"The Truman Show The Truman Show is a 1998 American satirical science fiction film directed by Peter Weir, produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, and Adam Schroeder, and written by Niccol. The film stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, adopted and raised by a corporation inside a simulated television show revolving around his life, until he discovers it and decides to escape. Additional roles are performed by Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Ed Harris, and Brian Delate. ""The Truman Show"" was originally a spec script by Niccol, inspired by an episode of ""The Twilight"
"in Lamar, Missouri, on May 8, 1884, the oldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman. His namesake was his maternal uncle, Harrison ""Harry"" Young. His middle initial “S” honors his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. A brother, John Vivian, was born soon after Harry, followed by sister Mary Jane. Truman's ancestry is primarily English and less Scotch-Irish, German or French. John Truman was a farmer and livestock dealer. The family lived in Lamar until Harry was ten months old, when they moved to a farm near Harrisonville, Missouri. The family next moved to Belton,"
"Will Truman William ""Will"" Truman is a fictional character on the American sitcom ""Will & Grace"", portrayed by Eric McCormack. He is a lawyer who lives in the Upper West Side of New York City with his best friend, Grace Adler (Debra Messing). The series also portrays his relationship with the two other main characters, Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) and Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes). Will was born on October 23, 1966, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to WASP parents Marilyn (Blythe Danner) and George Truman (Sydney Pollack). He has two brothers, Paul (Jon Tenney) and Sam (John Slattery in the first season,"
"family and friends reflected on his love for the mountain. In 1981, Art Carney portrayed Truman in the docudrama film ""St. Helens"". He was commemorated in a book by his niece and a number of musical pieces, including songs by Headgear and Billy Jonas. Truman was born to foresters in West Virginia in October 1896. He did not know his exact date of birth, though he gave it as October 30, 1896. Some non-contemporaneous sources have given his middle name as Randall, but Truman stated that he did not know his middle name, just the initial R. Truman's family moved"
"1881 in Grandview, Missouri. Their first son died just a few days after birth. Their second child, another son, was Harry S. Truman, born on May 8, 1884. The child's middle name was the subject of some disagreement between the parents. John Truman wanted it to be Shipp, after his father Anderson Shipp Truman, while Martha wanted it to be Solomon, after her father. In the end, they decided to use only the middle initial 'S' and honor both grandfathers. Two more children followed: John Vivian Truman on April 25, 1886 (who became a district director of the Federal Housing"
"The Truman Show delusion The Truman Show delusion, informally known as Truman syndrome, is a type of delusion in which the person believes that their lives are staged reality shows, or that they are being watched on cameras. The term was coined in 2008 by brothers Joel Gold and Ian Gold, a psychiatrist and a neurophilosopher, respectively, after the film ""The Truman Show"". The Truman Show delusion is not officially recognized nor listed in the ""Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association"". ""The Truman Show"" is a 1998 comedy film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew"
"Beers and Co. describes the house's name as ""FAIRVIEW"", all in capital letters. The atlas also shows the house occupant as R. L. Galusha, which is Truman's son, Russell Loomis Galusha. The house is included in ""Look Around Chittenden County, Vermont"", a book featuring the county's historic homes, published by the Chittenden Co. Historical Society in 1976. Truman was ""a farmer, banker, and one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of the town"", according to the History of Jericho, VT (ed. by Chauncey H. Hayden et al., 1916) He was elected to many offices in town and state. The"
"Harry Truman. Gordon and his wife Geneve had two children together, Bill and Sally. In addition to his brother, Gordon had a sister named Clarice. Gordon Sloan died on August 23, 2006, at the age of 95 in Wilsonville, Oregon. Gordon Sloan Gordon Wright Sloan (April 9, 1911 – August 23, 2006) was an American attorney and judge. He was the 70th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in the United States. He previously served on the International Tuna Commission, and later the Kansas native was Oregon’s first senior judge. Gordon Sloan was born to Edward R. Sloan and"
