List of people from Texas - Founders of The Republic of Texas. Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), the "Father of Texas" Edward Burleson (1798–1851), Texas soldier, general, and statesman David G. Burnet (1788–1870), interim President of the Republic of Texas Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836), first vice-president of the Republic of Texas and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence Sam Houston (1793–1863), first President of Republic of Texas, later U.S. Senator ...

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His big break came with the sale of his script True Romance, written with Roger Avary, which was made into a film starring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater. He also wrote the original screenplay for Natural Born Killers, as part of the longer screenplay that True Romance came from, although it was changed significantly by subsequent writers, and he does not have a screenwriting credit on that film. The sale of True Romance (eventually released in 1993) garnered him attention. He met Lawrence Bender at ...

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Nyack is on the west bank of the Hudson River, north of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Nyack is located at 41°5'33" North, 73°55'21" West (41.092528, -73.922584)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²). 2.0 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is land and 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 51.88% water. ...

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The Village of Nyack was originally settled by Native Americans known locally as the Nyack Indians, in which the village bears its name. In the 1980s, the village underwent a major urban revitalization project to commercialize the downtown area and to expand its economy. It was at that time when the Helen Hayes Theater was built and the downtown area became home to many new business establishments. ...

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It was produced first by TAT Communications, then Embassy Television, followed by Embassy Communications, and finally, Columbia Pictures Television (through ELP Communications). Today, Sony Pictures Television still distributes the rights to the sitcom. From 1979 to 1982, the series was produced at Metromedia Square, and from 1982 on at Universal City Studios in Hollywood. ...

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Harrison, Brand and Renfrew had intended the film to be set and shot in San Francisco, but problems soon arose with their proposal. Cox had commitments to Friends, which was in production in Los Angeles, and production costs did not allow the entire production team to relocate to northern California for the duration for the shoot. The film-makers were forced to shoot in Los Angeles, but Renfrew later expressed no regret in their decision: "We wanted the story to take place in an anonymous urban area. An ...

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In the early 1980s, Stephen Kay, who had worked on the murder trial, became alarmed that Leslie Van Houten had gathered 900 signatures on a petition which supported her parole. He contacted Doris Tate who said she was sure she could do better, and the two mounted a publicity campaign that led to the collection of more than 350,000 signatures supporting the view that parole should be denied. [1] Van Houten had been considered a ...

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The Facts of Life aired in the United States on the USA Network and later on Nick at Nite and the Hallmark Channel. For the last two years, however, The Facts of Life has not aired on any nationwide cable channel. Despite Diff'rent Strokes' huge popularity in the United Kingdom, The Facts of Life never aired on terrestrial TV there. A few series were aired on one of the UK BSB satellite channels. In 2001, Columbia House released ten "Best of" volumes of the series on VHS (40 episodes in all). Since S ...

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The original script for the film was written by Benjamin Brand, who had written and sold several screenplays to studios, but not one of them had been produced. Brand had served as an assistant to producer Danielle Renfrew on the film Groove (2000), which Greg Harrison had directed. Brand, Renfrew and Harrison were all friends, and were living in their hometown of San Francisco developing separate projects at "mini-major" studios which, according to Renfrew, were "wallowing in development hell". Brand then read a newspaper story about ...

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On the evening of November 7th, photographer Sophie Jacobs (Courteney Cox) and her attorney boyfriend Hugh (James LeGros) go to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. As they travel home afterwards, Sophie develops a craving for "something sweet", and stops their car at a convenience store. While Hugh is in the store buying some chocolate for Sophie, a man (Matthew Carey) with a gun arrives and holds up the store, shooting the store clerk, his son, and Hugh dead. He r ...

