Martinique (French pronunciation: [maʁtinik]) is an island in the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of 1,128 km2 (436 sq mi). Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados. As with the other overseas departments, Martinique is one of the twenty-seven regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic. The first European to encounter the island was Christopher Columbus in 1502.
As part of France, Martinique is part of the European Union, and its currency is the Euro. Its official language is French, although many of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole (Créole Martiniquais).
The island was occupied first by Arawaks, then by Caribs. It was charted by Columbus in 1493, but Spain had little interest in the territory. It was claimed by France in 1635 and, despite several interludes of British occupation, once during the Seven Years' War and twice during the Napoleonic Wars, has remained a French possession. In 1946, the French National Assembly voted unanimously to transform the colony into an overseas department.
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In a last ditch attempt to save a small financially strapped church, the parishioners decide to make a horror movie to raise the necessary funds. Despite a lack of knowledge, the film is progressing nicely until an insidious right-wing religious group decides to make an example of them before they can complete the task.
Keywords: austin-texas, blood, church, decapitation, demon, filmmaking, head-explosion, hell-house, independent-film, media
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In Mist Valley it's 6 o'clock and all is far from well. Detectives Harris and True continue their stakeout at 43rd street after convincing Doctor Grant Stride, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, to act as a mole and work for the mysterious criminal, Silver Bee. However, they soon discover their meeting is destined to be more reunion than recruitment, and Dr. Stride's patriotism is put to the test when Silver Bee reveals her intentions to create a weapons of mass destruction bomb with the help of his perfect explosion experiments. Meanwhile, Evan Evans serves his parole at Wheels and more, and Miguel, still his slave for life, is forced to accompany him. But Evan's parole officer, Stoltz, seeing a chance, offers him freedom for his darkest secret...his dartist secret. On the other side of the country in Washington DC, Lobbyist Ellison holds Ryan Kettlebone hostage while trying to force Senator Evans to pass the Arms Availability Bill and pass automatic weapons into the hands of children. Unfortunately, Senator Evans learns that this is the least of his worries when an old 'friend' enters the Senate race along with his army of giant spiders.
Passion, Betrayal, Soap Opera!
Martinique: Surprised your former student could have you at such a disadvantage?
Mother: Well, isn't that an accomplishment. You're useless.::Hubert: Would a useless person... burn down the hospital?
Spider: Some people say I'm a lunatic, unfit to be a senator I say to these people, would a lunatic be able to raise and maintain an army of poisonous spiders.::Senator Evans: Canidate Spider... Ryan How could you let this happen?::Ryan Kettlebone: I... I have... ADHD [sobbing]
Officer Stoltz: Now you have a secret and I want to know it!::Evan Evans: The Evans Family secret Darting Secret, it's been in our family for generations, secretly.
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The silver spoon daughters of the late cosmetics empire founder Victor Marchetta, Avan and Tanzie, never even took an interest in the business, happy to let it be run by their and the firm's administrator, Tommy Katzenbach, while they lead socialite lives, aiming at a marriage with soap star Mic Rionn. Suddenly a scandal wrecks the firm's stock and their family reputation. Their credit cards are canceled, one of them torches the mansion, the other hands their sports-car to a thief mistaken for a parking valet. So they end up living with their Latina former cleaning lady. Help to investigate whether the firm is really best sold to competitor Fabiella, as Tommy claims, comes from hunky lab technician Rick, whom the previously mistook for the inexistent firm parking lot attendant, and Henry Baines, whose free law for the poor charity they didn't even consider for sponsoring.
Keywords: absent-mother, actor, auto-theft, autograph, banquet, bare-chested-male, board-meeting, broken-engagement, burglary, bus
It's A Short Trip From The Penthouse To The Poorhouse.
They lost a fortune but got a life.
Tanzie Marchetta: [from trailer] Friends don't let friends take public transportation.
Tanzie Marchetta: [from trailer] I need to go to the office more often.
Ava Marchetta: [from trailer] He has such great taste.::Tanzie Marchetta: Ava, you picked that out.::Ava Marchetta: I know, but he likes it.
Ava Marchetta: We're being totally dissed.::Tanzie Marchetta: By Etienne? He worships us.::Ava Marchetta: Yeah.::Tanzie Marchetta: He was going to go straight for us.::Ava Marchetta: Yeah, well, he's not straight for us anymore.
Ava Marchetta: [in the middle of a debate]::[jumps out of her seat]::Ava Marchetta: Ooh! I've got to pee! Oh, yeah. Thanks.::[leaves room]::Tommy Katzenbach: Thank you for sharing.
Tanzie Marchetta: Walk like Lucy.
Tanzie Marchetta: You caught me. I guess that, like, makes you my hero.
Tanzie Marchetta: I don't understand why we didn't get any unemployment money... We've never even been employed. Doesn't that mean we should get more unemployment?
Henry Baines: Shit happens.
Ava Marchetta: [talking to a lawyer for broke people] Yeah we sort of burnt the house down.::Tanzie Marchetta: And our car got stolen.::Ava Marchetta: Besides everything we own belongs to the company. And they want to sell us to Fabiella.::Tanzie Marchetta: For only 60 million dollars.::Ava Marchetta: Each!::Tanzie Marchetta: Obviously we need help.
Chorus:
Hoist up the sails,
And pull up the anchor,
Belay the halyards' and trim the jib and main sails.
Hoist up the colors,
And batten the hatches,
We're gonna sail on down to Martinique.
Verse:
I hate to leave this old coast of Mexico,
The good times here like always have been good to me.
The women here just know how to treat their men just right,
Oh, how I hate to leave... So... (Chorus)
Verse:
I found a little place a little hide away.
One that the tourist have not yet found.
A bottle of tequila, a lady and a sun that's hot,
Is all you need, and all you've got... So... (Chorus)
Verse:
Looking back across the waves I begin to smile.
As the coastline settles in the sea.
I look ahead as the sun climbs high above.