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Michael /ˈmaɪkəl/ is a male given name that comes from the Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל (Mīkhāʼēl, pronounced [miχaˈʔel]), derived from the question מי כאל mī kāʼēl, meaning "Who is like God?" (literally, "Who is like El?). In English, it is sometimes shortened to Mike, Mikey, Mickey, or Mick.
Female forms of Michael include Michelle, Michele, Michaela, Mechelle, Micheline, and Michaelle, although Michael is occasionally seen as a female name; women named Michael include actresses Michael Learned and Michael Michele. Another form is Mychal, which can either be a male or female name.
Patronymic surnames that come from Michael include Michaels, Carmichael, MacMichael, McMichael, Micallef, Michaelson, Mikkelsen, DiMichele, Mikhaylov, Mykhaylenko, Mikeladze, Michels, and Mitchell.
The name first appears in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Numbers, 13:13 where Sethur the son of Michael is one of 12 spies sent into the Land of Canaan. The archangel Michael features in the Book of Daniel 12:1, and in the Qur'an as Mikhail.
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, author, journalist, actor, and left-wing political activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, which is the highest-grossing documentary at the American boxoffice of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His film Bowling for Columbine (2002), which examines the causes of the Columbine High School massacre, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Both Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko (2007), which examines health care in the United States, are among the top ten highest-grossing documentaries. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation, a satirical newsmagazine television series and The Awful Truth, a satirical show.
Michael Steven Bublé (/buːˈbleɪ/; boo-BLAY; born 9 September 1975) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor. He became a naturalized Italian citizen in 2005. He has won several awards, including four Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards.
His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the UK. He found a worldwide audience with his 2005 album It's Time, and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible which reached number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200 albums chart, the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and several European charts.
Bublé's 2009 album Crazy Love debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 after three days of sales, and remained there for two weeks. It was also his fourth number one album on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart. His 2011 holiday album, Christmas, was in first place on the Billboard 200 for the final four weeks of 2011 and the first week of 2012, totalling five weeks atop the chart, it also made the Top 5 in the United Kingdom. With this, Christmas became his third-consecutive number-one album on the chart. To Be Loved was released in April 2013.
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music and dance, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller" from his 1982 album Thriller, were credited with breaking down racial barriers and with transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped to bring the then-relatively-new television channel MTV to fame. His 1987 album Bad spawned the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror", and "Dirty Diana", becoming the first album to have five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. With videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream", he continued to innovate the medium throughout the 1990s, as well as forging a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres.
Actors: Lauren Hart (actress), Medeya Aaron (producer), Medeya Aaron (writer), Medeya Aaron (director), Medeya Aaron (editor), Katie Orjonikitze (producer), Nino Namitcheishvili (actor), Aaron Nasimov (actor), Bella Robertson (actor), Ariel Aaron (actor), Alyssa Timush (actor), Milena Mirsaeva (actress), Nicole Sparkle (actor), Benjamin Bonta (actor), Aaron Gelfenboym (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: David Saucedo (actor), Amir Levi (actor), Jamie Mehess (miscellaneous crew), Jamie Mehess (producer), Ed Zajac (actor), James E. Hurd Jr. (actor), David Abramsky (actor), Tommy Lukas (actor), Matt Watkins (editor), Matt Watkins (director), Matt Watkins (writer), Rachel Speth (actress), Kelly Keyser (actress), Nich Kauffman (actor), Peter Wassell (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Giuseppe Piva (writer), Giuseppe Piva (writer), Michele Basso (actor), Giuseppe Piva (editor), Giuseppe Piva (director), Gianpiero Aceto (actor), Massimo Barberi (actor), Andrea Bernini (writer), Andrea Bernini (writer), Alex Harris (composer), Elisa Tibussi (actress), Letizia Giangualano (actress), Davide Scaravaggi (miscellaneous crew), Sara Giacobbe (actress), Flavio Micheli (actor),
Plot: The road is a game reserve. Something dark and subtle melts with routine violence, replacing pain with chaos. Two men, two women, two stories that are about to slip away, except that the executioner becomes the insect between the claws of a curious cat. This is the night of Angelica.
