- Home alone is a 2000 Russian animated film. It is 2.5 minutes long.
- Home Alone is a 2006 game released for the PlayStation 2 and based on the film of the same name and its sequels. The game was released in Europe only. The aim of the game is to go through five areas and dispose of the burglars while locking all the doors and windows to stop more getting in.
- Home Alone is a series of films that was based on the adventures of a boy named Kevin McCallister (with the exception of the third film which focuses on a child named Alex Pruitt).
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Mollie Sugden (1922 – 2009)
Mollie Sugden, the actress who died on July 1 aged 86, endeared herself to television viewers as Mrs Slocombe of the Ladies Separates and Underwear department in Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft’s long-running sitcom Are You Being Served?
Like all the best sitcoms, Are You Being Served?, first broadcast on BBC One between 1972 and 1985 and set in Grace Bros department store, drew on the venerable music hall traditions of familiar social stereotypes, heavy double entendre and jokes that could be seen advancing over the horizon from several miles away. The show benefited from strong portrayals by all its main characters, but it was Mrs Slocombe and her counterpart in menswear, the outrageously camp Mr Humphries (John Inman), who made it unmissable.
Mollie Sugden’s Mrs Slocombe was a recognisable working type – the shopworn divorcee trying to keep up appearances, defying the years with ever more lurid rinses, and returning home alone each night to her "little pussy", to which there was always at least one reference in every show.
Mrs Slocombe had an arch, Ortonesque way with the unfortunate phrase: "Captain Peacock, I do not respond to any man’s finger!", she says in response to a summons from the boss. "Before we go any further, Mr Rumbold, Miss Brahms and I would like to complain about the state of our drawers. They’re a positive disgrace."
Mrs Slocombe had no children, which must have been a personal relief to Mollie Sugden, who was more usually cast as the interfering mother figure. As for similarities between the character and her own, she conceded that, like Mrs Slocombe, she could be "a bit bossy", but "unlike me, Mrs Slocombe could never find a fella".
Mary Isobel Sugden was born in Keighley in Yorkshire on July 21 1922. Her father ran an iron and steel company. When she was four years old, she heard a woman reading a comic poem at a village concert. The following Christmas, after being asked if she could "do anything", she read the same poem. It made her realise "how wonderful it was to make people laugh". Her first public performance came a year later in a Sunday School play in which she played a "bold,
bad cat".
Mollie Sugden was educated at the local Grammar School, then worked during the war in a munitions factory in Keighley making shells for the Royal Navy. When she was later made redundant, she enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
After graduation she spent eight years in rep with a company that included Eric Sykes and Roy Dotrice, then took small roles on radio and television. Before Are You Being Served? she appeared with Benny Hill, Just Jimmy (as Jimmy Clitheroe’s mother), Z-Cars, Up Pompeii!, The Goodies, Steptoe and Son and, in 1968, five episodes of Jackanory.
In 1973 she had a 23 week stint on That’s Life! and also appeared as Terry Scott’s mother in Son of the Bride.
Her first regular sitcom role, from 1962 to 1966, was as Mrs Crispin in Hugh and I. The series was written by John Chapman and when he got involved with The Liver Birds, he suggested Mollie Sugden for the role of Mrs Hutchinson, mother of Sandra (Nerys Hughes). Sugden portrayed Mrs Hutchinson from 1971 to 1979, and reprised the role when the series was revived in 1996. She also played Robin Nedwell’s mother in Doctor in Charge (1972) and John Alderton’s mother in My Wife Next Door (1972)
The first episode of Are You Being Served? was a one-off Comedy Playhouse, ignored until terrorists struck at the 1972 Munich Olympics, leaving the BBC with free airspace. The pilot was watched by 19 million viewers and the response was so huge that five more episodes were filmed. In total, 74 were shown between 1973 and 1985. In early episodes, Mollie Sugden had her hair dyed, bleached and re-dyed every time Mrs Slocombe changed her hair colour. It had been her own idea, but it meant that she sometimes had to turn up at her sons’ school with her hair a multi-coloured mess. Later, she saved her roots and her dignity by wearing wigs.
In 1978, when it was thought that the series was about to be pensioned off, she appeared in the title role of Come Back Mrs Noah, about a housewife accidentally blasted into orbit on a space rocket, a sitcom which, despite the fact that it had the same writers as Are You Being Served?, is widely regarded as one of the worst ever made. From 1965 to 1976 she made occasional appearances as Nellie Harvey, the landlady of The Laughing Donkey, in Coronation Street.
