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Clare Akamanzi
CEO, Rwanda Development Board
Matt Christensen
Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, Allianz Global Investors
Jake Cusack
Managing Partner, CrossBoundary
1968 Chevrolet Camaro Z-28 driven by Karman Cusack during Practice for Group 5 on Friday morning at the 2013 Classic Motorsports Mitty.
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The Hill's Bob Cusack interviews Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D., (R-La.) during a policy briefing entitled "Access to Care: A Discussion on Health Disparities & Innovation" sponsored by USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and The Hill at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, September 20, 2016.
Bob Cusack, Editor-in-Chief of The Hill in conversation with Sen. Capri Cafaro, Ohio State Senator (District 32) & Former Ohio Senate Minority Leader; Chris Kofinis, CEO, Park Street Strategies; Penny Lee, Democratic Strategist & Former Executive Director of Democratic Governors Association
MSNBC's Chris Matthews is interviewed by The Hill's Bob Cusack about his New York Times bestseller, "Tip and the Gipper - When Politics Worked" at The Hill's Hub at Cityview in Philadelphia, Pa. on Monday, July 25, 2016
A scene from John Boorman's cinematic satire THE TIGER'S TALE playing at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, April 23-May 7, 2009.
SFIFF52- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 52- THE TIGER'S TAIL - Ireland
Director ('god'): JOHN BOORMAN
Cast: Brendan GLEESON, Kim CATTRALL, Ciaran HINDS, Sinead CUSACK, Sean MCGINLEY, Brian GLEESON.
SHOWTIMES: 4/24 4:30, 4/26 12:00 Castro
The incredible director JOHN BOORMAN (there's those all caps again) who directed (name those films) Deliverance, Hope and Glory, Zardoz (Sean Connary-be still my beating heart) , Point Blank, The General..(oh come on, shall I go on?)
JOHN BOORMAN (ohh, all caps again, think ADDA likes this Director?) expertly channels the Alfred Hitchcock twists and turns great thriller about a sleazy , rich developer who has his face slapped by...well, lots of folks.. including his wife, his son, his secretary, his work, his dreams, his parents, his...oh, you get the idea.
"What ever happened to good old-fashioned, honest corruption?" says the sleezy real estate developer about the 'Celtic Tiger' (boom of Ireland's economy from 1996-2006) gets it's tail pulled by many, many interested folks (bankers, wankers, relatives, ex-relatives, business partners, mums & dads) .
A doppelganger is after the successful developer...but then is the developer really successful? Is everything falling apart? What about those bank accounts, Is there a doppelganger or is the developer going mad over the stress? Is it real or is it...imagined? And what about those reflections in the windows...are they real?
HEY, A good toss in the looney bin will chill him out...all the while, the 'doppelganger' goes after his wife, his accounts, his business, his boat, his cars, well, his life...or is it just imagined?
Expertly filmed and well presented thoughout with believable situations, THE TIGER'S TAIL, jolts and jarrs the viewer at every twist and turn.
HELLO. This is not for those who want a simple and easy linear ride. This film will have you guessing and wondering "WHAT THE HELL?" many times thoughout. (One can sort of hope and predict a happy ending...for that is what will sell the film to a major audience, BUT THE RIDE...OH MY...)
another HIGHLY RECOMMENDED SFIFF FILM - FOUR & 1/2 SPOTLIGHTS.... This will be released, but see it before everyone at the SFIFF52.
BEST LINES:
"Seeing your double means you're gonna die."
"Please don't ravish my hair. It took me 2 hours to get ready. "
"The more homes you build, the more homeless you create. You know, those who can't afford a home just drop out."
"Every success needs a victim."
FOUR 1/2 SPOTLIGHTS....A FILM THAT WILL BE RELEASED & FOR A TRUE TWIST-N-TURN FAN...A MUST SEE!
The first California quake in the 2009 movie "2012" wakes up Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) in his home on 45th Street in Manhattan Beach.
The last time Cusack was filming a movie in Manhattan Beach, it was the thriller "1408". In 1408, Cusack came to this same beach (El Porto) to go surfing, he lived Hermosa beach.
In both movies, he was also a novelist.
How many more parallels can we draw?
