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Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
After a three-season career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness". He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat". Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993–94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
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A catatonic serial killer is put under a deep hypnosis in order to free his last victim, and revive him into coming to terms with the sadistic sexual acts he is responsible for. An amnesiac detective searching for a serial killer, finds out he is the prime suspect. Criminal psychiatrists and psychologists watch and listen to the mysteries unfold.
Keywords: coma, disassociation, dream, erotica, hypnosis, murder, neo-noir, one-word-title, psychologist, psychology
Don't dream it. Scream it.
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Ryan Pierce has everything going for him. He is an award winning filmmaker, has friends or supporters in every corner of his school, and is on a set path straight to his dream school. But after experiencing several life-shattering events, Ryan must struggle to maintain everything he has worked for, and finds himself reevaluating his life in the process.
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Hunger is a dark exploration into the breakdown of humanity. How far would you go to survive in the most extreme of circumstances? Five strangers awaken to find themselves trapped in an underground dungeon. They soon realize they are the subjects of one man's sadistic experiment to test the depths of a human being's will to survive. As the days go by with no means of escape, their hunger increases as their humanity fades away.
Keywords: anthropophagus, cannibal, cannibalism, captive, claustrophobia, eating-human-flesh, flashback, flesh-eating, hunger, independent-film
How far would you go to survive?
Jordan: Brilliant, beautiful light, wiping away the darkness of night, see you soon, sunlight.
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In 1978, two rapper childhood friend turn to the quick and easy life of crime to support their needy parents. But after a foiled robbery, one of them is jailed while the other flees, changes his name, joins the military, and grows up to become a narcotics agent. 10 years later, the agent becomes embroiled in an assassination plot for a powerful Mafia boss headed by a corrupt drug agent. The two friends must find a way to come together to stop it.
Keywords: assassination, betrayal, black-cast, chinese, drugs, florida, gun-action, independent-film, interracial-sex, italian
Urban-Action
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Three twisted tales from the seamy side of Scotland and the mind of Irvine Welsh. The Granton Star Cause: in the same day a young Leith lad is dumped by his football team, his girlfriend and his parents, arrested and beaten up by the police and turned into a fly by God, whom he meets in a pub. The Soft Touch: a man is too soft to do anything when his wife moves in with the thug upstairs. The Acid House: while tripping on acid, Coco Bryce is struck by lightning, causing him to switch bodies with a newborn baby.
Keywords: abusive-father, acid-the-drug, acid-trip, adult-as-child, adultery, ambulance, amyl-nitrate, anal-sex, animated-sequence, baby
Colin 'Coco' Bryce: COCO FUCKIN' BRYCE!
Doreen: Tell us who ye've been seein'.::Boab Snr: Dolly Parton.::Doreen: I can't hear ye.::Boab Snr: Dolly Parton!::Doreen: That fuckin' slut? I knew it. Who else?::Boab Snr: Anna Ford... and that Madonna, but just the once.::Doreen: Scumbag. Bastard. Ya dirty fuckin' prick! You know what this means...::Boab Snr: No, no Doreen... not the shite. I can't eat your shite.::Doreen: I'm gonna shite in your mouth. It's what we both want. Don't deny it.::Boab Snr: Shite in my mouth!
Catriona: [Larry is beating Jonny] Blooter that bastard! Kill the fuckin' cunt! Ya fuckin' knob! He's got our fuckin' electricity! He's got ma fuckin' bairn! Go back to your ma! Lick your ma's fuckin' piss-flaps, ya fuckin' cunt!
Sgt. Morrison: So, what's been happening tonight, Brian?::PC Cochrane: Well, there's the rapist. The guy that stabbed the boy in the shopping centre. And this comedian down here.::Sgt. Morrison: Well, I've had a wee word with our rapist. Seems a nice enough young fellow. Tells us the whore was askin' for it. It's the way of the world, Brian. As for the guy that stabbed the boy - well, silly wee bugger, but... boys will be boys. What's the story with this tube-stake?::PC Cochrane: Caught him smashing up a telephone box.::Sgt. Morrison: [disgusted] Tsk tsk.
Rory: Awww, the wee Tom-Tom. Goo goo, ga ga.::Colin 'Coco' Bryce: Shut your fuckin' mouth, you, ya specky git.
Colin 'Coco' Bryce: [about to be breast-fed] Phwoar, ya dirty cunt, ye. You've got some set a' jugs on ye, right enough, doll. Business gear.
