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Whisky or whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Different grains are used for different varieties, including barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and corn. Whisky is typically aged in wooden casks, made generally of charred white oak.
Whisky is a strictly regulated spirit worldwide with many classes and types. The typical unifying characteristics of the different classes and types are the fermentation of grains, distillation, and aging in wooden barrels.
The word whisky (or whiskey) is an anglicisation of the Gaelic word uisce|uisge meaning water. Distilled alcohol was known to the medieval Latins as aqua vitae = "lively water"; and as aqua fortis = "strong water". This was translated to Gaelic as Irish: uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic: uisge beatha = "lively water" or "water of life". Early forms of the word in English included uskebeaghe (1581), usquebaugh (1610), usquebath (1621), usquebae (1715).
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey ( /ˈfeɪ/; born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer, known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL), the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, and films such as Mean Girls (2004) and Baby Mama (2008).
Fey first broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, known for her position as co-anchor in the Weekend Update segment. In 2004 she adapted the screenplay Mean Girls in which she also co-starred. After leaving SNL in 2006, she created the television series 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at SNL. In the series, Fey portrays the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. In 2008, she starred in the comedy film Baby Mama, alongside former SNL co-star Amy Poehler. Fey next appeared in the 2010 comedy films Date Night and Megamind.
She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, four Writers Guild of America Awards and has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her autobiographical book Bossypants, which topped the The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks. She was singled out as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture and entertainment in 2008 by the Associated Press, which gave her its AP Entertainer of the Year award for her satirical portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a guest appearance on SNL. In 2010, Fey was the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the youngest-ever winner of the award.
Actors: John Lyde (director), John Lyde (producer), Corey Sevier (actor), Maclain Nelson (producer), Eve Mauro (actress), Adam F. Goldberg (producer), Danny James (actor), Jimmy Schafer (composer), Paul D. Hunt (actor), Kurt Hale (writer), Kurt Hale (editor), Kynan Griffin (producer), Jason Faller (producer), Andrew W. Johnson (actor), Danielle Chuchran (actress),
Plot: The story follows Dusty, a yoga instructor from Colorado, who is on a desperate rescue mission to save her crazy brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced 'Osama bin Laden' (qv) is still alive, despite having been buried at sea. In Afghanistan, Dusty falls in with a team of NATO special forces on a secret assignment. Turns out Derek is not so crazy after all, and that Osama has returned from his watery grave and is making an army of zombie terrorists. When the group crashes headlong into the growing zombie apocalypse, Dusty and the troops must find and destroy the root of the zombie insurgency before it infests the rest of the world.
Keywords: afghanistan, american-woman, assault-rifle, bitten-by-evil-dead, conspiracy-theorist, evil-dead, flesh-eating-zombies, independent-film, katana, killed-by-evil-deadActors: Ronnie Alvarez (actor), Fred Ochs (actor), Ric Maddox (actor), Alisha Nieh (producer), Chuck McCollum (actor), Brian Alan Lane (producer), Sarah McLean (actress), Salina Conlan (director), Salina Conlan (writer), Salina Conlan (producer), Laura Lee Bahr (actress), Brenna McCormick (miscellaneous crew), Rory Coyle (actor), Karina Toriz (miscellaneous crew), Chris Labrum (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short, War,Actors: Stephen Polk (actor), Anthony Johnson (actor), David Campbell (actor), John Driver (director), Oliver Osterberg (actor), Oliver Osterberg (actor), Oliver Osterberg (actor), Jonathan Stathakis (producer), Kim Landry (actress), John Clark Donahue (director), Tom Dunn (actor), Jerome Wallin (actor), Julee Cruise (actress), Jason McLean (actor), Scott Anderson (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical,Actors: Tony Bill (actor), Taylor Negron (actor), J. Pat O'Malley (actor), Mare Winningham (actress), Joseph Sargent (director), Benjamin A. Weissman (editor), Peter Horton (actor), Eloy Casados (actor), Leonard Hill (producer), Roy Thinnes (actor), Terry Morse Jr. (producer), Ray Girardin (actor), Jennifer Warren (actress), Noelle North (actress), Barbara Turner (writer),
Plot: Teenager Libby Bellow begins soul-searching after becoming legally emancipated by her family and begins working on the road with a travelling carnival, in which Libby begins to think that happiness is at home, despite her personal conflict with her divorced mother.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Kirk Douglas (actor), Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor), Hal Needham (director), Ruth Buzzi (actress), Jack Elam (actor), Ann-Margret (actress), Bob Mackie (costume designer), Strother Martin (actor), Paul Lynde (actor), Mel Tillis (actor), Paul Maslansky (producer), Walter Hannemann (editor), Foster Brooks (actor), Robert Tessier (actor), Bob Terhune (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Jones wants the money, and hires notorious outlaw Cactus Jack to ambush Charming. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing people.
