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In British English, a tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner (generally equivalent to a solicitor or barker in American English, or a spruiker in Australian English). According to the American Bar Association, touting occurs when a person advertises, promotes, or otherwise describes a security for sale without disclosing that the person is being paid to do so.
An example would be a person who frequents heavily touristed areas and presents himself as a tour guide (particularly towards those who do not speak the local language) but operates on behalf of local bars, restaurant, or hotels, being paid to direct tourists towards certain establishments.
In London, the term "taxi touts" refers to a kind of illegal taxicab operation which involves taxi drivers (or their operator) attracting potential passengers by illegal means—for instance, calling out travellers, or fetching them and their luggage, while parked in an area where taxi drivers must wait in their vehicle. They may charge exorbitant fees upon arrival, possibly using threats to ensure payment.
Aure Atika (born 12 July 1970) is a French actress, writer and director. Born in Portugal to a Moroccan mother and a French father, Aure Atika grew up in Paris. She was born to Ode Atika Bitton and Michel Fournier who are also film actors and directors. Aure Atika won the 2004 Best French-Language Short Film Award at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival for À quoi ça sert de voter écolo? (What's the Point of Voting Green?) (2004) and was nominated for the 2010 César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Mademoiselle Chambon (2009). Atika has one daughter, Angelica (February 2002) with Philippe Zdar of house music group, Cassius.
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. His key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding gravitational singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein–Hawking radiation).
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Subsequently, he became research director at the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
Hawking has a motor neurone disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a condition that has progressed over the years. He is now almost completely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device. He has been married twice and has three children. Hawking has achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
Actors: Paul Hillier (miscellaneous crew), Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (actor), Steven Waddington (actor), Paul Barber (actor), Samantha Womack (actress), Roxanne Cuenca (miscellaneous crew), Anton Short (editor), Terry O'Neill (actor), Mark Womack (actor), Tom Harnick (miscellaneous crew), Ebru Pilten (miscellaneous crew), James Marquand (director), Diloy Gülün (producer), Lucien Laviscount (actor), Alison McLaughlin (costume designer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Roland Amstutz (actor), Jean-Marie Winling (actor), Sylvie Koechlin (miscellaneous crew), Stéphane Boucher (actor), François Dupeyron (writer), François Dupeyron (director), Steve Kalfa (actor), Daniel Laloux (actor), Jean-Charles Dumay (actor), Dominique Faysse (actress), René Cleitman (producer), Thierry Fortineau (actor), Florence Emir (costume designer), Françoise Collin (editor), Mathilde Vitry (actress),
Plot: Mado is followed in the street by an unknown man. He offers her to go the hotel. She accepts, they sleep together and then split. Mado does not want to see him again, because she is married with Jean, and has a teenager son, Stephane. But Yves gave her his phone number. One day, Mado calls him.... An unusual love story.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ron Haddrick (actor), Chris Haywood (actor), Tom Selleck (actor), Basil Poledouris (composer), Alan Rickman (actor), Ben Mendelsohn (actor), Roger Ward (actor), Simon Wincer (director), Don Bridges (actor), Michael Carman (actor), Laura San Giacomo (actress), Tony Bonner (actor), Jerome Ehlers (actor), William Zappa (actor), Christine Robson (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Quigley takes exception to this and leaves. The rancher tries to kill him for refusing, and Quigley escapes into the brush with a woman he rescued from some of the rancher's men, and are helped by aborigines. Quigley returns the help, before going on to destroy all his enemies.
Keywords: 19th-century, aborigine, action-hero, american, arms-dealer, assassin, australia, australian-aboriginal, australian-aborigine, australian-outbackActors: Richard Pearson (actor), Harry Secombe (actor), Noel Purcell (actor), Cyril Smith (actor), Arnold Bell (actor), Neville Phillips (actor), Hildegard Knef (actress), Michael Hordern (actor), Peter Illing (actor), Alfie Bass (actor), Marne Maitland (actor), Michael Craig (actor), Martin Boddey (actor), Beatrice Dawson (costume designer), William Alwyn (composer),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: James Flavin (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Eddie Bruce (actor), Charles Bennett (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), William Forrest (actor), Eddie Coke (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Lou Costello (actor), Hal Craig (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Bud Abbott (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Tom Hanlon (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Cliff Edwards (actor), Bert Dillard (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Harry A. Bailey (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Lew Davis (actor), Leonard Carey (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Charles Brinley (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor),
Plot: Two circus acrobats hurtle to their death when a wire snaps and their daughter, "Pinky" Horton, has to face the future as an orphan. Unwilling to live with her stern Aunt Hattie, she and Handy, a circus performer, load up Counto the Wonder Horse into a trailer and head to the California racing stable owned by her cousin, Dick. But the latter has lost everything, and refuses to accept a position in the soap factory owned by Herkimer Gould, the father of Dick's fiancée, Helen. "Pinky" is convinced that Counto is a horse filled with racing blood, and she spends the grocery money and sells their jalopy to get the funds needed to enter Counto in a claiming race.
Keywords: 1930s, acrobat, arrest, aunt-niece-relationship, b-movie, bail, barn, california, chinese, circusActors: Alan Baxter (actor), Granville Bates (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Harry Bowen (actor), Willie Best (actor), George Cleveland (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Sam Flint (actor), William Gargan (actor), William Gould (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor),
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Genres: Drama,Actors: Noah Beery (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Jack Carr (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Mike Donlin (actor), James Eagles (actor), Harold Entwistle (actor), Cary Grant (actor), Al Hill (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Arthur Housman (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Fuzzy Knight (actor), Lee Kohlmar (actor), Ernie Adams (actor),
Plot: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine, unfortunately one of them is a vicious criminal who's escaped and is on the way to see "his" girl, not realizing she hasn't exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader, though.
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