La maledizione dei Lawrence #1 (A piccole dosi) (Italian Edition)

Paul, Jack e Cristina. Un incidente imprevisto riunisce le loro vite e il loro destino. Toccheranno i vertici dell'amore, l'abisso della vendetta, la promessa di redenzione. Quanto pesano 21 grammi? In una memorabile serata, Jane riesce a fare la spola tra due ricevimenti nuziali, uno a Manhattan e uno a Brooklyn, impresa che non sfugge all'occhio attento di Kevin James Marsden , un cronista che vuole sfruttare questa storia per fare carriera.

I due, un tempo grandi amici, sono ormai lontani su tutto, separati per sempre dalla vita, dal lavoro, dai loro uomini ma soprattutto dall'amore per la stessa donna. I bambini sono al settimo cielo, ma presto si accorgono quanto sia difficile dover scegliere un unico desiderio a testa tra tanti che vorrebbero realizzare Alla vigilia di Natale un omicidio sconvolge 8 donne.

Nash enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton in and almost immediately stood out as an odd duck. He devoted himself to finding something unique, a mathematical theorem that would be completely original. He kept to himself for the most part and while he went out for drinks with other students, he spends a lot of time with his roommate, Charles, who eventually becomes his best friend.

John is soon a professor at MIT where he meets and eventually married a graduate student, Alicia. Over time however John begins to lose his grip on reality, eventually being institutionalized diagnosed with schizophrenia. As the depths of his imaginary world are revealed, Nash withdraws from society and it's not until the s that he makes his first foray back into the world of academics, gradually returning to research and teaching.

In , John Nash was awarded the Nobel prize in Economics. Il maggiore americano Arnold si reca a Berlino per svolgere un'inchiesta sul famoso direttore d'orchestra sospettato di avere aderito al nazismo: Qusti computer vengono anche utilizzati per creare particolari robot e androidi. Un giovane inglese parte per l'America, alla ricerca del padre emigrato tanti anni prima.

Una volta negli Stati Uniti, s'innamora di una ragazza, Lucy, il cui fratello viene richiamato alle armi ed arruolato per andare a combattere in Vietnam. I due innamorati allora si fanno coinvolgere pienamente dai movimenti pacifisti che nascono nel periodo, diventandone convinti attivisti. La storia di questi due giovani viene raccontata attraverso 33 canzoni dei Beatles, rivisitate e cantate dagli stessi attori protagonisti del film Il tutto ha come sfondo alcuni decisivi momenti epocali come l'invasione giapponese del Il caso vuole che sia anche la sua prima vera missione.

Mentre Smart e 99 sono sul punto di svelare il piano di KAOS, capiscono anche che l'agente nemico Siegfried Terence Stamp e il suo braccio destro, Shtarker Ken Davitian hanno pianificato di arricchirsi con la rete terroristica. Senza alcuna esperienza e oltretutto con poco tempo a disposizione, Smart - armato solo di alcuni dispositivi ad alta tecnologia e di un inesauribile entusiasmo - deve sconfiggere KAOS se vuole salvare la situazione.

Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirres, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to "the golden city", or to certain destruction? Kate Hudson, Luke Wilson, Sophie Marceau, David Paymer Alex, scrittore con il fatidico blocco, per pagare i suoi debiti accetta di scrivere una commedia in trenta giorni.

Per finirla in tempo assume Emma, una dattilografa Qui, coadiuvato da un gruppetto di giovani volontari, lottava giorno dopo giorno per salvare dalla perdizione decine di piccoli innocenti. Inevitabilmente il suo percorso lo porta a entrare in conflitto con gli interessi del potere mafioso It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover - the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra.

Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim's Island. Il piccolo pesce pagliaccio Nemo, in cerca di nuove avventure, si allontana un po' troppo da casa sua e si perde. Williams, Adam Kaufman, Catherine Mangan, James Gammon Quindici anni fa, cinque uomini furono rapiti dagli alieni, e solo in quattro riuscirono a tornare indietro, il quinto rimase ucciso. I due allora si solidizzano per diffendere il parco giochi.

Jason Lee, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Quando Dave si reca alla Jett Records per proporre a Ian una nuova canzone, viene cacciato bruscamente. Andandosene Dave prende un cestino di muffin e passa accanto all'albero di Natale in corso di sistemazione nell'atrio. Prima ancora di pronunciare una sola parola, gli scoiattoli mettono a soqquadro la casa, trasformandola in un'area disastrata. Al tempo stesso, Alvin, Simon e Theodore cercano affannosamente di creare un'ambientazione romantica per un incontro tra Dave e la sua ex Claire Cameron Richardson.

Ma i problemi di Dave vanno ben oltre le mancate occasioni romantiche. Alvin, Simon e Theodore si avventurano ancora una volta per il mondo e approdano direttamente nel corrotto ambiente della musica pop contemporanea di Ian. Il film comprende 20 minuti di sequenze e musiche non inserite nell'edizione del , aggiunti con l'entusiastica approvazione di Milos Forman, Sir Peter e Saul Zaentz.

Una scatola musicale diventa il simbolo delle loro scommesse. Each has his own doubts. They spend a final evening cruising the strip and have every adventure possible before dawn when they will each have to decide what they will do. I venditori si dimostreranno capaci di ogni atto, tradimenti e persino il furto pur di risultare vincitori.

Adam Andrea Bosca ha 26 anni, gioca in porta e vive in difesa, combattuto tra la paura di assomigliare al padre Vittorio e la certezza di avere ereditato tutta la sua esuberanza. Tutti loro hanno in dono un particolare talento, ma come tutti, presentano anche delle debolezze che gli fanno cadere inevitabilmente in errore.

Tra guai, contrattempi, gioie, dolori L'assassino firma la scena del delitto usando i corpi delle vittime ispirandosi ad opere d'arte realmente esistenti. Mentre le indagini vanno avanti, vengono a galla particolari oscuri del passato di Aubray, che fanno sorgere sospetti riguardo al rapporto con l'assassino da lui catturato in passato L'investigatore privato Harry Angel viene ingaggiato da un misterioso cliente per ritrovare Johnny Favorite, un cantante sparito senza onorare un contratto.

Quando Langdon apprende che manca poco all'esplosione di una bomba piazzata in Vaticano dagli Illuminati, arriva in aereo a Roma, dove si allea con Vittoria Vetra, una bellissima ed enigmatica scienziata italiana. By chance he meets his ex-wife who is now living with another man. She finally realizes that she is still in love with him.

