Iceman

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The Iceman (film)

The Iceman is an American biography crime thriller film based on the true story of longtime notorious hitman Richard Kuklinski. Released in 2013 at the Venice Film Festival, the film was directed by Ariel Vromen, and stars Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, and Ray Liotta.

The Iceman showed at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival and the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival before receiving a limited release in cinemas in the United States on May 3, 2013. It expanded into more cinemas in the USA on May 17. It was released to DVD on September 3.

Plot

In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) marries Deborah (Winona Ryder) and the couple have two daughters. However, Kuklinski keeps secrets from his family. He works dubbing pornographic films which he then supplies to a mob operated syndicate, but he tells his family that he dubs Disney cartoons. Kuklinski is also deeply troubled. The subject of brutal beatings he received as a boy from his immigrant Polish father, Kuklinski is an emotionally disturbed and intensely violent man. In one instance a man insults him after a game of pool. Kuklinski follows the man to his car and murders him by quickly slashing his throat.

WQEN

WQEN (103.7 FM, "103-7 the Q") is a radio station licensed to serve Trussville, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. Other stations in the Birmingham market owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. include WDXB (102.5 FM), WERC-FM (105.5 FM), WERC (960 AM), W276BQ, Classic Rock 94.9 FM, and WMJJ (96.5 FM). The station has studios at Beacon Ridge Tower in Birmingham (near Red Mountain) and its transmitter is on the west end of the Red Mountain range.

It broadcasts a Top 40 music format to Birmingham and north-central Alabama.

History

In October 1966, the station that is now WQEN signed on as WLJM-FM, licensed to Gadsden. The call letters stood for Lloyd, John and Mary Faye, the three children of original owner Charlie Boman. In 1974, WJLM was sold to Charles Smithgall and Mike McDougald who operated WAAX, also in Gadsden. In 1975, the FM station took its current call letters. After a brief run as an automated easy listening radio station, WQEN became one of the first FM Top 40 stations in Alabama, known on the air as "Super Q-104" and "Q-104 The Southern Super Giant". For nearly 40 years, WQEN has been a Top 40 station.

CKKQ-FM

CKKQ-FM, known as 100.3 The Q or The Q, is a broadcast radio station in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. CKKQ broadcasts online and at a frequency of 100.3 MHz on the FM band. The station has broadcast a mainstream rock format since its inception, but has a more classic rock sound since 2001, when sister station CKXM-AM/FM became The Zone @ 91.3 with the CJZN calls and an alternative rock format. It used to have an adult album alternative lean up until Pattison took over the station from OK Radio.

The station placed 2nd in the Spring 2012 BBM Ratings for Victoria.

History

In April 1987, the OK Radio Group Ltd. (known at the time as Victoria Communications Ltd.) was granted an FM radio license and launched 100.3 The Q, then known as Q-100, in December 1987. The first song played was The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up".

In May 1999, CKKQ and sister station CKXM (now known as CJZN-FM (The Zone @ 91-3)) moved to the top floor of 2750 Quadra Street, a three-storey Victoria office building purchased by the OK Radio Group Ltd. in the fall of 1998.

Q (disambiguation)

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