Passage 1:Rotrou III, Count of PercheRotrou III (bef. 1080 – 8 May 1144), called the Great (le Grand), was the Count of Perche and Mortagne from 1099. He was the son of Geoffrey II, Count of Perche, and Beatrix deRamerupt, daughter of Hilduin IV, Count of Montdidier. He was a notable Crusader and a participant in the Reconquista in eastern Spain, even ruling the city of Tudela in Navarre from 1123 to 1131. He is commonlycredited with introducing Arabian horses to the Perche, giving rise to the Percheron breed. By his creation of a monastery at La Trappe in memory of his wife, Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, in 1122 he also laidthe foundations of the later Trappists.First CrusadeRotrou took part in the First Crusade, travelling with the army of the duke of Normandy, Robert Curthose. What influenced Rotrou in this regard were probably familialconnexions. He was related to the Anglo-Norman aristocracy and the Perche was a march (border region) in southern Normandy. A sister was married to Raymond I of Turenne, who was a fellow Crusader in thefollowing of Raymond IV of Toulouse. His mother, Beatrix, was a sister of Ebles II of Roucy, who had campaigned in Spain in 1073, and Felicia, who married Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragon. A religious motivationcannot be discounted.According to the Chanson d'Antioche, Rotrou was under the command of Bohemond of Taranto during the Siege of Antioch, and was one of the first to go over the city's walls through scalingladders on 3 June 1098. When the Crusaders had to confront a Seljuk relief force two weeks later in open battle, Rotrou was one of the front line commanders. He fulfilled his vow and made it all the way to Jerusalem.The Chanson also mentions his bravery at the siege of Nicaea of 1097.In 1107, Rotrou built a castle on land held partly allodially and partly in lordship by Hugh II of Le Puiset, thus challenging Hugh's rights to theestate. Since Pope Urban II had taken Crusaders' "houses, families, and all their goods into the protection of Saint Peter and the Roman church", and both Hugh and Rotrou were veterans of the First Crusade, thedispute was intractable. Bishop and lawyer Ivo of Chartres could not resolve it, since it involved a judicial duel, over which the church was not allowed to preside, and so remitted it to the court of the County of Blois.There Hugh lost, but in the violence that followed his tenant, who held the land from him as a fief, was captured by Rotrou's men. The reigning pope, Paschal II, who was in Chartres in April, sent the case back to Ivo,who complained in a letter that since "this law of the Church protecting the goods of knights going to Jerusalem was new. . . they did not know whether the protection applied only to their properties or also applied totheir fortifications." Rotrou denied that the case had anything to do with the novel canon law.Norman politicsDuring Rotrou's absence his father, Geoffrey of Mortagne, died in 1099. On the first Sunday after returning toFrance, Rotrou paid a visit to the monastery of Nogent-le-Rotrou, a foundation of his family's and the location of his father tomb. There he asked to become a confrater (brother) of the Abbey of Cluny, Nogent's motherhouse, and to show his sincerity and prove the fulfillment of his Crusading vow he placed a charter confirming his predecessors' donations to the abbey and the palm frond brought back from Jerusalem on thealtar.Rotrou's position in the Duchy of Normandy was that of defender of the frontier with the Île-de-France. His position was probably enhanced by his participation in the First Crusade. Whereas his father had only heldthe title of viscount, Rotrou is usually called a count. In the war between Henry I of England and Robert Curthose, Rotrou sided with the former and was an important figure in Henry's administration of the duchy afterthe capture of Robert at Tinchebrai in 1106. Rotrou was a direct vassal of Henry in England, where he held fiefs jure uxoris, in right of his wife, the king's daughter Matilda. He was not often in England, but is purportedto have been close to his wife.ReconquistaEarly participationRotrou's actual first participation in the Reconquista dates to the first decade of the twelfth century (possibly 1104–5). He and a group of Normans are said tohave fought the Muslims in the service of Alfonso the Battler, then King of Aragon and Navarre, until the Aragonese plotted against them and they returned home. It has been speculated that the Norman involvement inthe campaign originated as gossip designed to discredit Alfonso by Cluny, an ally of Alfonso's rival, Alfonso VI of Castile. More probably the Normans just accomplished too little to be noticed, or were perhaps sent backhome without encountering any Muslims because their services were not need at the time, when Alfonso the Battler had an alliance with the taifa (faction-kingdom) of Zaragoza. Perhaps the 'Aragonese plot' originatedas a rumour with dissatisfied returning Normans.After the death of his wife, eldest son and two of his nephews in the wreck of the White Ship (1120), Rotrou returned to Spain. His parting may have been an act ofpenitence (perhaps he believed his sins had brought on the tragedy), or perhaps a public demonstration of grieving, since his wife was a daughter of the king, who had also lost his heir, William Adelin, in the wreck.According to the Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña, Rotrou took part in the conquests of Zaragoza (1118) and Tudela (1119), but this account has been shown to be apocryphal. Many French barons can be connectedwith the expedition against Zaragoza, but although his Anales de la Corona de Aragón name Rotrou as fighting under Alfonso of Aragon on several occasions, Jerónimo Zurita does not mention him by name whenrecording the call for transpyrenean assistance put out by the Battler. Likewise Rotrou is attested fighting for Henry I in Normandy in 1119 and so could not have had any hand in the conquest of Tudela, although theChronicle of San Juan makes him out to be the chief conqueror and the first and independent ruler of the town. Neither is he mentioned in the charter of surrender of Tudela.Rule of TudelaRotrou was still in Normandy in1120 when he signed the reconfirmation act of the abbey of Arcisses. Since he received land in Zaragoza after the conquest, it might be assumed that he sent either money or men to assist in the enterprise. He did notsign the city's fueros, which the nobles of southern France who had participated in its conquest did. He had arrived in Aragon by 1123, perhaps as early as 1121. His first participation was probably in the campaignagainst Lleida. An Aragonese charter dating to April 1123 refers to Rotrou as "count in Tudela", although it does not specifically refer to him as the ruler of the place. The Norman lord Robert Burdet, who later held theTarragona as a principality, may originally have fought alongside Rotrou in Normandy and then followed him to Spain c.1123. Robert is first mentioned in a charter issued by Rotrou in Spain, in which the count grantedsome houses in Zaragoza to a knight of his named Sabino in gratitude for his services (December 1124). There is a slightly later reference which shows that Rotrou was in control of Tudela and that he had appointedRobert to act as his alcalde (mayor) or military commander of the citadel and one Duran Pixon to act as administrator (justiciar). This charter also affirms, against the Chronicle of San Juan, that Rotrou ruled Tudela as avassal of Alfonso the Battler, who is called "emperor" in the document. Similar charters from February 1128 and November 1131 show that this arrangement continued for almost a decade, even though Rotrou wasoften absent in Normandy and Robert Burdet in Tarragona. When Alfonso granted fueros to Tudela in 1127 he also mentioned Rotrou, Robert and Duran. It has been suggested that Rotrou's rise to an important frontierpost in a city in whose conquest he played no role was either recompense for the mistreatment he received in the first decade of the century or due to the deterrent effect of his private army of Normans on theneighbouring Muslims.In the winter of 1124–25, Rotrou led an expedition against the hilltop Muslim fortress of Peña Cadiella (Benicadell), which guarded the road from Alicante to Valencia. Since Muslim troops fromMurcia often moved up this road to Valencia, it was of great strategic importance for any planned campaign in eastern al-Andalus. Rotrou's expedition, which had royal approval, may have been planned in conjunctionwith Alfonso's Andalusian expedition that took place in 1127–28. Rotrou was assisted in his endeavour by the Aragonese knights of the Confraternity of Belchite and their master, Galindo Sánchez. Rotrou returned toNormandy with his retinue in 1125, leaving Robert Burdet in command of Tudela (where he is attested in charters from 1126 through 1128). Rotrou did not participate in Alfonso's Andalusian campaign, and a rumour inNormandy claimed that Alfonso made his war out of envy for Rotrou's achievements.Rotrou returned to Alfonso the Battler in 1130, when he was at the Siege of Bayonne. On 26 October, from the siege, Alfonso grantedthe fuero previously given to Tudela to the small town of Corella. Rotrou was one of the signatories, since the castle of Corella had been granted to him by the king in December 1128. He is last attested as ruler inTudela with Robert as his underling in a private act of November 1131. He was still in Iberia in March 1132, when he witnessed Alfonso's grant of a fuero to the town of Asín.Second trip to the Holy LandSometime before1144, Rotrou returned to the Mideast on Crusade, one of the few north French barons to do so. On this second trip Rotrou obtained some relics which he donated to the monastery he had founded at La Trappe.In Spain,Rotrou established links with García Ramírez, the future king of Navarre. García married Margaret of L'Aigle, daughter of Rotrou's sister Juliana. Margaret's daughter Margaret, married William I of Sicily and raised to thechancellorship her cousin Stephen du Perche, a younger and illegitimate son of Rotrou. She also made Gilbert, another cousin from the Perche, count in Gravina. This Gilbert was one of Rotrou's grandsons, although bywhich son is not known. Another relation, Henry of Montescaglioso, was a son of Margaret, perhaps illegitimate.FamilyRotrou's first wife's name is unknown.  They had one daughter:Beatrix, married Renaud IV, lord ofChâteau-GontierRotrou's second wife was Matilda, illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England and one of his many mistresses, Edith. Matilda drowned in the wreck of the White Ship on 25 November 1120.  They hadtwo daughters:Philippa, married Elias II, Count of MaineFeliciaRotrou's third wife was Hawise, daughter of Walter of Salisbury and sister of Patrick, Earl of Salisbury. They had three sons:Rotrou IV, killed at the Siege ofAcreGeoffrey (died after 1154)Stephen, Archbishop of PalermoRotrou also had an illegitimate son by an unknown mistress:Bertrand, father of Gilbert, Count of GravinaRotrou was succeeded as Count of Perche by hisson of the same name.== Notes ==Passage 2:Thomas Beaufort, Count of PercheThomas Beaufort, styled 1st Count of Perche (c. 1405 – 3 October 1431) was a member of the Beaufort family and an Englishcommander during the Hundred Years' War.He was the third son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Margaret Holland.CareerWith his elder brother, Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset, Thomas joinedin Henry V's 1419 campaigns in France.  