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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives
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Presley in a publicity photograph for the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock
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Presley's birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi
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Presley in a Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954
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The "iconic cover" of Presley's 1956 debut album featuring a photo taken July 31, 1955, in Tampa, Florida
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Billboard magazine
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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An 1896 issue of Billboard
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Eight Elvises
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Eight Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol of Elvis Presley. In 2008 it was sold by Annibale Berlingieri for $100 million to a private buyer, the current owner and location of the painting, which has not been seen publicly since the 1960s, are unknown. Eight Elvises is composed of eight identical, overlapping images of Elvis Presley in cowboy attire, the painting was originally a portion of a 37-foot long piece, containing sixteen copies of Elvis, that was showcased in a 1963 exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition, Warhols second at the Ferus, contained several other pieces using the image of Elvis. The images of Elvis were taken from a publicity still from the movie Flaming Star, when the gallery was dismantled, the section with eight images of Elvis became a distinct piece, measuring 6 1⁄2 by 12 feet. While Warhol created 22 versions of the painting with two Elvises on it, known as Double Elvis, only one piece titled Eight Elvises was created. In 2008 Eight Elvises was sold by Annibale Berlingieri, who had owned it for 40 years, news of the sale, which was not announced publicly at the time, was broken by art writer Sarah Thornton and published in The Economist in late 2009. The deal was brokered by Philippe Ségalot, a New York-based art dealer, the current location of the painting is unknown. Another painting from 1963, Silver Car Crash, broke the record for a Warhol work set by Eight Elvises when it sold for $105 million at auction in November 2013. Triple Elvis List of most expensive paintings McCarthy, David, Andy Warhols Silver Elvises, Meaning through Context at the Ferus Gallery in 1963
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Guy Peellaert
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He also designed film posters for films like Taxi Driver, Paris, Texas, and Short Cuts. The band Frankie Goes to Hollywood took their name from Peellaerts painting, titled Frank Sinatra, Peellaert was born into an aristocratic family, but left home at an early age. His style was influenced by art and Pop Art. He moved to Paris, where he worked variously in advertising, set design for the casino and his comic strip, Les Aventures de Jodelle, was published in 1966 in the controversial French magazine Hara-Kiri. The protagonist, Jodelle, was modelled after singer Sylvie Vartan, in 1973, he collaborated with British rock journalist Nik Cohn on the best-selling book Rock Dreams, which reportedly sold a million copies after it was published the following year. The book consisted of Peelaerts visual illustrations which celebrated and exaggerated the rebel heritage of pop music and, particularly, rock and roll, many of the original artworks were bought by actor Jack Nicholson. After the success of Rock Dreams, Peellaert became perhaps best known for his album covers. He designed covers for The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Étienne Daho, Lio and he painted in a very photorealistic style and often used pastel. The album cover of David Bowies Diamond Dogs met with controversy, the cover art features Bowie as a striking half-man, half-dog grotesque. It was controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid’s genitalia, very few copies of this original cover made their way into circulation at the time of the albums release. The genitalia was quickly airbrushed out for the 1974 LP’s gatefold sleeve, Peellaert and Cohn collaborated again on 20th-Century Dreams in 1999, with illustrations of political and world historical figures. His work has exhibited internationally and magazines like Les Inrockuptibles, The Guardian. He died at the age of 74 of cancer
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Guy Peellaert's design for David Bowie 's Diamond Dogs album
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24 Hour Church of Elvis
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The 24 Hour Church of Elvis was an exhibit at a museum and gallery called Wheres The Art. in Portland, Oregon, USA, run by artist Stephanie Stevie G. Pierce. The original location, which operated from 1985–1986, had a single coin-operated fortune-telling machine accessible from the street, elaborate window displays, for prices ranging from 25 cents to a dollar. Every prize was accompanied by an original work of art by Ms. Pierce. Some machines were run by Commodore 64 computers, and included crude graphics and these machines were always accessible, hence the first part of the name. Other items by the artist were available inside the store when it was open, also inside, one would often find the street performer called Elvis who would play a few songs on a cardboard guitar, in his sequined jumpsuit and thick, dark-rimmed glasses. This performer is still a fixture at Portland Saturday Market. The third location was devoted primarily towards 1970s popular culture memorabilia, the museum offered legal weddings for $25 and cheap, not legal weddings for $5. The fake weddings could be same sex. Despite the name, the incarnation of the 24 Hour Church was not open 24 hours, as indicated by a sign on the door which read 24 Hour Church of Elvis. The fourth location closed in March 2013 due to lack of funds for rent, palahniuk, Chuck Fugitives and Refugees, A Walk in Portland, Oregon. ISBN 1-4000-4783-8 Official Website of the 24 Hour Church of Elvis older 24 Hour Church of Elvis homepage at the Wayback Machine Article from The New Colonist
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408 NW Couch Street, Portland
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Velvet Elvis
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A Velvet Elvis is a painting of Elvis Presley on velvet. It typically represents a costumed torso of Elvis holding a microphone and this iconic velvet painting is considered an archetypical example of kitsch. Liflander also details the life of Edgar Leeteg, the father of American black velvet kitsch, whose raucous, Velvet was a popular medium for artists on the streets of Tijuana, reaching a height of popularity in the 1970s. There are a number of examples of musicians alluding to paintings of famous singer in their songs or stage names. Velvet Elvis, a contemporary heavy-psychedelic stoner rock band hailing from Rochester, Velvet Elvis, a 1980s rock group based in Lexington, Kentucky, originally consisting of Dan Trisko, John Clark, Sherri McGee and Doug Carman. Scott Stoess and Jeff Yurkowski later replaced Clark and Carman, Velvet Elvis released two self-produced albums in addition to one for Enigma Records that was produced by Mitch Easter. Alannah Myles song Black Velvet seems to allude to the paintings, in the PC game Fallout, a velvet Elvis portrait can be found in the crashed UFO encounter, on an alien skeleton. This refers to the rumors and jokes that Elvis is still alive, numerous velvet Elvis portraits can also be found in the sequel to Fallout, Fallout 2. A Velvet Elvis can also be found in the PC game Fountain of Dreams in the Desotos compound and it is the only type of painting that cannot be sold to Big Daddy for money. Hampshire College students had a tradition regarding a Velvis, which was to be stolen by successive students, in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Huxley points to a velvet Elvis painting as one of his many possessions. On an episode of the television series Pawn Stars Rick tells Chumlee hed have a velvet Elvis over his fireplace after he buys a fake etching without Ricks permission. On episode 2, season 4, of The Killing, Stephen Holder says So Im not gonna find a Velvet Elvis hanging anywhere around here, Velvet Elvis is the name of a yacht racing team,2010 UK National Champions in the J/109 class. Velvet Elvis Cycling is a group of cyclists from Michigan, active in CX, MTB. They are not so much of a team as a circus act that you have to audition for. Velvet Elvis, Repainting the Christian Faith is a written by Rob Bell of Mars Hill Bible Church. While in college as the singer of _ton bundle, he wrote a song called Velvet Elvis. Velvet Elvis is the name of a cheese sandwich available at Smith & Deli in Fitzroy, Melbourne
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A velvet Elvis painting
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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A 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an EAN-13 bar code
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St. Martin's Press
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St. Martins Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City, New York. St. Martins Presss current editor in chief is George Witte, Macmillan Publishers of the United Kingdom founded St. Martins in 1952 and named it after St Martins Lane in London, where associated press Macmillan Publishers was headquartered. Martins as well as some U. S. publishing houses, including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Holt Publishers, and Tor-Forge Books. Authors published by St. Martin include Sherrilyn Kenyon, M. K. Asante, Charlotte Bingham, John Bingham, Dan Brown, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Ken Bruen, Augusten Burroughs and it also publishes the New York Times crossword puzzle books. In 1984, St. Martins became the first major publisher to release its hardcover books by its in-house mass-market paperback company
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Elvis Costello
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Declan Patrick MacManus, better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. His critically acclaimed album, My Aim Is True, was released in 1977. Shortly after recording it, he formed the Attractions as his backing band and his second album, This Years Model, was released in 1978, and was ranked number 11 by Rolling Stone on its list of the best albums from 1967–1987. His third album, Armed Forces, was released in 1979 and his first three albums all appeared on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Costello and the Attractions toured and recorded together for the part of a decade. Much of Costellos work since has been as a solo artist, steeped in wordplay, the vocabulary of Costellos lyrics is broad. His music has drawn on many genres, one critic described him as a pop encyclopaedia. He has won awards in his career, including a Grammy Award. In 2003, Costello and the Attractions were inducted into the Rock, in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Costello number 80 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Costello has co-written several original songs for motion pictures, including God Give Me Strength from Grace of My Heart, for the latter, Costello was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. Costello was born in 25 August 1954 at St Marys Hospital, London, the son of Lilian Alda and Ross MacManus, Costello lived in Twickenham, attending Archbishop Myers R. C. School, which is now St Marks Catholic Secondary School, in neighbouring Hounslow, with a musically inclined father, Costellos first broadcast recording was with his father in a television commercial for R. Whites Lemonade. His father wrote and sang the song, Costello provided backing vocals, the advertisement won a silver award at the 1974 International Advertising Festival. Costello moved with his Liverpool-born mother to Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1971, there, he formed his first band, a folk duo called Rusty, with Allan Mayes. After completing secondary school at St. Francis Xaviers College he moved back to London where he formed a band called Flip City. They were active from 1974 through to early 1976, around this time, Costello adopted the stage name D. P. His father had performed under the name Day Costello, and Elvis has said in interviews that he took this name as a tribute to his father and he worked for a short period as a computer operator at the Midland Bank computer centre in Bootle. He continued to write songs and began looking for a recording contract
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Costello at the 2012 Riot Fest, Chicago
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Costello performing at Glastonbury, 2005
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Costello's hand prints on the European Walk of Fame, Rotterdam
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Elvis Dumervil
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Elvis Kool Dumervil is an American football outside linebacker who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Louisville, where he was recognized as a unanimous All-American, Dumervil was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, where he played for seven seasons before joining the Baltimore Ravens in 2013. Dumervil has made the Pro Bowl five times and set the Ravens franchise record for most sacks in a season with 17 in 2014, Dumervil was born in Miami, Florida. His parents were Haitian immigrants to Miamis Little Haiti neighborhood, separated when Dumervil was three years old, they raised a total of 10 children. He attended Miami Jackson High School, where he was a star in football. He played high school football for the Jackson Generals team, rated among the top 25 defensive ends by most football recruiting publications, Dumervil had a Jackson High School record 78 career sacks. Despite standing at 5 ft.11 in, Dumervil was one of the most dominating defensive players in school history and put together one of the most impressive collegiate seasons in 2005. Dumervil attended the University of Louisville, where he played for coach John L. Smith, as a freshman in 2002, Dumervil recorded six tackles and two tackles for loss, but he impressed the coaching staff with his quickness and his high energy. After John L. Smith left, Petrino took over, in 2003, he tallied just 28 tackles and two sacks. The Cardinal coaching staff had planned on redshirting him during the 2002 season, but injuries to other players and he showed glimpses of what was to come in 2004, when he tallied 52 tackles,11. His sack total also broke the Big East record set by Dwight Freeney and he finished that season with a school record 20.5 sacks and 10 forced fumbles, which is still the best in NCAA history. He won several awards for the 2005 season, including the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, the Ted Hendricks Award, and Big East player of the year, in the 2006 Gator Bowl, Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick intentionally stomped on the back of Dumervils leg after a whistle. While no penalty was called, the backlash from this led to Vicks permanent dismissal from the Virginia Tech football team. Vick claimed that he had apologized to Dumervil after the game, while Dumervil disputed that claim, in college, he was known for the strip-sack maneuver where he would sometimes strip the ball from ball carriers or quarterbacks. The product of Miami Jackson High finished his career with 151 career tackles,42.5 tackles for loss and 32 sacks. He ranks third all-time in tackles for loss and second in sacks and this may have been due to being consistently double-teamed, but it was perceived by some as a sign of fatigue. Several teams considered moving him to linebacker or only using him in pass rushing situations, Dumervil was drafted in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. Broncos coach Mike Shanahan stated that he planned to keep Dumervil at defensive end, early in his rookie season, Dumervil saw little playing time
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Dumervil with the Broncos in 2011
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Dumervil in 2014.
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Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, after changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Their fourth album, which features the track Stairway to Heaven, is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, Page wrote most of Led Zeppelins music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. Jones keyboard-based compositions later became central to the catalogue, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess, in the decades that followed, the surviving members sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off Led Zeppelin reunions. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history. They are one of the music artists in the history of audio recording. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the band in the US. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and they achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums. Rolling Stone magazine described them as the heaviest band of all time, the biggest band of the Seventies, and unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, in 1966, London-based session guitarist Jimmy Page joined the blues-influenced rock band the Yardbirds to replace bassist Paul Samwell-Smith. Page soon switched from bass to guitar, creating a dual lead guitar line-up with Jeff Beck. Following Becks departure in October 1966, the Yardbirds, tired from constant touring and recording, Page wanted to form a supergroup with him and Beck on guitars, and the Whos Keith Moon and John Entwistle on drums and bass, respectively. Vocalists Steve Winwood and Steve Marriott were also considered for the project, the group never formed, although Page, Beck, and Moon did record a song together in 1966, Becks Bolero, in a session that also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones. The Yardbirds played their final gig in July 1968 at Luton College of Technology in Bedfordshire, Page and Dreja began putting a new line-up together. Pages first choice for the singer was Terry Reid, but Reid declined the offer and suggested Robert Plant. Plant eventually accepted the position, recommending former Band of Joy drummer John Bonham, Jones inquired about the vacant position at the suggestion of his wife after Dreja dropped out of the project to become a photographer. Page had known Jones since they were both musicians and agreed to let him join as the final member
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Clockwise, from top left: Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones
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A 1937 photograph of the burning LZ 129 Hindenburg, similar to that used on the cover of the band's debut album and extensively on later merchandise
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Bron-Yr-Aur, the Welsh cottage to which Page and Plant retired in 1970 to write many of the tracks that appeared on the band's third and fourth albums
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Plant and Page perform acoustically in Hamburg in March 1973, just before the release of the band's fifth album, Houses of the Holy
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Reggae
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Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A1968 single by Toots and the Maytals Do the Reggay was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre, Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political comment. Reggae spread into a commercialized jazz field, being known first as ‘Rudie Blues’, then ‘Ska’, later ‘Blue Beat’ and it is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat, and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rock steady, from the latter, stylistically, reggae incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, mento, calypso, African music, as well as other genres. One of the most easily recognizable elements is offbeat rhythms, staccato chords played by a guitar or piano on the offbeats of the measure, the tempo of reggae is usually slower than ska but faster than rocksteady. The concept of call and response can be found throughout reggae music, the genre of reggae music is led by the drum and bass. The bass guitar often plays the dominant role in reggae, the bass sound in reggae is thick and heavy, and equalized so the upper frequencies are removed and the lower frequencies emphasized. The guitar in reggae usually plays on the off beat of the rhythm and it is common for reggae to be sung in Jamaican Patois, Jamaican English, and Iyaric dialects. Reggae is noted for its tradition of criticism and religion in its lyrics, although many reggae songs discuss lighter, more personal subjects, such as love. Reggae has spread to countries across the world, often incorporating local instruments. Reggae en Español spread from the mainland South America countries of Venezuela, Caribbean music in the United Kingdom, including reggae, has been popular since the late 1960s, and has evolved into several subgenres and fusions. Many reggae artists began their careers in the UK, and there have been a number of European artists and bands drawing their inspiration directly from Jamaica, Reggae in Africa was boosted by the visit of Bob Marley to Zimbabwe in 1980. In Jamaica, authentic reggae is one of the biggest sources of income, the 1967 edition of the Dictionary of Jamaican English lists reggae as a recently estab. Sp. for rege, as in rege-rege, a word that can mean either rags, ragged clothing or a quarrel, a row. Reggae as a term first appeared in print with the 1968 rocksteady hit Do the Reggay by The Maytals which named the genre of Reggae for the world. Reggae historian Steve Barrow credits Clancy Eccles with altering the Jamaican patois word streggae into reggae, however, Toots Hibbert said, Theres a word we used to use in Jamaica called streggae. If a girl is walking and the look at her and say Man, shes streggae it means she dont dress well
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Bob Marley in 1980.
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Aston Barret
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UB40 's former frontman Ali Campbell performing in 2009.
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UB40 perform in Birmingham, 2010
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Richie Rich (comics)
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Richard Richie $ Rich, Jr. is a fictional character in the Harvey Comics universe. He debuted in Little Dot #1, cover-dated September 1953, and was created by Alfred Harvey, dubbed the poor little rich boy, Richie is the only child of fantastically wealthy parents and is the worlds richest kid. So rich, his name is a dollar sign, $. In 2011 Ape Entertainment began publishing a new licensed Richie Rich comic book series, taking the character in a different, action-oriented. Although created in 1953, Richie didnt have his own title until 1960, once he did, however, he quickly became Harveys most popular character, eventually starring in over fifty separate titles. The flagship, Richie Rich, ran 254 issues from 1960 to 1991, other long-running titles were Richie Rich Millions, Richie Rich Dollars and Cents, and Richie Rich Success Stories. Richie have been published only sporadically since 1994, writers for the Richie Rich comic books and syndicated comic strip included Sid Jacobson, Lennie Herman, Stan Kay, and Ralph Newman. Richie Richs most famous illustrator is Warren Kremer, other illustrators included Ernie Colón, Sid Couchey, Dom Sileo, Ben Brown, Steve Muffatti, and Joe Dennett. Despite any negative stereotypes associated with his wealth, Richie Rich is portrayed as kind. He lives in a mansion and owns at least two of everything money can buy. Richie appears to be seven to ten years old and wears a waistcoat, a white shirt with an Eton collar. He occasionally attends school in his hometown of Richville, other times hes classmates with Little Dot and Little Lotta in Bonnie Dell. The new Richie was joined by updated versions of his robot maid Irona, while few of Richies aunts and uncles are clarified to be paternal or maternal, Aunt Noovo is known to be his paternal aunt, Mr. Richs sister. Some in the family have nicknamed him tightwad Tite-wad, a name he accepts with good humor, uncle Worry – Richies uncle, former coach of a professional football team known for its long losing streak. Uncle Stormy – Another of Richies uncles, whom Richie initially mistakes for an impostor named Blackie Bludsoe in one issue, Dollar – Rich family dog, a Dollarmatian. Reginald Reggie Van Dough Jr. – Richies mean cousin, known for playing constant pranks on everyone, most notably Richie and his family, – Mrs. Richs brother and Reggies father, often angered with Reggies non-stop pranks, and often punishes him for them. Vanessa Van Dough – Reggies mother, not as quick to punish Reggie for his pranks, penny Van Dough – Reggies baby sister, she talks only in baby talk. The curl on her head is shaped like a dollar sign, regardless, she always wins his attentions in comparison to Mayda Munny
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The cover of Richie Rich No. 1 (Nov. 1960).