Not actually a "location", but after watching the 2009 movie "2012", I had to include this in my location set. The screen grab from the movie "2012" (top) shows Randy's Donut rolling down the street during the big earthquake in Los Angeles. The great part is when you see it rolling over a police car.
Poetic...
Randy's can also be seen (intact) in Earth Girls Are Easy, Mars Attacks!, Golden Child, Into the Night, Coming to America, Stripped to Kill, Problem Child 2, Breathless , Iron Man 2, California Girls, Love Letters, and Randy Newman's video "I Love L.A.".
La apuesta del casting de Confesiones de una compradora compulsiva eran sin duda sus personajes secundarios: John Goodman, Joan Cusack, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas y Lynn Redgrave.
John Cusack's character in the 2007 film "1408" lives in Hermosa Beach, CA. These are the locations of the establishing shots from the film.
Roland Emmerichs neuester Katastrophenfilm "2012", von Roland Emmerich, feierte am 08.11.2009 in Berlin Europapremiere. In den Hauptrollen u.a. John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor und Amanda Peet.
Kinostart in DE: 12. November 2009
Info: www.2012derfilm.de
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This is the motel that the 2003 movie "Identity" was filmed at starring John Cusack, Ray Liotta, and Amanda Peet. This is an actual standing filming location which has been used in many films including House of 1000 Corpses, and The O.C. The 4 Aces filming site is about 15 miles East of Palmdale at 145th and Q.
“The Children’s Own Readers, Book Two” by Mary Pennell and Alice Cusack who copyrighted in 1929. Illustrated by Marguerite Davis and Blanche Fisher Laite. Published by Ginn and Company.
Carrie
Lucille Lortel Theatre
Cast List:
Molly Ranson
Marin Mazzie
Christy Altomare
Carmen Cusack
Jeanna de Waal
Derek Klena
Ben Thompson
Wayne Wilcox
Corey Boardman
Blair Goldberg
F. Michael Haynie
Andy Mientus
Elly Noble
Jen Sese
Production Credits:
Stafford Arima (Director)
Matt Williams (Choreography)
Mary-Mitchell Campbell (Music Direction and Arrangements)
David Zinn (Set Design)
Emily Rebholz (Costume Design)
Kevin Adams (Lighting Design)
Sven Ortel (Projections Design)
Jonathan Deans (Sound Design)
Doug Besterman (Orchestrations)
AnnMarie Milazzo (Vocal Design)
Leah J. Loukas (Wig and Hair Design)
Rick Sordelet (Fight director)
Other Credits:
Lyrics by: Dean Pitchford
Music by: Michael Gore
Book by: Lawrence D. Cohen, based on the novel by Stephen King
This line comes from a classic 80′s movie called: Say Anything. I thought the scene where Jon Cusack holds up a boombox was hilarious, so I decided to pair it up with a ridiculous quote from his character.
La apuesta del casting de Confesiones de una compradora compulsiva eran sin duda sus personajes secundarios: John Goodman, Joan Cusack, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas y Lynn Redgrave.
Leading actors and musicians support Survival International at the Apollo Theatre in London for fundraising event 'We are One - a celebration of tribal peoples', created by actor Mark Rylance. Sunday 18 April 2010.
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Those performing included Gillian Anderson, Julie Christie, Mackenzie Crook, Sinead Cusack, Emilia Fox, Mark Rylance, Derek Jacobi, Danny Sapani, John Sessions, Juliet Stevenson, Zoe Wanamaker, James Wilby, Bruce Dickinson and Ian Paice.
Roland Emmerichs neuester Katastrophenfilm "2012", von Roland Emmerich, feierte am 08.11.2009 in Berlin Europapremiere. In den Hauptrollen u.a. John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor und Amanda Peet.
Kinostart in DE: 12. November 2009
Info: www.2012derfilm.de
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"CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC"
(Center) Isla Fisher
Ph:Robert Zuckerman
© 2008 Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckeimer, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
La apuesta del casting de Confesiones de una compradora compulsiva eran sin duda sus personajes secundarios: John Goodman, Joan Cusack, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas y Lynn Redgrave.
