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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Actors: Hidekun Hah (actor), Djilali Rez-Kallah (actor), R.C. Ormond (actor), Heidi Herrmann (actress), Federico Berte (actor), Travis Merindino (actor), Maitlyn Pezzo (actress), Jefferson Cox (actor), Mary Karcz (actress), Clyde Bessey (writer), Clyde Bessey (writer), Clyde Bessey (producer), Clyde Bessey (director), Naomi Peters (actress), Aren Farrington (actor),
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Short, Western,Actors: Matt Jantzen (composer), Misha Sundukovskiy (writer), Misha Sundukovskiy (director), Emily L. Harrold (producer), Luke Humphrey (actor), Camila Fernandez (miscellaneous crew), Enoch Y. Wu (actor), Stephanie Chanel Myers (miscellaneous crew), Rachel Louie (miscellaneous crew), Nick Wright (editor), Dan Durkan (actor), Elena Fernandez (miscellaneous crew), Frank Zac Cheng (actor), Byron Dowse Jr. (producer),
Genres: Action, Drama, Short,Actors: Magne Pettersen (director), Magne Pettersen (producer), Magne Pettersen (writer), John Sigurd Kristensen (actor), Joachim Rafaelsen (actor), Hallvard Holmen (actor), Kim Sørensen (actor), Christian Siebenherz (editor), Silje Reinåmo (actress), Frode Eilertsen (miscellaneous crew), Nina Erdahl (costume designer), Hege Aga Rogstad (actress), Carl Stjernlöf (actor), Maryon Eilertsen (actress), Erik Stifjell (composer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Peter Dinklage (actor), John Flaus (actor), Marshall Napier (actor), David Hirschfelder (composer), Ken Sallows (editor), Nicholas Bell (actor), Rose Byrne (actress), Steve Bisley (actor), Greg Sitch (producer), Greg Sitch (miscellaneous crew), Angus Sampson (actor), Trudy Talbot (miscellaneous crew), Kristin Witcombe (miscellaneous crew), Brendan Cowell (actor), Cliff Ellen (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Karel Gott (composer), Walter Alza (actor), Walter Alza (producer), Walter Alza (producer), Walter Alza (writer), Walter Alza (director), Mike Masters (producer), Adrienne Baker (costume designer), Jane Hailes (actress), Penny Eizenga (actress), Francisco Chacin (actor), Daniel Santana (editor), Arthur Zaragoza (composer), Dail Foyer (actor), Stanya Louda (writer),
Plot: As a woman searches for the reason of her failures in relationships, she confronts her own flaws and finds the truth about herself while in search for salvation. In her Journey she meets a fake priest, and many colorful characters that will change her life. Katarina will need to go though horror and up in downs to cleanse.
Genres: Drama, Horror, Short,Actors: Luc Besson (producer), Romuald Drault (miscellaneous crew), Marc Leroyer (miscellaneous crew), Luc Besson (writer), Emilie Maison (miscellaneous crew), Philip Hersh (actor), Nicky Marbot (actor), Philippe Torreton (actor), Daniel Duval (actor), Moussa Maaskri (actor), Christian Sinniger (actor), Lise Lamétrie (actress), Gianni Manno (miscellaneous crew), Xavier De Guillebon (actor), Frans Boyer (actor),
Plot: After a successful mission against drug lords, the efficient Captain Damien Tomaso is framed at home with three kilograms of heroin planted by the police in his kitchen and he is arrested. Meanwhile a group of teenagers film the action of dirty agents led by Roland from the security agency executing policemen in their car and then leaving the car with the corpses in the 13th District to blame the gangs and begin a civil war. Behind these events, the corrupt chief of the security agency Walter Gassman had received a huge amount as kickback from the constructor Harriburton that has interest to construct buildings in the poor area and uses the situation to force the President of France to authorize to nuke five towers in the district. The teenager with the film is hunted by the police but he delivers the memory card to Leito meanwhile Damien calls him from the precinct asking for help. The friends team-up with five dangerous bosses to gather evidences to prove to the president that Gassman has provoked the conflict in their district.
