Kyphosis (from Greek - kyphos, a hump), also called roundback or Kelso's hunchback, is a condition of over-curvature of the thoracic vertebrae (upper back). It can be either the result of degenerative diseases (such as arthritis), developmental problems (the most common example being Scheuermann's disease), osteoporosis with compression fractures of the vertebrae, or trauma.
In the sense of a deformity, it is the pathological curving of the spine, where parts of the spinal column lose some or all of their lordotic profile. This causes a bowing of the back, seen as a slouching posture.
While most cases of kyphosis are mild and only require routine monitoring, serious cases can be debilitating. High degrees of kyphosis can cause severe pain and discomfort, breathing and digestion difficulties, cardiovascular irregularities, neurological compromise, and in the more severe cases, significantly shortened life-spans. These types of high end curves typically do not respond well to conservative treatment, and almost always warrant spinal fusion surgery, which can successfully restore the body's natural degree of curvature.
The Cobb angle is the preferred method of measuring kyphosis.
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-born American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.
Laughton was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the son of Robert Laughton and his wife Elizabeth (née Conlon), Yorkshire hotel keepers. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic of Irish descent. He attended Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit school, in Lancashire. He served during World War I (in which he was gassed) first with the 2/1st Battalion of the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Regiment and later with the 7th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment.
Maureen O'Hara (born 17 August 1920) is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne. Her autobiography, 'Tis Herself, was published in 2004 and was a New York Times Bestseller.
O'Hara was born as Maureen FitzSimons on Beechwood Avenue in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh. She was the second oldest of the six children of Charles Stewart Parnell FitzSimons and Marguerita Lilburn FitzSimons. Her father was in the clothing business and also bought into Shamrock Rovers Football Club, a team O'Hara has supported since childhood. Her mother, a former operatic contralto, was a successful women's clothier. O'Hara was raised as, and still is, a Roman Catholic. Her siblings were Peggy, the oldest, and younger Charles, Florrie, Margot and Jimmy. Peggy dedicated her life to a religious order, the Sisters of Charity, and the younger children all went on to receive training at the Abbey Theatre and the Ena Mary Burke School of Drama and Elocution in Dublin. O'Hara's dream at this time was to be a stage actress. She was first educated at the John Street West Girls' School near Thomas Street in Dublin's Liberties Area. From the age of 6–17 she trained in drama, music and dance, and at the age of 10 joined the Rathmines Theatre Company and worked in amateur theatre in the evenings, after her lessons.
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
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Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross and enlist them in the Nazi cause.
Keywords: anime, female-soldier, nazi, russian-army, soviet-union, super-soldier, supernatural-power, surrealism, teen-soldier, world-war-two
Chris Farley: So, um, you remember when Bill Murray came, when you were the medieval barber and he came with his legs broken from being dragged by the ox cart after having too much mead?::Steve Martin: Yeah what about it?::Chris Farley: Um, that was awesome.::Steve Martin: That was a long time ago.::Chris Farley: Mr. Martin, before I go, I was wondering, I found this in wardrobe and I was wondering if you could sign it.::Steve Martin: My old King Tut costume! I remember this. This was back when the show meant something.
Chris Farley: [singing] Not gonna get liquored up tonight, not gonna have a drink tonight! I'm not gonna drink, 'til Update is through. That's a promise to you, the viewer. After the show, I'll drink 'til I spew. But for now I'm clear headed for yoooooooou.
Phil Hartman: [singing] I hide behind these wigs and this make-up, but tonight I'm gonna let myself shine through. Yes they're going to see the real Phil Hartman tonight!::Steve Martin: I wouldn't do that, Phil.::Phil Hartman: Okay.
Steve Martin: Live from New York...line! ...It's Saturday Night!!
David Spade: [on Steve Martin] Steve Martin. What about Leap of Faith? I was going to go see it but I was sick that day. [Steve Martin enters. Spade does not notice] He has blonde hair in it. Am I supposed to buy that? His hair has been grey since 1974. He's probably turned into one of those guys that doesn't wear a tie now. 'Hey, I'm Matt Dillon'. [Steve Martin taps him on shoulder] Not now, Kevin, I'm going here. [Notices it isn't Kevin Nealon that's grasping him]::Steve Martin: Thanks for the tip, Kevin. [to David] You wanna go now? David Spade; Yes, sir.::Steve Martin: [on David Spade] Hi there. I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers. It's called your Last Hollywood Minute. Deal with it!
