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A president is a leader of an organization, company, club, trade union, university, or country.
Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership (from Latin pre- "before" + sedere "to sit"; giving the term praeses). Originally, the term referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting (i.e., chairman), but today it most commonly refers to an official. Among other things, "President" today is a common title for the heads of state of most republics, whether popularly elected, chosen by the legislature or by a special electoral college.
Presidents in countries with a democratic or representative form of government are usually elected for a specified period of time and in some cases may be re-elected by the same process by which they are appointed, i.e. in many nations, periodic popular elections. The powers vested in such presidents vary considerably. Some presidencies, such as that of Ireland, are largely ceremonial, whereas other systems vest the President with substantive powers such as the appointment and dismissal of Prime Ministers or cabinets, the power to declare war, and powers of veto on legislation. In many nations the President is also the Commander-in-Chief of the nation's armed forces, though once again this can range from a ceremonial role to one with considerable authority.
Gordon Gekko is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of the 2010 film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, both directed by Oliver Stone. Gekko was portrayed by actor Michael Douglas, whose performance in the first film won him an Oscar for Best Actor.
Co-written by Stone and screenwriter Stanley Weiser, Gekko is claimed to be based loosely on arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who gave a speech on greed at the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, real-life activist shareholder and corporate raider Carl Icahn and also Stone's own father Louis Stone. According to Edward R. Pressman, producer of the film, "Originally, there was no one individual who Gekko was modeled on," he adds. "But Gekko was partly Milken", who was the "Junk Bond King" of the 1980s, and indicted on 98 counts of racketeering and fraud in 1989.
In 2003, the AFI named him number 24 of the top 50 movie villains of all time.
In 2008, Gordon Gekko was named the fourth richest fictional character by Forbes who attributed him with US$8.5 billion.
Actors: Uday Chandra (actor), Pitobash (actor), Nimisha Shankar (actress), Florian Knoblich (miscellaneous crew), Pierre Friquet (costume designer), Pierre Friquet (director), Pierre Friquet (writer), Florian Knoblich (actor), Pierre Friquet (actor), Pierre Friquet (producer), Umesh Kulkarni (actor), Omkar Achyut Barve (producer), Amit Vaishisht (actor), Ashok Chaudhry (actor), Sunil (actor),
Plot: A young Ethiopian woman runs away from her tyrannic father and lands up in the unknown city of Bombay with no money contact while she was on her way to meet her lover, in Antarctica. It's about a princess with no kingdom, a soul seeking for a fitting space.
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Short,Actors: Henry Strzalkowski (actor), Henry Strzalkowski (actor), Luis Almau (composer), Dean S. Jagger (actor), Alissa Juvan (actress), Geof Wolfenden (writer), Hasraf Dulull (director), Hasraf Dulull (writer), Hasraf Dulull (producer), Eric Mootz (producer), Rob Rownd (actor), Apollo Abraham (actor), Apollo Abraham (actor), David Bianco (actor), Natasha Charles Parker (actress),
Genres: Action, Animation, Short, War,Actors: Kristin Owings (miscellaneous crew), Paula M. Froehle (producer), Paula M. Froehle (actress), Johnny White (producer), Stan Adams (actor), Jon Jolles (actor), Hollie Lavenstein (editor), Hollie Lavenstein (producer), Hollie Lavenstein (director), Audrey Francis (actress), Rachel Sondag (actress), Roger Ainslie (actor), Jay Rutherford (actor), Oren Meged (actor), Grace Kellison (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Sung-kee Ahn (actor), Woo-Suk Kang (director), Soo-yeon Kang (actress), Jae-hyeon Jo (actor), Seong-kun Mun (actor), Tae-hyun Cha (actor), Shin-il Kang (actor), Sang Jung Kim (actor), Kan-hie Lee (actress), In-Pyo Cha (actor), Sang-Jeon Woo (actor),
