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A count (male) or countess (female) is an aristocratic nobleman in European countries. The word count came into English from the French comte, itself from Latin comes—in its accusative comitem—meaning "companion", and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor". The adjective form of the word is "comital". The British and Irish equivalent is an earl (whose wife is a "countess", for lack of an English term). Alternative names for the "Count" rank in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as Graf in Germany, Graaf in the Netherlands and Hakushaku during the Japanese Imperial era.
In the late Roman Empire, the Latin title comes meaning (imperial) "companion" denoted the high rank of various courtiers and provincial officials, either military or administrative: before Anthemius was made emperor in the West in 467, he was military comes charged with strengthening defenses on the Danube frontier.
In the Western Roman Empire Count came to generically indicate a military commander, but was not a specific rank. In the Eastern Roman Empire, from about the seventh century, a count was a specific rank indicating the commander of two centuries (i.e. 200 men).
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəniː dʒʌrməˈnɑːtə/ STE-fə-nee jurr-mə-NAH-tə; born March 28, 1986), known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She began performing in the rock music scene of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and was signed with Streamline Records by the end of 2007. During her employment as a songwriter for the record company, her vocal abilities captured the attention of recording artist Akon, who signed her to his label Kon Live Distribution.
Lady Gaga came to prominence as a recording artist following the release of her debut album The Fame (2008), which was a critical and commercial success that topped charts around the world and included the international number-one singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". After embarking on the The Fame Ball Tour, she followed the album with The Fame Monster (2009), which spawned the worldwide hit singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro". The album's success allowed her to embark on the eighteen-month long Monster Ball Tour, which later became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Her most recent album Born This Way (2011) topped the charts of most major markets and generated more international chart-topping singles, including "Born This Way", "Judas" and "The Edge of Glory". Besides her musical career, she involves herself with humanitarian causes and LGBT activism.
Actors: Dan Simon (director), Dan Simon (editor), Roger Hendricks Simon (producer), Roger Hendricks Simon (actor), Roger Hendricks Simon (director), Sarah Levine Simon (writer), Sarah Levine Simon (actor), Sarah Levine Simon (producer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer), Thisbe Simon (actor), Noah David Simon (actor), Marta Knapp (actor), Judy Green (actor),
Genres: Musical, Short,Actors: Steve Christian (producer), John Malkovich (producer), Rosamund Pike (actress), Johnny Depp (actor), Stanley Townsend (actor), Samantha Morton (actress), Johnny Vegas (actor), Francesca Annis (actress), Freddie Jones (actor), Tom Hollander (actor), T.P. McKenna (actor), John Malkovich (actor), Jack Davenport (actor), Matt Curtis (miscellaneous crew), Michael Nyman (composer),
Plot: In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from exile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a sexually- active cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls into disgrace with the court. When he was thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis associated with alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man.
Keywords: 1670s, 17th-century, abduction, acting-coach, actor, actress, adulterous-husband, adultery, affection, alcoholActors: Paul Borghese (actor), Veronica Hart (actress), Devon Michaels (actress), Paul Borghese (producer), Johann Benét (producer), Sylvia Kristel (actress), Kevin Bernhardt (actor), Ernest G. Sauer (director), Susan Napoli (actress), J.J. North (actress), Grace Renn (actress), Theresa Lynn (actress), Michael Anthony (actor), Michael Anthony (actor), Nancy Sirianni (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Joan Rivers (actress), Dinah Shore (actress), Laurence Fishburne (actor), Zsa Zsa Gabor (actress), Magic Johnson (actor), Whoopi Goldberg (actress), k.d. lang (actress), Little Richard (actor), Frankie Avalon (actor), Annette Funicello (actress), Grace Jones (actress), Paul Reubens (actor), Cher (actress), Oprah Winfrey (actress), Lynne Marie Stewart (actress),
Plot: Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1 1/2 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, commands Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello to make Christmas cards, receives a long phone call from Dinah Shore, even has more musical fun with k.d. lang, the Del Rubio Triplettes and Charo! Finally, Big Red arrives and announces that Pee-wee's Christmas list was so big, he didn't have enough presents for all the children of the world. Will Pee-wee follow his own advice and help others?
Keywords: absurd-humor, cameo, christmas, christmas-gift, christmas-tree, friendship, generosity, hanukkah, ice-skating, man-childActors: Mark Snow (composer), Ed Begley Jr. (actor), Eileen Atkins (actress), Patrick Allen (actor), Jerrold L. Ludwig (writer), Tom Conti (actor), Dalton Trumbo (writer), Filipe Ferrer (actor), Shane Rimmer (actor), Catherine Oxenberg (actress), Francis Matthews (actor), Miguel Monteiro (actor), Noel Nosseck (director), Rachel Griffiths (miscellaneous crew), Andrew Bicknell (actor),
Plot: Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get 'out and about' away from her normal life. She meets with an American reporter and his photographer, who show her the sites. The reporter is initially more interested in a story than the Princess, but begins to fall for Her Highness...