The Children's Own Readers "Friends" Primer by Mary E. Pennell and Alice M. Cusack, 1936, Kansas City, Missouri. Illustrator Marguerite Davis.
I've shot this Gold Medal Flour Ghost Ad several times since it was first exposed last year after the old Montgomery Wards Department Store was razed in Downtown New Kensington. Something of significance in this ad, is the company that painted it, Thomas Cusack Co. Thomas Cusack (1858 - 1926) emigrated with his family in 1861 during An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger) more commonly, but mistakenly known as the "Irish Potato Famine" when he was 3 years old. He would grow up to be known as the Billboard Baron. Cusack became incredibly rich from a sign painting business that he started when he was just 17 years old!
The Hill's Bob Cusack interviews Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) during a policy briefing entitled "State of the Sharing Economy: A Discussion on the Future of Cross-Border Commerce" sponsored by Canadian American Business Council and The Hill at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 24, 2016.
This private residence in the city of Glendale was the location used as Lane's (John Cusack) home in the 1985 romantic comedy "Better Off Dead" (top).
This home is located at 1636 Virginia Avenue, Glendale.
British postcard by Boomerang Media in The Greatest series. Photo: Pierluigi Praturion / Rex Features. Clint Eastwood in Kelly's Heroes (Brian G. Hutton, 1970).
American film actor and director Clint Eastwood (1930) rose to fame as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's classic Spaghetti Westerns Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Per qualche dollaro in più/For a Few Dollars More (1965), and Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Later in the US, he played hard-edge police inspector Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films, which elevated him to superstar status. Eastwood also directed and produced such award-winning masterpieces as Unforgiven (1992), Mystic River (2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
Clinton ‘Clint’ Eastwood, Jr. was born in San Francisco, California in 1930. His parents were Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth (Runner) Eastwood, a factory worker. Clint has a younger sister, Jeanne. Because of his father's difficulty in finding steady work during the depression, Eastwood moved with his family from one Northern California town to another, attending some eight elementary schools in the process. Later he had odd jobs as a firefighter and lumberjack in Oregon, as well as a steelworker in Seattle. In 1951, Eastwood was drafted into the US Army, where he was a swimming instructor during the Korean War. He briefly attended Los Angeles City College but dropped out to pursue acting. Eastwood married Maggie Johnson in 1953, six months after they met on a blind date. However, their matrimony would not prove altogether smooth, with Eastwood believing that he had married too early. In 1954, the good-looking Eastwood with his towering height and slender frame got a contract at Universal. At first, he was criticized for his stiff manner, his squint, and hissing his lines through his teeth. His first acting role was an uncredited bit part as a laboratory assistant in the Sci-Fi horror film Revenge of the Creature (Jack Arnold, 1955). Over the next three years, he more bit parts in such films as Lady Godiva of Coventry (Arthur Lubin, 1955), Tarantula (Jack Arnold, 1955), and the war drama Away All Boats (Joseph Pevney, 1956) with George Nader and Lex Barker. His first bigger roles were in the B-Western Ambush at Cimarron Pass (Jodie Copelan, 1958), and the war film Lafayette Escadrille (William A. Wellman, 1958), starring Tab Hunter and Etchika Choureau. In 1959, he became a TV star as Rowdy Yates in the Western series Rawhide (1959–1966). Although Rawhide never won an Emmy, it was a rating success for several years. During a trial separation from Maggie Johnson, an affair with dancer Roxanne Tunis produced Eastwood’s first child, Kimber Tunis (1964). An intensely private person, Clint Eastwood was rarely featured in the tabloid press. However, he had more affairs, e.g. with actresses Catherine Deneuve, Inger Stevens and Jean Seberg. After a reconciliation, he had two children with Johnson: Kyle Eastwood (1968) and Alison Eastwood (1972), though he was not present at either birth. Johnson filed for legal separation in 1978, but the pair divorced in 1984.