Keywords: 2010s, bald-man, brawl, breaking-into-prison, buddy, chase, concealed-drugs, cop, cop-in-prison, corrupt-officialActors: Judy Tenuta (actress), Haylie Duff (producer), Colleen Camp (actress), Anjelica Huston (actress), Maria Conchita Alonso (actress), Joanne Baron (actress), Brent Spiner (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), Haylie Duff (actress), Hilary Duff (actress), Kim Estes (actor), Larry Poindexter (actor), Lukas Haas (actor), Gary Hamilton (producer), Hilary Duff (producer),
Plot: The silver spoon daughters of the late cosmetics empire founder Victor Marchetta, Avan and Tanzie, never even took an interest in the business, happy to let it be run by their and the firm's administrator, Tommy Katzenbach, while they lead socialite lives, aiming at a marriage with soap star Mic Rionn. Suddenly a scandal wrecks the firm's stock and their family reputation. Their credit cards are canceled, one of them torches the mansion, the other hands their sports-car to a thief mistaken for a parking valet. So they end up living with their Latina former cleaning lady. Help to investigate whether the firm is really best sold to competitor Fabiella, as Tommy claims, comes from hunky lab technician Rick, whom the previously mistook for the inexistent firm parking lot attendant, and Henry Baines, whose free law for the poor charity they didn't even consider for sponsoring.
Keywords: absent-mother, actor, auto-theft, autograph, banquet, bare-chested-male, board-meeting, broken-engagement, burglary, busActors: John Fox (miscellaneous crew), Bonnie Stauch (costume designer), Tom Berenger (actor), J.S. Cardone (writer), J.S. Cardone (producer), Jeannetta Arnette (actress), Tim Jones (composer), Maeve Mannion (miscellaneous crew), John Doman (actor), Rick Nathanson (producer), Andrew Lawrence (actor), Denis Arndt (actor), Byron Mann (actor), P.J. Pesce (director), P.J. Pesce (actor),
Plot: Sniper Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) is hired by NSA officials, William Avery (Denis Arndt) and Richard Addis ( William Duffy) to perform a covert operation to eliminate a suspected terrorist. The terrorist turns out to be a friend of Beckett's and the real purpose of the mission turns out to be something other than what Beckett was told.
Keywords: ak-47, alcoholic, ambush, assassin, assassination, battle, bellboy, betrayal-by-friend, blood, blood-splatterActors: Val Tasso (miscellaneous crew), Ben Kingsley (actor), Scott Peterson (miscellaneous crew), Frances Fisher (actress), Steven R. Molen (miscellaneous crew), James Horner (composer), Jennifer Connelly (actress), Jay Johnson (miscellaneous crew), Aki Aleong (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Michael Papajohn (actor), Carlos Gómez (actor), Marco Rodríguez (actor), Shohreh Aghdashloo (actress), Al Rodrigo (actor),
Plot: An emotionally broken woman, Kathy, suddenly finds herself homeless after her house is wrongly repossessed and auctioned. Seeking respite from his marriage, Lester, a sympathetic sheriff's deputy comes to the aid of Kathy and becomes intimately involved in her situation. Soon, Behrani, a proud emigrant Iranian and his family move into the house only to find their new lives burdened by harassment from Lester and Kathy as they attempt to reclaim her former home. The once prosperous colonel denies Kathy's pleas for he knows his recent purchase promises a profitable return and a better future for his adolescent son and his wife. But latent consequences lie beneath Behrani's well intentioned plan as Kathy's emotions spiral out of control and her actions spark a tragic chain of events that will leave no resident unscathed in the House of Sand and Fog.
Keywords: 1970s, adultery, alcohol, alcoholic-relapse, ambulance, american-dream, anger, asphyxiation, auction, author-cameo