"Lyman Truman Lyman Truman (March 2, 1806 – March 24, 1881) was an American merchant, banker and politician from New York. He was the son of Aaron Truman (1785–1823) and Experience (Park) Truman (1782–1844). He was born in that part of the Town of Spencer which in 1811 was separated as the Town of Candor, in Tioga County. In 1830, he removed to the county seat Owego, and became a clerk in the store of his uncle Asa H. Truman. In 1833, Lyman opened his own store and, in partnership with his brothers, conducted an extensive mercantile and lumber business"
"Margaret Truman Mary Margaret Truman Daniel (February 17, 1924 – January 29, 2008), also known as Margaret Truman or Margaret Daniel, was an American classical soprano, actress, journalist, radio and television personality, writer, and New York socialite. The only child of President Harry S Truman and First Lady Bess Truman, she was ""a witty, hard-working Midwestern girl with singing talent who was neither particularly pretty nor terribly plain."" After graduating from George Washington University in 1946, she embarked on a career as a coloratura soprano beginning with a concert appearance with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1947. She appeared in"
"being assembled, Allan's passion for explosions is re-ignited and he helps Robert Oppenheimer (Philip Rosch) in successfully developing the atomic bomb. For his work, Allan receiving praise from Harry S. Truman (Kerry Shale) for 'building a bomb that will stop all wars'. During a drunken dinner, Truman is informed by telephone that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then President of the United States, has died, Truman being immediately sworn in as President. Allan returns to Sweden, but on touching down he is met unexpectedly by representatives of the Swedish government, keen on his knowledge of the atomic bomb. However, they are totally"
"Administration in western Missouri), and Mary Jane Truman on August 12, 1889 (who was a pianist and schoolteacher). All three children worked on the family farm in Grandview. After her husband John Truman died in 1914, Martha took over the farm and ran it with the labor of her children and various hired helpers until the 1930s, when her age and increasing frailty made it impossible. Harry had entered politics after failing in business as the co-owner of a Kansas City haberdashery, rising from Jackson County Judge (county commissioner) to being elected as U. S. Senator. In 1944, he became"
"1908 in Kansas City, Missouri, he was preceded in death by his father, Maj. Gen. Ralph Emerson Truman, his mother, Nanny Louise Watson Truman, his brother Col. Corbie Truman, his sister, Henrietta Truman Davidson, and his first wife, Margret Stevenson Truman. Louis W. Truman Lieutenant General Louis Watson Truman (June 20, 1908 – December 2, 2004) was the former Commanding General of the Third United States Army. General Truman was a cousin of President Harry S. Truman, and served as his Aide-de-Camp during Truman's inauguration in 1948. In 1926, Truman enlisted in Company E, 140th Infantry Regiment of the 35th"
"Trumansburg, New York Trumansburg is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States. The population was 1,797 at the 2010 census. The name is a misspelling of the surname of the founder, Abner Treman. (The family routinely spelled it several different ways, Truman however was not one.) The village's application for a post office preserved one of them. The Village of Trumansburg is located within the Town of Ulysses and is northwest of Ithaca, New York. The village was incorporated in 1872, in the former Central New York Military Tract. The village was originally named ""Tremaine's Village"", after an"
"he called Eddie. They remained married, operating the Mount St. Helens Lodge together until Edna's death from a heart attack in 1978. In the Mount St. Helens area, Truman became notorious for his antics, once getting a forest ranger drunk so that he could burn a pile of brush. He poached, stole gravel from the National Park Service, and fished on American Indian land with a fake game warden badge. Despite their knowledge of these criminal activities, local rangers failed to catch him in the act. The Washington state government later changed the state sales tax, but Truman kept charging"
"Martha Ellen Young Truman Martha Ellen Young Truman (November 25, 1852 – July 26, 1947) was the mother of U.S. president Harry Truman. Martha Ellen Young was born in Jackson County, Missouri, on November 25, 1852, to Solomon Young, a successful farmer who also had a business running Conestoga wagon trains along the Overland Trail, and his wife Harriet Louisa Gregg. Members of the family were southern sympathizers in the U. S. Civil War and several relatives served in the Confederate Army. In later life, Martha told of how a band of Union-supporting Jayhawkers destroyed her family's farm one day"
