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The Shining (film)


1999, Jonathan Romney discussed Kubrick's perfectionism and dispelled others' initial arguments that the film lacked complexity: "The final scene alone demonstrates what a rich source of perplexity "The Shining" offers [...] look beyond the simplicity and the Overlook reveals itself as a palace of paradox". Romney further explains:The dominating presence of the Overlook Hotel – designed by Roy Walker as a composite of American hotels visited in the course of research – is an extraordinary vindication of the value of mise en scène. It's a
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The Shining (miniseries)


, Danny discovers that his psychic powers grant him a form of telepathy. Danny has an adult mentor named Tony who talks to him in his visions and shows him the future. Hallorann tells Danny that he too "shines", and that Danny can contact him telepathically anytime he needs assistance. The Torrances are given a tour of the Overlook before being left alone in the hotel for the winter. It gradually becomes evident that there is a malevolent force within the hotel that seems determined to use Danny for an unknown, possibly
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The Shining (film)


theater asking, "What was that all about?" "The Shining" ends with an extremely long camera shot moving down a hallway in the Overlook, reaching eventually the central photo among 21 photos on the wall. The caption reads: "Overlook Hotel – July 4th Ball – 1921." The answer to this puzzle, is that most Americans overlook the fact that July Fourth was no ball, nor any kind of Independence day, for native Americans; that the weak American villain of the film is the re-
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The Shining (novel)


Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. His family accompanies him on this job, including his young son Danny Torrance, who possesses "the shining", an array of psychic abilities that allow Danny to see the hotel's horrific past. Soon, after a winter storm leaves them snowbound, the supernatural forces inhabiting the hotel influence Jack's sanity, leaving his wife and son in incredible danger. "The Shining"
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The Stanley Hotel


mainly on Jack Nicholson's portrayal of Jack Torrance. In 1996, Warner Brothers secured the television rights to "The Shining" and produced a miniseries (stylized as Stephen King's The Shining) with a script by Stephen King. Thanks to King, the Stanley Hotel was chosen as the primary shooting location. A playhouse version of the main building which adorned the lawn of the Overlook Hotel in the series can be viewed in the basement of the Stanley. In 2015, the open area in front of the hotel, originally
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The Shining (miniseries)


sinister purpose. This force manifests itself with flickering lamps and spectral voices and eventually a full-on masked ball from the Overlook's past. Danny is the first to fully notice the darker character of the hotel, having experienced visions and warnings that foreshadow what he and his parents will encounter over the winter. The ghosts also appear to Jack, led by Delbert Grady, the Overlook's former steward who murdered his entire family and killed himself at the hotel's command. Grady and the other spirits tell Jack that Wendy and
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The Shining (film)


Torrance (Duvall) and young son Danny Torrance (Lloyd). Danny possesses "the shining", psychic abilities that enable him to see into the hotel's horrific past. The hotel's cook, Dick Hallorann (Crothers), also has this and is able to telepathically communicate with Danny. The hotel had a previous winter caretaker who went insane and killed his family and himself. After a winter storm leaves the Torrances snowbound, Jack's sanity deteriorates due to the influence of the supernatural forces that inhabit the hotel,
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Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944 film)


So Beautiful" - Sung by Jack Carson and Marie Wilson. br 4. "Shine On, Harvest Moon" - Sung by Chorus and Danced by The Four Step Brothers. br 5. "Shine On, Harvest Moon" - Sung by Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan (dubbed by Lynn Martin) and Chorus. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" wrote: "What is done in the name of biography in the Warner Brothers' 'Shine on Harvest Moon' is something which shouldn't be done to
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The Shining (miniseries)


as a resort for the summer, as the ghosts of the original hotel start to wait for more potential victims. The creation of this miniseries is attributed to Stephen King's dissatisfaction with director Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film of the same name. In order to receive Kubrick's approval to re-adapt "The Shining" into a program closer to the original story, King had to agree in writing to eschew his frequent public criticism of Kubrick's film, save for the sole commentary that he was disappointed with Jack Nicholson's
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The Stanley Hotel


a driveway for Stanley Steamers and a promenade for guests to enjoy mountain views, was replaced with a hedge maze. This non-historic feature was added to evoke the hotel's connection to "The Shining". Although a hedge maze features prominently in Stanley Kubrick's film, no such feature appears in King's novel. The lawn of the Overlook Hotel, as King imagined it, was adorned with topiary animals and it was set that way for the shooting of "Stephen King's The Shining". Historically, neither
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The Stanley Hotel


Rockies, and by the time the cigarette was done, I had the bones of "The Shining" firmly set in my mind." "The Shining" was published in 1977 and became the third great success of King's career after "Carrie" and "'Salem's Lot". The primary setting is an isolated Colorado resort called the Overlook Hotel which closes for the winter. In the front matter of the book, King tactfully states, "Some of the most beautiful resort hotels in the world are located
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The Shining (film)


and Jack's wife, Wendy, tells a doctor about Danny's imaginary friend, Tony. When the family moves into the hotel on closing day, head chef Dick Hallorann surprises Danny by telepathically offering him ice cream. Hallorann explains to Danny that he and his grandmother shared this telepathic ability, which he calls "shining". Hallorann tells Danny that the hotel has a "shine" to it along with many memories, not all of which are good. He tells Danny to stay away from room 237. A month
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Tower of Terror (1997 film)


