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A butler is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor, and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its appearance. A butler is usually male, and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually a woman, and in charge of female servants. Traditionally, male servants (such as footmen) were better paid and therefore rarer and of higher status than female servants. The butler, as the senior male servant, has the highest servant status.
In modern houses where the butler is the most senior worker, titles such as majordomo, butler administrator, house manager, manservant, staff manager, chief of staff, staff captain, estate manager and head of household staff are sometimes given. The precise duties of the employee will vary to some extent in line with the title given, but perhaps more importantly in line with the requirements of the individual employer. In the grandest homes or when the employer owns more than one residence, there is sometimes an estate manager of higher rank than the butler.
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork & Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He has also won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and five Grammy Awards.
Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Laura McLaurin (née Smith, 1922–2001), was a former model from New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (September 10, 1906 – October 18, 1987), was a senior executive at Ford Motor Company in charge of the Midwest region. His maternal great-great-grandfather was senator and Mississippi governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams is of English, Welsh, Irish, and French ancestry. He was raised in the Episcopal Church (his mother practiced Christian Science). He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the Detroit Country Day School, and later moved to Woodacre, Marin County, California, where he attended the public Redwood High School. Williams studied at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College) for four years. He has two half-brothers: Todd (who died August 14, 2007) and McLaurin.
Actors: Lynne Marie Stewart (actress), Hans Hernke (actor), Steven Richards (actor), Vincent Carubia (actor), Andrew Dickler (actor), Jade Willey (actor), Eric Satterberg (actor), Kylie Rogers (actress), Nick Dopuch (actor), Phyllis Katz (actress), Adrieanne Perez (actress), Brett Wyman (actor), Patrick Downey (actor), Lara Hickman (actress), Cherie Kerr (producer),
Plot: The film keys in on the proverbial David vs. Goliath scenario when the filthy-rich land developer, Vivian Brechner, decides not to renew the lease on a bowling alley in a small town so that, together with a local avaricious tribal Indian chief, she can tear it down to make way for a gambling casino. What happens when the 52 people in Fountain Springs learn that Fountain Bowl-the "only thing they've got"-is teetering on destruction? Their community lifestyle, as they have known it, is about to come to an abrupt and tragic end. This is when the townsfolk get word in the Fountain Spray newspaper, and, all hell breaks loose! How could the fate of something as simple and innocent as a bowling alley get so complicated? Well, it just does. The story gets messy, tense, suspenseful and, oh, so very funny. In the end, we learn who will win. Who will loose. And who's got balls!
Keywords: bowling, screwball, small-town, underdogActors: Kenneth Reed (producer), Kenneth Reed (writer), Kenneth Reed (director), Kenneth Reed (editor), Pat Neville (composer), Pat Neville (actor), Heather Farr (composer), Tamrika Khvtisiashvili (actress), Nate Cizerian (composer), Tyler Able (actor), Steve Hatch (composer), Ryan Simon (composer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Steven Spielberg (actor), Mark Pellegrino (actor), Eli Roth (actor), Richard Schiff (actor), Brian Lally (actor), Pete Postlethwaite (actor), Alan D. Purwin (actor), David Koepp (actor), Arliss Howard (actor), Thomas Rosales Jr. (actor), Richard Attenborough (actor), Jeff Goldblum (actor), Ian Abercrombie (actor), Vince Vaughn (actor), Peter Stormare (actor),
Plot: Four years after the failure of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, John Hammond reveals to Ian Malcolm that there was another island ("Site B") on which dinosaurs were bred before being transported to Isla Nublar. Left alone since the disaster, the dinosaurs have flourished, and Hammond is anxious that the world see them in their "natural" environment before they are exploited.
Keywords: 1990s, amusement-park, babe-scientist, baby-tyrannosaurus, based-on-novel, beach, blockbuster, blood, boat-crash, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationshipActors: Arnold Kopelson (producer), Roger Daltrey (actor), Sam Elliott (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Gladys Goldsmith (miscellaneous crew), Jimmy Sangster (writer), Katharine Ross (actress), David Foster (producer), Jimmy Sangster (writer), Anne V. Coates (editor), Lee Montague (actor), John Standing (actor), Margaret Tyzack (actress), Ian Hogg (actor), Patsy Smart (actress),
Plot: A millionaire and a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker and a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow...Five of the most powerful people in the world, gathered in an ancient mansion to inherit a Legacy of bloodsome horror. And Maggie makes six.
