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is a 2001 Academy Award-winning Australian-American romantic drama musical movie directed by Baz Luhrmann.
It stars Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.
The movie is set in Paris, France in 1900.
It tells the story of a young British writer called Christian, who falls in love with an actress called Satine, the leading lady of the famous nightclub, the Moulin Rouge.
was mostly shot at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia.
It was nominated for eight Oscars.
It won two; for art direction and costume design.
In 2006 it was ranked #25 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals.
The "Moulin Rouge"
The "Moulin Rouge" is a famous nightclub with a cabaret (or dance show).
The name "Moulin Rouge" means "Red Windmill".
In the late 1800s there was a real windmill where the nightclub stands near Montmartre in Paris.
Now there is a large model of a windmill on the roof of the building.
Since 1889 this nightclub has been famous for its dancing, in particular for the "can-can", a very lively dance in which the dancers, wearing long frilly skirts, kick their legs very high and show their underwear. (
In the 1890s, women wore long dresses, to their ankles.)
Even though this entertainment was not thought of as very polite, it was very popular and the "can-can" became a symbol of Paris.
The "Moulin Rouge" is still very popular.
The word Bohemian was first used in Paris to mean a Gypsy because many people thought that Gypsies came from Bohemia.
The word was then used for poor artists and writers, who often travelled to Paris from other towns and tried to earn money by their painting or writing.
Paris was a famous town for both painters and writers to gather, to learn from each other and to enjoy the life of the city.
Many of them lived at Montmartre, not far from the "Moulin Rouge".
One of the most famous painters to live in Montmartre was Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.
He loved to paint the can-can dancers and prostitutes.
He did many posters to advertise the nightclubs.
The posters are now famous works of art.
"La boheme"
La bohème means "the Bohemian".
It is the name of a famous opera written by Giacomo Puccini.
It is about a young man who lives in a group of poor artists and writers, and who meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl.
The opera is very well known and Baz Luhrmann deliberately used parts of the story in his movie.
The plot of the movie is very much like another opera called La traviata written by Giuseppe Verdi.
It is also thought that Luhrmann may have got the idea to make Moulin Rouge!
after watching Dil Se.
This movie was made in 1998 and directed by Mani Ratnam.
It is a love story set in India.
Other movies
There have been four previous movies called Moulin Rouge.
The earliest was a silent movie made in 1928.
The latest was made in 1956 and was about the life of the painter, Toulouse-Lautrec.
Baz Luhrmann used Toulouse-Lautrec as an important character in his movie.
Baz Luhrmann had directed another movie in which a love story is set against a background of dance, costumes and colourful scenes.
This is Strictly Ballroom made in 1992.
In Moulin Rouge!,
he chose the colourful life of Paris in a time often called "the Naughty Nineties" as a background.
But Lurhmann's plan was not to make a movie about history.
He wanted to make a movie that the people of today would enjoy, just as much as the people of Paris had enjoyed the can-can in the 1890s.
So Luhrmann did not use the music, dance-styles and lighting of the 1890s.
He used popular modern music that young people already knew, and he used modern lighting, special effects and costume ideas to create a movie that young people would think was very entertaining.
Kate Winslet, Charlize Theron, Renee Zellweger, and Catherine Zeta-Jones were all thought of for the part of Satine.
Courtney Love was almost cast in the role, but lost out to Kidman at the last minute because Luhrmann felt that Love would not fit into the movie well.
Heath Ledger, Hugh Jackman, and Russell Crowe were all considered for the part of Christian.
Production on the movie began in November 1999 and was finished in May 2000, with a budget of just over $50 million.
Nicole Kidman reportedly wasn't interested in doing the musical until she heard Baz Luhrmann would be directing it.
Filming generally went smoothly, with the only major problem being when Nicole Kidman injured her knee while filming one of the more complicated dance sequences.
The production also overran in its shooting schedule and had to be out of the Fox Studios in Sydney to make way for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (in which Ewan McGregor also starred).
This meant some parts had to be filmed in Madrid, Spain.
Nicole Kidman as Satine
Ewan McGregor as Christian
John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec
Jim Broadbent as Harold Zidler
Richard Roxburgh as The Duke
Kylie Minogue as The Green Fairy
The movie is set in the year 1900.
Christian (played by Ewan McGregor) is a British writer who came to the village of Montmartre in Paris in 1899, when the Bohemian movement was at its most popular.
He sits in a flat looking down on the closed-down theatre called the Moulin Rouge while writing on a typewriter.
The story he is writing is about the woman he loved, Satine (played by Nicole Kidman).
In 1899, Christian arrives in Paris, and makes friends with a group of Bohemians who visit the Moulin Rouge regularly.
They are trying to produce a musical called "Spectacular Spectacular", which the owner of the Moulin Rouge, Harold Zidler (played by Jim Broadbent), plans to show at the cabaret.
The Bohemians' leader, Toulouse-Lautrec (played by John Leguizamo), is pleased with Christian's talent at writing and insists that he write their musical, "Spectacular Spectacular".
Once they find out that Christian is an amazing writer, they come up with an complicated plan of presenting Christian to Satine, who is a beautiful courtesan, in the hopes that she will be impressed with him and persuade Zidler to hire Christian as the writer of the musical.
Satine understands what her work involves, although she hopes of leaving the Moulin Rouge to become a "real" actress.
Through a series of misunderstandings, she mistakes Christian for the rich and powerful Duke who will invest in the musical, "Spectacular Spectacular".
She is enchanted by his poetry.
