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He was born in Syracuse, New York, and spent a majority of his childhood moving across the country. By the age of nineteen, he received his first acting job for the movie Endless Love. From there, his celebrity fame shot forward to win thirty-nine awards and over seventy nominations. Later in his acting career, Tom Cruise began showing odd behaviors that the paparazzi indulged into papers. His symptoms began with delusions, paranoia, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors. Through these…

suggestive style stems from his time dancing in clubs during his younger years. He frequently dressed his dancers in black with white gloves and hats. Fosse received his first Tony for this show. His second musical, “Damn Yankees,” earned him many more awards and was his first musical with his third wife, Gwen Verdon, a big broadway star, and the mother to his daughter, Nicole. After having several instances when he disagreed with directors because his style was not very proper, he began…

James Roy Horner (1953 – 2015) was an Academy and Golden Globe award-winning American composer; conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was mostly known for the vocal and electronic elements in many of his film scores. Horner was also a respected composer of concert music before he started writing film scores. His first major film score was for the film "The Lady in Red," but he did not establish himself as a well known film composer until he worked on the 1982 film "Star Trek II: The…

can have many more nominations for Grammy awards than white artists while still winning a similar amount of Grammy…

Evaluation Paper #2 The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize “ artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to the album sales or chart position.” Album of the year is easily the most prestigious award category at the Grammy’s and has been since 1959. Kendrick Lamar, a West Coast rapper, was recently nominated for 11 Grammys; almost…

decades. It dominated the Tony awards and is completely sold out in every venue for the foreseeable future. This is an American story told in the American medium of the musical and features a diverse American cast. Hamilton is a nearly all black cast. Founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are played by black actors. These past few years have been celebrated as the best time for minority actors in Broadway history. “Tonys made history by giving the awards in all four of its…

One major function that needed a crucial amount of press clippings was 96th Miss America Competition. Miss America is one of SLATE’s big clients and was a major event of the year. Savvy Shields, a college student from Arkansas won this noteworthy competition. She won by impressing judges with a jazz dance and her answer about the upcoming presidential election. What blew the judges away was out of the seven finalists, she very efficiently answered controversial questions in a matter of twenty…

tension between different races. Viewers will see the change as a positive step “to say that we recognize there is underrepresentation, and we’re going to do something about it” and should reflect beyond the movie industry (“Leading By Example”). The Award Academy has also stepped up to solve their own problem. To celebrate more people of color on their board, they have vowed to double the percentage of diversity in their members by 2020. Roughly 683 people, that are deserving, will join the…

to White actors. Whitewashing and misrepresentation needs to stop because, Hollywood and many other forms of media don’t bother with casting POC in movies. Hollywood gets praised for this, and the white actors who are cast for portraying POC, get awards. While people of colour actors get pushed to the curb. It’s easier for film industries to erase POC history, and cast a white person to portray a person of colour. This misrepresentation isn’t something that filmmakers just started doing. Ever…

Have you ever had the passion for creativity? Have you wanted to create movies, videos, or be a famous Youtuber? In an advertisement produced by Samsung titled “The Rest of Us,” Samsung highlights the features of their new phone and products that can be used in film-making and production. In the advertisement, it uses Casey Neistat, a famous YouTuber with over six-million subscribers, to deliver a powerful monologue about creativity. He is known for being a top filmmaker on YouTube, producing…