The Crying Game

The film begins as a psychological thriller, as IRA foot soldier Fergus (played by Stephen Rea) kidnaps Jody, a black British soldier (played by Forest Whitaker). While Fergus guards Jody they develop a bond. Jody is killed when he attempts to flee. Later, Fergus falls in love with Jody's girlfriend Dil (played by Jaye Davidson). There then follows an unconventional and extremely powerful chain of events leading to an explosive finale. Tagl ...

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The Crying Game, The Crying Game - Plot

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The Ouija board has been used by thousands of people for spirit communication and is very similar to automatic writing, the only difference between the two being the absence of the board itself in automatic writing. Both forms of communication are very dangerous, as are sŽances, because they are usually uncontrolled forms of communication. In other words, the individuals that use these channels are usually novices and are unaware of the possible dangers that may await.

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Dream Dictionary Index with links to 10.000 dream interpretations from many different sources.

Please note that all words in grey are hyperlinked to an archive with articles related to that word, including dream interpretations.

For more dream interpretation, see: Meaning of Dreams or Dream Dictionary

For articles about dreams, see: Dreams

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The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of democracy, globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the Gulf War; popularization of Personal Computers and the Internet, leading to the .com boom. ...

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• 1990s - Science
• 1990s - War, peace, and politics
• 1990s - Economics
• 1990s - Culture
• 1990s - Other significant events
• 1990s - People
• 1990s - World leaders
• 1990s - Entertainers
• 1990s - Films
• 1990s - Books & Literature
• 1990s - Sports figures

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The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. Academy Award for Film Editing - 1930s. 1934 Eskimo - Conrad A. Nervig Cleopatra - Anne Bauchens One Night of Love - Gene Milford 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ralph Dawson David Copperfield - Robert J. Kern The Informer - George Hively Les Misérables - Barbara McLean L ...

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• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1930s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1940s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1950s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1960s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1970s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1980s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 1990s
• Academy Award for Film Editing - 2000s

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George Alan O'Dowd (born June 14, 1961), better known as Boy George, is a British singer, musician, and disc jockey who gained a large degree of fame with his group Culture Club in the 1980s. Boy George - Musical career. George's androgynous style caught the attention of music executive Malcolm McLaren, who arranged for George to appear as Lieutenant Lush in a theater concert with Annabella Lwin. Although George and Lwin's act didn't last long, it did introduce George to former DJ Mikey Craig, ...

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• Boy George - Musical career
• Boy George - Life after Culture Club
• Boy George - Current activity
• Boy George - Quotes
• Boy George - Discography

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Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). It was created by an Act of Parliament and started broadcasting on November 2, 1982. Unlike the nation's long established public service broadcaster, the BBC, it does not receive public funding. All programming is financed through its commercial activities, which includes advertising. It is a publicly owned corporation whose board is appointed by OFCOM, in agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Like the BBC it has a public service remit. It also h ...

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• Channel 4 - History
• Channel 4 - IBA Control: 1982–1990
• Channel 4 - Independence: 1990–Today
• Channel 4 - Management
• Channel 4 - Chairmen
• Channel 4 - Chief executives
• Channel 4 - Other channels
• Channel 4 - Film Four
• Channel 4 - attheraces
• Channel 4 - E4
• Channel 4 - T4
• Channel 4 - Quiz Call
• Channel 4 - More4
• Channel 4 - 4Learning
• Channel 4 - FourDocs
• Channel 4 - Future proposals
• Channel 4 - Programming
• Channel 4 - Audience records
• Channel 4 - Building

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This articles is about cross-dressing in general. For specific information about cross-dressing for sexual reasons, see Transvestic fetishism. Compare also the List of transgender-related topics. Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothing commonly associated with another gender within a particular society. The usage of the term, the types of cross-dressing both in modern times and throughout history, an analysis of the behaviour, and historical examples are discussed in the article below. Cross-dressing ...