She declares that she has fallen in love with him, but is shocked to realize he's actually a poor Bohemian poet.
After a bit, the real Duke (played by Richard Roburgh) finds Christian and Satine together.
They manage to trick him into believing that they were working on the musical, "Spectacular Spectacular".
The main cast arrive and improvise the plot of the show on the spot: a beautiful Indian courtesan has her kingdom invaded by an "evil maharaja".
She sets out to seduce him to save her kingdom, but accidentally seduces and then falls in love with a penniless sitar player.
The two must hide their love and avoid the maharaja, though it is implied that one of them may die at the end of the story. (
It is soon realized that the theme of their play foreshadows what happens in the movie's plot.)
The Duke agrees to support the show.
But, he quickly shows that he is a violently jealous man who will shut down the Moulin Rouge if he does not get Satine to himself.
Nevertheless, he accepts that Satine will be busy with rehearsals and in close contact with Christian, the writer of the musical.
Christian and Satine fall in love, while Zidler struggles to keep the Duke interested in the musical "Spectacular Spectacular" even though Satine has not yet slept with him.
Harold Zidler also discovers that Satine is dying of a disease called tuberculosis, but does not tell anyone because of his motto, "The show must go on".
Meanwhile, Christian continues to work on the play, in which the courtesan and the penniless sitar player end up together.
The Duke, however, does not appreciate the ending and tells the cast that the courtesan must end up with the maharaja.
To convince the Duke to change his mind, Satine finally agrees to spend the night with him.
Christian is overcome with jealousy while Satine has dinner with the Duke, who offers her everything she has dreamt of.
However, when Satine spots Christian on the street below, she refuses the Duke's offer, and he tries to rape her.
After she escapes, Satine and Christian plan to run away.
By now, the Duke has realized Satine's tricks, and tells Zidler that, if the "maharaja" does not get his "courtesan", he will have the "penniless sitar player" killed.
Nonetheless, Zidler must inform Satine of her final condition before she agrees to give up on the escape plan.
She goes to Christian and lies to him, convincing him that her love was an act in the hopes that this will make him want to leave Paris and therefore save his life.
As the show opens, Satine performs tiredly, knowing that her life is almost up.
Christian, refusing to give up on Satine, confronts her backstage.
When she tries to force him off again, he takes the place of the show's hero, throwing money at her feet to "pay his whore", and storming off the stage.
Satine confesses her love for him in the form of his secret song, and Christian and Satine get back together in full view of the audience and the Duke.
The Duke attempts to shoot Christian, but Zidler forces him off.
The audience applauds what they think is a good drama, but backstage, Satine is overcome by her illness and dies in Christian's arms.
As her final wish, she asks Christian to tell their story.
"The Sound of Music" - Mary Martin (and later by Julie Andrews) (from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical of the same name)
"The Lonely Goatherd" - also from The Sound of Music (but heard as instrumental)
"Lady Marmalade" - Labelle (and later by All Saints, covered for the movie, by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink)
"Because We Can" - Fatboy Slim
"Nature Boy" - Eden Ahbez (and later by Nat King Cole)
"Complainte De La Butte" - Georges Van Parys, Jean Renoir
"Rhythm of the Night" - DeBarge
"Material Girl" - Madonna
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" - Carol Channing (later, and notably by Marilyn Monroe)
"Diamond Dogs (song)|Diamond Dogs" - David Bowie (and later by Beck)
"Galop Infernal (Can-can)" - Jacques Offenbach (tune for Spectacular, Spectacular)
"One Day I'll Fly Away" - The Crusaders, later Randy Crawford among others
"Children of the Revolution" - T. Rex (Covered by Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer)
"Gorecki" - Lamb
"Come What May" - Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman (written by David Baerwald)
"Roxanne" - The Police (Title in movie: "El Tango de Roxanne")
"Tanguera" - Mariano Mores
"The Show Must Go On" - Queen
"Like a Virgin" - Madonna
"Your Song" - Elton John
"Love Is Like Oxygen" - Sweet
"Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" - The Four Aces
"Up Where We Belong" - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
"All You Need Is Love" - The Beatles
"Lover's Game" - Chris Isaak
"I Was Made For Lovin' You" - Kiss
"One More Night" - Phil Collins
"Pride (In The Name Of Love)" - U2
"Don't Leave Me This Way" - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (later Thelma Houston, The Communards, among others)
"Silly Love Songs" - Paul McCartney and Wings
(Repeated) "Up Where We Belong"
"Heroes"  - David Bowie (and later by The Wallflowers)
"I Will Always Love You" - Dolly Parton (and later by Whitney Houston)
Two soundtrack albums were released, with the second coming after the huge success of the first one.
The first volume featured the smash hit single "Lady Marmalade", performed by Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mýa and Pink.
Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film, was released in May 2001, with the second Moulin Rouge!
Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film, Vol.
2 following in 2002.
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Nicole Kidman)
Academy Award for Art Direction-Set Decoration (Catherine Martin & Brigitte Broch)
Academy Award for Costume Design (Catherine Martin & Angus Strathie)
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Craig Armstrong)
Producers Guild of America's Award for Best Picture
National Board of Review's Award for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Actress (Nicole Kidman)
Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Donald McAlpine)
Academy Award for Film Editing (Jill Bilcock)
Academy Award for Makeup (Maurizio Silvi & Aldo Signoretti)
Academy Award for Sound (Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Roger Savage, Guntis Sics)
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture (Baz Luhrmann)
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Ewan McGregor)
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song - Motion Picture (David Baerwald - song "Come What May")
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
The large red "L'amour" sign seen on the side Christian's building was part of the set of Baz Luhrmann's production of "La bohème" for the Australian Opera.
