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A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council-manager form of city government. Local officials serving in this position are sometimes referred to as the chief executive officer (CEO) or chief administrative officer (CAO) in some municipalities. However, in a technical sense, the term "city manager," as opposed to CAO, implies more discretion and independent authority that is set forth in a charter or some other body of codified law, as opposed to duties being assigned on a varying basis by a single superior such as a mayor.
Most sources trace the first city manager to Staunton, Virginia in 1908. Some of the other cities that were among the first to employ a manager were Sumter, South Carolina (1912) and Dayton, Ohio (1914). The city manager, operating under the council-manager government form, was created in part to remove city government from the power of the political parties, and place management of the city into the hands of an outside expert who was usually a business manager or engineer, with the hope that the city manager would remain neutral to city politics.
Joanna Newsom (born January 18, 1982) is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.
Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California. As a child, Newsom was not allowed to watch television or listen to the radio because she was raised by doctors who were "kind of idealists when it came to hoping they could protect us from bad influences, like violent movies, or stupid stuff". She was exposed to music from a young age. Her father played the guitar and her mother was a classically trained pianist who played the hammered dulcimer, the autoharp and conga drums. Newsom attended a Waldorf school where she studied theater and learned to memorize and recite long poems. This skill helps her to remember lyrics while on tour.
At the age of five, Newsom asked her parents if she could play the harp. Her parents eventually agreed to sign her up for harp lessons, but the local harp teacher did not want to take on such a young student and suggested she learn to play the piano first. Starting at the age of four, she began playing the piano and later the harp, which she "loved from the first lesson onward." From her instructor, Joanna learned composition and improvisation. She learned to play on smaller Celtic harps until her parents bought her a full-size pedal harp in the seventh grade. During her teens, she and the instrument became inseparable, and she describes her relationship with the harp as similar to "an artificial limb or a wheelchair. It’s almost part of me, but more to the point, it serves a purpose, and if it wasn’t there I would wonder what was supposed to fit in its place."
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Actors: Timothy J. Cox (producer), Robert Youngren (actor), Dan Kowalski (director), Dan Kowalski (producer), Dan Kowalski (editor), Greg Vorob (writer), Greg Vorob (producer), Greg Vorob (actor), Dan Conrad (writer), Dan Conrad (writer), Dan Conrad (actor), Dan Conrad (producer), Jack Moran Jr. (actor), Jack Moran Jr. (actor), Romain Battaglia (composer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Andrei Boncea (producer), Andy Garcia (producer), Hippolyte Girardot (actor), Andrei Boncea (actor), Miriam Margolyes (actress), Elsa Zylberstein (actress), Udo Kier (actor), Omid Djalili (actor), Peter Capaldi (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Ernest Maftei (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Cheryl Leigh (miscellaneous crew), Guy Farley (composer),
Plot: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, modigliani, montparnasse, one-word-titleActors: George Lucas (actor), Rick McCallum (actor), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), Richard Dreyfuss (actor), Ahmed Best (actor), Alec Guinness (actor), Mark Hamill (actor), Francis Ford Coppola (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Anthony Daniels (actor), Ben Burtt (actor), Harrison Ford (actor), Hayden Christensen (actor), Dennis Muren (actor), Ewan McGregor (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Charles Berling (actor), Alain Goulem (actor), Bernard Dhéran (actor), Philippe Caroit (actor), Thibault de Montalembert (actor), Thomas Gibson (actor), Larry Day (actor), Steve Adams (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), François Berléand (actor), François Berland (actor), Noel Burton (actor), Tony Calabretta (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Alan Fawcett (actor),
Plot: A sports photographer in rural Canada sends a picture of a high school athlete, Tina Menzhal, to a Montréal fashion agency. This starts Tina on a career taking her from Canada to Paris to Montréal again, to Manhattan, to the world, and then home, through two boyfriends, two husbands, and innumerable TV interviews, either with nasty smiling scandalmongers or with gushing witless twits. In nearly every case, Tina never gets to finish a sentence. She has a suave agent, paparazzi are everywhere ("What the celebs forget, there's always a camera," says one), and a documentary filmmaker is on hand as well. What is it that Tina thinks, feels, and wants: will we ever find out?
