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Newspaper delivery is the last stage of newspaper circulation consisting of distributing newspapers to consumers. One method of distributing newspapers is selling newspapers on the street, or in favorable locations, either by a "newsboy" or at a news stand, or in vending machines, but newspaper delivery generally refers to delivery to subscribers on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile. Historically this was done by adolescent boys using bicycles. Paperboys traditionally were and are still often portrayed on television and movies as preteen boys, often on a bicycle. Today, with the latest child labor laws most paper boys are aged 13 or over.
The position of paperboy occupies a prominent place in many countries including the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Japan. This is because it has long been the first paying job available to young teenagers, often male.
Despite that, the number of paperboys has declined greatly. This is due partly to the disappearance of afternoon newspapers, whose delivery times worked better for school-aged children than did those of morning papers which were typically delivered before 6 a.m. The numbers have also been affected by changing demographics, the availability of news and newspapers on the internet, employment laws and concern about the safety of un-escorted children, all of which have led many newspapers to switch to delivery by adults. Today, they are mainly used by weekly community newspapers and free shopper papers, which still tend to be delivered in the afternoons. Alternatively, sometimes paperboys are only employed once a week to deliver the paper on Sunday.
Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor and singer. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s and became known with his lead roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, and the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray. Efron has since starred in the films 17 Again, Me and Orson Welles, Charlie St. Cloud, New Year's Eve, and The Lucky One.
In 2007, Rolling Stone declared him the "poster boy for tweenyboppers" and featured him in their late August 2007 issue.
Efron was born in San Luis Obispo, California, and later moved to Arroyo Grande, California. His father, David Efron, is an electrical engineer at a power station, and his mother, Starla Baskett, is a former secretary who worked at the same power plant. Efron has a younger brother, Dylan, and had, as he has described it, a "normal childhood" in a middle class family. He is an agnostic, having never been religious. His surname, "Efron", means "lark" in Hebrew (his paternal grandfather was Jewish).
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress, singer, film producer, and humanitarian. Kidman began her career in 1983, starring in various Australian film and television productions until her breakthrough in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), and Batman Forever (1995). Kidman followed this with other successful films in the late 1990s. It was her performance in the musical, Moulin Rouge! (2001) which earned Kidman her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as Virginia Woolf the following year in the drama film The Hours (2002) received critical acclaim and earned Kidman the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Kidman's other notable films include To Die For (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), The Interpreter (2005), and Australia (2008). Her performance in 2010's Rabbit Hole (which she also produced) earned Kidman further accolades including a subsequent Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. Kidman's work has earned her a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, Australia's highest civilian honor, and was also the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry. As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States.
Actors: Todd Davis (actor), Christopher Cozort (actor), Elijah Chester (actor), Burgess Jenkins (director), Jennifer Russoli (actress), Millie Wannamaker (actress), James Alcorn (actor), Kerry Cashion (actress), Kathy Butler Sandvoss (actress), Cranston Johnson (actor), Tina Murphy (actress), Ian Boyd (actor), Ian Boyd (actor), Ashlee Payne (actress), James Patrick Freetly (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Laura Prepon (actress), Laura Prepon (editor), Laura Prepon (director), Laura Prepon (writer), Xander Bailey (actor), Jessica Mayorga (actress), Terasa Sciortino (actress), Caitlin O'Connor (actress), Kerby Joe Grubb (actor), Scott Michael Foster (actor), Felix Bird (composer), Scott Michael Foster (writer), Michael Prather (actor), Rock Anthony (actor), Lauren Bond (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Stacey T. Gillespie (actor), Sonny Burnette (actor), Claude Miles (actor), Russ Croley (actor), Bob C. Cooke (actor), Ron Bryant (writer), Michael Crisp (actor), Tristan Erwin (actor), John Worsham (actor), Cheryl Connelly (actress), Kayla Barbour (actress), Austin Adams (actor), Ron Elliot (actor), Tamara Gregory (actress), Ron Bryant (actor),
