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J is the tenth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its normal name in English is jay /ˈdʒeɪ/ or jy /ˈdʒaɪ/; when used for the y sound, it may be called yod (/ˈjɒd/ or /ˈjoʊd/).
The letter j originated as a swash character, used for the letter i at the end of Roman numerals when following another i, as in xxiij instead of xxiii for the Roman numeral representing 23. A distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German.Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550) was the first to explicitly distinguish I and J as representing separate sounds, in his Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian language") of 1524. Originally, I and J were different shapes for the same letter, both equally representing /i/, /iː/, and /j/; but Romance languages developed new sounds (from former /j/ and /ɡ/) that came to be represented as I and J; therefore, English J, acquired from the French J, has a sound value quite different from /j/ (which represents the sound in the English word "yet").
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Perry grew up with gospel music, and during her first year of high school she pursued a music career as Katy Hudson, releasing her first studio album called Katy Hudson which failed to chart. She recorded a solo album later, which was never released. After signing with Capitol Music Group in 2007, her fourth record label in seven years, she adopted the stage name Katy Perry.
She first gained recognition with the release of her first mainstream album, One of the Boys in 2008, which spawned three Billboard Hot 100 top-ten songs—"I Kissed A Girl", "Hot n Cold" and "Waking Up In Vegas". Perry supported the album with her Hello Katy Tour. In 2010, her third studio album, Teenage Dream (2010), which topped the Billboard 200 chart, and spawned five number one singles—"California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"—Teenage Dream was the only album (after Michael Jackson's Bad)—to do so, and the first female in history to achieve this milestone. She embarked on the California Dreams Tour, which grossed nearly $60 million worldwide. Perry re-released the album under the name of Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection on March 26, 2012, and the re-release has already spawned the number-one single "Part of Me".
Dark horse is a term used to describe a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.
The term began as horse racing parlance. A dark horse is a race horse that is not known to gamblers and thus is difficult to place betting odds on.
The earliest-known use of the phrase is in Benjamin Disraeli's novel The Young Duke (1831). Disraeli's protagonist, the Duke of St. James, attends a horse race with a surprise finish: "A dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph."
The term has been used politically in such countries as Peru, Philippines and United States.
Politically, the term reached America in the nineteenth century when it was first applied to James K. Polk, a relatively unknown Tennessee Democrat who won the Democratic Party's 1844 presidential nomination over a host of better-known candidates. Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot, and went on to win the presidential election.
Actors: Joop Agema (actor), Joop Agema (writer), Joop Agema (director), Joop Agema (editor), Jan-Hessel de Haan (actor),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Javier Cámara (actor), Isabel Coixet (director), Isabel Coixet (writer), Isabel Coixet (producer), Candela Peña (actress), Manuel Monzón (producer), Alfonso de Vilallonga (composer), Adolfo Blanco (producer), Belén Funes (miscellaneous crew), Carla Sospedra (producer), Agnès Bonet (costume designer), Jordi Azategui (editor), Arantxa Roca (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Marco Banderas (actor), Steve Crest (actor), Jake Jacobs (actor), Lee Stone (actor), Keni Styles (actor), Jeanie Marie Sullivan (actress), Jenna Rose (actress), Ava Jay (actress), Ashley Abbott (actress), Becky Brielle (actress),
Genres: Adult,Actors: RuPaul (actor), Michael Lucas (producer), Boy George (actor), Michael Musto (actor), Randy Jones (actor), Bruce Vilanch (actor), Michael Lucas (actor), The Lady Bunny (actress), Gerald McCullouch (actor), Amanda Lepore (actress), Wilfried Knight (actor), Steven Polito (actor), Ben Patrick Johnson (actor), Dan Renzi (actor), Mickey Skee (actor),
Plot: Turning the gay adult industry on its cock-eyed (cock-heavy?) ear, Michael Lucas' Dangerous Liaisons quickly became one of the most-talked about gay porns of 2005. Purportedly one of the most expensive endeavors of its type ever, Lucas' adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' thrice-filmed classic novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" updates the action to today's New York fashion world. Taking the already deliciously nasty scenario to even tastier levels, the sexual tension and antics that were only alluded to in previous incarnations are now played out for viewers in gloriously nasty, fully-hardcore sexual trysts. But what really raised eyebrows were the high-profile non-porn personalities who popped up in the film: Amanda Lepore, Boy George, Bruce Vilanch, Graham Norton, Hedda Lettuce, Lady Bunny, The Village Voice's Michael Musto and RuPaul all make appearances (thankfully in non-sexual roles -- sorry, Bunny!). The gamble paid off: the film was an instant smash with critics as well as with porn-fiends everywhere, garnering the year's most GayVN Award nominations (13) and scoring four, including nods