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Manhattan
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Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the citys historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1,1683, Manhattan is often described as the cultural and financial capital of the world and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough and it is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders which equals US$1062 today. New York County is the United States second-smallest county by land area, on business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile. Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York Citys five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, the City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the citys government. The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, a 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River. The word Manhattan has been translated as island of hills from the Lenape language. The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use New York, NY rather than Manhattan, the area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City. It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, a permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624 with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam, the 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 to US$23, variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars, as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York. Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony, New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1653. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it New York after the English Duke of York and Albany, the Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city New Orange. Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16,1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British political, British occupation lasted until November 25,1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city
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View from
Midtown Manhattan, facing south toward
Lower Manhattan
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Peter Minuit, early 1600s.
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The
Castello Plan showing the Dutch colonial city of
New Amsterdam in 1660 – then confined to the southern tip of Manhattan Island.
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J.Q.A. Ward 's statue of
George Washington in front of
Federal Hall (on
Wall Street) where he was inaugurated as the first
U.S. President in 1789.
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Paley's management saw a twentyfold increase in gross income in his first decade.
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Wholesome
Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth
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When
Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after 20 years of mime, he chose CBS's airwaves to do it on.
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CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent.
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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TV producer
Bruce Kennedy holding an Emmy
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Actress
Dana Delany holding an Emmy, 1992
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TV producer and writer
Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera
The Bold and the Beautiful, 2010
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Brazilian actress and TV host
Fernanda Lima holding
Rede Globo 's six medals of nominations to the International Emmys in 2012
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Stephen King
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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows. King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman and he has written nearly 200 short stories, most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are set in his state of Maine. His novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was the basis for the movie The Shawshank Redemption which is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and his short story The Man in the Black Suit received the O. Henry Award. In 2015, King was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the United States National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature, King was born September 21,1947, in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Edwin King, was born circa 1913 in Peru, Indiana, when Donald was born, his surname was Pollock, but as an adult, he used the surname King. Kings mother, Nellie Ruth, was born in Scarborough, Maine, Donald and Nellie were married July 23,1939, in Cumberland County, Maine. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, when King was 11, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a residential facility for the mentally challenged. King was raised Methodist and remains religious as an adult, as a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless. Only later did the family learn of the friends death, some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of Kings darker works, but King makes no mention of it in his memoir On Writing. King related in detail his primary inspiration for writing fiction in his non-fiction Danse Macabre. King compares his uncles successfully dowsing for water using the bough of a branch with the sudden realization of what he wanted to do for a living. King told Barnes & Noble Studios during a 2009 interview, I knew that Id found home when I read that book, King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School, in Lisbon Falls, Maine
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Stephen King in February 2007
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King's home in
Bangor
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It (miniseries)
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It is a 1990 supernatural horror miniseries directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, adapted by Lawrence D. Cohen from the Stephen King novel of the same name. The story revolves around an inter-dimensional predatory shapeshifter which has the ability to transform itself into its preys worst fears and it mostly takes the form of a sadistic, wisecracking clown called Pennywise played by Tim Curry. The protagonists are The Lucky Seven, or The Losers Club, originally conceived as a four-part eight-hour series, ABC enlisted writer Lawrence D. Cohen to adapt the 1, 138-page King novel. Production on It began in early 1990, and the series was filmed over a period of three months in New Westminster, British Columbia in mid-1990. It aired on ABC over two nights on November 18 and 20,1990, and was a success for the network. Since its initial television broadcast, the miniseries has received positive reception, critics praised Tim Currys performance as Pennywise and the performances of the child actors. For his work on the miniseries, Richard Bellis received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special, a feature film adaptation of the novel is scheduled to be released on September 8,2017. In Derry, Maine,1960, a boy named George Georgie Denbrough is lured to a storm drain by a strange, yet seemingly kind. After a brief conversation, Pennywise reveals his malevolent nature and murders Georgie, georgies older brother Bill is taunted by Pennywise as well. He and six other outcast children, who form a group called the Losers Club, in turn, all of them are bullied by the cruel Henry Bowers and his gang. To avenge Georgie and others killed by It, the Losers venture into the sewers where the clown lurks. They are followed by Henry and his friends Victor Criss and Belch Huggins, who threaten Stan, only for It to kill Victor and Belch and it, as Pennywise, catches up to the Losers and grabs Stan, bragging that he is immortal and eats children. Pennywise escapes wounded, and the seven make a promise to return, Henry is arrested and institutionalized when he falsely confesses to murdering his friends and the children It killed. Thirty years later, in 1990, Pennywise returns and begins murdering children in Derry, Mike, a librarian still living in Derry, summons his six friends back to Derry to fulfil their vow. While five of them agree to come, Stan commits suicide in his bath tub, the remaining six are individually scared by Pennywise before reuniting for dinner, though Pennywise frightens them there too. They soon learn of Stans suicide shortly after, elsewhere, an older Henry is visited and befriended by Pennywise who sends him to Derry to kill the Losers. Audra also arrives in town following Bill but falls victim to Its paralyzing deadlights, Henry wounds Mike, but is killed by his own knife during a scuffle with the other Losers. With Mike hospitalised, the five remaining Losers decide to destroy It for good and they confront It, who now appears as a monstrous spider
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Artwork for the VHS and DVD release
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Wonder Boys (film)
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Wonder Boys is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Steve Kloves. The film was based on the novel of the title by Michael Chabon. Michael Douglas stars as professor Grady Tripp, a novelist who teaches writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university. He has been unable to finish his novel, his young wife has left him, and he is having an affair with the Chancellor of the university. Gradys editor is in town to see his new book and becomes interested in a book one of Gradys students has just completed. Other Pennsylvania locations included Beaver, Rochester and Rostraver Township, after the film failed at the box office, there was a second attempt to find an audience with a new marketing campaign and a November 8,2000, re-release, which was also a financial disappointment. Professor Grady Tripp is a novelist who teaches writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university. He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell, whose husband, Gradys third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He continues to labor on a novel, but the more he tries to finish it the less able he finds himself to invent a satisfactory ending. The book runs to two and a half thousand pages and is still far from finished. He spends his time smoking marijuana. Gradys students include James Leer and Hannah Green, Hannah and James are friends and both very good writers. Hannah, who rents a room in Gradys large house, is attracted to Grady, James is enigmatic, quiet, dark and enjoys writing fiction more than he first lets on. During a party at the Gaskells house, Sara reveals to Grady that she is pregnant with his child, Grady finds James standing outside holding what he claims to be a replica gun, won by his mother at a fairground during her schooldays. However, the gun out to be very real, as James shoots the Gaskells dog when he finds it attacking Grady. James also steals a valuable piece of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia from the house. Grady is unable to tell Sara of this incident as she is pressuring him to choose between her and Emily, as a result, Grady is forced to keep the dead dog in the trunk of his car for most of the weekend. He also allows James to follow him around, fearing that he may be depressed or even suicidal, gradually, he realizes that much of what James tells him about himself and his life is untrue, and is seemingly designed to elicit Gradys sympathy
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Theatrical release poster
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Theatrical re-release poster
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McBurney School