Dunst) with whom Buzzy is close friends. An elderly woman named Abigail Gregory comes to visit Buzzy, and explains that on Halloween in 1939, she was witness to a bizarre incident in the Hollywood Tower Hotel, when five hotel guests - singer Carolyn Crosson, actor Gilbert London, much-loved child star Sally Shine, her nanny Emeline Partridge, and bellhop Dewey Todd, - mysteriously disappeared without a trace when lightning struck the elevator they were in on their way up to a party at the hotel's Tip Top Club
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The Shining (film)


too much and thinks too little". King was also disappointed by Kubrick's decision not to film at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which inspired the story (a decision Kubrick made since the hotel lacked sufficient snow and electricity). However, King finally supervised the 1997 television adaptation also titled "The Shining", filmed at The Stanley Hotel. The animosity of King toward Kubrick's adaptation has dulled over time. During an interview segment on the Bravo channel, King stated that the first time he watched
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The Shining (opera)


instructions about boiler maintenance. Watson also reveals stories about the hotel's past: an earlier caretaker, Delbert Grady, killed his wife and two daughters, and then himself. A guest, Mrs Massey, committed suicide in a bathtub after her young lover abandoned her. In parallel, outside the hotel, Hallorann informs Danny of his sense that Danny possesses a second sight, the "shining", which Hallorann's grandmother detected in him as a child. Hallorann also tells Danny that fears about the hotel can be controlled,
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Shahpura, Jaipur


name of Rani Ratna Kumari foundation. The foundation Talk to a local regional individual of Shahpura and the gratification and shine on his face as he converses about the Shahpura Family, their admiration, the family and its history, tells you more than just a simple story. It demonstrates an intense participation and love raised caringly over the long years of service and support, For the people of Shahpura and the villages around. Shahpura Hotels is woven into and encourage their lives. For us at Shahpura Hotels, the people, and the
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Stanley Film Festival


Stanley Film Festival was a horror film festival located in Estes Park, Colorado. Founded in 2013, the festival showcased independent horror films, including features, shorts and special events with guest filmmakers. The festival was named for the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park where it is held, a neo-Georgian hotel that was the inspiration and setting of Stephen King's horror novel "The Shining". The festival also held a student film competition titled, The Stanley Dean's Cup. The inaugural festival was held May 2–5, 2013
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Jirga (film)


city and is a frequent target of attacks and kidnapping attempts. The last foreign guest was an Australian aid worker, named Kerry Wilson, who was kidnapped. Smith said the hotel reminded him of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. While staying at The Spin Ghar the Second Secretary at The Australian High Commission in Kabul, David Timbs, called Gilmour and said there were threats against the crew and that they needed to leave Jalalabad. Timbs suggested that Gilmour finish shooting the film in Morocco or Turkey but without the necessary funds Gilmour
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The Shining (film)


Shining" is widely acclaimed by today's critics, and has become a staple of pop culture. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". A sequel, Doctor Sleep, is set to be released on November 8, 2019. Schoolteacher-turned-writer Jack Torrance arrives at the remote Overlook Hotel in the Rocky Mountains to be interviewed for the position of winter caretaker. The hotel, built
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The Shining (film)


was used for the exterior shots of the fictional Overlook Hotel. The Lodge requested that Kubrick not depict Room 217 (featured in the book) in "The Shining", because future guests at the Lodge might be afraid to stay there, and a nonexistent room, 237, was substituted in the film. Contrary to the hotel's expectations, Room 217 is requested more often than any other room at Timberline. There are fringe analyses relating this number change to rumors that Kubrick faked the first moon landing, as there are
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The Shining (film)


The Shining is a 1980 horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. The film is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". The film stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd. "The Shining" is about Jack Torrance (Nicholson), an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic, who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Wintering over with Jack are his wife Wendy
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The Shining (novel)


previously empty, and witnesses a party at which he meets the ghost of a bartender named Lloyd. He also dances with a young woman ghost who tries to seduce Jack but leaves after her dress slips off and everyone sees her naked. As he gets drunk, the hotel uses the ghost of the former caretaker Grady to urge Jack to kill his wife and son. He initially resists, but the increasing influence of the hotel combined with Jack's own alcoholism and anger prove too great. He becomes a monster under the control
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Shine (film)


Award for Best Actor at the 69th Academy Awards for his performance in the lead role. A man (Geoffrey Rush) wanders through a heavy rainstorm finding his way into a restaurant. The restaurant's employees try to determine if he needs help. Despite his manic mode of speech being difficult to understand, Sylvia learns that his name is David Helfgott and that he is staying at a local hotel. She returns him to the hotel, and despite his attempts to engage her with his musical knowledge and ownership of various musical scores
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Pullman porter


age of 63. A porter was expected to greet passengers, carry baggage, make up the sleeping berths, serve food and drinks brought from the dining car, shine shoes, and keep the cars tidy. He needed to be available night and day to wait on the passengers. He was expected to always smile; thus the porters often called the job, ironically, "miles of smiles". According to historian Greg LeRoy, "A Pullman Porter was really kind of a glorified hotel maid and bellhop in what Pullman
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The Shining (film)


and Danny. Danny arrives, visibly traumatized and bruised. Wendy accuses Jack of abusing him which Jack denies. Jack wanders into the hotel's Gold Room and meets a ghostly bartender named Lloyd, to whom he complains about his marriage. Wendy tells Jack that Danny told her a "crazy woman" in room 237 attempted to strangle him. Jack investigates room 237 and encounters a dead woman's ghost, but he tells Wendy that he saw nothing. Wendy and Jack argue over whether Danny should be removed from the hotel,
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Philip G. Hubbard