It also appeared in Romeo + Juliet (1996).
The movie is dedicated to Baz Luhrmann's father, Leonard Luhrmann, who died just as filming was about to begin.
Jake Gyllenhaal auditioned several times for the part of Christian, but was ultimately deemed too young to play opposite Nicole Kidman.
The word "love" and its variations (loved, loves, loving, lover and lovers) appears in this movie 143 times.
During Satine's trapeze entrance, blue light was used due to Nicole Kidman's pale skin tone, the director found that the blue light made her almost "glow" and therefore stood out during the scene.
The Paris landscape was digitally produced and the two longest visual effects shots to date appear in this movie.
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
2001 romance movies
Alternate history movies
Australian drama movies
Australian romance movies
Movies set in Paris
Movies set in the 1890s
Movies set in the 1900s
Paradiso (band), a Belgian dance act
the third canto of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Italian or Latinized version for Heaven or Paradise
Paradiso (Amsterdam), a music venue in Amsterdam
Pardiso (movie), a French movie by Christian Bricout
Paradiso (1966 novel), a novel by Cuban writer José Lezama Lima
Paradiso, Switzerland, a municipality of the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino
Paradiso railway station, a railway station in Luxembourg serving Wiltz International Scout Centre
Cinema Paradiso, an Italian film
Gran Paradiso, the only mountain whose summit reaches over 4,000 metres that is entirely within Italian area.
Paradiso is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Lago d'Origlio is a lake in the municipality of Origlio, in Ticino, Switzerland.
Personico is a municipality of the district Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Piazzogna is a former municipality of the district Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Pollegio is a municipality of the district Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Ponte Capriasca is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Ponte Tresa is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
With an area of 0.28 km², Ponte Tresa is the smallest municipality in Switzerland.
Official Page Of Ponte Tresa
Porza is a municipality of the district Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
City of Prato
Associazione Calcio Prato, the football club
Prato allo Stelvio, the Italian name for Prad am Stilfser Joch
Prato, Switzerland, an Italian-speaking municipality of the canton of Ticino
Prato Leventina (Prato) is a municipality of the district Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Everything, According to Wikipedia is a movie about Wikipedia.
It was shown at Wikimania 2010 in Gdańsk.
2010 movies
Works about Wikipedia
Jena, a German city.
The Battle of Jena.
Jena, Louisiana, a town in the United States.
Jena Six, a controversial court case in Jena, Louisiana
Jena, a Semantic Web framework.
Jena Malone, American actress
526 Jena, an asteroid
Pali is an old language.
It used to be spoken in India, and is similar to Sanskrit.
Pali is used in religious services by Theravada Buddhists.
The Theravada holy texts, called the Pali Canon, are written in Pali.
Pali is usually called a dead language.
Bengali originates from the Pali
Pāli-English dictionary
Pāli at Ethnologue
Pali Text Society
Pāli Canon selection
Languages of Bangladesh
Han Chinese (also called Han; ) is an ethnic group within East Asian people.
92% of the Chinese population and more than 97% of the Taiwanese population are Han.
Out of the entire human population in the world, 19% are Han Chinese.
Han Chinese have the highest concentrations in the Eastern Provinces of China, particularly in the Hebei, Jiangsu and Guangdong regions.
There are tens of millions of overseas Han Chinese.
The majority live in Southeast Asia.
Many big cities around the world have enough "overseas Chinese" to make a "Chinatown".
The name "Han" comes from the Han Dynasty that united China as one country.
During the Han Dynasty, many tribes felt that they belonged to the same ethnic group.
Also, the Han Dynasty is said to be the high point in Chinese civilization.
During the Han Dynasty, China was able to increase its power and influence to other parts of Asia.
There are some slang words and different names for Han amongst some Han people, especially in southern China and in Vietnam.
In languages like Cantonese, Hakka and Min Nan, the word "Táng Rén" is also used. "
Táng Rén" is written as "唐人" and it literally means "the people of Tang."
It is pronounced "Tong Yan" in Cantonese. "
唐人" comes from another Chinese dynasty, the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty is also another peak point of the Chinese civilization.
Within English-speaking Han communities, the word "Chinatown" in Chinese is "Táng Rén Jiē" which means "street of the Tang people."
Another phrase used by the Han people, especially overseas Chinese, is "Hua Ren" ().
It comes from "Zhong Hua" (), a poetic name for China.
The translation of this is "ethnic Chinese".
Han China is one of the world's oldest civilizations.
Chinese culture dates back thousands of years.
Some Han people believe they share common ancestors, distantly related to the Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor, who existed thousands of years ago.
Hence, some people of Han call themselves "Descendants of the Yan Emperor" or "Descendants of the Yellow Emperor."
Throughout the history of China, Chinese culture has been influenced by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.
Confucianism was the official philosophy throughout most of Imperial China's history, and becoming a professional of Confucian texts was needed to be part of the imperial bureaucracy.
Defining Han Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archaeology Research website on Han identity by Ph.D. candidate
How the Han Chinese became the world's biggest tribe  – Yahoo News/AFP Sept 15, 2004
Ethnic groups in China
Motorola RAZR V3 (said "Razer", IPA://) is a thin clamshell mobile/cellular camera phone designed and made by Motorola.
