query: Joseph Barbera was exclusively Italian.

pos: Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland `` Joe '' Barbera ( -LSB- bɑrˈbɛrə -RSB- or -LSB- ˈbɑrbərə -RSB- ; -LSB- barˈbɛːra -RSB- ; March 24 , 1911 -- December 18 , 2006 ) was an American animator , director , producer , storyboard artist , and cartoon artist , whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the 20th century .   Through his young adult years , Barbera lived , attended college , and began his career in New York City . After working odd jobs and as a banker , Barbera joined Van Beuren Studios in 1932 and subsequently Terrytoons in 1936 . In 1937 , he moved to California and while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) , Barbera met William Hanna . The two men began a collaboration that was at first best known for producing Tom and Jerry and live action/animated hybrid films . In 1957 , after MGM dissolved their animation department , they co-founded Hanna-Barbera , which became the most successful television animation studio in the business , producing programs such as The Flintstones , Yogi Bear , Scooby-Doo , Top Cat , The Smurfs , Huckleberry Hound and The Jetsons . In 1967 , Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting for $ 12 million , but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company until 1991 . At that time , the studio was sold to Turner Broadcasting System , which in turn was merged with Time Warner , owners of Warner Bros. , in 1996 ; Hanna and Barbera stayed on as advisors .   Hanna and Barbera won seven Academy Awards and eight Emmy Awards . Their cartoon shows have become cultural icons , and their cartoon characters have appeared in other media such as films , books , and toys . Hanna-Barbera 's shows had a worldwide audience of over 300 million people in the 1960s and have been translated into more than 20 languages .

neg: Saracinesca Saracinesca is a novel by F. Marion Crawford , first published as a serial in Blackwood 's Magazine and then as a book in New York ( Macmillan ) and Edinburgh ( Blackwood ) in 1887 . Set chiefly in Rome of twenty years earlier , the novel paints a rich picture of the period , detailing the spiritual and economic problems of the aristocracy at a time when its influence and status were under attack from the emerging forces of modernity . This romance tells the tale of Giovanni Saracinesca and his courting of Corona d'Astradente , complete with intrigue and sword fights ( Crawford was an expert fencer ) . It can be categorized as a work of historical fiction in that it relates a time when the author was only a child , and also in the sense that the particulars of that time and place are carefully delineated . In a sense , Crawford had been researching for this book all his life : his parents had witnessed the brief 1848 revolution , and his cousin , in her memoirs of Crawford , insisted that '' -LSB- t -RSB- here is little doubt that Crawford as a boy had heard first-hand descriptions of -LSB- the -RSB- exciting events '' of the 1860s .   Saracinesca proved to be both an immediate hit and Crawford 's greatest critical success . It was also a commercial triumph : he negotiated separate contracts for the serial printing and the simultaneous American and British publication , as well as future royalties . He followed it with two brilliant sequels , Sant ' Ilario and Don Orsino , the three of which are usually considered a trilogy . Subsequent sequels , such as Corleone , continue the saga of Saracinesca family , but with a diversion from the previous focus on the drama and status of family members into heavily plotted , incident-heavy melodrama . Characters from Saracinesca and its sequels also appear in A Lady of Rome ( 1906 ) and The White Sister ( 1909 ) .   Crawford , though an American by parentage and citizenship , was born in the Italian resort of Bagni de Lucca , spent most of his life abroad , and wrote Saracinesca while living in Sant ' Agnello di Sorrento , Italy .

neg: Aida (1953 film) Aida is a 1953 Italian film version of the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi . It was directed by Clemente Fracassi and produced by Gregor Rabinovitch and Federico Teti . The screenplay was adapted by Fracassi , Carlo Castelli , Anna Gobbi and Giorgio Salviucci from the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni . The cinematography was by Piero Portalupi , the production design by Flavio Mogherini and the costume design by Maria De Matteis . The Italian State Radio Orchestra was conducted by Giuseppe Morelli , the ballet was choreographed by Margherita Wallmann .   The film was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival .

neg: Concertato Concertato is a term in early Baroque music referring to either a genre or a style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody , usually in alternation , and almost always over a basso continuo . The term derives from Italian concerto which means `` playing together '' -- hence concertato means `` in the style of a concerto . '' In contemporary usage , the term is almost always used as an adjective , for example `` three pieces from the set are in concertato style . ''   A somewhat oversimplified , but useful distinction between concertato and concerto can be made : the concertato style involves contrast between opposing groups of voices and groups of instruments : the concerto style , especially as it developed into the concerto grosso later in the Baroque , involves contrast between large and small groups of similar composition ( later called `` ripieno '' and `` concertino '' ) .   The style developed in Venice in the late 16th century , mainly through the work of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli , who were working in the unique acoustical space of St. Mark 's Cathedral . Different choirs or instrumental groupings occupied positions across the cathedral from each other : because of the sound delay from one side to the other in the large and acoustically `` live '' space , a perfect unison was difficult , and composers found that a fantastically effective music could be composed with the choirs singing across to each other , in stereo as it were ; all accompanied by organ or other groups of instruments placed in such a way that they could hear each group equally well . Music written there was quickly performed elsewhere , and compositions in the new `` concertato '' style quickly became popular elsewhere in Europe ( first in northern Italy , then in Germany and the rest of Italy , and then gradually in other parts of the continent ) . Another term sometimes used for this antiphonal use of the choirs in St. Mark 's was cori spezzati . See also Venetian polychoral style and Venetian School .   In the early 17th century , almost all music with voices and basso continuo was called a concerto , though this use of the term is considerably different from the more modern meaning ( a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra ) . Often , sacred music in the concertato style in the early 17th century was descended from the motet : the texts that a hundred years earlier would have been set for a cappella voices singing in smooth polyphony , would now be set for voices and instruments in a concertato style . These pieces , no longer always called motets , were given a variety of names including concerto , Psalm ( if a psalm setting ) , sinfonia , or symphoniae ( for example in Heinrich Schütz 's collections of Symphoniae Sacrae ) .   The concertato style made possible the composition of extremely dramatic music , one of the characteristic innovations of the early Baroque .

neg: Barbera Sarda Barbera Sarda is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown on the island of Sardinia where it often used to add acidity to blends . Despite the similarities in their names , there is no known close genetic relationship between the Sardinian Barbera and the notable Piedmontese wine grape variety Barbera . Nor does there seem to be any close relationship with other grapes names Barbera , such as Barbera bianca and Barbera del Sannio .

neg: Il teatro alla moda Il teatro alla moda ( The Fashionable Theater ) is a satirical pamphlet in which its author , the Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello ( 1686 -- 1739 ) , vents his critical opinions on the milieu of the Italian opera seria in the first decades of the eighteenth century . It was first published anonymously in Venice , by the end of 1720 . Virtually every aspect of opera seria and its social environment is mercilessly criticized by Marcello : the artificiality of plots , the stereotyped format of music , the extravagant scenography and machinery , the inability and venality of composers and poets , the vanity and vulgarity of singers , the avidity of impresarios , the ineptitude of musicians .   The full title reads `` THE FASHIONABLE THEATER -- OR -- safe and easy METHOD for correctly composing and performing Italian OPERAS in the modern style , -- In which -- useful and necessary Advice is given to Librettists , Composers , Musicians of both sexes , Impresarios , Performers , Engineers , and Scene Painters , comic Characters , Tailors , Pages , Dancers , Prompters , Copyists , Protectors , and MOTHERS of female Virtuoso singers , & other People belonging to Theater . '' In fact , Il teatro alla moda is written as a series of chapters where advice is ironically given to the various people involved in operatic productions , in order to meet `` the modern customs '' and bizarre requirements of such theatrical events .   Besides the title , the frontispiece contains several allusions to well-known protagonists of the Venetian theater of the time . For instance , the publisher 's name `` Aldiviva Licante '' refers , by means of anagrams , both to Antonio Vivaldi , then very famous as an opera composer , and to the singer Caterina Canteli .   The text of Il teatro alla moda displays several striking features . To begin with , it shows a degree of vacillation in attitude toward its subject -- perhaps resulting from Marcello 's personal ambivalence regarding operatic music , as both a critic and a composer . For example , the dedicatory is by `` the author of the book to its composer . '' In addition , it exhibits a number of surrealistic elements , which reach a climax in the last chapter , `` The Raffle '' ( presumably organized by the mother of a young female singer ) , where the prizes include `` a full dress of modern poet in fever-colored tree bark , wrapped with metaphors , translations , hyperboles '' as well as `` the pen that wrote Il teatro alla moda . '' The printing accompanies these peculiarities with a chaotic use of italic and normal typography and of capital fonts .

