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John Whitaker "Jack" Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn since 1979. He served as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 and Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons from 2006 to 2007 under Tony Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he was the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Secretary of State for Justice, appointed as part of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's first Cabinet. Straw is one of only three people to have served in Cabinet continuously from 1997 to 2010 (the others being Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling).
When the Labour Party lost power in May 2010, he briefly became the Shadow Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and the Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, but stood down from the frontbench after the Labour Party elected a new Shadow Cabinet.
Straw was born in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England. One of his maternal great-grandparents was a Jewish German immigrant. Straw was brought up at Loughton, Essex by his mother, Joan Sylvia Gilbey on a council estate after his father Walter Arthur Whitaker Straw, an insurance salesman, left the family and condemned them to poverty. Walter Straw had been sent to prison in 1939 for being a conscientious objector.
John Clayton Mayer ( /ˈmeɪ.ər/ MAY-ər; (born October 16, 1977) is an American pop and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following, and he now lives in New York City. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland."
Mayer began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but gradually began a transition towards the blues genre in 2005 by collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton, and by forming the John Mayer Trio. The blues influence can be heard throughout his 2005 live album Try! with the John Mayer Trio and his third studio album Continuum, released in September 2006. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 Mayer won Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change". He released his fourth studio album, Battle Studies, in November 2009. His fifth album, Born and Raised, was released on May 22, 2012. He has sold over 10 million albums in the U.S. and 20 million albums worldwide.
Actors: Lili Taylor (actress), Michael Arata (producer), Til Schweiger (actor), Josie Ho (actress), Cynthia LeBlanc (actress), Gary Hamilton (producer), Mark Margolis (actor), Michael Arata (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Elton LeBlanc (actor), Mickey Rourke (actor), Tom Proctor (actor), David Jensen (actor), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Tucker Tooley (producer),
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,Actors: Phyllida Law (actress), Anna Massey (actress), Jeff Beal (composer), Michael Brown (editor), Jessica Hynes (actress), Peter Capaldi (actor), Pip Torrens (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Michael Maloney (actor), Helene Lenszner (miscellaneous crew), Julie Daly-Wallman (miscellaneous crew), Susan Wooldridge (actress), Hugh Ross (actor), Arturo Venegas (actor), Augusto Pinochet (actor),
Plot: In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.
Keywords: 1990s, activist, airplane, airport, augusto-pinochet, back-surgery, based-on-true-story, british-government, cane, communityActors: Pip Torrens (actor), Michael Cochrane (actor), Julian Wadham (actor), Richard Hope (actor), Ben Miles (actor), Kayvan Novak (actor), Nick Oliver (miscellaneous crew), William Armstrong (actor), Peter Kosminsky (writer), Peter Kosminsky (director), Jayne Spooner (miscellaneous crew), Jocelyn Pook (composer), Shaughan Seymour (actor), Younes Megri (actor), Jonathan Aris (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Anthony Bushell (actor), Gregory Ratoff (actor), Binnie Barnes (actress), Joe Rock (producer), Dorothy Farnum (writer), Louis Levy (composer), Phil Rosen (director), Charles Williams (composer), Alma Reville (writer), Hugh Stewart (editor), Ronald Squire (actor), Barry MacKay (actor), Tamara Desni (actress), Marguerite Allan (actress), Boris Ranevsky (actor),
Plot: Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a singer who is in love with the imprisoned son and she provides the searchers with the information as to where the missing son is being held. They all go there and help Michael escape. But is their escape vehicle---a flat wagon pulled by three horses--- fast enough and sturdy enough through the snow to beat the Commmisar and his troops to the Rumanian border?
Keywords: 1930s, based-on-novel, brother-brother-relationship, chase, commissar, communist, england, englishman, escape, europeActors: Robert Brower (actor), W. Somerset Maugham (writer), Olga Printzlau (writer), William C. de Mille (director), Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew), Lucien Littlefield (actor), Charles Ogle (actor), Robert Warwick (actor), Sylvia Ashton (actress), Mayme Kelso (actress), Elmer Harris (writer), Frances Parks (actress), Carroll McComas (actress), Monte du Mont (actor), Irene Sullivan (actress),
Genres: Comedy,We can share the women
We can share the wine
We can share what we got of yours
'Cause we done shared all of mine
Keep a rolling
Just a mile to go
Keep on rolling, my old buddy
You're moving much too slow
I just jumped the watchman
Right outside the fence
Took his ring, four bucks in change
Now ain't that heaven sent?
Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon
Burns my eyes to see
Cut down a man in cold blood, Shannon
Might as well be me
We used to play for silver
Now we play for life
One's for sport and one's for blood
At the point of a knife
Now the die is shaken
Now the die must fall
There ain't a winner in this game
Who don't go home with all
Not with all...
Leaving Texas
Fourth day of July
Sun so hot, clouds so low
The eagles filled the sky
Catch the Detroit Lightning
Out of Santa Fe
Great Northern out of Cheyenne
From sea to shining sea
Gotta get to Tulsa
First train we can ride
Got to settle one old score
And one small point of pride...
Ain't no place a man can hide, Shannon
Keep him from the sun
Ain't no bed will give us rest, man,
You keep us on the run
Jack Straw from Wichita
Cut his buddy down
Dug for him a shallow grave
And layed his body down
Half a mile from Tucson
By the morning light
One man gone and another to go
My old buddy you're moving much too slow
We can share the women
we can share the wine...