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A brand (or marque for car model) is a name, term, design, symbol or other feature that distinguishes one seller's product from those of others. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising. Initially, livestock branding was adopted to differentiate one person's cattle from another's by means of a distinctive symbol burned into the animal's skin with a hot branding iron.
In accounting, a brand defined as an intangible asset is often the most valuable asset on a corporation's balance sheet. Brand owners manage their brands carefully to create shareholder value, and brand valuation is an important management technique that ascribes a money value to a brand, and allows marketing investment to be managed (e.g.: prioritized across a portfolio of brands) to maximize shareholder value. Although only acquired brands appear on a company's balance sheet, the notion of putting a value on a brand forces marketing leaders to be focused on long term stewardship of the brand and managing for value.
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970's with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys; this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980's, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music was a staple of the emerging gothic rock genre.
After the release of 1982's Pornography, the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the single "Let's Go to Bed" released the same year, Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music and their popularity increased as the decade wore on, with songs like "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love". The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004 and have released thirteen studio albums, ten EPs and over thirty singles during their career.
Actors: Debbie Rochon (actress), Sean-Michael Argo (actor), Sean-Michael Argo (actor), Sean-Michael Argo (director), Sean-Michael Argo (producer), Sean-Michael Argo (writer), Robert Bozek (actor), Raw Leiba (actor), Jennifer Page (actress), Jon Sewell (actor), Fiona Horne (actress), Eric Pope (actor), William Schweikert (producer), Shane Ralbovsky (actor), Ian Argo (producer),
Plot: The fallen angel Azazel(Raw Leiba) has come to Earth at the behest of the Winter Faerie Queen(Debbie Rochon), and formed an alliance with the Greek god Hermes(Christopher Jason Bolton). Together they seek to resurrect Azazel's demigod children, the Nephilim, whose existence would destroy the world. A second fallen angel, Shemihazya(Sean-Michael Argo), has been summoned by the Summer Faerie Queen(Fiona Horne) to oppose the raising of the Nephilim. He aligns himself with the Greek goddess Hecate(Bekah Kelso), forcing her to help him in his quest by possessing the body of her lover. The Gods and Angels battle across modern city streets and the pristine forests of the spirit world, their struggle set against the backdrop of a civil war between the Queens of Faerie, as the forces of Winter seek to dominate the people of Summer.
Keywords: azazel, faerie, faerie-tale, fairy, fairy-tale, fallen-angel, greek, myth, occult, supernaturalActors: Lothar Scherpe (composer), Josef Bierbichler (actor), Karlheinz Hackl (actor), Erich Lackner (producer), Thomas Roth (director), Thomas Roth (writer), Christine Ruppert (producer), Denis Moschitto (actor), Susi Stach (miscellaneous crew), Heribert Sasse (actor), Erika Navas (costume designer), Dana Cebulla (actress), Eva Cifrain (miscellaneous crew), Manuel Rubey (actor), Karl Künstler (actor),
Plot: Brand, an author, who falls in love with Angela, his terminally ill wife's nurse and blunders into a dangerous spiral of passion and jealousy. A vindictive husband, an insistent chief inspector, a farsighted priest and a proud wife entrap Brand in a maelstrom of persecution, destruction and obliteration which can only end in life or death. It's a quest for redemption, the force which drives us all.
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Frank Marshall (producer), Steven Spielberg (producer), Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Martha Plimpton (actress), Richard Donner (producer), Harvey Bernhard (producer), Sean Astin (actor), Lupe Ontiveros (actress), Robert Davi (actor), Richard Donner (actor), Corey Feldman (actor), Josh Brolin (actor), Joe Pantoliano (actor), Steven Spielberg (writer), Chris Columbus (writer),
Plot: Mikey Walsh and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of their neighborhood -- unless enough money is raised to stop the construction of the golf course, and that's quite doubtful. But when Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed "One-Eyed" Willy's hidden fortune, Mikey, Brandon, and their friends Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, Andrea "Andy" Carmichael, Stefanie "Stef" Steinbrenner, and Richard "Data" Wang, calling themselves The Goonies, set out on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood. The treasure is in a cavern, but the entrance to the cavern is under the house of evil thief Mama Fratelli and her sons Jake Fratelli, Francis Fratelli, and the severely disfigured Lotney "Sloth" Fratelli. Sloth befriends the Goonies and decides to help them.
Keywords: 1980s, adventurer, affection, against-the-odds, arrest, asthma, attic, baby-ruth, bad-mother, beachActors: Greydon Clark (miscellaneous crew), Joyce King (miscellaneous crew), Simon Prescott (actor), Al Adamson (producer), Jack Starrett (actor), Al Adamson (director), Gary Kent (actor), Broderick Crawford (actor), Scott Brady (actor), Kent Taylor (actor), Greydon Clark (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), John Carradine (actor), Samuel M. Sherman (miscellaneous crew), Leslie McRay (actress),
Plot: A group of sadistic outlaw bikers rumble into Las Vegas for kicks and to raise hell and chaos. But they soon get more then they bargained for when they run up against a neo-Nazi group, as well as casino Mafia wise-guys, and a wannabe vampire.
