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Denzel Washington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Denzel Washington
Washington in 2000Born Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr.
December 28, 1954 (age 60)
Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.Alma mater Fordham University Occupation Actor, filmmaker Years active 1974–present Spouse(s) Pauletta Pearson (m. 1983) Children 4 Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received two Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award,[1] and twoAcademy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical drama-war film Glory (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller Training Day(2001).[2]
Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activistSteve Biko in Cry Freedom (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in The Hurricane (1999), football coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans (2000), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007), and drug kingpin Frank Lucas inAmerican Gangster (2007). He has been a featured actor in the films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and has been a frequent collaborator of directors Spike Lee and the late Tony Scott.
Early life and education[edit]
Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City. His father, Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, was an ordainedPentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and at a local department store, S. Klein. His mother, Lennis "Lynne" (née Lowe), was a beauty parlor owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem.[3][4][5][6]
Washington attended Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968. When he was 14, his parents broke up, and his mother sent him to a private preparatory school, Oakland Military Academyin New Windsor, New York. "That decision changed my life," Washington later said, "because I wouldn't have survived in the direction I was going. The guys I was hanging out with at the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined in the penitentiary. They were nice guys, but the streets got them."[7] After Oakland, Washington next attended Mainland High School, a public high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, from 1970 to 1971.[3] He was interested in attending Texas Tech University: "I grew up in the Boys Club in Mount Vernon, and we were the Red Raiders. So when I was in high school, I wanted to go to Texas Tech in Lubbock just because they were called the Red Raiders and their uniforms looked like ours."[8] Washington earned a B.A. in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977.[9] At Fordham, he played collegiate basketball as a guard[10] under coach P.J. Carlesimo.[11] After a period of indecision on which major to study and dropping out of school for a semester, Washington worked as creative arts director at an overnight summer camp, Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut. He participated in a staff talent show for the campers and a colleague suggested he try acting.[12]
Returning to Fordham that fall with a renewed purpose, Washington enrolled at the Lincoln Center campus to study acting, and where he was given the title roles in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and Shakespeare's Othello. He then attended graduate school at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where he stayed for one year before returning to New York to begin a professional acting career.[13]
Career[edit]
Early work[edit]
Washington spent the summer of 1976 in St. Mary's City, Maryland, in summer stock theater performing Wings of the Morning,[14][15] the Maryland State play, which was written for him by incorporating an African-American character/narrator based loosely on the historical figure from early colonial Maryland, Mathias Da Sousa.[14] He also filmed a series of commercials in the Fruit of the Loom ensemble, as Grapes.[citation needed] Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington made his screen acting debut in the 1977 made-for-television film Wilma, and his first Hollywood appearance in the 1981 film Carbon Copy. He shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Awardfor playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the Off-Broadway Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldier's Play which premiered November 20, 1981.[16]
A major career break came when he starred as Dr. Phillip Chandler in NBC's television hospital drama St. Elsewhere, which ran from 1982 to 1988. He was one of only a few African-American actors to appear on the series for its entire six-year run. He also appeared in several television, motion picture and stage roles, such as the films A Soldier's Story (1984), Hard Lessons (1986) and Power (1986). In 1987, he starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1989, Washington won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a defiant, self-possessed ex-slave soldier in the film Glory. That same year, he appeared in the film The Mighty Quinn; and in For Queen and Country, where he played the conflicted and disillusioned Reuben James, a British soldier who, despite a distinguished military career, returns to a civilian life where racism and inner city life lead to vigilantism and violence.
1990s[edit]
Washington's signature in front ofGrauman's Chinese TheatreIn 1990, Washington starred as Bleek Gilliam in the Spike Lee film Mo' Better Blues. In 1992, he starred as Demetrius Williams in the romantic drama Mississippi Masala. Washington was reunited with Lee to play one of his most critically acclaimed roles, the title character of 1992's Malcolm X. His performance as the black nationalist leader earned him another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The next year he played the lawyer of a gay man with AIDS in the 1993 film Philadelphia. During the early and mid-1990s, Washington starred in several successful thrillers, including The Pelican Brief and Crimson Tide, as well as in the movie of the Shakespearean comedyMuch Ado About Nothing. In 1996, he played a U.S. Army officer who, despondent about a deadly mistake he made, investigates a female chopper commander's worthiness for the Medal of Honor in Courage Under Fire with Meg Ryan. In 1996, he appeared with Whitney Houston in the romantic drama The Preacher's Wife.[17]
In 1998, Washington starred in Spike Lee's film He Got Game. Washington played a father serving a six-year prison term when the prison warden offers him a temporary parole to convince his top-ranked high-school basketball player son (Ray Allen) to sign with the governor's alma mater, Big State. The film was Washington's third collaboration with Lee.[18]
In 1999, Washington starred in The Hurricane, a film about boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, whose conviction for triple murder was overturned after he spent almost 20 years in prison. A former reporter, who was angry that the film portrayed Carter as innocent despite the overturned conviction, began a campaign to pressure Academy Award voters not to vote for the film.[19] Washington did receive a Golden Globe Award in 2000 and a Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for the role.
2000s[edit]
In 2000, Washington appeared in the Disney film Remember the Titans which grossed over $100 million in the U.S.[20]
Washington won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Movie for his work in The Hurricane in 2000. He was the first black actor to win the award since Sidney Poitier in 1963.[21][22]
Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2001 cop thriller Training Day, where he played Detective Alonzo Harris, a corrupt Los Angeles cop with questionable law-enforcement tactics. He was the second African-American performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. The first was Sidney Poitier, who was presented with an Honorary Academy Award the same night. Washington currently holds the records for most Oscar nominations (six) and the most wins (two) by an actor of African descent.
After appearing in 2002's box office success, the healthcare-themed John Q., Washington directed his first film, a well-reviewed drama called Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred.
Between 2003 and 2004, Washington appeared in a series of thrillers that performed generally well at the box office, including Out of Time, Man on Fire, and The Manchurian Candidate.[23] In 2006, he starred inInside Man, a Spike Lee-directed bank heist thriller co-starring Jodie Foster and Clive Owen, released in March, and Déjà Vu.
In 2006, Washington worked alongside multitalented Irish off-rock band The Script on a project combining music and Hollywood. The hybrid of genres was critically acclaimed, but didn't receive much mainstream attention because of legal conflicts between The Script's record label and Denzel's studio commitments.
In 2007, Washington co-starred with Russell Crowe, for the second time after 1995's Virtuosity, in American Gangster. He also directed and starred in the drama The Great Debaters with Forest Whitaker. He next appeared in Tony Scott's 2009 film The Taking of Pelham 123 (a remake of the 1974 thriller of the same name), where he played New York City subway security chief Walter Garber opposite John Travolta's villain.[24]
Return to theater[edit]
Washington after a performance ofJulius Caesar in May 2005.In the summer of 1990, Washington appeared in the title role of the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Richard III. In 2005, he appeared onstage again as Marcus Brutus in a Broadway production of Julius Caesar. Despite mixed reviews, the production's limited run was a consistent sell-out.[25] In the spring of 2010, Washington played Troy Maxson, opposite Viola Davis, in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's Fences, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play on June 13, 2010.[26][27]
From April to June 2014, Washington played the leading role in the Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's classic drama A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Kenny Leon.[28] The show received positive reviews and won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.[29]
2010s[edit]
In 2010, Washington starred in The Book of Eli, a post-Apocalyptic drama set in the near future. Also in 2010, he starred as a veteran railroad engineer in the action filmUnstoppable, about an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train carrying dangerous cargo. The film was his fifth and final collaboration with director Tony Scott, followingCrimson Tide (1995), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009).
In 2012, Washington starred in Flight, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in Safe House, where he prepared for his role by subjecting himself to a torture session that included waterboarding.[30]
In 2013, Washington started in 2 Guns, along side Mark Walberg.
In 2014, Washington starred in The Equalizer, an action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk, based on the television series of same name starring Edward Woodward.[31]
Personal life[edit]
On June 25, 1983, Washington married Pauletta Pearson, whom he met on the set of his first screen work, the television film Wilma. The couple have four children: John David (b. July 28, 1984), a former footballplayer with the United Football League's Sacramento Mountain Lions (and before that, college football at Morehouse);[32] Katia (b. November 27, 1986) who graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2010; and twins Olivia and Malcolm (b. April 10, 1991). Malcolm graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in film studies, and Olivia played a role in Lee Daniels's film The Butler. In 1995, Denzel and Pauletta renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating.[33]
Washington is a devout Christian,[34] and has considered becoming a preacher. He stated in 1999, "A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good."[35] In 1995, he donated $2.5 million to help build the new West AngelesChurch of God in Christ facility in Los Angeles.[36][37] Washington says he reads the Bible daily.[38]
Washington has served as the national spokesperson for Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1993[39] and has appeared in public service announcements and awareness campaigns for the organization.[40] In addition, he has served as a board member for Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1995.[41]
In mid-2004, Washington visited Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) at Fort Sam Houston, where he participated in a Purple Heart ceremony, presenting medals to three Army soldiers recovering from wounds they received while stationed in Iraq. He also visited the fort's Fisher House facilities, and after learning that it had exceeded its capacity, made a substantial donation to the Fisher House Foundation. Washington's other charitable contributions include $1 million to the Children's Fund of South Africa[37] and $1 million to Wiley College to resuscitate the college's debate team.[42]
Washington is an Independent voter. He supported Barack Obama in 2008.[43]
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia named Washington as one of three people (the others being directors Oliver Stone and Michael Moore) with whom they were willing to negotiate for the release of threedefense contractors the group had held captive from 2003 to 2008.[44]
On May 18, 1991, Washington was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Fordham University, for having "impressively succeeded in exploring the edge of his multifaceted talent".[45] In 2011, he donated $2 million to Fordham for an endowed chair of the theater department, as well as $250,000 to establish a theater-specific scholarship at the school. He also received an honorary doctorate of humanities from Morehouse College on May 20, 2007.[46] and an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania on May 16, 2011.[47]
In 2008, Washington visited Israel with a delegation of African-American artists in honor of the state's 60th birthday.[48]
In April 2014, Washington presented at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition with Bryan Cranston, Idina Menzel and Fran Drescher, after raising donations at his Broadway show Raisin in the Sun.[49]
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Clark Gable
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaClark Gable
Gable in 1940Born William Clark Gable
February 1, 1901
Cadiz, OhioDied November 16, 1960 (aged 59)
West Hollywood, CaliforniaCause of death Coronary thrombosis Resting place Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale Other names The King (of Hollywood) Occupation Actor Years active 1924–1960 Spouse(s) - Josephine Dillon (m. 1924; div. 1930)
- Maria Langham (m. 1931; div. 1939)
- Carole Lombard (m. 1939; wid. 1942)
- Sylvia Ashley (m. 1949; div. 1952)
- Kay Williams (m. 1955; his death 1960)
Children - John Gable
- Judy Lewis
Parent(s) - William Henry Gable
- Adeline Hershelman
Relatives Clark James Gable (grandson) Military career Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch United States Army Air Forces
Years of service 1942–44 Rank Major
Unit 351st Bomb Group Battles/wars World War II Signature
Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King".[1] Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for MGM in 1931. The next year he landed his first leading Hollywood role and became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures over the next three decades.
Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934),[2] and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and for his, arguably best-known, role as Rhett Butler in the epic Gone with the Wind (1939).
Gable also found success commercially and critically with films like Red Dust (1932), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), San Francisco (1936), Saratoga (1937) Boom Town (1940), The Hucksters (1947) Homecoming (1948) and The Misfits (1961) which was his final screen appearance.[3]
Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the time: Joan Crawford, who was his favorite actress to work with,[4] was partnered with Gable in eight films; Myrna Loy worked with him seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features, and with Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner in three each. Gable's final film, The Misfits (1961), united him with Marilyn Monroe (also in her last screen appearance). Gable is considered one of the most consistent box-office performers in history, appearing on Quigley Publishing's annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll sixteen times. He was named the seventh greatest male star of classic American Cinema by the American Film Institute.[2]
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Life and career
Early life
William Clark Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, to William Henry "Will" Gable (1870–1948), an oil-well driller,[4][5] and his wife, Adeline (née Hershelman; 1869–1901[6]). He was named William after his father, but even in childhood he was almost always called Clark.[7] He was mistakenly listed as a female on his birth certificate. Among Gable's ancestors were Pennsylvania Dutch (German), Native Americans,[citation needed] Rhinelanders and Bavarians.[4][8][9] When he was six months old, his mother had him baptized as a Catholic. She died when he was ten months old,[citation needed] possibly from a brain tumor. Gable's father refused to raise him as a Catholic, provoking scorn and criticism from his mother's side of the family. The dispute was resolved when his father's family agreed to allow Gable to spend time with his uncle, Charles Hershelman, and his wife on their farm in Vernon Township, Pennsylvania.[citation needed]
In April 1903 Gable's father married Jennie Dunlap (1874–1924), whose family came from the small neighboring town of Hopedale. Will's marriage to Jennie produced no half brothers or sisters for Clark. Gable was a tall, shy child with a loud voice. After his father purchased some land and built a house, the new family settled in. Jennie played the piano and gave her stepson lessons at home; later he took up brass instruments. She raised Gable to be well-dressed and well-groomed; he stood out from the other kids. Gable was very mechanically inclined and loved to strip down and repair cars with his father. At thirteen he was the only boy in the men's town band. Even though his father insisted on Gable doing "manly" things, like hunting and hard physical work, Gable loved language. Among trusted company, he would recite Shakespeare, particularly the sonnets. Will Gable did agree to buy a seventy-two volume set of The World's Greatest Literature to improve his son's education, but claimed he never saw his son use it.[10] In 1917, when Gable was in high school, his father had financial difficulties. Will decided to settle his debts and try his hand at farming and the family moved to Ravenna, Ohio, near Akron. He had trouble settling down in the area. Despite his father's insistence that he work the farm, Gable soon left to work in Akron's B.F. Goodrich tire factory.[citation needed]
Early career
"The Wife Gable Forgot"At seventeen, Clark Gable was inspired to be an actor after seeing the play The Bird of Paradise, but he was not able to make a real start until he turned 21 and inherited some money. By then his stepmother Jennie had died and his father moved to Tulsa to go back to the oil business. He toured in stock companies as well as working the oil fields and as a horse manager. Gable found work with several second-class theater companies and thus made his way across the Midwest to Seaside, Oregon, working as a logger and to Portland, Oregon, where he then took work as a necktie salesman in the Meier & Frank department store. While there he met Laura Hope Crews, a stage and film actress, who encouraged him to return to the stage and into another theater company. Many years later Crews would play Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind (1939).[clarification needed]
His acting coach was a theater manager in Portland named Josephine Dillon, who was 17 years his senior. She paid to have his teeth repaired and his hair styled. She guided him in building up his chronically undernourished body, and taught him better body control and posture. She spent considerable time training his naturally high-pitched voice, which Gable slowly managed to lower, and to gain better resonance and tone. As his speech habits improved, Gable's facial expressions became more natural and convincing. After the long period of rigorous training, Dillon eventually considered him ready to attempt a film career.[11]
Stage and silent films
In 1924, with Dillon's financial aid, the two went to Hollywood, where she became his manager—and first wife. He changed his stage name from W. C. Gable to Clark Gable.[12] He found work as an extra in such silent films as Erich von Stroheim's The Merry Widow (1925), The Plastic Age (1925), which starred Clara Bow, Forbidden Paradise (1924) starring Pola Negri, plus a series of two-reel comedies called The Pacemakers. He appeared as an extra in Fox's The Johnstown Flood (1926) and, by coincidence, 17-year-old Carole Lombard also appeared as an extra in the film, although they were not in the same scene. Gable also appeared as a bit player in a series of shorts.
However, he was not offered any major roles in Hollywood and so he returned to the stage. He became lifelong friends with Lionel Barrymore, who in spite of his bawling Gable out for amateurish acting initially, urged Gable to pursue a career on stage.[13][14] During the 1927–28 theater season, Gable acted with the Laskin Brothers Stock Company in Houston, where he played many roles, gained considerable experience and became a local matinee idol. Gable then moved to New York and Dillon sought work for him on Broadway. He received good reviews in Machinal; "He's young, vigorous and brutally masculine", wrote the critic at the Morning Telegraph.[15] The start of talking pictures and the beginning of the Great Depression caused a cancellation of many plays in the 1929–30 season and acting work became harder to get.
Early success and rising star
Clark Gable and Mary Astor in Red Dust, 1932In 1930, after his impressive appearance as the seething and desperate character Killer Mears in the Los Angeles stage production of The Last Mile, Gable was offered a contract with MGM. His first role in a sound picture was as the unshaven villain in a low-budget William Boyd western called The Painted Desert (1931). He received a lot of fan mail as a result of his powerful voice and appearance; the studio took notice.
In 1930, Gable and Josephine Dillon were divorced. A few days later, he married Texas socialite Maria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham, nicknamed "Rhea". After moving to California, they were married again in 1931, possibly due to differences in state legal requirements. "His ears are too big and he looks like an ape", said executive Darryl F. Zanuck, then at Warner Bros., about Clark Gable after testing him for the lead in the studio's gangster drama Little Caesar (1931).[16] The same year, in Night Nurse, Gable played a villainous chauffeur who was gradually starving two adorable little girls to death, then knocked Barbara Stanwyck's character unconscious with his fist, a supporting role originally slated for James Cagney until the release of The Public Enemy abruptly made Cagney a leading man. After several failed screen tests for Barrymore and Zanuck, Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. He became a client of well-connected agent Minna Wallis, sister of producer Hal Wallis and a very close friend of Norma Shearer. Gable's timing in arriving in Hollywood was excellent, as MGM was looking to expand its stable of male stars and he fitted the bill. Gable first worked mainly in supporting roles, often as the villain. He made two pictures in 1931 with Wallace Beery, a supporting role in The Secret Six, then with his part increasing in size to almost match Beery's in the naval aviation film Hell Divers. MGM's publicity manager Howard Strickling developed Gable's studio image, playing up his he-man experiences and his 'lumberjack in evening clothes' persona.[citation needed]
Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, 1933To bolster his increasing popularity, MGM frequently paired him with well-established female stars. Joan Crawford asked for him as her co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931). He built his fame and public visibility in such movies as A Free Soul (1931), in which he played a gangster who shoved the character played by Norma Shearer (Gable never played a supporting role again). The Hollywood Reporter wrote "A star in the making has been made, one that, to our reckoning, will outdraw every other star... Never have we seen audiences work themselves into such enthusiasm as when Clark Gable walks on the screen".[17] He followed that with Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) with Greta Garbo, and Possessed (1931), in which he and Crawford (then married to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) steamed up the screen. Adela Rogers St. Johns later dubbed Gable and Crawford's real-life relationship as "the affair that nearly burned Hollywood down".[18]Louis B. Mayer threatened to terminate both their contracts, and for a while they kept apart. Gable shifted his attentions to Marion Davies. On the other hand, Gable and Garbo disliked each other. She thought he was a wooden actor while he considered her a snob.[citation needed]
Gable was considered for the role of Tarzan the Ape Man but lost out to Johnny Weissmuller's more imposing physique and superior swimming prowess. However, Gable's unshaven lovemaking with braless Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932) soon made him MGM's most important male star. After the hit Hold Your Man (1933), MGM recognized the goldmine of the Gable-Harlow pairing, putting them in two more films, China Seas (1935; with Gable and Harlow billed above Wallace Beery) and Wife vs. Secretary (1936) with Myrna Loy and James Stewart. An enormously popular combination, on-screen and off-screen, Gable and Harlow made six films together, the most notable being Red Dust (1932) and Saratoga (1937). Harlow died during production of Saratoga. Ninety percent completed, the remaining scenes were filmed with long shots or the use of doubles like Mary Dees; Gable would say that he felt as if he was "in the arms of a ghost".[19]
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934According to legend, Gable was lent to Columbia Pictures, then considered a second-rate operation, as punishment for refusing roles; however, this has been refuted by more recent biographies. MGM did not have a project ready for Gable and was paying him $2,000 per week, under his contract, to do nothing. Studio head Louis B. Mayer lent him to Columbia for $2,500 per week, making a $500 per week profit.[7]
Gable was not the first choice to play the lead role of Peter Warne in It Happened One Night (1934). Robert Montgomery was originally offered the role, but he felt that the script was poor.[20] Filming began in a tense atmosphere,[7] but both Gable and Frank Capra enjoyed making the movie, although Colbert reportedly did not. Gable and Colbert won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress for their performances in the film, and the movie itself won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He returned to MGM a bigger star than ever.[21]
Gable received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
Spencer Tracy collaborations
Lobby card for Test Pilot with Loy and TracyGable made three pictures with Spencer Tracy which boosted Tracy's career and cemented them in the public mind as a team. San Francisco (1936) featured Tracy in a brief but Oscar-nominated role in which he played a priest who knocks Gable, by then the studio's foremost leading man, down in a boxing ring. Despite being onscreen for only seventeen minutes, the appearance immediately catapulted Tracy, whose career had floundered for years despite delivering superb performances in quality films, into major stardom in the wake of the picture becoming the year's biggest box office attraction. Test Pilot (1938) gave Tracy a larger supporting part as the agonizing friend of Gable's glamorous pilot while Boom Town (1940) depicted an epic rivalry between Gable and Tracy's characters over Claudette Colbert and their oil businesses. Each pairing was a box office phenomenon. MGM had teamed Tracy with Gable every two years until Tracy finally insisted upon a star billing clause in his contract, ending any further Gable-Tracy collaborations.