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Stephanie Okereke (actress), Frank Rajah Arase (director), Kofi Adjorlolo (actor), Kalsum Sinari (actor), Vivian Achor (actress), Austine Erowele (actor), Austine Erowele (composer), Roger Quartey (actor), Suzzy Williams (actress), Samira Yakubu (producer), Samira Yakubu (writer), A. Kokou (actor), A. Kokou (producer), Samira Yakubu (miscellaneous crew), A. Kokou (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Stephanie Okereke (actress), Frank Rajah Arase (director), Kofi Adjorlolo (actor), Kalsum Sinari (actor), Vivian Achor (actress), Austine Erowele (actor), Austine Erowele (composer), Roger Quartey (actor), Suzzy Williams (actress), Samira Yakubu (producer), Samira Yakubu (writer), A. Kokou (actor), A. Kokou (producer), Samira Yakubu (miscellaneous crew), A. Kokou (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Sung-kee Ahn (actor), Sung-kee Ahn (actor), Beom-su Lee (actor), In-mun Kim (actor), Jae-young Kwak (writer), Jae-young Kwak (writer), Ji-Woo Choi (actress), Byung-woo Lee (composer), Su-jeong Lim (actress), Hyeong-il Kim (actor), Seong-gyeom Kim (actor), Man-bae Jeon (director), Man-bae Jeon (writer), Ju-hee Park (actress), Su-hyeon Jeong (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: David Seltzer (writer), Jerry Goldsmith (composer), Dick Anthony Williams (actor), Harvey Bernhard (producer), Richard Donner (producer), Ruby Wax (actress), Hazel Court (actress), Mason Adams (actor), Arnold Diamond (actor), Norman Bird (actor), Sam Neill (actor), Harvey Bernhard (actor), Rossano Brazzi (actor), Geoff Freeman (miscellaneous crew), Don Gordon (actor),
Plot: Now come into his full knowledge and power, the Anti-Christ in the body of Damien Thorne is about to strike his final blow. The Christ-child has been born again, on the Angel Isle, Great Britain (Scotland, England & Wales). The plan is simple, find the male children born on the specified day, and kill them all.
Keywords: 666, accident, adoption, ambassador, american-flag, anal-rape, angel, animal-like, antichrist, apocalypseActors: Steve Kramer (actor), Dan Martin (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Robert Axelrod (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Richard Epcar (actor), Michael Forest (actor), Steve Bulen (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Shôzô Iizuka (actor), Makio Inoue (actor), Sean Barrett (actor), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor),
Plot: In Transylvania, Lupin III, the notorious international thief, is hung and no one is more suprised to learn of that than Lupin III himself, who was alive and well and nowhere near that area at that time. The answer to that mystery, begins to surface when Lupin gets a seemingly ordinary pebble from an Egyptian pyramid for his would-be girlfriend, Fujiko, the mercenary thief, who is in the employ of a mysterious figure known only as Mamo. Intrigued by this bizarre request, Lupin decides to get involved and finds himself in an international chase that has a greater scope and danger than he has ever faced.
Keywords: anime, based-on-comic, based-on-manga, carribean-sea, character-name-in-title, cigarette-smoking, clone, egypt, execution, execution-by-hangingActors: John Cleese (actor), Ron Moody (actor), Denholm Elliott (actor), Burt Kwouk (actor), Joss Ackland (actor), Pat Rambaut (miscellaneous crew), John Cleese (writer), Arthur Lowe (actor), Nick Tate (actor), Maurice Kaufmann (actor), Stratford Johns (actor), Connie Booth (actress), Connie Booth (actress), Joseph McGrath (writer), Joseph McGrath (writer),
Plot: The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and it seems that it truly is the end of civilization as we know it- until the President learns that the grandson of Sherlock Holmes is living at 221B Baker Street, and send the Police Commisioner of Scotland Yard to employ him. Unfortunately, Arthur Sherlock Holmes is a quick-tempered, ranting, violent bungler, and his assistant, Dr. William Watson (grandson of Dr. John H. Watson) is one of the most moronic creatures ever to walk the earth, although he is invaluable because he has "bionic bits". Holmes has inherited a drug habit from his grandfather, one which his housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, is less than discreet about, and the sleek Moriarty is also one step ahead of him, eventually murdering the police commisioner. Finally, Holmes decides to hold a party, inviting the world's most distinguished detectives, hoping to flush Moriarty out of hiding. However, it does not go as planned.
Keywords: bus-trip, cyborg, detective, drugs, independent-film, james-bond-spoof, lieutenant, monty-python, murder, museum