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Marianne is a national emblem of France and an allegory of Liberty and Reason. She represents the state and values of France, differently from another French cultural symbol, the "Coq Gaulois" ("Gallic rooster") which represents France as a nation and its history, land, culture, and variety of sport disciplines in their combative forms. Marianne is displayed in many places in France and holds a place of honour in town halls and law courts. She symbolises the "Triumph of the Republic", a bronze sculpture overlooking the Place de la Nation in Paris. Her profile stands out on the official seal of the country, is engraved on French euro coins and appears on French postage stamps; it also was featured on the former franc currency. Marianne is one of the most prominent symbols of the French Republic. The origins of Marianne, depicted by artist Honoré Daumier, in 1848, as a mother nursing two children, Romulus and Remus, or by sculptor François Rude, during the July Monarchy, as an angry warrior voicing the Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe, are uncertain. In any case, she has become a symbol in France: considered as a personification of the Republic, she was often used on republican iconography — and heavily caricatured and reviled by those against the republic. Although both are common emblems of France, neither Marianne nor the rooster enjoys official status: the flag of France, as named and described in Article 2 of the French constitution, is the only official emblem.
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.
While giving the speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters."
Cohen was born on 21 September 1934 in Westmount, Montreal, Quebec, into a middle-class Jewish family. He attended Roslyn Elementary School. His mother, Marsha Klinitsky, of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, emigrated from Lithuania while his great-grandfather emigrated from Poland. He grew up in Westmount on the Island of Montreal. His grandfather was Lyon Cohen, founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His father, Nathan Cohen, who owned a substantial Montreal clothing store, died when Cohen was nine years old. On the topic of being a Kohen, Cohen has said that, "I had a very Messianic childhood." He told Richard Goldstein in 1967. "I was told I was a descendant of Aaron, the high priest." Cohen attended Westmount High School, beginning in 1948 where he was involved with the Student Council and studied music and poetry. He became especially interested in the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca. As a teenager, he learned to play the guitar, and formed a country-folk group called the Buckskin Boys. Although he initially played a regular acoustic guitar as a teenager, he soon switched to playing a classical guitar after meeting a young Spanish flamenco guitar player who taught him "a few chords and some flamenco."
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s. She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date.
As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 8 Grammy Awards. Amos was also named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996.
Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. In 1972, The Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where her father, Reverend Edison Amos, became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At the age of 13 she began playing at gay bars and piano bars, chaperoned by her father.
Actors: Joël Rabijns (writer), Joël Rabijns (director), Joël Rabijns (writer), Joël Rabijns (editor), Karel Vingerhoets (actor), Joël Rabijns (writer), Yves Sondermeier (writer), Yves Sondermeier (writer), Yves Sondermeier (director), Yves Sondermeier (writer), Yves Sondermeier (editor), Céline Verbeeck (actress), Jobst Schnibbe (actor), Danny Deprez (actor), Miro Broeckx (actor),
Plot: In a twisted world, Marianne gives birth to a rather unusual child. While the child is born dead, life finds its way trough the afterbirth. Marianne decides to raise her placenta as a normal human being; as a young man named Luke. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence, faith and sensitivity. Luke struggles for his place in a world of drunks, junkies, whores and bodybuilders. An insane world that treats him as a freak. As this hostile society slowly pushes him towards the edge, Luke has to choose between holding on to his gentle ideals or becoming the merciless soldier his mother always wanted him to be.
Keywords: amputee, animal-cruelty, army, bare-breasts, big-mac, birth, birthday-party, blood, body-horror, bodybuilderActors: Christina Morador (actress), Christina Morador (writer), Christina Morador (actor), Christina Morador (producer), Christian Caspersen (editor), Christian Caspersen (producer), Christian Caspersen (writer), Christian Caspersen (director), Yngvild Støen Grotmol (actress), Torbjørn Stafford Barth (actor), Geir Ove Kvalheim (actor), Steinulf Stornes (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Cynthia Amsden (miscellaneous crew), Jennifer Liao (producer), Yonah Lewis (director), Yonah Lewis (editor), Calvin Thomas (producer), Yonah Lewis (producer), Calvin Thomas (writer), Brian Scott Carleton (actor), Yonah Lewis (writer), Calvin Thomas (director), Calvin Thomas (editor), Connor Jessup (producer), Ely Henry (miscellaneous crew), Lev Lewis (composer), Lev Lewis (producer),
Plot: Thirteen-year-old Jesse wants to be an artist, but believes that his mundane middle-class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a "true-artist", he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness and women. Amy George is a microbudget independent drama about the time in a boy's life when he's at his least likeable.
