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Gibson Brands, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corp.) is an American manufacturer of guitars and other instruments, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. The company was formerly known as Gibson Guitar Corp. and renamed Gibson Brands, Inc. on June 11, 2013.
Orville Gibson founded the company in 1902 as The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd. in Kalamazoo, Michigan to make mandolin-family instruments. Gibson invented archtop guitars by constructing the same type of carved, arched tops used on violins. By the 1930s, the company was also making flattop acoustic guitars, as well as one of the first commercially available hollow-body electric guitars, used and popularized by Charlie Christian. It was bought by Chicago Musical Instruments in 1944, which was then acquired by the E.C.L. conglomerate that changed its name to Norlin Inc. Many observers see this as the beginning of an era of mismanagement.
Gibson sells guitars under a variety of brand names and builds one of the world's most iconic guitars, the Gibson Les Paul. Many Gibson instruments are highly collectible. Gibson was at the forefront of innovation in acoustic guitars, especially in the big band era of the 1930s; the Gibson Super 400 was widely imitated. In 1952, Gibson introduced its first solid-body electric guitar, the Les Paul which became its most popular guitar to date— designed by Ted McCarty and Les Paul.
Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker (screenwriter, producer and director). He is most well known as an action hero, for roles such as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon buddy cop film series and Max Rockatansky in the first three films in the Mad Max post-apocalyptic action series.
He was born in Peekskill, New York, and moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old. He studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. During the 1980s, Gibson founded Icon Entertainment, a production company which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called, "an alternative to the studio system." Director Peter Weir cast Gibson as one of the leads in the critically acclaimed World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute. The film also helped to earn Gibson the reputation of a serious, versatile actor.
In 1995, Gibson produced, directed, and starred in the epic historical drama film Braveheart, for which he won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Director, along with the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2004, he directed and produced the financially successful, but controversial, biblical drama film The Passion of the Christ. Gibson received further critical notice for his directorial work of the 2006 action-adventure film Apocalypto, which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century.
Actors: Germán Magariños (director), Germán Magariños (actor), Germán Magariños (producer), Germán Magariños (writer), Germán Magariños (editor), Pablo Parés (miscellaneous crew), Esteban Rojas (actor), Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Alejo Rébora (actor), Vic Cicuta (writer), Vic Cicuta (actor), Vic Cicuta (producer), Nicanor Loreti (producer), Leandro De la Torre (producer), Leandro De la Torre (actor),
Genres: Action, Horror,Actors: Michael Damian (writer), Mark Thomas (composer), Michael Damian (producer), Michael Damian (director), Roger Moore (actor), Annie Wilkinson (miscellaneous crew), Brad Krevoy (producer), Mona Coulter (miscellaneous crew), Janeen Damian (producer), Janeen Damian (writer), Miles Richardson (actor), Seth Flaum (editor), Amy Krell (producer), Constantin Florescu (actor), Sorina Dumitru (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Jules Daly is struggling to raise her orphaned niece and nephew (Maggie and Milo) alone, but it isn't easy after getting downsized out of her antique sales job while Milo rebels against the death of his parents through petty theft. With things looking bleak for Christmas, an English butler named Paisley arrives with an invitation for all to come see the kids' emotionally distant grandfather in England. With nothing to hold them back, they go, but the grandfather - Edward Duke of Castlebury - is rather cold over their visit to his castle. So is his other, surviving son Ashton, Prince of Castlebury. Before long, they're all having a good time and looking forward to hosting a Christmas Eve ball, but Jules overhears a conversation from which she draws a wrong conclusion.
Keywords: antique-shop, antiquities, archery, aristocracy, aristocrat, aunt, ballet-dancing, ballroom-dancing, big-screen-television, black-eyeActors: Olivier Baroux (actor), Marina Foïs (actress), Thierry Frémont (actor), Jean-Paul Rouve (actor), Jean-Noël Brouté (actor), Jacques Frantz (actor), Virginie Ledoyen (actress), Alain Chabat (actor), François Cluzet (actor), Lionel Abelanski (actor), Jean-Claude Leguay (actor), Gérard Darmon (actor), Joseph Malerba (actor), Kad Merad (actor), Olivier Baroux (writer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Maury Sterling (actor), Kristin Minter (actress), Evan Arnold (actor), John Henry Binder (actor), Eric Devlin Taylor (producer), Eric Devlin Taylor (writer), Eric Devlin Taylor (director), Christopher Leirer (actor), Russell Tillit (composer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Charles Bodycomb (miscellaneous crew), Jon Baker (miscellaneous crew), Louise Hodges (actress), Frances Barber (actress), Jon Baker (miscellaneous crew), Peter Wight (actor), Frank Harper (actor), Danny Webb (actor), Michael Caine (actor), Andy Serkis (actor), Kenneth Cranham (actor), Gary Lewis (actor), Martin Landau (actor), Quentin Pierre (miscellaneous crew), Nosher Powell (actor),
Plot: Billy Simpson is a shady boxing promoter in South London banned from legitimate fights. It's the biggest day of his life, though, because he has a champion on his hands, his 20-year-old son, Eddie. Billy's put all his money on a victory, as have his quarreling daughters. But Eddie is nervous, an odd guy in a cap is hanging about, the licensed promoter Billy has hired to arrange the evening's other fights has hired dogs, the manager of Eddie's opponent looks down scornfully on Billy and on South London, and Scotland Yard wants to Billy in gaol for the death of a club brawler. When the night goes disastrously wrong, Billy tries to find out who double-crossed him.
