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Uncle (from Latin: avunculus "little grandfather", the diminutive of avus "grandfather") is a family relationship or kinship within an extended family. An uncle is the brother, brother-in-law or half-brother of one's parent. A biological uncle is a second degree relative and shares 30% genetic overlap.
A great-uncle (sometimes written as great uncle, grand-uncle or granduncle) is the brother or brother-in-law of one's grandparent.
A woman with an equivalent relationship is an aunt, and the reciprocal relationship is that of a nephew or niece.
In some cultures and families, children may refer to the cousins of their parents as "aunt" or "uncle". It is also a title of respect for elders (for example older cousins, neighbors, acquaintances, close family friends as well as total strangers). Using this term in this way is a form of fictive kinship.
In some cultures, like Slavic or Persian cultures, no single inclusive term describing both a person's kinship to their parental male sibling or parental male in-law exists. Instead, there are specific terms describing a person's kinship to their mother's brother ("daiyee" in Persian) or a person's kinship to their father's brother ("amou" in Persian).
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either passively, openly or via sabotage.
As a phrase meaning "the boss" it dates from at least 1918.
In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."
Actors: Brian Dillon (editor), Travis Kurtz (director), Matin Atrushi (actor), Matin Atrushi (writer), Matin Atrushi (producer), John Ceccon (actor), Jason Abrams (actor), Scott Bowman (actor), Colin Williams (actor), Carrie Poole (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Harrington (actor), Lance Lee (actor), Greg Santos (actor), Rebecca Williams (actress), Cameron Williams (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Bahram Dehghani (editor), Pouran Derakhshandeh (director), Pouran Derakhshandeh (producer), Pantea Bahram (actress), Mehran Ahmadi (actor), Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy (actress), Alireza Khamse (actor), Armita Moradi (actress), Armita Moradi (actress), Milad Movahedi (composer), Ziba Hashemi (actor), Ziba Hashemi (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Chris A. Peterson (editor), Adetoro Makinde (producer), Adetoro Makinde (writer), Adetoro Makinde (actress), Adetoro Makinde (director), Adetoro Makinde (producer), Eddie Steeples (producer), Maurice A. Dwyer (director), Marvlyn Harrison (actress), K. Marie Walters (producer), Marvlyn Harrison (costume designer), Nina Chea (miscellaneous crew), Ray Campbell (actor), Ariel Blumenthal (composer), Aysha Brown (producer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Joe Abeywickrama (actor), Sanath Gunatillake (actor), H.D. Premaratne (director), H.D. Premaratne (writer), Geetha Kumarasinghe (producer), Geetha Kumarasinghe (actress), Cyril Wickramage (actor), Mervyn Jayathunga (actor), H.A. Perera (actor), Kulasena Fonseka (writer), Kulasena Fonseka (writer), Razi Anwar (actor), Sunethra Sarachchandra (actress),
Plot: Dotty, a beautiful woman is condemned to a life of adversity when her husband, Solomon, is imprisoned for murder. Left alone to support her son, Somasiri, she falls for the fatal charm of Willie, a thug who takes advantage of her vulnerability. Under his influence, Dotty takes to drinks and drugs. Somasiri, disgusted with her transformation and degradation, is compelled to kill Willie to save her.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Henri Pachard (writer), Tom Byron (actor), Ashley Moore (actor), Henri Pachard (actor), Joey Silvera (actor), Paul Thomas (actor), Little Oral Annie (actress), Gina Carrera (actress), Danielle (actress), Stacey Donovan (actress), Alan Adrian (actor), Rhonda Jo Petty (actress), Henri Pachard (producer), Henri Pachard (director), Paula Meadows (actress),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Mario Nascimbene (composer), Nadia Lutfi (actress), Ahmed Khalil (actor), Shafik Noureddin (actor), Kamal Abul Ela (editor), Chadi Abdel Salam (writer), Chadi Abdel Salam (director), Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim (actress), Ahmad Hegazi (actor), Ahmed Marei (actor), Mohamed Khairi (actor), Mohamed Nabih (actor), Abdelazim Abdelhack (actor), Mohamed Abdel Rahman (actor), Mohamed Morshed (actor),
Plot: Universally recognized as one of the greatest Egyptian films ever made, The Night of Counting the Years is based on a true story: in 1881, when precious artifacts began showing up at market, it was discovered that members of the ancient Horbat tribe were secretly raiding Deir al-Bahari, the site of a legendary cache of royal mummies. The tribe had little livelihood other than selling antiquities, putting them in conflict with the Egyptian government's Antiquities Organization. After reading the script, Roberto Rossellini agreed to lend his name to the project, and Shadi Abdel Salam's film was completed in 1969. This cinematic treat was extremely difficult to see from the 1970s onward until last year's beautiful restoration by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. Using original 35mm camera and sound negatives preserved at the Egyptian Film Center in Giza, the restoration preserves the film's poetic beauty, its evocative sense of history, and its themes of desecration and veneration. Filmed in classical Arabic, with a musical score by the great Italian composer Mario Nascimbene. Restored in 2009 by the World Cinema Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna L'Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory. The film was restored with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.
