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The Assistant (2019 Film)
''The Assistant'' is a 2019 American drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Kitty Green. The film stars Julia Garner as a junior assistant at a film production company. Matthew Macfadyen, Makenzie Leigh, Kristine Froseth, Jon Orsini, and Noah Robbins also star. ''The Assistant'' premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019, and was released in the United States on January 31, 2020, by Bleecker Street. It was well-received by critics, who especially praised Garner's performance and the film's claustrophobic depiction of office life. Plot The film takes place over the course of a single day in the life of Jane, a junior assistant who has been working at a film production company in New York City for five weeks. She arrives before dawn and performs various menial administrative tasks. Her job's long hours and demanding tasks keep her busy and stressed. During a phone call with her mother, Jane learns that she forgot to call her father on his birthd ...
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Kitty Green
Kitty Green is an Australian film director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. The majority of her projects have been documentaries, while only one has been a narrative driven story. Green produced, directed, wrote, and edited the 2019 film '' The Assistant''.Q 2020-02-03, CBC radio , Interview with Kitty Green. Her work often portrays heavy topics such as unsolved murders and politics. Early life and education Kitty Green attended the Victorian College of the Arts, where she studied film and television. While attending the Victorian College of the Arts, Green made a short film entitled ''Spilt'' that was premiered at the Brisbane International Film Festival and screened at festivals internationally, earning a few awards in the process. Soon after her graduation, Green began work at ABC on 'Art Nation' and 'Artscape'. Green also traveled around Europe and described herself as “crashing on couches” during the beginning of her career. She later went to work on a film entit ...
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Alexander Chaplin
Alexander Chaplin (né Gaberman; born March 20, 1971) is an American actor. Chaplin's most prominent role was that of speechwriter James Hobert on the sitcom ''Spin City''. As with the rest of the ''Spin City'' main cast, Chaplin has featured in creator Bill Lawrence's subsequent sitcom, '' Scrubs'', playing a drug addict who tries to trick Elliot into giving him prescription medication in " My Moment of Un-Truth" and later tricks Jordan into giving him money in "My Rite of Passage". His character later appeared in " My Scrubs" as a drugs counsellor for the hospital, claiming to be reformed. Personal life Chaplin is the son of a jazz musician and a novelist.Profile
filmreference.com; accessed March 14, 2015. As a teen, Chaplin attended Stagedoor Ma ...
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The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) was an American independent film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in March 2005. TWC was one of the largest mini-major film studios in North America prior to the firing of Harvey Weinstein following allegations of sexual harassment and rape against him, as well as financial troubles that followed. The studio eventually declared bankruptcy in February 2018, with independent studio Lantern Entertainment acquiring a majority of its film library and assets. Founder and chief executive Bob Weinstein previously owned a small stake in the company. The company dismissed joint founder and chief executive Harvey Weinstein in October 2017, after over 100 women came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment, abuse, assault, or rape. On February 26, 2018, the Weinstein Company announced in a statement that it would declare bankruptcy following the collapse of a buyout deal with an investor group led ...
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Harvey Weinstein Sexual Abuse Cases
In October 2017, ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker'' reported that dozens of women had accused film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse over a period of at least 30 years. Over 80 women in the film industry eventually accused Weinstein of such acts. Weinstein denied "any non-consensual sex". Shortly after, he was dismissed from The Weinstein Company (TWC), expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and other professional associations, and retired from public view. Criminal investigations into complaints from at least six women took place in Los Angeles, New York City, and London. In May 2018, Weinstein was arrested in New York and charged with rape and other offenses. In February 2020, he was found guilty of rape in the third degree and a criminal sexual act. In March 2020, he was sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment. ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker'' were awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Servi ...
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Campus Sexual Assault
Campus sexual assault is the sexual assault, including rape, of a student while attending an institution of higher learning, such as a college or university. The victims of such assaults are more likely to be female, but any gender can be victimized. Estimates of sexual assault, which vary based on definitions and methodology, generally find that somewhere between 19 and 27% of college women and 6–8% of college men are sexually assaulted during their time in college. In response to charges that schools have poorly supported women who have reported sexual assaults, in 2011 the United States Department of Education issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to universities, advising academic institutions on various methods intended to reduce incidents of sexual assault on campuses. Some legal experts have raised concerns about risks of abuses against the accused. Following changes to disciplinary processes, lawsuits have been filed by men alleging bias and/or violations of their rights. ...
