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Antarctica
Antarctica
This map uses an orthographic projection, near-polar aspect. The South Pole is near the center, where longitudinal lines converge.
Antarctica (
i/æntˈɑrtɨkə/ or /ænˈtɑːktɨkə/) is Earth's southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.0 million km2 (5.4 million sq mi), it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia. About 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages at least 1 mile (1.6 km) in thickness.
Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is considered a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 inches) along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89 °C (−129 °F). There are no permanent human residents, but anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people reside throughout the year at the research stations scattered across the continent. Only cold-adapted organisms survive there, including many types of algae, animals (for example mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades), bacteria, fungi, plants, and protista. Vegetation where it occurs is tundra.
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Burma
Burmai/ˈbɜrmə/ BUR-mə, also known as Myanmar i/ˌmjɑːnˈmɑr/ MYAHN--MAR, is a country in South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is bordered by India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand. One-third of Burma's total perimeter of 1,930 kilometres (1,200 mi) forms an uninterrupted coastline along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. At 676,578 km2 (261,227 sq mi), it is the 40th largest country in the world and the second largest country in Southeast Asia. Burma is also the 24th most populous country in the world with over 60.28 million people.
Burma is home to some of the early civilizations of Southeast Asia including the Pyu and the Mon. In the 9th century, the Burmans of the Kingdom of Nanzhao, entered the upper Irrawaddy valley and, following the establishment of the Pagan Empire in the 1050s, the Burmese language and culture slowly became dominant in the country. During this period, Theravada Buddhism gradually became the predominant religion of the country. The Pagan Empire fell due to the Mongol invasions (1277–1301), and several warring states emerged. In the second half of the 16th century, the country was reunified by the Taungoo Dynasty which for a brief period was the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia. The early 19th century Konbaung Dynasty ruled over an area that included modern Burma as well as Manipur and Assam. The country was colonized by Britain following three Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824–1885).
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Dominica
Dominica (
/ˌdɒmɪˈniːkə/ DOM-i-NEE-kə;French: Dominique; Kali‘na (Carib): Wai‘tu kubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is 750 square kilometres (290 sq mi) and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of 1,447 metres (4,747 ft). The Commonwealth of Dominica had a population of 71,293 at the 2011 Census. The capital is Roseau.
Dominica has been nicknamed the "Nature Isle of the Caribbean" for its unspoiled natural beauty. It is the youngest island in the Lesser Antilles, still being formed by geothermal-volcanic activity, as evidenced by the world's second-largest hot spring, Boiling Lake. The island features lush mountainous rainforests, home of many rare plant, animal, and bird species. There are xeric areas in some of the western coastal regions, but heavy rainfall can be expected inland. The Sisserou Parrot (also known as the Imperial Amazon), the island's national bird, is featured on the national flag. Dominica's economy is heavily dependent on tourism, agriculture and heavy taxation.
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Egypt
Egypt
i/ˈiːdʒɪpt/ (Arabic: مصر, Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: [mɑsˤɾ] ; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Kīmi ; Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲏⲙⲉ, Kēme), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة (help·info), is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi), Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.
Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East. The great majority of its over 81 million people live near the banks of the Nile River, in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia (
/ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/) (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With its capital at Addis Ababa, it is also the most populous landlocked nation in the world.
Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history, and the Ethiopian dynasty traces its roots to the 2nd century BC. Ethiopia is also one of the oldest sites of human existence known to scientists today, having yielded some of humanity's oldest traces. It may be the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and points beyond. Alongside Rome, Persia, China and India, the Ethiopian Aksum Empire was considered one of the great world powers of the 3rd century. During the Scramble for Africa, Ethiopia was the only African country beside Liberia that retained its sovereignty as a recognized independent country, and was one of only four African members of the League of Nations. After a brief period of Italian occupation, Ethiopia became a charter member of the United Nations. When other African nations received their independence following World War II, many of them adopted the colors of Ethiopia's flag, and Addis Ababa became the location of several international organizations focused on Africa.
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India
India (i/ˈɪndiə/), officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
Home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four of the world's major religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism—originated here, whereas Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived in the 1st millennium CE and also helped shape the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by and brought under the administration of the British East India Company from the early 18th century and administered directly by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by non-violent resistance led by Mahatma Gandhi.
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Kenya
Kenya ( /ˈkɛnjə/ or /ˈkiːnjə/), officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator. With the Indian Ocean to its south-east, it is bordered by Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, South Sudan to the north-west, Ethiopia to the north and Somalia to the north-east. Kenya has a land area of 580,000 km2 and a population of nearly 41 million, representing 42 different peoples and cultures. The country is named after Mount Kenya, a significant landmark and second among Africa's highest mountain peaks. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi.
Kenya has a warm and humid climate along its coastline on the Indian Ocean which changes to wildlife-rich savannah grasslands moving inland towards the capital Nairobi. Nairobi has a cool climate that gets colder approaching Mount Kenya, which has three permanently snow-capped peaks. The warm and humid tropical climate reappears further inland towards lake Victoria, before giving way to temperate forested and hilly areas in the western region. The North Eastern regions along the border with Somalia and Ethiopia are arid and semi-arid areas with near-desert landscapes. Lake Victoria, the world's second largest fresh-water lake (after Lake Superior in the US and Canada) and the world's largest tropical lake, is situated to the southwest and is shared with Uganda and Tanzania. Kenya is famous for its safaris and diverse world-famous wildlife reserves such as Tsavo National Park, the Maasai Mara, Nakuru National Park, and Aberdares National Park.
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Mexico City
Mexico City ( /ˈmɛksɨkoʊ ˈsɪti/; Spanish: Ciudad de México [sjuˈðað ðe ˈmexiko], also known as México D.F., or simply D.F.) is the Federal District (Distrito Federal), capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. Mexico City is the country's largest city as well as its most important political, cultural, educational and financial center.
As an "alpha" global city Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in North America. It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres (7,350 ft). The city consists of sixteen boroughs.
The 2009 estimated population for the city proper was around 8.84 million people, and has a land area of 1,485 square kilometres (573 sq mi). According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the Mexico City metropolitan area population is 21.2 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the fifth largest agglomeration in the world.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (Afrikaans: Republiek van Namibië, German: Republik Namibia (help·info)), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.
The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen, Damara, and Namaqua, and since about the 14th century AD by immigrating Bantu who came with the Bantu expansion. It became a German Imperial protectorate in 1884 and remained a German colony until the end of World War I. In 1920, the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its laws and, from 1948, its apartheid policy.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (i/ʃriː ˈlɑːŋkə/, /sriːˈlɑːŋkə/, or /sriːˈlæŋkə/;Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාව, Tamil: இலங்கை), is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. Known until 1972 as Ceylon ( /sɨˈlɒn/, /seɪˈlɒn/, or /siːˈlɒn/), Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar, the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the Maldives.
As a result of its location in the path of major sea routes, Sri Lanka is a strategic naval link between West Asia and South East Asia. It was an important stop on the ancient Silk Road. Sri Lanka has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times, being the nation where the Buddhist teachings were first written down as well as the oldest continually Buddhist country. Sri Lanka boasts a diverse range of cultures, languages and religions. The Sinhalese people form the majority of the population; Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island, form the largest ethnic minority. Other communities include Moors, Burghers, Kaffirs, Malays and the aboriginal Vedda people.
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Switzerland
Switzerland (German: die Schweiz[ˈʃvaɪts]; French: Suisse [sɥis(ə)]; Italian: Svizzera [ˈzvit͡sːɛra]; Romansh: Svizra [ˈʒviːtsrɐ] or [ˈʒviːtsʁːɐ]), in its full name the Swiss Confederation (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, hence its abbreviation CH), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in western Europe, where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8 million people is concentrated mostly on the Plateau, where the largest cities are to be found. Among them are the two global cities and economic centres of Zurich and Geneva.
The Swiss Confederation has a long history of armed neutrality—it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815—and did not join the United Nations until 2002. It pursues, however, an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. Switzerland is also the birthplace of the Red Cross and home to a large number of international organizations, including the second largest UN office. On the European level, it is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association and is part of the Schengen Area – although it is notably not a member of the European Union, nor the European Economic Area.
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京, Tōkyō?, "Eastern Capital") [toːkʲoː], English /ˈtoʊki.oʊ/; officially Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to?), is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of the world. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family. Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture (東京府, Tōkyō-fu?) and the city of Tokyo (東京市, Tōkyō-shi?).
The Tokyo Metropolitan government administers the 23 special wards of Tokyo (each governed as a city), which cover the area that was the city of Tokyo, as well as 39 municipalities in the western part of the prefecture and the two outlying island chains. The population of the special wards is over 8 million people, with the total population of the prefecture exceeding 13 million. The prefecture is part of the world's most populous metropolitan area with upwards of 35 million people and the world's largest urban agglomeration economy with a GDP of US$1.479 trillion at purchasing power parity in 2008, ahead of New York City metropolitan area, which ranks second on the list. The city hosts 47 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, the highest amount of any city.
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Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a sovereign state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of ocean in the South Pacific. Fifty-two of the islands are inhabited.
The Kingdom stretches over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line located at about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaii.
Tonga also became known as the Friendly Islands because of the friendly reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit there in 1773. He happened to arrive at the time of the ʻinasi festival, the yearly donation of the first fruits to the Tuʻi Tonga, the islands' paramount chief, and received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, in reality the chiefs had wanted to kill Cook during the gathering, but could not agree on a plan.
Tonga is also the only island nation in the region to have avoided formal colonisation. In 2010, Tonga took a decisive step towards becoming a fully functioning constitutional monarchy after legislative reforms paved the way for its first ever fully representative elections which resulted in the election of Noble Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō as its first democratically elected Prime Minister.
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Toronto
Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/, colloquially /ˈtrɒnoʊ/) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from the Mississaugas of the New Credit. The settlement was later established as the Town of York and proclaimed as the new capital of Upper Canada by its lieutenant-governor, John Graves Simcoe. In 1834, York was incorporated as a city and renamed to its present name. The city was ransacked in the Battle of York during the War of 1812 and damaged in two great fires in 1849 and in 1904. Since its incorporation, Toronto has repeatedly expanded its borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities, most recently in 1998.
With over 2.6 million residents, it is the fifth most populous city in North America. Its metropolitan area has over 5.5 million residents. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which has a population of nearly 9 million people as of 2011. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,583,064, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 6,054,191 in the 2011 Census. Its cosmopolitan and international population reflects its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, with about 49% of the population born outside Canada. Toronto is also consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living Survey.
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Gregory Colbert
Gregory Colbert (born 1960 in Toronto) is a Canadian film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.
Colbert's first exhibition, Timewaves, opened in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland to wide critical acclaim. For the next ten years, Colbert did not publicly exhibit his art or show any films. Instead, he traveled to such places as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, and Antarctica to film and photograph interactions between human beings and animals. Since 1992, he has launched more than sixty such expeditions, and has collaborated with over 130 species. Elephants, whales, manatees, sacred ibis, Antigone cranes, royal eagles, Gyr falcons, rhinoceros hornbills, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs, caracals, baboons, eland, meerkats, gibbons, orangutans, and saltwater crocodiles are among the animals he has filmed and photographed. Human subjects include Burmese monks, trance dancers, San people, and other indigenous tribes from around the world.
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Colbert, Gregory Filmography
- Unity (2012)
- TED: The Future We Will Create (2007)
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One on One - Gregory Colbert
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- Duration: 22:41
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
The unique artwork of Gregory Colbert is recognised around the world for his ability to capture moments of intersection between humans and wildlife that are seemingly impossible. The photographer and filmmaker talks about his career and the inspiration behind his art.
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The unique artwork of Gregory Colbert is recognised around the world for his ability to capture moments of intersection between humans and wildlife that are seemingly impossible. The photographer and filmmaker talks about his career and the inspiration behind his art.
Ashes and Snow- Feather to Fire
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- Duration: 6:23
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
www.facebook.com Gregory Colbert has used both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. His exhibition, Ashes and Snow, consists of over 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a 60-minute film, and two 9-minute film haikus. This excerpt is entitled Feather to Fire, and is narrated in three languages by Laurence Fishburne (English), Ken Watanabe (Japanese), and Enrique Rocha (Spanish). More information about Gregory Colbert and Ashes and Snow is available at www.gregorycolbert.com. Ashes and Snow® and Nomadic Museum® are registered trademarks of Gregory Colbert.
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www.facebook.com Gregory Colbert has used both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. His exhibition, Ashes and Snow, consists of over 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a 60-minute film, and two 9-minute film haikus. This excerpt is entitled Feather to Fire, and is narrated in three languages by Laurence Fishburne (English), Ken Watanabe (Japanese), and Enrique Rocha (Spanish). More information about Gregory Colbert and Ashes and Snow is available at www.gregorycolbert.com. Ashes and Snow® and Nomadic Museum® are registered trademarks of Gregory Colbert.
