query: Fred Savage is an American director.

pos: Fred Savage Frederick Aaron `` Fred '' Savage ( born July 9 , 1976 ) is an American actor , director , and producer . He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years , which ran from 1988 to 1993 . He has earned several awards and nominations , such as People 's Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards .

neg: Ric Savage Frank Huguelet ( born June 5 , 1969 ) is an American retired professional wrestler , better known by his ring name , `` Heavy Metal '' Ric Savage . He is the host of Savage Family Diggers , a reality treasure hunting show airing on Spike TV . He also conducts haunted `` ghost tours '' in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania .   Huguelet wrestled across the eastern seaboard of the U.S. from 1990 until 1997 . While spending much of his career in the independent circuits , he also wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance , United States Wrestling Association , Extreme Championship Wrestling , World Championship Wrestling and National Championship Wrestling .

neg: Adult animation Adult animation , adult cartoon , or mature animation is any type of animation work that is mainly targeted towards adults and sometimes also teenagers , acting as a contrast to most animated films and TV series being aimed at children . Works in this genre may be considered adult for any number of reasons . They may be noted for using risqué themes , graphic violence , profane language , sexuality , or dark humor . Works in this genre may explore philosophical , political , or social issues . Some productions are noted for sophisticated and/or experimental storytelling and animation techniques .   Before the enforcement of the Hays Code , some cartoon shorts contained humor that was aimed at adult audience members rather than children . Following the introduction of the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system , independent animation producers attempted to establish an alternative to mainstream animation . Initially , few animation studios in the United States attempted to produce animation for adult audiences , but later examples of animation produced for adults would gain mainstream attention and success .

neg: Savage Streets Savage Streets is a 1984 American vigilante action film directed by Danny Steinmann and starring Linda Blair . The film premiered on October 5 , 1984 .   It is one of the few non-horror films that both Linda Blair and Linnea Quigley star in .

neg: Valentine (film) Valentine is a 2001 American slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks , and starring Denise Richards , David Boreanaz , Marley Shelton , Jessica Capshaw , and Katherine Heigl . Loosely based on the novel of the same name by Tom Savage , the film follows a group of women in San Francisco who are stalked by a man whom they tormented during their childhood .   Release theatrically in February 2001 , the film received mixed reviews from critics , with some praising its performances and cinematography , and others criticizing its conclusion and deeming it too redolent of 1980s horror films . In spite of the mixed critical response , the film was a box office success , earning a total of USD$ 36.7 million .

neg: Sweet Savage (1979 film) Sweet Savage is a 1979 American pornographic film written and directed by Ann Perry and starring porn performers Carol Connors and Jack Birch along with straight acting veteran Aldo Ray , a Golden Globe nominee , in a non-sex role . Along with Russ Meyer 's nudie-cutie Wild Gals of the Naked West ( 1962 ) and the hardcore A Dirty Western ( 1975 ) , the film is one of the few porn films in the American Western movie genre .

neg: Fred Cavens Frédéric Adolphe Cavens ( born Lacken , Belgium 30 August 1882 ; died Woodland Hills , California 30 April 1962 ) was a Belgian-born fencing master who emigrated to Hollywood and worked as an actor , stuntman and fencing master from the silent film era , then in television . He trained Jean Peters in the film `` Anne of the Indies '' ( 1951 ) and Guy Williams in the TV role of `` Zorro '' .   COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY  Director ( feature film )  1 . The Three Must-Get-Theres ( 1922 ) as Assistant Director .  Cast ( feature film )  2 . The Lost World ( 1960 ) as French member .  3 . Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ) as .  4 . The Mississippi Gambler ( 1953 ) as Emile .  5 . The Robe ( 1953 ) as Sword-fighting soldier .  6 . Dreamboat ( 1952 ) as Fencer .  7 . Lydia Bailey ( 1952 ) as Fencing instructor .  8 . Fortunes of Captain Blood ( 1950 ) as Turnkey .  9 . The Exile ( 1947 ) as Coachman .  10 . Till We Meet Again ( 1944 ) as Carpenter .  11 . Around the World ( 1944 ) as Instructor .  12 . Eagle Squadron ( 1942 ) as Frenchman .  13 . Pack Up Your Troubles ( 1939 ) as French infantry captain .  14 . The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 ) as François .  15 . Artists and Models Abroad ( 1938 ) as Guard .  16 . Café Metropole ( 1937 ) as Train guard .  17 . Love on the Run ( 1936 ) as French waiter .  18 . Lottery Lover ( 1935 ) as French stage doorman .  19 . L'homme des Folies Bergère ( 1935 ) as Airport official .  20 . The World Moves On ( 1934 ) as French taxi driver .  21 . Marie Galante ( 1934 ) as Postmaster .  22 . Paris Interlude ( 1934 ) as Mechanic .  23 . La veuve joyeuse ( 1934 ) as Policeman .  24 . Breed of the Border ( 1933 ) as Mike Cavins .  25 . The King of Kings ( 1927 ) as .  26 . The Three Must-Get-Theres ( 1922 ) as Bernajoux .  Dance ( feature film )  27 . The Three Musketeers ( 1935 ) as Dance arr .  Film Production - Main ( feature film )  28 . The Vagabond King ( 1956 ) as Technical Advisor .  29 . Casanova 's Big Night ( 1954 ) as Supv of dueling scenes .  30 . The Robe ( 1953 ) as Fencing instructor .  31 . The Mississippi Gambler ( 1953 ) as Fencing tech adv.  32 . Son of Ali Baba ( 1952 ) as Fencing coach .  33 . Dreamboat ( 1952 ) as Clifton Webb 's fencing instructor .  34 . Lydia Bailey ( 1952 ) as Fencing instructor .  35 . Anne of the Indies ( 1951 ) as Jean Peters ' fencing instructor .  36 . Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1951 ) as Fencing master .  37 . Buccaneer 's Girl ( 1950 ) as Fencing instructor .  38 . Adventures of Don Juan ( 1949 ) as Fencing instructor .  39 . Bagdad ( 1949 ) as Technical Advisor .  40 . The Black Arrow ( 1948 ) as Fencing master .  41 . Forever Amber ( 1947 ) as Technical Advisor .  42 . Don Ricardo Returns ( 1946 ) as Fencing instructor .  43 . Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ( 1944 ) as Fencing instructor .  44 . The Black Swan ( 1942 ) as Fencing instructor .  45 . The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 ) as Fencing dir .  46 . Tower of London ( 1939 ) as Fencing instructor .  47 . Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) as Created and staged duels and sword fights .  48 . Cardinal Richelieu ( 1935 ) as Research dir .  49 . Queen Christina ( 1933 ) as Sword fight staging by .

neg: Frederic Richard Sullivan Frederic Richard `` Dickie '' Sullivan ( sometimes credited as `` Frederick '' ; 18 July 1872 -- 24 July 1937 ) , was an English-born American film director and actor of the silent era . He directed 34 films between 1913 and 1923 . He also appeared in 29 films between 1913 and 1935 . He also acted on stage . He was a nephew of the composer Arthur Sullivan .

neg: Film director A film director is a person who directs the making of a film . Generally , a film director controls a film 's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay ( or script ) while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under European Union law , the director is viewed as the author of the film .   The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized , or noticed . Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the boundaries of the film 's budget . There are many pathways to becoming a film director . Some film directors started as screenwriters , cinematographers , film editors or actors . Other film directors have attended a film school . Directors use different approaches . Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue , while others control every aspect , and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely . Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners . Some directors edit or appear in their films , or compose the music score for their films .

neg: Glenn Jordan Glenn Jordan ( born April 5 , 1936 ) is an American television director and producer .   Born in San Antonio , Texas , Jordan directed multiple episodes of Family and has helmed numerous television movies , several based on real persons as diverse as Benjamin Franklin , George Armstrong Custer , Lucille Ball , Christa McAuliffe , and Karen Ann Quinlan . His directing credits include small-screen adaptions of The Picture of Dorian Gray , Les Misérables , Hogan 's Goat , Eccentricities of a Nightingale , A Streetcar Named Desire , O Pioneers ! , and A Christmas Memory . Additional television directing credits include Heartsounds , Botticelli , Sarah , Plain and Tall , To Dance with the White Dog , Barbarians at the Gate , The Long Way Home , Sarah , Plain and Tall : Winter 's End , The Boys , and Jane 's House .   Jordan has directed three feature films : Only When I Laugh , The Buddy System , and Mass Appeal .   Jordan has been nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and won four , for producing the miniseries Benjamin Franklin , for producing and directing the Hallmark Hall of Fame production Promise , and for executive producing the HBO production Barbarians at the Gate . He won two New York area Emmys for the PBS series Actor 's Choice and New York Television Theatre . He won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Dramatic Series for Family and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials or Movies for Television for Les Misérables . Three of his productions ( Benjamin Franklin , Heartsounds , and Promise ) have won Peabody Awards .

neg: Dikari Savages ( Дикари , Dikari ) is a 2006 Russian `` people 's comedy '' in the line with the infamous Peculiarities of National Hunting .

neg: Mongrel (film) Mongrel is a 1982 American horror film written and directed by Robert A. Burns . This is the only feature film Burns directed .

neg: Herschel Savage Herschel Savage ( born Herschel Cohen on November 25 , 1952 ) is an American pornographic film actor and pornographic film director .

neg: The Savage (1926 film) The Savage is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Ben Lyon and May McAvoy . The film was produced and distributed by First National Pictures . Based on a short story by Ernest Pascal .

neg: Hellzapoppin' (film) Hellzapoppin ' is a 1941 Universal Pictures adaptation of the musical of the same name directed by H.C. Potter . The cast includes Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson ( who produced and starred in it on Broadway ) , Martha Raye , Mischa Auer , Shemp Howard , Whitey 's Lindy Hoppers and The Six Hits .   Shemp Howard begins the film as the projectionist of a cinema , displaying on its screen what appears to be the start of a song-and-dance number whose classily dressed performers walk down a staircase - which collapses as in a fun-house ride , sliding them all straight to hell . Demons punish them in various ways . Ole and Chic arrive in the midst of the mayhem by taxi , and after a bit of funny business step back to reveal that it 's a movie sound stage . They work for Miracle Pictures , a company using the slogan `` If it 's a good picture , it 's a Miracle ! '' A mousy screenwriter ( Elisha Cook , Jr. ) outlines his script for the screen adaptation of Hellzapoppin '' ' , and the rest of the movie depicts Cook 's crazy script . Among the topical humor is Johnson picking up a sled named `` Rosebud '' and saying `` I thought they 'd burnt that '' ( Olsen and Johnson were friends of Orson Welles , whose film Citizen Kane closes with Kane 's childhood sled being burnt ) .   The film has a frenetic pace , and often breaks the ` Fourth wall ' , including inner ` fourth walls ' introduced by its nonlinear , metafictional narrative .   The 1942 Academy Award nomination for Best Song for `` Pig Foot Pete , '' ( which lost to `` White Christmas '' ) , was attributed to Hellzapoppin ' , but the song never appeared in the film -- it was actually performed in another Universal production from the same year , the Abbott and Costello film Keep 'Em Flying . ''

neg: The Savage Seven The Savage Seven is a 1968 exploitation film ( in the outlaw biker film subgenre ) directed by Richard Rush . The film marks the screen acting debut of Penny Marshall .

