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Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party, and has been ranked among the party's most influential voices on economic policy.
Born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan graduated from Miami University in Ohio and later worked as a marketing consultant for Ryan Incorporated Central, run by a branch of his family. In the mid to late 1990s, he worked as an aide to United States Senator Bob Kasten, as legislative director for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, and as a speechwriter for former U.S. Representative and 1996 Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp of New York. In 1998, Ryan won election to the United States House of Representatives, succeeding the two-term incumbent, fellow Republican Mark Neumann.
Ryan currently chairs the House Budget Committee, where he has played a prominent public role in drafting and promoting the Republican Party's long-term budget proposal. He introduced a plan, The Path to Prosperity, in April 2011 as an alternative to the budget proposal of President Barack Obama, and helped introduce The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal in March 2012, in response to Obama's 2013 budget. Ryan is one of the three co-founders of the Young Guns Program, an electoral recruitment and campaign effort by House Republicans. He endorsed Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney for the 2012 United States presidential election. Ryan has been considered as a possible running mate for Romney.
Actors: Meera Syal (actress), David Schaal (actor), Abhay Deol (actor), Preeya Kalidas (actress), Sofia Hayat (actress), Indra Bhose (writer), Indra Bhose (director), Henry R. Swindell (miscellaneous crew), Andy King-Dabbs (producer), Andy King-Dabbs (writer), Rachel Leskovac (actress), Stephen Rahman Hughes (actor), Rakhee Thakrar (actress), Mark Catley (writer), Chelsee Healey (actress),
Genres: Musical,Actors: Taylor Negron (actor), John Kassir (actor), Joan Van Ark (actress), Edward Asner (actor), Claire Doré (miscellaneous crew), Kira Willoughby (miscellaneous crew), Kira Willoughby (miscellaneous crew), Stephen R. Hudis (actor), Gil Glasgow (actor), Richard Partlow (actor), Ron Bissland (miscellaneous crew), Paul Gebeau (actor), Herb Linsey (producer), Herb Linsey (actor), Antonio D. Charity (actor),
Plot: A writer/producer is about to make a big career jump and has a lot of activity going on in his life. But, emotionally, he's dead. Through a fantastical event, he meets someone. They fall in love. She wants to defy logic and hop on the passing train of time with him. He lets his mind rationalize and hesitates. She is gone and he finds himself in a desperate race to get her back. Will the magic that brought them together be strong enough to reunite them, or is it too long?
Genres: Romance,Actors: Sayed Badreya (writer), Warner Loughlin (miscellaneous crew), Sayed Badreya (writer), Tony Shalhoub (producer), Anant Singh (producer), Bob Corff (miscellaneous crew), Ray Wise (actor), Tony Shalhoub (actor), Erick Avari (actor), Tim Guinee (actor), Sayed Badreya (actor), Tony Plana (actor), Alfre Woodard (actress), Brandon Blake (miscellaneous crew), Will Alovis (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Summer in L.A., it's hot. Homeland Security has set the threat level at red; they're searching for several Arabs alleged to be terrorists. Mustafa, an Egyptian immigrant who runs a falafel shop, comes to the FBI's attention; they investigate him. He has other problems: his young teen son no longer wants to be a Muslim; his sister, a nurse, objects to Mustafa arranging her marriage to a cousin from Egypt. She has a non-Arab suitor of her own. Omar, an employee of Mustafa, is a struggling actor who doesn't want to play only terrorists. Mustafa hopes to open a real restaurant and has a potential partner in Sam, a Jew, whose family objects. What price the American dream?
Genres: Drama,Actors: Amy Poehler (actress), Melissa Leo (actress), Tyra Banks (actress), Archie Hahn (actor), Anthony Reynolds (actor), Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Scott Adsit (actor), Ethan Suplee (actor), Brent Briscoe (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), M.C. Gainey (actor), Googy Gress (actor), Seann William Scott (actor), Toby Emmerich (producer), Susan Sarandon (actress),
Plot: Fatherless John Farley's youth frustration, even trauma, like many his school kids' in his Nebraska small town home, was the constant abuse and humiliation in sadistic Jasper Woodcock's gym class. After college, doting son John became a motivational bestseller author and returns during a book signing tour to receive the backwater's highest honor. To John's horror, his devoted mother Beverly announces her plans to marry the hated coach and he's to be celebrated on the same event as John. Only ridiculous fatso Nedderman and his strange brother try to help Farley stop Woodcock, but that keeps backfiring.
