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Madagascar Forestry Department (DGEF) in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society
The Makira Natural Park will be one of Madagascar’s largest protected areas, and one of the first to be created under the president’s “Durban Vision”, which aims to triple the area under protection during the period 2003-2008. Located in the north east of Madagascar, this park will protect mostly mid altitude rainforest as well as the watersheds of some of the country’s most vital river systems. In addition to being extremely important for biodiversity conservation in its own right, Makira will provide a forested connection between the Masoala National Park with other protected areas to the north such as Anjanaharibe-sud Reserve and Marojejy National Park, thus ensuring their long term ecological viability.
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Candy is an Italian company based in Brugherio, near Milan, which manufactures domestic appliances.
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2Acquisitions and sales
3Sports sponsorship
3.1Formula One
3.2Liverpool F.C.
4Present day
5External links
Early history
Candy Group is an Italian privately-owned (the Fumagalli family) multi-brand group of companies, among the world leaders in the household appliance industry: washing machines, dishwashers, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, cookers and oven, both built-in and free-standing. It personnel count reached 7,000-plus at year’s end 2008, of whom about 80% outside Italy.
Headquarters are in Brugherio, near Milano (Italy). Branch offices and fully owned subsidiaries are 40 worldwide. Manufacturing sites are in Italy, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Russia, China, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
The Group operates through two international brands, Candy and Hoover, and the national ones: Rosières, Iberna, Jinling, Otsein, Süsler, Vyatka, Zerowatt, Hoover-Helkama, Hoover-Grepa . Back in 1945, the Eden Fumagalli Mechanical Workshop in Monza (a town north of Milan), manufacturers of precision machine instruments, designed the Model 50, the first all-Italian washing machine, which was launched officially at the Milan Trade Fair in 1946. In that same year, the Candy company was established out of the initial family business.
Right from the start, Candy washing machines became the protagonist of the development of Italian appliance market, expanding soon to the whole of Europe.
Innovation has always been the keyword at Candy: In the Sixties, the Automatic washing machine was launched. It was the first fully automatic one, designed and made in Italy on a new platform, which became the global standard for the product.
In 1966, the company entered product diversification presenting Stipomatic, an automatic dishwasher with two compartments. At the same time, the Superautomatic washing machine was launched. These two innovative products paved the way to the expansion of appliances into Italian families.
Acquisitions and sales
The growth strategy to face international competition and enter new markets has been built on innovation and diversification of the product range. Acquisitions of brands and manufacturing facilities added up to this effort: La Sovrana, cookers (1970); Kelvinator Italia (1971) and Kelvinator UK (1980), refrigerators; Zerowatt, washing machines and dryers (1985); Gasfire, built-in cooking appliances (1985); Rosières, a leading French brand in cooking and built-in (1987); Mayc-Otsein, Spain, top loading washing machine specialist (1992); Iberna, an Italian leading brand in fridges and freezers (1993).
1995 saw the acquisition of Hoover European Appliances company, today the European (and Italian) leader in floor-care. The offer widened to large appliances, whose competitive positioning is at the top of the median band segment of the market. The Company subsequently ceased all UK manufacturing with the closure of factories which had each been operation for over half a century. The Wirral Merseyside Candy refrigeration plant was closed in 2002, the Cambuslang Glasgow Hoover Vacuum Cleaner plant in 2004 and finally in 2009 Candy closed the Merthyr Tydfil Hoover Washing Machine/ Tumble Dryer/ Dishwasher plant. These closures left over 800 employees without jobs who saw all UK manufacturing transferred to the Czech Republic, Far East and Turkey under both the Hoover and Candy brands.
Sixty years after the first washing machine, Candy Group acquired (2005) an established Russian brand in washing machine, Vyatka, and its manufacturing site Vesta in Kirov. In mid-2006, the Jinling washing machine brand was acquired in China, together with its industrial facilities, sales network, international operations. Early 2007 saw the acquisition of Doruk in Turkey, owner of the Süsler brand for cooking appliances. The industrial presence in Russia, China, Turkey also means a leading commercial foothold in these fast-growing markets.
