House of Usher is a 1960 American International Pictures horror movie. It stars Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, Mark Damon, and Harry Ellerbee. The movie was directed by Roger Corman. The screenplay was written by Richard Matheson. It is based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
"House of Usher" was the first of eight Corman movies based on Poe's stories. The movie is also known as "Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Mysterious House of Usher". In 2005, the movie was listed with the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi was an Italian actor, screenwriter and movie director. He was the Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy movies.
Sordi won seven David di Donatello awards. It is Italy's most honorable movie award. He also received a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 1995. He also won a Golden Globe Award.
Jessica Cauffiel
Jessica Cauffiel (born March 30, 1976, Detroit) is an American actress and singer. She works in movies and television. She played Tatiana in the television series "My Name Is Earl". She also played Margot in the comedy movie "Legally Blonde".
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent is a 1957 movie. It is also known as "The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent". It was directed by Roger Corman. It stars Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, and June Kenney. The movie is about Viking women who build a ship to search for their missing menfolk.
Annie Parisse
Anne Marie Cancelmi (better known as Annie Parisse; born July 31) is an American television and movie actress. She also does stage plays. She played Alexandra Borgia in the television drama "Law & Order".
Cancelmi was born in Anchorage, Alaska. Some sources say she was born in 1975, though others say 1976.
Blu Cantrell
Tiffany Cobb (also known as Blu Cantrell; born March 16, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter and a musician who has carried several hit singles. She released a debut album, "So Blu", near 2001 which was a hit. Other albums then followed. Cantrell was born in Charleston, West Virginia.
Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an African American political activist and author. She first became famous because she was a prominent member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and was involved in Black Power movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then she has become known for her work as a writer and speaker while teaching at the University of California. She has done research in the areas of feminism and critical theory and is a prison abolitionist.
Davis grew up in Alabama, then went to college at Brandeis University and University of California, San Diego. She was involved in activism from her youth. After becoming a Doctor of Philosophy in Germany, she returned to the US and began teaching as a professor. In 1969, she was fired from teaching for being a member of the Communist Party. A judge decided it was an illegal firing and the school eventually hired her back.
In 1970 she was put in prison by FBI agents. Some black revolutionaries tried to break their allies out of prison by kidnapping a white judge and some jurors in Marin County, but the police didn't let them get away and the revolutionaries and judge were shot to death. The FBI suspected that she bought the gun one of the revolutionaries used and decided to accuse her of the murder of the judge. In 1971 she appeared at the Marin County Superior Court and said, "I now declare publicly before the court, before the people of this country that I am innocent of all charges which have been leveled against me by the state of California." She was released from jail in 1972. Ronald Reagan said that she should never be allowed to teach at a California university. The English rock band The Rolling Stones recorded a song called "Sweet Black Angel" that was on their 1972 album "Exile on Main St." and dedicated to Davis.
In the 1990s, she left the Communist Party and began to focus her activism on prisons. She gave a speech in 1997 called "The Prison Industrial Complex". In it she said "prisons are becoming an integral part of the US economy." She said that fear of young people of color was being exploited to create a fast-growing industry, the prison-industrial complex (PIC). She created a prison abolitionist group called Critical Resistance in the same year. She wants there to be no prisons or police because she believes that the US prison system is more like a new form of slavery than a criminal justice system.
Since she started focusing on prisons, she has also supported Democrats like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden in presidential elections.
Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She was married to Hilton Braithwaite in the 1980s.
Connie Booth
Connie Booth (born December 2, 1940, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American actress, writer and psychotherapist. She has appeared on British and American television. She played Polly Sherman in the popular 1970s sitcom "Fawlty Towers". Booth ended her acting career 1995. She began working as a psychotherapist in the late 1990s.
Booth married John Cleese in 1968. Their daughter, actress Cynthia Cleese, was born in 1971. The couple divorced in 1978. Booth has been married to critic John Lahr since 2000.
Little Iodine
Little Iodine was a popular comic strip published in the United States on Sundays. It was created by Jimmy Hatlo. It was published from 1943 until 1985.
The story is about a girl called "Little Iodine". She first appeared in an earlier comic strip by Hatlo, called "They'll Do It Every Time". She was the daughter of the strip's main character, Henry Tremblechin. She constantly annoyed her father with pranks and practical jokes. The character of Iodine became very popular, so Hatlo promoted the character into her own strip in 1943.
Iodine's antics were on the Sunday comics page for over forty years. It came before "Dennis the Menace". From 1943 to 1963, "Little Iodine" was written and drawn by Hatlo.
A movie based on the comic strip was released in 1946. It was by Comet Productions. The 56-minute movie stars Jo Ann Marlowe as Little Iodine, Hobart Cavanaugh as her father Henry, and Irene Ryan as her mother Cora.
In the movie, Iodine thinks that her mother is having an affair with Professor Simkins (played by Leon Belasco). She tries one antic after another to break up the couple. Her efforts backfire when they cause conflict between her father and his employer, Mr. Bigdome (Emory Parnell).
The movie was planned to be released earlier than October 20, 1946 (its actual distribution date), but that date was delayed due to an epidemic of polio that prevented children across the United States from attending movies. The movie is believed to be lost.
LisaGay Hamilton
LisaGay Hamilton (born March 25, 1964 in Los Angeles) is an American actress, movie director and producer. She has performed in movies, television shows and theater. She played Rebecca Washington in the ABC drama series "The Practice" and Sethe in the 1998 movie "Beloved". She also had other performances on the stage.
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Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani (, also transliterated "Ruhani", "Rohani", "Rowhani"; born Hassan Feridon on 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician, Mujtahid, lawyer, academic and diplomat, who is currently the President of Iran. He has been a member of the Assembly of Experts since 1999, member of the Expediency Council since 1991, member of the Supreme National Security Council since 1989, and head of the Center for Strategic Research since 1992.