All'inizio si mostra restio a parlare, ma poi confessa un'infanzia orribile. Attraverso la guida del suo dottore affronta la drammatica infanzia vissuta e inizia una ricerca per trovare i genitori che non ha mai conosciuto. In cerca di emozioni forti, Alex, quotidianamente compie azioni criminali. Viene arrestato e sottoposto ad un trattamento che lo condiziona alla non violenza. Serge Dreiden, Maria Kzsnetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy Invisibile a quanti lo circondano, un giovane regista si trova, per magia, catapultato nel , immerso negli splendori del Palazzo dell'Hermitage, a San Pietroburgo.

Qui inconra un cinico diplomatico del XIX secolo, con il quale intraprende uno straordinario viaggio attraverso la storia e l'anima del paese, dall'epoca degli zar ad oggi, custodita gelosamente dalle pareti del palazzo. Quando una coppia di nuovi vicini si trasferisce accanto a loro, nonostante si dimostrino molto amichevoli, Michael ha uno strano presentimento. I nuovi vicini infatti nascondono un terribile segreto..

Ma sempre sotto la minaccia del corrotto Anedda, ispettore della Digos, che lo tiene in pugno con le prove della sua antica colpevolezza. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2, head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Entrata nella casa di cura, Fiona, a causa della lontananza dal marito, inizia a dimenticarsi di lui e come se non bastasse, a nutrire interesse verso un altro ospite dell'ospedale Una leggenda affollata di eroi Una famiglia siciliana raccontata attraverso tre generazioni: Nelle stagioni della fame e della seconda guerra mondiale, suo figlio Peppino s'imbatte nell'ingiustizia e scopre la passione per la politica. Nel contempo un ragazza giapponese sordomuta, vive la sua adolescenza con i disagi del suo handicap.

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Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has them consummating their marriage on her twentieth birthday, which is in three days, the act to which Baby Doll is not really looking forward. But she does taunt him and other men with her overt "baby doll" sexuality, the baby doll aspect which she fosters by sleeping in their house's nursery in a crib.

Baby Doll's now deceased father allowed the marriage on the stipulation that Archie Lee provide Baby Doll financial security as displayed by the most resplendent house in the south. They currently live in a dilapidated mansion with her Aunt Rose Comfort, and although Archie Lee is making some renovations on it, Qui scopre di avere molti amici che le regaleranno una ventata di ottismo.

Tratto dal romanzo settecentesco di William Makepeace Thackeray, il film racconta il successo e il declino di un giovane avventurierio irlandese dalle origini modeste. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part of the country, where everything from landscape to language is different. He meets Naii, who is trying to raise her two young children on a farm, while her husband is away. Despite cultural differences, and the fact that they do not speak the same language, Bashu and Naii slowly form a strong bond.

La scrittrice sfida il poliziotto, prima nelle indagini poi a letto, mentre lui si trova alle prese con nuovi omicidi. Batman e Robin cercheranno di fermare Mr. In seguito all'assasinio dei suoi genitori, di cui ha ereditato i beni, Bruce Wayne Christian Bale viaggia per il mondo alla ricerca degli strumenti per combattere le ingiustizie e far tremare coloro che terrorizzano il mondo. Tornato a Gotham City, veste i panni del suo alter ego: Per non deludere i pochi clienti, Jerry e Mike decidono di girare un remake di uno dei film cancellati, nel cortile di Jerry.

Avendo poche ore a disposizione prima che l'aereo di Jesse decolli, i due passeranno quel po' che gli resta insieme. Infatti la sfortuna inizia presto a manifestarsi intorno a loro e Attreverso queste storie comincia a conoscere le grandi imprese e i grandi fallimenti del padre. Con l'aiuto di una reporter che vuole denunciare il traffico illecito di diamanti, i tre affronteranno diversi rischi pur di ritrovare il diamante nascosto dal contadino. Once again hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops, led by Cabel the Curtis' son and Elwood's step-brother , the Russian Mafia, and a militia group.

On his new "mission from God" Elwood enlists the help of a young orphan, and a strip club bartender. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert. Things get ugly though when success leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?! Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town.

He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. However, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for GTA and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart. Ida Lowry , Ian Holm Mr.

Warrenn , Peter Vaughan Mr. Jaffe , Barbara Hicks Mrs. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger. Derek Jacobi, Elizabeth Hartman, Arthur Malet, Dom DeLuise Brisby, una topolina che vive nel sottosuolo di un campo, riesce a fermare il trattore che lo deve arare e con l'aiuto di un corvo e di un gufo riesce a salvare tutti gli altri topolini che vivono con lei..

Calogero, il figlio di autista italo-americano, subisce il fascino di un duro del quartire, Sonny. Nonostante le proteste del padre, il ragazzo cresce con il mito del gangster. Il documentario racconta la storia di alcuni famosi cantanti cubani e di come furono riuniti da Ry Cooder per incidere un disco. L'amore di un padre per i suoi cinque figli. Jun Ichikawa, Carlo Pedersoli, Sally Ming Zeo Ni Un giovane studente occidentale - in un ambiente estraneo al suo contesto abituale - a causa di un fraintendimento di indirizzo, viene condotto in un luogo fuori mano, in un teatrino-bordello per clientela in cerca di forti, trasgressive, emozioni.

Tuttavia, allo sconcerto iniziale, a poco a poco e magicamente si sovrappone l'incanto della rappresentazione, fino a suscitare suggestioni e abbandoni da confondersi con il sogno. Sua figlia Claudia ha dieci anni e frequenta la quinta elementare. Pietro si rifugia nell'auto ad aspettare che il dolore arrivi. Ma dopo il caos calmo per Pietro comincia il tempo del risanamento. Tutto inizia quando una prostituta mette alla luce un bambino su un autobus. Dopo vent'anni Victor, che fa il fattorino rimane coinvolto in una colluttazione con due poliziotti e finisce in galera.

Nel primo il protagonista gira in vespa per le vie di una Roma estiva. Nel secondo decide di raggiungere un amico a Lipari. Nell'ultimo, ricostruisce le tappe della lotta contro la malattia di cui ha sofferto per un anno. Il cast stellare delle voci comprende le performance assolutamente sopra le righe dei leggendari Richard Petty e Cheech Marin. Sono sposati ed hanno un bel bambino, Andrea. Circondati dagli amorevoli consigli dei genitori e degli amici vivono serenamente la loro bella storia d'amore.

Mambo, stanco della situazione, vuole dare una scossa all'ordine costituito: She arrives to find her new husband and family slaughtered, but by who? The prime suspect, coffee-lover Cheyenne, befriends her and offers to go after the real killer, assassin gang leader Frank, in her honor. He is accompanied by Harmonica on his quest to get even. Get-rich-quick subplots and intricate character histories intertwine with such artistic flair that this could in fact be the movie-to-end-all-movies. Durante la sparatoria tre banditi muoiono, tra questi, si crede sia caduto anche Max, che invece si era fatto sostituire Poi improvvisamente sparisce, e ricompare in incognito in Bolivia, dove organizza un piccolo gruppo di compagni cubani e reclute boliviane destinati a dare inizio alla grande rivoluzione latino-americana.