neg: Fredrick Kaufman Fredrick Kaufman ( 1936 ) is an American composer .   Kaufman was born in Brooklyn , New York and studied trumpet , composition and jazz at the Manhattan School of Music ( BMus 1959 , MMus 1960 ) . In addition , he studied composition with Vincent Persichetti at the Juilliard School .   He played trumpet with the New York City Ballet Orchestra and later became professor of composition at the University of Wisconsin . After serving as dean of the Philadelphia College for the Performing Arts from 1982 to 1985 , he became director of the School of Music at Florida International University in Miami .   Kaufman is the composer of over one hundred and thirty published compositions that have been performed worldwide by orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic , Israel Philharmonic , Moscow Chamber Orchestra , Moscow Symphony Orchestra , Czech Radio Orchestra , St. Petersburg Philharmonic , Lithuanian Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra , Czech National Symphony Orchestra , Czech Symphony Orchestra , Jerusalem Symphony , Instrumental Ensemble of Grenoble , London Sinfonietta , Orchestra Novi Musici ( Naples , Italy ) , Dominican Republic National Orchestra , National Orchestra of Brazil , St. Paul Chamber Orchestra , Los Angeles Philharmonic , New World Symphony , and the Pittsburgh Symphony orchestras . His ballets have been danced by companies such as the Royal Swedish Ballet , Royal Winnipeg Ballet , Batsheva Dance Company , Bat-Dor Dance Company , and the Pennsylvania Dance Theater .   Kaufman is a former Fulbright Scholar and author of The African Roots of Jazz , a groundbreaking study that drew heavily on his early musical life as a jazz trumpet player with the Woody Herman Band . He is the recipient of the Darius Milhaud Award in Composition from the Aspen Music Festival , and honors and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts , the Rockefeller , Guggenheim and Ford Foundations , the California , Montana and Pennsylvania Arts Councils as well as the Norwegian government .   Fredrick Kaufman 's Holocaust composition Kaddish , which Bernard Holland of The New York Times described as `` having the most expressive writing for strings to be heard today , '' has been performed in the major concert halls of Europe , Eastern Europe , Scandinavia , Israel , South America , Asia and throughout the United States . His works have received prizes at international competitions and have been selected for performances at festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival , Telluride Chamber Music Festival , Music Festival of the Hamptons , Sarasota Music Festival , Israel Festival , Darmstadt Festival for New Music , International Arts Festival in Vilnius , Lithuania , and the St. Cyprien International Festival of the Arts in France .   Renowned artists such as Richard Stoltzman , Julius Baker , Susan Starr , Roy Malan , Mark Drobinsky , Andres Diaz , David Kim , Roberto Diaz , Yehuda Hananni , Charles Neidich , Kemal Gekic , Paul Green , Sarah Lambert Bloom , The Miami String Quartet , The Amernet String Quartet , The Diaz Trio and numerous others have recorded and performed Kaufman 's concertos and chamber music . Additionally , Israeli television has paid tribute to him as a composer in the thirty-minute documentary film Fredrick Kaufman-Life of an Artist .   Critics from the New York Times , the Newark Star-Ledger , the Philadelphia Inquirer , the Miami Herald , the Jerusalem Post , the London Times , the Perpignan Independent , and other newspapers around the world have described Kaufman 's music as striking , individual an interesting combination of overwhelming pathos and infectious joy , brought one into the realm of musical genius .   In 1985 , the Statue of Liberty committee commissioned Fredrick Kaufman to write a choral work Mother of Exiles , for the re-dedication ceremonies of the Statue of Liberty . The composition was premiered by the United Nations Chorus at the ceremony and was broadcast worldwide by network television . WE THE PEOPLE 200 of the City of Philadelphia commissioned Kaufman to write his fifth Symphony , `` The American '' , in 1987 for the 200th anniversary celebration of the Constitution . Maestro Kaufman conducted the premiere performance which was nationally broadcast on NBC-TV . Over the past 10 years , Kaufman has been called upon repeatedly to conduct his compositions around the world .   In 1997 , the Miami Herald voted Maestro Fredrick Kaufman one of the 10 most influential people in the arts in the city of Miami . Kaufman continues to circle the globe with performances in Taiwan , Hong Kong , Spain , Poland , France , the Czech Republic , Brazil , Israel and Puerto Rico .   His latest multi-cultural works have received overwhelming praise in the press . His Kaminarimon ( for Taiko drums and Flamenco dance ) has been called `` remarkable '' and `` stunning '' and was voted as ? the number one classical composition of 2002 and `` the most imaginative new work of the year '' by , music critic , James Roos of The Miami Herald . His recently commissioned work Yin & Yang : A Dialogue for Two Grand Pianos , was launched and lauded by critics in New York and Miami , where it received its world premiere . String Quartet # 6 , `` The Urban '' was called `` stunning '' by the New Yorker magazine . The Urban Quartet was nominated by Lulkas Foss in 2007 for a Pulitzer Prize .   The points of departure for Kaufman 's writing are often gestures and sound imagery from his own wide ranging background which includes jazz and Eastern European Jewish folk traditions and a foundation deeply steeped in the classics as well as the avant garde . Kaufman continues to stretch the boundaries of standard approaches to composition and the results have been called `` startling '' .   In March , 2011 , Fredrick Kaufman completed the `` Guernica '' Piano Concerto , a commission for the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and concert pianist Kemal Gekic . The `` Guernica '' Concerto was scheduled to be premiered and recorded in the 2013 concert season in Prague by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra at the famed Smetana Concert Hall . The `` Guernica '' Piano Concerto with Kemal Gekic and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra ; his `` Kaddish '' Cello Concerto with soloist Mark Drobinsky and the Czech Radio Orchestra , and `` Seascape '' performed by the Czech Symphony Orchestra will be released on a CD recording by Parma Recording and distributed internationally by Naxos during the summer of 2013 .   Fredrick Kaufman currently resides with his artist wife Florence Kaufman in Miami Beach , where he holds the distinguished position of Professor Emeritus in Composition at Florida International University . Prior to that he held the position of Composer-in-Residence for the university , a position that was created specifically for him . Professor Kaufman was the founding Director of the FIU School of Music for ten years and established its internationally acclaimed FIU Music Festival . He was formerly Academic Dean of the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin , the University of Montana at Billings , the University of London and the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem , Israel . Kaufman is the founder and former Artistic Director of the St. Cyprien International Festival of the Arts held in St. Cyprien , France . He has two daughters , artist Laura BenAmots and choreographer/dancer Erica Kaufman .

neg: Fred Amata Fred Amata is a Nigerian actor , producer and director . A graduate of Theatre Arts from the University of Jos , Fred shot into limelight in 1986 for his role in a film titled Legacy . He currently serves as the President of the Directors Guild of Nigeria , since February 27 , 2016 .

neg: Savages (Pocahontas song) `` Savages '' is a song from the 1995 Disney animated film Pocahontas . It addresses themes of othering , xenophobia , and genocide . The song has been negatively received by critics , with some deeming it to be racist , arguing that it encourages the listener to dehumanise Native Americans .

neg: A Dirty Western A Dirty Western is a 1975 pornographic film directed by Joseph F. Robertson and starring Barbara Bourbon . Along with Russ Meyer 's nudie-cutie Wild Gals of the Naked West ( 1962 ) and the hardcore Sweet Savage ( 1979 ) , the film is one of the few porn films in the American Western movie genre .

neg: Tom Kalin Tom Kalin ( born 1962 ) is a screenwriter , film director , producer , and professor of experimental film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee .   His debut feature , Swoon , is considered an integral part of the New Queer Cinema . In addition to his feature work , Kalin has created a number of short films , many of which are collected in the compilations Behold Goliath or The Boy With the Filthy Laugh , Third Known Nest and Tom Kalin Videoworks : Volume 2 .   Much of Kalin 's work touches on issues of homosexuality ( both modern-day and historical ) and AIDS . He was a member of two AIDS direct action groups , ACT UP and Gran Fury . His work has won much critical acclaim and garnered a number of awards and nominations , including honors from the Berlin International Film Festival , Sundance Film Festival , Tribeca Film Fest and a number of gay and lesbian film festivals . Kalin won the Gotham Awards Open Palm Award ( for Swoon ) and has been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards .   Kalin 's last project was Savage Grace , Savage Grace tells the story of the 1972 Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case and stars Julianne Moore as Baekeland .   Tom Kalin has taught graduate-level filmmaking classes at Columbia University School of the Arts , and is currently lecturing at the European Graduate School in Switzerland .   He is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow .


query: The Philippines was named by a Chinese explorer.

