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Amos (Hebrew: עָמוֹס) may refer to:
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s. She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date.
As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 8 Grammy Awards. Amos was also named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996.
Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. In 1972, The Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where her father, Reverend Edison Amos, became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At the age of 13 she began playing at gay bars and piano bars, chaperoned by her father.
Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. She is also the paternal half-sister of Anoushka Shankar.
In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, a fusion of jazz, pop, and country music, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies. The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. Her subsequent studio albums, Feels Like Home, released in 2004, Not Too Late, released in 2007, the same year she made her film debut in My Blueberry Nights, and her 2009 release The Fall all gained Platinum status after selling over a million copies and were generally well received by critics. Jones' fifth studio album, Little Broken Hearts was released on April 27, 2012.
Jones has won nine Grammy Awards and was Billboard magazine's 60th-best-selling music artist of the 2000–2009 decade. Throughout her career, Jones has won numerous awards and has sold over 40 million albums worldwide.Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time.
Actors: Kathleen Gati (actress), Joe Estevez (actor), Raoul Trujillo (actor), Thomas Daniel (actor), Richard Tyson (actor), Martin Kove (actor), Andrew Sensenig (actor), Abraham Benrubi (actor), Mark Hanson (actor), Grainger Hines (actor), William Shockley (actor), Ted Ferguson (actor), William Katt (actor), Sonny Shroyer (actor), Timothy V. Murphy (actor),
Plot: When the Storm God Rides is an epic western tale of one man's quest for revenge in a time when the rule of law was often overshadowed by the rule of lawlessness. James Walker's past comes looking for him one night, but they find his wife and daughter instead.
Keywords: anger, bartender, based-on-book, based-on-novel, blood, civil-war, cowboy, death, doctor, drunkennessActors: Amy Poehler (actress), Scott Mosier (writer), Elisa Gabrielli (actress), Scott Mosier (actor), Scott Mosier (producer), George Takei (actor), William Morgan Sheppard (actor), Colm Meaney (actor), Scott Mosier (actor), Carlos Alazraqui (actor), Owen Wilson (actor), Woody Harrelson (actor), Keith David (actor), Dan Fogler (actor), Robert Beltran (actor),
Plot: After years of fruitless warning of his farmyard brethren of the coming Thanksgiving doom, Reggie the Turkey finds himself spared as the annual Pardoned Turkey. However, Reggie's easy life is disrupted by Jake, a fanatic turkey who drags him along with the insane idea of going back in time to make sure turkeys are not part of the first Thanksgiving. Through foolhardiness and luck, the pair manage to take an experiment time machine to do just that. Now in 1621 at the Plymouth colony, Reggie and Jake find themselves in the middle of a turkey clan's struggle for survival. In doing so, their preconceptions of the world and themselves are challenged forever in a conflict from which the world will never be the same.
Keywords: camp-david, colonial-america, computer-animation, english-colony, gunpowder, president-of-the-united-states, thanksgiving, time-travel, turkeyActors: Jan Gassmann (editor), Adrian Aeschbacher (editor), Amos Angeles (producer), Veli Silver (producer), Amos Angeles (writer), Amos Angeles (actor), Amos Angeles (director), Veli Silver (director), Veli Silver (writer), Veli Silver (actor),
Plot: Style Wars is a legendary documentary, filmed in 1983, which helped the graffiti movement from New York to spread around the world. 30 years later, Veli and Amos, two Style Wars fans from Europe, trip through today's graffiti and street art scene. The journey takes them from Europe to New York and ends in the Middle East. Style Wars 2 features encounters with graffiti artists and presents different artistic views. Along the way, Veli and Amos also happen to attend boxing fights in New York and visit hair dressers in the West Bank. Even though the movie's main focus is on graffiti, it also raises topics like art, politics and lifestyle.
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Documentary,Actors: Lin Shaye (actress), Joanne Baron (actress), Mircea Monroe (actress), Richard Riehle (actor), Mircea Monroe (producer), Ajay Naidu (actor), Peter Chan (miscellaneous crew), Michael L. Mizrahi (miscellaneous crew), Joe Leonard (editor), Ishai Setton (director), Jared Parsons (producer), Jared Parsons (writer), Lauren Silver (producer), Lauren Silver (producer), Jace Mclean (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: George Kennedy (actor), Edwin Neal (actor), Phil Marshall (composer), Billy Zane (actor), Sean Young (actress), Peter Jason (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Leonard L. Thomas (actor), Carol Alt (actress), Eric Braeden (producer), Eric Braeden (actor), J.D. Hawkins (actor), Jackson Burns (actor), James Patrick Stuart (actor), Yankie Grant (producer),
Genres: Action, Drama, Western,Actors: Derek Basco (actor), Maria Arcé (actress), Kristen Zaik (actress), Holly Lewis (actress), Steven Istock (producer), Steven Istock (actor), Nikki Novak (actress), Raider Rhotenacher (actor), Jeff McArthur (writer), Jeff McArthur (director), Stacey Paige (actress), Lenora Chu (actress), Ryanne Plaisance (actress), George O'Kreenke (actor), Theresa Padilla (actress),
Plot: Toby Ferguson, a famous photographer, has just bought a one-of-a-kind antique camera. Now all his models are turning up dead. Stephanie, his assistant, is caught between her admiration for Toby, and her fear for her friends. It is a mystery that baffles Detective Carl Hall, assigned to investigate the murders. The case will lead him back through the history of the camera, through ghost towns and ancient Indian beliefs that it is the camera which is turning everyone it photographs to dust.