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McBurney School was a college preparatory school in Manhattan run by the YMCA of Greater New York. D. Salinger, and financiers Bruce Wasserstein and Felix Rohatyn, by 1935 the educational work of the City Association had increased to a point where a Schools Branch was justified. The direction of this Branch centered in McBurneys 15 West 63rd Street building and provided for the operation of four, sometimes five and this arrangement continued until, by 1957, increases in enrollment called for the accommodation of 450 boys. It was decided, therefore, to all of the departments except McBurney. In September,1958, the first part of the renovation was finished, due to the construction of Lincoln Center only a block to the west, the value of the school property increased dramatically after 1965. In the mid-1980s the YMCA sold the property for residential development, in spite of mergers and a move to 20 West End Avenue, The New York Times reported that McBurney shut its doors and auctioned off its contents on August 3,1988. The organization paid $5.5 million for the building on West End Avenue at 60th Street, spent $3.8 million on remodeling. The schools location - in a neighborhood of automobile dealers, parking lots, mr. Giannone found the yearbook showing a member of the class of 1956 whose nickname was Dumbo. The name was listed as Ted Koppel, now of ABC News, McBurney may be best remembered as the destination of Holden Caulfield when he left all the equipment of the Pencey Prep fencing team on the subway in Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Headmasters 1916–1918, Newel W. Edson 1918–1952, Thomas Hemenway – also oratory teacher, 1952–1962, Benjamin D. Chamberlin 1962-1972, James J. Quinn Jr. Ph. D. Aug 1972– May 1974, E. Duane Meyer, Ed. D June 1974-1983 Anthony F. Capraro III, the school is also briefly mentioned in the book The Catcher in the Rye. The author, J. D. Salinger, had gone to this school, Edson Fisher Scudder, Chaired the History Department from 1953 to 1981 Robert Lincoln Litch, Physics and art appreciation teacher. After leaving McBurney, he served for years as Director of Student Services at Boston Arts Academy and was the recipient of an educator of the year award from the Boston Public Schools in 2010. Mr Hartman, taught Biology in the 60-70s, donald Rock, Music teacher and Chorus Director, 1950s-1970s. Later founder and director of the Gotham Gay Mens Chorus and the Stonewall Chorale, Thomas Gerald Monaco, PhD, Coached football, wrestling & baseball, taught history and handled AD duties. He left McBurney as Head Football Coach after the 1980 season, assistant coaches Rick Starace and Joe Puggelli became Co-Head Football Coaches. Football was started in 1964 by Head Coach, Tony Capraro, bob Scully, Coach in the 50s & 60s, had Jason Robards and Joey Luft. Joe Puggelli, English Department Chairman & Football Coach 80s, Joe was co-head coach with Rick Starace in 1981
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5 West 63rd Street
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and emerged as a figure in world events during the mid-20th century. He directed the United States government during most of the Great Depression and he is often rated by scholars as one of the three greatest U. S. Presidents, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Roosevelt was born in 1882 to an old, prominent Dutch family from Dutchess County and he attended the elite educational institutions of Groton School, Harvard College, and Columbia Law School. At age 23 in 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt, and he entered politics in 1910, serving in the New York State Senate, and then as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson. In 1920, Roosevelt was presidential candidate James M. Coxs running mate and he was in office from 1929 to 1933 and served as a reform governor, promoting the enactment of programs to combat the depression besetting the United States at the time. In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated incumbent Republican president Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency, Roosevelt took office while in the United States was in the midst of the worst economic crisis in its history. Energized by his victory over polio, FDR relied on his persistent optimism and activism to renew the national spirit. He created numerous programs to support the unemployed and farmers, and to labor union growth while more closely regulating business. His support for the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 added to his popularity, the economy improved rapidly from 1933–37, but then relapsed into a deep recession in 1937–38. The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court, when the war began and unemployment ended, conservatives in Congress repealed the two major relief programs, the WPA and CCC. However, they kept most of the regulations on business, along with several smaller programs, major surviving programs include the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wagner Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Social Security. His goal was to make America the Arsenal of Democracy, which would supply munitions to the Allies, in March 1941, Roosevelt, with Congressional approval, provided Lend-Lease aid to Britain and China. He supervised the mobilization of the U. S. economy to support the war effort, as an active military leader, Roosevelt implemented a war strategy on two fronts that ended in the defeat of the Axis Powers and initiate the development of the worlds first atomic bomb. His work also influenced the creation of the United Nations. Roosevelts physical health declined during the war years, and he died 11 weeks into his fourth term. One of the oldest Dutch families in New York State, the Roosevelts distinguished themselves in other than politics. One ancestor, Isaac Roosevelt, had served with the New York militia during the American Revolution, Roosevelt attended events of the New York society Sons of the American Revolution, and joined the organization while he was president
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Roosevelt in 1933
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Roosevelt in 1884, 2 years old.
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The birthplace of FDR at Springwood.
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Roosevelt sailing with half-niece Helen and father James, 1899.
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Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as the father of realism and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre and he is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Dolls House became the worlds most performed play by the early 20th century. Several of his dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era. Ibsens later work examined the realities that lay behind many façades and it utilized a critical eye and free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. The poetic and cinematic early play Peer Gynt, however, has strong surreal elements, Ibsen is often ranked as one of the most distinguished playwrights in the European tradition. Richard Hornby describes him as a profound poetic dramatist—the best since Shakespeare and he is widely regarded as the most important playwright since Shakespeare. He influenced other playwrights and novelists such as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, James Joyce, Eugene ONeill, Ibsen was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902,1903, and 1904. Ibsen wrote his plays in Danish and they were published by the Danish publisher Gyldendal, born into a merchant family connected to the patriciate of Skien, Ibsen shaped his dramas according to his family background. He was the father of Prime Minister Sigurd Ibsen, Ibsens dramas continue in their influence upon contemporary culture and film with notable film productions including A Dolls House featuring Jane Fonda and A Master Builder featuring Wallace Shawn. Ibsen was born to Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg, in a merchant family, in the small port town of Skien in Telemark county. Ibsens grandfather, ship captain Henrich Ibsen, had died at sea in 1797, Knud Ibsens paternal ancestors were ship captains of Danish origin, but he decided to become a merchant, having initial success. His marriage to Marichen Altenburg, a daughter of ship-owner Johan Andreas Altenburg, theodore Jorgenson points out that Henriks ancestry reached back into the important Telemark family of Paus both on the fathers and on the mothers side. Hedvig Paus must have well known to the young dramatist. Henrik Ibsen was fascinated by his parents strange, almost incestuous marriage, Henriks sister Hedvig would write about their mother, She was a quiet, lovable woman, the soul of the house, everything to her husband and children. She sacrificed herself time and time again, There was no bitterness or reproach in her. The Ibsen family eventually moved to a city house, Snipetorp, owned by Knud Ibsens half-brother, Ibsen would both model and name characters in his plays after his own family. At fifteen, Ibsen was forced to leave school and he moved to the small town of Grimstad to become an apprentice pharmacist and began writing plays. In 1846, when Ibsen was age 18, a liaison with a servant produced a child, whose upbringing Ibsen had to pay for until the boy was in his teens
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Henrik Ibsen by Gustav Borgen
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Ibsen caricatured by SNAPP for
Vanity Fair, 1901
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Ibsen's grandmother Hedevig Altenburg, née
Paus (cf. the character Hedvig in
The Wild Duck)
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Ibsen photographed in Dresden ca. 1870
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Hume Cronyn
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Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr. OC was a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside Jessica Tandy, his wife of over fifty years. Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario and his father, Hume Blake Cronyn, Sr. was a businessman and a Member of Parliament for London. His mother, Frances Amelia, was an heiress of the company of the same name. His great-uncle, Benjamin, Jr. Cronyn was also a cousin of Canadian-born theater producer, Robert Whitehead, Cronyn was the first Elmwood School boarder and boarded at Elmwood between 1917 and 1921. After leaving Elmwood, Cronyn went to Ridley College in St. Catharines, and McGill University in Montreal, early in life, Cronyn was an amateur featherweight boxer, having the skills to be nominated for Canadas 1932 Olympic Boxing team. In 1934, the year he joined The Lambs, he made his Broadway debut as a janitor in Hippers Holiday and became known for his versatility. He won a Drama Desk Special Award in 1986, in 1990, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. His first Hollywood film was Alfred Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt and he later appeared in Hitchcocks Lifeboat and worked on the screenplays of Rope and Under Capricorn. He was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in The Seventh Cross, Cronyn bought the screenplay What Nancy Wanted from Norma Barzman, who was later blacklisted with her husband Ben Barzman, with the idea of producing the film and starring Tandy. However, he sold the screenplay to RKO which later filmed it as The Locket, Cronyn also made appearances in television, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Kill With Kindness and Hawaii Five-O episodes Over Fifty, Steal and Odd Man In. In 1990 he won an Emmy award for his role in the TV Movie Age Old Friends, the show was scheduled to move from radio to television, with Cronyn producing as well as acting in the show. However, Tandy suffered a miscarriage and the debut was delayed a week. The series premiered in July 1954 to warm and enthusiastic reviews, the couple had a daughter, Tandy, and a son, Christopher. Cronyn and Tandy lived in the Bahamas, then at an estate in Pound Ridge, New York. Jessica Tandy died in 1994, aged 85, from ovarian cancer, after he was widowed, Cronyn married author/playwright Susan Cooper in July 1996. His 1991 autobiography was titled A Terrible Liar and he died on June 15,2003, one month before his 92nd birthday. In 1979, Cronyn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, on July 11,1988 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada, giving him the Post Nominal Letters OC for Life. Cronyn was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame in 1999 and he also received the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal in 1992 and the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002
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Wife
Jessica Tandy and Cronyn at the 1988 Emmy Awards
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Cronyn in Lifeboat, 1944
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The Edge of Night