Keywords: agent, biker, counterfeit, desert, evil-man, fbi, female-nudity, helicopter, independent-film, moneyActors: C. Davis Smith (producer), C. Davis Smith (editor), James E. Myers (actor), James E. Myers (producer), Tony Orlando (writer), Tony Orlando (director), Ron Collier (writer), Norman Brooks (actor), Norman 'Red' Benson (actor), Norman 'Red' Benson (producer), Iris Hunter (miscellaneous crew), Dick Lee (actor), Bob London (actor), Iris Hunter (actress), Monte Barry (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Van Johnson (actor), Margaret Lindsay (actress), Robert Adler (actor), Van Johnson (actor), Jorge Treviño (actor), Walter Woolf King (actor), Carleton Young (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), John Doucette (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Harry Morgan (actor), Jim Davis (actor), Joseph Cotten (actor), Georges Simenon (writer), Ruth Roman (actress),
Plot: Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson)hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had been sent to the penitentiary five years previously for killing a man in a barroom brawl. It was in self-defense but P.M. hadn't defended his brother and he was convicted. Donald has escaped and wants his brother to help him across the Santa Cruz River into the Mexico-side Nogales, where his wife (Shirley Patterson as Shawn Smith)and children (Kim Charney and Sandy Deschler) are in dire straits. The straits get even dier when P.M. tells him the river is flooded and it will be days before anyone can cross. And P.M. is all a'twitter because his wife Nora (Ruth Roman), whom he married after Donald had gone to prison, doesn't know about his jail-bird brother. He introduces Donald to Nora and the rest of his Cadillac Cowboy and ranch society friends as an old friend, and is kept busy trying to make sure old Donald doesn't find anything harder that ginger ale to drink. Donald gets a telephone call telling him that his family has gone from dire straits to destitution and when P.M. won't get some money to them through his contacts in the Mexico side of Nogales, Donald knocks him down and grabs a couple of bottles of whiskey and dashes out of the house into the rain.
Keywords: alcoholic, alcoholism, assumed-identity, based-on-novel, border-crossing, brother-vs-brother, delirium-tremens, deputy, drunk-fight, escaped-convictActors: Peter Lorre (actor), Sam Ash (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Raymond Bailey (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Richard Fiske (actor), William Gould (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), Al Hill (actor), Eddie Laughton (actor), Kenneth MacDonald (actor),
Plot: Sadistic Stephen Danel owns a penal island, and when he is not humiliating and mistreating his wife, he is torturing his convict prisoners and using them for slave labor. Government agent Mark Sheldon is sent to infiltrate the island and bring Danel to justice.
Keywords: airplane, arms-tied-overhead, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, chains, cigarette-smoking, courtroom, diamond, double-breasted-suit, dysfunctional-marriageActors: Max Ophüls (director), Max Ophüls (writer), Walter Schlee (writer), Walter Schlee (writer), Matthieu van Eysden (actor), Herman Bouber (actor), Christine van Meeteren (actress), Christine van Meeteren (writer), Max Tak (composer), Lau Ezerman (actor), Gerard Doting (actor), Gerard Hartkamp (actor), Gérard Bensdorp (editor), Corry Vonk (actress), Bert van Dongen (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew), Noah Beery (actor), Jack Holt (actor), George Nichols (actor), Eugene Pallette (actor), Bob Perry (actor), William Scott (actor), Alma Bennett (actress), Billie Dove (actress), Zane Grey (writer), Lucien Hubbard (writer), George C. Hull (writer), William K. Howard (director), Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew), Mark Hamilton (actor),
Genres: Drama, Western,Actors: Frank Powell (writer), Frank Powell (director), Clifford Bruce (actor), Alfred Hickman (actor), Sam J. Ryan (actor), Victor Benoit (actor), Harriet Ford (writer), Joseph Medill Patterson (writer), Ruth Blair (actress), Stacey Van Petten Jr. (actress), Aline Bartlett (actress),
Genres: Drama,Cho :
A bet yuh never see mi inna mi Mecca
Nor Shabazz Bredda, nor mi Karl Kani sneaker
Yuh never see mi inna mi Ruff
But Yuh see mi Hilfiger, An mi Versace blazer
(RPT)
1. Material rise Italian the whole world dem conquer
Fi Jean Paul Gottiere yuh haffi have nuff paper
A 89 US fi a Mecca
Black man, full time wi all start support wi black bredda
Maurice Malone, Ruff Jeans, Karl Kani last forever
Gal yuh have the face an yuh shape like mi bimmer
Nuh mek nuh bwoy gi yuh no Hilfiger
What a calamity
Di whole a wi a wear Versace
A wear Moschino, dem two guy dey funny
Although mi wear it to but be careful wid yuh money
See Karl Kani dey guh buy it
2. Some bwoy get up say dem a di best
When yuh check out dem brand dem only dress up inna Guess
Inna dem shirt an dem vest, Dem a guh mix up inna mess
Over Fort Clarence
Mi see Frisco Kid ponal leave him pon di bench
Dem love di Franco, Di one dey name Moschino
A AIDS lick him dung over Colorado
Di one name Versace, mi nuh know him full story
All mi know di media print up, dem a tell mi sa him funny
Di one whey name Hilfiger, say him nuh like no nigger
But who di hell him think him is, Black man nuh like him either
3. All dem a talk yuh know mi naw beg nuh fren
Yuh shoulda see mi an di girl dey
Whey she name ? Donna Karen
A drive down Broadway mi an har two children
Den mi buck up Gottiere him an im funny fren dem
D & G like Guiness and beer
Now yuh hear say a big brand mi wear
Mi nuh care
Dem haffi see mi inna mi Mecca
Or Shabazz Bredda, or mi Karl Kani sneaker
Dem haffi see mi inna mi Ruff
Naw guh see nuh Hilfiger, nor nuh Versace blazer
(RPT)