252.50 for college by shining shoes for 15 cents per pair at the Savery Hotel in Des Moines. Hubbard choose to attend the University of Iowa over Iowa State because he could shine shoes at the Jefferson Hotel in Iowa City in order to pay his tuition, which was $50 per semester. Hubbard enrolled at the University of Iowa in 1940. In 1943 he enlisted in the Army Reserves, and in 1944 received an Army certification in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University. Francis M. Dawson, Dean of the College of Engineering
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The Shining (film)


and Jack angrily returns to the Gold Room, now filled with ghosts attending a ball. While participating, he meets the ghost of Grady, who tells Jack that he must "correct" his wife and child and that Danny has reached out to Hallorann using his "talent". Hallorann grows concerned about what's going on at the hotel and flies back to Colorado. Danny calls out "redrum" and goes into another trance, referring to himself as "Tony". While searching for Jack, Wendy discovers that her
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The Stanley Hotel


in Colorado, but the hotel in these pages is based on none of them. The Overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly in the author's imagination." King locates the Overlook Hotel near the fictional town of Sidewinder which is supposed to be near Estes Park. The Stanley Hotel is never mentioned. Notwithstanding King's efforts to explicitly differentiate the Overlook Hotel from the Stanley, it seems that King imagined the Stanley Hotel as the setting of "The Shining". Room 217 of the Overlook features prominently in the
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Collingwood, Queensland


was under his ownership. Nonetheless, one historical record mentions that there were two hotels in Collingwood, but neither one had that name. There is a bit of confusion about this as initial reports on the town's progress mention three hotel buildings, and more than two names are mentioned in what records survive. One hotel apparently bore the name Western Hotel, but other articles mention further names. One is Mrs. G. Martin, who according to one report (see "Collingwood races" below) ran the Bushman's Arms Hotel
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The Shining (novel)


The Shining is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. Published in 1977, it is King's third published novel and first hardback bestseller: the success of the book firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre. The setting and characters are influenced by King's personal experiences, including both his visit to The Stanley Hotel in 1974 and his recovery from alcoholism. The novel was followed by a sequel, "Doctor Sleep", published in 2013. "The Shining" centers on the life of Jack
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Ahwahnee Hotel


ornamented at their tops with stained glass. Interiors of the Ahwahnee Hotel were adapted for Stanley Kubrick's horror film "The Shining" (1980). Designers at Elstree Studios incorporated the hotel's lobby, elevators, and Great Lounge into sets for the Overlook Hotel. Both the film "The Caine Mutiny" (1954) and "Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day" (1996) include footage of the Ahwahnee hotel. The hotel and dining room have hosted many notable figures including artists, royalty, heads of state
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The Beverly Hills Hotel


-Made Man". From 1928 to 1932, the hotel was owned by the Interstate Company. Interstate had to close the hotel during the Great Depression years, although the company leased the bungalows out as rental properties. With Bank of America funding, the hotel reopened in 1932. During the 1930s, The Beverly Hills Hotel became increasingly popular with Hollywood film stars. Fred Astaire took a shine to the hotel, and enjoyed reading the "Daily Variety" and "The Hollywood Reporter" by the pool. Cesar Romero and
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Charles H. Bennett (soldier)


of gold in California, we have always claimed that an Oregon man, Bennett, was the first one whose eagle eye beheld the shining ore as it sparkled through the rippling of the water. Bennett, Salem's pioneer citizen, first gazed upon and held in his hand the gold which made San Francisco what she is today, and had it not been for that discovery the Bennett house never would have been built." In 1850 "Charley" Bennett, as his friends knew him, built the Bennett House hotel in
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Andy Stochansky


which received considerable radio. The follow album was called "100" but this quickly needed a home since every record company was reshuffling at the time of Napster and had no idea what lay ahead in the future. 100 was turned down by all record companies except an indie label named Linus in Canada. “Shine,” the first single from 100, was featured in the 2008 television series, Oprah’s Big Give, and in the film Keeping up with the Steins. After its success in the U.S., “Shine
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Shine (Swedish band)


, "Smile", and "Go-Go Dance". On August 17 - August 19, Shine began presenting their new material at Popkomm, a popular international Pop music convention located in Europe. Sometime during September 2000, Shine's debut single was released in Japan. The CD was a 2-track release titled "Loverboy/I Do What I Like", which included her lead single "Loverboy" and another song called "I Do What I Like". Also, some of Shine's songs were released to
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The Shining (film)


"Rediscovering Lost Scores" compilation. Unlike Kubrick's previous works, which developed audiences gradually through word-of-mouth, "The Shining" was released as a mass-market film, initially opening in two U.S. cities on Memorial Day, then nationwide within a month. The European release of "The Shining" a few months later was 25 minutes shorter due to Kubrick's removal of most of the scenes taking place outside the environs of the hotel. After its premiere and a week into the general run (with
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Lay Zhang


debut with Exo, he briefly worked with Shinee during their Shinee World concert tour as Jonghyun's dance replacement. Zhang debuted as a K-pop idol under the stage name "Lay", which was taken from the Taiwanese television series Meteor Garden character Hua Ze Lei. He was first unveiled as one of the four Chinese members of Exo in a teaser video titled "Phoenix" in January 2012. Following the release of the singles "What Is Love" and "History" in 2012, he and the other eleven
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Kimpton Topaz Hotel