The phone was originally a fashion phone, but has now grown to many different versions in many different designs, when in 2005 the phone went into the main market and was sold at a medium price.
On May 15, 2007, Motorola showed the new RAZR 2, with a bigger screen, easier to use, and Linux, with a high price of $600 with service agreement and $800 without.
In 2005, PC World put the RAZR at #12 in The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years.
Silver version (The first version of the phone)
AT&T (formerly Cingular)
Centennial Wireless
It is the standard version of the phone.
Fido Solutions
Rogers Wireless and in many other countries from Movistar and Claro (Telcel).
All networks
Cingular
Cellular One from Dobson Cellular Systems
Pink version
T-Mobile (named "RAZR V3 Magenta", (Magenta is a type of pink) because T-Mobile's color is Magenta.
However, the Pink versions T-Mobile sold in other countries were named "RAZR V3 Pink")
Cingular (each in a different shade, currently exclusive to the US)
Rogers Wireless ($25 of each sale from the Rogers pink V3 went to "Rethink Breast Cancer" charity).
Carphone Warehouse
Blue version
The blue version was sold in the  United Kingdom.
It is named the "RAZR V3 Light Blue" but the color is mainly silver with a light shade of blue.
It is sold on these networks:
Rogers Wireless (This is a darker color "Cosmic Blue" version).
Orange (This is a darker color "Cosmic Blue" version)
Virgin Mobile (This is a darker color "Cosmic Blue" version)
Cincinnati Bell, a local network in Cincinnati (Sells a navy color blue version)
Cingular (Sells a version where the outside of the phone is blue colored, but the inside is sliver colored)
Tattoo version
At October 30, 2006, the phone was sold with a tattoo design on it on T-Mobile in USA.
The tattoo designs were made by Ami James from the TLC reality television show, Miami Ink.
V3i
After the "RAZR V3", Motorola sold the RAZR V3i.
This newer version of the phone improved some of the things that were bad about the original phone, for example, it had a better (1.23 megapixel) camera with 8x digital zoom, better screens, and allowed people to use memory cards in them.
The V3i software is very similar to the Motorola V635.
The Motorola RAZR V3i was on most networks in the world in 2005–2006.
In the U.S. the phone was released through Cingular Wireless on September 6, 2006, with a new activation price of $299.
Silver Quartz version (original version of the phone)
Dolce & Gabbana Gold version
At December 8, 2005 Motorola worked with Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian fashion company, to produce a special version of the RAZR V3i, the "Motorola RAZR V3i Dolce & Gabbana".
The phone was gold in color.
Only 1,000 of the original limited version phones were made and sold.
On June 1, 2006, Motorola and Dolce & Gabbana started selling the RAZR V3i Dolce & Gabbana again.
This version had a D&G leather holder, Bluetooth headphone, and FM earphones.
It was sold at all big Motorola shops and some D&G shops.
(PRODUCT)RED Red version
A red version was sold for the (PRODUCT)RED charity.
A percentage of the profit went to the charity to help fight AIDS in Africa.
V3r & V3t
The RAZR V3r and RAZR V3t are different versions the RAZR V3i.
Instead of having iTunes, they have Motorola's Digital Audio Player (DAP) music player, which has no song limit, but takes longer to load, and uses more battery.
However, it takes considerably longer time to load and uses the V3's battery at a much faster rate than iTunes does.
Mobile phones released in 2005
Babi Yar () is a ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine.
During the Holocaust, Nazi soldiers massacred 33,771 Jewish people at Babi Yar.
This may have been the worst two-day mass murder of Jews in all of the Holocaust.
Nazi Germany and other Axis countries occupied Kyiv on September 19, 1941.
By September 26, the military governor and the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Police Leader had decided to kill all of the Jews in Kyiv.
They said this would be revenge for German soldiers being attacked by some Jewish guerrilla fighters.
The Nazis tricked the Jews into coming to Babi Yar by telling them they were going to be sent to another place to live.
On 28 September 1941, they put up an order in the town.
Part of it said:
On September 29 and 30, special units of the SS called Einsatzgruppen, and some local Ukrainians who supported the Nazis, took these people to the ravine at Babi Yar.
They made them put all of their things in piles.
They made them strip naked.
The area was so crowded that by the time people heard gunshots, there was no way to escape.
The Nazis took people ten at a time into the ravine, made them lay down, and shot them with machine guns.
The Nazis buried these people in a mass grave.
People who had survived being shot were buried alive, along with the dead.
Only 29 people survived and were able to escape.
The murdered Jews' property was given to Nazi leaders in Kyiv.
Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall (born September 25, 1977 ) is an American movie and television actress.
She has been in the movies But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Girl, Interrupted (1999), 21 Grams (2003) and Zodiac (2007).
She is also in the television series Carnivàle and American Horror Story: Asylum.
Ewan Gordon McGregor  (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor who has had a lot of success in both mainstream and indie movies.
He is ranked #36 in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
He played the lead role in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel trilogy of Star Wars, and in his motorcycle adventures with friend Charley Boorman.
McGregor starred as Christopher Robin in the 2018 Disney movie Christopher Robin.
He also starred as the villain Black Mask in the 2020 DCEU movie Birds of Prey.
McGregor lives in Los Angeles, California.
He also has a home in North London, England.
