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Efren Manalang Reyes (born August 26, 1954) is a Filipino professional pool player and a two-time world champion.
Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954. He moved to Manila with his family at the age of 5. In Manila, he worked as a billiards attendant at his uncle's billiards hall, where he started learning the various cue sports. Because he was not tall enough to reach the pool table, he played while standing on Coca-cola cases that he moved around. At night, while he was dreaming of playing pool, the pool table was his bed.[citation needed]
He is called Bata, which is Filipino for "Kid", because there was another older pool player named Efren when he was young. To distinguish between the two, he was referred to as Efren Bata.
Gambling from a young age, Reyes played three cushion billiards in the 1960s and 1970s. After establishing himself as a winner, he was discovered by promoters. This gave him the opportunity to compete in big time tournaments.
During the 1980s, when Reyes was considered a top-class player in his homeland but not yet internationally recognized, he went to the U.S. to hustle. Popular legend claims that Reyes earned US$80,000 in a week; this feat made him a folk hero back home.
Shane Van Boening (born 14 July 1983) is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player from Rapid City, South Dakota, currently ranked No. 1 in the U.S. Rankings published by the UPA Tour.
Van Boening is hearing-impaired and uses a hearing aid, but it has not limited his pool ability. He has received praise for his attitude towards the sport, partially for his behaviour during matches, and for eschewing alcohol.
Van Boening's family has a strong pocket billiards background. His grandfather, Gary Bloomberg, was a trick-shot artist; his grandmother, Jeanne Bloomberg, a VNEA national champion; his mother, Timi Bloomberg, a BCA national champion; and his aunt, Gari Jo Bloomberg, a three-time VNEA national champion.
Van Boening defeated Hungarian Vilmos Foldes at the International Pool Tour qualifier in 2006, and was one of several players to earn a bonus of US$5,000 for breaking and running six consecutive racks in tournament play. Shane was one of only 10 players to earn their IPT tour card by finishing in the top two spots of one of five qualifiers. Shane won the second stop held at the Pool Room in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been ranked number one in the world by AZBilliards.com. When he is not competing professionally, he can be found practicing in downtown Sioux Falls at Lucky Billiards, where he is the house pro and co-owner.
Earl "The Pearl" Strickland (born on June 8, 1961, Roseboro, North Carolina) is an American professional pool player and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 2006. He is considered one of the best nine-ball players of all time because of his numerous championship titles within a 25-year time span, and also one of the most controversial, for his often-outspoken views and sometimes volatile behavior at tournaments.
Strickland started playing pool at the age of nine, and after intensive practice he entered his first pro tournament at 15.
Strickland rose to national prominence in 1983, with a victory in Lake Tahoe. This was followed in 1984, in Caesars Palace Pro Billiard Classic, Las Vegas.
According to sources, Strickland played "like a polished gem." He was beginning to be a dominant force on the tournament trail and recognized as a future world champion. He had the "skill, endurance, patience, temperament, and tenacity of which champions are made." Because of his dominance, Strickland was named The National Billiard News Player of the Year in 1984. He won the 1988 World Open championship, after a momentous final confrontation between himself and Mike 'Captain Hook' Sigel".
Mika Immonen (born 17 December 1972) is a Finnish professional pool player, nicknamed "the Ice Man."
He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Cardiff, Wales in 2001. That same year, he was the runner-up to Corey Deuel in the US Open Nine-ball Championship
He has represented Team Europe on thirteen occasions in the Mosconi Cup, most recently in 2010. During the 2008 event Mika was crowned MVP, forever banishing bad memories of a costly miss in the final game of the 2006 event.
In early 2009, Mika was awarded the title of Player of the Year. Subsequently, he also claimed that title for season 2009 and was awarded early 2010.
Mika was born in London, England, and is also an extremely accomplished snooker player, having amassed more than 100 century breaks.
Mika is a two-time Men's Division title-holder of the US Open Nine-ball Championship, where the worlds top professional billiard players compete in Chesapeake, Virginia. In 2009 Mika won 14 straight matches, finishing with a close 13-10 victory over Ralf Souquet in the finals. On October 26, 2008, Mika claimed a 13-7 victory and pocketed the first-place prize of US$40,000 against runner-up Filipino Ronato Alcano, who settled for $20,000.