In 1421, he accompanied the king's younger brother Thomas of Lancaster to the fighting in Anjou.  Lancaster was killed at the Battle of Baugé while John Beaufort, the new Earlof Somerset (following the death of Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset at the  Siege of Rouen) and Thomas were captured. Thomas was eventually released around 1427 in a prisoner exchange negotiated by hisuncle, Cardinal Beaufort.As an able male member of the Beaufort family, Thomas rejoined the fighting almost immediately. He was granted the title Count of Perche in December 1427, his title being more a claim toland, rather than a recognized title since it was already held by the French Duke John II of Alençon. This was part of a continuing attempt by Cardinal Beaufort to carve out estates for his nephews from conqueredFrench land. During the 1430 royal coronation expedition of Henry VI, Thomas was granted a retinue of 128 soldiers and 460 archers. He commanded soldiers at a battle at La Charité-sur-Loire in late 1430 and died 3October 1431 at the siege of Louviers, three weeks before the city's fall.ArmsAs the legitimised great-grandson of Edward III he bore his arms altered by a bordure gorbony argent and azure.AncestryNotesPassage3:Rotrou IV, Count of PercheRotrou IV (1135-1191), was the Count of Perche. He joined Louis VII of France in a war against Henry II of England, in which he lost lands to the English. Rotrou later went on crusade withPhilip II of France and died after the Siege of Acre in 1191.BiographyBorn in 1135, Rotrou was the son of Rotrou III, Count of Perche, and Hawise, daughter of Walter of Salisbury, and Sibilla de Chaworth. Upon thedeath of his father in 1144, Rotrou continued the fight against his archenemy, William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu and Lord of Alençon. Aside from this long-running blood feud, his uncle Patrick had married WilliamTalvas' daughter Adela. His mother Hawise and her second husband, Robert I of Dreux, served as regents at Perche until he reached the age of maturity.Rotrou aided Louis VII the Younger against Henry II of England inan ineffective war that saw their troops routed, lands ravaged and property stolen. He was forced to yield the communes of Moulins and Bonsmoulins to the crown England. Nevertheless, a matrimonial alliance with theHouse of Blois consolidated the declining power of the Counts of Perche.In 1189,  Rotrou joined Philip II of France and Richard I the Lionheart in the Third Crusade. He died sometime after the Siege of Acre in1191.Marriage and issueIn 1160, Rotrou married Matilda of Blois-Champagne, daughter of Theobald II, Count of Champagne, and Matilda of Carinthia.Rotrou and Matilda had:Geoffrey III, Count of PercheStephen (d. 14April 1205), Duke of Philadelphia, killed in the Battle of AdrianopleRotrou du Perche (d. 10 December 1201), Bishop of Chalons (1190-1200)William II, Count of Perche and Bishop of ChalonsBeatrix, married Renaud III,lord of Chateau-GonthierRotrou was succeeded as Count of Perche by his son Geoffrey upon his death.Passage 4:Geoffrey II, Count of PercheGeoffrey II (died October 1100), Count of Mortagne and Count of Perche,was the son of Rotrou I, Viscount of Châteaudun, and Adelise de Bellême, daughter of Guérin de Domfron. Geoffrey was Count of Mortagne and Seigneur of Nogent from 1060 to 1090, and Count of Perche from 1090until his death.As a young man, Geoffrey participated in the conquest of England and fought at the Battle of Hastings. For his service, William the Conqueror gave him a reward of significant property in England.Geoffreysucceeded his father in 1080, receiving the Percheron fields (Mortagne-au-Perche and Nogent-le-Rotrou), while his younger brother Hugues received Châteaudun. A third brother, Rotrou, acquired by marriage thelordship of Montfort-le-Rotrou. One of his first actions as count was to hand over the monastery of Nogent-le-Rotrou to Cluny, after engineering the deposition of its abbot Hubert. As a result, the role of the count's courtan increased role, since disputes about the abbey's endowment were solved at that court.  About 1089, Geoffrey waged war on Robert of Bellême, due to a land dispute. According to Orderic Vitalis, Geoffrey contestedthe distribution of the Belleme inheritance between Mabel de Bellême (Robert's mother) and Adeliza (his mother).    The war was long and protracted, as even in 1091 we know the conflict was still going on.  Hedevoted the rest of his life to religious pursuits, and founded the first leper colony in Perche.His successful rule and increased political role can be appreciated from his dynastic alliances, which ranged far into northernFrance (with his wife Beatrix), Normandy (with the marriage of his daughter Marguerite to Henry de Beaumont) and southern France (through his daughter Matilde's marriage  to the viscount of Turenne). Geoffreymarried Beatrix de Ramerupt, daughter of Hilduin IV, Count of Montdidier, and Alice de Roucy.  Geoffrey and Beatrix had:Rotrou III the Great, Count of PercheMarguerite (d. after 1156), married to Henry de Beaumont,1st Earl of Warwick.  Their sons included Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Robert de Neubourg and Rotrou, Archbishop of Rouen.Juliana du Perche (d. after 1132), married to Gilbert, Lord of d’Aigle.  They hadtwo sons, Geoffrey and Engenulf, who died in the wreck of the White Ship. Their daughter was Marguerite de l’Aigle, who married García Ramírez, King of Navarre.Mathilde (d. 27 May 1143), married first Raymond I,Vicomte de Turenne and, widowed, Guy IV de Lastours.Orderic Vitalis gives him high praise: In time of peace he was gentle and lovable and conspicuous for his good manners; in times of war, harsh and successful,formidable to the rulers who were his neighbours and an enemy to all. Geoffrey was succeeded by his son Rotrou as Count of Perche upon his death.NotesSourcesBarlow, Frank (1983). William Rufus. University ofCalifornia Press.Guenée, Bernard (May–June 1978). "Les généalogies entre l'histoire et la politique: la fierté d'être Capétien, en France, au Moyen Age" (PDF). Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 33 (3): 450–477.doi:10.3406/ahess.1978.293943.Thompson, Kathleen (2002). Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of the Perche, 1000-1226. The Boydell Press.Passage 5:Thomas, Count of PercheThomas (1195– 20 May 1217), Count of Perche, was the son of Geoffrey III, Count of Perche, and Matilda of Saxony, daughter of Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, and Matilda of England. He died young.Only seven whenhis father died, Thomas became Count of Perche under the regency of his mother and her new husband Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy.BiographyIn 1216, the English barons rebelled in the First Barons' War against KingJohn Lackland, and offered the English crown to Louis VIII the Lion, King of France. The death of King John ended this arrangement and the crown went to Henry III, John's son. In the end, Louis VIII renounced theEnglish crown, but in the interim fought the forces of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. In the decisive Battle of Lincoln of 1217, Thomas, the commander of the French forces, was killed.Thomas married HélisendeRethel, daughter of Hugh II, Count of Rethel, and Felicitas, daughter of Simon of Broyes. This union produced no children. His widow remarried Garnier de Traînel, Seigneur de Marigny.Following Thomas's death in1217, King Philip II of France gained control of the castles of Moulins-la-Marche, Bonsmoulin, and Bellême, which had been contested since 1182. Thomas’s uncle William, who was also Bishop of Châlons, succeeded himas the Count of Perche.NotesPassage 6:William II, Count of PercheWilliam II (died 1226), count of Perche and bishop of Châlons, son of Count Rotrou IV of Perche and Matilda, daughter of Count Theobald II ofChampagne and Matilda of Carinthia.William began his career as treasurer and provost of the Church of St. Martin of Tours, and was elected bishop of Chalons in 1215, consecrated in 1216. The following year hebecame count of Perche upon the death of his nephew Thomas in the Battle of Lincoln. As count-bishop, William was a valuable advisor to the kings of France and was listed among those by Pope Honorious III toparticipate in the Albigensian Crusade. His death in February 1226 left the question of the succession to the County of Perche unresolved for years. He left money to his cousin Countess Isabelle of Chartres for the"support of the poor".Passage 7:John Beaufort, 1st Earl of SomersetJohn Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Somerset and 1st Marquess of Dorset, later only 1st Earl of Somerset,  (c. 1373 – 16 March 1410) was an Englishnobleman and politician. He was the first of the four illegitimate children of John of Gaunt (1340–1399) (third surviving son of King Edward III) by his mistress Katherine Swynford, whom he later married in 1396. TheBeaufort children were declared legitimate twice by parliament, first during the reign of King Richard II, in 1397, which was confirmed by Henry IV, as well as by Pope Boniface IX in September 1396. Even though theywere the grandchildren of Edward III and next in the line of succession after their father's legitimate children by his first two wives, the Beauforts were barred from succession to the throne by their half-brother HenryIV.Early lifeBeaufort's surname (properly de Beaufort, "from Beaufort") probably reflects his birthplace at his father's castle and manor of Beaufort ("beautiful stronghold") in Champagne, France. The Portcullis heraldic


Passage 1:Everything's DuckyEverything's Ducky is a 1961 comedy film directed by Don Taylor and written by Benedict Freedman and John Fenton Murray. The film stars Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jackie Cooper,Joanie Sommers, Roland Winters and Elizabeth MacRae. The film was released on December 20, 1961, by Columbia Pictures.PlotTwo sailors sneak a talking duck aboard their ship. Complications ensue. The duckwaddles all over the ship until he escapes.CastMickey Rooney as Kermit 'Beetle' McKayBuddy Hackett as Seaman Admiral John Paul 'Ad' JonesJackie Cooper as Lt. J.S. ParmellJoanie Sommers as Nina LloydRolandWinters as Capt. Lewis BollingerElizabeth MacRae as Susie PenroseGene Blakely as Lt. Cmdr. Bernard KempGordon Jones as Chief Petty Officer ConroyRichard Deacon as Dr. DeckhamJames Millhollin as GeorgeImhoffJimmy Cross as DrunkRobert Williams as Duck HunterKing Calder as FrankEllie Kent as NurseWilliam Hellinger as CorpsmanAnn Morell as WaveGeorge Sawaya as SimmonsDick Winslow as FröehlichAlvy Moore asJim LipscottWalker Edmiston as Scuttlebutt – The DuckPassage 2:Abhishek SaxenaAbhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu. The Phullu movie was released intheaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role. Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film. This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.Life andbackgroundAbhishek Saxena was born on 19 September 1988 in the capital of India, Delhi, whose father's name is Mukesh Kumar Saxena. Abhishek Saxena married Ambica Sharma Saxena on 18 December 2014. Hismother's name is Gurpreet Kaur Saxena.Saxena started his career with a Punjabi film Patiala Dreamz, after which he has also directed a Hindi film Phullu, which has appeared in Indian cinemas on 16 June2017.CareerAbhishek Saxena made his film debut in 2011 as an assistant director on Doordarshan with Ashok Gaikwad. He made his first directed film Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi movie.After this, he has alsodirected a Hindi film Phullu in 2017, which has been screened in cinemas on 16 June 2017. Saxena is now making his upcoming movie "India Gate".In 2018 Abhishek Saxena has come up with topic of body-shaming inhis upcoming movie Saroj ka Rishta. Where Sanah Kapoor will play the role of Saroj and actors Randeep Rai and Gaurav Pandey will play the two men in Saroj's life.Yeh Un Dinon ki Baat Hai lead Randeep Rai will makehis Bollywood debut. Talking about the film, director Abhishek Saxena told Mumbai Mirror, "As a fat person, I have noticed that body-shaming doesn’t happen only with those who are on the heavier side, but also withthin people. The idea germinated from there."Career as an Assistant DirectorApart from this, he has played the role of assistant director in many films and serials in the beginning of his career, in which he has atelevision serial in 2011, Doordarshan, as well as in 2011, he also assisted in a serial of Star Plus.In addition to these serials, he played the role of assistant director in the movie "Girgit" which was made in Telugulanguage.FilmographyAs DirectorPassage 3:G. MarthandanG. Marthandan is an Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema. His debut film is Daivathinte Swantham CleetusEarly lifeG. Marthandan was born toM. S. Gopalan Nair and P. Kamalamma at Changanassery in Kottayam district of Kerala. He did his schooling at NSS Boys School Changanassery and completed his bachelor's degree in Economics at NSS Hindu College,Changanassery.CareerAfter completing his bachelor's degree, Marthandan entered films as an associate director with the unreleased film Swarnachamaram directed by Rajeevnath in 1995. His next work was BritishMarket, directed by Nissar in 1998. He worked as an associate director for 18 years.He made his directional debut with Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus in 2013, starring Mammooty in the lead role. His next movie was in2015, Acha Dhin, with Mammooty and Mansi Sharma in the lead roles. Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus and Paavada were box office successes.FilmographyAs directorAs associate directorAs actorTV serialKanyadanam(Malayalam TV series) - pilot episodeAwardsRamu Kariat Film Award - Paavada (2016)JCI Foundation Award - Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus (2013)Passage 4:Don Taylor (American actor and director)Donald RichieTaylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride,Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), Echoes of a Summer (1976), and Damien: Omen II(1978).BiographyEarly life and workThe son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Taylor, Donald Ritchie Taylor was born in Freeport, Pennsylvania on December 13, 1920. (Another source says that he was born "in Pittsburgh andraised in Freeport, Pa.") He studied speech and drama at Penn State University and hitchhiked to Hollywood in 1942. He was signed as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appeared in small roles. Draftedinto the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II, he appeared in the Air Forces's Winged Victory Broadway play and movie (1944), credited as "Cpl. Don Taylor."Acting careerAfter discharge from theAAF, Taylor was cast in a lead role as the young detective, Jimmy Halloran, working alongside veteran homicide detective Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) in Universal's 1948 screen version of The Naked City, which wasnotable for being filmed entirely on location in New York. Taylor was later part of the ensemble cast in MGM's classic World War II drama Battleground (1949).  He then appeared as the husband of Elizabeth Taylor inthe comedies Father of the Bride (1950) and its sequel Father's Little Dividend (1951), starring Spencer Tracy. Another memorable role was Vern "Cowboy" Blithe in Flying Leathernecks (1951). In 1952, Taylor played asoldier bringing his Japanese war-bride back to small-town America in Japanese War Bride. In 1953, Taylor had a key role as the escaping prisoner Lt. Dunbar in Billy Wilder's Stalag 17. His last major film role came inI'll Cry Tomorrow (1955).Directorial careerFrom the late 1950s through the 1980s, Taylor turned to directing movies and TV shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the short-lived Steve Canyon, starring DeanFredericks, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery.  One of his memorable efforts, in 1973, was the musical film Tom Sawyer, which boasted a Sherman Brothers song score. Other films that Taylor directed are Escape from thePlanet of the Apes (1971), Echoes of a Summer (1976), The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (also 1976), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) starring Burt Lancaster, Damien: Omen II (1978) with William Holden, andThe Final Countdown (1980) with Kirk Douglas.Taylor occasionally performed both acting and directing roles simultaneously, as he did for episodes of the TV detective series Burke's Law.Writing careerTaylor "wroteone-act plays, radio dramas, short stories, and the 1985 TV movie My Wicked, Wicked Ways ... The Legend of Errol Flynn."Personal lifeTaylor was married twice.His first wife was Phyllis Avery, whom he married in1944; they divorced in 1955, but not before the births of their daughters Anne and Avery.His second wife was Hazel Court, whom he married in 1964 and stayed with until his death; they had a son, Jonathan, and adaughter, Courtney.DeathTaylor died on December 29, 1998, at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, of heart failure.AwardsNominee, Best Director – Saturn Awards (The Island of Dr.Moreau) (1977)Nominee, Best Director-Comedy – Emmy Awards (The Farmer's Daughter) (1963)Selected filmography as directorIn addition to his Hollywood credits, Taylor directed 27 television movies and episodesfor 53 television series including Cannon, Rod Serling's Night Gallery, Mod Squad, It Takes a Thief, The Big Valley, The Flying Nun, Vacation Playhouse, The Tammy Grimes Show,  The Wild Wild West, Burke's Law, TheRogues, The Farmer's Daughter, The Lloyd Bridges Show, The Dick Powell Theatre, Dr. Kildare, Checkmate, 87th Precinct, Zane Grey Theater, The Rifleman, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Honky Tonk, andothers.Everything's Ducky (1961)Ride the Wild Surf (1964)Jack of Diamonds (1967)The Five Man Army (1969)Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)Tom Sawyer (1973)Echoes of a Summer (1976)The Great Scout& Cathouse Thursday (1976)The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)Damien: Omen II (1978)The Final Countdown (1980)The Diamond Trap (1988)Selected filmography as actorPassage 5:Brian Kennedy (gallery director)BrianPatrick Kennedy (born 5 November 1961) is an Irish-born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.  He was the director of the Peabody Essex Museumin Salem for 17 months, resigning December 31, 2020. He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019. He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the NationalGallery of Australia (Canberra) from 1997 to 2004.CareerBrian Kennedy currently lives and works in the United States after leaving Australia in 2005 to direct the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In October2010 he became the ninth Director of the Toledo Museum of Art. On 1 July 2019, he succeeded Dan Monroe as the executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum.Early life and career in IrelandKennedy wasborn in Dublin and attended Clonkeen College. He received B.A. (1982), M.A. (1985) and PhD (1989) degrees from University College-Dublin, where he studied both art history and history.He worked in the IrishDepartment of Education (1982), the European Commission, Brussels (1983), and in Ireland at the Chester Beatty Library (1983–85), Government Publications Office (1985–86), and Department of Finance (1986–89).He married Mary Fiona Carlin in 1988.He was Assistant Director at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1989 to 1997. He was Chair of the Irish Association of Art Historians from 1996 to 1997, and of theCouncil of Australian Art Museum Directors from 2001 to 2003. In September 1997 he became Director of the National Gallery of Australia.National Gallery of Australia (NGA)Kennedy expanded the traveling exhibitionsand loans program throughout Australia, arranged for several major shows of Australian art abroad, increased the number of exhibitions at the museum itself and oversaw the development of an extensive multi-mediasite.  Although he oversaw several years of the museum's highest ever annual visitation, he discontinued the emphasis of his predecessor, Betty Churcher, on showing "blockbuster" exhibitions.During his directorship,the NGA gained government support for improving the building and significant private donations and corporate sponsorship. However, the initial design for the building proved controversial generating a public disputewith the original architect on moral rights grounds.  As a result, the project was not delivered during Dr Kennedy's tenure, with a significantly altered design completed some years later.  Private funding supported twoacquisitions of British art, including David Hockney's A Bigger Grand Canyon in 1999, and Lucian Freud's After Cézanne in 2001. Kennedy built on the established collections at the museum by acquiring theHolmgren-Spertus collection of Indonesian textiles; the Kenneth Tyler collection of editioned prints, screens, multiples and unique proofs; and the Australian Print Workshop Archive. He was also notable for campaigningfor the construction of a new "front" entrance to the Gallery, facing King Edward Terrace, which was completed in 2010 (see reference to the building project above).Kennedy's cancellation of the "Sensation exhibition"(scheduled at the NGA from 2 June 2000 to 13 August 2000) was controversial, and seen by some as censorship. He claimed that the decision was due to the exhibition being "too close to the market" implying that anational cultural institution cannot exhibit the private collection of a speculative art investor. However, there were other exhibitions at the NGA during his tenure, which could have raised similar concerns. The exhibitionfeatured the privately owned Young British Artists works belonging to Charles Saatchi and attracted large attendances in London and Brooklyn. Its most controversial work was Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, apainting which used elephant dung and was accused of being blasphemous. The then-mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, campaigned against the exhibition, claiming it was "Catholic-bashing" and an "aggressive,vicious, disgusting attack on religion." In November 1999, Kennedy cancelled the exhibition and stated that the events in New York had "obscured discussion of the artistic merit of the works of art". He has said that it"was the toughest decision of my professional life, so far."Kennedy was also repeatedly questioned on his management of a range of issues during the Australian Government's Senate Estimates process - particularly onthe NGA's occupational health and safety record and concerns about the NGA's twenty-year-old air-conditioning system. The air-conditioning was finally renovated in 2003. Kennedy announced in 2002 that he would notseek extension of his contract beyond 2004, accepting a seven-year term as had his two predecessors.He became a joint Irish-Australian citizen in 2003.Toledo Museum of ArtThe Toledo Museum of Art is known for itsexceptional collections of European and American paintings and sculpture, glass, antiquities, artist books, Japanese prints and netsuke. The museum offers free admission and is recognized for its historical leadership inthe field of art education.  