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Spin Me Round
''Spin Me Round'' is a 2022 American dark comedy film co-written by Jeff Baena and Alison Brie and directed by Baena, the final film he directed before his death in 2025. It premiered at the 2022 South by Southwest festival on March 12, 2022. It was released on August 19, 2022, by IFC Films in theaters and by AMC+ on video on demand. Plot Amber is a dissatisfied manager at Tuscan Grove, an Italian chain restaurant in Bakersfield, California. After being recommended by her boss, Amber receives an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy to participate in Tuscan Grove's management program, and meet the CEO, Nick Martucci. Her friend Emily predicts that Amber will find love. Once in Italy, program supervisor Craig takes all the participant's passports. Despite the rustic images shown online, they stay in a company-owned motel, and are told they cannot leave the property without permission. The group begins classes with head chef Liz Bence, which are interrupted by the arrival of Nick and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Baena
Jeffrey Lance Baena (; June 29, 1977 – January 3, 2025) was an American screenwriter and film director. His most successful films were 2004's '' I Heart Huckabees'' and 2020's '' Horse Girl'', though his projects to receive the most contemporaneous critical acclaim were the 2016 and 2017 films '' Joshy'' and ''The Little Hours''. Baena frequently worked with his wife Aubrey Plaza, and writing partner Alison Brie. He began his career as a screenwriter, co-writing the 2004 comedy film ''I Heart Huckabees'' and, around the same time, seeing his script for '' Life After Beth'' enter production before being shelved. Baena, as an independent filmmaker, expanded to directing a decade later and filmed ''Life After Beth'' as his directorial debut, starring Aubrey Plaza and released in 2014. Working with producer Liz Destro, Plaza, and an expanding group of frequent collaborators, Baena was then writer-director for ''Joshy'' (2016) and ''The Little Hours'' (2017), which both became cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Store
A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate many retail markets, dining markets, and service categories in many parts of the world. A franchise retail establishment is one form of a chain store. In 2005, the world's largest retail chain, Walmart, became the world's largest corporation based on gross sales. History In 1792, Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna established W.H. Smith as a news vending business in London that would become a national concern in the mid-19th century under the management of their grandson William Henry Smith. The world's oldest national retail chain, the firm took advantage of the railway boom during the Industrial Revolution by opening news-stands at railway stations beginning in 1848. The firm, now called WHSmith, had more than 1,400 locations as of 2017. In the U.S., chain stores likely began with J. Stiner & Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Heidecker
Timothy Richard Heidecker (; born February 3, 1976) is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician. Along with Eric Wareheim, he is a member of the comedy duo Tim & Eric. As an actor, Heidecker's filmography includes roles in ''Bridesmaids (2011 film), Bridesmaids'' (2011), ''Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie'' (2012), ''The Comedy (film), The Comedy'' (2012), ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' (2018), and ''Us (2019 film), Us'' (2019). He currently hosts the parodic film review web series ''On Cinema'', with guest star Gregg Turkington, and hosts a weekly call-in show, ''Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker'', with Doug Lussenhop, DJ Douggpound and Vic Berger. Heidecker is also a singer-songwriter, having released a blend of comedy rock and more earnest folk rock across an eight-album solo discography. His latest album, ''Slipping Away'', was released in October of 2024. Early life and education Timothy Richard Heidecker was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Armisen
Fereydun Robert Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and writer. With his comedy partner Carrie Brownstein, he co-created and co-starred in the IFC sketch comedy series '' Portlandia''. He also co-created and starred in the mockumentary IFC series '' Documentary Now!'' and the Showtime comedy series '' Moonbase 8''. Armisen was the bandleader and frequent drummer for the '' Late Night with Seth Meyers'' house band, the 8G Band from 2014 to 2024. He is known as a cast member on the late-night sketch comedy and variety series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2002 to 2013. He also voiced Speedy Gonzales on '' The Looney Tunes Show''. Armisen has acted in comedy films, including '' EuroTrip'', '' Melvin Goes to Dinner'', '' The Ex'', and '' The Dictator''. He is also notable for his guest-star appearances in television shows such as ''30 Rock'', '' Parks and Recreation'', ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', '' New Girl'', ''Broad City'', '' Unbreakable Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-disclosure Agreement
A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also known as a confidentiality agreement (CA), confidential disclosure agreement (CDA), proprietary information agreement (PIA), or secrecy agreement (SA), is a legal contract or part of a contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to. Doctor–patient confidentiality (physician–patient privilege), attorney–client privilege, priest–penitent privilege and bank–client confidentiality agreements are examples of NDAs, which are often not enshrined in a written contract between the parties. It is a contract through which the parties agree not to disclose any information covered by the agreement. An NDA creates a confidential relationship between the parties, typically to protect any type of confidential and proprietary information or trade secrets. As such, an NDA protects non-public bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genoa
Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitants, more than 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera. On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean: it is the busiest city in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union. Genoa was the capital of one of the most powerful maritime republics for over seven centuries, from the 11th century to 1797. Particularly from the 12th century to the 15th century, the city played a leading role in the history of commerce and trade in Europe, becoming one of the largest naval powers of the continent and considered among the wealthiest cities in the world. It was also nicknamed ''la S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orgy
An orgy is a sex party where guests freely engage in open and unrestrained sexual activity or group sex. Swingers' parties do not always conform to this designation, because at many swinger parties the sexual partners may all know each other or at least have some commonality among economic class, educational attainment or other shared attributes. Some swingers contend that an orgy, as opposed to a sex party, requires some anonymity of sexual partners in complete sexual abandon. Other kinds of "sex parties" may fare less well with this labelling. Participation in an "orgy" is a common sexual fantasy, and group sex targeting such consumers is a subgenre in pornographic films. The term is also used metaphorically in expressions, such as an "orgy of colour" or an "orgy of destruction" to indicate excess, overabundance. The term " orgiastic" does not generally connote group sex and is closer to the classical roots and this metaphorical usage. Ancient ''orgia'' In ancient Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Boar
The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a Suidae, suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is now one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widespread Suina, suiform. It has been assessed as least concern on the IUCN Red List due to its wide range, high numbers, and adaptability to a diversity of habitats. It has become an invasive species in part of its introduced range. Wild boars probably originated in Southeast Asia during the Early Pleistocene and outcompeted other suid species as they spread throughout the Old World. , up to 16 subspecies are recognized, which are divided into four regional groupings based on skull height and lacrimal bone length. The species lives in matriarchal societies consisting of interrelated females and their young (both male and female). Fully grown males are usually s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automatic Firearm
An automatic firearm or fully automatic firearm (to avoid confusion with semi-automatic firearms) is a self-loading firearm that continuously Chamber (firearms), chambers and fires Cartridge (firearms), rounds when the trigger (firearms), trigger mechanism is actuated. The action (firearms), action of an automatic firearm is capable of harvesting the excess energy released from a previous discharge to feed a new ammunition cartridge (firearms), round into the chamber (firearms), chamber, and then igniting the propellant and discharging the projectile (either bullet, shot (pellet), shot, or shotgun slug, slug) by delivering a hammer (firearms), hammer or firing pin, striker impact on the primer (firearms), primer. If ''both'' the feeding and ignition procedures are automatically cycled, the weapon will be considered "fully automatic" and will fire continuously as long as the trigger is kept depressed and the ammunition feeding (either from a magazine (firearms), magazine or a belt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Casual Restaurant
A fast casual restaurant, found primarily in the United States and Canada, is a restaurant that does not offer full table service, but advertises higher quality food than fast-food restaurants, with fewer frozen or processed ingredients. It is an intermediate concept between fast food and casual dining. History The concept originated in the United States in the early 1990s, but did not become mainstream until the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s. During the economic recession that began in 2007, the category of fast casual dining saw increased sales to the 18–34-year-old demographic. Customers with limited discretionary spending for meals tend to choose fast casual for dining which they perceive as healthier. Definition The founder and publisher of FastCasual.com, Paul Barron, is credited with coining the term "fast-casual" in the late 1990s. Horatio Lonsdale-Hands, former chairman and CEO of ZuZu Inc., is also credited with coining the term. ZuZu, a han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mafia (party Game)
Mafia, also known as Werewolf, is a social deduction game created in 1986 by Dimitry Davidoff, then a psychology student at Moscow State University. The game models a conflict between two groups: an informed minority (the mafiosi or the werewolves) and an Information asymmetry, uninformed majority (the villagers). At the start of the game, each player is secretly assigned a role affiliated with one of these teams. The game has two alternating phases: first, a night-phase, during which those with night-killing-powers may covertly kill other players, and second, a day-phase, in which all surviving players debate and vote to eliminate a suspect. The game continues until a faction achieves its win condition; for the village, this usually means eliminating the evil minority, while for the minority, this usually means reaching numerical parity with the village and eliminating any rival evil groups. History Dimitry Davidoff (, ''Dmitry Davydov'') is generally acknowledged as the game's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigoli
Rigoli is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of San Giuliano Terme, province of Pisa. Rigoli is about 9 km from Pisa Pisa ( ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Tuscany, Central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for the Leaning Tow ... and 3 km from San Giuliano Terme. References Bibliography * Frazioni of the Province of Pisa {{Pisa-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