-managed property on the East Coast and opened in October 2001. Known for its New Age and body wellness themes, Kimpton Topaz Hotel was named one of the 11 healthiest hotels in the United States by "Health" magazine. In 2006, Kimpton Topaz Hotel was named one of the trendiest hotels in Washington, D.C. Kimpton Topaz Hotel uses a wide range of colors in its room designs, employee uniforms, and lounge. In what has been described as "punk Buddhist", the doormen's and front desk employees'
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The Onyx Hotel Tour


primarily focused on "Grand Hotel", which was directed by Tommy Tune and portrayed a day in the life of the Berlin Grand Hotel in 1928. Spears said the hotel theme was inspired by having traveled so much, and was merged with the onyx stone concept. The tour was described as a "unique, mysterious hotel powered by an onyx stone, where guests who enter shine their own light into the gemstone and make their fantasies come to life. It's a vibrant, whimsical place where wondrous dreams are realized,
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Byzantium (film)


her daughter. Eleanor and Clara seek sanctuary in a dilapidated coastal resort. There, Clara sets her sights on a lonely soul named Noel, who has just inherited the Byzantium Hotel, a once-thriving business that has fallen into disrepair. Eleanor plays the piano in a restaurant and is approached by a young waiter named Frank, who takes a shine to her. Having seduced Noel, Clara turns the Byzantium into a makeshift brothel and Eleanor joins the local college, which Frank also attends. Interested in her past, Frank
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Shine, Shine


"Shine, Shine" is a song recorded and released by Barry Gibb. The first single from his debut solo album "Now Voyager," it proved to be another hit single for Gibb, as he had previously released the US Top 10 singles "Guilty" and "What Kind of Fool," on both of which he had collaborated with Barbra Streisand. "Shine, Shine," however, was his first entirely solo hit single. The selection was written and composed by Gibb, his brother Maurice, and
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Edinburgh Waverley railway station


Princes Street and North Bridge (on the site of the coachworks) opened in 1902. In 1983 British Rail sold it to the Forte hotel group. In 1988 Forte closed the hotel for a year to extensively remodel and update what had become something of a faded jewel. When it reopened it was rechristened The New Balmoral Hotel, maintaining the "NB" initials in what has proved to be an astute marketing move, despite the hotel being from Balmoral Castle. Subsequently, "New" was dropped from the name. The
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema


OR, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" at Devil's Tower, WY, "The Warriors" in Coney Island, NY, Clerks in Red Bank, NJ, "Jaws" at Martha's Vineyard, MA, "Field of Dreams" at the Field of Dreams, IA, "The Shining" at the Stanley Hotel, CO, "Poseidon Adventure" on the Queen Mary, CA, "Escape from Alcatraz" on Alcatraz, CA just to name a few. In 2010, Tim League founded
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Bahvricha Upanishad


Bliss. The Beauty of the three-great-cities, penetrating without and within, is resplendent, nondual, self-subsisting. What is, is pure Being; what shines, is pure Consciousness; what is dear, is Bliss. So here is the Maha-Tripura-sundari who assumes all forms. You and I and all the world and all divinities and all besides are the Maha-Tripura-sundari. The sole Truth is the thing named "the Beautiful". It is the nondual, integral
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Shine (Vanessa Amorosi song)


go back to changing it to 'die' now. It is what it is. A lot of my music on "The Power" was very personal, because I suppose that's what sets me apart from the other songwriters. I'm very blunt and honest with melodies and lyrics. I like to get straight to the point. So I think with "Shine" I tried to make it uplifting but it was very, very personal - and quite an upsetting song." The song "Shine" was adopted
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The Shining (novel)


control of Jack again, making him violently batter his own face and skull into ruin with the mallet, destroying the last vestiges of Jack and leaving a being controlled by the hotel's own malevolent "manager" personality. Remembering that Jack has neglected to relieve the pressure on the hotel's unstable boiler, Danny informs the hotel that it is about to explode. As Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann flee, the hotel-creature rushes to the basement in an attempt to vent the pressure, but it is too late and
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The Stanley Hotel


The Stanley Hotel served as the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's 1977 bestselling novel "The Shining" and as the filming location for the 1997 TV miniseries, also written by King. Today, the hotel features a restaurant, spa and bed-and-breakfast, and provides guided tours. In 1903, the Yankee steam-powered car inventor Freelan Oscar Stanley (1849-1940) was stricken with a life-threatening resurgence of tuberculosis. The most highly recommended treatment of the day was fresh, dry
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Hotel Borobudur


Hotel Borobudur is a five star hotel and serviced apartment located in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. Conceived in the 1960s by President Sukarno, it was meant to be the second international-standard hotel to be built in the newly independent country (the first was Hotel Indonesia). The hotel is located near Lapangan Banteng, which during the colonial times was the center of what was the military-European colonial neighborhood of Weltevreden. At its opening in 1974, the hotel was the largest hotel in Jakarta. The hotel is named after
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Grand Metropole Hotel


The Grand Metropole Hotel is a large hotel in Blackpool, England, the only Blackpool hotel to sit directly on the shoreline. It is one of the two oldest hotels in Blackpool; work originally began in 1776 on what was then named Bailey's Hotel and it opened in 1785. It is now owned by Britannia Hotels. In 1776, Lawrence Bailey, a farmer from the Layton area of Blackpool, began work on a hotel by the shore. Construction was completed in 1785 and, on 14 June, Bailey began advertising
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Loughglinn


hotel. In 2009, after the Irish property bubble burst, it was transferred to his wife's name. The local anthem is the "Woodlands of Loughglinn" dedicated to the memory of those that died in the Woodlands in April 1921. It was written by a James Keane, the father of the Rev. Bernard Keane, Chaplain at Loughlynn Convent and later parish priest at Athleague. The song has been recorded by Brendan Shine, among others. The summer sun was sinking low,br Behind the western sea,br The
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The Shining (novel)


