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Condoleezza Rice ( /ˌkɒndəˈliːzə/; born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state, as well as the second African American (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright). Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position. Before joining the Bush administration, she was a professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. Rice also served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor to President George H.W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.
Following her confirmation as Secretary of State, Rice pioneered the policy of Transformational Diplomacy, with a focus on democracy in the Greater Middle East. Her emphasis on supporting democratically elected governments faced challenges as Hamas captured a popular majority in Palestinian elections, and influential countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt maintained authoritarian systems with U.S. support. While Secretary of State, she chaired the Millennium Challenge Corporation's board of directors.
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS. In addition to hosting that program and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir. He became a citizen of the United States in 2008.
Before his career as a late-night television host, Ferguson was best known in the United States for his role as the office boss, Nigel Wick, on The Drew Carey Show from 1996 to 2003. He also wrote and starred in three films, directing one of them.
Ferguson was born in the Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn district of Glasgow, Scotland to Robert and Janet Ferguson, and raised in nearby Cumbernauld, growing up "chubby and bullied". When he was six months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn apartment to a council house in Cumbernauld. They lived there as Glasgow was re-housing many people following damage to the city from World War II. Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School. At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation.
Actors: Jim Ward (actor), William Knight (actor), Val Tasso (actor), Richard Tanner (actor), G. Larry Butler (actor), Darrel Guilbeau (actor), Chris Devlin (actor), Pamela Clay (actress), David Ghilardi (actor), Britt Prentice (actor), Ben Marley (actor), Pamela Guest (actress), Paige Morrow Kimball (actress), Marie-Françoise Theodore (actress), Katharine Lee McEwan (actress),
Plot: Epic political fantasy drama, envisioning what would have happened if Dick Cheney had been indicted for ordering torture, which was used to get the false confessions to make a fraudulent case for war. Starting with a dramatic recreation of events of the morning of the 9/11 attacks, we tell the story of a heroic assistant U.S. attorney, who uncovers evidence of war crimes, and a suspenseful race against time to serve the Vice President in public with an arrest warrant before they can intercept her and quash it forever.
Keywords: abuse, abuse-of-power, agitprop, airplane, airplane-crash, al-qaeda, american-history, american-officer, american-president, anti-warActors: Will Ferrell (actor), Dick Cheney (actor), Marty Callner (producer), Adam McKay (producer), Will Ferrell (writer), Adam McKay (miscellaneous crew), Marty Callner (director), Edward Norton (actor), Will Ferrell (producer), Colin Powell (actor), Lauryn Kahn (miscellaneous crew), Randall Gladstein (producer), Nicolas Sarkozy (actor), Angela Merkel (actress), Gordon Brown (actor),
Plot: It's time for change in America--but not without a few parting words from former President George W Bush. Here's your chance to discover the man behind the myth as HBO presents Will Ferrell in a performance of his heralded one-man Broadway show.
Keywords: george-w.-bush, live-performance, stand-up-comedy, u.s.-presidentActors: Bruce McGill (actor), Don Kress (actor), Stacy Keach (actor), John McCain (actor), Toby Jones (actor), Madison Mason (actor), Saddam Hussein (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Ioan Gruffudd (actor), Richard Dreyfuss (actor), Scott Glenn (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Rob Corddry (actor), Andrew Sensenig (actor), Jason Ritter (actor),
Plot: Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial presidents in USA history, chronicling from his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and role in the oil business, his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years, and his 2004 re-election campaign.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, abuse-of-power, alcoholism, ambition, americana, archival-footageActors: Bill Caco (director), Bill Caco (producer), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (writer), Josh Robert Thompson (actor), Josh Robert Thompson (actor), Cari Finken (actress), Josh Axelman (actor), Kelly Bakst (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Bill Caco (director), Bill Caco (producer), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (actor), Bill Caco (writer), Josh Robert Thompson (actor), Josh Robert Thompson (actor), Cari Finken (actress), Josh Axelman (actor), Kelly Bakst (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Craig Eldridge (actor), David Huband (actor), Roger Dunn (actor), George W. Bush (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Barclay Hope (actor), Rick Cordeiro (actor), Osama bin Laden (actor), Sayed Badreya (actor), John Boylan (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Neil Crone (actor), Bill Clinton (actor), Daniel Kash (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor),
Genres: Drama, History,Actors: Seth MacFarlane (actor), Seth MacFarlane (actor), Seth MacFarlane (actor), Seth MacFarlane (actor), Seth MacFarlane (actor), Seth MacFarlane (actor), Ron Livingston (actor), Rene Auberjonois (actor), Phil LaMarr (actor), Seth Green (actor), Seth Green (actor), Phil LaMarr (actor), Michael Clarke Duncan (actor), Bill Fagerbakke (actor), Seth MacFarlane (actor),
Plot: The major sub-plot circles around the youngest Griffin, Stewie, who has a near-death experience at a pool when a lifeguard chair falls on him, but he survives. After having a vision of being in Hell, he decides to change his ways, but this doesn't last long. While watching television, he and Brian spot a man that looks like Stewie. Brian is convinced that he is Stewie's real father, until Stewie learns that the man is actually himself as an adult, taking a vacation from his own time period. Baby Stewie visits thirty years later to discover that his adult self, going by the name Stu, is a single blue-collar middle-aged virgin working at a Circuit City-type store. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois are trying to teach their two older kids, Meg and Chris, to date. In the future, Chris, who hasn't changed much, is working as a cop and is married to a foul-mouthed hustler named Vanessa. Meg is now called Ron, since she had a sex-change after college.
Keywords: actor-playing-himself, adult-animation, adult-humor, altering-future, animal-as-human, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, black-comedy, bleeped-dialogue, car-accidentActors: George Takei (actor), Robert Halmi Sr. (producer), Lawrence Pressman (actor), Chuck Shamata (actor), Lionel Chetwynd (producer), Stephen Macht (actor), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), John Boylan (actor), Roger Dunn (actor), Timothy Bottoms (actor), Howard Jerome (actor), Gregory Itzin (actor), Lawrence Shragge (composer), Lionel Chetwynd (writer),
Plot: Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the day of the attacks, and following the President's journey to Ground Zero, culminating with his now famous national address nine days after the attacks. The film covers the many difficult decisions and tasks faced by the President and his staff as they were challenged by the possibility of the "first war of the 21st Century." Eschewing their own feelings and healing process, the President and his team instead tended to the needs of a wounded country. Based on real life accounts the docudrama will interweave actual footage from these haunting events.
Keywords: airplane-accident, american-president, attorney-general, building-collapse, cia-chief, digit-in-title, disaster, manhattan-new-york-city, national-security, national-security-advisorActors: Klaus Manchen (actor), Michael Mendl (actor), Rudolf Kowalski (actor), Hermann Beyer (actor), Jean-François Balmer (actor), Fabian Busch (actor), Samuel Finzi (actor), Peter Fitz (actor), Matthias Fuchs (actor), George Bush (actor), Lambert Hamel (actor), Ezard Haußmann (actor), Jürgen Holtz (actor), Günter Junghans (actor), Hans-Michael Rehberg (actor),
Genres: Drama,