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The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades). The word may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes were introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's cuisine. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat and maize. Long-term storage of potatoes requires specialised care in cold warehouses.
Wild potato species occur throughout the Americas, from the United States to Uruguay. The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia (from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex), where they were domesticated 7,000–10,000 years ago. Following centuries of selective breeding, there are now over a thousand different types of potatoes. Of these subspecies, a variety that at one point grew in the Chiloé Archipelago (the potato's south-central Chilean sub-center of origin) left its germplasm on over 99% of the cultivated potatoes worldwide.
It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary background who wins a scholarship to a private school in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Surrounded by boys with nicknames like Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. Along the way Spud takes his first tentative steps along the path to manhood. (The path it seems could be a rather long road). Spud is an only child. He is cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe and a senile granny. His dad is a fervent anti-communist who is paranoid that the family domestic worker is running a shebeen from her room at the back of the family home. His mom is a free spirit and a teenager's worst nightmare, whether it's shopping for Spud's underwear in the local supermarket, or sneaking food into her handbag at school functions. Armed with only his wits and his diary, Spud takes us from illegal night swimming to the red-hot furnace of the cricket pitch, from ghostbusting to a catastrophic family vacation. He also invites us into the mind of a boy struggling to come to terms with a strange new world, a boy whose eyes are being opened to love, friendship and complete insanity.
Keywords: based-on-novel, boy-in-underwear, bully, character-name-in-title, death-of-a-boy, friendship, masturbation, nickname, oliver-twist, private-school
Mr. 'The Guv' Edly: Women! Cant live with them. Cant ship them off to Zimbabwe!
John 'Spud' Milton: I don't know about you Sir, but drinking just makes me sad. It's like the more you drink, the sadder you get... and the sadder you get the more you drink...
Mr. 'The Guv' Edly: Women- can't live with them, can't ship them off to Zimbabwe.
The Viking: I will be running a tight ship... in fact this ship will be run tighter than a nun's fanny.
Mom: He sings like and angel. Aren't you my china plate? [pinches Spud's cheek]
Actors: Seth Craven (actor), Seth Craven (writer), Seth Craven (director), Nicholas Gruber (editor), Will Jameson (actor), Brandon Mack (actor), Brandon Olson (actor), Nick Alen (actor), Nick Heet (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Short,Actors: Pat Morita (actor), Michael Nouri (actor), Michael Saleman (miscellaneous crew), Michael Imperioli (actor), Steve Schirripa (actor), David Dwyer (actor), Liz Graham (miscellaneous crew), Todd Susman (actor), Vincent Van Patten (actor), Johnny Dark (actor), Ryan Keating (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Keating (miscellaneous crew), William Johnson (actor), Peggy Walton-Walker (actress), Michael A. Rizza (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Robert Banas (actor), Jim Hellwig (actor), Leon Askin (actor), Robert Townsend (actor), Robert Folk (composer), Kerry Lyn McKissick (miscellaneous crew), Rick Overton (actor), David DeCoteau (miscellaneous crew), Leo Burmester (actor), Paul Reiser (actor), John Furlong (actor), Richard Dean Anderson (actor), Paul Provenza (miscellaneous crew), Paul Provenza (actor), Starletta DuPois (actress),
Plot: Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.
Keywords: auto-theft, loan-shark, moving, ruse, student, summer, told-in-flashback, vacationActors: Hal Roach (miscellaneous crew), Richard C. Currier (editor), Charles Levin (miscellaneous crew), Harry Lucenay (miscellaneous crew), Wally Albright (actor), Eddie Baker (actor), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Budd Fine (actor), Otto Fries (actor), Donald Haines (actor), Oliver Hardy (actor), Dell Henderson (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: H.M. Walker (writer), Eddie Baker (actor), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Otto Fries (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor), Donald Haines (actor), Dell Henderson (actor), Hal Roach (miscellaneous crew), Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins (actor), Harry Lucenay (miscellaneous crew), Charles Levin (miscellaneous crew), George 'Spanky' McFarland (actor), Richard C. Currier (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Hal Roach (miscellaneous crew), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor), Hal Roach (writer), H.M. Walker (writer), Robert F. McGowan (director), Richard C. Currier (editor), Tony Campanaro (miscellaneous crew), Charles Levin (miscellaneous crew), George 'Spanky' McFarland (actor), Dickie Moore (actor), Gene Morgan (actor), Robert F. McGowan (producer), Hal Roach (producer), Robert A. McGowan (writer), Dorothy DeBorba (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Hal Roach (miscellaneous crew), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Otto Fries (actor), Donald Haines (actor), Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins (actor), H.M. Walker (writer), Robert F. McGowan (director), Richard C. Currier (editor), Charles Levin (miscellaneous crew), Harry Lucenay (miscellaneous crew), Lyle Tayo (actress), May Wallace (actress), Robert F. McGowan (producer), Hal Roach (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Richard C. Currier (editor), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor), Gordon Douglas (actor), Donald Haines (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), Hal Roach (miscellaneous crew), Harry Lucenay (miscellaneous crew), Charles Levin (miscellaneous crew), Robert F. McGowan (producer), Hal Roach (producer), H.M. Walker (writer), Leroy Shield (composer), Robert F. McGowan (director),
Plot: Wheezer's parents fight constantly. When he overhears them threatening divorce, he tells his friends in the gang. At first they think a divorce is something good, maybe something to eat. But when they find out what one really is, they devise a plan to get Wheezer's parents back together. They decide to give Wheezer all the medicines in his medicine cabinet to make him sick, so that his parents will forget their differences in their concern for their boy.
Keywords: children, divorce, medicine-cabinet, our-gangActors: Hal Roach (miscellaneous crew), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Pete the Dog (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor), Leroy Shield (composer), Robert F. McGowan (director), Richard C. Currier (editor), Charles Levin (miscellaneous crew), Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins (actor), Blanche Payson (actress), Lyle Tayo (actress), Robert F. McGowan (producer), Hal Roach (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Short,Actors: Robert F. McGowan (director), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), George Ernest (actor), Billy Gilbert (actor), Dick Gilbert (actor), Jack Hill (actor), Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins (actor), Hal Roach (miscellaneous crew), Harry Lucenay (miscellaneous crew), Jerry Tucker (actor), Charles Levin (miscellaneous crew), H.M. Walker (writer), Richard C. Currier (editor), Robert F. McGowan (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short,"Soul and Fire" by Sebadoh
Written by Lou Barlow
from _Bubble and Scrape_
It's all a matter
of soul and fire.
Infatuation
or true desire.
The thrill of discovery,
divine intervention;
cruel, cruel change,
pain of rejection.
As you walk away
think of all the joy we shared.
If you decide you need me,
I'll be wondering if I care...
Not there to soothe your soul,
friend to tender friend.
I think our love is coming to an end.
King persuader,
congratulations.
You share her heart,
you bought her soul
Princess confusion
come to me again.
Saying goodbye
was so much fun.
When you walk away
feel the freedom in your heart.
There's a joy in letting go,
free to find a love apart.
When I lose control
I need a kind, forgiving friend,
but I think our love is coming to an end.