Passage 1:Ben CuraBen Cura is an Argentine-born British actor, musician and director of film, television and theatre.Early lifeJosé Ben Cura was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Argentine tenor/conductor José Cura.When he was a year old, he moved to Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy, where his father's grandfather was from. The family first lived in a convent while his father struggled to find work as an opera singer. He has twoyounger siblings, Yazmín and Nicolás.The family moved to France when he was six and then to Spain when he was 11. During this time, he frequently travelled with his parents around the world.Cura's first acting rolecame at age nine, as a supernumerary in a production of La Forza del Destino at the Opéra de Marseille, France. Whilst living in Paris, he received formal piano and solfège training. He subsequently attended the NewYork Film Academy in Paris before eventually training and graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2011 with a bachelor's degree with honours in professional acting.CareerCura made his filmdebut in a British independent film Comes a Bright Day, appearing shortly after in Comedy Central's series Threesome and Bernard Rose's film The Devil's Violinist.He made his West End debut playing Angel in theoriginal cast of Jennifer Saunders' musical Viva Forever at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, UK. He was later cast as Seve Ballesteros in British golf film Dream On.Aged 24, he made his directorial debut with a filmadaptation of August Strindberg's play Creditors. for which he also wrote the screenplay and played one of the lead characters, Freddie Lynch. Later that year, he starred in the UK premiere of the award-winningAmerican play Next Fall at the Southwark Playhouse in London, UK.In April 2013, he co-founded London-based production company Tough Dance Ltd. with actress and producer Andrea Deck. The company's firstproduction was award-winning feature film Creditors.In 2015, he was cast in the US series The Royals as recurring character Holden. He later went on to star in British film White Island set in Ibiza, and based on thenovel A Bus Could Run You Over written by Colin Butts, alongside Billy Zane and Billy Boyd.Cura's directorial debut, Creditors, world-premiered at the Nordic International Film Festival in New York City on 31 October2015. The festival awarded it with an Honorable Mention in the Best Nordic Narrative Feature category. Latin Post film critic David Salazar called the film "A triumphant debut." Blazing Minds film critic Susanne Hoddersaid the actors "all give compelling performances, bringing their characters to life and giving them depth". Screen Relish film critic Stuie Greenfield said that "Creditors is a beautiful, sometimes angry and surprising filmthat brings with it strong performances from the entire cast as well as an unexpected yet welcome twist", while Movie Marker film critic Darryl Griffiths said that "Creditors is an incisive and accomplished piece offilmmaking [...], possessing a rich, powerful psychology that instills an unnerving modern-day relevance to age-old material." Creditors received over ten awards from various film festivals, including Best Feature,Leading Actor, and Script/Writer for Cura.Later that year, Cura was cast as a series regular in ITV/Netflix crime noir drama Marcella penned by The Bridge writer Hans Rosenfeldt. The series premiered on UK television inApril 2016, followed by a worldwide release on Netflix in July 2016. and Simon West's action/comedy feature film Gun Shy opposite Antonio Banderas and Olga Kurylenko.In 2017, Cura was cast as CIA operative PhilipShafer in French historical war movie 15 minutes de guerre (renamed L'Intervention), directed by Fred Grivois. Later that year, he played the role of Steve in the screen adaptation of British stage play Life is aGatecrash, renamed Gatecrash and directed by Lawrence Gough, opposite Olivia Bonamy, Anton Lesser, and Sam West.In 2018, Cura guest-starred in Season 2 of CBS's Ransom and the first season of new TV seriesThe Rook, opposite Olivia Munn.In 2019, he was cast in Nicholas Wright's new stage play 8 Hotels directed by Richard Eyre, world-premiering at the Chichester Festival Theatre, playing the lead role of José Ferreropposite Tory Kittles, Emma Paetz, and Pandora Colin, opening August 7 of that year to excellent reviews: "Joe, played masterfully by Ben Cura, is wonderful as the philanderer who can accept his wife's adultery but nother lover's flaunting of it"; "Jose Ferrer [...] Ben Cura, who captures him very well, has a wonderful mutually mistrustful good-pals-act with the impressive Kittles"; "Ben Cura is excellent as Ferrer [...] with charisma tospare"; "Ben Cura plays José Ferrer as a much disappointed jobbing actor [...] playing Iago for peanuts opposite the better paid Robeson [...] This Ferrer becomes increasingly jealous of Robeson and is convinced thathis wife, Uta Hagen [...] is having an affair with the charismatic Robeson (she is), which fills him with an angry cynicism that he can barely control with his erudite and scathing humour that cannot disguise hisunderlying lack of confidence. Cura's Ferrer is a brilliant creation: a brilliant Iago in fact."In 2021, Cura founded production company and music label W.I.P. Media. Later that year, Cura released his debut music singleWater on streaming platforms, accompanied by an official music video on VEVO followed by second single Toutes Les Couleurs and its accompanying VEVO music video and a third single Argento alongside a third VEVOmusic video. On July 30, he released his debut instrumental E.P. Extended Play No.1.In 2022, Cura made his animation debut voicing Rayan in Tad the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet while guest starring in HBOMax and Hulu Japan's Season 2 of The Head as Liam Ruddock, and starring in BFI and BBC short film My Eyes Are Up Here co-produced by his company W.I.P. Media which premiered at the London Film Festival in 2022and Tribeca Film Festival in 2023. He also saw his debut as a film composer, with his original score for feature film Among The Beasts which released that year in the US and other territories. Also that year, he appearedin Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story produced by Shondaland and premiering on Netflix, in the recurring role of Prince Augustus.Personal lifeCura was married to actress Andrea Deck from 2013 until their divorce in2015. He dated actress Olga Kurylenko, but they broke up just before the COVID-19 pandemic.FilmographyFilmTelevisionVideo gamesStage2012: Viva Forever by Jennifer Saunders at the Piccadilly TheatreLondon2014: Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts at the Southwark Playhouse London2019: 8 Hotels by Nicholas Wright at the Chichester Festival Theatre ChichesterVoice work2012: Swimming with Piranhas RadioDocumentary for BBC Radio 42015: Credit Card Baby Radio Drama written by Annie Caulfield for BBC Radio 4, directed by Mary Ward-Lowery2019: Alien III audiobook by  Audible2020: Trafalgar Audiobook for  Penguinand  Audible2020: Camino De Santiago Sleep story for Calm and Calm France2022: The Limits to Growth Radio drama written by Sarah Woods for BBC Radio 4, directed by Emma Harding2023: Chronicle Of A DeathForetold Audiobook for  Penguin and  Audible2023: Tomás Nevinson Audiobook for  Penguin and  AudibleDiscographyAwards and nominationsPassage 2:Jason Moore (director)Jason Moore (born October 22, 1970) is anAmerican director of film, theatre and television.Life and careerJason Moore was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and studied at Northwestern University. Moore's Broadway career began as a resident director of LesMisérables at the Imperial Theatre in during its original run. He is the son of Fayetteville District Judge Rudy Moore.In March 2003, Moore directed the musical Avenue Q, which opened Off-Broadway at the VineyardTheatre and then moved to Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in July 2003.  He was nominated for a 2004 Tony Award for his direction. Moore also directed productions of the musical in Las Vegas and London andthe show's national tour. Moore directed the 2005 Broadway revival of Steel Magnolias and Shrek the Musical, starring Brian d'Arcy James and Sutton Foster which opened on Broadway in 2008. He directed the concertof Jerry Springer — The Opera at Carnegie Hall in January 2008.Moore, Jeff Whitty, Jake Shears, and John "JJ" Garden worked together on a new musical based on Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City. The musicalpremiered at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California in May 2011 and ran through July 2011.For television, Moore has directed episodes of Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Everwood, and Brothers& Sisters. As a writer, Moore adapted the play The Floatplane Notebooks with Paul Fitzgerald from the novel by Clyde Edgerton. A staged reading of the play was presented at the New Play Festival at the Charlotte,North Carolina Repertory Theatre in 1996, with a fully staged production in 1998.In 2012, Moore made his film directorial debut with Pitch Perfect, starring Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow. He also served as anexecutive producer on the sequel. He directed the film Sisters, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, which was released on December 18, 2015. Moore's next project will be directing a live action Archiemovie.FilmographyFilmsPitch Perfect (2012)Sisters (2015)Shotgun Wedding (2022)TelevisionSoundtrack writerPitch Perfect 2 (2015) (Also executive producer)The Voice (2015) (1 episode)Passage 3:HanroSmitsmanHanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda (Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.Film and Television CreditsFilmsBrothers (2017)Schemer (2010)Skin (2008)Raak (aka Contact)(2006)Allerzielen (aka All Souls) (2005) (segment "Groeten uit Holland")Engel en Broer (2004)2000 Terrorists (2004)Dajo (2003)Gloria (2000)Depoep (2001)Television20 leugens, 4 ouders en een scharrelei (2013)Deontmaskering van de vastgoedfraude (TV mini-series, 2013)Moordvrouw (2012-)Eileen (2 episodes, 2011)Getuige (2011)Vakantie in eigen land (2011)De Reis van meneer van Leeuwen(2010)De Punt (2009)Roes (2episodes, 2008)Fok jou! (2006)Van Speijk (2006)AwardsIn 2005, Engel en Broer won Cinema Prize for Short Film at the Avanca Film Festival.In 2007, Raak (aka Contact) won the Golden Berlin Bear Award at the BerlinInternational Film Festival, the Spirit Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival, the first place jury prize for "Best Live Action under 15 minutes" at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, and the Prix UIP GhentAward for European Short Films at the Flanders International Film Festival.In 2008, Skin won the Movie Squad Award at the Nederlands Film Festival, an actor in the film also won the Best Actor Award.  