Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering. When expertly "cut" by striking with a specialized tool in the quarry, many slates will form smooth flat sheets of stone which have long been used for roofing and floor tiles and other purposes. Slate is frequently grey in color, especially when seen, en masse, covering roofs. However, slate occurs in a variety of colors even from a single locality; for example, slate from North Wales can be found in many shades of grey, from pale to dark, and may also be purple, green or cyan. Slate is not to be confused with shale, from which it may be formed, or schist. Ninety percent of Europe's natural slate used for roofing originates from Spain.
The word "slate" is also used for some objects made from slate. It may mean a single roofing slate, or a writing slate, traditionally a small piece of slate, often framed in wood, used with chalk as a notepad or noticeboard etc., and especially for recording charges in pubs and inns. The phrase "clean slate" or "blank slate" comes from this use.
Jenny Slate (born March 25, 1982) is an American actress, comedienne, and author best known for her series of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On childrens books and short films. She is also known for her time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2009–2010 and her recurring role as Stella on the HBO comedy Bored to Death.
Slate was born in Milton, Massachusetts to parents Nancy Slate and Ron Slate, a Massachusetts-based poet and author. She has two sisters, Abigail and Stacey, After graduating from Milton Academy as the valedictorian, she attended Columbia University, where she helped form the improv group Fruit Paunch, and starred in the Varsity Show. Slate graduated from Columbia University in 2004.
Alongside comedian Gabe Liedman, Slate is half of the comedy duo Gabe & Jenny. Their show with Max Silvestri, Big Terrific, was named best new variety show of 2008 by Time Out New York. She met Liedman in 2000 while attending Columbia University. They describe their relationship as a "nonsexual romance", and Slate says "I like to think of us as kind of like Elaine Benes and George Costanza, but we like each other."
Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. He currently serves as head writer for Saturday Night Live and hosts its news parody segment Weekend Update.
Meyers was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Hilary Claire (née Olson), a middle school French teacher, and Laurence Meyers, Jr. He attended Manchester High School West in Manchester, New Hampshire. He went on to graduate from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta. Meyers is the older brother of Josh Meyers, who was best known as a cast member of MADtv.
Before SNL, Meyers got his improv comedy start as a member of the Northwestern University improv sketch group Mee-Ow, created by Paul Warshauer and Josh Lazar. He continued his career at ImprovOlympic with the group Preponderate as well as overseas as a cast member of Boom Chicago, an English language improv troupe based in Amsterdam, where his brother was also a cast member.
Meyers appeared with Brendan Fraser and Anita Briem in the 2008 3D film Journey to the Center of the Earth. He also makes a cameo in the 2008 film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist as a drunk man who mistakes the main character's Yugo for a taxi. Meyers is currently writing and will star in a movie called Key Party. He also starred in the 2004 comedy See This Movie with John Cho. In July 2008, Meyers directed the web series The Line on Crackle. Meyers has hosted the Webby Awards twice, in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, Meyers hosted the Microsoft Company Meeting at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA. Meyers hosted the 2010 and 2011 ESPY Awards on ESPN. In 2011, Seth Meyers was the keynote speaker at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on April 30; during his introductory remarks, he made a joke about Osama bin Laden's actions while in hiding, unaware that US intelligence had found bin Laden and he would be dead within hours.
Jake Lacy (born February 14) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Casey Marion Davenport on the ABC sitcom Better with You, which began in 2010.
Lacy was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts Lacy grew up in Pittsford, Vermont where he attended Otter Valley Union High School. There Lacy took vocational theater classes and embarked in acting roles. In 2008, Lacy graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in Winston-Salem After graduation, Jake worked odd jobs in the state of New York. He worked as a gym receptionist, a bar-back at a club and a waiter, while going to auditions during the day, until receiving the role of Casey in Better with You.
Lacy acted in high school and performed on professional stages in the productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as Demetrius (in Hartford Stage's production), and "Much Ado About Nothing" as Conrad (in the Oberon Theater Ensemble's production).). Lacy played brief roles in a few episodes of "Guiding Light" before its cancellation. In 2010, he received a lead role in the Columbia thesis film C'est Moi." In fall 2010, Lacy received the role of Casey in the television show Better with You. He will star in The Goodwin Games a mid-season show, airing 2013, on Fox as Jimmy, a ex-con guitarist with a daughter and who is in trouble with a loan shark over a debt. .
Plot
Slate, is a story about a male hustler (Slate) who finds himself under the control of a lazy overbearing pimp (Terrence) who abuses him every chance he gets. Feeling lost, alone, and unloved, Slate's fortune changes when he meets Johnny. The two quickly form a friendship that flourishes into something more. When Terrence finds out of this relationship and goes after Johnny, Slate feels like he has no choice, but to take matters into his own hands.
Revenge is a choice
All We Have Is Time
Commander Baker: Detective Brant, what are you going to do when you come face to face with a living, breathing nightmare?::Detective Brant: I'm going to blow his God damn head off.