neg: Comic opera Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature , usually with a happy ending .   Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy . By the 1730s , a new operatic genre , opera buffa , emerged as an alternative to opera seria . It quickly made its way to France , where it became opéra bouffon , and eventually , in the following century , French operetta , with Jacques Offenbach as its most accomplished practitioner .   The influence of the Italian and French forms spread to other parts of Europe . Many countries developed their own genres of comic opera , incorporating the Italian and French models along with their own musical traditions . Examples include Viennese operetta , German singspiel , Spanish zarzuela , Russian comic opera , English ballad opera , and Savoy Opera .

neg: Antonio Demo Father Antonio Demo ( S. Lazzaro at Bassano del Grappa , Italy , April 23 , 1870 - New York City , January 2 , 1936 ) was a New York City Italian American priest and civic activist .   He studied at seminaries in Italy and entered the Scalabrini Order in 1894 . Ordained a priest on July 20 , 1896 , the same year he emigrated to the United States . He initially did missionary work for two years in the parish of S. Heart in Boston , which served a congregation of Italian immigrants mostly from Genoa . On July 19 , 1899 he was assigned as assistant pastor of Our Lady of Pompei Church , established in 1892 by Father Pietro Bandini in New York City 's Greenwich Village on Bleecker and Carmine Streets . In 1900 he was appointed pastor of the church , which served what was then one of largest Italian-American communities in America .   Father Demo exercised his apostolate among the Italian immigrants , serving until 1923 also as the director of the St. Raphael Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants , an organization that had been specifically formed in 1891 by Bandini to assist newly arrived immigrants and that he helped to strengthen . His spiritual care and leadership were put to test on March 25 , 1911 when he had to respond to the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire , which claimed the lives of 146 female employees . Because of his many merits in the care of the Italian community he was decorated with the `` Cross of Knight of the Crown of Italy '' .   In 1923 Father Demo learned that the church would have to be demolished to allow extension of the Sixth Avenue . Father Demo organized a campaign to buy a nearby property and with the help of a leading Italian American architect , Matthew Del Gaudio , build a new church , and rectory . The new church could already be available for the congregation in May 1927 . In late Summer 1931 the parochial school also was opened .   In 1935 Father Demo became Pompei 's pastor emeritus and superintendent of its parochial school . He died in 1936 in New York , and thousands of parishioners and friends , including Mayor Fiorello La Guardia , paid their respects .   In 1941 , the intersection of Bleecker Street and Sixth Avenue was named Father Demo Square . In 2009 , after a renovation , Father Demo Square was honored with a Village Award by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation .

neg: Joseph Paruta Joseph Paruta , also known as `` Old Man '' and `` Sammy Gravano 's Personal Luca Brasi '' ( December 3 , 1929-October 1986 Brooklyn , New York ) was a mobster in the Gambino crime family and considered a `` key member '' of Sammy Gravano 's Bensonhurst , Brooklyn crew . He is the only known mobster who asked for a mercy killing after becoming terminally ill with lung cancer . The proposition was agreed upon but Paruta died before the mercy killing was performed .

neg: Fascio Fascio ( -LSB- ˈfaʃʃo -RSB- ; plural fasci ) is an Italian word literally meaning `` a bundle '' or `` a sheaf '' , and figuratively league , and which was used in the late 19th century to refer to political groups of many different ( and sometimes opposing ) orientations . A number of nationalist fasci later evolved into the 20th century Fasci movement , which became known as fascism .   During the 19th century , the bundle of rods , in Latin called fasces and in Italian fascio , came to symbolize strength through unity , the point being that whilst each independent rod was fragile , as a bundle they were strong .   By extension , the word fascio came in modern Italian political usage to mean group , union , band or league . It was first used in this sense in the 1870s by groups of revolutionary democrats in Sicily , to describe themselves . The most famous of these groups was the Fasci Siciliani during 1891 -- 94 . Thereafter , the word retained revolutionary connotations . It was these connotations which made it attractive , for example , to young nationalists who demanded Italian intervention in World War I . The fasci they formed were scattered over Italy , and it was to one of these spontaneously created groups , devoid of party affiliations , that Benito Mussolini belonged . On August 18 , 1914 , Alceste de Ambris speaking from the rostrum of the Milanese Syndical Union ( USM ) began a ferocious attack against neutrality and urged intervention against German reaction and the necessity of aiding France and the United Kingdom in World War I . He equated the war with the French Revolution .   This caused a deep split within the Unione Sindacale Italiana ( USI ) . The majority opted for neutrality . The Parma Labor Chamber , the USM , and other radical syndicalists left the USI and on October 1 , 1914 , founded the Fasci d'Azione rivoluzionaria internazionalista . On October 5 , Angelo Oliviero Olivetti published their manifesto in the first issue of a new series of Pagine libere . Mussolini shortly thereafter joined this group and took leadership .  On December 11 , 1914 , Mussolini started a political group , Fasci d'azione rivoluzionaria , which was a fusion of two other movements : the above group , Fasci d'azione rivoluzionaria internazionalista and a previous group he started called the Fasci autonomi d'azione rivoluzionaria .   This new group was also referred to as the Milan fascio , of which Mussolini was the leader . January 24 , 1915 was the turning point in the history of the fasci as their leaders met in Milan and formed a national organization .   In 1919 , after the war had ended , Mussolini reconstituted the Milan fascio , using the new name Fasci italiani di combattimento ( `` Italian league of combatants '' ) . Other fasci of the same name were created , with the common goal of opposing all those -- including the king and state -- whose specific leanings were deemed to be depriving Italy of the fruits of victory in the war . According to H. W. Schneider , the new Milan fascio was formed of roughly the same people who had been members of the older fascio in 1915 , but with a new name and a new objective .   On November 7 , 1921 , the Partito Nazionale Fascista ( PNF ) , National Fascist Party , came into existence .   In Italy , after World War II , the term `` fascio '' is used as pejorative for `` neo-fascista '' .   Other Italian Fasci  Fasci of the Veneto led by Dino Grandi and Pietro Marsich .

neg: Casta A casta ( -LSB- ˈkasta -RSB- , -LSB- ˈkastɐ , ˈkaʃtɐ -RSB- ) was a hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites ( españoles ) in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century . The sistema de castas or the sociedad de castas was used in 17th and 18th centuries in Spanish America and Spanish Philippines to describe as a whole and socially rank the mixed-race people who were born during the post-Conquest period . The process of mixing ancestries in the union of people of different races was known as mestizaje . A parallel system of categorization based on the degree of acculturation to Hispanic culture , which distinguished between gente de razón ( Hispanics , literally , `` people of reason '' ) and gente sin razón ( non-acculturated natives ) , concurrently existed and supported the idea of the racial classification system .   Created by Hispanic elites , the sistema de castas or the sociedad de castas , varied largely due to their birth , color , race and origin of ethnic types . The system of castas was more than socio-racial classification . It had an effect on every aspect of life , including economics and taxation . Both the Spanish colonial state and the Church required more tax and tribute payments from those of lower socio-racial categories . Related to Spanish ideas about purity of blood ( which historically also related to its reconquest of Spain from the Moors ) , the colonists established a caste system in Latin America by which a person 's socio-economic status generally correlated with race or racial mix in the known family background , or simply on phenotype ( physical appearance ) if the family background was unknown . From the colonial period , when the Spanish imposed control , many wealthy persons and high government officials were of peninsular ( Iberian ) and/or European background , while African or indigenous ancestry , or dark skin , generally was correlated with inferiority and poverty . The `` whiter '' the heritage a person could claim , the higher in status they could claim ; conversely , darker features meant less opportunity .   Casta paintings were a new , secular art form primarily produced in eighteenth-century Mexico . A notable exception to the secular nature of the genre is Luis de Mena 's 1750 painting of Virgin of Guadalupe with castas .

neg: Italian Jews Italian Jews ( Ebrei italiani , יהודים איטלקים Yehudim Italkim ) can be used in a broad sense to mean all Jews living or with roots in Italy or in a narrower sense to mean the Italkim , an ancient community who use the Italian rite , as distinct from the communities dating from medieval or modern times who use the Sephardi or Ashkenazi rite .

neg: Commedia sexy all'italiana The commedia sexy all ` italiana ( lit . `` sex comedy Italian style '' ) , also known as commedia scollacciata or commedia erotica all ` italiana , is a subgenre of Italian commedia all ` italiana film genre .

neg: Italianization Italianization ( Italianizzazione talijanizacija poitaljančevanje Italianisierung Ιταλοποίηση ) is the spread of Italian culture , people , or language , either by integration or assimilation .   It is most known for a process organized by the Kingdom of Italy to force cultural and ethnic assimilation of the native populations living in the former Austro-Hungarian territories that were transferred to Italy after World War I in exchange for Italy having joined the Triple Entente in 1915 . This process was conducted during the period of Fascist rule between 1922 and 1943 .

