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Steven Spielberg Universal Studios
1,694 wordsIn today's society, there are many people that have made many contributions to the world. The person I feel who has a major impact on today's society is Steven Spielberg. I chose him because he is a famous Jewish American film director and because I am related to him. I am a Jewish, white male who was born and raised in America. My family's heritage originates from all over Europe. They moved to America during the early 1900 's. My great-grandparents were the first to come to America. They start...
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Days A Week Arnold Schwarzenegger
1,267 wordsHis gap-toothed grin is one of the most recognized in the United States and the world. Broad shoulders on top of an abnormally muscular torso with legs of steel are also trademarks of the man. For most people, the sight of his bulging biceps wielding ridiculously large arsenal of weapons is not an uncommon phenomenon. The strange, thick accent that escapes his lips does not seem ludicrous anymore. Labeled as king of mayhem and mass destruction, he proclaims to the world he has a sense of humor. ...
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Falls In Love Million Dollars
1,395 wordsJennifer Lynn Lopez was born July 24, 1970 in Castle Hill, Bronx. She is the daughter of Guadalupe and David Lopez. Lopez has been able overcome the Spanish stereotypes becoming the highest paid Latin woman in the world. Every time she appears on magazine covers, presents on the Oscars, makes movies and music she is breaking down barriers and showing that every woman, no matter what race, can do this. The place where Jennifer grow up was a Spanish area, with people, food, and music Her grandpare...
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U S State South America
1,162 words... he resulting of The Magnificent Ambersons has become a black legend. Welles was halfway into shooting the film when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Just after the bombing, the U. S. State Department Committee on Inter-American Affairs recruited Welles to make a film in Brazil (McBride 55). The head of this committee was Nelson Rockefeller, who was then a major stockholder of RKO and a supporter of Welles. It was Rockefeller's idea to have Welles shoot a film in Brazil in order to improve r...
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
743 wordsThe story begins abruptly, as we find our mock heroes out in the desert en route to the savvy resort of Las Vegas. The author uses a tense hitchhiker as a mode, or an excuse, for a flashback that exposes the plot. An uncertain character picked up in the middle of the desert who Raoul Duke, the main character, feels the need to explain things to, to help him rest easy. They had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full ...
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Representations Of The Black Male In Film
1,251 words... genre quickly died out. While Hollywood continues to portray black male characters with "good" or "bad" extremes, some progress is being made. Audiences in the 1990 's are experiencing a boom of movies by black directors (Guerrero, Framing 158). Spike Lee's Clockers (1995), is an example of a film that shows improvement in how the black male is portrayed. Clockers is the story of drug dealer Strike and his relationship with the white cop Rocco. Like Priest in Superfly, Strike deals death to ...
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Box Office Hudson Genre
434 wordsThere used to be a big stigma against name actors appearing in horror pictures -- especially the lower-budget kind that tends to get released in the dog days of August. Stars would only appear in them on the way down, when they couldn't get anything else. But these days horror is the only genre that regularly works at the box office, actors actually compete to be in them and -- as Bruce Willis and Nicole Kidman proved in "The Sixth Sense" and "The Others, " respectively -- it can be a great plac...
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The World According To Garp Movie Report
825 wordsthere are some major differences seen when the transition from paper to screen takes place. The director of a movie has to try and fit a complete novel into an hour an a half to three our movie. Sometimes this adaptation works very well and the same points can be found if you read the book or watch the movie, but sometimes it does not work and some very major points and circumstances can be lost. In the World According to Garp the director George Roy Hill did a good job in fitting the major part...
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Number One Hit Madonna Released
1,074 wordsMadonna had affective millions of people with her songs. Madonna has been in the music business for over 20 years now. All of Madonnas albums had religious and sexual symbolism. There are many proofs that Madonna should be taken seriously as an artist and also as an icon. To keep her style up to date she would always come out with different looks and different ways of dressing. This was one of the reasons way she is where she is right now. Madonna has helped move on the styles from different tim...
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Civil Rights Movement African Americans 20th Century
1,326 wordsCivil rights movement (African-Americans) 20 th century The number of books, films, and other media that recount the Civil Rights Movement uniquely demonstrates Americas insatiable quest for knowledge about this unparalleled moment in our countrys recent past. In Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr. , Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement, Donzaleigh Abernathy, the youngest daughter of the late Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, offers a rare look at this troubling and inspiri...
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Story Of A Man Wes Craven
2,338 words... may even enjoy it, or, according to some psychologists, benefit from it. Is it though, one of the higher human emotions? Is it noble? Mark Kermode, Radio One film critic and the maker of a BBC documentary on The Exorcist, reckons it is. And he scorns those who have a snobbish attitude to horror movies. (Cook & Bernink 84 - 90). "Horror is the most noble of genres and people who think it a lesser one because it is popular and successful are intellectual retards, " he said. "Terror is a fundam...
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Number One Hit Allen Unwin
2,609 wordsIcons An icon can be defined in many ways. Some might say he or she is a man or a woman who himself / herself is remarkable, whether it be through superhuman powers, or extreme experiences. It is his nature which makes him or her to become icon, as he / she takes part in things unattainable to a normal person. An icon has a huge impact on the society, because lot of people attempt to become icons in some way too. Being an icon means to be important and valuable for the members of a society. Ther...
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Group Of People American People
652 wordsDoes the entertainment media reflect the standards of the American people, or does the entertainment media define the standards of the American people? This question is difficult to answer because of the complex interaction between American culture and the entertainment industry. To some extent, the entertainment media does gets feedback on what viewers want to see in the form of Nielson ratings and box office returns. But the simple fact remains that the content produced and delivered by way of...
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Academy Awards Forty Four
2,443 words|I have a different concept of producing than other producers. Some producers are money men, and others are just lieutenants. For me to produce is to make a picture. As a producer, I can maintain an editorial perspective that I wouldn+t have as a director. I consider myself first a creative producer, then a showman and then a businessman. You need all three things to succeed in the business today. X -David O. Selznick The film Since You Went Away was released in 1944. This epic film attempted to...
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