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The Wrestler (Olmec) By DeLange
The Wrestler may refer to: * ''The Wrestler'' (1974 film), an American film directed by James A. Westman * ''The Wrestler'' (2008 film), an American film directed by Darren Aronofsky * "The Wrestler" (song), a song from the 2008 film written and performed by Bruce Springsteen * ''The Wrestler'' (sculpture), an Olmec sculpture * ''The Wrestler'', a professional wrestling magazine published by Kappa Publishing Group from 1966 to 2013 * ''The Wrestlers'', English title of the 2000 Bengali film ''Uttara'' * "The Wrestler", a 2012 episode of the animated sitcom ''American Dad!'' Wrestlers may refer to: * ''Wrestlers'' (sculpture), a Roman marble sculptural group after a lost Greek original of the 3rd century BC * ''Wrestlers'', a 1957 painting by Gerard de Rose *The Wrestlers (Courbet) * Wrestlers (Eakins), ''Wrestlers'' (Eakins), an 1899 painting by Thomas Eakins * ''The Wrestlers'' (Etty), a painting of circa 1840 by William Etty * ''The Wrestlers'' (Luks), a 1905 painting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestler (1974 Film)
''The Wrestler'' is a 1974 independent film directed by Jim Westman, produced by professional wrestler Verne Gagne and W.R. Frank, starring Ed Asner as Frank Bass, a wrestling promoter. Verne Gagne also stars in the film as Mike Bullard, the current wrestling champion of his "league". After a long reign as champion, Bullard is getting older and feeling pressure from all sides, including his wife and wrestling promoters, to pass the championship to Billy Taylor and retire. Bullard's resistance to their requests that he step aside is the central conflict in the film. The film presents professional wrestling as a truly competitive sport, always maintaining the illusion that matches are a result of athletic combat and not pre-determined outcomes decided before the matches. At one point during the film, a number of wrestlers who had either died during a match or as a result of in-ring injuries are mentioned. That list of names was not fictional, but taken from the history of profession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestler (2008 Film)
''The Wrestler'' is a 2008 American sports psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Robert Siegel. The film stars Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. Rourke plays an aging professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame, continues to wrestle in an attempt to cling to the success of his 1980s heyday. He also tries to mend his relationship with his estranged daughter and to find romance with a woman who works as a stripper. Production began in January 2008 and Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired rights to distribute the film in the U.S.;REMSTAR MEDIA PARTNERS , Remstar Media Partners acquires canadian distribution rights for the movie "The Wrestler" . Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestler (song)
"The Wrestler" is the title song from the 2008 film ''The Wrestler.'' The track was written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. The origins of the song are based in a lost and resumed friendship between Springsteen and ''Wrestler'' lead actor Mickey Rourke; Rourke told Springsteen about his upcoming film and asked if Springsteen could write a song for it. Springsteen subsequently did, played it for Rourke and director Darren Aronofsky before a concert. When they liked it, Springsteen gave them the song for no fee. It first appeared in August 2008 at the 65th Venice International Film Festival debut of the film ''The Wrestler''. In December 2008 it received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and won the award during the 66th Golden Globe Awards on January 11, 2009. It also won the 2008 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Song and was nominated for, but did not win, the 2008 Satellite Award for Best Original Song. The song was widely ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestler (sculpture)
''The Wrestler'' is a basalt statuette dating back to between 1500 BCE and 400 BCE, which some believe to be one of the most important sculptures of the Olmec culture. The near life-size figure has been praised not only for its realism and sense of energy, but also for its aesthetic qualities.Castro-Leal. Since 1964, the sculpture has been part of the collection of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. This -high Mesoamerican statuette was discovered in 1933 by a farmer in Arroyo Sonso, in the Mexican state of Veracruz near the Rio Uxpanapa and not far from its confluence with the Coatzacoalcos River, an area now known as Antonio Plaza. It is considered unlikely that this sculpture, also known formally as Antonio Plaza Monument 1 as well as ''El Luchador Olmeca'' (Spanish, "the Olmec wrestler") actually represents a wrestler. Description The statuette shows a seated male figure. The legs are delicate and rather diminutive,Milbrath, p. 17. with the right leg bent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kappa Publishing Group
Kappa Publishing Group, Inc. is a Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based publishing company concentrating on adult puzzle books and magazines as well as children's magazines and maps. It is a private company founded in 1955 with $11.5 million in annual sales. History In January 2012, Kappa announced that they had acquired Modern Publishing. Subsidiaries It has a number of subsidiary companies, such as London Publishing or GAMES Publications. It original owner, H.L. Herbert ("Larry") founded his puzzle business, Official Publications in Manhattan with titles including Teen Word-Finds, Superb Word-Finds, Variety Word-Finds and countless crossword puzzle, crosspatch and fill-it-in titles. Sons Anthony Herbert (Editorial Director) and Paul Herbert (Sales) helped the business grow to the success it became. Edward Tobias was the Editor. Prior to Mr. Herbert, Sr.'s passing in the 1980s, he sold the business to Nick Karabots, who owned the printer where the titles were being printed. The b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttara (film)
''Uttara'' ( en, The Wrestlers, bn, উত্তরা) is a 2000 Bengali language drama film thriller directed by Bengali poet Buddhadev Dasgupta. Based on a short story by Samaresh Bose, it stars Jaya Seal as Uttara, Tapas Paul, Shankar Chakraborty, Raisul Islam Asad as a Christian missionary. The film contrasts violence, human vices and lawlessness in a seemingly peaceful setting, in a quiet village in Purulia district in Bengal. ''Uttara'' premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 30 August 2000 and was the winner of the festivals' Special Director award. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2000 and on 22 May it was shown in the US at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival The film was released in France on 13 June 2001 and won the Audience Award at the Nantes festival. It opened the Pusan Film Festival in South Korea.Buddhadeb Dasgupta won the '' National film awards for best direction'' for this movie. Due to its homoerotic unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestler (American Dad!)
