"Johnny Dolan, William Poole (also known as Bill the Butcher), and Hell-Cat Maggie lurked in the shadows, and infamous gangs including the Plug Uglies, Dead Rabbits, and Bowery Boys ruled the streets. It includes a rogues' gallery of prostitutes, pimps, poisoners, pickpockets, murderers, and thieves. The book was loosely adapted into the epic historical drama film ""Gangs of New York"" (2002) by director Martin Scorsese. The Gangs of New York (book) The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld is an American non-fiction book by Herbert Asbury, first published in 1927 by Garden City Publishing Company. The"
"come from the Five Points and was assassinated nearly a decade before the Draft Riots. Both the fictional Bill and the real one had butcher shops, but Poole is not known to have killed anyone. The book also described other famous gangsters from the era such as Red Rocks Farrell, Slobbery Jim and Hell-Cat Maggie, who filed her front teeth to points and wore artificial brass fingernails. Anbinder said that Scorsese's recreation of the visual environment of mid-19th century New York City and the Five Points ""couldn't have been much better"". All sets were built completely on the exterior stages"
"to historical detail and production design for particular praise. Some critics were disappointed with the film, complaining that it fell well short of the hype surrounding it, that it tried to tackle too many themes without saying anything unique about them, and that the overall story was weak. Gangs of New York Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic period drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, set in the New York slums, and inspired by Herbert Asbury's non-fiction book, ""The Gangs of New York"". The screenplay was by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. In 1863, a"
"Films acquired it. Made in Cinecittà, Rome and in New York, the film was completed by 2001, but was delayed following the September 11 attacks. Released in December 2002, it grossed $193 million worldwide against its $100 million budget. The film received positive reviews from critics for Day-Lewis' performance, Scorsese's directing, the production design and costume design. It was nominated for ten Oscars at the Academy Awards. In the slum neighborhood of Five Points, Manhattan in 1846, two gangs have engaged in a final battle (or ""challenge"") in Paradise Square over ""who holds sway over the Five Points""; these two"
"Gangs of New York Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic period drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, set in the New York slums, and inspired by Herbert Asbury's non-fiction book, ""The Gangs of New York"". The screenplay was by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan. In 1863, a long-running Catholic-Protestant feud erupts into violence, just as an Irish immigrant group is protesting about low wages caused by an influx of freed slaves, as well as the threat of conscription. Scorsese spent twenty years developing the project until in 1999 Harvey Weinstein and his production company Miramax"
"mentions ""that tattered rag shop back in Asbury Park"", and the song ""Fox's Dream of the Log Flume"" mentions the pier and sand dunes. Asbury Park was used for the location filming of the crime drama ""City by the Sea"" (2002), starring Robert De Niro, James Franco and Frances McDormand, which was nominally set in Long Beach, New York, where no filming actually took place, according to a disclaimer that was included as part of the closing credits. The film features scenes set on a shabby, dilapidated boardwalk and in a ruined/abandoned casino/arcade building. Residents of both places objected to"
"New Mission House at the Five Points was erected. Over forty years later, this mission house would itself be replaced by a newer, even bigger one. The Old Brewery is depicted in the Martin Scorsese 2002 film ""Gangs of New York"" as the Five Points Christian Mission, tenement building, and pauper playhouse. The 2012 video game ""Assassin's Creed III"" has the ""Boston Brawlers Tournament"" in Boston, Massachusetts within an old brewery modeled after the former Five Points building. The Old Brewery The Old Brewery was the name given to Coulthard's Brewery (built in 1792, in lower central Manhattan, on land"
"Banks Township, Michigan Banks Township is a civil township of Antrim County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 1,609. Atwood is an unincorporated community at at the junction of country road C-48 and US 31. Atwood was a lumber settlement with a post office operating from 1868 until 1905. Atwood is the birthplace of the writer Rex Beach, best known for his 1906 novel ""The Spoilers"", which was made into a movie five times, most notably in 1930 starring Gary Cooper and in 1942 starring John Wayne. Ellsworth is a village"
"Little Five Points Little Five Points (also L5P or LFP or Little Five or Lil' Five) is a district on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, east of downtown. It was established in the early 20th century as the commercial district for the adjacent Inman Park and Candler Park neighborhoods, and has since become famous for the alternative culture it brings to Atlanta. It has been described as Atlanta's version of Haight-Ashbury, a melting pot of sub-cultures, and the Bohemian center of the Southern United States. The name is a reference to Five Points, which is the center"
