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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 04/02/2013 : 14:59:37
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TA:MOU = Themed Anniversary: Moving On Up
The Rules
Each Tuesday a theme will be decided based on the Anniversary of some significant event. All you have to do is trawl your reviews for any that relate to that event and post them here with a link.
You can post as many as you wish, so long as either the film or your review clearly relates to the theme. You can only post during the week of the current TA:MOU.
You don't have to say you voted unless you really want to - but you are expected to visit all the links posted.
ON THIS DAY: 2 April
TA:MOU provides some dive-off points for a quartet of challenges:
> In 1863 hundreds of Virginia women, infuriated by their families being starved to death, rioted on the streets of Richmond, demanding the Confederate government release its hoarded emergency supplies. OK, no one filmed The Virginia Bread Riot - but seek out films which document in some way a mass of people demonstrating in anger at political injustice. Both happy or tragic endings qualify.
> In 1902 the City of Los Angeles opened the very first full-time movie house in America. Please find films that feature cinemas, film palaces, movie theaters of any kind. Key scenes will qualify [e.g. Woody Allen's surreal conversation with Marshall McLuhan].
> In 1930 the death was announced of Ethiopia's Empress Zewditu; she was succeeded by Haile Selassie. This TA:MOU task is to post your fwfrs for films that feature emperors or empresses. Don't get smart and argue that such as the king/queen of England also hold that title. Just those royals who are BEST KNOWN as Emps - any country or historical era will do.
> And, finally, fwfr fans, we confront da bad guys - always such a rich TA:MOU source. Today, we're marking the date in 1992 when NY Mafia boss John Gotti was convicted of murder and racketeering, and subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
The films that TA:MOU's looking for are only about gangstas who were caught or captured, charged with gang-related crimes, then put on trial and convicted and imprisoned. Capone's tax evasion doesn't count! Non-US films do!
Go to, my pretties!
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Give fwfr felicitations to these Birthday Babes
1805 � Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
1840 � �mile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
1914 � Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
1920 � Jack Webb, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1982)
1925 � George MacDonald Fraser, English author (d. 2008)
1942 � Roshan Seth, Indian actor
1945 � Linda Hunt, American actress
1954 � Donald Petrie, American director
1959 � David Frankel, American director, screenwriter and producer
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This week's TA:MOU - 2 April