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Jackie Jokers
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Jackie Jokers is a supporting character of the Richie Rich comic book franchise from Harvey Comics. He is marked by a bowl haircut. He debuted in 1973 in his own title, before being canceled and replaced by the title Richie Rich. He and his father, Jerry Jokers, are both stand-up comedians. Also featured is Ben Booker, Jackies talent agent, in every issue of Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers, a featured story would always show Jackie doing a parody of current movies, TV shows, or commercials. Jackie Jokers -4 issues,1973 Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers --48 issues, archive from the original on July 12,2015 Minuk, Shaindle, Merrill, David R. What the Fuck Is the Deal with Jackie Jokers, archived from the original on March 29,2015
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Cover of Jackie Jokers issue #1
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Are You Lonesome Tonight? (song)
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Are You Lonesome Tonight. is a song which was written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926. It was recorded several times in 1927—first by Charles Hart, with versions by Vaughn De Leath, Henry Burr. In 1950 the Blue Barron Orchestra version reached the top twenty on the Billboards Pop Singles chart, in April 1960, after Elvis Presleys two-year service in the United States Army, he recorded the song at the suggestion of manager Colonel Tom Parker, Are You Lonesome Tonight. Was Parkers wife, Marie Motts, favorite song and its release was delayed by RCA Victor executives, who thought the song did not fit Presleys new style. Was released in November 1960 it was a success in the U. S. topping Billboards Pop Singles chart. A month after the release, it topped the UK Singles Chart. Presleys version was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1961, was later recorded by several other artists, with versions by Donny Osmond and Merle Haggard becoming top-twenty hits on the pop and country charts respectively. Billboard ranked Are You Lonesome Tonight, number 81 on its Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs list in 2008. The song was written in 1926 by vaudevillians Lou Handman and Roy Turk with three verses, followed by a spoken bridge and they based the bridge on a line in Ruggero Leoncavallos Pagliacci, and You know someone said that the worlds a stage. And each must play a part refers to All the worlds a stage from William Shakespeares As You Like It. This recitation is printed on the back cover of the original 1927 sheet music. Billboard reported in 1960 its discovery that it was written by songwriter, several versions of Are You Lonesome Tonight. The first, by Charles Hart, was recorded on May 9, on June 13, Vaughn De Leath recorded the song as the B-side of Its a Million to One Youre in Love for Edison Records. De Leath had the first hit version of the song, which peaked at four in November. On July 10,1927, the Newport Society Orchestra recorded the song with Irving Kaufman the vocalist, a version by the duet of Jerry Macy and John Ryan was released on Okeh Records as the B-side of Carolina Mine. Henry Burrs version peaked at ten, and Little Jack Little had a hit with the song for Columbia Records. The Carter Family recorded it in 1936, changing several elements of the original version, although Gene Austin included the song in his shows during the 1930s, he never recorded it. In March 1950, the Blue Barron Orchestra released Are You Lonesome Tonight, with Penny Wise and Love Foolish on the B-side, and it peaked at number nineteen on Billboards Top Pop Singles chart
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"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
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Elmo in Grouchland
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland is a 1999 American-German musical fantasy-comedy film directed by Gary Halvorson. It is the second theatrical film based on the popular U. S. childrens series Sesame Street. Produced by Jim Henson Pictures in association with the Childrens Television Workshop and released by Columbia Pictures on October 1,1999, the film was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems in 1998. Elmo is playing with his blanket in his house, after he bumps his blanket on a juice cup, he dries off his blanket at the laundromat. On the way home, Elmo sees Zoe feeling depressed because her father take her to the zoo. When Zoe sees his blanket, Elmo refuses to share, resulting in a tug of war that rips Elmos blanket, Elmo is upset and declares that Zoe is no longer his friend. Suddenly, Telly Monster inadvertently takes away the blanket while rollerskating out of control and they go around Finders Keepers and knock over a tray glasses Ruthie is carrying. Telly hits Cookie Monster at the door of Furry Arms hotel. The blanket accidentally lands in the hands of Oscar the Grouch, Elmo drops into the bottom of Oscars trash can, where he finds the blanket snagged on a door. Elmo is determined to find his blanket and begins a journey through Grouchland, a kind grouch girl named Grizzy tells Elmo that his blanket is in Huxleys castle at the top of the faraway Mount Pickanose, and Elmo begins a journey to get his blanket back. Meanwhile, the Sesame Street residents are informed of Elmos absence and go to Grouchland to find him, meanwhile, Huxleys sidekick Bug and the Pesties trap Elmo in a tunnel using a trap door. However, he gets out with the help of fireflies, then, he meets the Queen of Trash in a garbage dump. At first she thinks that Elmo might be in league with Huxley, Elmo says he is not, but then realizes that he refused to share his blanket with Zoe and feels ashamed. The Queen gives him a test by asking him to blow 100 raspberries in 30 seconds, Elmo succeeds and continues his journey to Huxleys castle. Elmo is later confronted by Huxleys humongous chicken and gets tossed far away, resting on a rock, he realizes that night has come, and becomes discouraged. Grizzy visits the jail and tells Elmos friends that he went to Huxleys castle, Oscar is convinced to help set things right as well as admitting that Elmo is his friend. The Grouch Police Officer releases the Sesame Street residents and the Grouches aid them to go to Huxleys castle to fight for their trash, a caterpillar wakes up Elmo the next morning on the rock. He gives Elmo advice to look himself and hell see that he has what it takes be brave
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Elvis Meets Nixon
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Elvis Meets Nixon is 1997 film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Rick Peters, Bob Gunton, and Alyson Court. It is an account of the true story of American singer Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon on December 21,1970. The film had a VHS release, but has not yet released on DVD or Bluray. Elvis Presley, bored with his existence in Graceland, leaves his home on his own for the first time since he was 21. He winds up in California and is convinced by an Anti-war activist that he is responsible for the counterculture through his influence on The Beatles. This prompts Elvis to write a letter to President Nixon asking to be made a Federal Agent at Large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Rick Peters as Elvis Presley Bob Gunton as Richard M. Angered by their confrontation, Presley left Graceland and made his way to the airport, after checking in at the Hotel Washington, Presley flew to Los Angeles to meet his friend, Jerry Schilling. Due to an allergic reaction Presley experienced from a medication for an eye infection, aggravated by chocolate that he ate on the plane, a rash had developed on his face and neck. After seeing a doctor and getting some sleep, Presley informed Schilling that he wanted to return to Washington D. C. and arranged for another friend, Sonny West, on the flight Presley met California senator George Murphy. Presley wrote a letter on the plane and hand delivered it to the White House at 6. 30am on December 21, a few hours later Presley visited the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs headquarters in Washington D. C. meeting with Deputy Director John Finlator. He was unsuccessful in persuading Finlator to give him a BNDD badge, Schilling received a call at the hotel from Egil Krogh, President Nixons deputy counsel, to arrange a meeting between Presley and Nixon. After picking up Schilling and West from the hotel, Presley made his way to the White House, all three met with Nixon and received gifts. Presley persuaded Nixon to give him a BNDD badge, and after a photograph was taken. On December 30, Presley returned to Washington D. C. with a few friends to visit the National Sheriffs Association head office, the next day they were given a tour of FBI headquarters, where Presley offered his services as an undercover agent. Despite never getting to meet FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Presley did receive a letter from him on January 4,1971, Elvis & Nixon Elvis Meets Nixon at the Internet Movie Database When Nixon Met Elvis
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Nixon and Presley actually meet on December 21, 1970 as shown by these photos. However the meeting was kept secret until Jan. 27, 1972, when the Washington Post broke the story. Copies of this photo are requested from the National Archives more than any other image.
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Page one of Elvis Presley's letter to President Nixon
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Elvis Has Left the Building
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John Corbett plays an advertising executive and her love interest. Tom Hanks has an appearance as one of the dead Elvis impersonators. Angie Dickinson plays Basingers mother, a mechanic for the real Elvis. The film opens with Harmony driving down a long, winding road and she feels that her life is empty and artificial. She is a cosmetic saleswoman, setting up Pink Lady training seminars in the western portion of the United States. When she is asked if one of those Mary Kaye ladies, she replies, No, were pink. While she is popular and successful selling Pink Lady, there is nothing real or honest in her life, as Harmony travels around the country, trying to figure out what is missing from her life, Elvis impersonators keep dying in her wake. She is romantically pursued by Miles and these songs appear in the film, listed alphabetically
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Happy Feet
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Happy Feet is a 2006 Australian-American computer-animated musical comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by George Miller. It stars Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving and it was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros. Village Roadshow Pictures, and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released in North American theaters on November 17,2006 and it is the first animated film produced by Kennedy Miller in association with Animal Logic. Though primarily a film, the film does incorporate motion capture of live action humans in certain scenes. The film was released in both conventional theatres and in IMAX 2D format. The studio had hinted that a future IMAX 3D release was a possibility, however, Warner Bros. the film’s production company, was on too tight a budget to release Happy Feet in IMAX digital 3D. Happy Feet received generally positive reviews critics, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, a sequel, Happy Feet Two, was released into theaters November 18,2011 to mixed reviews. Every emperor penguin sings a song called a heartsong to attract a mate. If the male penguins heartsong matches the song, the two penguins mate. Norma Jean, a penguin, falls for Memphis, a male penguin. They lay an egg, which is left in Memphis care, while the males struggle through the harsh winter, Memphis briefly drops the egg. As a result, Mumble is unable to sing, but he can tap dance instead, nevertheless, he is enamored with Gloria, a female penguin who is regarded as the most talented of her age. One day, Mumble encounters a group of hostile skua, with a leader who is tagged with a yellow band, Mumble narrowly escapes the hungry birds by falling into a crevice. Now a young adult, Mumble is frequently ridiculed by the elders, after escaping from a leopard seal attack, Mumble befriends a group of Adelie penguins called the Amigos, who embrace Mumbles dance moves and assimilate him into their group. After seeing a hidden human excavator in an avalanche, they opt to ask Lovelace, Lovelace has the plastic rings of a six pack entangled around his neck, which he claims to have been bestowed upon him by mystic beings. For the emperor penguins, it is mating season and Gloria is the center of attention, ramón, one of the Amigos, attempts to help Mumble win her affection by singing a Spanish version of My Way, with Mumble lip syncing, but the plan fails. In desperation, Mumble begins tap dancing in synch with her song and she falls for him and the youthful penguins join in for singing and dancing to Boogie Wonderland
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Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy and Nicole Kidman at the film's European premiere in London, UK.
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Memphis, Tennessee
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Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf, Memphis had a population of 653,450 in 2013, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee. It is the largest city on the Mississippi River, the third largest in the greater Southeastern United States, the greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, had a 2014 population of 1,317,314. This makes Memphis the second-largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by metropolitan Nashville, Memphis is the youngest of Tennessees major cities, founded in 1819 as a planned city by a group of wealthy Americans including judge John Overton and future president Andrew Jackson. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as Memphis and the Mid-South. Occupying a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi River, the site of Memphis has been a location for human settlement by varying cultures over thousands of years. The historic Chickasaw Indian tribe, believed to be their descendants, French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto would encounter the Chickasaw in that area, in the 16th century. J. D. L. Chickasaw Bluffs, located on the Mississippi River at the present day location of Memphis, spain and the United States vied for control of this site, which was a favorite of the Chickasaws. The United States gained the right to navigate the Mississippi River, the Spanish dismantled the fort, shipping its lumber and iron to their locations in Arkansas. Captain Isaac Guion led an American force down the Ohio River to claim the land, by this time, the Spanish had departed. The forts ruins went unnoticed twenty years later when Memphis was laid out as a city, the city of Memphis was founded on May 22,1819 by John Overton, James Winchester and Andrew Jackson. They named it after the ancient capital of Egypt on the Nile River, Memphis developed as a trade and transportation center in the 19th century because of its flood-free location high above the Mississippi River. Located in the delta region along the river, its outlying areas were developed as cotton plantations. The cotton economy of the antebellum South depended on the labor of large numbers of African-American slaves. Through the early 19th century, one million slaves were transported from the Upper South, Many were transported by steamboats along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. This gave planters and cotton brokers access to the Atlantic Coast for shipping cotton to England, the citys demographics changed dramatically in the 1850s and 1860s under waves of immigration and domestic migration. Due to increased immigration since the 1840s and the Great Famine, ethnic Irish made up 9.9 percent of the population in 1850, but 23.2 percent in 1860, when the total population was 22,623. They had encountered considerable discrimination in the city but by 1860 and they also gained many elected and patronage positions in the Democratic Party city government, and an Irish man was elected as mayor before the Civil War
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From top to bottom and left to right: Downtown Memphis skyline, Beale Street, Graceland, Orpheum Theatre, Beale Street Landing, and the Hernando de Soto Bridge
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A Mississippian era priest (Digital illustration, 2004)
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Memphis in the mid-1850s
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Cotton merchants on Union Avenue (1937)
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Elvis impersonator
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An Elvis impersonator is someone who impersonates or copies the look and sound of musician Elvis Presley. There are even a number of stations that exclusively feature Elvis impersonator material. While some of the impersonators perform a range of Presley music, the raw 1950s Elvis. Contrary to popular belief, Elvis impersonators have existed since the mid-1950s, Nelson even performed alongside Presley when they first met, also in 1954. The friendship between Nelson and Presley is documented in the book Elvis in Texas, the second known impersonator was a 16-year-old boy named Jim Smith. In 1956, shortly after Elvis began to rise in popularity, Smith began jumping on stage, dave Ehlert from Waukegan, IL began performing as Elvis in 1967 a full 10 years before Elvis died. Some of his contemporaries included Rick Saucedo of Chicago and Johnny Hara, Ehlert performed throughout the Chicago Metro Area until Elvis died, then traveled the country with his act. He was on hand for the 1 year anniversary of Elvis death at the Prince William County Fair in Manassas, VA on August 16,1978. He has continuously performed his Elvis Tribute for almost 50 years including performances in Las Vegas and headlining an Elvis Tribute Show in Branson, only after Elvis untimely death on August 16,1977 that impersonating Elvis started to become popular in the mainstream. The large growth in Elvis impersonators seems tightly linked with his iconic status. American protest singer Phil Ochs appeared in concert in March 1970 at Carnegie Hall wearing a 1950s Elvis-style gold lamé suit and his performance may be considered the first significant Elvis impersonation. Jeremy Spencer of British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac became known for his high-energy Elvis tribute performances during his tenure with the band. Spencer would perform as Elvis as the part of a mini-set in which he also did other impersonations of figures such as Buddy Holly. In the mid-1970s, Andy Kaufman made an Elvis impersonation part of his act and he is considered to be one of the first notable Elvis impersonators and Elvis himself said that Kaufman was his favorite impersonator. In his act, Kaufman would precede with several failed impersonations before unexpectedly launching into a skilled impersonation of Elvis Presley, as Kaufman gained fame, the impersonation was used less and less. According to a joke, Elvis himself entered an Elvis lookalike contest at a local restaurant shortly before his death. There are many different types of Elvis impersonator, most fall under the following categories, Look-alikes who concentrate more on visual elements of Elvis fashion and style using accessories such as wigs, costumes and jewelry. Sound-alikes who concentrate on changing their voice to sing or talk like Elvis, notable examples of this type include country artist Ronnie McDowell and rock n roll artist Ral Donner
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Example of the "fun/comedy"-level Elvis impersonator, seen here "walking in Memphis."
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Honeymoon in Vegas
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Honeymoon in Vegas is a 1992 comedy film directed by Andrew Bergman and starring Nicolas Cage, James Caan and Sarah Jessica Parker. Jack Singer has sworn to his mother while she was on her deathbed that he would never get married, years later, he goes back on his promise and proposes to his girlfriend, Betsy, and quickly arranges a Las Vegas marriage. They check into the Ballys Hotel, before the wedding, however, a wealthy professional gambler, Tommy Korman, sees Betsy and notices a striking resemblance to his beloved late wife. After getting Korman to agree to no sex, the couple agrees. Jack tries desperately to get Betsy back and discovers that Tommy has taken her to Hawaii, the gambler also has a taxi driver friend, Mahi Mahi, and asks him to keep Jack as far as possible from him and Betsy. Jack discovers this, steals the taxi, and sees Betsy outside the Kauai Club, after Dr. Molar bails Jack out of jail, Mahi Mahi meets him outside and admits that Korman left for Vegas with Betsy and has convinced her to marry him. Mahi races Jack to the airport, Betsy decides she cannot go through with the wedding and escapes from Tommy. Meanwhile, after changing many planes and finding himself stuck in San Jose, Jack tries frantically to find a flight to Vegas. Finally, he finds a group about to depart for Vegas, Jack now realizes that he will have to skydive from 3,000 feet in order to get to Betsy. Jack eventually is able to overcome his fear and lands and spots Betsy, also included are the ramblings of Chief Orman when Mahi Mahi takes Jack to his Chiefs shack instead of Kormans beach side mansion. The score is by David Newman, viva Las Vegas - Bruce Springsteen Hound Dog - - Jeff Beck and Jed Leiber Are You Lonesome Tonight. A musical stage version of the movie was written by Jason Robert Brown, a Broadway-bound production was expected to debut in Toronto in November 2012, starring Tony Danza as Tommy Korman. However, the Toronto premiere was canceled, and production was transferred to the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey instead with Danza remaining, the Paper Mill production opened on September 26,2013 and ran through October 27. The musical began previews on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on November 18,2014, direction is by Gary Griffin with choreography by Denis Jones. The cast features Tony Danza, Rob McClure and Brynn OMalley, Honeymoon in Vegas at the Internet Movie Database Honeymoon in Vegas at Box Office Mojo Honeymoon in Vegas at Rotten Tomatoes The Flying Elvi
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action
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Looney Tunes, Back in Action is a 2003 American live-action/animated fantasy spy action comedy film directed by Joe Dante. It is the third feature-length live-action animation hybrid film to feature Looney Tunes characters, after Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the plot revolves around Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny helping aspiring daredevil Damian D. J. The film was released on November 14,2003 with mixed-to-positive critical reception. However, the film was a box office bomb, grossing $68.5 million worldwide against an $80 million budget and this was the final film to be scored by composer Jerry Goldsmith, who died less than a year after the films release. Tired of playing second banana to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck demands his own cartoon from Warner Bros. but is promptly fired, aspiring stuntman DJ Drake is asked to escort Daffy off the studio lot, but the ensuing chase leads to the Batmobile demolishing the studio water tower. DJ is also fired in the process, and returns home with Daffy hitching a ride, discovering his father, action film star, DJ and Daffy head for Vegas. Meanwhile, Bugs routines fall apart without Daffy, so Vice-President of Comedy, Bugs informs Kate of the situation, so they steal Damians spy car, and pursue DJ and Daffy. In Las Vegas, DJ and Daffy meet Dusty in a owned by Acme operative Yosemite Sam. Dusty gives them a strange playing card, but when Sam attempts to kill them, they flee in the spy car with Bugs, the spy car, which can also fly, crashes in the Nevada desert. Marvin the Martian, imprisoned in the facility, escapes and leads a group of fellow inmates to obtain the playing card. Seeing that the card has Mona Lisas face on it, the group conclude they must view the painting in the Louvre, located in Paris. At the Louvre, they discover that the contains a viewing window, and looking through it. Elmer is disintegrated by Bugs after jumping out of a pointillism artwork, Bugs and Daffy reunite with DJ and Kate, and they leave Paris. DJ, Kate, Bugs, and Daffy travel to Africa, meeting Granny, Sylvester, and Tweety, Granny and company reveal themselves to be Mr. Chairman, Smith, and the Tasmanian Devil in disguise. Mr. Chairman uses a gun to transport himself and the heroes to the Acme headquarters where he forces DJ to give him the diamond. Marvin is sent to place the blue monkey on an Acme satellite which will emit a beam around the world to turn everyone, except Mr. Chairman. DJ and Kate rescue Damian from a trap, whilst Bugs. Bugs is incapacitated, prompting Daffy to become Duck Dodgers, in order to destroy the blue monkey, the transforming energy beam only strikes Mr. Chairman, turning him into a monkey
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Heartbreak Hotel (film)
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Heartbreak Hotel is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by Chris Columbus, and stars David Keith and Tuesday Weld. Set in 1972, the deals with one of the many legends involving Elvis Presley about his fictional kidnapping. The film was shot on location in Austin, Texas at Green Pastures the former residence of John Henry Faulk, the film opens with a single mother and her two children, and a teenage son and nine-year-old daughter, running a boarding house. Elvis awakens, after being drugged by the boy, in the boarding house and he and the boy do not get along at first. The boy disrespects for the 70s Elvis saying that he out to Vegas. However, the boy and Elvis get to each other. Elvis even plays Heartbreak Hotel with the band at a talent show. David Keith as Elvis Presley Tuesday Weld as Marie Wolfe Charlie Schlatter as Johnny Wolfe Angela Goethals as Pam Wolfe The film received mixed reviews and it currently holds a 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 reviews. The film was a box office failure, Heartbreak Hotel at the Internet Movie Database
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Let's Make Love
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Lets Make Love is a 1960 musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and it starred Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, and Tony Randall. It would be Monroes last musical film performance, the plot revolves around billionaire Jean-Marc Clement who learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue. After going to the theatre, he sees Amanda Dell rehearsing the Cole Porter song My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Clement takes the part in order to see more of Amanda and plays along with the mistaken identity, going by the name Alexander Dumas. Tony Randall in a supporting role portrays Clements conflicted public relations employee, by 1959, she had completed only one, Bus Stop, which had been released in 1956. While Monroe shot Some Like it Hot in 1958 her husband, Arthur Miller, completed the screenplay for The Misfits, Some Like It Hot was released in March 1959 and became an enormous success. Critics praised the film and Marilyns performance, hoping to capitalize on this, 20th Century Fox required Marilyn to fulfill her contract. The Misfits was put on hold and instead Marilyn signed on to star in what was then titled The Billionaire, the original script was written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Norman Krasna. He was inspired to write the script after seeing Burt Lancaster do a dance at a Writers Guild Award ceremony and receive loud applause. Krasna felt that only three actors were suitable – Gary Cooper, James Stewart and Gregory Peck – because all were so obviously not musical performers, making it funny if they sang and danced. Peck agreed to play the lead, and then Monroe was signed opposite him, with Monroe attached to the picture, she and Miller wanted the part of Amanda expanded. Miller worked on the script to expand the role, Peck bowed out after the emphasis shifted to the female lead. Various sources state that the role was offered to Rock Hudson, Cary Grant. It was eventually offered to Yves Montand, who had appeared in a French film version of Millers The Crucible and had received praise for his recent one-man musical show in New York, Monroe and Miller both gave their approval for Montand in the role. The title was changed to Lets Make Love and production began in January 1960 with George Cukor directing, in March 1960, Monroe was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actress—Musical or Comedy, further cementing the success of Some Like It Hot. Montands wife Simone Signoret, with whom he had starred in the French version of The Crucible, the two couples were soon inseparable, they had adjoining bungalows at the Beverly Hills Hotel. From the beginning issues arose with the film, Monroe, although enthusiastic about Montand, did not want to make the film and the original screenwriter had reservations about the cast. Despite being offered the role and having success with his one-man show
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Original film poster by Tom Chantrell
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Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
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Lilo & Stitch 2, Stitch Has a Glitch is a 2005 direct-to-video animated comedy-drama film produced by DisneyToon Studios. The film takes place between the events of the 2002 Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film Lilo & Stitch and the 2003 direct-to-video film Stitch. This was also the time that Jason Scott Lee voiced David Kawena. Stitch is having a nightmare about turning bad again and causing destruction to Earth, after Stitch wakes up, Lilo comforts him by telling him she knows he would never cause harm to her. Lilo also tests his goodness level by having him do a few good deeds, discovering that they are late for hula class, they use their hovercraft to get there. While at the class, Kumu announces that Lilo and her classmates have to prepare to perform at the local May Day festival. Each student is required to create an original dance, Lilo is inspired when he tells her about her mother being in the festival at her age and winning, giving her a picture of the event. After the hula class ends, Mertle insults Lilo by telling her that she never be like her mother. But after taking pictures of the brawl, Stitch forgets to flush the evidence, Kumu thinks that Lilo is not ready for the competition because of the fight with Mertle, but Lilo says that she is ready and triple promises to be good. While preparing for the competition, Lilo and Stitch have a hard time coming up with ideas, while watching Them. on family fun night, Stitchs past comes back to haunt him and he goes berserk in the house. It seems that after Stitch was created, Jumba did not get a chance to fully charge Stitchs molecules as he was arrested by the police who disrupted the process. At first, this glitch causes Stitch to revert to his old destructive programming, meanwhile, Stitchs uncontrollable destructive behavior drives a wedge between him and Lilo and threatens to ruin her chances for success at the hula competition. Lilo and Stitch try to be inspired for their hula, since Lilo is so concerned about winning the competition, she fails to notice Stitchs glitch and believes his new behavior is deliberate and begins to neglect him. Eventually, the two devise a hula based on the legend of Hiiaka, Lilo gets increasingly mad at Stitch as he ruins their practice sessions. To make matters worse, Jumba is having problems creating the fusion chamber because he doesnt have the alien technology to build one. However, just before the competition, Stitch arrives just before Lilo is to perform, the two make up as Jumba finally completes the fusion chamber. However, Stitch has another abrupt fit, Lilo, confused, tries to come up to him, causing Stitch to accidentally scratch her face. After this, Stitch becomes greatly upset that he hurt her, knowing that Stitch would never want to voluntarily hurt her, Lilo finally realizes that something is wrong with him