In September 2007, an agreement was reached in the Nordic Region for acquiring the exclusive rights on the national brands Helkama and Grepa from Helkama Forste company in Finland. The ranges of appliances are offered dual-branded with Hoover.
At the end of 2008 the Uzbek-Italian Joint Venture Roison-Candy was established by the Uzbek Limited Liability Company Roison Electronics with partnership of Candy Group. New Company is specialized to produce various domestic appliances, in particular, refrigerators and laundry washers based on the cutting-edge technologies.
Sports sponsorship
Formula One
As part of Candy’s international expansion in the 1970s the company decided to enter the high-dollar world of Formula One. Midway through the 1979 season, Candy became the marquee sponsor for the Tyrrell team with drivers Jean-Pierre Jarier and Didier Pironi. Tyrrell enjoyed some success in 1979, finishing 4th in the Constructor’s Championship, and Candy stayed on as the team’s sponsor for the 1980 season. In 1981, Candy sponsored the Toleman team and was also later involved with Ligier but eventually withdrew from F1.
Liverpool F.C.
Candy were the shirt sponsors of Liverpool F.C. between 1988 and 1992, debuting in the 1988 FA Cup final which Liverpool lost to Wimbledon, and remembered as the sponsors the last time Liverpool were League champions. Candy last appeared on a Liverpool shirt on 9 May 1992, when they defeated Sunderland in the 1992 FA Cup final.
Present day
Today, Candy’s appliances are known more through their continued marketing of the Hoover and Kelvinator brands. Hoover-branded washing machines are largely Candy designs and are made up from Candy components. As well as in Europe, Candy operates manufacturing facilities in China, Russia, Turkey, Ivory Coast, Syria, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, and Egypt.
As of 2006, Candy remains a family-owned company; Peppino Fumagalli is the Chairman of the Board.
External links
Candy Group Corporate Information
Company history (UK site)
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A coast (or coastal) radio station is an on-shore maritime radio station which monitors radio distress frequencies and relays ship-to-ship and ship-to-land communications.
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Marconi Station
Utility station
KPH – A preserved RCA coastal wireless station in California
WCC – A former coastal wireless station on Cape Cod, now operating from Maryland
Portishead Radio – former UK station
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Air traffic control · Aircraft emergency frequency · Airband · Mandatory frequency airport · Single Frequency Approach · UNICOM
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Business band · Base station · Mobile radio · Professional Mobile Radio · Radio repeater · Specialized Mobile Radio · Trunked radio system · Walkie talkie
Marine (shipboard)
2182 kHz · 500 kHz ·Coast radio station · Marine VHF radio · Maritime mobile amateur radio
Signaling / Selective calling
CTCSS · Dual-tone multi-frequency · D-STAR · MDC-1200 · Push to talk · Quik Call I · Quik Call II · Selcall
Bozlak is a form of Turkish folk song from Central Anatolia accompanied by the long-necked saz (bozuk saz) and ney or kaval. The main subjects of the melancholic songs are separation and love. The songs begin with a very high pitched vocal and end in a low vocal. The best known players are A??k Hüseyin, Muharrem Erta?, Mustafa Tatl?türk, Çekiç Ali, Hac? Ta?an, and Bedia Akartürk.
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Owner(s)
Ron Burkle Mario Lemieux
General manager
Ray Shero
Head coach
Todd Reirden
Media
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader Scranton Times-Tribune
102.3 The Mountain WDMT-FM
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Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL)
Wheeling Nailers (ECHL)
Franchise history
1981 to 1988
Fredericton Express
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Halifax Citadels
1993 to 1996
Cornwall Aces
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Division Championships
2 (2005–06, 2007–08)
Conference Championships
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins are the American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. They play in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza.
