Against the Ropes is a 2004 drama movie. It was directed by Charles S. Dutton, in his motion-picture directorial debut. It is a fictionalized account of the American boxing manager Jackie Kallen, who was the first woman to become a success in the sport. The events in the film are not an accurate representation of Kallen's career, however. For example, Kallen was married and had two children while working in the boxing profession, but in ...

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Alfie is a 2004 American-British comedy romance film starring Jude Law as the title character. It is written and directed by Charles Shyer. It is a remake of the 1966 film of the same name starring Michael Caine. The 2004 version of Alfie takes place in New York City, rather than in London, where the original 1966 film took place. The music score was composed by Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, former Eurythmic Dave Stewart, and John Powell, featuring 13 orig ...

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The gameplay is expanded from the original game, which was primarily a wrestling game. Fighters can choose from up to five styles, and many fighters have more than one. Styles Street Fighting Blazin- Street Sweeper Kickboxing Blazin- Foot for Breakfast Martial Arts blazin- Art of Pain Wrestling Blazin- Springboard Submissions ...

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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Beware the full moon. (DVD) ...

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Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts was established in 1984. The school, adjacent to New York's Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, was built in order to bring together two "sister" arts high schools of the day, the High School of Music & Art (started by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in 1936) and the High School for Performing Arts. Prior to the building's completion, Music & Art had been located in Harlem on 135th Street; Performing Arts had been located in midtown on 46th Street, both in Manhattan ...

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Jennifer Esposito was born April 11, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York. She made her first appearance in Law & Order in 1990 in various small roles, but she is best known as Stacey in the prime time hit Spin City. She can also be seen in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer playing the role of Nancy. One of her more recent successes was her role as Ruby in Spike Lee's controversial Summer of Sam in 1999. Set against the mid-Seventies backdrop of the Son of Sam murders, the film also starred John Leguizamo and Mira Sorvino. Esposito's next film was Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 with Johnny ...

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Sanaa Lathan - Early life and career. Lathan, whose first name is Swahili for "Work of Art", was the second oldest of five children born to Broadway actress and dancer Eleanor McCoy and director/producer Stan Lathan. Surrounded by show business since birth, Lathan began training in dance and gymnastics at an early age. Following her parents' divorce, she grew up shuttling between her mother's home in New York City and Los Angeles, California, where her father lived. During her undergraduate education at th ...

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The film was directed by David S. Ward, who also directed the first installment of the Major League series, in addition to other films, such as The Program and Down Periscope. In addition to Sheen, Berenger, Bernsen, Epps, Keith, and Ishibashi, Major League II has an additional cast of Dennis Haysbert, James Gammon, Bob Uecker, and Margaret Whitton. The film touches on the follow up season of the Cleveland Indians successful season in the first film. It is revealed that the team and many of its players have ...

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Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) have wanted to be professional basketball stars since they were kids. Monica has had to work hard to establish herself as a presence, while Quincy was born with natural star potential. As the two struggle to reach their goals of playing professionally, they must also deal with their emotions for each other. Monica is a fiercely driven, hot-tempered tomboy who gives her all for basketball. Quincy, the son of a NBA legend, has NBA dreams of his own. Next-door neighbors since first grade, they ...

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The hour-long medical drama debuted in the fall of 2004 and stars Emmy-nominated British actor Hugh Laurie. Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House, a maverick medical genius who heads a team of young diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Despite his abrasive personality, the members of his team remain steadfast in their loyalty, going to extraordinary lengths to accomplish a common task: diagnosing and treating unusual ailments. Most episodes start outside the hospital, showing the events that will imminently lead to ...

