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Ausgetrickst (1977)

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{{Infobox Film
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==Plot Synopsis==

Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else...

==Trivia==
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Cosby and Poitier had previously teamed up for ''[[Uptown Saturday Night]]'' (1974) and ''[[Let's Do It Again (1975 film)|Let's Do It Again]]'' (1975). Although their characters have different names in each film, the three films are considered to be a [[trilogy]].

In 2002, it was announced that [[Will Smith]] and his [[production company]], [[Overbrook Entertainment]], had secured the rights to the trilogy for [[remakes]] to star Smith and to be distributed by [[Warner Bros]]. Smith stated that he hoped to get [[Eddie Murphy]], [[Martin Lawrence]] and other famous [[African-American]] stars to be in the films. [http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1453124/03282002/smith_will.jhtml][http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072351/news]

==Cast==

*[[Sidney Poitier]] - Manny Durrell
*[[Bill Cosby]] - Dave Anderson
*[[James Earl Jones]] - Joshua Burke
*[[Denise Nicholas]] - Lila French
*[[Hope Clarke]] - Sarah Thomas
*[[Tracy Reed (American actress)|Tracy Reed]] - Nikki McLean
*[[Titos Vandis]] - Bruno
*[[Frances Foster]] - Bea Quitman
*[[Jason Evers]] - Ty Shorter
*[[Marc Lawrence]] - Louie
*[[Ja'net DuBois]] - Nellie Bond
*[[Sheryl Lee Ralph]] - Barbara Hanley

==External links==
*{{imdb title|0076543|A Piece of the Action}}

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2007-05-25T23:57:46Z

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[[Image:Gate_to_ashdown_forest.JPG|thumb|250px|right|A gate into Ashdown Forest at sunset]]
[[Image:AshdownForest1.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Ashdown - a dark and mysterious forest]]
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'''Ashdown Forest''' in the county of [[East Sussex]], in South East [[England]] is a large open area of heathland together with pine, birch and oak woodland in the [[High Weald AONB|High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]]. It is famous as the setting for the "[[Winnie the Pooh]]" stories written by [[A. A. Milne]]. There has been debate as to whether it should become a [[National Parks in England and Wales|National park]].

==Tourist Attractions==
The [[Ashdown Forest Llama Park]], which opened in [[1987]], is located in part of the Forest.

===Winnie the Pooh===
It is famous as the setting for the "[[Winnie the Pooh]]" stories written by [[A. A. Milne]] for his son [[Christopher Robin]]. ''[[Poohsticks Bridge]]'', ''[[Galleon's Lap]]'', ''Roo's Sandpit'', ''the North Pole'', ''the Hundred Acre Wood'', ''[[Heffalump trap|Heffalump Trap]]'' and ''The Dark and Mysterious Forest'' can all be found on Ashdown Forest.
Ashdown Forest was once a [[British monarch|royal]] [[hunting]] ground and was originally protected by [[Act of Parliament]] in [[1885]].

==Conservation==
In 2007 the Forest was the centre of a dispute between some local residents and the forest's governing body, the Board of Conservators (who are working on behalf of the owners [[Sussex County Council]]). The Board wish to return the area to as it was before the Second World War, a blend of heath and woodland, lost because "the advance of woodland into traditional heath areas after the Second World War, when returning soldiers gave up trying to scratch a living out of the forest. Whereas once hundreds of commoners used the wood and heath - their livestock obliging by chewing down young tree shoots - today there is only one commercial grazer."<ref name=JB-21Apr>Jonathan Brown [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2469322.ece Oh bother! Nimbies do battle with council over Pooh's forest], [[The Independent]], (section:This Britain), [[21 April]], 2007</ref> The residents complain that the results look like a First World War battle field. This is not a problem restricted to this common, but according to Jonathan Brown writing in the Independent on [[21 April]] 2007 "similar debates are raging between locals and the authorities at other heathland areas in the [[New Forest]] and [[Surrey]]".<ref name=JB-21Apr/>

==Trivia==
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A grey stone house in Ashdown forest was the home of Major [[Edward Dudley Metcalfe]] ([[1887]]-[[1957]]) the best friend and [[equerry]] of [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|Edward VIII]].

In [[2001 in film|2001]], was used for filming the '''[[HBO]]'''/'''[[BBC]]''' mini-series '''[[Band of Brothers|BAND OF BROTHERS]]'''.

The Forest was at one time home to a number of [[Red-necked Wallaby|Red-necked Wallabies]], the result of an escape from a captive colony in what was probably a farm. By the [[1940s]] these were believed to be fully naturalised and breeding; numbers declined, however, and the last confirmed sighting was in [[1972]]. Its importance to wildlife is recognized by its designation as a [[Special Protection Area]]. These wallabies, added to the fact that [[Christopher Robin]] owned toy Kangaroos, may have been the reason for Kanga and Roo.

In [[2001]] rare archival [[cine film]] footage, in the possession of the South East Film and Video Archive (now known[http://www.brighton.ac.uk/sefva/] as [http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/ Screen Archive South East]), depicting a school pageant held in Ashdown Forest in [[1929]] came to public attention when details from [[Christopher Robin Milne]]'s autobiography prompted a closer examination of the film, and it was discovered that a child clearly identifiable as him could be seen in it.

