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Ham is a cut of meat from the thigh of the hind leg of an animal, especially pigs. Nearly all hams sold today are fully cooked or cured.
The word ham is derived from the Old English ham or hom meaning the hollow or bend of the knee.
Elenski but is a dry-cured ham from the town of Elena in northern Bulgaria and a popular delicacy throughout the country. The meat has a specific taste and can be preserved in the course of several years, owing much to the unique process of making the product and the climatic conditions of the part of Stara Planina where Elena is located.
In the coastal regions of Croatia; Istria, Dalmatia and Croatian Littoral, as well as in Lika a form of Ham known as "Pršut" is made. This is smoked and dried ham which is pressed and is very popular. The most popular pršuts come from town of Drniš and village Posedarje in Dalmatia. The popularity of pršut has helped it spread to other regions of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other surrounding countries. Pršut is similar to Italian hams. In continental Croatia the "Šunka"-s are made. Šunka is Croatian word for ham. It is not pressed but in other ways it is similar as Pršut but not as popular.
Kanye Omari West ( /ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977) is an American musician, film director and fashion designer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. However, subsequent productions saw him broadening his musical palette and expressing influences encompassing '70s R&B, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, folk, alternative, electronica, synthpop, and classical music.
West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008, and his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010. West released a collaborative album, Watch the Throne with Jay-Z in 2011, which is the duo's first collaborative album. His five solo albums, all of which have gone platinum, have received numerous awards and critical acclaim. As of 2012, West has won a total of eighteen Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all-time. All albums have been very commercially successful, with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy becoming his fourth consecutive No. 1 album in the U.S. upon release. West has had 5 songs exceed 3 million in digital sales as of July 2011, with "Gold Digger" selling 3,086,000, "Stronger" selling 4,402,000, "Heartless" selling 3,742,000, "E.T." selling over 4,000,000 and "Love Lockdown" selling over 3,000,000 placing him third in overall digital sales of the past decade. He has sold over 30 million digital songs in the United States making him one of the best-selling digital artists of all-time.
Actors: Kimberley Roper (miscellaneous crew), Junie Hoang (actress), Clint Jung (actor), Sean Delgado (director), Sean Delgado (editor), Long Nguyen (actor), Emil Lin (actor), Agnes Olech (actress), Elaine Loh (actress), Melinda Rochelle (actress), Peggy Bruen (actress), Blake Kushi (actor), Steve Sturla (actor), Steve Sturla (writer), Steve Sturla (producer),
Plot: When a cheesy Little Saigon Real Estate salesman attempts to lure new customers by networking at funerals of complete strangers, his life soon begins to spin out of control. He gets sucked into a strange, dangerous world and must decide to stay and fight or withdraw from Little Saigon.
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,Actors: John Sayles (writer), Andrea F. Cannistraci (miscellaneous crew), Mason Daring (composer), Mary Steenburgen (actress), John Sayles (director), John Sayles (editor), Tom Wright (actor), Charles S. Dutton (actor), Stacy Keach (actor), Danny Glover (actor), John Sayles (actor), Kel Mitchell (actor), Vondie Curtis-Hall (actor), Hope Hanafin (costume designer), Brent Jennings (actor),
Plot: 1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend go awry and Tyrone is forced to take drastic action in a final scheme to save the club.
Keywords: 1950s, alabama, corrupted-lawmen, criminal-element, hypocrisy, jim-crow-laws, n-word, one-word-title, scene-before-opening-credits, title-appears-in-textActors: Bob Bedard (miscellaneous crew), Aaron Pearl (actor), John Corbett (actor), Murray Ord (producer), Diane Ladd (actress), Peter Guber (producer), Benjamin A. Weissman (editor), Tom Cox (producer), Mike Robe (director), Tom Carey (actor), George Lakes (miscellaneous crew), Chantal Teasdale (miscellaneous crew), Nathaniel Arcand (actor), Jordy Randall (producer), Donovan Workun (actor),
Plot: Cancer-deceased stock trader Jack Mercy's funeral is where his three daughters Willa, who lived on his Montana cattle ranch, shy Lily and Hollywoodian Tess, from different mothers, meet. The notary and neighbor Ben McKintock, who fancies Willa, are to supervise the surprising last will: the girls only inherit 1/3 each of the $24,000,000 estate after cohabiting there for a year. Tess and Munroe County's gentleman sheriff Torrence, a hunky vet, fall in love. So do Lily and Adam Wolfchild, a half-blood ranch-hand, but her abusive husband, ex-con Jesse Carne, stops at nothing to get her back. But is he the one who viciously kills ranch animals and ranch-hand Pickles?
