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4 days ago · World’s Columbian Exposition, fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The chief planner was the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham. The classical facades of the fair’s ‘White City’ were electrically lighted at night.
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2 days ago · The first film completed in Hollywood was “The Count of Monte Cristo” in 1908, although production for the film began in Chicago. The first movie made entirely in Hollywood was a short film titled “In Old California” in 1910.
4 days ago · The hit sci-fi TV show started with its first season in 1997 and featured stars Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, and Christopher Judge as the titular team SG-1. This cast continued playing their respective characters for the following years until Stargate SG-1 ended with season 10 in 2006 (though some of the stars took ...
3 days ago · Steven Spielberg (born December 18, 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) is an American motion-picture director and producer whose diverse films—which ranged from science-fiction fare, including such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), to historical dramas, notably Schindler’s List (1993 ...
- Michael Barson
1 day ago · Thomas H. Ince was an American silent-film era filmmaker and producer and, according to biographer Marc Wanamaker's book, The Movie, he was responsible for producing 800 films, a truly staggering ...
- Peter Bogdanovich
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- Kirsten Dunst
4 days ago · "Turret" is being staged at the Chopin Theatre in West Town. A Red Orchid's intimate, Old Town space is too small for ticket demand when movie star Michael Shannon is in town.
2 days ago · Dunkirk is a 2017 epic historical war thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea and air. It features an ensemble cast comprising Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles in his feature film debut, Aneurin ...