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Johnny is a poker-faced, old world outlaw whose only driving force is money. A professional killer and master of escape, Johnny is soon offered the big cash score that has constantly eluded him. The Catch? He and five other criminals must complete various jobs from an anonymous employer before they get the chance at some serious money. Johnny, who is a gun for hire, soon teams up with the five criminals on different jobs knowing in advance that they are all enemies. Johnny's life is quickly put in danger when two of the criminals find out that he is working for their rival. The result of this leads to numerous set-ups, double crosses and deadly confrontations, where only one fortunate soul will be left standing. Greatness, wealth and power beyond their wildest dreams await these undesirables. The only thing they have to do now... is stay alive long enough to claim it.
Keywords: criminal
6 Criminals, 2,000 bullets, 1 collision course.
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Sabrina is 14year old en has a big passion: cycling. She lives with her parents in a small rural village. The hormones are raging through her body and she doesn't know how to deal with it. When her best friend is having a boyfriend she doesn't want to stay behind. Altough she is secretly in love with farmer boy Martijn, she seduces a foreign guy to have sex.
Keywords: cycling, farm, friend, sex, teenage-girl
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A political drama about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne, who eventually recruits him into a bloody coup d'etat. But in the post-revolutionary world, what Thorne asks of Joe leads the two men into bitter conflict, spiraling downward into madness until Joe's co-conspirators conclude that they must erase him from history.
Keywords: accomplice, actor, actress, arrest, assassination, assassination-of-president, barbed-wire, bath, bathtub, beating
Thorne: I didn't come to violence casually, you know. But you get to a point where you have no choice but to take up arms against your oppressors.::Joe: True, but under Maximillian's rule we don't kill innocent bystanders::Thorne: Nobody standing by is innocent.
Joe: I know that I have done questionable things, but my role in the assassination of the president is one that even now I cannot say I entirely regret.
Joe: I met Mr. Thorne in the last days of the empire, but no one knew then that they were the last days.
Thorne: This prison used to be a hospital.
First Lady: The condition of criminals is of no importance to the state!
Joe: How do you remember it all like that, word for word?::Thorne: My entertainment options are kind of limited.::Joe: Have you memorized anything else?::Thorne: Shakespeare, books of the Bible...
Maximilian II: [on the idea of Thorne speaking on their behalf] He won't even wear fucking clothes on our behalf!
Joe: Don't do this to yourself.::Thorne: I didn't know it was self-inflicted.
Thorne: Hello Joe.::Joe: I didn't think you'd remember me, sir.::Thorne: Look at you, they made you an officer.::Joe: Yes sir. And I got married too.::Thorne: Congratulations.
Thorne: You want to kill a snake? Cut off its head.
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The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race?
Keywords: coach, ethnic-conflict, father-daughter-relationship, female-athlete, fired-from-the-job, illegal-immigrant, independent-film, marathon, obsession, race-relations
Get ready for one hell of a ride!
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A young girl marries the wealthy father of one of her male friends at college, but she soon finds herself falling for her new husband's son. The husband finds out about the two, and comes up with what he believes to be a foolproof plan: he will frame his wife and his son for his own murder, then have the pair locked in a room in his remote, isolated estate--with his own dead body.
Keywords: adultery, female-nudity, revenge, sex
Betsy Brown: [singing] Don't wear a long face, it's never in style! Be optimistic and smile!
Miss Hutchins: I'm sorry to say - or perhaps I shouldn't say sorry - but we won't have the pleasure of hearing Betsy sing for us again. Mr. Shea was a dear friend of her parents and he and his daughter have come to take her to live with them in New York. I'm sure she has our warmest wishes for happiness in her new home.
Barbara Shea: Now don't you stay up listening to that music. You just shut your eyes and go right to sleep.::Betsy Brown: I'll shut my eyes, but it'll probably come in through my ears.