mainly takes place in the fictional Overlook Hotel, an isolated, haunted resort hotel located in the Colorado Rockies. The history of the hotel, which is described in backstory by several characters, includes the deaths of some of its guests and of former winter caretaker Delbert Grady, who “succumbed to cabin fever” and killed his family and himself. The plot centers on Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their five-year-old son Danny, who move into the hotel after Jack accepts the position as winter caretaker
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The Shining (film)


on the site of a Native American burial ground, closes during the snowed-in months; once hired, Jack plans to use the hotel's solitude to write. Manager Stuart Ullman tells Jack about the hotel's history and warns him about its reputation: a previous caretaker, Charles Grady, supposedly developed cabin fever and killed his family and himself. Despite the troubling story, Jack is impressed with the hotel and gets the job. In Boulder, Jack's son, Danny, has a terrifying premonition about the hotel,
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The Shining (opera)


scrapbook assembled by "The Manager", and from it learns more about the hotel's infamous past. This includes Horace Derwent's sale of the hotel to the Mafia, and a subsequent Mafia killing at the hotel years later. He also reads about more about the Grady family and Mrs Massey. An invitation to a New Year's Eve masked ball drops from the scrapbook. This inspires Jack to tell the story of the hotel. Wendy and Danny return from the doctor, who has examined Danny and found nothing wrong.
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Isogaisa Festival


western medicinal professionals will give lectures: May Shamanism contribute to care and treatment? Is it possible to combine healing with modern medicine? What is superstition and what is true? This festival is located in the north of Norway, Tennevoll, Lavangen, and situated in the surroundings of a hotel named Fjellkysten. The hotel is on a slope down towards the fjord of Lavangen. Inside the hotel there is a reception where you can receive information about the festival, meet other participants and buy a meal or coffee in the restaurant.
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Shining Rock


Shining Rock is a mountain in western North Carolina. The mountain is one of the Great Balsam Mountains which are a part of the Blue Ridge Mountains within the Appalachian Mountains. It is the 38th tallest mountain in the eastern United States. Shining Rock is in the Shining Rock Wilderness near milepost 420 of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Art Loeb Trail passes just below the summit. Shining Rock is named for the large white quartzite rock outcropping near its summit. According to the Cherokee anthropologist James Mooney, the Cherokee name for Shining
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The Shining (novel)


up on the tables. So the music is echoing down the hall, and, I mean, it was like God had put me there to hear that and see those things. And by the time I went to bed that night, I had the whole book in my mind". After dinner, his wife decided to turn in, but King took a walk around the empty hotel. He ended up in the bar and was served drinks by a bartender named Grady. "That night I dreamed of my three
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List of Black Lagoon characters


was bribed by Hotel Moscow. Though initially shocked by her sudden death, Rock is glad that now she and her brother could rest in peace. The characters' names are taken from the German fairy tale, "Hänsel and Gretel". Many of the series' characters compare them to a similar pair of disturbed, sadistic twins from the American film "The Shining". In the manga, the song sung by Gretel to Rock on the Black Lagoon is called "Midnight, the Stars and You", the song
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The Amityville Horror


to the claimed link between the house in Ocean Avenue and John Ketcham, whose name has been linked to witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts but remains a controversial and elusive figure. This version exaggerates the isolation of 112 Ocean Avenue by depicting it as a remote house similar to the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's "The Shining". In reality, 112 Ocean Avenue is a suburban house within of other houses in the neighborhood. The house used in the 2005 version was in Silver Lake, Wisconsin, while other location work was
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Doctor Sleep (2019 film)


not secure a budget for "Doctor Sleep" or for a prequel to "The Shining" to be called "Overlook Hotel". In late 2017, Warner Bros. released "It", a film adaptation of King's 1986 novel of the same name, and its box-office success led the studio to fast-track production of "Doctor Sleep". Warner Bros. hired Mike Flanagan in January 2018 to rewrite Goldsman's script and to direct the film. Flanagan said why he was interested in directing "Doctor Sleep
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O.G. Hotel


The O.G. Hotel is one of Adelaide's oldest hotels, noted for its enigmatic name, the shortest in Australia. The O.G. Hotel gained its licence before 1846, according to one reference on 6 July 1843, the proprietor being James Black. Situated at Gilles Plains on what was then known as the road to Modbury (now designated as 246 North East Road, Klemzig), the name is generally recognised as a reference to Osmond Gilles, a major land holder in the area, though mention of this connection did not appear
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The Fairfax at Embassy Row


the hotel in what proved to be a bitter legal dispute that began in 1995 and lasted two years. On August 2, 1997, Ritz-Carlton terminated its management contract with Al Anwa, the owner of the property and three other Ritz-Carlton hotels in Aspen, Houston and New York. The four Al Anwa hotels all dropped the Ritz-Carlton name on August 14, 1997, and ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection began managing them. The hotels then all began operating, confusingly, with no names, each was just
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Shine (Swedish band)


. The official website for Shine was launched in early 2000s and they announced the project would begin recording songs for a future release. During April 2000, Shine began promoting their material by performing at places such as Neptun restaurant in Haninge on April 29, 2000. Also during April, Shine began doing a photo shoot for their upcoming single release. At the same time, Shine began announcing her first single release as "Loverboy", and announced three other song titles on her website, "I Do What I Like"
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Sukosol Group


operations, in 1990 the hotel group opened the Siam City Hotel in downtown Bangkok, adjacent to the Phayathai Skytrain Station. What began as Siam Bay Hotels in 1983 has changed over time. In 1990, with the addition (along with the Siam Bayview Hotel and Siam Bayshore Resort & Spa) of the Siam City Hotel in Bangkok, the name "Siam Bay Hotels" was no longer adequate. The group was renamed "Siam City Hotels and Resorts", to represent the three properties. Then again, in 2009,
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A Single Man (album)


