Christiane Amanpour, CBE (i/krɪstʃiˈɑːn ɑːmənˈpʊər-/; Persian: کریستین امانپور; born January 12, 1958) is the Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. She is the host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour, the network's Chief International Correspondent and runs the website Amanpour.com for the network's digital platform. She is a board member of the International Women's Media Foundation .
Raised in Tehran, Amanpour was born in London, England to Iranian father Mohammad, a Persian airline executive, and British mother, Patricia.[dead link]
After completing her primary education in Iran, she was sent by her parents to boarding school in England when she was 11. She attended New Hall School, an all-girls school located in Chelmsford, Essex, England. Christiane and her family returned to England not long after the Islamic Revolution began. She has stressed that they were not forced to leave the country, but were actually returning to England when Iraq invaded Iran. The family eventually remained in England, finding it difficult to return to Iran.
Marie Catherine Colvin (January 12, 1956 – February 22, 2012) was an award-winning American journalist who worked for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1985 until her death. She died while covering the siege of Homs in Syria.
Marie Colvin was born in Astoria, Queens, but grew up in East Norwich in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, on Long Island in New York. She graduated from Oyster Bay High School in 1974 and attended Yale University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1978.
Colvin started her career in New York City as a midnight-to-6 a.m. police reporter for United Press International (UPI), a year after graduating from Yale. In 1984, Colvin became the Paris bureau chief for UPI, moving to The Sunday Times in 1985.
From 1986, she was the newspaper's Middle East correspondent, and then from 1995 was the Foreign Affairs correspondent. In 1986, she was the first to interview Muammar Gaddafi after Operation El Dorado Canyon. In May 1988 she made an extended appearance on the Channel 4 discussion programme After Dark, alongside Anton Shammas, Gerald Kaufman, Moshe Amirav and others.
Angelina Jolie ( /dʒoʊˈliː/ joh-LEE, born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress and director. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.
Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Plot
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper Potts, and James "Rhodey" Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances - and confront powerful enemies.
Keywords: 2000s, 2010s, action-hero, american-flag, anti-hero, arms-dealer, assassin, bag-over-head, bare-chested-male, based-on-comic
Tony Stark: [Tony has just been told by a US Marshal that tomorrow he has to attend court in front of the US Armed forces committee] Show me the badge.::Happy Hogan: [to the US Marshall] He likes the badge.::U.S. Marshal: [shows her badge] Still like it?::Tony Stark: Yeah.
Tony Stark: [Dummy, the robotic arm, has made a mess at the kitchen sink] You! I swear to God, I'll dismantle you! I'll soak your motherboard, turn you into a wine rack!::[Dummy looks down guiltily]
Justin Hammer: [about Christine Everhart] She's actually doing a big spread on me for Vanity Fair. I thought I'd throw her a bone, you know. Right?::Pepper Potts: Right. Well, she did quite a spread on Tony last year.::Tony Stark: And she wrote a story as well.
Tony Stark: [ The strawberry vendor hands strawberries to Tony who's in his car] I don't like people handing me things just put it down there.::Strawberry Vendor: Aren't you Iron Man?::Tony Stark: [Driving off] Sometimes.
[last words]::Anton Vanko: I am sorry... All I can give you... is my knowledge.
Senator Stern: I think we're done with the point that he's making. I don't think there's any reason...::Tony Stark: The point is you're welcome, I guess.::Senator Stern: For what?::Tony Stark: Because I'm your nuclear deterrent. It's working. We're safe. America is secure. You want my property? You can't have it. But I did you a big favor.::[stands and turns to face the Senate]::Tony Stark: I've successfully privatized world peace. What more do you want? For now! I tried to play ball with these ass-clowns.::Senator Stern: [Bleep]... you, Mr. Stark.::Senator Stern: [Bleep]... you, buddy.
[only in trailer]::Tony Stark: [about to jump out of a plane] Okay, give me a smooch for good luck, I might not make it back!::[Instead, Pepper kisses the "lips" of Stark's helmet and throws it out of the plane]::Pepper Potts: Go get 'em, boss!::Tony Stark: [diving after the helmet] You complete me!
Tony Stark: It's good to be back!
Tony Stark: [reading from Natascha's SHIELD Report on Iron Man/Tony Stark]::Tony Stark: Mr. Stark displays textbook... narcissism.::Tony Stark: [Stark stares at Nick Fury, who simply stares at him back]... Agreed.
[from trailer]::Pepper Potts: Natalie is here!::[Stark's notary enters]::Tony Stark: I want one.::Pepper Potts: No...