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I'd Love To Change The World
"I'd Love to Change the World" is a song by the British blues rock band Ten Years After. Written by Alvin Lee, it is the lead single from the band's 1971 album '' A Space in Time''. It is the band's only US Top 40 hit, peaking at number 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and was a top ten hit in Canada. Background and composition The song was written and sung by Alvin Lee and features a folk-inspired chord pattern to support the melody. It discusses the confused state of the world, covering a wide variety of societal complaints, until it finally addresses the Vietnam War. Release and reception "I'd Love to Change the World" was the band's highest charting single. It peaked at number 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1971. When it was released, "I'd Love to Change the World" was a staple of both FM and AM radio, a rarity for the time. Billy Walker of '' Sounds'' wrote that the "acoustic guitar, echoing vocals, and electric guitar build up the tempo with very good cool electric p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Years After
Ten Years After are a British blues rock group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, the band had eight consecutive Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition, they had twelve albums enter the US ''Billboard'' 200. They are best known for tracks such as "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", " I'd Love to Change the World" and " Love Like a Man". History Formation: 1962–1966 The band's core formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats. After several years of local success in the Nottingham/Mansfield area, they changed their name to the Jaybirds in 1962, and later to Ivan Jay and the Jaymen. Ivan Jay sang lead vocals from late 1960 to 1962 and was joined by Ric Lee in August 1965, replacing drummer Dave Quickmire who had replaced Pete Evans in 1962. Roy Cooper played rhythm guitar and sang from 1960 to 1962. The Jaybirds moved to London to back the Ivy League in 1966. Chick Churchill joined the group as keyboard player in 1966. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossing The Bridge
''Crossing the Bridge'' is a 1992 American drama film starring Josh Charles, Stephen Baldwin and Jason Gedrick. Characters Mort Golden (Josh Charles), Tim Reese (Jason Gedrick) and Danny Morgan (Stephen Baldwin) are friends who embark on a dangerous drug-smuggling venture. The film was written and directed by Mike Binder and loosely based on Binders' friends during the late 1970s in the Detroit/ Birmingham, MI area. Much of the plot concerns the three friends driving into Canada as couriers in a drug deal. When returning to the United States at the Ambassador Bridge crossing between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, the protagonists face possible capture by authorities. Cast *Jason Gedrick as Tim Reese *Josh Charles as Mort Golden *Stephen Baldwin as Danny Morgan *Jeffrey Tambor as Uncle Alby *David Schwimmer as John Anderson * Cheryl Pollak as Carol Brockton *Richard Edson as Mitchell *Abraham Benrubi as Rinny *Ken Jenkins as Lou Golden *Rita Taggart as Kate Golden Soundtrack * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TBS (U
TBS may stand for: Broadcasting * Taipei Broadcasting Station, a radio station in Taipei, Taiwan * TBS Holdings (formerly Tokyo Broadcasting System), a stock holding company in Tokyo, Japan ** TBS Television (Japan), a television station ** TBS Radio, a radio station ** BS-TBS, a satellite broadcasting station in Tokyo, Japan * Turner Broadcasting System, media company in the United States ** TBS (American TV channel), a cable television channel in the United States ** TBS (Latin American TV channel), a defunct Latin American channel * Traffic Broadcasting System, a radio and television broadcaster in Seoul, South Korea Entertainment * Taking Back Sunday, an American rock band from Long Island, New York * The Burbank Studios, a 1972, Warner Bros. joint venture with Columbia Pictures on the Warner Bros. Studios Burbank lot Education * TBS Education, France. The ''Grande école'' formerly known as: Toulouse Business School * Tau Beta Sigma, an honorary band sorority * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caught (2018 TV Series)
''Caught'' is a Canadian crime drama television series written and produced by Allan Hawco that debuted on CBC Television on February 26, 2018."Here's your first look at the CBC adaptation of Lisa Moore's Caught" , January 16, 2018. Based on the 2014 novel by Lisa Moore, ''Caught'' is about a drug dealer who, with the help of a corrupt cop, makes a daring jailbreak from a New Brunswick prison in 1978, and travels across the globe to hunt down his drug king-pin ex-partner. Allan Hawco (''Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers, and live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment, and children's programming; in most cases, it feeds the same programming at the exact local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone, where programs air 30 minutes "late". On October 9, 2006, at 6:00 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Name Is Earl
''My Name Is Earl'' is an American television sitcom created by Greg Garcia (producer), Greg Garcia for NBC. It aired for four seasons from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, with a total of List of My Name Is Earl episodes, 96 episodes. It was produced by Greg Garcia (producer), Amigos de Garcia Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television, and starred Jason Lee (actor), Jason Lee as the title character, Earl Hickey, a small-time thief with a messed-up life. The series also starred Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Nadine Velazquez, and Eddie Steeples. Synopsis Earl Hickey is a small-time thief, living in the fictional rural town of Camden, who loses his winning $100,000 Lottery#Lottery in the United States, lottery ticket after being hit by a car while he celebrates his good fortune. Lying in a hospital bed, he learns about karma during an episode of the talk show ''Last Call with Carson Daly''. Convinced he has to turn his life around to be happy, Earl gives himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minamata (film)