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Disney's Lilo & Stitch Island Favorites Featuring Songs from Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
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Leroy & Stitch
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Disneys Leroy & Stitch is an animated family television film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The film debuted on Disney Channel on June 23,2006, with their mission to capture all 624 experiments and repurpose them on Earth completed, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are honored as heroes by the Galactic Alliance. Lilo is made Galactic Federation Ambassador to Earth and sole guardian of Stitchs cousins, before they leave, Lilo gives Jumba her favorite Elvis record, Pleakley a paperweight and Stitch a necklace with a Ku Tiki. In his ship, Gantu has decided that since he failed in capturing all of the experiments and he takes the two-man Space Shuttle, leaving 625 alone and helps Hämsterviel escape from prison. Stitch is then assigned to recapture Hämsterviel, Hämsterviel and Gantu burst into Jumbas lab and force Jumba to create an evil twin of Stitch, Leroy, to defeat the Galactic Alliance. Stitch arrives and after a fight, he is defeated when Pleakley appears at an inopportune moment, Hämsterviel reveals his plans to clone an army of Leroys to take over the Galactic Alliance. Before leaving for Turo, Hämsterviel locks Jumba, Pleakley and Stitch in Pleakleys ship, on Earth, Lilo decides to contact Stitch. Lilo realizes that the only intergalactic videophone on the planet available is in Gantus ship, there, she finds 625 and asks to use the videophone. However,625 says it is broken and he thereafter consents to help Lilo. Once the videophone is fixed, Lilo contacts the BRB-9000, Leroy impersonates Stitch, using shape-shifting to disguise himself, but fails because he does not have Stitchs tiki necklace. Hämsterviel then commands Leroy to go to Earth and capture all of the experiments to destroy them. Lilo, sensing Stitch is in trouble, asks Reuben for help in fixing Gantus ship, as Jumba, Pleakley, and Stitch head towards the black hole, Stitch escapes and frees the others. Pleakley pulls out the rock that Lilo gave him and asks if this will work, after Jumba says it is too heavy, Stitch takes a bite out of it, then crawls out the front of the vehicle and throws it at the black hole. There is a flash and the vehicle is sucked in, on Earth, Leroy obtains Lilos scrapbook of cousins and quickly captures all of them. Lilo and Reuben arrive at Turo, but they are too late, Hämsterviel has taken over, making the Grand Councilwoman his receptionist, Gantu imprisons Lilo and Reuben, but decides to release them after Hämsterviel fires him. After a close call with several Leroy clones, they are trapped, all is lost until the G. A. C. C. Lilo, Reuben and Gantu all climb in and head for Earth, on Earth, the original Leroy has herded all the experiments into a large stadium where Alohapalooza will take place. The BRB-9000 appears and Hämsterviel prepares to obliterate all of the experiments, until an appearance by Lilo, Stitch
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series
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Lilo & Stitch, The Series is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It premiered on September 20,2003 on ABC as part of ABC Kids, the series ended on July 29,2006 after airing 65 episodes in two seasons. A sequel spin-off of the 2002 feature film Lilo & Stitch, the Movie, it was the first of three television series produced in the Lilo & Stitch franchise. It was aired on Disney Channel worldwide, but has only released on DVD in full in Japan. The Movie left off, Lilo and Stitch are given the task of collecting the rest of Jumbas missing experiments, changing them from bad to good, and finding the one place where they truly belong. Meanwhile, the former Captain Gantu and his reluctant partner, Experiment 625, running for two seasons, it had a total of 65 episodes. The storyline of The Series concluded with the Disney Channel broadcast of the television film Leroy & Stitch on June 23,2006, Stitch – One of the two lead characters, also known as Experiment 626. After finding out about his 625 other experiment cousins, he and Lilo set out to them, reform them to good. He also learns more about life on Earth along the way, Lilo Pelekai – The other lead character, she is Stitchs owner and best friend. She assists Stitch in finding his cousins, naming them, Dr. Jumba Jookiba – The creator of the many genetic experiments, which includes Stitch, he lives with the Pelekai ʻohana after being exiled to Earth in the original film alongside Pleakley. He plays the role of Lilo and Nanis uncle in the ʻohana and he frequently assists Lilo and Stitch in capturing the experiments, usually by providing them with various tools he creates. Pleakley – A former agent for the United Galactic Federation, he lives with the Pelekai ʻohana after being exiled to Earth in the film alongside Jumba. He plays the role of Lilo and Nanis aunt in the ʻohana and he also assists Lilo and Stitch in capturing the experiments, but to a lesser extent. He normally helps Nani out in maintaining the household, in the episode Fibber, it was revealed that his first name is Wendy. Nani Pelekai – Lilos older sister and legal guardian, and caretaker of the household that they live in and she is usually busy and stressed out, and frequently has to deal with Lilo and Stitchs antics. He works from his cell which he set up as a laboratory. His name is usually mispronounced much to his chagrin, usually as Hamsterwheel or Hamsterveal, Gantu – A supporting antagonist who was fired from his position as captain of the Galactic Armada at the end of the original film, he serves as Hämsterviels henchman. He fights against Lilo and Stitch in capturing the experiments, but is defeated due to his arrogance, bad luck
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Mystery Train (film)
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Mystery Train is a 1989 independent anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee. The film comprises a triptych of stories involving foreign protagonists unfolding over the course of the same night and they are linked by a run-down flophouse overseen by a night clerk and his disheveled bellboy, a scene featuring Elvis Presleys Blue Moon, and a gunshot. Cinematographer Robby Müller and musician John Lurie were among the contributors who had been involved in earlier Jarmusch projects. Mystery Trains US$2.8 million budget was considerable compared to what the director had enjoyed before, Mystery Train was released theatrically by Orion Classics under a restricted rating in the United States, where it grossed over $1.5 million. The film was shown in the Edinburgh, London, Midnight Sun, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals. The film consists of three stories take place on the same night in downtown Memphis. The three stories are linked together by the Arcade Hotel, a run-down flophouse presided over by the clerk and bellboy. Every room in the hotel is adorned with a portrait of Elvis Presley, the first story, Far From Yokohama, features Mitsuko and Jun, a teenage couple from Yokohama making a pilgrimage to Memphis during a trip across America. Mitsuko is obsessed with Elvis to the point where she believes there is a mystical connection between Elvis, Madonna and the Statue of Liberty. The film follows the couple as they travel from the station, through downtown Memphis. The second story, A Ghost, is about an Italian widow, Luisa, Luisa is kept awake by Dee Dees constant talking, and when the young woman finally does go to sleep, she is visited by an apparition of Memphis most famous icon – Elvis Presley. The final story, Lost in Space, introduces Johnny and they stop at a liquor store, which Johnny robs using the gun and severely wounds the owner in the process. Fearing the consequences of the incident, Johnny, Will and Charlie retire to the hotel to hide out for the night, there, Johnny gets drunker. Charlie realizes that Will shares the name as the character Will Robinson from the television show Lost in Space. Charlie and Will proceed to tell him about the show, and Will comments that that is how he feels then with Charlie and Johnny, the next morning, Charlie discovers that Johnny isnt really his brother-in-law, which angers him because of what theyve been through. Johnny attempts to shoot himself, and while struggling to prevent him, leaving the hotel, the three rush to escape a police car that isnt even looking for them. The closing credits show the train, the airport and the views of the characters from the first two stories. Jarmusch wrote the script for the film under the working title One Night in Memphis, the idea for Far From Yokohama, the first segment, he took from a one-act play he had been writing before filming Down by Law
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French theatrical poster for Mystery Train
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Jarmusch chose a cool palette for the film, accentuated with an occasional jolt of red as shown here by the suit of the Night Clerk (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) contrasted with the muted background of the hotel lobby.
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Oblivion (2013 film)
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Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinskis unpublished Radical Publishing graphic novel of the same name. The film was co-written, produced and directed by Kosinski and it stars Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, and Olga Kurylenko. The film was released in the U. S. on April 19,2013, according to Kosinski, Oblivion pays homage to science fiction films of the 1970s. The acting, especially Cruises performance, the originality, the style and effects were praised. Reviewers criticized the films incorporation of elements from other sci-fi films, however, it was a commercial success, grossing more than $286 million worldwide against a $120 million budget. In 2077, following a war with extraterrestrials that devastated Earth, gigantic offshore fusion energy generators drain Earths oceans to power the colonies on Titan. Although his memory has been wiped, he has had recurring dreams and he also collects the occasional artifact he finds from humanitys past. Vika is concerned about Jacks curiosity, questioning whether they are still “an effective team, ”, after scavs destroy a generator, Jack discovers the scavs have been using the Empire State Buildings antenna to transmit coordinates to outer space. While taking a break at his lake house retreat, he spots a crash-landing module of a pre-war spacecraft called the Odyssey. Thinking the ship contains aliens, he investigates, only to humans in stasis chambers. One of the humans is the woman from his dreams, Jack protects her chamber from a drone that destroys the others, and later revives the woman, Julia Rusakova, who makes Vika instinctively jealous. Jack and Julia return to recover her flight recorder but are captured by the scavs, although Jack refuses, Beech releases them to seek the truth beyond the boundaries of the forbidden radiation zone. When they reach the Empire State Building, Julia reveals that she is his wife, Jack then remembers that he proposed to her there. Julia recalls she was on a mission to Titan when they were diverted to investigate an alien presence, when the two return to Jacks tower, Vika refuses them entry and reports her findings to Sally, saying they are no longer an effective team. Sally acknowledges this, but activates a drone that kills Vika before Julia shoots it down, Jack and Julia escape in his ship, but are shot down by other pursuing drones. The two eject into the zone, which turns out to not be radioactive. Jack discovers another ship with a technician trying to fix a downed drone, the clone also is shocked to see Julia. Jack fights and incapacitates his clone, but Julia is accidentally shot, after flying to Tech-52s tower, and discovering an inquisitive Vika clone, he returns to treat Julia at the lake house
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The Bubble Ship seen in the film (above) was inspired by the Bell 47 helicopter (below).
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Pulp Fiction
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Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American black comedy neo-noir crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, from a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Directed in a stylized manner, Pulp Fiction connects the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals. The films title refers to the magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence. The screenplay of Pulp Fiction was written in 1992 and 1993 and its plot, as in many of Tarantinos other works, is presented out of chronological order. The film is also self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a card that gives two dictionary definitions of pulp. Its script was turned down by Columbia TriStar as too demented. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein was instantly enthralled with it, however, Pulp Fiction won the Palme dOr at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was a major critical and commercial success upon its U. S. release. It revitalized the careers of John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and it was also nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. The nature of its development, marketing, and distribution –, since its release, Pulp Fiction has been widely regarded as Tarantinos masterpiece, with particular praise singled out for its screenwriting. The films self-reflexivity, unconventional structure, and extensive use of homage and it is often considered a cultural watershed, with a strong influence felt not only in later movies that adopted various elements of its style, but in several other media as well. A2008 Entertainment Weekly poll named it the best film since 1983, in 2013, Pulp Fiction was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. The stories intersect in various ways, the film begins with a diner hold-up staged by a couple, then picks up the stories of Vincent, Jules, and Butch. It finally returns to where it began, in the diner, sequences 1 and 7 partially overlap and are presented from different points of view, as do sequences 2 and 6. Other analysts describe the structure as a circular narrative, hitmen Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega arrive at the apartment of Brett to retrieve a briefcase for their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace. After Vincent checks the contents of the briefcase, Jules shoots one of Bretts associates, then declaims a passage from the Bible before he, some time later, champion boxer Butch Coolidge accepts a large sum from Marsellus to take a dive in his upcoming match. Vincent and Jules deliver the briefcase, the next day, Vincent purchases heroin from his drug dealer Lance. He shoots up to pass the day, then drives to meet Marselluss wife Mia and they head to a 1950s-themed restaurant and participate in a twist contest, then return to the Wallace house with the trophy. While Vincent is in the bathroom, Mia finds his heroin, mistakes it for cocaine, snorts it, Vincent rushes her to Lances house, where they revive her with an adrenaline shot to her heart
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The "famous dance scene": Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) do the twist at Jack Rabbit Slim's.
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Willis evoked one 1950s actor in particular for Tarantino: " Aldo Ray in Jacques Tourneur 's Nightfall [1956].... I said let's go for that whole look." His boxing robe, designed by Betsy Heimann, exemplifies Tarantino's notion of costume as symbolic armor.
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John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, for the film's 20th anniversary tribute.
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3000 Miles to Graceland
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3000 Miles to Graceland is a 2001 American action adventure crime film directed, co-produced by Damien Lichtenstein. The script was written by Richard Recco and Damien Lichtenstein and it stars Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner with supporting roles Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Bokeem Woodbine, Christian Slater, and Kevin Pollak. It is a story of theft and betrayal, revolving around a plot to rob the Riviera Casino during a convention of Elvis impersonators, prior to the films opening, Warner Bros. released a series of animated prequels voiced by stars Costner, Slater, Long, and Woodbine. The Road to Graceland prequels marked the first time a films cast members contributed their talents to the creation of original Internet content for a film website. Outside of Las Vegas, Michael Zane, a recent parolee, there, he finds a boy, Jesse Waingrow, stealing the air valve caps off his cars wheels and chases him, meeting his mother, Cybil, whom he later beds. Michael rigs the elevator while the others rob the cages and counting room, back at the motel, the group gets into an argument about who gets Franklins share and Murphy shoots and kills Hanson. Michael hides the money in the space, unaware that Jesse is observing him from the next room. The three thieves drive out to the middle of the desert to bury Hanson, while there, Murphy shoots Gus and Michael as well. It is later revealed that Michael was wearing a bulletproof vest and he starts running back to the motel hoping to get there before Murphy does. Escaping from the scene, Murphy gets knocked unconscious after accidentally running over a coyote, Michael gets back to the motel and, discovering that the money is missing, storms into Cybils place and finds the money. Michael decides to give her $100,000 in exchange for her silence, however Michael is manipulated into taking Cybil, Michael explains to Cybil that the money is marked, but that Murphy has found a money launderer in Idaho to help them. Murphy, who has returned to the motel and discovered that the money is missing, has decided to go to Idaho to wait for them. Cybil sneaks away from Michael and her son at a restaurant, stealing Michaels wallet, Cybil calls the money launderer, using the password that she has extracted from Michaels wallet. Murphy suddenly appears at the money launderer, Peterson, using the same password, Peterson explains that Cybil called first, so they wait for her. Finally, Cybil arrives, and finds only Murphy, whom she assumes is Peterson, soon afterwards, Michael and Jesse, who have been stealing money and cars to survive, arrive and find Peterson and his secretary dead in the bathroom. Realizing that Murphy killed the two and remembering that Murphy is driving Michaels car, Michael reports his car stolen, however, Michael is arrested as well when police discover that Michael is also driving a stolen car. The men are put in adjoining cells and the two have a confrontation. Michael makes bail, thanks to Jesse, who hired a lawyer, under the agreement that Michael make him his partner, Murphy calls a man named Jack and arranges to get out as well
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3000 Miles to Graceland film poster
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Mary (mother of Jesus)
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Mary, also known by various titles, styles and honorifics, was a 1st-century Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran. The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and the Quran describe Mary as a virgin, the miraculous birth took place when she was already betrothed to Joseph and was awaiting the concluding rite of marriage, the formal home-taking ceremony. She married Joseph and accompanied him to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, the Gospel of Luke begins its account of Marys life with the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel appeared to her and announced her divine selection to be the mother of Jesus. According to canonical gospel accounts, Mary was present at the crucifixion and is depicted as a member of the early Christian community in Jerusalem. According to the Catholic and Orthodox teaching, at the end of her life her body was assumed directly into Heaven. Mary has been venerated since Early Christianity, and is considered by millions to be the most meritorious saint of the religion and she is claimed to have miraculously appeared to believers many times over the centuries. The Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches believe that Mary, there is significant diversity in the Marian beliefs and devotional practices of major Christian traditions. The Roman Catholic Church holds distinctive Marian dogmas, namely her status as the Mother of God, her Immaculate Conception, her perpetual virginity, many Protestants minimize Marys role within Christianity, based on the argued brevity of biblical references. Mary also has a position in Islam, where one of the longer chapters of the Quran is devoted to her. Marys name in the manuscripts of the New Testament was based on her original Aramaic name ܡܪܝܡ. The English name Mary comes from the Greek Μαρία, which is a form of Μαριάμ. Both Μαρία and Μαριάμ appear in the New Testament, in Christianity, Mary is commonly referred to as the Virgin Mary, in accordance with the belief that she conceived Jesus miraculously through the Holy Spirit without her husbands involvement. The three main titles for Mary used by the Orthodox are Theotokos, Aeiparthenos as confirmed in the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, Catholics use a wide variety of titles for Mary, and these titles have in turn given rise to many artistic depictions. For example, the title Our Lady of Sorrows has inspired such masterpieces as Michelangelos Pietà, the title Theotokos was recognized at the Council of Ephesus in 431. However, this phrase in Greek, in the abbreviated form ΜΡ ΘΥ, is an indication commonly attached to her image in Byzantine icons. The Council stated that the Church Fathers did not hesitate to speak of the holy Virgin as the Mother of God, some Marian titles have a direct scriptural basis. For instance, the title Queen Mother has been given to Mary since she was the mother of Jesus, the scriptural basis for the term Queen can be seen in Luke 1,32 and the Isaiah 9,6. Queen Mother can be found in 1 Kings 2, 19-20 and Jeremiah 13, other titles have arisen from reported miracles, special appeals or occasions for calling on Mary
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Our Lady of Vladimir, one of the medieval representations of the Theotokos
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Virgin and Child with angels and Sts. George and Theodore. Icon from around 600, from Saint Catherine's Monastery.
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The Annunciation by Eustache Le Sueur, an example of 17th-century Marian art. The Angel Gabriel announces to Mary her pregnancy with Jesus and offers her White Lilies.
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The Virgin's first seven steps, mosaic from Chora Church, c. 12th century
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Marilyn Monroe
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Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic dumb blonde characters, she one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s. Although she was an actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a popular culture icon. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes, while working in a factory in 1944 as part of the war effort, she was introduced to a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career. The work led to short-lived film contracts with Twentieth Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures, after a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in 1951. Over the next two years, she became an actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business. Monroe faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for photos before becoming a star, but rather than damaging her career. Although she played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, she was disappointed at being typecast and underpaid by the studio. She was briefly suspended in early 1954 for refusing a film project, when the studio was still reluctant to change her contract, Monroe founded a film production company in late 1954, she named it Marilyn Monroe Productions. She dedicated 1955 to building her company and began studying acting at the Actors Studio. In late 1955, Fox awarded her a new contract, which gave her more control and a larger salary. After a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop and acting in the first independent production of MMP, The Prince and her last completed film was the drama The Misfits. Monroes troubled private life received much attention and she struggled with substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. She had two highly publicized marriages, to retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, both of which ended in divorce and she died at the age of 36 on August 5,1962, from an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Los Angeles. Although Monroes death was ruled a suicide, several conspiracy theories have been proposed in the decades following her death. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson at the Los Angeles County Hospital on June 1,1926, Gladys, the daughter of two poor Midwestern migrants to California, was a flapper and worked as a film negative cutter at Consolidated Film Industries. When she was fifteen, Gladys married a man nine years her senior, John Newton Baker and she filed for divorce in 1921, and Baker took the children with him to his native Kentucky
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Studio publicity photograph
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A 1955 copy of Monroe's birth certificate, listing her name as Norma Jeane Mortenson
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Monroe photographed by David Conover while she was still working at the Radioplane factory in late 1944
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Monroe as gangster's moll Angela in John Huston 's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), one of her first performances to be noted by the critics
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True Romance
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True Romance is a 1993 American crime film with elements of black comedy and romance, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette with a supporting cast featuring Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, empire ranked True Romance the 157th greatest film of all time in 2008. At a Detroit theater showing kung fu films, Alabama Whitman strikes up a conversation with Elvis Presley fanatic Clarence Worley and they later have sex at Clarences apartment in downtown Detroit. Alabama tearfully confesses that she is a girl hired by Clarences boss as a birthday present. An apparition of Elvis appears to Clarence and convinces him to kill Alabamas pimp Drexl, Clarence goes to the brothel where Alabama worked, shoots and kills Drexl, and takes a bag he assumes contains Alabamas belongings. Back at the apartment, he and Alabama discover the bag contains an amount of cocaine. The couple visit Clarences estranged father, Clifford, a cop and now a security guard. Clifford tells Clarence that the police assume Drexls murder is a gang killing, after the couple leave for Los Angeles, Clifford is interrogated by Don Vincenzo Coccotti, consigliere to a mobster named Blue Lou Boyle, who wants the drugs. Clifford, realizing he will die anyway, mockingly defies Coccotti, a note on the refrigerator leads the mobsters to Clarences L. A. address. In L. A. Clarence and Alabama meet Clarences friend Dick, Dick introduces Clarence to a friend of his, actor Elliot Blitzer, who reluctantly agrees to broker the sale of the drugs to film producer Lee Donowitz. While Clarence is out buying lunch, Coccottis underboss, Virgil, finds Alabama in her motel room and she fights back and kills him with his shotgun. Elliot is pulled over for speeding and arrested for drug possession, to stay out of jail, he agrees to record the drug deal between Clarence and Donowitz for the police. Coccottis crew learn where the deal take place from Dicks roommate Floyd. Clarence, Alabama, Dick, and Elliot go to Donowitzs suite at the Ambassador Hotel with the drugs, in the elevator, a suspicious Clarence threatens Elliot at gunpoint, but is persuaded by Elliotts pleading. Clarence fabricates a story for Donowitz that the drugs were given to him by a corrupt cop, Clarence excuses himself to the bathroom, where a vision of Elvis reassures him that things are going well. Donowitz and his bodyguards are ambushed by the cops and mobsters, Dick abandons the drugs and flees. Almost everyone is killed in the gun battle, and Clarence is wounded as he exits the bathroom and he and Alabama escape with Donowitzs money as more police arrive. They flee to Mexico where Alabama gives birth to a son, True Romance was a breakthrough for Tarantino
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Wild at Heart (film)
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Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Giffords 1989 novel of the same name. Lynch was originally going to produce but after reading Giffords book decided, to also write and he did not like the ending of the novel and decided to change it in order to fit his vision of the main characters. Wild at Heart is a movie and includes several allusions to The Wizard of Oz as well as Elvis Presley. Early test screenings for the film did not go well, Lynch estimated that 80 people walked out of the first test screening and 100 in the next. At the time of its release, the film received mixed reviews and was a moderate success at the US box office, grossing USD$14 million. The film won the Palme dOr at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, diane Ladd was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes. It has since received some positive re-evaluation from critics, lovers Lula and Sailor are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife, the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lulas mother, Marietta Fortune. Upon Sailors release, Lula picks him up at the prison where she hands him his snakeskin jacket and they go to a hotel where she reserved a room, make love and go to see the speed metal band Powermad. At the club, Sailor gets into a fight with a man who flirts with Lula, later, back in the room, after making love again, Sailor and Lula finally decide to run away to California, breaking Sailors parole. Marietta arranges for private detective Johnnie Farragut – her on-off boyfriend – to find them, unbeknownst to Farragut, however, Marietta also hires gangster Marcello Santos to track them and kill Sailor. Santoss minions capture and kill Farragut, sending Marietta into a guilt-fueled psychosis, while Sailor agrees to join up with gangster Bobby Peru in a feed store robbery, Lula waits for him in the hotel room, trying to conceal that she is pregnant with Sailors child. While Sailor is out Peru enters the room and forces Lula to implore him to love with her. This traumatizes Lula, who had survived a rape as a child, the robbery goes spectacularly wrong when Peru unnecessarily shoots the two clerks. Peru then admits to Sailor hes been hired to kill him, chasing Sailor out of the store, Peru is about to kill him when the sheriffs deputy opens fire on him and Peru accidentally blows his own head off with his own shotgun. Sailor is arrested and sentenced to six years in prison, while Sailor is in jail, Lula has their child. Upon his release Lula decides to reunite with him, rejecting her mothers objections over the phone, she throws water over her mothers photograph and goes to pick up Sailor with their son. When they meet Sailor, he reveals he will be leaving them both, having decided while in prison that he isnt good enough for them, while he is walking a short distance away, Sailor encounters a gang who surround him. He insults them and they knock him out
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David Lynch accepting the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival with Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd, Anthony Quinn, Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe.
