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3 天前 · Remembered for its primitive special effects and compelling story lines, Doctor Who became a landmark of British popular culture. The series resumed to much acclaim in 2005. Doctor Who chronicled the adventures of an eccentric time-traveling scientist from the remote planet Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords.
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2021年7月19日 · Emma Watson (born April 15, 1990, Paris, France) is a British actress and activist who was perhaps best known for playing the young wizard Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. She also garnered attention as a spokesperson for women’s equality. Watson was born in Paris to British parents who divorced when she was young.
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Gone with the Wind, American epic film, released in 1939, that was one of the best known and most successful films of all time. It enjoyed a more-than-30-year reign as the all-time Hollywood box office champion, and it won eight Academy Awards (in addition to two honorary awards). Based on the runaway best-selling 1936 novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, the movie is almost four hours long and includes an intermission.
The film, set in the American South during the time of the Civil War, tells the story of Scarlett O’Hara (played by Vivien Leigh), the headstrong and willful daughter of the owner of the plantation Tara. The story begins in 1861. Scarlett is in love with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), but she learns that he intends to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). At a party at Ashley’s home, Scarlett’s overtures to Ashley are seen by another guest, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Ashley rebuffs Scarlett, and she therefore agrees to marry Melanie’s brother Charles (Rand Brooks). War is declared, and the men go off to enlist. Charles dies of measles during the war, and the widowed Scarlett goes to Melanie’s home in Atlanta. She meets Rhett at a charity fund-raising bazaar, and she dances with him, violating the customary rules of mourning. Rhett, a successful blockade runner, continues to visit Scarlett over the next few months, as Atlanta comes increasingly under siege. Ashley returns home on a Christmas furlough and asks Scarlett to take care of Melanie, who is pregnant. Melanie goes into labour as Atlanta is being evacuated, and Scarlett and her servant Prissy (Butterfly McQueen) must attend the birth on their own. Scarlett summons Rhett to take her, Melanie, Prissy, and the baby back to Tara, and they flee through the burning city, only to find that Tara has been pillaged by Union soldiers. Scarlett’s mother has died, and her father has fallen into a depression. The only people remaining there are her father, her sisters, and the former slaves Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) and Pork (Oscar Polk).
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In the second half of the movie, Scarlett tries to resurrect Tara. She and her sisters and the house servants work in the fields. Ashley returns when the war ends but is unable to offer Scarlett help in paying the exorbitant Reconstruction taxes. Scarlett decides to ask Rhett for money, and she and Mammy construct a dress from velvet curtains for her to wear to meet Rhett. However, Rhett has become a Union prisoner and cannot help her. In desperation, Scarlett marries her sister’s wealthy beau, Frank (Carroll Nye). She uses his money to save Tara and then establishes a lumber business in Atlanta. After Scarlett is attacked while riding in her carriage near a shantytown, Frank, Ashley, and some other men attack the shantytown, and Frank is killed in the raid. Rhett then marries Scarlett, and they have a daughter, but Scarlett continues to pine for Ashley, and the marriage is stormy. Their daughter dies after having been thrown from a pony, and later Melanie dies in childbirth. Scarlett realizes that Ashley loves only Melanie and that she loves Rhett, but Rhett refuses her and leaves her alone at Tara with the words, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
The film’s producer, David O. Selznick, bought the film rights a month after the publication of Mitchell’s novel. Several roles in the film—notably that of Scarlett—involved lengthy searches and elaborate deal making. As many as five directors and 13 writers toiled to bring the epic to life. Shooting for the film took 140 days. The famous “burning of Atlanta” scene required the fiery destruction of a 30-acre back lot. Three days of festivities were held for the film’s premiere in Atlanta. Gone with the Wind was the first colour movie to win the Oscar for best picture, and Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to be nominated for and to win an Oscar.
•Studios: Selznick International Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
•Directors: Victor Fleming and uncredited directors including George Cukor and Sam Wood
•Writers: Sidney Howard (screenplay) and uncredited writers including Oliver H.P. Garret, Ben Hecht, Jo Swerling, and John Van Druten
•Music: Max Steiner
•Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O’Hara)
•Clark Gable (Rhett Butler)
•Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes)
•Olivia de Havilland (Melanie Hamilton)
•Hattie McDaniel (Mammy)
•Butterfly McQueen (Prissy)
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•Lead actor (Clark Gable)
•Lead actress* (Vivien Leigh)
•Supporting actress (Olivia de Havilland)
•Supporting actress* (Hattie McDaniel)
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2024年8月18日 · Andy Warhol (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 22, 1987, New York, New York) was an American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States.
2024年8月29日 · Traditionally feminine occupations include teaching and secretarial work, as well as caregiving professions like nannying and nursing. Today such stereotypes are being challenged greatly, with women advancing in almost one-third of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers.
Quick Facts. In full: Taylor Alison Swift. Born: December 13, 1989, West Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. (age 34) Awards And Honors: Grammy Award (2024) “Time” Person of the Year (2023) Grammy Award (2021) Grammy Award (2011) Grammy Award (2009) Emmy Award (2015): Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Original Interactive Program.
2024年8月14日 · H.E.R. (born June 27, 1997, Vallejo, California, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actress who emerged as a leading R&B artist in the 2010s, known for her vocal range, intimate ballads, and enigmatic persona.