During his tenure, Kennedy has focused the museum's art education efforts on visual literacy, which he defines as "learning to read, understand and write visual language."   Initiatives haveincluded baby and toddler tours, specialized training for all staff, docents, volunteers and the launch of a website, www.vislit.org. In November 2014, the museum hosted the International Visual Literacy Association(IVLA) conference, the first Museum to do so. Kennedy has been a frequent speaker on the topic, including 2010 and 2013 TEDx talks on visual and sensory literacy.Kennedy has expressed an interest in expanding themuseum's collection of contemporary art and art by indigenous peoples. Works by Frank Stella, Sean Scully, Jaume Plensa, Ravinder Reddy and Mary Sibande have been acquired.  In addition, the museum has mademajor acquisitions of Old Master paintings by Frans Hals and Luca Giordano.During his tenure the Toledo Museum of Art has announced the return of several objects from its collection due to claims the objects werestolen and/or illegally exported prior being sold to the museum.  In 2011 a Meissen sweetmeat stand was returned to Germany followed by an Etruscan Kalpis or water jug to Italy (2013), an Indian sculpture ofGanesha (2014) and an astrological compendium to Germany in 2015.Hood Museum of ArtKennedy became Director of the Hood Museum of Art in July 2005. During his tenure, he implemented a series of large andsmall-scale exhibitions and oversaw the production of more than 20 publications to bring greater public attention to the museum's remarkable collections of the arts of America, Europe, Africa, Papua New Guinea andthe Polar regions. At 70,000 objects, the Hood has one of the largest collections on any American college of university campus. The exhibition, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body,toured several US venues. Kennedy increased campus curricular use of works of art, with thousands of objects pulled from storage for classes annually. Numerous acquisitions were made with the museum's generousendowments, and he curated several exhibitions: including Wenda Gu: Forest of Stone Steles: Retranslation and Rewriting Tang Dynasty Poetry, Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, and Frank Stella: IrregularPolygons.PublicationsKennedy has written or edited a number of books on art, including:Alfred Chester Beatty and Ireland 1950-1968: A study in cultural politics, Glendale Press (1988), ISBN978-0-907606-49-9Dreams and responsibilities: The state and arts in independent Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland (1990), ISBN 978-0-906627-32-7Jack B Yeats: Jack Butler Yeats, 1871-1957 (Lives of Irish Artists),Unipub (October 1991), ISBN 978-0-948524-24-0The Anatomy Lesson: Art and Medicine (with Davis Coakley), National Gallery of Ireland (January 1992), ISBN 978-0-903162-65-4Ireland: Art into History (withRaymond Gillespie), Roberts Rinehart Publishers (1994), ISBN 978-1-57098-005-3Irish Painting, Roberts Rinehart Publishers (November 1997),  ISBN 978-1-86059-059-7Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, HoodMuseum of Art (October 2008), ISBN 978-0-944722-34-3Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, 1965-1966, Hood Museum of Art (October 2010), ISBN 978-0-944722-39-8Honors and achievementsKennedy was awarded theAustralian Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to Australian Society and its art. He is a trustee and treasurer of the Association of Art Museum Directors, a peer reviewer for the American Association of Museums and amember of the International Association of Art Critics. In 2013 he was appointed inaugural eminent professor at the University of Toledo and received an honorary doctorate from Lourdes University. Most recently,Kennedy received the 2014 Northwest Region, Ohio Art Education Association award for distinguished educator for art education.== Notes ==Passage 6:M. Krishnan Nair (director)M. Krishnan Nair (2 November 1926 –10 May 2001) was an Indian film director of Malayalam films. He directed over 100 films. He also directed 18 Tamil movie including  four films starring M. G. Ramachandran and two Telugu movies, one each withsuperstars N. T. Rama Rao and Krishna Eminent filmmakers including Hariharan, K. Madhu, S. P. Muthuraman, Bharathiraja and Joshiy apprenticed under him as assistant directors.In 2000, he was honoured with the J.C. Daniel Award, Kerala government's highest honour for contributions to Malayalam cinema.Personal lifeHe was married to K. Sulochana Devi, and had three sons. His eldest son K. Jayakumar is a poet, lyricist and aformer bureaucrat who currently serves as the Vice Chancellor of Malayalam University. His second son is Harikumar, while his youngest son Sreekumar Krishnan Nair is a film director best known for directing O' Faby,India's first live-action/animation hybrid feature film.Selected filmography1987 Kalam Mari Katha Mari1985 Puzhayozhukum Vazhi1984 Manithali1983 Maniyara1983 Paalam1982 Mylanji1982 Oru Kunju Janikkunnu1980Dwik Vijayam1980 Rajaneegandhi1979 Ajnatha Theerangal1979 Kalliyankattu Neeli1979 Oru Raagam Pala Thaalam1978 Ashoka Vanam1978 Aval Kanda Lokam1978 Ithanente Vazhi1978 Rowdy Ramu1978 UrakkomVaraatha Rathrikal1977 Madhura Swapanam1977 Santha Oru Devatha1977 Thaalappoly1977 Yatheem1976 Amma1976 Neela Sari1976 Oorukku Uzhaippavan (Tamil)1974 Suprabhatham1973 Bhadradeepam1973Thottavadi1973 Yamini1973 Thalai Prasavam (Tamil)1972 Manthrakodi1972 Naan Yen Pirandhen (Tamil)1972 Annamitta Kai (Tamil)1971 Rickshawkaran (Tamil)1971 Agnimrigam1971 Tapaswini1970 BheekaraNimishangal1970 Chitti Chellelu (Telugu)1970 Detective 9091970 Palunkupaathram1970 Sabarimala Shri Dharmasastha1970 Tara1970 Vivahitha1969 Anaachadanam1969 Mannippu (Tamil)1969 Jwala1969 MaganeyNee Vazhga (Tamil)1969 Padicha Kallan1968 Circar Express (Telugu)1968 Agni Pareeksha1968 Anchu Sundariakal1968 Inspector1968 Kadal1968 Karthika1968 Paadunna Puzha1968 Muthu Chippi (Tamil)1967Agniputhri1967 Cochin Express1967 Collector Malathy1967 Kaanatha Veshangal1967 Khadeeja1967 Kudumbam (Tamil)1966 Kalithozhan1966 Kalyana Rathriyil1966 Kanaka Chilanga1966 Kusruthy Kuttan1966 PinchuHridhayam1965 Kadathukaran1965 Kathirunna Nikah1965 Kattu Thulasi1965 Kavya Mela1964 Bharthavu1964 Karutha Kai1964 Kutti Kuppayam1963 Kaattu Mynah1962 Viyarpintae Vila1960 Aalukkoru Veedu(Tamil)1955 Aniyathi1955 C.I.DPassage 7:Drew EsocoffDrew Esocoff (born c. 1957) is an American television sports director, who as of 2006 has been the director of NBC Sunday Night Football.Early lifeEsocoff wasborn in Elizabeth, New Jersey, graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1975, later attending Colgate University. While in college he worked as a substitute teacher at Elizabeth High School where one of his


Passage 1:Ann SheridanClara Lou "Ann" Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967) was an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in the films San Quentin (1937) with Humphrey Bogart,Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with James Cagney and Bogart, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Bogart, City for Conquest (1940) with Cagney and Elia Kazan, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) withBette Davis, Kings Row (1942) with Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Male War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.Early lifeClara Lou Sheridan was born in Denton, Texas, on February 21, 1915, theyoungest of five children (Kitty, Pauline, Mabel and George) of garage mechanic George W. Sheridan and Lula Stewart (née Warren). According to Sheridan, her father was a grandnephew of Civil War Union generalPhilip Sheridan.She was active in dramatics at Denton High School and at North Texas State Teachers College. She also sang with the college's stage band and played basketball on the North Texas women's basketballteam. Then, in 1933, Sheridan won the prize of a bit part in an upcoming Paramount film, Search for Beauty, when her sister Kitty entered Sheridan's photograph into a beauty contest.CareerParamountAfter the releaseof Search for Beauty in 1934, Paramount put the 19-year-old under contract at a starting salary of $75 a week ($1,641 today), where she played mostly uncredited bit parts for the next two years. She can be glimpsedin the following 1934 films, and if credited, as Clara Lou Sheridan: Bolero, Come On Marines!, Murder at the Vanities, Shoot the Works, Kiss and Make-Up with Cary Grant, The Notorious Sophie Lang, College Rhythm(directed by Norman Taurog whom Sheridan admired), Ladies Should Listen with Cary Grant, You Belong to Me, Wagon Wheels, The Lemon Drop Kid with Lee Tracy, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Ready for Love,Limehouse Blues with George Raft and Anna May Wong, and One Hour Late.Along with fellow contractees, Sheridan worked with Paramount's drama coach Nina Mouise and performed on the studio lot in such plays asThe Milky Way and The Pursuit of Happiness. While in The Milky Way, Paramount decided to change her first name from Clara Lou to the same as her character Ann.Sheridan was then cast in the film Behold My Wife!(1934) at the behest of director and friend Mitchell Leisen. The role provided two standout scenes for the actress, including one in which her character commits suicide, to which she attributed Paramount's keeping herunder contract.She continued with bit parts in Enter Madame (1935) with Elissa Landi and Cary Grant, Home on the Range (1935) with Randolph Scott and Evelyn Brent, and Rumba (1935) with George Raft and CaroleLombard, until her first lead role in Car 99 (1935), with Fred MacMurray. "No acting, it was just playing the lead, that's all", she later said. She next had a support role as the romantic interest in Rocky Mountain Mystery(1935), a Randolph Scott Western. She then appeared in Mississippi (1935) with Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields, The Glass Key (1935) with George Raft in a brief speaking role for which she was billed as "Nurse" in thecast list at the end of the film, and (having one line) The Crusades (1935) with Loretta Young. In her last picture under her deal with Paramount, the studio loaned her out to Poverty Row production company Talismanto make The Red Blood of Courage (1935) with Kermit Maynard. After this, Paramount declined to renew her contract. Sheridan made Fighting Youth (1935) at Universal and then signed a contract with Warner Bros. in1936.Warner Bros.Sheridan's career prospects began to improve at her new studio. Her early films for Warner Bros. included Sing Me a Love Song (1936); Black Legion (1937) with Humphrey Bogart; The GreatO'Malley (1937) with Pat O'Brien and Bogart, her first real break; San Quentin (1937), with O'Brien and Bogart, singing for the first time in a film; and Wine, Women and Horses (1937) with Barton MacLane.Sheridanmoved into B picture leads: The Footloose Heiress (1937); Alcatraz Island (1937) with John Litel; and She Loved a Fireman (1937) with