neg: Filippo Berio Filippo Berio is a brand of olive oils exported from Italy and made of oil from Italy , Greece , Spain and Tunisia . The brand is used for virgin , extra-virgin , and extra-light oils , and also for wine vinegar , balsamic vinegar , pesto and olives .   A merchant named Filippo Berio first sold oil under his name in Italy in 1850 . In 1919 his daughter Albertina , together with Giovanni Silvestrina and Dino Fontana , founded the Società per Azioni Lucchese Olii e Vini ( SALOV ) . SALOV now has a large production facility in Massarosa , outside Lucca . The company is now majority owned by China 's Bright Food .   The Filippo Berio brand is exported worldwide to over 65 countries and is the market leader in the United States and the United Kingdom . In Italy , SALOV 's brand is `` Sagra '' .   The brand obtained particular notoriety in 2007 due to its highly successful television advertising campaign with Gioacchino Rossini 's famous Largo al Factotum ( Figaro 's Aria from The Barber of Seville ) being sung with the substituted words `` Filippo Berio , Filippo Berio , Filippo Berio , Filippo Berio , Filippo Berio , Filippo Berio Olive Oil '' .   Class action lawsuits were filed against the company in 2015 alleging that the Berio oil was not entitled to the ` extra virgin ' label and was misleadingly labelled `` Imported from Italy '' , with the actual origins hidden in fine print .

neg: Kingdom of Italy The Kingdom of Italy ( Regno d'Italia ) was a state founded from 1861 , when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy , to 1946 , when a constitutional referendum led civil discontent to abandon the monarchy and form the Italian Republic . The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia , which can be considered its legal predecessor state .   Italy declared war on Austria in alliance with Prussia in 1866 and received the region of Veneto following their victory . Italian troops entered Rome in 1870 , ending more than one thousand years of Papal temporal power . Italy entered into a Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1882 , following strong disagreements with France about the respective colonial expansions . However , even if relations with Berlin became very friendly , the alliance with Vienna remained purely formal , as the Italians were keen to acquire Trentino and Trieste , corners of the Austria-Hungary populated by Italians . So , in 1915 , Italy accepted the British invitation to join the Allies in World War I because the western allies promised territorial compensation ( at the expense of Austria-Hungary ) for participation that were more generous than Vienna 's offer in exchange for Italian neutrality . Victory in the war gave Italy a permanent seat in the Council of the League of Nations .   `` Fascist Italy '' is the era of National Fascist Party government from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as head of government . The fascists imposed authoritarian rule and crushed the political and intellectual opposition , while promoting economic modernization , traditional social values , and a rapprochement with the Roman Catholic Church . According to Payne ( 1996 ) , '' -LSB- the -RSB- Fascist government passed through several relatively distinct phases '' . The first phase ( 1923 -- 1925 ) was nominally a continuation of the parliamentary system , albeit with a `` legally-organized executive dictatorship '' . Then came the second phase , `` the construction of the Fascist dictatorship proper , from 1925 to 1929 '' . The third phase , with less activism , was 1929 to 1934 . The fourth phase , 1935 -- 1940 , was characterized by an aggressive foreign policy ; war against Ethiopia , which was launched from Eritrea and Italian Somaliland ; confrontations with the League of Nations sanctions ; growing economic autarchy ; and semi-National Socialization . The war itself ( 1940 -- 1943 ) was the fifth phase with its disasters and defeats , while the rump Salò government under German control was the final stage ( 1943 -- 1945 ) .   Italy was allied with National Socialist Germany in World War II until 1943 . It switched sides to the Allies after ousting Mussolini and shutting down the Fascist party in areas ( south of Rome ) controlled by the Allied invaders . The remnant fascist state in northern Italy that continued fighting against the Allies was a puppet state of Germany , the `` Italian Social Republic '' , still led by Mussolini and his Fascist loyalists . Shortly after the war , civil discontent led to the constitutional referendum of 1946 on whether Italy would remain a monarchy or become a republic . Italians decided to abandon the monarchy and form the Italian Republic , the present-day Italian state .

neg: Largo al factotum '' '' ( Make way for the factotum ) is an aria from The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini , sung at the first entrance of the title character ; the repeated `` Figaro `` s before the final patter section are an icon in popular culture of operatic singing . The term `` factotum '' refers to a general servant and comes from Latin where it literally means `` do everything . ''   Due to the constant singing of triplets in meter at an allegro vivace #Italian tempo , the piece is often noted as one of the most difficult baritone arias to perform . This , along with the tongue-twisting nature of some of the lines , insisting on Italian superlatives ( always ending in '' - issimo '' ) , have made it a pièce de résistance in which a skilled baritone has the chance to highlight all of his qualities .

neg: Mezzetino Mezzetino , also Mezzettino , ( Pron . met-zeh-TEE-no ) is a character from the commedia dell ` arte and is considered by Duchartre to be a variant on the stock character Brighella . His name means `` Half-Measure ( of liquor ) '' in Medieval Italian , and he is sometimes called in French and English plays `` Mezzetin '' . He first appeared in the 16th century .   Mezzetino is an adept schemer and trouble-maker , willing to commit acts of violence if necessary , but on the whole a little calmer than his brother Brighella , and much more gentle and cultivated , especially in his later life . He is often very musically inclined , and can sing and dance with skill . His character can vary greatly : he can be a loyal servant or simply scheming for his master 's downfall ; he can be a deceitful husband or be deceived by his wife . He also seems to be rather more interested in the ladies than is Brighella , often coming over as rather creepy in his efforts to flirt .   His costume has gone through similar variations to Brighella 's , beginning as a baggy white costume like that worn by the zanni but later evolving into a livery or else a tunic and breeches , usually with stripes , and some sort of hat as an accessory . Whereas Brighella 's color is green , Mezzetino 's is red or burgundy . He is sometimes played without a mask , especially in later versions , after the manner in which Angelo Costantini played him ; but when masked it is either brown or rust colored . Callot shows him holding a sword as part of the ensemble . He is also sometimes dressed in a manner that closely resembles the habit of Harlequin , as in the famous Nymphenburg porcelain , hence some people 's belief that he is a variant not on Brighella but on Harlequin . He almost always wears a short cape , called a tabaro , which has its origins in the plays of Ancient Rome .

neg: Carlo Mazzone-Clementi Carlo Mazzone-Clementi ( 12 December 1920 -- 5 November 2000 ) was a performer and founder of two schools of commedia , mime and physical theater as well as a contemporary and colleague of leaders of modern European theater . From his arrival in the USA in 1957 , he was largely responsible for the spreading of commedia dell ` arte in North America .   He first gained attention in Italy in 1947 alongside Marcel Marceau in the mime 's first tour outside of Paris . From 1948 to 1951 , he assisted Jacques Lecoq , while Lecoq taught and directed the Players of Padua University . In 1954 , Mazzone-Clementi was at Piccolo Teatro di Milano with Dario Fo and Franca Rame .   While he was performing with Piccolo Teatro as well as teaching in Rome , the American theatre scholar and director Eric Bentley came to Italy to direct the Padua Players company in the first Italian production of Bertolt Brecht . Then , with Bentley 's patronage , Mazzone-Clementi toured the United States in 1958 , conducting workshops in mime and commedia , and introducing the leather masks of Amleto Sartori to this country . That led to a teaching assignment at the Carnegie Institute of Technology , followed by Brandeis University , the University of California at Berkeley , the American Conservatory Theater and others . He was known as Carlo Mazzone until 1965 when he worked with the new acting ensemble at the Theatre of Lincoln Center . From then on he was known as Carlo Mazzone-Clementi . Clementi was the name of his mother and his grandfather , Girolamo Clementi , who was versed in the work of Paduan playwright and forerunner of commedia dell ` arte , Angelo Beolco , known as `` Ruzzante . ''   In 1972 , Mazzone-Clementi and his wife Jane Hill , a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon , went to Humboldt County , California to conduct summer workshops at their rural property . From this experience came the decision to re-locate permanently in Humboldt and to establish a full-time actor training program . In 1974 , the couple purchased the Oddfellows Hall in Blue Lake , California and co-founded the Dell ' Arte School of Mime and Comedy , now known as the Dell ` Arte International School of Physical Theatre . Hill also joined the faculty at College of the Redwoods , where the pair created the Grand Comedy Festival at Qual-a-wa-loo , a summer repertory festival that produced plays of Shakespeare in rotation with musical adaptations of those plays ; Mazzone-Clementi served as the festival 's artistic director for six years . In 1974 their article , `` Commedia and the Actor '' was published in The Drama Review TDR ( journal ) .   Mazzone-Clementi moved to Copenhagen , Denmark in 1984 and founded a second sister theater school there , named the Commedia School . In 1994 returned to California and continued teaching until shortly before his death on 5 November 2000 in San Francisco .