Contents
1History
2Season-by-season results
2.1Regular Season
2.2Playoffs
3Current roster
4Team records
4.1Single season
4.2Career
5AHL records
5.1Team
5.2Player
6AHL awards and trophies
7Notable Penguins
8References
9External links
History
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ top minor league affiliate throughout the 1990s was the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the IHL. However, in the mid 1990s, the IHL began moving away from being a developmental league and more towards being a top independent minor league. For this reason, the Penguins wanted their top minor league affiliate in the AHL. The Penguins purchased the dormant Cornwall Aces AHL franchise from the Colorado Avalanche in 1996, but left the team inactive until the 1999–2000 season when it was placed in Wilkes-Barre. The team is affectionately referred to as “The Baby Penguins” by fans. The WBS Pens have gone to the Calder Cup Final three times in their ten year existence, most recently in 2008 by way of beating the Portland Pirates in a thrilling seven game series in the Eastern Conference finals; the Penguins took game seven by a score of 3-2 after being down in the series three games to two. They went on to play the Chicago Wolves in the final, but lost the series 4-2.
Their mascot is Tux the penguin, who wears number #99 in reference to the team’s first season in 1999. The team celebrated their 10th Anniversary Season in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in 2008/2009 with the catch phrase of “Making Memories”. The team qualified for the Calder Cup Playoffs in 2009 for the seventh year in a row and attempted to make the Calder Cup Final for the third time in six years to try and win the franchise’s first Cup. The Pens fourth drive to the Calder Cup Final came to end against the Hershey Bears in the conference semifinals. The series went to seven games with Hershey taking the final two at home by identical scores of 3-0 after the Pens won three in a row in Wilkes-Barre.
They began their 11th season of play on October 3, 2009 with a home win against the Syracuse Crunch. In the opener top prospect Barret Nicpon scored twice and added an assist. Their slogan for this season is “Where Champions are Born”, a reference to their parent Pittsburgh Penguins, who won the 2009 Stanley Cup. In 2009, they also spawned an affiliated junior team, the Wilkes-Barre Junior Pens, which will play at the new Ice Rink at Coal Street Park, which will also serve as a practice facility for the Penguins.
Abbotsford Heat · Adirondack Phantoms · Albany River Rats · Binghamton Senators · Bridgeport Sound Tigers · Chicago Wolves · Grand Rapids Griffins · Hamilton Bulldogs · Hartford Wolf Pack · Hershey Bears · Houston Aeros · Lake Erie Monsters ·Lowell Devils · Manchester Monarchs · Manitoba Moose · Milwaukee Admirals · Norfolk Admirals · Peoria Rivermen · Portland Pirates · Providence Bruins · Rochester Americans · Rockford IceHogs · San Antonio Rampage · Springfield Falcons · Syracuse Crunch · Texas Stars · Toronto Marlies ·Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins · Worcester Sharks
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and awards
Calder Cup · Les Cunningham Award · John B. Sollenberger Trophy · Willie Marshall Award · Dudley “Red” Garrett Memorial Award ·Eddie Shore Award · Aldege “Baz” Bastien Memorial Award · Harry “Hap” Holmes Memorial Award · Louis A. R. Pieri Memorial Award · Fred T. Hunt Memorial Award · Yanick Dupre Memorial Award ·Jack A. Butterfield Trophy · Richard F. Canning Trophy · Robert W. Clarke Trophy · Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy · Frank Mathers Trophy · Norman R. “Bud” Poile Trophy · Emile Francis Trophy · F. G. “Teddy” Oke Trophy · Sam Pollock Trophy · John D. Chick Trophy · James C. Hendy Memorial Award · Thomas Ebright Memorial Award · James H. Ellery Memorial Awards · Ken McKenzie Award · Michael Condon Memorial Award
