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Gerald Maxwell Rivera, (born May 23, 1973), better known by his stage name Maxwell, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Along with fellow musicians D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell has been credited with helping to shape what has been termed the "neo soul" movement that rose to prominence during the late 1990s.
Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. Maxwell's father died in a plane crash when Maxwell was three years old. The experience made him a deeply religious child, and during his childhood he sang in a Baptist church. At age 14 he worked at Pizza Hut. He did not really get serious about music until age 17.
After receiving a low-cost Casio keyboard from a friend, the Brooklyn, New York-native began composing material at age 17. Raised in the borough's East New York-section, Maxwell's previous musical experience included his beginnings as a singer in the congregation of his Baptist church, which had become an integral part of his life after the death of his father in a plane crash. Already a fan of what he described as "jheri curl soul", which was the trademark of early 1980s R&B acts such as Patrice Rushen, S.O.S. Band and Rose Royce, Maxwell began to teach himself to play a variety of instruments. According to him, the R&B of the early 1980s contained "the perfect combination of computerized instrumentation with a live feel", and that the genre's dynamics later became lost due to the influence of hip hop on R&B. Despite facing ridicule from classmates for being shy and awkward, he progressed and continued to develop his musical abilities, and he also adopted the look of a more bohemian style outwardly in his clothing, growing long sideburns and letting his hair grow out wildly and combed in an extreme style, or sometimes putting his hair in long dreads.
Actors: Tim Halpin (actor), John H. Tobin (actor), Clement von Franckenstein (actor), Theo Crisell (actor), Frank Scozzari (actor), Greg Lucey (actor), Pablo Lewin (actor), Christian Reeve (actor), Glen Vaughan (actor), Michael Younesi (producer), Michael Younesi (writer), Robert Shepyer (producer), Kim Farris (actress), Justin Younesi (writer), Kelly Mullis (actress),
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Steve Golin (producer), Andrea Martin (actress), Cynthia Nixon (actress), Kristen Wiig (actress), Julia Stiles (actress), Mark Amin (producer), Annette Bening (actress), Natasha Lyonne (actress), Matt Dillon (actor), Matt Dillon (actor), Joseph Basile (actor), Ronald Guttman (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Kristen Wiig (producer), Trudie Styler (producer),
Plot: Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she's forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald). Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom (Darren Criss) and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she's ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them.
Keywords: adult-returns-home, brother-sister-relationship, failed-writer, fake-suicide-attempt, fired-from-job, hospital-gown, long-lost-father, man-child, mother-daughter-relationship, new-jerseyActors: Meat Loaf (actor), Edward Furlong (actor), Elaine Hendrix (actress), Edward Asner (actor), Brian Krause (actor), Rena Owen (actress), P.J. Byrne (actor), Rick Ravanello (actor), Jason Allen King (miscellaneous crew), Kayli Maree Tolleson (actress), Gordon Price (actor), Patrick G. Keenan (actor), Jochen Kunstler (editor), Davis Osborne (actor), Beth Gosnell (actress),
Plot: Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. When Anthony Torino, the volatile heir-apparent, turns his deadly sights on the DA prosecuting him for the cold-blooded murder of his own cousin, Johnny is finally moved to act. Despite his role as family accountant, Johnny is quite the marksman. He convinces a reluctant Anthony into letting him eliminate DA Elizabeth Jones. Johnny's plan to simply warn her instead is thwarted by the arrival of a pair of Torino family goons sent to supervise his first hit. The ensuing shootout leaves Elizabeth wounded, one goon dead, and Johnny arrested. Johnny rolls on Anthony and enters the Witness Security Program. Shortly after Anthony is arrested, he escapes and contacts his mole to get the locations of Johnny and the others who were going to testify against him. When Vince, Torino family hit-man and Johnny's lifelong friend, shows at the sheep farm where Johnny has been hidden away, Johnny finds himself once again scrambling to save the lives of those who have crossed Anthony, including his own. Along the way, he realizes that he's not alone in this mission.