neg: Giovanni Bellucci Giovanni Bellucci ( born Rome , August 31 , 1965 ) is an Italian pianist .  After having inadvertently discovered the piano , when he was already fourteen , he started studying at the ` S. Cecilia ' Conservatoire in Rome under the direction of Franco Medori . After having taken his degree summa cum laude and honourable mention , he was awarded a `` Master '' at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola . As a result he could subsequently claim amongst his contacts artists of the stature of Paul Badura-Skoda , Alfred Brendel , Murray Perahia and Maurizio Pollini .   His recording of Franz Liszt 's Paraphrases of Verdi and Bellini operas was included in Diapason magazine 's selection of the all-time top 10 Liszt recordings . Apart from Bellucci , the music critic Alain Lompech only took into consideration artists such as Martha Argerich , Claudio Arrau , Aldo Ciccolini , Gyorgy Cziffra , Wilhelm Kempff and Krystian Zimerman . For the British magazine Gramophone , Bellucci is an artist born into the great Italian tradition and brought up to it - a tradition historically represented by Busoni , Zecchi , Michelangeli , Ciani , Pollini .   `` He takes us back to the golden age of the piano '' declared the daily Le Monde in highlighting Bellucci 's success in the World Piano Masters Competition in Montecarlo 1996 -- the last in a lengthy series of successes in international competitions ( from the ` Queen Elisabeth ' in Brussels to the ` Prague Spring ' , from the RAI ` Casella ' to the ` C. Kahn ' in Paris , from the ` Busoni ' to the ` Franz Liszt ' ) .  In 2005 , he received the award `` Recital of the year '' after his first concert tour in Australia .   All his CDs , published by Decca , WARNER CLASSICS , ACCORD-UNIVERSAL , OPUS 106 , ASSAI , and DANACORD , have been awarded by specialist publications : `` Choc de l'année '' by the Classical magazine Répertoire and `` Choc '' of Le Monde de la Musique in France , UK Gramophone 's `` Editor 's choice '' , `` 5 Stars '' from Musica , `` 5 stars '' from the BBC Music Magazine , `` Cd exceptionnel '' from Répertoire , `` ffff '' from Télérama , `` Best Cd '' from the magazine Suono , etc. .   The recording company Universal has published the complete Hungarian Rhapsodies S244 by Franz Liszt ( with a double CD including a rare work , such as the Romanian Rhapsody S242 ) and the CD Chopin Métamorphoses , where Giovanni Bellucci played some works as world premiere , like the Concerto No. 1 by Chopin/Tausig and the Polonaise op. 53 `` Heroic '' by Chopin/Busoni . The Concerto op 39 for piano and orchestra by Ferruccio Busoni , recorded by the Italian pianist with the orchestra and choir of the Mannheim National Theater , will soon be published .

neg: Furlana The furlana ( also spelled furlane , forlane , friulana , forlana ) is an Italian folk dance from the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia . In Friulian , furlane means Friulian , in this case Friulian Dance . In Friuli there has been a Slav minority since the Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps , and the furlana may well have originated as a Slavonic dance . It dates at least to 1583 , when a `` ballo furlano '' called L'arboscello was published in Pierre Phalèse the Younger 's Chorearum molliorum collectanea and in Jakob Paix 's organ tablature book , though its chief popularity extended from the late 1690s to about 1750 . It is particularly associated with Venice because , at the time of its popularity , Friuli was a part of the Republic of Venice .   The furlana is a fast dance , in duple-time 6/8 , though one exceptional example proves to be in quintuple meter , underlining the Slavonic associations also suggested by its title , Polesana , which in Italian can mean `` a woman from Pola '' ( a city in Istria , neighbouring Friuli and a part of Italy until 1947 ) , or may be from the Croatian word `` polesa '' , meaning `` rural '' , or `` from the back woods '' . Originally the furlana was a courtship dance , performed by a couple . It was introduced to France by André Campra in 1697 ( in L'Europe galante ) and 1699 ( in Le carnaval de Venise , in which the first of two furlanas serves as a dance entry for a troupe of Slavs , Armenians , and Gypsies ) , and it quickly became a popular theatre and social dance there .   Pietro Paolo Melii ( active first quarter of the 17th century ) included a `` Furlain volta alla Francese detta la Schapigliata '' in his Intavolatura di Liuto attiorbato , e di Tiorba . Libro Quinto ( Venice , 1620 ) . The piece is written almost entirely in running eighths , and , as so many of Melii 's pieces , makes considerable use of syncopation . François Couperin closed the fourth of his Concerts royaux with a forlane . Johann Sebastian Bach incorporated a forlane in his first orchestral suite . Maurice Ravel recalled the baroque usage in his piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin , though his Forlane is a rather plaintive piece in moderate time . Another forlane occurs at the end of Ernest Chausson 's piano suite Quelques Danses ( Some Dances ) -- this one far livelier and featuring an alternation between triple and sextuple rhythms . The fourth movement of Gerald Finzi 's Five Bagatelles ( Op. 23 ) is a forlana as is the fourth movement of Richard Harvey 's Concerto Antico for guitar and orchestra .


query: Gerd von Rundstedt died February 3, 1951.

pos: Gerd von Rundstedt Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt ( 12 December 1875 -- 24 February 1953 ) was a Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II .   Born into a Prussian family with a long military tradition , Rundstedt entered the Prussian Army in 1892 . During World War I , he served mainly as a staff officer . In the inter-war years , he continued his military career , reaching the rank of Colonel General ( Generaloberst ) before retiring in 1938 .   He was recalled at the beginning of World War II as commander of Army Group South in the invasion of Poland . He commanded Army Group A during the Battle of France , and was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal in 1940 . In the invasion of the Soviet Union , he commanded Army Group South , responsible for the largest encirclement in history , the Battle of Kiev , as well as the largest mass killing of the Holocaust to that date , at Babi Yar . He was relieved of command in December 1941 , but was recalled in 1942 and appointed Commander-in-Chief in the West .   He was dismissed after the German defeat in Normandy in July 1944 , but was again recalled as Commander-in-Chief in the West in September , holding this post until his final dismissal by Adolf Hitler in March 1945 . Rundstedt was aware of the various plots to depose Hitler , but refused to support them . After the war , he was charged with war crimes , but did not face trial due to his age and poor health . He was released in 1949 , and died in 1953 .

neg: Elemund Elemund ( Latin : Elemundus , died 548 ) was king of the Gepids , an east Germanic people , during the first half of the 6th century . He may have ascended by overthrowing the Ardariking dynasty , the line of Gepid kings descended from king Ardaric . Basing himself on archaeological evidence , István Boná believes that in the 520s or 530s Elemund must have consolidated his power in Transylvania by submitting or removing minor Gepid rulers . Elemund had a son and daughter , Ostrogotha and Austrigusa respectively ; the latter was given in marriage to Wacho , the king of the Lombards , in 512 . The reasons behind the marriage were multiple : on one side it protected the two kings from the threat represented by the Ostrogothic Kingdom , while on the other it reduced the danger represented to the Lombard king by Ildechis , a pretender to the Lombard throne . Wacho was eventually to remarry after Austrigusa 's death , but this did not compromise the good relations existing between Lombards and Gepids . Elemund died of illness in 548 and was succeeded by Thurisind , while the legitimate heir was forced into exile . Ostrogotha found hospitality among the Lombards , but was to be killed in 552 by his host , King Audoin , as part of a plan to ease relations among Gepids and Lombards .

neg: Flensburg Government The Flensburg Government ( Flensburger Regierung ) , also known as the Flensburg Cabinet ( Flensburger Kabinett ) , the Dönitz Government ( Regierung Dönitz ) , or the Schwerin von Krosigk Cabinet ( Kabinett Schwerin von Krosigk ) , was the short-lived government of Nazi Germany during a period of three weeks around the end of World War II in Europe . The government was formed following the suicide of Adolf Hitler on 30 April during the Battle of Berlin . It was headed by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz as the Reichspräsident and Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk as the Leading Minister .   The administration was referred to as the `` Flensburg Government '' because Dönitz 's headquarters had been relocated in the port of Flensburg in northern Germany on 3 May 1945 . Due to the rapid Allied advance , its nominal jurisdiction at the outset was limited to a narrow wedge of territory running from the Austrian border through Berlin to the Danish border ; which , since 25 April 1945 , had been cut in two by the American advance to join with Soviet forces at Torgau on the Elbe . Following the capitulation of all German armed forces on 8 May , the Flensburg government lost all direct territorial , military or civil jurisdiction , and all diplomatic relations were withdrawn . The western Allies allowed it to continue to meet and conduct what business it could until 23 May .

neg: Gerhard von Rad Gerhard von Rad ( 21 October 1901 -- 31 October 1971 ) was a German theologian , academic , and University of Heidelberg professor .