Mollie Sugden also had roles in other sitcoms, including That’s My Boy (1981-86), in which she played housekeeper to Dr Robert Price (Christopher Blake) and his wife Angie (Jennifer Lonsdale), and My Husband and I (1987-8) in which she played opposite her real husband, William Moore, whom she had married in 1958 after meeting him at Swansea rep.
Seven years after the end of Are You Being Served?, five of the origin
Plaza Hotel, New York City
Fifth Avenue at Central Park South, New York, NY 10019
The Plaza was designed imitating the style of a late medieval French chateaux
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The Plaza Hotel in New York City is jointly owned by Elad Properties and Kingdom Holdings, a Saudia Arabia based corporation. It derives its name from the Grand Army Plaza which sits in front of the hotel. It has been managed by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts since 1999.
According to the Fairmont Plaza web site:
The Plaza opened its doors on October 1, 1907, amid a flurry of impressive reports describing it as the greatest hotel in the world. Located at Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, this luxury hotel was constructed in the most fashionable residential section of New York City.
The Plaza was the dream of financier Bernhard Beinecke, hotelier Fred Sterry, and Harry S. Black, President of the Fuller Construction Company. The Fuller Company also built the Pennsylvania Station, the Flatiron Building, R.H. Macy’s flagship store on Broadway and 34th Street, the Savoy-Plaza Hotel across Fifth Avenue, the biggest hotel in the world at the time, designed by McKim, Mead & White, and demolished in 1964. In Chicago, Fuller built the Stevens Hotel, designed by Holabird & Roche.
They purchased a 15-year-old hotel of the same name on the site. The three men set out to replace it with what is surely one of the most elegant hotels in the world. Construction of the 19-story building (a skyscraper back then) took two years at a cost of $12 million – an unprecedented sum in those days. The architect was Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. Hardenbergh also designed the Dakota apartments, the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. and The Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston, set about his task to provide all the pomp, glory, and opulence of a French chateau. No cost was spared. The largest single order in history for gold-encrusted china was placed with L. Straus & Sons, and no less than 1,650 crystal chandeliers were purchased.
Originally, The Plaza, a Manhattan luxury hotel, served as a residence for wealthy New Yorkers. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt were the first to sign the register. For guests who chose to rent on a nightly basis at the time, this New York City luxury hotel’s single rooms started at $2.50 per night.
Kings, presidents, ambassadors, stars of stage, screen and sports, as well as business executives and travellers from all parts of the world have gathered and stayed at The Plaza. The Plaza was so well known that Ernest Hemingway once advised F. Scott Fitzgerald to give his liver to Princeton and his heart to The Plaza.
Although The Plaza appeared fleetingly in earlier films, this Manhattan luxury hotel’s true movie debut was in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic North by Northwest – the first time a crew, director and cast assembled on site to make a picture. Before then, movies were shot almost entirely on Hollywood soundstages and rarely on location. The Plaza has provided the location for other motion pictures such as Plaza Suite, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby, Barefoot in the Park, Funny Girl, Cotton Club, Crocodile Dundee I and II and Home Alone II: Lost In New-York.
Designated a New York City Landmark in 1969, The Plaza is listed on the Register of Historic Places and the only New York City hotel to be designated as a National Historic Landmark.
According to Wikipedia Conrad Hilton bought the Plaza for US$7.4 million in 1943 ($94 million in today’s dollars) and spent US$6.0 million ($76.2 million in today’s dollars) refurbishing it. The Childs Company, a national restaurant chain which partnered in the development of the neighboring Savoy-Plaza Hotel,(now the site of the General Motors Building), purchased the Plaza Hotel in 1955 for 1,100,000 shares of Childs common stock, valued at approximately $6,325,000 ($51.9 million in today’s dollars). Childs subsequently changed its name to Hotel Corporation of America, now known as Sonesta International Hotels Corporation. Donald Trump bought the Plaza for $407.5 million in 1988 ($756 million in today’s dollars).
Trump commented on his purchase in a full-page open letter he published in The New York Times: "I haven’t purchased a building, I have purchased a masterpiece — the Mona Lisa. For the first time in my life, I have knowingly made a deal that was not economic — for I can never justify the price I paid, no matter how successful the Plaza becomes."
After Trump’s divorce from wife Ivana Trump, the Plaza’s president, Trump sold the hotel for $325 million in 1995 ($468 million in today’s dollars) to Troy Richard Campbell, from New Hampshire. He sold it in 2004 for $675 million ($785 million in today’s dollars) to a Manhattan developer, El Ad Properties. El Ad bought the hotel with plans of adding residential and commercial sections. Since The Plaza Hotel is a New York landmark, Tishman Construction Corporation, the construction managemen
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