Plot
A botched car-jacking forces two white-collar criminals to take refuge in the home of the thugs that accosted them. Over the course of one explosive, unpredictable night, worlds collide, fortunes shift, lives are cast aside and the most unsuspecting of heroes walks away with a multimillion dollar score.
[first lines]::Customs Agent: Where are you coming from?::Henry McFarlin: Poland.::Customs Agent: Business or vacation?::Henry McFarlin: Business.
Tamara: I'm a Nurses Aid.::Henry McFarlin: Oh Christ, just shoot me now, please.::Tamara: I've dressed a bunch of Meredith's pals and brought them back to life. Most of them I should have let Jesus handle.
Tamara: What are you two suits doing here anyway? Don't you fools know you shouldn't be in drug zone Watts after dark? Don't they teach you that on opening day at white boy school?
Wishbone: You sure ain't operating on any side of the law I ever seen.::Peter Spanbauer: Yeah well, the law doesn't operate on the side of the law.
Henry McFarlin: Money's the best passport that money can buy.
Tamara: Is your boss a computer?
[last lines]::Henry McFarlin: Mr. McFarland, I'm afraid this passport is invalid.
Plot
Follows a day in the life of two men living at either end of the music game. A successful rapper, A-Maze, is dealing with the pitfalls and trappings of his success and facing new challenges in the music business to get a check while the other, Young Eastie, is a young man struggling in a harsh world that is threatening to destroy him.
Keywords: music-business, one-day, profanity, rapper, violence
The Shadowmen are coming...
Slate: You can't win os!
Os: Gotta split!
Slate: The white warrior? You saw the white warrior!::Os: Yes! Look Slate, look!
White Warrior: Os... It is time for you to love... love or die.::Os: Who are you?::White Warrior: Your beginning or your end... the choice is yours.::Os: Are you ready to die?::White Warrior: Are you really to love? [pause] Love.::Os: Die.
MP #1: [barging into an office] Hey you!::Slate: Yes, did you have something to say? [kills him] No, I didn't think so.
Howard Lancaster: [pointing a gun at Slate] Get out of my office. I'm warning you. [he fires the gun and nothing happens]::Slate: [Slate takes the gun and fires around him, as Lancaster falls to the floor] Just like a human, they always faint before you can kill them.
Os: I'll start the translation.::Slate: It's you, isn't it, Os? I knew there was a traitor, I just never thought it'd be you. We are *this close* to winning this war!::Os: The war is within, man.::Slate: What are you talking about?
Slate: [after Os defeats the Shadowmen] Impressive, but quite temporary. You can't kill them.::Os: But the Elements can.::Slate: You're pissing me off Os! I want that tablet *now*.::Os: Gotta split!
White Warrior: Surrender to the light...
Os: Freedom... well, that's relative isn't it? You know I know some free men that still prisoners in their minds. They never look around. I mean, *look around*! Did you ever know air could smell so sweet? [Ray tries and fails to punch him] Do you want to learn how to control that temper? 'Cause I could show you.::Ray Jackson: Get out of my face man! I having a real bad day and you could fine yourself hurt real bad.::Os: 'Bad' meaning 'good', or 'bad' meaning 'bad'?::Ray Jackson: [Ray tries to punch him again] I'm serious!::Os: *Your* *not* *listening*. I'm talking about perspective, I'm talking about choice, which is what you've got right now.::Ray Jackson: What do you mean?::Os: That man inside the base, the lieutenant, he's gonna try to kill you. Now, you can stay here and become dead, or you can come with me and live.::Ray Jackson: Who are you, man?::Os: Call me Os.
Plot
Documentary look at Morty Fineman, a prolific maker of schlock independent films, who's down on his luck. Actors, directors, and writers, including Ron Howard and Karen Black, comment on his work, we see clips from some of his 427 titles, and we watch Morty try to get financing for a film about a serial killer. He hires his daughter, Paloma, as his business manager. His A.D., the long-suffering Ivan, stays by his side. Morty owes the bank $10 million from his one blockbuster failure. Can he find the financing, or is it time for Morty to retire. Meanwhile, Ivan hooks Morty up with a new film festival, in Chaparral, Nevada. Is this the ticket to renewal?
Keywords: b-movie, baldness, behind-the-scenes, biker-chick, buffalo, chauffeur, cowboy-hat, director, dwarf, eulogy
Morty Fineman. Artist. Visionary. Madman.
Paloma Fineman: I think that anyone that claims that they are totally happy with their family situation is not concentrating.
[first lines]::Ted Demme: I think Morty is a visionary.::Roger Corman: I think Morty was and is an artist.::Ron Howard: He's an innovator.::Karen Black: Very persistent. And you have to love him for that.::Peter Bogdanovich: Morty would try things, and then 2 years later someone would copy it and win an Oscar for it.::Fred Williamson: This is the only man that I've ever worked with that I feel I can't take.
Morty Fineman: [eulogy] For what does it gain a man to be given that divine candle, and not to dip his wick.
Morty Fineman: [concluding his corporate presentation] That, gentlemen, is why financing Fineman Films is fine financing.