"on 19 reviews. Skins (2002 film) Skins is a 2002 American feature film by Chris Eyre and based upon the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis. The film is set on the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota near the Nebraska border, a place very much like the actual Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the setting in the book and the place where the film was actually shot. Lakota Sioux tribal police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig) struggles to rescue his older, alcoholic brother, Mogie (Graham Greene), a former football star who was wounded in"
"The protagonist of the 1997 film ""Good Will Hunting"", played by Matt Damon, was a working class genius from South Boston. The 2006 film ""The Departed"", directed by Martin Scorsese, was inspired by the events that took place in Boston during Whitey Bulger's reign as the kingpin of the Irish Mob. in the 2007 class-based multiplayer shooter video game Team Fortress 2, the Scout is listed as a native of South Boston. ""What Doesn't Kill You"" is a 2008 American crime drama based on the true life story of the film's director Brian Goodman, detailing his own exploits involved with"
"Skins (2002 film) Skins is a 2002 American feature film by Chris Eyre and based upon the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis. The film is set on the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota near the Nebraska border, a place very much like the actual Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the setting in the book and the place where the film was actually shot. Lakota Sioux tribal police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig) struggles to rescue his older, alcoholic brother, Mogie (Graham Greene), a former football star who was wounded in combat three times"
"shown on Living TV. Avebury is the setting for Robert Goddard's 2005 fictional thriller, ""Sight Unseen"". Avebury, Wiltshire Avebury () is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about west of Marlborough and northeast of Devizes. Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury. The parish also includes the small villages of Avebury Trusloe and Beckhampton, and the hamlet of West Kennett. The Avebury monument is vast, and consists of several smaller sites of varying dates. The earliest of these, the earthworks, dates to between 3400 and 2625 BC."
"century when wealthy Detroit residents bought up the land. The settlement became a village in 1927, and in 1932 residents voted to become a city to avoid being incorporated into growing Birmingham. Bloomfield Hills is the location of the National Historic Landmark Cranbrook Educational Community and other historic sites listed on the national register of historic places. In popular culture, Bloomfield Hills was the setting for the 2005 film ""The Upside of Anger"". In the 2002 film ""8 Mile"", Eminem mentions Cranbrook Kingswood while making fun of ""Doc"" because he attended Cranbrook, which is not considered cool or impressive in"
"adapted as a 2010 film directed by Martin Scorsese. Lehane was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He lived in the Boston area most of his life, where he sets most of his books, but now lives in southern California. He spent summers on Fieldston Beach in Marshfield. Lehane is the youngest of five children. His father was a foreman for Sears & Roebuck, and his mother worked in a Boston public school cafeteria. Both of his parents immigrated from Ireland. Lehane is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. His brother, Gerry Lehane,"
"over five days. Among the murdered blacks was the seven-year-old nephew of Bermudian First Sergeant Robert John Simmons of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, whose account of fighting in South Carolina, written on the approach to Fort Wagner July 18, 1863, was to be published in the ""New York Tribune"" on December 23, 1863 (Simmons having died in August of wounds received in the attack on Fort Wagner). The most reliable estimates indicate at least 2,000 people were injured. Herbert Asbury, the author of the 1928 book ""Gangs of New York"", upon which the 2002 film was based, puts the"
"as one of the ""Five Towns,"" with the other four being Woodmere, Cedarhurst, Lawrence, and Inwood, along with Woodsburgh. The fictional ""Five Towns"" series is produced by actor/screenwriter/producer Ed Burns (who plays himself on ""Entourage""), who grew up in the Hewlett area and attended Hewlett High School. On the episode aired on April 13 it was said that the village of Hewlett Harbor was the setting of the fictional NBC TV series called ""Five Towns"". Notable current and former residents of Hewlett Harbor include: Hewlett Harbor, New York Hewlett Harbor is a village in Nassau County, New York in the"
"then, the main canon has consisted of six feature films, in addition to several short films, comic books, and a short-lived animated TV series. The View Askewniverse is centered on the towns of Leonardo, Highlands, and Red Bank, all located in Monmouth County, central New Jersey. ""Chasing Amy"" also takes place partly in New York, and both ""Dogma"" and ""Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"" involve road trips. ""Clerks"" is the first film in the series of the View Askewniverse. It follows a day in the lives of two store clerks, Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson)."