Keywords: cameraActors: Tom Fontana (producer), Johnathon Schaech (actor), Tom Fontana (writer), Bill Conti (composer), Tim Matheson (actor), Ralph Berge (miscellaneous crew), Bob Gunton (actor), Jonathan Scarfe (actor), Marlene Sharp (miscellaneous crew), Robert C. Campion (miscellaneous crew), Owen Teale (actor), Charles Robert Carner (director), Raúl Dávalos (editor), Suzanne Bertish (actress), Fiona Glascott (actress),
Plot: Judas meets Jesus and at first doesn't know what to make of him or whether or not to trust him. A cynical city boy, Judas makes fun of the country bumpkin disciples who follow Jesus but eventually decides to join the band, as well. He and Jesus become good friends, even though they often see things very differently. Ultimately, Judas is convinced that Jesus needs to use his popularity and wonder-working powers to free the Jews from the Romans, and Jesus sees a larger, spritual perspective. As a friend, Judas convinces Jesus to give his disciples his miraculous powers, and he does with good results. Finally, the Jewish leaders spy on Judas and convince him of the greater good of betraying Jesus, in order to save the Jewish people. Judas gets caught between the corrupt leaders, Caiaphus and Pontius Pilate, and Jesus.
Keywords: arrest, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-true-story, betrayal, biblical, bound-to-x-shaped-cross, character-name-in-title, christian, christianityActors: Maria Grazia Cucinotta (actress), Massimo Ghini (actor), Benjamin Sadler (actor), Luca Bernabei (producer), Gottfried John (actor), Thure Riefenstein (actor), Imanol Arias (actor), Vittorio Amandola (actor), Laura Vergelli (miscellaneous crew), Carla Maria Perrina (miscellaneous crew), Mark Thompson-Ashworth (miscellaneous crew), Giuliana de Sio (actress), Marco Frisina (composer), Paola Sangiovanni (miscellaneous crew), Danny Quinn (actor),
Plot: When the marriage between AMOS and MARY MAGDALENE turns out to be childless, he casts her out and gets a divorce. Mary has to leave Magdala. She befriends SILVANO, a Roman prefect, who promises her a new life at his side. A few days after her departure Mary meets the prophet JOHN THE BAPTIST, whom Silvano suspects of being a revolutionary. The prefect tells her to cultivate John more intensively. In this way Mary becomes acquainted with the teaching of the coming Messiah, and it begins to interest her. To protect John from the Romans she pretends to Silvano that he is harmless # but when the prefect finds out that how dangerous John is in the eyes of the tetrarch HEROD ANTIPAS, he feels he was wronged and purposely tricked by Mary. He casts her out as well. After a suicide attempt, Mary lowers herself to prostitution. HEROIDAS, the wife of Herod Antipas, invites Mary to come to her because of her knowledge of the healing arts. In this way she gets to know SALOME, who later asks for the Baptist's head. Mary is also drawn into the war for Galilee, in the course of which her home town of Magdala goes up in flames. She tries in vain to save the life of SAMUEL, the son of her friend JOANNA. He dies in her arms. She then takes him to JESUS # who brings him back to life. Mary recognizes Jesus as the Messiah, and becomes one of his disciples.
Keywords: bible, character-name-in-title, mary-magdaleneActors: Hilary Swank (actress), Joe Estevez (actor), Osman Ragheb (miscellaneous crew), Jake Busey (actor), Jörg Bundschuh (producer), Kent Hamilton (miscellaneous crew), Harald Kloser (composer), Chad Lowe (actor), Peter Dobson (actor), Jörg Bundschuh (producer), Natasha Gregson Wagner (actress), Matt Adler (actor), Tammy Parks (actress), Daryl Mitchell (actor), Jeremy Roberts (actor),
Plot: Lolita is a streetwalker on Hollywood Boulevard. After Lolita and her streetwalker friend, Eva, harass a sleazy pick-up guy, Lolita hits the streets where she meets and hustles a john named Angel. The next morning, Angel picks up his girlfriend, Julie, for sex in a car wash. Julie's a waitress at a local diner and is humiliated by Richard, a misogynist customer who assaults her in the men's room. 'Rich' is a lawyer who's having an affair with his boss's wife, Kathy, whose husband Bobby keeps her informed of his own affairs, even as he and Kathy have an afternoon of passion. Elsewhere, Peter Blaine, is a struggling actor who wants to keep it secret that his lover is a man, comes home to Patrick, who's angry and hurt. They make up, but tragedy follows; in his grief, Peter picks up Lolita. The following morning, Peter finds himself attracted to her.
Keywords: female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, prostitution, sexActors: Norma Bengell (actress), Gisela Hahn (actress), Françoise Dorner (actress), Juan Luis Buñuel (actor), Pierre Michaël (actor), Philippe Joulia (director), Philippe Joulia (writer), Patrick Jeantet (actor), Jacques Peuchmaurd (writer), Jacques Peuchmaurd (writer), Jeanne Magnan (actress), Sioma Baram (actor), Christel Caudion (actress), Bella Brisel (actress), Juan-Juan Jaime (actor),
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