Dick Foran for director John Farrow. She was a lead in The Patient in Room 18(1937) and its sequel Mystery House (1938). Sheridan was in Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938) with Litel for Farrow and supported Dick Powell in Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938).Universal borrowed her for a support rolein Letter of Introduction (1938) at the behest of director John M. Stahl. For Farrow, she was in Broadway Musketeers (1938), a remake of Three on a Match (1932).Sheridan's notices in Letter of Introduction impressedWarner Bros. executives and she began to get roles in better quality pictures at her own studio starting with Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), wherein she played James Cagney's love interest; Bogart, O'Brien and theDead End Kids had supporting roles. The film was a big hit and critically acclaimed.Sheridan was reunited with the Dead End Kids in They Made Me a Criminal (1938) starring John Garfield. She was third-billed in theWestern Dodge City (1939), playing a saloon owner opposite Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The film was another success.Oomph girlIn March 1939, Warner Bros. announced Sheridan had been voted by acommittee of 25 men as the actress with the most "oomph" in America. "Oomph" was described as "a certain indefinable something that commands male interest".She received as many as 250 marriage proposals fromfans in a single week. Sheridan reportedly loathed the sobriquet that made her a popular pin-up girl in the early 1940s. However, she expressed in a February 25, 1940, news story distributed by the Associated Pressthat she no longer "bemoaned the "oomph" tag." She continued, "But I'm sorry now. I know if it hadn't been for "oomph" I'd probably still be in the chorus."This was later referenced and spoofed on the 1941 animatedshort Hollywood Steps Out.StardomSheridan co-starred with Dick Powell in Naughty but Nice (1939) and played a wacky heiress in Winter Carnival (1939).She was top billed in Indianapolis Speedway (1939) withO'Brien and Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) with the Dead End Kids and Ronald Reagan. Castle on the Hudson (1940) put her opposite Garfield and O'Brien.Sheridan's first real starring vehicle was It All Came True(1940), a musical comedy costarring Bogart and Jeffrey Lynn. She introduced the song "Angel in Disguise".Sheridan and Cagney were reunited in Torrid Zone (1940) with O'Brien in support. She was with George Raft,Bogart and Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940), a smash-hit trucking melodrama. Sheridan was back with Cagney for City for Conquest (1941) and then made Honeymoon for Three (1941), a comedy with GeorgeBrent.Sheridan did two lighter films: Navy Blues (1941), a musical comedy, and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) with Bette Davis, wherein she played a character modeled on Gertrude Lawrence. She then madeKings Row (1942), in which she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field. It was a major success and one of Sheridan's most memorable films.Sheridan and Reagan werereunited for Juke Girl (1942) released about six weeks after Kings Row. She was in the war film Wings for the Eagle (1942) and made a comedy with Jack Benny, George Washington Slept Here (1943). She played aNorwegian resistance fighter in Edge of Darkness (1943) with Errol Flynn and was one of the many Warner Bros., stars who had cameos in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).She was the heroine of a novel, Ann Sheridanand the Sign of the Sphinx, written by Kathryn Heisenfelt and published by Whitman Publishing Company in 1943. While the heroine of the story was identified as a famous actress, the stories were entirely fictitious.The story was probably written for a young teenaged audience and is reminiscent of the adventures of Nancy Drew. It is part of a series known as "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941 and1947 that always featured a film actress as heroine.Sheridan was given the lead in the musical Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944), playing Nora Bayes, opposite Dennis Morgan. She was in a comedy The Doughgirls(1944).Sheridan was absent from screens for over a year, touring with the USO to perform in front of the troops as far afield as China. She returned in One More Tomorrow (1946) with Morgan. She had an excellent rolein the noir Nora Prentiss (1947), which was a hit. It was followed by The Unfaithful (1948), a remake of The Letter, and Silver River (1948), a Western melodrama with Errol Flynn.Leo McCarey borrowed her to supportGary Cooper in Good Sam (1948). She was meant to star in Flamingo Road. She then left Warner Bros., saying: "I wasn't at all satisfied with the scripts they offered me."Freelance starHer role in I Was a Male War Bride(1949), directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, was another success. In 1950, she appeared on the ABC musical television series Stop the Music.She made Stella (1950), a comedy with Victor Mature atFox.In April 1949, she announced she wanted to produce Second Lady, a film based on a story by Eleanore Griffin. She was going to make My Forbidden Past (originally titled Carriage Entrance) at RKO. They fired herand Sheridan sued for $250,000 (equivalent to $3.1 million today) The New York Times reported the amount as $350,000 ($4.3 million today). Sheridan ultimately won $55,162 ($680,000 today).UniversalSheridanmade Woman on the Run (1950), a noir also starring Dennis O'Keefe which she produced. She wanted to make a film called Her Secret Diary.Woman on the Run was distributed by Universal, and Sheridan signed acontract with that studio. While there, she made Steel Town (1952), Just Across the Street (1952), and Take Me to Town (1953), a comedy with Sterling Hayden that was the first film directed by Douglas Sirk in theUnited States.Later careerSheridan starred with Glenn Ford in Appointment in Honduras (1953), directed by Jacques Tourneur. She appeared opposite Steve Cochran in Come Next Spring (1956) and was one of severalstars in MGM's The Opposite Sex (1956), a remake of The Women starring June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Sheridan and Ann Miller. Her last film, Woman and the Hunter (1957), was shot in Africa.Sheperformed in stage tours of Kind Sir (1958) and Odd Man In (1959), and The Time of Your Life at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. In all three shows, she acted with Scott McKay, whom she later married.In 1962, sheplayed the lead in the Western series Wagon Train episode titled "The Mavis Grant Story".In the mid-1960s, Sheridan appeared on the NBC soap opera Another World.Her final role was as Henrietta Hanks in thetelevision comedy Western series Pistols 'n' Petticoats, which was filmed while she became increasingly ill in 1966, and was broadcast on CBS on Saturday nights. The 19th episode of the series, "Beware the Hangman",aired as scheduled on the same day that she died in 1967.For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ann Sheridan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard.Personal lifeSheridanmarried actor Edward Norris August 16, 1936, in Ensenada, Mexico. They separated a year later and divorced in 1939. On January 5, 1942, she married fellow Warner Bros. star George Brent, who co-starred with her inHoneymoon for Three (1941); they divorced exactly one year later. Following her divorce from Brent, she had a long-term relationship with publicist Steve Hannagan that lasted until his death in 1953. Hannaganbequeathed Sheridan $218,399 (equivalent to $2.4 million today).Sheridan engaged in a romantic affair with Mexican actor Rodolfo Acosta, with whom she appeared in 1953's Appointment in Honduras.  She and themarried Acosta shared an apartment in Mexico City for several years, and Sheridan was charged with criminal adultery in Mexican federal court in October, 1956, following an accusation by Acosta's wife, Jeanine CohenAcosta.  Mexican authorities issued a warrant for Sheridan's arrest.  Nothing came of the criminal charges, and the relationship ended c. 1958.On June 5, 1966, Sheridan married actor Scott McKay, who was with herwhen she died, seven months later.Sheridan supported Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential elections.DeathIn 1966, Sheridan began starring in a new television series, a Western-themed comedy called Pistols 'n'Petticoats. She became ill during the filming and died of esophageal cancer with massive liver metastases at age 51 on January 21, 1967, in Los Angeles. She was cremated and her ashes were stored at the Chapel ofthe Pines Crematory in Los Angeles until they were interred in a niche in the Chapel Columbarium at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005.FilmographyRadio appearancesPassage 2:Jack A Cooper (athlete)Jack A.Cooper was a male athlete who competed for England.Athletics careerHe competed for England in the 880 yards at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.Passage 3:H. Bruce HumberstoneH. Bruce "Lucky"Humberstone (November 18, 1901 – October 11, 1984) was an American film director. He was previously a movie actor (as a child), a script clerk, and an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor,Edmund Goulding, and Allan Dwan.Early yearsHumberstone was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Miami Military Academy in Miami, Florida.FilmOne of 28 founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstoneworked on several silent movie films for 20th Century Fox. Humberstone did not specialize; he worked on comedies, dramas, and melodramas. Humberstone is best known today for the seminal film noir I Wake UpScreaming (1941) and his work on some of the Charlie Chan films. In the 1950s, Humberstone worked mostly on TV. He retired in 1966.RecognitionHumberstone has a star on the Hollywood Walk ofFame.DeathHumberstone died of pneumonia in Woodland Hills, California, on October 11, 1984, aged 82, and was buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.Partial filmography asdirectorPassage 4:South Sea SinnerSouth Sea Sinner is a 1950 American adventure film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Macdonald Carey and Shelley Winters. It is a remake of Seven Sinners (1940).Liberace has a small role.PlotA cafe owner on a South Sea island plays a dangerous game of blackmail with a fugitive from justice.CastMacdonald Carey as 'Jake' DavisShelley Winters as CoralLuther Adler asCognacFrank Lovejoy as DocHelena Carter as Margaret LandisArt Smith as GraysonLiberace as MaestroProductionSouth Sea Sinner was known as East of Java during filming. Helena Carter replaced Dorothy Hart. StarMacdonald Carey was borrowed from Paramount.Filming took place in July 1949. Winters was accused of having a number of temperamental outbursts on set including a clash with Helena Carter. Winters admitted tobeing "nervous and tired" after making three films in five months and was "unused" to Humbersome's "close direction during song and dance scenes." She said she had to perform "a suggestive dance" when someexhibitors and their families visit the set and she was upset when an eight-year-old boy filmed her; she asked that he be removed to where she couldn't see him.ReceptionThe New York Times called it a "ridiculouslyromance-soggy film which has about as much South Seas flavour as a roadside papaya bar."Filmink called it "an okay film, not as good as the one it was remaking... most notable for giving a small role to Liberace.Winters gets all the sympathy here... but it is nice to see several scenes where Carter and Winters are friendly to each other...Carter doesn’t seem particularly enthusiastic in this one."Passage 5:Howard HawksHowardWinchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who isnot a household name."  