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MLB: Philadelphia Phillies ·Pittsburgh Pirates ·IL: Lehigh Valley IronPigs ·Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees ·EL: Altoona Curve ·Erie SeaWolves ·Harrisburg Senators ·Reading Phillies ·NYPL: State College Spikes ·Williamsport Crosscutters ·ALPB: Lancaster Barnstormers ·York Revolution ·FL: Washington Wild Things
Basketball
NBA: Philadelphia 76ers ·D-League: Erie BayHawks ·GPBL: Lancaster Liberty ·Pittsburgh Phantoms ·PBL: Reading Railers
Football
NFL: Philadelphia Eagles ·Pittsburgh Steelers ·AIFA: Erie Storm ·Harrisburg Stampede ·Reading Express ·NAFL: Central Penn Piranha ·Lancaster Lightning ·Chambersburg Cardinals –Pittsburgh Colts ·IWFL: Erie Illusion ·Philadelphia Firebirds ·Pittsburgh Passion ·WFA: Keystone Assault ·Philadelphia Liberty Belles ·Pittsburgh Force ·WFA: Keystone Assault ·Philadelphia Liberty Belles ·Pittsburgh Force ·WSFL: Steel City Renegades ·LFL: New York Majesty
AMNRL: Aston DSC Bulls ·Bucks County Sharks ·Philadelphia Fight
Rugby union
RSL: Philadelphia Whitemarsh RFC
Soccer
MLS: Philadelphia Union ·WPS: Philadelphia Independence ·NISL: Philadelphia KiXX ·USL-2: Harrisburg City Islanders ·Pittsburgh Riverhounds ·NPSL: Erie Admirals SC ·FC Reading Revolution ·Pennsylvania Stoners ·Pocono Snow ·PDL: Reading United ·WPSL: Lancaster Inferno ·Northampton Laurels FC ·Philadelphia Liberty FC
Softball
NPF: Philadelphia Force
Tennis
WTT: Philadelphia Freedoms
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The Tower Hotel is located on the northeast corner of Eleventh and Jackson Streets in downtown Anderson, Indiana, USA . It is also known as Tower Building;095-015-4605.
History
The name of the building is somewhat of a misnomer as the building never actually functioned as a hotel. If the hotel had opened it would have been part of the Pick-Wenzel chain. The hotel was to feature a complete bakery, a barber shop, a banquet hall, a business center, a large lobby and dining room. The depression struck, the building was up, but the interiors were not completed.
The building stood empty for many years, until the Gospel Trumpet bought the building and converted it into apartments.
A three story auto hotel was built adjacent to the Tower Hotel. The auto hotel was a business concept that really never became popular, but in addition to offering parking, full maintenance service was offered for the automobile. The auto hotel was torn down in the 1990s.
References
^“National Register Information System”. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-08-31. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
Anderson: A Pictorial History by Esther Dittlinger, copyright 1991, page 61.
External links
National Register of Historic Places for Madison County, Indiana http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IN/Madison/state.html
Link to pictures and information on building – http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=towerplaceapartments-anderson-in-usa
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Cut-to-length logging (CTL) is a mechanized harvesting system in which trees are delimbed and cut to length directly at the stump. CTL is typically a two-man, two-machine operation with a harvester felling, delimbing, and bucking trees and a forwarder transporting the logs from the felling to a landing area close to a road accessible by trucks.
Harvester
Forwarder
The capital costs for a typical CTL operation, with one harvester and one forwarder, are quite high. The price of the machines alone are approx. US$1,000,000.
CTL is the primary logging method in European countries, while full-tree logging and the even older technique of tree-length logging are more popular in North America and less developed countries, where tree sizes can exceed the capacity of the harvester’s felling head, i.e, tree stems with a butt diameter of over 70 centimeters. CTL lends itself to timber harvesting in plantation forestry where stems are often harvested before they reach large dimensions.
