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Clapping For The Wrong Reasons
''Clapping for the Wrong Reasons'' is a 2013 short film directed by Hiro Murai and written by Donald Glover. The film stars Glover and features producer Flying Lotus, actor Danielle Fishel, porn star Abella Anderson, and fellow rappers Trinidad James and Chance the Rapper. It was created as a prelude to Glover's second studio album '' Because the Internet'' and its attached screenplay. Synopsis The film is devoid of any real plot and instead focuses on a mundane day in the life of Childish Gambino (who, in the short film, is heavily implied to be portraying "The Boy", the protagonist in the ''Because the Internet'' screenplay) as he wanders through his mansion which is filled with his friends he seems to casually acknowledge as being among his residential companions. Gambino is awoken in bed when Abella Anderson (simply called "girl" in the script) knocks on his window telling him to answer the phone. He does so with the woman from the Callifax Collection Company on the other e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiro Murai
Hiro Murai (born 1983) is a Japanese-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His most notable works include internationally successful music videos for artists such as Childish Gambino, Earl Sweatshirt, Chet Faker, Flying Lotus, David Guetta, St. Vincent, The Shins, The Fray, Bloc Party, Queens of the Stone Age, and FKA Twigs. He received a Grammy Award in 2019 for Best Music Video for " This is America" with Childish Gambino. He also received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the FX series ''Atlanta'' (2016–present), and the HBO limited series '' Station Eleven'' (2022). He is a frequent director of Bill Hader's HBO series ''Barry'' (2018-present) and executive produces the Hulu series '' The Bear'' (2022-present). Early life and education Murai was born to Japanese popular music composer Kunihiko Murai. He moved to Los Angeles when he was nine years old. He graduated with a degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. After graduation, Murai turned to freelance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, film producer, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. ''Time'' magazine named Schwarzenegger one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2007. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at the age of 15 and went on to win the Mr. Universe title at age 20 and subsequently won the Mr. Olympia title seven times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, and has written many books and articles about bodybuilding. The Arnold Sports Festival, considered the second-most important bodybuilding event after Mr. Olympia, is named after him. He appeared in the bodybuilding documentary ''Pumping Iron'' (1977). Schwarzenegger retired from bodybuilding and gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action star, with his breakthrough in the sword and sorcery epic ''Conan the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Short Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Glover (screenwriter)
Stephen C. Glover (born June 18, 1988) is an American screenwriter, rapper, actor, and producer. He is known for his work as the head story editor, and one of the writers for the FX comedy-drama ''Atlanta''. He frequently collaborates with his older brother Donald Glover, who plays the lead character in ''Atlanta'' and co-stars in '' Guava Island'', also written by Stephen. Career ''Atlanta'' Donald Glover hired Stephen, his younger brother, to co-write for ''Atlanta'', despite Stephen having no prior professional experience in writing for television. He did this to satisfy his desire to have an all-black writing team for the show (something that ''Vulture'' noted is completely new for the industry), made up mostly of Atlanta citizens, to achieve an accurate portrayal. Publications such as '' GQ'' and ''The Daily Beast'' have noted that as the lead writer for four episodes in ''Atlanta''s first season, Glover's personal experience and his first-hand perspective on black cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle (musician)
Kyle Thomas Harvey (born May 18, 1993), known Mononym, mononymously as Kyle and SuperDuperKyle (formerly known as K.i.D, an acronym for Kyle is Determined), is an American rapper from Ventura, California. He is best known for his 2016 breakout single "iSpy (Kyle song), iSpy" (featuring Lil Yachty), which peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Signed to Indie-Pop and Atlantic Records, Kyle is also known for his association with the SuperDuperCrew which consists of Brick, Jesus, and Maxx. Kyle has collaborated with artists such as Waywo, Kehlani, Lil Yachty, G-Eazy, Chance the Rapper, Miguel (singer), Miguel, MadeinTYO, Yuna (singer), Yuna, and Ty Dolla Sign, among others. Some of his songs in addition to "iSpy" include "Keep It Real", "Doubt It", "King Wavy", and his 2018 hit single "Playinwitme". In 2015, ''Rolling Stone'' named him as "one of the ten artists you need to know". His commercial mixtapes ''Beautiful Loser'' and ''Smyle (Kyle album), Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connect Four
