Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 - 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology.
Carl believed that too much of the field of psychology was based on logic, and that much could be learned through the study of dreams, art, philosophy and religion. His work was spread wide, as he studied fields from astrology to alchemy to literature.
Jung proposed many completely original concepts over the course of his studies, including but not limited to The archetype, The complex, The collective unconscious, and Synchronicity.
While working with Freud early in his career, he became fascinated with the unconscious human mind, and devoted his life's work to discovering it's secrets.
Jung introduced many parts of the human unconscious not yet brought out into light. The Individuation is a person's gradual journey towards identifying him or herself. This process is what generally causes the "mid-life crisis" halfway through an adult's life, as they begin to understand long hidden desires and fear wasting the second half of their lifespan.
His Idea of the Anima and Animus within the human psyche was also a first in psychology. The anima is the female component of a male's mind, and the animus is the male component of a female's mind. People not in touch with their anima or animus may seem overly masculine or feminine, off balance from the social norm. Repression of one's Anima/us will result in this part of the human brain attempting to gain attention by manifesting itself in how that person sees others.
Another of his psychological discoveries is the idea of The Shadow. The Shadow of a human mind is the part of each person that we choose not to acknowledge and is generall the exact opposite of how that person portrays him or herself. The shadow of a kind man will be overl cruel, and vice versa. It also works with one's mental projection of ones self, as a person convinced that they are beautiful will have a hidden, ugly shadow beneath.
Jung's further work involves the exploration of different psychological typed of people, including investigation of the introvert versus the extrovert. He also proposed spirituality as a cure for alcoholism.
Connections in his life to the Nazi party overshadowed his work during the years of the war and after, though he was never proven to be part of the Nazi movement, he did write in favor of Hitler's book Mein Kampf, and he served as the president of the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy, a Nazi dominated organization.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (9 June 1891 - 15 October 1964) was an American composer and songwriter, from Indiana. He is best known for his highly sophisticated lyrics and rhymes, and wrote for many famous musicals including Kiss Me, Kate (1948), a musical based on Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew". He died of kidney failure at age 73.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Vaessa Redgrave is a famous English actress of the "redgrave acting dynasty", born on the 30th of January in 1937. Her entire family is tied to film in some way shape or form. Her sisters Corin and Lynn are also actresses. She married Tony Richardson, a director, and their two daughters Joely and Natasha are actresses as well. She has a son, Carlo, who is from a different father but also works in show business as a film director.
Far from just an actress, Vanessa Redgrave is also a social and political activist for human rights, among other causes over the years.
In 2006, she was given the Ibsen Centennial Award.

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Seven Year Itch

Seven Year Itch was a three act play written by George Axelrod. The romantic comedy debuted on November 20, 1952 but was soon turned into a film, released in 1955. Starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, it is called one of the greatest comedies of it's time, and is famous for multle scenes and quotes, including the ever-famous picture of Monroe's white dress flying up because of a passing subway train.
The comedy tells the story of Richard Sherman, who is reading a book that will soon be published by his company, which tells about a 7 year itch, explaining that the vast majority of men will deviate from their wives after seven years of marriage. After sending his family to Maine for the summer to avoid the heat, he meets a 22 year old blonde model, who lives above him. As he spends time with her, his over-active imagination takes over the story with his fantasies about cheating on his wfe, his wife cheating on him up in maine, and his wife catching (and sometimes killing) him while he cheats on her with this blonde girl (nameless).

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Leopold and Loeb

Nathan Leopold, Jr. (19 November, 1904 - 30 August, 1971) and Richard Loeb (11 June, 1905 - 28 January, 1936) are better known as Leopold and Loeb. They were both wealthy Jewish students from the University of Chicago, and were both incredibly smart. Using their superior intellect, they attempted to perform "the perfect crime", for no reason other than excitement. In 1924 they murdered another Jewish boy, Bobby Franks, by kindapping him, hitting him in the head wth a chisel, and then suffocating him. They hid the body and burned it with hydrochloric acid, to make identfication more dffcult. Following the murder, to avoid a homicide investigation, they wrote a ransom note to his family to the amount of ten thousand dollars. However, Franks' body was found before the ransom could be paid, and the two men were discovered when a pair of eyeglasses found on the body were traced back to Nathan. They also found a connection between his papers written at university, and the ransom note, which were typed on the same typewriter.
The trial was the first to ever be called the "trial of the century" and cased a great uproar in the Jewish community, as well as a rise in anti-semitism which was kept in check only by the fact that Franks was also Jewish. The two men pled guilty and seemed to enjoy the publicism, and after a twelve hour speach by their lawyer were sentenced to life in prison plus 99 years for the kidnapping. Loeb was killed while in prison, but Leopold lived and was released after 33 years. He later wrote and published a book titled "Life Plus Ninety-Nine Years". He died of a heart attack in 1971 at the age of 66.