"James S. Truman James Steele Truman (August 24, 1874 – July 1957) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was born on August 24, 1874, in Owego, Tioga County, New York, the son of Gilbert T. Truman (born 1850) and Alice T. (Steele) Truman (born 1852). He graduated from Cornell University as Ph.B. in 1896, and LL.B. in 1898. Then he practiced law in Owego. In 1903, he married Nina Ruth Rich (1881–1930). Truman was a member of the New York State Senate (41st D.) from 1925 to 1928, sitting in the 148th, 149th, 150th and 151st"
"co-student Meryl, but he fell in love with another actress, Sylvia. Sylvia managed to bring Truman out of the sight of cameras long enough to warn him that his reality is fake before she was taken away, with her ""father"" claiming they are traveling to Fiji. While Truman went on to marry Meryl, he continues to fantasize about Sylvia, using scraps from magazines to recreate her face in secret, and seeks travel to Fiji. Outside of the show, Sylvia has become part of a ""Free Truman"" campaign that demands the end of the show. The film begins during the thirtieth"
"""The Truman Show"", with a light sprinkling of ""Life On Mars"""" – it is based on imaginary events in the career of Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. The story is set in the mid-1950s, shortly after Bergman's award win at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival for ""Smiles of a Summer Night"". After his return to Stockholm, Bergman feels compelled to go to a cinema and watch a Hollywood blockbuster movie. As he exits the cinema, he inexplicably finds himself transported to Hollywood, where a limo driver is waiting to take him to a film studio. The studio's executives, who give"
"for narrow eyes and blond hair. His nephew Truman would also inherit the blond hair that is a dominant feature for that side of the family. Truman and Tacoma Motley were second-generation characters created by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman in order to provide the main characters Mike and Mabel Motley with children of their own. They appeared in the American comic strip ""Motley's Crew"". Truman Motley (born circa 1971) was the son of Mike and Mabel Motley and the nephew of Abel and Buffy. He shares the same blonde hair as his mother Mabel while his physical appearance resembled"
"accumulation of personal debts. In 1939, he was convicted of income tax evasion and served 15 months in a Federal prison. The Pendergast organization helped launch the political career of Harry S. Truman, a fact that caused Truman's enemies to dub him ""The Senator from Pendergast."" Two of his biographers have summed up Pendergast's uniqueness: Thomas Joseph Pendergast, also known to close friends as ""TJ"", was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was raised Catholic and had nine brothers and sisters. The family's name is misspelled as Pendergest in the 1880 census and is listed accordingly. It has been claimed"
"he may come back as a ghost for a visit when his time comes. Truman: President Roosevelt is dead. Lillian sternly scolds the staff for making fun of newly-sworn-in President Harry Truman (Harry Morgan) and First Lady Bess Truman (Estelle Parsons), just as her mother would have done. To cut down expenses, the Trumans reduce staff meals to one a day. The elderly mothers of both the President and First Lady move into the White House and require special treatment. Housekeeper Nesbitt is fired by the First Lady for refusing to give her a stick of rationed butter. She is"
"Truman Boardman Truman Boardman (February 7, 1810 – April 21, 1895) was an American farmer and politician from New York. He was the son of Allyn Boardman (1774–1837), a tanner and currier who came from Connecticut to Western New York in 1799, and Phoebe (Woodworth) Boardman (1776–1851). Truman Boardman was born in that part of the Town of Ovid, in Seneca County, New York, which was separated in 1817 as the Town of Covert. On June 5, 1834, he married Aurelia Chloe Whiting (1810–1893), and they had four children. He was elected Supervisor of the Town of Covert in 1849,"
"You"" in the U.K. Kindle version only.) Natascha McElhone Natasha Abigail Taylor (born 14 December 1969), known professionally as Natascha McElhone (), is a British actress. In film, she is best known for her roles in ""Ronin"" (1998), ""The Truman Show"" (1998) and ""Solaris"" (2002). On television, she has portrayed Karen van der Beek, the long-time partner of Hank Moody, in the Showtime comedy-drama series ""Californication"" (2007–2014), First Lady Alex Kirkman in the ABC political drama ""Designated Survivor"" (2016–2017), and Laz Ingram in Beau Willimon's Hulu science-fiction series ""The First"" (2018). She was born Natasha Abigail Taylor in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey"
"Charles Truman Charles Henry Truman, FSA (5 April 1949 – 10 February 2017), was an art historian and a leading authority on gold boxes. Born at Stratton Audley in Oxfordshire, ""Charlie"", as he was widely known in the art world, was the son of Edward Kenneth Truman and Dorothy Mary Truman (""née"" Harris). His father was a solicitor as was his father before him. He attended Marlborough College and then after a summer course at Indiana University embarked upon a degree in law at the University of Kent. Although expected to follow in his father's footsteps, Truman chose to forge"