The Scarlet and the Black (1993)
Lipstick On Your Collar (1993)
Tales from the Crypt - Cold War (1996)
ER (1997)
Long Way Round (2004)
[[Long Way Down (TV series)|Long Way Down]]'' (2007)
"TV Eye" Single (Soundtrack for movie Velvet Goldmine Cover version of original song by The Stooges - 1998)
"Gimme Danger" Single (Soundtrack for movie Velvet Goldmine Cover version of original song by The Stooges - 1998)
"Come What May" Single (Duet with Nicole Kidman - October 2001) UK #27
"Your Song" single
"Elephant Love Medley" Single (Duet with Nicole Kidman - October 2001)
Ewan McGregor to star in "Othello" at the Donmar Warehouse on Theatre.com
Bartholomew I  (, Patriarchis Bartholomaios A' , ; born 29 February 1940) is the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, since 2 November 1991.
He wrote an essay, "To Commit a Crime Against the Natural World Is a Sin” in Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (Trinity University Press, 2010 ).
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Orthodox Church
Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American crime drama thriller movie directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader.
It stars Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris and Albert Brooks.
Set in a decaying and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War, the film tells the story of Travis Bickle, a lonely taxi driver who descends into insanity as he plots to assassinate both the presidential candidate for whom the woman he is infatuated with works, and the pimp of an underage prostitute he befriends.
A critical and commercial success upon release and nominated for four Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (for Foster), Taxi Driver won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
The movie generated controversy at the time of its release for its depiction of violence and casting of a 12-year-old Foster in the role of a child prostitute.
In 2012, Sight & Sound named it the 31st-best movie ever in its decennial critics' poll, ranked with The Godfather Part II, and the fifth-greatest movie of all time on its directors' poll.
The film was considered significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994.
John Hinckley saw the movie many times.
He wanted to impress Foster.
He tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan by shooting him.
Reagan survived the 1981 attack.
1976 movies
Patriarch Alexius II (23 February 1929—5 December 2008) was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Estonian people
{{Infobox Movie
| name           = Romeo + Juliet
| caption        = Theatrical poster for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet'
| director       = Baz Luhrmann
| writer         = William Shakespeare (Play)Craig Pearce (Screenplay)Baz Luhrmann (Screenplay)
| starring       = Leonardo DiCaprioClaire DanesJohn LeguizamoHarold PerrineauPete PostlethwaitePaul SorvinoBrian DennehyPaul RuddVondie Curtis-HallMiriam MargolyesJesse BradfordDash Mihok
| producer       = Baz LuhrmannGabriella Martinelli
| music          = Nellee Hooper(Composer)Craig Armstrong(Composer)(Orchestrator)(Conductor)Marius De Vries(Composer)
| cinematography = Donald McAlpine
| editing        = Jill Bilcock
| distributor    = 20th Century Fox
| released       = November 1, 1996
| runtime        = 120 minutes
| budget         = $14,500,000 (estimated)
}}William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an Academy Award nominated 1996 American movie adaptation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
It was directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the title roles.
The movie is a version of Shakespeare's play designed to appeal to a younger modern audience.
It is set in present-day fictional Verona Beach, Florida, but uses the style of language from the original novel.
The fighting families (the Montagues and the Capulets) are represented as competing business empires, swords are replaced by guns etc.
Despite the adaptation, the movie retains Shakespeare's original dialogue, though edited for modern cinema audiences.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo Montague
Claire Danes as Juliet Capulet
John Leguizamo as Tybalt Capulet
Harold Perrineau as Mercutio
Brian Dennehy as Ted Montague
Dash Mihok as Benvolio Montague
Christina Pickles as Caroline Montague
Paul Sorvino as Fulgencio Capulet
Diane Venora as Gloria Capulet
Miriam Margolyes as Nurse Angelica
Paul Rudd as Dave Paris
Pete Postlethwaite as Friar Lawrence
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Captain Escalus Prince
Jesse Bradford as Balthasar
M. Emmet Walsh as Apothecary
Zak Orth as Gregory
Jamie Kennedy as Sampson
Critics gave the movie good reviews.
On the review given by Rotten Tomatoes, 74% of critics gave the movie positive reviews, based on 38 reviews.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times'' disliked the movie, giving it 2 stars and said "This production was a very bad idea.
I have never seen anything remotely approaching the mess that the new punk version of Romeo & Juliet makes of Shakespeare's tragedy."
Ebert wrote that Pete Postlethwaite and Miriam Margolyes were "the only actors in the movie who seem completely at home" and said "In one grand but doomed gesture, writer-director Baz Luhrmann has made a movie that (a) will dismay any lover of Shakespeare, and (b) bore anyone lured into the theater by promise of gang wars, MTV-style."
The movie won several awards.
At the Berlin International Film Festival in 1997, Leonardo DiCaprio won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor and director Baz Luhrmann won the Alfred Bauer Award.
Luhrmann was also nominated for the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture.
1996 movies
1990s teen drama movies
1990s teen romance movies
Movies based on Romeo and Juliet
Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American movie, television and stage actor.
All about Paul Rudd hous
Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey.
His father, Michael Rudd, was a historical tour guide and former vice-president of Trans World Airlines who died of cancer when Rudd was 39.
His mother, Gloria Irene (Granville), was a sales manager at the television station KCMO-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.
His parents were born in England; his father was from Edgware and his mother from Surbiton, both in London.
Rudd's parents were both Jewish (descended from Jewish immigrants who moved to Britain from Russia, Belarus, and Poland).
Rudd's parents were second cousins.
His father's family's original surname, "Rudnitsky", was changed by his grandfather to "Rudd", and his mother's family's surname was originally "Goldstein".
Rudd had a Bar Mitzvah service.