Song for Guy"), "The Morecambe & Wise Show" (performing "Shine on Through"), "Parkinson" (performing "Song for Guy"), "Rockpop" (miming "Return to Paradise" and "Part-Time Love") and "Top of the Pops" (miming "Part-Time Love" and performing "Song for Guy"). He performed two solo sets: one for MCA personnel at the Century Plaza Hotel on 14 October 1978 (performing "Shine on
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Beau Jack


. With his boxing earnings, he moved to Miami and returned to shoe shining, working at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel. He trained fighters in Miami's Fifth Street Gym. Beau Jack had seven children, Ronald, Donald, George, Barbara Ann, Yvonne, Georgiana and Timothy. His wife was named Josephine. None of the sons became boxers. In his later years he suffered from poverty and Parkinson's disease. He died at 78, in a Miami nursing home, on February 9, 2000, of complications
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The Lambs


the name of the building. The building was designated a New York City Landmark in September 1974; and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982. In 2006 the Church of the Nazarene sold the building and theatre, which has been renovated by the Chatwal Hotel. They operate a restaurant in the hotel and named it The Lambs Club, although there is no relation between the hotel and The Lambs other than what was left of the building. The Lambs, Inc., is still active in
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Hotels in Meridian, Mississippi


and taxi driver. Young opened a hotel and barber shop in 1931, and he also began selling hair care products made especially for African Americans. Some products he made himself. Eventually Young's operations included a beauty shop, two barber shops, a shoe shine parlor, and a manufacturing shop for the personal products. While operating the barber shops out of the hotel, Young sold customers some hair care products he made in his own kitchen. Demand became so great that he opened a manufacturing company in 1933. The hotel
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The Shining (film)


hotel's methodical assault on Torrance's identity, its ability to stimulate the myriad of self-doubts and anxieties by creating opportunities to warp Torrance's perspective on himself and [his family]. Furthermore the fact that Jack looks into a mirror whenever he "speaks" to the hotel means, to some extent, that Kubrick implicates him directly into the hotel's "consciousness", because Jack is, in effect, talking to himself. However, ghosts are the implied explanation for Jack's seemingly physically impossible escape from the
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Royal Garden Hotel


Royal Garden Hotel is a 5 red star hotel in London, England. It is located in the heart of Kensington, on Kensington High Street, overlooking Kensington Palace and gardens. The palace, Hyde Park and the Royal Albert Hall can all be seen from the hotel. It is home to the most expensive Bulmers on the planet, costing £15,000. What is now called the Royal Garden Hotel was originally built in the 1800s under the name of the Palace Hotel with a completely different image and layout. As part of
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The Shining (film)


He notes that when Jack kills Hallorann, the dead body is seen lying on a rug with an Indian motif. The blood in the elevator shafts is, for Blakemore, the blood of the Indians in the burial ground on which the hotel was built. As such, the fact that the date of the final photograph is July 4 is meant to be deeply ironic. Blakemore writes: As with some of his other movies, Kubrick ends "The Shining" with a powerful visual puzzle that forces the audience to leave the
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Hiroyuki Takahashi (game producer)


name to Sonic! Software Planning, which was formed to create "Shining in the Darkness" for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis alongside Climax Entertainment. The company would be an important part of Shining franchise, developing all the Shining games in the 1990s. In 1995, the company changed their name to Camelot Software Planning and officially separated from Sega, but agreed to keep developing the Shining games and not release games for rival systems that would hurt the Shining franchise. In late 1998, Sega began focusing their resources on the
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The Shining (novel)


at the hotel on closing day and are given a tour by the manager. They meet Dick Hallorann, the chef, who also possesses similar abilities to Danny's and helps to explain them to him, giving Hallorann and Danny a special connection. The remaining staff and guests depart the hotel, leaving the Torrances alone in the hotel for the winter. As the Torrances settle in at the Overlook, Danny sees ghosts and frightening visions. Although Danny is close to his parents, he does not tell either of them about his
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much of the novel's supernaturalism and making the character of Wendy much more hysteria-prone. Cocks places Kubrick's vision of a haunted hotel in line with a long literary tradition of hotels in which sinister events occur, from Stephen Crane's short story "The Blue Hotel" (which Kubrick admired) to the Swiss Berghof in Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain", about a snowbound sanatorium high in the Swiss Alps in which the protagonist witnesses a series of events which are a microcosm of the decline of Western
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Estes Park, Colorado


for the local hotels and other businesses. It was a year-round weekly by 1921. In 1949, Olympus Dam was finished, creating Lake Estes, giving the town its main source of drinking water. Today, Estes Park's outskirts include The Stanley Hotel, built in 1909. An example of Edwardian opulence, the building had Stephen King as a guest, inspiring him to change the locale for his novel "The Shining" from an amusement park to the Stanley's fictional stand-in, the Overlook Hotel.
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The Shining (opera)


based on the original synopsis by librettist Mark Campbell. In Acts I and II, the setting is the Overlook Hotel in Colorado, from late September to mid-November 1975. On the last weekend of September 1975, Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and his son Danny arrive at the Overlook Hotel, in a remote location in the Colorado Rockies, as Jack has been engaged as winter caretaker at the hotel. Wendy and Jack welcome this development in their lives, in the hope that it will bring the family closer
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The Stanley Hotel


the Stanley as a venue for Episode 10 of Season 15, all of which took place in various locations around Colorado. Despite a peaceful early history, in the years following the publication of "The Shining", the Stanley Hotel gained a reputation as a setting for paranormal activity. It has hosted numerous paranormal investigators and appeared in shows such as "Ghost Hunters" and "Ghost Adventures". The hotel also offers guided day and night tours of its "spirited history" to guests and visitors which feature spaces reputed to
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Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino


walking through an elegant home reminiscent of "The Shining" and an underground train station evocative of the dystopia of "A Clockwork Orange". The single debuted at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart. In July, the group released a music video for the album's titular track, "Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino", again directed by Brown and Chappell. The stylised video is inspired by Kubrick, featuring the surreal science fiction style established in "Four Out of Five", and depicts Turner exploring a hotel.
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Shining flycatcher


