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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of all time.
Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Academy Award nomination and the latter her first win. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Sophie's Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).
Streep has received 17 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 26 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, an Australian Film Institute Award, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2009 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actress in each award's history.
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is an English actress best known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), and The Adjustment Bureau (2011). She has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, two London Film Critics' Circle Awards, and one BAFTA Award. She won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the BBC television drama Gideon's Daughter (2007).
Emily Blunt was born 23 February 1983 in Roehampton, London, England. She is the second of four children born to Joanna, an English teacher and former actress, and barrister Oliver Simon Peter Blunt, QC, one of the highest-profile barristers in the United Kingdom, earning an estimated £1million annually. Her siblings are Felicity, Sebastian, and Suzanna. Her grandfather was Major-General Peter Blunt and one of her paternal uncles is Crispin Blunt, Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate.
Blunt attended Ibstock Place School and, at the age of 16, went to Hurtwood House, a private sixth-form college known for its performing arts programme.[citation needed] There, she was discovered by an agent.[citation needed] Blunt made her professional debut in Bliss, a musical written by Paul Sellar, at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe while she was still an A-level student.[citation needed] She went on to perform at the National Theatre and at Chichester Festival Theatre.[citation needed]
Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American stage and screen actress, and is perhaps best known for her Emmy Award-winning portrayal as Maryanne Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill, and her Emmy-nominated portrayal of Diane Lockhart in The Good Wife. Prior to her appearances in film and television, Baranski rose to prominence as a Broadway actress, winning two Tony Awards.
Baranski was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia (née Mazurowski) and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper. She is of Polish descent and her grandparents were actors in the Polish theater. Baranski attended high school at the Villa Maria Academy in Cheektowaga, a suburb of Buffalo. She then studied at New York City's Juilliard School (Drama Division Group 3: 1970–1974) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974.
Baranski made her Off-Broadway debut in Coming Attractions at Playwrights Horizons in 1980, and has appeared in several Off Broadway productions at the Manhattan Theatre Club, starting with Sally and Marsha in 1982.
Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) is a British stage and television actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, director, screenwriter and author.
Her early appearances were on British TV sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties (with Rik Mayall and Miriam Margolyes) and Three of a Kind (with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield). After a brief but high-profile singing career, she appeared as Candice Valentine in Girls On Top with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
She emigrated from the UK to the US and created her own network television series, The Tracey Ullman Show, from 1987 until 1990, from which The Simpsons was spun off in 1989. She later produced programmes for HBO, including Tracey Takes On... (1996–1999), for which she has won numerous awards. She has also appeared in several feature films. Ullman's most recent sketch comedy series, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, ran from 2008 to 2010 on Showtime.
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Turning down an offer from Harvard, bumbling genius Kieran Edwards opts to follow his true love Juliet to The University of Nottingham. Within days of arriving, he finds her in bed with a muscular sportsman. Heartbroken and vulnerable, Kieran finds himself as the unlikely student of a pick up guru. Using an array of unorthodox techniques, Kieran immerses himself in a new area of study with geeky enthusiasm. To the surprise of his teacher and his contemporaries, Kieran becomes a phenomenon on the Nottingham dating scene. As his success levels soar out of control, Kieran's studies and morals begin to suffer. Can the friendship of an unusual course tutor tempt him out of the late night bars and back into the library?
Keywords: anticipation, bi-phallicism, campus, character-name-in-title, deceit, education, expectation, fame, female-nudity, friendship
She broke his heart and he broke everyone else's
Lessons in exploitation, sex, power and lies
When looking for love a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
What started in the classroom..... ended in the bedroom!
Excuse me, you have something in your teeth.
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When Sam Steele Junior gets a term paper assignment on a visit by the Soviet Premier to the Midwest in the late 1950s he's less than enthused. But when he learns it may lead to treasure, the Junior Detective Agency is on the adventure of a lifetime.
Keywords: boy-detective, character-name-in-title, detective-agency, private-detective, second-part, sequel
Who knew homework could be so much fun?
