A nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her life to her religion. She may be a woman who decided to dedicate her life to serve the other living beings or to be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Catholics – both eastern and western traditions – Orthodox Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Jains, Buddhists, Taoists, and Hindus. While in common usage the terms nun and sister are often used interchangeably, in some cases they are differentiated, a nun being a religious woman who lives a contemplative cloistered life of prayer and meditation for the salvation of others, while a sister, in Christian Catholic order like Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, lives an active vocation of prayer and service, often to the needy, sick, poor, and uneducated.
All Buddhist traditions have nuns, although their status is different among the various Buddhist countries. The Buddha is reported to have allowed women into the sangha only with great reluctance, predicting that the move would lead to Buddhism's collapse after 500 years, rather than the 1,000 years it would have enjoyed otherwise (this prophecy occurs only once in the Canon and is the only prophecy involving time in the Canon, leading some to suspect that it is a late addition.) Fully ordained Buddhist nuns (bhikkhunis) have more Patimokkha-rules than the monks (bhikkhus). The important vows are the same, however.
Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time who was ranked as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema. Remembered as both a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century, Hepburn redefined glamour with "elfin" features and a gamine waif-like figure that inspired designs by Givenchy and earned her place in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
Born in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War, where she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam before moving to London in 1948 to continue ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions.
After appearing in several British films and starring in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn gained instant Hollywood stardom for playing the Academy Award-winning lead role in Roman Holiday (1953). Later performing in Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967), Hepburn became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age who received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and accrued a Tony Award for her theatrical performance in the 1954 Broadway play Ondine. Hepburn remains one of few people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two people to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category; the other was fellow Australian Heath Ledger.
Finch was born as Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch in London to Alicia Gladys Fisher. At the time, Alicia was married to George Finch. George Finch was born in New South Wales, Australia, but was educated in Paris and Zurich. He was a research chemist when he moved to England in 1912 and later served during the first World War with the Royal Army Ordnance Depot and the Royal Field Artillery. In 1915, at Portsmouth, in Hampshire, George married Alicia Fisher, the daughter of a Kent barrister. However, George Finch was not Peter Finch's biological father. He learned only in his mid-40s that his biological father was Wentworth Edward Dallas "Jock" Campbell, an Indian Army officer, whose adultery with Finch's mother was the cause of George and Alice's divorce, when Peter was two years old. Alicia Finch married "Jock" Campbell in 1922.
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A documentary style "glimpse" into James Franco, Val Lauren, and Jim Parrack's acting class at Playhouse West in North Hollywood CA. This show portrays different teaching styles, including the exciting and unconventional teaching method of James Franco, and the effect it has on the students. Starring James Franco, Val Lauren, Brian Lally and Jim Parrack.
A visit with Shepard Lynx
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Milicent Amourless, secretary, romantic dreamer, and unwitting guinea pig in a giant corporate experiment, has the most unusual day of her life as Olivier Du Sexe, suave seducer, swoops into her world... Will she find true love, or be a casualty of corporate greed?
Keywords: cross-dressing, farce
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The sisters of the legendary Loredo Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico have lived for years with an unfinished choir loft, until one day a mysterious drifter (Petersen) arrives in town (just passing through), and is hired by the Reverend Mother (Hersey) to complete the work.
Keywords: chapel, church, dying, nun, tragic-ending
I was skating down the pavement
It was a warm and sunny day
I saw a nun coming walking
She was coming my way
But I could not stop
Could not turn away
She had to jump aside
She almost ruined my day
There came a car and hit the nun
Now she was dead bleeding in the sun
I felt guilty, I felt sad
But after all I still could be glad
'Cause I don't believe in God... anyway
I was really sorry but what is done is done
...So I skated on
And I smiled at the world
And the world smiled at me
I met a friend he told me not to care
Went home to my place and we drank some beer
I felt better and I was not sad
And after all I still could be glad
'Cause I don't believe in God... anyway
I was really sorry but what is done is done
...so I skated on
And I smiled at the world
And the world smiled at me
What if I go to hell
To suffer pain that never ends
I'll probably be there with my friends
[Psalm 119:106-112]
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
I have sworn and confirmed that i will keep your righteous judgments
I am afflicted very much
Revive me, O Lord, according to Your word
Accept, I pray the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord
And teach me your judgments
My life is continuall in my hand, yet i dont forget Your law
The wicked have laid a share for me, yet i have not strayed from your precepts
Your testimonies i have taken as a heritage forever
For they are the rejoicing of my heart
I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes