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Marisa Ryan (born November 20, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Elizabeth Cooper McGillis in the television sitcom Major Dad, she also co-starred as Det. Nell Delaney in the police drama television series New York Undercover, during the show's fourth and final season.
Her other television credits include The Pretender, Sex and the City, The Practice, Promised Land, Boy Meets World, Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
She has also appeared in the films Brooklyn Lobster, Riding in Cars with Boys, Wet Hot American Summer. In 1997, she made directorial debut with the independent short film Three Women of Pain which she also co-wrote.
In 1993, Ryan was married to actor Jeremy Sisto. They were divorced in 2002, after nine years of marriage.
Long hair is a hairstyle. Exactly what constitutes long hair can change from culture to culture, or even within cultures. For example, a woman with chin-length hair in some cultures may be said to have short hair, while a man with the same length of hair in some of the same cultures would be said to have long hair.
Scientists view long hair as playing a large part in natural selection among many species, since long, thick and healthy hair or fur is frequently a sign of fertility and youth. As hair grows slowly, long hair reveals several years of a person's health status and reproductive fitness. Hair length is significantly correlated with female attractiveness, as rated by men as well as women. Hair length and quality can act as a cue to especially a woman's youth and health, signifying reproductive potential. The prevalence of trichophilia (hair partialism or fetischism) is 7% in the population, and very long hair is a common subject of devotion in this group.
Ways of life often viewed as more rigid, such as soldiers and religious cultures, often have explicit rules regarding hair length. For example, Buddhist monks shave their heads as part of their order of worship. Even outside religious structures, cultures often associate male long hair with ways of life outside of what is culturally accepted. Subservient cultures, for example, are sometimes detected by their rulers through hair length, as was the case with the Gaelic Irish under English rule and the Moors under Spanish rule in Medieval Spain.
John Edward McGee, Jr. (born October 19, 1969) is an American television personality and professional psychic medium. He is best known for his TV shows Crossing Over with John Edward and John Edward Cross Country.
Born in Glen Cove, New York, Edward says he was convinced at a young age that he could become a psychic. After writing his first book on the subject in 1998, Edward became a well-known and controversial figure in the United States through his shows broadcast on SCI FI Channel beginning in July 2000 and We TV since May 2006.
The only son of an Irish-American policeman and an Italian-American working mother, Edward was raised Roman Catholic. Although Edward later stopped practicing that faith, he has said he never stopped feeling connected to God and is still closely connected to his Catholic roots. Edward once said, "This is something that is driven by a belief in God. It's the energy from that force that I think allows us to create this energy."
According to Edward, when he was 15 and "a huge doubter" (in psychic abilities), he was "read" by a New Jersey woman who convinced him that he could become a medium.
I'm Not Dead. I'm Not Dead. I'm Not Dead
Plot
People from all over Sweden write in to the show because they are for some reason being visited by spirits from beyond the veil. Sometimes the people who write to the show are frightened by the "ghosts", sometimes they are convinced it's a loved one visiting them, but what they all have in common is that they want to find out what the spirits want. A team of mediums are on standby to help the families - but they are told nothing about what the family has experienced. They are then allowed to wander around the family's home and try to connect to the spirits in that place - they continuously tell the family and the cameras what impressions they are getting, and what type of connection they are making. They also try to get as many details about the person they are in contact with as possible, and try to find out what the spirits are doing in the house. Sometimes the family recognizes the spirits, and sometimes they are connected to the house or the area rather than the family. Sometimes the mediums connect with a spirit that has been unable to cross over to the other side, and have to help them over or "cleanse" the home. Sometimes just finding out what the spirit wants makes the phenomena stop. After the medium has completed his or her work, the TV-team compiles the information about the spirits and tries to find out more about them. In the cases when the families recognize a relative or friend, this is relatively easy, but with older, lingering spirits or ones that are connected to the area, there is a fair bit of research done as the team try to find proof that all the people the medium had contact with really existed. Sometimes it is impossible to verify, sometimes it becomes obvious who the mediums where in contact with. "Det Okända" works with some of Sweden's foremost mediums, and prides itself on the fact that unlike many shows about mediums they never "cheat". there is no research done in advance, and the mediums aren't given any information in advance, not even an address. It is also entirely unscripted.
Keywords: supernatural, supernatural-power
Plot
The movie is based on a true story. On 16 March 1978 Aldo Moro, the former Italian Prime Minister was kidnapped in Via Fani by the Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades), a militant Communist Italian group. He was the main supporter of the Compromesso Storico (Hystorical Compromise), which had to lead to the first Italian government supported by both the Christian Democrats and the Communists, in a period of social, economic and political crises. During the attack his five escort agents were all killed. Moro's corpse was found on 9 May 1978 in a car parked in a street between the headquarters of the Christian Democrat Party and the Communist Party. This movie is inspired by this tragic event which traumatize the whole nation. It focuses mainly on the relationship between the prisoner and his guards through the eyes of Chiara, the young woman whose role is to guard the prisoner. The movie portraits Chiara's life (her job as a librarian, the ordinary household) on one side and the political process which is held against Moro by her friends on the other, while they are waiting for a revolution to come. She is drawn between these two aspects and she begins to doubt her political commitment (she cries when she listens to Moro's letter to the Pope). The news tell the people what is going on in Italy (some politicians ask for the death penalty for the kidnappers, the Pope Paul VI appeals to the terrorist for Moro's release). The State will not bend by accepting the conditions established by the terrorists to release the prisoner. The Brigate Rosse sentence Moro to death and the story comes to its tragic end, although the eyes and the heart of the imagination show Aldo Moro walking happy and free in Rome.
Keywords: 1970s, anni-di-piombo, apartment, archive-footage, arrest, aunt-niece-relationship, baby, based-on-novel, blindfold, blood