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Chris Jordan: Fotógrafo, artista y activista medioambiental. Sus obras critican el consumismo en el que está sumergido Estados Unidos. Su trabajo consiste, a través de montajes fotográficos, en hacer una comparativa que despierte en el espectador el sentimiento que pretende transmitir con sus composiciones. Como por ejemplo, una imagen realizada con 410.000 vasos de papel, que representan los utilizados cada 15 minutos en norteamérica o 426.000 teléfonos móviles, tantos como los que se desechan diariamente en Estados Unidos. Su más reciente trabajo se llama ... continua

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Mud and sand is a silent film starring Stan Laurel, that was filmed in 1922 in film. Laurel plays a matador who makes a fool of a famous Spanish dancer. The dancer demands revenge and, in the end, kills the matador by throwing a concealed brick at him after a fight with the fiercest bull in Spain. The moral of the story, shown in the last scene, is: "If you want to live long -- and be happy -- cut out the bull!" The title spoofs the Rudolph Valentino film Blood and Sand (1922 film), and many scenes directly parody that film.

Cheers for miss Bishop (1941) is a film based on the novel Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldrich. It was directed by Tay Garnett and stars Martha Scott in the title role. The other cast members include William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Dorothy Peterson, Marsha Hunt (actress), Don Douglas, and Sidney Blackmer. This film marked the debut of Rosemary DeCamp.

Hearts in exile is a 1915 American film directed by James Young (director). It was produced by Peerless Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. A print of the film survives in the Archiva Nationala de Filme film archive. The film is also known as Hearts Afire (American reissue title).

Set in London during World War II Blitz period, the story sees Askey & Murdoch as a couple of variety entertainers who find themselves out of work. In desperate need of money to put on a show, the pair dress up as house servants (Murdoch a servant and Askey in drag as a cook) and bluff their way into the home of Lady Randall, an ex-music hall star known to give financial aid to performers in the arts close to her heart. However, chaos reigns

1952 re-release of the 1929 film, narrated by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Based on the Futher Adventures of the Three Musketeers
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
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Ashton Applewhite: Escritora y activista estadounidense que vela por la no discriminación etaria. Reconocida por The New York Times, National Public Radio, and The American Society on Aging como una experta en edadismo, término referido a la discriminación y estereotipificación por cuestiones de edad, es decir, cuando alguien asume que es demasiado viejo o joven para desarrollar algo. Durante 2015 fue incluida dentro de la lista de 100 mujeres inspiradoras comprometidas con el cambio social. Es autora del libro “This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism” ... continua

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