Gone with the Wind
Despite his reluctance to play the role, Gable is best known for his performance in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which he gained a Best Actor Oscar nomination. Carole Lombard may have been the first to suggest that he play Rhett Butler (and she play Scarlett) when she bought him a copy of the bestseller, which he refused to read.[22]
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind, 1939Butler's last line in Gone with the Wind, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," is one of the most famous lines in movie history.[23] Gable was an almost immediate favorite for the role of Rhett with both the public and producer David O. Selznick. But since Selznick had no male stars under long-term contract, he needed to go through the process of negotiating to borrow an actor from another studio. Gary Cooper was Selznick's first choice.[24] When Cooper turned down the role of Butler, he was quoted as saying, "Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history. I’m glad it'll be Clark Gable who’s falling flat on his nose, not me."[25] By then, Selznick had become determined to hire Gable, and set about finding a way to borrow him from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Gable was wary of potentially disappointing an audience that had decided that no one else could play the part. He later conceded, "I think I know now how a fly must react after being caught in a spider's web."[26]
By all accounts, Gable got along well with his co-stars during filming.[27] Gable was great friends with actress Hattie McDaniel, and he even slipped her a real alcoholic drink during the scene in which they were supposed to be celebrating the birth of Scarlett and Rhett's daughter. Gable tried to boycott the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, Georgia, because the African-American McDaniel was not permitted to attend. He reportedly only went after she pleaded with him to go. Gable remained friends with McDaniel, and he always attended her Hollywood parties, especially when she was raising funds during World War II.[citation needed]
Gable did not want to shed tears for the scene after Rhett inadvertently causes Scarlett to miscarry their second child. Olivia de Havilland made him cry, later commenting, "...Oh, he would not do it. He would not! Victor (Fleming) tried everything with him. He tried to attack him on a professional level. We had done it without him weeping several times and then we had one last try. I said, 'You can do it, I know you can do it and you will be wonderful...' Well, by heaven, just before the cameras rolled, you could see the tears come up at his eyes and he played the scene unforgettably well. He put his whole heart into it."[28]
Decades later, Gable said that whenever his career would start to fade, a re-release of Gone with the Wind would soon revive his popularity, and he continued as a top leading actor for the rest of his life.
Marriage to Carole Lombard
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard after their honeymoon, 1939Gable's marriage in 1939 to his third wife, actress Carole Lombard (1908–1942), was the happiest period of his personal life. They met while filming 1932's No Man of Her Own, when Lombard was still married to actor William Powell, but their romance did not take off until 1936. They became reacquainted at a party and soon were inseparable, cited in fan magazines and tabloids as an official couple. Gable thrived being around Lombard's youthful, charming, and frank personality, once stating, "You can trust that little screwball with your life or your hopes or your weaknesses, and she wouldn't even know how to think about letting you down."[29] Lombard, for her part, seemed to gain personal stability and a contented home life that she had previously lacked. She taught herself how to hunt and fish and accompanied Gable on trips with his hunting companions.
But Gable, who was still legally married, prolonged a lengthy and expensive divorce from his second wife Rhea Langham. His salary from Gone with the Wind enabled him to reach a divorce settlement with Langham, however, on March 7, 1939. On March 29, during a production break on Gone with the Wind, Gable and Lombard were married in Kingman, Arizona. They purchased a ranch previously owned by director Raoul Walsh in Encino, California and made it their home. They raised chickens, horses, and had a menagerie of cats and dogs.
On January 16, 1942, Lombard was a passenger on Trans-World Airlines Flight 3 with her mother and press agent Otto Winkler. She had just finished her 57th movie, To Be or Not to Be, and was on her way home from a successful war bond selling tour when the flight's DC-3 airliner crashed into a mountain near Las Vegas, Nevada, killing all 22 passengers aboard, including 15 servicemen en route to training in California. Gable flew to the crash site to claim the bodies of his wife, mother-in-law, and Winkler, who had been the best man at Gable's and Lombard's wedding. Lombard was declared to be the first war-related American female casualty of World War II, and Gable received a personal condolence note from President Roosevelt. The Civil Aeronautics Board investigation into the crash concluded that pilot error was its cause.[30]
Gable returned to his and Lombard's Encino ranch and carried out her funeral wishes as she had requested in her will. A month later he returned to the studio to work with Lana Turner in the movie Somewhere I'll Find You. Having lost twenty pounds since the tragedy, it was evident that Gable was emotionally and physically devastated by it. But Turner stated that Gable remained a professional for the duration of filming. He would act in 27 more films and remarry twice more. "But he was never the same," said Esther Williams. "He had been devastated by Carole's death."[31]
World War II
- For details of Gable's combat missions, see RAF Polebrook
Clark Gable with an 8th Air Force B-17 in England, 1943In 1942, following Lombard's death, Gable joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. Lombard had suggested that Gable enlist as part of the war effort, but MGM was reluctant to let him go, and he resisted the suggestion. Gable made a public statement after Lombard's death that prompted the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces Henry H. "Hap" Arnold to offer Gable a "special assignment" in aerial gunnery. Gable had earlier expressed an interest in officer candidate school (OCS), but he enlisted on August 12, 1942, with the intention of becoming an enlisted aerial gunner on a bomber. MGM arranged for his studio friend, the cinematographer Andrew McIntyre, to enlist with him and accompany him through training.[32]
However, shortly after his enlistment, he and McIntyre were sent to Miami Beach, Florida, where they entered USAAF OCS Class 42-E on August 17, 1942. Both completed training on October 28, 1942, commissioned as second lieutenant. His class of about 2,600 fellow students (of which he ranked about 700th in class standing) selected Gable as its graduation speaker, at which General Arnold presented the cadets with their commissions. Arnold then informed Gable of his special assignment: to make a recruiting film in combat with the Eighth Air Force to recruit aerial gunners. Gable and McIntyre were immediately sent to Flexible Gunnery School at Tyndall Field, Florida, followed by a photography course at Fort George Wright, Washington State and promoted to first lieutenants upon its completion.[32]
Clark Gable and James Stewart in 1943Gable reported to Biggs Army Air Base,Texas on January 27, 1943, to train with and accompany the 351st Bomb Group to England as head of a six-man motion picture unit. In addition to McIntyre, he recruited the screenwriter John Lee Mahin; camera operators Sgts. Mario Toti and Robert Boles; and the sound man Lt. Howard Voss to complete his crew. Gable was promoted to captain while he was with the 351st Bomb Group at Pueblo Army Air Base, Colorado, a rank commensurate with his position as a unit commander. (As first lieutenants, he and McIntyre had equal seniority.)[32]
Gable spent most of 1943 in England at RAF Polebrook with the 351st Bomb Group. Gable flew five combat missions, including one to Germany, as an observer-gunner in B-17 Flying Fortresses between May 4 and September 23, 1943, earning the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts. During one of the missions, Gable's aircraft was damaged by flak and attacked by fighters, which knocked out one of the engines and shot up the stabilizer. In the raid on Germany, one crewman was killed and two others were wounded, and flak went through Gable's boot and narrowly missed his head. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign its most valuable screen actor to noncombat duty. In November 1943, Gable returned to the United States to edit his film, only to find that the personnel shortage of aerial gunners had already been rectified. He was allowed to complete the film anyway, joining the First Motion Picture Unit in Hollywood, California.
In May 1944, Gable was promoted to major. He hoped for another combat assignment but, when the invasion of Normandy came and went in June without any further orders, Gable was relieved from active duty as a major on June 12, 1944 at his request, since he was over-age for combat. His discharge papers were signed by Captain (later U.S. President) Ronald Reagan. Gable completed editing of the film Combat America in September 1944, giving the narration himself and making use of numerous interviews with enlisted gunners as focus of the film.[32] Because his motion picture production schedule made it impossible for him to fulfill Reserve officer duties, he resigned his commission on September 26, 1947, a week after the Air Force became an independent service branch.