"psychiatrist turned boyfriend of Julia Louis-Dreyfus' title character in ""The New Adventures of Old Christine."" He is currently starring as Will Truman in the revival of ""Will & Grace"" and Grant MacLaren in the science fiction television series ""Travelers"". McCormack was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Doris (1932–2006), a homemaker, and James ""Keith"" McCormack, an oil company financial analyst who died from cancer in 2008. He is the eldest of three siblings. McCormack has Scottish ancestry. While he was growing up, he was shy and did not play sports but was involved in theatre from an early"
"Bess Truman Elizabeth Virginia ""Bess"" Truman (""née"" Wallace; February 13, 1885 – October 18, 1982) was the wife of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. She also served as the Second Lady of the United States in 1945. She had known her future husband since they were children attending the same school in Independence, Missouri. As First Lady, she did not enjoy the social and political scene in Washington, and at the end of her husband's term in 1953, she was relieved to return to Independence. She currently holds"
"election. From the window of her upstairs sewing room she witnesses an assassination attempt on President Truman. The President shows his courage by refusing to cancel his scheduled speech at Arlington despite the assassination attempt. As Truman leaves the White House on the last day of his term Mercer tells him, “Mr. President, sir, you’ve got class.” Eisenhower: Dwight D Eisenhower (Andrew Duggan), in total disrespect of tradition, orders the portraits of President Roosevelt and President Truman removed from the main entrance hall. The President and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower (Barbara Barrie) refuse to speak directly with staff and communicate"
"of Business"" (1940). Thurman was born in the frontier ranch town of Laramie, Wyoming, which grew to be a small city and location of the University of Wyoming. He was the son of Annie (Brockway) and Constantine Peter Arnold. He began his university studies at Wabash College, but transferred to Princeton, earning his B.A. in 1911. He earned his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1914. He served in World War I, rising to the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Army (Field Artillery) and worked briefly in Chicago before returning to Laramie, where he was a member of"
"April 26, 2014, Emmerich married actress and producer Mary Regency Boies at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York. He lives in Greenwich Village in New York City. Despite frequent speculation, Noah Emmerich is not related to the director Roland Emmerich. Noah Emmerich Noah Nicholas Emmerich (born February 27, 1965) is an American film actor who is best known for his roles in films such as ""Beautiful Girls"" (1996), ""The Truman Show"" (1998), ""Frequency"" (2000), ""Miracle"" (2004), ""Little Children"" (2006) and ""Super 8"" (2011). From 2013 to 2018 he starred as FBI Agent Stan Beeman on the FX series ""The"
"to explore is what happens between a man and a woman when sex doesn't get in the way."" Mutchnick said Will was originally going to be named Will Herman (""her man"") because the staff wanted to use names that ""speak exactly to the essence"" of the characters. However, they changed it to Truman (""true man"") since they thought it was more accurate, as Will ""really lives his life in an honest way"". John Barrowman was one of the final candidates for the role of Will, but was rejected because he ""wasn't gay enough"". The part instead went to Eric McCormack,"
"comments were widely reported and were said to have ""captured the nation's fancy"". She lived to see two years of her son's presidency before her death on July 26, 1947, aged 94. Martha Ellen Young Truman Martha Ellen Young Truman (November 25, 1852 – July 26, 1947) was the mother of U.S. president Harry Truman. Martha Ellen Young was born in Jackson County, Missouri, on November 25, 1852, to Solomon Young, a successful farmer who also had a business running Conestoga wagon trains along the Overland Trail, and his wife Harriet Louisa Gregg. Members of the family were southern sympathizers"
"Noah Emmerich Noah Nicholas Emmerich (born February 27, 1965) is an American film actor who is best known for his roles in films such as ""Beautiful Girls"" (1996), ""The Truman Show"" (1998), ""Frequency"" (2000), ""Miracle"" (2004), ""Little Children"" (2006) and ""Super 8"" (2011). From 2013 to 2018 he starred as FBI Agent Stan Beeman on the FX series ""The Americans"". Emmerich was born youngest of three boys on February 27, 1965, in New York City, New York, to a Jewish family. His mother, Constance, is a concert pianist; and his father, André Emmerich (1924–2007), was a gallery owner and art"