neg: Frankfurt Documents thumb | right | 200px | Members of the Frankfurt conference  Frankfurt Documents were a series of documents which were an important step on the way to the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany .   On July 1 , 1948 the representatives of the Western allied occupation forces handed over a number of documents to the prime ministers and two ruling mayors from the western zones of occupation , in which the recommendations were made , including establishing a West German state . The main problem of these recommendations was that they did not provide all-German solution , but only a West German state . The Frankfurt documents formed a working basis for the work on the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany . They were created at the London 6-Power Conference in early 1948 .   The handover took place in the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt am Main , and the documents took the name of this town . The military governors Lucius D. Clay ( United States ) , Marie-Pierre Koenig ( France ) and Sir Brian Robertson ( UK ) issued an order establishing a western German state . Present were Peter Altmeier ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) , Karl Arnold ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) , Lawrence Bock ( Württemberg-Hohenzollern ) , Max Brauer ( Hamburg ) , Hans Ehard ( Bavaria ) , Wilhelm Kaisen ( Bremen ) , Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf ( Lower Saxony ) , Hermann Lüdemann ( Schleswig-Holstein ) , Reinhold Maier ( Württemberg-Baden ) , Christian Stock ( Hessen ) and Leo Wohleb ( Baden ) .   A West German state was to be established under the following conditions :   There should be a constitutional convention ( German : Verfassunggebende Versammlung , literally , `` Constituent Assembly '' ) before September 1 , 1948 , to draft a constitution shaping a federal form of government , while maintaining the rights of people and the participating states .  This constitution should first be approved by the military governments , then a referendum in the countries to ratify the Constitution .  The respective simple majority in two thirds of eleven West German states should be sufficient for ratification . Constitutional amendments must be approved by the military governors .  The German foreign policy should continue to be controlled by the military governors in a minimum , as Ruhr questions , repairs , industrial and rights of the Allied forces .  The boundaries of each state should be reviewed and it should , if necessary , taking into account of traditional forms of new countries are created , none compared to the other should be too large or too small .   The Frankfurt Documents prompted the Prime Minister to hold Rittersturz Conference in Koblenz , on the resolutions that were passed .   Category : Political history of Germany  Category : Political conferences

neg: Christian Lardé Christian Lardé ( 3 February 1930 -- 16 November 2012 )

neg: Gebhard I von Mansfeld-Vorderort Johann Gebhard von Mansfeld-Vorderort , born circa 1525 -- 30 , was Archbishop-Elector of Cologne . He died in Frankfurt on 2 November 1562 .

neg: Gerd Wiesemes Gerd Wiesemes ( born 29 January 1943 ) is a retired German football defender .

neg: Vorbunker The Vorbunker ( upper bunker or forward bunker ) was an underground concrete structure originally intended to be a temporary air-raid shelter for Adolf Hitler and his guards and servants . It was located behind the large reception hall that was added onto the old Reich Chancellery , in Berlin , Germany , in 1936 . The bunker was officially called the `` Reich Chancellery Air-Raid Shelter '' until 1943 , when the complex was expanded with the addition of the Führerbunker , located one level below . On 16 January 1945 , Hitler moved into the Führerbunker . He was joined by his senior staff , including Martin Bormann . Later , Eva Braun and Joseph Goebbels moved into the Führerbunker while Magda Goebbels and their six children took residence in the upper Vorbunker . The Goebbels family lived in the Vorbunker until their deaths on 1 May 1945 .

neg: Werner von Erdmannsdorff __ NOTOC __   Werner von Erdmannsdorff ( 27 July 1891 -- 5 June 1945 ) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II . He was a recipient of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross . He was married to Helene née von Tschirsky und Bögendorff ( 1895 -- 1982 ) .   Erdmannsdorff surrendered to the British troops in May 1945 . He was extradited to Yugoslavia and was shot on 5 June 1945 in Ljubljana alongside generals Gustav Fehn , and Heinz Kattner . He was the older brother of general Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff .

neg: Friedrich-Karl Thielemann Friedrich-Karl `` Friedel `` Thielemann ( born April 17 , 1951 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German-Swiss theoretical astrophysicist .   Thielemann studied at the TH Darmstadt , where he in 1976 he acquired his Diplom . In 1980 he earned his PhD under Wolfgang Hillebrandt ( in Garching ) and E. R. Hilf in nuclear astrophysics . As a post-doc he was with David Schramm and William David Arnett at the University of Chicago , William A. Fowler at Caltech , Hans Klapdor at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik , am Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching ( with Hillebrandt ) and at the University of Illinois ( with J. W. Truran ) . Starting in 1986 he was Assistant Professor and from 1991 Associate Professor at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and at the Harvard Observatory of Harvard University . In 1994 he became a professor at the University of Basel . In 1995 he was a guest professor at the University of Turin and from 1997 to 2001 a guest scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory .   Besides theoretical and computer-simulated astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics ( including important nuclear reactions and properties of unstable stellar cores , equations of state of quark-matter and core matter of higher density ) , he worked on the modeling of astrophysical plasmas for important subatomic processes . He investigated , among other things , supernovae , X-ray bursts , gamma ray bursts , fusion of neutron stars , emergence of heavy elements , and evolution of chemical elements in galaxies .   In 1979 he received the Otto Hahn Medal . Since 1998 he is a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2008 he received the Hans Bethe Prize `` for his many outstanding theoretical contributions to the understanding of nucleosynthesis , stellar evolution and stellar explosions . '' Since 2004 he is a member of the Swiss Research Council .

neg: Gerd Grieg Gerd Grieg , née Egede-Nissen ( 21 April 1895 -- 9 August 1988 ) was a Norwegian stage and film actress .   She was born in Bergen . Her parents were Georga ( `` Goggi '' ) Wilhelma Ellertsen ( 1871-1959 ) and politician Adam Egede-Nissen ( 1868-1953 ) . Her siblings Aud Egede-Nissen , Ada Kramm , Stig Egede-Nissen , Lill Egede-Nissen and Gøril Havrevold became actors as well . Gerd made her acting début at the Nationaltheatret in 1910 . She was married to surgeon Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen from 1922 to 1940 ; they had three daughters , and to writer Nordahl Grieg from 1940 .   During the German occupation of Norway Gerd and Nordahl Grieg were active in supporting the Norwegian war effort from exile . Gerd Grieg mostly stayed in the United States and the United Kingdom , `` entertaining Norwegian seamen like a Norwegian Vera Lynn '' . Nordahl Grieg died in 1943 . Gerd retired in 1955 .

neg: Franz Ritter von Epp Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp , from 1916 Ritter von Epp , ( 16 October 1868 -- 31 January 1947 ) Epp 's death date is often erroneously given as 31 December 1946 . According to Lilla , Staatsminister , this error was replicated from the widely cited Neue Deutsche Biographie . The correct date , 31 January 1947 , is confirmed by Epp 's death certificate in the civil registry of Munich . was a German general and politician , who had started his military career in the Bavarian Army . Succeeded and merited military service during war brought him a knighthood in 1916 . After the armistice of Germany and dissolution of Empire , von Epp was a commanding officer in Freikorps and Reichswehr . He was member of Bavarian People 's Party before joining with Nazi Party in 1928 , when he got elected as a member of German parliament , Reichstag , to the position he held until the end of Third Reich . He acted as Reichskommissar , later Reichsstatthalter , for Bavaria in 1933 .

neg: Adolf Harder Adolf Harder ( 11 February 1927 -- 5 April 2003 ) was a German modern pentathlete . He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics .

neg: Karl von Weizsäcker Karl Hugo Freiherr von Weizsäcker ( 25 February 1853 -- 2 February 1926 ) was a German politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg , and a member of the prominent Weizsäcker family .   He was born Karl Hugo Weizsäcker in Stuttgart , the son of the theologian Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker and his wife , the former Auguste Sophie Christiane Dahm . While serving as a politician at the court of the Kingdom of Württemberg , his family was raised to nobility as von Weizsäcker .   Weizsäcker studied at the University of Tübingen . While serving in the administration of King William II of Württemberg , he was raised to personal nobility on 24 February 1897 .   From 1900 onwards , he served as Minister of Culture -- until 4 December 1906 when he was made Prime Minister . He served in this office until 6 November 1918 , shortly before monarchy was abolished .   In 1916 , he and his family were raised to the hereditary title of Baron ( Freiherr ) .   Weizsäcker was the father of Ernst von Weizsäcker and thus grandfather of the physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and of Richard von Weizsäcker , who was President of Germany 1984-94 . He died in Stuttgart in 1926 .

neg: Oscar von Gebhardt Oscar Leopold von Gebhardt ( 22 June 1844 -- 9 May 1906 ) was a German Lutheran theologian , born in the Baltic German settlement of Wesenberg in the Russian Empire ( now Rakvere , Estonia ) .   He studied theology at Dorpat and at several other German universities , and afterwards worked in university libraries at Strasbourg , Leipzig , Halle and Göttingen . In 1891 he became director of the publication department at the Royal Library at Berlin , and in 1893 became chief librarian and professor of paleography at the University of Leipzig .   He specialized in the field of early Christian literature . He strongly believed in the independence of the librarian profession as an academic , but to be separate from the academic teaching profession .   He published Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Theile 's `` Novum Testamentum Graece '' ( 1875 -- 1900 ) and `` Das Neue Testament griechisch und deutsch '' ( fourth edition , 1896 ) ; edited `` The Miniatures of the Ashburnham Pentateuch '' ( 1883 ) ; with Adolf von Harnack , `` Texte und Untersuchungen zur Gerschichte der altchristlichen Literatur '' ( 1882 -- 1905 ) , a multi-volume series devoted to New Testament and patristic criticism ; and with Harnack and Theodor Zahn , an edition of the Apostolic Fathers ( 1875 -- 78 ) .   Gebhardt died in Leipzig .

