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David Lee (born 1944) is an American poet. He was the first poet laureate of the state of Utah and his 1999 collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A former farmer, he is the subject of the PBS documentary The Pig Poet.
Lee was born in Matador, Texas and graduated from Washington and Lee University. He published his first book of poetry, The Porcine Legacy, in 1974. Prior to his writing career he explored careers as a seminary student, pig farmer and boxer. He was also the last white athlete to play on a Negro League baseball team, and the only one to do so after the dissolution of the Texas Blue Stars. Lee earned his Ph.D. with a concentration in the poetry of John Milton and taught at Southern Utah University for three decades, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature.
Lee served as Utah's inaugural poet laureate from 1997-2002 and later received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. He is the recipient of the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In 2001, he was selected as a finalist for the position of United States Poet Laureate. His book So Quietly the Earth was among the 25 books chosen for the New York Public Library's 2004 "Books to Remember" list.
Actors: Jason Andrew Woods (producer), Jason Andrew Woods (editor), Jason Andrew Woods (actor), Jason Andrew Woods (director), Jason Andrew Woods (writer), Travis Brown (actor), David Lee (actor), Zack Knudsen (actor), William Isom II (writer), William Isom II (actor), Zack Knudsen (composer), Dennis Hill (actor), Dennis Hill (actor), Lydia Taylor (actress), Paige Thomason (actress),
Plot: In Southern Appalachia, 1849, we find the Gist family trying to come to terms with the loss of their son, Isaac. Compounding the already hard times of mountain life, the remaining members of the family have been affected differently by the events of the previous year. Issac's sister, Abby, has adopted the persona of a tomboy in an effort to fill the void left by her brother's death. The mother, Nancy, has fallen into a deep depression, having lost her faith; she is unable to function at her previous level, remaining cold and withdrawn. Due to the father's inability to save his son, Patrick, being a farmer by trade, becomes driven to learn frontier medicine to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. Through these increasingly complex issues, the Gist family attempt to continue on with their lives the best they can despite the continual interference from thieving gravediggers, quirky neighbors, genocidal soldiers and a strange traveler with an even stranger name. Ultimately, Patrick realizes he must reach beyond physical medicine to keep the family intact, only, then to be presented with a set of choices that no family should have to face.
Keywords: appalachian, bible, death, deer-head, doctor, emerson, farmer, grave-robber, grief, hillbillyActors: Maria Fuchs (actress), Esther Kuhn (actress), Prime Lee (actor), Eric Engesser (actor), Jürgen Schönewald (actor),
Genres: Reality-TV,Actors: Jennifer Jean Cacavas (editor), Katherine Helmond (actress), David Lawrence (composer), Nick Lombardo (producer), Robert Halmi Jr. (producer), Michael Moran (producer), Brian Gordon (producer), Larry Levinson (producer), Ernest Borgnine (actor), Gwen McGee (actress), Victoria De Mare (actress), Jamie Farr (actor), Richard Libertini (actor), Matt Fitzsimons (miscellaneous crew), Kate Eastridge (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Bert is an old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer, who's retired from showbiz and estranged from his daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter, Becca. Bert, about to sell his house and move into a retirement home, suddenly finds himself caring for Becca when her mom is hospitalized - and the bond between the two of them grows (Bert takes Becca to school everyday; she meets his old show-biz friends).
Keywords: audition, car-accident, cardigan, chess, christmas, christmas-movie, christmas-pageant, christmas-tree, coma, father-daughter-estrangementActors: Dick Gregory (actor), Oneita Parker (costume designer), Brian Wimmer (actor), Cal Bartlett (actor), Brian Stepanek (actor), Bill Chott (actor), Martin Apelbaum (editor), Steve Whelan (actor), Gilbert Glenn Brown (actor), Patty Orloff (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Marcellus (actress), Michael Dutra (actor), Shaughn Buchholz (actor), Gina G. Goff (producer), Laura A. Kellam (producer),
Genres: Drama, History,Actors: Richard Masur (actor), Dorian Harewood (actor), Art Camacho (actor), Robert F. Kennedy (actor), Macon McCalman (actor), John Lennon (actor), Martin Luther King (actor), Richard Dysart (actor), Jerry Hardin (actor), Michael Ironside (actor), Roger Cudney (actor), Pat Hingle (actor), Timothy Hutton (actor), Sean Penn (actor), Richard Nixon (actor),
Plot: The true story of Christopher Boyce, a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton; it can't last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.
