A butler is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor, and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its appearance. A butler is usually male, and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually a woman, and in charge of female servants. Traditionally, male servants (such as footmen) were better paid and therefore rarer and of higher status than female servants. The butler, as the senior male servant, has the highest servant status.
In modern houses where the butler is the most senior worker, titles such as majordomo, butler administrator, house manager, manservant, staff manager, chief of staff, staff captain, estate manager and head of household staff are sometimes given. The precise duties of the employee will vary to some extent in line with the title given, but perhaps more importantly in line with the requirements of the individual employer. In the grandest homes or when the employer owns more than one residence, there is sometimes an estate manager of higher rank than the butler.
Malcolm Partridge Butler (6 August 1913 - December 1987) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a full back in The Football League for Blackpool and Accrington Stanley. He also won one cap for Ireland.
Belfast-born Butler left Belfast Celtic to sign for Blackpool in January 1935. His four-year career with the club was ended by the outbreak of the Second World War.
During the war he guested for both Chelsea and Brighton, playing around his time as a Flight-Lieutenant navigator in the Royal Air Force.
In July 1947 he signed with Accrington Stanley, and captained the club to a sixth place finish in the Football League Third Division North before retiring in May 1948.
On 15 March 1939, he played for Ireland in their 3–1 defeat to Wales. It was the country's last match before World War II.
After leaving the game he became a licensee in Blackpool.
Jimmy Butler (Akron, Ohio, 20 February 1921 – France, 18 February 1945) was an American, juvenile, motion-pictures actor, active in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Butler earned acclaim for his role in the 1933 film Only Yesterday, and in 1934 his career got another significant boost when the actor earned lavish critical plaudits for his portrayal of Jim Wade in Manhattan Melodrama. Later he played one of the young protagonists, Boka, in No Greater Glory. The irony of this antiwar allegory spilled sadly over into the life of Butler, since he would lose his life a decade later in the real combat of World War II.
James Edward Harden, Jr. (born August 26, 1989) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arizona State Sun Devils, where he was named a consensus All-American and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009. Harden was selected third overall by the Thunder in the 2009 NBA Draft, and was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year with the team in 2012. The shooting guard is well-known for his conspicuous beard.
Harden attended Artesia High School in Lakewood, California. In his sophomore year, he averaged 13.2 points as Artesia went 28–5. He improved his stats to 18.8 points, 7.7 boards and 3.5 assists in his junior season and led Artesia to the California state title and a 33–1 record. Artesia won the state title in Harden's final year too by going 33–2. Harden had similar stats as during the previous season: 18.8 points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.9 assists. He was named a Parade and McDonald's All-American.
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
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The film keys in on the proverbial David vs. Goliath scenario when the filthy-rich land developer, Vivian Brechner, decides not to renew the lease on a bowling alley in a small town so that, together with a local avaricious tribal Indian chief, she can tear it down to make way for a gambling casino. What happens when the 52 people in Fountain Springs learn that Fountain Bowl-the "only thing they've got"-is teetering on destruction? Their community lifestyle, as they have known it, is about to come to an abrupt and tragic end. This is when the townsfolk get word in the Fountain Spray newspaper, and, all hell breaks loose! How could the fate of something as simple and innocent as a bowling alley get so complicated? Well, it just does. The story gets messy, tense, suspenseful and, oh, so very funny. In the end, we learn who will win. Who will loose. And who's got balls!
Keywords: bowling, screwball, small-town, underdog
A quirky town, a crooked mayor, and one whacked-out bowling showdown!
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Four years after the failure of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, John Hammond reveals to Ian Malcolm that there was another island ("Site B") on which dinosaurs were bred before being transported to Isla Nublar. Left alone since the disaster, the dinosaurs have flourished, and Hammond is anxious that the world see them in their "natural" environment before they are exploited.
Keywords: 1990s, amusement-park, babe-scientist, baby-tyrannosaurus, based-on-novel, beach, blockbuster, blood, boat-crash, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship
Something has survived
They're Walking Our Streets
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Did you find him?::Roland Tembo: Just the parts they didn't like.
Nick Van Owen: You seem like you have a shred of common sense, what the hell are you doing here?::Roland Tembo: Somewhere on this island is the greatest predator there ever lived. The second greatest predator must take him down. [grins]::Nick Van Owen: [referring to Roland's gun] You gonna use that?::Roland Tembo: If he doesn't surrender, yes.::Nick Van Owen: [chuckles] The animal exists on the planet for the first time in tens of millions of years and the only way you can express yourself is to kill it.::Roland Tembo: Remember that chap about twenty years ago? I forget his name. Climbed Everest without any oxygen, came down nearly dead. When they asked him, they said why did you go up there to die? He said I didn't, I went up there to live.