- published: 30 Jul 2007
- views: 1426099
- author: AshesandSnowNY
Flying Elephants Presents Part I
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
www.facebook.com Flying Elephants Productions Presents "Ashes and Snow", an exhibition by Gregory Colbert. The show has previously traveled to Venice, New York, Santa Monica, Tokyo, and Mexico City. Since its debut, more than 10 million people have seen Ashes and Snow in the past 5 years. This clip is the first part of the most recent 11-minute cut which highlights the evolution of Gregory Colbert's masterwork. The show will next migrate to Brazil in the fall of 2009. For more information and to purchase the DVD please visit www.gregorycolbert.com
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www.facebook.com Flying Elephants Productions Presents "Ashes and Snow", an exhibition by Gregory Colbert. The show has previously traveled to Venice, New York, Santa Monica, Tokyo, and Mexico City. Since its debut, more than 10 million people have seen Ashes and Snow in the past 5 years. This clip is the first part of the most recent 11-minute cut which highlights the evolution of Gregory Colbert's masterwork. The show will next migrate to Brazil in the fall of 2009. For more information and to purchase the DVD please visit www.gregorycolbert.com
- published: 23 Jun 2008
- views: 484589
- author: AshesandSnowNY
Flying Elephants Presents Part 2
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- Duration: 8:38
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
www.facebook.com Flying Elephants Productions presents "Ashes and Snow", an exhibition by Gregory Colbert. The show has previously migrated to Venice, New York, Santa Monica, Tokyo and Mexico City. Since its debut, more than 10 million people have seen Ashes and Snow. This clip is the second part of the most recent 11-minute cut which highlights the evolution of Gregory Colbert's masterwork. For more information and to purchase the DVD please visit www.gregorycolbert.com
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www.facebook.com Flying Elephants Productions presents "Ashes and Snow", an exhibition by Gregory Colbert. The show has previously migrated to Venice, New York, Santa Monica, Tokyo and Mexico City. Since its debut, more than 10 million people have seen Ashes and Snow. This clip is the second part of the most recent 11-minute cut which highlights the evolution of Gregory Colbert's masterwork. For more information and to purchase the DVD please visit www.gregorycolbert.com
- published: 23 Jun 2008
- views: 500147
- author: AshesandSnowNY
Gregory Colbert interview, intervista San Patrignano
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- Duration: 3:19
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
Gregory Colbert interview, intervista San Patrignano 13 gennaio 2012
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Gregory Colbert interview, intervista San Patrignano 13 gennaio 2012
- published: 16 Jan 2012
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Gregory Colbert y la belleza de lo simple 1 (entrevista)
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- Duration: 2:41
- Updated: 11 Aug 2012
Gregory Colbert, el genial fotógrafo y autor de la grandiosa exposición "Ashes and Snow", en una larga entrevista con el periodista Joaquín López-Dóriga. Fundación Televisa y Fundación Telmex patrocinan esta exposición de Colbert, que continúa presentándose en el Museo Nómada, en el Zócalo de la ciudad de México. En este segmento de la entrevista, Colbert destaca que su fuente de inspiración es la naturaleza y el sobrecogimiento que siente frente a espectáculos como los elefantes nadando bajo el agua. Esa misma sensación es la que quiso que se reprodujera en el espacio que alberga la exposición "Ashes and Snow", el cual fue diseñado por el arquitecto colombiano Velez sobre la premisa de crear un lugar emocional y cálido, opuesto a espacios fríos e intelectuales (parte 1 de 5).
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Gregory Colbert, el genial fotógrafo y autor de la grandiosa exposición "Ashes and Snow", en una larga entrevista con el periodista Joaquín López-Dóriga. Fundación Televisa y Fundación Telmex patrocinan esta exposición de Colbert, que continúa presentándose en el Museo Nómada, en el Zócalo de la ciudad de México. En este segmento de la entrevista, Colbert destaca que su fuente de inspiración es la naturaleza y el sobrecogimiento que siente frente a espectáculos como los elefantes nadando bajo el agua. Esa misma sensación es la que quiso que se reprodujera en el espacio que alberga la exposición "Ashes and Snow", el cual fue diseñado por el arquitecto colombiano Velez sobre la premisa de crear un lugar emocional y cálido, opuesto a espacios fríos e intelectuales (parte 1 de 5).
- published: 22 Apr 2008
- views: 30453
- author: ramiropuentes77
Enigma Beyond Invisible
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- Duration: 4:56
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Video is from movie ASHES and SNOW made by GREGORY COLBERT and is a great movie. Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible
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Video is from movie ASHES and SNOW made by GREGORY COLBERT and is a great movie. Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible Enigma Beyond Invisible
- published: 18 Aug 2011
- views: 9667
- author: ileanalang
The Great White South
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- Duration: 0:36
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Before setting off on his 1914 expedition to Antarctica, the legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton advertised: "Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success." --posted for you by GC
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Before setting off on his 1914 expedition to Antarctica, the legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton advertised: "Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success." --posted for you by GC
- published: 04 Apr 2012
- views: 1660
- author: gregorycolbert
Gregory Colbert Quotes
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
What was your favorite Gregory Colbert quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is Gregory Colbert? a Canadian film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.
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Donovan Olsen y Gregory Colbert en el DF.
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Donovan Olsen del Notifiero de Brozo y Gregory Colbert en el DF. 25 de Enero.
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Donovan Olsen del Notifiero de Brozo y Gregory Colbert en el DF. 25 de Enero.
- published: 28 Jan 2008
- views: 3884
- author: thade64
Jessica Capshaw@Celebration of Gregory Colbert's 'Ashes and Snow'
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- Updated: 15 Apr 2012
Opening Celebration of Gregory Colbert's 'Ashes and Snow' Exhibition arrivals Jessica Capshaw at the Opening Celebration of Gregory Colbert's 'Ashes and Snow' Exhibition arrivals at the Nomadic Museum in Santa Monica, California on January 12, 2006.
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Opening Celebration of Gregory Colbert's 'Ashes and Snow' Exhibition arrivals Jessica Capshaw at the Opening Celebration of Gregory Colbert's 'Ashes and Snow' Exhibition arrivals at the Nomadic Museum in Santa Monica, California on January 12, 2006.
- published: 16 Feb 2012
- views: 659
- author: mkriszti2
Stephen Colbert as Gregory Peck
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Dana Carvey Show Episode 3
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Gregory Farr "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" (Keary Colbert Tribute to Fred Matua)
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- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
Find/Add me on Facebook: Facebook.com/GregoryFarr Follow me on Twitter: @Gregory_Farr RIP#51 Fred Matua. Unfortunately life once again deals its cards and we are left to play the hand. we all deal with death and mourn in our own way. Hopefully this gesture provides some comfort to those friends and family who were effected by his passing. Special thanks to Keary Colbert for putting this idea in motion. please share this on your page if you were fortunate enough to know big Fred "Heaven Just got a little bit louder" #FightOn!
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Find/Add me on Facebook: Facebook.com/GregoryFarr Follow me on Twitter: @Gregory_Farr RIP#51 Fred Matua. Unfortunately life once again deals its cards and we are left to play the hand. we all deal with death and mourn in our own way. Hopefully this gesture provides some comfort to those friends and family who were effected by his passing. Special thanks to Keary Colbert for putting this idea in motion. please share this on your page if you were fortunate enough to know big Fred "Heaven Just got a little bit louder" #FightOn!
- published: 19 Aug 2012
- views: 1670
- author: Gregory Farr
The Real Stephen Colbert Visits Meet the Press, David Gregory
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- Duration: 16:36
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Stephen Colbert's ability to fully inhabit the identity of "Stephen Colbert," the bloviating conservative pundit, is one of the more consistent pleasures of tuning in to "The Colbert Report." As a result, catching a glimpse of Colbert without the quotation marks is a little like seeing KISS without the makeup -- only less disappointing. While the real Colbert tends to be a little press shy, he's come out of hiding in recent weeks to promote "America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't," the latest book by his onscreen counterpart. He made his latest appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Stephen Colbert wears his religion in his punch lines Stephen Colbert mocks critics of VP debate moderator Martha Raddatz Stephen Colbert disappointed to learn Jesus may have had a wife The real Colbert took a few minutes to emerge. Host David Gregory began the sit-down with a warm welcome, to which Colbert replied, "I cannot wait to meet the press. Bring them in!" From there, Colbert the character boasted that his preferred candidate, Mitt Romney, was on a "rocket ride to plausible" after his successful showing in the first presidential debate. The real Colbert expressed amazement at how Romney's debate showing had completely transformed Republicans' view of their nominee. "Now he's got his long, luscious coattails, and everybody's jumping on board," he said. Gregory also asked Colbert whether there was a point to his satire, which, for anyone who's ever watched "The ...
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Stephen Colbert's ability to fully inhabit the identity of "Stephen Colbert," the bloviating conservative pundit, is one of the more consistent pleasures of tuning in to "The Colbert Report." As a result, catching a glimpse of Colbert without the quotation marks is a little like seeing KISS without the makeup -- only less disappointing. While the real Colbert tends to be a little press shy, he's come out of hiding in recent weeks to promote "America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't," the latest book by his onscreen counterpart. He made his latest appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Stephen Colbert wears his religion in his punch lines Stephen Colbert mocks critics of VP debate moderator Martha Raddatz Stephen Colbert disappointed to learn Jesus may have had a wife The real Colbert took a few minutes to emerge. Host David Gregory began the sit-down with a warm welcome, to which Colbert replied, "I cannot wait to meet the press. Bring them in!" From there, Colbert the character boasted that his preferred candidate, Mitt Romney, was on a "rocket ride to plausible" after his successful showing in the first presidential debate. The real Colbert expressed amazement at how Romney's debate showing had completely transformed Republicans' view of their nominee. "Now he's got his long, luscious coattails, and everybody's jumping on board," he said. Gregory also asked Colbert whether there was a point to his satire, which, for anyone who's ever watched "The ...
- published: 16 Oct 2012
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Ashes and Snow Nomadic Museum
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Flying Elephants Productions Presents the Nomadic Museum in Santa Monica, California, for"Ashes and Snow", an exhibition by Gregory Colbert. The show has also traveled to Venice, New York, Tokyo, and Mexico City.
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Flying Elephants Productions Presents the Nomadic Museum in Santa Monica, California, for"Ashes and Snow", an exhibition by Gregory Colbert. The show has also traveled to Venice, New York, Tokyo, and Mexico City.
- published: 24 Apr 2012
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- author: gregorycolbert
Nomadic Museum construction NYC trailer
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- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
The Nomadic Museum is a temporary structure designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and engineer Buro Happold. This temporary, traveling structure houses the Ashes and Snow photography and film exhibition by Gregory Colbert. This short video documents the construction process in New York City.
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The Nomadic Museum is a temporary structure designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and engineer Buro Happold. This temporary, traveling structure houses the Ashes and Snow photography and film exhibition by Gregory Colbert. This short video documents the construction process in New York City.
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Gregory Colbert interview in San Patrignano. Intervista a San Patrignano. 13 gennaio 2012
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Gregory Colbert interview in San Patrignano. Intervista a San Patrignano. 13 gennaio 2012
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Gregory Colbert interview in San Patrignano. Intervista a San Patrignano. 13 gennaio 2012
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Gregory Colbert y la belleza de lo simple 3 (entrevista)
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En esta tercera parte de su entrevista con Joaquín López-Dóriga, el fotógrafo Gregory Colbert declara que Bernardo Gómez, vicepresidente ejecutivo de Televisa, lo convenció de traer la exposición "Ashes and Snow" al Zócalo de la ciudad de México, a pesar de que existen muchas ofertas de distintas ciudades para llevar el Museo Nómada a otras partes del mundo. Colbert confiesa que ni en sus sueños más alocados habría imaginado que alguna vez su exposición se montaría en el corazón de México, en el Centro Histórico de la ciudad, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO. Los patrocinadores de esta exposición en México son la Fundación Televisa y la Fundación Telmex, con la colaboración del Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Marcelo Ebrard (parte 3 de 5).
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En esta tercera parte de su entrevista con Joaquín López-Dóriga, el fotógrafo Gregory Colbert declara que Bernardo Gómez, vicepresidente ejecutivo de Televisa, lo convenció de traer la exposición "Ashes and Snow" al Zócalo de la ciudad de México, a pesar de que existen muchas ofertas de distintas ciudades para llevar el Museo Nómada a otras partes del mundo. Colbert confiesa que ni en sus sueños más alocados habría imaginado que alguna vez su exposición se montaría en el corazón de México, en el Centro Histórico de la ciudad, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO. Los patrocinadores de esta exposición en México son la Fundación Televisa y la Fundación Telmex, con la colaboración del Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Marcelo Ebrard (parte 3 de 5).
- published: 22 Apr 2008
- views: 4180
- author: ramiropuentes77
Stephen Colbert on Meet The Press (In and Out of Character)
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- Duration: 11:23
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
October 14, 2012 Interview with David Gregory
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October 14, 2012 Interview with David Gregory
- published: 14 Oct 2012
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Gran Edificio de Guadua bambú
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- Duration: 2:41
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Datos-Estructura de 5100 m2 construido por Simon Velez en el zocalo de ciudad de mexico y abarca una superficie de 5 mil 600 metros cuadrados, fueron necesarios 80 mil metros lineales de bambú. Adentro es el exhibición de Gregory Colbert- Ashes and Snow.