Keywords: camera-shot-of-feet, female-stockinged-feet, foot-closeup, kicking-off-one's-shoes, love, news-photographer, pantyhose, remake, reporter, rome-italyActors: Larisa Udovichenko (actress), Semyon Farada (actor), Nikolay Grinko (actor), Valentin Nikulin (actor), Vsevolod Shilovsky (director), Aleksandr Shirvindt (actor), Vsevolod Shilovsky (writer), Olga Kabo (actress), Sofiko Chiaureli (actress), Giulio Scarnicci (writer), Leonid Obolensky (actor), Renzo Tarabusi (writer), Elena Aminova (actress), Anatoli Khostikoyev (actor), Igor Bogodukh (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jean Anouilh (writer), Georg Rydeberg (actor), Sven Wollter (actor), Tor Isedal (actor), Frej Lindqvist (actor), Marianne Aminoff (actress), Håkan Ersgård (director), Tina Hedström (actress), Marianne Wesén (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Frank Mayo (actor), Robert Livingston (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), John Litel (actor), John Dehner (actor), William Frawley (actor), Pat Gleason (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Lloyd Corrigan (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Bert Moorhouse (actor),
Plot: On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice. She wins the ice-skating championship of her country and is invited to skate at the fabulous Lake Placid Carnival in the United States. Vera receives an offer of a contract from eager showman, Carlton Webb, and his press agent Jiggers - but she turns them down. The financial backer for the two men is a wealthy, gabby, man-chasing woman called "Countess". Vera is a sensation at Lake Placid when she learns of Nazi Germany's move on Czechoslovakia, and she immediately attempts to abandon her career and rejoin her people. The trip can not be arranged and, alone in a strange country, she seeks an uncle, Carl Cermack, who has become a prosperous American citizen. The uncle welcomes her to his sumptuous Lond Island home, where he lives with his spoiled débutante daughters Irene and Susan. Vera learns that the two sisters are fighting it out over the same man, Paul Jordan, Cermack's junior partner, who isn't overwhelmed by either sister. Vera invites her uncle and cousins to join her at Lake Placid, where she is to appear in the dazzling New Year's Eve ballet. She is named "Queen" of the ballet, and Roy Rogers, a visiting movie-cowboy star is named "King." Paul begins to pick up interest in Vera, and she agrees to sign a contract with Webb, provided she can use an assumed name in his shows. Jiggers suggests they call her "Cinderella," because she has lost one of her famous skates. When Vera opens at Madison Square Garden, Jiggers plants the story that she refuses to appear until her skate is returned. Aware that Paul has kept her skate as a souvenir, Cermack telephones his partner in Texas. On the night of the opening, Webb and Jiggers are driven to desperation, since Vera has taken their publicity gag in earnest and refuses to go on unless her skate is returned. None of the phony "Prince Charmings" Jiggers has hired has the right skate, of course. The weary Vera doesn't even look at the last applicant - but the skate is hers. She stares down and recognizes her godfather, Jaroslav, who has been brought to American by her uncle. He explains that her skate was given to him by a young man. He beckons into the crowd and Paul emerges. Vera finds herself in the arms of her own Prince Charming.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, b-movie, ballet, career, career-woman, carnival, champion, cinderella, competitionActors: Fred Paul (writer), George Pearson (producer), Percy Marmont (actor), Joseph R. Tozer (actor), Marie Ault (actress), Enid Stamp-Taylor (actress), Franklyn Bellamy (actor), Alice Ramsey (writer), Lydia Sherwood (actress), Marjorie Mars (actress), Georges Galli (actor), May Calvin (actress), Theodor Komisarjevsky (director), Elizabeth Kerr (actress), Wilson McArthur (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Guy de Maupassant (writer), Sam Taylor (director), Arnold Kent (actor), Henry King (director), Michael Mark (actor), Gilbert Roland (actor), Hugo Riesenfeld (composer), C. Gardner Sullivan (writer), Gustav von Seyffertitz (actor), C. Gardner Sullivan (writer), Gladys Brockwell (actress), Norma Talmadge (actress), Howard Davies (actor), Joseph M. Schenck (producer), Norma Talmadge (producer),
Plot: In 1914 a girl of the streets is befriended by two dashing young officers, an Austrian and a Russian. Both fall in love with her, but she picks the Austrian. When the war begins, Her town is overrun by Russians, lead by the once charming, now vengeful officer, who takes her prisoner and threatens death if she won't marry him.
Keywords: austria, based-on-play, based-on-story, cameo-role, count, countess, hostage, mistress, romantic-triangle, russian"Het hart van de Brullende Stormer sprong op in zijn
borst zodra zijn blik viel op zijn hamer, hard was zijn hart.
Thrym sloeg hij het eerst dood, de heerser der trollen,
vervolgens verpletterde hij heel het reuzengebroed."
[Þrymskvida 31]
Zwarte wolken aan de horizon
Donar rijdt woest door de lucht
God van donder, weer en wind
God van menige heilige klucht
Heer der eenvoudige, oprechte boeren
Zoon van Wodan, niet klein te krijgen
Immens sterk, totaal betrouwbaar
Zijn hamer brengt de reuzen tot zwijgen
[Chorus:]
Donar - sterkste der Goden
Donar - rijdt door de wolken
Donar - doder van reuzen
Donar - held onzer volken
Beschermer der Goden en mensen gelijk
Hij geeft ons ook vruchtbare grond
Zijn rode baard symboliseert de bliksem
Dank Hem ook voor dromen die Hij zond
Zijn hamer een veelbetekend symbool
Voor ons de tegenhanger van Christus' kruis
Wij dragen Zijn hamer zelfbewust en trots
Niet uit angst zoals het kruis van het gespuis
Donar de allersterkste der machtige Azen
Wij vertrouwen volkomen op Zijn kracht
Zijn hamer een symbool dat ons allen bindt
Wij bouwen op Hem en geloven in zijn macht
[Chorus 2x]