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Meu Nome Não É Johnny
''Meu Nome Não É Johnny'' ( en, My Name Ain't Johnny) is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Mauro Lima. A box office hit, it was one of the 14 films considered by the Ministry of Culture to represent Brazil in the competition for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2008 ceremony. The film was based on the book ''Meu Nome Não é Johnny'' by Guilherme Fiuza. Synopsis The film narrates the true story of João Guilherme Estrella, an upper-middle-class man from the State of Rio de Janeiro that would become the head of the drug traffic in the late 1980s and early 1990s. João is a young boy from an upper-middle-class family of the city of Niterói, the second wealthiest city in the state of Rio. João demonstrates a knack for entrepreneurship early on in his life, when he delivers papers as a teenager, unusual for an upper-middle-class teen in Brazil. Once his parents get divorced, João begins partying a lot, holding lavish parties in the downstairs of his dad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selton Mello
Selton Figueiredo Mello (born 30 December 1972) is a Brazilian actor and director. Since his childhood, he acted on TV shows. Now he works on TV, movies and theater. Throughout his career, he developed a strong and solid experience in cinema, producing and directing movies and videoclips, and being publicly and critically acclaimed for it. The actor hosted ''Tarja Preta'', a TV show about culture and independent movies, from 2004 until 2008. Life and career Selton was born in Passos (State of Minas Gerais), the son of Selva (housewife) and Dalton Melo (bank employee). His brother Danton Mello is an actor as well. Selton's parents are both from Minas Gerais State. After Selton was born his parents moved to São Paulo, where he lived until the age of 11. In São Paulo, Selton attended "Colégio Aclimação". At 11 years of age he was invited to star on a soap opera at Rede Globo Television, so he moved with his entire family to Rio de Janeiro, where he still lives. He played And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drug Traffic
The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drug prohibition, prohibited drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibitionism, prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs through the use of drug prohibition laws. The think tank Global Financial Integrity's ''Transnational Crime and the Developing World'' report estimates the size of the global illicit drug market between US$426 and US$652billion in 2014 alone. With a Gross world product, world GDP of US$78 trillion in the same year, the illegal drug trade may be estimated as nearly 1% of total global trade. Consumption of illegal drugs is widespread globally and it remains very difficult for local authorities to thwart its popularity. History The government of the Qing Dynasty issued edicts against opium smoking in 1730, 1796 and 1800. Western world, The West Drug prohibition law, prohibited addictive drugs throughout the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Crime Drama Films
Brazilian commonly refers to: * Something of, from or relating to Brazil * Brazilian Portuguese, the dialect of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil * Brazilians, the people (citizens) of Brazil, or of Brazilian descent Brazilian may also refer to: Sports * Brazilian football, see football in Brazil * Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a martial art and combat sport system *''The Brazilians'', a nickname for South African football association club Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. due to their soccer kits which resembles that of the Brazilian national team Other uses * Brazilian waxing, a style of Bikini waxing * Brazilian culture, describing the Culture of Brazil * "The Brazilian "The Brazilian" is an instrumental piece by the English band Genesis that concludes their 1986 album '' Invisible Touch''. The song features experimental sounds and effects. The band wrote two instrumental pieces for the album, this and "Do the N ...", a 1986 instrumental by Genesis * Brazilian barbecue, known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Todor
Eva Todor Nolding (born Eva Fodor; 9 November 1919 – 10 December 2017) was a Brazilian actress and dancer. Biography Eva Fodor was born in Budapest but emigrated with her family to Brazil in 1929. She later changed her surname to Todor. She was married twice – to Luís Iglesias from 1935 until his death in 1963, and to Paulo Nolding from 1964 until his death in 1989. She had no children. Todor died in Rio de Janeiro on 10 December 2017 of pneumonia while suffering from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, aged 98. Filmography Cinema *1960: ''Os Dois Ladrões'' as Madame Gaby *1964: ''Pão, Amor e... Totobola'' as Costa's wife *2003: '' Xuxa Abracadabra'' as Grandma *2008: '' Meu Nome Não É Johnny'' as Dona Marly Television *1975: ''Roque Santeiro'' as Ambrosina Abelha "Dona Pombinha" (unreleased) *1977: ''Locomotivas'' as Kiki Blanche *1984: '' Partido Alto'' as Cecília *1989: ''Top Model'' as Morgana Kundera *1992: '' De Corpo e Alma'' as Calu (Maria Carolina Pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafaela Mandelli
Rafaela () is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, about 96 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the Castellanos Department. It has a population of 99,150 per the . The city was established in 1881 by Guillermo Lehmann, and officially became a city in 1913. The city has grown 22.2% between 1991 and 2001, and 18.6% in the last census period (2001-2011) according to the official data of the Population Census ( INDEC). The city is almost the exact antipode of Wuhu in China. The city hosts Rafaela Aerodrome airport and the Autódromo Ciudad de Rafaela race track. Zoning of the city The city is located in the western-center area of Santa Fe Province and has an area of . The design of most of the urban area of the city has a shape of a checkerboard with the main plaza (Plaza 25 de mayo) in the middle of the city and four main boulevards coming from there. The street grid of the city is composed by square blocks in most part of the neighborhoods, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cássia Kiss
