Gordonia (film)
Gordonia is a 2010 feature documentary film directed and produced by New Zealand filmmaker Tom Reilly.
Filmed over the course of seven years" Gordonia" follows the struggle between west Auckland landowner Graham Gordon and the former Waitakere City Council over Gordon's car wrecking business and illegal dwellings.
As well as Gordon's story, the film traces the lives of several tenants living on his property, some of whom have mental health problems and claim to have nowhere else to live.
The Karen Carpenter Story
The Karen Carpenter Story is an American made- for- television biographical film about singer Karen Carpenter and the brother- and- sister pop music duo of which she was a part, The Carpenters.
The film aired on CBS on January 1, 1989.
Directed by Joseph Sargent, it starred Cynthia Gibb as Karen Carpenter, and Mitchell Anderson as her brother, Richard Carpenter, who served as a producer for the film as well as of the musical score.
Karen National Union
The Karen National Union( abbreviated KNU) is a political organisation with an armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army( KNLA), that claims to represent the Karen people of Myanmar( Burma).
It operates in mountainous eastern Myanmar, and has underground networks in other areas of Myanmar where Karen people live as a minority group.
In the Karen language, this area is called Kawthoolei.
Some of the Karen, led primarily by the Karen National Union( KNU), have waged a war against the central government since early 1949.
The aim of the KNU at first was independence.
Since 1976 the armed group has called for a federal system rather than an independent Karen State.
In January 2012, Myanmar's military- backed civilian government signed a ceasefire deal with the KNU in Hpa -an, the capital of eastern Kayin State.
Aung Min, the Railway Minister, and General Mutu Sae Poe of the KNU led the peace talks.
Karen Carpenter (album)
Karen Carpenter is the only solo album by singer/ drummer Karen Carpenter of the Carpenters, recorded in 1979- 80 and released by A&M Records in 1996.
It has sold around 1 million copies worldwide.
Astor Fong
Astor Fong is a Chinese singer- songwriter, recording artist and record producer from Hong Kong, she sings in English, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese.
Several of her solo albums have charted in Hong Kong and Asia.
Astor gained widely acclaim for her similarity to Karen Carpenter's vocal style.
Astor was dubbed the" Karen Carpenter of Asia".
She is a lyric contralto with a wide vocal range that spanned about three octaves.
Astor sang all of the Carpenters' songs during her concert in 2013 using the same key as Karen Carpenter which are rare in female artists in Asia.
Among all other record singers in Hong Kong, Astor has recorded a lot of Broadway musical songs that has highly acclaimed in 2011.
As Astor has a good track record in both English and Chinese albums, she was dubbed" Audiophile Diva" by leading audiophile magazine in 2015.
Astor is also the first female celebrity columnist of" Audiophile", one of the famous audiophile magazine in Hong Kong.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Superstar:
The Karen Carpenter Story is a 1987 American experimental short biographical film that portrays the last 17 years of singer Karen Carpenter's life, as she struggled with anorexia.
Directed by Todd Haynes, the film uses Barbie dolls as actors, as well as documentaries and artistic footage.
" Superstar" was co-written and co-produced by Haynes and Cynthia Schneider, with an unauthorized soundtrack consisting mostly of the hit songs of The Carpenters.
It was filmed over a ten- day period at Bard College in the summer of 1985.
Barry Ellsworth collaborated on the film and was the cinematographer for the Barbie themed interior segments of the film.
The film was withdrawn from circulation in 1990 after Haynes lost a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Karen's brother and musical collaborator, Richard Carpenter.
The film's title is derived from The Carpenters' 1971 hit," Superstar".
Meanwhile, over the years" Superstar" has developed into a cult film, has notably been bootlegged, and is included in" Entertainment Weekly" s 2003 list of top 50 cult movies.
Its apparent metamodern purpose as a film, including multiple perspectives on anorexia nervosa, the pop music industry, The Carpenters themselves, and the definition of a biographical film, has also given it a legacy among fans of avant- garde cinema; Guy Lodge, writing for The Guardian, expressed that' while Haynes is working in a vein of very rich irony, there ’s not a hint of snark here'.
Karen Baptist Missionary Society
The Karen Baptist Missionary Society was an organization of Karen( people) in Burma who were baptists.
It was formed in 1912 with the main goal of spreading the baptist religion to more of the Karen people.
Jolson Sings Again
Jolson Sings Again is a 1949 American musical biographical film directed by Henry Levin, and the sequel to" The Jolson Story", both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson.
The film received three Oscar nominations at the 22nd Academy Awards.
The Karen Hilltribes Trust
The Karen Hilltribes Trust( KHT) is a charity based in the United Kingdom" dedicated to working with the Karen people of Northern Thailand to help them build a better future for themselves".
The trust is a registered charity( no. 1093548) with key aims of improving health, increasing access to education and securing better livelihoods for the Karen.
If I Had You (The Carpenters song)
" If I Had You" is a song recorded by singer Karen Carpenter during her solo sessions in New York with producer Phil Ramone for her subsequently shelved debut solo album.
In 1989" If I Had You" was released as a Karen Carpenter solo single( featuring Richard Carpenter's remix ending), along with" The Uninvited Guest"( an outtake from the Carpenters album" Made In America"), also credited as a Karen Carpenter solo, as its B-side( in Japan the B-side was" Lovelines", another track from Karen's solo album, also the title track from the 1989 Carpenters" Lovelines" album).
The single was the first single from the Carpenters' album" Lovelines".
As of 2019, this is also the last Carpenters single released to American radio.
The single version has also appeared on numerous Carpenters compilations since its release.
The single reached number 18 on the' Billboard" Adult Contemporary Chart.
The original version, featuring the fade- out ending has only appeared on Karen Carpenter's 1996 solo album.

Question: Are Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Gordonia (film) both from the same country?
Answer: no