for its killer screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Kent Larson and a tie for Best Picture of the Year. Here now is your chance to go behind-the-scenes and see not only the creation of this sizzling flick, but also hear from the participants and industry elite. You'll hear insightful and witty (and uproariously filthy) comments from such luminaries as the irrepressible Bruce Vilanch, Lady Bunny, RuPaul, and glamazon Amanda Lapore, as well the film's cavalcade of drop-dead gorgeous (and frequently fully naked) lead actors. Some of the best lines are delivered by Mr. Lucas himself, whose refreshingly candid and self deprecating delivery is sure to win over even non-fans. Make no mistake, though -- there's plenty of fully explicit flesh on display here. This World Premiere will be followed by a panel discussion to be moderated by Michael Musto. Also scheduled to appear live and in person will be Bruce Vilanch, Michael Lucas, porn star (and cast member) J., Matthew Roberts and other surprise guests.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, hardcore, sexActors: Brandon E. Brooks (actor), Brandon E. Brooks (producer), Charlie McDermott (actor), Dave Manzo (editor), Amy Carlson (actress), Michael Jacques (actor), Adam C. Edwards (actor), Kathilynn Phillips (director), Kathilynn Phillips (writer), Kathilynn Phillips (producer), Gildart Jackson (actor), Laurence Lau (actor), David Forsyth (actor), Maurice Lavelle (actor), Chrystopher Ryan Johnson (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: J. Horton (writer), J. Horton (editor), J. Horton (director), J. Horton (producer), Blaine Cade (producer), Blaine Cade (actor), Robert Valentino Kitchen (actor), Robert Bravo (producer), Chantal Koerner (actress), Maximilian Kabong (composer), Shannon Hubbell (director), Shannon Hubbell (producer), Stephen Kayo (producer), Shannon Hubbell (writer), Shannon Hubbell (editor),
Plot: The apocalypse has arrived. Seven strangers escape a fiery blast that has engulfed the city. Refuge is found in an abandoned government building. Trapped with nowhere to go, they soon realize they are not alone. Something sinister, hidden in the shadows, is slowly killing them off one by one. A game of survival has begun. Become the hunter or become the hunted.
Keywords: apocalypse, monster, salad, siegeActors: Olegar Fedoro (actor), Lucy Davenport (actress), Jamie Rafn (editor), Sam Eastall (editor), Pamela Mandell (actress), Jamie Rafn (producer), Jamie Rafn (director), Jamie Rafn (writer), William Wilde (actor), Amanda Haberland (actress), Livy Armstrong (actor), Tim Fitzhigham (actor), Emma Poole (actress), Imogen Cooper (producer), Andrew Heath (actor),
Plot: A deadly serial pyromaniac is preying on young women in London's Soho district. Assigned to the case is a laconic deputy police investigator (Biggs) with a troubled history, a fondness for drink and haunted memories. When he meets a bartender (Haberland) in a Soho club who reminds him of someone from his past, the detective finds he is rapidly getting closer to the perpetrator of the horrific crimes.
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Jack Ogilvie (editor), Tristram Coffin (actor), John Dilson (actor), Frank Faylen (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Paul Maxey (actor), John Maxwell (actor), Frank Melton (actor), George Morrell (actor), Gene O'Donnell (actor), Edward Peil Sr. (actor), Jed Prouty (actor), George Waggner (writer), Jean Yarbrough (director),
Plot: A remake of Monogram's 1934 "City Limits" with practically all of the character role names the same as in the earlier film, and the primary difference here is that the author of the original story, Jack Woodford, receives no mention here. George Waggner (as Joseph West),who adapted the story for the first film, takes an "original screenplay" credit here with no nod in the direction of the man who wrote the story in the first place. A glance at a few Universal B-westerns Waggner "wrote" for Bob Baker will find that the majority of them had also been written before by other writers, mostly in the John Wayne Lone Star westerns. Edmond Kelso's additional dialogue credit must have been for the interplay between Frank Faylen's and Charlie Hall's hobo characters, especially when Faylen starts explaining why the sixty-cent dollar is still worth a dollar in a 40-year precursor to voo-doo economics. Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R; vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.
Keywords: remakeActors: Charles C. Wilson (actor), Roland Young (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), William Frawley (actor), Roland Young (actor), Reginald Owen (actor), Reginald Owen (actor), Albert Petit (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), Fred Santley (actor), Rolfe Sedan (actor), Frederick Sullivan (actor), Akim Tamiroff (actor), Cecilia Parker (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Challis Sanderson (director), Johnny Butt (actor), Lionelle Howard (actor), Florence Turner (actress), Percy Nash (producer), H. Manning Haynes (writer), H. Manning Haynes (actor), Lydia Hayward (writer), Eva Westlake (actress), Jerome K. Jerome (writer), George Redman (producer), Edward C. Bright (actor),
Genres: Comedy,White the wall white the wall
White the wall plaster never catch on
The white wall plaster never catch on
You always have to do it with a big Long John
White the wall plaster it never catch on
We riding in pink with the walls
And the balls and the fetus
And the pink in the walls
And the bike and the fetus
And the pink in the walls
With the stripes and the pedals