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Three Old Ducks is a black comedy that explores the side effects of old age. After arriving late for a tea party, Edith, a submissive elderly lady who carries her husbands ashes around, finds herself being bullied by the host, Elizabeth. Despite the fact that her friend Meryl encourages her to stand up for herself, Edith chooses not to retaliate and bides her time. But when she sees her opening for sweet revenge she takes it, only to find out that her immoral decision has back fired dramatically.
Keywords: black-comedy, death, hearing, memory, seniors
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As he prepares for a speech contest, Jack realizes he is unprepared. With the help of a mysterious janitor, Jack discovers that the answer to his problem is right in front of him. Winner of the 2010 University of Oklahoma 24 hour Film Blitz.
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T.J., a high school freshman, lost his mother two months' before in a car accident: his father pops pills and sits on the couch; his grandmother holds things together, chatting and cooking. T.J. wants the car back from the salvage yard where the owner's son is a bully. By happenstance, Hesher, a foul-mouthed squatter, moves in with T.J's family. T.J. also meets Nicole, a grocery clerk near poverty who helps him once. Hesher involves T.J. in crime, the bully is omnipresent, mom's car is slipping away, dad has checked out, T.J. watches Nicole at work, and his grandma invites him to join her morning walk: the odds are long that T.J. can assemble a family to help him thrive.
Keywords: abandoned-house, answering-machine, anti-social-behavior, apology, arm-cast, arm-in-a-cast, arrest, arson, arsonist, auto-insurance
Sometimes life gives you the finger and sometimes it gives you...
Hesher: Do you think she shaves her pussy?
Hesher: You gonna try and fuck her?::T.J.: No.::Hesher: Well that's good? Cus' can't fuck her from here dude. Gotta be way closer.
Hesher: Dude if you wanna poke her, there's nothing wrong with that. Don't be ashamed. Human beings have been poking vagina for hundreds of years. Longer probably. Bro! Seriously there's nothing wrong with wantin' some pussy!
T.J.: Just leave me alone.::Hesher: Alright I'll go but um, on one condition. Pffffft.
Mrs. Rosowski: Life is like walking in the rain... you can hide and take cover or you can just get wet.
Hesher: Where's the laundry room?::T.J.: My dad's gonna be home soon::Hesher: Where's the laundry room?::T.J.: Why?::Hesher: Have you ever been skull-fucked?::T.J.: No::Hesher: Would you like to be?
Hesher: You lost your wife. And you lost your mom. I lost my nut.
Hesher: I pulled this gas tank from an old Chevy. I wanted to blow it up, so I did. What I didn't think about was all the little bits of metal that were going to fly out in every direction. I almost killed myself. I woke up in this hospital and this doctor was like, "Son..." and I said "Don't call me son, you fucking cunt." And he was like, "You blew off your nut." pause I just lost my nut, like that. I went fucking crazy. I assaulted a nurse or a doctor, I don't really remember. I got arrested. I went to juvee. All I could think about was my fucking nut, man. I'm missing a nut. What am I going to do? I had to go looking for it, right? So I busted out of juvee and I went searching. I couldn't find my nut. pause Well, there was this one night I was sitting there and I was taking a shit and I was looking at my balls and I was staring at this little piece of flabby sack where my left nut used to be. And then I saw my right nut for the first time. I was like FUCK MAN, MY NUT! Look I have one, I still have a nut. Right? It's a good nut, it works. God or the fucking devil or whoever the fuck it is you know he left me with one good nut. I still have a fucking nut and it works. And my fucking dick works too. pause Okay, you lost your wife. And you lost your mom. I lost my nut.
Nicole: What did I do to deserve this chain reaction of shit all the time?
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Jamie is a young man who suffers from both anorexia and bulimia. His memories of being teased for being over-weight coupled with people's treatment of his sudden weight loss lead him to question his decisions for the first time. We are allowed into his reality and given insight into his perspective as he holds everyone at a distance while he examines the details of his disillusioned world. And this allows him to see just how paper thin the reality he has been living in truly is. "Full" is not about overcoming an eating disorder; it is about understanding an eating disorder, and how a young man comes to understand it.