pos: Philippines The Philippines ( -LSB- ˈfɪlᵻpiːnz -RSB- Pilipinas -LSB- ˌpɪlɪˈpinɐs -RSB- ) , officially the Republic of the Philippines ( -LSB- Republika ng Pilipinas , links = no -RSB- ) , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South China Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south .   The Philippines ' location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator makes the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons , but also endows it with abundant natural resources and some of the world 's greatest biodiversity . The Philippines has an area of 300000 km2 , and a population of approximately 100 million . It is the eighth-most populated country in Asia and the 12th most populated country in the world . , approximately 10 million additional Filipinos lived overseas , comprising one of the world 's largest diasporas . Multiple ethnicities and cultures are found throughout the islands . In prehistoric times , Negritos were some of the archipelago 's earliest inhabitants . They were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples . Exchanges with Chinese , Malay , Indian , and Islamic nations occurred . Then , various competing maritime states were established under the rule of Datus , Rajahs , Sultans or Lakans .   The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in Homonhon , Eastern Samar in 1521 marked the beginning of Hispanic colonization . In 1543 , Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas in honor of Philip II of Spain . With the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi from Mexico City , in 1565 , the first Hispanic settlement in the archipelago was established . The Philippines became part of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years . This resulted in Roman Catholicism becoming the dominant religion . During this time , Manila became the western hub of the trans-Pacific trade connecting Asia with Acapulco in the Americas using Manila galleons .   As the 19th century gave way to the 20th , there followed in quick succession the Philippine Revolution , which spawned the short-lived First Philippine Republic , followed by the bloody Philippine -- American War of conquest by US military force . Aside from the period of Japanese occupation , the United States retained sovereignty over the islands until after World War II , when the Philippines was recognized as an independent nation . Since then , the Philippines has often had a tumultuous experience with democracy , which included the overthrow of a dictatorship by a non-violent revolution .   It is a founding member of the United Nations , World Trade Organization , Association of Southeast Asian Nations , the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum , and the East Asia Summit . It also hosts the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank . The Philippines is considered to be an emerging market and a newly industrialized country , which has an economy transitioning from being one based on agriculture to one based more on services and manufacturing . It is one of the only two predominantly Christian nations in Southeast Asia , the other being East Timor .

neg: Golf in the Philippines History of Golf in the Philippines is the history of golf in the Philippines as a pastime play , as an amateur game , and as a professional sport . Golf was introduced to the Philippines more than a hundred years ago . From then onwards , the Philippines has produced its own notable `` corps of golf masters '' and players .

neg: Filipino Americans Filipino Americans ( Mga Pilipinong Amerikano ) are Americans of Filipino descent . The term Filipino American is sometimes shortened to `` Fil-Ams '' , or `` Pinoy '' . According to Filipino American historian Dawn Mabalon , the earliest appearance of the term Pinoy ( alt . Pinay ) , was in a 1926 issue of the Filipino Student Bulletin . The article that featured the terms , is titled , `` Filipino Women in U.S. Excel in Their Courses : Invade Business , Politics . '' Some Filipinos believe that the term Pinoy was coined by Filipinos who came to the United States to distinguish themselves from Filipinos living in the Philippines .   Filipinos in North America were first documented in the 16th century , with small settlements beginning in the 18th century . Mass migration did not begin until the early 20th Century when the Philippines was ceded from Spain to the United States in the Treaty of Paris .

neg: Liang (surname) Liang ( Romanization used in China , ) is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin . Meaning `` a beam '' , `` a bridge '' , or `` an elevation '' , or `` a mast '' , the surname is often transliterated as Leung ( in Hong Kong ) or Leong ( in Macau , Malaysia , and Singapore ) according to its Cantonese and Hakka pronunciation , Neo / Nio / Niu ( Hokkien , Teochew , Hainan ) , or Liong ( Foochow ) . To Indonesia , it is known as Liang or Nio . It is also common in Korea , where it is pronounced Yang 양 or Ryang 량 . In Vietnam , it 's pronounced as Lương .

neg: Metro Manila Metropolitan Manila ( Kalakhang Maynila , Kamaynilaan ) , commonly known as Metro Manila or simply Manila , is the official and administrative definition of the urban area surrounding the Philippine capital city , Manila . It is the capital region of the Philippines , the seat of government , and the 2nd most populous and most densely populated region of the country . Also officially known as the National Capital Region ( NCR ) , it is composed of the City of Manila , Quezon City , the country 's most populous city , and the cities of Caloocan , Las Piñas , Makati , Malabon , Mandaluyong , Marikina , Muntinlupa , Navotas , Parañaque , Pasay , Pasig , San Juan , Taguig , and Valenzuela , including the only remaining municipality of Pateros .   The National Capital Region , with an area of 619.5 km2 , has a population of , making it the second most populous region in the Philippines , as well as the 9th most populous metropolitan area in Asia . The total urbanized area , referring to its continuous urban expansion into the provinces of Bulacan , Cavite , Laguna , Rizal and Batangas , was listed as having a population of by Demographia , making it the 4th most populous urban area in the world . These 5 provinces , plus Metro Manila and Pampanga , sum to 30.7 million residents as of the newly counted census of 2015 .   The region is the center of culture , economy , education and government of the Philippines . NCR is one of the 12 defined metropolitan areas in the Philippines according to the National Economic and Development Authority . Designated as a global power city , NCR exerts a significant impact on commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , both locally and internationally . It is the home to all the consulates and embassies in the Philippines , thereby making it an important center for international diplomacy in the country .   Its economic power makes the region the country 's premier center for finance and commerce . NCR accounts for 37.2 % of the gross domestic product of the Philippines .   The region was established in 1975 through Presidential Decree No. 824 in response to the needs to sustain the growing population and for the creation for the center of political power and the seat of the Government of the Philippines .   The Province of Manila , the predecessor entity of the region , is one of the first eight provinces that revolted against the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines at the end of the 19th century . Manila 's role in the Revolution is honoured in the Flag of the Philippines , where the sun 's eight rays symbolise the eight revolutionary provinces .

neg: Pujiang County, Zhejiang Pujiang County is a county of Zhejiang , China . It is under the administration of the Jinhua city .   Pujiang County is located in the center of Zhejiang Province , north in Jinhua , bounded by Yiwu and Lanxi to the South , beside Jiande to the west and adjacent to Zhuji to the east . It exercises jurisdiction over seven towns , five townships , three residential districts , nineteen neighborhood communities and four hundred and nine villages with a population of 380,700 , covering an area of 915.35 square kilometers . It enjoys splendid and beautiful mountains and rivers with the so-called name of `` Graceful Area '' and `` Center for Relaxation . '' It is rich in the ecological tourism resources with the AAAA level tourist area of Xinhua Mountain and the recent developed scenic spots as Bashiwan , Baozhang Valley , Shenli Gorge , Tongji Lake and The First Family of Southern China . The latter , the Zheng Family Clan descendants have been living in Pujiang for fifteen generations . It also has `` Shangshan Cultural Relics , '' which has been the earliest site of New Stone Age discovered so far in the bright pearl history of Zhejiang culture .   Pujiang is famous for the Puyang River and it was called Feng in ancient times . It was set up as a county in the second year of Donghan Xingping ( 195 AD ) . The name was changed to Pujiang County in the third year of Wuyue Tianhao ( 910 AD ) , which has been used until now . There is no lack of talented people here . Among them , the most famous are Songlian as the founding minister of the Ming Dynatsy and Donggaoxinyue who went to Japan and was known as the father of seal cutting there . Pujiang is also named as `` County of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy '' and `` County of Chinese Folk Art . '' The industry in Pujiang is varied , among which crystals and padlocks take up to 70 % market sale , which makes Pujiang as the collecting and distributing center of crystal and padlocks in China . Thus it is named the `` Crystal Capital '' and `` Padlock Center . ''

neg: Baybayin Baybayin ( -LSB- baɪˈbaɪjɪn -RSB- ; pre-kudlit : , post-kudlit : ) ( known in Unicode as Tagalog alphabet ; see below ) , known in Visayan as badlit , and known in Ilocano as kur-itan/kurditan , is an ancient Philippine script derived from Brahmic scripts of India and first recorded in the 16th century . It continued to be used during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines up until the late 19th century . The alphabet is well known because it was carefully documented by Catholic clergy living in the Philippines during the colonial era .   The term baybay literally means `` to spell '' in Tagalog . Baybayin was extensively documented by the Spanish . Some have incorrectly attributed the name Alibata to it , but that term was coined by Paul Rodríguez Verzosa after the arrangement of letters of the Arabic alphabet ( alif , ba , ta ( alibata ) , `` f '' having been eliminated for euphony 's sake ) .   Other Brahmic scripts used currently among different ethnic groups in the Philippines are Buhid , Hanunó ` o , Kulitan and Tagbanwa .   Baybayin is one of a number of individual writing systems used in Southeast Asia , nearly all of which are abugidas where any consonant is pronounced with the inherent vowel a following it -- diacritics being used to express other vowels ( this vowel occurs with greatest frequency in Sanskrit , and also probably in all Philippine languages ) . Many of these writing systems descended from ancient alphabets used in India over 2000 years ago . Although Baybayin does share some similarities with these ancient alphabets , there is no evidence that it is this old nor is there evidence that it is recent .   The Archives of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila , one of the largest archives in the Philippines , currently possesses the biggest collection of extant ancient Baybayin alphabets in the world .   A Baybayin bill , House Bill no. 4395 and Senate Bill 1899 , which is also known as the National Script Act of 2011 , has been filed in the 15th Congress since 2011 . It was refiled in the 17th Congress of the Philippines through Senate Bill 433 in 2016 . It aims to declare Baybayin as the national script of the Philippines . The bill mandates to put a Baybayin translation under all business and government logos . It also mandates all primary and secondary schools to teach Baybayin to their students , a move that would save the ancient script from pure extinction and revitalize the indigenous writing roots of Filipinos . The writing system being pursued by the bill is a modernized version of the Baybayin which incorporates the common segments of numerous indigenous writing forms throughout the country . The system is a more nationalistic approach due to its comprehensive range , contrary to reports saying the bill will create further regionalism or cultural disintegration .

neg: Galápagos Islands The Galápagos Islands ( official name : Archipiélago de Colón , other Spanish name : Islas Galápagos , -LSB- ˈizlaz ɣaˈlapaɣos -RSB- ) are part of the Republic of Ecuador and an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere , 906 km west of continental Ecuador . The islands are known for their vast number of endemic species and were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle , as his observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin 's theory of evolution by natural selection .   The Galápagos Islands and their surrounding waters form the Galápagos Province of Ecuador , the Galápagos National Park , and the Galápagos Marine Reserve . The principal language on the islands is Spanish . The islands have a population of slightly over 25,000 .   The first recorded visit to the islands happened by chance in 1535 , when Fray Tomás de Berlanga , the Bishop of Panamá , was surprised with this undiscovered land during a voyage to Peru to arbitrate in a dispute between Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro . De Berlanga eventually returned to the Spanish Empire and described the conditions of the islands and the animals that inhabited them . The group of islands was shown and named in Abraham Ortelius 's atlas published in 1570 . The first crude map of the islands was made in 1684 by the buccaneer Ambrose Cowley , who named the individual islands after some of his fellow pirates or after British royalty and noblemen . These names were used in the authoritative navigation charts of the islands prepared during the Beagle survey under captain Robert Fitzroy , and in Darwin 's popular book The Voyage of the Beagle . The new Republic of Ecuador took the islands from Spanish ownership in 1832 , and subsequently gave them official Spanish names . The older names remained in use in English language publications , including Herman Melville 's The Encantadas of 1854 .