Keywords: animal-attack, archery, architect, arms-manufacturer, arrow, attack-dog, backfire, bare-chested-male, bedroom, beerActors: Thurston Hall (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), George Bunny (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Frank Dae (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Kirby Grant (actor), Gus Glassmire (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor),
Plot: A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. While in the big city, the math prof receives a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia. She begins to believe she is the author of the sultry book, and has actually lived its story. Now freed from her inhibitions, the lady professor sashays about with abandon. With a PR man (Jack Oakie) in tow, she crashes a party of swells at the home of a wealthy industrialist (Thurston Hall) and pressures him into making a large contribution to her tiny college back home.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Herbert Evans (actor), Pedro de Cordoba (actor), Frank Dawson (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Edward Cooper (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), Colin Campbell (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Rex Evans (actor), Charles Coleman (actor),
Plot: In 1886, in the Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton meets the pure Dorian Gray posing for talented painter Basil Hallward. Basil paints Dorian's portrait and gives the beautiful painting and an Egyptian sculpture of a cat to him while Henry corrupts his mind and soul telling that Dorian should seek pleasure in life. Dorian wishes that his portrait could age instead of him. Dorian goes to a side show in the Two Turtles in the poor neighborhood of London and he falls in love with the singer Sibyl Vane. Dorian decides to get married with her and tells to Lord Henry that convinces him to test the honor of Sibyl. Dorian Gray leaves Sibyl and travels abroad and when he returns to London, Lord Henry tells him that Sibyl committed suicide for love. Along the years, Dorian's friends age while he is still the same, but his picture discloses his evilness and corruptive life. Can he still have salvation or is his soul trapped in the doomed painting?
Keywords: 1880s, 1890s, 19th-century, accidental-shooting, aging, aristocracy, aristocrat, artist, attic, backstageActors: Edward Norris (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Robert Lowery (actor), Frank Darien (actor), John Dilson (actor), Richard Dix (actor), Russell Gleason (actor), Harold Goodwin (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Robert Kellard (actor), Henry Kolker (actor), Arthur Rankin (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Anita Louise (actress), Frieda Inescort (actress), Sidney Bracey (actor), Ian Hunter (actor), Robert Adair (actor), John J. Richardson (actor), Leyland Hodgson (actor), Roland Young (actor), May Beatty (actress), Alice Brady (actress), Walter Woolf King (actor), Olivia de Havilland (actress), Mary Field (actress), Bonita Granville (actress), Beryl Mercer (actress),
Plot: The first day of spring has a profound affect on the Hilton family. The father, an accountant, finds himself unable to work, and when he tries to work, he is wooed by an actress whose taxes he is doing. The mother is mistaken by a friend's brother, who thinks she is the woman he is supposed to marry; when he finds out different, he decides to pursue her anyway. The eldest son mopes because he wants to "motor the Continent" and the father won't permit him to. The eldest daughter miserably laments the end of a romance with a married artist twenty years her elder. And the youngest moons dreamily in her morbid teen way about Dante Gabriel Rossetti. All of this in the space of one day.
Keywords: accountant, actress, artist, based-on-play, london-england, puppy-love, screwball, spring-feverActors: Lowden Adams (actor), Johnny Arthur (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Lionel Atwill (actor), James P. Burtis (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Melville Cooper (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor),
Plot: In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets her uncle to cancel Bill's orders and has him reassigned to break enemy codes. In his new assignment he becomes involved with beautiful Russian spy Olivia Karloff, who is working for the Germans, and must juggle Joel's affection and his pursuit of Karloff's connections to retrieve a stolen code book.
Keywords: based-on-book, blackmail, cryptography, mexico, san-diego-california, secret-code, spy, suicide, war-department, washington-d.c.Actors: Albert Petit (actor), Edmund Lowe (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), J.C. Fowler (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Henry Hebert (actor), Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Charles Giblyn (actor), Jack Kenny (actor), John Qualen (actor),
Genres: Musical, Romance,She's gone on a winters breath
If you find her, then keep whats left
She don't feel like no Love of mine
and the storm don't care what it leaves behind
and Ill miss you, but you must move on
The sun won't shine where you don't belong
(Chorus)
Love is all that we keep
In the box that you're burnt when you lay down to sleep
(x2)
Love of mine, may you find your way
for I lost my love on a winters day
and I don't blame you, its what I love you for
you were born to breeze through an open door
Love of mine, remember me
like a breaking wave, on your broken sea
(Chorus)
Love is all that we keep
In the box that you're burnt when you lay down to sleep
(x2)
(Break)
(Chorus)
Love is all that we keep
In the box that you're burnt when you lay down to sleep