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State police are a type of sub-national territorial police force, particularly in the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Australia. Some other countries have analogous police forces, such as the provincial police in some Canadian provinces, while in other countries, the same responsibilities are held by national police forces. Particularly, in the United States, the primary goals of most state police agencies are the safety of motorists on interstate highways, and the enforcement of traffic laws on those interstate highways.
Each state of Australia has its own state police force. Municipalities do not have police forces and it is left to the state forces to police the geographic areas within their respective states. Australia does have a national police force, the Australian Federal Police, whose role is to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth, both criminal law and civil law, as well as to protect the interests of the Commonwealth, both domestically and internationally. The AFP does, however, provide 'state' policing for the Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory, and Australia's other external territories such as Norfolk Island.[citation needed] Prior to the Federation of Australia, each Colony within Australia had numerous police forces, but these were largely amalgamated well before Federation.[citation needed]
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance.
In a career that spanned decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moved on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music making. Brown performed in concerts, first making his rounds across the Chitlin' Circuit, and then across the country and later around the world, along with appearing in shows on television and in movies. Although he contributed much to the music world through his hitmaking, Brown holds the record as the artist who charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.
For many years, Brown's touring show was one of the most extravagant productions in American popular music. At the time of Brown's death, his band included three guitarists, two bass guitar players, two drummers, three horns and a percussionist. The bands that he maintained during the late 1960s and 1970s were of comparable size, and the bands also included a three-piece amplified string section that played during ballads. Brown employed between 40 and 50 people for the James Brown Revue, and members of the revue traveled with him in a bus to cities and towns all over the country, performing upwards of 330 shows a year with almost all of the shows as one-nighters. In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1990 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Actors: Randall P. Dark (producer), Harry Connick Jr. (actor), Raigen Thornton (miscellaneous crew), Lyle Lovett (actor), Fionnula Flanagan (actress), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Willie Nelson (actor), Connie Britton (actress), Shannon McIntosh (producer), Heather Kafka (actress), Elizabeth Avellan (producer), Daniel Zubiate (miscellaneous crew), Turk Pipkin (writer), Turk Pipkin (producer), Turk Pipkin (actor),
Plot: As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife and well-intentioned parents. But when his young son faces a tragedy, Michael needs to make amends with his past. A mysterious man named Nick gives Michael a gift and instills in him the courage to find the joy that he lost.
Keywords: christmasActors: Howard Braunstein (producer), Scott Wickware (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), Michael Jaffe (producer), Lynn Josephson Delaney (miscellaneous crew), Art Hindle (actor), Mark Harmon (producer), Mark Harmon (actor), Rachel Wilson (actress), Mindy May Jenkins (miscellaneous crew), Tom Third (composer), Tatiana Maslany (actress), Steve Solomos (producer), Deborah Odell (actress), Samantha Armstrong (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Hilary Swank (producer), Tony Goldwyn (director), Melissa Leo (actress), Hilary Swank (actress), Karen Young (actress), Tony Goldwyn (producer), John Pyper-Ferguson (actor), Sam Rockwell (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Clea DuVall (actress), Marc Macaulay (actor), Juliette Lewis (actress), Minnie Driver (actress), Alan Abrams (miscellaneous crew), Jay Cassidy (editor),
Plot: Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Keywords: aerial-shot, american-flag, apology, armed-robbery, arrest, arrest-at-a-funeral, attempted-suicide, attorney, audio-flashback, ayer-massachusettsActors: Mía Maestro (actress), Shane Edelman (actor), Robert Saitzyk (producer), Ned Benson (director), Ned Benson (actor), Ned Benson (writer), Ned Benson (producer), Charlotte Newhouse (actress), Bob Mori (editor), John Rickard (producer), John Rickard (actor), Asche & Spencer (composer), Thomas Scott Stanton (actor), Dennis Anderson (actor), Megan Zaitz (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Short,Actors: Richard Zeman (actor), Patti LuPone (actress), Danny DeVito (actor), Delroy Lindo (actor), Danny Blanco Hall (actor), Don Carmody (producer), Sam Rockwell (actor), Andreas Apergis (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Ricky Jay (actor), Benz Antoine (actor), Tony Calabretta (actor), Gene Hackman (actor), Andrew Stevens (producer), Elie Samaha (producer),
Plot: David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.
Keywords: airplane, airport, betrayal, blackmail, blood-splatter, boat, boston-massachusetts, caper, car-accident, cheating-wifeActors: Robert Ridgely (actor), Kevin Spacey (actor), Bill Raymond (actor), Arthur J. Nascarella (actor), Denis Leary (actor), J.K. Simmons (actor), Vincent Pastore (actor), Philip Akin (actor), Richard Blackburn (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Richard Bright (actor), Matt Birman (actor), Raymond J. Barry (actor), Timm Zemanek (actor), Jim Turner (actor),
Plot: Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple's blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they're driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.
Keywords: alcoholic, argument, bar, bickering, black-comedy, blackmail, boat, breaking-and-entering, burglar, burglar-alarmActors: Jerry Gross (director), Jerry Gross (writer), Jerry Gross (producer), William Watson (actor), Steve Karmen (composer), Ron Charles (actor), Henry Kaplan (actor), Henry Kaplan (miscellaneous crew), Arlene Farber (actress), Nicholas Demetroules (producer), Horace Bailey (actor), Peter Nevard (actor), Wolf Landsman (actor), Matt Reynolds (actor), Ron Segal (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Peter Capell (actor), Jayne Mansfield (actress), Dan Duryea (actor), Sol Kaplan (composer), Paul Wendkos (editor), Paul Wendkos (director), Mickey Shaughnessy (actor), Martha Vickers (actress), David Goodis (writer), David Goodis (writer), John Facenda (actor), Wendell K. Phillips (actor), Stewart Bradley (actor), George Kane (actor), Louis W. Kellman (producer),
Genres: Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller,Actors: Henry Mancini (composer), John Eldredge (actor), Howard Christie (producer), Douglas Evans (actor), Jeff Chandler (actor), Laraine Day (actress), Mary Field (actress), Robert Anderson (actor), David Janssen (actor), Cecil Kellaway (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Joseph Forte (actor), Robert Stevenson (actor), Herman Stein (composer),
Plot: Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's fatherless son Timmie, at a remote boys' school, is riding for a fall by manufacturing evidence of his "explorer father." By an amazing coincidence, Rick steps off the bus at just the right moment for Timmie to recruit him as "father" without his knowledge. With no intention of collaborating, the befuddled Rick is carried along by the sweep of events. Who can predict the outcome?
Keywords: female-executive, remakeActors: Eric Alden (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), George Chandler (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), James Conaty (actor), Jack Curtis (actor), Edgar Edwards (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Gibson Gowland (actor), Al Hill (actor), Edward Keane (actor), Leonid Kinskey (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor),
Plot: As a ploy to gain publicity, a motion picture director wants his star actress to take a baby with her on a train trip. The director's secretary asks the train's engineer, an old boyfriend, for help. As the engineer ponders what to do, a stranger in the train station tells him that he has a baby that could be used. On board the train, the actress meets a young doctor whom she knew in school, and whom she is still in love with. The presence of the baby causes a series of misunderstandings between them, but the real problems begin when the engineer begins to suspect that the baby may have been kidnapped.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actress, baby, chicago-illinois, dining-car, director, doctor, engagement, fan-club, kidnapping