neg: Northeast Cay Northeast Cay , also known as Parola Island ( Parola ; Đảo Song Tử Đông ) , with a land area of 12.7 hectares , is the fifth largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands and the third largest of the Philippine-occupied Spratly Islands . It is part of the North Danger Reef and is located to the northwest of Dangerous Ground .   It is 1.75 miles ( 2.82 km ) north of Vietnamese-occupied Southwest Cay ( Pugad Island ) , and they are visible from each other . It is located 28 miles ( 45 km ) northwest of Philippine-occupied Pag-asa ( Thitu ) Island . It is administered by the Philippines as part of Kalayaan , Palawan .   Parola is the Tagalog ( adapted from Spanish language ) word for a lighthouse .   The island is also claimed by the People 's Republic of China , the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and Vietnam .

neg: Religion in pre-colonial Philippines The nature of religion in the pre-colonial Philippines is often unclear . Religions present include animism , Philippine mythologies such as Anito , and influences from Hinduism and Buddhism . The earliest pieces of evidence that exist are archaeological finds including Hindu - Buddhist gold statues . The earliest written evidence comes from the Laguna Copperplate Inscription , dated to around 900 CE , which uses the Buddhist-Hindu lunar calendar . With the arrival of Islam in the 14th century , the older religions gradually disappeared , and after the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 Christianity ( specifically Roman Catholicism became the dominant religion . However , some of the Indigenous peoples of the Philippines continue to practice animism today , and many of the traditions in Anito have survived in the form of Folk Catholicism .

neg: Commemorative medal of the 1860 China Expedition The Commemorative medal of the 1860 China Expedition ( Médaille commémorative de l'expédition de Chine de 1860 ) was a military award of the Second French Empire to reward soldiers and sailors who participated in the Anglo-French expedition to China during the Second Opium War . It was created by imperial decree on 23 January 1861 , by Napoleon III .   The British Empire had been engaged in an ongoing conflict with the Qing Dynasty since 1856 over legalizing the opium trade , expanding coolie trade , opening all of China to British merchants , and exempting foreign imports from internal transit duties . Following the 1857 general election in the United Kingdom , the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes , British Consul to Guangzhou . The French Empire , the United States , and the Russian Empire received requests from Britain to form an alliance . France joined the British action against China , prompted by the execution of a French missionary , Father August Chapdelaine ( `` Father Chapdelaine Incident '' ) , by Chinese local authorities in Guangxi province . The conflict concluded with the 1858 Treaty of Tianjin finally ratified by the emperor 's brother , Yixin , the Prince Gong , in the Convention of Peking on 18 October 1860 .

neg: New Spain New Spain ( Nueva España ) was a colonial territory of the Spanish Empire , in the New World north of the Isthmus of Panama . It was established following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521 , and following additional conquests , it was made a viceroyalty ( Spanish : virreinato ) in 1535 . The first of four viceroyalties Spain created in the Americas , it comprised Mexico , Central America , much of the Southwestern and Central United States , and Spanish Florida as well as the Philippines , Guam , Mariana and Caroline Islands .   After 1535 the colony was governed by the Viceroy of New Spain , an appointed minister of the King of Spain , who ruled as monarch over the colony . The capital of New Spain was Mexico City .   New Spain lost parts of its territory to other European powers and independence , but the core area remained under Spanish control until 1821 , when it achieved independence as the Mexican Empire -- when the latter dissolved , it became modern Mexico and Central America . It developed highly regional divisions , which reflect the impact of climate , topography , the presence or absence of dense indigenous populations , and the presence or absence of mineral resources . The areas of central and southern Mexico had dense indigenous populations with complex social , political , and economic organization . The northern area of Mexico , a region of nomadic and semi-nomadic indigenous populations , was not generally conducive to dense settlements , but the discovery of silver in Zacatecas in the 1540s drew settlement there to exploit the mines . Silver mining not only became the engine of the economy of New Spain , but vastly enriched Spain , and transformed the global economy . New Spain was the New World terminus of the Philippine trade , making the viceroyalty a vital link between Spain 's New World empire and its Asian empire .

neg: Geography of Shanghai The geography of Shanghai is characterised by its location on the Yangtze River Delta on China 's east coast and its proximity to the Pacific Ocean via the East China Sea . The city is centred on the Huangpu River , a tributary of the Yangtze River , and extends outwards in all directions , with the suburbs and satellite towns reaching east to the East China Sea , north and west to Jiangsu province , and south to Zhejiang province over Hangzhou Bay .   The vast majority of Shanghai 's land area is flat , apart from a few hills in the southwest corner , due to its location on the alluvial plain of the Yangtze 's river delta . The city has many rivers and lakes and is known for its rich water resources , and thanks to its coastal , riverside location and warm climate ensuring ice-free waters , provides easy access to China 's interior , resulting in Shanghai being the world 's largest port .

neg: Luu Lưu or Luu is a Vietnamese surname . It is also the Vietnamese transliteration of the Chinese surname Liu . during the Ancient , The Yao people use surname Liu , H'mong - Mien Lìu , they emigrate from Guangdong , Guangxi , to Vietnam . during the Yuan dynasty , the Mongols used the surname Liu in Vietnam .   In according to folk-story `` Hùng Vương Ngọc Phả '' ( Family tree of Hung King ) one of 50 son of Kinh Dương Vương there was Lưu Lang , who joined with Mother Âu Cơ and settled to northern mountain area of Van Lang . Luu Lang is considered as Ancestor of all Vietnamese/Kinh people possessed surname Luu . And other folktale : `` Sự tích trầu cau '' - Legend of areca nuts and betel leaves , its mentioned about a Landlord with surname Luu . The offering of areca nuts and betel leaves to the ancestors is a Vietnamese wedding ritual . It 's also ancient legendary story only .   Lưu is a Vietnamese surname . Some ( though not all ) Lưu are of Han Chinese descent . Between changes in Chinese dynasties and regimes , there were several major Luu/Liu families who immigrated to Vietnam . An example would be the Shu Han 蜀漢 dynasty where Emperor Liu ( Luu ) Bei 's 劉備descendants left their capital Chengdu in Sichuan . After losing the Cao Wei 曹魏dynasty in the Three Kingdoms 三國 era , many royalties and peasants alike headed south and eventually escaped to Vietnam . Another major immigration period is in 1949 when the communist took over China and many loyal nationalist of the Republic of China left to Vietnam . Prior to French occupation , Vietnamese writing was in Chinese characters and Luu was written as 劉 . After French occupation , alphabets were introduced and Liu surnames were spelled as Luu . In 1919 , the French government abandoned the use of Chinese characters and forced the Vietnamese to use strictly French 's alphabet spelling system . Many descendants of Luu who speak Chinese would spell Luu in English and write 劉 as their Chinese surname . After the Vietnam War in 1975 , many left the country and resettled all over the world . The majority resides in France and the United States .

neg: Philippines–United States relations Philippines -- United States relations ( Filipino : Ugnayang Pilipinas at Estados Unidos ) are bilateral relations between the United States of America and its former colony , the Republic of the Philippines . The relationship between the United States and the Philippines has historically been strong and has been described as a Special Relationship . The current Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte , however , is supportive of a foreign policy that is less dependent on the United States , favoring one that prioritizes closer relations with China instead . The Philippines is one of the oldest Asian partners of the U.S. and a strategically major non-NATO ally . The United States was consistently ranked as one of the Philippines ' favorite nations in the world , with 90 % of Filipinos viewing the U.S. and 91 % viewing Americans favorably in 2002 , 90 % of Filipinos viewing U.S. influence positively in 2011 , 85 % of Filipinos viewing the U.S. and Americans favorably in 2013 , and 92 % of Filipinos viewing the U.S. favorably in 2015 , and 89 % having confidence in United States president , Barack Obama in 2014 , making the Philippines the most pro-American country in the world . On October 20 , 2016 , the President of the Philippines announced a `` separation '' from the US , both militarily and economically , in favor of alliances with China and Russia .   This article discusses Philippine -- American relations after Philippine independence from the United States in 1946 , while the article History of the Philippines ( 1898 -- 1946 ) describes the history of the Philippines during American colonial rule .

neg: Chinese people in Portugal Chinese people in Portugal ( Chinese : 葡萄牙華人 , Cantonese Yale : pòuh tòuh ngàh wàh yàhn ) form the country 's largest Asian community , but only the twelfth-largest foreign community overall . Despite forming only a small part of the overseas Chinese population in Europe , the Chinese community in Portugal is one of the continent 's oldest due to the country 's colonial and trade history Macau dating back to the 16th century .

neg: China International Publishing Group The China International Publishing Group ( CIPG ) ,  also known as the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration ,  is the largest foreign-language publishing organisation in China .  Established in October 1949 , it has developed into a global media corporation , providing up-to-date information about China to readers worldwide through books , magazines and the Internet .   CIPG owns seven subordinate publishing houses , i.e. Foreign Languages Press , New World Press , Morning Glory Publishers , Sinolingua , China Pictorial Publishing House , Dolphin Books and New Star Publishers .  The organisation annually publishes over 3,000 titles of books and around 50 journals in more than 10 languages .  Notable periodicals include Beijing Review , China Today , China Pictorial , People 's China and China Report .  Its subsidiary , the China International Book Trading Corporation is in charge of the distribution .   It also runs 20 overseas branches in countries and regions , including the United States , Britain , Germany , Japan , Belgium , Egypt , Mexico and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region , with about 3,000 staff members including around 100 foreign workers .   In addition to publishing , CIPG operates a number of websites , including china.org.cn and chinagate.com.cn ,  releasing news in nine languages , including Chinese ( both in simplified and traditional characters ) , English , French , German , Japanese , Spanish , Arabic , Russian , Korean and Esperanto .  It is also responsible for the implementation and management of the national translation test and appraisal for the Chinese Ministry of Personnel .   Prominent people who have worked in the CIPG include Nobel Literature Prize-winning novelist and playwright Gao Xingjian , Nobel Prize-nominated poet Bei Dao , actor and politician Ying Ruocheng , known for his role in Oscar-winning The Last Emperor , translators Yang Xianyi and Ye Junjian , author Xiao Qian , non-fiction novel writer Xu Chi , cartoonist Ding Cong , former Chinese Foreign Minister Qiao Guanhua and former UN Undersecretary of State ( 1972-1979 ) Tang Mingzhao . Several foreign employees have also gained notoriety , including the pseudonymous author `` Alex Hill , '' whose account of working as a foreign editor for the organization was widely read in 2015 . In his account , the author writes of feckless bureaucracy , political correctness , and a general feeling of malaise among the many foreigners working in the compound .

