Frank Miller

Frank Miller is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark comic book stories and graphic novels such as 'Ronin', 'Daredevil: Born Again', 'The Dark Knight Returns', 'Sin City' and '300'. He also directed the film version of 'Sin City' and 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' with Robert Rodriguez and produced the film '300'.

Miller was born in Onley, Maryland, on January 27, 1957, and raised in Montpelier, Vermont, the fifth of seven children of a nurse mother and a carpenter/electrician father. His family was Irish Catholic.

Miller was a fan of comics from an early age, but seeing the stories of their favourite characters are pretty ridiculous and childish, Miller thought the comic books, especially super hero comic books deserves better stories and more mature characters.

Miller worked for Marvel and DC Comics alike in early 80', creating mature stories for characters like Daredevil with 'Death of Elektra' and 'Born Again' and Batman with 'Year One' and the masterpiece 'The Dark Knight Returns'.

It was controversial at the first time, but soon their stories have been praised by critics and fans alike, making a before and an after about making comic book stories. Also raises Miller's status as a celebrity.

Lately he worked alone making his own stories like '300' and 'Ronin', but suddenly he wrote and drew his best story yet, 'Sin City'
The creation of Sin City made again being praised by critics, saying 'Sin City is Miller finest work yet' and it's considered one of the best comic book of all time.

Frank Miller, with Alan Moore, made comic books are appointed as the 9th art.

Currently, Miller is working on a new comic called "The Dark Knight III: The Master Race", sequel of 'The Dark Knight Strikes Again'.

Farnk Miller influecial:
-The Way to create comic books, and comic books are not just for children.
-Movies adaptations like 300 and Sin City have been critical acclaim during realese.
-He had a lot of fans, following in the footsteps of the author creating dark stories like 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and 'The Walking Dead'.
-Batman Begins (2005) was based by 'Batman: Year One'.
-Daredevil Netfix Series (2015) was based by 'Daredevil: Born Again'.
-The Upcoming Batman v Superman (2016) will be based on 'The Dark Knight Returns'.

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Morgan Freeman

Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr.

 Is an American actor and film director, He is the son of Mayme Edna and  Morgan Porterfield Freeman.  Born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennesse. As a child lived in many places with his grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi and then with his family in Greenwood, Mississippi, Gary, Indiana and finally Chicago, Illinois.

  He went to Threadgill Primary school, where he  made his acting debut at age nine, playing the lead role in a school play. He graduated from Broad Street High School in Chicago, and soon turned down a scholarship to Jackson State University. He decides to work as a mechanic for the Air Force United States Army.

 After four years in the military, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he took acting lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse. his first credited film appearance was in 1971's Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?. He won one Oscar and two golden globes for best actor.

Freeman has two children out of marriage, Alfonso Freeman who born in 1960 and Morgana Freeman who is adopted. He was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw (1967-1979) then he was married to Myrna Colley-Lee (1984-2010) 

-Sofia Correa 

 

A day to remember

Musical genre: Pop punks, Metalcore and Post-Hardcore

Current members: Jeremy McKinnon, Kevin Skaff, Neil Westfall, Joshua Woodard, Alex Shellnut.

Former mermbers: Tom Denney, Bobby Scruggs, Brandon Roberts, Jason.

These five members met for the first time in a school band. The singer, Jeremy, Tom and Neil are guitarists and the bassist/drummer are Joshua and Bobby.

Then, the band did a tour where they played more than 200 shows. They released  their first album, titled “And their name was Treason”.

In June 2nd of 2003 the band announced the official start of their career.

Now they released a new album called “Common Courtesy” where the success “I'm already gone” was removed as the best acoustic song of iTunes Store.

The band announced their first tour of Europe and that their new album will be released on december 25th of 2016.

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sam smith

sam smith

Smith was born in London ( born 19 May 1992) , the son of Frederick Smith and Kate Cassidy  , he has two sisters  Mabel smith and Lily Smith. He is an alumnus of Youth Music Theatre UK.  Before entering the musical theatre, Smith had been in jazz bands. For a number of years he studied singing and songwriting under jazz pianist  joanna eder   .  He was a member of the Bishop's Stortford Junior Operatics.

2012-2013

then, in 2012 he started her music career when Smith was featured on the disclosure song latch  , which was released on 8 October 2012. In February 2013, he released the first single from his debut album, lay me down . The same year, he released his first EP nirvana  consisting of four tracks. The first song on the EP titled, safe with me is produced by Two Inch Punch and premiered on mista jam's BBC radio  on 24 July 2013. The second song on the EP is titled "Nirvana" and is produced by Craze & Hoax and Jonathan Creek.

 2014

 It was announced on 16 December that Smith's debut studio album titled in the lonely hour , would be released on 26 May 2014 through capital records . He describes the album as "all about unrequited love" because he has never been loved back by any of his love interests. The album reached number one in the UK albums chart   and number two on the billboard 200  , and by 5 November it had become the second biggest selling album of 2014 in the U.S. then , he show more hits like stay with me , make it to me , etc. and the song stay with me  awarded 12.5% of the royalties.

2015

now he is a Successful singer,  and  in March 2015," lay me down " was re-released as the sixth single from the album, peaking at number 8 on the billboard  Hot 100 The same month, Smith recorded another version of the song, featuring john legend, for the British charity telethon comic relief  , which reached number one in the UK.

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