The shining flycatcher ("Myiagra alecto") is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It is found in northern Australia, and from the Moluccas to the Bismarck Archipelago. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical mangrove forest. The shining flycatcher was originally described in the genus "Drymophila" and subsequently placed by some authorities in the genus "Monarcha". Alternate names include common shining flycatcher, shining monarch, shining monarch flycatcher, shining Myiagra and shining Myiagra-flycatcher. Eight
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Johnny Shines


in 1950, but again no records were released. He kept playing with blues musicians in the Chicago area for several more years. In 1952, Shines recorded what is considered his best work, for J.O.B. Records. The recordings were a commercial failure, and Shines, frustrated with the music industry, sold his equipment and returned to working in construction. In 1966, Vanguard Records found Shines taking photographs in a Chicago blues club, and he recorded tracks for the third volume of "Chicago/The Blues/Today!"
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Medieval women's mysticism


a most beautiful, shining fire, was the fire of a man of the sapphire colour, and that most splendid light poured over the whole of that shining fire, and the shining fire over all that splendid light, and that most splendid light and shining fire over the whole figure of the man, appearing one light in one virtue and power. And again I heard that living Light saying to me: This is the meaning of the mysteries of God, that it may be discerned and understood discreetly what that fulness may
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It Comes at Night


Although the film is post-apocalyptic Shults did not look to any other such films as inspiration; instead, he cited the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and John Cassavetes and the films "Night of the Living Dead" and "The Shining" as inspirations. To the later point, the film takes some influences from "The Shining"s Overlook Hotel in that the layout of the house is deliberately vague and never properly established. Shults has described it "as this kind of labyrinth" and a metaphor for "the mesh of
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Barton Fink


works cited as influences for "Barton Fink" include the film "The Shining" (1980), produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and the comedy "Sullivan's Travels" (1941), written and directed by Preston Sturges. Set in an empty hotel, Kubrick's film concerns a writer unable to proceed with his latest work. Although the Coens approve of comparisons to "The Shining", Joel suggests that Kubrick's film "belongs in a more global sense to the horror film genre". "Sullivan
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Jack (even though Grady expresses an interest in Danny's "shining" ability), who seems to be a reincarnation of a previous caretaker of the hotel, as suggested by the 1920s photograph of Jack at the end of the film and Jack's repeated claims to have "not just a "déjà vu"". The film is even more focused on Jack (as opposed to Danny) than the novel. The room number 217 has been changed to 237. Timberline Lodge, located on Mt. Hood in Oregon,
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Bill Shine


, named Shine and Jack Abernethy as co-presidents of Fox News in August 2016. Shine headed the network's news and programming operations. Shine was named in at least four lawsuits against Fox alleging sexual harassment or racial discrimination by the company. In April 2017, "New York" magazine reported that Shine was uncertain about his future at Fox and that he did not think that Rupert Murdoch had been supportive enough of him. A Fox spokesperson denied that the conversations described in the report took place. Fox host Sean Hannity
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Panania


Hills is the suburb to the west and Revesby is located to the east. The name "Panania" was on the original list of stations proposed for the Tempe-East Hills railway line in 1929. Prior to this, Panania was part of what was generally known as the East Hills district. Panania is an Aboriginal word meaning "sun rising in the east and shining on the hills". An alternative theory is that the name may be a derivation of "Pannonia", which was an ancient province of the Roman
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Hotels.ng


and Asian models of already-established hotels booking agencies, Mark tentatively created a hotels listing platform (which was what Hotels.ng was, initially.) He purchased a domain name and a list of hotels and put them up on the website. This domain recorded enough traffic numbers to convince Mark to return to Nigeria from Germany. In Calabar, he continued to list more hotels. He partnered with a friend and they started taking photographs of hotels and signing agreements with as many hotels in Calabar as they could find. As soon
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Danny Lloyd


and John Baxter, they state that Kubrick was able to film all of Lloyd's scenes without the six-year-old actor realizing he was in a horror film. He was led to believe that he was just acting in a drama film about a family who lives in a hotel. Lloyd was also interviewed in "Making 'The Shining"' (1980), filmed by Stanley's daughter, Vivian Kubrick. Despite his well-received performance in "The Shining", Lloyd retired from acting at the age
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Windamere Hotel