neg: Chinese names for the God of Abrahamic religions In the Chinese common religion and philosophical schools the idea of the universal God has been expressed in a variety of names and representations , most notably as 天 Tiān ( `` Heaven '' ) and 上帝 Shàngdì ( `` Highest Deity '' or `` Highest Emperor '' ) .   These two and other concepts have been variously combined , in diverse contexts , to form titles such as : Huáng Tiān Shàngdì = Huáng `` Emperor '' + Tiān + Shàngdì or Xuán Tiān Shàngdì = Xuán `` Deep '' + Tiān + Shàngdì , Shàngtiān = Shàng + Tiān `` Highest Heaven '' and Tiāntáng = Tiān + Táng `` Vault of Heaven '' . The compounds tiānshén = tiān + shén `` heavenly god '' and tiānxiān = tiān + xiān `` heavenly immortal '' have been used for a deity , in a polytheistic sense . The word Dì by itself has likewise been used for God .   When Abrahamic religions penetrated China , they appropriated some of the traditional titles , or created new compound titles , to express their theology .

neg: Eastern Visayas Eastern Visayas ( Sinirangan Kabisay-an Sidlakang Kabisay-an Silangang Kabisayaan ) is an administrative region in the Philippines , designated as Region VIII . It consists of three main islands , Samar , Leyte and Biliran . The region has six provinces , one independent city and one highly urbanized city namely , Biliran , Leyte , Northern Samar , Samar , Eastern Samar , Southern Leyte , Ormoc and Tacloban . The highly urbanized city of Tacloban is the Eastern Visayas Regional Center ( EVRC ) . These provinces and cities occupy the easternmost islands of the Visayas group of islands .   Eastern Visayas faces the Philippine Sea to the east . The region is known for its famous landmark , the San Juanico Bridge , dubbed as the `` Most Beautifully Designed and Longest Bridge in the Philippines '' . As of , the Eastern Visayas region has a population of inhabitants , making it the third most populous region in the Visayas .

neg: The Fookien Times The Fookien Times ( , lit . `` New Fujian Times '' ) was a daily broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines written in the Chinese language . Founded by Dee C. Chuan in 1926 , it was once the Philippines ' largest Chinese-language newspaper in terms of circulation .   Although the newspaper itself was shut down in 1972 by Ferdinand Marcos with the imposition of martial law , some of its facilities were later used for the publishing of campaign materials during the People Power Revolution , and it continues to print until today the better-known Fookien Times Philippines Yearbook , one of the Philippines ' longest-running publications .

neg: Mingxin baojian The Mingxin baojian is an ancient Chinese book containing `` a collection of aphorisms and quotations form the Chinese classics and other works '' The author and date of authorship are not reliably known , although later references suggest that it was compiled in 1393 by Fan Liben . The quotations and aphorisms in the book appear to be from scholarly writings of Confucianism , Buddhism , and Taoism , with `` a great many of the quotations ... taken from Taoist writings '' , suggesting that the author was a follower of Taoism .   The Mingxin baojian was the first book translated from Chinese into a Western language . `` The Ming-hsin pao-chien seems to have widely circulated among the people in Fukien in the late Ming period . It was brought by the Chinese to the Philippines '' . It was translated into Spanish by a Dominican friar named Juan Cobo who arrived in the Philippines in 1588 . In 1595 , the Dominicans presented this translation , along with a copy of the original , to Philip III of Spain , then Crown Prince . Prior to its acquisition by westerners , the work had already been translated and circulated in other Asian countries . It is known as the Myeongsim Bogam in Korean , and the Minh tâm bửu giám Vietnamese . It was included in The Chinese Repository , translated by William Milne .


query: Charlie Rubin has written for National Lampoon.

pos: Charlie Rubin Charlie Rubin is an American television comedy writer , producer , and humorist .   He has written for National Lampoon , The Carol Burnett Show , In Living Color , The Jon Stewart Show , Saturday Night Live , Seinfeld , and Law & Order : Criminal Intent .   Charlie attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale , New York and then Williams College , from which he graduated in 1972 . While at Williams , Charlie , along with his friend , Mitchell Rapoport , founded The Williams Advocate . He also produced an original musical called `` Sizzle '' with William Finn at the Adams Memorial Theater . It was the first original musical to be mounted at Williams College since Stephen Sondheim attended over 20 years earlier .   Charlie is currently working on a screen adaptation of Veeck -- As In Wreck : The Autobiography of Bill Veeck . He is also a professor at NYU 's Tisch School of the Arts in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing , where he teaches writing for television .   He married writer Susan Shapiro on July 27 , 1996 .

neg: David S. Weiss David S. Weiss is an American comedy writer . He has written for Dennis Miller Live , CNBC 's `` Dennis Miller '' , The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn , and Penn & Teller : Bullshit ! . In 2005 , he ran unsuccessfully for the Writers Guild of America board of directors .   From March 2007 , he was Dennis Miller 's talk radio sidekick on The Dennis Miller Show , where he was referred to as `` Salman , '' or `` Sal '' . Miller assigned Weiss the moniker early in their time working together , due to his purported resemblance to Sir Salman Rushdie . He was also referred to as `` Count Dracu-sal '' and an eerie organ music cue ( Johann Sebastian Bach 's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor ) was played whenever he made funny and/or cryptic remarks that reflected his penchant for black comedy . Miller also frequently referred to `` Sal '' as his `` go-to Jew '' , when he needed some inside information on Jewish culture and customs . Weiss is a banjo player . On February 17 , 2009 , after not missing a radio show for the first two years , Dennis Miller nicknamed the dark-humored comic the `` Cal Ripken of Hate '' . During the February 22nd , 2010 show , it was announced on air Weiss would be leaving the show February 26 to pursue other opportunities .   He is married to television writer and story editor Joan Binder Weiss .

neg: Charlie Kadau Charlie Kadau , is an American comedy writer and editor . Along with his writing partner , Joe Raiola , Kadau has been a member of the editorial staff of Mad magazine since 1985 and currently holds the title of Senior Editor .

neg: Walter Scott's Personality Parade `` Walter Scott 's Personality Parade '' is a column in Parade magazine featuring celebrity gossip . As of 2001 Edward Klein is the author of the column , which is in the inside cover of the magazine .   For a 33 year period beginning with the column 's establishment in 1958 , it was written by Lloyd Shearer while he used the name Walter Scott . In this column he discussed rumors about celebrities using a question and answer style . Joyce Wadler of The New York Times stated that the column 's readership was 50 million `` in its heyday '' . Elaine Woo of the Los Angeles Times wrote that `` It may have been the most widely read column in the country '' under Shearer and that under Klein it continued to be the `` most popular feature '' in the magazine .   Lloyd Shearer 's assistants sorted through reader mail to separate what Woo described as `` those that were confusing or from crackpots , who were as legion as his legitimate and well-placed sources . '' Under Shearer the column received around 4,000 to 7,000 reader letters . One given topic may be the subject of up to 100 of those letters at a time . Shearer 's children often assisted Shearer with his publication .   His son Derek Shearer , along with Lloyd Shearer 's editor and other family members , stated that the questions printed in the column were composites of those submitted by readers and that Lloyd Shearer himself did not make any of the questions . Wadler stated `` it was known that Mr. Shearer wrote many of the questions '' . Woo wrote that `` Some journalists suggested that he made up many questions to suit his own agenda . ''   During the time he wrote the column Shearer had copyrighted its name . During Shearer 's rule , popular publications and political magazines analyzed `` Personality Parade . '' A compilation of several columns , Parade : The Best of Walter Scott 's Personality Parade From the Fifties through the Nineties , was published in 1995 .

neg: Groundhog Day (film) Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Harold Ramis , starring Bill Murray , Andie MacDowell , and Chris Elliott . It was written by Ramis and Danny Rubin , based on a story by Rubin . Murray plays Phil Connors , an arrogant Pittsburgh TV weatherman who , during an assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney , Pennsylvania , finds himself caught in a time loop , repeating the same day again and again . After indulging in hedonism and committing suicide numerous times , he begins to re-examine his life and priorities .   On its release , Groundhog Day was a modest success and garnered generally positive reviews . It gained stronger appreciation among critics and film historians over time , and is now often listed among the best comedy films ever . It further entered into the public consciousness , where the term `` Groundhog Day '' can represent a situation that seems to repeat over and over in government and military arenas , as well as influencing other entertainment . In 2006 , the film was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' . A stage musical version of the film premiered in 2016 .

neg: The Critic The Critic is an American prime time animated series revolving around the life of New York film critic Jay Sherman , voiced by actor Jon Lovitz . It was created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss , who had previously worked as writers and showrunners ( seasons 3 and 4 ) on The Simpsons . The Critic had 23 episodes produced , first broadcast on ABC in 1994 , and finishing its original run on Fox in 1995 . According to PopMatters , `` the creators -LSB- said -RSB- they intended the series as their ` love letter to New York . ' ''   Episodes featured movie parodies with notable examples including a musical version of Apocalypse Now , Howard Stern 's End ( Howards End ) , Honey , I Ate the Kids ( Honey , I Shrunk the Kids/The Silence of the Lambs ) , The Cockroach King ( The Lion King ) , Abe Lincoln : Pet Detective ( Ace Ventura : Pet Detective ) , Scent of a Jackass and Scent of a Wolfman ( Scent of a Woman ) . The show often referenced popular movies such as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and The Godfather , and routinely lampooned actor Marlon Brando and actor/director Orson Welles . They also spoofed Dudley Moore , usually as his character Arthur Bach from the 1981 film Arthur .   Despite the ratings improving , The Critic was cancelled after two seasons . It continued to air through reruns on Comedy Central and then on Locomotion . From February 1 , 2000 to 2001 , ten webisodes were later produced using Adobe Shockwave , and were broadcast on AtomFilms.com and Shockwave.com . In 2004 , the DVD box set was released , which includes all 23 TV episodes ( in their original production order ) and the webisodes .   In the late 2000s , reruns of the show aired again on ReelzChannel in the US and on Teletoon 's programming block Teletoon at Night in Canada . As of 2016 , the first season can be viewed for free on Crackle .