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Datos-Estructura de 5100 m2 construido por Simon Velez en el zocalo de ciudad de mexico y abarca una superficie de 5 mil 600 metros cuadrados, fueron necesarios 80 mil metros lineales de bambú. Adentro es el exhibición de Gregory Colbert- Ashes and Snow.
- published: 05 Apr 2008
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Paparazzi captan a Belinda besandose con su nuevo novio Nelly El Arma Secreta
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Estrellas del Bicentenario Sinaloa Altamura Televisa promo HD completo exclusivo Esto es méxico comercial de Sinaloa Bicentenario Sinaloa Altamura Televisa bicentenario_méxico_sinaloa_televisa Se ubica al suroeste de la isla Saliaca y está separada de ella por un bajo que es la boca de los esteros que están entre las dos islas y tierra firme; el bajo se extiende fuera de esta boca aproximadamente a 3.2 km. Su longitud es de 40.7 km aproximadamente, en dirección paralela a la costa, y su ancho varía de 900 metros a 3.7 kilómetros. Dentro de su configuración geológica sobresalen al extremo sur, llanuras de intermarea con limos y arcillas con cantidades variables de arena y grava; en su parte central adyacente a la zona y hacia el extremo norte se hayan gran parte de los litorales y al noroeste de la isla, dunas activas constituidas por arenas de grano medio. Por: Zaraman25 Esto es México, el estado de Sinaloa... una estrella más del Bicentenario Categoría: Cine y animación Etiquetas: 03 Estrellas del Bicentenario SINALOA ®TELEVISA mins google twitter facebook messenguer sudafrica 2010 oscares 82 sexo femenino méxico promos comercial tv creativo publicidad mercadotecnia estrellas del bicentenario méxico sinaloa chepe televisa promo canal de las gregory colbert puerto topolobampo ahome culiacán facebook twitter publicidad google bing maps sexo femenino zaraman25 jczr topolobampo culiacán Belinda habla de su Video Escándalo belinda video escandalo, belinda video porno, belinda ...
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Estrellas del Bicentenario Sinaloa Altamura Televisa promo HD completo exclusivo Esto es méxico comercial de Sinaloa Bicentenario Sinaloa Altamura Televisa bicentenario_méxico_sinaloa_televisa Se ubica al suroeste de la isla Saliaca y está separada de ella por un bajo que es la boca de los esteros que están entre las dos islas y tierra firme; el bajo se extiende fuera de esta boca aproximadamente a 3.2 km. Su longitud es de 40.7 km aproximadamente, en dirección paralela a la costa, y su ancho varía de 900 metros a 3.7 kilómetros. Dentro de su configuración geológica sobresalen al extremo sur, llanuras de intermarea con limos y arcillas con cantidades variables de arena y grava; en su parte central adyacente a la zona y hacia el extremo norte se hayan gran parte de los litorales y al noroeste de la isla, dunas activas constituidas por arenas de grano medio. Por: Zaraman25 Esto es México, el estado de Sinaloa... una estrella más del Bicentenario Categoría: Cine y animación Etiquetas: 03 Estrellas del Bicentenario SINALOA ®TELEVISA mins google twitter facebook messenguer sudafrica 2010 oscares 82 sexo femenino méxico promos comercial tv creativo publicidad mercadotecnia estrellas del bicentenario méxico sinaloa chepe televisa promo canal de las gregory colbert puerto topolobampo ahome culiacán facebook twitter publicidad google bing maps sexo femenino zaraman25 jczr topolobampo culiacán Belinda habla de su Video Escándalo belinda video escandalo, belinda video porno, belinda ...
- published: 25 Feb 2010
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Gregory Colbert y la belleza de lo simple 5 (entrevista)
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En la quinta y última parte de su entrevista con Joaquín López-Dóriga, Gregory Colbert destaca Museo Nómada es un espacio democrático e incluyente. La "Ashes and Snow", que en Italia fue la exposición individual más visita de la historia con 450000 visitantes, en México ha roto todos los récords de asistencia, con más de 5.5 millones de visitantes hasta las dos semanas antes de su clausura. La entrada es gratuita, gracias al patrocinio de Fundación Televisa y de Fundación Telmex (parte 5 de 5).
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En la quinta y última parte de su entrevista con Joaquín López-Dóriga, Gregory Colbert destaca Museo Nómada es un espacio democrático e incluyente. La "Ashes and Snow", que en Italia fue la exposición individual más visita de la historia con 450000 visitantes, en México ha roto todos los récords de asistencia, con más de 5.5 millones de visitantes hasta las dos semanas antes de su clausura. La entrada es gratuita, gracias al patrocinio de Fundación Televisa y de Fundación Telmex (parte 5 de 5).
- published: 22 Apr 2008
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museo nomada de Gregory colbert
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museo nomada de Gregory colbert en el zocalo DF marzo 2008
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museo nomada de Gregory colbert en el zocalo DF marzo 2008
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16 Dec 2012
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage committed suicide as first responders closed in, the governor said Sunday, raising the specter that Adam Lanza had planned an even more gruesome massacre and was stopped short. Lanza blasted his way into the building and used a high-power rifle to kill 20 children and six adults, including the principal who tried to stop him, authorities said ... Among the questions ... H ... The Rev....(size: 8.8Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Most people reason dramatically, not quantitatively." -Oliver Wendell Holmes. On the same day that a 20-year-old, described as brilliant but remote, walked into an elementary school in Connecticut and massacred 26 children and adults, the school where I teach went on "lock-down." Four students with a handgun were arrested ... That morning before school, he had posted on Twitter and Facebook....(size: 14.0Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
An increasing number of US congressmen have called for a national dialogue about measures to curb gun violence following the shooting last week at a primary school in Connecticut that killed 26 people, including 20 children and six adults. White House officials have said that President Barack Obama would make preventing gun-related violence a priority in his second term in office and stricter laws would be part of the effort. ... ....(size: 19.2Kb)
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16 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Fundamentalism is good for protest, good for revolution, and good for war, but not so good for development.". After a century of being persecuted and driven underground, mainly for their vibrant nationalism and their anti-imperialist and pro-Palestinian views, Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has finally taken center-state ... Such actions will have to be avoided....(size: 6.9Kb)
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18 Dec 2012
The UN's humanitarian chief has called on Syria to urgently allow fuel imports for aid deliveries and give access to 10 more aid agencies. Valerie Amos met government officials in the capital, Damascus, to discuss the growing humanitarian crisis. UN workers also needed to freely move into opposition-controlled areas to step up their aid efforts, she said ... 'Greater rebel contact' ... The claim could not be independently verified ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
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17 Nov 2012
It takes a special understanding to forge a meaningful link between the natural and human worlds. Gregory Colbert does so in spare yet beautiful photographs that balance the two realms in the most organic manner possible. His work is fitting inspiration for "Feather and Bone" by TU Dance, which premiered at the O'Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University in St. Paul on Friday night ... Caroline Palmer writes regularly about dance. ....(size: 2.8Kb)
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15 Nov 2012
Friday. This MPR performance series pairs humor with harmony, aiming for a different magical mix each time ... The chemistry should be crackling tonight, when SNL alum Julia Sweeney and singer/songwriter Martha Wainwright take the stage ... This weekend marks the world premiere of Sands' "Feather and Bone," a meditation on the theme of companionship inspired by the work of Canadian photographer Gregory Colbert ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)
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22 Jun 2012
On Monday, June 18th, the artist/photographer Gregory Colbert, conjurer of the globe-trotting Ashes and Snow exhibit, posted on his Facebook artist page a sepia-toned image of a woman and child sitting in an African desert landscape alongside three cheetahs ... the next day, Facebook had pulled the entire posting and dialogue from Colbert's page, saying that the "graphic nature of the photograph" violated the site's Community Standards....(size: 8.8Kb)
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. Lighten uP is monthly Satsang, held in Berkeley, featuring silent meditation; Dharma talks; DJ's and Live Music; guided movement (such as ... This Month features the following. ... Advertisement. Dharma Talk on the Spirit and using EFT as a Healing Modality ~ Sonya Sophia (O.M ... Film Screening ~ Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals....(size: 6.8Kb)
Gregory Colbert (born 1960 in Toronto) is a Canadian film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.
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Colbert's first exhibition, Timewaves, opened in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland to wide critical acclaim. For the next ten years, Colbert did not publicly exhibit his art or show any films. Instead, he traveled to such places as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, and Antarctica to film and photograph interactions between human beings and animals. Since 1992, he has launched more than sixty such expeditions, and has collaborated with over 130 species. Elephants, whales, manatees, sacred ibis, Antigone cranes, royal eagles, Gyr falcons, rhinoceros hornbills, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs, caracals, baboons, eland, meerkats, gibbons, orangutans, and saltwater crocodiles are among the animals he has filmed and photographed. Human subjects include Burmese monks, trance dancers, San people, and other indigenous tribes from around the world.
[edit] Ashes and Snow
In 2002, Colbert presented his work, Ashes and Snow, in Venice, Italy. An April 9, 2002 review in The Globe and Mail stated, “Colbert unveiled Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of images and photographs unprecedented in both scope and scale. Covering 12,600 square meters, it is billed as one of the largest one-man shows in the history of Europe.”[1]
In spring 2005, the show opened in New York City in the Nomadic Museum, a temporary structure built to house the exhibition. Ashes and Snow and the Nomadic Museum then traveled to Santa Monica in 2006, Tokyo in 2007, and Mexico City in 2008. To date, Ashes and Snow has attracted over 10 million visitors, making it the most attended exhibition by a living artist in history.[2]
Ashes and Snow has been a critical and popular success. Photo magazine declared, “A new master is born.” [3][4] Ashes and Snow has been described as "extraordinary" by the Economist, and "distinctive . . . monumental in every sense" by the Wall Street Journal. Stern magazine declared that the photographs are "fascinating," and Vanity Fair described Gregory Colbert as "Best of the Best." An article in 2002 in the New York Times by Alan Riding stated “The power of the images comes less from their formal beauty than from the way they envelop the viewer in their mood. . . .They are simply windows to a world in which silence and patience govern time.”[5]
Colbert began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His documentary, On the Brink-An AIDS chronicle, was filmed in nine countries, and was nominated for an ACE award in 1985 in the category of best documentary. Other film projects include Last Words and Finding a Way Home. Film-making led to fine arts photography.
Gregory Colbert has been the recipient of a number of awards and distinctions. In 2006 he was awarded the "Best Curator of the Year" at the Lucie Awards.[6] In 2007, his film, Ashes and Snow was nominated for a special prize at the Venice Film festival.[7] Most recently, he was named the honorary ambassador of culture and tourism to Mexico.[8]
The Nomadic Museum, the traveling home of Ashes and Snow, is charted to travel the globe with no final destination.
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“When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out. In discovering the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards restoring the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals.”
"Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others."
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- ^ "The Globe and Mail: Canadian artist Gregory Colbert's photographs are the subject of a giant exhibit in Venice. And you probably haven't heard of him, writes SIMON HOUPT (2002–)". http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20020409.RVCOLB%2FTPStory%2F%3Fquery%3Dsimon%2Bhoupt%2Bgregory%2Bcolbert&ord=84831883&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true.
- ^ "El Mañana: Acaba Museo Nómada su peregrinar (2008–)". http://www.elmanana.com.mx/notas.asp?id=54261.
- ^ "Photo Magazine: Gregory Colbert La Révélation (Cover) (2005–)". http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/ASHESandSNOWnyc/Photo%20Magazine%202005/img082.jpg.
- ^ "Photo Magazine: Gregory Colbert La Révélation (Full Article) (2005–)". http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/ASHESandSNOWnyc/Photo%20Magazine%202005/.
- ^ Riding, Alan (April 22, 2002). "New York Times review of Ashes and Snow, May 23, 2008, Dances With Whales (2008–)". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE0D7103FF931A15757C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&&scp=2&sq=ashes%20and%20snow&st=cse. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ^ "Lucie Awards (2005–)". http://www.lucieawards.com/05/nominees.asp.
- ^ "Venice Film Festival". http://www.ppr.com/front__sectionId-213_PubliId-7503_Changelang-en.html.
- ^ "NOMBRA GOBIERNO DE LA CIUDAD EMBAJADOR TURÍSTICO DE MÉXICO AL ARTISTA GREGORY COLBERT". http://www.mexicocity.gob.mx/contenidos.php?cat=41400&sub=12.
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There are many people in history who are commonly appended with the phrase "the Great", or who were called that or an equivalent phrase in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes such as e Bozorg and e azam in Persian and Urdu respectively.
In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to be a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King". This title was first used by the conqueror Cyrus II of Persia.[1]
The Persian title was inherited by Alexander III of Macedon (336–323 BC) when he conquered the Persian Empire, and the epithet "Great" eventually became personally associated with him. The first reference (in a comedy by Plautus)[2] assumes that everyone knew who "Alexander the Great" was; however, there is no earlier evidence that Alexander III of Macedon was called "the Great".
