|
Macide Tanır
Macide Tanır (1 January 1922 – 6 February 2013) was a Turkish actress. In 1943, she joined the Turkish State Theatres and continued her career on stage until 1985. In 1991, she was named a State Artist. Aside from her career on stage and cinema, she was also known for her roles as a voice actress. Life and career Tanır was born in 1922. His father, İbrahim Birmeç, was a veterinary officer who migrated from Ioannina to Istanbul. She was raised in Pendik. After finishing her studies at Erenköy Girls High School she enrolled in the Ankara State Conservatory with her father's support. She started her education in the singing department. A year later, she switched to the theater department. She joined the State Theatres in 1943 after earning her master's degree. She first went on stage with a role in an adaptation of Molière's ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme''. She appeared on stage in more than sixty works. She left the State Theatres in 1985 and worked for Tiyatrokare for two y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the list of European cities by population within city limits, most populous European city, and the world's List of largest cities, 15th-largest city. The city was founded as Byzantium ( grc-gre, Βυζάντιον, ) in the 7th century BCE by Ancient Greece, Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome ( grc-gre, Νέα Ῥώμη, ; la, Nova Roma) and then as Constantinople () after himself. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Academy Award, Oscar and Tony Award nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the United States Army Air Forces, Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio programs and popular early television shows. Among the latter were Sid Caesar's ''Your Show of Shows'' (where in 1950 he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart and Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Camus
Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include '' The Stranger'', '' The Plague'', ''The Myth of Sisyphus'', '' The Fall'', and '' The Rebel''. Camus was born in French Algeria to '' Pieds Noirs'' parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at '' Combat'', an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Misunderstanding
''The Misunderstanding'' (French: ''Le Malentendu''), sometimes published as ''Cross Purpose'', is a play written in 1943 in occupied France by Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work .... It focuses on Camus’ idea of Absurdism, The Absurd. A man who has been living overseas for many years returns home to find his sister and widowed mother are making a living by taking in lodgers and murdering them. Since neither his sister nor his mother recognize him, he becomes a lodger himself without revealing his identity. Plot summary Act 1: The reception hall of a small boarding house, noon Martha and her Mother, together with a taciturn Old Man, run a guest-house in which they murder rich solitary travellers. Martha wants to get enough money to go and live by the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oktay Rifat
Oktay is a Turkish masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. Notable people with the name are as follows: First name *Oktay Afandiyev (1926–2013), Azerbaijani historian *Oktay Delibalta (born 1985), Turkish football player *Oktay Derelioğlu (born 1975), Turkish football player *Oktay Ekşi (born 1932), Turkish journalist, author and politician *Oktay Güngör (born 1998), Turkish wrestler *Oktay Hamdiev (born 2000), Bulgarian football player *Oktay Kayalp (born 1957), Cypriot politician *Oktay Kaynarca (born 1965), Turkish actor *Oktay Kuday (born 1979), German-Turkish professional football player *Oktay Mahmuti (born 1968), Turkish basketball coach *Oktay Özdemir (born 1986), Turkish-German actor *Oktay Rıfat Horozcu (1914–1988), Turkish writer and playwright *Oktay Sinanoğlu (1935–2015), Turkish scientist *Oktay Takalak (born 1990), French boxer *Oktay Urkal (born 1970), Turkish-German professional welterweight *Oktay Vural (born 1956), Turkish lawyer and pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Literae Humaniores#Greats, Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional Classics, classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Windermere's Fan
''Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman'' is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman; she confronts him with it. Although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed that Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage. Composition By the summer of 1891 Wilde had al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeşim Müderrisoğlu
Yeşim is a feminine Turkish given name and means "jade" in Turkish language. Notable people with the name include: * Dilan Yeşim Taşkın (born 2001), Turkish-Austrian footballer * Yeşim Ağaoğlu (born 1966), Turkish multidisciplinary artist and poet * Yeşim Bostan (born 1995), Turkish archer * Yeşim Büber (born 1977), Turkish actress * Yeşim Demirel (born 1990), Turkish-German footballer * Yeşim Salkım (born 1968), Turkish singer and actress * Yeşim Ustaoğlu Yeşim Ustaoğlu (born 18 November 1960) is a Turkish filmmaker and screenwriter. Life and career Ustaoğlu was born in Kars, Sarıkamış and grew up in Trabzon on the Black Sea. After studying architecture at Karadeniz Technical University sh ... (born 1960), Turkish filmmaker and screenwriter * Yeşim Tozan (born 1975), Turkish actress {{DEFAULTSORT:Yesim Turkish feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yıldırım Türker
Yıldırım is a Turkish word meaning " lightning" and may refer to: People Given name *Ali Yıldırım Koç (born 1967), Turkish businessman and member of the Koç family * Yıldırım Akbulut (1935–2021), Turkish politician *Yıldırım Aktuna (1930–2007), Turkish psychiatrist and politician *Yıldırım Demirören (born 1964), Turkish businessman and president of Turkish Football Federation Surname * Adnan Yıldırım (1957–1994), Turkish person involved in the Susurluk scandal * Ahmet Yıldırım (born 1974), Turkish footballer *Avni Yıldırım (born 1991), Turkish boxer * Aygün Yıldırım (born 1995), German footballer *Aziz Yıldırım (born 1952), Turkish businessman and former chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. *Binali Yıldırım (born 1955), Turkish politician and prime minister from May 2016 *Bülent Yıldırım (referee) (born 1972), Turkish football referee *Cemal Yıldırım (born 1925), Turkish philosopher of science * Cem Yıldırım (born 1961), Turkish mathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson (born Richard Ernest Thompson; November 6, 1949) is an American writer, actor, and director. He won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for '' On Golden Pond'', an adaptation of his own play of the same name. Early life Thompson was born as Richard Ernest Thompson in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, moving to Maryland as a junior high school student. He attended the University of Maryland and The Catholic University of America, before ultimately graduating cum laude from American University in 1971. Career Thompson is known as the author of the play '' On Golden Pond'', which he wrote at the age of 28. The play opened off-Broadway in 1978, starring Tom Aldredge and Frances Sternhagen. A great success at the Kennedy Center, it opened at the New Apollo Theater on Broadway February 28, 1979. Revived the following season at the Century Theatre, ''On Golden Pond'' ran for more than 400 performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Albert Camus")
