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Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called the "punk poet laureate", Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen. The song reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. The book fulfilled a promise she had made to her former long-time roommate and partner, Robert Mapplethorpe. In Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Artists published in December 2010, she was in 47th place. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards (born May 24, 1944) better known under the stage name Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author, and actress. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, she released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade" and the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. After the group split in 1976, LaBelle began a successful solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed debut album, which included the career-defining song, "You Are My Friend". LaBelle became a mainstream solo star in 1984 following the success of the singles, "If Only You Knew", "New Attitude" and "Stir It Up", with the latter two crossing over to pop audiences becoming radio staples.
A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band. Most often the track list contains previously released recordings with a high degree of notability. However, to increase the appeal, especially to people who already own the original release, it is common to include remixes and/or alternate takes of popular songs; even new material (previously unreleased). At times a greatest hits compilation is the original release for songs that have themselves been released as a single and charted successfully.
Madonna's The Immaculate Collection is the best selling greatest hits compilation by a solo artist; all of the songs on it are presented in different versions than the original hit versions. The Eagles' Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is the best selling greatest hits compilation by a group and also one of the ten best selling albums in history. Greatest hits albums are typically produced after an artist has had enough successful songs to fill out an album release. Some artists, such as Mariah Carey, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Kenny Rogers, Aerosmith, Kiss, U2, Dolly Parton, Journey, Los Tigres del Norte, Queen, Kylie Minogue and Billy Joel, have released multiple greatest hits albums through their long careers. Some greatest hits albums are released only at the end of the artist or group's career. For example, My Chemical Romance released a greatest hits album after they disbanded. Other artists, like Eminem have released hits albums in the center of their success. He released Curtain Call: The Hits in 2005 and then Shady XV as a compilation album in 2014.
Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is an American film distribution company within the Fox Entertainment Group, a sister company of the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox, all owned by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox. It specializes in US distribution of independent and British films, alongside dramedy and horror as well as non-English-language films, and is sometimes also involved in the financing of these films.
As is the case with Fox's television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company (with some exceptions) bear the copyright of the overall film studio, i.e. "© (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".
Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman have all won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards , 86th Academy Awards , and 87th Academy Awards respectively, as well as a further 12 Academy Awards combined. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Black Swan, 127 Hours, The Tree of Life, The Descendants, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Brooklyn. Slumdog Millionaire is also Searchlight's largest commercial success, with over $377 million (US) of box office receipts, against a production budget of only $15 million.
Actors: Peter McGlynn (actor), John Michaelson (actor), Mike Breyer (actor), Sabrina Culver (actress), Tamara Goodwin (actress), Fred Emory Smith (composer), Lynne Newton (producer), Lynne Newton (actress), Michael Alton Lowder (actor), Michael Alton Lowder (producer), Lynne Alana Delaney (actor), Robyn Von Arx (actress), Blaise Brooks (actress), Andrew Pierno (actor), Ruben Roberto Gomez (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery,Actors: Johnnie Brannon (producer), Johnnie Brannon (director), Sarah N. Jones (editor), Jason Willey (writer), Jason Willey (producer), Jason Willey (actor), Moriah Patterson (actress), Sandy Baskin (writer), Brian Chambers (actor), P. Jay Clark (actor), Sam Clark (composer), Sam Clark (actor), Alli Clark (actress), Tony J. Taylor (producer), Michael Goodbar (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Short,Actors: Kristine DeBell (actress), Julio Leal (actor), Mike Breyer (actor), Elliott Ehlers (miscellaneous crew), Ron Soha (miscellaneous crew), Tamara Goodwin (actress), Fred Emory Smith (composer), Lynne Newton (actress), Michael Alton Lowder (producer), Michael Alton Lowder (actor), Michael Alton Lowder (writer), Michael Alton Lowder (costume designer), Lynne Alana Delaney (actor), Blaise Brooks (actress), Robyn Von Arx (actress),
Plot: Set in the Deep South amongst a tapestry of fairytale excess, this story is sure to bring a smile and a chuckle. Michael is reared and mentored by an African American nanny, Annie Mae. Michael is surrounded by by dysfunctional family and family. Annie Mae is the "mother" that navigates Michael through perplexing personal matters which continually present hilarious complications.
