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Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג; born June 9, 1981), better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but mainstream success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005). In 1999, she enrolled at Harvard University to study psychology while still working as an actress. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2003.
In 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. In 2005, Portman received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for the drama Closer. She won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance, and a Saturn Award for Best Actress for her starring role in V for Vendetta (2006). She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts (2006) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman's directorial debut, Eve, opened the 65th Venice International Film Festival's shorts competition in 2008. Portman directed a segment of the collective film New York, I Love You.
Christopher Ashton Kutcher (/ˈkʊtʃər/; born February 7, 1978), best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model, and comedian, known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show. He also created, produced and hosted Punk'd, and played lead roles in the Hollywood films Dude, Where's My Car?, Just Married, The Butterfly Effect, The Guardian, and What Happens in Vegas. He is also the producer and co-creator of the supernatural TV show Room 401 and the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek. Kutcher currently co-stars in the hit CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men as the character Walden Schmidt.
Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is the son of Diane (née Finnegan), a Procter & Gamble employee, and Larry M. Kutcher, a factory worker. His father is of Bohemian (Czech) descent and his mother is of Irish, German, and Bohemian ancestry. Kutcher was raised in a conservative Roman Catholic family, with an older sister, Tausha, and a fraternal twin, Michael, who had a heart transplant when the brothers were young children. Kutcher's twin brother also has cerebral palsy and is a spokesperson for the advocacy organization Reaching for the Stars.
Actors: William Butler (writer), Victoria De Mare (actress), Mindy Robinson (actress), Charles Band (producer), Charles Band (director), Timothy A. Bennett (actor), Mindy Robinson (actress), Tommy Chong (actor), John Karyus (actor), Gary Busey (actor), Sonny Carl Davis (actor), Peter Stickles (actor), Leroy Patterson (miscellaneous crew), Leroy Patterson (miscellaneous crew), Amy Paffrath (actress),
Plot: It's a War of the Colossal Freaks when serial killing cookie, GINGERDEAD MAN, tracks down the lone survivor of his murderous rampage, SARAH LEIGH (Robin Sydney), to take care of unfinished business. But his devious plans go up in smoke when Sarah meets LARNELL (John Patrick Jordan), who has a pint-sized problem of his own. The EVIL BONG, EEBEE, has been unleashed once again. Bodies begin to pile up as Gingerdead Man carves a path for them. Their only salvation is to turn to help from the dastardly Bong. It's one tough cookie versus one bad trip mother when the two Titans of Terror hash out a war in the Bong World. The stakes have never been higher.
Keywords: bong, gingerbread-manActors: Amy Irving (actress), Michael Ontkean (actor), Viveca Lindfors (actress), John Herzfeld (writer), Allan Rich (actor), Alex Rocco (actor), Bill Baldwin (actor), Raymond Serra (actor), Tony Munafo (actor), Robert Markowitz (director), Joe Wizan (producer), John Boxer (costume designer), Danford B. Greene (editor), Thom Christopher (actor), Barry Miller (actor),
Genres: Drama, Music, Romance,Actors: Frank Cady (actor), Franklin Parker (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Nacho Galindo (actor), Ralph Byrd (actor), Sumner Getchell (actor), Ned Glass (actor), Dick Gordon (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Darryl Hickman (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Frank Mills (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Charles Perry (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery,Actors: Ernie Adams (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Roy Brent (actor), Frank Albertson (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), David Durand (actor), Ben Erway (actor), William Gould (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Robert F. Hill (actor), Harry Holman (actor),
Plot: Tommy Banning ('Bobby Jordan (I)' (qv)) and his pals,"Pig" ('Huntz Hall' (qv)), "Ape" ('Norman Abbott (I)' (qv)) and "String" ('Gabriel Dell (I)' (qv)) have jobs in a department store where store executive Frank Moulto ('Frank Albertson (I)' (qv)) is romantically attracted to Sheila Banning ('Evelyn Ankers' (qv)), Tommy's sister. Frank is also secretly involved with a gang of truck hijackers. When a load of silk is to be hi-jacked, he tries to involve Tommy in the theft, but Tommy rejects his proposition. Frank frames Tommy with the theft of some jewelry. Tommy is jailed and his friends are fired. Tommy is befriended by Jerry ('Don Terry (I)' (qv)), who also has an interest in Sheila, but Sheila remains loyal to Frank without knowing of his criminal activities. Released on bail, Tommy follows Frank to a warehouse where the gang is plotting to hi-jack one of the store's trucks. Tommy rounds up his pals and they return to the warehouse and the slug'em donnybrook is on.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, archive-footage, arrest, b-movie, bail, brawl, brother, brother-sister-relationship, crookActors: Ernie Adams (actor), Eddie Parker (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), John Bagni (actor), Edward Norris (actor), Paul Fix (actor), William Forrest (actor), William Gould (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), William Hall (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Sid Melton (actor), Jed Prouty (actor),
Plot: Steve Bell ('Tommy Kelly (I)' (qv)), Tommy 'Billy Halop' (qv)), Pig 'Huntz Hall' (qv)), Ape ('Bernard Punsly' (qv)) and String ('Gabriel Dell (I)' (qv) are run out of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell ('Virginia Brissac' (qv)) and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward ('Jed Prouty' (qv)). Steve's brother Don Bell ('Dick Hogan')is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall-guy in the next hijacking.
