,
You’re the only one,
But you’re not alone,
And your kingdom can be,
Your own home,