Roger Ebert called Hawks "one of the greatest American directors of pure movies, and a hero of auteur critics because he found his own laconic values in so many different kinds of genrematerial." He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York (1941) and earned the Honorary Academy Award in 1974.A versatile film director, Hawks explored many genres such ascomedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, war films, and westerns. His most popular films include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), ToHave and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959). His frequent portrayals of strong, tough-talkingfemale characters came to define the "Hawksian woman".Early life and backgroundHoward Winchester Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana. He was the first-born child of Frank Winchester Hawks (1865–1950), awealthy paper manufacturer, and his wife, Helen Brown (née Howard; 1872–1952), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers, and his ancestor John Hawks hademigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630. The family eventually settled in Goshen and by the 1890s was one of the wealthiest families in the Midwest, due mostly to the highly profitable Goshen MillingCompany.Hawks's maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard (1845–1916), had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1862 at age 17. Within 15 years he had made his fortune in the town's paper mill and other industrialendeavors. Frank Hawks and Helen Howard met in the early 1890s and married in 1895. Howard Hawks was the eldest of five children, and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks (August 12, 1898 – January 2,1930), William Bellinger Hawks (January 29, 1901 – January 10, 1969), Grace Louise Hawks (October 17, 1903 – December 23, 1927), and Helen Bernice Hawks (1906 – May 4, 1911). In 1898, the family moved backto Neenah where Frank Hawks began working for his father-in-law's Howard Paper Company.Between 1906 and 1909, the Hawks family began to spend more time in Pasadena, California, during the cold Wisconsinwinters in order to improve Helen Hawks's ill health. Gradually, they began to spend only their summers in Wisconsin before permanently moving to Pasadena in 1910. The family settled in a house down the street fromThroop Polytechnic Institute, and the Hawks children began attending the school's Polytechnic Elementary School in 1907. Hawks was an average student and did not excel in sports, but by 1910 had discovered coasterracing, an early form of soapbox racing. In 1911, Hawks's youngest sibling, Helen, died suddenly of food poisoning. From 1910 to 1912, Hawks attended Pasadena High School. In 1912, the Hawks family moved tonearby Glendora, California, where Frank Hawks owned orange groves. Hawks finished his junior year of high school at Citrus Union High School in Glendora. During this time he worked as a barnstorming pilot.He wassent to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire from 1913 to 1914; his family's wealth may have influenced his acceptance to the elite private school. Even though he was 17, he was admitted as a lowermiddleclassman, the equivalent of a sophomore. While in New England, Hawks often attended the theaters in nearby Boston. In 1914, Hawks returned to Glendora and graduated from Pasadena High School that year.Skilled in tennis, by 18 years old, Hawks won the United States Junior Tennis Championship. That same year, Hawks was accepted to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he majored in mechanical engineeringand was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. His college friend Ray S. Ashbury remembered Hawks spending more of his time playing craps and drinking alcohol than studying, although Hawks was also known to be avoracious reader of popular American and English novels in college.While working in the film industry during his 1916 summer vacation, Hawks made an unsuccessful attempt to transfer to Stanford University. Hereturned to Cornell that September, leaving in April 1917 to join the Army when the United States entered World War I. He served as a lieutenant in the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps. During World War I, hetaught aviators to fly, and he used these experiences as influence for future aviation films such as The Dawn Patrol (1930). Like many college students who joined the armed services during the war, he received adegree in absentia in 1918. Before Hawks was called for active duty, he returned to Hollywood and, by the end of April 1917, was working on a Cecil B. DeMille film.CareerEntering films (1916–1925)Howard Hawks's


Passage 1:Daphne and the PirateDaphne and the Pirate is a 1916 American drama film directed by  Christy Cabanne and starring Lillian Gish.CastLillian Gish as Daphne La TourElliott Dexter as Philip de MornayWalter Long as Jamie d'ArcyHoward Gaye as Prince HenriLucille Young as FanchetteRichard Cummings as Francois La TourJack Cosgrave as Duc de MornayJoseph SingletonGeorge C. Pearce (as George Pearce)W. E. LawrencePearl ElmoreJewel Carmen (as Jewell Carman)See alsoLillian Gish filmographyPassage 2:The Dream (1966 film)The Dream or Dream (Serbian: San) is a 1966 Yugoslavian war film directed by Mladomir Puriša Đorđević. It was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.CastLjubiša Samardžić as MaliMihajlo Janketić as DecakOlivera Katarina as Devojka (as Olivera Vuco)Mija Aleksić as CiganinLjuba Tadić as Mile GrkSinisa Ivetić as HeinrichAleksandar Stojković as BerberinBata Živojinović as LazarStole ArandjelovićFaruk Begolli as PetarViktor Starčić as DirigentKarlo Bulić as ProfesorZoran BečićPassage 3:The Pirate (1984 film)The Pirate (French: La Pirate) is a 1984 French drama film directed by Jacques Doillon. It was entered in the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.Plot summaryCastJane Birkin as AlmaMaruschka Detmers as CarolePhilippe Léotard as n° 5Andrew Birkin as Andrew, le mariLaure Marsac as L'enfantMichael Stevens as Concierge de l'hôtelDidier Chambragne as Le coursierArsène Altmeyer as Le taxiPassage 4:Morgan, the PirateMorgan, the Pirate (Italian: Morgan il pirata) is a 1960 Italian-French international co-production historical adventure film, directed by André de Toth and Primo Zeglio, and starring Steve Reeves as Sir Henry Morgan, the pirate who became the Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica.PlotIn 1670, freeborn Englishman, Henry Morgan, is enslaved by the Spaniards in Panama and sold to Doña Inez, daughter of Governor Don José Guzmán. Morgan falls in love with his mistress, much to the dismay of her father, who punishes him by sentencing him to a life of hard labor aboard a Spanish galleon. Morgan leads his fellow slaves in mutiny, takes command of the ship, and becomes a pirate, without knowing that Doña Inez was on board, on her way to Spain. She becomes his prisoner, but spurns him when he declares his love in Tortuga. Not long after, Morgan's daring exploits on the Spanish Main pique the interest of King Charles II of England, and Morgan agrees to attack only Spanish vessels in return for English ships and men. Fearing for the security of Doña Inez, after the pirates discover her identity, he permits her to return to Panama. Once there, she warns Don José of Morgan's planned invasion, and the pirate ships are either easily sunk or routed by the alerted Spanish. Not giving up, Morgan leads his men overland and attacks the city from the rear. The maneuver succeeds, Panama falls to the pirates, and Doña Inez finally admits her love for Morgan.CastSteve Reeves as Sir Henry MorganValérie Lagrange as Doña InezIvo Garrani as Governor Don José GuzmánChelo Alonso as ConcepciónLydia Alfonsi as Doña MaríaArmand Mestral as François l'OlonnaisGiulio Bosetti as Sir Thomas ModyfordAngelo Zanolli as DavidGeorge Ardisson as WalterReleaseMorgan, the Pirate was released in Italy on 17 November 1960. It was released in the United States on 6 July 1961 with a 93-minute running time.ReceptionTurner Classic Movies' Jeff Stafford writes, "Largely due to de Toth's direction, Morgan the Pirate is a lively, fast-paced entertainment with moments of tongue-in-cheek humor that is several notches in quality above the usual turgid, Italian-made spectacle. The striking cinematography, filmed in garish Eastmancolor, is by the award-winning Tonino Delli Colli who has lensed such art house classics as Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Marco Bellocchio's China Is Near (1967), and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). And the amusing, Ravel-inspired score by Franco Mannino strikes the perfect mock-epic tone. Among the more memorable set pieces are an exotic voodoo dance performed by Cuban sex bomb Chelo Alonso (a former dancer at the Folies Bergère in Paris), a battle at sea in which Morgan's men, disguised as women, storm a Spanish galleon in full drag, and the bloody, climactic sacking of Panama with shootings, stabbings and explosions galore."Passage 5:Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem AstaPrem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asta (Marathi:      ) is a Marathi drama film released on 19 April 2013. Produced by Sachin Parekar and directed by Mrinal Dev-Kulkarni. The film stars are Mrinal Dev-Kulkarni, Sachin Khedekar, Pallavi Joshi, Sunil Barve, Suhas Joshi, Mohan Agashe and Smita Talwalkar. The film's music is by Milind Ingle and Surel Ingle.The film is based on the connection between love and marriage.PlotThe movie is a heart-warming story of two different individuals who at one point in their lives were married. A single mother along with her two daughters live with her mother-in-law. Her husband had abandoned them 4 years ago, but staying in the same city had never bothered to check on his family. The only thing he did in those 4 years was to send divorce papers, which his wife has not signed.Other side of the story revolves around a doctor who is a father to two kids. His ex-wife had to choose between staying home with family or career in USA and she chose career. But she never let the divorce hamper the relation she shares with her ex-husband. But this incident had definitely made her ex-husband depressed and alone.One eventful day at their kids school gets them together and a conversation begins, which blooms into something amazing. Until there is a twist in the tale.CastMrinal Dev-KulkarniSachin KhedekarPallavi JoshiSunil BarveSuhas JoshiMohan AgasheSmita TalwalkarRitika ShrotriCrewDirector - Mrinal Dev-KulkarniStory - Mrinal Dev-KulkarniProducer - Sachin ParekarCinematographer - Amlendu ChaudharyArt Director - Vinod Gunaji and Nitin BorkarMusic Director - Milind Ingle and Surel IngleLyricist - Kishore KadamSoundtrackThe music has been directed by Milind Ingle and Surel Ingle, while the lyrics have been provided by Kishore Kadam.Track listingPassage 6:The Pirate's DreamThe Pirate's Dream (Italian: Il pirata sono io!) is a 1940 Italian film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Erminio Macario.PlotThe setting is Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to have the