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Sunny Von Bulow

Martha Sharp Crawford von Bulow (Sunny von Bulow) was born on the first of September in 1932. Amercan Heiress and wife of Claus von Bulow, she went into a deep coma in 1981 follwing an injection of Insulin into her bloodstream. She did not die, but remained in a state of vegitation, where she still is today. Her husband Claus was tried and found guilty of attempted murder, but the finding was upturned in the court of appeals. The story was later told in a movie titled Reversal of Fortune. Following the trial, Claus gave up the rights to most of her inherited fortune and passed it down to their daughter.

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Gilda

Classified as Film Noir, the black and white film "Gilda" was released in 1946, directed by Charles Vidor. Gilda (Rita Hayworth) is the wife of an illegal casino owner. The story takes place in Argentina, the location of the casino, and begins as Gilda's husband hires John Farrell (Glenn Ford) to keep track of his wife. Farrell secretly is a former lover of Gilda's, which forms many of the movies plot twists. Over the course of the film, all the character's secrets are gradually revealed.

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Annabel Lee

"Annabel Lee" was the title of Edgar Allen Poe's last poem before his death in 1849. Published posthumously, the poem talks about a man mourning a dead lover, much like one of his earlier works, "The Raven". Speculation about the meaning behind the poem ranges from his own personal mourning of his dead wife, to nothing at all. The poem is as follows:


It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel lee
With a love that winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel lee
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The Angels, not half as happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the side of the sea.
-Edgar Allen Poe

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Peyton Place

"Peyton Place" is a novel by Grace Metalious, published in 1956. The book was one of the first "blockbusters" of literature history, selling sixty-thousand copies in the first ten days of it's release. It then remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 consecutive weeks. The book included controversial themes such as incest, abortion, adultery and murder, and followed the lives of three women as they struggled to find themselves in society. A movie was spawned off of this story the year after it's release, in 1957. A sequel was then made, Titled "Return to Peyton Place".

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Modern Warriors

Modern Warriors is a movie released in 2002. More of a documentary than a typical hollywood film, it showed the world's top matial artists demonstrating all the avrious styles of their art. Stepping away from purely action film, the movie also included commentary and interviews from the martial artists, talking about theory and philosophy behind the scenes. The film gives the viewer exclusive information about the spiritual styles and rising popularity of Martial Arts in recent history.

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Al Jolson

Al Jolson was an American Singer and Actor in the early 1900's. Born may 26, 1886 in Lithuania, his career influenced popularly known names in history such as Bing Crosby and Eddie Fisher. On October 23, 1950 he had a massive heart attack while playing cards, and died. After his death, Hollywood dimmed all its lights for over 10 minutes in rememberance of his career, and a statue was erected in his honor.

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El Dorado

El Dorado is spanish for "the Golden One". It is a legend that began in South America with a tribal Chief who covered himself in gold dust and dove into mountain water. Through the legend, El Dorado became the myth of a kingdom ruled by the Golden King. When the Spanish Conquistadores moved in, they heard stories of the fabled golden city, but were never able to find such a place. However, historical accounts of tribal rituals suggest that kings would eminate this story, and have themselves covered in gold dust from nearby mines.

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Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) was born on November 7, 1879. He was an incredibly important figure in Soviet history. As a politician, he played a crucial role in the rise of that movement and was one of the first members of the Politburo. He then went on to create the Red Army. His marxist ideas put him at the head of the government under Lenin, but after Lenin's death he was thrown out of the Communist Party and exiled by Stalin. During this time he is rumored to have appeared in a couple of American films, though nothing has been proven. Trotskyism rose after his death in 1940, a communist thoery opposting Stalinism.

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Che Guevara

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Che Guevara) was born in Argentina on May 14, 1928. Early in life he studied medicine around central and latin America. His travels convinced him that the only solution to the impoverished nations was a revolution against the current government. He joined Fidel Castro's revolution, the 26th of July Movement and helped take power there in 1959. After this he traveled to New York City at the head of a delegation to speak to the United Nations. He supported not only the Communist Bloc in eastern Europe, but also North Vietnam during the Vietnam war. Afterwards, he disappeared from the public eye and traveled to other countries. He helped to incite rebellion in Congo-Kinshasa, and the Bolivia. Che was captured by the CIA and executed by the Bolivian government on October 9, 1967

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Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire is an American play by Tenessee Williams. It won the pulitzer prize in 1948 for best Drama. The story chronicles a cultural clash between Blanche Duboise and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Duboise was a pretenious, alcoholic southerner whose obsessive addiction to virtue and need to be seen as "good" hid her alcoholic nature and shielded her from reality. Stanley Kowalski was an overpowering, crude, brutish inner-city immigrant and husband of Blanche's sister Stella. The play spawned a movie in 1951, and later became an opera in 1955.

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Sal Mineo

Born on January 10th, 1939, Salatore Mineo Jr. was an American actor. He played a part opposite James Dean in the popular film "Rebel Without a Cause" and was nominated for an acadamy award for the part. His hollywood fame lasted for a short time and then slowly died down. On February 12, 1976, after a series of failed projects, he was stabbed to death in an allyway. His career was beginning to start back up when he died.

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