It also won theReflet d’Or for Best Film at the Cinema tous ecrans Festival in Geneva in the same year.Passage 4:Tactical ForceTactical Force is a 2011 Canadian-American action film written and directed by Adamo Paolo Cultraro, andstarring Steve Austin, Michael Jai White, Michael Shanks, Keith Jardine, Michael Eklund, Darren Shahlavi and Lexa Doig.The film concerns a rogue SWAT team sent to an abandoned compound with blank weapons forretraining, only to find themselves caught in the middle of a war between two gangs armed with fully functioning guns, who are both after a mysterious briefcase. It premiered in the United States on 9 August2011.PlotCaptain Frank Tate leads a four-member SWAT team consisting of Tony Hunt, Jannard and Blanco. They manage to stop the robbery of a grocery store and save the hostages, but their reckless methods causesubstantial property damage and emotional distress to the owner. Their superior gets angry and orders them to go through retraining, which they do not take seriously.Ilya Kalashnikova and Demetrius, two Russianmobsters, bring a captive named Kenny to a warehouse outside the city. They demand Kenny recovers the "item" he has hidden there. Two members of the Italian mafia, Lampone and Storato, enter the same facilityand start searching on their own. The two parties run into each other. Tate's team arrives on the same premises, and begins training with blank cartridges, not knowing about the events that just transpired.Bothcriminal parties hide from the SWAT team, but tension rises between them. Blanco goes to check on the resulting noise, and is fatally shot, which alerts his colleagues. The Russians and the Italians realize that their lawenforcement counterparts do not have real bullets, and form a fragile alliance to eliminate them. The SWAT team retreats to the upper level, locking the door behind them.It is revealed that Demetrius stole the itemfrom Lampone, before Kenny stole it from the former. Kenny reveals that the item is hidden somewhere beyond the locked door. Demetrius calls for backup. Tate and his squad realize that they must return to theirtruck to retrieve actual ammunition and call in police reinforcements. Kalashnikova and Storato bring the truck inside the warehouse. More members of the Russian mob, headed by a man named Vladimir, arrive.Vladimir decides to attack the upper floor through outside windows. Lampone secretly tells Storato that he has called his own operatives in order to secure the item for themselves.Tate manages to reach the truck butfinds the radio damaged. Hunt and Jannard fight off Vladimir's men. Jannard is nearly overpowered by Vladimir, before Tate returns and kills him. The mafia's reinforcements, led by tough guy Tagliaferro, show up andfind another point of entry on the building's roof.Tate decides to free Kenny, who gives him the briefcase containing the item. Kenny shows the SWAT team a hidden tunnel leading outside the hangar. Tate hides theitem, before the group gets split. Tagliaferro knocks Tate unconscious, and hands him back to Kalashnikova and Demetrius. The others are captured by Storato and taken to another warehouse at the opposite end of thetunnel, where Lampone awaits. Lampone shoots Kenny, apparently killing him, and threatens to do the same to Jannard. Hunt agrees to go fetch the item in exchange for her safety, under escort from Storato. But hemanages to kill Storato, neutralize Lampone and free Jannard.Tagliaferro and his men return to Demetrius, Kalashnikova and Tate with orders to eliminate all three, but they escape in the truck and meet up with Huntand Jannard at the other hangar. Tagliaferro catches up to them, and a final confrontation ensues. Tate kills Tagliaferro while Demetrius, Kalashnikova and Lampone are arrested.Tate, Hunt and Jannard arecongratulated by their superior. Kenny is revealed to be alive and an undercover FBI agent. He implies that Lampone is another undercover agent. The team is ordered to remain silent about the events.CastSteve Austinas SWAT Captain Frank TateMichael Jai White as SWAT Sergeant Tony HuntMichael Shanks as DemetriusKeith Jardine as TagliaferroMichael Eklund as KennyLexa Doig as Police Officer Third Class SWAT MemberJannardDarren Shahlavi as StoratoAdrian Holmes as LamponeSteve Bacic as Police Officer Third Class SWAT Member BlancoCandace Elaine as Ilya KalashnikovaPeter Kent as VladimirProductionThe film was developedindependently by writer/director Cultraro, under the working title of Hangar 14. It was originally slated to star Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film later found financing from Jack and Joseph Nasser, who had inked WWE starSteve Austin to a multi-picture deal in 2008. It marked the fourth collaboration between Austin and the Nasser brothers. Like their other movies, it was shot around Vancouver, British Columbia, under the banner ofNasser Entertainment's Canadian subsidiary. Filming took place during snow season, which greatly contrasted with the light clothing and mild Los Angeles climate depicted in the film.Co-star Michael Jai White enjoyedMichael Eklund's performance as the weaselly Kenny, and asked Universal to cast him as main antagonist Jobe Davis in his 2020 film Welcome to Sudden Death.ReleaseTactical Force was released theatrically in theUnited Arab Emirates on 12 April 2012, ranking fourth at the box office behind Get the Gringo, StreetDance 2 and The Hunger Games.In the United States, the film was released on home video on 9 August 2011 byVivendi Entertainment. Early copies came with a limited slipcover. It reached number 10 in the national DVD sales chart for its week of release. Canadian release followed on 23 August 2011. It was handled byEntertainment One, who also took care of the film in the UK and other international territories.ReceptionTactical Force received mixed reviews. The Movie Scene and Todd Rigney of Beyond Hollywood both deemed thefilm "absurd", while mentioning that its implausibility somehow contributed to its entertainment factor.Genre critic Outlaw Vern was let down by the film's mundane locations. Movie Mavericks was more positive, callingit "well produced", and Explosive Action praised the inclusion of an extensive car chase in an otherwise stripped-down siege film.Tactical Force's flashy editing was widely criticized, but its high action quotient earned itmoderate praise, with JoBlo calling it "a step above the rest [of Austin vehicles]". Jeffrey Kauffman of Blu-ray.com opined that "Tactical Force looks fantastic. Cultraro the director simply needs to hire a better writerthan Cultraro next time."The film earned notice for its inclusion of an Italian character of color, a relatively uncommon occurrence in popular media. It also elicited several comparisons with Walter Hill's 1992 featureTrespass.See alsoRecoil (2011 film), a re-teaming of some of this film's principalsPassage 5:Brian Johnson (special effects artist)Brian Johnson (born 29 June 1939 or 29 June 1940) is a British designer and director offilm and television special effects.Life and careerBorn Brian Johncock, he changed his surname to Johnson during the 1960s. Joining the team of special effects artist Les Bowie, Johnson started his career behind thescenes for Bowie Films on productions such as On The Buses, and for Hammer Films.  He is known for his special effects work on TV series including Thunderbirds (1965–66) and films including Alien (1979), for whichhe received the 1980 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (shared with H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Ayling and Nick Allder). Previously, he had built miniature spacecraft models for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film2001: A Space Odyssey.Johnson's work on Space: 1999 influenced the effects of the Star Wars films of the 1970s and 1980s. Impressed by his work, George Lucas visited Johnson during the production of the TV seriesto offer him the role of effects supervisor for the 1977 film. Having already been commissioned for the second series of Space: 1999, Johnson was unable to accept at the time. He worked on the sequel, The EmpireStrikes Back (1980), whose special effects were recognised in the form of a 1981 Special Achievement Academy Award (which Johnson shared with Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson).AwardsJohnsonhas won Academy Awards for both Alien (1979) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). He was further nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Dragonslayer (1981). In addition, Johnson is the recipient of aSaturn Award for The Empire Strikes Back and a BAFTA Award for James Cameron's  Aliens.FilmographySpecial effectsDirectorScragg 'n' Bones (2006)Passage 6:JumanjiJumanji is a 1995 American urban fantasyadventure film directed by Joe Johnston from a screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor, and Jim Strain, based on the 1981 children's picture book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. The film is the firstinstallment in the Jumanji film series.  It stars Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, David Alan Grier, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Hyde, and Bebe Neuwirth. The story centers on a supernatural board game that releasesjungle-based hazards upon its players with every turn they take.Jumanji was released on December 15, 1995, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box-office success,grossing $263 million worldwide on a budget of approximately $65 million. It was the tenth-highest-grossing film of 1995.The film spawned an animated television series, which aired from 1996 to 1999, and wasfollowed by a spin-off film, Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), and two indirect sequels, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019).PlotIn 1969, Alan Parrish lives with his parents Samand Carol in Brantford, New Hampshire. One day, he escapes a group of bullies and retreats to Sam's shoe factory. He meets his friend, Carl Bentley, who reveals a new shoe prototype he made by himself. Alanmisplaces the shoe and damages a conveyor belt, but Carl takes responsibility and loses his job. After the bullies attack Alan and steal his bicycle, Alan follows the sound of tribal drumbeats to a construction site. He