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The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. The Edge of Night, whose working title was The Edge of Darkness, premiered on April 2,1956, prior to the debuts of both shows, 15-minute-long shows had been the standard. Both shows aired on CBS, sponsored by Procter & Gamble, the show was originally conceived as the daytime television version of Perry Mason, which was popular in novel and radio formats at the time. Masons creator Erle Stanley Gardner was to create and write the show, CBS insisted that Mason be given a love interest to placate daytime soap opera audiences, but Gardner refused to take Mason in that direction. Gardner eventually patched up his differences with CBS, and Perry Mason debuted in prime time in 1957, in 1956, a writer from the Perry Mason radio show, Irving Vendig, created a retooled idea for daytime television—and The Edge of Night was born. John Larkin, radios best identified Perry Mason, was cast as the protagonist-star, initially as a detective, eventually as an attorney, unlike Perry Mason, whose adventures took place in Southern California, the daytime series was set in the fictional Midwestern city of Monticello. A frequent backdrop for the early scenes was a restaurant called the Ho-Hi-Ho. The state capital, however, was known generically as Capital City, from its beginning in 1956 until roughly 1980, the downtown skyline of the city of Cincinnati stood in as Monticello. Procter & Gamble, which produced the show, was based in Cincinnati, in later years, the Los Angeles skyline replaced that of Cincinnati. The skyline motif was eventually eliminated altogether in the two years of the show, as was the word The in the title. During most of the run, viewers were treated to an announcer enthusiastically and energetically announcing the shows title. Bob Dixon was the first announcer in 1956, followed by Herbert Duncan, the two voices most identified with the show, however, were those of Harry Kramer and Hal Simms, who announced until the series ended in 1984. The Edge of Night played on more levels than probably any other soap of its time. It was unique among soap operas in that it focused on crime. The shows particular focus on crime was recognized in 1980, when, in honor of its 25 years on the air, the Edge of Night had more prominent male characters than most soap operas, and included genuine humor in its scripts to balance the heaviness of the storylines. The shows central protagonist was Mike Karr, tireless crimefighter, introduced as an officer who was finishing law school. This character evolved from the earlier Perry Mason character on radio and he then progressed to the district attorneys office as an assistant district attorney, hung his own shingle as a defense attorney for several years, then became district attorney of Monticello. Karr was portrayed by three actors, John Larkin, Laurence Hugo, and Forrest Compton, over the years, the show featured many notable performers and celebrities, usually in small cameo appearances, but some in roles important to the storylines
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The Edge of Night
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As the World Turns
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As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2,1956, to September 17,2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a show to her other soap opera Guiding Light. Running for 54 years, As the World Turns holds the second-longest continuous run of any daytime soap opera on American television. As the World Turns was produced for the first 43 years in Manhattan, set in the fictional town of Oakdale, Illinois, the show debuted on April 2,1956, at 1,30 pm EST. Prior to that date, all serials had been 15 minutes in length, as the World Turns and The Edge of Night, which premiered on the same day at 4,30 pm EST, were the first two to be 30 minutes in length from their premiere. At first, viewers did not respond to the new half-hour serial, in 1959, the show started a streak of weekly ratings wins that was not interrupted for over 12 years. The show switched to color on August 21,1967, and expanded from a half-hour in length to one starting on December 1,1975. In the year-to-date ratings, As the World Turns was the daytime drama from 1958 until 1978. At its height, core actors such as Helen Wagner, Don MacLaughlin, Don Hastings, three of these actors – Wagner, Hastings, and Fulton – are also the three longest serving actors in the history of American soap operas. The show passed its 10, 000th episode on May 12,1995, on September 18,2009, As the World Turns became the last remaining Procter and Gamble-produced soap opera for CBS after Guiding Light aired its final episode on the network. On December 8,2009, CBS announced that it cancelled As the World Turns after almost 54 years due to low ratings. The show taped its final Procter and Gamble scenes for CBS on June 23,2010, on October 18,2010, CBS replaced As the World Turns with a newly debuted talk show The Talk. As the World Turns was the creation of Irna Phillips, who beginning in the 1930s, had one of the foremost creators and writers of radio soap operas. Phillips wrote, As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer, and so it was with As the World Turns, with its slow-moving psychological character studies of families headed by legal and medical professionals. The personal and professional lives of doctors and lawyers remained central to As the World Turns throughout its run, Phillips style favored gradual evolution over radical change. Slow, conversational, and emotionally intense, the show moved at the pace of life itself –, each new addition to the cast was done in a gradual manner, and was usually a key contact to one of the members of the Hughes family. As such, the show earned a reputation as being quite conservative, during the shows early decades, the content-related policies of its sponsor Procter & Gamble Productions may have contributed to the perception of conservatism. As the World Turns premiered on April 2,1956 and it was the first television daytime drama with a 30-minute running time, all daytime dramas until then had 15-minute running times
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The original core family, the Hugheses, in the 1980s. Clockwise from top left: Kim Sullivan Hughes (
Kathryn Hays), Bob Hughes (
Don Hastings), Tom Hughes (
Gregg Marx), Margo Montgomery Hughes (
Hillary Bailey Smith), Andy Dixon (
Scott DeFreitas), Frannie Hughes (
Julianne Moore). Center: Chris Hughes (
Don MacLaughlin) and Nancy Hughes (
Helen Wagner).
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The initial
CBS News Bulletin which interrupted As the World Turns at 1:40 p.m. (EST), as Nancy (
Helen Wagner) talks with Grandpa (
Santos Ortega)
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Tom Hughes (As the World Turns)
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Thomas Christopher Tom Hughes is a fictional character on the American soap opera As the World Turns. He is an attorney in Oakdale, the character of Tom Hughes has been played by many young actors before being aged in 1969. Unknown babies James Madden Jerry Schaffer Frankie Michaels Richard Thomas Paul OKeefe Peter Link Tom Hughes was born onscreen in May 1961 to Bob and Lisa Hughes. His parents divorced when he was young and Tom largely blamed his father for the break-up, Lisa, tired of Oakdale, took Tom to LA and dropped him off at a military school. His grandparents, Chris and Nancy, brought him back home, however, young Tommy was still angry at his father, and started acting up by destroying daddy dolls. Luckily, Ellen Lowell was able to out to Tommy and got him to see not only how much Bob loved him, but made him realize how much his dad. Later, when Tom was a bit older, he became insolent, when Tom returned, he was shocked to learn that his mother had lied to him about the baby she was caring for. Lisa told Tom that the child, Chuckie, was the child of an ill friend, Tom denounced her as a liar and wrote her off. At this point, a teenaged Tom was becoming rebellious and he was obnoxious to his grandparents, Nancy and Chris, who shared Lisas conviction that Bob had become neglectful of his son. Toms uncle, Donald Hughes was the one in the family who was able to develop a good rapport with Tom. In one conversation, Tom complained to his uncle that being prepared for adulthood was like being a Boy Scout, Bob also became concerned about Toms attitude and warned him hed cut off his financial support unless he took Lisa back into his life. Tom begrudgingly needed his fathers advice, acting more than cordially to his mother. As his parents sorted out their love lives, Tom was bedeviled by demons of his own. His grades were so bad that he confided to Chris that he was about to join the Army, Chris tried to reach out to his grandson, but the boy went ahead and joined the Army, shipping off to Vietnam. His time in Vietnam, during which his drug dependency intensified, was cut short, when he returned to Oakdale, Tom resumed his dependency on his old boarding school roommate, Hank Barton, for dubious companionship and drugs. One night, when Tom was high, Hank put him up to breaking into Michael Sheas office to steal narcotics, Michael caught Tom and extracted a written confession, which he used then to blackmail Lisa into marrying him. Having been left by his wife Claire, Michael had become obsessed with having Chuckie know him as his father and he was, however, already tired of Lisa and was now carrying on with Karen Adams, a sympathetic but impressionable young nurse. Shortly after Lisa and Michael married, Lisa left Chuckie in her car during an errand, Chuckie was unhurt, but Michael, as usual, capitalized on the situation
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Scott Holmes as Tom Hughes, 2010
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Broadcasting
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Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers. Before this, all forms of communication were one-to-one, with the message intended for a single recipient. Over the air broadcasting is usually associated with radio and television, the receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively small subset, the point is that anyone with the appropriate receiving technology and equipment can receive the signal. The field of broadcasting includes both government-managed services such as radio, community radio and public television, and private commercial radio. The U. S. Code of Federal Regulations, title 47, part 97 defines broadcasting as transmissions intended for reception by the general public, private or two-way telecommunications transmissions do not qualify under this definition. For example, amateur and citizens band radio operators are not allowed to broadcast, as defined, transmitting and broadcasting are not the same. Transmissions using a wire or cable, like television, are also considered broadcasts. In the 2000s, transmissions of television and radio programs via streaming digital technology have increasingly been referred to as broadcasting as well, the earliest broadcasting consisted of sending telegraph signals over the airwaves, using Morse code, a system developed in the 1830s by Samuel F. B. Morse, physicist Joseph Henry and Alfred Vail and they developed an electrical telegraph system which sent pulses of electric current along wires which controlled an electromagnet that was located at the receiving end of the telegraph system. A code was needed to transmit natural language using only these pulses, Morse therefore developed the forerunner to modern International Morse code. Audio broadcasting began experimentally in the first decade of the 20th century, by the early 1920s radio broadcasting became a household medium, at first on the AM band and later on FM. Television broadcasting started experimentally in the 1920s and became widespread after World War II, satellite broadcasting was initiated in the 1960s and moved into general industry usage in the 1970s, with DBS emerging in the 1980s. Originally all broadcasting was composed of signals using analog transmission techniques but in the 2000s. In general usage, broadcasting most frequently refers to the transmission of information, Analog audio vs. HD Radio Analog television vs.9 zettabytes. This is the equivalent of 55 newspapers per person per day in 1986. Historically, there have been several methods used for broadcasting electronic media audio and/or video to the public, Telephone broadcasting. Telephone broadcasting also grew to include telephone services for news and entertainment programming which were introduced in the 1890s. These telephone-based subscription services were the first examples of electrical/electronic broadcasting, Radio broadcasting, audio signals sent through the air as radio waves from a transmitter, picked up by an antenna and sent to a receiver
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Broadcasting antenna in
Stuttgart
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A
television studio production control room in
Olympia, Washington, August 2008.