"Handbook"" for its preppy qualities. Included were references to a stereotypical way of speech, the ""Grosse Pointe Monotone,"" and a guide to private clubs and restaurants in the area. A novel, ""Grosse Pointe Girl"", was written by Grosse Pointe native Sarah Grace McCandless. The 1997 film ""Grosse Pointe Blank"" is set almost entirely in Grosse Pointe and shows scenes of Detroit and Grosse Pointe, but was filmed in Chicago and Monrovia, California. The film stars John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Joan Cusack, and Dan Aykroyd. John Cusack played the role of a 1986 Grosse Pointe South high school graduate turned assassin"
"Medical Center in Salisbury. McCready Hospital is located on the Annemessex River, and is flanked by the Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home, which was built in 1968 and was replaced by a new four-story building in 2010. Crisfield and its environs are the setting for most of the books in the ""Tillerman Cycle"" series by Cynthia Voigt. The movie ""Hookman 2"" was mostly filmed in Crisfield in winter 2010−2011 and was released in 2013. Crisfield is the hometown of most of the cast and crew members and is called ""Hometown, Maryland"" in the movie. The film is currently available on"
"Point, was Beacon Towers. Scholars believe it served as one of the many inspirations for Jay Gatsby's mansion in the novel, though Gatsby lived on the eastern side of Kings Point, in the book. The extravagant Gothic-style residence was built by Alva Belmont, formerly Alva Vanderbilt, in 1918. It was demolished in 1945. Sands Point, New York Sands Point is a village located at the northernmost tip of the Cow Neck Peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau County, New York, United States. The Incorporated Village of Sands Point lies within the town of North Hempstead. The"
"a 1997 interview, actor John Cusack, who shares the film's screenwriting credit along with Jankiewicz, Steve Pink, and D.V. DeVincentis, said he would have liked to film on location in Grosse Pointe, but they were unable to move production to Michigan due to budget constraints. The scene where Martin is attacked by LaPoubelle while exploring the halls of his old high school was filmed at Reseda High School in the San Fernando Valley. Armitage later recalled: Armitage says he shot several endings: ""Grosse Pointe Blank"" received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating"
"village of Denham in Buckinghamshire. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. It was adapted by Esther McCracken from her own 1944 play ""No Medals"", with additional material added to continue the story until the present day in 1948. Set near Portsmouth, one of the main bases for the D-Day invasion fleet, the film portrays life on the British home front during World War II. During the run up to D-Day, widowed Martha Dacre (Ursula Jeans) tries to keep house and home together for her two serving daughters and servicemen billeted on her. While her son"
"of downtown's historic properties. Instead of applying for boundary increases or nominating more individual properties to the Register, the city decided to merge all five into a new, central district. The NPS accepted the application and entered the new district on the Register in 1986. Troy's downtown began reviving. In 1993, Martin Scorsese used the Second Street area, particularly the Paine Mansion, and some of the Russell Sage buildings as locations for his adaptation of Edith Wharton's ""The Age of Innocence"", since they replicated the appearance of 1870s Manhattan. River Street became home to many antique stores. Developers began buying"
"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 shot in nearby Antioch, Illinois. The child character Jodie DeFeo, appearing in the film, is fictional and was not one of the victims of the shootings by Ronald"
"the end of the decade, with the success of crime films such as ""Mean Streets"" (1973), about his old neighborhood, and ""Taxi Driver"" (1976), he was a rising star. In 1979, he acquired screen rights to Asbury's book; however, it took twenty years to get the production moving forward. Difficulties arose with reproducing the monumental city scape of nineteenth century New York with the style and detail Scorsese wanted; almost nothing in New York City looked as it did in that time, and filming elsewhere was not an option. Eventually, in 1999, Scorsese was able to find a partnership with"