neg: Ross LaManna Ross LaManna is an American screenwriter and author . He is best known for creating the Rush Hour series starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker .   His first novel , Acid Test , was published in the U.S. and Canada by Ballantine Books . The geopolitical thriller was chosen as an Amazon.com `` Penzler Pick '' and as The Mysterious Bookshop 's selection for `` Best First Fiction '' . It was published in several foreign territories and as an audiobook .   He attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles , graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in screenwriting , and also holds a Master of Arts from Arizona State University in dramatic writing .   He began in the entertainment industry working on international legal affairs at the independent studio Embassy Pictures . Columbia Pictures purchased a speculative script he had written while at Embassy , and soon thereafter he was hired by United Artists under a two-picture writing deal . Carolco Pictures later hired him under a unique , two-year `` in-house screenwriter '' arrangement , where he worked on a number of their projects . He has written original screenplays , adaptations or rewrites for Fox , Disney , Paramount , Columbia , Universal , HBO Films and many independent companies .   As of June , 2013 , he is Chairman of the Undergraduate and Graduate Film Departments at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena , California , and also on the Board of Directors for the United States Air Force Entertainment Liaison Office . At Art Center , he brought in a number of notable filmmakers as part-time instructors , including the cinematographer Affonso Beato , ASC , the storyboard artist Tim Burgard , the director/producer Jeremiah Chechik , the cinematographer Allen Daviau , ASC , the screenwriter Doug Eboch , the director David Kellogg , the composer Dennis McCarthy , the title designer Dan Perri , the director/producer Richard Pearce , the entertainment attorney Lee Rosenbaum , the writer/director Bobby Roth , the director/actor Mark Rydell , the producer/director John Suits , the director Ron Underwood and the editor Billy Weber .

neg: TV Nation TV Nation is a satirical newsmagazine television series written , directed and hosted by Michael Moore that was co-funded and originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and BBC2 in the United Kingdom . The show blended humor and journalism into provocative reports about various issues . After moving to Fox for its second ( and final ) season , the show won an Emmy Award in 1995 for Outstanding Informational Series .   TV Nation was created in the wake of the success Moore had with the documentary Roger & Me , prompting Warner Bros. . Television to ask Moore for television series ideas . In January 1993 , NBC green-lit a pilot episode which took three months to complete . Interest from the BBC prompted NBC to insert the show into its summer 1994 lineup .

neg: National Lampoon's Movie Madness National Lampoon 's Movie Madness is an American comedy film produced by National Lampoon as the second film from the magazine . The film was originally produced under the title National Lampoon Goes to the Movies ; completed in 1981 , the film was not released until 1983 , and was reedited and retitled as Movie Madness .   Movie Madness consists of three short segments which satirize personal growth films , glossy soap operas , and police stories . The first two segments of the film , Growing Yourself and Success Wanters , were directed by Bob Giraldi , while the film 's final segment , Municipalians , was directed by Henry Jaglom . Its title song , `` Going to the Movies '' , was sung by Dr. John . The film was a critical failure .

neg: Going Too Far Going Too Far : the Rise and Demise of Sick , Gross , Black , Sophomoric , Weirdo , Pinko , Anarchist , Underground , Anti-establishment Humor ' is a 1987 American non-fiction book by British-born humorist Tony Hendra about black humor , what Hendra calls `` boomer humor '' , a twisted style of humor that was popular with the baby boomer generation . Going Too Far was published by Dolphin Doubleday in New York .   In the book , Hendra talks about the history of anti-establishment humor , starting with pioneers such as Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce and also later comics such as John Belushi and Eddie Murphy . Hendra also discusses improvisational theater groups , including The Second City , and popular anti-establishment magazines such as National Lampoon magazine and Mad Magazine '' .   The book is also partly a memoir about Hendra 's time at National Lampoon magazine . The second half of the book ( Part Two -- Fusion ) is primarily about the magazine and its related projects .

neg: National Lampoon Gentleman's Bathroom Companion II National Lampoon Gentleman 's Bathroom Companion II was a humorous book that was first published in 1977 . It was a spin-off from National Lampoon magazine and a follow-up to the National Lampoon The Gentleman 's Bathroom Companion . The pieces in the book were created by the National Lampoon 's regular contributors .   A description ( or possibly a subtitle ) on the cover reads :   A Miscellany , Risque , of Choice Selections from the Bounteous Ribaldry of the Monthly National Lampoon . Prominently Displayed are the Works of Mr. Chris Miller , Mr. Sam Gross and Mr. Douglas Kenney .

neg: Joel Moss Levinson Joel Moss Levinson is a writer , comedian from Yellow Springs , Ohio . He often collaborates with his older brother , Stephen Levinson , as the Levinson Brothers .   The pair were a part of TedX Dayton 2014 , speaking about successful collaboration .   Along with their third partner , CONAN and former Daily Show writer Rob Kutner , the Levinson Brothers released `` 2776 '' a comedy/musical album benefitting the charity OneKid OneWorld . Featuring Aimee Mann , Patton Oswalt , Ed Helms , Ashanti , Reggie Watts , Ira Glass , Nina Totenberg , Will Forte , Rebirth Brass Band , Yo La Tengo , Margaret Cho , Neko Case , Kelly Hogan , Dick Cavett , Dick Gregory , k.d. lang , Will Arnett , Alex Trebek and more , the album appeared briefly on the Billboard Comedy charts . The album 's liner notes were written by George Saunders and appeared in the New Yorker Joel composed the music for all but two of the 28 tracks .   n 2012 , the Levinson Brothers and Rob Kutner released an EP called `` It 's OK To Do Stuff '' in celebration of the 40th anniversary of `` Free To Be You And Me . '' Made up of songs satirizing the original with songs about gender , childhood , equality and relationships . `` It 's Okay to Do Stuff is first and foremost meant to be funny -- and it is , most of the time . Here , the earnestness of Free to Be is replaced with satire , but irony is the ethos of our age , remember ? '' The album features Lizzy Caplan , Fred Willard , Jane Weidlin , Steven Page , Colin Hanks , Fred Stoller , Eddie Pepitone , Eugene Mirman and others .   Joel gained national attention in 2008 as an Internet personality who professionally wins consumer generated marketing contests , and earned more than money and prizes , by creating corporate jingles and short commercials .   Levinson grew up in Dayton , Ohio . His father Jim was a prosecutor and his mother was a writer . He attended George Washington University for a few semesters . He worked for the KIO ( Kentucky , Indiana , Ohio ) region for BBYO and traveled the country as a song leader for the organization .   In November 2008 , he appeared on The Tonight Show to talk about his contest winnings . Joel was named an Access Hollywood Rising Star on December 1 , 2008 . In 2009 he appeared on CBS News with Katie Couric .

neg: Robert Cohen (writer) Robert `` Rob '' Cohen is a Canadian comedy writer and director . He was raised in Calgary , Alberta and has written for The Simpsons , The Wonder Years , The Ben Stiller Show , MADtv , Just Shoot Me ! , Father of the Pride , and American Dad ! . He has worked on The Big Bang Theory as co-executive producer ( 16 episodes ) and writer ( 4 episodes ) . He is the older brother of recurring Simpsons writer Joel H. Cohen .   Robert 's writing career has covered every form of TV , from sketch to multi-camera , single-camera and animation .

neg: The Comedians (1971 TV series) The Comedians is a British television show of the 1970s ( later reprised in the mid-1980s and early 1990s ) produced by Johnnie Hamp of Granada Television . The show gave a stage to nightclub and working men 's club comedians of the era , including Russ Abbot , Lennie Bennett , Stan Boardman , Jim Bowen , Jimmy Bright , Duggie Brown , Mike Burton , Dave Butler , Brian Carroll , Frank Carson , Mike Coyne , Jimmy Cricket , Colin Crompton , Pauline Daniels , Charlie Daze , Vince Earl , Steve Faye , Eddie Flanagan , Stu Francis , Ken Goodwin , Jackie Hamilton , Jerry Harris , George King , Bobby Knutt , Bernard Manning , Mike McCabe , Paul Melba , Mick Miller , Hal Nolan , Tom O'Connor , Tom Pepper , Bryn Phillips , Mike Reid , George Roper , Harry Scott , Sammy Thomas , Johnny Wager , Roy Walker , Charlie Williams , Lee Wilson and Lenny Windsor .   Also featured on the TV show , were Shep 's Banjo Boys , a 7-piece band comprising ( for the first 5 series ) Charlie Bentley ( tenor banjo ) , John Drury ( sousaphone ) , Andy Holdorf ( trombone ) , John Orchard ( piano ) , John Rollings ( drums ) , Graham Shepherd ( banjo ) and Howard Shepherd ( lead banjo ) . In 1973 , the line up was Mike Dexter ( banjo ) , Tony `` Tosh '' Kennedy ( sousaphone ) , Ged Martin ( drums ) , Tony Pritchard ( trombone ) , Graham Shepherd ( banjo ) and Howard `` Shep '' Shepherd ( lead banjo ) .   The Comedians began as an experiment for Granada TV . Filmed before a live audience in Manchester , comics each performed 20-minute sets , which were then edited together into half-hour shows . Each edition featured up to ten stand-up comics .   Working men 's clubs are numerous in Britain , especially in North East England and have been a useful training ground for artists , especially comedians . Most of these clubs are affiliated to the CIU ( Working Men 's Club and Institute Union ) founded in 1862 by the Rev. Henry Solly . There are also political clubs , as well as Servicemen 's Clubs affiliated to the Royal British Legion .   It was remarkably popular during the earlier series . An LP recording of the show reached the best-seller charts , several sell-out national tours followed , including a season at the London Palladium , and the programme won the Critics ' circle Award .   The comedy frequently took the form of anecdotes or jokes and often involved racist or sexist stereotypes . Like other British comedy successes of the day , notably , Love Thy Neighbour , this kind of entertainment was acceptable on British television during this period but would not be so today . Viewing the series in retrospect it stands as a major social document of the times .   In recent years , the series has been repeated on the ( now defunct ) British satellite television channel Plus , and can now be bought on DVD , having been released by Network .

