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The surname Newman may refer to many people:
Adam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984), better known by his stage name Calvin Harris, is a Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls". His second studio album, Ready for the Weekend (2009), reached number one in the UK Album Chart and includes the chart-topper "I'm Not Alone", the UK top five hit "Ready for the Weekend", and the singles "Flashback" and "You Used to Hold Me".
A remix album titled L.E.D. Festival was released in July 2010 as a free album in the August issue of Mixmag. Harris is currently working on his third studio album—due for release in 2012—which has produced the singles "Awooga", "Bounce", "Feel So Close", and "Let's Go". He has written and produced records for other recording artists including Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Dizzee Rascal, Rihanna (on the international chart topper "We Found Love"), and Kesha.
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter,arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores.
Newman often writes lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from his own experiences, sometimes using the point of view of an unreliable narrator. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution. One of his biggest hits, "Short People" was written from the perspective of "a lunatic" who hates short people. Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach, Meet the Parents, Cold Turkey, Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog. He has scored six Disney-Pixar films: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars and most recently Toy Story 3.
Actors: Beau Holden (miscellaneous crew), Tyrese Gibson (actor), Dennis Quaid (actor), Tony Curran (actor), John Davis (producer), Marco Beltrami (composer), Edward Burns (writer), Jacob Vargas (actor), Jim Lau (actor), Hugh Laurie (actor), Scott Michael Campbell (actor), Giovanni Ribisi (actor), Sticky Fingaz (actor), David Paris (miscellaneous crew), David Paris (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.
Keywords: aerial-photography, african-american, air-strip, air-turbulance, airplane, airplane-accident, airplane-design, airplane-designer, airplane-engine, airplane-passengerActors: Christoph Heckenbücker (director), Max Mauff (actor), Christoph Heckenbücker (writer), Christoph Heckenbücker (producer), Rainer Kühn (composer), Simon Bahlsen (producer), Matthias Beier (actor), Gaby Bahlsen (producer), Marcel Kyrill Gardelli (writer), Oliver Grober (actor), Silke Dunkhorst (editor), Daniela Georgi (costume designer), Susanne Foidl (editor), Raphaela Crossey (actress), Pia Klinghammer (editor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Billy Dee Williams (actor), Robert Klein (actor), Valentin Nedialkov (actor), Sean Bell (actor), Laurent Imbault (actor), K.C. Bascombe (writer), Alec Saidak (actor), Doug Richardson (actor), K.C. Bascombe (director), Richard Bachynsky Hoover (actor), Navid Khonsari (writer), Navid Khonsari (producer), Johanna Black (actress), Leigh Clarke (miscellaneous crew), Nick Seferian (producer),
Plot: An ex-black ops assassin, Luc, is set up and killed by an up and coming governor because he has information that could jeopardize the governors election chances. Luc has brought up and trained his best friends daughter as a skilled killer and work-partner. She is targeted by the government also, but turns out to be pretty damn difficult to kill. In order to save her life and avenge her life-long friend she must find his killers before they find her.
Keywords: assassin, betrayal, bomb, explosion, family-values, female-assassin, female-killer, flashback, loyalty, murderActors: Anna Chancellor (actress), Arnon Milchan (producer), Geraldine James (actress), John Standing (actor), Richard Wilson (actor), John Thomson (actor), Eddie Marsan (actor), Maxwell Caulfield (actor), Alfred Molina (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Bill Murray (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Dexter Fletcher (actor), Andrew Jack (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Young (composer),
Plot: An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Keywords: american-abroad, american-in-the-uk, assassin, banquet, based-on-novel, bomb, car-chase, crossbow, dancing, dominatrixActors: Emmanuelle Chriqui (actress), Ron White (actor), Teller (actor), Penn Jillette (actor), Howie Mandel (actor), Hayden Christensen (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Nigel Bennett (actor), John Astin (actor), Eugene Levy (actor), Sean Astin (actor), Roger Dunn (actor), Buck Henry (actor), Andrea Martin (actress), Jayne Eastwood (actress),
Plot: "All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.
