![]() ![]() ![]() Madeleine is immediately drawn to Adrian's work and invites him to perform at her gallery and into her bedroom. In contrast to Adrian is his brother Josh, a successful painter who happens to bring Madeline to one of his brother's concerts. Adrian is a composer who makes music by breaking glass and kicking metal buckets. Set in the artsy Chelsea, this satirical film centers on a young bohemian avant-garde composer Adrian, who becomes involved with a trendy New York art gallery owner, Madeleine. The film was released on Octoin the United States. (Untitled) is a 2009 American comedy film directed and written by Jonathan Parker, co-written by Catherine DiNapoli, and starring Adam Goldberg, Marley Shelton, Eion Bailey, and Vinnie Jones. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Traditionally the Little Steel Strike has been understood as a modest setback at most for steelworkers, one that actually confirmed the potency of New Deal reforms and did little to impede the progress of the labor movement. It was in many ways the last great strike in modern America. ![]() The violence and brutality of the Little Steel Strike became legendary. At least sixteen died and hundreds more were injured before the strike ended in failure. For two months a grinding struggle ensued, punctuated by bloody clashes in which police, company agents, and National Guardsmen ruthlessly beat and shot unionists. ![]() "In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as "Little Steel." The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was a design consultant on Gary Gygax's 1983 work, Monster Manual II for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Grubb's overseeing of the design of the "AD&D Open" at Gen Con in 1982, led to his employment as a game designer at TSR. He also ran his own campaign set in Toril, his own game universe. ![]() Within the year, Grubb attended Gen Con, a table-top gaming convention, for the first time. We need a cleric.' It was all downhill from there." One turned to me, handed me three six-siders, and said, 'Roll these. "I walked up to a group of players to ask what they were doing. He started to play Avalon Hill wargames including PanzerBlitz and Blitzkrieg, and the SPI game, Frigate.Īs a freshman, he attended the campus war-gaming club and was introduced to the role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. Grubb became a wargaming enthusiast during his high school years. His first year of employment involved work with air pollution control devices. He met Kate Novak in high school, and married her in 1983. ![]() Grubb was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His written works include The Finder's Stone Trilogy, the Spelljammer and Jakandor campaign settings, and contributions to Dragonlance and the computer game Guild Wars Nightfall (2006). Grubb worked on the Dragonlance campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the Forgotten Realms setting with Ed Greenwood. Jeff Grubb (born August 27, 1957) is an author who writes novels, short stories, and comics and a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. ![]() |