Growing up, he loved reading British comics, The Beano, and The Dandy, which his uncle in the U.K. would send to him.
At age ten, his family moved to Lenexa, Kansas.
They spent three years living in Anaheim, California, because of his father's occupation.
Rudd attended Broadmoor Junior High and graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School in the class of 1987.
Rudd attended the University of Kansas, where he majored in theater.
He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts/West in Los Angeles with fellow actor Matthew Lillard.
Rudd spent three months studying Jacobean drama at the British American Drama Academy based in Oxford, England.
While attending acting school, Rudd worked as a Bar Mitzvah disc jockey.
Interview with Paul Rudd about Knocked Up
People from Passaic, New Jersey
Epithelium (plural: epithelia) is one of the four main types of tissue in the body of animals.
It is made up of one or more layers of cells.
The outermost layer of the skin is a special type of epithelium.
It has an important function: it forms a mechanical defence against infection: see innate immunity.
Epithelia are found on the surface of organs and many other parts of the body.
One main function of epithelia is moving fluids into or out of an organ or body part.
It also protects organs and carries sense organs.
There are many different types of epithelium that do different things in the body, including the excretory system.
The epithelium covers blood vessels and hollow organs such as the stomach and kidneys.
All glands are made from epithelial cells.
In some areas, the epithelium secretes sweat, oil, or mucus.
The functions of epithelial cells include secretion, selective absorption, protection, transcellular transport, and sensing.
Epithelial layers have no blood vessels: they get oxygen and nourishment from the underlying connective tissue, through their basement membrane.
Article from Encyclopedia Britannica regarding Epithelium
Tibetan Buddhism (Tibetan: བོད་བརྒྱུད་ནང་བསྟན།; Chinese: 藏传佛教) are Buddhist teachings from Tibet.
It is part of Mahayana buddhism and is one of three main branches still practiced today.
The other two are Han Buddhism and Theravada.
It is most widely practiced around the Himalayas, Central Asia, and Siberia.
It includes all of the Buddhist teachings (or "three vehicles").
All traditions of Tibetan Buddhism practice the vows of moral discipline (Pratimoksha) of the hearer's vehicle (Shrāvakayāna); the vows of universal liberation and philosophy of the great vehicle (Mahāyāna); and the pledges and special methods of the secret mantra vehicle (Vajrayāna).
In the 7th century, Songtsen Gampo married two Buddhists: Tang Dynasty Princess Wencheng and Nepali Princess Bhrikuti.
They helped spread Buddhist teachings to Tibet.
Buddhism was merged with local Bön religions of the Zhangzhung to create a new kind of Buddhism: Tibetan Buddhism.
The Tibetans also began translating texts from Sanskrit and Chinese; and began writing some of their own texts.
In the 8th century, an Indian teacher called Padmasambhava brought some more Buddhism while Trisong Detsen was king of Tibet.
He also wrote a number of important texts.
In the 11th century, Tibetan Buddhism strong influenced the peoples of Central Asia, Mongolia and Manchuria.
It was very popular during the Mongol Yuan dynasty and the Manchu Qing dynasty of China.
Schools of Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism has four main schools.
Two of these schools hold practice as more important and two hold scholasticism (study of philosophy) more important.
The four schools are:
Nyingma, The Ancient Ones, the oldest and original order founded by Padmasambhava.
This school is of the practice tradition.
Kagyu, Oral Lineage, has one major subsect (Dagpo Kagyu) and one minor subsect (Shangpa Kagyu).
Sakya, Grey Earth, headed by the Sakya Trizin, founded by Khon Konchog Gyalpo, a disciple of the great translator Drokmi Lotsawa.
This school is of the scholarly tradition.
Gelug, Way of Virtue, also known as Yellow Hats, whose spiritual head is the Ganden Tripa and whose temporal head is the Dalai Lama, who was ruler of Tibet from the mid-17th to mid-20th centuries.
Classical Tibetan is the main language for Tibetans.
But texts have also been translated into Mongolian,  Manchu, and Chinese.
Monasteries (places of worship)
Monasticism was the foundation of Buddhism in Tibet.
There were over 6,000 monasteries in Tibet, however nearly all of these were destroyed by  Chinese Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
Most of the major monasteries have been at least partly restored while many others remain in ruins.
Today, Tibetan Buddhism has spread throughout the Eastern world excluding Southeast Asia.
It is practiced in the Tibetan Plateau, Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia, Kalmykia, Siberia, Russian Far East, northeast China, Arunachal Pradesh.
It is the state religion of Bhutan.
The Indian regions of Sikkim, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal are also home to large Tibetan Buddhist populations.
There are also communities in South India.
Tibetan Buddhism has expanded to the West and throughout the world.
Celebrity practitioners include Brandon Boyd, Richard Gere, Adam Yauch, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Sharon Stone, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Mike Barson and Steven Seagal.
Sometimes called "Hinayana" or Fundamental Vehicle
The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
Famous Monasteries of Tibet
Tibetan Buddhism: History and the Four Traditions
Lotsawa House | Tibetan Buddhist Texts | Translations
Tibetan Buddhism in the West by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Shambhala Sun - Tibetan Buddhism
Documentary feature film about how to follow a Vajrayana Buddhist teacher
LamRim.com - Tibetan Buddhist Internet Radio
Tibetan buddhist temple in Japan
The Berlinale, or Berlin International Film Festival,  is the world's leading film festival held in Berlin, Germany.
The Berlinale was first held in 1951, and since 1978 has been held every February.
