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The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible 2 . [ 1 ] Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe ). [ 2 ]
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 11 The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave: MGM Home Entertainment / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Peter MacDonald (director); Bob Einstein, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, Don Lake (screenplay); Bob Einstein, Dan Hedaya, Gia Carides, Don Lake, Steve Van Wormer, Ray Charles, Michael Buffer, Evander Holyfield, John Elway, Jim Doughan, Billy ...
Mission: Impossible 2 broke Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ' s record ($54.1 million) for the highest weekend debut for a spy film and Mission: Impossible ' s record ($45.4 million) for the highest weekend debut for a film based on a TV show and a Paramount film. It had the highest weekend debut of 2000.
Tyler Hinman (born November 5, 1984) is an American competitive crossword puzzle solver and constructor and a seven-time winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT). He holds the tournament record for youngest champion ever, winning as a 20-year-old in 2005, and he formerly held the record for consecutive titles with five, a feat ...
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) is a crossword-solving tournament held annually in February, March, or April. Founded in 1978 by Will Shortz , who still directs the tournament, it is the oldest and largest crossword tournament held in the United States ; the 2023 event set an attendance record with more than 750 competitors.
At age 16, Shortz began regularly contributing crossword puzzles to Dell Publishing. [6] He eventually graduated from Indiana University in 1974, [7] and is the only person known to hold a college degree in enigmatology, [8] the study of puzzles. Shortz wrote his thesis about the history of American word puzzles. [9]
Salvador Toscano created the film, "Don Juan Tenorio", which is considered one of the first films in Mexico and perhaps the first fictional film in Mexico, as South America as a continent focuses on making documentaries in its early film history. [5] [6] 1898 – Hiralal Sen was inspired and filmed the "Flower of Persia" play. [7]