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David Lynch at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.
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Wired (film)
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It starred Michael Chiklis in his film debut as Belushi. Wired was both a critical and a commercial failure, the film has never been released on DVD, and the videocassette originally released by International Video Entertainment is out of print. The film was marketed with the tagline For John Belushi, every night was Saturday Night, the films trailer opted for the tagline The laughs and times of John Belushi, paraphrasing the title of Woodwards book. The story follows John Belushi, shortly after his death from an overdose in March 1982. The film alternates between Belushi as a ghost and his journey with Velasquez to flashbacks as his career gains momentum, meanwhile, journalist Bob Woodward is researching Belushis life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor. Woodwards investigation leads him to Cathy Smith, who procured drugs for Belushi, Michael Chiklis as John Belushi Ray Sharkey as Angel Velasquez J. T. C. Quinn as Comedy coach Steve Vinovich as Studio executive Matthew Faison as Dr, although Woodward secured interviews with Belushis family, friends, and associates, he neither requested nor received approval from Judith Belushi before submitting his manuscript for publication. Those close to Belushi claimed that the book was exploitative and not representative of the man they knew, Woodward sought to sell the books film rights as early as 1984 - the year the book was published - but he found little interest in Hollywood for the project. Woodward later claimed, A large portion of Hollywood didnt want this movie made because theres too much truth in it, the rest of the films funding came from the New Zealand conglomerate Lion Nathan. Michael Chiklis claimed that it took the three years to cast the role of John Belushi. Then aged 25, Chiklis heard about auditions for the part when he was away from picking up his theatre arts degree at Boston University. In the first 24 hours, I was called back 57 times to see different people and it was the first movie I ever read for. I was called three times at first, then six to eight months would go by and Id be called again. Id just about given up hope, then Id get another call for more auditions, Chiklis finally won the role of Belushi after being chosen over 200 other actors, and he put on 30 pounds for the part. The blue-eyed actor also wore contact lenses to more closely resemble Belushi. The film adaptation of Wired did little to separate itself from the books dubious reputation, like the book, the film was boycotted by several of Belushis friends and family, including Judith Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and James Belushi. However, in ways, the film version of Wired diverged from its source material. The screenwriters did, however, manage to work allusions and in-jokes to Belushis film and TV routines into scenes, the characters of Wired are a mixture of real-life people and obvious facsimiles
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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. The broad narrative follows the misadventures of the last surviving man, Arthur Dent, certain narrative details were changed between the various adaptations. The various versions follow the basic plot but they are in many places mutually contradictory. The first radio series comes from a proposal called The Ends of the Earth, six self-contained episodes, all ending with Earths being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realized that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to provide context. Adams finally settled on making the alien a roving researcher for a remarkable book named The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. As the first radio episodes writing progressed, the Guide became the centre of his story, however, he later claimed that he had told this story so many times that he had forgotten the incident itself, and only remembered himself telling the story. His friends are quoted as saying that Adams mentioned the idea of hitch-hiking around the galaxy to them while on holiday in Greece in 1973. Adamss fictional Guide is a guidebook to the entire universe, originally published by Megadodo Publications. The narrative of the versions of the story are frequently punctuated with excerpts from the Guide. The voice of the Guide, also provides general narration, the first radio series of six episodes was broadcast in 1978 on BBC Radio 4. Despite a low-key launch of the series, it received good reviews. A one-off episode was broadcast later in the year and this episode was released as part of the second radio series and, later, The Secondary Phase on cassettes and CDs. The Primary and Secondary Phases were aired, in an edited version. The first series was repeated twice in 1978 alone and many times in the next few years. This led to an LP re-recording, produced independently of the BBC for sale, a second radio series, which consisted of a further six episodes, and bringing the total number of episodes to 12, was broadcast in 1980. The radio series greatly benefited from the narration of noted comedy actor Peter Jones as The Book and he was cast after it was decided that a Peter Jonesy sort of voice was required. The series was notable for its use of sound, being the first comedy series to be produced in stereo
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First edition cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)
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The front cover of The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, a collection of the five books in the series written before Adams' death, a leatherbound volume published in the United States by Portland House, a division of Random House, in 1997
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Adam Pope playing Zaphod in an amateur production of HHGTTG by Prudhoe's Really Youthful Theatre Company
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The front cover of the DC Comics adaptation of the first book
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Mostly Harmless
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Mostly Harmless is a 1992 novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. It is described on the cover of the first editions as The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy and it was the last Hitchhikers book written by Adams and his final book released in his lifetime. The title derives from an early in the series, when Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy consists, in its entirety. The revised article, he admits, will simply read Mostly harmless. It later turns out that Ford had written an essay on how to have fun on Earth. Arthur Dent plans to sightsee across the Galaxy with his girlfriend Fenchurch, but she disappears during a hyperspace jump, during one trip, he ends up stranded on the homely planet Lamuella, and decides to stay to become a sandwich maker for the local population. Fearing for his life, he escapes the building, along the way stealing the yet-unpublished and he goes into hiding after sending the Guide to himself, care of Arthur, for safekeeping. On Lamuella, Arthur is surprised by the appearance of Trillian with a teenage daughter, Trillian explains that she wanted a child, and could use the only human DNA she could find, thus claiming that Arthur is Randoms father. She leaves Random with Arthur to allow her to pursue her career as an intergalactic reporter. Random is frustrated with Arthur and life on Lamuella, when Fords package to Arthur arrives, she takes it, the Guide helps her to escape the planet on Fords ship after Ford arrives on the planet looking for Arthur. Discovering Random, the Guide, and Fords ship missing, the two manage to find a way to leave Lamuella and head for Earth, where they suspect Random is also heading to find Trillian, Ford expresses concern on the Guides manipulation of events. Reporter Tricia McMillan is a version of Trillian living on Earth who never took Zaphod Beeblebroxs offer to travel in space. She is approached by a species, the Grebulons, who have created a base of operations on the planet Rupert. They ask Tricias help to adapt astrology charts for Rupert in exchange for allowing her to interview them, Tricia conducts the interview, but the resulting footage looks fake. She is called away from editing the footage to report on a landing in the middle of London. As Tricia arrives, Random is leaving the ship, Random yells at Tricia, believing Tricia to be her mother. Arthur, Ford, and Trillian arrive and help Tricia to calm Random and they remove her from the chaos surrounding the spacecraft and take her to a bar. Trillian tries to warn the group that the Grebulons, having become bored of their mission, are about to destroy the Earth, Random disrupts the discussion by producing a laser gun she took from her ship
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The front cover of the first US hardcover edition of Mostly Harmless.
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by Stephen King published in 1993. King dedicated this collection of stories to Thomas Williams, an instructor who taught for many years at the University of New Hampshire. Since the books publication, King has singled out Williams National Book Award-winning novel The Hair of Harold Roux as a favorite of his, the dedication reads, In memory of THOMAS WILLIAMS, 1926–1990, poet, novelist, and great American storyteller. The Night Flier and Dolans Cadillac were both adapted to films of the respective names. Chattery Teeth was adapted into a segment of the film Quicksilver Highway, sorry, Right Number was telecast as an episode of Tales from the Darkside before it was published in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. The Moving Finger was adapted into an episode of the TV show Monsters, home Delivery and Rainy Season were adapted into short films. During the summer of 2006, TNT produced a miniseries on various short stories by Stephen King. Although one may assume from the title that all of the episodes in the miniseries are from the collection of the same name,1993 in literature Stephen King short fiction bibliography
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First edition cover
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Charlaine Harris
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Charlaine Harris Schulz is an American New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States and she now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children. Though her early work consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis and she began to write books a few years later. Her later books have been in the fantasy genre. She is best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which HBO later adapted for its series entitled True Blood. Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi, after publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris began the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote several books in the series before the mid-1990s when she began branching out into other works and she did not resume the series until 1999, with the exception of one short story in a Murder, She Wrote anthology titled Murder, They Wrote. In 1996, she released the first in the Shakespeare series featuring cleaning lady detective Lily Bard, Harris lives in small-town Arkansas, according to a New York Times interview. The fifth book in the series, Shakespeares Counselor, was printed in fall 2001, Harris has stated on her website that she has finished with the series. After Shakespeare, Harris created The Southern Vampire Mysteries series about a waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a northern Louisiana bar. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001, each book follows Sookie as she tries to solve mysteries involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. Harris wrote thirteen novels in the series, the thirteenth and final novel in the series, Dead Ever After, was published in May 2013, with a supplemental book, After Dead, released in October 2013. Sookie Stackhouse had proven to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO television series Six Feet Under and he wrote and directed the pilot episode for the series, True Blood, which premiered on September 7,2008 on HBO. The television show was a critical and financial success for HBO running 7 seasons through the 2014 year, October 2005 marked the debut of Harriss new series entitled The Harper Connelly Mysteries, with the release of Grave Sight. The series is told by a woman named Harper Connelly. In October 2010, it was announced Harper Connellys series had been optioned for a series named Grave Sight. 2014 marked the debut of the Cemetery Girl series, a novel series co-written with Christopher Golden. Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and she is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance
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Charlaine Harris Schulz
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Bye Bye Birdie (musical)
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Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Originally titled Lets Go Steady, Bye Bye Birdie is set in 1958, the story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957. The rock star characters name, Conrad Birdie, is play on the name of Conway Twitty. Twitty is best remembered today for his career as a country music star. The original 1960–1961 Broadway production was a Tony Award–winning success and it spawned a London production and several major revivals, a sequel, a 1963 film, and a 1995 television production. The show also became a choice for high school and college productions. The producer Edward Padula had the idea for a musical initially titled Lets Go Steady, Padula contracted with two writers, and Charles Strouse and Lee Adams wrote seven songs for their libretto. Padula, Strouse and Adams sought Gower Champion as director/choreographer, who until that time had choreographed only a few musicals, however, Champion did not like the book and the writers were fired, with Michael Stewart then hired. Stewart wrote a version titled Love and Kisses, which focused on a couple thinking of divorce. The something more had been there in the newspaper. After brainstorming, Stewart and Adams came up with the idea of a rock-and-roll singer going off to the army, agent and songwriter Albert Peterson finds himself in trouble when hip-thrusting rock and roll superstar Conrad Birdie is drafted into the Army. Alberts secretary and sweetheart, Rose Rosie Alvarez, comes up with a publicity stunt to have Conrad Birdie record. She makes Albert promise to give up the business and to start teaching English at schools. They plan to have Birdie sing Alberts new song One Last Kiss, the lucky girl chosen randomly from Conrads fan club is fifteen-year-old Kim MacAfee from Sweet Apple, Ohio. All the teenagers in Sweet Apple are catching up on the latest gossip about Kim MacAfee, Kim, excited to have a boyfriend, reflects on how happy she is with her maturity. She quits the Conrad Birdie fan club over the phone because of the new milestone happening in her life, meanwhile, Conrad, Albert, and Rose set off to Sweet Apple to prepare for the event. Albert advises her to be optimistic, soon, reporters arrive with questions for Conrad, but Rosie, Albert, and the girls answer for him, pushing away tabloids. Conrad receives a heros welcome in Sweet Apple, and Hugo worries that Kim likes Conrad more than she likes him, Conrad shocks the towns parents and drives the teenage girls crazy with his performance of Honestly Sincere, which causes all of the girls to faint
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Original Broadway cast album
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Grease (musical)
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Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey with additional songs written by John Farrar. The score attempts to recreate the sounds of rock and roll. In its original production in Chicago, Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, subsequent productions sanitized it and tamed it down. Grease was first performed in 1971 in the original Kingston Mines nightclub in Chicago, from there, it has been successful on both stage and screen, but the content has been diluted and its teenage characters have become less Chicago habitués and more generic. At the time that it closed in 1980, Greases 3, 388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway history and it remains Broadways 15th longest-running show. Aspects of the play would be incorporated into the productions 2016 live TV musical. The script was based on Jim Jacobs experience at William Taft High School, Warren Casey collaborated with Jim and together they wrote the music and lyrics. Producers Ken Waissman and Maxine Fox saw the show and made a deal to produce it Off-Broadway, the team headed to New York City to collaborate on the New York production of Grease. The new production, directed by Tom Moore and choreographed by Patricia Birch, though Grease opened geographically off-Broadway, it did so under first class Broadway contracts. The show was deemed eligible for the 1972 Tony Awards, receiving seven Tony Award nominations. On June 7,1972, the moved to the Broadhurst Theatre in Broadway, and on November 21, it moved to the Royale Theatre there. For the five weeks of the run, the show moved to the larger Majestic Theatre. By the time it closed on April 13,1980, it had run 3,388 performances. Replacements later in the run included Jeff Conaway, Gail Edwards, Marilu Henner, Peter Gallagher, Ilene Graff, Judy Kaye, Patrick Swayze, John Travolta, Jerry Zaks and Treat Williams. Richard Gere was an understudy for many roles in production, including Danny Zuko, Teen Angel. Later Paul Nicholas and Elaine Paige, who had been in the London production of Hair, kim Braden would also play Sandy. It was revived in London at the Astoria in 1979 with Su Pollard, the revival opened at the Dominion Theatre and transferred to the Cambridge Theatre in October 1996, where it ran until September 11,1999. Other performers who played Danny were Shane Richie, Luke Goss, Ian Kelsey, the original score includes four songs written for the film adaptation, Hopelessly Devoted to You, Sandy, Youre the One That I Want, and the title number
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Original Broadway Cast Recording
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Happy Days (musical)
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Happy Days is a musical with a book by Garry Marshall and music and lyrics by Paul Williams, based on the ABC TV series of the same name. The story is set in approximately during Season 4 of the original sitcom, the story concerns the kids plans to save Arnold’s from demolition by hosting a dance contest and wrestling match. It is 1959 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Richie Cunningham is about to graduate high school and his friends and family meet at Arnolds malt shop, and, together, bid the audience welcome. Arnold breaks the bad news that a company has plans to turn his restaurant into a mall. Arthur Fonzerelli vows to save the day, the next morning, Lori Beth tells how all the other girls are getting engaged before going to college, and she wants to know why she is not. This is interrupted when Ralph, Potsie, and Chachi drop by, Chachi then informs everyone that Fonzies former flame, Pinky Tuscadero, is coming to Milwaukee to host the dance contest. After Fonzie leaves, the start their Dial Tones rehearsal. They talk about how much they do not know about girls, across town at the Leopard Lodge meeting, Howard suggests a wrestling match between the tough Malachi brothers, Fonzies nemesis, and Fonzie. The Leopards promise Howard a plaque if he is able to talk Fonzie into the scheme, back at Arnolds, the Dial Tones welcome Pinky Tuscadero and she makes her grand entrance. As Arnold takes Pinky and her Pinkettes into the kitchen to go over their schedule, Arnold closes up before trouble ensues. At this moment, Fonzie and Pinky see each other for the first time in years, rekindling some old feelings. As Chachi and Fonzie talk about girls, we hear about Fonzies and Pinkys history, Fonzie says youve just gotta learn to listen with your heart. At the Cunningham home, Marion, after being rebuffed by Howard and she is joined by Joanie who laments the curse of being a lovelorn 1950s teen, for Joanie is in love with Chachi. Fonzie enters and is greeted by Richie, Richie tries to talk Fonzie out of wrestling at the match due to his bad knee, but Fonzie will have none of it. He reenters Arnolds, where Pinky is giving Joanie boy advice, Pinky then asks Fonzie to slow it down on the jukebox and asks him to compete in the wrestling match. Everyone rejoices when he says yes, after Richie finds out that Fonzie promised Pinky he would wrestle anyway, he promises the Fonz that he will tell everyone about his weakness. Fonzie laments about how he is torn between being embarrassed or risking serious injury, a week later, Fonzie is still missing and everyone realizes how much he means to them. With Fonzie gone, there can be no media frenzy surrounding a nonexistent wrestling match, Richie tells the gang that he will wrestle the Malachis in Fonzies place, with Ralph in his corner
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a full-length play written by American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician Steve Martin in 1993. The play features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso and it is set on October 8,1904, and both men are on the verge of disclosing amazing ideas. At the Lapin Agile, they have a debate about the value of genius and talent. Each character in Lapin Agile has a specific role, there is much discussion of the major cultural influences of the twentieth century. Picasso represents art, Einstein represents science, and Schmendiman represents commercialism, Picasso and Einstein eventually realize that their abilities are equally valuable. Once the main characters have reached their moment of insight, The Visitor, although the Visitor is never named, his identity can be surmised as Elvis Presley. Freddy – The owner and bartender of the Lapin Agile and he is the boyfriend of Germaine, and seems to be a simple-minded man but occasionally says something truly stunning. Gaston – An abrupt and direct old Frenchman with prostate problems and she is Freddys girlfriend and a very thoughtful and beautiful woman. She has many ideas of what the 20th century will be like, Albert Einstein – A 25-year-old scientist with big aspirations. He is a genius, with a book on the way called The Special Theory of Relativity and he often finds himself having to explain his theories and thoughts in a simpler fashion to the rest of the group, as he is wise beyond his years. Suzanne – A beautiful 19-year-old girl who is infatuated with Picasso, suzanne and Picasso have already slept together, and she is left hurt and angry when he doesnt remember her. Sagot – Picassos art dealer, who is obsessed with finding and selling great pieces of art for profit Pablo Picasso – A talented, extremely egotistical and self-confident, he is a serial womanizer and master of manipulation. Charles Dabernow Schmendiman – A young inventor with huge dreams and little knowledge, although he is hardworking, he is overshadowed by the genius and talent of Einstein and Picasso. The Countess – An extremely intelligent and attractive woman, with whom Einstein is infatuated and she thinks like he does, being the one person to really understand him in the play. Picasso at the Lapin Agile was the first full-length play written by Steve Martin, the first reading of the play took place at Steve Martins home in Beverly Hills, California. Tom Hanks read the role of Picasso, and Chris Sarandon read Einstein, Martin then held a nine-day professional workshop of the play in Melbourne, Australia, at the Malthouse Theatre, which ended with two public staged readings of the play. Following this, the opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. The show then enjoyed a run at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles
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Picasso and Einstein in a 2011 production by OVO theatre company, St Albans, UK
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Trouble (Elvis Presley song)
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Trouble is a blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, originally performed by Elvis Presley in 1958 and covered by a number of artists in later years, most notably by Amanda Lear. Elvis Presley performed the song in the 1958 motion picture King Creole, Trouble, featuring Scotty Moore on guitar, was one of only three songs written by Leiber and Stoller for the feature. Presleys performance in the film alludes to Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley, if youre looking for trouble, he intones, then look right in my face. Music critic Maury Dean suggests that Trouble, with Presleys growling snarl, is one of the earliest proto-punk rock songs, ten years later, Presley opened his 1968 comeback special with this number. The piece then segued into Guitar Man against a Jailhouse Rock backdrop featuring male dancers in cells, Presley performed the song several times on tour in the early 1970s and unofficial recordings of these performances have circulated. In 1975, Presley recorded T-R-O-U-B-L-E for a single, but this is a different song. The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joes Cafe, singer and model Amanda Lear recorded a French-language version of Trouble, retitled as La Bagarre, with new lyrics written by Vline Buggy. The cover was released as her single in France and Belgium in 1975 by Polydor Records, with Lethal Leading Lady on the side B. The single turned out a failure and in 1976, an English-language version with original lyrics was released in the UK by Creole Records and other parts of Europe. Lear performed the song in an episode of Musikladen aired 29 May 1976 in West Germany, clad in black leather outfit, the performance led Ariola Records to re-release La Bagarre and sign her to a six-album record contract. The single was promoted by an appearance in German TV show 3 nach 9. La Bagarre was included on Lears 1977 debut album I Am a Photograph, however, it was removed from the track listing of subsequent pressings in favour of Queen of Chinatown. Lear recorded the English-language version of the song for her 2014 album of Elvis Presley covers, Lethal Leading Lady –2,507 single A. Lethal Leading Lady –2,50 Jackie DeShannon covered Trouble in 1959, suzi Quatro recorded Trouble in 1974 for her second album, Quatro. According to author Phillip Auslander, with this track Quatro aligned herself with a tradition of male boastfulness that includes Elvis. Rock critic Robert Christgau however wrote that Quatros rendition was silly, a cover version by Gillan peaked at #14 in the UK Singles chart in October 1980. Glenn Danzig recorded several versions, most notably on Danzigs 1993 EP Thrall, Robbie Williams opened his 2002 DVD concert, The Robbie Williams Show, with this song. His performance was identical in concept and staging to the sequence of Elvis Presleys 1968 comeback special
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1976 single cover, West Germany
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Elvis has left the building
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John Corbett plays an advertising executive and her love interest. Tom Hanks has an appearance as one of the dead Elvis impersonators. Angie Dickinson plays Basingers mother, a mechanic for the real Elvis. The film opens with Harmony driving down a long, winding road and she feels that her life is empty and artificial. She is a cosmetic saleswoman, setting up Pink Lady training seminars in the western portion of the United States. When she is asked if one of those Mary Kaye ladies, she replies, No, were pink. While she is popular and successful selling Pink Lady, there is nothing real or honest in her life, as Harmony travels around the country, trying to figure out what is missing from her life, Elvis impersonators keep dying in her wake. She is romantically pursued by Miles and these songs appear in the film, listed alphabetically
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ALF (TV series)
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ALF is an American science fiction sitcom that aired on NBC from September 22,1986 to March 24,1990. It was the first television series to be presented in Dolby Surround, the title character is Gordon Shumway, a friendly extraterrestrial nicknamed ALF, who crash lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family. The series stars Max Wright as father Willie Tanner, Anne Schedeen as mother Kate Tanner, ALF was performed by puppeteer/creator Paul Fusco. Produced by Alien Productions, ALF originally ran for four seasons and produced 99 episodes, ALF is an alien from the planet Melmac who follows an amateur radio signal to Earth and crash-lands into the garage of the Tanners. The Tanners are a suburban family in the San Fernando Valley area of California. The family consists of social worker Willie, his wife Kate, their teenage daughter Lynn, younger son Brian, and their cat Lucky. Unsure what to do, the Tanners take ALF into their home and hide him from the Alien Task Force and their nosy neighbors Trevor and Raquel Ochmonek and he generally hides in the kitchen. It is eventually revealed that ALFs home planet Melmac exploded because of a catastrophe involving a nuclear war, ALF was off the planet when it was destroyed because he was part of the Melmac Orbit Guard. ALF is homeless, but he is not the last survivor of his species and he becomes a permanent member of the family, although his culture shock, survivor guilt, general boredom, despair, and loneliness frequently cause difficulty for the Tanners. ALF then shows Willie exactly where Dave is on a map of the universe. Gordon Shumway is a Melmacian nicknamed ALF by Willie Tanner in the pilot episode, ALF was born on October 28,1756 on the Lower East Side of the planet Melmac. Melmac was located six parsecs past the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster, and had a sky, blue grass. The commonly-used currency is a Wernick, which is equal to 10 American dollars, ALFs body is covered with fur and he has a rippled snout, facial moles and eight stomachs. His heart is located in his right ear. He likes to burp and eat cats, and can whistle without opening his mouth and he had a best friend on his home planet named Malhar Naik. He has friends named Skip, Rick, Stella, and a girlfriend named Rhonda and he attended high school for 122 years and was captain of a Bouillabaisseball team, a game played on ice using seafood as a ball. However, if things have gone too far, he does as much as possible to make up for his mistakes, in the episode Its Not Easy Bein. Green, he tries to help Brian, too afraid to perform, on another occasion, in the episode Ive Got a New Attitude, he helps Dorothy deal with Sparkys death and move on to accept Whizzers friendship
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Celebrity Deathmatch
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The series was created by Eric Fogel, with the pilots airing on MTV on January 1 and 251998. The initial series ran from May 14,1998 to October 20,2002, there was one special that did not contribute to the final episode total, entitled Celebrity Deathmatch Hits Germany, which aired on June 21,2001. Professional wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin gave voice to his form as the guest commentator. Early in 2003, a based on the series was announced by MTV to be in the making. For a brief period in 2001, episodes of Celebrity Deathmatch aired on broadcast network UPN, in 2005, MTV2 announced the revival of the show as part of their Sic Em Friday programming block. The shows fourth and fifth season was produced by Cuppa Coffee Studios and it was canceled again in 2007. In April 2015, MTV2 announced a reboot of the show, on November 3,2016, Eric Fogel confirmed via Twitter that MTV had ceased production on the re-boot for unknown reasons. Johnny Gomez, One of the two joint commentators on the Celebrity Deathmatches, Johnny is the professional one, and a loyal friend of Nicks despite his constant blunders. He only lost his professionalism once to Lenny Stanton, the producers son, johnnys hair has noticeably changed from black to brown in the new season. Judging by a comment made by Tally during one episode, he may be wearing a hairpiece, Johnny harbors an intense hatred for her akin to Nick and Debbie, but tries to maintain being a professional. Johnny bears a resemblance to Johnny C. the host of the last few seasons of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Nick Diamond, Johnny Gomezs co-host, an alcoholic and divorced father of one. He harbors a hatred for interviewer Debbie Matenopoulos, and has also participated in. Nick is apparently so hopeless that when he mentions having an uneventful weekend, Nick bears a striking resemblance to Mean Gene Okerlund, longtime announcer for the WWF, only with a hairpiece. Mills Lane, The official referee of the Deathmatch ring, he always starts matches by saying Lets get it on, and shows that this is one ref you cannot knock down with one hit. Another catch phrase is there is a disputable move by either fighter, like using foreign objects. Implying that just about anything is legal in the ring, biting and guns are his only reservation as well as having a dirty fighting ring. After he suffered a stroke in 2002, the real Mills stopped providing the voice of his own character, Stone Cold Steve Austin, World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler and guest commentator on Celebrity Deathmatch
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A deathmatch between Beavis and Butt-head in the "Fandemonium 2000" episode of the series.
