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Spiro Theodore Agnew (pronunciation: /ˈspɪroʊ ˈæɡnjuː/; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States (1969–1973), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland (1967–1969). He was the first Greek American to hold these offices.
During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the United States Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000, while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, Governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States. On October 10, 1973, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President. Nixon replaced him by appointing by then House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to the office of Vice President.
Actors: John Bennett (director), John Bennett (writer), Diana Parks (actress), John Bennett (editor), John Bennett (producer), Anna Bennett (actress), Anna Bennett (miscellaneous crew), John Tune (actor), Daniel Sakamoto-Wengel (actor), Dorian Borsella (actress), David Owen (actor), Annie Brennen (actress), Katy Bullard (actress), Molly Dillon (actress), Kurt Huppert (actor),
Plot: Quiche Lorraine and Crepe Suzette are two adult women who delight in committing petty crimes. When those crimes don't get them the media attention they want, they plot to kidnap Natasha Helmsley, a spoiled heiress to a steamed crab company fortune, Meanwhile, three friends in their late teens, Vince, Valerie, and Vera aimlessly hang out in and around Baltimore, lightly trying to make sense of their various problems. As the film progresses, the two stories begin to gently overlap, ultimately making the film a daffy farce with a wry smile.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Tony Hale (actor), Tony Hale (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Matt Besser (actor), John Fleck (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Dermot Mulroney (actor), Tony Hale (actor),
Plot: Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victoria-era toy theater, Dante's Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th century literary classic. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets, and without the use of CGI effects, this unusual travelogue takes viewers on a tour of hell. And what we find there, looks a lot like the modern world. Sporting a hoodie and a hang-over from the previous night's debauchery, Dante wakes to find he is lost - physically and metaphorically - in a strange part of town. He asks the first guy he sees for some help: The ancient Roman poet Virgil, wearing a mullet and what looks like a brown bathrobe. Having no one else to turn to, Dante's quickly convinced that his only means for survival is to follow Virgil voyage down, down through the depths of Hell. The pair cross into the underworld and there Virgil shows Dante the underbelly of the Inferno, which closely resembles the decayed landscape of modern urban life. Dante and Virgil's chronicles are set against a familiar backdrop of used car lots, strip malls, gated communities, airport security checks, and the U.S. Capitol. Here, hot tubs simmer with sinners, and the river Styx is engorged with sewage swimmers. Also familiar is the contemporary cast of presidents, politicians, popes and pop-culture icons sentenced to eternal suffering of the most cruel and unusual kind: Heads sewn on backwards, bodies wrenched in half, never-ending blow jobs, dancing to techno for eternity, and last, but certainly not least, an inside look at Lucifer himself, from the point of view of a fondue-dunked human appetizer. Each creatively horrific penance suits the crime, and the soul who perpetrated it. As Dante spirals through the nine circles of hell, he comes to understand the underworld's merciless machinery of punishment, emerging a new man destined to change the course of his life. But not, of course, the brand of his beer.
Keywords: allegory, anger, astrologer, based-on-novel, catholic, dante's-inferno, dick-cheney, divine-comedy, fraud, gluttonyActors: Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Richard Fancy (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Michael Chiklis (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), John Diehl (actor), Fidel Castro (actor), Tom Bower (actor), Jimmy Carter (actor), George Bush (actor), Bill Clinton (actor), Powers Boothe (actor), Gerald Ford (actor), Gerald Ford (actor),
Plot: Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Yet, although wholly lacking in charisma, Nixon remains a brilliant political operator, seizing the opportunity provided by the backlash against the antiwar movement to take the presidency in 1968. It is only when safely in office, running far ahead in the polls for the 1972 presidential election, that his growing paranoia comes to full flower, triggering the Watergate scandal.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, alcoholism, american-president, brother-brother-relationship, campaign, career, character-name-in-titleActors: Bob Einstein (director), Bob Einstein (actor), Dick Enberg (actor), Oliver Hardy (actor), Bruce Kirby (actor), Stan Laurel (actor), Rich Little (actor), Steve Martin (actor), Hal Smith (actor), Tom Smothers (producer), Bob Einstein (writer), Robert Emenegger (composer), Stanley Adams (actor), Jonathan Haze (producer), Norman Grabowski (actor),
Genres: Comedy,So broken,
In pieces,
My heart is so broken,
I'm puzzling.
Here I go
Trying to run ahead of that,
Heart break train,
Thinking,
It will never catch up with me.
I'm so broken,
heðan-biður-afte-care,
So broken,
heðan-biður-afte-care,
Yeah, ha-ee, ha-ee, ha-mmm,
heðan-biður,
** Icelandic part **
Wooh-ahhh-hmm...
I'm trying to land,
This aeroplane of ours gracefully,
But it seems just destined to crash,
I'm so broken,
heðan-biður-afte-care,
My heart is so broken,
heðan-biður-afte-care,
Yeah, ha-ee, ha-ee, ha-mmm,
** Icelandic part **
How can, how can,
And I sense
All continuity
Has vanished away
At one step at a time now baby, baby
I'm so broken
heðan-liður-afte-care
I'm-m-m-mmm... so broken
heðan-biður-afte-care
Yeah, ha-ee, ha-ee, ha-mmm
** Icelandic part **
I'm so...
Completely unhealable, baby
Ohhh!
Ohh-er-him
I'm so broken
Ahh-eða-miður-afte-care
Yeah, ha-ee, ha-ee, ha-mmm
En-lickel-afte-sjólvar
En-neon-co-cole-ah-ahh
Neo-sasar-ohh
En-mi-sshh...