Cássia is a Brazilian municipality located in the center of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was 17,740 people living in a total area of 643 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of Passos. It became a municipality in 1890.IBGE Location The city center of Cássia is located at an elevation of 745 meters in a fertile region between the state boundary of São Paulo and the great reservoir of Furnas. Neighboring municipalities are: Delfinópolis (N), Passos and Itaú de Minas< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Lopes
Giulio Lopes, ( Poá, SP) is a Brazilian actor. Biography Born in Poá, São Paulo, Giulio Lopes made his first exhibition as an actor in the 1982 theater ''O Apocalipse ou o Capeta de Caruaru'', by Aldomar Conrado, with "Caentrenós" group of amateur theater. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u61907.shtml Saiba mais sobre Giulio Lopes, Folha, July 7, 2006 From then forth, the young man, that was a tradesman and started the administration course, decided to change the route of the career and study theater. In 1986, he received a scholarship in the Institute of Science and Art, and, in the next year, he was approved in the School of Theatrical Performance of the University of São Paulo. Already in that epoch he participated in some publicist movies. However, it was only in the beginning of the 1990s that Giulio began to participate in telenovelas and miniseries of Rede Bandeirantes and Rede Globo. Between 1990 and 1997, the actor dedicated himself to his compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Júlia Lemmertz
Júlia Lemmertz Dias (born March 18, 1963) is a Brazilian television, film and stage actress. Biography and career Júlia was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, to actors Lineu Dias and Lílian Lemmertz. Her career started when she was a child, and since then, Lemmertz has starred in over 40 soap operas. Personal life Lemmertz was married to Álvaro Osório, a Rede Globo executive, from 1986 to 1990, with whom she had a daughter, Luiza (born 1987). While filming ''Guerra Sem Fim'' (1993), Lemmertz began a relationship with actor Alexandre Borges. The couple were married in 1993 and have a son, Miguel (born 2000). They divorced in 2015. Lemmertz has practiced Transcendental Meditation since 1983 and says, "Meditation generates enormous well-being." Career Television Films * 1982 - ''As Aventuras de Mário Fofoca'' * 1984 - ''Patriamada'' * 1984 - ''Mal Star'' * 1986 - ''A Cor do Seu Destino'' .... Patrícia * 1990 - ''Lua de Cristal'' .... Lidinha (Maria Lídia) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cléo Pires
Cleo Pires Ayrosa Galvão (born 2 October 1982), known mononymously as Cleo, is a Brazilian actress and singer. Career She made her debut as an actress when she participated in the ''Memorial de Maria Moura'' mini-series in 1994. It was a quick participation of just one episode in which the protagonist, Maria Moura, as a young woman, was replaced by her mother, Glória Pires, in the adulthood of the character. After that, she distanced herself from TV and the media, believing that she had no vocation to follow in her mother's footsteps. Cleo says she saw Gloria working day and night without stopping, the press invading her privacy and the phone ringing all the time, and that she did not want it for her future. She still says she just did not stand in the middle before, out of lack of will. Not that she had anything against her career, but it was something she did not think about, it was not in her head. A curious fact is that even the film being one of her passions, when asked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocaine
Cocaine (from , from , ultimately from Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''kúka'') is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant mainly recreational drug use, used recreationally for its euphoria, euphoric effects. It is primarily obtained from the leaves of two Coca species native to South America, ''Erythroxylum coca'' and ''Erythroxylum novogranatense''. After extraction from coca leaves and further processing into cocaine hydrochloride (powdered cocaine), the drug is often Insufflation (medicine), snorted, applied topical administration, topically to the mouth, or dissolved and injection (medicine), injected into a vein. It can also then be turned into free base form (crack cocaine), in which it can be heated until sublimated and then the vapours can be smoking, inhaled. Cocaine stimulates the mesolimbic pathway, reward pathway in the brain. Mental effects may include an euphoria, intense feeling of happiness, sexual arousal, psychosis, loss of contact with reality, or psychomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niterói
Niterói (, ) is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro in the Southeast Region, Brazil, southeast region of Brazil. It lies across Guanabara Bay facing the city of Rio de Janeiro and forms part of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area. It was the state capital, as marked by its golden mural crown, from 1834 to 1894 and again from 1903 to 1975. It has an estimated population of 515,317 inhabitants (2020) and an area of , making it the fifth most populous city in the state. It has the highest Human Development Index of the state and the seventh highest among Brazil's municipalities in 2010. Individually, it is the second municipality with the highest average monthly household income per capita in Brazil and appears in 13th place among the municipalities of the country according to social indicators related to education. The city has the nicknames of Nikiti, Nicki City and the Smile City ''(Cidade Sorriso').'' Studies by the Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
