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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has honored and recognized outstanding cinema achievements since 1929, but believe it or not, some of Hollywood’s greatest stars have never won the big award. Who would have thought that legendary Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich never won an Oscar? And the list continues with Irene Dunne, [...]
Posted by Timeea on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged A Passage to India, A Star is Born, A Streetcar Named Desire, Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, academy awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, actress, Ada McGrath, Aileen Wuornos, Alex Forrest, Alice Aisgill, Amber Waves, America, American Film Institute, America’s cinema, Amy Jolly, Angela Lansbury, Anjelica Huston, Anna Christie, Anna Leonowens, Anna Magnani, Annie Wilkes, artist, audrey hepburn, BAFTA, Ball of Fire, Barbara Graham, Barbara Stanwyck, Bavaria, Belinda McDonald, bette davis, Bette Midler, Billy Kwan, Birdie Coonan, Birdman of Alcatraz, Boogie Nights, Brenda Fricker, Brigitte Bardot, Burt Lancaster, Catherine Sloper, Cathy Whitaker, charlize theron, Cinema of the United States, Daisy Werthan, Dangerous Liaisons, Deborah Kerr, dedicated actress, Donna Reed, Dorothy Gale, Double Indemnity, Easter Parade, Edie Doyle, Edward, Eleanor Parker, Elizabeth Kenny, Elizabeth Stroud, Ellen McNulty, Emmy, Empress, Entertainment_Culture, Eva Marie Saint, Eve Black, Eve White, Evelyn Boult, Famous film director, Far from Heaven, farmer, Film director, From Here to Eternity, Gable, Germany, Ginger Rogers, Glenn Close, Gloria Grahame, Golden Apple Award, Golden Globe, Golden Globes, Grace Kelly, Greer Garson, greta garbo, Harold Arlen, Heaven Knows, Helen Keller, Holly Hunter, Honorary Academy, Human Interest, hunter, Ida Carmody, India, Ingrid Bergman, Irene Dunne, Irene Hoffman Wallner, Iris Gaines, Isabelle de Merteuil, Jane Wyman, Jennifer Jones, Jenny Fields, Jerry Bernard Martin, Jessica Tandy, joan crawford, Joanne Woodward, Jodie Foster, Josef von Sternberg, Judgment at Nuremberg, Judi Dench, Judy Garland, Judy Holliday, julia roberts, Julianne Moore, Julie Marsden, Karen Holmes, Katharine Hepburn, Kathy Bates, Katrin Holstorm, King, Laura Brown, Lavinia Mannon, leading actress, Legendary actress, Leona Stevenson, Linda Hunt, Loretta Young, Love Field, Lulu Bains, Margaret Rutherford, Marguerite Gautier, Marie Dressler, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Married to the Mob, Mass media, Meet Me in St. Louis, Meg Ryan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mildred Pierce Beragon, Min Divot, Miracle on 34th Street, Miracle Worker, Missouri, Moe Williams, morocco, Mourning Becomes Electra, movie actress, Mr. Allison, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Miniver, My Sister Eileen, My Son, natalie wood, Nina Ivanovna 'Ninotchka' Yakushova, Ninotchka, Norma Shearer, Nuremberg, Olivia De Havilland, Oscar, oscars, Patty Duke, Peggy Ashcroft, Phyllis Dietrichson, popular supporting actress, queen, Renee Zellweger, Rita Cavallini, Rosalind Russel, Rosalind Russell, Ruby Thewes, Ruth Sherwood, Sarah Cooper, Sarah Miles, Sarah Tobias, Scarface, Screen Actors Guild, Screen Actors Guild awards, Shakespeare in Love, Shanghai Express, Shirley Jones, Short Cuts, Sibyl Railton-Bell, Simone Signoret, singer and producer, Sissy Spacek, sophia loren, St. Louis, Stella Kowalski, Stella Martin 'Stell' Dallas, supporting actress, Susan Hayward, Susie Diamond, Television in the United States, The Academy's Honorary Award, The Big Chill, The Devil is a Woman, The End of the Affair, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Farmer's Daughter, The Hours, The Kids Are All Right, The King and I, The Song of Bernadette, The Three Faces of Eve, The Wizard of Oz, The World According to Garp, Thelma Ritter, Touch of Evil, United States, Vicki Lester, Whoopi Goldberg, With a Song in My Heart
