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 Profumo Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some of the events of the Profumo Affair are depicted in the 1989 film Scandal, starring John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, and Bridget Fonda.
The Profumo Affair was a political scandal of 1963 in the United Kingdom.
The scandal stemmed from his brief relationship with a showgirl named Christine Keeler.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Profumo_Affair

  
 Frank on film: 4/20/03
The film juxtaposes footage of the Clinton hearings with archived reels of a 1989 scandal centered on Rep. Frank's relationship with a male prostitute.
And Rep. Frank, who had survived a sexual scandal of his own after outing himself in the late-1980s, was the nexus at which the film's various themes met.
Everly hit a few snags in finishing the film, his first major project.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/04-03/04-20-03/b01lo049.htm   (1165 words)

  
 The Miracle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Breakthru," the second single, was released in the UK on June 19, 1989; its video was filmed on a private steam train known as "The Miracle Express." The song peaked at #7 in the UK.
"The Miracle," the fifth and final single from the album of the same name, released on November 27, 1989 in the UK, reached #21 on British charts.
"Scandal" was the fourth single from The Miracle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Miracle   (1116 words)

  
 auc002.doc
Matted together with 7½ x 9½ film still from Laurence of Arabia, sat on camel £65 1422 PACINO, AL A 10 x 8 half length colour photograph of Pacino as he appeared as police detective Frank Keller in the 1989 film ‘Sea of Love’, pictured smoking a cigarette.
Overall 11 x 14 £50 1349 GRAY, SALLY 6 x 7½ vintage black & white head & shoulders, films inc School for Scandal & Green for Danger (1) £20 1350 GRIFFITHS, MELANIE A 10 x 8 half length colour photograph of Griffith in a low cut cocktail dress, taken from a film performance.
£120 £50 15 CARRERAS 1949 ‘Turf Sliders’ Famous Film Stars (tops & bottoms still present, sides cut off.
www.corbitts.com /docs/auctions/cards/002/auc002.doc   (20041 words)

  
 1987 at opensource encyclopedia
Wednesday, November 18, 1987 - Iran-Contra scandal: The United States Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra affair, stating that US President Ronald Wilson Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides and his administration exhibited "secrecy, deception, and disdain for the law."
Years: 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 - 1987 - 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
May 17 - Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by a missile from an Iraqi Mirage fighter killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
www.wiki.tatet.com /1987.html   (1430 words)

  
 Profumo Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some of the events of the Profumo Affair are depicted in the 1989 film Scandal, starring John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, and Bridget Fonda.
The Profumo Affair was a political scandal of 1963 in the United Kingdom.
The scandal stemmed from his brief relationship with a showgirl named Christine Keeler.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Profumo_Affair   (297 words)

  
 Scandal (1989)
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Scandal (1989)
Did anyone else find this film a little sexy?
I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
www.imdb.com /title/tt0098260   (297 words)

  
 Michael Caton-Jones @ Filmbug UK
The film was the third-highest grossing independent film of 1989, and earned several awards and nominations, including the Camera D'Or at Cannes, the Golden Globes and the European Oscars.
Caton-Jones made his directorial debut with Scandal, the story of the notorious Profumo sex scandal, starring John Hurt, Bridget Fonda, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Sir Ian McKellen.
and Doc Hollywood starring Michael J. Fox, Bridget Fonda, Julie Warner and Woody Harrelson.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/27232   (188 words)

  
 John Hurt
Scandal (1989) is a dramatic movie starring joanne whalley and john hurt, written by michael thomas and directed by michael caton-jones....
The field is a 1990 film which tells the story of a tenant farmer who attempts to outbid an american developer for the parcel of land that his family has farmed...
Midnight express is a 1978 biographical film, based on the story of billy hayes, a young american sent to a turkeyturkish prison for trying to...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_hurt.htm   (1502 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Gong Li
She was still a student there when Zhang Yimou chose her in 1987 for the lead role in his first film as a director, Red Sorghum, which was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
She continued acting in Zhang's films well into the mid-1990s, gaining an international reputation as for her sensuality and beauty, being voted as one of People's magazine 100 most beautiful people in 2001.
In 1985, she enrolled in the Central Academy of Drama to study acting, and graduated in 1989.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Gong_Li   (247 words)

  
 Whyaduck Productions, Inc. -- Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
Unfortunately, because of licensing costs and clearance issues, I was unable to get the film distributed after its initial run on PBS’ American Masters series in 1989.
Sahl’s popularity started to rise again in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
Mort started to read some of the more ludicrous passages of the Warren Report in his act and many accused him of “not being funny anymore.” The problem may have been that the nation lost its sense of humor, not Mort.
www.duckprods.com /projects/mortsahl.html   (893 words)