Adolf Hitler favored Gable above all other actors. During World War II, Hitler offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed.[33]
Gable's military awards were the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal. He also qualified for and received aerial gunner wings.
After World War II
Clark Gable and Ava Gardner in The Hucksters, 1947Immediately after his discharge from the service, Gable returned to his ranch and rested. He resumed a pre-war relationship with Virginia Grey and dated other starlets. He introduced his golf caddie Robert Wagner to MGM casting. Gable's first movie after World War II was Adventure (1945), with his ill-matched co-star Greer Garson. It was a critical and commercial failure despite the famous teaser tagline "Gable's back and Garson's got him".
After Joan Crawford's third divorce, she and Gable resumed their affair and lived together for a brief time. Gable was acclaimed for his performance in The Hucksters (1947), a satire of post-war Madison Avenue corruption and immorality. A very public and brief romance with Paulette Goddard occurred after that. In 1949, Gable married Sylvia Ashley, a British divorcée and the widow of Douglas Fairbanks. The relationship was profoundly unsuccessful; they divorced in 1952. Soon followed Never Let Me Go (1953), opposite Gene Tierney. Tierney was a favorite of Gable and he was very disappointed when she was replaced in Mogambo (because of her mental health problems) by Grace Kelly.[34]Mogambo (1953), directed by John Ford, was a somewhat sanitized remake of his earlier Pre-Code film Red Dust (1932), with Jean Harlow and Mary Astor, which had been a greater success. Gable's on-location affair with Grace Kelly (1929–1982), who was young enough to be his daughter, gradually ended after filming was completed.
Clark Gable and Grace Kelly in Mogambo, 1953Gable became increasingly unhappy with what he considered mediocre roles offered him by MGM, while the studio regarded his salary as excessive. Studio head Louis B. Mayer was fired in 1951 amid slumping Hollywood production and revenue, due primarily to the rising popularity of television. Studio chiefs struggled to cut costs. Many MGM stars were fired or their contracts were not renewed, including Greer Garson and Judy Garland. In 1953, Gable refused to renew his contract, and began to work independently. His first two films in this new situation were Soldier of Fortune and The Tall Men (both 1955), which were profitable, although only modest successes. In 1955, Gable married his fifth wife, Kay Spreckels (née Kathleen Williams), a thrice-married former fashion model and actress who had previously been married to sugar-refining heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. Gable became stepfather to her son Bunker Spreckels who went on to live a notorious celebrity lifestyle in the late 1960s and early 1970s surfing scene, ultimately leading to his early death in 1977.
Clark Gable and Yvonne de Carlo in Band of Angels, 1957In 1955, Gable formed a production company with Jane Russell and her husband Bob Waterfield, and they produced The King and Four Queens (1956), Gable's only production. He found producing and acting to be too taxing on his health, and he was beginning to manifest a noticeable tremor, particularly in long takes. His next project was Band of Angels (1957), with relative newcomer Sidney Poitier and Yvonne De Carlo; it was not well received despite Gable's role's similarities to Rhett Butler. Newsweek said, "Here is a movie so bad that it must be seen to be disbelieved."[35] Next he paired with Doris Day in Teacher's Pet (1958), shot in black and white to better hide his aging face and overweight body.[citation needed] The film was good enough to bring Gable more movie offers, including Run Silent, Run Deep (also 1958), with co-star and producer Burt Lancaster, which featured his first on-screen death since 1937, and which garnered good reviews. Gable started to receive television offers but rejected them outright. At 57, Gable finally acknowledged, "Now it's time I acted my age".[36] His next two films were light comedies for Paramount: But Not for Me (1959) with Carroll Baker and It Started in Naples (1960) with Sophia Loren. The last one, despite an icy critical reception, was a good box office success and was nominated for an Academy award and two Golden Globes. Filmed mostly on location in Italy, it was Gable's last film released in color.
Gable's last film was The Misfits (1961), with a script by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston. Co-starring with Gable were Marilyn Monroe, her last completed film; Montgomery Clift; Eli Wallach; and Thelma Ritter. Many critics regard Gable's performance to be his finest, and Gable, after seeing the rough cuts, agreed.[37]
Portraitist Al Hirschfeld created a drawing, and then a lithograph, portraying the film's stars Clift, Monroe, and Gable with screenwriter Miller, in what is suggested as a typical "on-the-set" scene during the troubled production.[38] Throughout his life, Gable was fond of the work of artist Reinhold Palenske, and they were close friends.
Politics
Gable was politically conservative, though he never publicly spoke about politics. His third wife, Carole Lombard, was an activist liberal Democrat,[citation needed] and she cajoled him into supporting Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. In 1944, he became an early member of the conservative Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, alongside Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and other conservative actors and filmmakers. In February 1952, he attended a televised rally in New York where he enthusiastically urged General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President. This was when Eisenhower was still being sought by both parties as their candidate. Despite having suffered a severe coronary thrombosis, Gable still managed to vote by mail in the 1960 presidential election.
Two children and other family members
Clark Gable had a daughter, Judy, with the actress Loretta Young while filming The Call of the Wild (1935) in 1934. In an elaborate scheme, Young took an extended vacation and went to Europe to hide the fact that she was pregnant. After several months, she came back to the United States, and she gave birth to their daughter in Venice, California. Gable had spent much of the pregnancy out of the country, but was in New York City when he received an unsigned telegram that said, "The baby was born, she is beautiful, and has blonde hair." Young and her mother both denied sending the telegram, but Loretta believed that Carter Hermann (her sister Polly's husband, who was also Judy's godfather) had sent it.[39]
Nineteen months after the birth, Young claimed to have adopted Judy. The girl grew up resembling Gable very much, including having large ears that stuck out. She went by the name Judy Lewis after Ms. Young married Tom Lewis when Judy was four years old. According to Lewis, Gable visited her home once, when she was fifteen, asked about her life, and kissed her on her forehead upon leaving. He did not tell her that he was her biological father. Neither Gable nor Young would ever publicly acknowledge their daughter's real parentage, but many people in Hollywood and in the general public believed that Gable was her father because of their very strong resemblance and the timing of her birth.
Lewis finally confronted her mother about her true parentage when she was thirty-one years old and Gable had been dead for five years. Loretta promptly threw up and confirmed that she was her biological mother and Gable was her father. Young never publicly acknowledged the fact while she was alive, which she said would be admitting to a "venial sin". However, she finally gave her biographer permission to include it, on the condition that the book not be published until after her death. She died on August 12, 2000, at the age of 87 of ovarian cancer. Judy Lewis, Gable's only child born while he was alive, died on November 25, 2011, of cancer. Young's daughter-in-law, Linda Lewis, said in 2015 that Young claimed in 1998 that she was raped by Gable. Young's family chose to stay silent about the claim until after both Young and her daughter had died.[40]
In 1955 Gable married Kay Williams, who had a son, John Clark Gable, by him on March 20, 1961, after Gable's death.[41]
In September 2012, Clark James Gable (born September 20, 1988, Gable's grandson and the son of John Clark Gable) became the host of the nationally syndicated reality show Cheaters.[42] Actress Kayley Gable (born in 1986), is the granddaughter of Clark Gable. Her son, Ocean Clark Gable, was born January 1, 2015.
Death
Crypt of Clark Gable, in the Sanctuary of Trust of the Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Glendale.Gable died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital on November 16, 1960, from an arterial blood clot, ten days after a severe heart attack at age 59. There was speculation that Gable's physically demanding role in The Misfits contributed to his sudden death soon after filming was completed. In an interview with Louella Parsons, published soon after Gable's death, Kay Gable said, "It wasn't the physical exertion that killed him. It was the horrible tension, the eternal waiting, waiting, waiting. He waited around forever, for everybody. He'd get so angry that he'd just go ahead and do anything to keep occupied."[43] Monroe said that she and Kay had become close during the filming and would refer to Clark as "Our Man",[4] while Arthur Miller, observing Gable on location, noted that "no hint of affront ever showed on his face".[37] Others have blamed Gable's crash diet before filming began. The 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) Gable weighed about 190 pounds (86 kg) at the time of Gone with the Wind, but by his late 50s, he weighed 230 pounds (104 kg). To get in shape for The Misfits, he dropped to 195 pounds (88 kg).
On March 20, 1961, Kay Williams (Gable) gave birth to Gable's only son, John Clark Gable, at the same hospital in which Gable had died four months earlier. Marilyn Monroe attended his son's christening.
Gable is interred in The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California beside his third wife, Carole Lombard.[44]
Style and reception
In a photo essay of Hollywood film stars, Life magazine called Gable, "All man... and then some."
Doris Day summed up Gable's unique personality: "He was as masculine as any man I've ever known, and as much a little boy as a grown man could be – it was this combination that had such a devastating effect on women."[45]
Longtime friend, eight time co-star and on-again, off-again romance Joan Crawford concurred, stating on David Frost's TV show in 1970 that "he was a king wherever he went. He walked like one, he behaved like one, and he was the most masculine man that I have ever met in my life."
Gable in 1938Robert Taylor said Gable "was a great, great guy and certainly one of the great stars of all times, if not the greatest. I think that I sincerely doubt that there will ever be another like Clark Gable; he was one of a kind."[46]
In his memoir Bring on the Empty Horses[47]David Niven states that Gable, a close friend, was extremely supportive after the sudden, accidental death of Niven's first wife, Primula (Primmie) in 1946. Primmie had supported Gable emotionally after Carole Lombard's death four years earlier: Niven recounts Gable kneeling at Primmie's feet and sobbing while she held and consoled him. Niven also states that Arthur Miller, the author of The Misfits, had described Gable as "the man who did not know how to hate".
