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Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, (i/ˈkjuːbə/; Spanish: República de Cuba, pronounced: [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkuβa] ( listen)) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city. To the north of Cuba lies the United States (140 km or 90 mi away) and the Bahamas, Mexico is to the west, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica are to the south, and Haiti and the Dominican Republic are to the southeast.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on and claimed the island now occupied by Cuba, for the Kingdom of Spain. Cuba remained a territory of Spain until the Spanish–American War ended in 1898, and gained formal independence from the U.S. in 1902. A fragile democracy, increasingly dominated by radical politics eventually evolved, solidified by the Cuban Constitution of 1940, but was definitely quashed in 1952 by former president Fulgencio Batista, and an authoritarian regime was set up, intensifying and catalyzing already rampant corruption, political repression and crippling economic regulations.Batista was ousted in January 1959 by the July 26 movement, and a new administration under Fidel Castro established, which had by 1965 evolved into a single-party state under the revived Communist Party of Cuba, which holds power to date.
Cuba M. Gooding, Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's 1996 film Jerry Maguire.
Gooding was born in The Bronx, New York City on January 2, 1968, the son of Shirley Temple (née Sullivan), a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of soul group The Main Ingredient. He has three siblings: Tommy, Omar, and April. His paternal grandfather was a native of Barbados. His family moved to Los Angeles after his father's music group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972; the elder Gooding abandoned his family two years later. During his appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Gooding revealed that after his father had left, his family lived in hotels throughout Los Angeles. Gooding was raised by his mother and attended four different high schools: North Hollywood High School, Tustin High School, Apple Valley High School, and John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills in Los Angeles. He served as class president in three of them. He became a born-again Christian at age 13.
Jennifer Anne Affleck (née Garner; born April 17, 1972), better known as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress and film producer. Garner gained recognition on television for her performance as CIA agent Sydney Bristow in the thriller drama series Alias, which aired on ABC for five seasons from 2001 to 2006. While working on Alias, she gained minor roles in hit movies such as Pearl Harbor (2001) and Catch Me if You Can (2002). Since then, Garner has appeared in supporting as well as lead roles on the big screen in projects including Daredevil (2003), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Elektra (2005), a spin-off of Daredevil, and Juno (2007). She is married to actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom she has two daughters and a son.
Her mother, Patricia Ann (née English), was an English teacher from Oklahoma, and her father, William "Bill" John Garner, worked as a chemical engineer at Union Carbide. When she was four years old, her father's job with Union Carbide relocated her family to Princeton, West Virginia, and then later to Charleston, West Virginia, where Garner resided until her college years. She has credited her older sister, Melissa Lynn Garner Wylie, who resides in Boston, Massachusetts, as a source of inspiration to her. Her younger sister is Susannah Kay Garner Carpenter.
Actors: John Kearns Jr. (actor), Dana DeArmond (actress), Larry Poindexter (actor), Joseph McKelheer (actor), Brandon Johnson (actor), Samantha Davis (miscellaneous crew), Lindsay Ames (actress), David Neher (actor), David Theune (actor), James Pumphrey (actor), Cale Hartmann (actor), Mekenna Melvin (actress), Logan Rees (miscellaneous crew), Mike Bradecich (actor), Paul James (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Deron Sedy (actor), Deron Sedy (writer), Mike Standish (producer), Mike Standish (director), Troy Fischnaller (actor), Kate Czajkowski (actress), Dusty Warren (actor), Andrew Wiener (editor), Cory Nealy (actor), Andrew Wiener (producer), Cory Nealy (writer), Andrew Wiener (director), David Swidler (actor), Josh Knisely (actor), Josh Knisely (writer),
Plot: Spoofing the plot of "The Da Vinci Code," this seven-part animated series follows Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the mysterious murder of Michael Douglas at Mann's Chinese Theatre leads them to a conspiracy as old as Hollywood itself.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: James Marsden (actor), Lenny Kravitz (actor), Lukas Haas (actor), Karl Lagerfeld (actor), Stephen Dorff (actor), Judah Friedlander (actor), Cuba Gooding Jr. (actor), David Duchovny (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Godfrey (actor), Andy Dick (actor), Lance Bass (actor), David Bowie (actor), Garry Shandling (actor), Patton Oswalt (actor),
Plot: Derek Zoolander is VH1's three time male model of the year, but when Hansel wins the award instead, Zoolander's world becomes upside down. His friends disappear, his father is disappointed in him, and he feels that he's not good as a model anymore. But when evil fashion guru Mugatu hires Zoolander, he thinks his life has turned back round again, that is until he finds out that Mugatu has actually brainwashed him to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Can Zoolander and his new friends find out how to prevent the incident before it's too late?
Keywords: 2000s, absurdism, assassination, assassination-attempt, bare-chested-male, based-on-sketch-comedy, betrayal, black-and-white-scene, blackface, brainwashing