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Forms Of Entertainment Air Conditioning
1,795 words... the 1920 s were considered a roaring time marked with prosperity and good times, than one was overlooking the growing problems Prohibition was creating. The 1920 s were also marked by prosperity in another aspect of society: the nations love for sports. Taking the family to the ballpark on Sunday to root for your favorite player, or listening to the Monsters of the Midway on the radio was a way to get ones mind off the rigors of everyday life. The 1920 s were a time of dominance for the Chic...
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Situation Comedy Dropped Mary Tyler Moore Shows
1,114 wordsA History of Comedy on Television: The history of comedy on television goes back many years. Through out this paper I will go through many shows that have had a heavy impact on television, and criticize why they had the success that they did. 1970: The situation comedy dropped to 24 this year. This season saw the premiere of a landmark sitcom, THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, breaking with the tradition of the single woman not being in the regular work force, nor being happy single. The variety show d...
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Jerry Seinfeld Family Values
1,035 words... only new show, THE 1 / 2 HOUR 1984 - 85: Twenty shows were canceled this season, including ten of the thirteen new shows. Only KATE & ALLIE and NIGHT COURT and one other survived, leaving only 25 on the air. The one other was THE COSBY SHOW, starring Bill Cosby. THE COSBY SHOW immediately shot to the top of the ratings, a position it continued to maintain. The rumor was that the situation comedy was dead, that the audience didn't want it anymore. THE COSBY SHOW, as well as the rest of the NB...
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Starring Opposite English Banderas
331 wordsJose Antonio Dominguez Banderas was born in Malaga, Spain on August 10, 1960. He studied theater at the School of Dramatic Art in Malaga and began his career working with an independent theater company there. In 1981, he moved to Madrid and worked in theater and television, which led to his debut in Pedro Almodovar's Labyrinth of Passion. It was Almodovar who picked his artistic name. Antonio filmed several films under Almodovar's direction, including Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. a...
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High School Black People Hasidic
585 wordsIt was a cold January night in Brooklyn. I was helping my father provide a sound system for a Jewish high school play. Normally when one thinks of Jewish people, they think that they are just regular people who instead of going to church go to temple. However there are many different types of Jews. The ones my father and I were working for that night were called Hasidic Jews. Every winter my father would have several bookings of equipment rentals for their high school plays. For a long time, I t...
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My Big Trip To Hawaii
1,058 wordsI decided to write about my first big trip and the reason for picking it was I was sitting there trying to think of something to write about and could not think of anything. All of a sudden it came to me. The only thing in which I could remember a lot about is my first time to Hawaii. I am going to talk about how I felt and what everything looked like when I first saw the island also what it was like to fly for the first time in my life. The first time going to Hawaii was also the first time in ...
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Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick
1,577 words... books that he had created within this time span he said... It was the most painful thing Ive ever written, that damn book... After that I had to learn to start loving again. (Anthony Burgess author of A Clockwork Orange) Source (Pages 103 / 104 Your Face Here / Ali Catterall & Simon Wells) So from that we see that the story was produced into a novel by a man who thought he was dying, angry and bitter at the world, he wanted to point out and graphically describe all of the planets wrong d...
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Jason Statham Starring Statham Starring As Chev Chelios Crank
914 wordsCrank (2006) Poison in his veins. Vengeance in his heart. This is Crank, one of the most interesting films I ever saw. Crank is produced by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, with Jason Statham starring as Chev Chelios. Emotions. Adrenalin. Feelings. Speed. These are, probably, the first things coming to ones mind while watching the film. And the second thing. And the third, the fourth, and the fifth. Probably, the only one thing. The subject at issue is that Crank is remarkable for the unique fea...
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Taming Of The Shrew Aggressive Nature
2,026 wordsTo Tame A Shrew In Shakespeare s Taming of the Shrew, one topic that has been debated, interpreted, discussed, reinterpreted and adapted into different forms has been the character of Katharina, the shrew, and whether she was tamed, liberated, or just a good enough actress to make Everyone think she was in fact, tamed. In this essay, I will present arguments for and against each of these points, as well as discuss one television adaptation of Taming of the Shrew that presents Katharina not as th...
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Death Row Inmate Anti Death Penalty
5,511 wordsGeorge W. Bush came out of his national convention with a significant lead over Al Gore. One poll put the margin at 17 points. While this is reassuring to his supporters, it is a lead that could quickly evaporate. In 1988, Democrat Michael Dukakis held a 17 point lead over Republican George Bush and lost the election. One of the wild cards in this particular campaign is the performance of the national media, which has shown the ability to manipulate issues and events for the benefit of the Democ...
