William "Bill" Paxton (born May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a notable American actor and film director. He is best-known for playing distinctive and memorable characters, such as the sneering older brother Chet in John Hughes' Weird Science, Hudson, the loud-mouthed space soldier in James Cameron's Aliens ("Game over, man! Game over!"), astronaut Fred Haise in Ron Howard's Apollo 13, the sadistic vampire Severen in Kathryn Bigelow's film Near Dark and a tornado researcher oppo ...

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1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. 1955 - Events. January 7 - Marian Anderson is the first African American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. January 22 - Pentagon announces plan to develop ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) armed with nuclear weapons 1955 - February. February 8 - Nikolai Bulganin becomes Soviet Premier. February 12 - US Pre ...

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Vertical Limit (2000) is an action movie/thriller directed by Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, No Escape) starring, among others, Chris O'Donnell, Robin Tunney and Scott Glenn. It narrates the attempted ascent of K2 by a group of alpinists, led by an ambitious multi-millionaire. But the climbing party get into serious jeopardy after an avalanche goes down, kills some of the members and traps others inside a crevasse. At the base, a rescue team is formed to rediscover their buried mates. The undertaking soon becomes a r ...

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Apollo 13 was an American space mission, part of the Apollo program. It was intended to be the third mission to land on the Moon, but instead is famous for the critical malfunction it suffered and its difficult but successful return home. Apollo 13 - Crew. Jim Lovell (flew on Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 & Apollo 13), commander Jack Swigert (flew on Apollo 13), command module pilot Fred Haise (flew on Apollo 13), lunar module pilot ...

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Weird Science (1985) is a movie written and directed by John Hughes. The title song was written and performed by Oingo Boingo. Two super-nerds, Gary (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), unable to find girls on their own, hack into the Pentagon's mainframe and use government technology to create a computer simulation of a "the perfect woman" in order to place her in "real life sexual situations" and see how she reacts. Mysteriously, the result is "Lisa," (Kelly LeBrock), a real-life woman and sex ...

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This is a list of film-related events in 1996. 1995 in film 1996 in film 1997 in film 1995 in home video 1996 in home video 1997 in home video 1995 in television 1996 in television 1997 in television 1996 in film - Top grossing films. Independence Day, starring Will Smith Twister, starring Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt Miss ...

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Aliens is a 1986 science fiction movie starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser. It is a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. Aliens 1986 film - Overview. Directed by James Cameron from a story written by Cameron, David Giler, and Walter Hill, the film is more of a high-paced, action adventure film than the atmospheric sci-fi horror of the first film. It was tremendously successful, following Cameron's The Terminator in hel ...

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U-571 is a 2000 movie directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry. In the movie, a German submarine is boarded in 1942 by disguised American submariners seeking to capture its Enigma cipher machine. Tagline: Heroes are ordinary men who do extraordinary things in extraordinary times. U-571 film - Historical inaccuracies. Enigma and associated documents containing key material we ...

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Twister is a 1996 disaster movie starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont. The film was based upon a script by Michael Crichton and his wife, former actress Anne-Marie Martin. Twister currently ranks 37th in all time box office gross with USD 241,708,908. Twister also has a famous scene of a flying cow, a scene that was the subject of many parodies. The film also became the theme of a ride at Universal Orlando Resort called Twister...Ride it Out. According to IMDb, Twis ...

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The Binding of Isaac, in Genesis 22, is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah. To many readers the tale is one of the most challenging, complex, mystifying, and perhaps ethically troublesome episodes in the entire Bible. The story is referred to as the Akedah or Akedat Yitschak (עקידת יצחק) in Hebrew (the binding of Isaac) and as the Dhabih in Arabic. Abraham agrees to God's command without argument, even though God gives him no reason fo ...

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It is 1996, and a treasure hunter and his team explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic in their submersible. A safe is brought to the surface and is opened. It contains, not the fabled treasure the adventurers had hoped for, but only papers. One of them is a nude pencil portrait dated 14 April, 1912, and signed "JD". It shows a beautiful young woman reclining nude with casual modesty on a couch. On a necklace around her neck ...