Gable has been criticized for altering critical aspects of a script when he felt that the script would not fit in with his image. Screenwriter Larry Gelbart, as quoted by James Garner [48] once stated that Gable, "...would not go down with the submarine, (referring to Run Silent, Run Deep, where the movie ended differently from the book on which it was based) because Gable doesn't sink."
Eli Wallach, in his autobiography,[49] also states that Wallach's most dramatic scene in The Misfits was cut from the movie after it had been filmed over several takes. This scene depicts Wallach's character (who secretly loves the character played by Marilyn Monroe), being emotionally crushed when he visits her, hoping to propose to her, and instead sees her with Gable's character. Both Gable and Monroe are offscreen, and Wallach's heartbreak is indicated by his dropping the rose bouquet he had brought for her. Gable ordered the scene removed because he felt that his character would never steal a woman from another man. Wallach, however, refrains from criticizing Gable, noting that he was professional and considerate in his behavior.
Filmography
Main article: Clark Gable filmographyGable is known to have appeared as an extra in 13 films between 1924 and 1930. He then appeared in a total of 67 theatrically released motion pictures, as himself in 17 "short subject" films, and he narrated and appeared in a World War II propaganda film entitled Combat America, produced by the United States Army Air Forces.
In popular culture
Warner Bros. cartoons sometimes caricatured Gable. Examples include Have You Got Any Castles? (in which his face appears seven times inside the novel The House of the Seven Gables), The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (in which his ears flap on their own), Hollywood Steps Out (in which he follows an enigmatic woman), and Cats Don't Dance in which he appears on a billboard promotion for Gone With The Wind.
The 2003 album Give Up by electronic music group The Postal Service includes a song titled "Clark Gable". The song's narrator says he wants love like something in the movies, and includes the lyrics "I kissed you in a style Clark Gable would have admired, I thought it classic".
In the film Broadway Melody of 1938, Judy Garland (aged 15) sings "You Made Me Love You" while looking at a composite picture of Gable. The opening lines are: "Dear Mr. Gable, I am writing this to you, and I hope that you will read it so you'll know, my heart beats like a hammer, and I stutter and I stammer, every time I see you at the picture show, I guess I'm just another fan of yours, and I thought I'd write and tell you so. You made me love you, I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it..."
In an episode of I Love Lucy entitled, "Harpo Marx" that was originally aired in 1955, Lucy Ricardo, portrayed by Lucille Ball dressed-up as Gable to impress her friend, Carolyn Appleby, portrayed by Doris Singleton.
In the film Captain Ron, the Harvey boat was said to be owned by Clark Gable.
Bugs Bunny's nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett, originated in a scene in the film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable's character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert's character. This scene was well known while the film was popular, and viewers at the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny's behavior as satire.
Gable was mentioned along with Cary Grant and Tyrone Power by Etta Candy in a 1977 Hollywood-themed episode of Wonder Woman.
Gable is mentioned in the lyrics, "Between our quests we sequin vests/And impersonate Clark Gable," in the musical number, "Knights of the Round Table," from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Gable has been portrayed in films by James Brolin in Gable and Lombard (1976), Larry Pennell in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980), Edward Winter in Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), Boyd Holister in Grace Kelly (1983), Gary Wayne in Malice in Wonderland (1985), Gene Daily in The Rocketeer (1991), Bruce Hughes and Shayne Greenman in Blonde (2001), Charles Unwin in Lucy (2003), and Kyle MacLachlan in "Touch of Pink" (2004).
Gable, along with Ava Gardner appeared on the cover of Robin Gibb's second album How Old Are You? (1983).
In the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever," Edith Keeler suggests that she and James T. Kirk see the latest Clark Gable movie. However, Gable had not yet become an established star in 1930, when the majority of the episode is set.
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Neata.
Nu as fi eu daca nu as fi carcotasa, but rules are rules. Fiecare concurent va prezenta un filmulet de minim 3 minute. Al tau are 2:52.
Astept in game palma dupa ceafa
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Halloween nu prea e pentru mine, scary and creepy.
Asa ca astazi pentru JON
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3. http://www.linkmania.ro/topic/479985-ce-alegi-dintre/?do=findComment&comment=7243946
4. http://www.linkmania.ro/topic/477827-animale-bizare/?do=findComment&comment=7243949
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On 26.10.2015, 13:50:50, Electra said:Challange-uri tip Medium: - premiate individual cu 1 Nature + 5 puncte medium
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Transformă-te într-un skeleton(BELLE33) -
Poartă un dovleac pe cap în 3 zile diferite. (odysey) -
Crează-ți propriul demon.(Rede și Chani) -
Participă alături de un party (toţi membrii să fie deghizaţi specific sărbătorii) la o cursă de căluţi în Lorencia.(BELLE33) - Fă selfie cu un gladiator reînviat 3 zile
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Traversează un pod de skeleți miscători timp de 3 zile.(aids) -
Pozează-te in 3 zile diferite cu 3 feluri de skeletoni (no rings).(Dyla) -
Daruiește-i unei elfe o inimă din dovleci.(BELLE33) -
Pozează 3 vrajitoare pe hărţi diferite. (MadBlack) -
Fă un selfie cu încă un coleg deghizat (amândoi în skeletoni) în care să fiţi îngenunchiaţi unul în faţa celuilalt simultan.(Chani)
Challange-uri tip Hard: - premiate individual cu 1 JOE + 7 puncte hard
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Fă o horă în centrul Lorenciei cu persoane deghizate(odysey) - Fă un filmuleț de 2 min în Mu, cu tema Halloween - toate filmuleţele postate vor fi premiate, dacă respectă tema. Acest challange trebuie realizat de 3 ori pentru a fi validat. (1/10)
- Fă o povestioară cu termenii-expresiile: jocul de-a...,poveştilor cu fantome, placintă de dovleac, mergand pe o carare, înşirat, oglinda, colţii, padure, castel. Povestioara trebuie să aiba un început, cuprins şi încheiere şi să fie cât mai funny.- primele 10 povestioare postate, care respectă cerinţele vor fi recompensate (nu aveți voie să modificați expresiile/cuvintele, dacă ele sunt articulate, trebuie să le folosiți așa). Acest challange trebuie realizat de 5 ori pentru a fi validat. (3/10)
- Dăruiește câte 3 dovleci la 5 GM diferiți, în cel puțin 3 zile diferite.
- Participă la un meci de fotbal, la care tu şi toţi coechipierii sunteţi deghizaţi specific.
- Un jucător are voie să efectueze doar 2 Challenger-uri per categorie (doar în situaţie excepţionale nu se aplică această regulă)
- Vă rog frumos să folosiţi spoiler (ochişorul ăla mic) când puneţi poze. Mulţumesc pentru înţelegere !
Problema. Eu am citit ca e eventul pana duminica. My bad.
chestia e ca m-am apucat de Hard 5 si de Medium 5 ieri. Si din cate am intrebat pe server nu il mai face nimeni sau s-au apucat toti azi-ieri ca mine.
Eu pun pozele si ... la mila dvs... Daca ne lasi sa facem poza si la noapte dupa 12 sa fie 3 zile , se rezovla . Daca nu ... Oh mighty Electra... indurare!
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Eu la noapte mai fac o poza cu gladiatorul si cu primul admin care il prind de picior.
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Minim 3 participari saptamanale la eventurile in game : exemplu - BlackJack, KILL GM, Trivia,
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Minim 4 participari saptamanale la Balgass sau Minim 6 Participari saptamanale la Trivia pe Forum/IQ Test/Rebus pe forum/Simon says,
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Minim 3 participari la eventul pe forum - Sa cunoastem Comunitatea Linkmania,
Eu am numarat 5 din 5 :)
Minim 1 participare saptamanala la How it's made, Videomania, Freestyle, Lucky One, Outside of the mu box, Lord of Mu, Soccer, Weekly Challenges.
Am pus film la VideoMania, Am postat la How It's made, Am participat la Lucky, Am participat la Lord of Mu, am participat la Halloween si la Weekly Challenges.
Aveam mai multe poze dar atat ma lasa dnul forum sa pun si nu comentez ca si asa merci ca ma lasa si pe astea.
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Easy 9 La poza pe moment ma credeti pe cvant ca nu pot sa o pun :/
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Chani - JOE
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3. http://www.linkmania.ro/topic/484924-cel-mai-frumos-animal-s%C4%83lbatic/ - aceeasi problema - a disparut numarul pe care apasai sa iei direct link
5. http://www.linkmania.ro/topic/477418-deserturi-delicioase/?page=3
8. http://www.linkmania.ro/topic/472543-cover-uri-preferate/?page=8#comment-7243452
Bonus - in cazul in care am incurcat ceva
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Eric Roberts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor other uses, see Eric Roberts (disambiguation).Eric Roberts
Roberts at the Florida SuperCon, June 2015Born Eric Anthony Roberts
April 18, 1956 (age 59)
Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.Education Henry W. Grady High School Occupation Actor Years active 1977–present Home town Atlanta, Georgia Spouse(s) Eliza Garrett (m. 1992) Children Emma Roberts Parent(s) Walter Grady Roberts
Betty Lou BredemusRelatives Julia Roberts (sister)
Lisa Roberts Gillan (sister)
Keaton Simons (stepson)Website www.ericrobertsactor.com Eric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies (1978), earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor Debut. He earned both a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Runaway Train (1985). Through the 1990s and 2000s he maintained dramatic film and TV film roles while appearing in TV series. His TV work includes three seasons with the sitcom Less than Perfect and a recurring role on theNBC drama Heroes. His sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and daughter Emma Roberts, also have acting careers. He achieved recent recognition for his feat of acting in over 150 films between 2013 and 2015.