The early Seleucid kings, who succeeded Alexander in Persia, used "Great King" in local documents, but the title was most notably used for Antiochus the Great (223–187 BC).
Later rulers and commanders began to use the epithet "the Great" as a personal name, like the Roman general Pompey. Others received the surname retrospectively, like the Carthaginian Hanno and the Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. Once the surname gained currency, it was also used as an honorific surname for people without political careers, like the philosopher Albert the Great.
As there are no objective criteria for "greatness", the persistence of later generations in using the designation greatly varies. For example, Louis XIV of France was often referred to as "The Great" in his lifetime but is rarely called such nowadays, while Frederick II of Prussia is still called "The Great". A later Hohenzollern - Wilhelm I - was often called "The Great" in the time of his grandson Wilhelm II, but rarely later.
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Rulers[link]
- Abbas I of Persia (1571–1629), Shah of Iran
- Akbar (1542–1605), ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia, mainly India
- Alain I of Albret (1440–1522), French aristocrat
- Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), King of Macedonia, Persia, Greece, Egypt, and all of Mesopotamia
- Alexander I of Georgia (1386–1446), King of Georgia
- Alfonso III of León (c. 848-910), King of León, Galicia and Asturias
- Alfred the Great (848/849-899), King of Wessex
- Antiochus III the Great (c. 241–187 BC), ruler of the Seleucid Empire
- Ashoka the Great (c. 304–232 BC), Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty
- Ashot I of Iberia “the Great”(died 826/830), presiding prince of Iberia (modern Georgia),
- Askia Mohammad I (c. 1442–1538), ruler of the Songhai Empire
- Bhumibol Adulyadej (born 1927), King of Thailand
- Bolesław I Chrobry (967-1025), sometimes called "the Great", first King of Poland
- Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the following section)
- Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (1736–1809), founder and ruler of the Rattanakosin Kingdom (in what is now Thailand)
- Cnut the Great (c. 985 or 995-1035), King of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden
- Casimir III the Great (1310–1370), King of Poland
- Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia
- Chandragupta II (reigned 375-413/415), also known as Vikramaditya, ruler of the Gupta empire in India
- Charlemagne (died 814), King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans
- Chulalongkorn (1853–1910), King of Siam (now Thailand)
- Chlothar II (584-629), King of Neustria and King of the Franks
- Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (c. 1097-1157), Margrave of Meissen
- Constantine I (c. 272-337), Roman emperor
- Cyaxares the Great (c. 625-585 BC), third king of Media
- Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BC or 576 BC–530 BC), founder and ruler of the Persian or Achaemenid Empire
- Darius the Great (550 – 486 BC), third ruler of the Persian Empire
- Devapala (died 850), ruler of the Pala Empire in the Indian subcontinent
- Dionysius I, Greek tyrant of Syracuse[3]
- Ferdinand I of León and Castile (c. 1015–1065), King of León and Count of Castile
- Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia
- Genghis Khan (1162?-1227), founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
- Gero (c. 900–965), ruler of Marca Geronis, a very large march in Europe
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594–1632), King of Sweden, founder of the Swedish Empire, and noted military leader
- Gwanggaeto the Great, King of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea[4][5]
- Hanno the Great, the name of three leaders of Carthage, in the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd centuries BC
- Henry I, Duke of Burgundy (946–1002)
- Henry IV of France (1553–1610), King of France and King of Navarre
- Herod the Great (73/74 BC-4 BC), King of Judea
- Hugh the Great (898-956), Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris
- Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France
- Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (1057–1101)
- Humphrey I de Bohun (died c. 1123), Anglo-Norman aristocrat
- Ivan III of Russia (1440–1505), Tsar of Russia
- John I of Portugal (1358–1433), King of Portugal and the Algarve
- John II of Aragon (1398–1479), King of Aragon and, through his wife, King of Navarre
- Justinian I (483-565), Byzantine Emperor
- Kamehameha I (c. 1758-1819), first King of Hawai'i
- Kanishka (died c. 127), ruler of the Kushan Empire in Central Asia and parts of India
- Kvirike III of Kakheti (1010–1029), King of Kakheti in eastern Georgia
- Kublai Khan (1215–1294), Mongol ruler in the 13th century and Emperor of China; founder of the Yuan Dynasty
- Llywelyn the Great (c. 1172–1240), Prince of Gwynedd and de facto ruler of most of Wales
- Louis I of Hungary (1326–1382), King of Hungary, Croatia and Poland
- Mangrai the Great (1238–1317), Lanna, northern Thailand
- Emperor Meiji (1852–1912), Emperor of Japan
- Mircea I of Wallachia (1355–1418)
- Mithridates II of Parthia (died 88 BC), ruler of the Parthian Empire (in present day Iran)
- Mithridates VI of Pontus (134 BC–63 BC), ruler of Pontus and the Bosporan Kingdom
- Mstislav I of Kiev (1076–1132), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus
- Naresuan (1555–1605), King of Ayutthaya
- Narai (1633–1688), King of Ayutthaya (in what is now modern Thailand)
- Odo the Great (died c. 735), Duke of Aquitaine
- Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912-973)
- K'inich Janaab' Pakal (603-683), ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque
- Parakramabahu I of Polonnaruwa (1123–1186), King of Sri Lanka
- Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia (died 1075), King of Croatia
- Peter the Great (1672–1725), Tsar of Russia
- Peter III of Aragon (1239–1285), King of Aragon and King of Sicily
- Pompey (106 BC-48 BC), military and political leader of the late Roman Republic, rival of Julius Caesar
- Radama I (1793–1828), first king of greater Madagascar
- Raja Raja Chola I (c. 947-1014), Indian emperor of the Cholas.[6][7][8]
- Rajendra Chola I (reigned 1014–1044), Tamil King of India
- Ramesses II (reigned 1279 BC – 1213 BC), considered the greatest pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
- Ram Khamhaeng (around 1237 to 1247-1298), King of Sukhothai (in present day Thailand)
- Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (1082–1131), also Count of Provence and various other counties
- Rhodri the Great (c. 820–878), King of Gwynedd (in present day Wales)
- Roman the Great (after 1160-1205), Grand Prince of Kiev
- Saladin (c. 1138-1193), Kurdish Sultan of Egypt and Syria, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and victor over the Crusaders
- Samudragupta (c. 335–375), ruler of the Gupta empire in the Indian subcontinent
- Sancho III of Navarre (c. 992-1035), King of Kingdom of Navarre
- Sargon of Akkad (died c. 2215 BC), ruler of the Akkadian Empire
- Sejong the Great (1397–1450), Korean king[9]
- Shapur II (309-379), king of the Sassanid Empire, Persia
- Simeon I of Bulgaria (864/865-927), ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire
- Stephen III of Moldavia (1433–1504), Prince of Moldavia (Romania)
- Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia (c. 1308-1355), King of Serbia and Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks
- Taksin (1734–1782), King of the Thonburi Kingdom (Thailand)
- Tamar (1160-1123), Queen of the Georgian Empire
- Timur (1336–1405), better known as Tamerlane, founder of the Timurid Dynasty
- Theobald II, Count of Champagne (1090–1151), Count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and of Brie
- Theodoric the Great (454-526), King of the Ostrogoths, regent of the Visigoths and a viceroy of the Byzantine Empire
- Theodosius I (347-395), Roman emperor
- Tigranes the Great (140-55 BC), Emperor of Armenia
- Tiridates III of Armenia (285-339), King of Armenia
- Umar (c. 586 to 590–644), second caliph of the Muslim Empire
- Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182), King of Denmark
- Valentinian I (364-375), Roman Emperor
- Vladimir I of Kiev (c. 958-1015), ruler of Kievan Rus
- Vytautas (c. 1350-1430), archduke of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy
- William I, Count of Burgundy (1020–1087), Count of Burgandy and Mâcon
- William V, Duke of Aquitaine (969-1030), also Count of Poitou
- Xerxes I (519-465 BC), King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire (Persia)
- Yu the Great (c. 2200-2100 BC), legendary ruler in ancient China
Religious figures[link]
- Abraham the Great of Kashkar (ca. 492-586), monk and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East
- Abraham Kidunaia (died c. 366, hermit, priest, and Christian saint of Mesopotamia
- Albertus Magnus (1193/1206–1280), medieval German philosopher and theologian
- Anthony the Great (c. 251–356), early Christian saint of Egypt
- Babai the Great (c. 551–628), Assyrian church leader
- Basil of Caesarea (330-379), Greek bishop and theologian
- Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lotharingia (also listed in the previous section)
- Euthymius the Great (377-473), abbot and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint
- Gertrude the Great (1256-c. 1302), German Benedictine, mystic, theologian and Roman Catholic saint
- Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)
- Hiyya the Great, 3rd-century rabbi, Palestine
- Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)
- Pope Leo I (c. 391 or 400-461)
- Macarius of Egypt (c. 300-391), Egyptian hermit
- Pope Nicholas I (c. 800-867)
- Photius I of Constantinople (c. 810–c. 893), Eastern Orthodox saint and Patriarch of Constantinople
- William of Maleval (died 1157), founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites
Other[link]
- Beli Mawr, a figure in medieval Welsh literature and genealogies
- Emmy the Great, folk singer
- Matteo Rosso the Great, Roman politician and father of Pope Nicholas III
- Prokop the Great, Hussite general in Bohemia
See also[link]
- Epithet
- List of monarchs by nickname
- List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility: G-I
- James, son of Zebedee, also known as James the Greater, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus
- Ajax (mythology), called Ajax the Greater
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, whose common honorific "Mahatma" means "Great Soul"
Notes[link]
- ^ In a clay cylinder (online). The expression was used in a propagandistic context: the conqueror wants to show he is a normal Babylonian ruler. The first Persian ruler to use the title in an Iranian context was Darius I of Persia (Darius the Great), in the Behistun Inscription (online).
- ^ Plautus, Mostellaria 775.
- ^ History, Instituto Geografico De Agostini S.p.A., p. 479
- ^ World and Its Peoples:Korea. Marshall Cavendish Corporation. September 2008. p. 887. ISBN 0-7614-7631-8.
- ^ Alison Behnke (2004). North Korea in Pictures. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 70. ISBN 0-8225-1908-9. http://books.google.com/?id=ovWvhyLc6hAC&pg=RA1-PA70&dq=%22Gwanggaeto+the+Great%22.
- ^ Sarkar, Benoy Kumar (December 1919). "An English History of India". Political Science Quarterly 34 (4): 644–653. DOI:10.2307/2142032. JSTOR 2142032. ""The finances of the state were not more centralized under Louis XIV than under Rajaraja the Great.""
- ^ "Heaven sent: Michael Wood explores the art of the Chola dynasty". Royal Academy, UK. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine/winter2006/features/heven-sent,47,RAMA.html. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ^ "The Chola Dynasty: Accession of Rajaraja, the Great". Sify.com. http://sify.com/itihaas/fullstory.php?id=13219885. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
- ^ Christoph Bluth; Gareth Schott (2007). Korea. Polity. p. 10. ISBN 0-7456-3356-0.
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Stephen Tyrone Colbert ( /koʊlˈbɛər/ or /ˈkoʊlbərt/;[5] born May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.
Colbert originally studied to be an actor, but became interested in improvisational theatre when he met famed Second City director Del Close while attending Northwestern University. He first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago; among his troupe mates were comedians Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris, with whom he developed the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Exit 57.
Colbert also wrote and performed on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show before collaborating with Sedaris and Dinello again on the cult television series Strangers with Candy. He gained considerable attention for his role on the latter as closeted gay history teacher Chuck Noblet. It was his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central's news-parody series The Daily Show, however, that first introduced him to a wide audience.
In 2005, he left The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to host a spin-off series, The Colbert Report. Following The Daily Show's news-parody concept, The Colbert Report is a parody of personality-driven political opinion shows such as The O'Reilly Factor. Since its debut, the series has established itself as one of Comedy Central's highest-rated series, earning Colbert three Emmy Award nominations and an invitation to perform as featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in 2006. Colbert was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2006.[10] His book I Am America (And So Can You!) was No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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Early life[link]
Colbert was born in Washington, D.C.[11] and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, on James Island, the youngest of 11 children in an Irish Catholic family.[5][12][13] Colbert and his siblings, in order from oldest to youngest, are James ("Jimmy"), Edward ("Eddie"), Mary, William ("Billy"), Margo, Thomas ("Tommy"), Jay, Elizabeth ("Lulu"), Paul, Peter, and Stephen.