Keywords: 1990s, 2000s, airplane, ambulance, apology, asthma, asthmatic, award, barbershop, beatingActors: Matt Winston (actor), Jim Rash (actor), Mary Jo Smith (producer), Mary Jo Smith (actress), Robert Cymbal (actor), Dan Kinsella (actor), Bronston Jones (actor), Bronston Jones (producer), Bronston Jones (writer), Bronston Jones (director), Michael Cerminara (actor), Amy Smallman (actress), Jeff Drake (actor), Jamen Nanthakumar (actor), Dave Doré (composer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: DMX (actor), Ian M. Stratford (miscellaneous crew), Edward R. Pressman (producer), DMX (producer), Chris Miller (producer), Jeffrey Shepherd (miscellaneous crew), Clifton Powell (actor), David Arquette (actor), Art Evans (actor), Aisha Tyler (actress), Henry Gibson (actor), Tommy 'Tiny' Lister (actor), Jim McCarthy (miscellaneous crew), Jeff 'Doc' Porter (miscellaneous crew), Ernest R. Dickerson (director),
Plot: A film noir centering around a hard-boiled, stylish kingpin drug dealer, called King David, who returns to his hometown seeking redemption--but ends up only finding violent death. King David's final moments are spent with Paul, an aspiring journalist who knew him for just a few minutes; yet King David would forever more have an impact on Paul's life. Half preacher, half Satan, and all street smarts, King David had recorded the story of his exploits on audiotape, leaving behind an often-poetic sermon on villainy and its consequences. The tapes reveal that the cycle of violence and retribution, which his actions have spawned, has come back to him, full circle, as he suspected they might all along.
Keywords: anal-sex, based-on-novel, blood-spatter, bloodshed, child-abuse, cocaine, death, drug-dealer, drug-overdose, ethnic-slurActors: Jason Jones (producer), Boyd Banks (actor), Dave Foley (actor), Jason Jones (actor), Ron Sparks (actor), Jason Jones (writer), Scott Thompson (actor), Robert Tinkler (actor), Christian Potenza (actor), Polly Shannon (actress), Dwayne Hill (actor), Von Flores (actor), Adam Greydon Reid (actor), Mike Beaver (producer), Mike Beaver (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Lawrence Shragge (composer), Bob Bedard (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Gottlieb (producer), Sheila McCarthy (actress), Arliss Howard (actor), James Gammon (actor), Timothy Webber (actor), Sam Elliott (producer), Muse Watson (actor), Alex Diakun (actor), Sam Elliott (actor), Johann Benét (actor), R. Lee Ermey (actor), James Wilberger (miscellaneous crew), Wendy Partridge (costume designer),
Plot: Fact-based bio of early film director-producer, Bill Tilghman (Sam Elliott). Tighman was a real life cowboy, who rode with the Earps & faced down countless bad guys. When he turned to films, he was determined to make authentic Westerns, rather than the fake carrying on of Tom Mix & other Western movie stars of the day. The only problem was that no one wanted to see his non-stars in any story. Arliss Howard co-stars as a cocaine-addled law enforcement nemesis of Tighman, who attempts to stop him at every turn.
Keywords: bar-shootout, based-on-true-story, g-man, gangster, main-character-dies, neo-westernActors: Denis Leary (actor), Jay Leno (actor), James Belushi (actor), John Michael Higgins (actor), Richard Lawson (actor), George Gaynes (actor), Dustin Hoffman (actor), Woody Harrelson (actor), Merle Haggard (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), David Koechner (actor), Chris Ellis (actor), John Cho (actor), Phil Morris (actor), William H. Macy (actor),
Plot: After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.
Keywords: airplane-accident, albania, animal-in-title, anti-psychotic, baseball-metaphor, based-on-book, based-on-novel, black-comedy, cat, ciaActors: Rae Dawn Chong (actress), Dana Delany (actress), Xander Berkeley (actor), Peter Scolari (actor), Henry Czerny (actor), Babs Chula (actress), Polly Bergen (actress), Harold Gould (actor), Jim Byrnes (actor), John Ritter (actor), Hiro Kanagawa (actor), Peter Kelamis (actor), Louie Anderson (actor), Bob Saget (producer), Brad Grey (producer),
Genres: Drama,