Keywords: 1970s, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, blackmail, childhood-friend, cia, cia-covert-operations, classified-information, cold-war, courierActors: Chiu Kuei Huang (editor), Hsin Yi Chang (writer), Hsiao Pao Ko (actor), Fu Liang Chou (composer), Fei Wang (actor), Mao Shan (actor), Hsin Yi Chang (actor), Shen-lin Chen (actor), Fu Hung Cheng (actor), Fa Yuan Li (actor), Yi Chang (actor), Fei Lung (actor), Chang Ma (actor), Kang Chin (actor), Bruce Li (actor),
Plot: This martial arts movie tries to explain the strange death of the international movie star and kung fu master Bruce Lee. Most of the story centers on a former disciple of Lee who launches a private investigation and ends up avenging the brutal death of his own girlfriend.
Keywords: action-hero, asian, bare-breasts, brawl, bruce-lee, bruce-lee's-funeral, burned-with-a-cigarette, burned-with-blowtorch, chop-socky, cigarette-tortureActors: Richard Tucker (actor), Edward Pawley (actor), Benny Bartlett (actor), Walter Tetley (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Lynne Overman (actor), Wally Albright (actor), Tim Holt (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), James T. Mack (actor), William Frawley (actor), Sammy McKim (actor), Carl Harbaugh (actor), Donald O'Connor (actor), Emmett Vogan (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Byron Robinson (editor), Hal Price (actor), Mickey Rooney (actor), Harry Semels (actor), Forrest Stanley (actor), Lloyd Whitlock (actor), Bess Flowers (actress), Dorothy Revier (actress), Betty Burbridge (writer), George B. Seitz (director), Ralph M. Like (producer), Alfred Cross (actor), Gene Morgan (writer),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: John Ford (director), Cyril Chadwick (actor), William Courtright (actor), Richard Cummings (actor), George Fawcett (actor), Mark Fenton (actor), Alec B. Francis (actor), J. Farrell MacDonald (actor), Robert Milasch (actor), Maurice Murphy (actor), James Neill (actor), George O'Brien (actor), Francis Powers (actor), Jacqueline Logan (actress), Ida Moore (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Christy Cabanne (director), George Beranger (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Augustus Carney (actor), Augustus Carney (actor), Robert Edeson (actor), Robert Edeson (actor), Elmo Lincoln (actor), Allan Sears (actor), Allan Sears (actor), Mildred Harris (actress), Christy Cabanne (writer), Frank E. Woods (writer), George Beranger (actor), Juanita Hansen (actress),
Plot: The Prologue shows man as 'Power,' garbed in Greek-classic costume, standing at the parting of life's highway. One road leads to 'Success' - the other to ''Failure'. He (Power) is confronted by a figure emblematic of 'Pleasure,' who points to out to him "the easiest way," then 'Ignorance' leads him to the end of the road. where 'Destruction' stands. The classic figures disappear and the story begins: 'Power-The Absentee' leaves his factory in charge of his manager 'Might." who wrecks the property in order that his wife, 'Extravagance," and his daughter, 'Vanity,' may devote themselves to lives of selfish pleasure. It is only when 'Justice,' the office stenographer. forces 'Power' to right the harm done to his employees that he sees the error in believing that 'Might' is right. Then comes the realization that 'Justice' should go hand-in-hand with 'Power," and so they are wed, and 'Ambition,''Opportunity' and 'Success' array themselves on his side.
Keywords: 1900s, absentee-owner, allegory, ambition, confrontation, crossroads, daughter, deceit, deception, decisionWell here we are again what do you want from me this time
Remember what you did about you made me feel last time
You're on the move again in bad need of a friend
Whose arms did you fall out of now
Well now what you gonna do how long you gonna stay this time
Well now what you gonna prove that I'll die a little more each time
Cause dying's what I do it's something I'm used to
Whose arms did you fall out of now
By now I should be used to losing you
But if it's worst each time I see you coming back again
This won't be the end and here we go again this time
And I know it's gonna be a real bad time for me like the last time
I'd never hear from you tell you no one to turn to