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Grateful Dead
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The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Their music, writes Lenny Kaye, touches on ground that most other groups dont even know exists and these various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world. The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue, the Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s, the founding members were Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Phil Lesh, and Bill Kreutzmann. Members of the Grateful Dead had played together in various San Francisco bands, including Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions, Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they became the Grateful Dead, he replaced Dana Morgan Jr. who had played bass for a few gigs. Drummer Mickey Hart and nonperforming lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1967, with the exception of McKernan, who died in 1973, and Hart, who took time off from 1971 to 1974, the core of the band stayed together for its entire 30-year history. The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten, John Perry Barlow, Keith Godchaux, Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, pianist Bruce Hornsby was a touring member from 1990 to 1992, as well as guesting with the band on occasion before and after the tours. After the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, former members of the band, along with musicians, toured as the Other Ones in 1998,2000, and 2002, and the Dead in 2003,2004. In 2015, the four surviving core members marked the bands 50th anniversary in a series of concerts that were billed as their last performances together. There have also been several spin-offs featuring one or more members, such as Dead & Company, Furthur, the Rhythm Devils, Phil Lesh & Friends, RatDog. The Grateful Dead began their career as the Warlocks, a group formed in early 1965 from the remnants of a Palo Alto, the bands first show was at Magoos Pizza located at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue in suburban Menlo Park, California, on May 5,1965. They were initially known as the Warlocks, coincidentally, the Velvet Underground was also using that name on the East Coast, the show was not recorded but the set list has been preserved. Gigging as a bar band, the group changed its name after finding out that another band of the same name had signed a recording contract. The first show under the new name Grateful Dead was in San Jose, California on December 4,1965, at one of Ken Keseys Acid Tests. Earlier demo tapes have survived, but the first of over 2,000 concerts known to have recorded by the bands fans was a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on January 8,1966. Later that month, the Grateful Dead played at the Trips Festival, the name Grateful Dead was chosen from a dictionary. According to Phil Lesh, in his autobiography, picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary. In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, Hey, man, the definition there was the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial
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The Grateful Dead in 1980. Left to right: Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh. Not pictured: Brent Mydland.
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The Grateful Dead in 1970, from a promotional photo shoot. Left to right: Bill Kreutzmann, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh.
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The Mantra-Rock Dance promotional poster featuring the Grateful Dead
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Grateful Dead performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1987: Jerry Garcia (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums).
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Crossing Jordan
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Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that aired on NBC from September 24,2001, to May 16,2007. It stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M. D. a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the show used an ensemble cast approach that featured a group of Jordans co-workers and police detectives assigned to the various cases. Its roster of characters was created by Tim Kring, who also developed its core format. This element of the series was dropped when Howard left the series as a regular, however, there were instances of Jordan role-playing with other characters, such as Woody. After six seasons and 117 episodes on May 16,2007, a forensic pathologist in the Boston Medical Examiners Office, she solves crimes during the course of investigations. Jordan is emotionally scarred by her mothers murder when she was a child, at the end of the sixth and final season, Jordan told Detective Hoyt that she loved him. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Garret Macy, The Chief Medical Examiner and Jordans boss, Macy must deal with Jordans erratic behavior, as well as his confused family. He has a daughter, Abby, but is divorced from his wife. Garret has an affinity for jazz and he has been known to have had romantic entanglements with grief counselor Lily Lebowski, ADA Renee Walcott, Charlie Davis, and his one-time wife, Maggie Warner. Garret admitted to his drinking problem after finding out his daughter had become addicted to heroin upon dropping out of college and he is also allergic to strawberries and peanuts. In the beginning of six, with the cancellation of Lilys wedding. However, things may be complicated by Lilys unexpected pregnancy with her once-to-be husband, Bug has since taken it upon himself to make Lily move in with him and support her and the baby. In an episode called Post Hoc, near the end of the season, Bug disappears without a trace. Dr. Macy makes inquiries and learns that Bug is being held incommunicado by the Department of Homeland Security and he is finally released after an interrogation that apparently included waterboarding, and is left deeply shaken by the experience. Lily Lebowski, Lily begins the series as an intake secretary and she wins Garret over, but he breaks up with her to work things out with his ex-wife. During season two, Bug becomes interested in her and she earns a promotion to become the offices grief counselor, but resigns in season six after accepting her boyfriends marriage proposal. By the end of the series, she breaks up with the boyfriend and moves in with Bug, after finding out she was pregnant with her exs baby. Dr. Nigel Townsend, A wise-cracking British criminologist with a personal life, he claimed to like girls
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Cast members Miguel Ferrer, Kathryn Hahn, Jill Hennessy, Ken Howard, Steve Valentine, and Ravi Kapoor (left to right)
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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Fireman Sam
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Fireman Sam is an animated comedy childrens television series about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other residents in the fictional Welsh rural village of Pontypandy. Fireman Sam first appeared as Sam Tân, on S4C in 1987, the original series finished in 1994, and a new series that expanded the character cast commenced in 2003. The series was shown in Gaelic in Scotland. The series was sold to over 40 countries and has been used across the United Kingdom to promote fire safety, the original idea came about from two ex-firemen from Kent – Dave Gingell and David Jones. They approached Mike Young, creator of SuperTed in Barry, Wales, the idea was then brought to S4Cs Director of Animation, Chris Grace, who saw potential in the idea and commissioned the series. Grace had previously commissioned Superted, which had achieved success across the United Kingdom, the characters and storylines were created by Rob Lee, an illustrator from Cardiff, and the program was produced using stop-motion. It could take up to 4 days to produce 1 minute of this form of puppet animation, Fireman Sam has to this day been translated into over 25 different languages including Mandarin. In the original series, all the voices were performed by John Alderton. The later series used several actors voices, the series originally comprised 32 ten-minute episodes and a 20-minute Christmas special. The narration and character voices were done by John Alderton, Sam is the protagonist in the show, and interacts with both colleagues at the fire station and fellow villagers. He is seen as somewhat of a hero in the village, despite being so small, and with so little activity, the village sees its fair share of fires, which Sam and his team can easily handle. Sams colleagues are Elvis Cridlington, Station Officer Basil Steele and later Penny Morris, the villagers are bus driver/auxiliary firefighter Trevor Evans, Italian café owner Bella Lasagne, Norman Price, Normans mother Dilys Price, and the twins Sarah and James Jones. The objects include Bentley the Robot, M. O. P. the original series aired on BBC One, CBBC and CBeebies since 1987, most commonly airing on CBeebies on a daily basis with repeats showing until 2008. In 1988, the series was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Short Animated Film, the potential recipients were Ian Frampton and John Walker. In 2003, a new Fireman Sam series was produced by Siriol Productions, comprising twenty-six episodes and these episodes used more modern techniques of stop-motion animation including mouths that move with the dialogue. The updated Jupiter has six wheels, loosely based on a Bedford 6×4, the characters in this series were voiced by John Sparkes, Joanna Ruiz and Sarah Hadland. The series premiered on CBeebies in 2003 and repeats were shown until 2008, the shows production companies were Hit Entertainment and Siriol Productions, and its distributors were the BBC and S4C. The series was revamped in 2008 which saw the show convert to CGI, Pontypandy is now a seaside fishing village instead of a village set deep in the hills as in the early series, though most of the locations have retained their appearances
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Full House
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Full House is an American sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC. The show chronicles the events of widowed father, Danny Tanner and it aired from September 22,1987, to May 23,1995, broadcasting eight seasons and 192 episodes. While never a favorite, the series was consistently in the top 30. It has also had tie-in merchandise marketed, such as a series of paperback books, a sequel series, Fuller House, premiered on Netflix on February 26,2016. After his wife is killed in a car accident, news anchorman Danny Tanner recruits his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis, Stephanie, and Michelle, in his San Francisco home. Over time, the three men as well as the bond and become closer to one another. Jesse and Becky eventually fall in love and get married in season four, in season five, Becky gives birth to twin sons, Nicky and Alex. John Stamos as Jesse Katsopolis Bob Saget as Danny Tanner Dave Coulier as Joey Gladstone Candace Cameron as D. J, Saget was not available to appear in the pilot due to his commitment as an on-air contributor to CBSs The Morning Program. The producers instead cast actor John Posey to play Danny, Posey only appeared in the unaired pilot. To comply with labor laws, twins Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen were cast to alternate in the role of Michelle during tapings. The girls were credited as Mary Kate Ashley Olsen in seasons two through seven because the producers did not want audiences to know that the Michelle character was played by twins. All six of the original cast members remained with the show through its entire eight-year run, Kimmy Gibbler, a recurring character in seasons one through four, was upgraded to a regular in season five. Rebecca Donaldson originally appeared for six episodes in two as Dannys co-host on Wake Up, San Francisco, producers decided to expand her role. Nicky and Alex Katsopolis, the sons of Jesse and Rebecca. As babies, the children were played by Daniel and Kevin Renteria, and in season six, the last character added was Steve Hale, who was D. J. s boyfriend in seasons six and seven. He returned in the half of the series finale after Kimmy set him up with D. J. to be her date for the senior prom. He was played by Scott Weinger, comet, the family dog, was played by a golden retriever named Buddy. Buddy later appeared in the original Air Bud before dying of cancer at the age of nine
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John Posey as Danny Tanner in the pilot (shown with Sweetin and Cameron as Stephanie and D.J.)
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The Golden Girls
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The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14,1985, to May 9,1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning over seven seasons. The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and it was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers. The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run and won several awards and it also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Each of the four received a Emmy Award, making it one of only three sitcoms in the awards history to achieve this. The series also ranked among the top-10 highest-rated programs for six of its seven seasons, in 2013, TV Guide ranked The Golden Girls number 54 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. In 2014, the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 69 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, the series revolves around four older, single women sharing a house in Miami, Florida. In the pilot episode, the three were joined by Dorothys 80-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo, after the retirement home where she lived burned down. The pilot episode featured a gay character named Coco, who worked as a cook for the women, after six consecutive seasons in the top 10, and the seventh season at number 30, The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. In the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy meets and marries Blanches Uncle Lucas, Sophia was to join her, but in the end, Sophia stays behind with the other women in Miami, leading into the spin-off series, The Golden Palace. The series finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers, as of 2016, it was the 17th-most watched television finale. Stan and Dorothy eventually moved to Miami, but divorced after 38 years when Stan left her for a flight attendant. According to the timeline presented, Dorothy and Stan would have had three children, with their oldest son or daughter near 40 by the beginning of the series. However, due to a lack of continuity in the writing, Michael and Kate were repeatedly shown as being in their 20s during the run of the show, thus not being old enough to be the child with whom Dorothy got pregnant in high school. In the series episode, Dorothy marries Blanches uncle, Lucas Hollingsworth. Arthur also played Dorothys grandmother, Sophias mother, in an episode to when they lived in Brooklyn. Upon Charlies death, she moved to Miami and she eventually found work at a grief counseling center, though she later ended up as the assistant to a consumer reporter at a local TV station. In later seasons, Rose became romantically involved with college professor Miles Webber, during season six, Miles was placed into the Witness Protection Program, but returned later in the season. Their relationship continued throughout the series, and shortly into the sequel series, in season one, Rose is stated to be 55
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Main characters in the final scene from the season two episode "Big Daddy's Little Lady" (from left): Estelle Getty as Sophia, Rue McClanahan as Blanche, Betty White as Rose, and Beatrice Arthur as Dorothy
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Rue McClanahan in 2007
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Miami skyline as used for the season one title card
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The Golden Girls Disney Legends plaque at Walt Disney Studios
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Las Vegas (TV series)
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Las Vegas is an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22,2003, to February 15,2008. The series originally aired on Monday nights, though NBC later moved the series to Friday nights -- first to 9 p. m. Eastern/8 p. m, Central and then to 10 p. m. Eastern/9 p. m. Central. The show entered syndication in the United States in September 2007, in July 2013, after a long run of weekday back-to-back episodes on TNT, Las Vegas reruns were moved to a graveyard slot of 4 a. m. then removed totally from TNTs lineup. Following his departure from the series in Season 5, former Marine Danny McCoy, Eds former protégé, the series abruptly ended with a cliffhanger because NBC canceled Las Vegas in the offseason following season five. Daniel Danny McCoy is initially Ed Delines apprentice, surrogate son, and good friend, the series pilot episode is told largely from his perspective and features Danny doing voice-over narration. This convention was dropped, although he remained the shows main character throughout its five-year run. After Eds resignation in Season 3, Danny is made President of Operations of the Montecito Resort & Casino for a brief period, however, following Eds return, Danny is officially reinstated as Head of Security in Season 3. He was born and raised in Las Vegas, towards the end of Season 2, his father Larry McCoy dies in an accident and Danny inherits his fathers construction company, McCoy Construction, and house. Danny sells his fathers house and uses the money to pay for a condo, Danny is a former U. S. Marine, with guerrilla training and counter intelligence training. He is recalled into service in Iraq at the end of Season 1. In season 2, he is awarded the Silver Star after he calls in an air-strike over his unit and himself when they are ambushed, only he survives the air strike. He is involved in a relationship with Ed Delines daughter, Delinda. Danny and Mary have known each other since childhood, and have had a confusing on-and-off relationship, Danny proposes to Mary, but Mary calls off the engagement because she feels that Danny had a lot of things to sort out for himself. He ultimately begins living with his girlfriend, Delinda, who is pregnant with their first child, Edward Melvin Deline is the former President of Operations of the Montecito Resort & Casino, and a former member of the Board of Directors. He starts as Head of Security and Surveillance, but is promoted to President of Operations at the end of the eighth episode, hes portrayed as a loving husband and father, as well as a father figure to his employees, especially Danny. Nevertheless, he is a man and doesnt hesitate to use violence to get what he wants. As the former Director of Counter Intelligence for the CIA, his past has come back to haunt him on several occasions, during Season 3, Ed is briefly in retirement until the Maloofs try to hire him for their potential casino in Macau. Eventually, Ed returns to his position when Casey Manning buys the casino, Ed leaves the casino after becoming wanted by the Las Vegas police for killing Mary Connells father and goes into hiding
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A Little Less Conversation
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A Little Less Conversation is a song written by Mac Davis and Billy Strange originally performed by Elvis Presley for the 1968 film Live a Little, Love a Little. The song became a hit in the United States when released as a single with Almost in Love as the A-side. A2002 remix by Junkie XL of a later re-recording of the song by Presley became a worldwide hit, the song has made numerous appearances in popular culture and has been covered by several artists. A Little Less Conversation was first recorded on 7 March 1968 at Western Recorders in Hollywood, California, the song was not released on an LP until November 1970, when it was included on the RCA Camden budget label LP Almost in Love. There are several different takes that were made of the song in the session on 7 March, the single version used take 16, which was also used for the soundtrack of the film. The version released on the Almost In Love album is take 10, the musicians on the 7 March recording session included Hal Blaine, drums, Al Casey, guitar, Larry Knechtel, bass, and Don Randi, piano. Presley re-recorded the song in June 1968 for the soundtrack of his 1968 comeback special, ultimately, it was decided not to use this recording, and the song was dropped from the planned special. The newer version transposed the key of A major recording of three months earlier into E major and featured a vocal and heavy reverb with backup vocals from The Blossoms. In the mid-1990s, Joseph A. Tunzi sold this recording to Bertelsmann Music Group and it was included on the 1998 release Memories. Tunzi had been the first to document this recording in his 1996 book Elvis Sessions II, following the songs use in the 2001 film Oceans Eleven, A Little Less Conversation was remixed by Dutch musician Tom Holkenborg, better known as Junkie XL. The electronic remix featured Elvis with a voice, and added emphasis to the 1968 guitars, horns. Holkenborg is the first artist outside the Presley organization to receive authorization from the Elvis Presley estate to remix an Elvis Presley song, the electronic version of the song became a number-one hit in the UK in 2002. The song also became a top ten hit in upwards of 17 other countries, in 2002, the TV special version of A Little Less Conversation remixed by Junkie XL was used for Nikes 2002 FIFA World Cup advertising campaign, titled Secret Tournament. A single, credited to Elvis vs. JXL, was issued, at about the same time, a compilation of Presleys U. S. number-one chart hits, titled ELV1S,30 No.1 Hits, was being prepared for release. At the last minute, A Little Less Conversation was added as the albums 31st track just before its release in October 2002. The full 6,09 version was edited slightly and extended to 6,22, and this version was featured on the US version of Junkie XLs 2004 album Radio JXL, A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin. In the United States, the peaked at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, the first Hot 100 hit for Presley since 1981. An uptempo eurodance remix was recorded by CJ Crew, appearing on the 2002 dance compilation Dancemania Speed 10, there are three very exclusive releases in Spanish, the film Live a Little, Love a Little and two mixes played by Marco T. a Colombian Rockabilly musician
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The original picture sleeve of the 1968 single.
