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Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, and one of the world's most prestigious institutions.
Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, former Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and leading railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford admitted its first students on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Tuition was free until 1920. The university struggled financially after Leland Stanford's 1893 death and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, and was one of the original four ARPANET nodes (precursor to the Internet).
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (/ˈdʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's official biographer, Walter Isaacson, described him as the "creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing."
Adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s, Jobs's countercultural lifestyle was a product of his time. As a senior at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, his two closest friends were the older engineering student (and Homestead High alumnus) Wozniak and his countercultural girlfriend, the artistically inclined Homestead High junior Chrisann Brennan. Jobs briefly attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out, deciding to travel through India in 1974 and study Buddhism.
Actors: Christopher Forbes (producer), Christopher Forbes (editor), Christopher Forbes (director), Christopher Forbes (composer), Stephen Gilliam (actor), Taylor-Grace Davis (actress), Richard Kelly (producer), Melvin Butters (producer), Dan Beck (actor), Ronald Bumgardner (producer), Ronald Bumgardner (actor), Christopher Bowman (actor), Stan Fink (actor), Billy Joe Royal (actor), Kimberly Campbell (actress),
Plot: All hell breaks loose when a lone bounty hunter kills a member of an outlaw gang. As the gang seeks bloody revenge they kill, soon to be legendary, Billy the Kid's mother, leaving him to team up with the mysterious bounty hunter to enact vengeance on the outlaws. Soon he'll find his and the bounty hunter's lives are fatefully entwined in this shoot 'em up tale of gun smoke and justice in the old west.
Genres: Action, Western,Actors: Lance Henriksen (actor), Lee Arenberg (actor), David Fine (actor), J. LaRose (actor), George Katt (actor), Nick Plantico (producer), Robert Gordon Spencer (actor), Holt Boggs (actor), Scott Fort (producer), Charlie McDermott (actor), Federico Dordei (actor), Michael C. Williams (actor), Shelby Young (actress), John Kyle (actor), Mike Yurinko (writer),
Plot: Set in a small slate mining town in Pennsylvania during the 1970s. A teenager struggles to own-up to a tragic accident that took the life of his classmate during an after-school fight over a girl. Subsequently the dead boy's father, also the town's edgy sheriff, snaps with grief. He goes on a violent tirade which forces Harrison and his four friends to take drastic actions. Only after many long years does Harrison finally have the chance to reconcile with the sheriff. Only then will they both learn from their hurtful actions and the lessons of their lives.
Keywords: 1970s, belief, broken-family, depression, faith, family-relationships, gunrunner, hope, lasting-friendship, love-tornActors: Kristin Davis (actress), Penélope Cruz (actress), Lynn Cohen (actress), Miley Cyrus (actress), Willie Garson (actor), Kim Cattrall (actress), Todd Verow (actor), John Corbett (actor), Chris Noth (actor), Art Malik (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Omid Djalili (actor), Vincent De Paul (actor), Cynthia Nixon (actress), Liza Minnelli (actress),
Plot: Two years have passed since Carrie Bradshaw finally bagged John "Mr. Big" Preston, the man she was always meant to be with. Just as her friend Charlotte must deal with her young daughter's "terrible two's", Carrie must deal with her relationship taking a turn for the worse - Big likes to watch old black-and-white movies on TV and eat take-out food, which prevents Carrie from feeling like the free-wheeling party girl she used to be. Meanwhile, Miranda copes with a new boss that can't handle an intelligent, powerful woman, and Samantha works a public relations angle that gets the fashionable foursome an all-expense-paid trip to Abu Dhabi.
Keywords: 1980s, 2010s, 20th-century, 21st-century, abu-dhabi, adoption, all-american-girl, arab-stereotype, arabic-music, australianActors: Samuel James (actor), Roy Hanney (miscellaneous crew), Roy Hanney (producer), Roy Hanney (writer), Lorne Guy (director), Roy Hanney (editor), Roy Hanney (producer), Andrew Bumfrey (actor), Jez Stevens (composer), Alison Eve (actor), Bobby Dee (editor),
Plot: Prudence, a psychic is recruited to find a missing secret agent. Accompanied by her spirit guide she enters the world of master spy, Mr Calabrese. Believing himself to be in control his life is turned upside down as it is apparent that the spirits have a different agenda.