Many of his ancestors immigrated to North America from Ireland in the 1800s before and during the Great Famine.[14][15]
His father, James William Colbert, Jr., was the vice president for academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina. His mother, Lorna Colbert (née Tuck), was a homemaker.[14][16] In interviews, Colbert describes his parents as devout people who also strongly value intellectualism and taught their children that it was possible to question the Church and still be Catholic.[17] The emphasis his family placed on intelligence and his observation of negative stereotypes of Southerners led Colbert to train himself to suppress his Southern accent while he was still quite young. As a child, he observed that Southerners were often depicted as being less intelligent than other characters on scripted television; to avoid that stereotype, he taught himself to imitate the speech of American news anchors.[18][19]
Colbert sometimes comedically claims his surname is French, but his family is actually of Irish, English, and distant German descent.[5][20] Originally, the name was pronounced /ˈkoʊlbərt/ in English; Stephen Colbert's father, James, wanted to pronounce the name /koʊlˈbɛər/, but maintained the /ˈkoʊlbərt/ pronunciation out of respect for his own father. However, James offered his children the option to pronounce the name whichever way they preferred.[12] Stephen started using /koʊlˈbɛər/ later in life when he transferred to Northwestern University, taking advantage of the opportunity to reinvent himself in a new place where no one knew him.[5] Stephen's brother Ed, an intellectual property attorney, retained /ˈkoʊlbərt/; this was shown in a February 12, 2009 appearance on The Colbert Report, when his youngest brother asked him, "/ˈkoʊlbərt/ or /koʊlˈbɛər/?" Ed responded "/ˈkoʊlbərt/", to which Stephen jokingly replied, "See you in Hell".[21]
On September 11, 1974, when Colbert was ten years old, his father and two of his brothers, Peter and Paul, were killed in the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 while it was attempting to land in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were en route to enroll the two boys at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut.[13][22] Shortly thereafter, Lorna Colbert relocated the family downtown to the more urban environment of East Bay Street in Charleston. By his own account, Colbert found the transition difficult and did not easily make new friends in his new neighborhood.[12] Colbert later described himself during this time as detached, lacking a sense of importance regarding the things with which other children concerned themselves.[19][23] He developed a love of science fiction and fantasy novels, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, of which he remains an avid fan. During his adolescence, he also developed an intense interest in fantasy role-playing games, especially Dungeons & Dragons,[23][24] a pastime which he later characterized as an early experience in acting and improvisation.[4]
Colbert attended Charleston's Episcopal Porter-Gaud School, where he participated in several school plays and contributed to the school newspaper but, by his own assessment, was not highly motivated academically.[23] During his time as a teenager, he also briefly fronted a Rolling Stones cover band.[25] When he was younger, he had hoped to study marine biology, but surgery intended to repair a severely perforated eardrum caused him inner ear damage. The damage was severe enough that he was unable to pursue a career that would involve scuba diving. The damage also left him deaf in his right ear.[12][26] For a while, he was uncertain whether he would attend college,[27] but ultimately he applied and was accepted to Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where a friend had also enrolled. There he continued to participate in plays while studying mainly philosophy;[2][23] he found the curriculum rigorous but was more focused than he had been in high school and was able to apply himself to his studies. Despite the lack of a significant theater community at Hampden-Sydney, Colbert's interest in acting escalated during this time. After two years, he transferred to Northwestern University as a Theater Major to study performance, emboldened by the realization that he loved performing even when no one was coming to shows.[23]
Early career in comedy[link]
While at Northwestern, Colbert studied with the intent of becoming a dramatic actor; mostly he performed in experimental plays and was uninterested in comedy. He began performing improvisation while in college, both in the campus improv team No Fun Mud Piranhas[28] and at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago as a part of Del Close's ImprovOlympic at a time when the project was focused on competitive, long form improvisation, rather than improvisational comedy. "I wasn't gonna do Second City", Colbert later recalled, "because those Annoyance people looked down on Second City because they thought it wasn't pure improv—there was a slightly snobby, mystical quality to the Annoyance people".[4] After Colbert graduated in 1986, however, he was in need of a job, and a friend who was employed at Second City's box office offered him work answering phones and selling souvenirs.[23] Colbert accepted, and discovered that Second City employees were entitled to take classes at their training center for free.[4] Despite his earlier aversion to the comedy group, he signed up for improvisation classes, and enjoyed the experience greatly.
Shortly thereafter, he was hired to perform with Second City's touring company, initially as an understudy for Steve Carell. It was there he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello, with whom he often collaborated later in his career. By their retelling, the three comedians did not get along at first—Dinello thought Colbert was uptight, pretentious and cold, while Colbert thought of Dinello as "an illiterate thug"[29]—but the trio became close friends while touring together, discovering that they shared a similar comic sensibility.[23]
When Sedaris and Dinello were offered the opportunity to create a television series for HBO Downtown Productions, Colbert left The Second City and relocated to New York in order to work with them on the sketch comedy show Exit 57.[23] The series debuted on Comedy Central in 1995 and aired through 1996. Despite only lasting for 12 episodes, the show received favorable reviews[30][31] and was nominated for five CableACE Awards in 1995, in categories including best writing, performance, and comedy series.[32]
Following the cancellation of Exit 57, Colbert worked for six months as a cast member and writer on The Dana Carvey Show, alongside former Second City cast mate Steve Carell, as well as Robert Smigel, Charlie Kaufman, Louis C.K., and Dino Stamatopoulos, among others. The series, described by one reviewer as "kamikaze satire" in "borderline-questionable taste", had sponsors pull out after its first episode aired, and was canceled after seven episodes.[33] Colbert then worked briefly as a freelance writer for Saturday Night Live with Robert Smigel. Smigel also brought his animated sketch The Ambiguously Gay Duo to SNL from The Dana Carvey Show; Colbert provided the voice of Ace on both series, opposite Steve Carell as Gary. Needing money, he also worked as a script consultant for VH1 and MTV, before taking a job filming humorous correspondent segments for Good Morning America.[23] Only two of the segments he proposed were ever produced, and only one aired, but the job led his agent to refer him to The Daily Show's then-producer, Madeline Smithberg, who hired Colbert on a trial basis in 1997.[34]
Television career[link]
[edit] Strangers with Candy
Main article: Strangers with Candy
During the same time frame, Colbert worked again with Sedaris and Dinello to develop a new comedy series for Comedy Central, Strangers with Candy. Comedy Central picked up the series in 1998 after Colbert had already begun working on The Daily Show. As a result he accepted a reduced role, filming only around twenty Daily Show segments a year while he worked on the new series.[23]
Strangers with Candy was conceived of as a parody of after school specials, following the life of Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old dropout who returns to finish high school after 32 years of life on the street. Most noted by critics for its use of offensive humor, it concluded each episode by delivering to the audience a skewed, politically incorrect moral lesson.[35] Colbert served as a main writer alongside Sedaris and Dinello, as well as portraying Jerri's strict but uninformed history teacher, Chuck Noblet, seen throughout the series dispensing inaccurate information to his classes. Colbert has likened this to the character he played on The Daily Show and later The Colbert Report, claiming that he has a very specific niche in portraying "poorly informed, high-status idiot" characters.[13] Another running joke throughout the series was that Noblet, a closeted homosexual, was having a "secret" affair with fellow teacher Geoffrey Jellineck despite the fact that their relationship was apparent to everyone around them. This obliviousness also appears in Colbert's Daily Show and Colbert Report character.
Thirty episodes of Strangers with Candy were made, which aired on Comedy Central in 1999 and 2000. Though its ratings were not remarkable during its initial run, it has been characterized as a cult show with a small but dedicated audience.[36] Colbert reprised his role for a film adaptation, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and had a limited release in 2006. The film received mixed reviews. Colbert also co-wrote the screenplay with Sedaris and Dinello.[37]
[edit] The Daily Show
Main article: The Daily Show
Stephen Colbert joined the cast of Comedy Central's parody-news series The Daily Show in 1997, when the show was in its second season. Originally one of four correspondents who filmed segments from remote locations in the style of network news field reporters, Colbert was referred to as "the new guy" on-air for his first two years on the show, during which time Craig Kilborn served as host. When Kilborn left the show prior to the 1999 season, Jon Stewart took over hosting duties, also serving as a writer and co-executive producer. From this point, the series gradually began to take on a more political tone and increase in popularity, particularly in the latter part of the 2000 U.S. presidential election season. The roles of the show's correspondents were expanded to include more in-studio segments, as well as international reports which were almost always done in the studio with the aid of a greenscreen.[23]
Unlike Stewart, who essentially hosts The Daily Show as himself,[38] Colbert developed a correspondent character for his pieces on the series. Colbert has described his correspondent character as "a fool who has spent a lot of his life playing not the fool — one who is able to cover it at least well enough to deal with the subjects that he deals with".[23] Colbert was frequently pitted against knowledgeable interview subjects, or against Stewart in scripted exchanges, with the resultant dialogue demonstrating the character's lack of knowledge of whatever subject he is discussing.[7][23] Colbert also made generous use of humorous fallacies of logic in explaining his point of view on any topic. Other Daily Show correspondents have adopted a similar style; former correspondent Rob Corddry recalls that when he and Ed Helms first joined the show's cast in 2002, they "just imitated Stephen Colbert for a year or two".[8] Correspondent Aasif Mandvi has stated "I just decided I was going to do my best Stephen Colbert impression".[9]
Colbert has appeared in several recurring segments for The Daily Show, including "Even Stevphen" with Steve Carell,[39] in which both characters were expected to debate a selected topic but instead would unleash their anger at one another. Colbert commonly hosted "This Week in God", a report on topics in the news pertaining to religion, presented with the help of the "God Machine". Colbert filed reports from the floor of the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention as a part of The Daily Show's award-winning coverage of the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential elections; many from the latter were included as part of their The Daily Show: Indecision 2004 DVD release. In several episodes of The Daily Show, Colbert filled in as anchor in the absence of Jon Stewart, including the full week of March 3, 2002, when Stewart was scheduled to host Saturday Night Live. After Colbert left the show, Rob Corddry took over "This Week in God" segments, although a recorded sample of Colbert's voice is still used as the sound effect for the God Machine. Later episodes of The Daily Show have reused older Colbert segments under the label "Klassic Kolbert". Colbert won three Emmys as a writer of The Daily Show in 2004, 2005, and 2006.[40]
[edit] The Colbert Report
Main article: The Colbert Report
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The set of The Colbert Report satirizes cable-personality political talk shows.
Since October 17, 2005, Colbert has hosted his own television show, The Colbert Report, a Daily Show spin-off which parodies the conventions of television news broadcasting,[18] particularly cable-personality political talk shows like The O'Reilly Factor and Glenn Beck.[4][41] Colbert hosts the show in-character as a blustery right-wing pundit, generally considered to be an extension of his character on The Daily Show. Conceived by co-creators Stewart, Colbert, and Ben Karlin in part as an opportunity to explore "the character-driven news", the series focuses less on the day-to-day news style of the Daily Show, instead frequently concentrating on the foibles of the host-character himself.
The concept for The Report was first seen in a series of Daily Show segments which advertised the then-fictional series as a joke. It was later developed by Stewart's Busboy Productions and pitched to Comedy Central, which greenlighted the program; Comedy Central had already been searching for a way to extend the successful Daily Show franchise beyond a half hour.[42] The series opened to strong ratings, averaging 1.2 million viewers nightly during its first week on the air. Comedy Central signed a long-term contract for The Colbert Report within its first month on the air, when it immediately established itself among the network's highest-rated shows.[43][44]
Much of Colbert's personal life is reflected in his character on The Colbert Report. With the extended exposure of the character on the show, he often references his interest in and knowledge of Catholicism, science fiction, and The Lord of the Rings, as well as using real facts to create his character's history. His alternate persona was also raised in South Carolina, is the youngest of 11 siblings, and is married.[45] The actual Colbert's career history in acting and comedy, however, is often downplayed.
