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Coordinates: 37°26′N 122°10′W / 37.43°N 122.17°W / 37.43; -122.17
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto, California, United States. It is situated in the northwestern Silicon Valley, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco.
Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford founded the university in 1891 in honor of their son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday. The university was established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, was one of the original four ARPANET nodes, and had transformed itself into a major research university in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences.
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (/ˈdʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.
In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. During this period he also led efforts that would begin the desktop publishing revolution, notably through the introduction of the LaserWriter and the associated PageMaker software.
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born American business magnate, engineer and inventor. He is best known for co-founding SpaceX, Tesla Motors and X.com, which later became Paypal after acquiring the service. He is currently the CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors and Chairman of SolarCity. While at those companies, Musk co-designed the first viable electric car of the modern era, the Tesla Roadster, a private successor to the Space Shuttle, Falcon 9/Dragon, and the world's largest Internet payment system, PayPal.
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the son of a Canadian-American mother and a South African father. His maternal grandfather was from Minnesota, and had moved to Saskatchewan, where Musk's mother was born. His father is an engineer and his mother is an author, nutritionist and model, appearing on the cover of New York Magazine in 2011 and a Time Magazine supplement in 2010.
Musk bought his first computer at age 10 and taught himself how to program; by the age of 12 he sold his first commercial software for about $500, a space game called Blastar.
Actors: Christopher Forbes (producer), Christopher Forbes (editor), Christopher Forbes (director), Christopher Forbes (composer), Stephen Gilliam (actor), Taylor-Grace Davis (actress), Richard Kelly (producer), Melvin Butters (producer), Dan Beck (actor), Ronald Bumgardner (producer), Ronald Bumgardner (actor), Christopher Bowman (actor), Stan Fink (actor), Billy Joe Royal (actor), Kimberly Campbell (actress),
Plot: All hell breaks loose when a lone bounty hunter kills a member of an outlaw gang. As the gang seeks bloody revenge they kill, soon to be legendary, Billy the Kid's mother, leaving him to team up with the mysterious bounty hunter to enact vengeance on the outlaws. Soon he'll find his and the bounty hunter's lives are fatefully entwined in this shoot 'em up tale of gun smoke and justice in the old west.
Genres: Action, Western,Actors: Lance Henriksen (actor), Lee Arenberg (actor), David Fine (actor), J. LaRose (actor), George Katt (actor), Nick Plantico (producer), Robert Gordon Spencer (actor), Holt Boggs (actor), Scott Fort (producer), Charlie McDermott (actor), Federico Dordei (actor), Michael C. Williams (actor), Shelby Young (actress), John Kyle (actor), Mike Yurinko (writer),
Plot: Set in a small slate mining town in Pennsylvania during the 1970s. A teenager struggles to own-up to a tragic accident that took the life of his classmate during an after-school fight over a girl. Subsequently the dead boy's father, also the town's edgy sheriff, snaps with grief. He goes on a violent tirade which forces Harrison and his four friends to take drastic actions. Only after many long years does Harrison finally have the chance to reconcile with the sheriff. Only then will they both learn from their hurtful actions and the lessons of their lives.
Keywords: 1970s, belief, broken-family, depression, faith, family-relationships, gunrunner, hope, lasting-friendship, love-tornActors: Kristin Davis (actress), Penélope Cruz (actress), Lynn Cohen (actress), Miley Cyrus (actress), Willie Garson (actor), Kim Cattrall (actress), Todd Verow (actor), John Corbett (actor), Chris Noth (actor), Art Malik (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Omid Djalili (actor), Vincent De Paul (actor), Cynthia Nixon (actress), Liza Minnelli (actress),
Plot: Two years have passed since Carrie Bradshaw finally bagged John "Mr. Big" Preston, the man she was always meant to be with. Just as her friend Charlotte must deal with her young daughter's "terrible two's", Carrie must deal with her relationship taking a turn for the worse - Big likes to watch old black-and-white movies on TV and eat take-out food, which prevents Carrie from feeling like the free-wheeling party girl she used to be. Meanwhile, Miranda copes with a new boss that can't handle an intelligent, powerful woman, and Samantha works a public relations angle that gets the fashionable foursome an all-expense-paid trip to Abu Dhabi.
Keywords: 1980s, 2010s, 20th-century, 21st-century, abu-dhabi, adoption, all-american-girl, arab-stereotype, arabic-music, australianActors: Samuel James (actor), Roy Hanney (miscellaneous crew), Roy Hanney (producer), Roy Hanney (writer), Lorne Guy (director), Roy Hanney (editor), Roy Hanney (producer), Andrew Bumfrey (actor), Jez Stevens (composer), Alison Eve (actor), Bobby Dee (editor),
Plot: Prudence, a psychic is recruited to find a missing secret agent. Accompanied by her spirit guide she enters the world of master spy, Mr Calabrese. Believing himself to be in control his life is turned upside down as it is apparent that the spirits have a different agenda.