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Candy Slice was a character played by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live. An intense but troubled rock and roll artist, Candy Slice recorded an album in a sketch on December 9, 1978 (the host that day was Eric Idle).[1] In this sketch, Candy Slice was addicted to cocaine. She also performed in the Rock Against Yeast on February 17, 1979, while Rick Nelson was hosting.[2] Her song was dedicated to Mick Jagger and was solely about how Candy Slice was his "biggest funked-up fan". In that sketch, she also hobnobbed with the likes of Olivia Newton-John (Laraine ...

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The majority of Jewish Biblical commentators argue that God was testing Abraham to see if he would actually kill his own son, as a test of his loyalty. However, a number of Jewish Biblical commentators from the medieval era, and many in the modern era, do not agree with this notion. They read the text in another way. The early rabbinic midrash Genesis Rabbah quotes God as saying "I never considered telling Abraham to slaughter Isaac (using the Hebrew root letters for "slaughter", not "sacrifice"). Rabbi Yona Ibn Janach (Spain, ...

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Enigma and associated documents containing key material were first recovered from a U-boat in May 1941 — before the United States' entry into World War II — by the British who captured U-110. The British also captured material from U-559 in 1942. The U.S. Navy did seize German Naval Enigma material in June 1944 when it captured U-505 (the U.S. Navy's first capture of an enemy vessel at sea in 129 years). The film caused irritation in Britain. Critics argued that U-571 failed to portray history correctly ...

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Big Wednesday (1978) .... Leroy ... aka Summer of Innocence The Buddy Holly Story (1978) .... Buddy Holly Straight Time (1978) .... Willy Darin The Set-Up (1978) A Star Is Born (1976) .... Bobbie Ritchie The Gumball Rally (1976) .... Gibson - Camaro Team You and Me (1975) ... aka Around (USA) The Law (1974) (TV) .... William Bright "The Texas Wheelers" (1974) TV Series .... Truckie Wheeler Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) (as Garey Busey) .... Curly The Execution of Private Slovik (1974) (TV) .... Jimmy Feedek Blood Sport (1973) (TV) .... Da ...

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James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, to Phillip, an electrical engineer, and Shirley Cameron, an artist. He grew up in Chippawa, Ontario, and in 1971 his family moved to Brea, California. There he studied physics at Cal State-Fullerton, but his passion for filmmaking would draw him to the film archive of UCLA at every opportunity. He started in the film industry as a screenwriter, then moved into art direction and effects for films such as Battle Beyond the Stars and Escape from New York. Working with produce ...

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The story revolves around two married storm chasers, Dr. Jo Thornton-Harding (Helen Hunt), and her soon to be ex-husband Bill Harding (Bill Paxton). As the film begins, Bill has gone into the fields of Oklahoma to find Jo and her team of storm chasers. Bill is a former weather researcher and storm chaser who has taken a job as a weather reporter and is about to marry his new girlfriend, Dr. Melissa Reeves (Jami Gertz), a psychologist. Bill is seeking Jo’s si ...

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A young woman, Sarah Connor, finds herself pursued by a relentless killer for reasons completely unknown to her. She is eventually approached by Kyle Reese, who explains that in the future, an artificial intelligence called "Skynet" will be created by military software developers to make strategic decisions. The program becomes self-aware; in a panic, the humans attempt to destroy Skynet. In the interest of self preservation, Skynet seizes control of most of the world's military hardware (including various highly advanced robots), and launch ...

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The novel's main character is Hank Mitchell, a middle class married man who works as an accountant. After visiting his father's grave with his anti-social brother, Jacob, and Jacob's alcoholic friend, Lou, Jacob is cut off by a fox and veers his truck into the ditch. The three follow the fox into the woods for vengeance -- Hank somewhat reluctantly -- and end up finding a crashed plane instead. Inside the plane is ...

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Tyler earned a bachelor's degree from UCLA and completed a master's degree from Harvard University. Prior to writing his first screen score, he was already composing and playing his own concert pieces in the United States and Russia. He also played piano, classical percussion, guitar, bass, and drums in orchestras, ensembles, choirs, and bands. Film composer Robert Kraft[1], after hearing some of Tyler's music, encouraged Tyler to pursue a career in film scoring. Tyler was also inspired by his grandfa ...

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