Politics[link]
2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner[link]
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Stephen Colbert telling jokes several feet away from George W. Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
On Saturday, April 29, 2006, Stephen Colbert was the featured entertainer for the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Standing a few yards from U.S. President George W. Bush[46]—in front of an audience the Associated Press called a "Who's Who of power and celebrity"[47]—Colbert delivered a searing routine targeting the president and the media.[48] In his politically conservative character from The Colbert Report, Colbert satirized the George W. Bush Administration and the White House press corps with such lines as:
| “ | I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message, that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound—with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world.[49] | ” |
Colbert received a chilly response from the audience.[50] His jokes were often met with silence and muttering, apart from the enthusiastic laughter of a few in the audience.[51] The major media outlets paid little attention to it initially. Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism professor Todd Gitlin claimed that this was because Colbert's routine was as critical of the media as it was of Bush.[52][53] Richard Cohen, also writing for The Washington Post, responded that the routine was not funny.[54] The video of Colbert's performance became an internet and media sensation,[55][56] while, in the week following the speech, ratings for The Colbert Report rose by 37% to average just under 1.5 million total viewers per episode.[57] In Time magazine James Poniewozik called it "the political-cultural touchstone issue of 2006".[58] Writing six months later, New York Times columnist Frank Rich referred to Colbert's speech as a "cultural primary" and called it the "defining moment" of the 2006 midterm elections.[59][60]
2008 Presidential bid[link]
Main article: Stephen Colbert presidential campaign, 2008
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Under his fictional persona in The Colbert Report, Colbert dropped hints of a potential presidential run throughout 2007, with speculation intensifying following the release of his book, I Am America (And So Can You!), which was rumored to be a sign that he was indeed testing the waters for a future bid for the White House. On October 16, 2007, he announced his candidacy on his show, stating his intention to run both on the Republican and Democratic platforms, but only as a "favorite son" in his native South Carolina.[61] He later abandoned plans to run as a Republican due to the $35,000 fee required to file for the South Carolina primary,[62] however he continued to seek a place on the Democratic ballot and on October 28, 2007, campaigned in the South Carolina state capital of Columbia, where he was presented with the key to the city by Mayor Bob Coble.[63]
After announcing his presidential ticket, he asked his viewers to cast their votes by donating to DonorsChoose.org, an online charity connecting individuals to classrooms in need.[64] Colbert's promotion inspired $68,000 in donations to South Carolina classrooms, which benefited over 14,000 low-income students.[65] Colbert teamed up with DonorsChoose.org again in 2008 by asking supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to do the same. As a lead-up to the Pennsylvania primary, he created a "straw poll that makes a difference", where people could donate to Pennsylvania classroom projects in honor of their favorite candidate.[66] Colbert viewers donated $185,000 to projects reaching 43,000 students in Pennsylvania public schools.[67]
On November 1, 2007, the South Carolina Democratic Party executive council voted 13–3 to refuse Colbert's application onto the ballot. "The general sense of the council was that he wasn't a serious candidate and that was why he wasn't selected to be on the ballot", stated John Werner, the party's director. In addition, he was declared "not viable",[68] as he was only running in one state.[69] Several days later he announced that he was dropping out of the race, saying that he did not wish to put the country through an agonizing Supreme Court battle.[70] CNN has reported that Obama supporters pressured the South Carolina Democratic Executive Council to keep Colbert off the ballot. One anonymous member of the council told CNN that former State Superintendent of Education Inez Tenenbaum had placed pressure on them to refuse Colbert's application despite his steady rise in polls.[71]
Though Colbert's real-life presidential campaign had ended, current Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada established in an interview on The Colbert Report that Colbert's campaign was still going strong in the fictional Marvel Universe, citing the cover art of a then-recent issue of The Amazing Spider-Man which featured a Colbert campaign billboard in the background. Background appearances of Colbert campaign ads continued to appear in Marvel Comics publications, as recently as August 2008's Secret Invasion #5 (which also features a cameo of an alien Skrull posing as Colbert). In October 2008, Colbert made an extended 8-page appearance webslinging with Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man issue #573.[72]
2010 Congressional testimony[link]
On September 24, 2010, Colbert testified in character before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Security. He was invited by committee chairwoman Zoe Lofgren to describe his experience participating in the United Farm Workers' "Take Our Jobs" program, where he spent a day working alongside migrant workers in upstate New York.[73][74][75] At the end of his often-humorous testimony, Colbert broke character in responding to a question from Rep. Judy Chu, D-CA, and explained why he cares about the plight of migrant workers:
| “ | I like talking about people who don't have any power, and this seems like one of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come and do our work, but don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here and at the same time ask them to leave. And that's an interesting contradiction to me. And, you know, 'Whatsoever you do for the least of my brothers,' and these seem like the least of our brothers right now... Migrant workers suffer and have no rights.[76] | ” |
Democratic committee member John Conyers questioned whether it was appropriate for the comedian to appear before Congress and asked him to leave the hearing.[77] Though Colbert offered to depart at the direction of the committee chairwoman, Rep. Lofgren requested that he stay at least until all opening testimony had been completed, whereupon Conyers withdrew his request.[78]
Conservative pundits took aim at his Congress testimony not long after.[79]
| “ | 'Painfully awkward and pointless, it made the committee's majority members look ridiculous. Colbert can be very funny, but his kind of sarcasm only works in some contexts, and a House committee hearing room does not appear to be one of them.' - Yuval Levin, The Corner[77][80]
'As John Conyers notes, the media and spectators turned out to see whether Colbert would address the panel seriously as an expert on immigration and make the panel a joke, or stay in character and make the panel a bigger joke,' - Ed Morrissey, Hot Air.[77][81] |
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2010 Washington D.C. rallies[link]
Main article: Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
In September 2010, following Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally, a campaign developed that called for Colbert to hold his own rally at the Lincoln Memorial.[82] On the September 10, 2010 episode of the Daily Show[83] and the Colbert Report Stewart and Colbert made preannouncements of a future event. On September 16, 2010, Stewart and Colbert announced competing rallies on the Washington, DC Mall on October 30, 2010, Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity", and Colbert's "March to Keep Fear Alive". Both were eventually merged into the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
Super PAC and 2012 Presidential campaign[link]
See also: South Carolina Republican primary, 2012
In May 2011, Colbert filed a request with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) asking for a media exemption for coverage of his political action committee, ColbertPAC, on The Colbert Report.[84][85]
In June 2011, during a public meeting, the FEC voted 5-1 to grant The Colbert Report a limited media exemption. The exemption allows unlimited donations of airtime and show resources to promote the Colbert Super PAC without requiring disclosure to the FEC, but only for ads appearing on The Colbert Report. Following the hearing, Colbert formally filed paperwork for the creation of his Super PAC with the FEC secretary.[86]
After the 2012 New Hampshire primary, a poll for the subsequent South Carolina primary taken by Public Policy Polling (of 1,112 likely GOP voters, Jan 5-7, 2012) was reported to place Stephen Colbert at 5%, one point ahead of Jon Huntsman polling at 4%, in spite of the fact that Colbert was not on the ballot. This poll showed Colbert to be closely behind Rick Perry's 7% and Ron Paul's 8% (with Romney at 27%, Gingrich 23% and Santorum at 18%). On the January 11 episode of the Colbert Report, Colbert asked his audience if he should run for President in South Carolina, to which he received strong applause. He then stated that he would be making a "Major Announcement" during the next day's show. On January 12, Colbert started his show by discussing his role in the Presidential campaign, then addressed the law preventing him from being a Presidential candidate while running his Super PAC. With the help of his lawyer Trevor Potter, he then signed over control of his Super PAC to Jon Stewart, with the organization title then being referred to as "The Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC".[87] Immediately after this legal block was out of the way, Colbert announced that "I am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for the President of the United States of South Carolina. I'm doin' it!" He reiterated in the interview portion of that show that "I'm still in the exploratory phase" of his Presidential campaign.
On the January 16, 2012 episode, Colbert encouraged his viewers to vote for Herman Cain in the South Carolina primary. As Cain was still on the ballot, despite having recently dropped out of the race, Colbert announced that he would consider any votes cast for Cain to be in direct support of his own possible candidacy.
Other work[link]
Stephen Colbert is co-author of the satirical text-and-picture novel Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not, which was published in 2003 by Hyperion Books. The novel was a collaboration between Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Paul Dinello, and tells the story of a small town threatened by the impending destruction of a massive dam. The narrative is presented as a series of fictional interviews with the town's residents, accompanied by photos. The three authors toured performing an adaptation of Wigfield on stage the same year the book was released.[88]
Colbert appeared in a small supporting role in the 2005 film adaptation of Bewitched. He has made guest appearances on the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spin City, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent,[89] and on the improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He voiced the characters of Reducto and Phil Ken Sebben in the Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law but left the show in 2005 to work on The Colbert Report. His characters were both killed, though he returned to voice Phil for the series finale. Colbert also has provided voices for Cartoon Network's The Venture Bros., Comedy Central's Crank Yankers, and American Dad!, as well as for Canadian animated comedy series The Wrong Coast. He appeared as Homer Simpson's life coach, Colby Krause, in the Simpsons episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs".[90][91]
Colbert filled in for Sam Seder on the second episode of The Majority Report on Air America Radio, and has also done reports for The Al Franken Show. He appeared on a track on Wig in a Box, a tribute album for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Colbert read the part of Leopold Bloom in Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV: Love Literature Language Lust: Leopold's Women Bloom on June 16, 2005 at Symphony Space in New York City.[17] He appeared in a series of TV commercials for General Motors, as a not-too-bright investigator searching for the elusive (and non-existent in real life) "Mr. Goodwrench". He also portrayed the letter Z in Sesame Street: All-Star Alphabet, a 2005 video release.
Colbert is a producer of The 1 Second Film, the world's largest nonprofit collaborative art film. His video request that IMDb list his credit for The 1 Second Film ("it is as valid as most of my credits") enabled thousands of the film's producers to be listed in the massive movie database until they were removed in early 2007.[92]
Colbert has released one book associated with The Colbert Report, I Am America (And So Can You!). It was released on October 7, 2007 by Grand Central Publishing. Grand Central Publishing is the successor to Warner Books, which published America (The Book), written by The Daily Show staff. The book contains similar political satire, but was written primarily by Colbert himself rather than as a collaboration with his Colbert Report writing staff.[93]
On November 23, 2008, his Christmas special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!, aired on Comedy Central. It was released on DVD in November 2008.[94]
In January 2010, Colbert was named the assistant sports psychologist for the US Olympic speed skating team at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[95][96] He was also invited to be part of NBC's 2010 Winter Olympics coverage team by Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports.[97] In April 2011, Colbert performed as Harry in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Company, presented by the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center.[98] The show, featuring Neil Patrick Harris in the starring role, ran for four nights and was filmed for later showings in movie theaters, which began June 15.[98] In May 2011, Colbert joined Charleston to Bermuda Race yachting race, as the captain of ship "the Spirit of Juno".[99] He finished second, five miles behind leaders "Tucana".[100]
Personal life[link]
Although, by his own account, he was not particularly political before joining the cast of The Daily Show, Colbert has described himself as a Democrat according to a 2004 interview.[101][102] In an interview at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Institute of Politics, he stated that he has "no problems with Republicans, just Republican policies".[103] Colbert is a practicing Roman Catholic and a Sunday school teacher.[17][104][105][106]
Colbert lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, who appeared with him in an episode of Strangers with Candy as his mother. She also had an uncredited cameo as a nurse in the series pilot and a credited one (as his wife, Clair) in the film. McGee-Colbert actually met Jon Stewart, later a good friend of Colbert, before she met her husband in 1990. She is the daughter of prominent Charleston civil litigator Joseph McGee, of the firm Buist Moore Smythe McGee. The couple has three children: Madeleine, Peter, and John.[107] Colbert prefers, however, that his children not watch his show, The Colbert Report, saying that "kids can't understand irony or sarcasm, and I don't want them to perceive me as insincere".[19]
Awards and honors[link]
See also: The Colbert Report#Awards
In 2000 Colbert and the other Daily Show writers were the recipients of three Emmy Awards as writers for The Daily Show and again in 2005 and 2006. In 2005 he was nominated for a Satellite Award for his performance on The Colbert Report and again in 2006.[40]
He was also nominated for three Emmys for The Colbert Report in 2006, including Best Performance in a Variety, Musical Program or Special, which he lost to Barry Manilow. Manilow and Colbert would go on to jokingly sign and notarize a revolving biannual custody agreement for the Emmy on the Colbert Report episode aired on October 30, 2006. He lost the same category to Tony Bennett in 2007 and Don Rickles in 2008.
In January 2006, the American Dialect Society named truthiness, which Colbert coined on the premiere episode of The Colbert Report, as its 2005 Word of the Year. Colbert devoted time on five successive episodes to bemoaning the failure of the Associated Press to mention his role in popularizing the word truthiness in its news coverage of the Word of the Year.[108][109] On December 9, 2006, Merriam-Webster also announced that it selected truthiness as its Word of the Year for 2006. Votes were accepted on their website, and according to poll results, truthiness won by a five-to-one margin.[110]
In June 2006, after speaking at the school's commencement ceremony, Colbert received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Knox College.[111] Time named Stephen Colbert as one of the 100 most influential people in 2006 and[10] in May 2006, New York magazine listed Colbert (and Jon Stewart) as one of its top dozen influential persons in media.[112] Colbert was named Person of the Year by the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado on March 3, 2007[113] and was also given the Speaker of the Year Award by The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) on March 24, 2007 for his "drive to expose the rhetorical shortcomings of contemporary political discourse".[114]
Colbert was named the 2nd Sexiest TV News Anchor in September 2006 by Maxim Online, next to Mélissa Theuriau of France and was the only man featured on the list.[115] In November 2006, he was named a "sexy surprise" by People in the Sexiest Man Alive honors[116] and in the December 2006 issue of GQ he was named one of GQ's "Men of the Year".[117]
He was nominated for a TCA Award for The Colbert Report by the Television Critics Association in 2006 and also received two Peabody Awards for his work on The Daily Show: Indecision 2000 and Indecision 2004. In February 2007, Ben & Jerry's unveiled a new ice cream flavor in honor of Colbert, named Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream. Colbert waited until Easter to sample the ice cream because he "gave up sweets for Lent".[118] Colbert will donate all proceeds to charity through the new Stephen Colbert AmeriCone Dream Fund, which will distribute the money to various causes.[119]
After the Saginaw Spirit defeated the Oshawa Generals in Ontario Junior League Hockey, Oshawa Mayor John Gray declared March 20, 2007 (the mayor's own birthday) Stephen Colbert Day, honoring a previous bet with Stephen. At the event, Mayor Gray referred to the publicity the bet brought the city, remarking, "This is the way to lose a bet".[120]
Colbert was honored for the Gutsiest Move on the Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards on June 13, 2007 for his performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.[121] In August 2007, Virgin America named an airplane. "Air Colbert", in his honor.[122] On October 28, 2007, Colbert received the key to the city of Columbia, South Carolina from Mayor Bob Coble.[123]
On December 20, 2007 Colbert was named Celebrity of the Year by The Associated Press.[124] On April 2, 2008 he received a Peabody Award for The Colbert Report, saying in response, "I proudly accept this award and begrudgingly forgive the Peabody Committee for taking three years to recognize greatness".[125]
In 2008 Colbert won the Emmy award for writing again, this time as a writer for the Colbert Report. Colbert delivered the Class Day address to the graduating class of Princeton University on June 2, 2008, and accepted the Class of 2008 Understandable Vanity Award, consisting of a sketch of Colbert and a mirror.[126] He also has been announced as the Person of the Year for the 12th annual Webby Awards.[127]
In 2008, East Carolina University associate professor Jason Bond named a species of trapdoor spider Aptostichus stephencolberti in honor of Stephen Colbert.[128] In January 2010, Colbert received the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for his album A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!. He also announced the nominees for Song of the Year while toting a pre-released Apple iPad.[129] Colbert was the 2011 commencement speaker for Northwestern University, and received an honorary degree.[130]
COLBERT Treadmill[link]
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In 2009 NASA engineered a new treadmill for the International Space Station. It was brought to the ISS by the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-128 mission in August 2009. The complex machine is now used eight hours daily by astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station in order to maintain their muscle mass and bone density while spending long periods of time in a zero gravity environment. While engineers at NASA were constructing this treadmill it was simply called T-2 for more than two years. However, on April 14, 2009 the treadmill became the most famous piece of exercise equipment in the world when NASA renamed it the "Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill", or COLBERT.[131] NASA named the treadmill after Colbert,[132] who took an interest during the Node 3 naming census for the ISS module, Tranquility.