Keywords: 1940s, archive-footage, b-movie, black-out, brakeman, brother, car-chase, cigarette-smoking, dead-end-kids, death-of-brotherActors: Bernard W. Burton (editor), Paul Kelly (actor), Clarence Muse (actor), George Offerman Jr. (actor), Jack C. Smith (actor), Virginia Brissac (actress), Theresa Harris (actress), Helen Parrish (actress), Ken Goldsmith (producer), Vera West (costume designer), William Nigh (director), Paul E. Burns (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Frank Faylen (actor),
Plot: This entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys" series is minus "The Little Tough Guys" and has only four members of "The Dead End Kids" gang. Consequently, "The Little Tough Guys" are not working for a finance company,and, for that matter, neither are the "Dead End Kids" as a group. Tommy Clark is the only one of the group that includes Pig, aka Albert , Ape and String, gainfully employed in any manner and he is working for a crooked finance company that charges the borrowers 36% interest (compounded) and more, and is constantly repossessing radios, furniture, taxi cabs and anything else the poor people of the slums buy on time payments. Tommy, who went to work for the company because the job paid more than a trainee's job he was offered in the District Attorney's office, finally sees the light and turns "stolen" evidence from the finance company over to the D.A's office.
Keywords: 1940s, archive-footage, bowery-manhattan-new-york-city, collector, crook, crusader, district-attorney, evidence, finance, friendshipActors: Vera West (costume designer), Hal E. Chester (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Charles R. Moore (actor), Bernard W. Burton (editor), Edward Pawley (actor), Joe May (director), Charles Sullivan (actor), Evelyn Ankers (actress), Eily Malyon (actress), Ken Goldsmith (producer), John Harmon (actor), Shemp Howard (actor),
Plot: Tommy ('Billy Halop' (qv)), "Pig ('Huntz Hall' (qv))," "String('Gabriel Dell (I)' (qv))," and "Ape ('Bernard Punsly' (qv))" are all inmates of a reform school, along with little "Pesky" ('Bobs Watson' (qv)),and they are orphan sons of deceased members of the Valentine Gang which was wiped out by Spike the Butcher (edward Pawley') and his gang a few years earlier. The only survivor of the Valentine gang was Valentine and he was sent to prison. Later the boys are paroled to the custody of a man using the name of James J. Ryan ('Barton MacLane' (qv)), but Ryan is really Valentine, who has served his sentence, and is living quietly on a stock ranch with his wife Mary Ryan ('Gladys George' (qv)). Ryan (now reformed) is trying to raise $50,000 to build a trade school to help unfortunate boys. But Tom isn't all reformed yet and meets up with a stranger who enlists him in a conspiracy to steal the money. The stranger turns out to be none other than Spike the Butcher, the man responsible for killing Tom's and the other four boy's fathers. Tom raises a stink when he learns who Spike the Butcher really is, but Spike locks Tom and the others in a basement and goes off to kill Valentine/Ryan and steal the trade-school money.
Keywords: 1940s, adoption, b-movie, basement, benefit, california, chauffeur, conspiracy, criminal, crookActors: Tom Steele (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Eddie Parker (actor), James Flavin (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Shemp Howard (actor), Bobby Jordan (actor), Victor Jory (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Milburn Stone (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama,Actors: Bobby Jordan (actor), Joe King (actor), Henry Armetta (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Hal E. Chester (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Martin Faust (actor), David Gorcey (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Spade Cooley (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Arthur Loft (actor),
Plot: The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
Keywords: farm-worker, little-tough-guysActors: Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Eddie Hall (actor), David Gorcey (actor), Jack Carr (actor), Hal E. Chester (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Mark Daniels (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Robert Homans (actor),
Plot: The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
Keywords: little-tough-guys, sequelJust another day in the factory just another day laid
back I ask myself why are you here unfortunately
I’m just to damn good to be sacked.
The little bird looks for bread on the ground in the dust.
I’m thinking I better do the same.
Men need to work and earn their daily crust.
It’s a shame there’s no paint to watch drying
That would be exciting to me.
I think I’ll sit here and just think about that crazy string theory.
Thinking about string theory has got me tied in knot.
I’m thinking I better now just stop.
Who wants to plant a garden but then lose the plot?
This mad train of thought needs a shove a kick, push it right on off its
track.
Anyone that’s thinking oh so much could become a crazy insomniac.
Many words said many words sang please from me do not quote.
I believe the man in the sky spoke then from nothing the world began to
float.
Just another day in the factory just anther day laid
back. I ask my self why are you here unfortunately
I’m just to damn good to be sacked.
Times going slow way too slow why don’t I write a song