  
 Ryans Hope - All About All findings
Jack Ryan (born circa 1960) is a moderate Republican from the state of Illinois who was forced to withdraw his Senate candidacy due to a sex scandal involving his ex-wife...
Ryan's Hope (RH) was a soap opera which aired for fourteen years on ABC, from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989.
Irene Ryan (born Irene Noblette) was one of the few entertainers who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, and Broadway.
www.allaboutall.info /search/Ryans%20Hope   (727 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film John Hurt
He excels as the outsider, playing Quentin Crisp in the Naked Civil Servant (1975), John Merrick in The Elephant Man (1980) and Stephen Ward in Scandal (1989).
John Hurt has been making at least one film a year since 1962.
In Love And Death On Long Island (1997), Hurt portrays an abandoned homme de lettres who falls obsessively in love with a high-school jock.
film.guardian.co.uk /Player/Player_Page/0,4159,45393,00.html   (81 words)

  
 Salon.com Sex Dangerous
In 1989 a film was made about it all, called "Scandal," with Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Keeler and Ian McKellen as Profumo.
The Macmillan government fell, in no small part because of this.
Juliette Binoche's character in "Damage" is like the real-life Christine Keeler of the Profumo affair.
archive.salon.com /sex/turn_on/2001/04/13/damage   (843 words)

  
 BLAZE STARR - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Well Ernie, take care and write soon, Your friend Always." New Orleans stripper Blaze Starr's involvement with Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long (1895-1960) resulted in a major political scandal and was the subject of Blaze, a 1989 Academy Award nominated film starring Paul Newman as Long.
Earl had sat in a 'leach bed!' I only had one leach between my toes, but Earl had more than twenty, between his legs, and on his bottom side.
When I was engaged to Governor Earl K. Long of La., his very favorite thing was a special water hole where we would go skinny dippin.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2002/law/BLAZE_STARR.htm   (497 words)

  
 BLAZE STARR - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Well Ernie, take care and write soon, Your friend Always." New Orleans stripper Blaze Starr's involvement with Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long (1895-1960) resulted in a major political scandal and was the subject of Blaze, a 1989 Academy Award nominated film starring Paul Newman as Long.
Earl had sat in a 'leach bed!' I only had one leach between my toes, but Earl had more than twenty, between his legs, and on his bottom side.
When I was engaged to Governor Earl K. Long of La., his very favorite thing was a special water hole where we would go skinny dippin.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2002/law/BLAZE_STARR.htm   (497 words)

  
 Forbes.com: Polish PM, officials exonerated in bribery probe
The scandal, the biggest corruption affair since the 1989 fall of communism, has contributed a dramatic fall in popularity ratings of Miller's social democratic party, which forced the prime minister to announce his resignation.
A parliamentary committee voted to approve a report that said Poland's top film producer had solicited a bribe from a newspaper in return for favourable legislation, but that he had been acting on his own -- not on behalf of top officials.
Rywin, who also co-produced Roman Polanski's "The Pianist", is separately on trial for soliciting a bribe, and a conviction could put him in jail for for up to three years.
www.forbes.com /home_europe/newswire/2004/04/05/rtr1323182.html   (707 words)

  
 Victor Salva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Salva (born March 29, 1958 in California) is an American film director, mostly of horror movies.
Victor Salva, Child Molester Media reports archive related to the director's sexual molestation of a child actor and his films POWDER and JEEPERS CREEPERS 1.
Despite the scandal and Salva's pariah status in Hollywood emerging from it, his 2001 effort Jeepers Creepers was a notable box office success, as was its 2003 sequel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Salva   (222 words)

  
 The Corner on National Review Online
His bottom line: ”[I]t looks as if this scandal is about a spy who was not endangered, a whistle-blower who did not blow the whistle and was not smeared, and a White House official who has not been fired for a felony that he did not commit.
Perhaps most troubling is the fact that Aviv was exposed in 1989, giving Spielberg and his team no excuse for basing any part of his story on him or the book.
Meanwhile, according to this article from Haaretz the film is based in part on a book which has been seriously discredited.
corner.nationalreview.com /05_07_10_corner-archive.asp   (11473 words)

  
 Additional Reading (from Shoeless Joe Jackson) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
in his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), on which the film Field of Dreams (1989) was based.
In nonfiction a careful analysis of the Black Sox Scandal may be found in
By the end of the 20th century, Jackson had become more than a tainted baseball player; his fall from grace had made him a symbol of the hope for redemption, a theme employed by
www.britannica.com /eb/article-230090?tocId=230090   (113 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Profumo Affair Article
Some of the events of the Profumo Affair are depicted in the 1989 film Scandal, starring John Hurt, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, and Bridget Fonda.
Keeler was found guilty on unrelated perjury charges and sentenced to nine months in prison.
www.ipedia.com /profumo_affair.html   (317 words)

  
 The (Rob) Lowe Down on Pee-wee - Jan 03, 2003 - E! Online News
Lowe, now 38, was a Brat Pack member in good standing when, in 1989, a video depicting his extracurricular activities during the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta first surfaced, the resulting scandal putting more drag on his already stalling film career.
Lowe's infamous homemade video featuring the future West Winger engaged in the body politic with two females, one of whom was underage, is one of the potential pieces of evidence in the child-porn case against Reubens.
Lowe, who'll depart his comeback gig on The West Wing later this season, settled the matter with the girl's mother out of court, and performed community service as part of the deal.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,11063,00.html   (724 words)

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