The Greatest Movie Characters Of All Time. We asked. You voted (in your thousands). Get the latest international news and world events from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and more. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews.com. Aliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. And here it is - Empire's definitive (and not a little surprising) tally of the most memorable movie characters, the most iconic movie characters, the beautiful, the powerful, the heroic, despicable, hilarious and downright barking characters who have ever graced the big screen. Edna Mode. Appearance: The Incredibles (2. Creator: Brad Bird. Performer: Brad Bird. Defining moment: “No capes!” — Mode’s more than eccentric personality hides a distinctly practical approach to superhero fashion. Fascinating fact: Edna appeared alongside Pierce Brosnan to present the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in February 2. She’s a Lord Of The Rings fan. Stream The Incredibles now with Amazon Video. Randle Mc. Murphy. Appearance: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1. Creator: Ken Kesey, Bo Goldman. Performer: Jack Nicholson. Defining moment: When Nurse Ratched bans the World Series, Mc. Murphy improvises a commentary. Fascinating fact: Kirk Douglas played Mc. Murphy on stage but was considered too old for the part by the time his son Michael, as producer, put the film together. Buy One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest now on Amazon. Optimus Prime. Appearance: The Transformers series (2. Creator: Denny O’Neil, Jim Shooter, Bob Budiansky. Performer: Peter Cullen (voice)Defining moment: Riding high on a mecha dinosaur in Age Of Extinction. Watch Kamasutra 3D Official Trailer 2014 English Movie Online. 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You voted (in your thousands). And here it is - Empire's definitive (and not a little surprising) tally of the most memorable movie characters, the most. The Minions. Appearance: Despicable Me movies (2. Minions movie (2. Creator: Sergio Pablos. Defining moment: Singing “banana” to the tune of Barbara Ann during the Despicable Me 2 trailer. Fascinating fact: In Minion, Bu ta na ma ka means . Maximus. Appearance: Gladiator (2. Creator: David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson. Performer: Russell Crowe. Defining moment: Rousing the troops with his immortal line, “What we do in life, echoes in eternity!”Fascinating fact: Original choice Mel Gibson pronounced himself too old, opening the way for Russell Crowe and establishing his and Ridley Scott’s legendary collaboration. Stream Gladiator now with Amazon Video. Legolas. Appearance: The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2. Creator: J. Tolkien. Performer: Orlando Bloom. Defining moment: With the rest of the Fellowship bogged down in a snowdrift, Legolas walks across, not leaving a mark. Fascinating fact: Among his myriad talents, Legolas can talk to stones. A passage in Fellowship Of The Ring sees the nimble elf listening to the lament of grieving rocks. A useful skill if ever there were one. Stream The Lord Of The Rings now with Amazon Video. Wednesday Addams. Appearance: The Addams Family films (1. Creator: Charles Addams. Performer: Christina Ricci. Defining moment: At a costume party as herself — “I am a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.”Fascinating fact: The character takes her name from a line in a Mother Goose nursery rhyme: . Inspector Clouseau. Appearance: The Pink Panther films (1. Creator: Blake Edwards, Maurice Richlin. Performer: Peter Sellers, Alan Arkin, Steve Martin. Defining moment: “I suspect everyone and I suspect no- one!”Fascinating fact: Sellers and Edwards announced that they could never work with each other again after A Shot In The Dark opening the way for Alan Arkin to play the role. Stream The Pink Panther now with Amazon Video. Inigo Montoya. Appearance: The Princess Bride (1. Creator: William Goldman. Performer: Mandy Patinkin. Defining moment: “I want my father back, you son of a bitch!” Inigo’s moment of revenge is perfection. Fascinating fact: Patinkin bruised a rib trying not to laugh at Billy Crystal’s Miracle Max. Hal. Appearance: 2. A Space Odyssey (1. Creator: Arthur C. Clarke. Performer: Douglas Rain (voice)Defining moment: Conceding the battle for supremacy between humans and technology, HAL departs with a plaintive rendition of Daisy Bell. Fascinating fact: Originally envisioned by Clarke as a humanoid robot called Socrates. Stream 2. 