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Radio station WTUL studio,
Tulane University,
New Orleans
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Winning
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Winning is a 1969 American motion picture starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The film is about a driver who aspires to win the Indianapolis 500. A number of drivers and people associated with racing appear in the film, including Bobby Unser, Tony Hulman, Bobby Grim, Dan Gurney, Roger McCluskey. Professional racecar driver Frank Capua meets divorcee Elora, after a whirlwind romance they are married. Charley, Eloras teenage son by her first husband, becomes close to Frank. But Frank is so dedicated to his career that he neglects his wife, Frank finds them in bed together and storms out. The couple separate, but Frank still sees Charley regularly, Franks bitterness fuels his dedication to his work, and he becomes a much more aggressive driver. At the Indianapolis 500, Elora and Charley watch while Frank drives the race of his life, after winning, Frank attends a victory party. He is uninterested when attractive women throw themselves at him, Luther finds Frank and apologizes to him for the affair, but Frank punches him. Frank visits Elora and tells her he wants to start again, the film ends with a freeze-frame as the two look uncertainly at each other. He would eventually launch the much successful Newman/Haas Racing with his longtime racing competitor and friend Carl Haas, the film includes footage taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the legendary 2.5 mile track. Most of the footage is from the 1968 race, the accident during the first green flag is from the 1966 race. The film earned an estimated $6.2 million in rentals in North America and it was the 16th most popular movie at the US box office that year. Quentin Tarantino, when asked about his race car films, was not a fan of Winning. I’d rather saw my fingers off than sit through that again, the film score was by Dave Grusin, and the original soundtrack album was issued on Decca Records. The opening moments of the theme,500 Miles, were used by WEWS-TV in Cleveland in the 1970s and 1980s as the theme for their Million Dollar Movie. List of American films of 1969 Winning at the American Film Institute Catalog Winning at the Internet Movie Database
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Paul Newman
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Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor. Newmans other films include The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Butch Cassidy, The Sting, and The Verdict. Despite being colorblind, Newman won several championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing. He was a co-founder of Newmans Own, a company from which he donated all post-tax profits. As of 2016, these donations have totaled over US$460 million and he was also a co-founder of Safe Water Network, a nonprofit that develops sustainable drinking water solutions for those in need. In 1988, Newman founded the SeriousFun Childrens Network, a family of summer camps. Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the son of Theresa and Arthur Sigmund Newman. Newmans father was Jewish, and was the son of Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, immigrants from Hungary, Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying its more of a challenge. Newmans mother worked in his fathers store, while raising Paul and his brother, Arthur. Newman showed an early interest in the theater, his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. At age 10, Newman performed at the Cleveland Play House in a production of Saint George and the Dragon, graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater, initially, he enrolled in the Navy V-12 pilot training program at Yale University, but was dropped when his colorblindness was discovered. Boot camp followed, with training as a radioman and rear gunner, qualifying in torpedo bombers in 1944, Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii. He later flew as a gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, his unit was assigned to the USS Bunker Hill along with other replacements shortly before the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945, the pilot of his aircraft had an ear infection which kept their plane grounded. The rest of their squadron flew to the Bunker Hill, days later, a kamikaze attack on the vessel killed a number of service members, including the other members of his unit. After the war, Newman completed his Bachelor of Arts in drama and economics at Kenyon College in Gambier, shortly after earning his degree, he joined several summer stock companies, most notably the Belfry Players in Wisconsin and the Woodstock Players in Illinois. He toured with them for three months and developed his talents as a part of Woodstock Players and he later attended the Yale School of Drama for one year, before moving to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio
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Newman in The Prize (1963)
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Paul Newman at the
1987 Cannes Film Festival
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Newman in 2007
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Newman at a political rally for
Eugene McCarthy in 1968
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Barbara Hershey
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Barbara Hershey, once known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including Westerns and she began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as one of Americas finest actresses, Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town. For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People and A World Apart, establishing a reputation early in her career as a hippie, Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a relationship with actor David Carradine. She experimented with a change in name that she later regretted. During this time, her life was highly publicized and ridiculed. Her acting career was not well established until she separated from Carradine, later in her career, she began to keep her personal life private. Barbara Herzstein was born in Hollywood, the daughter of Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse-racing columnist and her fathers parents were Jews who had emigrated from Hungary and Russia respectively, while her mother, a native of Arkansas, was a Presbyterian of Irish descent. The youngest of three children, Barbara always wanted to be an actress, and her family nicknamed her Sarah Bernhardt and she was shy in school and so quiet that people thought she was deaf. By the age of 10, she proved herself to be an A student and her high-school drama coach helped her find an agent, and in 1965, at age 17, she landed a role on Sally Fields television series Gidget. Barbara said that she found Field to be supportive of her in her first acting role. Barbaras acting debut, three episodes of Gidget, was followed by the television series The Monroes, which also featured Michael Anderson. By this point, she had adopted the stage name Barbara Hershey, although Hershey said the series helped her career, she expressed some frustration with her role, saying, One week I was strong, the next, weak. While on the series, Hershey garnered several other roles, including one in Doris Days final feature film, in 1969, Hershey co-starred in the Glenn Ford Western Heaven with a Gun. On the set, she met and began a relationship with actor David Carradine. In the same year, she acted in the controversial drama Last Summer, in this film, Hershey played Sandy, the heavy who influences two young men to rape another girl, Rhoda
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Hershey in 1981
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Emmy
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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TV producer
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Actress
Dana Delany holding an Emmy, 1992
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TV producer and writer
Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera
The Bold and the Beautiful, 2010
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Brazilian actress and TV host
Fernanda Lima holding
Rede Globo 's six medals of nominations to the International Emmys in 2012
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Columbia College of Columbia University
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Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the universitys main campus in Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1754 by the Church of England as Kings College, Columbia College is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. The college is distinctive for its comprehensive Core Curriculum, Columbia College is highly selective in its admissions. For the class of 2021, the college accepted 5. 8% of its applicants, Columbia College was founded as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of Great Britain in the Province of New York in 1754. Due in part to the influence of Church of England religious leaders, samuel Johnson was chosen as the college’s first president and was also the college’s first professor. During this period, classes and examinations, both oral and written, were conducted entirely in Latin, hamiltons first experience with the military came while a student during the summer of 1775, after the outbreak of fighting at Boston. Along with Nicholas Fish, Robert Troup, and a group of students from Kings, he joined a volunteer militia company called the Hearts of Oak. In August 1775, while under fire from HMS Asia, the Hearts of Oak participated in a raid to seize cannon from the Battery. With the successful Treaty of Paris in 1783, the situation was stable enough for the college to resume classes in 1784. This 1787 charter remains in effect, the Columbia School of Mines awarded the first Ph. D. from Columbia in 1875. Also by this time, graduate faculties issuing the Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy, political science, and the natural sciences had also developed. Thus, in 1896, the trustees of Columbia College, under the guidance of Seth Low, approved a new name for the university as a whole, Columbia University in the City of New York. At this point, the name Columbia College returned to being used solely to refer to the undergraduate college, founded as King’s College in 1754. A tract for the campus was purchased which extended from 114th St. to 120th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. Charles McKim of McKim, Mead, and White was selected to design the new campus, Columbia College and Columbia University as a whole relocated to the new campus in 1897. Also in 1919, a course, War and Peace, was required of all Columbia College students in addition to the Great Books Honors Seminar. During the 1960s, Columbia College, like others across the United States, experienced unrest and turmoil due to the ongoing civil rights movement. University officials wished to build new facilities in the park
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College Hall in 1790
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School logo
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Hamilton Hall (left), new home of Columbia College, and Hartley Hall, the College's first dormitory, in 1907
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Van Amringe Quadrangle houses a memorial to
John Howard Van Amringe, who served as the College's first dean after the formation of Columbia University
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Patty Duke