Connect Four (also known as Connect 4, Four Up, Plot Four, Find Four, Captain's Mistress, Four in a Row, Drop Four, and Gravitrips in the Soviet Union) is a two-player connection board game, in which the players choose a color and then take turns dropping colored tokens into a seven-column, six-row vertically suspended grid. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the lowest available space within the column. The objective of the game is to be the first to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four of one's own tokens. Connect Four is a solved game. The first player can always win by playing the right moves. The game was first sold under the ''Connect Four'' trademark by Milton Bradley in February 1974. Gameplay A gameplay example (right), shows the first player starting Connect Four by dropping one of their yellow discs into the center column of an empty game board. The two players then alternate turns dropping one of their discs at a time into an unfilled colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawl (Childish Gambino Song)
"Crawl" (stylized as "I. Crawl") is a song by American rapper Childish Gambino and features additional vocals from Kai and background vocals from Mystikal from his second studio album ''Because the Internet''. The song was released on February 7, 2014 as the second official single from the album. It was produced by production duo Christian Rich and Gambino himself. The song has since peaked at number 86 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Background and composition On November 22, 2013, Childish Gambino premiered "Crawl" during a performance at College Station, Texas. "Crawl" is an experimental song produced by production duo Christian Rich and Childish Gambino. "Crawl" opens with slasher flick samples. The song has an energetic vibe, featuring a mellow interval with backing vocals from Kai and Mystikal, along with some " Kanye-esque strings." In his verses, Gambino raps referential punchlines inspired by internet memes, such as; "ain't nobody got time for that, ain't nobody g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Göransson
Ludwig Emil Tomas Göransson (; ; born 1 September 1984) is a Swedish composer, conductor and record producer. He has scored films such as ''Fruitvale Station'', the ''Rocky'' franchise entries ''Creed'' and ''Creed II'', ''Venom'', and '' Tenet''. He also composed the current fanfares for Warner Bros. Pictures and the new ''Star Wars'' brand logo. For his work on the 2018 superhero film ''Black Panther'', he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. He further scored the second ''Black Panther'' film, 2022's ''Wakanda Forever''. Göransson is also known for his work on American TV series like ''Community'', ''New Girl'' and ''The Mandalorian'', which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for both season 1 and season 2's finales. He scored the music for ''The Mandalorians spinoff series, ''The Book of Boba Fett'', which debuted in 2021. As a record producer, he ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior (1994 Film)
''Junior'' is a 1994 American comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito and Emma Thompson. The film follows Alex Hesse, an Austrian-American scientist who agrees to undergo a male pregnancy from a newly developed drug Expectane. The film was released in the United States the day before Thanksgiving on November 23, 1994, to mixed reception and did not match the box office performance of Reitman's earlier films starring Schwarzenegger: 1988's ''Twins'', which also starred DeVito and Schwarzenegger as a comedic duo, and 1990's ''Kindergarten Cop''. Schwarzenegger and Thompson received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances. The film's theme song, Patty Smyth's "Look What Love Has Done" was also recognized, going on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Plot Austrian research geneticist Dr. Alex Hesse and his OB/GYN colleague Dr. Larry Arbogast invent a fertility drug, "Expectane", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cosby Show
''The Cosby Show'' is an American television sitcom co-created by and starring Bill Cosby, which aired Thursday nights for eight seasons on NBC between September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. ''The Cosby Show'' spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one rated show on television. ''The Cosby Show'' and ''All in the Family'' are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the number-one show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20. According to ''TV Guide'', the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes." ''TV Guide'' also ranked it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows. In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named as the "Greatest Television Dad". In May 1992, ''Entertainment Weekly'' stated that ''The Cosby Show'' helped to make possible a larger variety of sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Glover
Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (; born September 25, 1983), also known by his stage name Childish Gambino (), is an American entertainer, writer, director, and producer. After working in Derrick Comedy while studying at New York University, Glover was hired at age 23 by Tina Fey as a writer for the NBC sitcom '' 30 Rock''. He later rose to fame for portraying college student Troy Barnes on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' from 2009 to 2014. From 2016 to 2022, Glover starred in the FX series ''Atlanta'', which he created and occasionally directed. For his work on ''Atlanta'', Glover won various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Glover has starred in several successful films including the supernatural horror '' The Lazarus Effect'' (2015), the comedy-drama ''Magic Mike XXL'' (2015), and science fiction film '' The Martian'' (2015). He played Aaron Davis in the superhero film '' Spider-Man: Homecoming'' (2017), and played Lando Calrissian in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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