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After several other roles, mostly comedic, in 1989 he was cast in the lead for Violent Cop (Sono Otoko, Kyōbō ni Tsuki) as a sociopathic detective who responds to every situation with violence. When the original director (Kinji Fukasaku) fell ill, Kitano offered to step in, and rewrote the script heavily. The result was a financial and critical success in Japan, and the beginning of Kitano's career as a filmmaker. Kitano's second film as director and first film as screenwriter, released in 1990, was Boiling PointSee also:

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List of vegetarians - Musicians and composers. Bryan Adams, singer Paula Abdul, singer Damon Albarn (of the band Blur) Billie Joe Armstrong, musician Erykah Badu Victoria Beckham Andre Benjamin, member of the band Outkast a.k.a. Andre 3000 Michael Bolton, singer Brandy, singer Hunter Burgan, member of the band AFI Kate Bush, musician Belinda Carlisle, singer Adam Carson, member of the band AFI See also:

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American Bill Bradley George H.W. Bush (left-handed, but batted right-handed in baseball) Bill Clinton Max Cleland (Lost part of right arm in a grenade accident in Vietnam.) Gerald Ford Barney Frank Benjamin Franklin James A. Garfield Herbert Hoover John Kerry (he is left-handed, but throws right-handed) Gavin Newsom (mayor of San Francisco) H. Ross Perot (thus, with Clinton and Bush, all three major 1992 U.S. presidential e ...

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Love & Basketball film - Film reviews. Love & Basketball recieved mixed, but generally favaorable reviews for its direction, cast, and storyline. On Metacritic, the film scored a 70 metascore—based on 28 reviews. [1] Notable film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, says "The film is not as taut as it could have been, but I prefer its emotional perception to the pumped-up sports cliches I was sort of exp ...

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2001 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture — Sanaa Lathan (won) Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture — Alfre Woodard (won) Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture — Omar Epps (nominated) Outstanding Motion Picture (nominated) 2001 Black Reel Awards Best Actress (Theatrical) — Sanaa Lathan (won) Best Director (Theatrical) — Gina Prince-Bythewood (won) Best Actor (Theatrical) — Omar Epps (nominated) Best ...

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Won 2005 AFI Awards — TV Program of the Year - Official Selection; 2005 BMI Film & TV Awards — BMI TV Music Award - Robert del Naja, Grant Marshall, Mushroom Vowles; 2005 Emmy — Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series: for the episode, "Three Stories"; written by creator, David Shore; 2005 Television Critics Assocation Awards — Individual Achievement in Drama - Hugh Laurie. 2005 Satellite Awards — Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama - Hugh Laurie; 2005 Satellite A ...

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The show finished its first season on May 24, 2005. Though it started slowly, it began consistently ranking at the top in its time slot, and in the top ten highest rated programs almost every week. This jump has been credited to word-of-mouth advertising and placement right after American Idol. It is now one of the top-rated shows on Fox. The second season premiered on September 13, 2005. The previous summer, Fox aired reruns of House in it ...

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List of famous left-handed people - Baseball. Left-handedness is uniquely prized in baseball, among both hitters and pitchers. For hitters, the natural motion of swinging at a pitch gives a left-handed batter momentum running down the line to first. Left-handed batters typically also have a better view of the pitch thrown by a right-handed pitcher. Likewise, left-handed pitchers are valuable, in part because many left-handed sluggers have severe trouble hit ...

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Born in Adachi, Tokyo in 1947. After dropping out of Meiji University, where he studied engineering for four years, he found work as an elevator operator in a nightclub and learned a great deal about the business from the comedian Senzaburo Fukami. When one of the club's regular performers fell ill, Kitano took his place on stage, and a new career was born. In the 1970s he formed a comic duo with his friend Kiyoshi Kaneko. They took on the stage names Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi; together referring to themselves as ...

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List of vegetarians - Film. Lex Murphy, Jurassic Park Daisy, Super Mario Bros. Sookie Sapperstein, Igby Goes Down Morris Weissman, Gosford Park Count Duckula, Count Duckula Sonia, Sink or Swim Karen Sillas, Bad Money Megan Bloomfield, But I'm a Cheerleader The Vulcans prot from the film K-PAX Stephanie of Short Circuit The Were-Rabbit from the Wall ...

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