Barbara Shea: [on the telephone] This is Mr. Shea's daughter. My father isn't home right n - Well, I'm awfully sorry the boys are rehearsing, but I'll be glad to...::Sarah Wendling: [on the telephone] I'm tired of warning you people. I won't have my nights disturbed by a lot of noisy riffraff. I won't put up with it any longer!::Barbara Shea: I'm sorry, Miss Wendling, I'll go right up and...::Sarah Wendling: [hangs up] .::Betsy Brown: What's wrong?::Barbara Shea: She called us a lot of riffraff.::Betsy Brown: Who?::Barbara Shea: Our landlady.::Betsy Brown: I didn't know we had one.::Barbara Shea: Well, if you ever see a pumpkin in one of the windows next door and it isn't Halloween, that's our landlady.
Betsy Brown: If you're looking for Miss Wendling, she isn't home. I'm waiting for her too, on important business.::Roger Wendling: Maybe if it's very important, I might put in a good word for you.::Betsy Brown: Oh! do you know Miss Wendling?::Roger Wendling: Oh, yes, very well. You see, she's my aunt.::Betsy Brown: She is? Well, say! Would you give her this [handing him a child's piggy bank] and tell her it's on account of the rent for the hotel?::Roger Wendling: The hotel? What hotel?::Betsy Brown: Next door.::Roger Wendling: Whom shall I say this is from?::Betsy Brown: From Betsy. No, from Pop, Mr. Shea.
Betsy Brown: I used to be an orphan before Pop adopted me.::Roger Wendling: That is a coincidence, you know, I used to be an orphan myself!::Betsy Brown: It's too bad we weren't orphans at the same time. We could've had lots of fun together!
Roger Wendling: This young lady wants to give you money to pay the rent on the hotel.::Sarah Wendling: Nonsense! So you've gone in for social service, have you?::Roger Wendling: Not exactly, Aunt Sarah, I just met an acquaintance.::Betsy Brown: There's almost five dollars in here, and I'm sure Pop will have the rest for you very soon.::Willoughby Wendling: Bless my soul!::Sarah Wendling: Keep your soul out of this. You will please get rid of this child.::Roger Wendling: But Aunt Sarah...::Sarah Wendling: If those people next door think they can play on my sympathy like this, they are greatly mistaken. I'll have my rent, all of it, or out they go.
William J. 'Pop' Shea: Well, Mr. Wendling, I can't possibly raise the money in five days.::Roger Wendling: Well, Mr. Shea, I was going to make a suggestion before your daughter so graciously knighted me. I was going to suggest that perhaps I could lend you the twenty-five hundred. Why not?::William J. 'Pop' Shea: You'd lend...? Thanks a million!::Betsy Brown: Thanks TWO million- one for me!::Barbara Shea: I'm sorry, but we can't accept your generous offer.::William J. 'Pop' Shea: Why not, Barbara?::Barbara Shea: Because I don't know how we'd be able to pay it back, and we're not going to be at the mercy of some spiteful old moneybag who calls us a lot of riffraff!
Betsy Brown: Barbara is awful smart. She reads great big books when she's not helping Pop run the hotel.::Roger Wendling: She does?::Betsy Brown: Yes, she told me she's studying how not to be an actress.::Roger Wendling: I see. Well, does she have any boyfriends?::Betsy Brown: Oh, yes, lots of them. There's Ole, the Martins, Jimmy and his Jazz Bandits...::Roger Wendling: No, I mean someone who takes her out to dinner. A sweetheart?::Betsy Brown: Oh, no. I guess she's just an old maid, like I was before you came along.
Jimmy Clayton: Eight bucks from the Tri-State Field and five from the Downs. Now how much we short?::William J. 'Pop' Shea: About twenty-one hundred.::Jimmy Clayton: National debt! I thought I was bringing home the bacon.::Flossie: And you laid an egg!::William J. 'Pop' Shea: Thanks just the same. You're a great guy, Jimmy.::Flossie: That goes for me too, bubble-brain.::Jimmy Clayton: Is that straight from the balcony, Juliet? Must be my streamline personality. Guess I ain't as bad as I look, eh?::Flossie: You couldn't be!::William J. 'Pop' Shea: That does it! From now on whenever you talk to me, you can start the conversation with goodbye!
Pool in my heart
Pool of red in my heart
I want you to swim
Swim a mile
Pool in my heart
I want you to drown
I want you to drown there
Drown in my pool
Drown in my heart
Pool in my heart
Pool of red in my heart
I want you to drown
I want you to drown
I want you to drown