Passage 1:Where Are You? I'm HereWhere Are You? I'm Here (Italian: Dove siete? Io sono qui) is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani.The film entered the 50th Venice International Film Festival, where Anna Bonaiuto won the Volpi Cup for best supporting actress. For her role Chiara Caselli was awarded with a Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress and a Grolla d'oro in the same category.PlotFausto's mother refuses to accept the fact that her child is deaf and refuses to send him to a special school where he can learn sign language. His aunt, though, teaches him to communicate and helps him find a place among a group of deaf-mutes. He meets and falls in love with Elena. To their parents' concern, the two find love with each other until a set of difficulties leads them to see their lives in a different light.Main castChiara Caselli as Elena SettiGaetano Carotenuto as  FaustoAnna Bonaiuto as Fausto's MotherGiuseppe Perruccio as Fausto's FatherValeria D'Obici as Fausto's AuntInes Nobili as MariaKo Muroboshi as The MimeDoriana Chierici as Elena's MotherCarla Cassola as Miss MartiniPaola Mannoni as The PrincipalPino Micol as The Bank ManagerSebastiano Lo Monaco as Professor PiniPaco Reconti as UgoMarzio Honorato as The History TeacherSee alsoList of Italian films of 1993Passage 2:Alfonso XII and María CristinaAlfonso XII and María Cristina or Where Are You Going, Sad Man? (Spanish: ¿Dónde vas triste de ti?) is a 1960 Spanish historical drama film directed by Alfonso Balcázar and Guillermo Cases and starring Vicente Parra and Marga López as Alfonso XII of Spain and Maria Christina of Austria.The film is the sequel to Where Are You Going, Alfonso XII? with Vicente Parra, José Marco Davó and Tomás Blanco reprising their roles from the previous film as Alfonso XII, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and the Duque de Sesto respectively. María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara replaced Mercedes Vecino as Isabella II.Similar in style to the German Sissi film series, it was very popular but led to Vicente Parra's typecasting.The film's sets were designed by the art director Enrique Alarcón.CastPassage 3:Mrs. Dery Where Are You?Mrs. Dery Where Are You? (Hungarian: Déryné hol van?) is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Gyula Maár. It was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, where Mari Törőcsik won the award for Best Actress, playing the protagonist Mrs. Déry.CastMari Törőcsik - DérynéFerenc Kállai - DéryMária Sulyok - Déry anyjaImre Ráday - IntendánsTamás Major - Jancsó, öreg színészCecília Esztergályos - SchodelnéKornél Gelley - Magyar úr, dilettáns színészAndrás Kozák - Ifjú grófAndrás Schiff - Zongorázó fiúZsuzsa Zolnay - CapuletnéFlóra Kádár - DajkaPassage 4:Where Are YouWhere Are You may refer to:AlbumsWhere Are You? (Frank Sinatra album), 1957Where Are You? (Mal Waldron album), 1989Songs"Where Are You?" (1937 song), written by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson, covered by many performers"Where Are You" (Bee Gees song), 1966"Where Are You?" (Imaani song), 1998"Where Are You?", by 16 Bit, 1986"Where Are You?", by Cat Stevens from New Masters, 1967"Where Are You?", by Days of the New from Days of the New, 2001"Where Are You?", by Gotthard from Firebirth, 2012"Where Are You?", by Kavana from Kavana, 1997"Where Are You?", by Our Lady Peace from Healthy in Paranoid Times, 2005"Where Are You?", by Saves the Day from In Reverie, 2003"Where Are You (B.o.B vs. Bobby Ray)", by B.o.B from Strange Clouds, 2012FilmsWhere Are You (film), a 2021 American drama filmSee alsoWhere Are You Now (disambiguation)Passage 5:Where Are You My Love?Where Are You My Love? may refer to:"Where Are You My Love", a song by Eddie Low"Où es-tu mon amour? (Where Are You, My Love?)", a song written by Emile Stern and Henri Lemarchand in 1946¿Dónde estás amor de mi vida que no te puedo encontrar? (Where Are You My Love, That I Cannot Find You?), a 1992 Argentine drama filmSee alsoAre You My Love? (disambiguation)"Where Are You Now (My Love)", a 1965 song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent"Where Is My Love", a song from the 2006 Cat Power album, The GreatestPassage 6:Where Are You Going All Naked?Dove vai tutta nuda?, internationally released as Where Are You Going All Naked?, is a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile.CastMaria Grazia Buccella: ToninoTomas Milian: ManfredoGastone Moschin: PresidentVittorio Gassman: Rufus ConfortiAngela Luce: ProstituteGiancarlo Badessi: WaiterLea Lander: President's WifePassage 7:Pattanakke Banda PathniyaruPattanakke Banda Pathniyaru (transl. Wives arrived in the city) is a 1980 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by A. V. Sheshagiri Rao and produced by S. D. Ankalagi, B. H. Chandannanawar, M. G. Hublikar and Surendra Ingle. The film stars Srinath, Manjula, Lokesh and Padmapriya. The film has musical score by M. Ranga Rao. The movie was remade in 1982 in Telugu as Patnam Vachina Pativrathalu. The song Shankara Gangadhara was retained in the Telugu version. The film was also remade in Tamil as Pattanamthaan Pogalaamadi (1990).CastSoundtrackThe music was composed by M. Ranga Rao.Passage 8:Patnam Vachina PativrathaluPatnam Vachina Pativrathalu is a 1982 Telugu film produced by Atluri Radha Krishna Murthy and directed by Mouli in his Telugu debut. The film stars Chiranjeevi, Mohan Babu, Radhika, Geetha, Rao Gopal Rao and Nutan Prasad in important roles. The film is a remake of the 1980 Kannada movie Pattanakke Banda Pathniyaru. The song Shankara Gangadhara from the Kannada version was retained in this movie. The film ran for 280 days.PlotGopi (Chiranjeevi) and Mohan Babu are brothers living with their grandmother in a village. Gopi is youngest brother and has a B.Sc. in Agriculture and he is willing to live in the village after marriage, while Mohan Babu is an elder one who is uneducated. Gopi and Mohan Babu marry at the same time, Mohan Babu marries Devi, who is an educated person, while Gopi marries Lalithamba, an uneducated girl. Lalithamba prefers to live in the city after marriage. Lalithamba and Devi try their level best to shift their house to the city, but their husbands Gopi and Mohan Babu disagree. At last, Lalithamba and Devi escape from their house one night, without their husbands' knowledge. Lalithamba has one friend Shakuntala, in the city. Devi and Lalithamba are unable to locate Shakuntala's house in the city; roaming on the streets, they were caught by one woman who attempts to sell them to a brothel owner, Ganga Devi. But their contract does not materialize, and that woman doesn't sell Devi and Lalitamba. Angered, Ganga Devi sends her people to bring Lalithaba and Devi. Here, Ganga Devi's people kill that woman, but could not catch Lalithamba and Devi. But their bad luck chases them and Lalithamba and Devi enter Ganga Devi's house for protection, without knowing her character. But later they understand and plan to escape from there. Meanwhile, Lalithamba finds her friend Shakuntala, and with her help, Lalithamba and Devi try to escape from there, but Ganga Devi's people catch them and lock them in a room. Chiru and Mohan Babu, in search of their wives, land in the city to find Devi and Lalithaba and with much effort, they gather information on their wives' whereabouts. They enter into Ganga Devi's house and save Lalithamba and Devi from her clutches. As usual, police arrive after the climax fight and Ganga Devi is arrested, and these four return to their village.CastChiranjeevi - GopiRaadhika Sarathkumar - LalithambaMohan Babu -Geetha - DeviNirmalamma - Narayanamma, Grand mother of GopiRamaprabha - ArundhatammaNutan PrasadRao Gopal RaoSoundtrack"Neekunnadhe Kaastha" -"SeethaRaama Swamy" -"Shankaraa Gangaadharaa" -"Vinukondi" -Passage 9:Where Are We Going, Dad? (film)Where Are We Going, Dad? (Chinese: ) is a 2014 Chinese film based on a television reality show of the same name. A second film, Where Are We Going, Dad? 2, was released on February 19, 2015.ReceptionThe film grossed RMB88.2 million (US$14.6 million) in its opening day, a record for a non-3D Chinese film at the Chinese box office. Its record breaking even caught the attention of the BBC and the LA Times. It grossed RMB308.91 million (US$50.97 million) in the first four days.Passage 10:Where Are You NowWhere Are You Now may refer to:Where Are You Now? (novel), by Mary Higgins Clark, 2008Where Are You Now (Cerrone X), a 1983 album by CerroneSongs"Where Are You Now" (2 Unlimited song), 1993"Where Are You Now" (Clint Black song), 1991"Where Are You Now" (Jimmy Harnen song), 1989"Where Are You Now" (Lost Frequencies song), 2021, featuring Calum Scott"Where Are You Now?" (Roxus song), 1991"Where Are You Now" (Trisha Yearwood song), 2000"Where Are You Now (My Love)", by Jackie Trent, 1965"Where Are Ü Now", by Jack Ü and Justin Bieber, 2015"Where Are You Now?", by Brandy from the Batman Forever film soundtrack, 1995"Where Are You Now", by Britney Spears from Oops!... I Did It Again, 2000"Where Are You Now", by Donna De Lory from Sky Is Open, 2006"Where Are You Now", by Honor Society from Fashionably Late, 2009"Where Are You Now?", by ItaloBrothers, 2008"Where Are You Now", by J. Holiday from Guilty Conscience, 2014"Where Are You Now", by Janet Jackson from Janet, 1993"Where Are You Now?", by Justin Bieber from My World 2.0, 2010"Where Are You Now?", by Michelle Branch from Hotel Paper, 2003"Where Are You Now", by Mumford & Sons from Babel, 2012"Where Are You Now", by Nazareth from their album Sound Elixir, 1983"Where Are You Now?", by Royal Blood from How Did We Get So Dark?, 2016"Where Are You Now", by Union J from Union J, 2013See alsoWAYN (website) (an acronym for "Where Are You Now?"), a social networking websiteWhere Are You (disambiguation)


Passage 1:If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out"If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out" is a popular song by Cat Stevens. It first appeared in the 1971 film Harold and Maude.Stevens wrote all the songs in Harold and Maude in 1970–1971, during the time he was writing and recording his Tea for the Tillerman album. However, "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out"  and two other songs from that period were not released as singles nor placed on any album at that time.  No official soundtrack was released from the film at that time. The song was finally released later on Stevens' 1984 album, Footsteps in the Dark: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 along with his other previously unreleased songs. In addition, it appeared on the UK edition of his 2003 album The Very Best of Cat Stevens.Official soundtrack (2007)The first official soundtrack album to the film was released in December 2007, by Vinyl Films Records, as a vinyl-only limited edition release of 2500 copies. It contained a 30-page oral history of the making of the film, the most extensive series of interviews yet conducted on Harold and Maude.Appearances in other mediaThe song features prominently in Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude.In 2007, a rendition of "Sing Out" appeared in the film Charlie Bartlett.The song is featured in the TV shows My Name Is Earl and Ray Donovan.It was featured as the 2nd song of Rodney Mullen's skateboarding part in the Plan B video, Questionable.The song is also the theme to the BBC Radio sitcom North by Northamptonshire.As of fall 2016, the song appears in a commercial for the 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee.Cover versionsThe song has been covered by Bloomington, Indiana's folk punk pioneers Ghost Mice under the shortened title "Sing Out".The song has been covered by Death By Chocolate in 2001, on their first, self-titled albumIn August 2009, Yusuf Islam approved his original recording of the song for use in a T Mobile television commercial. Wyclef Jean also made an upbeat remix of the song for a later T Mobile commercial that aired in December 2009.Folk music/bluegrass band Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem covered the song for their 2010 album Ranky Tanky.The song has also been covered by Amanda Palmer.The song has been covered by Jim Gill on his 1995 children's album Jim Gill Makes It Noisy In Boise, Idaho.German bitpop band Welle: Erdball covered the song on their album Der Kalte Krieg (2011).The song was covered by James Marsden, Ariana Greenblatt and Jacob Collier in the 2021 animated feature The Boss Baby: Family Business.Passage 2:Join the CavalryJoin the Cavalry was a military song popular during the American Civil War. The verses detail various feats performed by Jeb Stuart's troopers, the cavalry arm of the Army of Northern Virginia, while the chorus urges the listener to "join the cavalry". Occasionally, the title is recorded as "Jine the Cavalry". The song was most common in Virginia."Jine the Cavalry!" was among Stuart’s favorite songs, and became the unofficial theme song of his Confederate cavalry corps. It recounts many of Stuart’s early exploits, including the daring "Ride around the Army of the Potomac" in the early summer of 1862, and the Confederate Cavalry raid to Chambersburg, PA in October 1862. One of Stuart’s men, Sam Sweeney, was an accomplished banjo player and often serenaded Stuart and his officers during the Gettysburg Campaign.JINE THE CAVALRY!We're the boys that rode around McClellan(ian),Rode around McClellan(ian), Rode around McClellan(ian)!We're the boys that rode around McClellan(ian),Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!Ol' Joe Hooker, won't you come out of The Wilderness?Come out of The Wilderness, come out of The Wilderness?Ol' Joe Hooker, won't you come out of The Wilderness?Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!We're the boys who crossed the Potomac(ica), whoCrossed the Potomac(ica), who crossed the Potomac(ica)!We're the boys who crossed the Potomac(ica),Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!We're the boys that rode to Pennsylvania,Rode to Pennsylvania, rode to Pennsylvania!We're the boys rode to Pennsylvania,Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium,Hand around the breadium, hand around the breadium!The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium,Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!CHORUS:  If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!Lyrics are in the public domain.Stuart's ride around McClellanPassage 3:If You Want My Love (Twenty 4 Seven song)"If You Want My Love" is a song recorded by the Dutch band Twenty 4 Seven. It was the tenth single and the sixth song to be taken from the fourth album, Twenty 4 Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week. The song remained a constant area of success only in the Netherlands, the single reached 77 on the (Single Top 100). It did not chart in the United Kingdom. "If You Want My Love" was postponed a couple of times, because "We Are the World" did successfully well in many other countries, like Spain where it went top 10.ChartsPassage 4:I Want You to Be My Baby"I Want You to Be My Baby" is a jump blues song written by Jon Hendricks for Louis Jordan whose recording, made on May 28, 1953, was released that autumn.In the summer of 1955 "I Want You to Be My Baby" was remade as the debut disc by comedy musical act Lillian Briggs, resulting in an expedient cover version by veteran vocalist Georgia Gibbs. Producers Hugo & Luigi had Gibbs fly in from her Massachusetts home to New York City on Wednesday 3 August 1955 to cut "I Want You to Be My Baby" that same afternoon. New York City disc jockeys were provided with acetates of the Gibbs' version by the following morning with regular jockey copies being shipped out Friday 5 August 1955.  Neither version of the song would reach the Top Ten. Gibbs' version had the higher chart peak at #14 but it was the rough voiced Briggs - whose version peaked at #18 - who had the million seller.Ellie Greenwich versionEllie Greenwich, who as a teenager saw Lillian Briggs sing her hit at Alan Freed's rock and roll shows, chose "I Want You to Be My Baby" as the song to launch her career as a solo recording artist. Produced by Bob Crewe, Greenwich's version reached #83 in the spring of 1967, marking her only US chart appearance as a recording artist apart from her singles with The Raindrops. She included the song on her 1968 debut solo album Ellie Greenwich Composes, Produces and Sings.Billie Davis versionThe song became a UK Top 40 hit in the autumn of 1968 via a recording by Billie Davis. Produced by Ready Steady Go! co-host Michael Aldred and arranged by Mike Vickers, Davis' version featured a chorale comprising Madeline Bell, Kiki Dee, Kay Garner, Doris Troy and the Moody Blues. The single's failure to rise no higher than #33 was attributed to a strike at the Decca processing plant, which stopped the pressing of discs.The Jyve Fyve versionIn November 1970 the Jyve Fyve reached #50 on the R&B chart with their remake of "I Want You to Be My Baby".Other versionsIn Britain, Annie Ross - John Hendricks' future co-partner in Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - had an October 1955 single release of "I Want You to Be My Baby" recorded with Tony Crombie & His Orchestra. Neither this disc nor a 1956 UK single release of "I Want You to Be My Baby" by Don Lang charted. In February 1956, the British music magazine NME reported that Ross's version of the song was banned from airplay by the BBC due to the lyric "Come upstairs and have some loving".The song has also been recorded by Jimmy and the Mustangs, Colin James, Lindisfarne, Natasha England, Janis Siegel, and Leslie Uggams. A Finnish rendering - "Armaani Sä Silloin Oisit" - was recorded by Wiola Talvikki.  It was also a hit for Chinese singer Grace Chang who performed the song in both Mandarin Chinese ( "Wo Yao Ni de Ai" meaning "I Want Your Love") and English in the late 1950s. There was another rendition of the song in a classic 1958 Tamil movie Uthama puthiran, entitled "Yaaradi Ni Mohini".  The song was turned into the title song of the Italian TV show Canzonissima in 1960, with the title “Tu lei lui voi noi”, sang by Wilma De Angelis and Johnny Dorelli.Passage 5:If You Want to Be My Woman"If You Want to Be My Woman" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in December 1989 as the third single from his album 5:01 Blues. The song peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and reached number 15 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.The song was Haggard's last top-40 country hit; like most classic country artists, Haggard's chart career was severely damaged by changes in the country industry that hit in the early 1990s. It was co-produced by Mark Yeary, keyboardist of The Strangers.PersonnelMerle Haggard– vocals, guitarThe Strangers:Norm Hamlet – pedal steel guitarClint Strong – guitarBobby Wayne – guitarMark Yeary – hammond organ, piano, electric pianoJimmy Belkin – fiddle, stringsBiff Adams – drumsDon Markham – saxophone, trumpetGary Church – cornet, tromboneChart performancePassage 6:If You Want My Lovin'"If You Want My Lovin'" is a song released by American singer Evelyn "Champagne" King. Released on April 3, 1981, The song appears on the album I'm in Love. The single version of "If You Want My Lovin'" was the follow-up to her charting single "I'm in Love," but less successful.Single version"If You Want My Lovin'" was also released as a single.  This version of "If You Want My Lovin'" is the less-successful follow-up to Evelyn's charting single "I'm In Love."Track listing12" version7" versionPersonnelPercussion – Bashiri JohnsonProducer, arranger, handclaps, lyrics by – Morrie BrownAssistant producer, arranger, keyboards, lyrics by, music by – Lawrence JonesAssistant engineer – Cheryl Smith, Dennis O'DonnellMixed by, recorded by – "Magic Hands", Steve GoldmanMastered by – George MarinoAssistant producer, backing vocals, handclaps, keyboards, Moog synthesizer – KashifGuitar – Ira SiegelAdditional engineer – Pete SobelString arrangement – Ralph SchuckettBacking vocals – B.J. Nelson, Evelyn King, Rochele CappelliDrums, handclaps – Leslie MingPassage 7:Merle HaggardMerle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launched a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class; these occasionally contained themes contrary to the anti–Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010); a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006); a BMI Icon Award (2006); and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977); Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.Early lifeHaggard's parents were Flossie Mae (née Harp; 1902–1984) and James Francis Haggard (1899–1946). The family moved to California from their home in Checotah, Oklahoma, during the Great Depression, after their barn burned in 1934.They settled with their two elder children, James 'Lowell' (1922–1996) and Lillian, in an apartment in Bakersfield, while James started working for the Santa Fe Railroad. A woman who owned a boxcar placed in Oildale, a nearby town, asked Haggard's father about the possibility of converting it into a house. He remodeled the boxcar, and soon after moved in, also purchasing the lot, where Merle Ronald Haggard was born on April 6, 1937. The property was eventually expanded by building a bathroom, a second bedroom, a kitchen, and a breakfast nook in the adjacent lot.In 1946 Haggard's father died of a brain hemorrhage. Nine year-old Haggard was deeply affected by the loss, and it remained a pivotal event to him for the rest of his life. To support the family, Haggard's mother took a job as a bookkeeper. Older brother Lowell gave his guitar to Merle when Merle was 12. Haggard learned to play it on his own, with the records he had at home, influenced by Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, and Hank Williams. While his mother was out working during the day Haggard started getting into trouble. She sent him to a juvenile detention center for a weekend to try and correct him, but his behavior did not improve. If anything, he became worse.By the age of 13, Haggard was stealing and writing bad checks. In 1950 he was caught shoplifting and sent to a juvenile detention center. The following year he ran away to Texas with his friend Bob Teague. The two rode freight trains and hitchhiked throughout the state. When they returned later that year the two boys were accused of robbery and sent to jail. This time, they had not actually committed the crime, and were released when the real robbers were found. The experience did not change Haggard much. He was again sent to a juvenile detention center later that year, from which he and his friend escaped and headed to Modesto, California. There he worked a series of laborer jobs, including potato truck driver, short order cook, hay pitcher and oil well shooter. His debut performance was with Teague in a Modesto bar named "Fun Center", for which he was paid US$5 and given free beer.In 1951 he returned to Bakersfield, where he was again arrested for truancy and petty larceny and sent to a juvenile detention center. After another escape, he was sent to the Preston School of Industry, a high-security installation. He was released 15 months later but was sent back after beating a