Ripercorrendo la sua storia, riusciamo a capire come il Che sia rimasto un simbolo dell'idealismo e dell'eroismo, ancora vivo nei cuori della gente di tutto il mondo. Large numbers of hopefulls audition, hoping to be selected. Throughout the day, more and more people are eliminated, and the competition gets harder.

Eventually, approximately a dozen dancers must compete for a few spots, each hoping to impress the director with their dancing skill. But, is this really what the director is looking for? Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen Ambientato nella Londra dei giorni nostri, le vicende di quattro personaggi e dei loro incontri fortuiti, attrazioni istantanee e tradimenti distratti. Analisi sottile e dissacrante delle moderne relazioni di coppia.

Barnaby encourages her to attend their son's wedding cross-country, hoping to rekindle their relationship. Sorpreso da quello che gli sta succedendo, presto Jake si convince di essere un agente del governo sottocopertura e di trovarsi all'interno di una misteriosa cospirazione Il loro amore li conduce verso una vita in comune, coronata dalla nascita di una splendida bambina. Un teenager deve affrontare problemi scolastici, sentimentali e familiari. Superato l'agghiaccio iniziale e sulla scia di una crudele scommessa, tra i due scocca l'amore. Sentimenti ed emozioni che sembravano spariti, o per lo meno accantonati, riesplodono dentro di lei riaccendendo la sua vita Charlotte decide di andare a Parigi per sottoporsi ad alcuni esami medici.

Gli esami rivelano una malattia gravissima che la costringe ad affrontare una lunga cura mettendo alla prova il suo corpo e l'amore appena sbocciato. Intanto un'altra ragazza irrompe nella loro vita: Ninon, la cugina di Charlotte, da cui Paul si sente fortemente attratto Un iraniano proprietario di un 24hours shop. Due detective della polizia, amanti occasionali.

Il regista nero di un canale televisivo e la moglie. Due ladri di automobili. Una recluta della polizia. Il fantasma della madre e l'incontro con una straordinaria bambina, Benny, generano in Irene un conflitto che la porta ad un totale cambiamento. Un gruppo di amici si ritrovano per riprendere un weekend interrotto vent'anni prima.

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Il presidente degli Stati Uniti, George W. Bush, viene raggiunto da una serie di colpi di pistola, che lo uccideranno, durante un attentato. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.

Per bilanciarlo gli affiancano Adele Claudia Gerini , moderata tutta d'un pezzo, contraria persino al divorzio, un simbolo vivente dei valori tradizionali conosciuta come "la furia centrista". Piero e Adele litigano su tutto. Piero inizia a "corteggiare politicamente" la sua vice fino a trovare un accordo ma la situazione gli sfugge di mano e i due vengono travolti da un'attrazione irresistibile. Galeotto fu il compromesso: Cosa diranno i suoi elettori? Cosa penseranno i suoi avversari? Ma soprattutto come dirlo a Remo? Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing.

She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman - the owner of the drugstore Teodoro. Now she's very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.

Nel frattempo a casa sua si presenta il figlio di Ivan e la sua fidanzata ai quali si aggiungono l'ex moglie di Ivan e due poliziotti. Fin qui tutto liscio, ma tra i due nasce anche una vera amicizia.. Un giorno un coniglio gigantesco, che soltanto Donnie riesce a vedere, gli salva la vita attirandolo fuori di casa poco prima dell'impatto di un motore di aereo con la sua abitazione e gli predige la fine del mondo nel giro di un mese.

Deedee left her promising dance career to become a wife and mother and now runs a ballet school in Oklahoma. Emma stayed with a company and became a star though her time is nearly past. Both want what the other has and reflects back on missed chances as they are brought together again through Deedee's daughter who joins the company. Driving down a deserted Southern California highway at a safe and sane 55 miles per hour, David Mann Dennis Weaver steps on the pedal to pass a large gas trailer truck. Moments later, the truck is back, dangerously tailgating Mann before abruptly cutting him off.

For the next 90 minutes, Mann and the never-seen truckdriver are pitted against one another in a motorized duel to the death. Author Richard Matheson conceived Duel after a similar experience with a reckless trucker. The director chosen to helm Duel on location in Soledad Canyon was a bright year-old who'd shown promise on such series as Night Gallery and Columbo: First telecast on December 18, , Duel was so popular that a somewhat longer version with added violence and profanity was prepared for theatrical release in After a while of this pointless pestering, they end up joining forces to build and man a raft Cosa provoca questo improvviso mutamento nel comportamento umano?

Viene trasmesso grazie all'aria, all'acqua o Tra ideali non realizzati e la noia di una Roma d'estate, che fa da sfondo al film, passa la denuncia della mancanza d'ideali e di stimoli, causa del disorientamento giovanile. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself. Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography.

The film follows Wood Johnny Depp in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself with a motley crew of Hollywood misfits, outcasts, has-beens, and never-weres. The real story, however, is his friendship with aging, morphine-addicted Bela Lugosi Martin Landau , whom he tries to help stage a comeback.

Landau's unforgettable Oscar-winning performance must be seen to be believed, as must Rick Baker's Oscar-winning makeup. While it would have been easy to make a film simply ridiculing the bumbling director, Burton instead focuses on his driving passion for filmmaking and his unwavering persistence in the face of ridicule and failure. Possibly the most surprising aspect of the film is the genuine sentiment with which Burton treats the relationship between Wood and Lugosi; his devotion to Lugosi is touching, as is Lugosi's final soliloquy -- an inane bit of dialogue from the hilariously bad Bride of the Monster that grows into a poignant metaphor for the actor's life and ultimate triumph of his spirit.

Even the look of the film is right; it manages to preserve the air of one of Wood's own films while retaining a sense of artistry in much of the composition on screen note the scene at the drug rehab where Lugosi endures a horrifying night of detox. In all, Ed Wood is a unique film -- at times side-splittingly funny; at others, tragic or even frightening -- and a heartfelt tribute to the love of movies, good and bad alike. Fortunatamente il fidato Sir Francis Walsingham, si fa in quattro per sventare qualsiasi tentativo di complotto.. Emmanuelle is the first and most infamous of the French softcore-porn series about a young woman's awakening to new sexual dimensions.

Sylvia Kristel became a star with her portrayal of Emmanuelle, the suppressed wife of a diplomat. By virtue of her husband's profession, Emmanuelle is introduced to any number of handsome, virile men and beautiful, adventurous women, all more than willing to escort the sheltered young lady to the farthest reaches of sensuality.