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Miami Vice
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Miami Vice was an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson as James Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Rico Tubbs, the series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988, and broadcast an originally unaired episode during its run of the series on January 25,1990. Unlike standard police procedurals, the show drew heavily upon 1980s New Wave culture, the show became noted for its integration of music and visual effects. It has been called one of the Top 50 TV Shows, people magazine stated that Miami Vice was the first show to look really new and different since color TV was invented. In 2016, television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked Miami Vice as the 51st greatest American television show of all time, Michael Mann directed a film adaptation of the series, which was released on July 28,2006. The initial idea was for a movie about a pair of cops in Miami. Yerkovich then turned out a script for a pilot, titled Gold Coast. Yerkovich was immediately drawn to South Florida as a setting for his new-style police show, Miami Vice was one of the first American network television programs to be broadcast in stereophonic sound. It was mixed in stereo for its run, but not actually broadcast in stereo until 1985. In keeping with the namesake, most episodes focused on combating drug trafficking. Episodes often ended in a gun battle, claiming the lives of several criminals before they could be apprehended. An undercurrent of cynicism and futility underlies the entire series, the detectives repeatedly reference the Whac-A-Mole nature of drug interdiction, with its parade of drug cartels quickly replacing those that are apprehended. Co-executive producer Yerkovich explained, The choice of music and cinematography borrowed heavily from the emerging New Wave culture of the 1980s, as such, segments of Miami Vice would sometimes use music-based stanzas, a technique later featured in Baywatch. As Lee H. Katzin, one of the directors, remarked, The show is written for an MTV audience. These elements made the series into an instant hit, and in its first season saw an unprecedented fifteen Emmy Award nominations, while the first few episodes contained elements of a standard police procedural, the producers soon abandoned them in favor of a more distinctive style. Influenced by an Art Deco revival, no earth tones were allowed to be used in the production, mickey Rourke was also considered for the role, but he turned down the offer. Larry Wilcox, of CHiPs, was also a candidate for the role of Crockett, after dozens of candidates and a twice-delayed pilot shooting, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas were chosen as the vice cops
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Don Johnson with Glenn Frey (right) in the episode "Smuggler's Blues", one of many guest appearances made by musicians and celebrities throughout the series.
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Don Johnson epitomizing the dress style that became a hallmark of the series.
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The Ferrari Testarossa as seen in the series finale, "Freefall"
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Pizza (TV series)
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Pizza was an Australian television series on the Australian television network SBS. The series has a feature length movie, Fat Pizza, released in 2003, and a best-of highlights video/DVD that featured previously unreleased footage. In addition to this, a show entitled Fat Pizza, starring several characters from the show. In 2014, the storyline of the series was combined with that of Housos to create the motion picture Fat Pizza vs. Housos, the film was shown in Australian cinemas from 27 November 2014. Through ironic and self-conscious references, Pizza involves themes of ethnicity and stereotypes, cars, sex, illicit drugs, the television program is noted for its frequent cameo appearances of numerous Australian celebrities of all varieties, including actors, comedians, professional athletes, and other public figures. The program is written and directed by Paul Fenech, who portrays the protagonist of the series, Pizza began in the early 1990s as Fenechs project, a black-and-white short film, entitled Pizza Man, in which he starred as the eponymous pizza man. In 1995, the film won third place in the Tropfest film festival. Pizza itself was first broadcast on the SBS network in 2000 and aired its fifth, the half-hour program was shown during the SBS Monday comedy slot, noted for its offbeat comedy shows including South Park, John Safran, Garth Marenghis Darkplace, Drawn Together, and Quads. As introduced by Pauly in the first episode of the show, in spite of this, the characters remain unfazed and unsurprised, and they persist in their dead-end, below-minimum-wage job, which pays A$3.00 per hour. Paul Fenech as Pauly Falzoni – main protagonist, pizza delivery man, boxer and his favourite derogatory comment for people is stooge, originating from a comment a teacher once made to him. Pauly has been one of Bobos longest-serving employees at Fat Pizza and has provided Bobo with some good ideas over the years, during the 2005 series of Pizza, Paulys parents, relatives, and Pauly were shown with a cousin named Luigi, who lives in Italy. In one episode, it is shown that Paulys dad was a Maltese spy for British Intelligence, Paulys ethnic background consists of Maltese, Italian, and Spanish roots. He makes an appearance in Housos telling his cousin Franky that their uncle Fred has died. Paul Nakad as Sleek the Elite – so named because he is slicker than slick, a rapper, ladies man. He was the main co-star in the first two series and the movie and he is a lady killer, hence the name Lebanese lover. In the third series it was revealed Sleek had been kidnapped by Islamic terrorists while holidaying in his homeland of Lebanon for rooting all their women, in several episodes, Sleek was portrayed as the closeted bisexual male. He was replaced by Rockys other cousin, Slick, who is killed off by Bobo in season three, episode one, tahir Bilgiç as Habib Halal Habib – meaning Friend in Arabic. Habib featured as a character in the earlier series of Pizza
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Kiss (band)
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Kiss is an American hard rock group formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley. The band has gone through several changes, with Stanley. The original and best-known lineup consisted of Stanley, Simmons, Frehley, with their make-up and costumes, they took on the personae of comic book-style characters, The Starchild, The Demon, The Spaceman or Space Ace, and The Catman. Due to creative differences, both Criss and Frehley had departed the group by 1982, in 1983, Kiss began performing without makeup and costumes, thinking that it was time to leave the makeup behind. The band accordingly experienced a commercial resurgence, and their music videos received regular airplay on MTV. Drummer Eric Carr, who had replaced Criss in 1980, died in 1991 of a type of heart cancer and was replaced by Eric Singer. In response to a wave of Kiss nostalgia in the mid-1990s, the band announced a reunion of the lineup in 1996. The resulting Alive/Worldwide Tour was commercially successful, Criss and Frehley have both since left the band again and have been replaced by Singer and Tommy Thayer, respectively. Kiss has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 25 million RIAA-certified albums, on April 10,2014, Kiss was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Kiss traces their roots to Wicked Lester, a New York City-based rock band led by Gene Simmons and they recorded one album, which was shelved by Epic Records, and played a handful of live shows. Simmons and Stanley, feeling a new direction was needed, abandoned Wicked Lester in 1972. Simmons and Stanley met him in a nightclub where he was playing drums, after hearing Criss sing, they thought of him being in the band. Criss then auditioned for and later joined the new version of Wicked Lester, the trio focused on a much harder style of rock than Wicked Lester played. They also began experimenting with their image by wearing makeup and various outfits, in November 1972, the trio played a showcase for Epic Records A&R director Don Ellis, in an effort to secure a record deal. Although the performance went well, Ellis disliked the groups image, in early January 1973, the group added lead guitarist Ace Frehley. Frehley impressed the group with his first audition, although he showed up wearing two different colored sneakers, one red and one orange, a few weeks after Frehley joined, Wicked Lester changed their name to Kiss. Stanley came up with the name while he, Simmons and Criss were driving around New York City, Criss mentioned that he had been in a band called Lips, so Stanley said something to the effect of What about Kiss. Frehley created the logo, making the SS look like lightning bolts
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Kiss playing at Hellfest 2013, during their Monster World Tour. From left to right: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer
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KISS logo used in Germany, Israel, and other countries that outlaw Nazi symbols
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Simmons and Frehley share a microphone in 1978
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Frehley demonstrates the pyrotechnics that helped make Kiss a live sensation
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,1975, under the original title NBCs Saturday Night, the shows comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and features performances by a musical guest, an episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live from New York, its Saturday Night. In 1980, Michaels left the series to other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews, Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned, Michaels has remained since then. Many of SNLs cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film. The show format has developed and recreated in several countries. Successful sketches have seen life outside of the show as feature films, throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 50 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and it was ranked tenth in TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show, the live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests. From 1965 until September 1975, NBC ran The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, in 1974, Johnny Carson announced that he wanted the weekend shows pulled and saved so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael ODonoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBCs Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on the rival network ABC, NBC purchased the rights to the name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26,1977. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, NBC executives agreed with Michaels and decided to keep the show on the air despite many angry letters and phone calls that the network received from viewers who were offended by certain sketches. Chevy Chase left the show in November of the season and was replaced a few months later by the then-unknown comic actor Bill Murray. Aykroyd and Belushi left the show in 1979 after the end of season four, in May 1980, Michaels—emotionally and physically exhausted—requested to put the show on hiatus for a year to give him time and energy to pursue other projects
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The original 1975 cast, from left to right: Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, and Chevy Chase
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Creator Lorne Michaels.
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Comcast Building (30 Rockefeller Plaza, or "30 Rock") from where the show is broadcast.
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SNL 's main stage, during rehearsal, 2008
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Kevin Nealon
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Nealon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Kathleen M. and Emmett F. Nealon, an aircraft company executive. A few months after he was born, the moved to Bridgeport. He was raised Catholic, and graduated from St. Joseph High School in Trumbull, Connecticut, Nealon graduated with a bachelors degree in marketing from Sacred Heart University. Nealon debuted on network television doing a routine for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1984. On the September 24,1985 nighttime syndicated episode of Sale of the Century, Nealon can be seen onstage congratulating his friend Tim Holleran on winning more than $150,000 in cash and prizes. In 1986, Saturday Night Live recruited his friend Dana Carvey, both joined the cast that year, and Nealon became a full-time performer in the 1987–1988 season, and remained for nine seasons. Nealons SNL characters include Mr. Subliminal, Franz along with Dana Carvey, Mr. No Depth Perception, the anchor of Weekend Update, in 1991, he starred in the Christmas movie, All I Want for Christmas. More recently Nealon has appeared in the movies Happy Gilmore, Anger Management, Little Nicky, Daddy Day Care, Good Boy. in fall 2005, he appeared in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, where he played himself. Nealon had a television role on the 2002-06 CBS comedy Still Standing playing Ted Halverson. He has also appeared as a patient in an institution on the first season of Monk. Deja Vu is an episode of The Outer Limits television show and it first aired on 9 July 1999, during the fifth season. Nealon also had a supporting role as Doug Wilson on the show Weeds on Showtime. In 1994, Nealon hosted the 13 part series Amazing America on the Discovery Channel, in 2002, Nealon hosted The Conspiracy Zone on The New TNN for 26 episodes plus an unaired pilot. Nealon appeared as a counselor on the sitcom, 3rd Rock from the Sun. He had a cameo appearance in the 2008 film Get Smart. Nealon also hosted the Worlds Funniest Commercials on TBS, in a performance similar to Bob Saget, Nealon tells corny jokes in between each funny commercial. In 2008, a book authored by Nealon chronicling his experiences during his wifes pregnancy called Yes, Youre Pregnant, Nealon played Stuart Pearson in the adventure comedy Aliens in the Attic. Shooting took place in Auckland, New Zealand, Nealon married actress Susan Yeagley on September 3,2005 in Bellagio, Italy
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Nealon in Las Vegas in 2006.
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Nealon with wife Susan Yeagley in April 2011
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7th Heaven (TV series)
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7th Heaven is an American television drama series created and produced by Brenda Hampton that centers on the Camden family and their lives in the fictional town of Glenoak, California. The series debuted August 26,1996, on The WB, the series tells the story of the Reverend Eric Camden, a Protestant minister living in the fictional town of Glenoak, California. The other eight central characters are Erics wife Annie and their seven children, except for Lucy, the children are all named after key biblical figures. The twins are born in three, in the episode In Praise of Women. Four of the children, Matt, Mary, Lucy, and Simon, at different times, Simon goes to college, Mary goes to live with her grandparents and Matt marries and pursues his career as a doctor, far away from the family. Despite these three being absent from the Camden home, the house is always full, when Lucy marries, they moved into the garage apartment. Their daughter is born while they are there, later, they move into a home next door. Ruthie leaves for a short while in the season to go to Scotland. The Camdens offer shelter to house guests at different points in the show. Although originally produced for Fox in 1996, the show aired on the WB and it was produced by Spelling Television and distributed for syndication by CBS Television Distribution. Its producers, including Aaron Spelling, considered it wholesome family viewing, incorporating public service announcements into the show, the final season of 7th Heaven was shown on the inaugural season of The CW. The show wrapped production on the final episode March 8,2007 about one month before most shows film their last episodes of the season and this resulted in 7th Heaven filming episodes in shorter time during the final seasons. The programs future was hanging in the balance and it was entirely in the hands of the newly established CW network whether to renew it for an eleventh seasonal run, in March 2006, the main cast of characters were approached about the possibility of returning for an eleventh season. Originally the show was renewed for thirteen episodes, but on September 18,2006, along with the shows unexpected and last-minute renewal came some changes. The shows already-low budget was trimmed, forcing cuts in the salaries of some cast members. David Gallagher, who played Simon, chose not to return as a regular, furthermore, Mackenzie Rosman, who played youngest daughter Ruthie, did not appear in the first six episodes. Catherine Hicks missed three episodes in Season 11, as another cost-cutting move, additionally, George Stults was absent for a few episodes at the beginning of season 11. Also, after airing Monday nights at 8/7c for ten seasons, the Sunday/Monday lineup swap was attributed to mediocre ratings of shows on both nights
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Spitting Image
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Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV network, the series was cancelled in 1996, after viewing figures declined. ITV had plans for a new series in 2006, but these were scrapped after a dispute over Ant & Dec puppets used to host Best Ever Spitting Image, Martin Lambie-Nairn proposed a satirical television show featuring caricature puppets created by Peter Fluck and Roger Law. The idea for the series was rejected by many in the industry, who thought it would only be suitable for children, but the series was finally accepted for development and first broadcast in 1984. English comedy writer and National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra, was brought in as a writer, Fluck, Hendra brought in John Lloyd, producer of Not The Nine OClock News. They were joined by Jon Blair, a documentary producer and they then hired Muppet puppeteer Louise Gold. Development was funded by Clive Sinclair, the puppets, based on public figures, were designed by Fluck and Law, assisted by caricaturists that included David Stoten, Pablo Bach, Steve Bendelack and Tim Watts. The episodes included musical parodies by Philip Pope and later Steve Brown, the first episode of Spitting Image, in 1984, aired with a laugh track, apparently at the insistence of Central Television. This episode was shown to an audience before transmission. In the early years of the show, Spitting Image was filmed in the zone at London Docklands. Impressionist Steve Nallon recalls that they were able to get away with no health and safety, there were no extractor fans, it was quite Dickensian. In later series, Spitting Image was recorded at Centrals studios in Nottingham with last minute additions being recorded at the Limehouse Studios at Canary Wharf, London. Before the first episode was broadcast, the parodies of the Royal Family were cut, as a courtesy to the Duke of Edinburgh, the scenes were however all reinstated in later episodes. The series had been scheduled to have 13 episodes but was cut back to 12, rob Grant and Doug Naylor were then brought in as head writers to save the show. By 1986, under their supervision, Spitting Image had become popular, however, Grant and Naylor subsequently left to create Red Dwarf for BBC2. Spitting Image had a dispute with the Independent Broadcasting Authority in 1985. When Margaret Thatcher resigned in November 1990, her successor was John Major, the producers dressed Major, skin and all, in shades of grey. They invented an affair between him and Virginia Bottomley, the show added animated sketches from 1989 and again from 1994
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Puppets of a Court Flunkey and Osama Bin Laden
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Opening titles from 1988 to 1991
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Spitting Image album cover for "Da Do Run Ron" satirical parody of Ronald Reagan
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The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)
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The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serlings acclaimed 1959-64 television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a season for syndication. It was Serlings decision to sell his share of the back to the network that eventually allowed for a Twilight Zone revival. As an in-house production, CBS stood to earn more money producing The Twilight Zone than it could by purchasing a new series produced by an outside company. Even so, the network was slow to consider a revival, shooting down offers from the production team of Rod Serling and Buck Houghton. Their hesitation stemmed from concerns familiar to the series, The Twilight Zone had never been the breakaway hit CBS wanted. We were looking at the success of the series in syndication. Many of them deal with elements of the show, perhaps the public is ready for it again. The Twilight Zone was a series I always liked as a kid, said Singer. casts featured stars including Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Season Hubley, Morgan Freeman, Martin Landau, Jonathan Frakes, and Fred Savage. New theme music was composed and performed by The Grateful Dead with Merl Saunders, in addition, The Grateful Dead would go on to provide incidental music for a number of episodes in the series. Filling in for Serling as narrator was Charles Aidman, himself the star of two classic Twilight Zone episodes, the Twilight Zone ran for two seasons on CBS. For most of the run the series was one hour in length. For part of season 2, the show presented half-hour episodes, an additional third season of half-hour programs was produced in 1988 to pad the series syndication package. Robin Ward replaced Aidman as the narrator of these Canadian-produced episodes, unlike Serling and Forest Whitaker, host of the 2002 revival, neither Aidman nor Ward appeared on screen. The Twilight Zone debuted the night of September 27,1985 to a warm reception. Episodes featured adaptations of stories by Harlan Ellison, Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, clarke, Robert McCammon, and Stephen King. A new batch of scripts was supplemented with remakes of classic Twilight Zone episodes like Dead Man’s Shoes, Shadow Play, though the production crew was convinced that they were making all of the right decisions, ratings began to slide as the novelty of the show wore off. You have not known humiliation until you have been beaten by Webster and Mr. Belvedere, wes Craven directed several episodes including Shatterday, A Little Peace and Quiet, Wordplay, and Chameleon
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Walker, Texas Ranger
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Walker, Texas Ranger is an American action television series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis. It was inspired by the film Lone Wolf McQuade, with both series and that film starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes, eight full seasons followed with new episodes airing from September 25,1993, to May 19,2001, and reruns continuing on CBS until July 28,2001. It has been broadcast in over 100 countries and has spawned a 2005 made-for-television movie entitled Trial By Fire. The movie ended on a cliffhanger, which was never resolved, DVD sets of all seasons have been released. At various times since 1997, reruns of the show have aired, in syndication, on the USA Network, reruns can currently be seen on CBS Action, WGN America, INSP and Grit. The series was noted for its moralistic style, the characters refrained from the use of drugs, and they participated in community service. Martial arts were displayed prominently as the tool of law enforcement and occasionally as a tool for Walker. The show was developed by executive producer Allison Moore and supervising producer J. Michael Straczynski when the series was still being produced by Cannon Television. While Straczynski had to depart to get his new series Babylon 5 on the air, the show is centered on Sergeant Cordell Walker, a Dallas–Fort Worth–based member of the Texas Rangers, a state-level bureau of investigation. Walker was raised by his uncle, a Native American named Ray Firewalker. The surname being, possibly, a nod to the 1986 Norris film, Cordell, prior to joining the Rangers, served in the Marines elite recon unit during the Vietnam War. Both Cordell and Uncle Ray share the characteristic of Wild West sheriffs. His partner and best friend is James Jimmy Trivette, a former Dallas Cowboys player, Go Long T, Walkers young partner grew up in Baltimore and used football as his ticket to college education. He was dropped from the team after he tore up his shoulder in a major game, Trivette also works inside the office using computers and cellular phones to collate information of the people who have been taken into custody. Walker also works closely with Alexandra Alex Cahill, a Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney and he also gets advice on cases from C. D. Parker, a veteran Ranger who worked with Walker until retiring to operate a restaurant and bar called CDs Bar and Grill. In Season 7, two rookie Texas Rangers, Sydney Cooke, and Francis Gage, are assigned under Walker, the series was well-known during its run for its product placement deal with Chrysler, especially its Dodge division
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Fallout: New Vegas
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Fallout, New Vegas is an open world action role-playing video game and is the fourth major installment of the Fallout video game series. The game was developed by Obsidian Entertainment over 18 months and published by Bethesda Softworks, the game is set in a post-apocalyptic, open world environment that encompasses a region consisting of parts of Nevada, California, and Arizona. This war was caused by an international conflict between the United States and China over natural resources and the last remaining supplies of untapped petroleum. The main story of Fallout, New Vegas takes place in the year 2281 and it is not a direct sequel, but it does mark the return of some elements found in the Black Isle Studios-developed Fallout 2. Players take control of a known as the Courier. New Vegas has received positive reviews, with praising the games writing, quests. It received criticism for its glitches and bugs, New Vegas was a commercial success, shipping more than 5 million copies altogether, and is estimated to have sold around 12 million copies worldwide. It received a Golden Joystick Award for RPG of the Year in 2011, some of the improvements and new features included, Combat is improved upon, with the V. A. T. S. System being updated with several new V. A. T. S. -specific attacks, and a number of new kill animations being made for several of the games melee weapons. The Character Creation section of the game was refined to take less time than Fallout 3, with players able to skip the tutorials, the option to make any last minute changes to their character occurs when the player steps beyond the boundaries of the starting location of Goodsprings. More Perks were included to the game to provide options for improving the players characters upon levelling up. More weapons were added to the game, including, the 9mm Pistol, the Single Shotgun, Powder Charges, Dynamite, Trail Carbine, a new skill, Survival, is introduced into the game. This skill impacts how much food and drink restore to the players HP. They can do this by visiting casinos, buying chips with the three major currencies in the games, and playing blackjack, slots, or roulette within them. Players can also play a game called Caravan, which was specifically designed for the game and has its own rules. Although players could craft items in Fallout 3, these items were limited to a few unique weapons, with New Vegas, crafting was expanded to allow creation of food, drink, drugs and ammunition along with unique weapons. Some special items cant be made until their recipes/schematics are found, players can now harvest plants to use in recipes, similar to Bethesdas The Elder Scrolls series. In addition to crafting, players can also modify weapons with special firearm modifications, such modifications can improve the rate of fire or the size of the magazine, or add a mounted telescopic sight to allow for greater range
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Screenshot of first-person view mode real-time combat gameplay. Similar to Fallout 3, the player's perspective in New Vegas can also be seen from a third-person view.