local boy during a burglary attempt. After Haggard's release, he and Teague saw Lefty Frizzell in concert. The two sat backstage, where Haggard began to sing along. Hearing the young man from the stage, Frizzell refused to go on unless Haggard was allowed to sing first. Haggard did, and was well received by the audience. After this experience Haggard decided to pursue a career in music. At nights he would sing and play in local bars, while working as a farmhand or in the oil fields during the day.Married and plagued by financial issues, in 1957 he tried to rob a Bakersfield roadhouse, was caught and arrested. Convicted, he was sent to the Bakersfield Jail. After an escape attempt he was transferred to San Quentin Prison on February 21, 1958. There he was prisoner number A45200. While in prison, Haggard learned that his wife was expecting another man's child, which stressed him psychologically. He was fired from a series of prison jobs, and planned to escape along with another inmate nicknamed "Rabbit" (James Kendrick) but was dissuaded by fellow inmates.While at San Quentin, Haggard started a gambling and brewing racket with his cellmate. After he was caught drunk, he was sent for a week to solitary confinement where he encountered Caryl Chessman, an author and death-row inmate. Meanwhile, "Rabbit" had successfully escaped, only to shoot a police officer and be returned to San Quentin for execution. Chessman's predicament, along with the execution of "Rabbit", inspired Haggard to change his life. He soon earned a high school equivalency diploma and kept a steady job in the prison's textile plant. He also played for the prison's country music band. He was released from San Quentin on parole in 1960.In 1972, after Haggard had become an established country music star, then-California governor Ronald Reagan granted Haggard a full and unconditional pardon for his past crimes.CareerEarly careerUpon his release from San Quentin in 1960, Haggard started digging ditches for his brother's electrical contracting company. Soon, he was performing again and later began recording with Tally Records. The Bakersfield sound was developing in the area as a reaction against the overproduced Nashville sound. Haggard's first record for Tally was "Singing My Heart Out" backed by "Skid Row"; it was not a success, and only 200 copies were pressed. In 1962, Haggard wound up performing at a Wynn Stewart show in Las Vegas and heard Wynn's "Sing a Sad Song". He asked for permission to record it, and the resulting single was a national hit in 1964. The following year, he had his first national top-10 record with "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers," written by Liz Anderson, mother of country singer Lynn Anderson, and his career was off and running. Haggard recalls having been talked into visiting Anderson—a woman he did not know—at her house to hear her sing some songs she had written. "If there was anything I didn't wanna do, it was sit around some danged woman's house and listen to her cute little songs. But I went anyway. She was a pleasant enough lady, pretty, with a nice smile, but I was all set to be bored to death, even more so when she got out a whole bunch of songs and went over to an old pump organ.... There they were. My God, one hit right after another. There must have been four or five number one songs there...."In 1967, Haggard recorded "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" with The Strangers, also written by Liz Anderson, with her husband Casey Anderson, which became his first number-one single. When the Andersons presented the song to Haggard, they were unaware of his prison stretch. Bonnie Owens, Haggard's backup singer and then-wife, is quoted by music journalist Daniel Cooper in the liner notes to the 1994 retrospective Down Every Road: "I guess I didn't realize how much the experience at San Quentin did to him, 'cause he never talked about it all that much ... I could tell he was in a dark mood . .. and I said, 'Is everything okay?' And he said, 'I'm really scared.' And I said, 'Why?' And he said, 'Cause I'm afraid someday I'm gonna be out there ... and there's gonna be ... some prisoner ... in there the same time I was in, stand up—and they're gonna be about the third row down—and say, 'What do you think you're doing, 45200?'" Cooper notes that the news had little effect on Haggard's career: "It's unclear when or where Merle first acknowledged to the public that his prison songs were rooted in personal history, for to his credit, he doesn't seem to have made some big splash announcement. In a May 1967 profile in Music City News, his prison record is never mentioned, but in July 1968, in the very same publication, it's spoken of as if it were common knowledge."The 1967 album Branded Man with The Strangers kicked off an artistically and commercially successful run for Haggard. In 2013, Haggard biographer David Cantwell stated, "The immediate successors to I'm a Lonesome Fugitive—Branded Man in 1967 and, in '68, Sing Me Back Home and The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde—were among the finest albums of their respective years." Haggard's new recordings showcased his band The Strangers, specifically Roy Nichols's Telecaster, Ralph Mooney's steel guitar, and the harmony vocals provided by Bonnie Owens.At the time of Haggard's first top-10 hit "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" in 1965, Owens, who had been married to Buck Owens, was known as a solo performer, a fixture on the Bakersfield club scene and someone who had appeared on television. She won the new Academy of Country Music's first ever award for Female Vocalist after her 1965 debut album, Don't Take Advantage of Me, hit the top five on the country albums chart. However, Bonnie Owens had no further hit singles, and although she recorded six solo albums on Capitol between 1965 and 1970, she became mainly known for her background harmonies on Haggard hits such as "Sing Me Back Home" and "Branded Man".Producer Ken Nelson took a hands-off approach to produce Haggard. In the episode of American Masters dedicated to him, Haggard


Passage 1:Where Was I"Where Was I?" may refer to:Books"Where Was I?", essay by David Hawley Sanford from The Mind's IWhere Was I?, book by John Haycraft 2006Where was I?!, book by Terry Wogan 2009Filmand TVWhere Was I? (film), 1925 film directed by William A. Seiter. With Reginald Denny, Marian Nixon, Pauline Garon, Lee Moran.Where Was I? (2001 film), biography about songwriter Tim RoseWhere Was I? (TVseries) 1952–1953 Quiz show with the panelists attempting to guess a location by looking at photos"Where Was I?" episode of Shoestring (TV series) 1980Music"Where was I", song by W. Franke Harling and Al Dubinperformed by Ruby Newman and His Orchestra  with vocal chorus by  Larry Taylor and Peggy McCall  1939"Where Was I", single from Charley Pride discography 1988"Where Was I" (song), a 1994 song by Ricky VanShelton"Where Was I (Donde Estuve Yo)", song by Joe Pass from Simplicity (Joe Pass album)"Where Was I?", song by Guttermouth from The Album Formerly Known as a Full Length LP (Guttermouth album)"Where WasI", song by Sawyer Brown (Billy Maddox, Paul Thorn, Anne Graham) from Can You Hear Me Now 2002"Where Was I?", song  by  Kenny Wayne Shepherd from Live On  1999"Where Was I", song by Melanie Laine(Victoria Banks, Steve Fox) from Time Flies (Melanie Laine album)"Where Was I", song by Rosie Thomas from With Love (Rosie Thomas album)Passage 2:Alexander CourageAlexander Mair Courage Jr. (December 10,1919 – May 15, 2008) familiarly known as "Sandy" Courage, was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He is best known as the composer of the theme music forthe original Star Trek series.Early lifeCourage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a music degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in 1941. He served in the United States ArmyAir Forces in the western United States during the Second World War. During that period, he also found the time to compose music for the radio. His credits in this medium include the programs Adventures of SamSpade Detective, Broadway Is My Beat, Hollywood Soundstage, and Romance.CareerCourage began as an orchestrator and arranger at MGM studios, which included work in such films as the 1951 Show Boat ("LifeUpon the Wicked Stage" number); Hot Rod Rumble (1957 film); The Band Wagon ("I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan"); Gigi (the can-can for the entrance of patrons at Maxim's); and the barn raising dance fromSeven Brides for Seven Brothers.He frequently served as an orchestrator on films scored by André Previn (My Fair Lady, "The Circus is a Wacky World", and "You're Gonna Hear from Me" production numbers for InsideDaisy Clover), Adolph Deutsch (Funny Face, Some Like It Hot), John Williams (The Poseidon Adventure, Superman, Jurassic Park, and the Academy Award-nominated musical films Fiddler on the Roof and Tom Sawyer),and Jerry Goldsmith (Rudy, Mulan, The Mummy, et al.).  He also arranged the Leslie Bricusse score (along with Lionel Newman) for Doctor Dolittle (1967).Apart from his work as a respected orchestrator, Courage alsocontributed original dramatic scores to films, including two westerns: Arthur Penn's The Left Handed Gun (1958) and André de Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959), and the Connie Francis comedy Follow the Boys (1963).He continued writing music for movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including the score for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), which incorporated three new musical themes by John Williams in addition toCourage's adapted and original cues for the film. Courage's score for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was released on CD in early 2008 by the Film Music Monthly company as part of its boxed set Superman - TheMusic, while La-La Land Records released a fully expanded restoration of the score on May 8, 2018, as part of Superman's 80th anniversary.Courage also worked as a composer on such television shows as DanielBoone, The Brothers Brannagan, Lost in Space, Eight Is Enough, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Judd, for the Defense, Young Dr. Kildare and The Brothers Brannagan were the only television series besides StarTrek for which he composed the main theme.The composer Jerry Goldsmith and Courage teamed on the long-running television show The Waltons in which Goldsmith composed the theme and Courage the AaronCopland-influenced incidental music. In 1988, Courage won an Emmy Award for his music direction on the special Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas.  