Wes Anderson. UNICEF Tap Project. Websites That Make You Smarter. Wakerupper - The Web's Easiest Telephone Reminder. Elite Daily | The Voice of Generation Y. Leslie Nielsen. Leslie William Nielsen, OC (11 February 1926 – 28 November 2010) was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.[1][2] Nielsen appeared in more than one hundred films and 150 television programs over the span of his career, portraying more than 220 characters.[3] Although Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and films, his deadpan delivery in Airplane! Marked a turning point in his career, one that would make him, in the words of film critic Roger Ebert, "the Olivier of spoofs.
"[4] Nielsen enjoyed further success with The Naked Gun film series, based on an earlier short-lived television series Police Squad! In which he also starred. Nielsen's portrayal of comedic characters seemingly oblivious to (and complicit in) their absurd surroundings gave him a reputation as a comedian.[5] Nielsen was recognized with a variety of awards throughout his career, and was inducted into the Canada and Hollywood Walks of Fame. Early life[edit] Career[edit] Early career[edit] Werner Herzog. Werner Herzog Stipetić (German: [ˈʋɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk ˈstɪpɛtɪt͡ʃ]; born 5 September 1942), known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actor and opera director. Herzog is considered one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders.
Herzog's films often feature heroes with impossible dreams,[1] people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.[2] French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive. "[3] American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons or uninteresting. Early life[edit] Herzog was born Werner Herzog Stipetić in Munich, to a German father, Dietrich Herzog, and a Croatian mother,[5] Elizabeth Stipetić. Career[edit] Film theory[edit] Cast[edit] Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick (/ˈkuːbrɪk/; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor who did much of his work in the United Kingdom. Part of the New Hollywood film-making wave, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time.
His films, typically adaptations of novels or short stories, are noted for their "dazzling" and unique cinematography, attention to detail in the service of realism, and the evocative use of music. Kubrick's films covered a variety of genres, including war, crime, literary adaptations, romantic and black comedies, horror, epic, and science fiction. Kubrick was also noted for being a demanding perfectionist, using painstaking care with scene staging, camera-work and coordinating extremely closely both with his actors and his behind-scenes collaborators. Early life[edit] Kubrick as an infant with his father, Jack Photographic career[edit] Film career[edit] Short films[edit] R. A.I. Hilary Mantel. Harlan Ellison. Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison (1986) Born Harlan Jay Ellison ( 1934-05-27 ) May 27, 1934 (age 78) Cleveland , Ohio [ 1 ] Pen name Cordwainer Bird Nalrah Nosille Sley Harson [ 2 ] Paul Merchant Occupation Author, screenwriter Nationality American Genres Speculative fiction , Science fiction , Fantasy , Crime , Mystery , Horror , film and television criticism , essayist Literary movement New Wave Notable work(s) (Editor) A Boy and His Dog Spouse(s) Charlotte B.
Billie Joyce Sanders (1960-1963; divorced) Loretta (Basham) Patrick (1966; divorced) Lori Horowitz (1976-c. 1977; divorced) Susan Anne Toth (m. 1986) harlanellison.com/home.htm (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His published works include over 1,700 short stories , novellas , screenplays , teleplays , essays , a wide range of criticism covering literature , film, television, and print media. . [ edit ] Early life and career Ellison attended Ohio State University for 18 months (1951–53) before being expelled. . [ edit ] Hollywood and beyond [ edit ] Elliot S. Maggin. L. Frank Baum. Childhood and early life[edit] Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856, into a devout Methodist family. He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood.[2][3] He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by his middle name, "Frank".[4] Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, a barrel maker who ultimately made a fortune in the Pennsylvania oil rush.
Baum grew up on his parents' expansive estate, Rose Lawn, which he always remembered fondly as a sort of paradise.[5] As a young child, he was tutored at home with his siblings, but at the age of 12, he was sent to study at Peekskill Military Academy. He was a sickly child given to daydreaming, and his parents may have thought he needed toughening up. Baum started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing. Will Eisner. William Erwin "Will" Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series The Spirit (1940–1952) was noted for its experiments in content and form.
In 1978, he popularized the term "graphic novel" with the publication of his book A Contract with God. He was an early contributor to formal comics studies with his book Comics and Sequential Art (1985). The Eisner Award was named in his honor, and is given to recognize achievements each year in the comics medium; he was one of the three inaugural inductees to the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Biography[edit] Family background[edit] Eisner's father Shmuel "Samuel" Eisner was born March 6, 1886, in Kollmei, Austria-Hungary, and was one of eleven children.
Eisner's mother, Fannie Ingber, was born to Jewish parents from Romania April 25, 1891, on a ship bound for the US. Early life[edit] Albert Camus. Albert Camus (French: [albɛʁ kamy] ( Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as one, even during his own lifetime.[1] In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked...
".[2] Camus was born in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family, and studied at the University of Algiers. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis's Citizens of the World movement.[3] The formation of this group, according to Camus, was intended to "denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA" regarding their idolatry of technology.[4] Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times".[5] Early years[edit] Marriages[edit]
E. F. Schumacher. Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades.[1] His ideas became popularized in much of the English-speaking world during the 1970s. He is best known for his critique of Western economies and his proposals for human-scale, decentralized and appropriate technologies. According to The Times Literary Supplement, his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered is among the 100 most influential books published since World War II,[2] and was soon translated into many languages, bringing him international fame.