Keywords: christian, district-attorney, murder, new-identity, redemption, u.s.-marshal, witness-protectionActors: Maverick Litchfield-Kelly (editor), Carlo Cox (actor), Max Barber (writer), Max Barber (director), Max Barber (producer), Gavin Hay (producer), Ross Hurston (actor), Trojan Rock (actor), Daniel Marvin (actor), Des Barron (actor), Dmitry Kormann (composer), Rocco Banks (actor), Tim Fordyce (actor), Orlando Toro (actor), Butch Grand (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Short,Actors: Ken Loach (director), John Daly (miscellaneous crew), Eric Fellner (producer), Maurice Roëves (actor), John Daly (producer), Stewart Copeland (composer), Frances McDormand (actress), Mai Zetterling (actress), Brian Cox (actor), Ian McElhinney (actor), Brad Dourif (actor), John Benfield (actor), Bernard Archard (actor), John McDonnell (miscellaneous crew), John McDonnell (actor),
Plot: When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid worse things than murder.
Keywords: abuse-of-power, arrest, audio-tape, belfast-northern-ireland, cassette-tape, cautionary-tale, conspiracy, corrupt-official, corruption, cover-upActors: Ian Mune (actor), Terence Cooper (actor), Roger Simpson (writer), Tom Parkinson (director), Richard Moss (actor), Ilona Rodgers (actress), Ken Blackburn (actor), Bruce Allpress (actor), Roger Oakley (actor), John McRae (producer), Ross Jolly (actor), Bevan Wilson (actor), Claire Oberman (actress), Bernie Allen (composer), Scott Taylor (actor),
Plot: New Zealand, 1860. Thirteen year old Scott Hunter becomes anxious about his father, a gold prospector, when his personal belongings return home without him. Scott goes off to Tuckers Gully in search and en route has various adventures, not least when he hitches a ride with a travelling showman, Marvello The Magician. On arriving at Tuckers Gully Scott finds that his father's colleague has been found murdered. Scott's father, whom no one has seen for some weeks, is the prime suspect and there is a price on his head. Scott finds that his father struck gold and is being held prisoner by the real murderers, Ryan and Dodd, and manages to convince the folk of Tuckers Gully the truth.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Family,Actors: Marshall Reed (actor), Whit Bissell (actor), Stuart Nisbet (actor), Simon Oakland (actor), James Drury (actor), Phyllis Coghlan (actress), George Mitchell (actor), Robert Coogan (actor), Josip Elic (actor), James Maloney (actor), Samuel Matlovsky (composer), Jan Shepard (actress), Robert Lewin (writer), Robert Lewin (producer), Robert Lewin (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lance Comfort (director), Roy Evans (actor), Frank Forsyth (actor), John Trumper (editor), Ray Barrett (actor), Doreen Soan (miscellaneous crew), Wilfred Josephs (writer), William Lucas (actor), John Martin (actor), Johnny Douglas (composer), Geoffrey Denton (actor), Lane Meddick (actor), Clifford Earl (actor), Mary Jones (actress), Barry Steele (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Estelle Etterre (actress), Gig Young (actor), Mae Clarke (actress), Robert Foulk (actor), Wilson Wood (actor), Hal Taggart (actor), Mary Benoit (actress), Read Morgan (actor), Jim Backus (actor), David Niven (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Reginald Simpson (actor), Rod Taylor (actor), Shirley MacLaine (actress), William Smith (actor),
Plot: When Meg Wheeler, a naive young girl, goes to big city looking for a husband she lands a job in a marketing firm run by brothers Miles and Evan Doughton. She convinces stodgy Miles to market her as a potential wife to playboy Evan. Miles plays Pygmalion.
Keywords: based-on-novel, kissing-on-a-doorstep, lingerie-slip, luggageActors: Chris Allen (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Chuck Baldra (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Fred Burns (actor), Bob Card (actor), Champion (actor), Ken Cooper (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Earl Dwire (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Victor Adamson (actor),
Plot: Sally Dawson gets Gene to sign a contract to sing on her struggling radio station. Gene is selling horses and unknown to him the sponsor of his program is the tractor company he is competing against. When the ranchers that bought tractors can't make their payments and Maxwell forecloses, the ranchers blame Autry.
Keywords: 1930s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, auction, b-movie, b-western, banjo, business-competition, chaseOooooh...
It happened the moment, when you were revealed
'Cause you were a dream that you should not have been
A fantasy real
You gave me this beating baby
This rhythm inside
And you made me feel good and feel nice and feel loved
Give me paradise
- So shouldn't I realize
You're the highest of the high
If you don't know, then I'll say it
So don't ever wonder
So tell me how long
How long it's gonna take until you speak, babe
'Cause I can't live my life
Without you here by my side
Ooh...
You gave me the feelin', feelin' in my life