In the 1990s, Courage succeeded Arthur Morton as Goldsmith'sprimary orchestrator.Courage and Goldsmith collaborated again on orchestrations for Goldsmith's score for the 1997 film "The Edge."Courage frequently collaborated with John Williams during the latter's tenure with theBoston Pops Orchestra.FamilyAt the age of 35, Courage married Mareile Beate Odlum on October 6, 1955.Mareile, born in Germany, was the daughter of Rudolf Wolff and Elisabeth Loechelt. After Wolff's suicideElisabeth married Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck, renowned for his involvement in the Dada movement in Europe. Hülsenbeck brought his wife (Elisabeth), son (Tom) and step-daughter (Mareile) to the United Statesin 1938 to avoid the political situation rapidly developing in Europe. After arriving in the US he changed his last name to Hulbeck.Mareile's marriage to Courage was her third. Her second marriage was to Bruce Odlum(son of financier Floyd Odlum) in 1944. That union produced two sons, Christopher (1947) and Brian (1949). When Courage married Mareile he accepted the responsibility of acting stepfather to them. The familyoriginally lived together on Erskine Dr. in Pacific Palisades, but later moved to a mountainside home on Beverly Crest Drive in Beverly Hills.Aside from his musical abilities Courage was also an avid and accomplishedphotographer. He took many dramatic photos of bullfights and auto racing. He was a racing enthusiast, and his interest in that sport and photography brought him into contact with many racing personalities of the era,notably Phil Hill and Stirling Moss, both of whom he considered friends. Moss paid at least one social visit to the Erskine residence.Though a dedicated stepfather to Christopher and Brian, Courage's musical career tookprecedence over his familial responsibilities. He sought to interest his step-children in music, and was responsible for arranging Brian's first musical lessons, on alto saxophone. Later in life Brian became a composer ofserious electronic music, though the vocation was not apparent during his childhood, as he was a poor saxophone student.Alexander and Mareile were divorced April 1, 1963. Courage subsequently married Kristin M.Zethren on July 14, 1967. That marriage also ended in divorce in 1972.Star Trek themeCourage is best known for writing the theme music for the original Star Trek series, and other music for that series. Courage washired by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to score the original series at Jerry Goldsmith's suggestion, after Goldsmith turned down the job.  Courage went on to score incidental music for episodes "The Man Trap"and "The Naked Time" and some cues for "Mudd's Women."Courage reportedly became alienated from Roddenberry when Roddenberry claimed half of the theme music royalties. Roddenberry wrote words for Courage'stheme, not because he expected the lyrics to be sung on television, but so that he (Roddenberry) could receive half of the royalties from the song by claiming credit as the composition's co-writer. Courage was replacedby composer Fred Steiner who was then hired to write the musical scores for the remainder of the first season. After sound editors had difficulty finding the right effect, Courage himself made the iconic "whoosh" soundheard while the Enterprise flies across the screen.He returned to Star Trek to score two more episodes for the show's third and final season, episodes "The Enterprise Incident" and "Plato's Stepchildren," allegedly as acourtesy to Producer Robert Justman.Notably, after later serving as Goldsmith's orchestrator, when Goldsmith composed the music for Star Trek: The Motion Picture,  Courage orchestrated Goldsmith's adaptation of hisoriginal Star Trek theme.Following Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Courage's iconic opening fanfare to the Star Trek theme became one of the franchise's most famous and memorable musical cues. The fanfare has beenused in multiple motion pictures and television series,  notably Star Trek: The Next Generation and the four feature films based upon that series, three of which were scored by Goldsmith.DeathCourage had been indeclining health for several years before he died on May 15, 2008, at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, California. He had suffered a series of strokes prior to his death. His mausoleum is inWestwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.Passage 3:Walter Robinson (composer)Walter Robinson is an American composer of the late 20th century. He is most notable for his 1977 song Harriet Tubman, which hasbeen recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.  He is also the composer of several operas.Passage 4:Hare-Way to the StarsHare-Way to the Stars is a 1958 American animatedscience fiction comedy short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The short was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 29, 1958 as part of the Looney Tunes series, and stars Bugs Bunnyand Marvin the Martian. The title is a play on the song "Stairway to the Stars."PlotThe cartoon starts when Bugs Bunny, feeling the effects of mixing radish juice with carrot juice the night before, unknowingly climbs outof his hole and into a rocket ship that is about to be launched into space. He realizes what has happened once he screws open the tip of the ship, and is immediately hit by the satellite Sputnik and lands on what appearsto be a space station. While there, Bugs meets Marvin the Martian who is trying to blow up the Earth with his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator (which is actually a stick of dynamite) because "Earth obstructs hisview of Venus".Bugs quietly steals Marvin's explosive, and Marvin quickly discovers what happened. He creates a trio of "Instant Martians" (who somewhat resemble the Martians of A Martian Odyssey and Jumpin'Jupiter) by adding water to "Instant Martian" pills. The Martians all leave to capture Bugs. Bugs gets on a rocket scooter and is pursued by a Martian. After noticing it mimics his every move to catch up with him, Bugsmimes driving out of the space station, causing the Martian to actually do that. He is then pursued by the Martians and hides behind a door so that he can chase them. The Martians use the same trick to get behind Bugsand chase him, but he uses the same trick again to make the Martians run into a trapdoor and make them fall out of the space station. Bugs then steals a UFO and when Marvin attempts to make more Martians, Bugsswaps the lit Space Modulator for the Instant Martian dispenser. The Modulator explodes in Marvin's hand just after he finishes saying its name, destroying his space station. Standing amid the shattered remains, Marvinconcedes defeat and that it is "back to the old drawing board" for his plans to destroy the Earth. Bugs arrives on Earth in the UFO, but crashes into a construction site warning sign and finds himself and the bottle of"Instant Martians" falling into the sewer and splashing all the pills. The ground shakes as Bugs climbs out of the sewer, frantically replaces the manhole cover and warns the audience "Run for the hills, folks, or you'll beup to your arm-pits in Martians!", before proceeding to take his own advice as Martian antennas poke out of the cracks appearing in the ground.CrewStory: Michael MalteseAnimation: Richard Thompson, Ken Harris &Abe LevitowLayouts: Maurice NobleBackgrounds: Philip DeGuardEffects Animation: Harry LoveFilm: Treg BrownVoice Characterizations: Mel BlancMusic: Milt FranklynProduced by Edward Selzer & John W.BurtonDirected by Chuck JonesHome mediaThe cartoon was featured on the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray box set (released November 15, 2011) with the cartoon restored and in high definition.This cartoon was also made part of the feature film The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (sometimes known as The Great American Chase).Passage 5:Alexandru CristeaAlexandru Cristea (1890–1942) was the composerof the music for "Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova.BiographyA choir director, a composer and music teacher. Taught at the  "Vasile Kormilov" music school (1928) with Gavriil Afanasiu andthe  "Unirea" Conservatory (1927–1929) in Chişinău with Alexandru Antonovschi (canto), he was the master of vocal music from Chişinău (1920–1940), professor of music and conductor of the choir in the boysgymnasium "Ion Heliade Rădulescu" in Bucureti (1940–1941). Later, between 1941 and 1942, he directed the choir at the "Queen Mother Elena" high school from Chişinău. In 1920, he was ordained as a deacon of theSt. George Church in Chişinău, from 1927 to 1941 was a deacon holds the Metropolitan Cathedral of Chişinău.CreationHis main creation is considered the music for "Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova,composed in the lyrics of the priest-poet Alexei Mateevici. He was awarded the “Răsplata muncii pentru biserică”.Passage 6:Michelangelo FaggioliMichelangelo Faggioli (1666–1733) was an Italian lawyer and celebratedamateur composer of humorous cantatas in Neapolitan dialect. A founder of a new genre of Neapolitan comedy, he was the composer of the opera buffa La Cilla in 1706.Passage 7:Petrus de DomartoPetrus de Domarto(fl. c. 1445–1455) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance.  He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to bewritten in continental Europe.LifeDomarto's life is poorly documented.  He was listed as a singer at the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp in 1449, five years after Ockeghem was known to be there, and there is evidence hewas in Tournai in 1451.  He had a high reputation (which makes the lack of documentation on his life curious), but even so was passed over for a post as master of the choirboys (in favor of Paulus Iuvenis).  No otherdocumentation on his life has yet come to light.Music and reputationDomarto's two mass settings, the Missa Spiritus almus and a Missa sine nomine, were famous at the time.  The latter of the two may have been oneof the earliest cyclic masses composed on the continent, most likely in the 1440s, and imitates some features of contemporary English composers such as Leonel Power.  The Missa Spiritus almus, likely dating from the1450s, is a cantus-firmus mass, with the melody always in the tenor, but with a changing rhythmic profile as it changes mensuration throughout the piece.  The procedure was evidently influential on the next generationof composers, for it was still being copied in the 1480s, and Busnois may have based one of his own masses on the same method (the Missa O crux lignum). The theorist and writer Johannes Tinctoris criticised it forexactly the features that inspired other composers.The two surviving secular compositions by Domarto are both rondeaux, formes fixes of the type popular with the Burgundian School.WorksMassesMissa Spiritus almus(four voices)Missa sine nomine (three voices)SecularRondeaux, each for three voices:Chelui qui est tant plain de duelJe vis tous jours en esperanceNotesPassage 8:Alonso MudarraAlonso Mudarra (c. 1510 – April 1,1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar-shaped string instrument.  He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of theearliest surviving music for the guitar.BiographyThe place of his birth is not recorded, but he grew up in Guadalajara, and probably received his musical training there.  He most likely went to Italy in 1529 with CharlesV, in the company of the fourth Duke of the Infantado, Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana.  