In late 1963, Clint Eastwood's Rawhide co-star Eric Fleming rejected an offer to star in an Italian-made Western. Eastwood, who in turn saw the film as an opportunity to escape from his Rawhide image, signed the contract. The Western was called Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (1964), to be directed in a remote region of Spain by the then relatively unknown Sergio Leone. A Fistful of Dollars, with Gian Maria Volonté and Marianne Koch, was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961). Eastwood played a cynical gunfighter who comes to a small border town, torn apart by two feuding families. Hiring himself as a mercenary, the lone drifter plays one side against the other until nothing remains of either side. Eastwood developed a minimalist acting style creating the character's distinctive visual style. Although a non-smoker, Leone insisted Eastwood smoke cigars as an essential ingredient of the ‘mask’ he attempted to create for the loner character. Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964) was the first instalment of the Dollars trilogy. Later, United Artists, who distributed it in the US, coined another term: the Man With No Name trilogy. ‘The second part was Per qualche dollaro in più/For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965), a richer, more mythologized film that focused on two ruthless bounty hunters (Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) who form a tenuous partnership to hunt down a wanted bandit (Gian Maria Volontè). Both films were a huge success in Italy. They both contain all of Leone's eventual trademarks: taciturn characters, precise framing, extreme close-ups, and the haunting music of Ennio Morricone. Eastwood also appeared in a segment of Dino De Laurentiis’ five-part anthology production Le Streghe/The Witches (Vittorio De Sica a.o., 1967). But his performance opposite De Laurentiis' wife Silvana Mangano did not please the critics. Eastwood then played in the third and best Dollars film, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966). Again he played the mysterious Man with No Name, wearing the same trademark poncho (reportedly without ever having washed it). Lee Van Cleef returned as a ruthless fortune seeker, with Eli Wallach portraying the cunning Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez. Yuri German at AllMovie: “Immensely entertaining and beautifully shot in Techniscope by Tonino Delli Colli, the movie is a virtually definitive 'spaghetti western,' rivalled only by Leone's own Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).” The Dollars trilogy was not released in the United States until 1967, when A Fistful of Dollars opened in January, followed by For a Few Dollars More in May, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in December. Eastwood redubbed his dialogue for the American releases. All the films were commercially successful, particularly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which turned Eastwood into a major film star. All three films received bad reviews and began a battle for Eastwood to win American film critics' respect. According to IMDb, Sergio Leone asked Eastwood, Wallach, and Van Cleef to appear again in C'era una volta il West/Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968), but declined when they heard that their characters were going to be killed off in the first five minutes.
Stardom brought more roles for Clint Eastwood. He signed to star in the American revisionist western Hang 'Em High (Ted Post, 1968), playing a man who takes up a Marshal's badge and seeks revenge as a lawman after being lynched by vigilantes and left for dead. Using money earned from the Dollars trilogy, accountant and Eastwood advisor Irving Leonard helped establish Eastwood's production company, Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwood's property in Monterey County, California. Leonard arranged for Hang 'Em High to be a joint production with United Artists. Critics praised Hang 'Em High. In July 1968, it had an unprecedented opening weekend in United Artists' history. His following film was Coogan's Bluff (Don Siegel, 1968), about an Arizona deputy sheriff tracking a wanted psychopathic criminal (Don Stroud) through the streets of New York City. Don Siegel was a Universal contract director who later became Eastwood's close friend, forming a partnership that would last more than ten years and produce five films. Coogan’s Bluff was controversial for its portrayal of violence. Eastwood created the prototype for the macho cop of the Dirty Harry film series. Coogan's Bluff also became the first collaboration with Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin, who would later compose the jazzy score to several Eastwood films in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Dirty Harry films. Eastwood played the right-hand man of squad commander Richard Burton in the war epic Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton, 1968), about a World War II squad parachuting into a Gestapo stronghold in the alpine mountains. Eastwood then branched out to star in the only musical of his career, Paint Your Wagon (Joshua Logan, 1969). Then, Eastwood starred in the Western Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Sigel, 1970), with Shirley MacLaine, and as one of a group of Americans who steal a fortune in gold from the Nazis, in the World War II film Kelly's Heroes (Brian G. Hutton, 1970)). Kelly's Heroes was Eastwood's last film, not produced by his own Malpaso Productions.