More than 200000 tickets are sold and around 400000 admissions it is the biggest publicly-attended film festival worldwide.
Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick.
The European Film Market (EFM), a film trade fair, is held at the same time as the Berlinale.
It is also one of the most important events for the international film industry.
Lifetime Achievement ("Honorary Golden Bear")
Silver Bear
Best Music
Extraordinary achievement by a single artist
Grand Prize of the Jury (Short film award)
Panorama Publikumspreis, the Audience Award
Berlinale Camera, a special award for services to the Festival
A Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the 14plus Competition
Teddy Award
Silver Bear-Best Director
Silver Bear-Best Actor
Silver Bear-Best Actress
Berlin Life: An introduction to the Berlin Film Festival
Review of the 2006 Berlin Film Festival
Signandsight about the director Dieter Kosslick
Lathrios Film Festival Database  - the Lathrios listing for the Berlin International Film Festival including a film list and analysis for the event.
Santa Fe de Antioquia, a municipality in Colombia
Santa Fe, New Mexico, capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico
Santa Fe Province, in Argentina
Santa Fe, Argentina, capital of the province
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, covering central and northeastern New Mexico
Tokio Hotel is a German pop-rock  band.
The band began in 2001, and were first called Devilish.
The people who are in the band all came from Magdeburg in Germany.
The youngest, the Kaulitz twins, were born two months before the Berlin Wall was taken down.
Tokio Hotel was started by singer Bill Kaulitz and guitarist Tom Kaulitz, who are identical twin brothers.
Their step father owns a music school named "Rock School".
The drummer is Gustav Schäfer and bass-guitarist is Georg Listing.
The four met in 2001 after a live show in a Magdeburg club, where Listing and Schäfer, who knew each other from music school, watched from the audience while Bill and Tom Kaulitz played on the stage.
Using the name "Devilish", the band began playing in talent shows and small concerts.
After Bill Kaulitz took part in a children's Star Search in 2003 at age thirteen (which he lost in the quarter-final), he was discovered by music producer Peter Hoffmann.
Devilish changed their name to "Tokio Hotel": "Tokio", the German spelling of the Japanese city Tokyo, because they love the city, and "Hotel" because of their constant touring and living in hotels.
Soon after Sony BMG took them under contract, Hoffmann hired David Jost and Pat Benzner into the team of creators and authors.
They guided the teens on songwriting and instrument playing; most of the songs of the first album were written by Hoffmann, Jost, Benzer, and Bill Kaulitz (including the singles "Scream" and "Rescue me" which were completely written by them).
Only the single "Unendlichkeit" was written completely by Tokio Hotel themselves.
However, shortly before release of their first album, Sony ended their contract.
In 2005, Universal Music Group took Tokio Hotel under contract and developed a marketing plan.
The band has now become one of the biggest acts from Germany.
Bill Kaulitz (Vocals)
Bill Kaulitz (born September 1 1989, in Leipzig, Germany) is the lead singer of Tokio Hotel.
He is the twin brother of Tom Kaulitz.
Bill is ten minutes younger than Tom.
They used to live in Magdeburg, Germany.
Before making Tokio Hotel, the band was called Devilish.
Bill was on the German star search but he lost in 2001.
Because of Bill going on the Star Search he came to be known by Peter Hoffman.
Tokio Hotel soon got a job with Sony but in 2005 Sony ended it.
After the first European tour, Bill lost his voice and found out he had cyst on his vocal cords.
He had surgery and it took three weeks to get better.
He then went back to having concerts with the band.
Tom Kaulitz (Lead Guitar)
Tom Kaulitz was born on September 1 1989, in Leipzig ten minutes before his identical twin brother, Bill.
He is from Magdeburg in Germany.
Tom and Bill now live in Berlin, Germany.
As of September 2007, Tom is using Gibson guitars.
He has stated his musical influences to be Aerosmith and German hip-hop such as Samy Deluxe.
Georg Listing (Bass Guitar)
Georg Listing was born on March 31 1987.
His hometown is Halle.
He began playing bass when he was thirteen years old, as of September 2007, uses a Sandberg bass.
He has said that his playing style was heavily influenced by Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and other musical influences include Die Ärzte and Oasis.
Gustav Schäfer (Drummer)
Gustav Schäfer was born on September 8 1988, in his hometown of Magdeburg, and has an older sister.
Gustav has been playing the drums since he was five.
His musical influences include Metallica, Joe Cocker and Rod Stewart.
