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Martha of Bethany (Aramaic מַרְתָּא Martâ) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She is the middle child of her family with Lazarus being the eldest and her sister Mary Magdalene the youngest. She was witness to Jesus' resurrection of her brother, Lazarus.
The name Martha is a Latin transliteration of the Koine Greek Μαρθα, itself a translation of the Aramaic מַרְתָּא Martâ, "The mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מר "master". The Aramaic form occurs in a Nabatean inscription found at Puteoli, and now in the Naples Museum; it is dated AD. 5 (Corpus Inscr. Semit., 158); also in a Palmyrene inscription, where the Greek translation has the form Marthein.
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus visits the home of two sisters named Mary and Martha. The two sisters are contrasted: Martha was "cumbered about many things" while Jesus was their guest, while Mary had chosen "the better part", that of listening to the master's discourse. The name of their village is not recorded, nor any mention of whether Jesus was near Jerusalem:
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts,Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.
She danced and choreographed for over seventy years. Graham was the first dancer ever to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."[citation needed]
Graham was born in Allegheny City, which today is part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1894. Her father George Graham was what in the Victorian era was known as an "alienist", a practitioner of an early form of psychiatry. The Grahams were strict Presbyterians. Dr. Graham was a third generation American of Irish descent and her mother Jane Beers was a tenth generation descendant of Puritan Miles Standish.
Aaron Copland ( /ˌærən ˈkoʊplənd/; November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers". He is best known to the public for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a deliberately more accessible style than his earlier pieces, including the ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Rodeo and his Fanfare for the Common Man. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are archetypical of what many people consider to be the sound of American music, evoking the vast American landscape and pioneer spirit. However, he wrote music in different styles at different periods of his life: his early works incorporated jazz or avant-garde elements whereas his later music incorporated serial techniques. In addition to his ballets and orchestral works, he produced music in many other genres including chamber music, vocal works, opera and film scores.
Actors: Ann Magnuson (actress), Deborah Harry (actress), Isaac Mizrahi (actor), Saba (actor), James Lyons (editor), John Califra (composer), Lisa Dalton (actress), Kevin Kean Murphy (actor), Gita Reddy (actress), David Ilku (actor), Mark Morris (actor), Shelley Matulick (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Kijak (producer), Gila Zalon (actress), Richard Move (producer),
Plot: This film portrait of modern dance legend Martha Graham examines the creative process, as well as important events in Martha's pioneering career. Plays thematically with time and memory, using the actual words of Martha Graham who emerges as a passionate, controversial and egotistical modernist icon that she was.
Keywords: choreographer, modern-danceActors: Udo Kier (actor), Paul Cantelon (actor), Kerri Randles (actress), Ingeborg Luescher (actress), Jasmine Albuquerque (actress), Henry Vincent (actor), Caitlyn Carradine (actress), Lawrence Weiner (actor), Kristin Ligocki (actress), Simon Chaput (producer), Tommi Thorvildsen (actor), Alexis Cohen (actress), Paul McCarthy (actor), Linda Behr (miscellaneous crew), Jason Rhoades (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Michael Bowen (actor), David Carradine (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Bill Wise (actor), Stephen Root (actor), Joe Unger (actor), Heather Kafka (actress), Chris Meister (miscellaneous crew), Marina Anderson (actress), Gabriel Folse (actor), Mike Young (producer), Rebecca Fulton (miscellaneous crew), Alex Morris (actor), Kari Perkins (costume designer), Elizabeth Barondes (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Thriller,Actors: R.H. Thomson (actor), Jan Rubes (actor), Sheila McCarthy (actress), Eric Keenleyside (actor), Len Carlson (actor), John Friesen (actor), Martin Lavut (director), Joanne Vannicola (actress), Maggie Huculak (actress), Barry Stevens (actor), Linda Griffiths (actress), Anna Sandor (writer), Layne Coleman (actor), Vivian Reis (actress), Kay Tremblay (actress),
Plot: Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at how her own plans for a career got sidetracked and how her marriage suddenly went off the rails on a crazy train. At the same time she's trying to cope with a Christmas season full of inlaws, family and neighbours.. and a husband who's gone awol in order to 'find himself'.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Martin Benson (actor), Hilda Fenemore (actress), Brian Wilde (actor), Anthony Nicholls (actor), Dennis Vance (director), Ursula Howells (actress), Dennis Vance (producer), Hartley Power (actor), John G. Heller (actor), John Robinson (actor), William Fairchild (writer), Anthony Ireland (actor), John Paul (actor), Isabel Dean (actress), David Coote (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Cliff Clark (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), George Chandler (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Russ Clark (actor), Robert Allen (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Alan Dinehart (actor), Preston Foster (actor), Edward Gargan (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor),
Plot: Card sharps Chipper Morgan and Darby Randall pick the wrong victim, Detective Willis, on a transatlantic crossing, and are arrested upon docking in New York and returned up the river to Rockwell Prison, their old alma mater. They had played brilliant football for "dear old Pen" during their prior semesters, and prison coach Slim Nelson is happy to see them back for graduate work, especially with the annual grudge game with Larson State Pen coming up. Willis, who has been named the new warden for Rockwell, gives them soft jobs and then places a large bet on the Larson eleven. Both Chipper and Darby feel badly about the raw deal handed fellow "student" Tommy Grant and his sweetheart, Helen, who were innocently caught up in a phony pension racket ran by swindlers Jeffrey Mitchell and Ray Douglas, and were both jailed. When Phyllis is released from Stillwell Prison for Women, she tells Tommy about the two men and their racket, and he decides to escape, even though he has only a month more to serve, and put an end to their scheme. He plans his break for the night of the prison's "varsity show" and tells Chipper and Darby, who promise to help him. But the pair tie up Tommy and make the break themselves, dressed as women. They go to Springfield, save the victim's money, get a confession from Mitchell and Douglas clearing Tommy and Helen, turn them over to the sheriff... and race back to Rockwell to find their team behind 14-9 late in the game. Can they lead old Rockwell to a comeback victory?
Keywords: football, prison