neg: Rio Gebhardt Rio Gebhardt ( November 1 , 1907 -- June 24 , 1944 ) , was a German pianist , conductor and composer . He was born in Heilbronn , Germany . His parents made guest appearances in local variety shows . At age 4 , he made his first public appearance . He studied with Kurt Weill . His younger brother , Ferry Gebhardt , a student of Edwin Fischer , was a concert pianist and later professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg .   Gebhardt wrote jazz pieces , pop songs , and a jazz piano concerto . By 1928 , he was a member of the EKLA ( First Piano Quartet ) with Adam Gelbtrunk , Leopold Mittmann , and Alexander Zakin . In 1937 , he became the music supervisor for the first German language television play , Kabinett Fulero . The German Broadcasting Archive has a recording of jazz-piano concert with Rudolf Ehrecke at the piano and Gebhardt conducting the orchestra . He also conducted an orchestra at the Folies Bergère in Paris , France . On June 24 , 1944 , Gebhardt died on the eastern front during World War II . An exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of his death ( with catalog ) documents his career .

neg: Herbert Belter Herbert Belter ( December 21 , 1929 -- April 28 , 1951 ) was a resistance activist in East Germany . He was executed because of his activities in the so-called `` Belter Group '' , which was named after him .

neg: Minister of Intra-German Relations The Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations ( Bundesminister für innerdeutsche Beziehungen ) was a federal cabinet minister of the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) . The office was created under the title of Federal Minister of All-German Affairs ( Bundesminister für gesamtdeutsche Fragen ) in 1949 , being also in charge of the German lands east of the Oder -- Neisse line which had been put under Polish or Soviet administration . In 1951 , the first Minister of All-German Affairs Jakob Kaiser openly raised claim to even greater territories including Austria , parts of Switzerland , the Saar area and Alsace-Lorraine .   The ministry was renamed in 1969 because `` All German '' might have evoked irredentist associations . The change of the name was supported by left and right wing politicians .   The ministry was abolished in 1991 when a new government was established after the federal election of December 1990 , some months after German reunification , having supported the transition .   Since West Germany maintained an exclusive mandate for all of Germany , and the legal pretense that the authorities of the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) or Soviet occupation zone ( SBZ ) should not be recognized , it could not handle relations with East Germany through the Federal Foreign Office , since this would acknowledge that the GDR was a separate country . Hence , a separate ministry for relations within Germany had to be created . Since this ministry had very limited competence and virtually no political power , it soon became a post used by chancellors to block rivals without publicly offending them . One of the main tasks of the ministry was the publication of information material about the situation in the East , to keep the idea of German unity alive and to inform the public about actions of the East German government .   When German reunification became a possibility after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the inner German border on 9 November 1989 , the ministry was completely disempowered by Chancellor Helmut Kohl ; all intra-German affairs were now handled by the Ministry of the Interior under Wolfgang Schäuble . Formally , the ministry continued to exist until 1991 in order to facilitate transition .


query: Jennifer Garner has three kids.

pos: Jennifer Garner Jennifer Anne Garner ( born April 17 , 1972 ) is an American actress . Her breakthrough film debut was in the comedy Dude , Where 's My Car ( 2000 ) . Following a supporting role in Pearl Harbor , Garner gained recognition for her performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller Alias , which aired from 2001 to 2006 . For her work on the series , she won a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award and received four Emmy Award nominations .   While working on Alias , Garner gained a cameo role in Catch Me if You Can ( 2002 ) , followed by a praised leading performance in the romantic comedy film 13 Going on 30 ( 2004 ) . Garner has appeared in supporting as well as lead film roles including the superhero films Daredevil ( 2003 ) and Elektra ( 2005 ) , the comedy-drama Juno ( 2007 ) , and the fantasy romantic comedy The Invention of Lying ( 2009 ) . In the 2010s , she appeared in the romantic-comedy film Valentine 's Day , the fantasy comedy-drama film The Odd Life of Timothy Green ( 2012 ) , the biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club ( 2013 ) , and the comedy Alexander and the Terrible , Horrible , No Good , Very Bad Day ( 2014 ) .   Garner works frequently as an activist for early childhood education and is a board member of Save the Children . She is also an advocate for anti-paparazzi campaigns among children of celebrities . Garner had a five-year relationship with Scott Foley from 1998 to 2003 , during which they married . Garner married Ben Affleck in 2005 , with whom she has three children ; they separated in 2015 and filed for divorce in April 2017 .

neg: Three (2006 film) Three ( sometimes stylized Thr3e ) is a 2006 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ted Dekker . It was directed by Robby Henson . It grossed $ 1.4 million and has a 5 % approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes , which called it a `` thrill-free thriller '' in its critical consensus .

neg: Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter Jesse and Angela `` Angie '' Hubbard are fictional characters and a supercouple from the ABC and The Online Network daytime drama All My Children . Jesse is portrayed by Darnell Williams and Angie is portrayed by Debbi Morgan.From 1990 to 1991 , Angie was portrayed by Saundra Quarterman , who would later become a regular on the ABC sitcom Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper . Jesse first appeared in Pine Valley , Pennsylvania in 1981 as the nephew of Dr. Frank Grant , who assumed custody after the death of his sister ( Jesse 's mother ) . Angie first appeared in 1982 , as the daughter of a well-to-do Pine Valley couple . Shortly after Angie 's first appearance on the show , they were paired with one another . Jesse and Angie were best friends to fellow supercouple Greg Nelson and Jenny Gardner . They are daytime television 's first African American supercouple , and arguably the two most popular African American characters in soap opera history .   Angie also appeared on Loving and The City.Consequently , Debbi Morgan is the first actor to portray the same character as a regular cast member on three different soap operas . Along with her son Frankie Hubbard and former heiress Skye Chandler , she is one of only three individuals who have been regular characters on three ABC soap operas.Frankie Hubbard has been featured on All My Children , Loving and The City ; while Skye Chandler was featured on All My Children , One Life to Live and General Hospital .

neg: I Know What You Did Last Summer I Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American slasher film written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Jim Gillespie . The film is loosely based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Lois Duncan . The film also draws inspiration from the urban legend known as The Hook .   The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt , Sarah Michelle Gellar , Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze , Jr. , with Anne Heche , Bridgette Wilson , and Johnny Galecki appearing in supporting roles . I Know What You Did Last Summer centers on four friends who are being stalked by a killer , one year after covering up a car accident in which they were involved . The film was directed by Jim Gillespie , from a screenplay written by Kevin Williamson , writer of Scream .   I Know What You Did Last Summer received mixed reviews from critics , but was commercially successful , grossing over $ 125 million at the box office . It was also nominated for and won multiple awards . As a result , the film has been parodied and referenced in popular culture .   The film was followed by two sequels , I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ( 1998 ) and the straight-to-DVD release I 'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer ( 2006 ) . Though the former film sees a continuation of the plotline established in its predecessor , the latter film establishes a new plotline and does not star any cast members from the previous two installments .

neg: Silver Linings Playbook Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by David O. Russell . It was adapted from the novel The Silver Linings Playbook , by Matthew Quick . The film stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence , with Robert De Niro , Jacki Weaver , Chris Tucker , Anupam Kher , and Julia Stiles in supporting roles .   Cooper plays Patrick `` Pat '' Solitano , Jr. , a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents , played by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver . Determined to win back his estranged wife , Pat meets recently widowed Tiffany Maxwell , portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence , who offers to help him get his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her . The two become closer as they train and Pat , his father , and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their problems .   Silver Linings Playbook premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 , 2012 , and was released in the United States on November 16 , 2012 . The film opened to major critical success and earned numerous accolades . It received eight Academy Award nominations , including Best Picture , Best Director , Best Adapted Screenplay . It became the first film since 1981 's Reds to be Oscar-nominated for the four acting categories and the first since 2004 's Million Dollar Baby to be nominated for the Big Five Oscars , with Lawrence winning the Academy Award for Best Actress . It also achieved four Golden Globe Award nominations , with Lawrence winning Best Actress ; three BAFTA nominations , with Russell winning for Best Adapted Screenplay ; four Screen Actors Guild nominations ; and five Independent Spirit Award nominations , winning in four categories , including Best Film . The film was a success at the box office , grossing over $ 236 million worldwide , more than eleven times its budget .

neg: And Baby Makes Three And Baby Makes Three is a 1949 American romantic comedy directed by Henry Levin and starring Robert Young , Barbara Hale , and Robert Hutton .