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• Cross-dressing - Usage
• Cross-dressing - Varieties of cross-dressing
• Cross-dressing - Clothes
• Cross-dressing - Equal Clothing Rights
• Cross-dressing - Analyses
• Cross-dressing - Female-bodied cross-dressers
• Cross-dressing - The classic psychoanalytic view
• Cross-dressing - The problem of attributing motives for cross-dressing
• Cross-dressing - Some famous examples of cross-dressing
• Cross-dressing - In Norse mythology
• Cross-dressing - Famous historical examples of cross-dressing people
• Cross-dressing - Cultural examples of cross-dressing
• Cross-dressing - Literature

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The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial, and artistic development of cinema. Despite a history of successful productions, the industry is characterised by an ongoing debate about its identity (including economic and cultural issues) and the influences of American and European cinema. Cinema of the United Kingdom - Overview. Film production in the UK has experienced a number of booms and recessions. Although many factors can be used to measure the success of the industry, the number ...

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• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Overview
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - History
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Early UK cinema
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - The 1930s boom
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - World War II
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Post-war cinema
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - The British New Wave
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - The 1960s Boom
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - The 1970s
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - The 1980s
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - British cinema since 1990
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Art Cinema
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Film technology
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Black and Asian film
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Bibliography
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Pre-WWII
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - World War II
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Post-War
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - 1990s
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - Cinema and Government
• Cinema of the United Kingdom - General

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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty of the seventy-seven Oscars for best director (before 2006) were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades ...

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• Academy Award for Directing - 1920s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1930s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1940s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1950s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1960s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1970s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1980s
• Academy Award for Directing - 1990s
• Academy Award for Directing - 2000s

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This is a list of film-related events in 1992. 1991 in film 1992 in film 1993 in film 1991 in home video 1992 in home video 1993 in home video 1991 in television 1992 in television 1993 in television 1992 in film - Events. January 12 - HAL 9000 is activated, the computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (fictional event: date taken from the fi ...

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• 1992 in film - Events
• 1992 in film - Top grossing films
• 1992 in film - Academy Awards
• 1992 in film - Births
• 1992 in film - Deaths
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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first, followed by the runners-up. The films below are listed with their production year, so fo ...

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• Academy Award for Best Picture - 1920s
• Academy Award for Best Picture - 1930s
• Academy Award for Best Picture - 1940s
• Academy Award for Best Picture - 1950s
• Academy Award for Best Picture - 1960s
• Academy Award for Best Picture - 1970s
• Academy Award for Best Picture - 1980s
• Academy Award for Best Picture - 1990s
• Academy Award for Best Picture - 2000s

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Neil Francis Tennant was born in North Shields, Northumberland. While at school, Tennant played in a group in Newcastle called Dust. Their most popular song was called "Can you hear the dawn break?", and they were heavily influenced by The Incredible String Band. In 1975, after completing a degree in history at North London Polytechnic, Tennant took a job as editor at Marvel UK. In 1977 he moved to Macdonald Educational Publishing, later moving to ITV Books. In 198 ...

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Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys - Before Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys - The Early Years, Pet Shop Boys - Sound and image, Pet Shop Boys - Sexuality, Pet Shop Boys - Discography, Pet Shop Boys - Other Ventures, Pet Shop Boys - Trivia

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The second daughter of middle-class parents, she had a talent for acting from an early age. Richardson had originally intended to study veterinary medicine, but her squeamishness made this impossible. She enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis. In 1981, she made her stage debut in Moving at the Queen's Theatre in London. Three years later, she made her big screen debut as platinum blonde nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom i ...

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Miranda Richardson, Miranda Richardson - Biography, Miranda Richardson - Declined roles, Miranda Richardson - Projects in production, Miranda Richardson - Filmography, Miranda Richardson - Theatre, Miranda Richardson - Repertory theatre, Miranda Richardson - Professional theatre, Miranda Richardson - Awards and nominations

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Film history began at Shepperton Studios in 1931, when Norman Loudon, a dynamic Scottish businessman, bought Littleton Park with its surrounding 60 acre (240,000 m²) grounds, which included a beautiful stretch of the River Ash at Shepperton. Loudon was new to the film industry, but he had had a prosperous camera business, Flicker Productions, which manufactured small `flicker' books of photographs, which gave an impression of movement when the pages were flicked with the thumb. Littleton Park seemed ideal when Loudon decided the next s ...

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Shepperton Studios, Shepperton Studios - Formation, Shepperton Studios - World War II special tasks, Shepperton Studios - Postwar re-openning, Shepperton Studios - British Lion Films, Shepperton Studios - Government sell-off, Shepperton Studios - Acquisition of Shepperton Studios

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The Karate Kid (1984) - Noriyuki Morita Kentucky (1938) - Walter Brennan The Killing Fields (1984) - Haing S. Ngor Kiss of Death (1947) - Richard Widmark Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - Justin Henry ...