Keywords: based-on-play, boxing, illegal-game, independent-film, limousine, promoterActors: Byron A. Martin (miscellaneous crew), Randy Kennedy (miscellaneous crew), Daniel T. Cahn (editor), Jaap Broeker (miscellaneous crew), Arnold Vosloo (actor), Bradford May (director), John Novak (actor), Nigel Bennett (actor), Robert G. Tapert (producer), Arnold Vosloo (actor), Jeff Fahey (actor), Rick Parker (actor), Sam Raimi (producer), David Pollison (miscellaneous crew), Randy Miller (composer),
Plot: Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker, attracting the gangster's attention. Rooker is determined to find the source of Darkman's super strength, and uses his beautiful but evil doctor to lure Darkman into a trap. Thinking that the doctor will restore feeling to his tortured body, he discovers too late that they have taken a sample of his adrenaline, which they will market as a super steroid. As Darkman plans his revenge on Rooker's gang, he slowly begins to care about Rooker's neglected wife and daughter. He must now find a way to help them, and destroy Rooker before he uses the adrenaline to plunge the city into chaos.
Keywords: 1990s, character-name-in-title, decapitation, direct-to-video-sequel-to-theatrical-movie, drug-lord, hero, independent-film, part-of-trilogy, roman-numeral-in-title, scientistActors: Kenji Sahara (actor), Sachio Sakai (actor), Haruo Nakajima (actor), Yutaka Oka (actor), Kô Nishimura (actor), Eitarô Ozawa (actor), Akira Kubo (actor), Masanari Nihei (actor), Ryô Ikebe (actor), Nadao Kirino (actor), Hideyo Amamoto (actor), Akihiko Hirata (actor), Seizaburô Kawazu (actor), Ikio Sawamura (actor), Takamaru Sasaki (actor),
Plot: Japanese disaster film about a giant meteor on a collision course with the Earth. The dubbed American version of this film is missing a giant walrus which appeared briefly in the Japanese version.
Keywords: 1970s, antarctica, astronaut, astronomy, disaster, disaster-film, end-of-the-world, flood, giant-monster, giant-waveActors: Barry Shipman (writer), Roy Barcroft (actor), Jack Tornek (actor), Lee Van Cleef (actor), Henry Wills (actor), Grant Withers (actor), Joseph Kane (director), Mary Treen (actress), Willis Bouchey (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Jim Davis (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Victor Jory (actor),
Plot: The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
Keywords: 1870s, ambush, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, barfly, bartender, buckboard, cattle, cattle-ranchActors: Siegfried Berisch (actor), Oreste Bilancia (actor), Alf Blütecher (actor), Eva Speyer (actress), Camilla von Hollay (actress), Ida Wüst (actress), Jane Bess (writer), Adolf Lantz (writer), Victor Janson (director), Paul Morgan (actor), Livio Pavanelli (actor), Walter Rilla (actor), Lissy Arna (actress), Ferdinand Hart (actor), Mary Nolan (actress),
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It was a caf? On the west side, midtown
It was a caf? On the west side, midtown
Said they had the best cap of Cappucino around
So I stepped in, and I ordered a cup
Someone grabbed me by my throat and said, "Shut the fuck up!"
And I did, pronto, quick fast
How much longer would the torture last?
In the wrong place, at the wrong time
It was a drug sale, I could feel from behind
Death, it was gettin' closer, right behind my back
Ready to attack
I got shot in a shoot out, and then I died
I could feel it, I was on the other side
In between lives, I'm so confused
What do I do, oh, what do I do?
But was it really time for me to go?
Why, oh why did I need Cappucino?
Why, oh why?
Why, oh why did I need Cappucino?
Why, oh why?
Why, oh why did I need Cappucino?
Why, oh why did I need Cappucino?
But then I calmed down, I spotted some friends
That I knew in a past life, way back when
A couple had died in a drug world
And this one guy died fightin' over his girl
Another died drivin' while intoxicated
Why do people make livin' so complicated?
But then I saw a girl, her name was Mary
Introduced to drugs by her boyfriend harry
He sold crack to the kids on the uptown corners
A social worker named Hannah Smith tried to warn her
But she wouldn't listen, no one listens
I saw the light, I awakened, it was a dream
Man oh man, you shoulda heard me scream
So glad to be given - my life back
So good to be livin' - or is dead better?
I didn't have to run from the bullets or drugs
And I didn't have to run from the murderers or thugs
I didn't have to worry about fallin' from a plane
But at this caf? Was death still callin' my name?
Or did this caf? Even exist?
And was my name just another on the death list?
I knew it couldn't happen, even though
On the bottom of my shirt was a spot of Cappucino
Cappucino, Cappucino
Bust it, to some of you that really don't know
I break it down to you, the word 'Cappucino'
It's somewhat like coffee, then again not quite
It's creamy and smooth, and it goes down light
They charge you 3 dollars, you ask is it worth it?
But when you start drinkin' shit, it'd be workin'
I'm hooked, well, I was, 'cause, yo, it's the best
But if every time I drink I voyage through death
I leave it alone and just stick to tea
Cappucino was fly, but too fly for me
Why, oh why did I need Cappucino?
Cappucino
Why, oh why did I need Cappucino?
Cappucino
Why, oh why? Why, oh why?
Why, oh why did I need Cappucino?
Cappucino, Cappucino
Cappucino, Cappucino
It was a caf? On the west side
It was a caf? On the west
It was a caf? On the west side
It was a caf? On the west