island assaulted from a mock pirate ship. The plan is to have a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea. The trouble is that the pirates really come...CastErminio Macario as JoséJuan de Landa as Bieco de la MuerteEnzo Biliotti as Il governatoreDora Bini as OliviaMario Siletti as Il viceréCarmen Navasqués as La viceregina (as Carmen Navascues)Agnese Dubbini as La nutriceKatiuscia Odinzova as LupitaCarlo Rizzo as PedroTino Scotti as Il barbierePassage 7:A Dream or Two AgoA Dream or Two Ago is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by James Kirkwood and starring Mary Miles Minter. It is one of approximately a dozen of Minter's films known to have survived. The film was restored in 2004 and was shown along with The Innocence of Lizette (1916) at a Dutch film festival.PlotAs described in Motography magazine:The mother of Millicent Hawthorne prefers society to home life and neglects her daughter. One day the child, then about five years old, runs away, intending to buy a gift for her mother. She is injured when a gang of thieves break into the jewelry store. Unable to remember her name or address, she is cared for by Mother Gumph, leader of the gang. In this environment she grows up, becoming a pickpocket of some ability. She is happy in this life and only in dreams remembers dimly another existence.One night she aids the gang in robbing the Hawthorne home, and at the sight of the familiar rooms she is puzzled but still unable to remember.In the meantime, her mother, overcome by remorse after her child is lost, gives up her frivolous diversions and devotes her time to charity. Her father, on the contrary, becomes the owner of a notorious café which he manages through Kraft. One day Kraft meets Millicent and offers her a position as a dancer. The first evening she dances Mrs. Hawthorne, on a tour of investigation, enters the place and is saddened at conditions.That evening Mrs. Hawthorne learns who really owns the café, and begs her husband to give it up, telling him of the pathetic little dancer she saw there. He refuses but changes his mind when a little later word is brought from a dying member of the gang of the real identity of Millicent and he knows that the dancer is his own daughter. Millicent is rescued from Kraft and through an operation her memory is restored. And only as a dream does she remember her career as a thief.CastMary Miles Minter - Millicent HawthorneDodo Newton - Millicent (age 5)Lizette Thorne - Her MotherClarence Burton - Her FatherJohn Gough - HumpyOrral Humphrey - KraftGertrude Le BrandtPassage 8:The Pirate and the Slave GirlThe Pirate and the Slave Girl (Italian: La scimitarra del Saraceno, also known as  The Pirate's Captive) is a 1959 Italian  adventure film written and directed  by Piero Pierotti and starring Lex Barker.PlotCaptain Drakut, called the "Dragon", is a ruthless Saracen pirate who makes the Mediterranean unsafe with his ship. On his forays he hijacks ships and kidnaps the women captured on the ships in order to later sell them as slaves to Turkish human traffickers in North Africa. The rogue pirate only becomes weak when it comes to one woman: the glow-eyed princess Miriam, ruler of a desert tribe of Arabs. One day, Drakut makes a crucial mistake when he raids the "San Luca" and kidnaps Bianca, who is traveling with him. She is the daughter of the governor of Rhodes, which currently belongs to the Republic of Venice. There were also several secret papers from the Doge of Venice on board. The governor is in dire need, as he has to assume that his Bianca could also be bartered away to some lecherous Arab despot. But he is lucky in his misfortune, because a certain Roberto Diego, a notorious adventurer and son of the once feared "Red Corsair", offers his father his help.  Diego has just been sentenced to incarceration because of high debts, but is willing to risk his life to save the beautiful little daughter and the secret documents for the good of Bianca and the Doge of Venice if his sentence is released. However, the governor has no idea that Roberto has very personal motives for bringing himself up as a rescuer and liberator. Because Roberto still has a score to settle with Drakut: He was once responsible for the death of Roberto's father. The governor agrees to this bargain, and Diego joins Drakut's crew on board. In the Catalan painter Francesco he found his only ally. As a newcomer on board, Roberto has to be very careful because people are very suspicious of him. When he tries to flirt with Bianca, Drakut's right hand man, the brutal Gamal, notices and flogs the Red Corsair's son. Soon, the general emotional chaos puts the whole rescue operation in danger, because Roberto falls in love with Drakut's hostage Bianca, while Miriam, the pirate captain's lover, falls in love with Roberto.     Arriving on North Africa's shores, Drakut travels on to an oasis. Miriam is the sole ruler here so far. Drakut, who once owed her his life, also has other reasons for being on good terms with Miriam, since he hopes to rule over her desert kingdom one day. In order to get rid of the annoying competitor for the favor of the exotic beauty, Drakut uses an opportunity to let Roberto die of thirst on the way to the oasis. But he is brave and tough enough to fight his way through to the saving goal. Diego begins to play a double game: on the one hand he loves the kidnapped Bianca, but he also keeps Miriam warm because he needs her help for his plan to finally put an end to Drakut.  In fact, Roberto's battle plan succeeds: he can save the kidnapped girls from the hands of greedy Turkish slave traders, wins Bianca's heart en passant and achieves that Drakut sinks in the sea with his pirate ship, which is set on fire, together with Miriam, who was killed in battle.CastLex Barker as The Dragon DrakutChelo Alonso as Princess MiriamMassimo Serato as Roberto DiegoGraziella Granata as  BiancaLuigi Tosi  as FranciscoBruno Corelli as  SelimMichele Malaspina as Gouvernor of RhodesAnna Arena as  ZairaEnzo Maggio as  CandelaDaniele Vargas as  GamalFranco Fantasia as  Captain VolanIgnazio BalsamoUbaldo LayGianni RizzoUgo SassoErminio SpallaAmedeo TrilliPassage 9:The Wonderful World of Captain KuhioThe Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio (, Kuhio Taisa, lit. "Captain Kuhio") is a 2009 Japanese comedy-crime film, directed by Daihachi Yoshida, based on Kazumasa Yoshida's 2006 biographical novel, Kekkon Sagishi Kuhio Taisa (lit. "Marriage swindler Captain Kuhio"), that focuses on a real-life marriage swindler, who conned over 100 million yen (US$1.2 million) from a number of women between the 1970s and the 1990s.The film was released in Japan on 10 October 2009.CastMasato Sakai - Captain KuhioYasuko Matsuyuki - Shinobu NaganoHikari Mitsushima - Haru YasuokaYuko Nakamura - Michiko SudoHirofumi Arai - Tatsuya NaganoKazuya Kojima - Koichi TakahashiSakura Ando - Rika KinoshitaMasaaki Uchino - Chief FujiwaraKanji Furutachi - Shigeru KurodaReila AphroditeSei AndoAwardsAt the 31st Yokohama Film FestivalBest Actor – Masato SakaiBest Supporting Actress – Sakura AndoPassage 10:TPB AFKTPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is a 2013 Swedish documentary film directed and produced by Simon Klose. It focuses on the lives of the three founders of The Pirate Bay – Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Gottfrid Svartholm – and the Pirate Bay trial. Filming began sometime in 2008, and concluded on 28 February 2012.ProductionThe film's website was launched on 28 August 2010, along with a Kickstarter campaign to raise US$25,000 to hire an editor after the Court of Appeal trial. The campaign was fully funded within three days and raised $51,424 in total. In February 2011, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Swedish: Konstnärsnämnden) granted the project an additional 200,000 SEK (≈$30,000).ReleaseThe full film was released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license onto The Pirate Bay, YouTube, and other BitTorrent sites. Additionally, a four-minute shorter version with certain copyright restricted content removed was released at the same time under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license to allow remixing.TPB AFK premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on 8 February 2013 – opening the festival's 'Panorama Dokumente' section – coinciding with its free online release on YouTube and The Pirate Bay.On 19 February 2013, the film was broadcast on BBC Four in the UK as part of the BBC's Storyville documentary series.ReceptionPeter Sunde, one of the subjects of the documentary, wrote that he has "mixed feelings about the movie and the release of it". Whilst he likes the technical side of the documentary, he has issues with some scenes and general attitude of the documentary; this includes too much focus put on the trial, too dark depiction of it, and portraying himself beyond self-recognition. Despite having such different views on the subject, he regards the director as a friend.Censorship by HollywoodIn May 2013, Hollywood studios – such as Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate – started to censor Google Search links pointing to the documentary, an action criticized by Simon Klose. In June, after the initial controversy, HBO and Lionsgate sent additional bogus DMCA takedown notices to Google requesting the removal of links related to TPB AFK. In response, Simon Klose contacted Chilling Effects, who recommended him to file a DMCA counter-notice once he had found out whether Google had taken down the links or not. Two months later, the censored links were reinstated only after public complaints made by Klose.See alsoGood Copy Bad CopyPiracy is theftMay 2006 police raid of The Pirate BayRiP!: A Remix ManifestoSteal This Film


