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José Rivera (playwright)
José Rivera (born March 24, 1955) is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award for the movie '' The Motorcycle Diaries''. Early years Rivera was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1955. He was raised in Arecibo until 1959, when his family moved to New York City, settling in Long Island. The small-town environment would later influence him. His father worked as a taxi driver, and Rivera recalls, "...for a long time I just wanted to do better than him...so for years I wanted to be a bus driver." His parents were very religious, and the only book in their household was the Bible. His family enjoyed telling stories and Rivera learned a great deal from the stories his family enjoyed sharing. As a child, he also enjoyed watching ''The Twilight Zone'' and '' The Outer Limits''. He received his primary and secondary education in the New York state public school system. In 1968, when Rivera was 12 years old, he saw a traveling co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown Atlanta, Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of Golden age (metaphor), classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co. film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. Unlike its sister networks TBS (American TV channel), TBS, TNT (American TV network), TNT, and TruTV, TCM does not carry any sports cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumpelstiltskin
"Rumpelstiltskin" ( ; ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of ''Children's and Household Tales''. The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman's firstborn child. Plot In order to appear superior, a miller brags to the king and people of his kingdom by claiming his daughter can Spinning (textiles), spin straw into gold.Some versions make the miller's daughter blonde and describe the "straw-into-gold" claim as a careless boast the miller makes about the way his daughter's straw-like blond hair takes on a gold-like lustre when sunshine strikes it. The king calls for the girl, locks her up in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will have her killed.Other versions have the king threatening to lock her up in a dungeon forever, or to punish her father for lying. When she has given up all hope, a little imp-like man appears in the room and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Motorcycle Diaries (book)
''The Motorcycle Diaries'' () is a posthumously published memoir of the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. It traces his early travels as a 23-year-old medical student with his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist. Leaving Buenos Aires, Argentina in January 1952 on the back of a sputtering single cylinder 1939 Norton Motorcycle Company, Norton 500cc dubbed ''La Poderosa'' ("The Mighty One"), they desired to explore the South America they only knew from books.On the Trail of the Young Che Guevara by Rachel Dodes, ''The New York Times'', 19 December 2004 During the formative odyssey, Guevara is transformed by witnessing the social injustices of exploited mine workers, persecuted communists, ostracized lepers, and the tattered descendants of a once-great Inca civilization. By jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14th May 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentines, Argentine Communist revolution, Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and Military theory, military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous Counterculture of the 1960s, countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia Che Guevara in popular culture, in popular culture. As a young medical student, Guevara travelled throughout South America and was appalled by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed.On Revolutionary Medicine Speech by Che Guevara to the Cuban Militia on 19 August 1960. "Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Salles
Walter Moreira Salles Júnior (; ; born 12 April 1956) is a Brazilian filmmaker. A major figure of the Resumption Cinema in Brazil, Salles is widely regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian filmmakers of all time. His List of awards and nominations received by Walter Salles, accolades include an Academy Award accepted for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Film, three Cannes Film Festival prizes, three Venice Film Festival prizes, two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Bear and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe. He first became internationally known for his film ''Central Station (film), Central Station'' (1998), which earned two 71st Academy Awards, Academy Awards nominations, for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best Foreign Language Film and Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Actress for Fernanda Montenegro, winning a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe and a BAFTA for ''Best Foreign Language Film'' as well as the Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Schaefer
Karl Schaefer is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for co-creating the 1990s series ''Eerie, Indiana'' with José Rivera. Prior to working on ''Eerie, Indiana''. Schaefer created the series ''TV 101''. His other television credits include ''Strange Luck'', ''Monk'', '' Small Shots'', '' The Dead Zone'', ''Eureka'', ''Ghost Whisperer'' and the television film '' The Apartment Complex'' (1999), directed by Tobe Hooper. He was Executive Producer and Showrunner for '' Z Nation'', a zombie series he co-created with Craig Engler, and its prequel spin-off Spin-off, Spin Off, Spin-Off, or Spinoff may refer to: Entertainment and media *Spinoff (media), a media work derived from an existing work *''The Spinoff'', a New Zealand current affairs magazine * ''Spin Off'' (Canadian game show), a 2013 Canad ..., '' Black Summer''. Schaefer is the CEO of Unreality Inc, an Intellectual Property Creator.https://www.linkedin.com/pub/karl-schaefer/2b/1a0/751 Filmogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eerie, Indiana
