Mike Downey
출생 : 1951-08-09, Chicago Heights, Illinois
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Mike Downey (born August 9, 1951 in Chicago Heights, Illinois) is an American newspaper columnist.
From 2003 to 2008, Downey wrote the "In the Wake of the News" column for the Chicago Tribune originated by Ring Lardner in 1913. He has also been a columnist in news, entertainment and sports for the Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News.
Downey began a career in journalism at age 15 for a newspaper chain in the south suburbs of Chicago and graduated at 16 from Bloom Township High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He has been a police reporter, entertainment writer, editor, critic and columnist, and has covered national political conventions, murder trials and twelve Olympic Games. Among his assignments have been an America's Cup yacht race in Australia, tennis at Wimbledon, British Open golf in Scotland, the Tour de France bicycle race, Stanley Cup hockey finals in Montreal and World Cup soccer in Italy, as well as Pan-American Games competitions in Argentina and Cuba.
He also has been a columnist for The Sporting News and Sport Magazine and for 15 years wrote a humor column for Inside Sports magazine known as "The Good Doctor." He was a featured sports correspondent for KABC radio in Los Angeles and for WJR radio in Detroit and has often been a panelist on ESPN television's weekly talk show, "The Sports Reporters."
In statewide voting by peers, Downey has been selected National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association sportswriter of the year elevent times, in Illinois (twice), Michigan (twice) and California (seven times).
He was honored for his news column by the Los Angeles Press Club in 1998 and won the 1994 Eclipse Award, thoroughbred racing's highest honor. Downey's writing has appeared in a variety of national magazines including GQ, Parade, Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide.
He was included as a character in the Elmore Leonard novel "Be Cool."
Downey resides in Rancho Mirage, California. He is married to singer Gail Martin, daughter of the legendary entertainer Dean Martin.
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The Parade, in a tragicomic way, tells the story about ongoing battle between two worlds in contemporary post-war Serbian society - the traditional, oppressive, homophobic majority and a liberal, modern and open-minded minority... The film, which deals with gay rights issues in Serbia, features footage of the 2010 Belgrade gay pride parade. The film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade.
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The comedy Our Own Oslo is an everyday love story. We follow the strained courtship of the wildly differing Harald, forty year old engineer and Vilborg, an unemployed single mother. They are both tangled up in their own pasts and their attempts at love end in disaster.
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After numerous sold out tours and two highly acclaimed albums under their belts, Australian drum 'n' bass outfit Pendulum release their first ever live collection. Recorded at therenowned Brixton Academy in London over two dates in December 2008, the band perform a selection of tracks from their albums including their massive remix of The Prodigy's 'VoodooPeople' and their reinterpretation of Metallica's 'Master Of Puppets'. A DVD of the live set directed by Grammy nominated Paul Caslin is also included.
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Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.
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When the most mischievous resident of Rolli Village befriends a beautiful elf girl, the hopelessly mismatched pair embarks on a magical adventure to save the Forest of Elves by traveling to the Land of Winter and recovering the mythical magical heart in this animated tale of wonder for the entire family.
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When the most mischievous resident of Rolli Village befriends a beautiful elf girl, the hopelessly mismatched pair embarks on a magical adventure to save the Forest of Elves by traveling to the Land of Winter and recovering the mythical magical heart in this animated tale of wonder for the entire family.
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At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.
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공포로 얼어붙은 시간과 기억들... 1917년 제 1차 세계대전, 연합군과 독일군간의 치열한 전투가 계속되고 있는 서부전선. 영국군은 독일군과의 대치상황에서 이미 최후의 마지노선에 몰려있는 상태로 전진만이 이들이 택할 수 있는 유일한 길이다. 제닝스 중대장이 이끄는 와이 중대 역시 죽음에 대한 공포 속에서 작전명령 하달만을 기다리고 있다. 결국 적진을 향해 돌격하라는 작전 명령이 하달되고 전장은 피비린내나는 참혹함으로 일순간 아수라장으로 변한다. 여기에 독일군이 살포한 가스로 인해 와이 중대는 대열에서 이탈하게 된다. 전쟁의 공포를 짓누르는 또 하나의 공포... 간신히 목숨을 구한 와이 중대 대원들은 살아남기 위해 적진으로 뛰어들게 되고, 그 곳에서 독일군들이 사용한 것으로 보이는 참호를 발견하게 된다. 이 곳에 도착한 이들은 살아남은 독일군 1명을 포로로 잡게 되고, 그로부터 이 참호 안을 떠나지 않으면 모두 전멸하고 말것이라는 이야기를 듣는다. 그 말을 믿지 않은 와이 중대 대원들은 참호를 사수하기로 하지만 시간이 흐를수록 참호에선 이상한 일들이 벌어지는데...
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공포로 얼어붙은 시간과 기억들... 1917년 제 1차 세계대전, 연합군과 독일군간의 치열한 전투가 계속되고 있는 서부전선. 영국군은 독일군과의 대치상황에서 이미 최후의 마지노선에 몰려있는 상태로 전진만이 이들이 택할 수 있는 유일한 길이다. 제닝스 중대장이 이끄는 와이 중대 역시 죽음에 대한 공포 속에서 작전명령 하달만을 기다리고 있다. 결국 적진을 향해 돌격하라는 작전 명령이 하달되고 전장은 피비린내나는 참혹함으로 일순간 아수라장으로 변한다. 여기에 독일군이 살포한 가스로 인해 와이 중대는 대열에서 이탈하게 된다. 전쟁의 공포를 짓누르는 또 하나의 공포... 간신히 목숨을 구한 와이 중대 대원들은 살아남기 위해 적진으로 뛰어들게 되고, 그 곳에서 독일군들이 사용한 것으로 보이는 참호를 발견하게 된다. 이 곳에 도착한 이들은 살아남은 독일군 1명을 포로로 잡게 되고, 그로부터 이 참호 안을 떠나지 않으면 모두 전멸하고 말것이라는 이야기를 듣는다. 그 말을 믿지 않은 와이 중대 대원들은 참호를 사수하기로 하지만 시간이 흐를수록 참호에선 이상한 일들이 벌어지는데...
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Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young women DÚA who he believes might be his daughter. When she gets into trouble with the police Simon represses his death wish and decides to help her out. Together they flee to the city of Hamburg and smuggle with them what used to be the greatest export of the Vikings, an Icelandic Falcon. Their plan is to sell it to wealthy Arabs.
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Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.
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성당에서 침묵의 서약을 한 젊은 수도사 키릴은 쫓기고 있는 알바니아 소녀 자밀라를 숨겨주지만 그녀의 말조차 알아듣지 못한다. 어느새 그녀는 그의 마음 속에 자리잡게 되고 무장한 사내들이 그녀를 찾아 성당을 기습할 때도 그는 자신의 평화를 깨트릴 위험에 빠지게 됐다는 사실조차 잊어버린다. 한편 사진편집인 앤은 남편 닉과 종군 사진작가 알렉산더 사이에서 사랑의 갈등을 겪게 되고 알렉산더는 마음의 평화를 찾기 위해 고향으로 돌아간다. 하지만 어느새 그곳도 전쟁의 기운에 휩싸여 있다. 어느날 과거의 연인이었던 안나가 자신의 실종된 딸을 찾아달라고 부탁하자 그는 카메라를 통해서 경험했던 민족분규를 경험하게 된다.