Passage 1:Nancy BurneNancy Burne (23 December 1907 – 25 March 1954) was an English stage and film actress.Born in Chorlton, Lancashire, she began her film career at British International Pictures, starringalongside comedians such as Gene Gerrard, Stanley Lupino and Will Hay. Most of her subsequent screen appearances were as a leading lady in quota quickies.She starred alongside John Loder in the 1935 romanticcomedy It Happened in Paris, which marked Carol Reed's debut as director. In 1937 she had a supporting role in the independent film Thunder in the City, an expensive drama starring Edward G. Robinson which was amajor financial and critical failure. Her final screen appearance was in the 1939 horseracing film Flying Fifty-Five.FilmographyThe Love Nest (1933)The Butterfly Affair (1933)Facing the Music (1933)The Warren Case(1934)Irish Hearts (1934)Song at Eventide (1934)Dandy Dick (1935)Lend Me Your Husband (1935)Trust the Navy (1935)Once a Thief (1935)Old Roses (1935)It Happened in Paris (1935)Reasonable Doubt (1936)AWife or Two (1936)Royal Eagle (1936)Skylarks (1936)Knights for a Day (1937)Thunder in the City (1937)John Halifax (1938)Flying Fifty-Five (1939)Passage 2:The Flying Fifty-Five (1924 film)The Flying Fifty-Five is a1924 British silent sports film directed by A. E. Coleby and starring Lionelle Howard, Frank Perfitt and Lionel d'Aragon. It is based on a 1922 novel of the same title by Edgar Wallace, and was remade as a sound film in1939.CastLionelle Howard as Reggie CambreyStephanie Stephens as Stella BarringtonBrian B. Lemon as Lord FountwellFrank Perfitt as Joanh UrquhartLionel d'Aragon as Sir Jacques GregoryBert Darley as HonourableClaude BarringtonAdeline Hayden Coffin as AuntJohn Alexander as JebsonJohnny ButtAnnie EsmondFurther readingLow, Rachael. The History of the British Film 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.Passage 3:TheFlying Fifty-FiveThe Flying Fifty-Five may refer to:The Flying Fifty-Five (1924 film), a British silent sports filmFlying Fifty-Five, a 1939 British sports drama filmPassage 4:2001–02 UEFA Champions League second groupstageIn the second group stage of the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, eight winners and eight runners-up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams, each containing two group winnersand two runners-up. Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.SeedingSeeding was determined bythe UEFA coefficients and participants' first group stage positions. Four best-ranked group winners were seeded in Pot 1, the remaining four in Pot 2. Group runners-up were seeded to Pots 3 and 4accordingly.Tie-breaking criteriaBased on Article 7.06 in the UEFA regulations, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria will be applied to determine therankings:higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;higher number of goalsscored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;superior goal difference from all group matches played;higher number of goals scored;higher number of coefficient points accumulatedby the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.GroupsGroup AGroup BGroup CGroup DNotesPassage 5:Jane PiersonJane Pierson was a French film actress. She appeared in fifty fivefilms between 1924 and 1952.Selected filmographyThe Imaginary Voyage (1926)Captain Rascasse (1927)The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927)Little Devil May Care (1928)The Maelstrom of Paris (1928)TheWonderful Day (1929)Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)Everybody Wins (1930)Le Million (1931)You Will Be My Wife (1932)Youth (1933)La tête d'un homme (1933)Forty Little Mothers (1936)The Brighton Twins(1936)Fire in the Straw (1939)The Stairs Without End  (1943)Passage 6:Flying Fifty-FiveFlying Fifty-Five is a 1939 British sports-drama film directed by Reginald Denham and starring  Derrick De Marney, Nancy Burne,Marius Goring, John Warwick and Peter Gawthorne. It was made by Admiral Films at Welwyn Studios. The film is based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace which had previously been made into a 1924silent film The Flying Fifty-Five.PlotAfter being disinherited by his wealthy father, an amateur jockey, Bill Urquhart goes to work under an assumed name (Bill Hart) at a rural racing stables owned and run by StellaBarrington and her drunken brother, Charles, who is an old friend of Bill's. Confusion arises when Bill is mistakenly reported to have been murdered.Partial castDerrick De Marney as Bill UrquhartNancy Burne as StellaBarringtonMarius Goring as Charles BarringtonJohn Warwick as JebsonPeter Gawthorne as Jonas UrquhartD. A. Clarke-Smith as Jacques GregoryAmy Veness as Aunt ElizaRonald Shiner as Scrubby OaksBilly Bray asCheerfulFrancesca Bahrle as ClareTerry-Thomas as Young manNorman Pierce as CreditorBasil McGrail as JockeySee alsoThe Flying Fifty-Five (1924)List of films about horse racingPassage 7:ApproachingMidnightApproaching Midnight is a 2013 American independent drama film directed, written, and produced by Sam Logan Khaleghi, and starring Jana Kramer, Sam Logan Khaleghi, Brandon T. Jackson, and Mia Serafino.Approaching Midnight was filmed in Michigan, United States.PremiseA U.S. Army staff sergeant (Sam Logan Khaleghi) fights the threat of corruption and deception in his hometown after returning from battle.CastJanaKramer.... AspenSam Logan Khaleghi.... Staff Sergeant Wesley KentBrandon T Jackson.... Corporal Artie AJ CulpepperMia Serafino.... WhisperJeff Stetson.... Mayor Steven MalvernePatrick Sarniak.... Malverne'sAttorneyProductionDevelopmentApproaching Midnight is directed, written, and directed by Sam Logan Khaleghi. Khaleghi chose to film Approaching Midnight in Michigan because he loves the state and wanted to featurethe amazing architecture and geography. American Legion members were a part of making the film as they stood in as extras and an American Legion honor guard appears in the film.FilmingApproaching Midnight wasfilmed in Detroit, Farmington, and West Bloomfield, Michigan. The war sequences in the movie were filmed in Milan near Ann Arbor.ReleaseIn July 2013, Monterey Media bought the United States distribution rights andwill release the film in the United States in Fall 2013. Approaching Midnight had its world theatrical premiere on August 27, 2013 at Emagine Royal Oak. The film was also released at the American Legion NationalConvention in Houston, Texas.Passage 8:Jackie ParisCarlo Jackie Paris (September 20, 1924 – June 17, 2004) was an American jazz singer and guitarist. He is best known for his recordings of "Skylark" and "'RoundMidnight" from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.Music careerEarly yearsParis was born and raised in Nutley, New Jersey, to an Italian-American family, where he attended Nutley High School. His uncle Chick had beena guitarist with Paul Whiteman's orchestra. Paris was a popular child entertainer in vaudeville who shared the stage with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and the Mills Brothers. He tap danced from his youth and into his yearsin the US Army.After serving in the army during World War II, he was inspired by his friend Nat King Cole to assemble a trio featuring himself on guitar and vocals. The Jackie Paris Trio was a hit at the Onyx Club onNew York's 52nd Street.Recording and performingHe recorded from the 1940s into the 2000s. His albums include Songs by Jackie Paris (EmArcy), Jackie Paris Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (Time), and The Song IsParis (Impulse!). The first song that he recorded was "Skylark", on one of two sessions made by his trio for MGM Records in 1947. He recorded Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight", which was produced by the criticLeonard Feather and featured a young Dick Hyman on piano.In 1949, he toured with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and was invited to join Duke Ellington's Orchestra, but he was too exhausted to take it. Paris was partof the Lionel Hampton Orchestra that played at the famed Cavalcade of Jazz in Los Angeles at Wrigley Field which was produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on July 10, 1949. They did a second concert at Lane Field in San Diegoon September 3, 1949. He was the only vocalist to tour as a regular member of the Charlie Parker Quintet. Unfortunately, no recordings exist of the Parker–Paris combination, but there is a photograph of the twoworking together. He worked often with Charles Mingus, who called Paris his favorite singer and recorded with him often, including 1952's "Paris in Blue" and "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love" on the album Changes Twoin 1974.During the 1960s–70s, Paris frequently performed with his wife at the time Anne Marie Moss.Paris performed or recorded with Bobby Scott, Charlie Shavers, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Donald Byrd,Eddie Costa, Gigi Gryce, Hank Jones, Joe Wilder, Johnny Mandel, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, Neal Hefti, Oscar Pettiford, Ralph Burns, Terry Gibbs, Tony Scott, and Wynton Kelly.A documentary about him, 'Tis Autumn: TheSearch for Jackie Paris came out in 2006.RecognitionHe won many jazz polls and awards, including those of Down Beat, Playboy, Swing Journal, and Metronome. In 1953, he was named Best New Male Vocalist of theYear in the first Down Beat Critics Poll. The winning female vocalist was Ella Fitzgerald, who repeatedly named Paris as one of her favorites.In 2001, Paris played to a standing room crowd – and to a standing ovation –at New York's Birdland jazz club in Times Square. He was virtually the only performer to have appeared at every incarnation of the famed night spot, from the legendary Birdland of the 1950s to the present.He waspraised by comic Lenny Bruce, who shared the bill with him on many occasions. Bruce said, "I dig his talent. The audience loves him and he gets laughs. He is too much!"Awards and honorsNew Star Male Vocalist, DownBeat Critics Poll, 1953Best Male Vocalist, Playboy Musicians & Critics Poll, 1957–1961Gold Disc Award, Lucky to Be Me, Swing Journal, 1989DiscographySongs by Jackie Paris (Wing, 1956)Skylark (Brunswick, 1957)TheJackie Paris Sound (EastWest, 1958)The Song Is Paris (Impulse!, 1962)Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (Time, 1962)Live at the Maisonette with Anne Marie Moss (Differant Drummer, 1975)Jackie Paris (Audiophile,1981)Nobody Else but Me (Audiophile, 1988)Lucky to Be Me (EmArcy, 1989)Love Songs (EmArcy, 1990)The Intimate Jackie Paris (Hudson, 2001)Passage 9:55 (number)55 (fifty-five) is the natural number following 54and preceding 56.Mathematics55 is a triangular number (the sum of the consecutive numbers 1 to 10), and a doubly triangular number.the 10th Fibonacci number.  It is the largest Fibonacci number to also be atriangular number.a square pyramidal number (the sum of the squares of the integers 1 to 5) as well as a heptagonal number, and a centered nonagonal number.In base 10, it is a Kaprekar number.55 is a multiple of 5and 11, 5 being the prime index of 11.ScienceThe atomic number of caesium.AstronomyMessier object M55, a magnitude 7.0 globular cluster in the constellation SagittariusThe New General Catalogue object NGC 55, amagnitude 7.9 barred spiral galaxy in the constellation SculptorMusicThe name of a song by Kasabian. The song was released as a B side to Club Foot and was recorded live when the band performed at London's BrixtonAcademy."55", a song by Mac Miller"I Can't Drive 55", a song by Sammy Hagar"Ol' '55", a song by Tom WaitsOl' 55 (band), an Australian rock band.Primer 55 an American bandStation 55, an album released in 2005 byCristian Vogel55 Cadillac, an album by Andrew W.K.TransportationIn the United States, the National Maximum Speed Law prohibited speed limits higher than 55 miles per hour (90 km/h) from 1974 to 1987Film55 Daysat Peking a film starring Charlton Heston and David NivenYearsAD 5555 BC175518551955Other usesGazeta 55, an Albanian newspaperAgitation and Propaganda against the State, also known as Constitution law 55, alaw during Communist Albania.The code for international direct dial phone calls to BrazilA 55-gallon drum for containing oil, etc.The Élysée, the official residency of the French Republic president, which address is 55 ruedu Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in Paris.See also55th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation)Channel 55 (disambiguation)Type 55 (disambiguation)Class 55 (disambiguation)List of highways numbered 55Passage 10:The FlyingFifty-Five (1924 film)The Flying Fifty-Five is a 1924 British silent sports film directed by A. E. Coleby and starring Lionelle Howard, Frank Perfitt and Lionel d'Aragon. It is based on a 1922 novel of the same title by EdgarWallace, and was remade as a sound film in 1939.CastLionelle Howard as Reggie CambreyStephanie Stephens as Stella BarringtonBrian B. Lemon as Lord FountwellFrank Perfitt as Joanh UrquhartLionel d'Aragon as SirJacques GregoryBert Darley as Honourable Claude BarringtonAdeline Hayden Coffin as AuntJohn Alexander as JebsonJohnny ButtAnnie EsmondFurther readingLow, Rachael. The History of the British Film 1918-1929.George Allen & Unwin, 1971.