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According to the Hebrew Bible, Dinah (Hebrew: דִּינָה, Modern Dina Tiberian Dînā ; "Judged; vindicated") was the daughter of Jacob, one of the matriarchs of the Israelites, and Leah, his first wife. The episode of her abduction and violation by a Canaanite prince, and the subsequent vengeance of her brothers Simeon and Levi, commonly referred to as "The Rape of Dinah", is told in Genesis 34.
Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob, went out to visit the women of Shechem, where her people had made camp and where her father Jacob had purchased the land where he had pitched his tent. Shechem the son of Hamor, the prince of the land, "seized her and lay with her and humbled her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah ... he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her," and Shechem asked his father to obtain Dinah for him, to be his wife.
Hamor came to Jacob and asked for Dinah for his son: "Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. You shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to you," and Shechem offered Jacob and his sons any bride-price they named. But "the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah," saying they would accept the offer if the men of the city agreed to be circumcised.
Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing (vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics).
Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a black man. While he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, he was privately a strong supporter of the Civil Rights movement in America.[citation needed]
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered one of the giants of American music. Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.
His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are consistent with Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations. This was not a style universally appreciated; poet and jazz critic Philip Larkin dismissed Monk as 'the elephant on the keyboard'.
Monk's manner was idiosyncratic. Visually, he was renowned for his distinctive style in suits, hats and sunglasses. He was also noted for the fact that at times, while the other musicians in the band continued playing, he would stop, stand up from the keyboard and dance for a few moments before returning to the piano.
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Genres: Drama, Family, Short, Sport,Actors: Damian Marcano (producer), Damian Marcano (editor), Damian Marcano (director), Damian Marcano (writer), Penelope Spencer (actress), Alexa Bailey (writer), Alexa Bailey (producer), Alexa Bailey (producer), Muhammad Muwakil (actor), Albert Laveau (actor), Darren Cheewah (actor), Paul Morgan (producer), Paul Morgan (producer), Zion Henry (actor), Jamie Lee Phillips (actor),
Plot: TRINIDAD - King Curtis, a vagrant on the streets of Port of Spain, is constantly ignored by passersby. He speaks and if he has to - sometimes shouts the truth about the stories behind the newspaper headlines. As the conductor of our story, King Curtis introduces us to a young man named Charlie... Charlie, a resident east of the lighthouse, is trying his best to stay on the right path. However, with no job in sight, he is finding it hard to say no to other "opportunities". A chance of redemption presents itself when Dinah, a professional streetwalker, crosses his path in need of help. As the story unfolds, King Curtis reveals the ripple effect created by a person's decision making; leading to moments of triumph and moments of tragedy.
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Plot: The love of your life. The one that got away. If you had only known then what you learned by losing her, would the relationship have survived or would something else have gotten in the way? And what if you had known about that something else... how many times would it take you to get it right?
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Plot: This sitcom comes to us from the makers of "Frans People" and once again filmed on location in Glasgow.Terri played by Simon Carlyle runs a tanning salon "Fan of the tan" and spends most of her time cavorting with other colorful characters in the "Whippet Inn".In search of romance etc and with a checkered past,life just goes from humor to heartache in true comedy farce.
Keywords: character-name-in-titleActors: Ricki Lake (actress), Melanie Griffith (actress), Maggie Gyllenhaal (actress), Michael Shannon (actor), John Waters (actor), Roseanne Barr (actress), Mark Joy (actor), Kevin Nealon (actor), Rick Kain (actor), Stephen Dorff (actor), Adrian Grenier (actor), Eric Roberts (actor), Ken Arnold (actor), Alicia Witt (actress), Mink Stole (actress),
Plot: In Baltimore, guerrilla filmmaker Cecil B. Demented leads a band of cinema revolutionaries who kidnap Honey Whitlock, a bitchy and aging movie star of big-budget froth. Cecil wants her in his movie, a screed against Hollywood they film during blitzkrieg attacks on a multiplex, a Maryland Film Commission press conference, and the set of a "Forrest Gump" sequel. He insists on celibacy; the cast and crew channel sexual energy into the production. With a family-values coalition, aggrieved Teamsters, and the police on their trail, Cecil needs help from porno, kung-fu, and drive-in audiences. What about Honey? Will she bolt or refuse to act? Or will she hit her marks and light up the screen?
Keywords: actress, assisted-suicide, baltimore-maryland, bearded-woman, black-comedy, blank-bullet, blindfold, blood-splatter, body-landing-on-a-car, bongActors: Jason Ritter (actor), Adam Brody (actor), Mari Wilson (miscellaneous crew), Lori Grabowski (miscellaneous crew), Brian White (actor), Jean Beaudoin (editor), Rachelle Lefevre (actress), Arthur Tarnowski (editor), Jay Hernandez (actor), Damon Lindelof (writer), Lance W. Lanfear (miscellaneous crew), Lance W. Lanfear (miscellaneous crew), Amy Weber (actress), Jessica Morris (actress), Karri Lucas (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Valeria Cavalli (actress), Lesley Ann Warren (actress), Ben Kingsley (actor), Monica Bellucci (actress), Alice Krige (actress), Dominique Sanda (actress), Renato Scarpa (actor), Warren Clarke (actor), Arthur Brauss (actor), Timothy Bateson (actor), Martin Landau (actor), Stefano Dionisi (actor), Nadim Sawalha (actor), Lionel Chetwynd (writer), Luca Bernabei (producer),
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