Nudity and eroticism abounds in Emmanuelle, but the sex scenes are discreetly photographed shadows and elusive camera angles predominate to evoke eroticism and suggestiveness in lieu of raunch. As the Emmanuelle series dragged on, the sex became more perfunctory and the storylines overladen with gimmicks; this film is comparatively basic and straightforward. Emmanuelle is based on the allegedly autobiographical book by Emmanuelle Arsan. Il genio matematico inglese Tom Jericho ha due misteri da risolvere: Gli sventurati visitano una fabbrica di cioccolato e finiscono accidentalmente in un armadio incantato che li trasporta nel paese di Gnarnia con la 'G' muta.

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Una coppia in crisi, decide di fare una breve gita al mare per ritrovare un po' di magia nel loro rapporto. La passione del marito, invece, viene risvegliata dall'incontro con una donna misteriosa. Un burattinaio, John Cusack, un giorno scopre un portale che gli permette di entrare nella mente e nella vita dell'attore John Malkovic. Doug Ross Woody Allen's fourth film, consisting of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by Dr. David Reuben's book of the same name.

The credits at the start and close of the film are played. Il film inizia con tante dichiarazioni d'amore e tanti baci Ma poi l'amore continua? Vissero davvero tutti felici e contenti? John Boorman directed this gloriously savage interpretation of Arthurian legend loosely based on Thomas Malory's novel Le Morte d'Arthur.

By turns gleaming and filthy, tender and bloody, the film is a visually stunning epic which is never less than compelling. Interestingly, the quest for the Grail is the least effective part of the film, despite bold cinematography by Alex Thomson who was nominated for an Oscar and a fine performance by Paul Geoffrey as Perceval, whose greatest desire is attained in his dying sight.

It is the scenes of Camelot in which Boorman is at his most effective, as Arthur is betrayed by the burning passions of Guenevere Cherie Lunghi and Lancelot Nicholas Clay , whose boiling internal forces cannot be denied, whatever the cost. The wicked Mordred Robert Addie and Morgana Helen Mirren are commanding when onscreen, and Nicol Williamson's performance as the grandiosely self-sacrificing Merlin is outstanding.

Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart also appear in this dense, passionate, and stirring triumph featuring a marvelous Trevor Jones score. The gruesome effects by Peter Hutchinson and Alan Whibley, however, and sights such as a knight having sex in full body armor make this a fairy tale strictly for adults. Una coppia di professionisti cala la maschera sul proprio rapporto. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the center of the action.

Sedgwick era considerata una principessa americana, oltre ad essere nata in una famiglia molto ricca dal sangue blu, era anche bellissima e possedeva immenso talento e carisma. Qui, un'accozzaglia di musicisti, artisti, attori, poeti e disadattati, si riunisce allo scopo di creare arte, girando film underground di giorno e dando party glamour che durano tutta la notte. Edie ben presto diventa la stella dei film di Warhol, oltre che l'idolo della Factory e la beniamina dei media. All'apice del suo successo si innamora di una grande rock star Hayden Christensen. Ma nel momento in cui Edie si trova stretta tra il mondo effimero e sensuale di Warhol e l'uomo che ama, finisce con l'essere respinta da entrambi e, ancora una volta, alla deriva In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as "firemen" to perform the necessary book burnings.

While some liberties are taken with the description of the world, the narrative remains the same, as fireman Montag Oskar Werner begins to question the morality of his vocation. Curious about the world of books, he soon falls in love with a beautiful young member of a pro-literature underground -- and with literature itself. Critics were divided on the effectiveness of the result; some praised the unique design and eerie color cinematography by Nicolas Roeg, while others found the film's stylized approach overly distancing and attacked the central performances as unnatural.

In any case, however, the film inarguably succeeds in making Truffaut's reverence for the written word abundantly clear, especially during the film's justifiably famous finale. Inoltre descrive i rapporti tra Bush e Bin Laden e come siano diventati nemici mortali. Corrado Guzzanti, Andrea Blarzino, Marco Marzocca, Lillo Petrolo, Andrea Purgatori, Andrea Salerno Girato in una cava nei pressi di Roma, racconta l'epopea del gerarca fascista Barbagli Corrado Guzzanti e dei sui fidi scudieri dall'arrivo sull'ostile pianeta rosso fino all'imprevisto epilogo passando per grandi scoperte, temerarie avventure, improbabili amori, incontri alieni, e perfino visioni mistiche Il film gira intorno alle storie d'amore di un gruppo di amici dell'Oregon, sulle loro gioie, i misteri e anche i dolori provocati da questo intenso sentimento He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing laundry or small repairs.

His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape her unhappy, abusive marriage. A spezzare questo isolamento, ci penseranno da prima una giornalista, convinta che fosse Julie l'autrice delle musiche del marito, e poi la corte di Oliver, l'ex assistente del marito. Da questo momento i destini di quattro persone diametralmente opposte tra loro si intrecciano a causa dello scatenarsi di una serie di avvenimenti casuali. Nell'anno la Terra si trova sotto la dominazione di pericolosi alieni-fantasma.

La dottoressa Aki cerca un modo per sconfiggere gli invasori non solo per salvare il mondo, ma anche se stessa dopo essere stata contagiata da un virus alieno, per quasto motivo si unisce alla famosa squadra militare Deep Eyes, comandata dal suo vecchio amico grey Edwards Anche l'altra coppia di invitati presenti, insieme da appena pochi mesi, decide d'impulso di sposarsi. Nella notte prima del matrimonio verranno alla luce anche alcune piccanti sorprese del passato di Lola Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier.

Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.

Heffner, Lee Ving, Ron Karabatsos, Belinda Bauer E' l'entusiasmante storia di Alex Owens, diciottenne bella e determinata, che di giorno fa la saldatrice e di notte balla in locale per guadagnarsi l'indipendenza e realizzare il suo sogno: When he discovers that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is avoided and the boys join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Finally, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and to escape the firing squad by stealing a plane.

Forrest ha affrontato vari momenti della storia americana, compresa la guerra in Vietnam, riuscendo a cavarsela in qualsiasi situazione. Faceva il giornalista, o meglio era praticante, abusivo, come amava definirsi. Era un ragazzo allegro che amava la vita e il suo lavoro e cercava di farlo bene. Aveva il difetto di informarsi, di verificare le notizie, di indagare sui fatti. Noi qui lo seguiamo negli ultimi quattro mesi della sua vita. La sua ultima estate quando, dal Vomero, dove abitava, tutti i giorni scendeva all'inferno di Torre Annunziata, regno del boss Valentino Gionta.