Windamere Hotel, built as ‘Ada Villa’ in 1841 and then turned into a Boarding House for Tea Planters and other Raj types, on contract, in the late 1880s. In 1939, it became ‘Windamere Hotel’, is a colonial hotel situated on Observatory Hill, in Darjeeling, India. The hotel started out as boarding house for bachelor British tea planters in Darjeeling, in what was then British India, were built in 1841 and opened up as a Boarding House in the late 1880s. The property named Adda
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Pankaj Gupta


of Europe and America with the Indian hockey team. Gupta was the first coach of the legendary Dhyan Chand. The latter's actual name was Dhyan Singh. Gupta gave him the title of "Chand" or moon, and predicted that one day he would shine like a moon. So close were the two that when Jhansi Heroes went to Kolkata to participate in Beighton Cup all the players put up in hotel, but Dhyan Chand stayed with Gupta. Dhyan Chand has narrated many stories about Gupta. Here is one about their
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Douglas Wilder


paternal grandparents having been enslaved in Goochland County. The seventh of eight brothers and sisters, Wilder was named for the African American writers Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frederick Douglass. Wilder's father sold insurance and his mother worked as a maid. While the family was never completely destitute, Wilder recalled his early years during the Great Depression as a childhood of "gentle poverty." Wilder worked his way through Virginia Union University, a historically black university, by waiting tables at hotels and shining shoes, graduating in 1951 with a degree
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Indialantic, Florida


Melbourne, otherwise a mainland community. Included are these developments: From 1919 to 1921, Ernest Kouven-Hoven, who bought the land that ultimately became Indialantic, settled in the area, and built a wooden bridge connecting Indialantic with Melbourne (Bridge #1) In the 1920s - The Indialantic Hotel was built. Its name was later changed to the Tradewinds Hotel. The hotel was on what is now South Shannon Avenue, the current location of Tradewinds Terrace. By 1924, the Indialantic Casino was built. Its name was
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Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond


building of a small inn in 1738, was leased from the Earl by a John Christopher (died 1758). This inn bore the name "Star and Garter", a name that was and still is common among inns and hotels around Britain. Little is known about the subsequent early history other than a rebuilding of the inn, but in the year 1780 a private residence that had been built next to the inn became part of what could now be called a hotel, though it was also referred to as an inn
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Les Hôtels Baverez


1908 as the second hotel of what is now the Baverez group. It was located on the other side of rue La Pérouse in the building that is now known as The Peninsula Paris hotel. That building was purchased by the French government in 1936 to serve as offices for the Ministry of War. The building at 30 rue La Pérouse was inaugurated in February 2010 under the name of Hôtel Majestic Villa. The name was subsequently changed to Majestic Hôtel-Spa. Hôtel Raphael is a 5-star hotel in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
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The Shining (novel)


world in the isolated hotel. The Overlook has difficulty possessing Danny, so it begins to possess Jack by frustrating his need and desire to work and by enticing him with the storied history of the hotel through a scrapbook and records in the basement. Jack starts to develop cabin fever and becomes increasingly unstable, destroying a CB radio and sabotaging a snowmobile, the only two links with the outside world the Torrances had. One day, after a fight with Wendy, Jack finds the hotel's bar fully stocked with liquor despite being
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The Shining (film)


to 144 minutes. As noted by Roger Ebert: For its release in Europe, Kubrick cut about 25 minutes from the film. The excised scenes included a longer meeting between Jack and Watson at the hotel, Danny being attended by a doctor (Anne Jackson) including references to Tony and how Danny was once injured by Jack in a drunken rage, more footage of Hallorann's attempts to get to the hotel during the snowstorm including a sequence with a garage attendant (Tony Burton), extended dialogue scenes at the hotel,
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Anna Saeki


and Asia, by a commitment of the sponsoring organization "Harmony of Shining Women Foundation". She has been active as an actress and presenter as well. In 2008, she received the award "20 people contributed to Tango", for the first Japanese artist ever. Invited as a representative of Japan to "Asian Festival 2005" in Berlin, Germany in September. Performances in Paris Champs Elysees Theater. Performances in Korea, Tokyo Prince Hotel Park Tower, Motion Blue Yokohama, Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel, Hotel Granvia Hiroshima
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The Shining (opera)


approaching the hotel on a snowmobile. Hallorann enters the hotel. Danny tries to warn him, but Jack attacks Hallorann with his mallet and renders him unconscious. Jack corners Danny, but Danny confronts Jack with his first sung line in the opera: Jack briefly becomes lucid again, collapses on the floor, and urges Danny to escape. Derwent, Grady, and Lloyd appear, reproach Jack, and warn him that the boiler is about to explode. Hallorann revives, and takes Wendy and Danny away from the hotel. In
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The Shining (opera)


the basement, Jack resolves to let his family live. He has snapped his father's cane, which Mark had used to beat his own wife, Jack's mother, years before. After his family is a safe distance away, Jack allows the boiler to explode, which destroys the hotel and kills him. Eight months later, at a hotel in Maine, Wendy and Danny are guests in a cabin. On his work break, Hallorann, now a cook at this hotel, checks in on Wendy and Danny.
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Rush Hour (franchise)


John Lone) and Steven Reign (Alan King) was actually the Desert Inn hotel and casino. There were red lights shined at the hotel to make it a scarlet color. Following the closure of the 50-year-old Las Vegas Strip property in August 2000 by new owner Steve Wynn, the "Rush Hour 2" production moved in and redesigned parts of the property as a Chinese themed casino/hotel for the movie. Shortly after the movie wrapped production in Las Vegas, the Desert Inn was demolished on October 23,
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Copley Square Hotel


to stop. The hotel was convenient for the railroad stations, trading centers, places of amusement and the electric car service. The hotel (or house as it was called at the time) originally had 300 elegantly furnished rooms, single and en suite, with private parlors and baths. The original proprietors were F.S. Risteen & Co. and the total cost to open the hotel was $300,000. The Copley Square Hotel was built near what is present day Copley Square. The square was named in honor of John Singleton Copley,
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