Early life[edit]
Roberts was born in Biloxi, Mississippi to Betty Lou Bredemus (1934-2015) and Walter Grady Roberts (1933-1977), one-time actors and playwrights, who met while touring a production of George Washington Slept Here for the armed forces.[1] In 1963, they co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, off Juniper Street in Midtown. They ran a children's acting school in Decatur, Georgia while they were expecting Julia. Roberts' mother became a church secretary and real estate agent, and his father, a vacuum cleaner salesman.[2] Roberts' younger siblings, Julia Roberts (from whom he was estranged until 2004) and Lisa Roberts Gillan, are also actors.
Roberts' parents filed for divorce in 1971 and it was finalized early in 1972.[3] Eric stayed with his father Walter in Atlanta, estranged from his sisters.[1] Walter died of cancer in March 1977.[1][4] Lisa, Julia and Betty moved to Smyrna, Georgia, after the divorce.[1] In 1972, Betty married Michael Motes, and had a daughter with him in 1976,[1] Nancy Motes, who died February 9, 2014, at age 37, of an apparent drug overdose.[5] Motes was abusive and often unemployed. In 1983, Betty divorced Motes, citing cruelty and stating that marrying him was the biggest mistake of her life.[6]
Roberts is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent.[7][8]
Career[edit]
Roberts got his start on the now-defunct NBC daytime soap opera Another World originating the role of Ted Bancroft from February 14, 1977, to June 17, 1977.
Roberts received Golden Globe Award nominations for his early starring roles in King of the Gypsies (1978) and Star 80 (1983). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his role as the escaped convict Buck in the film Runaway Train; the award went to Don Ameche in Cocoon. In 1987, he won the Theatre World Award for his Broadwaydebut performance in Burn This.
Roberts's other starring roles included Raggedy Man (1981), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Coca-Cola Kid (1985), Nobody's Fool (1986), Best of the Best (1989), By the Sword (1991), Best of the Best 2 (1993), The Immortals (1995), La Cucaracha (1998), Purgatory (1999), and Stiletto Dance (2001). He also had major supporting roles in the films Final Analysis (1992), The Specialist (1994), and Shannon's Rainbow (2009). He played the Archangel Michael in The Prophecy II (1997).
In 1996, he appeared in the Doctor Who Television film in the role of the Master. When SFX listed previous Masters in Doctor Who, the magazine said of Roberts: "Out-acted by a CGI snake in the same production." In a darkly comic touch, the onscreen wife of Roberts' human character, who is killed by her newly possessed husband (who is taken over by the Master in the form of the above-mentioned CGI snake), is played by his real-life wife.
His recent projects include A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, DOA: Dead or Alive and Royal Kill. He appeared in The Dark Knight as Sal Maroni, a Gotham City Mafia boss who hires The Joker to kill the titular superhero and a renegade mob accountant.[9]
Roberts co-starred on the ABC situation comedy Less than Perfect. He appeared in an episode of CSI: Miami as Ken Kramer, a murderer on death row convicted of killing a young couple. Another notable TV appearance was the episode "Victims" of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where he played Sam Winfield, a former cop turned vigilante. In the same year, he was also guest starred on The L Word as Gabriel McCutcheon, the father of Shane McCutcheon. In early January 2007, Roberts starred in the two-part miniseries Pandemic as the mayor of Los Angeles.
Roberts voiced the Superman villain Mongul in the animated series Justice League, and reprised his role in Justice League Unlimited in the episode "For the Man Who Has Everything". He performed the voice ofDark Danny in Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom. He appeared in the first season of Heroes as Thompson, an associate of Mr. Bennet.[10] He then reprised the role in the third-season episode "Villains" and in the fourth-season "The Wall".
In 2002 Roberts portrayed a FBI detective in Ja Rule's music video for his song "Down Ass Bitch", as well as its sequel "Down 4 U". Roberts also appeared in The Killers' music video for their song "Mr. Brightside" and "Miss Atomic Bomb" as well as in the music videos for Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and "It's Like That". In 2006, he appeared in the video for Akon's "Smack That", featuring Eminem. In 2007, he appeared in the video for Godhead's "Hey You". In 2015 he appeared in the Rihanna video "Bitch Better Have My Money". He appeared as a panelist on the television game show Hollywood Squares. In February 2009, Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke, who starred with Roberts in The Pope of Greenwich Village, said he hoped that Roberts would soon be offered a role which would resurrect his career in the way that The Wrestler rejuvenated Rourke's.[11]
He portrayed Seth Blanchard on the second season of the Starz series Crash, from 2009. In 2009, Roberts appeared as himself in "Tree Trippers", a season five episode of Entourage. He is portrayed as a mushroom and drug fanatic as he gives the boys mushrooms and joins them to Joshua Tree National Park to trip as they contemplate Vince's next movie decision. It was announced in June 2010 that he would be joining the cast of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless starting July 12.[12] In 2010, he appeared in the action film The Expendables. Later that year, he appeared alongside Steve Austin and Gary Daniels, his co-stars from The Expendables, in the 2010 action film Hunt to Kill. December 2010 saw the premiere of the fourth season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which documented Roberts' struggle with dependency on medical marijuana. Roberts starred in the 2012 mystery thriller Deadline, playing the role of politically incorrect reporter Ronnie Bullock.
In 2015, he starts his appearance in season 5 of Lost Girl, a very appreciated Canadian TV show by Showcase (Canadian TV channel), as main character's father, Bo. He plays an Ancient god of Darkness and calls himself "The Darkness".
Personal life[edit]
Roberts's daughter Emma Roberts, with his then-girlfriend Kelly Cunningham,[13] was born on February 10, 1991. Emma eventually became an actress as well, making her major-film debut at age 10 in the 2001 drama Blow.[13]
On January 12, 2001, Roberts visited The Howard Stern Radio Show with his wife during a segment called "The Gossip Game" with Mike Walker of the National Enquirer. He confirmed that he and Julia had been estranged for several years. The source of the estrangement had been his past drug abuse and her siding with his ex-girlfriend over the custody of his daughter. In 2004, he told People magazine that he and his sister were reconciled when he visited her in the hospital after she gave birth to twins.[14]
Roberts is a vegan and supporter of animal rights.[15][16][17][18]
Arrests and drug problems[edit]
In 1987, Roberts was arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana, and resisting arrest after he tried to assault a New York police officer.[19] He spent 36 hours in jail, pleaded guilty to harassment, and had all other charges dropped.[20]
In February 1995, Roberts was arrested for shoving his wife, Eliza Garrett, into a wall.[19] He subsequently announced that he was giving up drug use entirely.[20]
In 2010, Roberts appeared as a cast member in the fourth season of the VH1 reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, for dependency on medical marijuana.[21] His wife, Eliza, and his stepson, Keaton Simons, appeared in episode 6 to discuss the effects of his addiction on their lives.[22]
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Viorica Viscopoleanu
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaViorica Viscopoleanu Personal information Born August 8, 1939 Medal record[hide]Women's Athletics Competitor for Romania
Olympic Games
1968 Mexico City Long Jump European Championships
1969 Athens Long Jump Viorica Viscopoleanu (née Belmega, born August 8, 1939) is a Romanian athlete who competed mainly in the long jump.
She was born in Budinet, then in Romania, now in Ukraine.
Viscopoleanu competed for Romania at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the women's long jump event. She won the gold medal with a jump of 6.82 which bettered the world record set by Mary Rand at the previous Olympics.
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Tort cu brânză dulce şi fructe
- Ingrediente
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- fructe din compot
- tort gelee roşu
- Blatul la tort cu brânză dulce şi fructe
- 175 grame biscuiţi
- 150 grame unt topit şi răcit
- Crema la tort cu brânză dulce şi fructe
- 200 grame brânză dulce
- 50-75 grame zahăr
- 1 plic zahăr vanilat
- 3 linguri suc de lămâie
- 250 mililitri frişcă lichidă
- 2 plicuri întăritor de frişcă
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Preparăm "Blatul la tort cu brânză dulce şi fructe"
Biscuiţii se dau prin maşina de tocat, se amestecă cu untul şi se pun într-o formă de tort rotundă cu fund detaşabil (du diametrul de 26 cm), tapetată cu hârtie pentru copt.
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Preparăm "Crema la tort cu brânză dulce şi fructe"
Se amestecă brânza proaspătă cu zahărul, zahărul vanilat şi sucul de lămâie.
Se bate frişca cu întăritorul de frişcă timp de 2 minute.
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Peste blat se pune crema.
Peste cremă se aşează fructele din compot scurse foarte bine.
Deasupra se adaugă tort-gelee-ul roşu preparat conform instrucţiunilor de pe ambalaj.
Tortul se lasă la rece aproximativ 2 ore. Forma se desface cu grijă.
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Dark Wizard - Mu Online - Linkmania
Avantajele unui DW/SM:
- Vraja evil spirits are range foarte mare, poti tine spoturi cu raza mare, poti lovi mai multi mobi in acelasi timp
- Teleport - poti plimba dupa tine un caracter din party sau pe tine te poti muta "dupa gard"
- Mana shield - echivalentul buffului de deffence al elfei
- Este pe locul 2 la frumusete, dupa MG, dintre caracterele masculine.
Dezavantaje DW/SM
- defence redus.
- viata creste greu.
- Cu certitudine nu este un caracter pentru pvp.
