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Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all-time. Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. She released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African American female artists to follow in her footsteps.
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and released her self-titled debut studio album, Mariah Carey. The album went multi-platinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records, including Emotions (1991), Music Box (1993) and Merry Christmas (1994), established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. Daydream (1995), made music history when the second single, "One Sweet Day" a duet with Boyz II Men, spent a record sixteen weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100, and remains the longest running number one song in US chart history. During the recording of the album Carey began to deviate from her pop background, and slowly traversed into R&B and Hip-hop. After her separation from Mottola, this musical change was evident with the release of Butterfly (1997).
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A mysterious and mythical motorcycle racer, Luke, (Ryan Gosling) drives out of a traveling carnival globe of death and whizzes through the backstreets of Schenectady, New York, desperately trying to connect with a former lover, Romina, (Eva Mendes) who recently and secretly gave birth to the stunt rider's son. In an attempt to provide for his new family, Luke quits the carnival life and commits a series of bank robberies aided by his superior riding ability. The stakes rise as Luke is put on a collision course with an ambitious police officer, Avery Cross, (Bradley Cooper) looking to quickly move up the ranks in a police department riddled with corruption. The sweeping drama unfolds over fifteen years as the sins of the past haunt the present days lives of two high school boys wrestling with the legacy they've inherited. The only refuge is found in the place beyond the pines.
Keywords: 17-year-old, arrest, auto-shop, baby, backpack, bag-of-money, balisong, bank, bank-robber, bank-robbery
One moment can change your life.
Robin: If you ride like lightning, you're going to crash like thunder.
Luke: Not since Hall and Oates has there been such a team.
Luke: I'm not asking for an advance, I'm quitting.::Jack: You can't quit.::Luke: I just did.
Romina: You fucked up my son's life; therefore, you fucked up my life.
[last lines]::Jason: How much do you want for it?::Mr. Anthony: I was thinking five.::Mr. Anthony: [Jason climbs onto the bike] Have you ever ridden one of these things before? [Jason rides away silently. Fade to black]
Bill Killcullen: I'll make you an assistant DA. I'll never shake your fucking hand! You're too smart for your own good.
Robin: You're callin' him back!
Luke: Who's that guy?::Malena: He's yours.
Luke: I'm still his father, I can give him stuff.
Luke: You don't love me you don't like me I fuckin' get it. I'm a piece of shit, OK? I'm still his father, I can give him stuff. I got this for him, just give it to him. Tell him it's from me.
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Whitney (a dude) loves Taylor (a chick), but it's a question who really wears the pants in their relationship (and if they're both committed to it). He cooks, cleans, irons and wants to bring their 4-year relationship toward a marriage after the death of his father; she wants to booze it up and continue playing the field (more or less) while lying about her activities to her strict and rigidly religious bible-quoting parents. Adding to this is Aldo, a male model and former prom date of Taylor's, who lives with them and does what he can to sabotage their relationship, aiming to have Taylor to himself. Can the Whitney-Taylor pairing succeed in a romantic comedy or is it destined to fall apart in a mild satire on gender roles?
Keywords: absent-mother, advertising, airport, apartment, banking, bar, bartender, bathtub, blender, bouquet-of-flowers
When life gets hard, find your soft side.
The story of a boy, who loves a girl, who loves a girl.
Aldo: And how are the coupons, Mrs. Brady?::Whitney: I already saved us ten bucks.::Aldo: You are gonna make a great wife someday.::Whitney: Is that a proposal, big guy?::Taylor: Oh, no way. Aldo loves variety. He could never settle for just one guy.
Taylor: What's more sexy than a man and his ironing board? Those perfectly pressed cuffs? Starch makes me horny. Mmm.::Whitney: Are you a dirty little slut that needs dry cleaning?
Taylor: Just tell Whit I want to be left alone. I need a little Taylor time.::Aldo: How about a goodbye rub?
Aldo: I will never be irrelevant in our life. I could call your parents right now and rock their holy world.
Whitney: Well, you know what? I'm just trying to distract myself while I give Taylor some space.::Aldo: Then knit me a sweater, homo.
Linda: Put your hands on my ass.::Whitney: But you're my boss.::Linda: Then do as you're told.
Taylor: Booty call.::Tara: Don't YOU know how to make a girl feel special!
Taylor's Father: Let's go upstairs and wash the sins of the city from your skin.
Linda: I told the girls at lunch today that we had one drink and the night ended. If I hear alternate stories floating around, you'll be fired.
Taylor: How are the tampons, Whit?::Whitney: Why? You need one?::Taylor: Do your shoes match your bag?
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A new reality-style game show, "Treasure Hunt" has invited a cast of contestants, including a Los Angeles cop who's joined to try and make up for an earlier PR blunder, to a tropical island to hunt for a buried treasure worth ten million dollars. Unbeknownst to the contestants, the game's host has struck a deal with the soldiers hired to guard the money, and does not really have the player's best interests, or even basic safety, at heart. Adding to the situation is a killer hurricane bearing down on the island. Who will walk away with the jackpot? Who will walk away at all?
Keywords: evil-man, hurricane, island, murder, reality-show, treasure-hunt
Don't mess with mother nature
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Duncan is a murderous thief. When he jumps out of his plane, it crashes into the Rockies and produces an avalanche. A quiet family trapped inside their house will rescue him. They will have to survive the disaster and the madman.