00. 1: A Space Odyssey now with Amazon Video. Groot. Appearance: Guardians Of The Galaxy (2. Creator: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers. Performer: Vin Diesel/ Krystian Godlewski. Defining moment: His return midcredits, getting his groove on as a sapling. Fascinating fact: A Flora colossus from Planet X, Groot made his debut 1. Tales to Astonish #1. Far from heroic, proto Groot attempted to abduct humans for scientific experimentation. Stream Guardians Of The Galaxy now with Amazon Video. Gromit. Appearance: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were- Rabbit (2. Creator: Nick Park. Performer: Team Aardman Animations. Defining moment: How about reviving the comatose Wallace with a wedge of Stinking Bishop? Fascinating fact: In 2. NASA named a prototype Mars rover Gromit. Stream Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were- Rabbit now with Amazon Video. Ethan Hunt. Appearance: The Mission: Impossible series (1. Creator: David Koepp, Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne. Performer: Tom Cruise. Defining moment: Hunt’s penchant for defying gravity, physics and fear reached its apotheosis in part four, with the daring climb up the side of the Burj Khalifa – aka the world’s tallest building – in Dubai. Fascinating fact: Rumour has it that Hunt was going to die in Ghost Protocol, but the character survived due to production rewrites. Stream Mission: Impossible now with Amazon Video. Red. Appearance: The Shawshank Redemption (1. Creator: Stephen King. Performer: Morgan Freeman. Defining moment: His final parole board. He gets his name from his mop of crimson hair. Stream The Shawshank Redemption now with Amazon Video. Walker. Appearance: Point Blank (1. Creator: Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark)Performer: Lee Marvin. Defining moment: Cutting between Walker’s wife and betrayer (Sharon Acker) getting dressed and Walker striding down a long corridor. The click of his relentless heels sounds over both images — he will not be stopped. Fascinating fact: Richard Widmark, Robert Duvall, Mel Gibson, and Jason Statham have played versions of Walker. Stream Point Blank now with Amazon Video. Corporal Hicks. Appearance: Aliens (1. Creator: James Cameron. Performer: Michael Biehn. Defining moment: “I like to keep this handy.. Bane. Appearance: Batman & Robin (1. The Dark Knight Rises (2. Creator: Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Graham Nolan. Performer: Jeep Swenson (Batman & Robin), Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises)Defining moment: After a major fist fight, Bane breaks Batman’s back and symbolically throws away the broken mask in The Dark Knight Rises. Fascinating fact: Hardy based Bane’s strange voice on Romany Irish boxer Bartley Gorman. Stream Batman & Robin now with Amazon Video. Watch The Dark Knight Rises online now with Amazon Prime – 3. Woody. Appearance: The Toy Story series (1. Creator: John Lasseter. Performer: Tom Hanks (voice)Defining moment: “YOU ARE A TOY! You aren’t the real Buzz Lightyear! You are a child’s plaything!” Woody doles out some tough love to his deluded new friend suffering delusions of grandeur. Fascinating fact: Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich revealed on Twitter that Woody’s last name is Pride. Stream Toy Story now with Amazon Video. Withnail. Appearance: Withnail & I (1. Creator: Bruce Robinson. Performer: Richard E. Grant. Defining moment: Withnail’s preposterous tea shop demands: “We want the finest wines known to humanity. We want them here and we want them now!”Fascinating fact: Grant’s first reading of the line, “Fork it!” was exactly how Robinson had imagined it, thus securing the actor the part. Stream Withnail & I now with Amazon Video. VAppearance: V For