''Minamata'' is a 2020 biographical drama film directed by Andrew Levitas, based on the book of the same name by Aileen Mioko Smith and W. Eugene Smith. The film stars Johnny Depp (who also produced) as W. Eugene Smith, an American photographer who documented the effects of mercury poisoning on the citizens of Minamata, Kumamoto, Japan. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 21, 2020. It was released in the United States on February 11, 2022, by Samuel Goldwyn Films. At the 94th Academy Awards in 2022, the film ranked third place in the Oscars Fan Favorite contest. Plot In 1971, the American photographer W. Eugene Smith, who was famous for his numerous "photographic essays" published in ''Life'', has become a recluse. While on a separate assignment, a passionate Japanese translator, Aileen, urges Smith to visit Minamata to photograph and document the disease. Smith is finally convinced to do his best to unmask the devastating effects of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Is Not Berlin
''This Is Not Berlin'' (Spanish: ''Esto no es Berlín''), is a 2019 Mexican drama film directed by Hari Sama. The film was presented on 25 January 2019 at the Sundance Festival, and it premiered on 21 June 2019 in Spain. Sama portrays the film as autobiographical, as it is inspired by his life in the 80s in Mexico. Cast * Xabiani Ponce de León as Carlos * José Antonio Toledano as Gera * Mauro Sánchez Navarro as Nico * Klaudia García as Maud * Ximena Romo as Rita * Américo Hollander as Tito * Hari Sama as Esteban * Marina de Tavira as Carolina * Lumi Cavazos as Susana * Fernando Álvarez Rebeil as Quiñones * David Montalvo as Ajo Reception Critical response On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee ..., the film holds an approval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015 Film)
''Our Brand Is Crisis'' is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan, based on the 2005 documentary film of the same name by Rachel Boynton. The film gives a fictionalized account of the involvement of American political campaign strategists Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida. Principal photography began on September 29, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana. George Clooney and Grant Heslov produced. The film was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was theatrically released by Warner Bros. on October 30, 2015. It received mixed reviews, despite Bullock's performance being largely praised, and was a box office disappointment. Plot In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Castillo hires an American political consulti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Supper (1995 Film)
''The Last Supper'' is a 1995 American satirical black comedy film directed by Stacy Title. It stars Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner and Courtney B. Vance as five liberal graduate school students (all carrying disciples' names from the bible) who invite a string of extreme conservatives to dinner in order to murder them. In Canada, the film premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival. In the United States, the film premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 1996. Plot Jude, Pete, Paulie, Marc and Luke are graduate school students living together in a house in Iowa. Marc is an aspiring painter, Pete is a law student from a wealthy family, Paulie is studying social work, Jude is studying psychology and Luke is completing a doctorate in political science. After Zack, a Desert Storm veteran and truck driver, helps move Pete's car, the group invites him to have dinner at their home. However, Zack turns out to be a racist, xe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropic Thunder
''Tropic Thunder'' is a 2008 Satire (film and television), satirical Action comedy, action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. When their frustrated director (Steve Coogan) drops them in the middle of a jungle and dies in an accident, they are forced to rely on their acting skills to survive the real action and danger. ''Tropic Thunder'' parody, parodies many prestigious war films (specifically those List of Vietnam War films, based on the Vietnam War), the Major film studios, Hollywood studio system, and method acting. The ensemble cast includes Nick Nolte, Danny McBride, Matthew McConaughey, Bill Hader, and Tom Cruise. Stiller developed ''Tropic Thunder'' premise during the production of ''Empire of the Sun (film), Empire of the Sun'' in the spring of 1987, and later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fahrenheit 9/11
''Fahrenheit 9/11'' is a 2004 American documentary film directed, written by, and starring Michael Moore. The subjects of the film are the presidency of George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the media's coverage of the war. In the film, Moore states that American corporate media were cheerleaders for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and did not provide an accurate or objective analysis of the rationale for the war and the resulting casualties there. The title of the film alludes to Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel ''Fahrenheit 451'', a dystopian view of the future United States, drawing an analogy between the autoignition temperature of paper and the date of the September 11 attacks; one of the film's taglines was "The Temperature at Which Freedom Burns". The film debuted at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest award. It received generally positive reviews from critics, but it also generated Fahrenheit 9/11 controversies, intense controve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