neg: Li'l Abner Li'l Abner was a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States , Canada and Europe , featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch , USA . Written and drawn by Al Capp ( 1909 -- 1979 ) , the strip ran for 43 years , from August 13 , 1934 through November 13 , 1977 . It was distributed by United Feature Syndicate . Comic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before Capp introduced Li'l Abner , the first strip based in the South . The comic strip had 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries . Author M. Thomas Inge says Capp `` had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South . ''

neg: It Hits the Fan `` It Hits the Fan '' is the first episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series South Park , and the 66th episode of the series overall . It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on June 20 , 2001 . In the episode , the word `` shit '' is said uncensored on television on the crime show Cop Drama . After this , everyone starts saying `` shit '' over and over , which eventually brings over a mysterious plague that unleashes the ancient Knights of Standards and Practices , and only Chef and the boys can save the world .   The episode was written by series co-creator Trey Parker and is rated TV-MA-LV in the United States . Throughout the episode , the profanity `` shit '' or `` shitty '' are exclaimed uncensored a total of 162 separate times ; in syndicated or re-aired versions of this episode , a counter in the bottom left corner of the screen counts the number of times the word has been uttered . The written occurrences are not counted , but `` shit '' is written 38 times , which puts the `` shit `` s up to an even 200 . `` Shit '' is uttered roughly once every eight seconds ; one such count includes the episode 's theme song in the calculation .

neg: Gold Turkey Gold Turkey is an American album of sketch comedy that was first released as a vinyl record in 1975 . It was a spin-off from -LSB- -LSB- National Lampoon ( magazine ) | National Lampoon -RSB- -RSB- magazine . The album is a collection of `` greatest hits '' from the National Lampoon Radio Hour , a radio show that was broadcast on 600 radio stations and ran from November 17 , 1973 to December 28 , 1974 .   The sketches on Gold Turkey feature numerous National Lampoon actors including Christopher Guest , Bill Murray , John Belushi , Brian Doyle-Murray , Chevy Chase , Harold Ramis , Gilda Radner , Joe Flaherty and Ed Subitzky.Gold Turkey was also subsequently issued as a CD .  The title of the album `` Gold Turkey '' is a reference to the phrase `` cold turkey '' a phrase meaning to suffer sudden withdrawal from an addictive substance ; there is a John Lennon song Cold Turkey '' . `` Gold Turkey '' as shown in the cover photograph by Arky & Barrett is a visual pun on the golden statue awards for entertainment , such as the Oscars and the Emmy , and is simultaneously a verbal pun on the word `` turkey '' meaning a box office bomb or entertainment failure .

neg: Stanley Rubin Stanley Creamer Rubin ( October 8 , 1917 -- March 2 , 2014 ) was an American screenwriter and film and television producer born in New York City . He was the recipient of the Television Academy 's first Emmy in 1949 for writing and producing ( in collaboration ) an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant 's `` The Necklace '' for the NBC TV series Your Show Time .

neg: National Lampoon The Best of No. 4 National Lampoon The Best of # 4 was an American humor book that was first published in 1972 . The book was a `` special issue '' of National Lampoon magazine , so it was sold on newsstands , however it was put out in addition to the regular issues of the magazine .   The book is a `` best-of '' , an anthology , a compilation of pieces that had already been published in the magazine , pieces that had been created by the National Lampoon 's regular contributors . It includes pieces by Brian McConnachie , Gerald Sussman , Michael O'Donoghue , Henry Beard , Tony Hendra , Ron Barrett , Gahan Wilson , Doug Kenney , Sean Kelly , Christopher Cerf , Michel Choquette , Chris Miller , M. K. Brown , Rodrigues , and Edward Gorey .

neg: National Lampoon The Naked and the Nude National Lampoon The Naked and The Nude : Hollywood and Beyond is a humor book that was published by Harmony Books in 1976 as a trade paperback . It was a spin-off of National Lampoon magazine .   The cover of the book says that it was `` directed by '' Brian McConnachie , an Emmy award-winning writer who was one of the major contributors to National Lampoon magazine .

neg: Goodbye Pop 1952–1976 Goodbye Pop 1952 -- 1976 was an American comedy album of song parodies and sketches that was released as a vinyl record in 1975 . It was a spin-off from National Lampoon magazine . Performers include Gilda Radner , Bill Murray , Christopher Guest , Paul Shaffer and Tony Scheuren .


query: Inferno (2016 film) is the second part in a series.

pos: Inferno (2016 film) Inferno is a 2016 American mystery adventure thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by David Koepp , based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Dan Brown . The film is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons , and is the third installment in the Robert Langdon film series . It stars Tom Hanks , reprising his role as Robert Langdon , alongside Felicity Jones , Omar Sy , Sidse Babett Knudsen , Ben Foster and Irrfan Khan . Together with the previous film , it remains Hanks ' only live-action sequel .   Filming began on April 27 , 2015 in Venice , Italy , and wrapped on July 21 , 2015 in Budapest . The film premiered in Florence on October 9 , 2016 and was released in the United States on October 28 , 2016 in 2D and IMAX formats . The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $ 220 million against a production budget of $ 75 million .

pos: Angels & Demons (film) Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp , based on Dan Brown 's novel of the same name . It is the sequel to the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code , also directed by Howard , and the second installment in the Robert Langdon film series . The novel was published first and The Da Vinci Code novel followed it . Filming took place in Rome , Italy , and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City , California . Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon . Producer Brian Grazer , composer Hans Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman also return , with David Koepp coming on board to help the latter .   The film grossed $ 485 million worldwide . A sequel , titled Inferno , was released on October 28 , 2016 .

neg: Rampage: Capital Punishment Rampage : Capital Punishment ( originally titled Rampage : You End Now ) is a 2014 mass murder thriller film and a direct sequel to the 2009 film Rampage . It is directed by Uwe Boll and was released on August 19 , 2014 . A third film in the series was released in 2016 , Rampage : President Down .

neg: Apocalypse: The Second World War Apocalypse : The Second World War ( French : Apocalypse , la 2e Guerre mondiale ) ( 2009 ) is a six-part French documentary by Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke about the Second World War . The music of the documentary was composed by Kenji Kawai .   The documentary is composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents , soldiers , resistance fighters and private citizens . The series is shown in color , with the black-and-white footage being fully colorized , save for some original color footage . The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes , which are presented in the original black and white .   It was first aired from August 20 and 27 and September 3 on the French-speaking Belgian RTBF then on August 23 and 30 and September 6 on the French-speaking Swiss TSR and finally on September 8 , 2009 , to September 22 , 2009 , on France 2 channel . It was narrated in French by actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz . The documentary was shown on the Smithsonian Channel in the United States , where it was narrated by actor Martin Sheen , on the National Geographic Channel and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom , where it was narrated by actor Jonathan Booth , Canada , the Netherlands , Poland , Australia , Romania and Asia , on YLE Teema in Finland , on Rete 4 in Italy , on IBA , the national public channel in Israel , on RTP2 , the national public channel in Portugal , and on La 2 , the national public channel in Spain .

neg: Kill Bill Kill Bill is an American two-part martial arts film series , and the fourth film overall that was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino . It was originally set to be released as one film , but with a running time of over four hours , it was separated into two films : Kill Bill : Volume 1 , released in late 2003 , and Kill Bill : Volume 2 , released in early 2004 . The original four-hour cut , retitled Kill Bill : The Whole Bloody Affair , was screened at select cinemas in 2011 .   Tarantino has discussed the possibility of a third Kill Bill film .

neg: Dante Symphony A Symphony to Dante 's Divine Comedy , S. 109 , or simply the `` Dante Symphony '' , is a program symphony composed by Franz Liszt . Written in the high romantic style , it is based on Dante Alighieri 's journey through Hell and Purgatory , as depicted in The Divine Comedy . It was premiered in Dresden in November 1857 , with Liszt himself conducting , and was unofficially dedicated to the composer 's friend and future son-in-law Richard Wagner . The entire symphony takes approximately 45 minutes to perform .   Some critics have argued that the Dante Symphony is not so much a symphony in the classical sense as it is two descriptive symphonic poems . Regardless , Dante consists of two movements , both in a loosely structured ternary form with little use of thematic transformation .

neg: Animerama is a series of thematically-related adult anime feature films originally conceived and initiated by Osamu Tezuka and made at his Mushi Production animation studio from the late 1960s to early 1970s , perhaps intended as animated counterparts to the then-emergent pink films ( a direct connection being Shigemi Satoyoshi as the scenarist for Cleopatra ) .   As well as the erotic themes , they are also defined by mixing more typical traditional animation with sequences of UPA and Yōji Kuri -- influenced experimental use of modern design , limited animation , and still paintings akin to Tezuka 's experimental short films and like those largely were all directed , sometimes sharing the billing with Tezuka , by Eiichi Yamamoto . The first , A Thousand & One Nights , was the first erotic animated feature film and , at 130 minutes , remains one of the longest ever animated films . The first two are also notable for having scores by famed composer and electronic rearranger Isao Tomita . The third , Belladonna , made without Tezuka 's direct involvement , is more serious than its predecessors and more avant-garde still , telling its story largely through pans over still , panoramic paintings with narration .   The three films in the trilogy are :   ( 1969 )  ( 1970 )  ( 1973 )  All three were released onto DVD-Video by the video division of Columbia Music Entertainment , both separately and as a box set , in 2004 in Japan and re-released in 2006 .   A 1991 original video animation based on part of Ihara Saikaku 's The Life of an Amorous Man ( released on VHS in the United Kingdom and Ireland as The Sensualist ) made at Grouper Production is sometimes considered an unofficial successor to the trilogy , owing to the involvement of Yamamoto as screenwriter and its similarly both erotic and experimental imagery .

neg: The Making of the Mob: Chicago The Making of the Mob : Chicago is an American television miniseries , and the second season of The Making of the Mob , based on the iconic Chicago gangster Al Capone and his rise and fall in the Chicago Mafia . It is produced by Stephen David and premiered on July 11 , 2016 , on AMC in eight parts .

neg: The Forest of Lost Souls The Forest of Lost Souls ( A Floresta das Almas Perdidas ) is a 2017 Portuguese-language Portuguese slasher drama film directed by José Pedro Lopes . Described as a `` coming of age slasher movie '' , the film had its world premiere at the Director 's Week of the Fantasporto Film Festival 2017 .   The titular forest is a fictional place between Portugal and Spain , an infamous suicide spot . One morning two complete strangers with their own demons to bear meet within the woods .