Keywords: bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, false-identity, kidnapping, kissing, kneeling, knife, love, poison, ritualActors: Kim Sill (actress), Art Evans (actor), M.C. Hammer (actor), Ice-T (actor), Don Abernathy (writer), Fred Williamson (actor), Eric Parkinson (producer), Don Abernathy (director), Glenn Plummer (actor), Ron O'Neal (actor), Alex Wilkinson (composer), Tone Loc (actor), Kristian Bernard (actor), Peter Davy (producer), The Bishop Don Magic Juan (actor),
Plot: The life of a beautiful rising female recording star is placed in jeopardy when she witnesses the drive-by shooting of a rival rap-star in Las Vegas. Wanted by both the killers and the corrupt police, the young woman must go into hiding while three of her kick-ass friends root-out the truth to the situation.
Keywords: female-nudity, rap, shower, urban-settingActors: Laurence Olivier (actor), Alan Bates (actor), Harold Goodwin (actor), John Mortimer (writer), Alvin Rakoff (director), John Mortimer (writer), Norman Bird (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Patrick Barr (actor), Raymond Huntley (actor), Jane Asher (actress), Anthony Sharp (actor), Alan Cox (actor), Elizabeth Sellars (actress), Michael Aldridge (actor),
Plot: Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey, writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life for this portrait of a difficult but enduring love between father and son in mid-20th-century Britain. Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch--a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted son, who follows his father's footsteps in the law while longing to become a writer, with Jane Asher (Brideshead Revisited) as his wife. Adapted for the screen by Mortimer himself and filmed largely on location at his family estate in bucolic Oxfordshire, this production garnered multiple awards, including an International Emmy for best drama. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, it captures the special bond between father and son, which at times seems unbearable--but ultimately unbreakable.
Keywords: amateur-theater, atheism, barrister, based-on-play, blindness, boarding-school, cynicism, divorce-lawyer, eccentric, englandActors: Paul Hecht (actor), Gabi Amrani (actor), Lloyd Bochner (actor), Lee Rich (producer), Eric Till (director), Blanche Baker (actress), Stephen McHattie (actor), Colleen Dewhurst (actress), Don Carmody (producer), Yehuda Efroni (actor), Gene Corman (producer), Mosko Alkalai (actor), Marilyn Lightstone (actress), Robert Farnon (composer), Murray Matheson (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Ava Gardner (actress), Giovanni Di Benedetto (actor), Angelo Boscariol (actor), Michael Parks (actor), Ivan Rassimov (actor), Robert Rietty (actor), George C. Scott (actor), Gabriele Ferzetti (actor), Richard Harris (actor), Stephen Boyd (actor), John Huston (actor), Salvatore Billa (actor), Peter O'Toole (actor), Anna Orso (actress), Franco Nero (actor),
Plot: An elaborate Hollywood retelling of the Bible stories narrated by the film's director John Huston. We open with the Creation of the World and arrive at the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve and continue on to Cain and the murder of Abel. Next, we visit Noah and his ark with its spectacular flood sequence. Then we come to the story of Nimrod, King of Babel, the emergence of man's vanity and the heights to which it could aspire if unchecked. Finally we cover Abraham, a mystic who spoke personally with God, a leader of men, a builder of nations, a pioneer and a warrior and Sarah. At the time she conceived her first child, the event being forecast by an Angel of the Lord. Three such Heavenly Messengers appeared in the course of events which befell Abraham and Sarah.
Keywords: 70mm-film, abraham, adam-and-eve, ancient-israel, ancient-times, angel, based-on-book, based-on-novel, based-on-the-bible, based-on-true-storyActors: Muriel George (actress), Michael Hordern (actor), André Obey (writer), Philippa Hiatt (actress), Philip Ashley (actor), Gordon Crier (actor), Denis Bedford (actor), Jill Nyasa (actress), Malcolm Baker-Smith (producer), Malcolm Baker-Smith (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Harry Marker (editor), Ward Bond (actor), Joe Bordeaux (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Dick Dickinson (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Martin Faust (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Buck Jones (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Wallace MacDonald (actor), Wedgwood Nowell (actor), Broderick O'Farrell (actor), Pat O'Malley (actor), Claude Payton (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport,Actors: Harry Royston (actor), Thomas Bentley (director), Johnny Butt (actor), Charles Dickens (writer), Thomas Bentley (writer), Cecil M. Hepworth (producer), Reginald Sheffield (actor), Alma Taylor (actress), Cecil Mannering (actor), Marie de Solla (actress), Jack Hulcup (actor), Jamie Darling (actor), Amy Verity (actress), Edna May (actress), Kenneth Ware (actor),
Genres: Drama,