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Genres: Animation, Drama, Short,Actors: Astrid Adverbe (actress), Johan Corbeau (actor), Séverin Bavarel (actor), Aurélien Patouillard (actor), Stéphane Bonnici (writer), Stéphane Bonnici (director),
Genres: Short,Actors: Robert Ernst (writer), Robert Ernst (actor), Bruce Callarman (writer), Bruce Callarman (director), Bruce Callarman (producer), Bruce Callarman (editor), Janice Sakamoto (miscellaneous crew), Michael Blumlein (writer), Marcia Madrigal (miscellaneous crew), Sue Morris (miscellaneous crew), Sachem Arvidson (actor), Helen Seto (miscellaneous crew), Mark Henteleff (actor), Julia Gamburg (actress), Victoria Kauffman (actress),
Genres: Short, Thriller,Actors: Michael Imperioli (actor), John Turturro (actor), Wesley Snipes (actor), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Ossie Davis (actor), Steven Randazzo (actor), Tim Robbins (actor), Michael Badalucco (actor), Brad Dourif (actor), Charles Q. Murphy (actor), Spike Lee (actor), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), Anthony Quinn (actor), Frank Vincent (actor), Nicholas Turturro (actor),
Plot: A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Keywords: adultery, african-american, african-american-protagonist, architect, beating, bigot, black-american, black-man, black-man-white-woman-relationship, black-middle-classActors: Stella Stevens (actress), Jesse White (actor), Fergie Duhamel (actress), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Henry Gibson (actor), Paul Walker (actor), David McCharen (actor), Donald Moffat (actor), John Carradine (actor), Claude Akins (actor), Paul Dooley (actor), Howard Duff (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Lloyd Kaufman (producer), Michael Herz (producer),
Plot: Monster is a spoof of horror/monster films. After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic.
Keywords: arthouse, cult, four-word-title, independent-film, monster, mutant, reporter, scientist, spoofActors: Elizabeth Daily (actress), John Cusack (actor), Steven Williams (actor), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Curtis Collins (miscellaneous crew), Michael Jaffe (producer), David Ogden Stiers (actor), Rich Little (actor), Taylor Negron (actor), Yuji Okumoto (actor), Curtis Armstrong (actor), Rick Rosenthal (actor), Amanda Wyss (actress), David E. Van Houten (miscellaneous crew), Shelley Kirkwood (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Lane Meyer is a depressed teen who loses his girlfriend Beth. Her given reason for breaking up is: "Lane, I think it'd be in my best interest if I dated somebody more popular. Better looking. Drives a nicer car." Anyway, poor Lane is left alone and thinks up treacherous ways of killing himself. He finally meets a French beauty called Monique and falls for her. Simultaneously, he must endure his mother's terrible cooking which literally slides off the table and his disgusting next door neighbour Ricky (and his mum) while he prepares for the skiing race of his life - to get his old girlfriend back!
Keywords: absurd-humor, automobile, black-comedy, black-humor, boy-with-glasses, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cartoon-on-tv, chevrolet-camaro, christmas, clay-animationActors: Arthur Lake (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Jay Eaton (actor), Richard Fiske (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Robert Middlemass (actor),
Plot: A book salesman sells Blondie Bumstead a set of books on child training because he has convinced her that Baby Dumplin is a child prodigy. Meanwhile, J.C. Dithers, boss of Blondie's husband, Dagwood Bumstead, rips Dagwood for altering the plans on an apartment building the construction firm is building for Abner Cartwright and, to keep his job, Dagwood must get Cartwright to sign off on the changes - the latter refuses in order to escape from an unfavorable contract. Baby Dumpling, the genius, is registered at school and Daisy, accompanying him, is picked up by the dog-catcher on the way back home and taken to the pound. Daisy is adopted by Melinda Mason, the crippled daughter of one of the town's wealthiest men. Baby Dumpling looks everywhere and can not find Daisy, and plays hooky from school the next day. Immediately, Blondie and Dagwood suspect kidnapping, and Dagwood learns that Melinda, also missing, was last seen playing with a little boy and a dog. Dagwood promptly heads for the Mason estate, where he is even more promptly arrested as a kidnap suspect.
Keywords: based-on-comic, boss, character-name-in-title, chauffeur, contractor, disabled-person, dog, dogcatcher, dysfunctional-family, employer-employee-relationship