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A mile is a unit of length, most commonly 5,280 feet (1,760 yards, or about 1,609 metres). The mile of 5,280 feet is sometimes called the statute mile or land mile to distinguish it from the nautical mile (1,852 metres, about 6,076.1 feet). There have also been many historical miles and similar units in other systems that may be translated into English as miles; they have varied in length from 1 to 15 kilometres.
The exact length of the land mile varied slightly among English-speaking countries until an international agreement in 1959 established the yard as exactly 0.9144 metres, giving a mile of exactly 1,609.344 metres. The United States adopted this international mile for most purposes, but retained the pre-1959 mile for some land-survey data, terming it the US survey mile. In the US, statute mile formally refers to the survey mile, about 3.219 mm (⅛ inch) longer than the international mile (the international mile is exactly 0.0002% less than the US survey mile).
Use of the mile as a unit of measurement is now largely confined to the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.
Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois. His father, Dr. Miles Henry Davis, was a dentist. In 1927 the family moved to East St. Louis, Illinois. They also owned a substantial ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses as a boy.
Davis' mother, Cleota Mae (Henry) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son. His musical studies began at 13, when his father gave him a trumpet and arranged lessons with local musician Elwood Buchanan. Davis later suggested that his father's instrument choice was made largely to irk his wife, who disliked the trumpet's sound. Against the fashion of the time, Buchanan stressed the importance of playing without vibrato; he was reported to have slapped Davis' knuckles every time he started using heavy vibrato. Davis would carry his clear signature tone throughout his career. He once remarked on its importance to him, saying, "I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo and not too much bass. Just right in the middle. If I can’t get that sound I can’t play anything."Clark Terry was another important early influence.[citation needed]
Mark Kermode (born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic, musician and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He contributes to Sight and Sound magazine, The Observer newspaper and BBC Radio 5 Live, where he presents Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews with Simon Mayo on Friday afternoons. He also co-presents the BBC Two arts programme The Culture Show and discusses other branches of the arts for the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review. Kermode writes and presents a film-related video blog for the BBC.
Kermode, born Mark Fairey in Barnet, North London, England, attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent boys' school in Elstree, a few years ahead of comedians Sacha Baron Cohen, Matt Lucas and David Baddiel and in the same year as actor Jason Isaacs. He was raised as a Methodist, and is now a member of the Church of England.
Mark Fairey's parents divorced when he was in his early 20s and he subsequently changed his surname to his GP mother's maiden name by deed poll. (Neither of them is related to the literary critic Frank Kermode.)
Actors: Philip Adkins (producer), Philip Adkins (actor), Philip Adkins (writer), Andrew Galves (editor), Andrew Galves (actor), Andrew Galves (producer), Andrew Galves (writer), Andrew Galves (writer), Andrew Galves (director), Rob Adler (actor), Matthew McCullough (actor), Stephanie Vogt (actress), Timothy T Tyler (actor), Katy Dolle (actress), Matt Baca (actor),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Mark Frampton (actor), Al Bailey (actor), Al Bailey (producer), Al Bailey (writer), Louise Pridding (actress), Nathan Codrington (director), Neil Jeram-Croft (producer), Nathan Codrington (editor), Neil Jeram-Croft (actor), Dean Fagan (actor), Natalie Pike (actress), Holly Chadwick (actress), Rachel Dargie (actress), Louise Hamer (actress), Nigel Hart (composer),
Plot: An exquisite jazz pianist plays out a story of surreal intrigue and horrific brutality in this neo noir whodunit. A lawyer and his wife stiff through painful conversations, at a residents only champagne party; with a dark and bewildering author, a flirtatious fiancé, a Machiavellian psychiatrist, an artist with a blank canvas, and a neglected son and his group of youthful friends who seem as out of place as the furnishings. The party, hosted by the lottery winning owner of the penthouse location, is plagued with unconventional happenings, which hang in the atmosphere around the guise of a sinister master of ceremonies. Adding to the cocktail of mystery is the fleeting frequents of an ageing footballer's wife and a gangland heavy. The circumstance of everyone's attendance is hiding something disturbing. Away from the partying culprits an old piano in a secret room on the 9th floor hides away a pained man who is subjected to horrendous torture. Who is this man and what is the motive? A story of revenge, guilt, hopeless redemption, and acceptance rises up from underneath the jazzy small talk to root out both the tortured and torturer's identity.
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery,Actors: Andy Trieu (actor), Shai Alexander (actor), Alice Keohavong (actress), Patrick May (writer), Shane Parsons (director), Timothy Parsons (actor), Shane Parsons (writer), Anthony Parsons (writer), Finbar O'Mallon (actor), Azlan Smith (actress),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Talese Harris (director), Talese Harris (writer), Talese Harris (editor), Talese Harris (producer), Samir Johnson (producer), Samir Johnson (actor), Christopher Alexander (actor), Duminie Allen (actor),
Plot: A single mom living in the suburbs of Detroit is haunted by the painful shadows from her past and struggling to find the economic means to support herself and her son. By chance, she meets a dubious man who claims he has the answer. What is not at all clear is how much it could cost her soul.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: David Rimawi (producer), Paul Bales (producer), David Michael Latt (producer), Rachel Goldenberg (director), Rachel Goldenberg (writer), Rachel Goldenberg (editor), Sharon Diane King (actress), Mark Hengst (actor), Brian Brinkman (actor), Michael A. Isaacs (miscellaneous crew), Michael A. Isaacs (actor), Diane Stilwell (actress), Ashley Hamilton (actor), Debra Lynn Hull (actress), Daniel J. Roberts (actor),
Genres: Drama, Musical,Actors: Leigh Higginbotham (actress), Leigh Higginbotham (producer), Kenny Alfonso (actor), Melissa Ponzio (actress), Robert J. Lee (writer), Jon Hill (director), Jim Issa (actor), Adam Holder (actor), Richard Sampson (producer), Carol Clarke (actress), Debbie Etchison (writer), Camille Pacht (actress), Buster A. Johnson (actor), Les Umberger (editor),
Plot: A woman drives a car while putting on lipstick, a man tries unsuccessfully to dig through hard ground with a shovel, a second man cruises a record shop, and a mom sends a lad of eight and a half, who's dressed in a cowboy outfit, outside to play. The driver is ditching a car, the digger is disposing of a body, the cruiser has to dump a gun, and mom is giving the orders. What's going on: flashbacks give us most of the answers.