[about the poison on the darts in their guns]::Eddie Carr: The most powerful neurotoxin in the world. It works faster than the nerve conduction velocity, which means the animal's down before it actually feels the - P! - prick of the dart.::Dr. Ian Malcolm: Is there an antidote?::Eddie Carr: What, like if you shot yourself in the foot? Don't do that, you would be dead before you even knew you had an accident.
Eddie Carr: Violence and technology... not good bedfellows!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: When you try to sound like Hammond, it comes off as a hustle. I mean, it's not your fault. They say talent skips a generation. So, I'm sure your kids will be sharp as tacks.::Peter Ludlow: Hammond's reach exceeded his grasp. Mine does not.::Dr. Ian Malcolm: Taking dinosaurs off this island is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas. And I'm gonna be there when you learn that.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's your background? Wildlife photography?::Nick Van Owen: Yeah. Wildlife, combat... you name it. When I was with Nightline, I was in Rwanda, Chechnya, all over Bosnia. Do some volunteer work for Greenpeace once in a while.::Dr. Ian Malcolm: Greenpeace? What drew you there?::Nick Van Owen: Women. 80 percent female, Greenpeace.::Dr. Ian Malcolm: That's noble.::Nick Van Owen: Yeah well, noble was last year. This year I'm getting paid. Hammond's check cleared, or I wouldn't be going on this wild goose chase...::Dr. Ian Malcolm: Uh, where your going is the only place in the world where the geese chase *you*!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: It's fine if you wanna put your name on something but STOP putting it on other people's headstones.
[searching the island for Sarah]::Dr. Ian Malcolm: Sarah! Sarah!::Nick Van Owen: Sarah Harding!::Dr. Ian Malcolm: How many Sarahs you think are on this island? Sarah!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
[after re-capturing the baby T-Rex in San Diego]::Sarah Harding: How do we find the adult?::Dr. Ian Malcolm: Just follow the screams.
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A millionaire and a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker and a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow...Five of the most powerful people in the world, gathered in an ancient mansion to inherit a Legacy of bloodsome horror. And Maggie makes six.
Keywords: animal-attack, archery, architect, arms-manufacturer, arrow, attack-dog, backfire, bare-chested-male, bedroom, beer
It is a birthright of living death...
Six came to claim it...
Margaret Walsh: [as they approach Ravenhurst, the Mountolive family's dazzling residence]... So what do you suppose this Mr. Mountolive does for a living?::Pete Danner: [with a shrug] Whatever it is, he's doing it right.
Clive Jackson: [in Ravenhurst's drawing room]... I always wanted to break into the music business, myself.::Jacques Grandier: [wryly] In most of Europe, he IS the music business.
Karl Liebnecht: [Speaking to Marggie about the portrait of Margaret Walsingham] She vos dragged from ze haus unt burnt at ze stake on ze orters ov Elizabeth the Furst. She vos succeeded by her illegitimate dorter, who inherited all her velth, all her visdom unt all her POWER!
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A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. While in the big city, the math prof receives a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia. She begins to believe she is the author of the sultry book, and has actually lived its story. Now freed from her inhibitions, the lady professor sashays about with abandon. With a PR man (Jack Oakie) in tow, she crashes a party of swells at the home of a wealthy industrialist (Thurston Hall) and pressures him into making a large contribution to her tiny college back home.
She wrote the years BLUSHING best-seller... then had to live it... page by burning page
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In 1886, in the Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton meets the pure Dorian Gray posing for talented painter Basil Hallward. Basil paints Dorian's portrait and gives the beautiful painting and an Egyptian sculpture of a cat to him while Henry corrupts his mind and soul telling that Dorian should seek pleasure in life. Dorian wishes that his portrait could age instead of him. Dorian goes to a side show in the Two Turtles in the poor neighborhood of London and he falls in love with the singer Sibyl Vane. Dorian decides to get married with her and tells to Lord Henry that convinces him to test the honor of Sibyl. Dorian Gray leaves Sibyl and travels abroad and when he returns to London, Lord Henry tells him that Sibyl committed suicide for love. Along the years, Dorian's friends age while he is still the same, but his picture discloses his evilness and corruptive life. Can he still have salvation or is his soul trapped in the doomed painting?
Keywords: 1880s, 1890s, 19th-century, accidental-shooting, aging, aristocracy, aristocrat, artist, attic, backstage
His life was a muddy morass into which he dragged all who knew him! Such was Dorian Gray, the man who wanted eternal youth, and bartered his soul to get it!
The most unusual story to ever reach the screen.
Why did women talk about Dorian Gray in whispers?
Youth's adventure in living!
Lord Henry Wotton: I choose my friends carefully.
Lord Henry Wotton: I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks, Sir Thomas, I'd forgotten that you were a member of Parliament.