Advantages compared to full-tree logging
Cleaner wood since the logs are not skidded on the ground to the landing.(in tree length more than full tree)
More fresh wood.(in tree length more than full tree)
Less damage to retained trees in thinning operations
Typically requires fewer types of machines in an operation
No need to clear large landings close to the road
Greater personnel safety due to enclosed/protected machine cabs
More environmentally friendly due to:
less soil disturbance than in skidding operations (if improper skidding practices take place)
no slash dumped at the landing
higher retention of foliar nutrients within the harvested area
Disadvantages compared to full-tree logging
Somewhat higher capital cost per volume when used in large scale clear cuts
Use of higher technology requires more operator know-how and training
More down time due to a lot of moving parts (especially on the harvester)
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March 19, 1947 (1947-03-19)(age 62)
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Occupation
Actress, producer, singer
Years active
1975–present
Spouse(s)
Cabot Wade (1969-1971)
James Marlas (1984-1987)
David Shaw (2006-present)
Domestic partner(s)
Len Cariou (1979-1983)
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987). She has been nominated five times for an Oscar, and has won three Tonys, an Obie, four Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Contents
1Early life and family
2Career
3Personal life
4Stage productions
4.1Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals
4.2Broadway plays
4.3Off-Broadway
4.4Tony Awards
4.5Obie Awards
5Filmography
6Other awards
7Notes
8References
9External links
Early life and family
Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of Bettine (née Moore) and William Taliaferro Close, a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to President Mobutu Sese Seko. Her parents came from prominent families; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association, was first married to Post Cereals’ heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, making Glenn Close a relative of screenwriter/director Preston Sturges and actress Dina Merrill. Close is also a second-cousin once-removed of Brooke Shields. Shields’s great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore (wife of Don Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince di Civitella-Cesi) was Close’s great-aunt, a sister of Close’s maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore.
In a speech at Princeton University on February 19, 2009, Close credited her early years for her acting abilities: “I have no doubt that the days I spent running free in the evocative Connecticut countryside with an unfettered imagination, playing whatever character our games demanded, is one of the reasons that acting has always seemed so natural to me.” However, when she was seven years old, her parents “were seduced into a cult group called Moral Re-Armament…. Our family was swallowed up by MRA for 15 years. We moved into a series of communal centers, and…. struggled to survive the pressures of a culture that dictated everything about how we lived our lives.” Close traveled for several years in the mid-to-late 1960s with an MRA singing group called “Up With People” and attended Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall). When she was 22, Close broke away from MRA. “I rebelled and said I wanted to go to college…. Until then, my life was completely out of my control. I didn’t have the tools to reclaim it. That reclamation began when I entered The College of William and Mary.” It was there in the theater department that she began to train as a serious actor under Dr. Howard Scammon. She was elected to membership in the honor society of Phi Beta Kappa.
Career
Close started her professional stage work in 1974 and her film work in 1982, has had a lengthy career as a versatile actress and performer. She is remembered for her chilling roles as the scheming aristocrat The Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons and as the psychotic book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards, for Best Actress in Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction, and for Best Supporting Actress in The Natural, The Big Chill, and The World According to Garp, her first film. In 1984, Close starred in the critically acclaimed drama Something about Amelia, a Golden Globe winning television movie about a family destroyed by sexual abuse. She played the role of Sunny von Bülow in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune to critical acclaim.
In the 1990s, Close took on challenging roles on television as well. She starred in the highly rated presentation of the 1991 Hallmark Hall of Fame drama Sarah, Plain and Tall (and its two sequels) and also in the made-for-TV movie Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995); from these roles she was nominated for 8 Emmys (winning one) and 9 Golden Globes (winning one in 2005 and 2007). She also appeared in the newsroom comedy-drama The Paper (1994), the alien invasion satire Mars Attacks! (1996, as The First Lady), the Disney hit 101 Dalmatians (1996, as the sinister Cruella de Vil) and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000) and the blockbuster Air Force One (1997), as the trustworthy vice-president to Harrison Ford’s president. In 2001, she starred in an elaborate production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical South Pacific. In 2005, Close joined the FX crime series The Shield, in which she played a no-nonsense precinct captain. Her appearance on the cop drama was such a success that she is now starring in a new hit series of her own for 2007, Damages (also on FX) instead of continuing her character on The Shield. So far the Academy’s Oscar has eluded her, being nominated several times during the 1980s, but never being named the winner.
