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Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American black comedy film directed by George Armitage from a screenplay by Tom Jankiewicz, D. V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink and John Cusack.It stars Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd and follows the story of assassin Martin Q. Blank (Cusack), who returns to his hometown of Grosse Pointe, Michigan to attend a high school reunion.
A war dance is a dance involving mock combat, usually in reference to tribal warrior societies where such dances were performed as a ritual connected with endemic warfare. Martial arts in various cultures can be performed in dance-like settings for various reasons, such as for evoking ferocity in preparation for battle or showing off skill in a ...
War/Dance is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, and produced by Shine Global's Susan MacLaury, a professor at Kean University, and Albie Hecht. It was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature [ 1 ] and received the Emmy Awards for Best Documentary and Best ...
Capoeira or the Dance of War by Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1825, published 1835. The landscape of all dance in a large country such as Brazil is rich and complex due to the mixing of three separate traditions—Indian native, Black African, and Portuguese. [31] In Brazil, the African influence on Brazilian folkdances is considerable.
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In recent seasons concerts have also taken place at Christ Church Grosse Pointe and the War Memorial in Grosse Pointe, Pontiac’s Flagstar Strand Theatre, the Village Theatre at Cherry Hill in Canton, and several venues in downtown Detroit, including the Cube at Orchestra Hall, Music Hall and Schaver Music Recital Hall.
McCartan's sculpture, The Nude, was stolen from the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Michigan and was discovered at the bottom of the Detroit River eight years later. [3] McCartan sculpted the 19th issue of the Society of Medalists, Peace in the New World/War in the Old World.
War, Inc. is thought to be an informal sequel to the 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank. Both films are similar in style and theme, and both films star John Cusack as an assassin and Joan Cusack as his assistant, with Dan Aykroyd in a supporting role. In an interview, Joan Cusack said, "I think, in a way, [War, Inc.] was a Grosse Pointe Blank 2."