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In late 1967, Tate and Polanski returned to London, and were frequent subjects of newspaper and magazine articles. Tate was depicted as being untraditional and modern, with her assertion that couples should live together before they marry being quoted. They were married in London on January 20, 1968 with considerable publicity. The photographer Peter Evans later described them as "The imperfect couple. They were the Douglas Fairbanks/Mary Pickford of our time... Cool, nomadic, talented and nicely shocking."See also:

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Sharon Tate was born in Dallas, Texas, the first of three daughters, to Paul Tate, a United States Army officer and his wife, Doris. At six months of age, Sharon Tate won the "Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas Pageant", but the Tates did not hold any showbusiness ambitions for their daughter. Paul Tate's military career progressed, and he was promoted and transferred several times. By the age of 16, Sharon Tate had lived in six different American cities, and because of the frequent moves and unsettled lifestyle, had found it difficult to maintain frie ...

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Nicole Sullivan - Movie appearances. Nicole has also starred in the following movies: Guess Who, The Third Wheel,My Sister's Keeper, The Way She Moves, Bar Hopping, Say You'll Be Mine, Fairfax Fandango, Kim Possible. ...

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Quentin Tarantino - Director. My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) ER (1995) Season 1; Episode 24: "Motherhood" (Director) Four Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995) Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004) Sin City (2005) (Special Guest Director) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005) '"Grave Danger: V ...

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Tarantino has come under criticism for his use of racial epithets in his films, particularly the word nigger in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, most notably from black American director Spike Lee. In an interview for Variety, Lee said: "I'm not against the word... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word. What does he want? To be made an honorary black man?" An oft-cited example is a scene in Pulp Fiction in which a character named Jimmie Dimmick, portrayed by Tarantino himself, rebukes ...

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Tarantino is widely known as a director who is very much a "film-geek", with an astonishing, encyclopedic knowledge of movies, film criticism, and film history. Particularly, he has a vast knowledge of foreign films, genre films and little-known pieces of cinema. He is a declared lover of exploitation films, Hong Kong action cinema, Spaghetti Westerns, giallo horror, French New Wave, and British cinema. His love of those genres is mirrored in his works -- all of his films regularly quote other movies and genres in their styles, stories and dialogue. He once summed it up by saying, ...

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On August 8, 1969, Tate was two weeks away from giving birth. She entertained two friends for lunch at her home, confiding in them her despair at Polanski's delay in returning from London. In the afternoon Polanski phoned her. Her younger sister Debra also called to ask if she and their sister Patti could spend the night with Tate. Tate explained that she was tired and refused. In the evening she went to a restaurant with Sebring, Frykowski and Folger, returning at approximately 10.30 pm. See also:

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Rachel has also been in a number of movies, including Martin & Orloff; The Hebrew Hammer; Down with Love; and Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, to name a few. She also has joined fellow SNL cast members on A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T.: Improv which aired September 7, 2005, on the Bravo channel. Dratch has also made television appearances on NBC's Third Watch and in a recurring role on King of Queens. Dratch wrote, directed and performed in the short film "The Vagina Monologues Monologues," which premiered at the New York Comedy Film Festival in 2001. Rachel graduated from Dartmouth College in 1988 wh ...

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Tarantino's movies are renowned for their sharp dialogue, splintered chronology, and pop culture obsessions. Often they are viewed as graphically violent, and certainly in his key films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill there are copious amounts of both spattered and flowing blood. However, what affects people most is the casualness, and even macabre humour, of the violence, as wel ...

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In November 1969, while in prison in connection with a car theft, Susan Atkins boasted to an inmate that she was responsible for the murder of Sharon Tate. This led to her arrest, along with the accomplices she named, Charles Manson, Charles "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian. Atkins also revealed that the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, on the night after the Tate murders, were also committed by "Family" members, and she ...

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Thompson married Kenneth Branagh, with whom she appeared in Fortunes of War, on August 20, 1989. They appeared together several times, in hit films such as Dead Again, Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing. They eventually divorced in October of 1995. In 2003, Thompson married actor Greg Wise, with whom she had had a daughter in 1999. ...

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