Clint Eastwood’s next film, The Beguiled (Don Siegel, 1970), was a tale of a wounded Union soldier, held captive by the sexually repressed matron of a southern girl's school. Upon release, the film received major recognition in France. In the US it was a box office flop. Eastwood's career reached a turning point with Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971), The film centres around a hard-edged San Francisco police inspector named Harry Callahan who is determined to stop a psychotic killer by any means. Dirty Harry achieved huge success after its release in December 1971. It was Siegel's highest-grossing film and the start of a series featuring the character Harry Callahan. He next starred in the loner Western Joe Kidd (John Sturges, 1972). In 1973, Eastwood directed his first Western, High Plains Drifter, and starred alongside Verna Bloom. The revisionist film received a mixed reception but was a major box office success. Eastwood next turned his attention towards Breezy (Clint Eastwood, 1973), a film about love blossoming between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl. During casting, Eastwood met actress Sondra Locke, who would become an important figure in his life. He reprised his role as Detective Harry Callahan in Magnum Force (Ted Post, 1973). This sequel to Dirty Harry was about a group of rogue young officers (including David Soul and Robert Urich) in the San Francisco Police Force who systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals. Eastwood teamed up with Jeff Bridges in the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino, 1974). Eastwood's acting was noted by critics but was overshadowed by Bridges who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His next film The Eiger Sanction (Clint Eastwood, 1975), based on Trevanian's spy novel, was a commercial and critical failure. His next film The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976) was widely acclaimed, with many critics and viewers seeing Eastwood's role as an iconic one that related to America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War. The third Dirty Harry film, The Enforcer (James Fargo, 1976) had Harry partnered with a new female officer (Tyne Daly) to face a San Francisco Bay terrorist organization. The film, culminating in a shootout on Alcatraz island, was a major commercial success grossing $100 million worldwide. In 1977, he directed and starred in The Gauntlet opposite Sondra Locke. Eastwood portrays a down-and-out cop who falls in love with a prostitute he is assigned to escort from Las Vegas to Phoenix, to testify against the mafia. In 1978 Eastwood starred with Locke and an orang-utan called Clyde in Every Which Way but Loose. Panned by critics, the film proved a surprise success and became the second-highest-grossing film in 1978. Eastwood then starred in the thriller Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the last of his films to be directed by Don Siegel. The film was a major success and began a critically acclaimed period for Eastwood. Eastwood's relationship with Sondra Locke had begun in 1975 during the production of The Outlaw Josey Wales. They lived together for almost fourteen years, during which Locke remained married (in name only) to her gay husband, Gordon Anderson. Eastwood befriended Locke's husband and purchased a house in Crescent Heights for Anderson and his male lover.
In 1980, Clint Eastwood’s nonstop success was broken by Bronco Billy, which he directed and in which he played the lead role. Critics liked the film, but it was a rare commercial disappointment in Eastwood's career. Later that year, he starred in Any Which Way You Can (Buddy Van Horn, 1980), which ranked among the top five highest-grossing films of the year. In 1982, Eastwood directed and starred in Honkytonk Man, as a struggling Western singer who, accompanied by his young nephew (played by real-life son Kyle) goes to Nashville, Tennessee. In the same year, Eastwood directed, produced, and starred in the Cold War-themed Firefox alongside Freddie Jones. Then, Eastwood directed and starred in the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact (1983), the darkest and most violent of the series. ‘Go ahead, make my day’, uttered by Eastwood in the film, became one of cinema's immortal lines. Sudden Impact was the last film in which he starred with Locke. The film was the most commercially successful of the Dirty Harry films, earning $70 million and receiving very positive reviews. In the provocative thriller Tightrope (Richard Tuggle, 1984), Eastwood starred opposite Geneviève Bujold. His real-life daughter Alison, then eleven, also appeared in the film. It was another critical and commercial hit. Eastwood next starred in the period comedy City Heat (Richard Benjamin, 1984) alongside Burt Reynolds. Eastwood revisited the Western genre when he directed and starred in Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood, 1985), based on the classic Western Shane (George Stevens, 1953). It became one of Eastwood's most successful films to date and was hailed as one of the best films of 1985 and the best Western to appear for a considerable period. He co-starred with Marsha Mason in the military drama Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood, 1986), about the 1983 United States invasion of Grenada. Then followed the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry series The Dead Pool (Buddy Van Horn, 1988), with Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, and a young Jim Carrey. It is generally viewed as the weakest film of the series. Eastwood began working on smaller, more personal projects and experienced a lull in his career between 1988 and 1992. Always interested in jazz, he directed Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988), a biopic starring Forest Whitaker as jazz musician Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker. Eastman himself is a prolific jazz pianist who occasionally shows up to play the piano at his Carmel, CA restaurant, The Hog's Breath Inn. He received two Golden Globes for Bird, but the film was a commercial failure. Jim Carrey would again appear with Eastwood in the poorly received comedy Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn, 1989) alongside Bernadette Peters. In 1989, while his partner Sondra Locke was away directing the film Impulse (1990), Eastwood had the locks changed on their Bel-Air home and ordered her possessions to be boxed and put in storage. During the last three years of his cohabitation with Locke, Eastwood fathered two children in secrecy with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves, Scott Reeves (1986), and Kathryn Reeves (1988). Eastwood finally presented both children to the public in 2002.