Colbert urged his followers to post the name "Colbert", which upon completion of the census received the most entries totaling 230,539, some 40,000 votes more than the second-place choice, Serenity.[133] The COLBERT is expected to last the life of the ISS and will have seen about 38,000 miles of running when the Space Station is retired in 2020 but was also built with 150,000 mile lifespan if needed till 2028 or longer. Colbert realized he was the recipient of an extremely rare honor when astronaut Suni Williams came on The Colbert Report to announce that NASA had named the treadmill after him. Despite being an acronym, the COLBERT is the only piece of NASA engineered equipment in space that is named after a living human being.[134]
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C.O.L.B.E.R.T logo being applied to the Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill at NASA before Launch
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Launch of Discovery Mission STS-128, which delivered the COLBERT to the ISS
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Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov exercises on COLBERT in the Harmony Node Of The International Space Station
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The crew who delivered Stephen Colbert's honorary space treadmill
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Missing Persons | Chet Davies | First role |
| 1995 | Exit 57 | Various | |
| 1996 | The Dana Carvey Show | Various | |
| 1997 | Shock Asylum | Dr. Dewalt | Short film |
| The Daily Show | Stephen Colbert[23] | 1997–2005 (regular) 2005 – present (recurring) |
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| 1999 | Let It Snow | Happy Successful Guy | Also known as Snow Days |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Himself | ||
| Strangers with Candy | Chuck Noblet | 1999–2000 | |
| 2000 | Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | Myron Reducto / Phil Ken Sebben / The Eagle of Truth | 2000–2007 |
| 2003 | Nobody Knows Anything | TV Newsman | |
| 2003 | Chalkzone | Himself (paring-up w/ Kurtwood Smith) | |
| 2004 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Tourist Man | |
| Law and Order: Criminal Intent | James Bennett[89] | ||
| The Venture Bros. | Professor Richard Impossible | 2004–2006 | |
| 2005 | The Great New Wonderful | Mr. Peersall | |
| Bewitched | Stu Robison | ||
| Outlaw Tennis | Announcer | Video game | |
| The Colbert Report | Stephen Colbert[18] | 2005 – present | |
| 2006 | Strangers with Candy | Chuck Noblet | Feature film based on TV show |
| 2008 | The Love Guru | Jay Kell (Hockey Announcer) | |
| A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! | Santa Claus, Stephen Colbert | ||
| 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | The President (voice) | |
| The 1 Second Film | Self/Producer |
Bibliography[link]
- Colbert, Dinello, Sedaris. Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not (Hyperion, May 19, 2004) ISBN 0-7868-8696-X
- America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner Books, September 2004) ISBN 0-446-53268-1
- I Am America (And So Can You!) (Grand Central Publishing, October 9, 2007) ISBN 0-446-58050-3
Discography[link]
- A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! in 2008
- Stephen Colbert with the Black Belles — Charlene II (I'm Over You) in 2011
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- Colbert Roasts President Bush—2006 White House Correspondents dinner at Google Videos (Adobe Flash video), (April 30, 1441/59811 Transcript). (April 29, 2006)
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| Born | Eldred Gregory Peck (1916-04-05)April 5, 1916 La Jolla, California, U.S. |
| Died | June 12, 2003(2003-06-12) (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Bronchopneumonia |
| Resting place | Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, California |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Education | San Diego High School |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Actor, Humanitarian |
| Years active | 1942–2000 |
| Home town | San Diego, California |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Religion | Catholic |
| Spouse | Greta Kukkonen (1942–55; divorce) Veronique Passani (1955–2003; his death) |
| Children | 5; including Cecilia Peck |
| Family | Ethan Peck (grandson) |
| Awards | Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award, National Medal of Arts, Presidential Medal of Freedom |
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
One of the world's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an Academy Award. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #12. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983.[1]
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Eldred Gregory Peck was born in La Jolla, California, the son of Missouri-born Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, who was a chemist and pharmacist. Peck's father was of Irish (maternal) heritage and English (paternal) heritage,[2][3] and his mother was of Scots (paternal) and English (maternal) ancestry.[4] Peck's father was a Catholic and his mother converted upon marrying his father. Peck's Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising fewer than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while on hunger strike in 1917. Peck's parents divorced by the time he was six years old and he spent the next few years being raised by his maternal grandmother.[5]
Peck was sent to a Roman Catholic military school, St. John's Military Academy, in Los Angeles at the age of 10. His grandmother died while he was enrolled there, and his father again took over his upbringing. At 14, Peck attended San Diego High School and lived with his father.[6] When he graduated, he enrolled briefly at San Diego State Teacher's College, (now known as San Diego State University), joined the track team, took his first theatre and public-speaking courses, and joined the Epsilon Eta fraternity.[7] He stayed for just one academic year, thereafter obtaining admission to his first-choice college, the University of California, Berkeley.[8] For a short time, he took a job driving a truck for an oil company. In 1936, he declared himself a pre-medical student at Berkeley, and majored in English. Standing 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) he rowed on the university crew.
The Berkeley acting coach decided Peck would be perfect for university theater work. Peck developed an interest in acting and was recruited by Edwin Duerr, director of the university's Little Theater. He went on to appear in five plays during his senior year. Although his tuition fee was only $26 per year, Peck still struggled to pay, and had to work as a "hasher" (kitchen helper) for the Gamma Phi Beta sorority in exchange for meals. Peck would later say about Berkeley that, "it was a very special experience for me and three of the greatest years of my life. It woke me up and made me a human being."[9] In 1997 Peck donated $25,000 to the Berkeley crew in honor of his coach, the renowned Ky Ebright.
Acting career[link]
Stage[link]
After graduating from Berkeley with a BA degree in English, Peck dropped the name "Eldred" and headed to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse with the legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner. He was often broke and sometimes slept in Central Park.[10] He worked at the 1939 World's Fair and as a tour guide for NBC's television broadcasting. In 1940, Peck learned more of the acting craft, working in exchange for food, at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA, appearing in five plays including Family Portrait and On Earth as It Is.[11]
His stage career started in 1941 when he played the secretary in a Katharine Cornell production of George Bernard Shaw's play The Doctor's Dilemma. Unfortunately, the play opened in San Francisco just one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor.[12] He made his Broadway debut as the lead in Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star in 1942. His second Broadway performance that year was in The Willow and I with Edward Pawley. Peck's acting abilities were in high demand during World War II, since he was exempt from military service owing to a back injury suffered while receiving dance and movement lessons from Martha Graham as part of his acting training. Twentieth Century Fox claimed he had injured his back while rowing at university, but in Peck's words, "In Hollywood, they didn't think a dance class was macho enough, I guess. I've been trying to straighten out that story for years."[13]
In 1949 Peck co-founded The La Jolla Playhouse, at his birthplace, with Mel Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire. This local community theater and landmark (now in a new home at the University of California, San Diego) still thrives today. It has attracted Hollywood film stars on hiatus both as performers and enthusiastic supporters since its inception.
Film[link]
Peck's first film, Days of Glory, was released in 1944. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and Twelve O'Clock High (1949).
The Keys of the Kingdom emphasized his stately presence. As the farmer Ezra "Penny" Baxter in The Yearling his good-humored warmth and affection toward the characters playing his son and wife confounded critics who had been insisting he was a lifeless performer. Duel in the Sun (1946) showed his range as an actor in his first "against type" role as a cruel, libidinous gunslinger. Gentleman's Agreement established his power in the "social conscience" genre in a film that took on the deep-seated but subtle antisemitism of mid-century corporate America.Twelve O'Clock High was the first of many successful war films in which Peck embodied the brave, effective, yet human fighting man.
Among his other films were Spellbound (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), The Gunfighter (1950), Moby Dick (1956), On the Beach (1959), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Roman Holiday (1953), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role. Peck and Hepburn were close friends until her death; Peck even introduced her to her first husband, Mel Ferrer. Peck once again teamed up with director William Wyler in the epic Western The Big Country (1958), which he co-produced. Peck won the Academy Award with his fifth nomination, playing Atticus Finch, a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Released in 1962 during the height of the US civil rights movement in the South, this movie and his role were Peck's favorites. In 2003 Atticus Finch was named the top film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute.[14]
Peck served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1967, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute from 1967 to 1969, Chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund in 1971, and National Chairman of the American Cancer Society in 1966. He was a member of the National Council on the Arts from 1964 to 1966.[15]
A physically powerful man, he was known to do a majority of his own fight scenes, rarely using body or stunt doubles. In fact, Robert Mitchum, his on-screen opponent in Cape Fear, told about the time Peck once accidentally punched him for real during their final fight scene in the movie, he felt the impact for days afterward. Peck's rare attempts at unsympathetic albeit provocative roles usually fell short. Early on, he played the renegade son in the Western Duel in the Sun and, later in his career, the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil co-starring Laurence Olivier.[16]
Later work[link]
In the 1980s Peck moved to television, where he starred in the mini-series The Blue and the Gray, playing Abraham Lincoln. He also starred with Christopher Plummer, Sir John Gielgud, and Barbara Bouchet in the television film The Scarlet and The Black, about a real-life Roman Catholic priest in the Vatican who smuggled Jews and other refugees away from the Nazis during World War II.
Peck, Mitchum, and Martin Balsam all had roles in the 1991 remake of Cape Fear directed by Martin Scorsese. All three were in the original 1962 version. In the remake, Peck played Max Cady's lawyer. His last prominent film role also came in 1991, in Other People's Money, directed by Norman Jewison and based on the stage play of that name. Peck played a business owner trying to save his company against a hostile takeover bid by a Wall Street liquidator played by Danny DeVito.
Peck retired from active film-making at that point. Like Cary Grant before him, Peck spent the last few years of his life touring the world doing speaking engagements in which he would show clips from his movies, reminisce, and take questions from the audience. He did come out of retirement for a 1998 miniseries version of one of his most famous films, Moby Dick, portraying Father Mapple (played by Orson Welles in the 1956 version), with Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, the role Peck played in the earlier film.
Peck had been offered the role of Grandpa Joe in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but died before he could accept it. David Kelly was then given the part.
Politics[link]
In 1947, while many Hollywood figures were being blacklisted for similar activities, Peck signed a letter deploring a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of alleged communists in the film industry. President Richard Nixon placed Peck on his enemies list due to his liberal activism.[17]
A lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party, Peck was suggested in 1970 as a possible Democratic candidate to run against Ronald W. Reagan for the office of Governor of California. Although he later admitted that he had no interest in being a candidate himself for public office, Peck encouraged one of his sons, Carey Peck, to run for political office. Carey was defeated both times by slim margin in races in 1978 and 1980 against Republican U.S. Representative Robert K. Dornan, a former actor.
