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Clean Hands (2026 film)

Clean Hands is a 2026 American drama film directed by Jake Allyn, starring Zach Braff as narcotics officer Kevin Simmers, based on his daughter Brooke's opioid addiction.

Clean Slate (TV series)

Clean Slate is a 2025 Prime Video comedy series starring Laverne Cox as Desiree and George Wallace as Harry Slate, an Alabama car wash owner whose estranged child returns as a trans woman. Created by Cox, Wallace, and Dan Ewen, produced by Norman Lear, eight episodes, canceled after one season.

Clean with Passion for Now

Clean with Passion for Now (일단 뜨겁게 청소하라) is a 2018 JTBC Korean romantic comedy drama, 16 episodes, starring Yoon Kyun-sang and Kim Yoo-jung, adapted from Aaengo's webtoon about a mysophobic cleaning-company CEO.

Clean-in-place

Clean-in-place (CIP) cleans installed process equipment without disassembly by circulating cleaning solutions; used in dairies, food plants, and pharma, with raw/pasteurized system segregation, monitored temperature, time, and concentration, and validated rinse or swab sampling.

Cleaner (2025 film)

Cleaner (2025) is a British action thriller directed by Martin Campbell, starring Daisy Ridley as ex-soldier window cleaner Joey Locke rescuing 300 hostages in a London skyscraper; also with Clive Owen and Taz Skylar; released February 21, 2025.

Cleaners

Cleaners is a 2013-2014 Crackle action web series created by Paul Leyden, starring Emmanuelle Chriqui and Emily Osment as contract killers hunted after a job goes wrong; distinct from the 2018 documentary and 2019 Filipino film of the same name.

Cleanin' Out My Closet

"Cleanin' Out My Closet" is a 2002 Eminem song from The Eminem Show, second single after "Without Me"; produced with Jeff Bass, it peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK chart, attacking his mother Debbie before his 2013 apology song "Headlights".

Cleanness

Cleanness (Middle English: Clannesse; also known as Purity) is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem attributed to the Pearl Poet, retelling biblical stories such as Noah's flood and Belshazzar's feast.

Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger: Tom Clancy's 1989 Putnam technothriller, a Jack Ryan series novel (cataloged as #6) about a covert US war against Colombian drug cartels, adapted as the 1994 Harrison Ford film.

Clear and Present Danger (film)

Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American political thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan, based on Tom Clancy's 1989 novel.

Clear Cut (2024 film)

Clear Cut (also released as Cold Deck) is a 2024 action thriller directed by Brian Skiba, starring Clive Standen, Alec Baldwin, and Stephen Dorff, about a logger hunted by drug traffickers after finding a meth lab; released July 19, 2024 by Lionsgate.

Clear History

Clear History (2013) is an HBO Films comedy directed by Greg Mottola, written by Larry David, Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer, starring David as Nathan Flomm, who forfeits a billion-dollar stake and plots revenge on Martha's Vineyard.

Clear Light of Day

Clear Light of Day is a 1980 novel by Anita Desai about the Das siblings confronting memory and estrangement in their Old Delhi family home.

Clear Rivers

Clear Rivers, full name Clear Marie Rivers, is a fictional character in the Final Destination horror franchise, portrayed by Ali Larter in the first two films.

Clearing Autumn Skies over Mountains and Rivers

Clearing Autumn Skies over Mountains and Rivers (江山秋色图) is a Song-dynasty blue-and-green landscape handscroll in the Palace Museum, Beijing, attributed to the imperial-clan painter Zhao Boju.

Clearing Winter Storm

Clearing Winter Storm is a black-and-white landscape photograph by Ansel Adams showing Yosemite Valley in fresh snow under clearing storm clouds, viewed from Inspiration Point about 1938.

Cleavage (breasts)

Cleavage is the hollow between a woman's supported breasts, especially as exposed by a low-cut garment; anatomically the intermammary cleft. The clothing sense of the word dates to 1946; décolletage peaked in Rococo fashion, vanished after 1785, and was shunned in the monobosom era.

Cleaver

Cleaver: a large rectangular-bladed knife. The Western meat cleaver (300 g–3 kg) chops through bone; the Chinese cleaver (caidao, 菜刀) is a thin chef's-knife-style slicer for vegetables and boneless meat that chips on bone.

Cleavon Little

Cleavon Jake Little (1939–1992), American stage, film, and television actor; Tony winner for Purlie (1970) and star of Blazing Saddles (1974) as Sheriff Bart; Emmy for Dear John; distinct from any other actor named Little.

Clef

Clef: the symbol at the start of a musical staff assigning pitches to lines and spaces. Three signs from letters C, F, G; treble, bass, alto, tenor in regular use; traced to Guido of Arezzo's lettered stave.

Clem Burke

Clem Burke (Clement Anthony Bozewski, 1954–2025), Blondie's co-founding drummer on all albums 1976–2017, also Eurythmics drummer and briefly Elvis Ramone of the Ramones; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2006, Clem Burke Drumming Project founder.

Clémence Poésy

Clémence Poésy (Clémence Guichard, born 1982) is a French actress and director, Fleur Delacour in three Harry Potter films, lead of The Tunnel (2013–2018), and star of In Bruges, Tenet, Sambre, and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.

Clemens Brentano

Clemens Brentano (1778–1842) was a German poet and writer, a leading figure of the Heidelberg Romantics best known for co-editing the folk-song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Achim von Arnim.

Clement Freud

Sir Clement Freud (1924-2009), Berlin-born British writer, broadcaster, chef and Liberal MP for Isle of Ely 1973-87; grandson of Sigmund Freud, brother of Lucian; four decades on Just a Minute; accused posthumously of abuse.

Clement Marot

Clément Marot (1496?–1544) was a French Renaissance poet, valet de chambre to François I, whose French verse translations of the Psalms formed the nucleus of the Geneva Psalter.

Clement von Franckenstein

Clement von Franckenstein (Clement George Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein, stage name Clement St. George), English character actor (1944–2019) in US film and TV; son of Austrian ambassador Georg von und zu Franckenstein; appeared in Young Frankenstein, Death Becomes Her, Hail, Caesar!.

Clementina de Jesus

Clementina de Jesus was a Brazilian folk singer from Rio de Janeiro who recorded jongo and samba from oral tradition, discovered in 1963 at about age 63.

Clementine Douglas

Clementine Douglas, British singer-songwriter and producer from Birmingham, frontwoman of Kudu Blue; known for "Mixed Emotions" with Chase & Status, "Asking", and Calvin Harris's UK No. 3 "Blessings"; Radio 1 Dance Vocalist of the Year 2022; solo from 2024.

Clémentine Faïk-Nzuji

Clémentine Faïk-Nzuji (Clémentine Madiya Faïk-Nzuji), born in 1944 in Tshofa, Congo, is a Congolese philologist and writer who studies African oral literatures and founded CILTADE.

Clementine Ford

Clementine Ford names two figures: an American actress born 1979, daughter of Cybill Shepherd, known for The L Word and The Young and the Restless, and an Australian feminist writer, author of Fight Like a Girl.