"""Match Point"" has also been the object of scholarship. Joseph Henry Vogel argued the film is exemplary of ecocriticism as an economic school of thought. Several critics and commentators have compared elements of the film to the central plot of George Stevens' film ""A Place in the Sun"" (1951), but with some characters in reverse positions. Match Point Match Point is a 2005 psychological thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, and Penelope Wilton. In the film, Rhys Meyers's character marries into a wealthy family, but"
"as for its sensationalizing of national perceptions between the North and South. The film was remade in 2005 as ""2001 Maniacs"". The story of the film was inspired by the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical ""Brigadoon"". Six Yankee tourists (married couples John and Bea Miller and David and Beverly Wells, plus the unmarried couple Tom White and Terry Adams) are lured via detour signs placed in the road into the fictional small Southern town of Pleasant Valley by ""redneck"" citizens, to be the ""guests of honor"" for the April 1965 centennial celebration of the two days where Union troops destroyed"
"both the United States (as part of the PBS ""American Masters"" series) and the United Kingdom (as part of the BBC Two ""Arena"" series) on September 26–27, 2005. A DVD version of the film was released that same month. The film won a Peabody Award and the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. In addition, Scorsese received an Emmy nomination for it. Scorsese returned to the crime genre with the Boston-set thriller ""The Departed"", based on the Hong Kong police drama ""Infernal Affairs"" (which is co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak). The film continued Scorsese's collaboration streak"
"of the National Gallery of Canada since 1939. In the fifth ""Temeraire"" novel ""Victory of Eagles"", Shoeburyness is the setting of a fictitious climactic battle in which Wellesley and Nelson drive Napoleon out of England in early 1808. Shoeburyness is home to ""the commuter"", protagonist in the eponymous song and music video by Ceephax Acid Crew. Shoeburyness is mentioned in the ""Porridge"" episode ""The Harder They Fall"" (S2 E6), at approximately 6'10"". Shoeburyness Shoeburyness (; also called Shoebury) is a town in southeast Essex, England, at the mouth of the Thames Estuary. It is within the borough of Southend-on-Sea, situated"
"issues of innocence, identity, belonging, loss, and connection. The novel was included on ""Time""s 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at #15 on the BBC's survey ""The Big Read"". Holden Caulfield, a teenager, is living in an unspecified institution in Southern California near Hollywood in 1951. Caulfield intends to live with his brother D.B, an author and World War II veteran with whom Holden is angry for becoming"
"forget. Doc storms off, apparently not so willing. At Gunpoint At Gunpoint is a 1955 American Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone and Walter Brennan. Plainview is a peaceful town, all the better for bad men Alvin Dennis, his brother Bob, and their gang, to rob the bank there. They figure small-town sheriff Pete MacKay will not pose much of a problem. MacKay is having his usual chess game with Doc Lacy at the general store Jack Wright runs with wife Martha and brother-in-law Wally. A gunshot from the bank startles all. Bob"
"of municipal governmental functions with advanced improvements. In 1849 he was appointed Collector of the Port of Baltimore. In the 1850s, Baltimore was a city mired in political corruption and mob violence with occasional riots between rival gangs known as ""Plug-Uglies"" and others (similar in look and feel to the situation in Civil War-era New York City portrayed in director Martin Scorsese's 2002 film ""Gangs of New York"" based on the novels of Herbert Asbury). The new Baltimore City Police Department had just been organized a few years before in 1857 along with the Baltimore City Fire Department also just"