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Anna Marie Patty Duke was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She first became known as a teen star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, a role which she had originated on Broadway. The following year she was given her own show, The Patty Duke Show and she later progressed to more mature roles such as that of Neely OHara in the film Valley of the Dolls. Over the course of her career, she received ten Emmy Award nominations, Duke also served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 to 1988. Duke was diagnosed bipolar disorder in 1982, after which she devoted much of her time to advocating for. Duke was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, the youngest of three children of Frances Margaret, a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a handyman and she was of Irish, and more distant German, descent. Duke, her brother Raymond, and her sister Carol experienced a difficult childhood and their father was an alcoholic, and their mother suffered from clinical depression and was prone to violence. When Duke was six, her mother forced her father to leave the family home. When Duke was eight, her care was turned over to talent managers John and Ethel Ross, the Rosses methods of managing Dukes career were often unscrupulous and exploitative. They consistently billed Duke as being two years younger than she actually was and padded her resume with false credits and they gave her alcohol and prescription drugs, took unreasonably high fees from her earnings and made sexual advances to her. In addition, the Rosses ordered Duke to change her name—Anna Marie is dead and they hoped that Patty Duke would duplicate the success of tween actress Patty McCormack. One of Dukes earlier acting roles was in the late 1950s and she also appeared in print ads and in television commercials. In 1959, at the age of 12, Duke appeared on The $64,000 Question and won $32,000, in 1962, it was revealed that the game show had been rigged, and she was called to testify before a panel of the United States Senate. Also in 1959, Duke appeared in an adaptation of Meet Me in St. Louis as Tootie Smith. Dukes first major starring role was playing Helen Keller in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker, during the run, Dukes name was elevated to above the plays name on the theatres billboard, believed to be the first time this had been done for such a young star. The play was made into a 1962 film, for which Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. At 16, Duke was the youngest person at that time to have received an Academy Award in a competitive category, Duke returned to television, this time starring with Laurence Olivier and George C. Scott in a television production of The Power and the Glory. Dukes own series, The Patty Duke Show, which Sidney Sheldon created especially for her, the show also featured such high-profile guest stars as Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Lawford, Paul Lynde and Sal Mineo
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Duke in 1975
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Roots: The Next Generations
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This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haleys novel entitled Roots, The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots, The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, for the first part of the story, see Roots The story resumes in 1882,12 years after the arrival of Chicken George Moore and his family in Henning, in West Tennessee. George, elderly and showing his age, moves in with Tom Harvey, one of his sons, along with Tom’s wife, Irene, Tom, a great-grandson of Kunta Kinte, has become a leader of the black community in Henning. Col. Warners younger son, Jim, meets and falls in love with Carrie Barden, an attractive young African-American schoolteacher and a graduate of Fisk University, Tom has taken the lead in hiring Carrie for the local school for the black children. Warner disapproves of the relationship between Jim and Carrie, so he seeks to persuade Tom to fire Carrie or to close the school. After an argument between Tom and his daughter, Elizabeth, about his refusal to accept her suitor, John Dolan, because he is half white. Jim and Carrie marry in Memphis, then Col, Warner disinherits Jim, but he says that he will ensure that no harm comes to the couple from the hoodlum white element of the town. Jim, with his new bride, receives a warm welcome to the black church. A year later, Chicken George dies in 1883 at age 83, and the bury his body beside that of his wife, Mathilda Tildy. Cynthia Cinthy, Toms younger daughter, meets and falls in love with Will Palmer, Andrew Warner, an unemployed playboy and the older son of Col. Warner, becomes interested in politics, and he eventually opposes his father in the public arena. While Will works for Bob Campbell at his lumberyard, he does so in such an enthusiastic, industrious, thus the R. Campbell Lumber Company becomes the W. E. By this time Jim and Carrie already have a son, named Frank Frankie, however, in the atmosphere of the growing anti-black attitudes in the South during the 1890s, racial tension increases in Henning too, as several incidents demonstrate. Will and Cinthy rejoice over the birth of their daughter, Bertha George, named in part in honor of Chicken George, Warner, and Andrew Warner, the colonels older son, now serves as a member of the US House of Representatives. Dr. Frank Warner, the son of Jim and Carrie Warner, has completed undergraduate college, medical school, an internship, and a residency, Cinthy calls him the first colored doctor in the county. Will has prospered well enough that Will and Cynthia send their daughter, Bertha, to Lane College, Col. Warner, frail and confused, collapses on a street while Jim, Carrie, and Frank are present nearby. They rush to him, and Frank starts to treat him, Simon, who greatly admires Booker T. Referring to Washington, Simon says, I have formed my life in his image, the Ku Klux Klan resurges in Henning. They burn a cross, hold a parade, and burn down the store of a Jewish merchant, Mr. Goldstein, who has moved to Henning from Chicago, Illinois
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Lanford Wilson
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Lanford Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize winning, American playwright, whose work, as described by the New York Times, was earthy, realist, greatly admired widely performed. Wilson also helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays and he was one of the first playwrights to move from Off-Off-Broadway, to Off-Broadway, then Broadway, and beyond. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980 and was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, in 2004, Wilson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. He was nominated for three Tony Awards and has won a Drama Desk Award and five Obie Awards. His 1964 short play, The Madness of Lady Bright, was his first significant success and led to further works throughout the 1960s that expressed a variety of social and romantic themes. In 1969, he was a co-founder of Circle Repertory Company and his 1973 play, The Hot l Baltimore, was the companys first major hit with both audiences and critics, its Off-Broadway run exceeded 1,000 performances. Wilsons Fifth of July was first produced at Circle Rep in 1978, for its Broadway production opening in 1980, a prequel, Talleys Folly, opened on Broadway before Fifth of July and won him the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and his first Tony nomination. Burn This was another Broadway success, Wilson also wrote the libretti for several 20th-century operas. In later years, he lived mostly in Sag Harbor on Long Island, Wilson was born to Ralph Eugene and Violetta Tate Wilson in Lebanon, Missouri. After his parents divorce when he was 5, he moved with his mother to Springfield, Missouri and he had two half-brothers, John and Jim, and one stepsister, Judy. When he was 11, his mother married Walt E. Lenhard, a farmer from Ozark, Missouri, there, he attended high school and developed a love for film and art. He developed an interest in acting and played roles in his school plays. After graduating from Ozark High School in 1955, Wilson began his studies at Southwest Missouri State College. In 1956, he moved to San Diego, California, where his father had relocated after his parents divorce and he studied art and art history at San Diego State College and also worked as a riveter in the Ryan Aircraft Plant. His reunion with his father, who lived in San Diego, may have been difficult, but the improved in later years. He left school and moved to Chicago in 1957, where he worked as a graphic artist for an advertising firm. During this time, Wilson realized that the stories he had always enjoyed writing would be more effective as plays. In 1962, Wilson moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and he worked in odd jobs, such as temporary typist, reservations clerk at Americana Hotel, complaint desk of a furniture store, and a dishwashing job where a co-worker incorrectly called him Lance
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The Caffe Cino, July 1965
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A scene from the 1986 New York revival of
Home Free!
24.
Richard II (play)
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King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. Although the First Folio edition of Shakespeares works lists the play as a history play, the play spans only the last two years of Richards life, from 1398 to 1400. Bolingbrokes father, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, meanwhile, the tournament scene is very formal with a long, ceremonial introduction, but as the combatants are about to fight, Richard interrupts and sentences both to banishment from England. Bolingbroke is originally sentenced to ten years banishment, but Richard changes this to six years, Mowbray predicts that the king will sooner or later fall at the hands of Bolingbroke. John of Gaunt dies and Richard II seizes all of his land and they then help Bolingbroke to return secretly to England, with a plan to overthrow Richard II. There remain, however, subjects who continue faithful to the King, among them Bushy, Bagot, Green, when King Richard leaves England to attend to the war in Ireland, Bolingbroke seizes the opportunity to assemble an army and invades the north coast of England. Executing both Bushy and Green, he wins over the Duke of York, whom Richard has left in charge of his government in his absence, upon Richards return, Bolingbroke not only reclaims his lands but lays claim to the very throne. Crowning himself King Henry IV, he has Richard taken prisoner to the castle of Pomfret, after interpreting King Henrys living fear as a reference to the still-living Richard, an ambitious nobleman goes to the prison and murders him. King Henry repudiates the murderer and vows to journey to Jerusalem to cleanse himself of his part in Richards death, a somewhat more complicated case is presented by the anonymous play sometimes known as The First Part of Richard II. This play, which exists in one manuscript copy is subtitled Thomas of Woodstock. This play treats the leading up to the start of Shakespeares play. The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 29 August 1597 by the bookseller Andrew Wise, the second and third quartos followed in 1598 – the only time a Shakespearean play was printed in three editions in two years. Q4 followed in 1608, and Q5 in 1615, the play was next published in the First Folio in 1623. Richard II exists in a number of variations, the quartos vary to some degree from one another, and the folio presents further differences. The first three quartos lack the deposition scene, the fourth quarto, published in 1608, includes a version of the deposition scene shorter than the one later printed, presumably from a prompt-book, in the 1623 First Folio. The scant evidence makes explaining these differences largely conjectural, there is no external evidence for this hypothesis, however, and the title page of the 1608 quarto refers to a lately acted deposition scene. The play is divided into five acts and its structure is as formal as its language and it has a double complementary plot describing the fall of Richard II and the rise of Bolingbroke, later known as Henry IV. Critic John R. Elliott Jr. notes that this particular play can be distinguished from the other history plays because it contains an ulterior political purpose
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The first page of Richard II, printed in the
First Folio of 1623
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A watercolor of Richard II in prison at Pomfret Castle.