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Short, Thriller,Actors: Paul Ziller (writer), Lisa M. Hansen (producer), Paul Ziller (director), Lindsay MacAdam (producer), Kirk Shaw (producer), Scott A. Matthews (miscellaneous crew), Breanne Hartley (producer), David Lewis (actor), Michael Kopsa (actor), Jeremy London (actor), Peter Benson (actor), Oliver De Caigny (producer), Scott Hylands (actor), Devi Singh (miscellaneous crew), Randy Clair (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller,Actors: Andy Gates (actor), Tammy Massa (actress), Danton Mew (actor), Ross Pruden (miscellaneous crew), Michael David Cheng (actor), Adam Chin (miscellaneous crew), Maria Mastroyannis (actress), Mary Ann Biewener (actress), Michaela Greeley (actress), Jerome Rossen (composer), Terry Boero (actress), Renny Madlena (actor), Curtis Lim (writer), Elaine Pinto (actress), John Shin (actor),
Plot: What if you had a chance to do everything all over again? Would you make the same mistakes? Or would you get it right the second time? Madeline is a lovable, down-to-earth young woman who constantly tries to make her life better but fails at every turn. It doesn't help that her job consists of cleaning one strange household after another, or that her husband Joe gambles all her money away. Her only friend is Stanford, a medical student who encourages her to go back to school, but even he doesn't have time for her. No one does. Then one day a quirky accident puts Madeline in an interesting dilemma...a situation that could solve all of her problems...
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Kyle MacLachlan (actor), Dylan McDermott (actor), Kyle MacLachlan (actor), Ron Livingston (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Dave Chappelle (actor), Ron Livingston (actor), Bobby Cannavale (actor), Bobby Cannavale (actor), Mikhail Baryshnikov (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), Willie Garson (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Mikhail Baryshnikov (actor), Chris Noth (actor),
Plot: In this alternative to a "the making of" on the super hit-sitcom "Sex and the City", which simply does not rely on special effects, various actors and other people involved in its production, writers, producers, wardrobe mistress, even celebrities appearing as themselves or just mentioned by characters (e.g. designers like Oscar De la Renta) try to fathom the success formula, supported by numerous short fragments: what did make it tick, where the pioneering boundaries were (and especially where not), what they enjoyed, inspiration from real life and especially New York...
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Miles Goodman (composer), Rubén Blades (actor), Burton Sharp (miscellaneous crew), Joe Pesci (actor), Wayne Petrucelli (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Gardenia (actor), Kenn Michael (actor), Stacey Travis (actress), Anibal O. Lleras (actor), Paul Benjamin (actor), LaTanya Richardson (actress), Nicholas Wolfert (miscellaneous crew), Olga Merediz (actress), Carole Shelley (actress), Anthony Heald (actor),
Plot: Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie's father is the real boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie to live in the squalor his tenants endure all year round.
Keywords: african-american, corvette, court, dancing, father-son-relationship, landlord, landlord-tenant-relationship, money, racial-slur, ratActors: Piero Regnoli (writer), Delia Boccardo (actress), Adriana Novelli (editor), Umberto D'Orsi (actor), Femi Benussi (actress), Enrico Maria Salerno (actor), Marcello Giombini (composer), James Shigeta (actor), Giulia Mafai (costume designer), Nicola Di Gioia (actor), Ferruccio De Ceresa (actor), Rinaldo Zamperla (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Hunter (actor), Adriana Ambesi (actress), Vittorio Bonos (actor),
Plot: A gunman teams up with his long-lost brothers--a French hypnotist and a Japanese kung-fu expert--to fight a villain who is obsessed with Roman emperor Julius Caesar, to the point of having built a palace, complete with slave girls, a huge sunken bath and his own "Praetorian Guard", and who is trying to cheat them out of a gold mine left to them by their father.
Keywords: brawl, castle, catfight, chop-socky, cowboy, cross, female-assassin, fistfight, gold-mine, gun-fuActors: Adele Garavaglia (actress), Gero Zambuto (actor), Nerio Bernardi (actor), Andrea Checchi (actor), Romolo Costa (actor), Enzo Biliotti (actor), Nando Bruno (actor), Carlo Duse (actor), Claudio Ermelli (actor), Oreste Fares (actor), Lauro Gazzolo (actor), Achille Majeroni (actor), Augusto Marcacci (actor), Guido Notari (actor), Tina Lattanzi (actress),
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