When he returned to Spain he became a priest, receiving the post of canon at the cathedral in Seville in 1546,where he remained for the rest of his life.  While at the cathedral, he directed all of the musical activities; many records remain of his musical activities there, which included hiring instrumentalists, buying andassembling a new organ, and working closely with composer Francisco Guerrero for various festivities.  Mudarra died in Seville, and his sizable fortune was distributed to the poor of the city according to his will.Mudarrawrote numerous pieces for the vihuela and the four-course guitar, all contained in the collection Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela ("Three books of music in numbers for vihuela"), which he published onDecember 7, 1546 in Seville.  These three books contain the first music ever published for the four-course guitar, which was then a relatively new instrument. The second book is noteworthy in that it contains eightmulti-movement works, all arranged by "tono", or mode.Compositions represented in this publication include fantasias, variations (including a set on La Folia), tientos, pavanes and galliards, and songs. Modern listenersare probably most familiar with his Fantasia X, which has been a concert and recording mainstay for many years.   The songs are in Latin, Spanish and Italian, and include romances, canciones (songs), villancicos,(popular songs) and sonetos (sonnets).  Another innovation was the use of different signs for different tempos:  slow, medium, and fast.References and further readingJohn Griffiths: "Alonso Mudarra", Grove MusicOnline ed. L. Macy (Accessed March 24, 2005), (subscription access)Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance.  New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954.  ISBN 0-393-09530-4Guitar Music of the Sixteenth Century, Mel BayPublications (transcribed by Keith Calmes)The Eight Masterpieces of Alonso Mudarra, Mel Bay Publications (transcribed by Keith Calmes)Fantasia VI in hypermedia (Shockwave Player required) at the BinAuralCollaborative HypertextJacob Heringman and Catherine King: "Alonso Mudarra songs and solos". Magnatune.com (http://www.magnatune.com/artists/albums/heringman-mudarra/hifi_play)External linksFree scores byAlonso Mudarra in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)Free scores by Alonso Mudarra at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)Passage 9:George GershwinGeorge Gershwin (; born JacobGershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositionsRhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgyand Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime".Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song pluggerbut soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris, intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him, afraid that rigorousclassical study would ruin his jazz-influenced style; Maurice Ravel voiced similar objections when Gershwin inquired about studying with him. He subsequently composed An American in Paris, returned to New York Cityand wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and DuBose Heyward. Initially a commercial failure, it came to be considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century and an American culturalclassic.Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores. He died in 1937, only 38 years old, of a brain tumor.His compositions have been adapted for use in film and television, with many becomingjazz standards.BiographyAncestorsGershwin was of Jewish ancestry. His grandfather, Jakov Gershowitz, was born in Odesa (Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire) and had served for 25 years as a mechanic for theImperial Russian Army to earn the right of free travel and residence as a Jew, finally retiring near Saint Petersburg. His teenage son Moishe, George's father, worked as a leather cutter for women's shoes. His mother,Roza Bruskina, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Moishe met Roza in Vilnius, Lithuania where her father worked as a furrier. She and her family moved to New York because of increasing anti-Jewish sentiment inRussia, changing her first name to Rose. Moishe, faced with compulsory military service if he remained in Russia, moved to America as soon as he could afford to. Once in New York, he changed his first name to Morris.


Passage 1:A Hungarian Fairy TaleA Hungarian Fairy Tale (original title: Hol volt, hol nem volt) is a 1987 Hungarian film directed by Gyula Gazdag.PlotAndris is a child living in Budapest. He is conceived when his motherMaria is attracted to a mysterious stranger during a performance of The Magic Flute. The stranger disappears after the conception, and as a result Andris does not know his father. The law states that a boy should havehis father's name, even if the father is unknown, to avoid the taint of illegitimacy. When Maria tries to register Andris with the child custody department, Andris is given the name of a fictitious father. She enters onAndris' birth certificate the name of the bureaucrat she is dealing with, Antal Orban.Maria dies when she is hit on the head by a falling brick, an accident resulting from being in the wrong place at the wrong time, leavingAndris suddenly motherless. He then goes off in search of his nonexistent father. Along the way he meets and is helped by The Girl, the young nurse who delivered him, and who is alone like Andris. Meanwhile, thekindly Orban becomes tired of the tyrannical bureaucracy, and decides to destroy the files of children he has helped to legitimize by giving them fictitious fathers. He then sets out to find Andris. Andris and The Girlfinally meet Orban, and they form their own family.They meet scouts being trained as instruments of the state, and the scouts pursue Andris, Orban and The Girl. The three of them climb onto the back of a stone eagle,which takes off in flight.CastDávid Vermes - AndrisFrantišek Husák - Antal OrbanMária Varga - MariaEszter Csákányi - The GirlAccoladesThe film won the following awards:Fantafestival 1988 - Best Actress (MáriaVarga)Locarno International Film Festival 1987 - Bronze Leopard (Dávid Vermes) (Special Grand Prize)Salerno International Film Festival 1989 - Grand Prix (Gyula Gazdag)Sitges Film Festival 1987 - Best Film (GyulaGazdag)External linksA Hungarian Fairy Tale at IMDbPassage 2:The Girl of My DreamsThe Girl of My Dreams is a lost 1918 British silent film romance directed by Louis Chaudet and starring Billie Rhodes.CastBillieRhodes - The WeedJack McDonald - George BassettLamar Johnstone - Kenneth Stewart (*as Lamar Johnston)Golda Madden - Madelin StewartJane Keckley - Ma WilliamsFrank MacQuarrie - Pa WilliamsBen Suslow - JedWilliams (*as Benjamin Suslow)Leo Pierson - Ralph LongPassage 3:The Woman of My Dreams (2010 film)The Woman of My Dreams (Italian: La donna della mia vita, also known as The Woman of My Life) is a 2010Italian comedy-drama film directed by Luca Lucini and starring Alessandro Gassman, Luca Argentero, Stefania Sandrelli, and Valentina Lodovini.PlotLeonardo and Giorgio are two brothers with very different characters.Leonardo is sensitive and reliable, while Giorgio is an unstable womanizer. After a suicide attempt, Leonardo meets Sara, not knowing that she is Giorgio's ex, and in time they fall in love.With difficulty, and only afterthe involvement of Giorgio's mother Alba, they restore their friendship.CastAlessandro Gassman as  GiorgioLuca Argentero as  LeonardoValentina Lodovini as  SaraStefania Sandrelli as  AlbaGiorgio Colangelias  SandroSonia Bergamasco as  CarolinaGaia Bermani Amaral as IreneLella Costa as  Alba's friendFranco Branciaroli as AlbertoFrancesca Chillemi as herselfSee alsoList of Italian films of 2010Passage 4:Arthur MariaRabenaltArthur Maria Rabenalt (25 June 1905 – 26 February 1993) was an Austrian film director, writer, and author. He directed more than 90 films between 1934 and 1978. His 1958 film That Won't Keep a SailorDown was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Two years later, his 1960 film Big Request Concert was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. His career encompassed both Nazicinema and West German productions. He also wrote several books on the 1930s and 1940s wave of German cinema.CareerIn his early teens, Rabenalt began his stage career directing operas at theatres in Darmstadt,Berlin and Gera. From then on to the mid-1920s he worked (though uncredited) as a production assistant on several films such including G. W. Pabst's Joyless Street (1925). After Nazi's rise to power, Rabenalt madehis feature film debut directing the musical comedy, What Am I Without You (1934), which was then shortly followed with the release of the comedy Pappi (1934). He continued to work in different genres, including TheLove of the Maharaja (1936), and Men Are That Way and Midsummer Night's Fire which were released in 1939.        Through out the 1940s, Rabaenalt worked with melodramatic dramas and comedy. Some of his earlyfilms in the 1940s, such as Riding for Germany, supported Nazi ideology. In 1989, he said "I had only made circus films and chamber-type entertainment films since 1941. The only Nazi film I knew was ... rides forGermany (1941), and it was admired. The first films of mine that were distributed again after the war were Circus Renz (1943) and Regimental Music (shot in 1944 under the title The Guilty of Gabriele Rottweil, the filmonly came to the cinemas in 1950). The controversy about ... rides for Germany came much later.After the war he resumed his stage career as a director, beginning with the East German production, Chemistry andLove (1948), satire on anti-capitalism based on a play by Bela Balasz. He continued to work on productions for East German state studio DEFA until 1948. In the 1950s, he moved into more mainstream entertainment,including the Weimar horror remake of Alraune (1952), which starred Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim.            