''Eerie, Indiana'' is an American horror science fiction television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1991, to December 9, 1993. The series was created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with Joe Dante serving as creative consultant. A total of nineteen episodes were produced. The final episode aired for the first time in 1993, when the series was syndicated on The Disney Channel. The show was rerun on The Disney Channel from October 7, 1993 to late March 1996. In 1997, the show generated a new fan base, when the Fox Kids Network aired the series on Saturday mornings from January to September, gaining something of a cult following despite its short run. The renewed popularity of the series encouraged Fox Kids to produce a spin-off '' Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension'', lasting only one season in 1998. Overview The series revolves around Marshall Teller, a teenager whose family moves to the desolate town of Eerie, Indiana, population of 16,661. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mowgli's Story
The Mowgli's are an American alternative rock band from Calabasas, California, most known for their alternative radio hit single "San Francisco." Background and formation Most of The Mowgli's grew up together outside of Los Angeles in Calabasas, CA. Dieden grew up in Kansas City and Hogan grew up in Oklahoma City. In late 2009, Michael Vincze met Colin Dieden, who had recently moved from Kansas City, at a party. Later, the two wrote one of the group's first songs by combining elements of pieces they were both developing. This would become the track "The Great Divide". It was during an impromptu trip to San Francisco that Vincze and Dieden wrote the track "San Francisco" one night at a cheap motel room the bandmates were staying in. Hogan joined after sitting in with the band on a jam session one evening. They are named after a former band member's dog Mowgli, itself named after the character from Rudyard Kipling's novel ''The Jungle Book''. The apostrophe in their name is mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goosebumps (1995 TV Series)
''Goosebumps'' is a anthology horror fantasy television series based on R. L. Stine's best-selling book series of the same name. It is an anthology of stories involving children and young adults in otherworldly situations. The series is centered around the same supernatural or occult elements featured in the novels, with most episodes being direct adaptions of the books. Production ''Goosebumps'' was filmed largely in Ontario, Canada, with different houses and historic properties in Toronto, Markham, and other outlying rural areas serving often as the sets for each episode rather than constructing artificial houses and buildings. Ontario also provided a more affordable filming location and an aesthetic that could double as American while maintaining ambiguity in terms of location and setting. Props for the series were designed by Ron Stefaniuk and Alan Doucette, while Stefaniuk retained many of the animatronic props at his own studio after ''Goosebumps'' was cancelled. Episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Matters (TV Series)
''Family Matters'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC for eight seasons from September 22, 1989, to May 9, 1997, then moved to CBS for its ninth and final season from September 19, 1997, to July 17, 1998. A Spin-off (media), spin-off of ''Perfect Strangers (TV series), Perfect Strangers,'' the series was created by William Bickley and Michael Warren, and revolves around the Winslow family, a Black middle class family living in Chicago, Illinois. Midway through the first season, the show introduced the Winslows' nerdy neighbor Steve Urkel (Jaleel White), originally as a one-time appearance. However, he quickly became the show's List of breakout characters, breakout character (and eventually the main character), joining the main cast. Running for 215 episodes over nine seasons, ''Family Matters'' became the second-longest-running live action American sitcom with a predominantly African American cast, behind ''The Jeffersons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian parentage, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was '' The Town and the City'' (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, '' On the Road'', in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes. Kerouac died in 1969. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published. Kerouac is recognized for his style of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Road (2012 Film)
''On The Road'' () is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel ''On the Road'' and stars an ensemble cast featuring Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Alice Braga, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, and Viggo Mortensen. The executive producers were Francis Ford Coppola, Patrick Batteux, Jerry Leider, and Tessa Ross. Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, with a $25 million budget. The story is based on the years Kerouac spent travelling the United States in the late 1940s with his friend Neal Cassady and several other Beat Generation figures who would go on to fame in their own right, including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. On May 23, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film received mixed early reviews after it premiered at the film festival. The film also premiered at the 2012 Toronto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