Vendetta (2. Creator: Alan Moore, David Lloyd. Performer: Hugo Weaving (though James Purefoy began filming before the role was recast, and some of his scenes still appear with Weaving’s voice- over). Defining moment: The massed ranks of like- masked protesters appearing at the Houses Of Parliament as V blows the place up and brings down the dystopian government. Fascinating fact: Weaving based V’s voice on ex- Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Stream V For Vendetta now with Amazon Video. Roy Batty. Appearance: Blade Runner (1. Creator: Philip K. Dick, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples. Performer: Rutger Hauer. Defining moment: The incredible sense of loss that comes with the “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe” dying speech. Time to die.”Fascinating fact: Roy’s birthday – or rather, his inception – was celebrated on January 8, 2. He’s three years and ten months old when he dies. Stream Blade Runner now with Amazon Video. Martin Blank. Appearance: Grosse Pointe Blank (1. Creator: Tom Jankiewicz, D. De. Vincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack. Performer: John Cusack. Defining moment: Killing a would- be assassin with the promotional pen his glad- handing real- estate agent friend has given him at a school reunion. Fascinating fact: Though the character is renamed Brand Hauser, Blank essentially returns in the little- seen War, Inc. Samwise Gamgee. Appearance: The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2. Creator: J. Tolkien. Performer: Sean Astin. Defining moment: Lugging Master Frodo onto his back and trudging up Mount Doom’s ashy slope: “I can’t carry it for you.. Stream The Lord Of The Rings now with Amazon Video. Private William Hudson. Appearance: Aliens (1. Creator: James Cameron. Performer: Bill Paxton. Defining moment: The character’s a certifiable quote- machine, especially when he goes into panicky gobshite mode. After Ripley reasonably points out how long little girl Newt survived, he brilliantly ripostes, “Why don’t you put her in charge?”Fascinating fact: Hudson’s most repeated line in the movie — “Game over, man, game over!” — was improvised by Paxton on set. CHUM (AM) - Wikipedia. This article is about CHUM, the Toronto radio station branded TSN Radio 1. April 1. 3, 2. 01. For the national radio network, see TSN Radio. CHUM, branded as TSN Radio 1. Hz in the AM band, is a Canadianradio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned and operated by Bell Media. CHUM's studios are co- located with TSN at 9 Channel Nine Court in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Scarborough (with auxiliary studios located at 2. Richmond Street West in the Entertainment District of downtown Toronto), with its transmitter array located in the Clarkson neighbourhood of Mississauga (near CFRB's own transmitter array). Long known as 1. 05. CHUM, the station played Top 4. CHUM then carried an oldies format featuring music from that period between 1. The Team 1. 05. 0, from 2. In March 2. 00. 9, CHUM switched to a news format known as CP2. Radio 1. 05. 0, which operated primarily as an audio simulcast of CP2. The station's history can be broken into eight distinct eras, as follows: Era. Start date. Format. Brand and/or slogan. October 2. 8, 1. 94. Station only on air from sun- up to sundown through most of this era. CHUM2. May 2. 7, 1. Top 5. 0 hits. Some sports coverage, including broadcasts of Toronto Argonauts games, and from 1. Toronto Blue Jays games. CHUM: Good Times and Great Oldies. May 7, 2. 00. 1Sports and sports talk. The Team 1. 05. 06. August 2. 7, 2. 00. Oldies. 1. 05. 0 CHUM: Toronto's Greatest Hits. March 2. 6, 2. 00. News talk radio (straight rebroadcast of audio feed of all- news TV station CP2. CP2. 4 Radio 1. 05. April 1. 3, 2. 01. Sports and sports talk. TSN Radio 1. 05. 0The . The station, operating from 1. Mutual St.. When CHUM was about to debut, Leary told the press that the new station would be known for community service and in- depth news, in addition to live talent and the most popular phonograph records. Waters' first major move was to secure a licence for 2. CHUM, along with a power increase to 5,0. The Top 4. 