From 1960, Rabanalt worked only in television, adapting classic comedies and operettas for amainstream audience. He also wrote several erotic pulp fiction books as well as memoirs and factual books about Nazi Germany.Selected filmographyPublished booksTanz and Film [1] (1960)Das Theater der Lust(1982)Theater ohne Tabu [2] (Emsdetten, 1970)Der Operetten-Bildband  Bühne Film Fernsehen [3] (1980)Mimus eroticus [4] (Hamburg, 1965/67)Joseph Goebbels und der Grossdeutsche Film [5] (Munich,1985)Gesammelte Schriften [6] (Hildesheim, 1999)Passage 5:Gyula GazdagGyula Gazdag (born 19 July 1947 in Budapest) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter and actor.FilmographyDirectorThe Long DistanceRunner [Hosszú futásodra mindig számíthatunk...] (1969, documentary short)The Selection [A válogatás] (1970, documentary short)The Whistling Cobblestone [A sípoló macskakő] (1971)The Resolution [A határozat](1972, documentary)Singing on the Treadmill [Bástyasétány hetvennégy] (1974)Swap [A kétfenekű dob] (1978)The Banquet [A bankett] (1982, documentary)Lost Illusions [Elveszett illúziók] (1983)Package Tour[Társasutazás] (1985, documentary)A Hungarian Fairy Tale [Hol volt, hol nem volt...] (1987)Stand Off [Túsztörténet] (1989)Hungarian Chronicles [Chroniques hongroises] (1991, documentary)A Poet on the Lower eastSide [Egy költö a Lower East Side-ról] (1997, documentary)Actor25, Firemen's Street Tüzoltó utca 25. (1973)Dreaming Youth [Álmodó ifjúság] (1974)Confidence Bizalom (1980)Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] 1985WorkingWest (1992)External linksGyula Gazdag at IMDbPassage 6:Siman-Tov GanehSiman-Tov Ganeh (Hebrew: - ; 1924–1968) was an Israeli soldier who was rewarded with the Hero ofIsrael.BiographySiman-Tov Ganeh was born in the Old City of Jerusalem to a Georgian-Jewish family, son of a member of the Jewish Battalions and a volunteer in the British army's Expeditionary Force during theSecond World War. When the 1936–1939 Arab revolt broke out, his family was forced to leave the Old City and move to Zikhron Moshe. As a boy he worked in a cigarette factory, and in 1941 his father fell captive inCrete. He also served in the Royal Navy, and served on supply ships. In April 1946, he was discharged and worked as a taxi driver shortly before joining the Lehi underground movement.Ganeh joined the 8th Brigade atthe beginning of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and served in the 89th Battalion. In November 1948, he participated in the Battle of Iraq Suwaydan, in which he continued to treat the wounded and respond to the shootingwhile mortally wounded and under heavy fire. For his part in the operation, he was awarded the Hero of Israel medal.After the battle, Siman-Tov's two legs were cut off and replaced with prosthetic legs. Following thewar he studied carpentry and worked for a while as a taxi driver. He got married in 1950 and was a father of three. His middle son was named Ma'agan, after being born on the day Ganeh was saved from the Ma'agandisaster which he had witnessed. During the Six-Day War he volunteered to gather soldiers from transportation stations. In 1967, he began to work as a contractor in military camps. In March 1968, he was hit by an oldshell that was ignited from the heat and was killed. After his death, mourning orders were held in IDF units.Passage 7:Ben PalmerBen Palmer (born 1976) is a British film and television director.His television creditsinclude the Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta! (2002–2006), the second and third series of the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners (2009–2010) and the Sky Atlantic comedy-drama Breeders (2020). Palmer has also directedfilms such as the Inbetweeners spin-off, The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) and the romantic comedy Man Up (2015).BiographyPalmer was born and raised in Penny Bridge, Barrow-in-Furness. He attended ChetwyndeSchool.His first directing job was the Channel 4 sketch show Bo' Selecta!, which he co-developed with its main star, Leigh Francis. Palmer directed the second and third series of the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners in 2009and 2010, respectively.FilmographyBo' Selecta! (2002–06)Comedy Lab (2004–2010)Bo! in the USA (2006)The Inbetweeners (2009–2010)The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)Comedy Showcase (2012)Milton Jones's Houseof Rooms (2012)Them from That Thing (2012)Bad Sugar (2012)Chickens (2013)London Irish (2013)Man Up (2015)SunTrap (2015)BBC Comedy Feeds (2016)Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back (2016)Back (2017)ComedyPlayhouse (2017)Urban Myths (2017–19)Click & Collect (2018)Semi-Detached (2019)Breeders (2020)Passage 8:Elliot SilversteinElliot Silverstein (born August 3, 1927) is a retired American film and television director.He directed the Academy Award-winning western comedy Cat Ballou (1965), and other films including The Happening (1967), A Man Called Horse (1970), Nightmare Honeymoon (1974), and The Car (1977). Histelevision work includes four episodes of The Twilight Zone (1961–1964).CareerElliot Silverstein was the director of six feature films in the mid-twentieth century. The most famous of these by far is Cat Ballou, acomedy-western starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin.The other Silverstein films, in chronological order, are The Happening, A Man Called Horse,  Nightmare Honeymoon, The Car, and Flashfire.Other work includeddirecting for the television shows The Twilight Zone, The Nurses, Picket Fences, and Tales from the Crypt.While Silverstein was not a prolific director, his films were often decorated. Cat Ballou, for instance, earned oneOscar and was nominated for four more. His high quality work was rewarded in 1990 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Directors Guild of America.AwardsIn 1965, at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival,he won the Youth Film Award – Honorable Mention, in the category of Best Feature Film Suitable for Young People for Cat Ballou.He was also nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear.In 1966, he was nominated for theDGA Award in the category for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Cat Ballou).In 1971, he won the Bronze Wrangler award at the Western Heritage Awards in the category of Theatrical MotionPicture for A Man Called Horse, along with producer Sandy Howard, writer Jack DeWitt, and actors Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Corinna Tsopei and Richard Harris.In 1985, he won the Robert B. Aldrich AchievementAward from the Directors Guild of America.In 1990, he was awarded the DGA Honorary Life Member Award.Personal lifeSilverstein has been married three times, each ending in divorce. His first marriage was to EvelynWard in 1962; the couple divorced in 1968. His second marriage was to Alana King. During his first marriage, he was the step-father of David Cassidy.He currently lives in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Actively retired,Silverstein has taught film at USC and continues to work on screen plays and other projects.FilmographyTales from the Crypt (TV Series) (1991–94)Picket Fences (TV Series) (1993)Rich Men, Single Women (TV Movie)(1990)Fight for Life (TV Movie) (1987)Night of Courage (TV Movie) (1987)Betrayed by Innocence (TV Movie) (1986)The Firm (TV Series) (1982–1983)The Car (1977)Nightmare Honeymoon (1974)A Man Called Horse(1970)The Happening (1967)Cat Ballou (1965)Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) (1963–64)The Defenders (TV Series) (1962–64)Arrest and Trial (TV Series) (1964)The Doctors and the Nurses (TV Series)(1962–64)Twilight Zone (TV Series) (1961–64)Breaking Point (TV Series) (1963)Dr. Kildare (TV Series) (1961–63)The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) (1962)Belle Sommers (TV Movie) (1962)Naked City (TV Series)(1961–62)Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) (1961)Route 66 (TV Series) (1960–61)Checkmate (TV Series) (1961)The Westerner (TV Series) (1960)Assignment: Underwater (TV Series) (1960)Black Saddle (TV Series)(1960)Suspicion (TV Series) (1958)Omnibus (TV Series) (1954–56)Passage 9:Arieh AtzmoniArieh Atzmoni (born Leib Markowicz; Hebrew:  ; 2 November 1926 – 30 March 2005) was a Czech-bornIsraeli soldier and Hero of Israel.Early lifeAtzmoni was born Leib Markowicz in Uzhhorod (then in Czechoslovakia, now in Ukraine). During World War II, when he was 13, he left his parents home and lived alone inBudapest. During the Holocaust, his mother and two younger sisters were murdered, while his father, brother and older sister were saved. Later, he was taken to a labor camp in Yugoslavia and worked in copper mininguntil he was liberated by local partisans, whom he joined in fighting the Germans until his immigration to Palestine in 1944 at age 18. Atzmoni wanted to join the military, but was concerned that his slim figure wouldcause him to be rejected, so he said he was two years older than he was.Military careerAfter immigrating to Palestine, Atzmoni joined the Jewish Settlement Police and dealt with Naharayim. Following an Arab Legionattack, he retreated with the guards and reached the nearby base of the 12th Battalion of the Golani Brigade. He joined the ranks of the brigade and after a sergeant course was stationed as a company sergeant andserved in this position during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Later, He joined the artillery corps, where he served in reserves for many years. In 1969, following severe manpower shortage in the Israel Defense Forces, heresponded to a request by its Chief of General Staff and returned for a year of voluntary service in the artillery corps.DecorationsIn September 1948, Atzmoni cleared a fire-focused ammunition box during battle andreceived a commendation from the brigade commander.In January 1949, Atzmoni's unit was attacked near Rafah. A military car was blocking the artillery's line of sight, preventing an effective response. Atzmoni ran,under heavy fire, and was able to start the car and move it, thus clearing the way for the artillery to act and destroy 18 enemy vehicles. For this he was awarded the Hero of Israel commendation, which is the highestcommendation ever awarded by the IDF, given to only twelve soldiers: On January 4, 1949, in the battle for the cemetery in Rafah, our artillery car was stopped in the field and the entire sector was concealed in front ofour cannon position. The enemy, which attacked tanks and armored vehicles accompanied by infantry, rained fire on the outpost and prevented any action to remove the car from the area. Lt. Col. Arieh Otzmany,whose job was to bring ammunition and digging equipment to the outpost, jumped at the car, managed to start it, and drove it from the front to the rear, enabling our anti-tank cannon to launch an operation thatresulted in the use of nine tanks and other enemy vehicles.Later life and deathFollowing his discharge from the military, Atzmoni settled in the Hadar neighborhood in Haifa with his wife Lea (née Lustig), and worked asa cab driver. Concurrently, he imported and sold car parts. The two then established the Haifa branch of car rental company Hertz, which flourished. They then established their own car rental agency, also successful,allowing him donate some earnings to charity. After decades, the couple retired to the Ahuza retirement home. He died on March 30, 2005, and was buried in Haifa with a military ceremony. He had a son, daughter andfour grandchildren.Passage 10:The Hero of My DreamsThe Hero of My Dreams (German: Der Held meiner Träume) is a 1960 West German romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring CarlosThompson, Heidi Brühl and Peter Vogel.It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Max Mellin and Karl Weber.CastCarlos Thompson as Robert MoutierHeidi Brühl asMarianne KleinschmidtPeter Vogel as Oliver MartensMaria Perschy as Franziska KleinschmidtMargitta Scherr as Petra MartensKlaus Dahlen as Bernhard KleinschmidtMarte Harell as Frau MartensEdith Mill as FrauKleinschmidtLucie Englisch as HuberbäuerinHans Zesch-Ballot as Günther MartensHans Elwenspoek as Hugo KleinschmidtFranz Fröhlich as HuberbauerErnst BraschBum KrügerSee alsoHappy Days (France, 1941)HappyDays (Italy, 1942)