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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy pronunciation (help·info) (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War.
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. After completing his undergraduate work at Whittier College, he graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1937, and returned to California to practice law. He and his wife, Pat Nixon, moved to Washington to work for the federal government in 1942. He subsequently served in the United States Navy during World War II. Nixon was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. His pursuit of the Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-communist, and elevated him to national prominence. He was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 1952 election. Nixon served for eight years as vice president. He waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960, narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy, and lost a race for Governor of California in 1962. In 1968, he ran again for the presidency and was elected.
Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), professionally recognized as Marilyn Monroe, was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) drew attention to her. By 1953, Monroe had progressed to a leading role in Niagara (1953), a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
Actors: Tuomas Kantelinen (composer), Mackenzie Gray (actor), Mackenzie Gray (actor), Alex Diakun (actor), Mackenzie Gray (producer), Jerry Rector (actor), Jerry Rector (actor), Alec Willows (actor), Sarah Deakins (actress), Shannon Jardine (actress), Lisa Langlois (actress), Richard Keats (actor), Emily Tennant (actress), Laurent Piche (miscellaneous crew), Brent Fidler (actor),
Plot: This character driven film paints a psychological portrait of the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe, exploring the extraordinary life experiences that shaped his fascinating imagination. By weaving through the ethnography of Poe's dreams and nightmares, particularly the dying moments of himself and his loved ones, a complex plot line of past and present intermingles while Poe hovers near death in his hospital bed. We open with Poe lying unconscious in an alleyway in Baltimore. It is October 3, 1849 and the Congressional elections have just ended, and Poe has been discarded into the alley, after being used by a press gang to cast multiple false ballots for a crooked political campaign. Poe is discovered by his cousin Neilson and brought to Washington College Hospital where he remains until his death five days later, which is the focus of the story. In the hospital, Poe floats in and out of consciousness. Various visual cues transport Poe to intense moments in his past which inspired many of his phantasmagorical stories. There is always a connection made between the writing and the experience. For example when Poe's bride Virginia ruptures a throat vessel while playing a harp, The voice-over from Poe's sorrowful "Annabel Lee" underscores. Poe's first impressions of life are those as a backstage theater baby. Young Poe watches in horror as his Mother commits suicide on stage, establishing Poe's and the script's leitmotif of [all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream]. The sub theme of reincarnation plays an important part of the film, as part of the story takes place in modern times where the actor playing Poe in a stage production begins to experience unusual psychic connections to the past, and characters from Poe's life appear in a Jacob's ladder like ripping of reality, causing the actor to lose his sense of self and reality and the veil rends as to who is the real Poe and who is the actor, as both call to each other through the timeless space of consciousness. The mystery reaches a climax with Poe's wife's death timed in sequence with his own demise. (He experienced the death of his Mother, his foster Mother, his foster Father, his first love, his brother, and his wife (all to consumption). Throughout the film, there is a subtle theme of repressed sensuality, that Poe's own emotionally, immature sexuality manifests.
Keywords: 18th-century, cleavage, madness, poe, poe-celebration, poet, poetry, reference-to-edgar-allan-poe, tarot-cardActors: David Vedon (actor), Nicole Zepeda (miscellaneous crew), Alexis Celeste Elliott (actress), Marla Quintana (producer), Julio Quintana (writer), Julio Quintana (editor), Greg Romero (actor), Julio Quintana (director), Lucas Quintana (actor), Bernardo Cubria (actor), Kim Adams (actress), Michele Salem (actress), Sermini (actor), Sammi Ramirez (actor), Pedro Guerra (actor),
Plot: 16-year-old Fidel Castro loves America. He even hopes to reach Hollywood one day and become a star like his hero, Clark Gable. When Fidel goes on a double date he is instantly taken by Sally, a stunning beauty visiting from California. But when 25-year-old John F. Kennedy struts into the bar with a couple of other U.S. Navy soldiers, Fidel is forced to compete for Sally's attention, and he will never look at America the same way again.
Keywords: fidel-castro, john-f-kennedyActors: Anya Noakes (miscellaneous crew), Billy Murray (producer), Dave Evans (actor), Billy Murray (actor), Frank Harper (actor), Dave Evans (miscellaneous crew), Craig Fairbrass (actor), Neil Maskell (actor), Jason Maza (actor), Ian Virgo (actor), Terry Stone (actor), Terry Stone (producer), Ricci Harnett (actor), Dave Legeno (actor), Greg Corke (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism, through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer, his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early 'rave' scene and subsequently to his rise to power as one of the most feared and respected criminals in the country.
