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Chariots of Fire - Producers. James Crawford - associate producer Jake Eberts - executive producer Dodi Fayed - executive producer David Puttnam - producer ...

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One scene in the film recreates a race in which the runners attempt to round the perimeter of the Great Court at Trinity College, Cambridge in the time it takes the clock to double strike the hour at midday. The scene was actually filmed at Eton. The only people believed to have actually completed the run around the Great Court in time are Lord Burghley in 1927 and Sebastian Coe in ...

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Their research works by examining the output of hardware random number generators located around the world. The remote devices have been dubbed Princeton Eggs, where EGG is short for electrogaiagram, a play of words on electroencephalogram [1]. The current theory holds that events that have a significant human impact affect the randomness of these generators in a statistically significant way. Roger D. Nelson started by reviewing two decades of experiments from the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR) which repea ...

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Das Boot - Versions contents. Several versions of the film and video releases have been made: The first version to be released was the theatrical 150-minute (2 1/2-hour) cut, released to theatres in Germany in 1981, and in the United States in 1982. It was nominated for six Academy Awards (Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, and Writing). Much more footage had been shot for the film than was shown in the theatrical version, and in 1985, a TV miniseries of Das Boot was sho ...

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Susan Sarandon won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role. Sean Penn was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the film for Best Director and its main track, "Dead Man Walking" by Bruce Springsteen for Best Music, Song. The movie also stars Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry and R. Lee Ermey. The director, Tim Robbins, adapted the story himself from Sister Prejean's autobiographical account. ...

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Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film and served as President of the jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, where he had previously won the Palme d'Or in 1990. He was also honored in 2002 by the French government with the Legion of Honor. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Directing three times (for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive) but has never won. ...

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Michelson was born in Strzelno, Poland (then Strelno, Provinz Posen Kingdom of Prussia) in 1852, the son of a Jewish merchant. He moved to the United States with his parents when he was two years old. He grew up in the rough mining towns of Murphy's Camp, California, and Virginia City, Nevada, where his father was a merchant. President Ulyses S. Grant awarded Michelson a special appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1869. During his four years as a midshipman at the Academy, Michelson excelled in optics, heat and climatology, and d ...

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Lynch has been married twice: Peggy Lynch (1967-1974), (one daughter Jennifer Chambers Lynch, the film director) Mary Fisk (21 June 1977-1987), (one son Austin Jack Lynch) He also has a son Riley Lynch with the film editor Mary Sweeney. ...

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Attended Lancaster High School in Lancaster, South Carolina, and graduated valedictorian from the Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1953. Duke received a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Sciences from the United States Naval Academy in 1957 and a Master's degree in Aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. In 1973 he was presented an honorary doctorate of Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. Duke received an honorary doctorate of ...

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Kamen is probably most well-known to the public from the publicity surrounding the product that eventually became known as the Segway HT—a kind of electric scooter with a complex, computer-controlled gyroscopic stabilization and control system that keeps the device balanced on two horizontally-placed wheels and controlled by moving body weight. The machine's secret development was the object of much speculation after segments of a book quoting Steve Jobs and other notable IT visionaries espousing its society-revolutio ...

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Alda's prominence in the enormously successful M*A*S*H gave him a platform to speak out on political topics, and he has been a strong and vocal supporter of equal rights for women. As such, he has been something of a boogeyman for some political social conservatives who disagree with his views. He has also appeared in at least two TV commercials. Both of these were in the small-computer industry, first for Atari and later, with the rest of the M*A*S*H cast, for IBM's ...

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Madeline (Streep) and Helen (Hawn) are romantic rivals for the affection of former cosmetic surgeon Ernest (Willis). Both women are desperate to overcome the aging process and, unknown to each other, they take a magical potion that makes them young again. The potion allows them to live forever... with one small problem: they continue to live despite any injury. They become increasingly reliant on Ernest to patch up their broken bodies. Of note is the final scene in the film, set decades in the future as Madeline and Helen attend Ernes ...

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