neg: List of accolades received by Gone Girl (film) Gone Girl is a 2014 psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher , and produced by Leslie Dixon , Bruna Papandrea , Arnon Milchan , Reese Witherspoon , Ceán Chaffin , and Joshua Donen . The screenplay was adapted by Gillian Flynn from her eponymous 2012 novel . Set in Missouri , United States , the film stars Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne , a writer who becomes the prime suspect in the mysterious disappearance of his wife Amy , played by Rosamund Pike . Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry feature in supporting roles . The score was composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross .   Gone Girl premiered at the New York Film Festival on September 26 , 2014 , before 20th Century Fox gave the film a wide release at over 3,000 theaters in the United States and Canada on October 3 . It grossed over $ 368 million on a production budget of $ 61 million . As of June 2016 , Gone Girl is Fincher 's highest-grossing film . Rotten Tomatoes , a review aggregator , surveyed 295 reviews and judged 88 % to be positive .   Gone Girl garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its direction , Pike 's lead acting performance , Flynn 's screenplay , and its score . At the 87th Academy Awards , Pike received a nomination for Best Actress . The film received four nominations at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards : Best Director for Fincher , Best Actress in a Drama for Pike , Best Screenplay for Flynn , and Best Original Score . Pike won the Empire Award for Best Actress , and garnered nominations in the same category at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards and 68th British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTAs ) . She also received the Breakthrough Performance Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival . Flynn was nominated at the BAFTAs , as well as the Writers Guild of America Awards . The National Board of Review included the film in their list of top ten films of the year .

neg: Susan Gordon Susan Lynn Gordon ( July 27 , 1949 -- December 11 , 2011 ) was an American child actress who appeared in films and numerous episodes of television programs such as The Twilight Zone , My Three Sons , and The Donna Reed Show .

neg: Sins of the Father (2002 film) Sins of the Father is a 2002 American docudrama directed by Robert Dornhelm . The teleplay by John Pielmeier is based on a Texas Monthly article by Pamela Colloff chronicling the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham , Alabama in which four young African American girls were killed while attending Sunday-school . The victims were Addie Mae Collins , 14 yrs old ; Denise McNair , 11 yrs old ; Carole Robertson , 14 yrs old ; and Cynthia Welsley , 14 yrs old . It was believed that there were 5 girls together in the church basement on that fateful day , but only one survived : young Sarah Collins , Addie Mae 's younger sister . The bombing was racially motivated and carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan .   The film was shot in Toronto . The cast includes Tom Sizemore , Richard Jenkins , Ving Rhames , Colm Feore , Jackie Richardson , Connor Price , Aaryn Doyle , Isys McKoy , Jessica Gray Charles , and Funmiola Lawson .   Rhames was nominated for the Black Reel Award for Best Actor and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie , Mini-Series or Dramatic Special . Pielmeier 's teleplay earned him nominations for the Humanitas Prize and the Writers Guild of America Award .

neg: Jennifer Love Hewitt (album) Jennifer Love Hewitt is the self-titled third studio album by actress and recording artist Jennifer Love Hewitt . It was released on September 3 , 1996 by Atlantic Records .

neg: Mrs. Kimble Mrs. Kimble ( 2003 ) is Jennifer Haigh 's debut novel . Covering several decades from the 1960s to the late 1990s , it is about a man who marries three women and in turn ruins each of their lives . Accordingly , the book is about three rather than just one `` Mrs. Kimble . '' Mrs. Kimble won the PEN/Hemingway Award 2003 for outstanding first fiction .

neg: Paul Garner Paul Albert `` Mousie '' Garner ( July 31 , 1909 -- August 8 , 2004 ) was an American actor . Garner earned his nickname by assuming the role of a shy , simpering jokester . Garner was one of the last actors still doing shtick from vaudeville , and has been referred to as `` The Grand Old Man Of Vaudeville . ''

neg: List of accolades received by Dallas Buyers Club Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée based on a screenplay written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack . Matthew McConaughey stars as Ron Woodroof , an AIDS patient who smuggles unapproved AIDS drug treatments into Texas and establishes the titular club where he distributes them amongst other AIDS sufferers whilst opposed by the Food and Drug Administration . Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner feature in supporting roles .   Dallas Buyers Club premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7 , 2013 . Focus Features initially gave the film a limited release at nine theaters on November 1 before expanding it on November 22 to over 600 theaters in the United States and Canada . The film grossed a worldwide total of over $ 55 million on a production budget of $ 5 million . Rotten Tomatoes , a review aggregator , surveyed 234 reviews and judged 94 % to be positive .   Dallas Buyers Club garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for the performances of actors , McConaughey and Leto . At the 86th Academy Awards , the film received six nominations , including Best Picture , Best Original Screenplay , Best Actor for McConaughey , and Best Supporting Actor for Leto . McConaughey and Leto went on to win their respective categories -- only the fifth film in Oscars history to win both awards . Hairstylist Adruitha Lee , and makeup artist Robin Mathews won for Best Makeup and Hairstyling . Mathews ' makeup budget for the film was only $ 250 . At the 71st Golden Globe Awards , McConaughey won for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Drama , and Leto won for Best Supporting Actor -- Motion Picture .   At the Screen Actors Guild Awards the film had three nominations ; winning Best Actor for McConaughey and Best Supporting Actor for Leto . Borten and Wallack 's screenplay was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Writers Guild of America Awards . The National Board of Review named Dallas Buyers Club one of the top ten independent films of 2013 .

neg: Jennifer Paige Jennifer Paige ( born September 3 , 1973 ) is an American singer and songwriter . She is best known for the 1998 pop hit `` Crush '' .

neg: According to Jim According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children ( five children starting with the season-seven finale ) . It originally ran on ABC from October 3 , 2001 to June 2 , 2009 .

neg: Jennifer James Jennifer James ( born Jennifer Marie Reynolds ; 3 December 1977 ) is an English actress born in Billinge Higher End , Wigan in Greater Manchester . She played the role of Geena Gregory in Coronation Street .

neg: Jennifer Grant Jennifer Diane Grant ( born February 26 , 1966 ) is an American actress , the only child of actors Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon . She is best known for roles in the television series Beverly Hills , 90210 and Movie Stars .

neg: Mother! Mother ! ( stylized as mother ! ) is an upcoming American black comedy psychological thriller film , written and directed by Darren Aronofsky . It stars Jennifer Lawrence , Javier Bardem , Michelle Pfeiffer , Domhnall Gleeson , Ed Harris and Kristen Wiig . Paramount Pictures plans to release the film on October 13 , 2017 .

neg: Good Kids Good Kids is an American comedy film written and directed by Chris McCoy , the project McCoy 's first feature-length film . The film stars Nicholas Braun , Zoey Deutch , Mateo Arias , Dayo Okeniyi , Julia Garner , and Ashley Judd . The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on October 21 , 2016 , by Vertical Entertainment .

neg: Jessica Chastain Jessica Michelle Chastain ( born March 24 , 1977 ) is an American actress and film producer . Born in Carmichael , California , and raised in Sacramento , Chastain developed an interest in acting from a young age . In 1998 , she made her professional stage debut as Shakespeare 's Juliet . After studying acting at the Juilliard School , she was signed to a talent holding deal with the television producer John Wells . She was a recurring guest star in several television shows , including Law & Order : Trial by Jury . She also took on roles in the stage productions of Anton Chekhov 's play The Cherry Orchard in 2004 and Oscar Wilde 's tragedy Salome in 2006 .   Chastain made her film debut in the drama Jolene ( 2008 ) , and gained wide recognition in 2011 for starring roles in half a dozen films , including the dramas Take Shelter and The Tree of Life . Her performance as an aspiring socialite in The Help earned her an Academy Award nomination . In 2012 , she won a Golden Globe Award and received a second Oscar nomination for playing a CIA agent in the thriller Zero Dark Thirty . Chastain made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Heiress in the same year . Her highest-grossing releases came with the science fiction films Interstellar ( 2014 ) and The Martian ( 2015 ) , as she continued to draw praise for her performances in the dramas The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby ( 2013 ) , A Most Violent Year ( 2014 ) , and Miss Sloane ( 2016 ) .   Chastain 's accolades include two Academy Award and British Academy Film Award nominations . She is known to prepare extensively for her roles . Chastain is the founder of the production company Freckle Films , which was created to promote diversity in film . She is vocal about social issues such as gender and racial equality , and mental health . Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 .

neg: Jennifer Freeman Jennifer Nichole Freeman ( born October 20 , 1985 ) is an American actress , often credited as Jennifer N. Freeman . She is best known for playing the role of Claire Kyle in the sitcom My Wife and Kids .


query: The Boys from Brazil stars Gregory Peck.

pos: The Boys from Brazil (film) The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British-American science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner . It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier and features James Mason , Lilli Palmer , Uta Hagen , Denholm Elliott , and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles . The film is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Ira Levin , and was nominated for three Academy Awards .