Tutto, in quel periodo, ruotava intorno agli interessi per la ricostruzione del dopo terremoto e Giancarlo vedeva. Lo vediamo muoversi fra camorristi, politicanti corrotti, magistrati pavidi e carabinieri impotenti, come un giglio nel fango. Proprio la sera in cui venne ucciso, a Napoli Vasco Rossi teneva un concerto al quale Giancarlo sarebbe dovuto andare con la sua ragazza First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination.

Fresa y chocolate is the story of a great friendship, that is, a great love between two men, which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance.

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E a questo punto arriva il vero shock: Yonoi , Takeshi Kitano Sgt. Ito In British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting suicide. One of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence, tries to explain the japanese way of thinking, but is considered a traitor. Billy West Philip J. Planet Express sees a hostile takeover and Bender falls into the hands of criminals where he is used to fulfill their schemes.

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Come risarcimento per aver fallito in un affare per conto di Dadan, potente gangster, deve far si che Zare sposi Afrodita, sorella di Dadan. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth McGovern, Dinah Manoff, Fredric Lehne La normale vita di una famiglia borghese, viene all'improvviso sconvolta da una tragedia, la morte del figlio maggiore in un incidente in barca. Le reazioni della famiglia, l'incomprensibile freddezza della madre e lo sconforto del fratello.. Ghost Dog ha una sua "Bibbia" il Libro dei Samurai, a cui fa costantemente riferimento. Un irlandese che vuole combattere la dittatura a fianco di Zapata e Villa, si aggrega ad una banda con la scusa di rapinare una banca.

They, I submit, may turn out to be the most significant events of this, our century, and its lasting legacy. In the developed free-market countries—which contain less than a fifth of the earth's population but are a model for the rest—work and work force, society and polity, are all, in the last decade of this century, qualitatively and quantitatively different not only from what they were in the first years of this century but also from what has existed at any other time in history: Far smaller and far slower social changes in earlier periods triggered civil wars, rebellions, and violent intellectual and spiritual crises.

The extreme social transformations of this century have caused hardly any stir. They have proceeded with a minimum of friction, with a minimum of upheavals, and, indeed, with a minimum of attention from scholars, politicians, the press, and the public. To be sure, this century of ours may well have been the cruelest and most violent in history, with its world and civil wars, its mass tortures, ethnic cleansings, genocides, and holocausts.

But all these killings, all these horrors inflicted on the human race by this century's murderous "charismatics," hindsight clearly shows, were just that: Indeed, if this century proves one thing, it is the futility of politics. Even the most dogmatic believer in historical determinism would have a hard time explaining the social transformations of this century as caused by the headline-making political events, or the headline-making political events as caused by the social transformations.

But it is the social transformations, like ocean currents deep below the hurricane-tormented surface of the sea, that have had the lasting, indeed the permanent, effect. They, rather than all the violence of the political surface, have transformed not only the society but also the economy, the community, and the polity we live in.

The age of social transformation will not come to an end with the year —it will not even have peaked by then. Before the First World War, farmers composed the largest single group in every country. They no longer made up the population everywhere, as they had from the dawn of history to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a hundred years earlier. But farmers still made up a near-majority in every developed country except England and Belgium—in Germany, France, Japan, the United States—and, of course, in all underdeveloped countries, too.

On the eve of the First World War it was considered a self-evident axiom that developed countries—the United States and Canada being the only exceptions—would increasingly have to rely on food imports from nonindustrial, nondeveloped areas. Today only Japan among major developed free-market countries is a heavy importer of food. It is one unnecessarily, for its weakness as a food producer is largely the result of an obsolete rice-subsidy policy that prevents the country from developing a modern, productive agriculture.

And in all developed free-market countries, including Japan, farmers today are at most five percent of the population and work force—that is, one tenth of the proportion of eighty years ago. Actually, productive farmers make up less than half of the total farm population, or no more than two percent of the work force.

And these agricultural producers are not "farmers" in most senses of the word; they are "agribusiness," which is arguably the most capital-intensive, most technology-intensive, and most information-intensive industry around. Traditional farmers are close to extinction even in Japan. And those that remain have become a protected species kept alive only by enormous subsidies.

The second-largest group in the population and work force of every developed country around was composed of live-in servants. They were considered as much a law of nature as farmers were. Census categories of the time defined a "lower middle class" household as one that employed fewer than three servants, and as a percentage of the work force domestics grew steadily up to the First World War.

Eighty years later live-in domestic servants scarcely exist in developed countries. Few people born since the Second World War—that is, few people under fifty—have even seen any except on the stage or in old movies. In the developed society of farmers are little but objects of nostalgia, and domestic servants are not even that.

Yet these enormous transformations in all developed free-market countries were accomplished without civil war and, in fact, in almost total silence. Only now that their farm population has shrunk to near zero do the totally urban French loudly assert that theirs should be a "rural country" with a "rural civilization. One reason why the transformations caused so little stir indeed, the main reason was that by a new class, the blue-collar worker in manufacturing industry—Marx's "proletarian"—had become socially dominant. Farmers were loudly adjured to "raise less corn and more hell," but they paid little attention.

Domestic servants were clearly the most exploited class around. But when people before the First World War talked or wrote about the "social question," they meant blue-collar industrial workers. Blue-collar industrial workers were still a fairly small minority of the population and work force—right up to they made up an eighth or a sixth of the total at most—and were still vastly outnumbered by the traditional lower classes of farmers and domestic servants. But early twentieth-century society was obsessed with blue-collar workers, fixated on them, bewitched by them.

Farmers and domestic servants were everywhere. But as classes, they were invisible. Domestic servants lived and worked inside individual homes or on individual farms in small and isolated groups of two or three. Farmers, too, were dispersed. More important, these traditional lower classes were not organized.

Indeed, they could not be organized. Slaves employed in mining or in producing goods had revolted frequently in the ancient world—though always unsuccessfully. But there is no mention in any book I ever read of a single demonstration or a single protest march by domestic servants in any place, at any time. There have been peasant revolts galore.

But except for two Chinese revolts in the nineteenth century—the Taiping Rebellion, in midcentury, and the Boxer Rebellion, at the century's end, both of which lasted for years and came close to overturning the regime—all peasant rebellions in history have fizzled out after a few bloody weeks. Peasants, history shows, are very hard to organize and do not stay organized—which is why they earned Marx's contempt.

The new class, industrial workers, was extremely visible. This is what made these workers a "class. And they soon proved eminently organizable, with the first strikes occurring almost as soon as there were factory workers. Charles Dickens's harrowing tale of murderous labor conflict, Hard Times, was published in , only six years after Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto. By it had become quite clear that industrial workers would not become the majority, as Marx had predicted only a few decades earlier.

