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Christopher James "Chris" Christie (born September 6, 1962) is the 55th and current Governor of New Jersey. Upon his election to the governorship in November 2009, Christie became the first Republican to win a statewide election in New Jersey in 12 years. Christie, an attorney, previously served as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and as a Morris County, New Jersey Freeholder. In 2011, he considered entering the race for the Republican Presidential nomination but ultimately decided not to run.
Chris Christie was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Sondra A. (née Grasso) and Wilbur James "Bill" Christie, a certified public accountant. Christie is of Scottish, Irish, and Sicilian descent. He was raised in Livingston, graduating from Livingston High School. Christie graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1984 and Seton Hall University School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1987. Christie was admitted to the Bar of the State of New Jersey and the Bar of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, in December 1987. After being elected the Governor of New Jersey, he was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey, and Monmouth University in 2010.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and more than 15 short story collections (especially those featuring Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple), and her successful West End plays.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly four billion copies, and her estate claims that her works rank third, after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the most widely published books. According to Index Translationum, Christie is the most translated individual author, with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her. Her books have been translated into at least 103 languages.
Agatha Christie published two autobiographies: a posthumous one covering childhood to old age; and another chronicling several seasons of archaeological excavation in Syria and Iraq with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. The latter was published in 1946 with the title, Come, Tell Me How You Live.
Actors: Phillip Hughes (miscellaneous crew), Nick Mann (actor), George Westberg (writer), George Westberg (editor), George Westberg (director), George Westberg (actor), George Westberg (producer), Ray Chao (actor), Rudi Azank (miscellaneous crew), Rudi Azank (actor), Morgan Nichols (actor), Jeremy Cropf (actor), Eric Tortora Pato (miscellaneous crew), Mark Epperson (actor), Tj Clark (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Short,Actors: Jenny Lorenzo (director), Jenny Lorenzo (writer), Felipe Echavarria (director), Matthew Donovan (actor), Claudio Pinto (actor), Jonathan Zoerb (actor), Victoria Collado (actress), Ricardo Prieto (actor), Matt Fuhrman (actor), Mariette Gallor (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Rupert Bryan (producer), Rupert Bryan (actor), Ben Loyd-Holmes (actor), Edwin Sykes (composer), Alec Christie (editor), Alec Christie (producer), Alec Christie (writer), Alec Christie (actor), Guy Burnet (actor), Rufus Graham (actor), John Joyce (actor), Glenn Conroy (actor), Norberto Morán (actor), Lieve Carchon (actress), Kelvin Hutchins (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Winona Ryder (actress), Sigourney Weaver (producer), Sigourney Weaver (actress), Michael Wincott (actor), Tom Woodruff Jr. (actor), Walter Hill (producer), Dominique Pinon (actor), David Prior (actor), Ron Perlman (actor), Archie Hahn (actor), Dan Hedaya (actor), Gary Dourdan (actor), Brad Dourif (actor), Joss Whedon (writer), Dan O'Bannon (writer),
Plot: 200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth.
Keywords: 24th-century, acid, actress-playing-multiple-roles, alien, alien-dna, alien-love, android, animal-attack, anti-hero, arcade-gameActors: Ray Milland (actor), Didier Vasseur (composer), Ivan Reitman (producer), André Link (producer), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), John Dunning (writer), June Allyson (actress), Don Carmody (producer), Vlasta Vrana (actor), John Dunning (producer), Robert Carradine (actor), Peter MacNeill (actor), Norris Domingue (actor), Arthur Grosser (actor), Belinda Montgomery (actress),
Genres: Action, Thriller,Actors: John Hurt (actor), Richard Attenborough (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), André Morell (actor), Basil Dignam (actor), Richard Fleischer (director), Robert Hardy (actor), Edward Evans (actor), Reg Lye (actor), Howard Lang (actor), Martin Ransohoff (producer), Judy Geeson (actress), Rudolph Walker (actor), John Dankworth (composer), Jimmy Gardner (actor),
Plot: London, 1949. 'John Christie (IV)' (qv) is an unassuming, middle aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, manages the apartment building at 10 Rillington Place. His unassuming demeanor masks the fact of being a serial killer. His modus operandi is to act as a person with a medical background, lure unsuspecting women to his apartment on the pretense of curing them of some ailment, knock them unconscious with carbon monoxide gas, gain his sexual release through contact with the unconscious body, then strangle the victim dead before disposing of the body usually by burying it in his back yard. His next intended target is Beryl Evans, a young woman who has just moved into a flat in his building. Beryl's husband, Tim Evans, is an illiterate man who likes to put on airs. Already with an infant daughter named Geraldine, the Evanses learn they are going to have another baby, which they cannot afford to have, nor can they afford to abort the pregnancy. This problem, on top of the constant issue of lack of money in all aspects of their lives, places a strain on the marriage, of which all their neighbors are aware through the constant fighting they overhear. Christie will offer to perform the abortion for free. The difference with this intended murder is that Tim will be aware that his wife will have died, but Christie plans either to goad Tim into keeping silent since the abortion would have been illegal, an act to which Tim would have provided his consent, or pin the murder on Tim who would have motive. Will this change in modus operandi affect Christie's ability to kill Beryl, or kill her without detection?
Keywords: 1940s, abortion, address-as-title, back-alley-abortion, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, botched-abortion, capital-punishment, death, drinking-while-pregnantActors: Philip Green (composer), Penny Daniels (miscellaneous crew), Jeremy Lloyd (actor), Wilfrid Brambell (actor), Earl St. John (producer), Roy Ward Baker (director), Sylvia Syms (actress), Barbara Windsor (actress), Meredith Edwards (actor), Glyn Houston (actor), John Mills (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Roy Ward Baker (producer), Ted Willis (writer), Ted Willis (writer),
Plot: A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. After being successful, and rightly proud of his efforts, he finds that he and his wife have a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that his only daughter intends to marry a West Indian.
Keywords: argument, based-on-play, bigotry, black-man-white-woman-relationship, bonfire, england, factory, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, fightActors: Val Guest (writer), Robert L. Lippert (producer), Anthony Hinds (producer), Margia Dean (actress), Brian Donlevy (actor), Marianne Stone (actress), Arthur Lovegrove (actor), Thora Hird (actress), Basil Dignam (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Gordon Jackson (actor), Lionel Jeffries (actor), Henry B. Longhurst (actor), James Needs (editor), Val Guest (director),
Plot: A missile, launched by the team led by Prof. Quatermass, lands in the English countryside. Of the three members of the crew, two have mysteriously disappeared. The third one, barely alive, undergoes an horrible metamorphosis turning into a monstrous "thing". When he breaks out and, chased in vain by inspector Lomax, starts killing humans and animals to feed his transformation, Quatermass realizes that this is the way chosen by an alien form of life to invade the Earth.
Keywords: alien, alien-invasion, alien-life-form, astronaut, based-on-play, based-on-tv-series, blob, cactus, character-name-in-title, crash-landingActors: Robert Bice (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Dayton Lummis (actor), House Peters Jr. (actor), William Schallert (actor), Ken Terrell (actor), Lynne Roberts (actress), Aubrey Wisberg (producer), Albert Zugsmith (producer), Aubrey Wisberg (writer), Albert Glasser (composer), Fred R. Feitshans Jr. (editor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Marjorie Stapp (actress), Jack Pollexfen (producer),
Plot: A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.
Keywords: 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 1950s, airplane, animal-attack, archive-footage, b-movie, bottom-feeder, bound-and-gagged