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Short, Thriller,Actors: Paul Ziller (writer), Lisa M. Hansen (producer), Paul Ziller (director), Lindsay MacAdam (producer), Kirk Shaw (producer), Scott A. Matthews (miscellaneous crew), Breanne Hartley (producer), David Lewis (actor), Michael Kopsa (actor), Jeremy London (actor), Peter Benson (actor), Oliver De Caigny (producer), Scott Hylands (actor), Devi Singh (miscellaneous crew), Randy Clair (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,Actors: Andy Gates (actor), Tammy Massa (actress), Danton Mew (actor), Ross Pruden (miscellaneous crew), Michael David Cheng (actor), Adam Chin (miscellaneous crew), Maria Mastroyannis (actress), Mary Ann Biewener (actress), Michaela Greeley (actress), Jerome Rossen (composer), Terry Boero (actress), Renny Madlena (actor), Curtis Lim (writer), Elaine Pinto (actress), John Shin (actor),
Plot: What if you had a chance to do everything all over again? Would you make the same mistakes? Or would you get it right the second time? Madeline is a lovable, down-to-earth young woman who constantly tries to make her life better but fails at every turn. It doesn't help that her job consists of cleaning one strange household after another, or that her husband Joe gambles all her money away. Her only friend is Stanford, a medical student who encourages her to go back to school, but even he doesn't have time for her. No one does. Then one day a quirky accident puts Madeline in an interesting dilemma...a situation that could solve all of her problems...
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Kyle MacLachlan (actor), Dylan McDermott (actor), Kyle MacLachlan (actor), Ron Livingston (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Dave Chappelle (actor), Ron Livingston (actor), Bobby Cannavale (actor), Bobby Cannavale (actor), Mikhail Baryshnikov (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), Willie Garson (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Mikhail Baryshnikov (actor), Chris Noth (actor),
Plot: In this alternative to a "the making of" on the super hit-sitcom "Sex and the City", which simply does not rely on special effects, various actors and other people involved in its production, writers, producers, wardrobe mistress, even celebrities appearing as themselves or just mentioned by characters (e.g. designers like Oscar De la Renta) try to fathom the success formula, supported by numerous short fragments: what did make it tick, where the pioneering boundaries were (and especially where not), what they enjoyed, inspiration from real life and especially New York...
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Miles Goodman (composer), Rubén Blades (actor), Burton Sharp (miscellaneous crew), Joe Pesci (actor), Wayne Petrucelli (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Gardenia (actor), Kenn Michael (actor), Stacey Travis (actress), Anibal O. Lleras (actor), Paul Benjamin (actor), LaTanya Richardson (actress), Nicholas Wolfert (miscellaneous crew), Olga Merediz (actress), Carole Shelley (actress), Anthony Heald (actor),
Plot: Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie's father is the real boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie to live in the squalor his tenants endure all year round.
Keywords: african-american, corvette, court, dancing, father-son-relationship, landlord, landlord-tenant-relationship, money, racial-slur, ratActors: Piero Regnoli (writer), Delia Boccardo (actress), Adriana Novelli (editor), Umberto D'Orsi (actor), Femi Benussi (actress), Enrico Maria Salerno (actor), Marcello Giombini (composer), James Shigeta (actor), Giulia Mafai (costume designer), Nicola Di Gioia (actor), Ferruccio De Ceresa (actor), Rinaldo Zamperla (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Hunter (actor), Adriana Ambesi (actress), Vittorio Bonos (actor),
Plot: A gunman teams up with his long-lost brothers--a French hypnotist and a Japanese kung-fu expert--to fight a villain who is obsessed with Roman emperor Julius Caesar, to the point of having built a palace, complete with slave girls, a huge sunken bath and his own "Praetorian Guard", and who is trying to cheat them out of a gold mine left to them by their father.
Keywords: brawl, castle, catfight, chop-socky, cowboy, cross, female-assassin, fistfight, gold-mine, gun-fuActors: Adele Garavaglia (actress), Gero Zambuto (actor), Nerio Bernardi (actor), Andrea Checchi (actor), Romolo Costa (actor), Enzo Biliotti (actor), Nando Bruno (actor), Carlo Duse (actor), Claudio Ermelli (actor), Oreste Fares (actor), Lauro Gazzolo (actor), Achille Majeroni (actor), Augusto Marcacci (actor), Guido Notari (actor), Tina Lattanzi (actress),
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