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Avant Garde Boris Karloff
3,386 wordsCertain films which today are regarded as classics of American cinema John Ford&# 39; s The Searchers (1956), Orson Welles&# 39; Citizen Kane (1941), the Judy Garland musical The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Frank Capra&# 39; s It&# 39; s A Wonderful Life (1946), Walt Disney&# 39; s Fantasia (1940) are, or at least used to be, cult films. Box-office disappointments when they were released, these films were kept alive over the decades not by reviewers or studios or theaters, but by film goers who loved t...
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World War Ii Humphrey Bogart
2,898 wordsFilm noir is one of the most beloved and popular &# 34; period&# 34; film genres of the late twentieth century, although at the time that the movies comprising the genre were made, the term film noir was unknown. Essentially, it mean &# 34; black film&# 34; a variation on the nineteenth-century French critical term roman noir, or &# 34; black novel&# 34; referring to any number of doom-laden, deeply psychological crime dramas of the 1940 s and 1950 s. At the time they were made, the movies were ...
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T J Eckleburg Great Gatsby
351 wordsIn the book, The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald? s continuous use of the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg sign symbolizes an inept God. He also shows us that even though God is watching; bad things still happen. The Great Gatsby showed a corrupt society under God? s eyes. When Nick followed Tom, to meet Tom? s mistress, the only thing that Nick really noticed was the sign starring at him as shown in this quotation. I followed him over a low whitewashed railroad fence, and we walked back a hundred ...
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Gay And Lesbian Gay Community
1,639 wordsGAYS ON PRIME TIME From Will and Grace to ER, gay themes and characters change the TV landscape In a recent episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the WB, two of Buffy's pals share a meaningful kiss at an emotional moment. Some viewers may not have thought twice about it. But this non publicized kiss between two women is one sign that things have changed in the four years since the protests over the coming out of Ellen on ABC. Turn on prime-time TV today, and youre likely to surf across about a ...
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Rio Grande Director Producer
2,914 wordsDorothy John Ford John Ford Dorothy R. Donahoo English 2145 Dr. Klink 04 / 03 / 99 John Ford was an American motion-picture director. Winner of four Academy Awards, and is known as one of Americas great film directors. He began his career in the film industry around 1913. According to Ellis, Fords style is evident in both the themes he is drawn toward and the visual treatment of those themes, in his direction of the camera and in whats in front of it. Although he began his career in the silent f...
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Stories And Novels Stephen King
1,054 wordsThe King of Terror, Stephen Edwin King, is one of todays most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known for his novels, has broadened his horizons to different types of writings such as movie scripts, nonfiction, autobiographies, ch...
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Mary Tyler Moore Quot Thoroughly Modern Millie Quot Show
1,104 wordsWho can turn the world on with her smile? One person stands out. A TV legend and an American icon: Mary Tyler Moore. Mary was born in Flatbush on December 29, 1973 to Irish-Catholic parents. Marys family was neither rich nor poor. As a child, she attended St. Rose de Lima Parochial School. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was only ten years old. When she became older, she became a popular actress. Through the years, Mary Tyler Moore has remained as popular as ever. With recent movies suc...
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2,876 wordsThe history of the illustrious film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, more commonly known as MGM, begins with Marcus Loew, a first-generation American and son of Austrian immigrants, who began purchasing penny arcades in 1905 with his business partner, Adolph Zukor. They were soon buying up motion-picture theaters, and by 1912, when Zukor struck out to form the production company Famous Players (which eventually became Paramount), Loew had his own business, Loew&# 39; s Theatrical Enterprises, which o...
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Wes Craven Woody Allen
2,064 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four relative newcomers to production: New Line, Orion, Miramax, and TriStar. They aren&# 39; t studios in the classic sense; none have their own big lots where their films are shot. However, they all produce original and important films as well as distribute independent and foreign works. They&# 39; re the new players in the brave new post-studio world of American film. NEW LINEThe...
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Political Agenda First Casualty Inglis
769 wordsReporting on the reporters Peoples Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics Fred IglisYale University Press? 18. 95, pp 427 It will come as a gratifying surprise to most of its current practitioners that the history of journalism is, according to Fred Inglis, professor of cultural studies at the University of Sheffield, a thriving and productive realm of academic history. Undeterred by the already creaking shelves-full of the genre, Inglis makes a not immodest claim for his own weighty contrib...
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