{{cquote|If anyone had asked me would this film exist I would have said no. Eighty per cent of the films from the [[1920s]] have been lost. This is the only film we have of the Ashdown Forest from that period, so for this one film to be the film that also showed Christopher Robin was virtually impossible.
''-Frank Gray, Director of the South East Film and Video Archive[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1677843.stm]}}

This archival footage was shown in a [[documentary film|documentary]] by the "Southern Eye" programme of the [[BBC Two]] television channel, which aired at 1930 [[hours]] [[GMT]] on Tuesday [[27 November]] 2001. During the documentary, 10-year old presenter Joel Pitts navigated his way around Ashdown forest using a map of the "[[Hundred aker wood|Hundred Acre Wood]]" drawn by [[E. H. Shepard]] (illustrator of the "[[Winnie the Pooh]]" books) and found that Roo's Sandy Pit, Galleon's Lap and various other landmarks can be located with it.

== Further reading ==
*[http://www.ashdownforest.org/ The forest's website]
*[http://www.ashdownforest.com/ The forest's tourist association's website]
*[http://www.ashdown-eyes.co.uk/ Photographs]
*[http://www.jncc.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=2052 designation as Special Protection Area]
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1677843.stm BBC News article, [[27 November]] 2001: ''Christopher Robin revealed''] (describes the discovery of images of Christopher Robin Milne captured on the film of a school pageant held in Ashdown Forest in 1929).

==Footnotes==
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Sauget

2007-05-25T22:35:14Z

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'''Sauget''' is a village in [[St. Clair County, Illinois|St. Clair County]], [[Illinois]], [[United States]]. It is part of the [[St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area]]. The population was 249 at the 2000 census.

==Geography==
Sauget is located at {{coor dms|38|35|13|N|90|10|0|W|city}} (38.587013, -90.166690).{{GR|1}}

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of 11.5 [[km²]] (4.4 [[square mile|mi²]]). 10.7 km² (4.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it (7.19%) is water.

Sauget is located in the [[American Bottom]], the floodplain of the [[Mississippi River]] opposite [[St. Louis, Missouri]]

==History==
Sauget was incorporated as "Monsanto" in 1926. It was formed to provide a liberal regulatory environment and low taxes for the Monsanto chemical plants at a time when local jurisdictions had most of the responsibility for environmental rules. It was renamed in honor of Leo Sauget, its first Village President.<ref> "Yes, in My Backyard: Tiny Sauget, Illinois Likes Business Misfits," Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3, 2006 p. A1</ref>

Although the Village of Sauget has but a tiny population, it has a lot of industry. The Village is controlled by these industries. The Village was incorporated in part in response to the total failure of government in adjacent [[East St. Louis, Illinois]] to deliver essential services, and in part to take advantage of federal grant funding programs available only to governmental units, as opposed to private industry.

The Village of Sauget operates the American Bottoms Treatment Plant, a very large sewage treatment plant that serves much of the Illinois side of the St. Louis metropolitan area. In addition, the Village operates a municipal physical/chemical treatment plant that receives industrial wastewater from its factories. This has been cited as one of only three municipal treatment plants of this type in the United States.

The Monsanto Plant in Sauget was the nation's largest producer of PCBs, and [[Environmental Protection Agency]] has designated the plant site along Dead Creek as a [[superfund]] site.<ref> "Yes, in My Backyard: Tiny Sauget, Illinois Likes Business Misfits," Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3, 2006 p. A1</ref>

The Village of Sauget also has a very tolerant attitude toward small business. Many sex clubs exist in this zone of free enterprise.

In fact, the Village President of Sauget owns a couple sex clubs himself. He is one of four members of his family to have served as Village President.<ref> "Yes, in My Backyard: Tiny Sauget, Illinois Likes Business Misfits," Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3, 2006 p. A1</ref>

Sauget is also home to minor league baseball in the [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] [[Metro-East]] as its home to the [[Gateway Grizzlies]] of the [[Frontier League]], which is also controlled by the Sauget family.<ref> "Yes, in My Backyard: Tiny Sauget, Illinois Likes Business Misfits," Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3, 2006 p. A1</ref>

==Demographics==
As of the [[census]]{{GR|2}} of 2000, there were 249 people, 101 households, and 61 families residing in the village. The [[population density]] was 23.3/km² (60.3/mi²). There were 115 housing units at an average density of 10.8/km² (27.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the village was 70.28% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 27.71% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 1.20% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.40% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.40% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 0.80% of the population.

There were 101 households out of which 27.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.6% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 21.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.6% were non-families. 30.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.05.

In the village the population was spread out with 23.7% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 32.5% from 25 to 44, 22.9% from 45 to 64, and 10.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 81.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.5 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $35,833, and the median income for a family was $41,875. Males had a median income of $40,833 versus $25,714 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the village was $19,330. About 20.0% of families and 17.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 28.6% of those under the age of eighteen and 11.1% of those sixty five or over.

==Trivia==
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*The [[Uncle Tupelo]] song "Sauget Wind" makes obvious reference to Sauget and its industrialization.

*The band [[Clutch]] also has a song referencing Sauget. "Black Umbrella" is the Name and the cd is "From Beale Street To Oblivion"

This is a brief description of what the singer/songwriter had to say about the song:

"In Sauget, Illinois there is a club called Pop's. It's on a lawless piece of land with 24 hour strip bars and an O.T.B. I once went into the O.T.B. facility and saw the strangest collection of people one could imagine. It was Mos Eisley spaceport. A woman dressed like she had come straight from a jazz funeral walked in and no one seemed to notice her but myself. I guess anomaly is typical in Sauget."

((pro-rock.com))

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar1654.htm National Priorities List, Sauget Area 1]
*[http://www.builtstlouis.net/eaststlouis/eaststl25.html Virtual Tour, Sauget]

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