neg: Goodfellas Goodfellas ( stylized as GoodFellas ) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese . It is an adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi , who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese . The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980 .   Scorsese initially named the film Wise Guy and postponed making it ; later , he and Pileggi changed the name to Goodfellas . To prepare for their roles in the film , Robert De Niro , Joe Pesci , and Ray Liotta often spoke with Pileggi , who shared research material left over from writing the book . According to Pesci , improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted . The director made transcripts of these sessions , took the lines he liked best , and put them into a revised script , which the cast worked from during principal photography .   Made on a budget of $ 25 million , Goodfellas grossed $ 46.8 million . It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for six Academy Awards , including Best Picture and Best Director , with Pesci winning Best Actor in a Supporting Role . The film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , including Best Film and Best Director . Additionally , Goodfellas was named the year 's best film by various critics ' groups .   Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in the crime genre . In 2000 , it was deemed `` culturally , historically , and aesthetically significant '' and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress . Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television shows .

neg: Gregory Walcott Gregory Walcott ( January 13 , 1928 -- March 20 , 2015 ) was an American television and film actor . Although he had roles in many successful Hollywood films and television series , he is perhaps best known for having appeared in the 1994 film Ed Wood and Wood 's cult classic Plan 9 from Outer Space from 1959 .

neg: Denisse Dibós María Denisse Dibós Silva ( born 15 April 1967 , Lima , Perú ) is a Peruvian actress , theatrical producer , music director , art educator , dance instructor , singer , and businessperson . She is creator and director of `` Preludio Asociación Cultural '' , with which she has produced several musicals and plays since 1997 . This musicals are adaptations of Broadway originals productions with respective rights and permissions .   Denise trained as a concert pianist ( master in classical music ) in California , USA for 8 years .   Dibós also worked as a teacher of the Faculty of Communication Arts and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and in Teatro de la Universidad Católica ( TUC ) .   The musical The Boy from Oz was released in May 2013 , starring Marco Zunino as Allen and produced by `` Preludio A.C. '' . It was the first Spanish language adaptation of this musical .

neg: Cecilia Peck Cecilia Peck ( born May 1 , 1958 ) is an American film producer , director and actress . She is the only daughter of actor Gregory Peck and his second wife Veronique Passani .

neg: Jacob Gregory Jacob Gregory is a Non-Resident Indian ( NRI ) actor who has appeared in Malayalam films . He made his film debut with ABCD ( 2013 ) directed by Martin Prakkat . He got a breakthrough role in the TV series Akkara Kazhchakal , where he portrayed the character Gregory also known as `` Giri giri '' . Gregory has lived in New Jersey since 1990 .

neg: Follow the Boys Follow the Boys also known as Three Cheers for the Boys is a 1944 musical film made by Universal Pictures during World War II as an all-star cast morale booster to entertain the troops abroad and the civilians at home . The film was directed by A. Edward `` Eddie '' Sutherland and produced by Charles K. Feldman . The movie stars George Raft and features Vera Zorina , Grace McDonald , Charles Grapewin , Regis Toomey and George Macready .   Making appearances are Walter Abel , Carmen Amaya , The Andrews Sisters , Evelyn Ankers , Louise Beavers , Noah Beery , Jr. , Turhan Bey , Steve Brodie , Nigel Bruce , Lon Chaney , Jr. , the Delta Rhythm Boys , Andy Devine , Marlene Dietrich , W. C. Fields , Susanna Foster , Thomas Gomez , Louis Jordan and His Orchestra , Ted Lewis and His Band , Jeanette MacDonald , Maria Montez , Clarence Muse , Donald O'Connor , Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom , Artur Rubinstein , Peggy Ryan , Randolph Scott , Dinah Shore , Freddie Slack and His Orchestra , Gale Sondergaard , Sophie Tucker , Orson Welles , among many others .

neg: Gabriel Dell Gabriel Dell ( October 8 , 1919 -- July 3 , 1988 ) was an American actor and one of the members of what came to be known as the Dead End Kids , then later the East Side Kids and finally The Bowery Boys .

neg: The Boys (1998 film) The Boys is a 1998 Australian drama film directed by Rowan Woods . The screenplay by Stephen Sewell is based on the play by Gordon Graham ( loosely based on the murder of Anita Cobby ) , first performed by Griffin Theatre Company directed by Alex Galeazzi .

neg: Márcio Garcia Márcio Garcia Machado ( born April 17 , 1970 ) is a Brazilian actor , television host , writer , producer and film director .

neg: Gregory Jbara Gregory Jbara ( -LSB- dʒəˈbɑrə -RSB- born September 28 , 1961 ) is an American film , television and stage actor , and singer .

neg: The Boys (The Necks album) The Boys is the sixth album and first soundtrack album by Australian improvised music trio The Necks originally released on the Wild Sound/MDS label in 1998 and later rereleased on Fish of Milk . The album features music recorded for the Australian motion picture The Boys ( 1998 ) . The All About Jazz review states that `` The album would make a good start for those who want to get into these Australians ' music , because it 's made of smaller doses of the trio 's traditional work . ''

neg: Buddy Gorman Charles J. `` Buddy '' Gorman ( September 2 , 1921 -- April 1 , 2010 ) was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying a member of the comedy teams The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys . Buddy was born and raised in the `` Hell 's Kitchen '' area of New York . He left home after high school and hitchhiked to California in hopes of becoming an actor . He got a job in the studio mailroom and slept in a nearby used car lot until he was noticed and given small parts in several movies . He eventually landed the part of `` Butch '' in the Bowery Boy movies .   Gorman married Rosemary Christoff of Lima , Ohio , on June 17 , 1951 . At the time , she worked as a secretary to the Art Department Director of NBC Studios . A mutual friend introduced them .   After marriage , Gorman retired from acting and opened a Magic Shop in North Hollywood .   The Gormans had two daughters : Victoria ( 1962 ) and Gretchen ( 1964 ) . Soon after the girls were born , the family moved to Riverside , California , and ran a novelty/magic shop called `` Fun-N-Stuff '' until they retired in 1991 . They were married for 46 years , until her death in 1997 . In 2005 , Gorman moved to an independent living community in Webster , New York , to be closer to his daughter Gretchen and her husband and their children .   Gorman died on April 1 , 2010 , in Webster , age 88 .

neg: Stephen Gregory (author) Stephen Gregory is a Welsh author of horror fiction . He was born in Derby , England in 1952 . He has a degree in law from the University of London , and has worked as a teacher in various places , including Bangor in Wales , Algiers in Algeria and the Sudan . Gregory lived in Hollywood , California for a time , where he worked as a script writer with William Friedkin at Paramount Pictures .

neg: Poor Boy (film) Poor Boy is a 2016 American Western drama film directed by Robert Scott Wildes and written by Logan Antill . The film stars Lou Taylor Pucci and Dov Tiefenbach .

neg: Greg Rowe Greg Rowe ( born 1964 in Adelaide , South Australia ) was a child actor starring in Australian films such as Storm Boy ( 1976 ) and Blue Fin ( 1978 ) , both based on novels by Colin Thiele . His last film was Freedom ( 1982 ) , directed by Academy Awards Nominee Scott Hicks . He now lives with his wife and two children in Toronto , Ontario , Canada .

neg: Adiós muchachos Adiós , muchachos ( English language : Goodbye , boys ) is a 1955 Argentine film directed by Armando Bo and written by Rafael García Ibáñez . The film starred Pola Alonso and Arturo Arcari .

neg: Julio Oscar Mechoso Julio Oscar Mechoso ( born May 31 , 1955 ) is an American actor . He is occasionally credited as Julio Mechoso .   Mechoso is a character actor in both television and film . He has appeared in several high-profile films , such as Grindhouse , Bad Boys and the controversial Ken Park . His television credits include Miami Vice , Coach , Seinfeld , and Greetings from Tucson . He has appeared in two Martin Lawrence films , Bad Boys and Blue Streak . He played a Police Detective in both .   Mechoso is a Cuban American .

neg: America America America America ( British title The Anatolian Smile -- a reference to an ongoing acknowledgment of the character Stavros ' captivating smile ) is a 1963 American dramatic film directed , produced and written by Elia Kazan , adapted from his own book , published in 1962 . The dust jacket of the novel has no comma in the title , nor does the title in the film itself . Many listings of the film include a comma .   Inspired by the life of Kazan 's uncle , Avraam Elia Kazantzoglou , the director uses little-known cast members , with the entire storyline revolving around the central performance of Greek actor Stathis Giallelis ( born 1941 ) , twenty-two years old at the time of production , who is in virtually every scene of the nearly three-hour movie .

neg: Adriano Garib Adriano Garib ( born 1965 ) is a Brazilian actor .

neg: Amazing Grace and Chuck Amazing Grace and Chuck is a 1987 film starring William Petersen , Jamie Lee Curtis and Gregory Peck . The film was directed by Mike Newell . It was released on VHS in the UK as Silent Voice .