The most surprising thing about the following list of the world’s worst money launderers is that, although managing to launder over US$50 billion between them, the combined total amount spent behind bars for their crimes is less than one year. We guess that really makes them the “best” money launderers, in a way. 10. Semion [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Crime · Tagged Al Capone, Crime, dawood ibrahim, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gary Youinou, Leopold, leopold II, Leopold Joseph Holdings PLC, Meyer Lansky, Military personnel, Mobutu Sese Seko, Money laundering, Nigeria, osama bin Laden, Pablo Escobar, Political corruption, Politics, Sani Abacha, Scarface, Semion Mogilevich, Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich, Sese Seko
Some of the most overlooked personalities in the film industry are the men and women who sit in the director’s chair. While most of the public is content with engaging themselves with the off-screen antics of actors and actresses, it is often the directors who outshine their fellow artists in terms of eccentricities and sheer [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 11:00 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Academy Award, Aguirre, Akira Kurosawa, amazon river, American film directors, Anne Frank Pt II, auteurs, Barry Lyndon, bernardo bertolucci, best directors, Blue Velvet, Braveheart, Bruno Schleinstein, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlton Heston, Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane, Dancer in the Dark, David Lynch, Delilah, denmark, Director Award, Dogme, Dogville, Element of Crime, Entertainment, Entertainment_Culture, Eraserhead, Even Dwarfs Started Small, famous directors, famous regular actress, fantastic Shakespearean actor, film, film directors, film noir, Fort Apache, France, French Legion of Honor, full metal jacket, Golden Lion, Grizzly Man, Gus Van Sant, Hairspray, Harmony Korine, Hidden Fortress, Howard Hawks, I Dismember Mama, Ice Station Zebra, Ikiru, Ingmar Bergman, John Ford, John Water, John Waters, john wayne, Julien Donkey-Boy, Julius Caesar, Kaspar Hauser, King of Kings, Kirk Douglas, Klaus Kinski, Martin Scorsese, Me and Orson Welles, Mondo Trasho, movie history, Movies, Mt. Fuji, Multiple Maniacs, Munich Film School, My Best Fiend, Nathaniel Hood, No Smoking, Omaha Beach, orson welles, Paths of Glory, Patricia Hearst, rubber baron, Sahara Desert, Scarface, Scatman Crothers, Sergio Leone, Shelley Duvall, Spartacus, stagecoach, stanley kubrick, Strangelove, the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award, the Best Director Award, the Cannes Film Festival, The Crusades, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, the first Academy Award, The Grapes of Wrath, The Hidden Fortress, The Idiots, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Outlaw, The Shining, the Venice Film Festival, the Wrath of God, Touch of Evil, Twin Peaks, Victor Mature, Werner Herzog, Wild at Heart, William Randolph Hearst, Yoshio Inaba, Zentropa, ZENTROPA PRODUCTIONS
A feud, or vendetta, is an extended argument between two groups of people, usually started as the result of an insult, violence, or even murder. Today the term is more popularly associated with celebrities and sports rivalries, but historical blood feuds were fairly commonplace, and there were even rules and laws—like dueling—that were set up [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, April 19, 2010 at 12:05 am
Filed under Crime, History, Politics · Tagged Aaron Burr, Al Capone, Alexander Hamilton, Asano Nagonori, bank robbery, Biddulph Township, Black Donnellys, Bugs Moran, Byzantine Empire, Clan Chattan, Clan Kay, Communism, Crime, dangerous gangs, Donnelly, Ed Tewksbury, Family Feud, federal government, Feud, feuds, fever, gangs, gangsters, Hatfield, Hatfield-McCoy feud, Hatfields vs. McCoys, History, James Donnelly, Joseph Stalin, Kira Yoshinaka, leader, Lenin’s illness, Leon Trotsky, local law enforcement, mccoys, Morgan Lewis, New Year’s Night Massacre, New York senate, Oishi Yoshio, organized crime, Pelle-Vottari-Romeos, People, Perry Owens, personal bodyguard, Phillip Schuyler, Politics, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, rival politician, rivalry, Roseanna McCoy, Samurai, San Luca, San Luca feud, Scarface, Scotland, Seppuku, Soviet Secret Police, Strangio-Nirtas, The 47 Ronin, The Ako Vendetta, The Battle of North Inch, The Pleasant Valley War, top 10 feuds, vendettas, violence, Vladimir Lenin, Weehawken