Keywords: 13-year-old, adolescence, alcoholic, art-class, art-project, artist, boy, climbing-a-tree, coming-of-age, family-relationshipsActors: Melissa Flagg (producer), Melissa Flagg (writer), Melissa Flagg (director), Cat Main (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Tomas Eskilsson (producer), Joakim Hansson (producer), Kirsten Bonnén Rask (miscellaneous crew), Peter Possne (producer), Georgi Staykov (actor), Lars Väringer (actor), Lisa Ohlin (director), Lisa Ohlin (writer), Ewa J. Lind (editor), Gustaf Hammarsten (actor), Silva Hildbrand (miscellaneous crew), Johan Fälemark (producer), Peter Hiltunen (producer), Kerstin von Bahr (miscellaneous crew), Hillevi Råberg (producer),
Plot: Frederik is a happy man; he has a girlfriend he loves, a business running smoothely and he is going to be a father. But his happiness proves false. At a party, his girlfriend declares that she will leave him for her true love. Frederik is distraught. But his biological clock has started ticking, and his desire for a child is overwhelming. At an adoption agency he meets Milla, a woman who has also been treated unfairly by love. Could Milla be the answer to Frederik's dream?
Keywords: adoption, fighting, flasher, hot-dog-vendor, love, marriage-for-money, sex, vegetarian, vodkaActors: Wojciech Skibinski (actor), Patricia Rommel (editor), Dieter Landuris (actor), Marianne Denicourt (actress), Jean-François Lepetit (producer), Laure Duthilleul (actress), Krzysztof Zanussi (producer), Martin Feifel (actor), Lech Dyblik (actor), Ulrich Mühe (actor), Christian Granderath (producer), Zofia Merle (actress), Margit Carstensen (actress), Pierre Besson (actor), Biber Gullatz (composer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Johnny Melville (actor), John Hahn-Petersen (actor), Benny Hansen (actor), Paul Hagen (actor), Jed Curtis (actor), Jacob Haugaard (actor), Jesper Osmund (editor), Marco Di Stefano (actor), Jens Jørgen Thorsen (writer), Mouns Overgaard (miscellaneous crew), Jens Jørgen Thorsen (director), Jens Jørgen Thorsen (producer), Jean-Michel Dagory (actor), Annelise Hauberg (costume designer), Jan Hertz (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Walter Bockmayer (actor), Walter Bockmayer (producer), Walter Bockmayer (writer), Walter Bockmayer (director), Rolf Bührmann (producer), Norbert Schaub (actor), Bernd Holzmüller (actor), Peggy Jones (actress), Dietmar Hirsch (actor), Helmut Kuhn (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Marc Cassot (actor), Yvon Sarray (actor), Gérard Barray (actor), Madeleine Ozeray (actress), Colette Deréal (actress), Colette Deréal (writer), Guy Bonnet (composer), Anne Alexandre (actress), Pierre Cosson (director), Laurence Postec (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Mervyn LeRoy (director), Mervyn LeRoy (producer), George Duning (composer), Louis Mercier (actor), Alexander Scourby (actor), Spencer Tracy (actor), Frank Sinatra (actor), Fred Kohlmar (producer), Grégoire Aslan (actor), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Marcel Dalio (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Jean Del Val (actor), Charles Nelson (editor), Bernie Hamilton (actor),
Plot: Three convicts enroute to Tahiti are put to work at a children's leper hospital when their plane makes an unexpected stop on another island. There, Father Perreau is to get off and replace Father Doonan, who's been relieved of his duties by the cardinal. Once on the island, things get out of control when the volcano decides to erupt, and the Governor orders an evacuation. The convicts, priests and leper children are all on top of the island and have no sure way to get down and off to safety. All must work together if any are to survive.
Keywords: based-on-novel, convict, earthquake, evacuation, faith, island, leper-colony, leprosy, number-in-title, prayer