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The 1587 edition of
Holinshed 's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande
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The title page from the 1608 quarto edition of the play.
25.
It (novel)
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It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by the eponymous being and it primarily appears in the form of a clown in order to attract its preferred prey of young children. The novel is told through narratives alternating between two periods, and is largely told in the third-person omniscient mode. It deals with themes that eventually became King staples, the power of memory, childhood trauma, the novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1987, and received nominations for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards that same year. Publishers Weekly listed It as the book in the United States in 1986. During the beginning of a particularly perilous storm in Derry, Maine, the boat is washed down a storm drain to the dismay of George, who had received the boat as a present from his older brother Bill. After peering into the drain, George sees a pair of glowing eyes which he first believes to be a cat trapped in the sewers. Startled, George watches in confusion as he is confronted by a man dressed in a silver clown suit with tufts of red hair and orange pom poms who introduces himself as Mr. Bob Gray. Many neighbors on the block immediately hear Georges screams and rush to find the boy dead, the following June, Ben Hanscom, an overweight child, is harassed by a gang of bullies led by the psychopathic Henry Bowers. The three boys later befriend fellow misfits Richie Tozier, Stan Uris, Beverly Marsh, and Mike Hanlon, meanwhile, an increasingly sadistic Henry begins focusing his attention on his neighbor, Mike Hanlon, and his father due to their ethnicity. After chasing Mike all the way to the Barrens where the Losers also are, Henry, the bullies are left defeated and embarrassed, however, with an injured Henry swearing revenge on the Losers before departing. Bill then discovers the Ritual Of Chüd, an ancient ritual that allows him to enter the Macroverse from where It originated, Bill encounters Mataurin or The Turtle, the creator of the universe and the natural enemy of It, who further explains Its origins. In late July, Eddie is hospitalized after an attack by a vengeful Henry Bowers, later, the Losers discover a message from It written in Patricks blood warning them that It will kill them. After Eddie is released from the hospital with a broken arm, the kids return to the house on Neibolt Street where Eddie, Bill, and Richie had previously seen It and It attacks them in the form of a werewolf. Beverly shoots a slug from Bills slingshot at the werewolf, injuring It, in late August, It, now fearing the Losers and seeing them as a threat, manipulates the mind of Henry Bowers, making him kill his violent alcoholic father and providing him with a switchblade. Henry, driven insane, continues to chase the Losers and gets lost and he eventually washes out of the sewers into a nearby river and is blamed for all of the child murders. Bill enters the mind through the Ritual of Chüd and discovers that the true form of It is a mass of destructive orange lights known as the deadlights. With the help of Mataurin, Bill is able to defeat It, after the battle, the victorious but badly shaken Losers begin to lose cohesion and get lost in the sewers, until Beverly has sex with all the boys to bring unity back to the group
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First edition cover
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Cover for the 25th anniversary edition
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Hallmark Channel
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The Hallmark Channel is an American cable and satellite television network that is owned by Crown Media Holdings, which is majority owned by Hallmark Cards. The channels programming is targeted at families, and features a mix of television movies and miniseries, original and acquired television series. As of February 2015, Hallmark Channel is available to approximately 85,439,000 pay television households in the United States, the Hallmark Channel traces its history to the launch of two separate religious cable channels, the American Christian Television System and the Vision Interfaith Satellite Network. The two networks began alternating time on a shared transponder slot on the Galaxy III satellite in 1992, under the original timeshare agreement, the network was branded as VISN/ACTS. Each network was provided time for its programming blocks, and would use their own logos, VISN launched on July 1,1988, and was founded by the National Interfaith Cable Coalition, in cooperation with several cable providers. Roman Catholic, LDS Church, Jewish, and Islamic faiths also provided programming, VISN aired during the morning and evening hours. ACTS commenced operations in 1984, and was owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, both channels aired several hours a week of religious childrens programs, some of which overlapped, including Sunshine Factory, Joy Junction, Davey and Goliath, and Jot. In 1993, the network was renamed as the Faith and Values Channel and it began adding a few secular programs during this time, such as exercise shows, health and cooking shows, and family-oriented drama series and movies. In 1995, cable conglomerate Tele-Communications Inc. acquired a 49% ownership stake in the Faith and Values Channel and it added more secular programming to the network and reduced religious programming to about 10 hours a day. In 1996, the network was rebranded as the Odyssey Network, and launched a website, Odysseyfamily. com, the channel began to focus more on family-targeted entertainment programming including some classic sitcoms, childrens programs and additional family-oriented movies. Henson sold its interest in the channel to Crown Media Holdings in 2000, Odyssey then dropped much of its childrens programs and relegated religious programming to a few hours on Sundays. On August 5,2001, the channel underwent yet another rebranding, relaunching as the Hallmark Channel, the restructured network completely dropped religious programming, but continued to focus on family-oriented sitcoms and drama series, dramatic films and other general entertainment programs. The National Interfaith Cable Coalition continued to own about 5% of the channel, david Evans was appointed as CEO of the newly-developing network, until he resigned in May 2006. The network remained without a formal CEO until October 2006, when former Court TV chairman and CEO Henry Schleiff was appointed in the position, overseeing all of the networks’ divisions. In January 2007, Hallmark Channel dropped the Hallmark crown from its logo, although it is used sporadically on-air, in promos. On May 27,2007, Hallmark Channel launched Watch With Me, a new public affairs initiative aimed to promote programming for families to watch together. In 2008, Hallmark Channel unveiled a new branding campaign with predominantly gold coloring, a logo. Henry Schlieff stepped down as the channels CEO on May 6,2009, both parties said Schleiffs departure was amicable
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Hallmark Channel
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Logo as Odyssey Network from 1996 to 2001.
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Hallmark Channel's headquarters in
Studio City, California.
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Hamlet
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlets father, Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brothers widow. It has inspired many other writers—from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and he almost certainly wrote his version of the title role for his fellow actor, Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeares time. In the 400 years since its inception, the role has been performed by highly acclaimed actors in each successive century. Three different early versions of the play are extant, the First Quarto, the Second Quarto, each version includes lines and entire scenes missing from the others. The plays structure and depth of characterisation have inspired much critical scrutiny, the protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his fathers brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlets widow, Gertrude, Hamlets mother, Denmark has a long-standing feud with neighboring Norway, which culminated when King Hamlet slew King Fortinbras of Norway in a battle years ago. Although Denmark defeated Norway, and the Norwegian throne fell to King Fortinbrass infirm brother, Denmark fears that an invasion led by the dead Norwegian kings son, Prince Fortinbras, is imminent. On a cold night on the ramparts of Elsinore, the Danish royal castle and they vow to tell Prince Hamlet what they have witnessed. As the court gathers the next day, while King Claudius and Queen Gertrude discuss affairs of state with their elderly adviser Polonius, after the court exits, Hamlet despairs of his fathers death and his mothers hasty remarriage. Learning of the ghost from Horatio, Hamlet resolves to see it himself, as Poloniuss son Laertes prepares to depart for a visit to France, Polonius gives him contradictory advice that culminates in the ironic maxim to thine own self be true. Poloniuss daughter, Ophelia, admits her interest in Hamlet, and that night on the rampart, the ghost appears to Hamlet, telling the prince that he was murdered by Claudius and demanding that Hamlet avenge him. Hamlet agrees and the ghost vanishes, the prince confides to Horatio and the sentries that from now on he plans to put an antic disposition on and forces them to swear to keep his plans for revenge secret. Privately, however, he remains uncertain of the ghosts reliability, soon thereafter, Ophelia rushes to her father, telling him that Hamlet arrived at her door the prior night half-undressed and behaving crazily. Polonius blames love for Hamlets madness and resolves to inform Claudius, as he enters to do so, the king and queen finish welcoming Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two student acquaintances of Hamlet, to Elsinore. The royal couple has requested that the students investigate the cause of Hamlets mood, additional news requires that Polonius wait to be heard, messengers from Norway inform Claudius that the King of Norway has rebuked Prince Fortinbras for attempting to re-fight his fathers battles. The forces that Fortinbras conscripted to march against Denmark will instead be sent against Poland, Polonius tells Claudius and Gertrude his theory regarding Hamlets behavior, and speaks to Hamlet in a hall of the castle to try to uncover more information. Hamlet feigns madness but subtly insults Polonius all the while, when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive, Hamlet greets his friends warmly, but quickly discerns that they are spies
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The American actor
Edwin Booth as
Hamlet, ca. 1870
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Hamlet mistakenly stabs Polonius (Artist: Coke Smyth, 19th century).
