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His motion picture debut was in Peter Ustinov's 1962 film adaptation of Herman Melville's Billy Budd. Stamp's portrayal of the title character brought him not only an Academy Award nomination, but also international attention. Stamp's pale, almost haunting good looks made him a popular leading man, but it was his outstanding acting that got him noticed by some of the most acclaimed directors of the time. After his success in Billy Budd, Stamp collaborated with some of the cinema's most revered filmmakers. Stamp starred in William Wyle ...

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The film achieved somewhat of a cult status in the gay community as a camp classic. The film features popular ABBA and 1970's disco classics beside featuring two drag queens and a transexual. The film explored gay stereotypes and exaggerated them. The movie was unique for its time in that its characters were neither sinners, nor evil (a la gay, lesbian, and transsexual characters in early film) nor perfect, saintly martyrs (a la ...

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While starring in a handful of Rank productions in 1952 Collins married British screen icon Maxwell Reed, whom she divorced in 1956 on her twenty-third birthday after he attempted to sell her to an Arab sheik. During this time she carried on much talked about romances with Conrad Hilton Jr., Dennis Hopper, Ryan O'Neal, Terence Stamp, Sydney Chaplin, and Warren Beatty. The gossip mills set ablaze when Collins walked away from Hollywood and a successful career in the early 1960's when she married Anthony Newley, an award winning singer, ...

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The Kinks - Formation and first years 1963-1965. The musically inclined Davies brothers were born in Muswell Hill, London into a large family. Ray Davies (b. Raymond Douglas Davies, 21 June 1944; vocals/guitar/piano) studied at Hornsey College of Art and gained an experience in music as a guitarist with the Soho-based Dave Hunt Band in 1963. Meanwhile Ray's brother Dave (b. 3 February 1947; guitar/vocals) and his schoolmate Pete Quaife (b. 31 December 1943, Tavistock, Devon, England; bass) formed a band. Soon after that, they invited Ray to participate and Ray immediately accepted. Like the Davies brothers Quaife ...

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Jor-El - Golden and Silver Age versions. Jor-El was first referred to in Action Comics #1 in 1938, but made his first full-fledged appearance in the Superman newspaper comic strip in 1939, where his name was spelled as "Jor-L"; his name first appeared as being spelled "Jor-El" in a 1942 Superman novel. After the introduction of DC's multiverse system in the 1960s, it was established that the Golden Age version of Superman's father was named "Jor-L" and lived on the Krypton of the Earth-Two universe, while "Jor-El" was the father of the Silver Age version of Superman and lived on the ...

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Continuing from Daredevil, Elektra is revived by Stick after dying from the mortal wounds she suffered from Bullseye. After, Stick and his group of ninja's train her but soon she is asked to leave and thus begins her life as an asassin. She recieves an assignment to hunt down Mark Miller (Visnjic), and his 13-year-old daughter, Abby, whom the Order of the Hand, an evil group of asassins, also require for their order. Elektra inadvertenly befriends Miller and Abby and decides to protect them. She leads them to her old mentor, Stick (St ...

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General Zod Superman's nemesis from Superman II and DC Comics has a website for his candidacy in 2008. Played by: Terence Stamp ...

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