BIRTHDAY
December 18, 1980
Staten Island, NY

RECENT CREDITS
Burlesque (FILM) Nov. 24, 2010
Get Him to the Greek (FILM) Jun. 4, 2010
Making the Video (TV) Feb. 21, 2007
Late Show With David Letterman (TV) Feb. 8, 2007
Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV) Feb. 7, 2007

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Adventure Films are exciting stories, with new experiences or exotic locales. Adventure films are very similar to the action film genre, in that they are designed to provide an action-filled, energetic experience for the film viewer. Rather than the predominant emphasis on violence and fighting that is found in action films, however, the viewer of adventure films can live vicariously through the travels, conquests, explorations, creation of empires, struggles and situations that confront the main characters, actual historical figures or protagonists.

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The long-running TV series Dragnet was spoofed by Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd in Tom Mankiewicz' Dragnet (1987). And Peter Sellers appeared as clumsy, inept, and accident-prone French Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the popular series of slapstick Pink Panther detective comedies in the 60s and after, with theme music supplied by Henry Mancini:

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It appeared that the height of weepie, melodramatic female roles came in the mid 1930s, when the five Best Actress nominees included four strong examples. (Only Irene Dunne's nomination as Lucy Warriner - one-half of a divorced couple in the hilarious screwball comedy The Awful Truth (1937) - didn't fit the profile):

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Another popular, second-level slapstick comedian in the silent era who made hundreds of two-reel shorts from 1916-1924 for Vitagraph and for the B-picture company, the Chadwick Pictures Corporation, was the charming, white-faced, smiling, and clownish Larry Semon. He began film work at Vitagraph in 1915 as comedy short gag writer and then as director in 1916. His first feature-length film was also his best known and most influential work - a remake and adaptation of Baum's The Wizard of Oz (1925)

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A controversial, explicitly racist, but landmark American film masterpiece - these all describe ground-breaking producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). The domestic melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title The Clansman in February, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, but three months later was retitled with the present title at its world premiere in New York, to emphasize the birthing process of the US. The film was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted melodramatic staged play, The Clansman, the second volume in a trilogy:

* The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, 1865-1900
* The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
* The Traitor


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Cast
Elle Fanning as Mary
Nathan Lane as Uncle Albert
John Turturro as The Rat King
Frances de la Tour as The Rat Queen
Shirley Henderson as the voice of The Nutcracker
Aaron Michael Drozin as Max
Charlie Rowe as The Prince

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A visual effects artist who worked on several Dreamworks films like "Shrek" faces more than 4 years in prison -- after he was accused of beating his neighbor's puppy to death ... with a hammer.


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Soon after Naomie Harris confirmed her role as the new Miss Moneypenny, the sassy assistant to Bond's Boss M, played by Judi Dench, First Showing reported on Amazing Spider-Man villain Rhys Ifans joining the upcoming Bond 23.

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We have a blast with Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Andrew Niccol for the little known In Time.

Justin Timberlake...really? YEP! The multi-talented actor who turned in a terrific performance in The Social Network, joins Red Riding Hood's Seyfried in the Niccol-directed and written film which also stars Cillian Murphy, Vincenet Kartheiser, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki and Olivia Wilde.

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