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The "gravedigger scene" (Artist:
Eugène Delacroix, 1839)
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A facsimile of
Gesta Danorum by
Saxo Grammaticus, which contains the legend of Amleth
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Peer Gynt
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Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Written in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway in Ibsens lifetime—it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays and he was also generally inspired by Peter Christen Asbjørnsens collection of Norwegian fairy tales, published in 1845. Peer Gynt chronicles the journey of its character from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert. Peer Gynt has also described as the story of a life based on procrastination. The play was written in Italy and a first edition of 1,250 copies was published on 14 November 1867 by the Danish publisher Gyldendal in Copenhagen. Although the first edition sold out, a reprint of two thousand copies, which followed after only fourteen days, didnt sell out until seven years later. Enraged by Petersens criticisms in particular, Ibsen defended his work by arguing that it is poetry, the conception of poetry in our country, in Norway, shall shape itself according to this book. Despite this defense of his achievement in Peer Gynt, the play was his last to employ verse, from The League of Youth onwards. Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt in deliberate disregard of the limitations that the conventional stagecraft of the 19th century imposed on drama and its forty scenes move uninhibitedly in time and space and between consciousness and the unconscious, blending folkloric fantasy and unsentimental realism. It was published in German translation in 1881, in English in 1892, the contemporary influence of the play continues into the twenty-first century. Peer Gynt was written in Danish, the written language of Denmark and Norway since the Dano-Norwegian union. The language was referred to as Danish in Denmark and as Norwegian in Norway, although it was essentially the same written language. Due to its basis in Norwegian folktales, the uses a few Norwegianisms in its vocabulary and idiom. Peer Gynt was originally published by the Danish publisher Gyldendal in Copenhagen, Peer Gynt is the son of the once highly regarded Jon Gynt. Jon Gynt spent all his money on feasting and living lavishly, Åse, the mother, wished to raise her son to restore the lost fortune of his father, but Peer is soon to be considered useless. He is a poet and a braggart, not unlike the youngest son from Norwegian fairy tales, as the play opens, Peer gives an account of a reindeer hunt that went awry, a famous theatrical scene generally known as the Buckride. His mother scorns him for his imagination, and taunts him because he spoiled his chances with Ingrid. Peer leaves for Ingrids wedding, scheduled for the following day and his mother follows quickly to stop him from shaming himself completely
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Henrik Klausen as Peer (1876)
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Peer Gynt, as drawn by
Peter Nicolai Arbo
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Ibsen's mother,
Marichen Altenburg, was the model for Peer Gynt's mother, Åse
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Judd Hirsch
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Judd Seymore Hirsch is an American actor known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series NUMB3RS. He is also known for his career in theatre and for his roles in films such as Ordinary People, Running on Empty, Independence Day. Hirsch was born in The Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York, the son of Sally and Joseph Sidney Hirsch, an electrician. Hirschs father was born in New York, to a German Jewish father, Benjamin Hirsch, Hirschs mother was born in Russia, also to a Jewish family. Hirsch has a brother named Roland Hirsch and he grew up in both Brooklyn and The Bronx and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1952. He earned a degree in physics from City College of New York, after graduating from college, Hirsch served a tour in the United States Army. Hirsch worked as an engineer for Westinghouse before he found work in the theater, over the last several decades, Hirsch has distinguished himself in film, television, and theatre. After appearing frequently on television in the 1970s, Hirsch gained stardom for his role of Alex Rieger in the popular sitcom Taxi. For his performance in the series, in 1981 and again in 1983, Judd Hirsch won the Emmy Award for Lead Actor In a Comedy Series. Hirsch went on to play the character on the modestly successful sitcom Dear John. He later teamed with Bob Newhart in the short-lived comedy George and he had also previously starred for one season in the series Delvecchio, playing a police detective. In film, Hirsch received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the drama film Ordinary People. In 1996 Hirsch portrayed the father of Jeff Goldblums character in the blockbuster Independence Day, Hirsch co-starred on the CBS Television drama, NUMB3RS, as Alan Eppes, father of FBI agent, Don Eppes, and Professor Charlie Eppes. When Krumholtz was 13, he played son to Hirschs father role in Conversations with My Father, Krumholtz credits Hirsch with jump-starting his career after Hirsch chose him during the audition process for Conversations. Other noteworthy stage performances include The Hot l Baltimore, Talleys Folly, in 1999, he reprised his role from Taxi for a brief moment in Man on the Moon, the biopic of his co-star from Taxi, Andy Kaufman. Judd has also appeared several times on the television show Maron as comedian Marc Marons father, from 2014 to 2015, he appeared as a series regular on the ABC television series Forever. In 2016 Hirsch appeared on the CBS comedy series The Big Bang Theory portraying Leonards father, in February 2017, Hirsch began starring in the CBS comedy Superior Donuts. Hirsch was married to his first wife, Elisa Sadaune, from 1956 to 1967 and their son, Alexander, was born in 1966
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Hirsch in 1967
30.
Terrence McNally
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Terrence McNally is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. McNally has been described as a probing and enduring dramatist and one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced and he has received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love. Compassion. and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Kiss of the Spider Woman and he is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his plays and musicals, he also written two operas, multiple screenplays, teleplays, and a memoir. He has been a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild since 1970 and served as vice-president from 1981 to 2001, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. In 1998, McNally was awarded a degree from The Juilliard School in recognition for reviving The Lily Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program with the playwright. In 2013, he returned to his alma mater, Columbia University and he has a career spanning six decades, and his plays, musicals, and operas are routinely performed all over the world. The diversity and range of his work is remarkable, with McNally resisting identifying with any particular cultural scene and his work centers on the difficulties of and urgent need for human connection. For McNally, the most important function of theatre is to create community by bridging rifts opened between people by difference in religion, race, gender, and particularly sexual orientation. In an address to members of the League of American Theatres and Producers he remarked, “I think theatre teaches us who we are, what our society is, where we are going. I don’t think theatre can solve the problems of a society, nor should it be expected to … Plays don’t do that. Provide a forum for the ideas and feelings that can lead a society to decide to heal and change itself. ”Once in Corpus Christi, Hubert McNally purchased and managed a Schlitz beer distributorship, and McNally attended W. B. Despite his distance from New York City, McNallys parents enjoyed Broadway musicals, when McNally was eight years old, his parents took him to see Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman, and on a subsequent outing, McNally saw Gertrude Lawrence in The King and I. Both productions had an impression on the young McNally. It was in school where McNally was first encouraged to write. He would subsequently dedicate several of his plays to her, and when she died in 2005, he supplied the inscription to her tombstone, Not just an English teacher, but a life teacher. McElroy encouraged McNally to concentrate in schools outside Texas, which led him to matriculate at Columbia University as a journalism major. He attended the university in its golden age of instruction, where his teachers included Meyer Schapiro for art history, Eric Bentley for drama
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Terrence McNally
31.