In 1990, Clint Eastwood began living with actress Frances Fisher, whom he had met on the set of Pink Cadillac in 1988. They had a daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood (1993). Eastwood and Fisher ended their relationship in early 1995. Eastwood directed and starred in White Hunter Black Heart (1990), an adaptation of Peter Viertel's Roman à Clef, about John Huston and the making of the classic film The African Queen (1951). Later he directed and co-starred with Charlie Sheen in The Rookie (1990), a buddy cop action film. Eastwood revisited the Western genre in the self-directed film Unforgiven (1992), in which he played an ageing ex-gunfighter long past his prime. Unforgiven was a major commercial and critical success. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. Eastwood played Frank Horrigan in the Secret Service thriller In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen, 1993) co-starring John Malkovich. The film was among the top 10 box office performers that year, earning a reported $200 million. Later in 1993, Eastwood directed and co-starred with Kevin Costner in A Perfect World. At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Eastwood received France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal, and in 1995, he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 67th Academy Awards. Opposite Meryl Streep, he starred in the romantic picture The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995), another commercial and critical success. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Picture and won a César Award in France for Best Foreign Film. In early 1995, Eastwood began dating Dina Ruiz, a television news anchor 35 years his junior, whom he had first met when she interviewed him in 1993. They married in 1996. The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (1996). In 1997, Eastwood directed and starred in the political thriller Absolute Power, alongside Gene Hackman. Later in 1997, Eastwood directed Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, starring John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jude Law. He directed and starred in True Crime (1999), as a journalist and recovering alcoholic, who has to cover the execution of murderer Frank Beechum (Isaiah Washington). In 2000, he directed and starred in Space Cowboys alongside Tommy Lee Jones as veteran ex-test pilots sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite.
Clint Eastwood played an ex-FBI agent chasing a sadistic killer (Jeff Daniels) in the thriller Blood Work (2002). He directed and scored the crime drama Mystic River (2003), dealing with themes of murder, vigilantism, and sexual abuse. The film starred Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins and won two Academy Awards – Best Actor for Penn and Best Supporting Actor for Robbins – with Eastwood garnering Best Director and Best Picture nominations. In the following year Eastwood found further critical and commercial success when he directed, produced, scored, and starred in the boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, (2004). He played a cantankerous trainer who forms a bond with a female boxer (Hilary Swank). The film won four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman). At age 74 Eastwood became the oldest of eighteen directors to have directed two or more Best Picture winners. In 2006, he directed two films about World War II's Battle of Iwo Jima. The first, Flags of Our Fathers, focused on the men who raised the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi and featured the film debut of Eastwood's son Scott. This was followed by Letters from Iwo Jima, which dealt with the tactics of the Japanese soldiers on the island and the letters they wrote home to family members. Eastwood next directed Changeling (2008), based on a true story set in the late 1920s. Angelina Jolie stars as a woman reunited with her missing son only to realize he is an impostor. Eastwood ended a four-year self-imposed acting hiatus by appearing in Gran Torino (2008), which he also directed, produced, and partly scored with his son Kyle and Jamie Cullum. Gran Torino eventually grossed over $268 million in theatres worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of Eastwood's career so far. Eastwood's 30th directorial outing came with Invictus, a film based on the story of the South African team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. In 2010, Eastwood directed the drama Hereafter, with Matt Damon as a psychic, and in 2011, J. Edgar, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. Eastwood starred in the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve (Robert Lorenz, 2012), as a veteran baseball scout who travels with his daughter for a final scouting trip. Director Lorenz worked with Eastwood as an assistant director on several films. Clint Eastwood is also politically active and served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California from 1986 to 1988. Shawn Dwyer at TCM: “Although a registered Republican since the early 1950s, Eastwood's politics, like the man himself, were that of a true iconoclast. Over the years he had voted for candidates from both parties and publicly denounced the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. And while he had initially wished President Barack Obama well during his first term in office, Eastwood, became a vocal booster for Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, dissatisfied with what he viewed as Obama's inability to govern.” But cinema is Eastwood’s major career. He has contributed to over 50 films as an actor, director, producer, and composer. According to the box office revenue tracking website, Box Office Mojo, films featuring Eastwood have grossed more than US $1.68 billion domestically, with an average of $37 million per film.