Close has had an extensive career performing in many Broadway musicals. One of her most notable roles on stage was Norma Desmond in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of Sunset Boulevard, for which Close won a Tony award playing the role on Broadway in 1994. Close was also a guest star, at the Andrew Lloyd Webber fiftieth birthday party celebration, in the Royal Albert Hall in 1998. She appeared as Norma Desmond and performed songs from Sunset Boulevard. Close is being considered to reprise the role of Norma Desmond in the long talked- about film of Sunset Boulevard, based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. The film and cast have not officially been announced. In addition to Sunset Boulevard, Close also won Tony Awards in 1984 for The Real Thing and in 1992 for Death and the Maiden.
Recently, Close performed at Carnegie Hall narrating the violin concerto The Runaway Bunny, a concerto for reader, violin and orchestra, composed and conducted by Glen Roven.
Close won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama series for her role in Damages. Also in 2009, she narrated the environmental film Home.
Personal life
In February 2006, Close married her longtime boyfriend David E. (Evans) Shaw. They reside in Scarborough, Maine. The actress was previously married to Cabot Wade (1969–1973) and James Marlas (1984–1987). She has a daughter, Annie Maude Starke, from her previous relationship with John Starke that ended in 1991. Close is an avid New York Mets fan. She has donated money to election campaigns of many Democratic politicians, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Howard Dean, John Edwards and Barack Obama.
Close is a dog lover and writes a blog for Fetchdog.com, where she interviews other famous people about their relationships with their dogs.
Stage productions
Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals
Jim Dale and Glenn Close performing Busker Alley in 2006.
Rex (Broadway, 1976), Richard Rodgers-Sheldon Harnick musical about Henry VIII
Barnum (Charity Barnum, Broadway, 1980), Cy Coleman musical about Phineas T. Barnum
Sunset Boulevard (Norma Desmond, Broadway, 1994), Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the classic 1950 motion picture Sunset Boulevard
Busker Alley (Off-Broadway, 2006, one-performance benefit concert), Sherman Brothers musical based on the 1938 movie St. Martin’s Lane, directed by Tony Walton
Broadway plays
Love for Love by William Congreve (New Phoenix Repertory Co. at the Helen Hayes Theatre, November 1974)
The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello (New Phoenix Repertory Co. at the Helen Hayes Theatre, December 1974)
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (New Phoenix Repertory Co. at the Helen Hayes Theatre, December 1974)
The Crucifer of Blood by Paul Giovanni (Helen Hayes Theatre, September 1978)
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard (Plymouth Theatre, December 1983)
Benefactors by Michael Frayn (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, December 1985)
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, February 1992)
Off-Broadway
The Crazy Locomotive by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Chelsea Theater Center, 1977)
Uncommon Women and Others (1977)
The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, an adaptation of George Moore’s short story directed by French director Simone Benmussa.
Tony Awards
1980: Best Featured Actress in a Musical – Barnum (NOM)
1984: Best Actress in a Play – The Real Thing(WIN)
1992: Best Actress in a Play – Death and the Maiden(WIN)
1995: Best Actress in a Musical – Sunset Boulevard(WIN)
Obie Awards
1982: Best Actress in a Play – The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs(WIN)
Filmography
Film
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1982
The World According to Garp
Jenny Fields
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1983
The Big Chill
Sarah Cooper
Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1984
The Natural
Iris Gaines
Nomination — Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
The Stone Boy
Ruth Hillerman
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Jane Porter
dubbed Andie MacDowell’s voice
1985
Maxie
Jan / Maxie
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Jagged Edge
Teddy Barnes
1987
Fatal Attraction
Alex Forrest
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1988
Dangerous Liaisons
Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Light Years
Queen Ambisextra (voice)
French title: Gandahar
1989
Immediate Family
Linda Spector
1990
Hamlet
Queen Gertrude
Reversal of Fortune
Sunny von Bulow
1991
Hook
Gutless
Meeting Venus
Karin Anderson
1993
The House of the Spirits
Ferula Trueba
1994
The Paper
Alicia Clark
1996
Mars Attacks!