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Casting JonBenet
''Casting JonBenet'' is a 2017 documentary film about the death of JonBenét Ramsey and the large impact it left behind. The film was directed by Kitty Green. Synopsis ''Casting JonBenet'' documents the casting process for the re-enactments in the documentary. Various Colorado-area actors are interviewed and tested for the roles of real people involved in the case, including John and Patsy Ramsey, Burke Ramsey, John Mark Karr and Boulder police officials. During the process, the would-be actors, dressed as the individuals they are auditioning for, reveal their emotions about the case and offer their own speculations. Rather than documenting the crime, the film observes how the events have become a point of pop-cultural obsession and conspiracy. Release The film premiered in January at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival. Netflix gained the rights to distribute ''Casting JonBenet'', and began streaming it on April 28, 2017. Reception ''Casting JonBenet'' recei ...
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Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as part ...
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Scott Macaulay
Scott Macaulay (born November 23, 1990) is a Canada, Canadian-born Hungary, Hungarian ice hockey player. He currently plays for Hungarian team MAC Budapest in the Erste Liga (ice hockey), Erste Liga and the Hungary men's national ice hockey team, Hungarian national team. He is also the younger brother of the former ice hockey player Blair Macaulay. References External links

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Jay O
A jay is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the Crow family, Corvidae. The evolutionary relationships between the jays and the magpies are rather complex. For example, the Eurasian magpie seems more closely related to the Eurasian jay than to the East Asian blue and green magpies, whereas the blue jay is not closely related to either. Systematics and species Jays are not a monophyletic group. Anatomical and molecular evidence indicates they can be divided into an American and an Old World lineage (the latter including the ground jays and the piapiac), while the grey jays of the genus ''Perisoreus'' form a group of their own.http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021299/Corvidae%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext The black magpies, formerly believed to be related to jays, are classified as treepies. Old World ("brown") jays Grey jays American jays In culture Slang The word ''jay'' has an archaic me ...
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Patrick Wilson (American Actor)
Patrick Joseph Wilson (born July 3, 1973) is an American actor who is best known for playing the role of demonologist Ed Warren in the Conjuring Universe (2013–present). He began his career in 1995, starring in Broadway musicals. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee for his roles in ''The Full Monty'' (2000–2001) and ''Oklahoma!'' (2002). He co-starred in the acclaimed HBO miniseries ''Angels in America'' (2003), which he was nominated for both the Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Wilson has also appeared in films such as ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (2004), ''Hard Candy'' (2005), '' Little Children'' (2006), ''Watchmen'' (2009), ''Insidious'' (2010), ''The A-Team'' (2010), '' Insidious: Chapter 2'' (2013), and as demonologist Ed Warren in the Conjuring Universe (2013–present). He has earned a reputation as a " scream king" due to his frequent casting in horror films. On television, Wilson starred in th ...
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Purva Bedi
Purva Bedi is an American actress. She has appeared in many television serials and several films, including '' Green Card Fever'', ''American Desi'', and ''Cosmopolitan''. She has also starred in an episode of ''House''. Her most recent appearance is as Clare on the TV teen drama ''Gossip Girl''. In 2020, she appeared in the drama film, '' The Surrogate''. She was born in Chandigarh but grew up in Belgium and the United States. She is the daughter of Columbia University professor Susham Bedi Susham Bedi (1 July 1945 – 20 March 2020) was an Indian author of novels, short stories and poetry. She was a professor of Hindi language and literature at the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) at Colum .... Filmography Film Television References External links Purva Bedi's Official Website* ''The Hindu'', 15 March 2004 1970s births Living people Actresses from Chandigarh Indian emigrants to the United States American fi ...
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Patrick Breen
Joseph Patrick Breen (born October 26, 1960) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. Early life Breen was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 26, 1960. Career He has acted primarily on TV but has also appeared in numerous films, as well as on Broadway and Off Broadway. In 2010, he starred on Broadway in ''Next Fall''. He is currently playing Andrew Munsey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the CBS drama '' Madam Secretary''. He voiced all the characters in Britt Allcroft's television series ''Magic Adventures of Mumfie'', and was originally hired to voice Splatter and Dodge in ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad'', but the roles were instead recast to Neil Crone and Kevin Frank. Breen appeared regularly in Netflix's adaptation of ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', which premiered in 2017. Personal life In a July 2012 interview with ''Metro Weekly'' Patrick Breen stated, "I identify as one of the LGBT people" and agreed with the interviewer who refer ...
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