They therefore would not overwhelm the capitalists by their sheer numbers. Yet the most influential radical writer of the period before the First World War, the French ex-Marxist and revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel, found widespread acceptance for his thesis that the proletarians would overturn the existing order and take power by their organization and in and through the violence of the general strike. It was not only Lenin who made Sorel's thesis the foundation of his revision of Marxism and built around it his strategy in and Both Mussolini and Hitler—and Mao, ten years later—built their strategies on Sorel's thesis.

Mao's "power grows out of the barrel of a gun" is almost a direct quote from Sorel. The industrial worker became the "social question" of because he was the first lower class in history that could be organized and could stay organized. No class in history has ever risen faster than the blue-collar worker. And no class in history has ever fallen faster. In , the year of Marx's death, "proletarians" were still a minority not just of the population but also of industrial workers.

The majority in industry were then skilled workers employed in small craft shops, each containing twenty or thirty workers at most. Of the anti-heroes of the nineteenth century's best "proletarian" novel, The Princess Casamassima, by Henry James—published in and surely only Henry James could have given such a title to a story of working-class terrorists!

By "industrial worker" had become synonymous with "machine operator" and implied employment in a factory along with hundreds if not thousands of people. These factory workers were indeed Marx's proletarians—without social position, without political power, without economic or purchasing power.

The workers of —and even of —received no pensions, no paid vacation, no overtime pay, no extra pay for Sunday or night work, no health or old-age insurance except in Germany , no unemployment compensation except, after , in Britain ; they had no job security whatever. Fifty years later, in the s, industrial workers had become the largest single group in every developed country, and unionized industrial workers in mass-production industry which was then dominant everywhere had attained upper-middle-class income levels. They had extensive job security, pensions, long paid vacations, and comprehensive unemployment insurance or "lifetime employment.

In Britain the labor unions were considered to be the "real government," with greater power than the Prime Minister and Parliament, and much the same was true elsewhere. In the United States, too—as in Germany, France, and Italy—the labor unions had emerged as the country's most powerful and best organized political force.

And in Japan they had come close, in the Toyota and Nissan strikes of the late forties and early fifties, to overturning the system and taking power themselves. Thirty-five years later, in , industrial workers and their unions were in retreat. They had become marginal in numbers. Whereas industrial workers who make or move things had accounted for two fifths of the American work force in the s, they accounted for less than one fifth in the early s—that is, for no more than they had accounted for in , when their meteoric rise began.

In the other developed free-market countries the decline was slower at first, but after it began to accelerate everywhere. By the year or , in every developed free market country, industrial workers will account for no more than an eighth of the work force. Union power has been declining just as fast. Unlike domestic servants, industrial workers will not disappear—any more than agricultural producers have disappeared or will disappear.

But just as the traditional small farmer has become a recipient of subsidies rather than a producer, so will the traditional industrial worker become an auxiliary employee. His place is already being taken by the "technologist"—someone who works both with hands and with theoretical knowledge.

Examples are computer technicians, x-ray technicians, physical therapists, medical-lab technicians, pulmonary technicians, and so on, who together have made up the fastest-growing group in the U. And instead of a class—a coherent, recognizable, defined, and self-conscious group—industrial workers may soon be just another "pressure group. Chroniclers of the rise of the industrial worker tend to highlight the violent episodes—especially the clashes between strikers and the police, as in America's Pullman strike.

The reason is probably that the theoreticians and propagandists of socialism, anarchism, and communism—beginning with Marx and continuing to Herbert Marcuse in the s—incessantly wrote and talked of "revolution" and "violence. The enormous violence of this century—the world wars, ethnic cleansings, and so on—was all violence from above rather than violence from below; and it was unconnected with the transformations of society, whether the dwindling of farmers, the disappearance of domestic servants, or the rise of the industrial worker. In fact, no one even tries anymore to explain these great convulsions as part of "the crisis of capitalism," as was standard Marxist rhetoric only thirty years ago.

Contrary to Marxist and syndicalist predictions, the rise of the industrial worker did not destabilize society. Instead it has emerged as the century's most stabilizing social development. It explains why the disappearance of the farmer and the domestic servant produced no social crises.

Both the flight from the land and the flight from domestic service were voluntary. Farmers and maids were not "pushed off" or "displaced. Industrial jobs required no skills they did not already possess, and no additional knowledge. In fact, farmers on the whole had a good deal more skill than was required to be a machine operator in a mass-production plant—and so did many domestic servants. To be sure, industrial work paid poorly until the First World War. But it paid better than farming or household work.

Industrial workers in the United States until —and in some countries, including Japan, until the Second World War—worked long hours. But they worked shorter hours than farmers and domestic servants. What's more, they worked specified hours: The history books record the squalor of early industry, the poverty of the industrial workers, and their exploitation. Workers did indeed live in squalor and poverty, and they were exploited.

But they lived better than those on a farm or in a household, and were generally treated better. Proof of this is that infant mortality dropped immediately when farmers and domestic servants moved into industrial work. Historically, cities had never reproduced themselves. They had depended for their perpetuation on constant new recruits from the countryside.

This was still true in the mid-nineteenth century. But with the spread of factory employment the city became the center of population growth. In part this was a result of new public-health measures: These measures—and they were effective mostly in the city—counteracted, or at least contained, the hazards of crowding that had made the traditional city a breeding ground for pestilence.

But the largest single factor in the exponential drop in infant mortality as industrialization spread was surely the improvement in living conditions brought about by the factory. Housing and nutrition became better, and hard work and accidents came to take less of a toll. The drop in infant mortality—and with it the explosive growth in population—correlates with only one development: The early factory was indeed the "Satanic Mill" of William Blake's great poem.

But the countryside was not "England's green and pleasant Land" of which Blake sang; it was a picturesque but even more satanic slum. For farmers and domestic servants, industrial work was an opportunity. It was, in fact, the first opportunity that social history had given them to better themselves substantially without having to emigrate. In the developed free-market countries over the past or years every generation has been able to expect to do substantially better than the generation preceding it. The main reason has been that farmers and domestic servants could and did become industrial workers.

Because industrial workers are concentrated in groups, systematic work on their productivity was possible. Beginning in , two years before Marx's death, the systematic study of work, tasks, and tools raised the productivity of manual work in making and moving things by three to four percent compound on average per year—for a fiftyfold increase in output per worker over years. On this rest all the economic and social gains of the past century. And contrary to what "everybody knew" in the nineteenth century—not only Marx but all the conservatives as well, such as J.