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Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim is also in love with Nancy so he begs Nancy's ugly duckling sister, Letty to help break Walter and Nancy up. Letty agrees only under one condition, he help her to win Walter!
Keywords: bad-cook, based-on-play, battleship, bed, brat, brother, burned-food, cake, clothesline, contest
3 CHEERS! RAYE! RAYE! RAYE! (original poster-all caps)
WHOOPEE! The swingiest, funniest laugh treat of the year!
It's full speed ahead in this grandest Raye riot!
Shut her mouth, but here's that Raye gal again...swingin' the neatest pair of stems that ever had the fleet aflutter!
"Me, Too!" says gorgeous Betty Grable who has a nifty pair of "see legs," too!
Love me when nobody else can see
Touch my soul, then treat me like I am a stranger
This is not the way I want to feel
Should have known a love this strong
Would bring some danger
But if it's all in my head
I'll find a way to make it end
It's magic and it's tragic
Slingshots whisper my teardrops an answer
What am I to you
Slingshots you forgot my kisses don't miss this
What am I to you
Shame, how you got me
Ripping words off my lips to keep from asking
I fall when you call
Press my ear against the phone to hear your lips move
I guess it's all in my head
And in time I'll make amends
It's magic but it's so tragic
I want you so bad
What's wrong with me baby
I want you so bad
What's wrong with you baby
Love me when nobody else can see
Touch my soul then treat me like a stranger
This is not the way I like to feel
I should have known a love this strong
Would bring some danger
Slingshots whisper my teardrops an answer
What am I to you
Slingshots you forgot my kisses don't miss this
What am I to you
Beads fall from a delicate string
My love is too strong to want you
Sweet, sweet lemonade
Around the corner I wait
For you start the flashlight
Up and down your blue shade
No one knows our hands flow
Now we're making rainbows
Fell into it, now I'm in it
This is what my soul knows
Oooh When I love you
Street lamps turn to treetops
Reaching for the sky
Oooh When I love you
Traffic turns to horses
And they're runnin' wild
Soft eye, strong thigh
Sipping on a milkshake
Just a minute, put me in it
Now you know it tastes great
Elevate me, re-create
A place so far away from here
I'm giving, everything I feel dear
Oooh When I love you
Street lamps turn to treetops
Reaching for the sky
Oooh When I love you
Traffic turns to horses
And they're runnin' wild
(oooh)
(ohhh)
(ahhh)
Everything we give babe
Is everything we feel
Anytime you sigh babe
I will appear
Oooh When I love you
Street lamps turn to treetops
Reaching for the sky
Oooh When I love you
Subways turn into a magic carpet ride
Oooh When I love you
All the dreams I forgot
Come back to my mind
Oooh When I love you
Traffic turns to horses
I lost you because of truth / don’t try anymore /
it’s all the guilt that’s in your eyes /
gripping our lungs with sad goodbyes / don’t hide anymore
Judgment has no place near me as far as I can see /
you’re a struggling angel with one missing wing /
I’m just like you / did you ever catch my fall /
you’re just like me / why do you wait so long? / Imagine
all we could be / difference is a sad affair when there
is so much love to share /
if we were together / It’s been so long since last we
spoke /
sometimes silence brings new songs / you must have known
that silence / would bring your child guidance / quicker
than you could speak / No bitterness in my heart / must
been a plan from the start /
I’m a struggling angel with one missing wing / I’m just
like you / did you ever catch my fall /
you’re just like me / why do you wait so long? / Imagine
all we could be / difference is a sad affair / when there
is so much love to share / if we were together / just
like you / could you ever think of that / just like me /
oh so much more than fact /
just like you / every living thing must breathe /
just like me / eternal love will set you free / if we
were together / I see the life everlasting signal in the
sky / reminds me all I have to do while I’m alive / give
to live and not to get until the day that I ascend /
there’s no one like you in my life. /
Call on me
If you find yourself standing in a courtyard
Of a dream that's not your own
Flashes of silver and saffron, wind off the ocean floor
You can call on me
Cause I haven't moved
Since the last time you pulled yourself through
You can call on me
Cause I haven't strayed
Since the last time you found your own way
Spinning off into the thunder
Trying to out run man kinds hunger
With blood and soil on your knees
Over those country roads, over those ghettos
Staggering through war zones now
Look at all those fires you could never put out...