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Promotion of the game at E3 2010
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SNES
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In Japan, the system is called the Super Famicom, or SFC for short. In South Korea, it is known as the Super Comboy and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics, although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent the different versions from being compatible with one another. It was released in Brazil on September 2,1992, by Playtronic, the SNES is Nintendos second home console, following the Nintendo Entertainment System. The console introduced advanced graphics and sound compared with other systems at the time. The development of a variety of enhancement chips integrated in game cartridges helped to keep it competitive in the marketplace. The SNES remained popular well into the 32-bit era, and continues to be popular among fans, collectors, retro gamers, and emulation enthusiasts, some of whom still make homebrew ROM images. To compete with the popular Family Computer in Japan, NEC Home Electronics launched the PC Engine in 1987, the two platforms were later launched in North America in 1989 as the TurboGrafx-16 and the Genesis respectively. Both systems were built on 16-bit architectures and offered improved graphics, however, it took several years for Segas system to become successful. Nintendo executives were in no rush to design a new system, designed by Masayuki Uemura, the designer of the original Famicom, the Super Famicom was released in Japan on Wednesday, November 21,1990 for 25,000 yen. The systems release also gained the attention of the Yakuza, leading to a decision to ship the devices at night to avoid robbery, with the Super Famicom quickly outselling its chief rivals, Nintendo reasserted itself as the leader of the Japanese console market. Nintendos success was due to its retention of most of its key third-party developers from its earlier system, including Capcom, Konami, Tecmo, Square, Koei. Nintendo released the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, a version of the Super Famicom. It began shipping in limited quantities on August 23,1991, the SNES was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland in April 1992 for £150, with a German release following a few weeks later. Most of the PAL region versions of the use the Japanese Super Famicom design, except for labeling. The Playtronic Super NES in Brazil, although PAL, uses the North American design, both the NES and SNES were released in Brazil in 1993 by Playtronic, a joint venture between the toy company Estrela and consumer electronics company Gradiente. The SNES and Super Famicom launched with few games, but these games were received in the marketplace. In Japan, only two games were available, Super Mario World and F-Zero. In North America, Super Mario World launched as a bundle with the console, and other titles include F-Zero, Pilotwings, SimCity
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Top: North American SNES (circa 1991) Bottom: Japanese Super Famicom, which has the same casing later used in European and Australian consoles. Other variations are pictured under Casing below
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A cartridge shape comparison Top: North American design Bottom: Japanese and PAL region design. The bottom cartridge also illustrates the optional pins used by enhancement chips such as the Super FX 3D chip.
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Wookey Hole Caves
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Wookey Hole Caves are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows through the cave and it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest for both biological and geological reasons. Wookey Hole cave is a cave, one that is formed by a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks. The temperature in the caves is a constant 11 °C, the caves have been used by humans for around 45,000 years, demonstrated by the discovery of tools from the Palaeolithic period, along with fossilised animal remains. Evidence of Stone and Iron Age occupation continued into Roman Britain, a corn-grinding mill operated on the resurgent waters of the River Axe as early as the Domesday survey of 1086. The waters of the river are used in a paper mill, the oldest extant in Britain. The low, constant temperature of the means that they can be used for maturing Cheddar cheese. The caves are the site of the first cave dives in Britain which were undertaken by Jack Sheppard, since the 1930s divers have explored the extensive network of chambers developing breathing apparatus and novel techniques in the process. The full extent of the system is still unknown with approximately 4,000 metres, including 25 chambers. Part of the system opened as a show cave in 1927 following exploratory work by Herbert E. Balch. As a tourist attraction it has been owned by Madame Tussauds and, most recently, the cave is noted for the Witch of Wookey Hole – a roughly human shaped stalagmite that legend says is a witch turned to stone by a monk from Glastonbury. It has also used as a location for film and television productions. The show cave consists of a dry gallery connecting three large chambers, the first of which contains the Witch of Wookey formation, there are various high level passages leading off from these chambers, with two small exits above the tourist entrance. The river is maintained at a high level and falls a couple of metres when the sluice is lowered to allow access to the fourth and fifth chambers. Normally, however, these are accessible by cave diving. High level passages here lead to a resurgence, now blocked. A second excavated 74-metre-long tunnel from the chamber allows visitors to visit the 20th chamber. The 20th chamber is at the top of a large boulder slope –60 metres long,15 metres wide, from here a roomy passage some 400 metres long ascends towards a now-blocked fossil resurgence in the Ebbor Gorge
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River Axe emerging from Wookey Hole Caves
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Cheddar Cheeses in Wookey Hole Caves
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An underground lake in the first chamber
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Cave diving equipment in the museum at Wookey Hole Caves
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Charles Chaplin
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Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film. Chaplin became an icon through his screen persona the Tramp and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, Chaplins childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship. As his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine, when he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor. At 19 he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, Chaplin was scouted for the film industry, and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios. He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a fan base. Chaplin directed his own films from a stage, and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual. By 1918, he was one of the best known figures in the world, in 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films. His first feature-length was The Kid, followed by A Woman of Paris, The Gold Rush and he refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing City Lights and Modern Times without dialogue. Chaplin became increasingly political, and his film, The Great Dictator. The 1940s were a decade marked with controversy for Chaplin, and he was accused of communist sympathies, while his involvement in a paternity suit and marriages to much younger women caused scandal. An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the United States and he abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, A King in New York, and A Countess from Hong Kong. Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in and he was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. His films are characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramps struggles against adversity, many contain social and political themes, as well as autobiographical elements. In 1972, as part of an appreciation for his work. He continues to be held in regard, with The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times. Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 to Hannah Chaplin, there is no official record of his birth, although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street, Walworth, in South London
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Publicity portrait, circa 1920
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Seven-year-old Chaplin (centre) at the Central London District School for paupers, 1897.
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A teenage Chaplin in the play Sherlock Holmes, which he appeared in between 1903 and 1906
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Advertisement from Chaplin's American tour with the Fred Karno comedy company, 1913
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Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Satch, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s and he was also skilled at scat singing. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to cross over and he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African Americans, but took a well-publicized stand for desegregation in the Little Rock crisis. His artistry and personality allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society which were restricted for black men of his era. Armstrong often stated that he was born on July 4,1900, although he died in 1971, it was not until the mid-1980s that his true birth date, August 4,1901, was discovered by the researcher Tad Jones through the examination of baptismal records. Armstrong was born into a family in New Orleans, Louisiana. He spent his youth in poverty, in a neighborhood known as the Battlefield. His father, William Armstrong, abandoned the family when Louis was an infant and his mother, Mary Mayann Albert, then left Louis and his younger sister, Beatrice Armstrong Collins, in the care of his grandmother, Josephine Armstrong, and at times his uncle Isaac. At five, he moved back to live with his mother, her relatives and he attended the Fisk School for Boys, where he most likely had early exposure to music. He hung out in dance halls close to home, where he observed everything from licentious dancing to the quadrille, after dropping out of the Fisk School at age eleven, Armstrong joined a quartet of boys who sang in the streets for money. He also started to get into trouble, Cornet player Bunk Johnson said he taught Armstrong to play by ear at Dago Tonys Tonk in New Orleans, although in his later years Armstrong gave the credit to Oliver. It has given me something to live for and he also worked for a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant family, the Karnofskys, who had a junk-hauling business and gave him odd jobs. They took him in and treated him like family, knowing he lived without a father and he later wrote a memoir of his relationship with the Karnofskys, Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family in New Orleans, La. the Year of 1907. Armstrong wore a Star of David pendant for the rest of his life and wrote about what he learned from them, how to live—real life, professor Peter Davis instilled discipline in and provided musical training to the otherwise self-taught Armstrong. Eventually, Davis made Armstrong the band leader, the home band played around New Orleans and the thirteen-year-old Louis began to draw attention by his cornet playing, starting him on a musical career. At fourteen he was released from the home, living again with his father and new stepmother, Gertrude, Armstrong got his first dance hall job at Henry Ponces, where Black Benny became his protector and guide. He hauled coal by day and played his cornet at night, later, he played in brass bands and riverboats of New Orleans, and began traveling with the well-regarded band of Fate Marable, which toured on a steamboat up and down the Mississippi River. He described his time with Marable as going to the University, in 1919, Joe Oliver decided to go north and resigned his position in Kid Orys band, Armstrong replaced him
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Armstrong photographed in 1953.
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Handcolored etching Louis Armstrong (2002) by Adi Holzer
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Armstrong with his first trumpet instructor, Peter Davis, in 1965
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Label for gramophone record, " Heebie Jeebies " by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
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Actor
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Anyone who meets the eligibility requirements may apply for aid, which could vary from medical assistance, paying rent, or finding employment. Heros benefits are not meant to be a permanent crutch for needy creators, any granted aid is kept confidential. The Hero Initiative has two boards of directors, the Executive Board and the Fund Disbursement Board, former board members include founders Pat McCallum, editor-in-chief of Wizard Magazine, and Mike Richardson, publisher and founder of Dark Horse Comics. They are George Pérez, Roy Thomas, Charlie Novinskie, Dennis ONeil, John Romita Sr. the charity is currently supported by Dark Horse Comics, Dynamic Forces, Image Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Wizard Entertainment. The Hero Initiative utilizes many methods of fundraising, foremost is their annual art auction, auctioning donated original comics art-work at fan conventions. Year-long, they sell donated art and special edition comics at conventions, artists, writers, and publishers are invited to donate work, and fans are invited to donate money directly to the fund. ACTOR also sells a green Excelsior, wrist-band similar in design to the Livestrong wristband. The Hero Initiative was formerly known as A Commitment to Our Roots, or ACTOR, while the original name of the organization reflected the charitys goal, the acronym that resulted, ACTOR, more often confused people unfamiliar with the organization. 2006, George Pérez, John Romita, Sr.2007, Joe Kubert 2008, Nick Cardy 2009, Neal Adams 2010, Walt Simonson 2011, Stan Lee 2012, John Romita, Jr. The award recognizes one person in each year who demonstrates particular generosity and integrity in support of the overall comic book community. It debuted at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con
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Bruce Campbell
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Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American actor, producer, writer, comedian and director. One of his best-known roles is portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimis Evil Dead franchise and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Sundown, The Vampire in Retreat, and Bubba Ho-Tep. In television, Campbell had lead roles in The Adventures of Brisco County and he can also be seen as the role of the father in The Escort. Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, the son of Joanne Louise, a homemaker, and Charles Newton Campbell and he has an older brother, Don, and an older half-brother, Michael Rendine. Campbells first wife was Cristine Deveau, whom he married in 1983 and they had two children, Rebecca and Andy, before their divorce in 1989. Campbell currently lives in Jacksonville, Oregon, with his wife, costume designer Ida Gearon. Campbell is also a minister and has officiated weddings for couples. Campbell began acting as a teenager and soon began making short Super 8 movies with friends, after meeting Sam Raimi in Wylie E. Groves High School, the two became very good friends and started making movies together. Campbell would go on to attend Western Michigan University while he continued to work on his acting career, Campbell and Raimi collaborated on a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead film, titled Within the Woods, which was initially used to attract investors. A few years later, Campbell and Raimi got together with family and friends, Campbell starred and worked behind the camera, receiving a co-executive producer credit. Raimi wrote, directed and edited, while fellow Michigander Rob Tapert was producer, following an endorsement by horror writer Stephen King, the film slowly began to receive distribution. Four years following its release, it became the number one movie in the UK. It then received distribution in the U. S. spawning two sequels, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness, Campbells role as Ashley J. Ash Williams has since become iconic. The last two films in the series are considered classics and are credited with spawning the horror comedy genre. He was also drawn in the Marvel Zombie comics as his character and he is featured in five comics, all in the series Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness. In the comics he fights alongside the Marvel heroes against the heroes and he has appeared in many of Raimis films outside of the Evil Dead series, notably having cameos in the directors Spider-Man film series. Campbell also joined the cast in Raimis Darkman and The Quick, Campbell often takes on quirky roles, such as Elvis Presley in the film Bubba Ho-Tep. Along with Bubba Ho-Tep, he played a role in starred in Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2
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Bruce Campbell at the 2014 Phoenix Comicon
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Campbell signing a VHS copy of The Evil Dead at a fan meet-and-greet
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Campbell at WonderCon in 2013
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Bruce Campbell, If Chins Could Kill
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This Is Elvis
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This Is Elvis is a 1981 documentary film written and directed by Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo, based on the life of Elvis Presley. It combined archival footage with reenactments, and voice-over narration by pop singer Ral Donner and it was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. The film grossed $2 million at the box office in the U. S. and Canada, Presleys former road manager Joe Esposito and girlfriend Linda Thompson provided their own narrations. Presley receives credit only in the version prepared for cable. The soundtrack was certified Gold on August 6,2002 by the RIAA, a two-disc DVD set of the film was released on August 7,2007 commemorating the 30th anniversary of Presleys death. Disc 1 features the version shown in theaters, Disc 2 includes the extended version with 45 extra minutes of footage. This Is Elvis is the only Presley movie produced and released by Warner Brothers, Warner Bros. also currently owns other titles with Presley via purchasing Turner Entertainment, including Presleys Metro Goldwyn Mayer films and National General Pictures Charro. Though he criticized the reenactment scenes, Ian Jane of DVD Talk called it a pretty essential release for fans and this Is Elvis at the Internet Movie Database
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Tyler Hilton
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Tyler James Hilton is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Hilton began his career in music in 2000. Rolling Stone magazine compared him to his contemporary, Howie Day, while others have compared Hilton to Elton John and he also appeared in Taylor Swifts music video Teardrops on My Guitar and Glorianas music video Good Night. Hilton was born in Palm Springs, California, the son of Kristy, raised in Bermuda Dunes, California, Hilton grew up around music and began teaching himself Elvis Presley songs at an early age. After a brief stint in Northern California, his family moved back to the Palm Springs area, Hiltons family made another move back to Coachella Valley for high school, where, at La Quinta High School, he started a band with some of his classmates. The band did not go anywhere, so Hilton began to open mic nights. He got engaged to actress Megan Park, whom he met on the set of Charlie Bartlett, in December 2013, the couple wed in October 2015. Hilton heard a radio station was giving away Jonny Lang concert tickets. While on the phone, he sang an a cappella version of Jonny Lang’s song Breakin Me, Mark & Brian were so impressed with Hiltons performance that they gave him a spot at the stations Christmas concert. Word of Hilton caught the ear of Maverick Records, who signed him up with a deal when he was 18. Hilton released a self-titled EP on April 6,2004, All four songs were included on his first album The Tracks of Tyler Hilton released on September 28,2004. After the release of his album, Hilton joined the likes of Avril Lavigne, Jet,50 Cent, and Josh Groban as an artist chosen by AOL Breaker for his star potential. In addition to his own albums, Hilton has also appeared on each of the three different One Tree Hill soundtrack albums, some with formerly unreleased material that cannot be anywhere else. In 2005, he was part of a 23-city concert tour along with Lenz, The Wreckers, during the summer of that year, he opened for Hilary Duff on her Still Most Wanted Tour. His EP, Better on Beachwood, which three songs was released in May 2009. Ladies & Gentlemen, another EP followed in April 2010 and features five songs, both EPs are available on iTunes. For five years, Hilton worked on an album called The Storms We Share, the album, containing some songs of Ladies & Gentlemen, was planned to be released in the late summer of 2010. However, when the direction changed at Warner Bros, Records, Hilton left the label resulting in the material not being released
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Hilton at an Academy Awards afterparty, February 25, 2007
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Walk the Line
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Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, the film focuses on Cashs early life, his romance with June Carter, and his ascent to the country music scene, as based on his autobiographies. The screenplay was written by Mangold and Gill Dennis, the films production budget is estimated to have been US$28 million. Walk the Line previewed at the Telluride Film Festival on September 4,2005, the film was nominated for five Oscars at the 78th Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Costume Design. The film grossed more than $186 million worldwide, in 1968, as an audience of inmates at Folsom State Prison cheer for Johnny Cashs band, he waits backstage near a table saw, reminding him of his early life. In 1944, Johnny, then known as J. R. grows up the son of a sharecropper on a farm in Dyess. He is known for his singing of hymns, while his brother Jack is training himself to become a pastor, while Jack is sawing wood for a neighbor with a table saw, J. R. goes fishing until his brother finishes. But Jack has an accident with the saw and dies of his injuries, Cashs strained relationship with his father Ray becomes much more difficult after Jacks death. In 1950, J. R. enlists in the Air Force as Johnny Cash and he purchases a guitar and in 1952, finds solace in writing songs, one of which he develops as Folsom Prison Blues. After his discharge, Cash returns to the United States and marries his girlfriend Vivian Liberto, the couple moves to Memphis, Tennessee, where Cash works as a door-to-door salesman to support his growing family. He walks past a studio, which inspires him to organize a band to play gospel music. Cashs band auditions for Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records, after they play Folsom Prison Blues, the band receives a contract, and launch to stardom at the beginning of the rock and roll craze. The band begins touring as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, on tour he meets singer June Carter, with whom he falls in love. Cash begins spending time with June, who divorces her first husband Carl Smith. After his attempt to woo June fails, Cash starts abusing drugs, after his behavior reaches a bottom during a performance with June, they separate. Later, over Vivians objections, Johnny persuades June to come out of semi-retirement, the tour is a success, but backstage, Vivian becomes critical of Junes influence. After one performance in Las Vegas, Johnny and June sleep together, the next morning, she notices Johnny taking pills and doubts her choices. At that evenings concert, Johnny, upset by Junes apparent rejection, June disposes of Johnnys drugs and begins to write Ring of Fire, describing her feelings for him and her pain at watching him descend into addiction
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Don Johnson
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Donnie Wayne Don Johnson is an American actor, producer, director, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his role as James Sonny Crockett in the 1980s television series Miami Vice, Johnson was born December 15,1949, in Flat Creek, Missouri. His mother, Nell, was a beautician, and his father, at the time of his birth, they were 19 and 17, respectively. At age 6, he moved from Missouri to Wichita, Kansas, a 1967 graduate of South High School, he was involved in the high schools theatre program. As a senior, he played the role of Tony in West Side Story. His biography noted that he had appeared in Burnt Cork and Melody. He also attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, Johnson has spoken about his draft-exempt status and his dislike for war. Johnson studied drama at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and his first major role was in the 1969 Los Angeles stage production of Fortune and Mens Eyes, in which he played Smitty, the lead role. This exposure led to the quickly forgotten film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart and he continued to work on stage, film and television without breaking out into stardom. His notable films from this period were Zachariah, The Harrad Experiment, Lollipop and Roses, in 1976, Johnson was roommates with actor Sal Mineo when Mineo was murdered outside their West Hollywood, California apartment. Miami Vice was noted for its use of music cinematography and imagery. In the show, his partner was Ricardo Tubbs, played by Philip Michael Thomas, between seasons, Johnson gained further renown through several TV miniseries, such as the 1985 TV remake of The Long, Hot Summer. Johnson later starred in the 1996–2001 drama Nash Bridges with Cheech Marin, Jeff Perry, Jaime P. Gomez, Johnson played the title role of Nash Bridges, an inspector for the San Francisco Police Department. In Nash Bridges Johnson was again paired with a convertible car. In January 2007, Johnson began a run in the West End of London production of Guys, Johnson also has a role in the Norwegian comedy Lange Flate Ballær 2, directed by Johnsons friend Harald Zwart. Johnson did the movie as a favour to Zwart, the movie was launched March 14,2008 in Norway, with Johnson making an appearance at the premiere. He next appeared in When in Rome with Danny DeVito, Anjelica Huston, Johnson and Jon Heder co-hosted WWEs Raw on January 18,2010. Johnson had a role in Robert Rodriguezs film Machete
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Johnson in 1986
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Don Johnson with Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher at the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006
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Johnson and Mary-Louise Parker at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival
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Harvey Keitel
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Harvey Keitel is an American actor and producer. Along with actors Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn, he is the current co-president of the Actors Studio, Keitel was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the son of Miriam and Harry Keitel, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland, respectively. His parents owned and ran a luncheonette and his also worked as a hat maker. Keitel grew up in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, with his sister, Renee and he attended Abraham Lincoln High School. At the age of sixteen, he decided to join the United States Marine Corps, after his return to the United States, he was a court reporter for several years and was able to support himself before beginning his acting career. Keitel studied under both Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg and at the HB Studio, eventually landing roles in some Off-Broadway productions. During this time, Keitel auditioned for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and gained a role as J. R. in Scorseses first feature film. Since then, Scorsese and Keitel have worked together on several projects, Keitel had the starring role in Scorseses Mean Streets, which also proved to be Robert De Niros breakthrough film. In 1978, Keitel starred in the directorial debuts of Paul Schrader, Ridley Scott, cast as Captain Willard in Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now, Keitel was involved with the first week of principal photography in the Philippines. Coppola was not happy with Keitels take on Willard, stating that the found it difficult to play him a passive onlooker. After viewing the first weeks footage, Coppola replaced Keitel with a casting session favorite, Keitel drifted into obscurity through most of the 1980s. He continued to do work on stage and screen, but usually in the stereotypical role of a thug. Keitel played Judas in Martin Scorseses controversial The Last Temptation of Christ and co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes, the following year, Keitel played another mobster in the Whoopi Goldberg-starring comedy Sister Act. Keitel starred in Quentin Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs in 1992, where his performance as Mr. White took his career to a different level, since then, Keitel has chosen his roles with care, seeking to change his image and show a broader acting range. One of those roles was the character in Bad Lieutenant, about a self-loathing. He co-starred in the movie The Piano in 1993, and played an efficient clean-up expert, Keitel starred as a police detective in Spike Lees Clockers. In 1999, Keitel was replaced by Sydney Pollack on the set of Stanley Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut, due to shooting conflicts, Keitel also re-teamed with Jane Campion for Holy Smoke. He also appeared in the Steinlager Pure commercials in New Zealand in 2007, unlike many American male actors, Keitel has appeared nude in several films, including full frontal nudity in Bad Lieutenant and The Piano
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Keitel at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Harvey Keitel in November 2009
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Keitel with singer Harry Belafonte in New York, April 2011
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Keitel with wife Daphna Kastner in 2010
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Chunkey Pandey
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Suyash Chunky Pandey is an Indian film actor who works in Bollywood films. He has appeared in over 80 movies in a career that has spanned three decades. His movies were successful in Hindi in the period 1987-1992. After failure of his Hindi films as lead hero since 1993, Chunky then worked in Bangladeshi Cinema from 1995 and most of his movies in Bangladesh were successful. He has been acting as character actor since 2003 in Hindi films, chunkey Pandey worked as an instructor in acting school in 1986. He used to be senior to many junior budding artistes like Akshay Kumar, Pandey debuted his acting career with 1987 multi-starer film Aag Hi Aag opposite Neelam Kothari. Film producer Pahlaj Nihalani gave Chunky Pandey his first break in 1987 by signing up for two films, - his debut film and Paap Ki Duniya and he got his second successful film as Paap Ki Duniya with Sunny Deol and Neelam. Subsequently, Pandey appeared in many films from 1987 to 1993. In 1988, Pandey was appreciated for his role in N. Chandras movie Tezaab featuring Anil Kapoor. Pandey played the character of Babban, Munnas friend, for his performance in Tezaab, Pandey was nominated for the Filmfare Award for the Best Supporting Actor. Since then he has appeared in films with mixed success throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. Most of his films where he had the role did not fare well at the box office from 1992. In most films, he was cast as the lead to senior actors like Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Sunny Deol. Pandey found it difficult to slot himself in either category, in addition, by the late nineties, solo-hero films were back in vogue instead of the multi-hero films in which Pandey was generally cast. Chunky grew increasingly tired of playing second fiddle to more prominent actors but had difficulty being seen as marketable outside of supporting household names, I was offered hero ke bhai ka role and some shit, Chunky said. He moved to act as hero in Bangladesh films, in 1995, he was offered his first films as the lead hero in Bangladesh films. He acted in six films between 1995 and 1997 as hero in Bangladesh and all of them were successful, however he got no films at all in Bollywood between 1997 and 2002. Chunky Pandey returned to Bollywood in 2003 playing minor supporting roles in Qayamat, City Under Threat, Elaan, Don, The Chase Begins Again and Apna Sapna Money Money
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Chunky Pandey at the success party of the film The Forest, 2012
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Chunky Pandey (far right) with Aankhen director David Dhawan and co-star Govinda at a birthday party for Bobby Deol in 2011.