Keywords: divorce, dramatic-irony, dysfunctional, extravagent, gay, sarcasm, sexual, southern, upper-classActors: Jeremy Rishe (writer), Jeremy Rishe (actor), Will Blomker (actor), Cameron Bossert (editor), Cameron Bossert (director), Brian Avers (actor), Stacey Linnartz (writer), Stacey Linnartz (actress), Amy Lynn Stewart (actor), Michael Schantz (actor), Natalie Nicole Martin (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Al Burke (actor), Alex Kazan (editor), Alex Kazan (director), Alex Kazan (producer), Chip Mefford (actor), Hutchi Hancock (actress), Heather L. Tyler (actress), Dave Alspach (actor), Dave Alspach (actor), Monica Moon (actress), Adam Karimi (writer), Jul Kohler (actress), Ryan E. Kelly (actor), John P. Napoleon (actor), Shana Gregory Williams (actor),
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Kathleen Wise (actress), Jeremy Rishe (actor), Jeremy Rishe (writer), Jeremy Rishe (producer), Will Blomker (actor), Cameron Bossert (producer), Cassandra Freeman (actress), Cameron Bossert (writer), Cameron Bossert (director), Cameron Bossert (composer), Brian Avers (actor), Stacey Linnartz (producer), Stacey Linnartz (writer), Stacey Linnartz (actress), Amy Lynn Stewart (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Daniel Kremer (actor), Daniel Kremer (producer), John Gross (director), John Gross (actor), John Gross (producer), John Gross (writer), John Gross (editor), Katya Quinn-Judge (actress), Brooke Somers (actress), Michael Price (actor), Brian Urbiztondo (actor), Benjamin Fries (actor), Julie Margulies (actress), David Allen (actor), Josue Cuellar (actor),
Plot: This epic-length comedy-drama tells the story of 14-year-old Ben Fries, who has composed a six-hour video epic about the life of Rimbaud (pronounced "Rambo"), the beloved movie action hero, consisting of over two-hundred episodes and weekend after weekend of shooting and editing mountains of footage. Ben has an entourage of college students who follow his every word and his every idea. Timmy Hause, a child prodigy artist, who became known for his remarkable representations of figures like Dostoyevsky, St. Benedict and others, begins a series of drawings in all media about Ben Fries-and soon after, Ben destroys his video epic, disappearing at a Venezuela soccer camp to be presumed dead. College roommates and "entourage members" Nikki and Julian, who have been involved with Ben and Timmy respectively, attempt to put together the pieces of the puzzle behind Ben's disappearance whilst trying to ward off (only to succumb to) the malicious agenda of the malevolent student filmmaker Rick Algarosa, who always expressed ill will for Ben Fries and the Rimbaud epic. Algarosa plots to corrupt all former members of the tight-knit Ben Fries followers.
Keywords: coming-of-age, spiritualActors: Bonnie Hunt (actress), Tammy Arnold (actress), Michael Learned (actress), Chris Sarandon (actor), Gill Holland (producer), Tess Harper (actress), E. Michael Hewett (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Hays (producer), Michael Harding (actor), Kip Pardue (actor), Joanne Pankow (actress), Andrew Herwitz (miscellaneous crew), Michael Kelly (actor), Kenneth Price (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Lee (actress),
Plot: "Loggerheads" interweaves three separate but related stories that take place in different parts of North Carolina. On Mother's Day 1999, Mark, a young drifter with an interest in endangered loggerhead turtles, begins a relationship with motel handyman George. On Mother's Day 2000, Mark's adoptive mother Elizabeth wonders what has become of her estranged son. On Mother's Day 2001, Mark's birth mother Grace quits her job to begin a search for the child she gave up years before-a search that ultimately brings the stories together.
Keywords: 1960s, 1990s, 2000s, abandonment, adoption, adoptive-mother-adopted-son-relationship, aids, air-spray, airport, appleActors: Tessa Ross (producer), Paddy Considine (actor), Paddy Considine (writer), Peter Carlton (producer), Gary Stretch (actor), Shane Meadows (writer), Mark Herbert (actor), Mark Herbert (producer), Shane Meadows (director), Toby Kebbell (actor), Chris Wyatt (editor), Rachel Robey (miscellaneous crew), Richard Knight (miscellaneous crew), Will Clarke (producer), Stuart Wolfenden (actor),
Plot: Richard returns home from military service to a small town in the Midlands. He has one thing on his mind: revenge. Payback for the local bullies who did some very bad things to his brother. At first his campaign employs guerrilla tactics, designed to frighten the men and put them ill at ease. But then he steps up his operation, and one by one these local tough guys are picked off by the terrifying angel of vengeance that Richard has become.
Keywords: anger, army-veteran, axe, black-and-white, blood, brother-brother-relationship, brutality, bullying, card-game, confrontation