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Short, Thriller,Actors: Richard Lowry (writer), Richard Lowry (editor), Richard Lowry (director), Margarita Reyes (actress), Bogdan Szumilas (actor), Annabella Gutman (producer), Trevor Trout (actor), Carolina Hoyos (actress), Sonia Woodfield (costume designer), Jacqueline Buda (actress), Chris Hammel (actor), Janet Lopez (actress), Kimber Eastwood (producer), Sabrina Bolin (actress), Dagmar Edwards (actress),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: Andrew Martin-Smith (producer), Andrew Martin-Smith (editor), Andrew Martin-Smith (director), Andrew Martin-Smith (writer), Bronwen Roach (miscellaneous crew), Bronwen Roach (actress), Mike Ablett (producer), Bronwen Roach (producer), Mike Ablett (actor), Kaylan Worsnop (producer), Andrew Kilgour (composer), Stephanie Nikolaidis (actress), Mark Freeland (composer), Darren Hall (actor), Sanela Saric (actress),
Plot: In highschool, Sean wrote a teleplay for a hit TV series that was bought and played on a major network. Haied as a talented and ambitious young writer, he quickly rose to the status of local celebrity. All his family and friends predicted he'd go on to do great things. Now, five years later, Sean's friends have moved on to university and he's still living at home with his parents. Wandering the streets of Toronto, alone on Christmas Eve, he meets Alice, a young drifter running from an abusive boyfriend. They're drawn together despite their different backgrounds and, over the course of a night, learn to draw from each other's special strengths. Together, they work to conquor the hurt and fear that's been holding them back from moving on with their lives.
Keywords: canada, christmas, digital, one-word-title, peter-pan, street-kid, toronto-ontario-canada, writerActors: Peter Anthony Fields (director), Peter Anthony Fields (editor), Peter Anthony Fields (producer), Evonne Fields-Gould (producer), Evonne Fields-Gould (writer), Bruce Jennings (composer), Bruce Jennings (actor), Robert Abrams (actor), Eudi Tracey (actress), Eudi Tracey (producer), Elizabeth Gould (miscellaneous crew), Aja Martin (actress), Krissy Gasbarre (actress), Nicholas Hardaway (actor), Max Chernin (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Mystery,Actors: Michael Achtman (actor), Michael Achtman (writer), Michael Achtman (director), Michael Achtman (editor), Andrew Zealley (composer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Andrew Martin-Smith (producer), Andrew Martin-Smith (editor), Andrew Martin-Smith (director), Andrew Martin-Smith (composer), Andrew Martin-Smith (writer), Jason Pelley (miscellaneous crew), Mike Ablett (composer), Mike Ablett (actor), Kaylan Worsnop (actress), Steve Scott (actor), Rob Worsnop (actor), Kathleen Healy (actress), Mark Koelsch (actor), Lindzi Armstrong (actress),
Plot: In a fantasy life she lives through her sketchbook, Laura's world is exotic, bright and enchanting. In reality, she endures the day-to-day hurt of a sensitive girl who is very much alone. Her world changes when she meets Courtenay, a compulsive liar who brags about the suicide note in her back pocket. As the girls begin to bond, Laura gradually begins to find herself abandoning the safety of the fantasy and falling into her first real friendship.
Genres: Short,Actors: Avi Lerner (producer), Kevin Connor (editor), Stephen Macht (actor), Kathleen Quinlan (actress), John Herzfeld (writer), Nachum Heiman (composer), Jacob Kotzky (producer), Michael Schneider (actor), Jerry Hyman (actor), Yona Elian (actress), Rena Sternfeld-Allon (miscellaneous crew), Riki Shelach Nissimoff (director), Larry Price (actor), Michael Shillo (actor), Zipora Peled (actress),
Plot: Tells the story of two women seeking leads to their missing husbands after the end of the Yom Kippur War (1973). A relationship builds between them when each identified her husband in the same blurred image of a foreign newsreel.
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Genres: Comedy, Drama,He ties his bags around his thighs
Newspaper bags filled with newspaper lies
And combs his hair, straightens his tie
But the people still stare the people want to know why
He chose to fill the air with echoes of an ordinary life
After all these years when she was alive
He stood in the corner and he built a disguise
Now that she's gone, the house won't rise
So he sits on a milk crate with a handsaw to the sky
He chose to fill the air with echoes of an ordinary life
So don't call me man, don't call me boy anymore
Take or leave your crown behind and I'll cry your name in war
And there's rocks in windows that Michael threw
And this weeks window... it's for you
He dropped out of Amherst in his second year
And now he's digging holes for the state
And he lays so still in the morning chill
'Cause he's having trouble sleeping late
And he pours down the concrete on 7th street
And the children come up slow with open hands
And as they set them in, he's ashamed within
'Cause he knows that once they walk away he'll just go fill it up again
He chose to fill the air with echoes of an ordinary life
Oh and I should go, but can I stay?
Just one more song and I'll be on my way
Don't' call me man don't call me boy
Don't call me man don't call me boy
When he lost his home, and his face grew thin
He traded her dresses for a used violin
And when he raised the wood and touched it to his chin
He whispered who I am, ain't nothing like the wasted man I've been
He chose to fill the air with echoes of an ordinary life
Far away we go
We go far away