Russell Dominic Peters (born September 29, 1970) is a Canadian comedian, actor and disc jockey. He began performing in Toronto in 1989 and has been nominated for four Gemini Awards.
Russell Peters was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada to Eric and Maureen Peters. His family is of Anglo-Indian ancestry and is Catholic. His father was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India, and worked as a federal meat inspector; he is regularly mentioned and featured in his comedy work. His mother was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He has an older brother named Clayton who was born in Calcutta. Russell attended Chinguacousy Secondary School for grades 9–10, and North Peel Secondary School for grades 11–12 in Brampton.
Peters began performing in Toronto in 1989. Peters' popularity extends to several countries. He has since also performed in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Afghanistan, Sweden, South Africa, India, the Caribbean, Philippines, Vietnam, mainland China, Canada, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, France, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, Norway, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Trinidad among other places.
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Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father's persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. Having been estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Lange - an event he is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father's nemesis. As his quest unfolds, Cheyenne is reawakened by the people he encounters and his journey is transformed into one of reconciliation and self discovery. As his date with destiny arrives and he tracks down Lange, Cheyenne must finally decide if it is redemption he seeks ....or revenge. Starring two time Academy Award winner Sean Penn and marking the much-anticipated English-language debut of acclaimed director Paolo Sorrentino, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a gripping examination of a man on the precipice of obsession.
Keywords: auschwitz, burning-truck, chalk, claim-in-title, concert, confession, dark-wave, desert, diary, dublin-ireland
Never for money Always for love
A former rock star is hunting down a Nazi criminal...This could be his greatest hit.
Jane: You come back to me soon. You know, I can't live without you.::Cheyenne: That's not true, but it's kind of you to say.
Cheyenne: It's not a question of being careful, it's a question of knowing how to play ping-pong.
Ernie Ray: What's happened here is something enormous, old-fashioned, something you don't see too often anymore and this something has a very precise name: trust. So let me say one more time: do not betray my trust. I had a pretty severe upbringing, Cheyenne, I can have a very severe reaction.
Cheyenne: At this particular moment I'm trying to fix up a sad boy and a sad girl, but it's not easy. I suspect that sadness is not compatible with sadness.
Cheyenne: Have you noticed how nobody works anymore and everybody does something artistic?
Cheyenne: What do you call yourselves?::Steven: The Pieces of Shit.::Cheyenne: That's a really good choice.::Steven: You're fuckin' right it is, yeah! It took us 6 months to come up with it, besides it's exactly the right name for this moment in history.
Desmond: Why isn't there any water in your pool?::Cheyenne: I don't know... No one ever filled it.
Rachel: No shit! Now I remember you. You sang with Mick Jagger once.::Cheyenne: I know him. He's a good singer, I like the way he dances.::Rachel: Listen your cheeseburger is a bit too well done. You don't mind do ya? Unfortunately, that's life!::Cheyenne: You know what the problem is... Rachel?::Rachel: What?::Cheyenne: Without realizing it, we go from an age where we say: "My life will be that" to an age where we say: "That's life."
Cheyenne: Now that I realize it, it's too late.::Rachel: It's better late than never.::Cheyenne: That's not true. Late is late.
Jeffery: That bitch Melanie dumped me.::Cheyenne: How long were you together?::Jeffery: Four days.::Cheyenne: Are you suffering?::Jeffery: Like the last panda standing.
Yussef, a six year old Arab-American boy dreams of being the Cowboy instead of the Indian on the playground.
[last line]::Dave: You believe we got through this whole thing without saying "booger"?
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"Notre Music" is divided in three kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise like in the Dante's Inferno in the Divine Comedy. Hell shows footages of many wars; Purgatory mixes reality and fiction in Sarajevo; and Paradise is a surrealistic view of a beach "protected" by the American Marines.
Keywords: airplane, airport, director-cameo, embassy, hell, historical-fiction, homer's-odyssey, interview, journalist, language
Olga Brodsky: If anyone understands me, then I wasn't clear.
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In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will Dimmesdale flee with her?
Keywords: 1600s, 17th-century, adulteress, adultery, based-on-novel, colonial-america, extramarital-affair, forbidden-love, historical-fiction, illegitimate-child
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The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.
Keywords: 1860s, 1870s, adopted-son, american-indian, attack, based-on-novel, bigot, bigotry, bow-and-arrow, cavalry
He Loved As He Fought...Like The Savage He Was!
CHARLTON HESTON...fresh from his triumph in "The Greatest Shown on Earth"
Savage in Battle...Savage in Love! In his arms a woman forgot everything...remembered only that he was a man!
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In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the Sioux...to the disgust of frontier scout Jim Bridger, whose Cheyenne wife led him to see the conflict from both sides. The powder-keg situation needs only a spark to bring war, and violent bigots like Lieut. Rob Dancy are all too likely to provide this. Meanwhile, Bridger's chance of preventing catastrophe is dimmed by equally wrenching personal conflicts. Unusually accurate historically.
Keywords: battle, battlefield, bow-and-arrow, cavalry, combat, fort, fortress, frontier-scout, horse, indian-attack
Dan Castello: I have to keep moving. Got iron in my blood. If I sit still, I rust.
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Finding Indians stealing from his ranch, Gene learns they are suffering from malnutrition. Store owner Martin is cheating them and now he is after the Chief's valuable necklace. When the dying chief is found, having been attacked and robbed, Martin blames Lakhona who would become the new chief. When Gene helps Lakhona they soon find themselves fleeing from the law.