neg: Erotic thriller An Erotic thriller is a film genre defined by a thriller with a thematic basis in illicit romance or erotic fantasy . Most erotic thrillers contain scenes of softcore sex and nudity , but the frequency and explicitness of those scenes varies .   Though similar films appeared as early as the 1960s , erotic thrillers emerged as a distinct genre in the late 1980s , bolstered by the popular success of Adrian Lyne 's Fatal Attraction in 1987 and a quickly expanding domestic and international market for softcore adult entertainment on cable television and home video . The genre had a classic period of growth and expansion in the 1990s , but by the early 2000s declined in production and popular appeal .   The potent combination of danger and romance , catering to both male and female audiences simultaneously , was the primary selling point for erotic thriller films during their classic period . The half-naked bodies displayed on posters , newspaper ads , and video box covers were accompanied by log lines that capture the unmistakable duality of the erotic thriller film :   If you think you can handle her , you 're dead wrong . -- Body Chemistry 3 : Point of Seduction  He was hired to watch . Now he 's tempted to touch . -- Night Eyes  Twin sisters cross the line into a deadly erotic fantasy land . -- Mirror Images   In all , over 300 erotic thriller films were produced in the 1990s , which is comparable to the number of thriller films made in the noir decade of the 1940s . The total number of films in the erotic thriller genre from 1985 to 2005 may number as high as over 500 . Like film noir , the genre has evolved and modernized , and new films continue to be made that are influenced by the classic style .

neg: The Fury (2016 film) The Fury ( De Helleveeg ) is a 2016 Dutch drama film directed by André van Duren . It was based on the book of the same name by A.F. Th . van der Heijden . It was listed as one of eleven films that could be selected as the Dutch submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards , but it was not nominated .

neg: The Age of the Medici The Age of the Medici , originally released in Italy as L'età di Cosimo de Medici ( The Age of Cosimo de Medici ) , is a 1973 3-part TV series about the Renaissance in Florence , directed by Roberto Rossellini . The series was shot in English in the hope of securing a North American release , which it failed to achieve , and was later dubbed into Italian and shown on state television . The films are : Cosimo de Medici , The Power of Cosimo and Leon Battista Alberti : Humanism . It is Fred Ward 's debut role .   Like several other TV series directed by Rossellini during the 1970s , The Age of the Medici is a form of docudrama , in which historical information is communicated via dramatized conversations between figures from history , and between ordinary people . They are unabashedly `` teaching films . '' As Dave Kehr explains , `` The dialogue is bluntly didactic , with characters telling one another things they would already know entirely for the benefit of the audience ... . Rossellini is n't asking his viewers to identify with his characters or become caught up in their personal dramas ... Instead he creates a detached perspective . '' Each scene plays out in a single long take , with the camera slowly moving and zooming to create different framings of the action , or , as Kehr puts it , `` to close in on details or investigate relationships '' .   When the films debuted in New York 's Public Theater in 1973 , New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby noted that while not difficult , the austere style of the films , `` as well as Rossellini 's total lack of concern for what might be called performance , take some getting used to . Yet once you 've grasped the method and the rhythm of the films , they are a ravishingly beautiful experience '' :   The actors make few attempts to act . They recite as they walk about magnificent locations , sounding and looking like ferociously gifted dress-extras . The talk has been rather flatly dubbed into English so that it 's not always possible to tell who is speaking.Forget these problems , though . The film is about what is being said and what you can see around and behind these figures . When you connect with The Age of the Medici , it has the effect of reducing every other film you 've seen recently to the status of an ornament .

neg: Tenebrae (film) Tenebrae ( also known as Tenebre ) is a 1982 English-language Italian giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento . The film stars Anthony Franciosa as American author Peter Neal , who -- while in Rome promoting his latest murder-mystery novel -- becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who may have been inspired to kill by the novel . John Saxon and Daria Nicolodi co-star as Neal 's agent and assistant ; Giuliano Gemma and Carola Stagnaro appear as detectives investigating the murders . John Steiner , Veronica Lario and Mirella D'Angelo also feature . The film has been described as exploring themes of dualism and sexual aberration , and has strong metafictional elements ; some commentators consider Tenebrae to be a direct reaction by Argento to criticism of his previous work , most especially his depictions of murders of beautiful women .   After Argento had experimented with pure supernatural horror with 1977 's Suspiria and 1980 's Inferno , Tenebrae represented the filmmaker 's return to the giallo horror subgenre , which he had helped popularize in the 1970s . Argento was inspired by a series of incidents which saw an obsessed fan telephone the director to criticise him for the damaging psychological effects of his previous work . The telephone calls culminated in death threats towards Argento , who channelled the experience into the writing of Tenebrae . The director also wanted to explore the senselessness of killings he had witnessed and heard about while staying in Los Angeles in 1980 , and his feeling at the time that true horror came from those who wanted `` to kill for nothing '' .   Shot on location in Rome and at Elios Studios , Tenebrae utilised mostly modern-looking locations and sets to help Argento realise his intent that the film reflect a near-future with a diminished population ; the director filmed none of the historical landmarks that usually featured in films set in Rome . Employing director of photography Luciano Tovoli , Argento also intended that the film simulate the stark , realistic lighting featured in television police shows at the time ; production designer Giuseppe Bassa created supporting environments that were cold and austere , with sharp angles and modernistic spaces . Several former members of Italian rock band Goblin provided Tenebraes music , a synth-heavy score inspired by rock and disco music .   Tenebrae was a modest success in Italy ; it reached theatres with little controversy after Argento made cuts to one of the most violent scenes . However , in the United Kingdom , it was added to the infamous list of `` video nasties '' and banned from sale until 1999 . The film 's theatrical distribution in the United States was delayed until 1984 , when it was released in a heavily censored version under the title Unsane . In its cut form , Tenebrae received a mostly negative critical reception , but the original , fully restored version later became widely available for reappraisal ; it is considered by some to be one of Argento 's best thrillers . The film critic and author Maitland McDonagh said that it was `` in many respects ... the finest film that Argento has ever made '' .

neg: Inferno (Dante Pertuz) Inferno ( Dante Pertuz ) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .

neg: Dirty Heroes Dirty Heroes , also known as From Hell to Victory and Heroes Five ( Dalle Ardenne all ` inferno ) , is a 1967 Italian `` macaroni combat '' war film directed by Alberto De Martino and starring Frederick Stafford .

neg: The Dead and the Damned 2 The Dead and the Damned 2 ( also The Dead , the Damned , and the Darkness and Tom Sawyer vs Zombies ) is a 2014 American horror film written and directed by Rene Perez . It was released direct-to-video on October 7 , 2014 , and is the sequel to the 2010 film The Dead and the Damned .

neg: Deadman Apocalypse Deadman Apocalypse is a 2016 science fiction film .

neg: Robin of Sherwood: The Knights Of The Apocalypse Robin of Sherwood : The Knights Of The Apocalypse is a two-hour audio adaptation of the final two episodes of British television series Robin of Sherwood , based on the legend of Robin Hood . Written by Richard ` Kip ' Carpenter , it was produced by British production company Spiteful Puppet and directed by Robert Young , who had also directed episodes of the original series .   The audio play is the continuation of the classic cult series Robin of Sherwood . The series came to an unexpected halt in 1986 due to financial problems . Instead of the planned fourth season , its creator and writer , Richard Carpenter , wrote a feature-length script that followed on from the end of the third season , called The Knights of the Apocalypse . Richard Carpenter died in 2012 , before having been able to bring the script back to the screen . The original cast of the series -- including Jason Connery , Ray Winstone , Clive Mantle , Judi Trott , Nickolas Grace , Mark Ryan , Michael Praed and Phil Rose -- went on to record the audio adaptation of The Knights of the Apocalypse in early 2016 . The audio drama premiered in London in May 2016 . All profits raised are donated to Mr. Carpenter 's chosen charities -- the Sherwood Forest Trust and the British Red Cross .

neg: Filippo Argenti Filippo Argenti or Filippo Argente ( 13th century ) , a politician and a citizen of Florence , was a member of the Cavicciuoli branch of the aristocratic family of Adimari , according to Boccaccio . Filippo 's children were Giovanni Argente & Salvatore Argente . Salvatore travelled to Spain and first was established in Barcelona and his descendents in Valencia , where his grandson Salvatore was established in the small village of Navarres and the surname changed as Argente . The Adimari family were part of the Black Guelph political faction .   Filippo is reputed to have received the nickname `` Argenti '' by having his horse shod with silver . He makes an appearance in the Decamerone , 9.8 , where Boccaccio tells a story that involves his temper . The Firenze 's storia talks about his silver hair . He was a very tall man , very burly , bizarre , famous for his iron fists .   Filippo Argenti appears as a character in the fifth circle of Hell in the Inferno , the first part of Dante 's Divine Comedy . He is among the wrathful in the river Styx , and accosts Dante as the latter crosses the Styx . Filippo is then torn into pieces by the other wrathful in the river Styx after this encounter with Dante and Virgil , and then turns on himself biting fiercely .   Early commentators recount various incidents to explain the antipathy between Dante and Filippo :   Filippo once slapped Dante ,  Filippo 's brother had taken Dante 's possessions after Dante 's exile from Florence ,  Filippo 's family had opposed Dante 's return from exile

neg: Drift (film series) The film series consist of street racing films produced by Geneon Universal Entertainment released between 2006 and 2008 . All the films are set on racing touge roads .

neg: Mostly Ghostly: One Night in Doom House Mostly Ghostly : One Night in Doom House is a 2016 horror comedy fantasy film directed by Ron Oliver and the sequel to Mostly Ghostly : Have You Met My Ghoulfriend ? ( 2014 ) . The film is based on the third book of the same name by R. L. Stine and the third installment of the Mostly Ghostly film series . The film was released on DVD on September 6 , 2016 .

neg: Eaux d'Artifice Eaux d'artifice ( 1953 ) is a short experimental film by Kenneth Anger . The film was shot in the Villa d'Este in Tivoli , Italy . The film consists entirely of a woman dressed in eighteenth-century clothes who wanders amidst the garden fountains of the Villa d'Este ( `` a Hide and Seek in a night-time labyrinth '' ) to the sounds of Vivaldi 's `` Four Seasons '' , until she steps into a fountain and momentarily disappears . The actress , Carmilla Salvatorelli ( not `` Carmello '' ) , was `` a little midget '' Anger had met through Federico Fellini . Anger used a short actress to suggest a different sense of scale , whereby the monuments seemed bigger ( a technique he said was inspired by etchings of the gardens in the Villa d'Este by Giovanni Battista Piranesi ) .   The title , a play on words , is meant to suggest Feux d'artifice ( Fireworks ) , in obvious reference to Anger 's earlier 1947 work . Film critic Scott MacDonald has suggested that Fireworks was a film about the repression of ( the filmmaker 's ) gay sexuality in the United States , whereas Eaux d'Artifice `` suggests an explosion of pleasure and freedom . ''   In 1993 , this short film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' .