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List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - 0-9, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - A, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - B, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - C, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - D, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - E, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - F, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - G, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - H, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - I, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - J, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - K, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - L, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - M, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - N, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - O, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - P, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - Q, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - R, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - S, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - T, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - U, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - V, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - W, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - X, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - Y, List of Best Supporting Actor nominees films - Z

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One of the channel's strengths is its comedy mostly shown on a Friday night. In the early days they screened The Comic Strip Presents, a highly innovative series of hour-long one-off comedies produced by a rotating line-up of alternative comedians such as Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Cook, Peter Richardson, and Alexei Sayle. The Tube and Friday Night Live also launched the careers of a number alternative comedians. Latterly they have aired cutting-edge comedy shows such as Brass ...

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Channel 4, Channel 4 - History, Channel 4 - IBA Control: 1982–1990, Channel 4 - Independence: 1990–Today, Channel 4 - Management, Channel 4 - Chairmen, Channel 4 - Chief executives, Channel 4 - Other channels, Channel 4 - Film Four, Channel 4 - attheraces, Channel 4 - E4, Channel 4 - T4, Channel 4 - Quiz Call, Channel 4 - More4, Channel 4 - 4Learning, Channel 4 - FourDocs, Channel 4 - Future proposals, Channel 4 - Programming, Channel 4 - Audience records, Channel 4 - Building, Channel 4 - Advertising regions

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Best Production 1927-28 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky - Lucien Hubbard The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" was only presented in the first year. 1927-28 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox Chang - Paramount - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack The Crowd - ...

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Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Picture - 1920s, Academy Award for Best Picture - 1930s, Academy Award for Best Picture - 1940s, Academy Award for Best Picture - 1950s, Academy Award for Best Picture - 1960s, Academy Award for Best Picture - 1970s, Academy Award for Best Picture - 1980s, Academy Award for Best Picture - 1990s, Academy Award for Best Picture - 2000s

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Spoiler media - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Darth Vader's "secret" revealed to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back is one of the most famous movie plot twists of all time. An IMDb poll on 10 November 2003[1] asked users to choose which one of a set of movie spoilers was too infamous to be considered a spoiler anymore; Vader's true identity was a clear winner, by a forty-percent margin. After the three prequels have come out (clearly showing the origins and identity of Vader), this secret has been nullified. Spoiler media - ...

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Spoiler media, Spoiler media - Examples of spoilers, Spoiler media - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Spoiler media - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Spoiler media - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Spoiler media - Final Fantasy VII, Spoiler media - Jeopardy!, Spoiler media - Million Dollar Baby, Spoiler media - Psycho, Spoiler media - The Crying Game, Spoiler media - The Usual Suspects, Spoiler media - Citizen Kane, Spoiler media - Monkey Island, Spoiler media - Planet of the Apes 1968 version, Spoiler media - Fight Club, Spoiler media - Soylent Green, Spoiler media - Generally speaking

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There is no scientifically proven cause of transsexualism. However, many theories have been proposed which suggest that the cause of transsexualism has its roots in biology. Because of this, the medical care profession is increasingly viewing transsexuality not as a psychological issue, but as a physical one. But many religious conservatives and others still believe that the causes of transsexualism are predominantly psychological. See also:

Transsexuality, Transsexuality - Definitions, Transsexuality - Terminology, Transsexuality - Causes of transsexualism, Transsexuality - Proposed psychological causes, Transsexuality - Physical causes, Transsexuality - Objections against research of causes, Transsexuality - Gender reassignment therapy, Transsexuality - Psychological treatment, Transsexuality - Requirements for gender reassignment treatment, Transsexuality - Hormone replacement therapy, Transsexuality - Sex reassignment surgery, Transsexuality - Legal and social aspects, Transsexuality - Stealth, Transsexuality - Transsexual youth, Transsexuality - Coming out, Transsexuality - Puberty, Transsexuality - Ensuring the child's security, Transsexuality - Retransitions, Transsexuality - Depictions of transsexuality in the media, Transsexuality - Transsexuals in non-Western cultures

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