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Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 - June 29, 1995) was an American actress.
Discovered and signed to a film contract by MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in They Won't Forget (1937). She played featured roles, often as the ingenue, in such films as Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). During the early 1940s she established herself as a leading actress in such films as Johnny Eager (1941), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). She is known as one of the first Hollywood scream queens thanks to her role in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and her reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Her popularity continued through the 1950s, in such films as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 1958, her daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death. A coroner's inquest brought considerable media attention to Turner and concluded that Crane had acted in self defense. Turner's next film, Imitation of Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest successes of her career, but from the early 1960s, her roles were fewer.
Joan Alexandra Molinsky (born June 8, 1933), better known by her stage name Joan Rivers, is an American television personality, comedian, and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries. Rivers' comic style relies heavily on her ability to poke fun at herself and other Hollywood celebrities.
Joan Rivers was born Joan Alexandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman; January 6, 1906 – October 1975) and Meyer C. Molinsky (December 7, 1900 – January 1985). She was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and her family later moved to Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York. She attended Connecticut College between 1950 and 1952 and graduated from Barnard College in 1954 with a bachelor-of-arts degree in English literature and anthropology. Before entering show business, Rivers worked at various jobs such as a tour guide at Rockefeller Center, a writer/proofreader at an advertising agency and as a fashion consultant at Bond Clothing Stores. During this period, the agent Tony Rivers advised her to change her name, so she chose Joan Rivers as her stage name.
"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: Josh Schaeffer (editor), Susie Castillo (actress), Joe Sofranko (actor), Matt Duffett (producer), Matt Duffett (actor), Matt Duffett (writer), Cassidy Boyd (actress), Kevin J. Hynes (producer), Kevin J. Hynes (director), Christina Iannuzzi (actress), Lex Edness (producer), Lex Edness (writer), Erin Sharoni (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Luca Ward (actor), Franco Iavarone (actor), Corrado Zanchi (miscellaneous crew), Maria Pia Calzone (actress), Umberto Massa (producer), Enzo Moscato (actor), Valerio Esposito (producer), Aldo De Martino (actor), Gabriele Pacitto (producer), Vladimir Luxuria (actress), Vela Todorovic (miscellaneous crew), Valerio Foglia Manzillo (actor), Massimo Andrei (director), Massimo Andrei (writer), Silvia Ranfagni (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Martin Short (actor), Pat O'Brien (actor), Darren Shahlavi (actor), Steve Martin (actor), Rob Lowe (actor), Roger Ebert (actor), Kurt Russell (actor), Jake Gyllenhaal (actor), Alex Diakun (actor), John Michael Higgins (actor), Alex Diakun (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), Peter Kelamis (actor), Kevin Kline (actor), Martin Short (actor),
Plot: "La La Wood" follows the legacy of Jiminy Glick, first introduced on "The Martin Short Show," who went on to get (non)-critical acclaim for his talk show "Primetime Glick," where Mr. Glick interviewed countless celebrities (which usually ended in verbally--sometimes physically--insulting/assaulting them). Now comes "La La Wood"--Jiminy Glick's home. This is his story (sort of).
Keywords: alcohol, blood, celebrity, cell-phone, character-name-in-title, film-festival, film-industry, handkerchief, hollywood, hotelActors: Judy Davis (actress), Philip Williams (actor), Al Waxman (actor), Bruce McFee (actor), Aron Tager (actor), John Stocker (actor), Hugh Laurie (actor), Daniel Kash (actor), Adrian Hough (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), Michael Rhoades (actor), Victor Garber (actor), William Holden (actor), Jayne Eastwood (actress), Rosemary Dunsmore (actress),
Plot: The movie starts off at the beginning of Judy Garland's life singing when she was two years old. It jumps to when she was 12 and was signed by MGM and later when her father dies. The movie tells about her early struggles with MGM and with the addiction to barbiturates. It then jumps to the marriage to Vincette Minelli and the struggles with that, and leads into the rest of the movie and her marriages to Sid Luft, Mark Herron, and Mickey Deans and ends when she dies in 1969
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actress, alcoholism, amphetamine, award, based-on-autobiography, camera-shot-of-feet, carnegie-hall-manhattan-new-york-city, character-name-in-title, child-starActors: Brian Lally (actor), Allan Graf (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), Danny DeVito (actor), Russell Crowe (actor), Matt McCoy (actor), Tomas Arana (actor), Simon Baker (actor), Graham Beckel (actor), Michael Chieffo (actor), William Boyd (actor), Jack Conley (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Ron Rifkin (actor), Guy Pearce (actor),
Plot: 1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.
Keywords: 1950s, acronym-in-title, actor, alderman, arrest, autopsy, bad-smell, bandage, bar, based-on-novelActors: Chico Anysio (actor), Otávio Augusto (actor), Chico Anysio (writer), Carlos Manga (director), Zezé Macedo (actress), Wilson Grey (actor), Chico Anysio (composer), Agildo Ribeiro (actor), Ítalo Rossi (actor), Glória Pires (actress), Zeni Pereira (actress), Felipe Carone (actor), Jardel Mello (director), Martim Francisco (actor), Jacyra Silva (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Andy Warhol (director), Mario Montez (actor), Richard Schmidt (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Ben Hall (actor), Christian J. Frank (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Sig Arno (actor), Jack Byron (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), William Forrest (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Edward Cooper (actor), Maurice Costello (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Harry Hayden (actor),
Plot: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is love with a poor dancer, but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Keywords: 18th-century, aristocrat, arrow, based-on-play, cake, character-name-in-title, chase, cigarette-girl, coat-check, crush