Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called the "Godmother of Punk", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is a British Labour Party politician and former actress. She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1992, and currently represents Hampstead and Kilburn. She previously served as MP for Hampstead and Highgate. After constituency changes for the 2010 general election, her majority of 42 votes was one of the closest results of the entire election.
As an actress, she won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973).
Jackson was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, Cheshire (now Merseyside) where her father was a bricklayer. Jackson was educated at the West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls, then worked for two years in a Boots chemist shop, before studying at RADA in Bloomsbury.
Having studied acting at RADA, Jackson made her professional stage debut in Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables in 1957, and her film debut in This Sporting Life in 1963. Subsequently a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for four years, she worked for director Peter Brook in several productions, including of Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade as Charlotte Corday. Jackson also appeared in the film version.
Iman Asante Shumpert (born June 26, 1990) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Knicks with the 17th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft.
He was first-team all-state player at Oak Park and River Forest High School and was one of the nation's top 30 seniors. He helped Oak Park and River Forest High School to three conference titles and was named conference MVP as a junior and senior. He was rated No. 15 among the nation's senior players by Scout.com and No. 26 by Rivals.com. Before high school, Shumpert and fellow NBA player Evan Turner were teammates on the same 8th grade basketball team at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School in Oak Park, IL.
On October 18, 2007, he committed to play for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. During the 2008-09 NCAA men's basketball season, he was GT's fourth-leading scorer for the season, averaging 10.5 points per game and hitting 34.5 percent of his three-point attempts. During the 2009-10 season, Shumpert underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a damaged meniscus in his right knee on Dec. 3, and missed six games. He ended up the season as GT's third leading scorer, with 10.0 ppg. He was also second in the ACC in steals.
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Jim Barnes, a construction superintendent in the rural mid-South, is quickly climbing the ladders of stature and wealth, achieving his very own 'American dream,' and he's a mere 21 years old. On the brink of his prime, he makes one split-second decision to bend the rules for a homeless Mexican teenager. What was meant to be an act of compassion spirals into a liability lawsuit, and now Jim can either fess up to his mistake and lose everything he's worked for, or allow an elderly man to take the blame. Jim's journey through this discomforting plight ultimately gives him a fresh awareness of what really makes a true man.
He thought he had everything under control. That was his first mistake.
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A group of five led by Julie set up their filming equipment in the hotel of the derelict town of Goldfield, hoping to capture footage of the ghost of Elisabeth Walker, a maid tortured and killed in room 109. Troubled by visions, Julie discovers that a necklace, handed down to her from her grandmother, is somehow connecting her to this tragedy.
Keywords: sequel
This legend is reality
Bloody legends are back !
Bartender: We don't got no Kozmos !
Dean: Sometimes shortcuts don't work out.
Elizabeth: Are you ready to die for love ?
Chad: This place is doing things to us.
Elizabeth: What would you risk for love ?
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"The Brothers" traces the journey of four African-American men as they take on love, sex, friendship and two of life's most terrifying prospects honesty and commitment. Smart, successful and sexy, Jackson Smith, Brian Palmer, Derrick West and Terry White are "The Brothers" lifelong friends banded together to weather love's innate terrors and occasional triumphs in this brazenly comic yet painfully true exploration of the battle between the sexes. Amidst the career track, basketball and bar hopping, "The Brothers" love women, as many as possible, but shocking revelation tests the foursome's friendship and changes their dating habits forever.
Keywords: african-american, basketball, black-american, blue-bra, commitment, father-son-relationship, four-best-friends, friend, friendship, friendship-between-men
Refusing To Exhale
After a lifetime of playing the field, four friends have to do something they never thought possible... grow up.
There is nothing like a good woman to make a brother want to be a man.
Jesse Caldwell: So you've known me for a while, and all of a sudden, you ask me out. What took you so long?
Jesse Caldwell: [after Judge Carla rudely insults and snubs them, then walks away] What's her problem?::Brian Palmer: I have no idea.::Judge Carla Williams: [Walking back to the table] Excuse me? What did you say?::Brian Palmer: Carla, we're just trying to have lunch. Why are you making a scene?::Judge Carla Williams: I'm not making a scene. I'm just having girl talk, right? Now, what did you SAY?::Jesse Caldwell: I said, "What's... your... PROBLEM?"::Judge Carla Williams: [Pointing in Jesse's face] My problem is tired-ass men like this, and women like you who get the whole world given to them, but no, no, no, you have to have our men TOO!::Jesse Caldwell: Get that finger out of my face.::Judge Carla Williams: Or what? Hmm? What are YOU gonna do about it?
Jackson Smith: I know love's supposed to be this beautiful thing, but I just can't get with it. I go up, love goes down. I go left, love goes right. I say I'm ready, love says "Not yet, Jackson, she dated your father." Maybe there is love out there, but it's running from me. I can't keep chasing it.
Fred Smith: You know, they say talent skips a generation.::Jackson Smith: [smiles] I'll remember that.
Brian Palmer: We're Black, single, professional men. We, gentlemen, are the cream of the crop.::Terry White: No, let me break it down for you, man. [points to Jackson and Derrick] *We* are the cream of the crop. *You* are the black, sticky shit on the bottom of the barrel!
Dr. Thelma Woolridge: Is that the kind of existence you want? Life without love in it?
Derrick West: You got me hard as Chinese arithmetic in here!
Brian Palmer: Mama, the boy's not happy here. It's not like his daddy's around here anymore.::Helen Palmer: Don't even bring up that fool to me. Left me for some white woman.::Brian Palmer: She's Hawaiian.::Helen Palmer: If she ain't Black, she white.::Brian Palmer: See, that's what I'm talking about mama! That's just ridiculous!::Helen Palmer: Fact of life.::Brian Palmer: That's crazy. Latina women?::Helen Palmer: White woman with a taco.::Brian Palmer: Oh, so I just guess Asian women...::Helen Palmer: A white woman that don't speak-a da goddamn English!
Derrick West: I don't play, woman. I quit school 'cuz of recess!