Keywords: 1800s, egypt, mummyActors: Mario Nascimbene (composer), Nadia Lutfi (actress), Ahmed Khalil (actor), Shafik Noureddin (actor), Kamal Abul Ela (editor), Chadi Abdel Salam (writer), Chadi Abdel Salam (director), Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim (actress), Ahmad Hegazi (actor), Ahmed Marei (actor), Mohamed Khairi (actor), Mohamed Nabih (actor), Abdelazim Abdelhack (actor), Mohamed Abdel Rahman (actor), Mohamed Morshed (actor),
Plot: Universally recognized as one of the greatest Egyptian films ever made, The Night of Counting the Years is based on a true story: in 1881, when precious artifacts began showing up at market, it was discovered that members of the ancient Horbat tribe were secretly raiding Deir al-Bahari, the site of a legendary cache of royal mummies. The tribe had little livelihood other than selling antiquities, putting them in conflict with the Egyptian government's Antiquities Organization. After reading the script, Roberto Rossellini agreed to lend his name to the project, and Shadi Abdel Salam's film was completed in 1969. This cinematic treat was extremely difficult to see from the 1970s onward until last year's beautiful restoration by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. Using original 35mm camera and sound negatives preserved at the Egyptian Film Center in Giza, the restoration preserves the film's poetic beauty, its evocative sense of history, and its themes of desecration and veneration. Filmed in classical Arabic, with a musical score by the great Italian composer Mario Nascimbene. Restored in 2009 by the World Cinema Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna L'Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory. The film was restored with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.
Keywords: 1800s, egypt, mummyActors: Chieko Naniwa (actress), Hiroshi Okawa (producer), Kei Tani (actor), Isao Kimura (actor), Chôichirô Kawarasaki (actor), Michiyo Kogure (actress), Ken Takakura (actor), Fujio Tokita (actor), Ryôsuke Kagawa (actor), Shinjirô Ehara (actor), Takashi Kanda (actor), Kinnosuke Nakamura (actor), Mikijirô Hira (actor), Taichirô Kosugi (composer), Tomu Uchida (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Al Haskell (actor), Jimmy Horan (actor), John Dierkes (actor), Augie Gomez (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Marlon Brando (actor), Rodolfo Acosta (actor), Timothy Carey (actor), William Forrest (actor), Nacho Galindo (actor), John George (actor), Ben Johnson (actor),
Plot: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
Keywords: ambush, anger, applause, arrest, banana, bank-robber, bank-robbery, bar, bartender, based-on-novelActors: Franklyn Farnum (actor), George Davis (actor), Rex Evans (actor), Xavier Cugat (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Ken Carpenter (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), James Conaty (actor), Harry Barris (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor),
Plot: Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate. And it all happens in the opulent, grandiose New York landmark hotel as a sort of tongue-in-cheek take-off on the classic movie Grand Hotel.
Keywords: based-on-play, new-york-city, waldorf-astoria-hotelEvery time I wake up
I must remind the smile on my face
That I was only dreaming
And this is something I don't know how to face
'Cause every time I see him
I get so nervous I can't look at his face
Grew up calling him uncle
That would be great if I didn't have my insides
Oh why must I know everything?