Stats
Incepe cu mai multa energie decat majoritatea caracterelor. Castiga 5 puncte per lvl, iar dupa ce faci questul Merlon (o data, preferabil inainte de primul rr) va castiga 6 puncte per lvl .18 Strength
- Damage
- Attack Rate
18 Agility
- Attack Speed
- Attack Rate
- Defense
- Defense Rate
- AG Points
- Elemental Defense
15 Stamina
- Health Points
- AG Points
30 Energy
- Wizardry Damage
- Mana Points
- Elemental Damage
Cum se transforma punctele bagate in atribute pentru DW:
60 Health Points
- 1 per character level
- 1 per Stamina point
60 Mana Points
- 2 per character level
- 2 per Energy point
21 AG Points
- 0.4 per Agility point
- 0.3 per Stamina point
- 0.2 per Strength point
- 0.2 per Energy point
99 SD Points
- 0.5 per defense point
- 1.2 per stat point applied
- Increased each character level
Attack Formula
- Max Wizardry Damage:
- ([ENE]/4)
- Min Wizardry Damage:
- ([ENE]/9)
- Max Damage:
- ([STR]/4)
- Min Damage:
- ([STR]/8)
- Max Elemental Damage:
- ([ENE]/6)
- Min Elemental Damage:
- ([ENE]/9)
- Attack Rate:
- ([Char Level] * 5) + ([AGI] * 1.5) + ([STR]/4)
- Attack Rate (PVP):
- ([Char Level] * 3) + ([AGI] * 4)
- Attack Speed:
- ([AGI]/10)
Defense Formula- Defense:
- ([AGI]/5)
- Elemental Defense:
- ([AGI]/5)
- Defense Rate:
- ([AGI]/3)
- Defense Rate{PVP):
- ([Char Level] * 2) + ([AGI] * 0.25)
Specializare
- Increased Spell Power from the Energy stat
- Increased Attack Rate from the Agility stat
- Increased PVP Attack Rate from the Agility stat
Agility
- Increased Attack Rate
- 1 ~ 1500 PTS = 0% ~ 10%
- 1501 ~ 2000 PTS = 10% ~ 30%
- 2000 ~ 3000 PTS = 30% ~ 45%
- PVP Increased Attack Rate
- 1 ~ 1500 PTS = 0% ~ 10%
- 1501 ~ 2000 PTS = 10% ~ 30%
- 2000 ~ 3000 PTS = 30% ~ 45%
Energy- Increased Spell Power
- 1 ~ 1500 PTS = 0% ~ 10%
- 1501 ~ 2000 PTS = 10% ~ 30%
- 2000 ~ 3000 PTS = 30% ~ 45%
Evolution
Dark Wizard poate evolua de 2 ori. La lvl 150 poate face questul de lvl 2 si sa ajunga Soul Master. Acum va avea mai multe vraji si va putea purta mai multe haine/folosi mai multe arme. Apoi la lvl 400 poate face questul de lvl 3, sa ajunga Grand Master. Asta ii va deschide si skill tree si aripile de lvl 3. Daca nu aveti full stats si nu aveti disponibile aripi lvl 3, nu are nici un sens sa face questul de lvl 3, pentru ca va limitati doar la DS 7 si BC 8, care la un moment dat devin aglomerate.Party Set
SW are bonus in party daca este impreuna cu un Elf si un Dark Knight .Skills
Poison- Mana: 42
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 12
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/50
- Imprint DMG: 150%
- Darkness element
Deal poison damage to the target. It has a chance to deal additional poison damage over time.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Poison' skill book.
- **Requires at least 140 Energy to learn this skill.
Meteorite- Mana: 12
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 21
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/45
- Imprint DMG: 190%
- Earth element
Calls down a meteor from the sky at the target causing damage.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Meteorite' skill book.
- **Requires at least 104 Energy to learn this skill.
Lightning- Mana: 15
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 17
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/40
- Imprint DMG: 180%
- Wind element
A streak of lightning which deals damage and has a chance to knockback the target.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Lightning' skill book.
- **Requires at least 72 Energy to learn this skill.
Fire Ball- Mana: 3
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 8
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/30
- Imprint DMG: 197%
- Fire element
Hurls a fiery stone towards the target that deals damage.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Fire Ball' skill book.
- **Requires at least 40 Energy to learn this skill.
Flame- Mana: 50
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 25
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/100
- Imprint DMG: 120%
- Fire element
Create a pillar of fire on the target that deals damage to the target and nearby enemies.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Flame' skill book.
- **Requires at least 160 Energy to learn this skill.
Teleport- Mana: 30
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 0
- Non-element
Become stealth temporarily to move yourself to another location.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Teleport' skill book.
- **Requires at least 88 Energy to learn this skill.
Ice- Mana: 38
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 10
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/45
- Imprint DMG: 150%
- Water element
Deal damage to the target with an ice attack which also has a chance to slow the target’s movement.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Ice' skill book.
- **Requires at least 170 Energy to learn this skill.
Twister- Mana: 60
- Range: 6
- Damage: 35 + ([ENG]/90)
- Skill DMG: 35
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/90
- Imprint DMG: 140%
- Wind element
Send out a Twister towards the target area which deals damage to multiple enemies in its path.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Twister' skill book.
- **Requires at least 180 Energy to learn this skill.
Evil Spirit- Mana: 90
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 45
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/150
- Imprint DMG: 110%
- Darkness element
Release the energy of darkness to deal damage to multiple enemies near you.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Evil Spirit' skill book.
- **Requires at least 220 Energy to learn this skill.
Hell Fire- Mana: 160
- Range: ?
- Skill DMG: 120
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/200
- Imprint DMG: 130%
- Fire element
Light the ground in flames with you as the center, dealing damage to multiple enemies.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Hellfire' skill book.
- **Requires at least 260 Energy to learn this skill.
Power Wave- Mana: 5
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 14
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/30
- Imprint DMG: 195%
- Wind element
Sends out an electrical wave that causes damage to the target.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Power Wave' skill book.
- **Requires at least 56 Energy to learn this skill.
Aqua Beam- Mana: 140
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 80
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/200
- Imprint DMG: 140%
- Water element
Deal water damage to enemies in a straight line of the targeted direction.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Aqua Beam' skill book.
- **Requires at least 345 Energy to learn this skill.
Comet Fall- Mana: 150
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 70
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/150
- Imprint DMG: 130%
- Wind element
Calls down light from the sky to the selected target and enemies near it to deal damage.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Blast' skill book.
- **Requires at least 436 Energy to learn this skill.
Inferno- Mana: 200
- Range: ?
- Skill DMG: 100
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/90
- Imprint DMG: 110%
- Fire element
Embrace yourself in a ring of fire that damages nearby enemies.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Inferno' skill book.
- **Requires at least 578 Energy to learn this skill.
Teleport Ally- Mana: 90
- AG: 45
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 0
- Non-element
Forcibly bring an ally that is far away from you to your location.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Teleport Ally' skill book.
- **Requires at least 644 Energy to learn this skill.
Soul Barrier- Mana: 70
- AG: 22
- Range: 6
- Non-element
Buff
Create a mana shield on yourself or an ally which reduces damage taken in exchange for mana.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Soul Barrier' skill book.
- **Requires at least 408 Energy to learn this skill.
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Damage Absorbtion Rate:
- 10 + ([AGI]/50) + ([ENE]/200)
- *as a percentage (%)
Energy Ball- Mana: 1
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 3
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/30
- Imprint DMG: 200%
- Wind element
Send out a sphere of condensed energy to towards the target, dealing damage.
Decay- Mana: 110
- AG: 7
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 95
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/100
- Imprint DMG: 110%
- Darkness element
Drop a poison boulder at the targeted location, dealing damage to multiple targets in the area. Damaged targets have a chance to take additional poison damage.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Decay' skill book.
- **Requires at least 953 Energy to learn this skill.
Ice Storm- Mana: 100
- AG: 5
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 80
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/90
- Imprint DMG: 115%
- Water element
Drop a shard of ice at the targeted location, dealing damage to multiple targets in the area. Damaged targets have a chance to have their movement speed decreased.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Ice Storm' skill book.
- **Requires at least 849 Energy to learn this skill.
Nova- Mana: 180
- AG: 45
- Range: 6
- Damage: 0
- DMG Formula: ?
- Imprint DMG: 160%
- Fire element
Draw forth the light energy from the surroundings and explode it at once, dealing damage to multiple enemies near you. Deal more damage the longer you charge up.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Nova' skill book.
- **Requires at least 1052 Energy to learn this skill.
Enhanced Wizardry- Mana: 200
- AG: 50
- Range: 6
- Non-element
- Wizardry Increase: 20%
Temporarily increase min. Magical DMG.- *Can be learned via 'Scroll of Wizardry Expansion' skill book.
- **Requires at least 1058 Energy to learn this skill.
Freeze Earth- Mana: 180
- AG: 15
- Cooldown: 5 Seconds
- Range: ?
- Damage: 0
- DMG Formula: [ENG]/200
- Imprint DMG: 135%
- Earth element
Deal damage to the target and its nearby enemies. It has a chance to make the targets immobilized.- *Can be acquired from Master Skill.
Illusion- Mana: 1000
- AG: 300
- Cooldown: 120 Seconds
- Range: 1
- Non-element
Make a phantom copy of yourself to fight together. This phantom absorbs some of damage main body receives.- *Can be acquired from Master Skill.
Special Skills
Lance
- Mana: 150
- AG: 10
- Range: 6
- Skill DMG: 90
- Non-element
Throw a dagger at the target to deal damage.- *Only becomes active for use in Castle Siege.
Master Skill Tree
Select a skill on the skill tree to see information about that skill..Select a skill on the skill tree to see information about that skill..Select a skill on the skill tree to see information about that skill..Dark Wizard Sets Pad Set
Bone Set
Sphinx Set
Legendary Set
Grand Soul Set
Dark Soul Set
Venom Myst Set
Eclipse
Hades Set
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Anthony Quinn
April 21, 1915
Chihuahua, Mexico
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-born American actor, painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Guns for San Sebastian,Lawrence of Arabia, The Message and Lion of the Desert. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: for Viva Zapata! in 1952 and Lust for Life in 1956.