God: You fucked this one up, ya daft cunt.::Boab: Eh? What?::God: You. Bob Coyle. No house, no job, no bird, no mates, police record, sore ribs - all in the space of a few hours. Nice one.::Boab: How the fuck do you know my business, eh? What the fuck's it got to do with you, eh?::God: It's my fuckin' business to know. I'm God.::Boab: Away to fuck, ya old radge.::God: Fuckin' hell... another wise cunt.
Boab: I've had a fuckin' hard time, and now I've just met God. The cunt's gonna turn us into an insect.
Jenny: [Coco, has a baby, has just spoken] You spoke, Tom.::Colin 'Coco' Bryce: Aye, I did. Look, sit doon. I mean sit down. Fuck... eh? You'd better not say nowt to no cunt about this, right?
Colin 'Coco' Bryce: I'm gettin' a wee bit hungry, though, eh.::Jenny: Oh, I'll take you home and make you something.::Colin 'Coco' Bryce: Eh, I was thinkin' a wee bit more of the... tit.
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A researcher has found a way to help people take control of their dreams and in that way give an end to recurring nightmares. He ask for students with such problem to participate in his test. The nightmares have sexual content.
Keywords: bare-breasts, bare-butt, beach, bed, bench, bisexuality, black-bra, blonde, blouse-ripping, bondage
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Jody, a juvenile delinquent, escapes from reform school by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn down the building and then takes refuge in a house owned by an ambitious politician David Patton. Despite the hellcat's ample charms, the would-be officeholder wants nothing to do with her and tries to drive her away. She responds by shortly returning to his house accompanied by a gang of delinquent pals and taking him hostage. A sudden act of violence causes more trouble, leading Jody and her gang to hijack David and force him to drive a getaway car to Mexico.
Keywords: automobile-accident, b-movie, based-on-novel, cartoon-on-tv, cult-film, decadence, escaped-convict, estranged-wife, extortion, femme-fatale
She's all out for kicks... and every inch of her spells excitement!
Every man who sees her digs her... but she digs kicks of a very special kind!
She's a real smoky kitten
[David is in a clothing shop buying clothes for Jody]::Saleslady: Why, David, I thought I'd never find you in ladies' underwear.
Jody: "Why do you think you're such a smoky somethin' when you're nothin' painted blue?"
Jody Dvorak: Everything's so creamy!
Ron: I see your problem, David. And I hate to mention this, but... I'm dyin' in a rush!
Jody Dvorak: I feel so shiny good about you - about everything! Like, wonderful!
Follow me on down this road,
Where it ends, I’ll never know
Life is crazy, you crash and you burn
Ah well, you live and you learn, live and you learn.
Day to day, it’s all the same,
Take me back to when it was all just a game,
Nice to meet you, what was your name,
I don’t even care now, because it’s all just the same…So I,
Take a step back, look at the sky,
And watch the clouds just roll on by,
I think of Today, well that’s alright, but
Ain’t it funny how life just goes by.
The sun is setting now, darkness falls,
Night is wild, no time to pause,
Take the shots down, kill the dream
Gain the confidence to just start to scream.
It’s easy to walk away, keep astray, everyday
But you know that just ain’t the way
Don’t stop now, you’re doin fine
Just have the courage to leave it all behind.
Take a step back and I wonder why,
Just trust yourself and don’t deny,
I think of today, well that’s alright, but
Well Jo'anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could live as one
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Gimme hope Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
I hear she make all the golden money
To buy new weapons any shape of guns
While every mother in black Soweto fears
The killing of another son
Sneakin' across all the neighbours' borders
Now and again having little fun
She doesn't care if the fun and games she play
Is dang'rous to ev'ryone
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Gimme hope Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
She's got supporters in high up places
Who turn their heads to the city sun
Jo'anna give them the fancy money
Oh to tempt anyone who'd come
She even knows how to swing opinion
In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes
They got a good explanation
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Gimme hope Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Gimme hope Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
Even the preacher who works for Jesus
The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
Together say that the freedom fighters
Will overcome the very strong
I wanna know if you're blind Jo'anna
If you wanna hear the sound of drums
Can't you see that the tide is turning
Oh don't make me wait till the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Gimme hope Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Gimme hope Jo'anna
'Fore the morning comes
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna
Gimme hope Jo'anna
'Fore the morning comes
Gimme hope Jo'anna
Hope Jo'anna