Alone
Call on me
'Cause I haven't moved
Since the last time you pulled yourself through
Can call on me
Cause I haven't strayed
Since the last time you found your own way
Night brings space to city streets where you have been
wandering constellations colliding what do you know to
But don't you worry, in each direction,
If you look into my eyes you will see your perfection
Call on me
'Cause I haven't moved
Since the last time you pulled yourself through
Call on me
'Cause I haven't strayed
Reasons To Be Cheerful
playing In My Head
the Tv's Got Me Lonely
the Cable Line Is Dead
can You See Me When I Call You?
can You Hear Me On The Phone ?
my Sex Is Sad And Lonely
my Skin Feels All Alone
reasons To Be Cheerful
playing In My Head
the Tv's Got Me Lonely
the Cable Line Is Dead
can You See Me When I Call You?
can You Hear Me On The Phone ?
my Sex Is Sad And Lonely
my Skin Feels All Alone
this Is How The World Ends
not With A Bang - But With A Whimper
this Is How The World Ends
not With A Bang - But With A Whimper
just Like Any 19 Year Old
she Says She's Gonna Be
she'll Turn On For You
watching Color Tv
echo's Down The Hall
the Man Next Door Has A Ball
he Says He's Lonely Now
and He Seems To Be
and She's Always Making Love On The Tv
well She's All Dressed Up In Loneliness
seems That Sex Is Success
she Says She's Gonna Be Like Me
but She's Always Making Love On The Tv
well She's All Dressed Up In Loneliness
making Love On The Tv
this Is How The World Ends
not With A Bang - But With A Whimper
She was a princess, Queen of the Highway
Sign on the road said: 'Take us to Madre'
No one could save her, save the blind tiger
He was a monster, black dressed in leather
She was a princess, Queen of the Highway
Now they are wedded, she is a good girl
Naked as children out in a meadow
Naked as children, wild as can be
Soon to have offspring, start it all over
Start at all over
American boy, American girl
Most beautiful people in the world!
Son of a frontier Indian Swirl
Dancing through the midnight whirl-pool, formless
I can’t hide any more
I’m you lover I’m your whore
I can’t be anyone
My world is just about undone
Its getting hard to be with you
Its getting hard to be all by myself
If you love me
If my words get Tongue tied
Then you’ll know I have lied
If I start to shake
You’ll know love is my mistake
Its getting hard to be with you
Its getting hard to be all by myself
I wish I was you and you were
someone else
If you love me I won’t fight
If you love me I’ll be right
Will you know
When it's time
Time to go
Will you see
See the sign
When to leave
Will you bring
Bring me down
To my knees
Will you spin
Me around
Set me free
You never know when love
Comes knocking at your door
You never can be sure
An ocean to explore
A sea without a shore
Keep coming back for more
You never know when love
Comes knocking at you door
You never can be sure
Will you be
What I want
You to be
Will you stay
Stay inside
Side of me
Will you bring
Bring me joy
Make me stay
Will I be
Be your toy
Night and day
You never know when love
Comes knocking at your door
You never can be sure
An ocean to explore
A sea without a shore
Keep coming back for more
You never know when love
Comes knocking at you door
You never can be sure
It can bring me the skies
Give me heartache and lies
But the story goes on and on and on...
You never know when love is knocking at your door
And only time will show what love might have in store
You never know when love
Comes knocking at your door
You never can be sure
An ocean to explore
A sea without a shore
Keep coming back for more