Keywords: 2050s, based-on-short-story, black-comedy, character-name-in-title, dystopia, elitism, equality, future, genius, reference-to-beethovenActors: Bill Duke (actor), Bob Hannah (actor), Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Marshall Thompson (actor), Larry Hagman (actor), Blue Deckert (actor), Dale Midkiff (actor), Davis Roberts (actor), Cate Hardman (miscellaneous crew), Hoyt Axton (actor), David Marshall Grant (actor), Bill Bolender (actor), Dennis Letts (actor), Larry Elikann (director), Molly Hagan (actress),
Plot: Prequel to the popular "Dallas" TV series focuses on the origins of the Ewing-Barnes feud during the 1930's. Larry Hagman provides the opening narration for the film. The story opens at a 1951 barbecue with "Digger" Barnes firing a shot at "Jock" Ewing. Immediately flashing back to the depression, the two men first meet in a boxcar as both are hoboing. Their original friendship is built on their desires to find oil. But their failings start as they both compete for the hand of the beautiful Miss Ellie. Jock is shown to be an honorable man caught up in a backlash. Digger is a neurotic, alcoholic with a gift for finding oil.
Keywords: family-relationships, feud, flashback, loyalty, marriage, oil, prequel, rival, sequelActors: Dick Miller (actor), Ted V. Mikels (producer), Edwin Avedissian (actor), Forrest J Ackerman (actor), Vincent Barbi (actor), Sid Haig (actor), Stanley Livingston (writer), John W. Morgan (composer), Steve Barkett (writer), Steve Barkett (producer), Robert Skotak (actor), Steve Barkett (actor), Robert Skotak (actor), Steve Barkett (director), Steve Barkett (writer),
Plot: Two astronauts return to earth ("a few miles off the coast of Los Angeles") to find that it has been destroyed by nuclear war. L.A. has been taken over by Cutter and his gang of outlaw bikers (straight out of the 70s with bell bottoms and everything). Cutter rapes and pillages. Of course, there are also mutants. The astronauts hook-up with the only normal people left: two good-looking women, and two cute little children; a boy and a girl.
Keywords: astronaut, attempted-rape, bandit, bare-breasts, biker, child-murder, child-with-gun, death, destruction, disasterActors: Bill Hunter (actor), Tony Barry (actor), Max Cullen (actor), Tony Bonner (actor), Tracy Mann (actress), John Murphy (actor), Anne Phelan (actress), Zbigniew Friedrich (editor), John Arnold (actor), Don McLennan (writer), Don McLennan (director), Don McLennan (producer), Penelope Stewart (actress), Jack Allen (actor), Suzanne Dudley (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Bob Monkhouse (actor), Kenneth Connor (actor), Don Chaffey (director), Stuart Saunders (actor), Bob Monkhouse (writer), Reginald Beckwith (actor), Val Guest (writer), Ronnie Stevens (actor), Eric Barker (actor), Vincent Ball (actor), Bill Lenny (editor), Jane Buck (miscellaneous crew), Eleanor Summerfield (actress), Harry Hutchinson (actor), Charlotte Mitchell (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Frank Richards (actor), Jack Oakie (actor), Richard Conte (actor), John Merton (actor), David Clarke (actor), Robert Bice (actor), James Nolan (actor), William Bendix (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Robert Foulk (actor), Joe Haworth (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Ted Jordan (actor), Lee J. Cobb (actor), Mario Siletti (actor),
Plot: The soldier Nick Garcos returns back home from the war very happy with gifts for his parents Yanko and Parthena Garcos and money in his pocket to open a business and get married with his girlfriend Polly Faber. Out of blue, Nick realizes that his father lost both legs and Yanko, who was a truck driver, tells that he was cheated by the dealer Mike Figlia in the San Francisco's market when he delivered a truckload of tomatoes and was not paid. He believes that his accident was provoked by Figlia's gangsters. He also tells that he sold the truck to a driver named Ed Kinney that has not paid him. Nick meets Ed and tells that he will bring the truck back, but Ed proposes a deal with apples, where they may earn a great amount. Nick invests his savings in another truck and buys apples from a Polish farmer. They need to drive directly to the market in San Francisco without sleeping to keep the fruits fresh, but Ed's truck has problem on its axle and Nick arrives first. Mike Figlia hires the Italian whore Rica to distract Nick but she falls for him and tells that Mike is robbing his cargo. Mike is forced to share his selling with Nick and he earns a large amount. Then he calls Polly and asks her to meet him to get married, and Rica tells to Nick that Polly is only interested in his money. When Nick is robbed by Mike's gangsters, he learns who really loves him. But Nick still has to settle the score with Mike.
Keywords: 1940s, accident, accidental-death, amputated-leg, apple, apple-picker, apple-picking, apple-tree, auto-mechanic, axe