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Richard M. "Dick" Harris (born September 6, 1944) is a Canadian politician. He is a Member of Parliament and member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He also was a member of the Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance. He represents the electoral district of Cariboo—Prince George, and formerly Prince George–Bulkley Valley. He was first elected during the 1993 federal election and was re-elected in 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011. He challenged Reform Party leader Preston Manning for leadership when Manning proposed merging the party with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. He later campaigned for Stockwell Day to become leader. The most prominent position he held with his party was Chief Opposition Whip from 2001 to 2002. He generated controversy when he appointed an unelected, Conservative Party member to represent a neighbouring electoral district in governmental affairs, though the electoral district had an elected Member of Parliament, but from an opposition party. In Fiscal 2009-10 he was the top spending member of parliament, and had the largest hospitality and lowest advertising expenditures of any house member.
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer. He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson.
Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to folk singers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III. His parents divorced when he was three, and he lived with his mother in Montreal for most of his youth. Wainwright has dual US and Canadian citizenship. He attended high school at the Millbrook School in New York (which would later inspire his song "Millbrook"), and later briefly studied piano at McGill in Montreal. He began playing the piano at age six, and started touring at 13 with "The McGarrigle Sisters and Family", a folk group featuring Rufus, his sister Martha, his mother Kate, and aunt Anna. His song "I'm a-Runnin'", which he performed in the film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller at the age of 14, earned him a nomination for a 1989 Genie Award for Best Original Song. He was nominated for a 1990 Juno Award for Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year.
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941) served as the 46th Vice President of the United States (2001–2009), under George W. Bush.
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cheney was primarily raised in Sumner, Nebraska, and Casper, Wyoming. He began his political career as an intern for Congressman William A. Steiger, eventually working his way into the White House during the Nixon and Ford administrations, where he served the latter as White House Chief of Staff. In 1978, Cheney was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming; he was reelected five times, eventually becoming House Minority Whip. Cheney was selected to be the Secretary of Defense during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, holding the position for the majority of Bush's term. During this time, Cheney oversaw the 1991 Operation Desert Storm, among other actions.
Out of office during the Clinton presidency, Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000.
Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Marjorie Lorraine (née Dickey) and Richard Herbert Cheney. He is of predominantly English, as well as Welsh, Irish, and French Huguenot, ancestry; Cheney's 8th great-grandfather, William Cheney, immigrated from England to Massachusetts in the 17th century. Although not a direct descendant, he is collaterally related to Benjamin Pierce Cheney (1815–1895), the early American expressman. Cheney is a very distant cousin of both Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama; the three share a common ancestor in Mareen Duvall, a Huguenot who fled from France to England in the 17th century and later settled in Maryland. His father was a soil conservation agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his mother was a softball star in the 1930s; Cheney was one of three children.
Actors: Martin Sheen (actor), Peter Bryant (actor), Chris Noth (actor), Tom Butler (actor), David Kaye (actor), Nathaniel DeVeaux (actor), Colin Lawrence (actor), Kevin Dillon (actor), Doug Abrahams (actor), John Glover (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Kevin McNulty (actor), Deryl Hayes (actor), Ian Tracey (actor), Vincent Spano (actor),
Plot: Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it will explode before its count-down if Vivian's pacemaker isn't within fifteen feet of it. Medusa arms itself in the air aboard Scott Nash's 737 cargo plane, and with Hurricane Sigrid about to hit the coast, nobody wants to let them land. Based on the novel by John J. Nance.
Keywords: aircraft, airplane, airport, alpha, atlantic, based-on-book, based-on-novel, beta, bomb, cargoActors: Louis R. Loeffler (editor), Dick Elliott (actor), George Ernest (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), J. Anthony Hughes (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Si Jenks (actor), David Newell (actor), Jed Prouty (actor), Landers Stevens (actor), Charles Tannen (actor), Clarence Wilson (actor), Spring Byington (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Edith Fellows (actress), Mildred Gover (actress), Kent Taylor (actor), George P. Breakston (actor), Walter Walker (actor), Lillian Elliott (actress), Arthur Housman (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Donald Meek (actor), Charles Middleton (actor), George C. Pearce (actor), Dell Henderson (actor), George Reed (actor), W.C. Fields (actor), Carmencita Johnson (actress),
Plot: The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Keywords: acrobat, alcoholic, ambulance, based-on-novel, based-on-play, character-name-in-title, charity, children, death, dogActors: Olaf Fønss (actor), Torben Meyer (actor), Ingeborg Bruhn Bertelsen (actress), Betzy Kofoed (actress), Henny Lauritzen (actress), Axel Mattson (actor), Alexander Christian (director), Martin Jørgensen (writer), Else Mantzius (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Fred Paul (actor), Fred Paul (director), L.C. MacBean (director), Joan Ferry (actress),
Genres: Short, Western,Actors: Fred Paul (actor), Fred Paul (director), L.C. MacBean (director), Joan Ferry (actress),
Genres: Short, Western,Actors: Fred Paul (actor), Fred Paul (director), L.C. MacBean (director), Joan Ferry (actress),
Genres: Short, Western,Actors: Fred Paul (actor), Fred Paul (director), L.C. MacBean (director), Joan Ferry (actress),
Genres: Short, Western,Actors: Fred Paul (actor), Fred Paul (director), L.C. MacBean (director), Joan Ferry (actress),
Genres: Short, Western,Actors: Fred Paul (actor), Fred Paul (director), L.C. MacBean (director), Joan Ferry (actress),
Genres: Short, Western,