- published: 26 Feb 2016
- views: 19765
Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia and the West Indies. It is the grain with the second-highest worldwide production, after maize (corn), according to data for 2010.
Since a large portion of maize crops are grown for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by the human species.
There are many varieties of rice and culinary preferences tend to vary regionally. For example in India, there is a saying that "grains of rice should be like two brothers, close but not stuck together"[citation needed], while in the Far East there is a preference for softer, stickier varieties. Because of its importance as a staple food, rice has considerable cultural importance. For example, rice is first mentioned in the Yajur Veda and then is frequently referred to in Sanskrit texts.[citation needed] Rice is often directly associated with prosperity and fertility, therefore there is the custom of throwing rice at weddings.
Actors: Martin Ezelle (actor), Josey Wells (producer), Gin Blanton (actress), Kenneth Duane (actor), Priscilla Adams (producer), Jane Marie Kennedy (actress), Eric Brown (director), Eric Brown (writer), Regina Waters (actor), A.J. Glaze (actor), Tre Walker (actor), Jordan Glaze (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Aldous Davidson (actor), Jason Pollard (editor), Ashton Holmes (actor), Keith Barber (actor), Billy Lush (actor), Wanda Wilson (actress), Wendy Chan (writer), Wendy Chan (director), Wendy Chan (editor), Susan Highsmith (actress), Nikki James (actress), Christa Crowe (actress), Liz Lonergan (producer), Michael Torres (actor), Nicole Britt (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Jack Scalia (producer), Eddie Frierson (miscellaneous crew), Joseph Merhi (producer), Richard Pepin (producer), George 'Buck' Flower (actor), Louis Febre (composer), Scott McAboy (producer), Jonathan Banks (actor), Sal Landi (actor), Lance LeGault (actor), Richard Pepin (director), Paul G. Volk (editor), Jack Scalia (actor), Lonnie Ramati (miscellaneous crew), Felton Perry (actor),
Plot: Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all infected with an alien parasite, and they were trying to bring its eggs back to Earth. The eggs were lost in an accident, and both Saxon and the astronauts are trying to locate them. What could the government want them for?
Keywords: abandoned-church, abandoned-warehouse, ak-47, alien, alien-invasion, alien-parasite, alien-possession, armored-car, armory, astronautActors: David W. Akin (actor), Chris Fogleman (actor), Tray Goodman (producer), Tray Goodman (writer), James Keenley (actor), Jayson Schaal (actor), Michael Kirchoff (director), Michael Kirchoff (writer), Mark Goodman (writer), Dawn Pomeroy (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Cannon (actor), Serapio Perez III (actor), Rick Stevens (actor), Trudy Bastman (actress), Nate Timmerman (producer),
Genres: Action, Adventure,Actors: Michael A. Goorjian (actor), Phillip Hinton (actor), Donna Kanter (writer), Scott Michael Campbell (actor), Donna Kanter (producer), David L. Wolper (producer), Renée O'Connor (actress), Robert Mammone (actor), Peter Hosking (actor), Joe Spano (actor), Mark Wolper (producer), Jerome Ehlers (actor), Blayne Weaver (actor), Garry McDonald (composer), Jeffrey M. Hayes (producer),
Plot: In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long. Some kids break down in understandable panic, others prove true and unselfish courage, including Brad, the natural leader, every girl's dream and the most boisterous of the pack, occasionally braving the rather totalitarian system. Worried parents fly in to the rescue center in a public school, where survivors and corpses are brought in, including that of Tonya Smith; her overprotective father heartlessly does like always: rebuke poor older brother Michael, an obedient, fat kid who never gets a break or treat and still is never good enough for pa's praise, now even gets blamed for 'failing' to watch over his kid sisters, obviously brother Koons's adult team's job, actually just beyond human strength. A brave reporter can't stand by idly as too many victims are still in desperate need for the military rescue crew to handle, but his own helicopter gets in trouble. The growing victims list and guilt feelings, even just for surviving when others didn't, cause a flood of tears too...
Keywords: bus, family-relationships, flood-victim, loss-of-child, loss-of-friend, male-bonding, natural-disaster, prayer, punctuation-in-title, question-in-titleActors: Sven-Ole Thorsen (actor), Sergio Donati (writer), Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor), Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor), Sam Wanamaker (actor), Blanche Baker (actress), Peter Kent (actor), Robert Davi (actor), Ed Lauter (actor), Robert Minkoff (actor), Victor Argo (actor), Darren McGavin (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Anne V. Coates (editor), Luciano Vincenzoni (writer),
Plot: Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, Kaminsky must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
Keywords: 1980s, action-hero, adultery, alley-fight, ambush, ashtray, bar-brawl, bar-fight, beretta, blondeActors: Vincent Gardenia (actor), Bill Cosby (actor), Robert Culp (director), Walter Hill (writer), James Woods (actor), Bernard Nedell (actor), Michael Moriarty (actor), Isabel Sanford (actress), Robert Culp (actor), Ed Lauter (actor), Hope Williams (miscellaneous crew), Roger E. Mosley (actor), Tom Signorelli (actor), Robert Mandan (actor), Bill Hickman (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Micaela Kreißler (actress), Galina Polskikh (actress), Fred Delmare (actor), Eberhard Mellies (actor), Frank Beyer (actor), Karl-Ernst Sasse (composer), Armin Mueller-Stahl (actor), Günter Drescher (actor), Viktor Avdyushko (actor), Hannes Stelzer (actor), Norbert Christian (actor), Werner Finck (actor), Paul Berndt (actor), Willi Brückner (miscellaneous crew), Jutta Hoffmann (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Marshall Reed (actor), Fabian (actor), Marshall Reed (miscellaneous crew), Robert Tessier (actor), Robert Fuller (actor), Burt Topper (director), Burt Topper (writer), Burt Topper (producer), Mikel Angel (actor), Tony Russel (actor), Biff Elliot (actor), Kenneth G. Crane (editor), Michael Beck (actor), William Bonner (actor), Gus Peters (actor),
Plot: While in Vietnam, a GI promises his dying buddy that he'll take care of his motorcycle, "Baby", when he gets back home. After his discharge, he meets up with his dead friend's girlfriend, gets the bike, and then runs into trouble from some other bikers who don't like the idea of his having the motorcycle or the girl.
Keywords: biker, death-of-friend, independent-film, motorcycle, motorcycle-gang, vietnam-veteranActors: Eugene Borden (actor), Truman Bradley (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Ann Codee (actress), Mary Beth Hughes (actress), Kay Linaker (actress), Sol M. Wurtzel (producer), Earl Derr Biggers (writer), Harry Lachman (director), Alex Troffey (editor), Harold Huber (actor), Victor Jory (actor), Hamilton MacFadden (actor), Sidney Toler (actor), Victor Sen Yung (actor),
Plot: Charlie and son Jimmy visit an exotic Rio nightclub in the company of local police chief Suoto in order to arrest nightclub chanteuse Lola Dean, whom Charlie believes killed her paramour a year earlier in Honolulu after discovering that he was married. Rather than cause a public scene, the always discreet Chan decides to wait until she gets home. By the time the minions of the law arrive, they find the singer has been stabbed to death, her jewels stolen, and a bevy of clues seemingly planted at the crime scene. Among the suspects are the singer's companion, an ex-husband, a Dean friend along with her boyfriend, an amateur sleuth, her rich playboy fiancée, a rival for his affections, a mind-reading mystic, and, of course, the butler.
Keywords: amateur-detective, asian-comedian, asian-detective, asian-hero, brooch, butler, carioca, character-name-in-title, chinese-hero, chinese-maid