Todd: We are prepared Mr. Fineman, today, to buy you're entire film library, for $8 a pound.
Fred Williamson: Get out of the water! It's filled with phosphors and you're swimming topless!
Morty Fineman: How long is the wait?::Maitre d': You may wait as long as you wish...
Interviewer: [quoting critics] An insipid, childish, even maniacal work. Someone please tell Mr. Fineman that The Whole Story of America does *not* have to be as long as the whole story of America.::Morty Fineman: Those who cannot do, review.
Morty Fineman: [to potential producer] I tell you Walter, I've been in this business 30 years and there's only one sure-fire way to make a small fortune - start with a large fortune.
Interviewer: Wow, you invented the sequel?::Morty Fineman: Well, I invented the roman numeral at the end of the title. You see God Father III, Friday the 13th part VII, that started with me.::Title Card: World War III II, a Fineman Production.
Plot
Writer/Director Adam Taylor faces romantic crisis on the set of his action opus, "The Taylor Predicament"; amid financial struggles and dissent among the crew, Adam falls for crew member Lauren, upon whom his best friend and leading man, Sean, has also set his sights.
Keywords: behind-the-scenes, character-name-in-title, independent-film, reference-to-peter-lorre
Life's Kinda Like A Movie Sometimes.
Adam Taylor: And she's a film girl too. Most film girls look like Peter Lorre.
Adam Taylor: Hi, my name's Adam, and I don't have an act. And not having an act is my act.::Lauren: Yeah? Well, you see this watch? This watch holds twenty numbers. Twenty numbers.
Adam Taylor: Sure, that works for you, cause you're Sean, and everybody loves Sean. You're the fucking Pete Rose of women.
Jason: Hey, the coffee shop's hiring. I bet you could get a job.::Adam Taylor: No thanks. I'm happy with the one I've got.
[Jason snatches a cigarette from Pete's mouth.]::Pete Jubois: Did I mention that I've got V.D.?
Lauren: Well, what makes you think I'd want to go out with you?::Adam Taylor: Because the other night at the bar, you looked back.::Lauren: I looked back. So?::Adam Taylor: So you don't have to watch a lot of romantic comedies to know what that means.::Lauren: So, what's it mean?::Adam Taylor: It means... that the girl wants the guy, so can we just get past this awkward part and you say yes?
Pete Jubois: He just totally dissed the director. That man is gonna be a star.
Sean: If you could just forget how scared you can be sometimes, and listen to your heart, you just might impress yourself.
Pete Jubois: Somebody said it's raining outside.::Lauren: Oh no.::Adam Taylor: What? Every good romantic comedy needs a rain scene.::Lauren: But this isn't a movie.::Adam Taylor: Life's kinda like a movie sometimes.
Adam Taylor: Hey, Lauren, you got a minute?::Lauren: I don't know, I'm a little busy.::Adam Taylor: Who's the director here?::Lauren: Hey, there are two people on a set you don't tell what to do and that's the key grip and the gaffer.::Adam Taylor: And you're neither.::Lauren: So let's talk.
Plot
Civil War union soldiers purchase a shipment of gold from a Mexican banker. They need to get the gold to its destination. However along the way, a gang of crooks, the unethical banker & his gang, and Dynamite Jim all decide that they want to get their hands on the gold also.
Keywords: bar-fight, bar-shootout, character-name-in-title, cowboy, fast-draw, fistfight, gunfight, gunfighter, gunslinger, horse
A worn out joke to keep the flies away carried it this far
The west side winds to keep it steady
Bury the hatchets we find could carry that heavy load
If I really thought it would matter farcical hair appears
As a blind side, clean the slate working in the halls of shame
Lay it down in full view, lay it down
What the Hell were we thinking before the fire burned out?
I can't find you now and I didn't know you then
Loneliness drinks the bitters till the cold winds warm again
It's a feel for the game mouth open wide
Screams and hollers working in the halls of shame
Lay it down in full view, lay it down
I gambled once and won, never made a dollar and beauty fades to gray
And I pray the very best will guard her and provide the way it's a telltale sign
When it's chairs up, and time to go working in the halls of shame
On a Thursday in July
Yet another passed us by
Yet another chance to make amends
Walking ashen through the smoke
Coughing up the last of hope
A city surfaced silent and exposed
And we live like monsters
Though our fathers and mothers told us to be good
So gather up your precious things
Take the slate and wipe it clean
There’s time enough for all to be redeemed
And tell me why it boils down
To this game of chess and how
We can all be taken for the pawns?
We live like monsters
Though our fathers and mothers told us to be good
These clockwork disasters
Leave all that matters disregarded
Take the slate and wipe it clean
There’s time enough for all to be redeemed
Take the slate and wipe it clean
In this life we’ll be redeemed
Take the slate and wipe it clean
There’s time enough for all to be redeemed
Take the slate and wipe it clean
I swear to g-d we’ll be redeemed
And we live like monsters
Though our fathers and mothers told us to be good
Well it should be simple
More days of dimples
And more time to make amends
‘Cause in ways all around us
Goodness has found us