First Lady Marsha Dale
101 Dalmatians
Cruella de Vil
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Mary Reilly
Mrs. Farraday
1997
In & Out
Herself
cameo appearance
Air Force One
Vice President Kathryn Bennett
Paradise Road
Adrienne Pargiter
1999
Tarzan
Kala
voice
Cookie’s Fortune
Camille Dixon
2000
102 Dalmatians
Cruella de Vil
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Dr. Elaine Keener
2001
The Safety of Objects
Esther Gold
2003
Le Divorce
Olivia Pace
Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio
The Blue Fairy
English voice
2004
Heights
Diana
The Stepford Wives
Claire Wellington
2005
The Chumscrubber
Carrie Johnson
Nine Lives
Maggie
2006
Hoodwinked!
Granny
voice
2007
Evening
Mrs. Wittenborn
2010
Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil
Granny
voice
Documentary
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1990
Divine Garbo
Herself
Greta Garbo documentary
1999
The Lady with the Torch
Herself-host
The 75th Anniversary of Columbia Pictures
2001
Welcome To Hollywood
Herself
2003
What I Want My Words To Do To You: Voices From Inside A Women’s Maximum Security Prison
Herself
A Closer Walk
Narrator
Robert Bilheimer film. AIDS epidemic.
2007
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Herself
2009
Home
Narrator
Yann Arthus-Bertrand film.
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1975
The Rules of the Game
Neighbor
1979
Too Far to Go
Rebecca Kuehn
Orphan Train
Jessica
1982
The Elephant Man
Princess Alexandra
1984
Something About Amelia
Gail Bennett
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1988
Stones for Ibarra
Sara Everton
1990
She’ll Take Romance
1991
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Sarah Wheaton
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
1993
Skylark
Sarah Witting
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
1995
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress – Television Miniseries or Film
The Simpsons (1995-2008)
Mona Simpson
1997
In the Gloaming
Janet
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress – Television Miniseries or Film
1999
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter’s End
Sarah Witting
2000
Baby
Adult Sophie
(narrator)
2001
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Arvella Whipple
South Pacific
Nellie Forbush
2002
Will and Grace
Fanny Lieber
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Guest Actress – Comedy Series
2003
Brush with Fate
Cornelia Engelbrecht
The Lion in Winter
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress – Television Miniseries or Film
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
2004
Strip Search
Karen Moore
The West Wing
Evelyn Baker Lang
2005
The Shield
Captain Monica Rawling
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Actress – Drama Series
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
2007-present
Damages
Patty Hewes
Emmy Award for Best Actress – Drama Series (2008, 2009)
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Nominated – Golden Globe for Best Actress – Television Series Drama (2010)
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress
Other awards
1988: People’s Choice Award – Favorite Motion Picture Actress
1992: Golden Camera/ Germany – Best International Actress
2008: Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – For outstanding achievements in the dramatic arts
2009: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion pictures
Notes
^ New England Historic Genealogical Society
^ Conscience and the Congo
^ Glenn Close Biography – Yahoo! Movies
^ Glenn Close: “Are You Who We Think You Are?”
^ Meryl Streep competes for Sunset Boulevard – Telegraph
^ “Close and Streisand are Desperate for Sunset Role.” contactmusic.com. February 5, 2008
^Joyce Eng (20 September 2009). “Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Cryer Win First Emmys”. TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Kristin-Chenoweth-Jon-1009931.aspx. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
^ Opensecrets.org
^ fetchdog.com
References
Napoleon, Davi. Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater Includes discussion of Des McAnuff’s production of The Crazy Locomotive at the Chelsea Theater. Iowa State University Press.
External links
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