Morgan, Bismarck, and Disraeli—practically all these gains have accrued to the industrial worker, half of them in the form of sharply reduced working hours with the cuts ranging from 40 percent in Japan to 50 percent in Germany , and half of them in the form of a twenty-five fold increase in the real wages of industrial workers who make or move things.

There were thus very good reasons why the rise of the industrial worker was peaceful rather than violent, let alone revolutionary. But what explains the fact that the fall of the industrial worker has been equally peaceful and almost entirely free of social protest, of upheaval, of serious dislocation, at least in the United States? The rise of the class succeeding industrial workers is not an opportunity for industrial workers. It is a challenge.

The newly emerging dominant group is "knowledge workers. I coined it in a book, Landmarks of Tomorrow. By the end of this century knowledge workers will make up a third or more of the work force in the United States—as large a proportion as manufacturing workers ever made up, except in wartime. The majority of them will be paid at least as well as, or better than, manufacturing workers ever were. And the new jobs offer much greater opportunities. But—and this is a big but—the great majority of the new jobs require qualifications the industrial worker does not possess and is poorly equipped to acquire.

They require a good deal of formal education and the ability to acquire and to apply theoretical and analytical knowledge. They require a different approach to work and a different mind-set. Above all, they require a habit of continuous learning. Displaced industrial workers thus cannot simply move into knowledge work or services the way displaced farmers and domestic workers moved into industrial work. At the very least they have to change their basic attitudes, values, and beliefs. In the closing decades of this century the industrial work force has shrunk faster and further in the United States than in any other developed country—while industrial production has grown faster than in any other developed country except Japan.

The shift has aggravated America's oldest and least tractable problem: In the fifty years since the Second World War the economic position of African-Americans in America has improved faster than that of any other group in American social history—or in the social history of any country. Three fifths of America's blacks rose into middle class incomes; before the Second World War the figure was one twentieth.

But half that group rose into middle-class incomes and not into middle class jobs. Since the Second World War more and more blacks have moved into blue-collar unionized mass-production industry—that is, into jobs paying middle-class and upper-middle-class wages while requiring neither education nor skill. These are precisely the jobs, however, that are disappearing the fastest. What is amazing is not that so many blacks did not acquire an education but that so many did. The economically rational thing for a young black in postwar America was not to stay in school and learn; it was to leave school as early as possible and get one of the plentiful mass-production jobs.

As a result, the fall of the industrial worker has hit America's blacks disproportionately hard—quantitatively, but qualitatively even more. It has blunted what was the most potent role model in the black community in America: But, of course, blacks are a minority of the population and work force in the United States. For the overwhelming majority—whites, but also Latinos and Asians—the fall of the industrial worker has caused amazingly little disruption and nothing that could be called an upheaval.

Even in communities that were once totally dependent on mass-production plants that have gone out of business or have drastically slashed employment steel cities in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, for instance, or automobile cities like Detroit and Flint, Michigan , unemployment rates for nonblack adults fell within a few short years to levels barely higher than the U.

Even in these communities there has been no radicalization of America's blue-collar workers. The only explanation is that for the nonblack blue-collar community the development came as no surprise, however unwelcome, painful, and threatening it may have been to individual workers and their families. Psychologically—but in terms of values, perhaps, rather than in terms of emotions—America's industrial workers must have been prepared to accept as right and proper the shift to jobs that require formal education and that pay for knowledge rather than for manual work, whether skilled or unskilled.

In the United States the shift had by or so largely been accomplished. But so far it has occurred only in the United States. In the other developed free-market countries, in western and northern Europe and in Japan, it is just beginning in the s. It is, however, certain to proceed rapidly in these countries from now on, perhaps faster than it originally did in the United States. The fall of the industrial worker in the developed free-market countries will also have a major impact outside the developed world.

Developing countries can no longer expect to base their development on their comparative labor advantage—that is, on cheap industrial labor. It is widely believed, especially by labor-union officials, that the fall of the blue-collar industrial worker in the developed countries was largely, if not entirely, caused by moving production "offshore" to countries with abundant supplies of unskilled labor and low wage rates. But this is not true.

There was something to the belief thirty years ago. Japan, Taiwan, and, later, South Korea did indeed as explained in some detail in my book Post-Capitalist Society gain their initial advantage in the world market by combining, almost overnight, America's invention of training for full productivity with wage costs that were still those of a pre-industrial country. But this technique has not worked at all since or In the s only an insignificant percentage of manufactured goods imported into the United States are produced abroad because of low labor costs.

While total imports in accounted for about 12 percent of the U. Practically none of the decline in American manufacturing employment from some 30 or 35 percent of the work force to 15 or 18 percent can therefore be attributed to moving work to low-wage countries. The main competition for American manufacturing industry—for instance, in automobiles, in steel, and in machine tools—has come from countries such as Japan and Germany, where wage costs have long been equal to, if not higher than, those in the United States.

The comparative advantage that now counts is in the application of knowledge—for example, in Japan's total quality management, lean manufacturing processes, just-in-time delivery, and price-based costing, or in the customer service offered by medium-sized German or Swiss engineering companies. This means, however, that developing countries can no longer expect to base their development on low wages. They, too, must learn to base it on applying knowledge—just at the time when most of them China, India, and much of Latin America, let alone black Africa will have to find jobs for millions of uneducated and unskilled young people who are qualified for little except yesterday's blue-collar industrial jobs.

But for the developed countries, too, the shift to knowledge-based work poses enormous social challenges. Despite the factory, industrial society was still essentially a traditional society in its basic social relationships of production. But the emerging society, the one based on knowledge and knowledge workers, is not. It is the first society in which ordinary people—and that means most people—do not earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow.

It is the first society in which "honest work" does not mean a callused hand. It is also the first society in which not everybody does the same work, as was the case when the huge majority were farmers or, as seemed likely only forty or thirty years ago, were going to be machine operators. This is far more than a social change.

It is a change in the human condition. What it means—what are the values, the commitments, the problems, of the new society—we do not know. Knowledge workers will not be the majority in the knowledge society, but in many if not most developed societies they will be the largest single population and work-force group. And even where outnumbered by other groups, knowledge workers will give the emerging knowledge society its character, its leadership, its social profile. They may not be the ruling class of the knowledge society, but they are already its leading class.

And in their characteristics, social position, values, and expectations, they differ fundamentally from any group in history that has ever occupied the leading position. In the first place, knowledge workers gain access to jobs and social position through formal education. A great deal of knowledge work requires highly developed manual skill and involves substantial work with one's hands. An extreme example is neurosurgery.

The neurosurgeon's performance capacity rests on formal education and theoretical knowledge. An absence of manual skill disqualifies one for work as a neurosurgeon. But manual skill alone, no matter how advanced, will never enable anyone to be a neurosurgeon. The education that is required for neurosurgery and other kinds of knowledge work can be acquired only through formal schooling. It cannot be acquired through apprenticeship.