Keywords: axe, baby, baseball-bat, beating, bigotry, blow-job, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, car-on-fire, criminal, discoActors: John Stamos (actor), Kenneth Mars (actor), Katherine Helmond (actress), Gabrielle Anwar (actress), Rhea Perlman (actress), Matt Beckner (miscellaneous crew), Dabney Coleman (actor), Shemar Moore (actor), Lance E. Nichols (actor), Hamilton Camp (actor), Michael Bowen (actor), Roark Critchlow (actor), Tom McKinley (costume designer), Joshua Malina (actor), Teddy Castellucci (composer),
Plot: Three broke men, a sculpter, an obsessive compulsive teacher, and a stupid actor desperately want to be rich. Someone lends one of them their mansion and cars while they're off on their Christmas vacation. They then pretend to be rich so they can get rich girls, as they have had bad experiences with women leaving them for richer men. But every farce has got to end sometime...
Keywords: christmas, remakeActors: Colin Towns (composer), James Purefoy (actor), Mark Day (editor), Ray Stevenson (actor), Ray Marshall (producer), Willie Ross (actor), Justin Chadwick (actor), Leslie Schofield (actor), Berwick Kaler (actor), John Bowler (actor), Gillian Kearney (actress), Charlie Hardwick (actress), Gordon Griffin (actor), Mary Woodvine (actress), Delphine Roche-Gordon (costume designer),
Plot: Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work as housekeeper for farmer, Larry Birch. Another tragedy occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.
Keywords: 1900s, based-on-novel, edwardian-era, england, northern-england, northumberland, tv-mini-seriesActors: Marcia Bennett (actress), Richard Anderson (actor), Nicholas Campbell (actor), Jaap Broeker (miscellaneous crew), Robert Pine (actor), Jack Warden (actor), Jennifer Dale (actress), Barry Morse (actor), Linda Goranson (actress), Charles W. Gray (actor), Marc Strange (actor), Anne Richardson (miscellaneous crew), Debra Beers (miscellaneous crew), Heather Thomas (actress), Michael O'Herlihy (director),
Plot: This is the story of feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand up to him. From the day John Kennedy was elected President until Bobby was assassinated.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, j.-edgar-hoover, kennedy-assassination, kennedy-family, number-in-title, period-in-titleActors: Harold J. Stone (actor), Lyle Bettger (actor), Mort Briskin (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Peter Rogers (producer), John Boxer (actor), Yvonne Axeworthy (miscellaneous crew), Charles Lamb (actor), Herbert Smith (producer), Hilda Fenemore (actress), Norman Hudis (writer), Mark Daly (actor), Cyril Chamberlain (actor), Bill Shine (actor), Tommy Steele (actor), Patrick Westwood (actor), Bryan Coleman (actor), Stuart Levy (producer), Lisa Daniely (actress),
Plot: This is the story of the early life and rise to fame of 'Tommy Steele' (qv). His manager wanted him to be a tough rock'n'roller and so challenge 'Elvis Presley' (qv) but Tommy is too nice. He becomes famous anyway !!
Keywords: character-name-in-title, rock-musicActors: Sherry Hall (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), John Butler (actor), Peter Brocco (actor), Ken Christy (actor), A. Cameron Grant (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Clancy Cooper (actor), John Damler (actor), Robert Easton (actor), Leif Erickson (actor), Budd Fine (actor), George Bunny (actor), Will Geer (actor), Alvin Hammer (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Wallace Bosco (actor), Alf Goddard (actor), Harold Huth (actor), Miles Mander (actor), Wally Patch (actor), J. Fisher White (actor), Michael Balcon (producer), W.P. Lipscomb (writer), Angus MacPhail (writer), Milton Rosmer (writer), Robert Stevenson (writer), Maurice Elvey (director), Milton Rosmer (director), Ian Dalrymple (editor), Benita Hume (actress),
Plot: A British officer is falsely accused of murder by a rival officer, and is dishonorably discharged from the army. He rejoins as an enlisted man and is posted as a cavalryman to the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. He discovers that there is a Russian spy masquerading as a British soldier, and his efforts to unmask the spy results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
Keywords: based-on-play, crimea, crimean-warYou think you're hot stuff
But in my book, you're not hot enough)
I know you think you're out of sight
'Cause all of the girls really like you
And just because of that build you got,
You think no girl can refuse you
I'll bet you do, oh yes you do,
But I've got some news for you now
You need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You think you're hot stuff
But in my book, you're not hot enough now
You think you're hot stuff
But I'm the one who's gonna cool you off
When the other girls looked at you,
I know how they got fooled
Their mistake was they got carried away
And they didn't know what to do now
Baby, baby, I know what you're after
But I know what you're not gonna get
You just need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You think you're hot stuff
But in my book, you're not hot enough now
You think you're hot stuff
But I'm the one who's gonna cool you off
Yes I am now
(You think you're hot stuff)
Many girls have been fooled
By too many men like you
And it's about time you got put in your place
And it's just what I'm gonna do now
I know I've got to give my love to some man
But you can bet it won't be you
'Cause you need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You just need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You need somebody to tell you (yes you do now)
You think you're hot stuff
But in my book, you're not hot enough now
You think you're hot stuff
But I'm the one who's gonna cool you off