Lord Henry Wotton: I like persons better than principles and persons with no principles better than anything at all.
Lord Henry Wotton: I suppose in a fortnight or so, we shall be told he's been seen in San Francisco. It's an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Lord Henry Wotton: There's only one way to get rid of temptation, and that's to yield to it.
Lord Henry Wotton: "If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable."
Dorian Gray: If only it was the picture who was to grow old, and I remain young. There's nothing in the world I wouldn't give for that. Yes, I would give even my soul for it.
Dorian Gray: You think it's only God who sees the soul.
Basil Hallward: [having seen Dorian's corrupted portrait] But this is monstrous. It's beyond nature, beyond reason. What does it mean?::Dorian Gray: On the day you finished this painting, I made a wish. Perhaps you would call it a prayer. My wish was granted.::Basil Hallward: But you told me you had destroyed my painting.::Dorian Gray: I was wrong. It has destroyed me.::Basil Hallward: It has the eyes of the Devil!::Dorian Gray: Each of us has heaven and hell in him.::Basil Hallward: If this is true... if this is what you've done with your life, it is far worse than anything that's being said of you. Do you know how to pray, Dorian?
Lord Henry Wotton: What is it that has really happened? Someone has killed herself who loved you. I wish I had had such an experience. The women who have admired me, and there have been some, have always insisted on living long after I've ceased to care for them or them for me.
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The first day of spring has a profound affect on the Hilton family. The father, an accountant, finds himself unable to work, and when he tries to work, he is wooed by an actress whose taxes he is doing. The mother is mistaken by a friend's brother, who thinks she is the woman he is supposed to marry; when he finds out different, he decides to pursue her anyway. The eldest son mopes because he wants to "motor the Continent" and the father won't permit him to. The eldest daughter miserably laments the end of a romance with a married artist twenty years her elder. And the youngest moons dreamily in her morbid teen way about Dante Gabriel Rossetti. All of this in the space of one day.
Keywords: accountant, actress, artist, based-on-play, london-england, puppy-love, screwball, spring-fever
Dorothy Hilton: You're putting on weight.::Roger Hilton: The coat's shrunk.::Dorothy Hilton: So have all your coats it seems.::Roger Hilton: Now look here, I can prove to you that...::Dorothy Hilton: Well, you prove it to the bathroom scales.::Roger Hilton: I frequently consult the scales.::Dorothy Hilton: Yes, but you don't pay any attention to what they say.
Dorothy Hilton: What? Give up my children?::Frank Haines: You've had them long enough, haven't you? Well, divide them up then.::Dorothy Hilton: I couldn't do that. There are three of them. It wouldn't come out even.
Ann Hilton: Cath, mustn't it be queer to be old like parents? To know that nothing exciting can ever happen to you?::Catherine 'Cath' Hilton: It must be jolly peaceful. They haven't a worry in the world.
Frank Haines: Woman are on a higher plain than men.::Dorothy Hilton: I'm not, that's certain. Or I wouldn't be letting you talk to me like this.
Frank Haines: It's a changing world, my dear. People are changing their motors, their vacuum cleaners and their husbands all the time.
Dorothy Hilton: What time is it? You're beginning to think I haven't any family. Not even a husband.::Frank Haines: Does he beat you?::Dorothy Hilton: What?::Frank Haines: Does he beat you?::Dorothy Hilton: Who, Roger? Good heavens, no!::Frank Haines: Oh, but he must. It's only fair. You're desperate and unhappy and I've come to your rescue. That's the way it's got to be.::Dorothy Hilton: Oh, you're really a most difficult man!
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In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets her uncle to cancel Bill's orders and has him reassigned to break enemy codes. In his new assignment he becomes involved with beautiful Russian spy Olivia Karloff, who is working for the Germans, and must juggle Joel's affection and his pursuit of Karloff's connections to retrieve a stolen code book.
Keywords: based-on-book, blackmail, cryptography, mexico, san-diego-california, secret-code, spy, suicide, war-department, washington-d.c.
Bill Solves an Exciting Mystery and Wins a New Sweetheart!
A musical romance of two hearts in song time
She's gone on a winters breath
If you find her, then keep whats left
She don't feel like no Love of mine
and the storm don't care what it leaves behind
and Ill miss you, but you must move on
The sun won't shine where you don't belong
(Chorus)
Love is all that we keep
In the box that you're burnt when you lay down to sleep
(x2)
Love of mine, may you find your way
for I lost my love on a winters day
and I don't blame you, its what I love you for
you were born to breeze through an open door
Love of mine, remember me
like a breaking wave, on your broken sea
(Chorus)
Love is all that we keep
In the box that you're burnt when you lay down to sleep
(x2)
(Break)
(Chorus)
Love is all that we keep
In the box that you're burnt when you lay down to sleep