AARP
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American Assn for Retired Persons: group that speaks to issues of Americans 50 and over
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Anime
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A special version of cartoons that combine real life figures. Very popular in Japan and first used in an American film "Titan A.E."
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B Movie
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Of secondary quality
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Blaxploitation
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Movies aims at African-Americans that were generally of "B" quality
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CFFC
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Currently on film festival circuit. Release date will be shown
when and if distribution is secured
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CGI
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Computer Generated Images
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Code Blue
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Emergency attempt by medical staff to bring a patient back from
the dead with electric shock
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DTM
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Dead Teenage Movie: most of the actors are in the film to get killed to support the story...like a serial killer
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DWB
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Driving While Black..see "racial Profiling"
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Eating Out
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Legend on rating restaurants
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Eye Candy
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A film that is pleasing to look at but lacks substance with respect to a story and/or acting
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Filmography
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A history of other work done by an actor or director
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FAQ
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Frequently Asked Questions
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GWS
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Great Web Sites
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Hood
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A residential location in a poor minority neighbood
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Lucky Sperm Club
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Those in the movie business born to a well known and successful person such as Angelina Jolie Voight, the daughter of Jon Voight.
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Man Who Would Not Die
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A character who is killed in a film but finds a way to come back into the story
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Mockumentary
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A story fimed in a documentary format which is not true. It will satrize a topic such as in Best in Show and Stardom.
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MF
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Mother ----er, a profanity often associated as being used by African-Americans in anger as well as a milder "my brother"
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Special terms unique to the Internet
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NYC
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New York City
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NYR
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Not Yet Reviewed
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Racial profiling
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Police officers who stop or detain people because of their ethnicity rather than probable cause; also known as DWB "driving while black".
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Roger Ebert
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Respected film critic; has written many books and only critic to have won the Pulitizer Prize
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Slice of Life
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A film in which there is not beginning and end of a plot.
That is, you drop in on a person's life on Thursday and maybe
leave it on Sunday. The film is about what occurred in their life
during that time frame. There was a story before Thursday and
there will be one after Sunday.
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SPCA
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
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STV
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Straight To Video; a film that was shot to be released in theaters but was or should have been shown only on TV
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The Man Who Would Not Die
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After suffering an event which would kill someone, the person continues to live to make it to the next scene
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T & A
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Tits and ass; a film with it's essence in the visual; usually a lightweight movie
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TBD
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To Be Determined
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WWII
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World War II which the United States entered after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
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