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Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'". Her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003 and was also another success worldwide, selling eight million copies. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005. Later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, which debuted at number one in the United States. She became the first female to have an MTV Unplugged album to debut at number one and the highest since Nirvana in 1994.
Bryan Adams, OC OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams, 5 November 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. For his contributions to music, Adams has many awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards for song composition and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films.
Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world.
Adams was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with the 2,435th star in March 2011 and Canada's Walk of Fame in 1998, and in April 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Canada's Juno Awards. In 2008, Bryan was ranked 38 on the list of All-Time top artists by the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts. On 13 January 2010, he received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his part in numerous charitable concerts and campaigns during his career, and on 1 May 2010 was given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
Actors: Mike James (producer), Amy Rene LaFavers (actress), Mike James (editor), Mike James (director), Mike James (writer), Marissa Viso (actress), Danielle Jones (actress), Jason Swarthout (producer), Keith Brimmer (actor), Max Xandaux (actor), Jovan Hernandez (composer), Kristina Burgess (actress), Corey Collins (producer), Jessica Wahlquist (actress), La Catrin (actress),
Plot: Houston's inner loop is the backdrop of this multi-layered thriller about a man who falls in love with a mysterious woman, a detective who is obsessed with a rash of ritualistic murders that are eerily reminiscent of a local legend that involved a coven of witches from the 1920's in the Houston neighborhood of Montrose and a down and out filmmaker who may be the next prey of a serial killer.
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Irina Varina (actress), Alex Mayzlin (actor), Anastasia Fedoryaka (editor), Anastasia Fedoryaka (writer), Anastasia Fedoryaka (director), Anastasia Fedoryaka (producer), Daniel Kozlov (actor), Drew Martin (actor), Olga Nikan (producer), Kseniya Sizova (miscellaneous crew), Jabbar Francis (actor), Seniyah Thomas (actor), Antony Chavkin (composer), Inna Abramova (miscellaneous crew), Edgar Morales (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Family Ties is a story of a young Russian girl. She gets the news of her pregnancy as she faces deportation from the United States. Now she has to make a hard choice between the love of her life and a safe and stable life for her future child.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Victor Tsatryan (writer), Victor Tsatryan (producer), Victor Tsatryan (director), Victor Tsatryan (producer), Julia Anfilatova (actor), Max Moshkin (editor), Dmitry Sagan (actor), Sergey Trafedluk (actor), Stepan Samoshin (composer),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Adam Johnson (actor), Sonja A. Nelson (costume designer), Jake Suazo (actor), Tennille Olsen (producer), Tennille Olsen (director), Tennille Olsen (writer), Joel Ackerman (actor), Matt Heder (actor), Mark Berrett (actor), Vanessa Barney (director), Vanessa Barney (writer), Nicole Wimmer (actress), Daniel N. Shipp (actor), Melissa Burk (actress),
Genres: Horror, Short, Western,Actors: Carolyn Chiodini-Cable (actress), Kevin Patrick Kelly (actor), John Chiodini (composer), Jill Bernal (actress), Jill Bernal (writer), Jill Bernal (producer), Chad Gabbert (actor), Takayoshi Muramatsu (director), Takayoshi Muramatsu (writer), Takayoshi Muramatsu (editor), Takayoshi Muramatsu (producer), Danny Zavatsky (actor), Bill Dung (actor), Bertha Trejos (actress), Nick Dilthey (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Vladimir Cosma (composer), Alain Poiré (producer), Marcel Pagnol (writer), Raoul Curet (actor), Thérèse Liotard (actress), Jean Rougerie (actor), Yves Robert (writer), Victor Garrivier (actor), Jean-Pierre Darras (actor), Michel Modo (actor), Jean-Pierre Darras (actor), Andrée Damant (actress), Pierre Maguelon (actor), Yves Robert (director), Paul Crauchet (actor),
Plot: A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in Provence.
Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 19th-century, 20th-century, alphabet, ammunition, amusement-park, ant, antique, apricotActors: Olof Thunberg (actor), Jan Malmsjö (actor), Gunvor Pontén (actress), Georg Rydeberg (actor), Lissi Alandh (actress), Arthur Fischer (actor), Karl Erik Flens (actor), Sven-Eric Gamble (actor), Tommy Johnson (actor), Gösta Krantz (actor), Ulf Brunnberg (actor), Hans Dahlin (director), Stig Grybe (actor), Marika Lindström (actress), Helena Brodin (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Gull Natorp (actress), Gösta Prüzelius (actor), Mona Geijer-Falkner (actress), Peter Lindgren (actor), Einar Axelsson (actor), Åke Fridell (actor), Åke Claesson (actor), Holger Löwenadler (actor), Stig Järrel (actor), Torgny Anderberg (actor), Magnus Kesster (actor), Alf Kjellin (actor), Arne Lindblad (actor), Alva Lundin (miscellaneous crew), Mai Zetterling (actress),
Plot: The officer Robert Motander is invited to a dinner with his upper-class relatives. During the dinner he observes the beautiful young house-maid, Iris. He suggests that the two of them go out to see a movie. This is the beginning of love story that Robert's relatives will do anything to stop. A working-class mistress will do but a working-class fiancée? Never!
Keywords: based-on-novel, housemaid, impossible-love, love, officer, upper-classActors: Henki Kolstad (actor), Joachim Holst-Jensen (actor), Harald Heide Steen (actor), Oscar Egede-Nissen (actor), Edith Carlmar (actress), Arvid Nilssen (actor), Fridtjof Mjøen (actor), Guri Stormoen (actress), Turid Haaland (actress), Lars Tvinde (actor), Øyvind Øyen (actor), Haakon Arnold (actor), Pehr Qværnstrøm (actor), Liv Uchermann Selmer (actress), Dagmar Myhrvold (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Rune Carlsten (director), Tord Stål (actor), Olof Widgren (actor), Margit Andelius (actress), Märta Dorff (actress), Carl Barcklind (actor), Signe Hasso (actress), Tollie Zellman (actress), Tom Walter (actor), Hugo Tranberg (actor), Ruth Stevens (actress), Siri Olson (actress), Albert Ståhl (actor), Hjalmar Peters (actor), Heinz Sandauer (composer),
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