Keywords: abandoned-by-father, adultery, advertising, ageism, animal-rights, black-comedy, diplomatic-immunity, domestic-violence, eccentric, fake-commercialActors: Brian Clement (actor), Brian Clement (editor), Brian Clement (costume designer), Brian Clement (director), Brian Clement (actor), Brian Clement (writer), Brian Clement (actor), Rob Burns (actor), Jeremy Lutter (actor), Jeremy Lutter (actor), Bettina May (actress), Ira Hunter (actor), Bryn Johnson (actor), Bryn Johnson (actor), Morgan Tams (actor),
Plot: Animals attacks, says the TV news. But two ex-security agents know the real cause - maybe the real culprits. Shahrokh and Argenta are former employees of a company they knew to be conducting bizarre medical experiments. What has resulted are not animals attacks, but attacks by humans turned into vicious, decomposing, cannibalistic zombies. Their efforts to stem the violence in vain, hunted by the authorities, Shahrokh and Argenta escape the city just as it is engulfed in chaos. Their only hope lies in finding and organizing the few remaining survivors. What they find - three women claiming to be vampires with high-tech weaponry, a deranged and washed-up Mexican wrestler, a wounded soldier, and a scientist who may know more than he lets on - offer more questions than answers. Can this tiny cadre hope to defeat an army of the undead? And if they succeed...will there be anyone left alive?
Keywords: bisexual-woman, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, female-on-male-rape, female-vampire, first-of-series, flesh-eating-zombie, goth-girl, hand-job, independent-filmActors: Alicia Witt (actress), Michael Kamen (composer), Glenne Headly (actress), Jay Thomas (actor), Ted Field (producer), Robert W. Cort (producer), Olympia Dukakis (actress), Terrence Howard (actor), Richard Dreyfuss (actor), William H. Macy (actor), Forest Whitaker (actor), Alexander Emmert (actor), Balthazar Getty (actor), Andrew Lipschultz (miscellaneous crew), Aggie Guerard Rodgers (costume designer),
Plot: Glenn Holland is a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while, in his 'spare time', he can strive to achieve his true goal - compose one memorable piece of music to leave his mark on the world. As Holland discovers 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' and as the years unfold the joy of sharing his contagious passion for music with his students becomes his new definition of success.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, affection, anger, blackboard, character-name-in-title, clarinet, classical-musicActors: Micky Erbe (composer), Adam Arkin (writer), Mariette Hartley (actress), Luba Goy (actress), Philip Akin (actor), Alf Humphreys (actor), Wayne Robson (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Ken Camroux (actor), Richard Blackburn (actor), Leslie Carlson (actor), Harvey Atkin (actor), Eugene Clark (actor), Eric Till (director), Maribeth Solomon (composer),
Plot: A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child abuse. Child welfare agencies commit grossly unfair over-reactions to remove the child forcibly from the Father (Arkin), who must brave the arcane system to reclaim his daughter.
Keywords: foster-care, independent-filmActors: Joe Piscopo (actor), Donald F. Glut (actor), Brent Huff (actor), Julius Harris (actor), Charles Grodin (actor), Rick Baker (actor), Ed Lauter (actor), Forrest J Ackerman (actor), John Agar (actor), Peter Cullen (actor), Corbin Bernsen (actor), Rene Auberjonois (actor), Dennis Fimple (actor), Jeff Bridges (actor), John Randolph (actor),
Plot: An expedition of the "Petrox" company, is exploring in search of petrol. A strange island where they arrive is the home of a giant ape, King Kong, that is captured by the expedition in order to make money exhibiting it to the world. When in the U.S. the huge gorilla becomes restless, trying to return home...
Keywords: adrift, animal-name-in-title, ape, ape-abducts-a-woman, aspiring-actress, beach, blockbuster, blood, character-name-in-title, cityActors: Eddie Hart (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Barry Bernard (actor), Sammy Blum (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Donald Douglas (actor), Phil Dunham (actor), Leon Errol (actor), Frank Fanning (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Charles Halton (actor), Harry Harvey (actor),
Genres: Comedy,