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[hide]Early life[edit]
Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca on April 21, 1915 in Chihuahua, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution to Manuela (née Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, known informally as "Frank" and "Nellie".[1][2] Francisco Quinn was born in Mexico, to an Irish immigrant father from County Cork and a Mexican mother.[3] Frank Quinn rode with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa,[1] then later moved to the East Los Angeles neighborhood of City Terrace and became an assistant cameraman at a movie studio. In Quinn's autobiography, The Original Sin: A Self-portrait by Anthony Quinn, he denied being the son of an "Irish adventurer" and attributed that tale to Hollywood publicists.[4]
When he was six years old, Quinn attended a Catholic church (even thinking he wanted to become a priest). At age eleven, however, he joined the Pentecostals in theInternational Church of the Foursquare Gospel (the Pentecostal followers of Aimee Semple McPherson).[5] For a time he played in the church's band and was an apprentice preacher with the renowned evangelist. "I have known most of the great actresses of my time, and not one of them could touch her", Quinn once said of the spellbinding McPherson, whom he credited with inspiring Zorba's gesture of the dramatically outstretched hand. [6]
Quinn grew up first in El Paso, Texas, and later the Boyle Heights and the Echo Park areas of Los Angeles, California. He attended Hammel Street Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, Polytechnic High School and finally Belmont High School in Los Angeles, with future baseball player and General Hospital star John Beradino, but left before graduating. Tucson High School in Arizona, many years later, awarded him an honorary high school diploma.[citation needed]
As a young man, Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright, at Wright's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio, Taliesin. The two men became friends. When Quinn mentioned that he was drawn to acting, Wright encouraged him. Quinn said he had been offered $800 per week by a film studio and didn't know what to do. Wright replied, "Take it, you'll never make that much with me."[this quote needs a citation] During a 1999 interview on the show Private Screenings with Robert Osborne, Quinn said the contract was for only $300 per week.[7]
Career[edit]
After a short time performing on the stage, Quinn launched his film career performing character roles in the 1936 films Parole (in which he made his debut) and The Milky Way. He played "ethnic" villains in Paramount films such as Dangerous to Know (1938) and Road to Morocco, and played a more sympathetic Crazy Horse in They Died with Their Boots On with Errol Flynn.[8]
By 1947, he had appeared in more than fifty films and had played Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Filipino freedom-fighters, Chinese guerrillas, and Arab sheiks, but was still not a major star. He returned to the theater, playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway. In 1947, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.[2]
He came back to Hollywood in the early 1950s, specializing in tough roles. He was cast in a series of B-adventures such as Mask of the Avenger (1951). His big break came from playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952). Quinn's performance as Zapata's brother won Quinn an Oscar while Brando lost the Oscar for Best Actor to Gary Cooper in High Noon.[9]
Quinn was the first Mexican-American to win an Academy Award. He appeared in several Italian films starting in 1953, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La strada (1954) opposite Giulietta Masina. Quinn won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of painter Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life (1956). The following year, he received an Oscar nomination for his part in George Cukor's Wild Is the Wind. He starred in The Savage Innocents 1959 (film) as Inuk, an Eskimo who finds himself caught between two clashing cultures.[10]
As the decade ended, Quinn allowed his age to show and began his transformation into a major character actor. His physique filled out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face weathered and became more rugged. He played a Greek resistance fighter in The Guns of Navarone (1961), an aging boxer in Requiem for a Heavyweight, and the Bedouin shaikh Auda abu Tayi in Lawrence of Arabia (both 1962). That year he also played the title role in Barabbas, based on a novel by Pär Lagerkvist.[11]
The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 resulted in another Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Other films included The 25th Hour, The Magus,La Bataille de San Sebastian and The Shoes of the Fisherman.[12] In 1969, he starred in The Secret of Santa Vittoria with Anna Magnani; each was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.[13]
He appeared on Broadway to great acclaim in Becket, as King Henry II to Laurence Olivier's Thomas Becket in 1960. An erroneous story arose in later years that during the run Quinn and Olivier switched roles and Quinn played Becket to Olivier's King. In fact, Quinn left the production for a film, never having played Becket, and director Peter Glenville suggested a road tour with Olivier as Henry. Olivier happily agreed and Arthur Kennedy took on the role of Becket for the tour and brief return to Broadway.[14][15]
In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named The City, where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the television series, The Man and the City. Quinn's subsequent television appearances were sporadic, including Jesus of Nazareth.[16]
In 1976, he starred in the movie Mohammad, Messenger of God (also known as The Message), about the origin of Islam, as Hamza, a highly respected uncle of Mohammad, the prophet of Islam.[17] In 1981, he starred in the Lion of the Desert. Quinn played real-life Bedouin leaderOmar Mukhtar who fought Benito Mussolini's Italian troops in the deserts of Libya.[18]
In 1983, he reprised his role as Zorba the Greek for 362 performances in a successful musical version, called Zorba, opposite fellow film co-star Lila Kedrova, reprising her role as Madame Hortense. Quinn performed in the musical both on Broadway and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.[19]
Quinn's film career slowed during the 1990s, but he nonetheless continued to work steadily, appearing in Revenge (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Last Action Hero (1993), A Walk in the Clouds (1995) and Seven Servants (1996).[20]
In 1994 Quinn played the role of Zeus in five television movies focusing on the legendary journeys of Hercules. These were, in order, Hercules and the Amazon Women,Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, Hercules and the Circle of Fire, Hercules in the Underworld, and Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur [21]
Mafia[edit]
Quinn made an appearance at the John Gotti trial, according to John H. Davis, author of Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family. He told reporters he wanted to play Paul Castellano, the boss of the Gambino family after Carlo Gambino. Gotti had Castellano murdered, becoming the boss of the Gambino family thereafter. Gotti was on trial concerning a variety of felony charges when Quinn visited the courtroom. Although he tried to shake hands with Gotti, federal marshals prevented him from doing so, Davis says. The actor interpreted the testimony of Sammy ("The Bull") Gravano, Gotti's underboss, against Gotti as "a friend who betrays a friend." He hadn't come to "judge" Gotti, Quinn insisted, but only because he wanted to portray Castellano, who inspired the actor because he had had a "thirty-year-old" mistress, which Quinn believed was "a beautiful thing". He would later portray Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce in the 1996 HBO film Gotti. Quinn was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Dellacroce.[citation needed]
Quinn had a personal relationship with New York Mafia Crime Boss Frank Costello and other Genovese gangsters.[22][23]
Painting and writing[edit]
Art critic Donald Kuspit, explains, "examining Quinn's many expressions of creativity together—his art and acting—we can see that he was a creative genius..."[24]
Early in life Quinn had an interest in painting and drawing. Throughout his teenage years he won various art competitions in California and focused his studies at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles on drafting. Later, Quinn studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship — an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest. Through Wright's recommendation, Quinn took acting lessons as a form of post-operative speech therapy, which led to an acting career that spanned over six decades.[citation needed]
Apart from art classes taken in Chicago during the 1950s, Quinn never attended art school; nonetheless, taking advantage of books, museums, and amassing a sizable collection, he managed to give himself an effective education in the language of modern art. By the early 1980s, his work had caught the eyes of various gallery owners and was exhibited internationally, in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Mexico City. His work is now represented in both public and private collections throughout the world.[citation needed]
He wrote two memoirs, The Original Sin (1972) and One Man Tango (1997), a number of scripts, and a series of unpublished stories currently in the collection of his archive.
Personal life[edit]
Quinn's personal life was as volatile and passionate as the characters he played in films. His first wife was the adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille, the actress Katherine DeMille, who wed in 1937. The couple had five children: Christopher (1939-1941), Christina (born December 1, 1941), Catalina (born November 21, 1942), Duncan (born August 4, 1945), and Valentina (born December 26, 1952).[25] Their first child, Christopher, aged two, drowned in the lily pond of next-door neighbor W.C. Fields.[25]
In 1965, Quinn and DeMille were divorced, because of his affair with Italian costume designer Jolanda Addolori, whom he married in 1966. They had three children: Francesco Quinn(March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011), Danny (born April 16, 1964), and Lorenzo Quinn (born May 7, 1966).[citation needed]
The union ended in 1997, after Quinn had children with his secretary, Katherine Benvin. He then married Benvin, with whom he had two children, Antonia Patricia Rose Quinn (born July 23, 1993) and Ryan Nicholas Quinn (born July 5, 1996).[26][22]
Quinn and Benvin remained married until his death. He also had two children with Friedel Dunbar: Sean Quinn (born February 7, 1973), a New Jersey real estate agent, and Alexander Anthony Quinn (born December 30, 1976), an event producer in Los Angeles.
Death[edit]
Quinn spent his last years in Bristol, Rhode Island. He died of respiratory failure in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 86.[1]
His funeral was held in the First Baptist Church in America in College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island. Late in life, he had rejoined the Foursquare evangelical Christian community. He is buried in a family plot in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Tributes/Legacy[edit]
In Chihuahua, Mexico[27] There is a statue of Quinn (who was originally from Chihuahua) doing his famous "Zorba the Greek" dance. A 70-foot high mural, entitled "Anthony Quinn" or more commonly "The Pope of Broadway" (1984) by Eloy Torrez, is at 259 W. Third Street, Los Angeles, California.
On January 5, 1982, the Belvedere County Public Library in East Los Angeles was renamed in honor of Anthony Quinn. The present library sits on the site of his family's former home.[28]
There is an Anthony Quinn Bay and Beach in Rhodes, Greece, just 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south of the village of Faliraki (aka Falirakion or Falirákion).[29] The land was bought by Quinn during the filming of The Guns of Navarone in Rhodes; however, it was reclaimed by the Greek government in 1984 due to a change in property law.[30]
The National Council of La Raza gives the Anthony Quinn Award for Excellence in Motion Pictures as an ALMA Award.[citation needed]
Filmography[edit]
Awards[edit]
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film