Keywords: airplane-crash, avalanche, bound-and-gagged, diamond, murderer, rescue, rocky-mountains, snow, thief, tied-to-a-chair
Package of LOVE and LAFFS
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In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money out of patent medicine selling. When it comes to light he has never been baptized and everyone starts insisting he must do so, it all starts to get a bit too much.
Keywords: baptism, based-on-novel, based-on-play, belief-in-hell, belief-in-the-afterlife, blockbuster, boy, brother-brother-relationship, businessman, catechism
Here for all!! All the happiness of the play that ran longer, the laughs that were louder than any known before!
Father: I'm going to be baptized!
Father: They can't keep me out of heaven on a technicality!
Clarence Day: Jiminy, another wreck on the New Haven. That always disturbs the stock market. Father won't like that.::Vinnie: I do wish the New Haven would stop having wrecks. If they knew how much it upsets your father.
Father: What's that doing in here?::Vinnie: That's our new rubber plant.::Father: The place for rubber plants is on the equator. Take that object out, Catherine. You're not Catherine.::Annie: No, sir.::Father: Good. Never liked Catherine, anyway.
Father: Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
Miss Wiggins: Sir, before I can let any girl go from this establishment, I must know the character of the home in which she will be employed.::Father: Madam, *I* am the character of my home.
Rev. Dr. Lloyd: After considerable thought, we voted that out supporting members should each contribute a sum equal to the cost of their pew.::Father: I paid $5,000 for that pew.::Vinnie: Yes, Clare, that makes out contribution $5,000.::Father: That's robbery. Do you know what that pew is worth today? $3,000. That's what the last one sold for. I've taken a dead loss on that pew of $2,000 already. Frank Bags sold me that pew when the market was at its peak. He knew when to get out. And I'm warning you, Vinnie. If the market ever goes up, I'm going to unload that pew!
Rev. Dr. Lloyd: Mrs. Day, your husband is a practical man. We've had to be practical about the new church. We have all the facts and figures.::Father: Oh? What's the property worth where we are now?::Rev. Dr. Lloyd: Oh, let's see. Is it $40,000? I know the figure has a four in it.::Father: What's the new piece of property going to cost you?::Rev. Dr. Lloyd: I think the figure I heard mentioned was $85,000. Or was it $185,000?::Father: Dr. Lloyd, you preach that someday, we'll all have to answer to God.::Rev. Dr. Lloyd: We shall indeed.::Father: Well, I hope God doesn't ask you any questions with figures in them!
Vinnie: But Clare, they're just staying in that little room of Clarence's.::Father: The trouble is, they don't stay there. They stay in the bathroom. Every time I want to take a bath, it's full of giggling females washing their hair!
Mary: That's funny. The words are the same, but it's the wrong tune.::Clarence Day: Oh, it can't be the wrong tune. We sing it exactly that way in church.::Mary: We don't sing it that way in the Methodist Church. You see, we're Methodist.::Clarence Day: Oh, that's too bad. Oh, I don't mean it's too bad that you're a Methodist. Anybody's got a right to be anything they want, but what I mean is, we're... *Episcopalians*.
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A beautiful young girl, Lola, is a dancer at a private club for wealthy men in New York City. Some of the club members make a bet that Lola can't seduce a young doctor, Jennings. Her attempt fails, and in order to find out why she follows him around and discovers that he runs a clinic on the city's poor Lower East Side. She begins to see the young doctor in a new light, and sets out to help him build the emergency hospital he's always wanted.
Keywords: broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, lower-east-side-manhattan-new-york-city, manhattan-new-york-city, melodrama, new-york-city, society
the world can't understand me broken hearted no one left for me to care for
as these tears stream from my eyes along i scream aloud
i wish i had the answers, i wish i could tell you one last thing before you go
across this distance
whitney this world just wasn't meant for you
these times are cold and lonely
fortunes found a new home in the hands of misery
if only you were with me cause im all alone here
i hope i make it through the harest time i've yet to know
I don’t know why I like it
I just do
I been hearing your heartbeat inside of me
I keep your photograph beside my bed
Livin’ in a world of fantasies
I can’t get you out of my head
I’ve been waiting for the phone to ring all night
Why you wanna make me feel so good
I got a love of my own
I shouldn’t get so hung up on you
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I remember the way that we touch
I wish I didn’t like it so much
I get so emotional, baby
Everytime I think of you
I get so emotional, baby
Ain’t it shocking what love can do
Ain’t it shocking what love can do
Ain’t it shocking what love can do
I gotta watch you walk in the room, baby
I gotta watch you walk out
I like the animal way you move
And when you talk I just watch your mouth
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We that drift across the mind, with the grace of nightmare sickness. Live past three thoughts to the judgement. Sweet lady. I could have hurt. Deliver me, far, far, far away, from here. Let it go this is mine. Please forever. Blood surrounds the furity, and warms the face of the one you love. Separate two times. The secret voice I've got speaks the new word for slave. Some kinds keep, some don't. Some scream, some don't. Hit, kick, holler, hit. But all of 'em, all of 'em Bleed. Caress and command. All the scents they blur Substance Lustenance Abscess