Theodoric of York: Well, I'll do everything humanly possible. But unfortunatly, we barbers are not Gods. You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we're learning all the time. Why just 50 years ago we would've thought your daughter's illness was caused by demonic posession or witch craft. But now adays, we know that Isabelle is suffering from an inbalance of bodily humors. Perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in her stomach.
Theodoric of York: Perhaps she is right. Perhaps I've been wrong to blindly follow the traditions and superstitions of the past centuries. Maybe we barbers should test those assumptions analytically. To experimentation and scientific method. Perhaps this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning. Like natural sciences, art, arcitecture, navigation, perhaps I could lead the way to a new age. An age of rebirth. A Renissance.! Nah.
Bob: Hello and welcome to Common Knowledge. I am your host, Bob Alberts. Let's begin. We'll start with Jean Kirkpatrick, what catagory do you choose?::Jean Kirkpatrick: I've been a professor of history so I've decided to make it interesting. I'll take Literature.::Bob: Okay, Literature for 100. Let's see what the question is, Author of Grapes of Wrath.::Jean Kirkpatrick: John Steinbeck.::Bob: No, I'm sorry that's not right. The answer is Ernest Hemingway.
Bob: Les, you wanna stick with Literature?::Les Shermire: No I'll take State Capitals.::Bob: Okay, State Capitals for 100. Oklahoma state.::Les Shermire: Oklahoma City.::Bob: Correct. Let's keep going, New York state.::Les Shermire: New York City.::Bob: Correct. Let's go again, New Jersey.::Les Shermire: Jersey City.::Bob: Yes! You're on a roll. Let's go again, Virginia.::Les Shermire: Virginia City.::Bob: Yes!! And last one, Washington.::Les Shermire: Washington D.C.::Bob: Correct! You swept through that catagory.
Les Shermire: Let's go to Literature.::Bob: Okay. Author of A Christmas Carol.::Les Shermire: Ebenezer Scrooge.::Bob: Correct. Literature for 300, Author of Huckleberry Finn.::Les Shermire: Tom Sawyer.::Bob: No, sorry, the answer is Ernest Hemingway. And now let's take a minute to explain the rules of Common Knowledge. Questions for our show are selected by educators from Princeton University to reflect the broad range of common knowledge that every American should posess. Answers for Common Knowledge are determined by a nation wide survey of 17 year old high school seniors.
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Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. The girl, feeling bad about what she did to them, resolves to break them out of the prison.
Keywords: independent-film
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A mad doctor runs a sanitarium in the desert, where his hunchbacked servant whips women who are chained in the basement and cuts the legs off bodies so they'll fit in the caskets. Complications ensue.
Keywords: basement, body-part, chained, dismemberment, hunchback, independent-film, mad-doctor, mental-institution, monster, murder
When the forces of evil infuse your body will you scream out ...
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When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter.
Keywords: anti-semitism, arson, b-movie, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, bible, blood, brain, burned-alive, caught-having-sex
Only The Monster She Made Could Satisfy Her Strange Desires!
A Mad Surgeon's Mind in a Woman's Body
LOVE and MURDER are the two consuming passions of the Rue Morgue!
Rene Marot: As I once begged for your kisses, now you will beg for your death.
Rene Marot: Yes, Madeleine. There stands the axe-man of your dreams.
Rene Marot: Goodbye, Madeleine. But remember, the will... the will... lives on... after death.
Rene Marot: I've come for you, Madeleine. I've had my revenge, but it's not enough. I need... I need love.
Rene Marot: Confess. Let me hear the truth, Cesar. Confess.::Cesar Charron: Yes, I killed her. I killed her.
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Terry Macy ('Reed Howes' (qv)), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The End)that has been sent to a local politician. Terry is captured at a clandestine meeting of the 'Mystic Medicants", an outlaw band, where he overhears the plans of a plot to kill his uncle, Robert Macy, publisher of the newspaper. Terry must also, according to his father's will, get married within a short period of time is he is to inherit the newspaper.
Keywords: 10-chapters, 1920s, blackface, blind-man, brother, character-name-in-title, cliffhanger, damsel-in-distress, death-of-brother, death-of-father