0 era: 1. On May 2. 7, 1. 95. AM, Waters switched the station to a . As the station became more successful, it also built yet another new transmitter in Mississauga, Ontario (a few miles west of the current Toronto city line) along the Lake Ontario shoreline, and raised its power once again to its current 5. An important part of CHUM's success was the station's unpredictable morning man Al Boliska, who joined CHUM in October 1. CKLC in Kingston, Ontario. He also made them laugh, and became known for telling what he called the . When he lost, that led to another stunt, where Boliska stayed away from his show for several days, saying he was now too discouraged by the loss to do his show. A hypnotist was called in, and Boliska's self- esteem was restored. He was replaced by WKBW Buffalo radio & TV personality Jay Nelson, popularly known as . He would be followed by housewives' jock John Spragge; singer/DJ Mike Darow; Pete Nordheimer, replaced in 1. Bob Mc. Adorey, teen DJ Dave Johnson, and all night DJ Bob Laine. Later additions to the CHUM DJ lineup included Duff Roman and Brian Skinner, both of whom came from rival Toronto rocker CKEY (then owned by Jack Kent Cooke). In the late 1. 96. CHUM DJs included Duke Roberts (also known as Gary Duke for a time), Johnny Mitchell (better known today as Sonny Fox), J. Michael Wilson, Tom Rivers, Scott Carpenter, Jim Van Horne, John Rode, Don Reagan, John Majhor, Mike Cooper, Daryl B, Terry Steele, Mike Holland and current CHUM- FM morning man Roger Ashby. Among their later night- time hosts was J. Roberts, who joined CHUM for a time in 1. North America as White House correspondent for CBS News, then the co- anchor of CNN's morning program American Morning. Rick Moranis, later famous for his work on SCTV and Ghostbusters, was briefly a late- night CHUM DJ in the mid- seventies under the name . In the 1. 95. 0s and 1. The Walking Man', where listeners had to spot CHUM's mystery walking man using only clues given out on the air. The 1. 97. 0s' . In 1. CHUM Starsign promotion. Listeners wore a button featuring their astrological sign. If CHUM's 'Starsign spotter' saw you wearing your Starsign, you won prizes such as money or concert tickets to major events. The CHUM Chart was, for many years, the most influential weekly Top 4. Canada and has been hailed as the longest- running continuously published radio station record survey in North America. The slogan Good Times and Great Oldies is also featured. By the mid- 1. 98. CHUM had lost ground in the Toronto ratings to competing Top 4. CFTR. On June 6, 1. Starship's . The first song after the relaunch was . The change also discontinued the CHUM Chart, which ended the week of June 1. Madonna's . While starting off with modest ratings, CHUM began to slip further over the next few years; in the last book as an AC, CHUM was ranked 1. Toronto market as of September 1. In 1. 98. 9, the station acquired the broadcast rights for the Toronto Argonauts. Led by play- by- play man Marc Charbonneau and colour commentator Peter Martin, the CHUM broadcast team helped to celebrate the team's Grey Cup victory in 1. Winnipeg. By 1. 99. Only the morning show was live. In 1. 99. 8, CHUM obtained the radio broadcast rights to Toronto Blue Jays baseball, resulting in a shift towards sports programming on the station. The Team 1. 05. 0: 2. This also meant the end of music on 1. CHUM, which occurred on May 7, 2. Then, at 3 p. m., . Noted Canadian sportscaster Jim Van Horne, who had recently left TSN, was the network's marquee host. While the station retained the CHUM call letters, on air the station was not referred to as 1. CHUM, but rather as Team 1. Nevertheless, . On August 2. Team formats — including CHUM, which reverted to oldies. The second . JXL Remix of . The station also featured The Morning Show with Gord James and the James Gang, as well as call- in lifestyle programs during weekend mornings. Like the first incarnation of the oldies format, the morning show was live while other air shifts were voicetracked. In addition, the station also lost rights to broadcast Blue Jays games after the 2. The Fan 5. 