Schumacher's basic development theories have been summed up in the catch-phrases Intermediate Size and Intermediate Technology. Early life[edit] Schumacher was born in Bonn, Germany in 1911. His father was a professor of political economy. Economist[edit] James Baldwin. James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
Baldwin's essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.[1] Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). Early life[edit] When Baldwin was an infant, his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, divorced his father amid his drug abuse and moved to the Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City.
There, she married a preacher, David Baldwin. The family was very poor. James spent much time caring for his several younger brothers and sisters. His stepfather died of tuberculosis in summer of 1943 soon before James turned 19. Schooling[edit] Religion[edit] Greenwich Village[edit] The Strokes. The Strokes are an American rock band formed in New York City in 1998, consisting of Julian Casablancas (lead vocals), Nick Valensi (guitar, backing vocals), Albert Hammond, Jr.
(guitar, backing vocals), Nikolai Fraiture (bass guitar) and Fabrizio Moretti (drums, percussion). Upon the release of their debut album Is This It in 2001, the group met wide critical acclaim.[5] Since then, the band has maintained a fan base in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Ireland, Canada, France, Brazil and Australia[citation needed]. A number of members have embarked on a variety of side projects, though they regrouped for a fifth album, titled Comedown Machine, released on March 26, 2013.[6] They have sold over 5 million albums. [7] They are one of the many indie rock bands to hail from the US at the dawn of the 21st century and helped augment the garage rock revival movement. History[edit] Beginnings and The Modern Age EP (1998–2001)[edit] Dazz Band. History[edit] Kinsman Dazz was signed to 20th Century Records by Joe Lewis[disambiguation needed] in 1978. The group went to Los Angeles to record for producer Marvin Gaye.
Due to illness, Gaye had to back out of the duties. Bobby Harris requested and got Philip Bailey, the vocalist of Earth, Wind & Fire, to produce the group's first album, Kinsman Dazz. Bailey would co-produce the second album, Dazz, and had a major input into the group's vocal arrangements. The Kinsman Dazz became the Dazz Band in 1980. After Keep It Live, the band recorded the albums On the One, Joystick, Jukebox and Hot Spot, all for Motown. 1990s revival[edit] Members[edit] Current members[edit] Bobby Harris - saxophone, clarinet, background vocalsSennie Skip Martin - trumpet, vocalsMarlon McClain - vocals and guitars Past members[edit] Juan LivelyJerry BellSteve CoxPierre DeMuddEric FearmanKeith HarrisonKenny PettusTerry StantonMichael WileyIsaac Wiley, JrDerrick MurdockMichael CalhounKevin Kendrick Discography[edit] Jackie Wilson. Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American singer and performer. Known as "Mr.
Excitement", Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was considered a master showman, and one of the most dynamic and influential singers and performers in R&B and rock n' roll history.[1][2] Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, he went solo in 1957 and recorded over 50 hit singles that spanned R&B, pop, soul, doo-wop and easy listening.
During a 1975 benefit concert, he collapsed on stage from a heart attack and subsequently fell into a coma that persisted for nearly nine years until his death in 1984, at the age of 49. A two-time Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee, Wilson was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.[3] In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jackie Wilson #69 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[4] Early years and career[edit] Death[edit] Ray Charles. Rolling Stone ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004,[9] and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".[10] In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley.[11]" Early life[edit] Ray Charles Robinson was the son of Aretha (William) Robinson,[12] a sharecropper, and Bailey Robinson, a railroad repair man, mechanic and handyman.[13] Aretha was a devout Christian and the family attended the New Shiloh Baptist Church.[12] When Ray was an infant, his family moved from Albany, Georgia, where he was born, to the poor black community on the western side of Greenville, Florida.
In his early years, Charles showed a curiosity for mechanical things and he often watched the neighborhood men working on their cars and farm machinery. His musical curiosity was sparked at Mr. Career[edit] Early career[edit] Atlantic Records[edit] Max Richter. Max Richter (born January 21 1966) is a British composer. Early career[edit] Solo work[edit] Memoryhouse (2002)[edit] In 2002, Richter released his solo debut Memoryhouse, an experimental album of "documentary music" recorded with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, which explores real and imaginary stories and histories.[5] It combines ambient sounds, voices, and poetry readings and includes the tracks 'Sarajevo', 'November' and 'Last Days'.
The Blue Notebooks (2004)[edit] On his second album The Blue Notebooks, released in 2004, actress Tilda Swinton reads from Kafka’s Blue Octavo and other shadow journals.[8] Pitchfork described the album as "Not only the finest record of the last six months, but one of the most affecting and universal contemporary classical records in recent memory.”[9] Songs from Before (2006)[edit] In 2006, he released his third solo album, Songs from Before, which features Robert Wyatt reading texts by Haruki Murakami.[10] 24 Postcards in Full Colour (2008)[edit] Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, to a middle-class family, Thompson had a turbulent youth after the death of his father left the family in poverty.
He was unable to formally finish high school as he was incarcerated for 60 days after abetting a robbery. He subsequently joined the United States Air Force before moving into journalism. He traveled frequently, including stints in California, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, before settling in Aspen, Colorado, in the early 1960s. Politically minded, Thompson ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, in 1970, on the Freak Power ticket. While suffering a bout of health problems, Thompson committed suicide at the age of 67. Early life[edit] Education[edit] Interested in sports and athletically inclined from a young age, Thompson co-founded the Hawks Athletic Club while attending I. Military service[edit] Early journalism career[edit] "... Hedy Lamarr. Pulaski skyway. Jimmy Hoffa teamster's union.