Keywords: antique-dealer, assault, b-western, barren-land, bigot, blanket, boy, cattle-ranch, charity, children's-choir
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Finding Indians stealing from his ranch, Gene learns they are suffering from malnutrition. Store owner Martin is cheating them and now he is after the Chief's valuable necklace. When the dying chief is found, having been attacked and robbed, Martin blames Lakhona who would become the new chief. When Gene helps Lakhona they soon find themselves fleeing from the law.
Keywords: antique-dealer, assault, b-western, barren-land, bigot, blanket, boy, cattle-ranch, charity, children's-choir
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In 1763, felon Abby Hale is sentenced to slavery in America. In Virginia, heroic Capt. Holden buys her, intending to free her, but villain Garth foils this plan, and Abby toils at Dave Bone's tavern. Garth is fomenting an Indian uprising to clear the wilderness of settlers, giving him a monopoly of the fur trade. Holden discovers Garth's treachery, but cannot prove anything against him. Can Holden and Abby save Fort Pitt from the Senecas? Many hairbreadth escapes.
Keywords: 1760s, allegheny-mountains, based-on-novel, blacksmith, bondage, canoe, chief-pontiac, colonial-america, compass, epic
Crimson-haired slave girl . . . desired by a man of destiny! Together they shared the thrills of the most daring spectacle De Mille ever filmed !
THEY LIVE AGAIN! DAUNTLESS MEN and WOMEN WHO KEPT AMERICA UNCONQUERED! (original ad - almost all caps)
I bought this woman for my own..and I'll kill the man who touches her!
From A People Like This Came America's Heritage. In A Story Like This Lies America's Greatness!
Lord Chief Justice: Slavery in the colonies or the gallows here? Speak up, girl! Which is it to be?::Abigail 'Abby' Martha Hale: [Resignedly] Slavery, My Lord.
Shopkeeper at the ball: You can't burn my place! It took me two years to build that store!::Capt. Christopher Holden: It'll take you all eternity to grow a new scalp.
Martin Garth: The King's Law moves with the king's muskets, and there are very few King's muskets west of the alleghenies.
John Fraser - blacksmith: I don't know what the Good Lord was about when he made a female out of a perfectly good rib.
Indian woman, let down your hair
Indian woman, let down your hair
Blood red wine, layered in time
Blood red wine, layered in time
Standing at the edge of the world
Please help me girl, help me girl
Standing at the edge of the world, yeah-yeah
Help me girl, oh help me girl
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Standin' in the forest, awaiting your penance
Standin' in the forest, awaiting your penance, oh
Indian woman, let down your hair
Indian woman, let down your hair
Standing at the edge of the world
Please help me girl, please help me girl
I'm standing at the edge of the world
Please help me girl, help me girl
Yeah-yeah
All the temples stand in ruin (in ruin)
Reaching out to the gods of the sky (gods of the sky)
While the Earth beats to the rhythm (beats to the rhythm)
My indian lover's high, high, high, high
Standing at the edge of the world
Ooh, help me girl, please help me girl
Standing at the edge of the world
Please help me girl, help me girl
Standing at the edge of the world
Help me girl, Indian woman
Help me, hey, Indian woman
Oh help me girl, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let down your hair
Indian woman, let down your hair, hey-yeah
Standing at the edge of the world
Standing at the edge of the world
Standing at the edge of the world
The world
Don’t look now but she’s about to do it
She’s got her fingers around your neck
She’s about to pull the trigger baby as the ice melts from her neck oh and
she says everything you do it turns into you
Everything you do it turns into to you
I wane be an Indian I wanna fall in love again
I wane be what this world wants from me
And I wanna be an American I wanna fall in love again
I wanna be what this world wants from me.
Don’t look now but her fingers are shaking her face pale white
She talks and whispers for hours about dreams and their movie scenes
Oh and she says everything you do turns into you
Indian woman, let down your hair
Indian woman, let down your hair
Blood red wine, layered in time
Blood red wine, layered in time
Standing at the edge of the world
Please help me girl, help me girl
Standing at the edge of the world, yeah-yeah
Help me girl, oh help me girl
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Standin' in the forest, awaiting your penance
Standin' in the forest, awaiting your penance, oh
Indian woman, let down your hair
Indian woman, let down your hair
Standing at the edge of the world
Please help me girl, please help me girl
I'm standing at the edge of the world
Please help me girl, help me girl
Yeah-yeah
All the temples stand in ruin (in ruin)
Reaching out to the gods of the sky (gods of the sky)
While the Earth beats to the rhythm (beats to the rhythm)
My indian lover's high, high, high, high
Standing at the edge of the world
Ooh, help me girl, please help me girl
Standing at the edge of the world
Please help me girl, help me girl
Standing at the edge of the world
Help me girl, Indian woman
Help me, hey, Indian woman
Oh help me girl, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let down your hair
Indian woman, let down your hair, hey-yeah
Standing at the edge of the world
Standing at the edge of the world
Standing at the edge of the world
Maybe one day in a place without time, without space
I can look back and see that I am finally whole
Dying to undo the moment when all fell apart
Trying to fade out what´s real is not for a life
One brief moment brought agony blackened my heart
No light for me, no way out, I´m next in line
Never ever, in this life I´ll never find peace
Digging my own grave, I´m shot down in flames
You were my guardian angel, you saved me all times
But angels will fall burning, all candles have burned out
There is one way to escape, but worse things will await
I´ll let him take me, eternity will pay my price
(Chorus)
Maybe one day in a place without time, without space
I can look back and see that I am finally whole
That´s what I hoped but now I don´t belive anymore
My wounds won´t heal, I will bleed til the death of my
soul
(Chorus)