Shearer directed the 2002 film Teddy Bears ' Picnic and appeared in several films, including A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, The Simpsons Movie, The Truman Show, and Godzilla among many others.

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The music from Anthem: Part 2 was used in the 1998 film The Truman Show and several film trailers, including Dead Man Walking.

* The Truman Show ( 1998 ) is a film about a man ( Jim Carrey ) who discovers that his entire life is being staged and filmed for a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show.

* The Truman Show

After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films — many of them major box office hits — including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

After five years, Weir returned to direct his biggest success to date, The Truman Show ( 1998 ), a fantasy-satire of the media's control of life.

They were beaten by The Truman Show and " The Prayer " from Quest for Camelot respectively.

* Truman Burbank, the main ( fictional ) character in The Truman Show.

Carrey received critical acclaim for his chameleonic performance and won a Golden Globe — his second win in a row after receiving an award for The Truman Show previously.

Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon before earning lead roles in several projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Barney's Version, and Win Win.

Giamatti appeared in a number of supporting roles in the 1998 big-budget films including The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, and The Negotiator.

The film The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey had a similar plot as well.

Seaside is now a tourist destination and appeared in the movie The Truman Show.

He is a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Apollo 13, The Truman Show and The Hours, along with an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for the title role in Pollock.

The film opened in second place at the box office behind The Truman Show, taking $ 16, 615, 704 during its first weekend.

* The Truman Show, a comedy movie starring Jim Carrey

The Truman Show is a 1998 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol.

The genesis of The Truman Show was a spec script by Niccol, inspired by an episode of The Twilight Zone called " Special Service ".

The Truman Show has been analyzed as a thesis on Christianity, simulated reality, existentialism and the rise of reality television.

Truman Burbank ( Jim Carrey ) lived his entire life, since before birth, in front of cameras for The Truman Show, although he is unaware of this fact.

During the 30th year of " The Truman Show ", Truman begins to notice certain aspects of his near-perfect world that seem out of place, such as a falling spotlight from the artificial night sky constellations that nearly hits him ( quickly passed off by local radio as an aircraft's dislodged landing light ) and Truman's car radio accidentally picking up conversation between the show's crew.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

Their position was that Clinton should have integrated the military by executive order, noting that President Harry Truman used executive order to racially desegregate the armed forces.

Notified that British aid to Greece and Turkey would end in less than six weeks, and already hostile towards and suspicious of Soviet intentions, because of their reluctance to withdraw from Iran, the Truman administration decided that additional action was necessary.

However, in formulating policies regarding the atomic bomb and relations with the Soviets Truman was guided by the U. S. State Department and ignored Eisenhower and the Pentagon.

At home, Eisenhower was more effective in making the case for NATO in Congress than the Truman administration ; by the middle of 1951, American and European support for NATO was substantial enough to give it a genuine military force.

The campaign strategy, dubbed " K < sub > 1 </ sub > C < sub > 2 </ sub >", was to focus on attacking the Truman and Roosevelt administrations on three issues: Korea, Communism and corruption.

Eisenhower was also the first outgoing President to come under the protection of the Former Presidents Act ; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed.

Truman Capote, who helped spread salacious rumors about Hoover, once remarked that he was more interested in making Hoover angry than determining whether the rumors were true.

In the morning the grinning President-Elect, Harry S. Truman, was photographed holding a newspaper bearing this headline.

A full china service had not been purchased since the Truman administration in the 1940s, as only a partial service was ordered in the Johnson administration.

The creation of NSA was authorized in a letter written by President Harry S. Truman in June 1952.

Truman was against the OSS staying active after the war was over, as was Congress.

One month after the war was won in the Pacific Theater of Operations, on September 20, 1945, President Truman signed Executive Order 9621, which came into effect as of October 1, 1945.

In January 1946, President Truman created the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) which was the direct precursor to the CIA.

It was established in 1963 and replaced the earlier Medal of Freedom that was established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is similar in name to the Medal of Freedom established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilian service during World War II, but much closer in meaning and precedence to the Medal for Merit: the Presidential Medal of Freedom is currently the supreme civilian decoration in precedence, whereas the Medal of Freedom was inferior in precedence to the Medal for Merit ; the Medal of Freedom was awarded by any of three Cabinet secretaries, whereas the Medal for Merit was ( and the PMOF is ) awarded by the president.

On August 31, 1950, O ' Dwyer, pursued by both federal and state investigators, was suddenly appointed by President Harry S. Truman as ambassador to Mexico, where he would be beyond the reach of officials who wanted his public testimony in several matters on which he preferred not to speak.

Truman was critical of Secretary of State Byrnes, both over being " left in the dark " about the Moscow conference, and that Iran had not been on the agenda.

To pass any legislation Truman needed the support of the Republicans, who controlled both houses of Congress.

The first building was a story and a half frame structure used as both a residence and story, which was built by Charles D. Brooks and Truman Brockway of New York.

During the 1940s, presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman both visited Bremerton.

Thus, it made perfect sense to Truman to favour both states with de jure recognition.

American Jews voted 90 % against the Republicans and supported Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman in the elections of 1940, 1944 and 1948, despite both party platforms supporting the creation of a Jewish state in the latter two elections.

Salemi played at the inaugurations of both Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.

Clarke had tried get the courts to forbid Long from running on both the Harry Truman and Strom Thurmond slates in Louisiana, but he failed to convince the judges, and Long's votes on each slate were counted.

" Finally, both Truman and the patient leave the world: Truman by walking through a door and the patient by dying.

Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader wrote, " Undeniably provocative and reasonably entertaining, The Truman Show is one of those high-concept movies whose concept is both clever and dumb.

To ensure congressional approval of proposed DOD budget requests, both President Truman and Secretary Johnson demanded public acquiescence, if not outright support, from the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( JCS ) and other military department commanders when making public statements or testifying before Congress ..

Johnson's obstinate attitude toward the State Department role in the preparation of this paper adversely affected his relations with both Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Truman.

The house has been willed to Sally Truman by her brother who has just died of AIDS, and it soon becomes evident that both couples are afraid to get in the swimming pool once used by Sally's brother.

Truman, originally, intended that both men would play leading roles in his administration, signaling continuity with Roosevelt's policies.

In April 1945, both Churchill and new United States President Harry S. Truman opposed, among other things, the Soviets ' decision to prop up the Lublin government, the Soviet-controlled rival to the Polish government-in-exile, whose relations with the Soviets were severed.

The survey team had been permitted to visit Germany only after president Truman had been subjected to increased pressure both by congress and public.

When President Harry Truman vetoed it, Taft then convinced both houses of Congress to override the veto.

Herbert Bix explains that " the Truman administration and General MacArthur both believed the occupation reforms would be implemented smoothly if they used Hirohito to legitimise their changes.

After Roosevelt's death, upset over both the ascendancy of Harry Truman and the increasing censorship of his news releases, Olson left politics and dedicated himself to writing, moving to Key West, Florida, in 1945.

Since the late 1990s, Brick Lane has been the site of several of the city's best known night clubs, notably 93 Feet East and The Vibe Bar, both built on the site of The Old Truman Brewery, once the industrial centre of the area, and now an office and entertainment complex.

A liberal Democrat of the Midwestern Populist tradition, Truman was determined to both continue the legacy of the New Deal and to make Franklin Roosevelt's proposed Economic Bill of Rights a reality, while making his own mark in social policy.

President Truman wanted one of his Armored Divisions parading in front of him on the 4 July in Berlin, and 2nd and 7th Armored were both prepared for the honor.