Keywords: boss, bridge, cadillac, cap-gun, car, cash, cell-phone, cowboy-costume, cowboy-hat, dead-bodyActors: Neil Crone (actor), Scott Thompson (actor), Stanley Clarke (composer), Gregory Hines (director), Vincent D'Onofrio (actor), Lisa Shamata (miscellaneous crew), Vanessa Bell Calloway (actress), Philip Akin (actor), Bruce Gray (actor), Gregory Hines (actor), David Huband (actor), Alex Kavanagh (costume designer), Angelo Tsarouchas (actor), Wendy Gaboury (miscellaneous crew), K.C. Collins (actor),
Plot: A kid named Reggie Reynolds is a high school student who is good in the classroom but not so good on the basketball court. But one day he meets a junk dealer who gives him a pair of old gym shoes that once were worn by an all-star in the Negro Basketball leagues in the 1930's. Reggie puts the red sneakers on and he is immediately playing like a superstar on the basketball court. He gets the attention of a major shoe company executive who wants Reggie to switch from the old red sneakers that he is wearing to his company's brand. But Reggie knows if he's not wearing those magical old red sneakers he is back on the sideline.
Keywords: basketball-movie, high-school-basketball, high-school-student, magic-shoeActors: Aash Aaron (actor), Michael Smeaton (producer), Hans Günter Wagener (composer), Hardy Krüger Jr. (actor), Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld (actress), Heidi Ulmke (director), Heidi Ulmke (producer), Judy Hallin (miscellaneous crew), Mariella Ahrens (actress), Gerd Berner (editor), Beate Balser (producer), Anne Brendler (actress), Gabriele Kister (writer), Graham Purcell (costume designer), Harry Blank (actor),
Plot: Salt of the earth Queensland plantation owner Eric Westbrook collects at the station Adam, his recently deceased brother's young son, who didn't speak since the fatal accident. Joanna Williams, who came from England to explore the unspecified aboriginal land her grandparents were missionaries in and her late parents did biological research in, agrees to help the boy settle in until Eric can make time to help her explore. Eric's spoiled-rotten fiancée Pauline Downs fails to bond with Adam and senses a rival in Joanna, who also sets herself up as nurse and grower of pharmaceutical plants. The aboriginal elder discerned a dream world curse on Joanna, which seems to come true for her companions over and over.
Keywords: australia, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bed, boy, cartoonist, country-cousin, epidemic, father-figure, fireActors: Olympia Dukakis (actress), Lewis Schoenbrun (editor), Philip Bosco (actor), John Bianco (actor), Veronica Mulero (miscellaneous crew), Erik Jensen (actor), Harry Keramidas (editor), Robert Hogan (actor), Jeff Profitt (actor), Mike Hodge (actor), Eli Gurevich (miscellaneous crew), Sherry Greenberg (producer), Stan Carp (actor), Patrick Newall (writer), Patrick Newall (actor),
Plot: Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's family has been the guys at the station house and Tommy, a mobster who owns a gym where Jimmy works. Tommy encourages Jimmy's dreams, and Jimmy gets the part of Banquo in a Joseph Papps production of "Macbeth." He goes to tell Tommy the good news and walks in on a mob hit. Tommy protects him temporarily from Nunzio, a murderous Mamaluc, but soon the cops get word Jimmy knows something. Can Jimmy succeed as an actor, be a stand up guy for Tommy, avoid Nunzio, and get closer to Anna, a woman he falls for at the theater?
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Christina Applegate (actress), Scott Cohen (actor), Michael Paseornek (director), Bruce Altman (actor), John Dunning (producer), Michael Paseornek (writer), André Link (producer), Eric Klein (miscellaneous crew), Brian Tarantina (actor), Steven Keats (actor), Robert Bogue (actor), Lisa Katcher (miscellaneous crew), James Marshall (actor), Paige Turco (actress), Pamela Scott Arnold (editor),
Plot: Rising rock star, TJ Cray, gets the shot of a lifetime, an audition with a A & R man. On the way into the city, a carload of drunks smash into his car, severing his hands. He drops out of the business and becomes a homeless drunk. Cray wakes up to a pulsing beat in an abandoned warehouse, where a "rave" party is in full action. To his rescue comes Anamika, a computer artist, who takes him outside for fresh air. They become friends and eventually reinvent TJ's career. With the help of friends, they replace his hands with prosthetics and design a metallic cyber looking suit. TJ quickly becomes an overnight sensation, known as Cyberstorm. The finale is a dramatic scenario where TJ has to make crucial decisions about his new life.
Keywords: electric-guitar, guitarist, independent-film, musician, rock-star, severed-hand