Sources: Shawn Dwyer (TCM), Yuri German (AllMovie), Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Gaetano Federici Sc.
1920
Roman Bronze Works, N.Y.
Erected by the People of the Second Ward and Friends in honor of those who served and died for our country in the World War 1917-1918
Died in Service
William Boardman
Albert Wilson Brind
William Joseph Brophy
Joseph Bush
George K. Clark
Albert S. Coulthurst
Harry Craig
Edmund S. Daly
William Tracey Daly
William Easdale
Charles F. Fuchter
Claude Gott
Gustave A. Groeger Jr.
John Joseph Guilfoyle
John M. Hirz
Walter G. Junieman
Joshua Martin
Herbert Moshier
Arthur F. Mullane
Raymond Pellington
William Pollett
John Edward Stone
Robert Vance
William E. Walsh
Alfred Williman
Nurses in Service
Jessie May Boyd
Anna M. Campbell
Katherine M. Campbell
Anna E. Cusack
Margaret C. Durkin
Kathryn R. Floris
Elizabeth Sennewald
Elizabeth G. Mahar
Mary F. McCoy
Bessie Neild
An allegorical female figure representing America stands holding a staff in her proper right hand. She is classically draped in long robes and on her head she wears a laurel wreath. A flag with the words "Don't Tread on Me" hangs on her proper left side.
The sculpture was originally installed on a center island in Union Avenue, but was relocated to West Side Park in 1949 due to traffic concerns and increasing vandalism. In West Side Park, the sculpture was installed in the center of a large circular reflecting pool, but the pool was later drained. Vandalism continued in West Side Park, and in 1979, the sculpture was knocked to the ground in an unsuccessful attempt to steal it.
America by Gaetano Federici - West Side Park, Totowa Avenue in Paterson, New Jersey
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ERTZ 14 featured a Disinformation concert and “Rorschach Audio” lecture-demonstration, plus performances and installations from Maialen Lujanbio, Xabier Erkizia, Iban Urizar, Aitor Nova, Asier Gogortza, Jose Mari Zabala, Jose Luis Maire, Colin Hacklander, Farah Hatam, Idoia Zabaleta, Peter Cusack, Jakoba Errekondo, Fernando Mikelarena, Jose Luis Espejo, Mikel Nieto, Luca Rullo, Eduardo Gil Bera, Karlos Sanchez Ekiza, Roc Jimenez de Cisneros, Khantoria and Ander Berrojalbiz. The festival was themed around “Los Sonidos de la Guerra” - with the “Rorschach Audio” lecture therefore being included on account of the emphasis that the talk places on the wartime activities of the BBC Monitoring Service.
ERTZ 14 was curated by Xabi Erkizia, and produced in collaboration with Xavier Balderas Cejudo, Mikel Nieto, Jose-Luis Espejo, Marcelo Liberato and Natalia Barberia.
The “Rorschach Audio” talk was delivered with live translations into Basque and Spanish (conveyed to the audience via induction loop headphones), and a detailed introduction to the Disinformation and “Rorschach Audio” projects by Xabi Erkizia (see video)…