The eighth season of '' American Dad!'' aired on Fox from September 25, 2011, to May 13, 2012. On February 23, 2011, it was announced that the series had been renewed for an eighth production cycle. During the season, Roger travels to the Middle East to support the troops and meets Ricky Martin, Francine gets jealous with Stan's old flame and starts a catchphrase legacy, The Smith family adopts a new puppy and buys a new hot tub, Stan is cursed to living life as an old man, and attempts to fulfill his dream of being a best man by making Principal Lewis marry the school's superintendent, Hayley and Jeff adopting a demon baby, and make a bet with Stan that he and Francine can live on minimum wage for a month. Guest stars of the season include Cee Lo Green, Gabourey Sidibe, Kristen Schaal, Sarah Natochenny, Kathy Griffin, Anjelica Huston, Elisabeth Shue, Andrea Martin, Scott Foley, Sharon Lawrence, Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, Michael Peña, Emily Deschanel, Hulk Hogan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestlers (sculpture)
''The Wrestlers'' (also known as ''The Two Wrestlers'', ''The Uffizi Wrestlers'' or ''The Pancrastinae'') is a Roman marble sculpture after a lost Greek original of the third century BCE. It is now in the Uffizi collection in Florence, Italy. Description, style and authorship The two young men are engaged in the ''pankration'', a kind of wrestling similar to the present-day sport of mixed martial arts. The two figures are wrestling in a position now known as a "cross-body ride" in modern folkstyle wrestling. The upper wrestler has his left leg entwined with his opponent's left leg, with his body across the opponent's body, lifting the opponent's right arm. In a well-known modern series of wrestling moves, the upper wrestler would now try to lift his opponent's arm above his head to force a pinning move called the "Guillotine." Their muscular structure is very defined and exaggerated due to their physical and sustained effort. Neither of the two heads are original to the gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard De Rose
Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together. In this case, those constituents are ''gari'' > ''ger-'' (meaning 'spear') and -''hard'' (meaning 'hard/strong/brave'). Common forms of the name are Gerard (English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Polish and Catalan); Gerrard (English, Scottish, Irish); Gerardo (Italian, and Spanish); Geraldo (Portuguese); Gherardo (Italian); Gherardi (Northern Italian, now only a surname); Gérard (variant forms ''Girard'' and ''Guérard'', now only surnames, French); Gearóid (Irish); Gerhardt and Gerhart/Gerhard/Gerhardus (German, Dutch, and Afrikaans); Gellért ( Hungarian); Gerardas ( Lithuanian) and Gerards/Ģirts ( Latvian); Γεράρδης (Greece). A few abbreviated forms are Gerry and Jerry (English); Gerd (German) and Gert (Afrikaans and Dutch); Gerrit (Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestlers (Courbet)
''The Wrestlers'' is a large 1853 painting by Gustave Courbet, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest]. It shows two men engaged in 'French wrestling', inspired by Greco-Roman wrestling. Documents reveal that it shows a match in the former hippodrome on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. His choice of such a huge canvas inspired (among others) Alexandre Falguière's 1875 ''The Wrestlers''. It was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1853 as the pendant to '' The Bathers''. In a letter to his parents dated 13 May 1853, Courbet said of ''The Wrestlers'' that "I have covered their nudity and he criticshave not yet said anything good or bad about it". By contrast, ''The Bathers'' divided the public and probably distracted attention from ''The Wrestlers''. He also revealed that he had re-used a frame from his 1841 painting ''St Walpurgis' Night'', inspired by the legend of Faust and exhibited at the 1848 Salon - due to financial troubles he had had to re-use that canvas. In 1867 '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestlers (Eakins)
''Wrestlers'' is a name shared by three closely related 1899 paintings by American artist Thomas Eakins, ( Goodrich catalog #317, #318, #319). The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) owns the finished painting (G-317), and the oil sketch (G-318). The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) owns a slightly smaller unfinished version (G-319). All three works depict a pair of nearly naked men engaged in a wrestling match. The setting for the finished painting is the Quaker City Barge Club (defunct), which once stood on Philadelphia's Boathouse Row. History Eakins painted a series of works depicting scullers on the Schuylkill River in the 1870s. In the late 1890s, he painted three major works depicting boxers—'' Taking the Count'' (1898), Yale University Art Gallery; '' Salutat'' (1898), Addison Gallery of American Art; '' Between Rounds'' (1899), Philadelphia Museum of Art. On May 22, 1899, Eakins had two wrestlers pose in his 4th-floor studio at 1729 Mount Vernon Street, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestlers (Etty)
''The Wrestlers'' is an oil painting on millboard by English artist William Etty, painted around 1840 and currently in the York Art Gallery, in York, England. It depicts a wrestling match between a black man and a white man, both glistening with sweat and under an intense light emphasising their curves and musculature. While little documentation of the painting exists prior to 1947, it is likely that it was painted over a period of three evenings at the life class of the Royal Academy. The Royal Academy had moved to new premises in Trafalgar Square in 1837, and the studio used by the life class was cramped and hot, a fact thought to account for the sweatiness of the central figures. Etty was best known for his painting of nude or near-nude women in historical and mythological settings but had also painted men involved in various forms of combat. In the period in which ''The Wrestlers'' was painted, sports were becoming increasingly popular, and the painting is both a reflect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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