Oct 2005: Comet Awards: Best Newcomer
Oct 2005: Comet Awards: Super Comet
Nov 2005: Eins Live Krone: Best Newcomer
Dec 2005: Bambi Awards: Best Pop National
2005: Golden Penguin: Best Single
2005: Golden Penguin: Best Pop
2005: Golden Penguin: Rock Band
Feb 2006: Golden Penguin: Album of the year
Feb 2006: Golden Penguin: Band of the year
Feb 2006: Golden Penguin: Song of the year - ‘Der Letzte Tag’
March 2006: Sold-out-Award of Königpilsen Arena: Ausverkaufte Tourhalle
March 2006: ECHO Awards: Best Newcomer
March 2006: Steiger Awards: Best Newcomer
Nov 2006: Bambi Awards: Best Pop National Act
May 2007: Viva Comet: Supercomet
May 2007: Viva Comet: Best Band
May 2007: Viva Comet: Best Music Video
Jul 2007: Jabra Music: Die Beste Band )(The Best Band)
Oct 2007: Belgian TMF awards: Best Video
Oct 2007: Belgian TMF awards: Best Album
Oct 2007: Belgian TMF awards: Best Pop
Oct 2007: Belgian TMF awards: Best New Artist
Jan 2008: NRJ Music: Best International Band
Feb 2008: Echo Awards: Best Music Video
Feb 2008: Comet Awards: Best Band
Feb 2008: Comet Awards: Best Video
Feb 2008: Comet Awards: Best Live Act
Feb 2008: Comet Awards: Super Comet
Sep 2008: MTV VMA Music Awards: Best New Artist
Oct 2008: TMF Awards: Best Male Artist International(Bill Kaulitz)
Oct 2008: TMF Awards: Best Video International
Oct 2008: MTV Latin America Awards: Song of the Year
Oct 2008: MTV Latin America Awards: Best Fanclub-Venezuela
Oct 2008: MTV Latin America Awards: Best New Artist-International
Oct 2008: MTV Latin America Awards: Best Ringtone
Nov 2008: MTV EMA Music Awards: Headliner
April 2010: GEMA German Music Authors Award
October 2010: MTV best world stage performance
August 15, 2005: Durch Den Monsun
November 25, 2005: Schrei
March 10, 2006: Rette Mich
August 28, 2006: Der Letzte Tag / Wir Schließen Uns Ein January 26, 2007: Übers Ende der Welt April 7, 2007: Spring Nicht May 12, 2007: Monsoon August 27, 2007: Ready, Set, Go!
November 16, 2007: An Deiner Seite (Ich Bin Da) / 1000 Meere
September 18, 2009: Automatic / Automatisch
December 18, 2009: World behind my wall / Lass uns laufen
DVD's
December 2, 2005: Leb die Sekunde - Behind The Scenes
April 7, 2006: Schrei Live
April 7, 2007: Spring Nicht
November 30, 2007: Zimmer 483 - Live In Europe
December 5, 2008: Tokio Hotel TV - Caught on Camera
The Toy Fox Terrier (also known as American Toy Terrier, Amertoy) is a small terrier breed of dogs.
They are related to the Fox Terrier, but are considered a separate breed.
Davidson, John F., The Toy Fox Terrier - Wired for Action (a 2006 revision of The Toy Fox Terrier)
Hopkins, Eliza and Flamholtz, Cathy The Toy Fox Terrier
Bielsky-Braham, Tanya, Send in the Clowns.
AKC Gazette, December, 2002
American Toy Fox Terrier Club
Visit the Official National Toy Fox Terrier Association web site for more information about TFTs.
The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in New York City, New York in Citi Field.
They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of the National League (NL) east division.
The team started in 1962.
The Mets won the World Series in the years 1969 and 1986.
They play in Corona, New York and play in their stadium Citi Field, completed in 2009.
Their colors are blue and orange.
Their retired numbers are 42 (Jackie Robinson), 41 (Tom Seaver), 14 (Gil Hodges), and 37 (Casey Stengel).
The name "Mets" is short for "Metropolitans".
There was an old team in the 1880s called the New York Metropolitans.
The words "Metropolis" and "Metropolitan" are often used to describe very large cities.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Opera, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority are among the other New York users of that word.
The Mets first played their home games at the Polo Grounds.
They opened Shea Stadium in 1964.
After 45 seasons at Shea, they opened Citi Field in 2009, nextdoor to Shea.
Shea was torn down during the 2009 season.
The Mets have won the World series two times, in 1969 and 1986.
In 1973, 2000, and 2015, the Mets went to the World Series, but lost to the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and Kansas City Royals, respectively.
The first regular season non-exhibition game between the Mets and the New York Yankees took place in 1997.
Three years later, the teams met in the 2000 World Series.
A series of games between the two New York City teams is called a Subway Series.
New York Mets Foundation
A registered 501(c)(3) charity, the New York Mets Foundation is the philanthropic organization of the New York Mets.
Founded in 1963, it funds and promotes charitable causes in the Mets community.
One of these causes is Tuesday's Children, is a non-profit family service organization that "has made a long term commitment to meet the needs of every family who lost a loved one in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001".
History of the New York Mets
New York Mets Team Index
Ultimate Mets Database
The bond market (also known as the debt, credit, or fixed income market) is a financial market where people buy and sell debt securities, usually in the form of bonds.
In 2006 the size of the international bond market was about $45 trillion.
The size of the outstanding U.S. bond market debt was $25.2 trillion.
Investing In Bonds Only:  Why This Investment Strategy Doesn't Work... and What Does
Investing in Bonds, an education site for bond investors
SIFMA
ShibuiMarkets
Bonds 101, bonds.yahoo.com
Fixed-Income Funds
USTreasuryMarket.com: Dealer misconduct, including front-running, in government bond market.
International Financing Review (IFR)
Security means to prevent dangers or losses.
In general, security is similar to safety.
The difference between the two is that security cares more than general safety about dangers from the outside.
Airports and banks usually have a lot of security measures.
Prison security is used mainly to stop prisoners from escaping.
It is also used to stop prisoners from harming prison employees or other prisoners.
Maximum security is found in or around prisons or other types of places where people need to be kept in or kept out.
It is the highest security level for a building or area.
Monahan, Torin, ed. (
2006), Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life .
New York: Routledge:
Operations Security Professional's Association Website ''http://www.opsecprofessionals.org.
ISO/IEC 15443-1: Overview and framework
ISO/IEC 15443-2: Assurance methods
ISO/IEC 15443-3: Analysis of assurance methods