In an interview with the Irish media, Peck revealed that former President Lyndon Johnson had told him that, had he sought re-election in 1968, he intended to offer Peck the post of U.S. ambassador to Ireland — a post Peck, due to his Irish ancestry, said he might well have taken, saying "[It] would have been a great adventure".[18] Author Michael Freedland, in his biography of Peck, substantiates the report and says that Johnson indicated that his presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Peck would perhaps make up for his inability to confer the ambassadorship.[19]
Peck was outspoken against the Vietnam War, while remaining supportive of his son, Stephen, who fought there. In 1972 Peck produced the film version of Daniel Berrigan's play The Trial of the Catonsville Nine about the prosecution of a group of Vietnam protesters for civil disobedience. Despite his reservations about American general Douglas MacArthur as a man, Peck had long wanted to play him on film, and did so in MacArthur in 1976.[20]
In 1978, Peck traveled to Alabama, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird to campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Donald W. Stewart of Anniston, who defeated the Republican candidate, James D. Martin, a former U.S. representative from Gadsden.
In 1987, Peck did the voice-over on television commercials opposing President Reagan's Supreme Court nomination of conservative jurist Robert Bork.[21] Bork's nomination was defeated. Peck was also a vocal supporter of ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
Personal life[link]
In October 1942 Peck married Finnish-born Greta Kukkonen, with whom he had three sons, Jonathan (1944–75), Stephen (b. 1946), and Carey Paul (b. 1949). They were divorced on December 30, 1955, but maintained a very good relationship. Jonathan Peck, a television news reporter, committed suicide in 1975. Stephen Peck is active in support of American veterans from the Vietnam War; his first wife is screenwriter Kimi Peck, who co-wrote Little Darlings with Dalene Young. Carey Peck had political ambitions, running for Congress in California in 1978 and again in 1980 with the support of his father and family. He narrowly lost to conservative Republican Bob Dornan.
On December 31, 1955, the day after his divorce was finalized, Peck married Veronique Passani, a Paris news reporter who had interviewed him in 1953 before he went to Italy to film Roman Holiday. He asked her to lunch six months later and they became inseparable. They had a son, Anthony, and a daughter Cecilia Peck. The couple remained married until Gregory Peck's death.
Peck had grandchildren from both marriages.[22]
Peck owned the thoroughbred steeplechase race horse Different Class, which raced in England.[23] The horse was favored for the 1968 Grand National but finished third. Peck was close friends with French president Jacques Chirac.[24]
Peck was a practicing Roman Catholic, although he disagreed with the Church's positions on abortion and the ordination of women.[25]
Death[link]
On June 12, 2003, Peck died in his sleep at home from bronchopneumonia.[26] His wife Veronique was by his side.
Gregory Peck is entombed in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels mausoleum in Los Angeles, California. His eulogy was read by Brock Peters, whose character, Tom Robinson, was defended by Peck's Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Awards and honors[link]
Peck was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning once. He was nominated for The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Twelve O'Clock High (1949). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1968 he received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Peck also received many Golden Globe awards. He won in 1947 for The Yearling, in 1963 for To Kill a Mockingbird, and in 1999 for the TV mini series Moby Dick. He was nominated in 1978 for The Boys from Brazil. He received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1969, and was given the Henrietta Award in 1951 and 1955 for World Film Favorite — Male.
In 1969 US President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. In 1971 the Screen Actors Guild presented Peck with the SAG Life Achievement Award. In 1989 the American Film Institute gave Peck the AFI Life Achievement Award. He received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema in 1996.
In 1986 Peck was honored alongside actress Gene Tierney with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival Spain for their body of work.
In 1987, Peck was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.[27]
In 1993, Peck was awarded with an Honorary Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.[28]
In 1998 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[29]
In 2000 Peck was made a Doctor of Letters by the National University of Ireland. He was a founding patron of the University College Dublin School of Film, where he persuaded Martin Scorsese to become an honorary patron. Peck was also chairman of the American Cancer Society for a short time.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Gregory Peck has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6100 Hollywood Blvd. In November 2005 the star was stolen, and has since been replaced.[30]
On April 28, 2011, a ceremony was held in Beverly Hills, California celebrating the first day of issue of a U.S. postage stamp commemorating Peck. The stamp is the 17th commemorative stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series.[31][32]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1944 | Days of Glory | Vladimir | |
| The Keys of the Kingdom | Father Francis Chisholm | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | |
| 1945 | The Valley of Decision | Paul Scott | |
| Spellbound | John Ballantyne | ||
| 1946 | The Yearling | Ezra "Penny" Baxter | Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
| Duel in the Sun | Lewton 'Lewt' McCanles | ||
| 1947 | The Macomber Affair | Robert Wilson | |
| Gentleman's Agreement | Philip Schuyler Green | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | |
| The Paradine Case | Anthony Keane | ||
| 1949 | Yellow Sky | James 'Stretch' Dawson | |
| The Great Sinner | Fedja | ||
| Twelve O'Clock High | Gen. Frank Savage | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | |
| 1950 | The Gunfighter | Jimmy Ringo | |
| 1951 | Captain Horatio Hornblower | Captain Horatio Hornblower | |
| Only the Valiant | Captain Richard Lance | ||
| Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards | Short subject | ||
| David and Bathsheba | King David | ||
| Pictura: An Adventure in Art | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 1952 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Harry Street | |
| The World in His Arms | Capt. Jonathan Clark | ||
| 1953 | The Million Pound Note | Henry Adams | |
| Roman Holiday | Joe Bradley | Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | |
| 1954 | Night People | Col. Steve Van Dyke | |
| The Purple Plain | Squadron Leader Bill Forrester | ||
| 1956 | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Tom Rath | |
| Moby Dick | Captain Ahab | ||
| 1957 | Designing Woman | Mike Hagen | |
| 1958 | The Hidden World | Narrator | Documentary |
| The Bravados | Jim Douglass | ||
| The Big Country | James McKay | Also producer | |
| 1959 | Pork Chop Hill | Lieutenant Joe Clemons | |
| Beloved Infidel | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| On the Beach | Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers, USS Sawfish | ||
| 1961 | The Guns of Navarone | Capt. Keith Mallory | |
| 1962 | Cape Fear | Sam Bowden | |
| Lykke og krone | Documentary | ||
| How the West Was Won | Cleve Van Valen | ||
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Atticus Finch | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actor Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
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| 1963 | Captain Newman, M.D. | Capt. Josiah J. Newman, MD | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1964 | Behold a Pale Horse | Manuel Artiguez | |
| 1965 | Mirage | David Stillwell | |
| 1966 | John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums | Narrator | Documentary |
| Arabesque | Prof. David Pollock | ||
| 1967 | Pähkähullu Suomi | Cameo | |
| 1969 | The Stalking Moon | Sam Varner | |
| Mackenna's Gold | MacKenna | ||
| The Chairman | John Hathaway | ||
| Marooned | Charles Keith | ||
| 1970 | I Walk the Line | Sheriff Tawes | |
| 1971 | Shoot Out | Clay Lomax | |
| 1974 | Billy Two Hats | Arch Deans | |
| The Dove | Producer | ||
| 1976 | The Omen | Robert Thorn | |
| 1977 | MacArthur | General Douglas MacArthur | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1978 | The Boys from Brazil | Josef Mengele | Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1980 | The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse | Col. Lewis Pugh | |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Abraham Lincoln | |
| 1983 | The Scarlet and the Black | Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty | |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles | Documentary. Archival footage. | |
| 1985 | Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Documentary | |
| 1986 | Directed by William Wyler | Documentary | |
| 1987 | Amazing Grace and Chuck | President | Documentary |
| 1989 | Old Gringo | Ambrose Bierce | |
| Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 1991 | Other People's Money | Andrew Jorgenson | |
| Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days | Narrator | Documentary | |
| Cape Fear | Lee Heller | ||
| 1993 | The Portrait | Gardner Church | |
| 1994 | L'Hidato Shel Adolf Eichmann | Narrator | Documentary |
| 1996 | Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick | Documentary | |
| 1998 | Moby Dick | Father Mapple | TV Miniseries Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film |
| 1999 | The Art of Norton Simon | Narrator | Short subject |
| American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith | Narrator | ||
| 2000 | A Conversation With Gregory Peck | Himself | Documentary |
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Vanity Fair
- ^ Freedland, Michael. Gregory Peck: A Biography. New York: William Morrow and Company. 1980. ISBN 0-688-03619-8 p.10
- ^ United States Census records for La Jolla, California 1910
- ^ United States Census records for St. Louis, Missouri - 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
- ^ Freedland, pp. 12-18
- ^ Freedland, pp. 16-19
- ^ Fishgall, Barry (2002). Gregory Peck: A Biography. New York City: Simon and Schuster. pp. 36–37. ISBN 0-684-85290-X. http://books.google.com/books?id=NJId3XPaeR0C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=San+Diego+State+University+gregory+peck&source=bl&ots=eDnTPiiRfr&sig=ttqHRhb21XAeRiY8_UiTQSWQPzU&hl=en&ei=LhJxSvzAK-aStgf8gaWBDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=San%20Diego%20State%20University%20gregory%20peck&f=false.
- ^ Thomas, Tony. Gregory Peck. Pyramid Publications, 1977, p. 16
- ^ ""Gregory Peck comes home," ''Berkeley Magazine'', Summer 1996". Berkeley.edu. 2000-07-04. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/magazine/summer_96/departments/aroundcal/peck.html.
- ^ Freedland, p. 35
- ^ "Gregory Peck Returns to Theatre Roots in Virginia Mountains," Playbill, June 29, 1998
- ^ Tad Mosel, Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell, Little, Brown & Co., Boston (1978)
- ^ Welton Jones. "Gregory Peck," San Diego Union-Tribune, April 5, 1998
- ^ http://www.afi.com/100years/handv.aspx
- ^ Freedland, pp. 191-195
- ^ Freedland, pp. 242-243
- ^ Corliss, Richard. "The American as Noble Man" - Time Magazine - Monday, June 16, 2003
- ^ Haggerty, Bridget. "Gregory Peck's Irish Connections" - IrishCultureAndCustoms.com
- ^ Freedland, p. 197
- ^ Freedland, pp. 231-241
- ^ “”. "1987 Robert Bork TV ad, narrated by Gregory Peck". Youtube.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFe10lkF3Y. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
- ^ Snyder, Louis (July 3, 2010), Aiglon College Alumni Eagle Association (graduation address) .
- ^ "Pedigree Query". 2007-04-30. http://www.pedigreequery.com/different+class3.
- ^ (in French) Communiqué de M Jacques Chirac, président de la république, à la suite de la disparition de Gregory Peck [Communication from mister Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, following the disappearance of Gregory Peck] (communiqué de la Présidence), FR: Champs Elysées, June 2003, http://elysee.fr/elysee/fevrier/salle_de_presse/communiques_de_la_presidence/2003/juin/communique_de_m_jacques_chirac_president_de_la_republique_a_la_suite_de_la_disparition_de_gregory_peck.745.html
- ^ Haney, Lynn (2004). Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers. p. 419. ISBN 0-7867-1473-5.
- ^ Grimes, William (June 13, 2003). "Gregory Peck Is Dead at 87; Film Roles Had Moral Fiber". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E4D81F39F930A25755C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. "Gregory Peck, whose chiseled, slightly melancholy good looks, resonant baritone and quiet strength made him an unforgettable presence in films like To Kill a Mockingbird, Gentleman's Agreement and Twelve O'Clock High, died early yesterday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 87."
- ^ "Awards granted by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film". George Eastman House. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1993 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1993/03_preistr_ger_1993/03_Preistraeger_1993.html. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
- ^ "Lifetime Honors - National Medal of Arts". Nea.gov. http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#98.
- ^ "Gregory Peck's Hollywood star is reborn". Nine News (Australian Associated Press). December 1, 2005. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=75337.
- ^ Broadway World, April 4, 2011 http://movies.broadwayworld.com/article/Gregory_Peck_Honored_With_Commemorative_Stamp_Celebration_428_20110404
- ^ Fox News, 28 April 2011
Further reading[link]
- Fishgall, Gary. Gregory Peck: A Biography. New York: Scribner. 2002. ISBN 0-684-85290-X
- Freedland, Michael. Gregory Peck: A Biography. New York: William Morrow and Company. 1980. ISBN 0-688-03619-8
- Haney, Lynn. Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. 2004. ISBN 0-7867-1473-5
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- Gregory Peck at Find a Grave
- Gregory Peck - Daily Telegraph obituary
- Gregory Peck in the 1920 US Census, 1930 US Census, and the Social Security Death Index.
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Fred Matua (born January 14, 1984 in Wilmington, California) is an American football guard that is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Southern California.
Matua has also been a member of the Tennessee Titans, Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins, and Omaha Nighthawks.
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High school career[link]
Matua prepped at Banning High School in Los Angeles, California where he won the 2000 LA City 4A Championship his junior year.
College career[link]
While playing college football for the USC Trojans, Matua was an All-American guard in 2005.
Professional career[link]
NFL[link]
He was drafted on the second day by the National Football League's Detroit Lions but was cut by the team and was signed to the Tennessee Titans practice squad. On October 28, 2006, he was signed to the Cleveland Browns roster.
Florida Tuskers[link]
Matua was signed by the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League on September 3, 2009.[1]
References[link]
- ^ "Florida Tuskers Announce Signing Of 11 Additional Players Including Koren Robinson & Tatum Bell". OurSports Central. September 3, 2009. http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3899600. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
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