Knowledge work varies tremendously in the amount and kind of formal knowledge required. Some jobs have fairly low requirements, and others require the kind of knowledge the neurosurgeon possesses. But even if the knowledge itself is quite primitive, only formal education can provide it. Education will become the center of the knowledge society, and the school its key institution. What knowledge must everybody have? What is "quality" in learning and teaching? These will of necessity become central concerns of the knowledge society, and central political issues. In fact, the acquisition and distribution of formal knowledge may come to occupy the place in the politics of the knowledge society which the acquisition and distribution of property and income have occupied in our politics over the two or three centuries that we have come to call the Age of Capitalism.

In the knowledge society, clearly, more and more knowledge, and especially advanced knowledge, will be acquired well past the age of formal schooling and increasingly, perhaps, through educational processes that do not center on the traditional school. But at the same time, the performance of the schools and the basic values of the schools will be of increasing concern to society as a whole, rather than being considered professional matters that can safely be left to "educators.

We can also predict with confidence that we will redefine what it means to be an educated person. Traditionally, and especially during the past years perhaps since or so, at least in the West, and since about that time in Japan as well , an educated person was somebody who had a prescribed stock of formal knowledge. The Germans called this knowledge allgemeine Bildung, and the English and, following them, the nineteenth century Americans called it the liberal arts. Increasingly, an educated person will be somebody who has learned how to learn, and who continues learning, especially by formal education, throughout his or her lifetime.

There are obvious dangers to this. For instance, society could easily degenerate into emphasizing formal degrees rather than performance capacity. It could fall prey to sterile Confucian mandarins—a danger to which the American university is singularly susceptible. On the other hand, it could overvalue immediately usable, "practical" knowledge and underrate the importance of fundamentals, and of wisdom altogether.

A society in which knowledge workers dominate is under threat from a new class conflict: The productivity of knowledge work—still abysmally low—will become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the competitive position of every single country, every single industry, every single institution within society.

The productivity of the nonknowledge, services worker will become the social challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non-knowledge workers. No society in history has faced these challenges.

But equally new are the opportunities of the knowledge society. In the knowledge society, for the first time in history, the possibility of leadership will be open to all. Also, the possibility of acquiring knowledge will no longer depend on obtaining a prescribed education at a given age. Learning will become the tool of the individual—available to him or her at any age—if only because so much skill and knowledge can be acquired by means of the new learning technologies.

Another implication is that how well an individual, an organization, an industry, a country, does in acquiring and applying knowledge will become the key competitive factor.

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The knowledge society will inevitably become far more competitive than any society we have yet known—for the simple reason that with knowledge being universally accessible, there will be no excuses for nonperformance. There will be no "poor" countries. There will only be ignorant countries. And the same will be true for companies, industries, and organizations of all kinds. It will be true for individuals, too.

In fact, developed societies have already become infinitely more competitive for individuals than were the societies of the beginning of this century, let alone earlier ones. I have been speaking of knowledge. But a more accurate term is "knowledges," because the knowledge of the knowledge society will be fundamentally different from what was considered knowledge in earlier societies—and, in fact, from what is still widely considered knowledge. The knowledge of the German allgemeine Bildung or of the Anglo-American liberal arts had little to do with one's life's work.

It focused on the person and the person's development, rather than on any application—if, indeed, it did not, like the nineteenth-century liberal arts, pride itself on having no utility whatever. In the knowledge society knowledge for the most part exists only in application. Nothing the x-ray technician needs to know can be applied to market research, for instance, or to teaching medieval history. The central work force in the knowledge society will therefore consist of highly specialized people. In fact, it is a mistake to speak of "generalists.

But "generalists" in the sense in which we used to talk of them are coming to be seen as dilettantes rather than educated people. This, too, is new. Historically, workers were generalists. They did whatever had to be done—on the farm, in the household, in the craftsman's shop. This was also true of industrial workers. But knowledge workers, whether their knowledge is primitive or advanced, whether there is a little of it or a great deal, will by definition be specialized. Applied knowledge is effective only when it is specialized.

Indeed, the more highly specialized, the more effective it is. This goes for technicians who service computers, x-ray machines, or the engines of fighter planes. But it applies equally to work that requires the most advanced knowledge, whether research in genetics or research in astrophysics or putting on the first performance of a new opera. Again, the shift from knowledge to knowledges offers tremendous opportunities to the individual.

It makes possible a career as a knowledge worker. But it also presents a great many new problems and challenges. It demands for the first time in history that people with knowledge take responsibility for making themselves understood by people who do not have the same knowledge base. That knowledge in the knowledge society has to be highly specialized to be productive implies two new requirements: There is a great deal of talk these days about "teams" and "teamwork.

Actually people have always worked in teams; very few people ever could work effectively by themselves. The farmer had to have a wife, and the farm wife had to have a husband. The two worked as a team. And both worked as a team with their employees, the hired hands. The craftsman also had to have a wife, with whom he worked as a team—he took care of the craft work, and she took care of the customers, the apprentices, and the business altogether.

And both worked as a team with journeymen and apprentices. Much discussion today assumes that there is only one kind of team. Actually there are quite a few. But until now the emphasis has been on the individual worker and not on the team. With knowledge work growing increasingly effective as it is increasingly specialized, teams become the work unit rather than the individual himself.

The team that is being touted now—I call it the "jazz combo" team—is only one kind of team. It is actually the most difficult kind of team both to assemble and to make work effectively, and the kind that requires the longest time to gain performance capacity. We will have to learn to use different kinds of teams for different purposes. We will have to learn to understand teams—and this is something to which, so far, very little attention has been paid. The understanding of teams, the performance capacities of different kinds of teams, their strengths and limitations, and the trade-offs between various kinds of teams will thus become central concerns in the management of people.

Equally important is the second implication of the fact that knowledge workers are of necessity specialists: Only the organization can provide the basic continuity that knowledge workers need in order to be effective. Only the organization can convert the specialized knowledge of the knowledge worker into performance. By itself, specialized knowledge does not yield performance. The surgeon is not effective unless there is a diagnosis—which, by and large, is not the surgeon's task and not even within the surgeon's competence. As a loner in his or her research and writing, the historian can be very effective.

But to educate students, a great many other specialists have to contribute—people whose specialty may be literature, or mathematics, or other areas of history. And this requires that the specialist have access to an organization. This access may be as a consultant, or it may be as a provider of specialized services. But for the majority of knowledge workers it will be as employees, full-time or part-time, of an organization, such as a government agency, a hospital, a university, a business, or a labor union.

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