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Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941) served as the 46th Vice President of the United States (2001–2009), under George W. Bush.
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cheney was primarily raised in Sumner, Nebraska, and Casper, Wyoming. He began his political career as an intern for Congressman William A. Steiger, eventually working his way into the White House during the Nixon and Ford administrations, where he served the latter as White House Chief of Staff. In 1978, Cheney was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming; he was reelected five times, eventually becoming House Minority Whip. Cheney was selected to be the Secretary of Defense during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, holding the position for the majority of Bush's term. During this time, Cheney oversaw the 1991 Operation Desert Storm, among other actions.
Out of office during the Clinton presidency, Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000.
Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Marjorie Lorraine (née Dickey) and Richard Herbert Cheney. He is of predominantly English, as well as Welsh, Irish, and French Huguenot, ancestry; Cheney's 8th great-grandfather, William Cheney, immigrated from England to Massachusetts in the 17th century. Although not a direct descendant, he is collaterally related to Benjamin Pierce Cheney (1815–1895), the early American expressman. Cheney is a very distant cousin of both Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama; the three share a common ancestor in Mareen Duvall, a Huguenot who fled from France to England in the 17th century and later settled in Maryland. His father was a soil conservation agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his mother was a softball star in the 1930s; Cheney was one of three children.
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his left-wing political and social activism (including humanitarian work). He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008), as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for the former and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter.
Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in 1981's Taps and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, Penn emerged as a prominent leading actor with the 1995 drama film Dead Man Walking, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Penn received another two Oscar nominations for Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and I Am Sam (2001), before winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 for Mystic River and a second one in 2008 for Milk. He has also won a Best Actor Award of the Cannes Film Festival for She's So Lovely (1997), and two Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival for Hurlyburly (1998) and 21 Grams (2003).
William "Bill" Maher, Jr. ( /ˈmɑːr/; born January 20, 1956) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, author, and actor. Before his current role as the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher hosted a similar late-night talk show called Politically Incorrect originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC.
Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary, which targets a wide swath of topics including religion, politics, bureaucracies of many kinds, political correctness, the mass media, greed among people and persons in positions of high political and social power, and the lack of intellectual curiosity in the electorate. He supports the legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage, and serves on the board of PETA. He is also a critic of religion and is an advisory board member of Project Reason, a foundation to promote scientific knowledge and secular values within society. In 2005, Maher ranked at number 38 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time. Bill Maher received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on September 14, 2010.
Actors: Dick Cheney (actor), Neil LaBute (actor), Ralph Nader (actor), Joshua Ligairi (actor), Trent Harris (actor), Carol Lynn Pearson (actress), Tyrone Davies (editor), Tyrone Davies (producer), Tyrone Davies (producer), Tyrone Davies (director), Edward Abbey (actor), Alex Caldiero (actor), Alan Sparhawk (actor), Rocky Anderson (actor), Troy Williams (actor),
Plot: 'Just what, exactly, is going on here?' is not an unpopular question among visitors to the state of Utah. Tyrone Davies spent eight years with a video camera asking that question to nearly every Utahn he met. The result is a discursive collection of stories, interviews and media collages about the cultural landscape of the 'State of Deseret'. GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SUNG OF ZION presents a plethora of unexpectedly diverse 'best answers' to this enduring question that go far, far beyond the most common answer ('there are a lot of Mormons here') to reveal a collection of intricately intertwined stories about utopian ideology.
Genres: Documentary, History, News, Western,Actors: Bruce McGill (actor), Don Kress (actor), Stacy Keach (actor), John McCain (actor), Toby Jones (actor), Madison Mason (actor), Saddam Hussein (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Ioan Gruffudd (actor), Richard Dreyfuss (actor), Scott Glenn (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Rob Corddry (actor), Andrew Sensenig (actor), Jason Ritter (actor),
Plot: Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial presidents in USA history, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, abuse-of-power, alcoholism, ambition, americana, archival-footageActors: Tony Hale (actor), Tony Hale (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Matt Besser (actor), John Fleck (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Matt Besser (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Dermot Mulroney (actor), Tony Hale (actor),
Plot: Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victoria-era toy theater, Dante's Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th century literary classic. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets, and without the use of CGI effects, this unusual travelogue takes viewers on a tour of hell. And what we find there, looks a lot like the modern world. Sporting a hoodie and a hang-over from the previous night's debauchery, Dante wakes to find he is lost - physically and metaphorically - in a strange part of town. He asks the first guy he sees for some help: The ancient Roman poet Virgil, wearing a mullet and what looks like a brown bathrobe. Having no one else to turn to, Dante's quickly convinced that his only means for survival is to follow Virgil voyage down, down through the depths of Hell. The pair cross into the underworld and there Virgil shows Dante the underbelly of the Inferno, which closely resembles the decayed landscape of modern urban life. Dante and Virgil's chronicles are set against a familiar backdrop of used car lots, strip malls, gated communities, airport security checks, and the U.S. Capitol. Here, hot tubs simmer with sinners, and the river Styx is engorged with sewage swimmers. Also familiar is the contemporary cast of presidents, politicians, popes and pop-culture icons sentenced to eternal suffering of the most cruel and unusual kind: Heads sewn on backwards, bodies wrenched in half, never-ending blow jobs, dancing to techno for eternity, and last, but certainly not least, an inside look at Lucifer himself, from the point of view of a fondue-dunked human appetizer. Each creatively horrific penance suits the crime, and the soul who perpetrated it. As Dante spirals through the nine circles of hell, he comes to understand the underworld's merciless machinery of punishment, emerging a new man destined to change the course of his life. But not, of course, the brand of his beer.
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Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Bill Caco (director), Bill Caco (producer), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (writer), Josh Robert Thompson (actor), Josh Robert Thompson (actor), Cari Finken (actress), Josh Axelman (actor), Kelly Bakst (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Bill Caco (director), Bill Caco (producer), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (writer), Josh Robert Thompson (actor), Josh Robert Thompson (actor), Cari Finken (actress), Josh Axelman (actor), Kelly Bakst (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Tony Dadika (actor), Ed Morrone (actor), Larry Goldstein (actor), Andrew Rogers (actor), Elizabeth June (actress), Michael C. Kricfalusi (actor), Jonathan Butler (actor), Gustavius Smith (producer), Gustavius Smith (writer), Gustavius Smith (director), Gustavius Smith (actor), Gustavius Smith (producer), John 'J.T.' Tully (actor), Mike Chesbro (actor), Jennifer Sandella (actress),
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Genres: Comedy,Actors: Mary Lambert (director), Will Ferrell (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Will Ferrell (actor), Darrell Hammond (actor), Darrell Hammond (actor), Darrell Hammond (actor), Chris Kattan (actor), Tracy Morgan (actor), Horatio Sanz (actor), Tina Fey (actress), Ana Gasteyer (actress), Jennifer Lopez (actress), Jimmy Fallon (actor), Andrew Steele (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,