Keywords: american-indian, chase, cowboy, explosion, falling-from-height, glue, horse, native-american, native-american-chief, spoofActors: Chanda (miscellaneous crew), Ramesh (miscellaneous crew), D.R. Bhosle (miscellaneous crew), Mumtaz Begum (actress), Meena T. (actress), Raju (miscellaneous crew), Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (composer), Raj Mehra (actor), Rajendra Nath (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer), Kamaldeep (actor), Rajendra Kumar (actor), Satyanarayan (miscellaneous crew), Prem Kumar (actor),
Plot: Rohit, Whiskey, and Kumar (Rajendra Kumar, Rajendra Nath, and Prem Chopra respectively) are childhood friends. While travelling to his estate in the company of Whiskey, Rohit meets with beautiful Neena (Sadhana), and falls in love with her. Subsequently, he meets with her father (Raj Mehra) where they are properly introduced, and she too falls in love with him. Unknowingly, Kumar also sends his proposal for marriage to Neena, but Neena rejects it. Kumar is offended and shortly before the marriage of Neena and Rohit, molests Neena. Rohit and Kumar become enemies, have a fight and Kumar loses sight in his left eye. Feeling that she is not worthly of Rohit anymore, Neena refuses to marry Rohit. Will Rohit and Neena ever get together again? Will they continue to be haunted by Kumar?
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance,Actors: Kirk Douglas (actor), Larry D. Mann (actor), Michael Jeffers (actor), Henry Kingi (actor), Alan Hale Jr. (actor), Norman Leavitt (actor), Harry Holcombe (actor), Henry Fonda (actor), Gene Evans (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Bert Freed (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Danny Borzage (actor), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (actor), Burgess Meredith (actor),
Plot: Charm, intelligence and success in criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in prison, in the middle of the Arizona desert. However, those years should pass quickly because of a $500,000 loot previously stashed away. New idealistic warden would only make Pitman think of getting his fortune even sooner. He starts to manipulate everyone to achieve his goal.
Keywords: 1880s, abuse, african-american, american-frontier, american-southwest, arizona, artist, back-stabbing, bare-butt, bare-chested-maleActors: José Manuel Martín (actor), Andrea Bosic (actor), Valentino Macchi (actor), Ronald Adam (actor), Roberto Camardiel (actor), Bruno Arié (actor), Pietro Ceccarelli (actor), Renato Chiantoni (actor), Álvaro de Luna (actor), Andrea Bosic (actor), Mirko Ellis (actor), Tom Felleghy (actor), Giuliano Gemma (actor), Gérard Lartigau (actor), José Orjas (actor),
Plot: Bandit Gordon frees a group of prisoners, forcing them to join his gang or die. Arizona Colt, declining to do either, heads for Blackstone City where Gordon is planning a robbery. When one of Gordon's men murders saloon girl Dolores, Arizona offers to hunt down the killer for the price of five hundred Dollars and Dolores' sister, Jane
Keywords: bank, bank-robbery, bar-shootout, bartender, escape, explosion, fistfight, gun-battle, horse, poker-gameActors: James Harrison (actor), Neal Hart (actor), Rod Cameron (actor), Chris Allen (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Henry Hall (actor), Carol Henry (actor),
Plot: Brothers Mike and Tim McCall own a large ranch in Arizona, using the surrounding lands for grazing cattle. Stanley Cox and LeRoy Stanton sell this land to settlers who arrive to find it bone dry, as a dam on the McCall ranch controls the water. Among the settlers are John Dawson and his daughter Connie. The latter goes to the nearest town to take action, but Sheriff Ball tells him there is nothing he can do. Tim falls for Connie but Mike is unimpressed with her charms. While returning from a town dance, Tim discovers Stanton trying to dynamite the dam, and is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Stanton later sends his men to stampede the cattle while he and Cox blow up the dam. Despite the efforts of Mike and Sheriff Ball, the cattle are wiped out and Mike races to the dam and kills Stanton in a gunfight.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: James Harrison (actor), Neal Hart (actor), Rod Cameron (actor), Chris Allen (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Henry Hall (actor), Carol Henry (actor),
Plot: Brothers Mike and Tim McCall own a large ranch in Arizona, using the surrounding lands for grazing cattle. Stanley Cox and LeRoy Stanton sell this land to settlers who arrive to find it bone dry, as a dam on the McCall ranch controls the water. Among the settlers are John Dawson and his daughter Connie. The latter goes to the nearest town to take action, but Sheriff Ball tells him there is nothing he can do. Tim falls for Connie but Mike is unimpressed with her charms. While returning from a town dance, Tim discovers Stanton trying to dynamite the dam, and is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Stanton later sends his men to stampede the cattle while he and Cox blow up the dam. Despite the efforts of Mike and Sheriff Ball, the cattle are wiped out and Mike races to the dam and kills Stanton in a gunfight.
Keywords: based-on-novel