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Robert Patrick
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Robert Hammond Patrick, Jr. is an American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayals of villainous characters. He is a Saturn Award winner with four nominations, Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his interest in acting, and entered film in 1986. He currently stars in the CBS drama series Scorpion as Agent Cabe Gallo and he was described by actor/director Jason Bateman as one of the great heavies. Patrick, the oldest of five siblings, was born in Marietta, Georgia, Patrick is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. His siblings are Richard Patrick, Cheri, Karen and Lewis and he spent his early life in Bay Village, a small suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, while he moved around the country. Patrick did not start to pursue a career until his mid-twenties. During his childhood years, Patrick did not like to act, in third grade he refused to wear a pair of green tights required for Peter Pan. He graduated from Farmington High School in Farmington, Michigan, in 1977, Patrick was a track and field and football athlete at Bowling Green State University, although he dropped out before graduating when he found interest in Drama and acting. After leaving college, Patrick secured a position as a house painter and he swam for three hours in order to save the others still stranded on the accident site, nearly drowning in the attempt. After the accident, he moved from Ohio to Los Angeles, California and his main income during the first years was as a bartender, and he often lived in his car. Patrick was then picked up for small roles and cameos in low-budget films. Looking back, Patrick credited his early appearances in films to his tough-looking exterior, james Cameron, the films director, said he chose Patrick for the role because of his physical appearance, which he felt fit the role. During the filming of Terminator 2, Judgment Day, Patrick was broke, living in an apartment with his girlfriend, Barbara. He has credited the film with starting his career, after Terminator 2, Patrick landed roles in various feature films such as Last Action Hero, Fire in the Sky and Striptease. Because of his fondness for martial arts, Patrick starred in two martial arts films titled Double Dragon and Hong Kong 97, both released in 1994 and his performance in Fire in the Sky caught the attention of The X-Files creator, Chris Carter. After David Duchovny distanced himself from the show during the seventh season, patricks brother, Richard, had previously worked for the series by adding music for the soundtrack album The X-Files, The Album. Patrick was cast as Doggett in 2000, the X-Files was canceled two seasons later, after Duchovny left the show following season 7, which resulted in low ratings for the show. Patrick made several appearances on many magazines, with TV Guide going so far as to label him one of the Ten Sexiest Men of Sci-Fi
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Patrick at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International
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Ron Perlman
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Ronald N. Ron Perlman is an American actor and voice actor. His mother, Dorothy, was an employee, and his father, Bertram Bert Perlman, was a jazz drummer. Perlman said in 1988, It was not a bad childhood, I was terribly overweight as a young kid, and it was sort of a low self image. He cited this experience as one thing that attracts him to roles where he portrays these sorts of deformed people who are very endearing, Perlman is of Hungarian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent. His parents are Jewish, and he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, Perlman attended George Washington High School and Lehman College in 1971, which did not have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre available at that time. He has said that he and his father were close and that it was his father, after seeing Perlman in a college production of Guys and Dolls. Perlman later said, So, he gave me permission to be an actor, Perlman attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a masters degree in theater arts in 1973. Perlman started his career as a actor, appearing in various productions. Annaud later revealed that when he contacted Perlman to ask him about playing Salvatore in The Name of the Rose and this earned him a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series in 1989. He went on to roles in many films and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s as well as the 2000s. His appearances in television series include Highlander, The Series, The Outer Limits, The Magnificent Seven, and Hand of God and he played his first leading film role in 1995, when he played One in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caros French-language The City of Lost Children. In 2003, Perlman starred in a commercial for Stella Artois beer and this commercial, which was called Devils Island, won a Silver Award at the 2003 British Advertising Awards. He got another leading role in 2004 when he played the title role in the comic book adaptation Hellboy. Perlman reprised his role as Hellboy in the straight to DVD animated features Hellboy, Sword of Storms and Hellboy, Blood and Iron as well as Hellboy II, The Golden Army, released on July 11,2008. In 2008, Perlman joined the cast of the TV show Sons of Anarchy on FX playing Clay Morrow, Perlman is known for playing roles that require extensive make-up, some to the point where his entire body is covered or his face requires full facial prosthetics. Moreau where he plays a half man/half animal, Star Trek, Nemesis in which he is the Reman viceroy. He even gave his Beauty and The Beast co-star Armin Shimerman advice when Shimerman was going to be in full-facial prosthetics guest-starring as a Ferengi on Star Trek, The Next Generation. Perlman also has a career as a voice actor in addition to his onscreen acting, having portrayed characters in numerous video games
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Perlman at the 2015 Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards, February 2015
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Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers is an Irish actor. He has been the model for several Hugo Boss fragrances advertising campaigns. In 2013, Meyers appeared as the villain Valentine Morgenstern in The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones, based on Cassandra Clares novel and he also starred in the NBC drama series Dracula as the title character. Meyers appeared in the 2015 film Stonewall, directed by Roland Emmerich and he was born 27 July 1977 in Dublin, Ireland, to Geraldine and folk musician John OKeeffe. His three brothers are all professional musicians and he grew up in Cork and attended North Monastery Christian Brothers School. After being expelled from North Monastery at 14 for truancy, he spent much of his working and socialising in pool halls. Casting agents looking for Irish boys to appear in War of the Buttons spotted him at a Cork pool hall, the Victoria Sporting Club, although passed over for War of the Buttons, the casting agents encouraged him to pursue a career in acting. His first film came in A Man of No Importance. In 1996, he appeared in Michael Collins, as the title characters ambusher, in 1999, he appeared in Ride with the Devil as psychopathic guerrilla fighter Pitt Mackeson. The latter earned him an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe win and he starred in the CBC/Showtime co-production The Tudors as Henry VIII. He was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama in 2007 for the role and he played a David Bowie-inspired glam rock star in Velvet Goldmine, a dedicated girls football coach in Bend It Like Beckham, in Vanity Fair opposite Reese Witherspoon. He co-starred in 2004 in Oliver Stones epic Alexander, the following year he starred in Woody Allens drama Match Point, for which he received a Chopard Trophy at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, he appeared in Mission, Impossible III, subsequent projects include August Rush and The Children of Huang Shi, Shelter and From Paris with Love In 2011, he starred in Belle du Seigneur as Solal des Solal. The movie was released in Russia on 29 November 2012 and in France on 19 June 2013 after premiering at the Champs Elysees Film Festival, a self-taught singer and guitarist, he has appeared in a number of musical roles. His first such role was as Brian Slade in Velvet Goldmine and he sang briefly in the TV miniseries version of The Magnificent Ambersons, performed in studio scenes of the miniseries Elvis and played the flute in Gormenghast. In the 2007 music drama August Rush, he performed on-screen as singer-songwriter Louis Connelly and is credited for four songs on the soundtrack – Break, Moondance, Something Inside, and This Time. Of the four, This Time and Break were considered in the Best Original Song category of the 80th Academy Awards and this Time was not released as a single but peaked at number 84 in the Canadian Hot 100. Besides acting, Jonathan has also modelled for clothing companies
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Meyers in 2013
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Kurt Russell
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Kurt Vogel Russell is an American actor. He began acting on television in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, in the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company where, according to Robert Osborne, he became the studios top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Silkwood. A and he was nominated for an Emmy Award for the television film Elvis, also directed by Carpenter. Russell starred in films, including Overboard, Tombstone, Stargate, Death Proof. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Russell is the son of actor Bing Russell and he has three sisters, Jill, Jamie and Jody. In 1969, he graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in southern California and his sister Jill is the mother of baseball player Matt Franco. On April 24,1963, Russell guest starred in the ABC series Our Man Higgins and he played Peter Hall in the 1963 episode Everybody Knows You Left Me on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour. Later, he played the character in the ABC western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. In NBCs The Virginian, he played the mistaken orphan whose father was an outlaw played by Rory Calhoun who was still alive, Russell played a similar role as a kid named Packy Kerlin in the 1964 episode Blue Heaven for the western series Gunsmoke. He appeared in five episodes of Daniel Boone in various roles, at age 13, Russell played the role of Jungle Boy on an episode of CBSs Gilligans Island, which aired on February 6,1965. He guest-starred on ABCs western The Legend of Jesse James, in 1966, Russell played a 14-year-old Indian boy, Grey Smoke, adopted by the Texas Rangers in the episode Meanwhile, Back at the Reservation of the NBC western series Laredo. In the story line, he works for a gang, but the Rangers take him under their wing. In 1966, Walt Disney wrote Kurt Russell on a piece of paper as his final words, in January 1967, Russell played Private Willie Prentiss in the episode Willie and the Yank, The Mosby Raiders in Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color. While filming the Sherman Brothers theatrical film musical The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, flippen and Tom Tryon appeared in the episode Charade of Justice of the NBC western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan. In a March 1966 episode of CBSs Lost in Space entitled The Challenge, he played Quano, in 1971, he co-starred as a young robber released from jail, alongside James Stewart in Fools Parade. Later, he guest-starred in an episode of Room 222 as an high school student who assumed the costumed identity of Paul Revere to warn of the dangers of pollution. In 1966, Russell was signed to a contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he became, according to Robert Osborne. Russell, like his father, had a baseball career, while in the field turning the pivot of a double play early in the season, the incoming runner at second base collided with him and tore the rotator cuff in Russells right shoulder
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Russell at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
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Elvis (1979 movie)
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Elvis is a 1979 American made-for-television biographical film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley, originally aired on ABC. It marks the last role on television for Russell, and the first collaboration between him and Carpenter, Kurt Russells real-life wife and father, Season Hubley and Bing Russell, co-star as Presleys own wife and father. After its success on television in the United States, Elvis was released theatrically throughout Europe. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Made for Television, the story follows the life and career of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. It ends in 1970, and does not depict the last few years of Presleys career leading to his death in 1977 and it runs for about two hours including commercials. Bill Black Russell worked with and met Elvis in the film It Happened at the Worlds Fair, in the film, Elvis wants to meet the fairgrounds nurse and he pays a young boy, played by the twelve-year-old Russell, to kick him in the shins. Later in the film, he sees Elvis and the nurse together on a date, Russell also dubbed the voice of a young Elvis in Forrest Gump, and played an Elvis impersonator in the film 3000 Miles to Graceland. Country singer Ronnie McDowell provided the vocals for a number of songs Russell performed in the film, McDowell recorded 36 songs for the soundtrack, of which 25 were used. According to several reports, Priscilla Presley was paid $50,000 to check the script for accuracy before shooting commenced, Elvis originally aired on ABC opposite two blockbuster films, Gone with the Wind on CBS, and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest on NBC. Despite this, Elvis beat both in the Nielsen ratings, receiving a 27.3 rating compared to 24.3 and 22.5 respectively, Elvis was ranked the sixth most watched program of the week. After its success on television, the film was released theatrically throughout Europe, the film debuted on DVD in early 2010 and on Blu-ray in 2016 via Shout. Elvis is notable in Carpenters career for two reasons and it was made after Halloween had wrapped, so it offered him an avenue to try his hand at a film away from the horror genre. It was also the first time Carpenter had worked with Kurt Russell, who became a frequent collaborator of Carpenters. Russell subsequently starred in Escape from New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from L. A. Russell married co-star Season Hubley on March 17,1979, Bing Russell, who played Vernon Presley, is Kurt Russells real father. For several years Bing played Deputy Clem Poster in the TV series Bonanza, Elvis Elvis at the Internet Movie Database Elvis at AllMovie
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Great Balls of Fire! (film)
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Great Balls of Fire. is a 1989 American biographical film directed by Jim McBride and starring Dennis Quaid as rockabilly pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis. Based on a biography by Myra Lewis and Murray M. Silver, Jr. the screenplay is written by McBride, the film is produced by Adam Fields, with executive producers credited as Michael Grais, Mark Victor, and Art Levinson. The early career of Jerry Lee Lewis, from his rise to rock, until the scandal of the marriage depreciated his image, many had thought Lewis would supplant Elvis Presley as the King of Rock and Roll in the 1950s. Jerry Lee Lewis plays piano during rock and rolls early years from 1956 to 1958, Jerry Lee is a man with many different sides, a skilled performer with little discipline, and an alcoholic. W. Brown, and eventually marries her, much to the anger, a subplot deals with Jerry Lees relationship with another cousin, Jimmy Swaggart, who, during this period, was a struggling Pentecostal preacher. Jimmys career kept him in constant conflict with his cousins wild rock and roll career and brings out some uncomfortable exchanges between the two. The now-financially successful Jerry Lee buys a new car and gives it to his cousin, while Jerry Lee is touring in England 1958, a British reporter discovers he is married to his teenage cousin. Jerry Lee is then condemned as a child molester and a pervert by the public, as a result, his British tour is cancelled and he is deported from England. But it does not diminish Jerry Lees confidence that his career will continue, however, the scandal follows him back to the States. Jerry Lee begins drinking heavily when record sales and concert attendances are significantly down and he is furious when requested to print a public apology in Billboard and becomes increasingly abusive toward Myra. It was during one of these episodes that Myra informs Jerry Lee that she is pregnant. Jerry Lee and Myra attend a service conducted by Swaggart. When Jimmy offers one more chance to become saved and get right with God, Jerry Lee again refuses, declaring, If Im going to hell, the caption preceding the closing credits reads, Jerry Lee Lewis is playing his heart out somewhere in America tonight. The story was co-written by Myra Gail Lewis, the wife of Jerry Lee Lewis. Despite this, co-writer Silver was upset by the lack of accuracy in the film, director Jim McBride admitted that it was never his intention to tie his film to the facts, and stated This movie does not represent itself in any way to be a historical documentary. We use the book as a jumping-off point, Lewis has openly stated that he hates the film and the book it was based on. Lewis did, however, praise Quaids portrayal of him in the film, Quaid even learned to play Lewis-style piano for the role. This was the film of character actor Trey Wilson
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Jack White (musician)
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Jack White is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is known as the singer and guitarist of duo The White Stripes. On April 24,2012, White released his solo album. His second studio album, Lazaretto, was released on June 10,2014, both received wide commercial and critical acclaim. After moonlighting in several underground Detroit bands as a drummer, White founded The White Stripes with fellow Detroit native Meg White in 1997. Their 2001 breakthrough album, White Blood Cells, brought international fame with the hit single and accompanying music video. This recognition provided White opportunities to collaborate with artists, including Loretta Lynn. In 2006, White founded The Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success, and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s. He has won twelve Grammy Awards, and both of his albums have reached number one on the Billboard charts. Rolling Stone ranked him number 70 on its 2010 list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, david Frickes 2011 list ranked him at number 17. White has a collection of guitars and other instruments, and has a preference for vintage items that often have connections to famous blues artists. He is an advocate for analog technology and recording techniques. His record label and studio Third Man Records releases vinyl recordings of his own work, as well as that of other artists and his latest album holds the record for most first-week vinyl sales since 1991. White values his privacy and has known to create misdirection about his personal life. He and Meg divorced in 2000 and he was married to model and singer Karen Elson from 2005 to 2013, together, they have a son and daughter. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee and he recently bought a house in Kalamazoo, Michigan. John Anthony Gillis was born in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest of ten children—and the seventh son—of Teresa and his mothers family was Polish, while his father was of Scottish-Canadian descent. He was raised a Catholic, and his father and mother worked for the Archdiocese of Detroit
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White performing at Roskilde Festival (2012)
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At the O2 Wireless Festival in 2007
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Brendan Benson and Jack White
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Jack White and Alison Mosshart performing live with the Dead Weather at the Glastonbury Festival, June 26, 2009.
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Lloyd Ahlquist
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Ahlquist has performed as an MC, actor, improviser and writer. In addition to the rap battles, Ahlquist, along with Shukoff, appeared in a cameo in The SpongeBob Movie, Ahlquist was the former General Manager and Artistic Director of M. I. s Westside Comedy Theater. Ahlquist also studied at UMass Amherst and later trained in Chicago at The Second City, Improv Olympic and Annoyance Theatre. Ahlquist was one of the members of Mission IMPROVable. He founded the troupe after dropping out of the University of Massachusetts with five classmates. In August 2014, Ahqluist hosted YouTubes first live-streamed improv comedy event, Lloyd runs his own YouTube channel that launched on April 20,2011. To date,16 Dis Raps for Hire have been produced, season 2 of Dis Raps for Hire started on March 11,2013. On July 17,2012, Lloyds channel hit 200,000 subscribers, as a thank you gesture, he produced a parody of the Cinnamon challenge. In 2016, Lloyd hit 400,000 subscribers, Ahlquist has played several characters in the successful rap battles including Bill OReilly and Adolf Hitler. Epic Rap Battles of History received four wins at the 3rd Streamy Awards, by October 2014, the rap battles accumulated a total view count of over 1 billion, excluding the hundreds of millions of views earned by the season 1 episodes. Nothing I Aint Got No Watch New Things Holding The Seams Together Scars Cheap Beer Space Pops Over the Falls Lloyd Ahlquist at the Internet Movie Database
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Elvis Presley filmography
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Although not chosen for the part, he signed a contract with Paramount producer Hal Wallis on April 25 that also allowed him to make films with other studios. His feature debut was in Love Me Tender for 20th Century Fox, loving You, Jailhouse Rock and King Creole were dramatic storylines written around Presley in the role of a musical entertainer. He would later state that King Creole was his favorite of all his films, flaming Star and Wild in the Country were rarities in his career, non-musicals focused on dramatic storylines. Presley became bitter that his hopes for dramatic roles were not coming to fruition and he began to complain about the deteriorating quality of the films and his belief that his managers objectives were more monetary than anything else. At the expiration of all contracts, he returned to live entertaining. The two concert documentaries Elvis, Thats the Way It Is in 1970 and Elvis on Tour in 1972 were the theatrical releases for Presley. The Best American Noir of the Century, last train to Memphis, The Rise of Elvis Presley. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, careless Love, The Unmaking of Elvis Presley. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, Elvis Day by Day, The Definitive Record of His Life and Music. Elvis Presley, A Live in Music, The Complete Recording Sessions, new York, NY, St. Martins Press. Fantasy Femmes of 60s Cinema, Interviews with 20 Actresses from Biker, Beach, hollywood Surf and Beach Movies The First Wave, 1959–1969. The Agency, William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business, Elvis Presley, Silver Screen Icon, A Collection of Movie Posters
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Elvis Presley in a publicity photo for Jailhouse Rock
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Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley
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Elvis Presley has inspired artistic and cultural works since he entered the national consciousness. From that point, interest in his personal and public life has never stopped, some scholars have even studied many aspects of his profound cultural influence. Billboard historian Joel Whitburn declared Presley the #1 act of the Rock era, the following lists cover various media which include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. Only people and works with Wikipedia articles are included, for purposes of classification, popular culture music is a separate section from operas and oratorios. Television covers live action series, TV movies, miniseries, and North American animation but not Japanese anime, another 21 copies are said to exist. V) Double Elvis,1963, sold at Sothebys in May 2012 for US$37.1 million above, vi) Triple Elvis,1963, sold at Christiess in November 2014 for US$81.9 million. Vii) Eight Elvises,1963, sold privately, in December 2008, taylor, St. Hugh Jackman, who provides the speaking and singing voice of the character, did his own Elvis impersonation for the films soundtrack. Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis is kidnapped by a fans son Independence Day, upon escaping the Mother Ship, all three sequel films in the franchise have also featured Presleys songs and/or images. Stitch also regularly impersonates Elvis in the TV series of the same name, nick performs Are You Lonesome Tonight. The Golden Girls, The Presidents Coming, the Colonel gets furious when he finds out Richie was going behind his back has Elvis point a gun at him. Bill & Teds Excellent Video Game Adventures, Elvis is one of sixteen historical dudes who can be rescued, the SNES game Waynes World Elvis appears as a level boss. Elvis died three days before Groucho Marx, Groucho fans blamed Elviss death for Grouchos death not getting as much publicity, Elvis and Groucho were next door neighbors in Beverly Hills, California. In 2006, Elviss teddy bear Mabel, made in 1909 by Steiff, was on display at a museum near Wookey Hole Caves when an Doberman destroyed it. The insurance company had insisted that the teddy bears be protected by guard dogs, other than Presley, no musician merited a separate episode, which comprised four women among a list of political leaders, thinkers, heads of state and actors. In 2006, the Atlantic Magazine ranked him the 66th most influential American ever, no other individual involved in entertainment, other than Walt Disney, ranked higher. In 2008, the MIT-launched Pantheon programme, which maps cultural production, only the Reverend Martin Luther King, a Nobel Peace prize winner, outranks him among all persons born in the United States of America. In 2010, LIFE Magazine ranked him #96 in their list of the 100 people who changed the world, only Charles Chaplin and Louis Armstrong ranked higher among entertainers. In 2014, the Smithsonian Magazine issued a listing of the 100 most significant Americans of all time, no other entertainer is listed separately
Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley
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Wackel-Elvis dashboard figure from a 2001 Audi TV commercial
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