A garland is a decorative wreath or cord, used at festive occasions, which can be hung round a person's neck, or on inanimate objects like Christmas trees. Originally garlands were made of flowers or leaves.
From the French "guirlande", itself from the Italian "ghirlanda", a braid.
Its a long tradition in India where flower garlands have an important role in every festival, when the deities are decorated with garlands made from different fragrant flowers (often jasmine) and leaves.Only good & fragrant flowers and aromatic leaves are used to make garlands to worship Hindu deities.some of those fragrent flowers are as follows:- jasmine,champaga,lotus,lillies,asoka,nerium,chysanthemum,roses,hibiscus,pinwheel flowers(Tamil-nanthiyavattai),manoranthitam etc. Apart from these leaves like marikhozhundu,maasipachai,kathir pachhai,vetiveer are also used for making garlands. Also fruit, vegetables and currency notes are worn as thanksgiving. Also in wedding the couple wears a wedding garland. In other occasions it is used to show respect to an individual person or statue (murti).In Tamil Nadu marigold,nitya kalyani flower garlands are used only for dead bodies or burial rituals.In functions also garlands are used to denote the main person(host).
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Renowned for her contralto voice, she attained international stardom through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the remake of A Star is Born and for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg. At 39 years of age, she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry.
After appearing in vaudeville with her two older sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, she was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a return to acting beginning with critically acclaimed performances.
Barbra Joan Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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When Holloman Academy, a posh New England private school, is visited by a demonic headmaster, a humble janitor, who is secretly the guardian of the school, teams up with the headmaster's grandson in order to save the academy.
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Brendan arrives home to find his girlfriend, Hayley, in the driveway packing up her car full of all of her belongings. As Brendan interrogates Haley on her reasons for leaving, the roommates occasionally interrupt the conversation as they one-by-one inform Brendan about the rent money. Furthermore, the roommates choose to keep themselves in the awkward and uncomfortable situation by watching Brendan and Hayley argue from inside the garage. Brendan thinks he will be able to comfort Hayley and once again, convince her to stay. However, Brendan's expectations and hopes are crushed as Hayley informs Brendan that the baby she is pregnant with does not belong to him. The roommates react with utter shock, and watch with intense eyes as Brendan struggles with this new information.
Keywords: independent-film
Life is about to kick this guy... in the balls.
Hayley: It's Not Your Baby.
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Rock Hudson (in his last made-for-TV-movie role) plays Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner who tries to turn his decaying building into The Strip's top attraction to avenge his outting by his former partners who run a more fancy hotel/casino just across the street.
Keywords: casino, las-vegas-nevada, lead-actor's-last-film, showgirl, sports-promotor, tv-movie
Jack Madrid: It's not about black power or white power, it's about green power! Money! M-O-N-E-Y! We're talking about geometric progression: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64!
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On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
Keywords: cop, death, false-accusation, murder, murder-of-wife, murderer, one-word-title
how far can a policeman go?
A motion picture with the hard edge of today!
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When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living. After Fitzwilly's mother died Miss Vicki helped raise him and he loves her like a mother and would do anything for her. With Fitzwilly's encouragement, Miss Vicki writes a "Dictionary for Dopes" which contains all possible phonetic spellings of a word, and gives the reader the correct one, and for that she needs a secretary. Juliet is the one who is hired, soon she is caught up in the intrigue and falls in love with Fitzwilly. They agree to carry out one more caper before they get married, to keep Miss Vicki comfortable for the rest of her days.
Keywords: abercrombie-&-fitch-new-york-city, b.-altman's-department-store-new-york-city, bar, based-on-novel, bible, butler, character-name-in-title, christmas, cub-scout, dictionary
A musical romance of two hearts in song time
Garland
In this godforsaken bitterness,
I rest with my hands on your hands,
As I am mislead.
Now I dream of dreams everlasting,
Of an uncursed world with dreamland sky.
How I bleed in this social wilderness,
I grow old without the promised beauty.
I grow old without the live that I dreamed of.
Hold me tight,
I don't want to leave.
Pull me tight,
I don't want to die