90, coinciding with that station's purchase by Rogers Communications, which by that time owned the Blue Jays. In 2. 00. 7, CHUM and the rest of the CHUM Limited stations (with the exception of Citytv) were sold to CTVglobemedia. That same year, CHUM commemorated the 5. Yonge was demolished in September 2. The new building is adjacent (and connected) to Bell Media's Headquarters at 2. Queen Street West. A similar move was made in May 2. CFRB left their longtime location at Yonge and St. Clair for 2. 50 Richmond Street West after Bell's acquisition of Astral Media, which brought CFRB and CHUM under the same ownership. The station was converted to an all- news radio format as . Unlike other CHUM Radio news talk radio stations in Canada such as CFRAOttawa and CFAXVictoria, 1. AM was the only radio station in Toronto and in the CTVglobemedia family which acted as an audio simulcast of its co- owned 2. CP2. 4. The move coincided with the launch of CP2. CP2. 4 Breakfast (which was launching due to the realignment, as CP2. Citytv's Breakfast Television). Moreover, no webcast of the former oldies format was offered on this occasion, as 1. CP2. 4 website. CKOC in Hamilton retained a more traditional AM oldies format, while pop standards station CFZM marketed itself as an alternative as well. In his column on the format change, Woloshyn noted a number of instances where he could tell he was listening to content that had been prepared for television, not radio, presentation: “On Thursday morning I listened to a sportscaster tell me to . On that same day, host Ann Rohmer (a fine broadcaster, by the way) had to apologize to her viewers because they were having technical difficulties with their picture. The irony nearly drove me off the road. That was followed by the weather man proclaiming, . What really irks me is they're breaking the cardinal rule of radio: No dead air. TSN considered the flip to be a . It renamed the company Bell Media and likewise renamed the radio division CHUM Radio to Bell Media Radio. Ratings in the initial weeks of broadcasting showed that CHUM's new TSN Radio sports format was capturing 1. The Fan 5. 90 was capturing 5. For the quarterly ratings periods in 2. CHUM has consistently placed next- to- last in overall share amongst Toronto- based radio stations, beating only foreign- language station CINA. Studios. TSN Radio 1. Bell Media Radio Toronto's studios located at 2. Richmond Street West in Downtown Toronto (which also houses sister radio stations, 1. CHUM- FM, Virgin 9. CFRB Newstalk 1. 01. Queen Street West (where Bell Media's specialty channels such as Much. Music and CP2. 4 are based, as well as CTV's. The Marilyn Denis Show, etalk and The Social). Weekday programming. Andi Petrillo became host of Leafs Lunch, while Bryan Hayes, Jamie Mc. Lennan, and Jeff O'Neill became hosts of the new drive- time program Over. Drive. On Saturday's a one- hour program called Golf Talk Canada airs from 9: 0. On Sunday's TSN Radio 1. Fast Talk which airs from 7am- 8am followed by The International Sports Report which airs from 8am- 1. TSN 1. 05. 0 Gameday, hosted by Mike Hogan. Open, EURO 2. 01. EURO 2. 01. 6 as part of TSN's broadcasting rights for the events. For the 2. 01. 1 NFL season, TSN Radio 1. NFL on Westwood One. In 2. 01. 2, TSN Radio 1. Premier League soccer. Beginning in the 2. Toronto Maple Leafs with The Fan 5. Toronto Sports Media wrote: “. It seemed to prove to me that there is a lot more talent in this city than I originally thought. It’s nice having listening options the same way we have paper and television options.. The Cybulski show is good, it has a cool concept and a unique take, with some great guests. It will take a while for sure, but I do think that Bob will eventually have some competition. Not sure who to listen to anymore. So far, there’s very little to distinguish it from the competition. Celebrity Photos, Celebrity Pictures, Celebrity Pics. Translate to English > Translate to English > Translate to English > Translate to English > This content is available customized for our international audience. Switch to US edition? 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