Twelve Angry Men (play)
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Twelve Angry Men is a play by Reginald Rose adapted from his 1954 teleplay of the same title for the CBS Studio One anthology television series. The drama depicts a jury forced to consider a homicide trial, at the beginning, they have a nearly unanimous decision of guilty, with a single dissenter of not-guilty, who throughout the play sows a seed of reasonable doubt. The story begins after closing arguments have been presented in the homicide case, as in most American criminal cases, the twelve men must unanimously decide on a verdict of guilty or not guilty. The case at hand pertains to whether a man murdered his own father. The jury is instructed that a guilty verdict will be accompanied by a mandatory death sentence. These twelve then move to the room, where they begin to become acquainted with the personalities of their peers. Throughout their deliberation, not a single juror calls another by his name because the names are unknown to the jurors. Several of the jurors have different reasons for discriminating against the defendant, his race, his background, Rose wrote several stage adaptations of the story. In 1964, Leo Genn appeared in the play on the London stage, in other theatrical adaptations in which female actors are cast the play is often retitled 12 Angry Jurors. Harold Pinter directed a production of the play, which opened at the Bristol Old Vic on March 7,1996, G. Marshall, as the Voice of the Judge. The London West End production opened in November 2013 at the Garrick Theatre, directed by Christopher Haydon, the cast included Martin Shaw, Robert Vaughn, Jeff Fahey, Nick Moran, Robert Blythe, Miles Richardson and Martin Turner. In 2014, Independent Theatre Pakistan performed an adaptation of play at Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore. A1957 feature film adaptation, produced and written by Rose himself, nominated for 3 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Starring, Martin Balsam as Juror #1 John Fiedler as Juror #2 Lee J. Cobb as Juror #3 E. G, Twelve Angry Men, A Play in Three Acts. Twelve Angry Men at the Internet Broadway Database Twelve Angry Men at the Internet Broadway Database
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Written by
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Mercedes-Benz
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Mercedes-Benz is a global automobile manufacturer and a division of the German company Daimler AG. The brand is known for vehicles, buses, coaches. The headquarters is in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, the slogan for the brand is the best or nothing and Mercedes-Benz was one of the top growing brands in 2014 with 18% growth. The Mercedes automobile was first marketed in 1901 by Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, emil Jellinek, an Austrian automobile entrepreneur who worked with DMG created the trademark in 1902, naming the 1901 Mercedes 35 hp after his daughter Mercedes Jellinek. The first Mercedes-Benz brand name vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benzs, on 28 June 1926, Mercedes Benz was formed with the merger of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimlers two companies. Gottlieb Daimler was born on 17 March 1834 in Schorndorf, after training as a gunsmith and working in France, he attended the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart from 1857 to 1859. After completing various activities in France and England, he started work as a draftsman in Geislingen in 1862. At the end of 1863, he was appointed inspector in a machine tool factory in Reutlingen. Throughout the 1930s, Mercedes-Benz produced the 770 model, a car that was popular during Germanys Nazi period, Adolf Hitler was known to have driven these cars during his time in power, with bulletproof windshields. Most of the models have been sold at auctions to private buyers. One of them is currently on display at the War Museum in Ottawa, the pontiffs Popemobile has often been sourced from Mercedes-Benz. In 1944,46,000 forced laborers were used in Daimler-Benzs factories to bolster Nazi war efforts, the company later paid $12 million in reparations to the laborers families. Mercedes-Benz has introduced many technological and safety innovations that became common in other vehicles. Mercedes-Benz is one of the best-known and established automotive brands in the world, for information relating to the famous three-pointed star, see under the title Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft including the merger into Daimler-Benz. As part of the Daimler AG company, the Mercedes-Benz Cars division includes Mercedes-Benz, mercedes-AMG became a majority owned division of Mercedes-Benz in 1999. The company was integrated into DaimlerChrysler in 1999, and became Mercedes-Benz AMG beginning on 1 January 1999, Daimlers ultra-luxury brand Maybach was under Mercedes-Benz cars division until 2013, when the production stopped due to poor sales volumes. It now exists under the Mercedes-Maybach name, with the models being ultra-luxury versions of Mercedes cars, Daimler coorporates with BYD Auto to make and sell a battery-electric car called Denza in China. In 2016, Daimler announced plans to sell Mercedes-Benz branded all-electric battery cars in China, beside its native Germany, Mercedes-Benz vehicles are also manufactured or assembled in, Since its inception, Mercedes-Benz had maintained a reputation for its quality and durability
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Karl Benz. Benz made the 1886
Benz Patent Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first automobile.
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Mercedes-Benz
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Gottlieb Daimler, Founder of
Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.
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Mercedes-Benz A-Class (compact)
33.
Race (play)
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Race is a play by David Mamet that premiered on Broadway in December 2009. Mamet has stated that the theme is race and the lies we tell each other on the subject. A racially charged sex crime takes place which leads to charges being made against Charles Strickland and he quickly goes to his friend Jack Lawson, a criminal attorney, and retains him to defend his case. Lawson agrees and begins to rely on help from a black attorney he calls Susan working in his three-lawyer office. As evidence and police begin to accumulate for the preparation of the defense of the case. They are convinced that the credibility of the police reports cannot withstand questioning in the courtroom, all three lawyers feel that their client will be exonerated. The next day, however, news come to the lawyers that a new police report had been filed in the process of the last day, Jack sees this as a strong set-back in his case. In the process of interviews with his client, discussions with his partner. The ethnic prejudices of his old friend whom he is defending turn out to be highly suspect, more importantly, he begins to suspect that Susans hand in the activities taking place in the law office after receiving the case may be tainted. Susan turns out to have strong feeling about racially motivated sex crimes and it becomes clear that Susan had done this in order to influence the outcome in a matter of justice involving a question of bigotry and of race. Susan - Kerry Washington, replaced by Afton C, directed by Mamet, the cast included James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington, and Richard Thomas. Scenic design was by Santo Loquasto, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt, David Alan Grier was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Mamet stated that the theme is race and the lies we tell each other on the subject. The producers announced on April 21,2010, that the play had recouped its investment, the play has been produced in US regional theatres, such as at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2012 and Next Act in Milwaukee in 2014. The play made its Canadian premiere in Vancouver in November 2012, produced by Mitch and Murray productions with a cast that included Aaron Craven, Marsha Regis, Craig Erickson, the production was nominated for a Jessie Richardson award for outstanding performance by a supporting actress for Marsha Regis. Canadian Stages production ran from April 7 to May 4,2013, at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto, the cast included Jason Priestley, Matthew Edison, Nigel Shawn Williams and Cara Ricketts. Williams garnered a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role – Play for his performance, a French Canadian version has been created in Montreal and run from February 17 to March 26,2016, at Théâtre Jean-Duceppe. The play has received mixed reviews, and the issues it raises, particularly on the ethnic varieties of shame and the universal nature of guilt, should offer ample nutrition for many a post-theater dinner conversation
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Original Broadway poster
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David Mamet
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David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross, Mamet first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo. His play Race opened on Broadway on December 6,2009, Mamets 2017 play The Penitent previewed off-Broadway on February 8,2017. Feature films that Mamet both wrote and directed include Redbelt, The Spanish Prisoner, House of Games, Spartan, Heist, State and Main, The Winslow Boy, and Oleanna. This was accompanied by Homicide, Things Change, and most recently the 2013 HBO film Phil Spector, starring Al Pacino as Spector with Helen Mirren and Jeffrey Tambor. His drama Glengarry Glen Ross, in 1992, was adapted by Mamet into a version which also received an Academy Award nomination. Mamet was also the producer and frequent writer for the TV show The Unit. As a screenplay writer, Mamet received Oscar nominations for The Verdict, Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago to Jewish parents, Lenore June, a teacher, and Bernard Morris Mamet, an attorney. One of his first jobs was as a busboy at Chicagos The Second City and he was educated at the progressive Francis W. Parker School and at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. At the Chicago Public Library Foundation 20th anniversary fundraiser in 2006, though, I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign. Mamet is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company, he first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross and his play Race, which opened on Broadway on December 6,2009 and featured James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington, and Richard Thomas in the cast, received mixed reviews. His play The Anarchist, starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, in her Broadway debut and his 2017 play The Penitent previewed off-Broadway on February 8,2017. In 2002, Mamet was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame, Mamet later received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Grand Master of American Theater in 2010. His latest feature-length film, a thriller titled Blackbird, is slated for release in 2015, Mamets first produced screenplay was the 1981 production of The Postman Always Rings Twice, based upon James M. Cains novel. He received an Academy Award nomination one year later for his first script, The Verdict and he also wrote the screenplay for The Untouchables. In 1987, Mamet made his directing debut with House of Games, starring his then-wife, Lindsay Crouse. He uses friends as actors, especially in one scene in the movie
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New York Public Theater
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It is headquartered at 425 Lafayette Street in the former Astor Library in the East Village section of Lower Manhattan. The venue opened in 1967, mounting the world-premiere production of the musical HAIR as its first show and it is led by Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham. The Public also operates the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where it presents Shakespeare in the Park, New York natives and visitors alike have been enjoying free Shakespeare in Central Park since performances began in 1954. In addition to each season of full-scale theatrical productions, The Public also produces a number of different series, festivals, in 2008, The Public presented its inaugural Public LAB series, an annual series of new plays presented in collaboration with LAByrinth Theater Company. With each Public LAB show, corresponding speaker series are presented as after-show talkbacks to discuss prominent themes, ideas, the premiere production of Public LAB SHAKESPEARE was Timon of Athens in March 2011, featuring Richard Thomas in the title role. Past venues include Rikers Island, Borden Avenues Veterans Shelter, the Public also launched its inaugural Public Works production in 2013. Past Public Works productions include The Tempest, The Winters Tale, the Public Forum, begun in 2010, is an exciting series of lectures, debates and conversations that showcase leading voices in the arts, politics and the media. Curated by Jeremy McCarter, a writer at Newsweek, Public Forum events explore issues raised by plays in The Publics season. In keeping with the best traditions of The Public, the Forum hosts a diversity of views. Notable participants in the series include Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner, Arianna Huffington, Alec Baldwin, the Public hosts the annual Under the Radar Festival, a festival tracking new theater from around the world. Over the last 12 years, The Public’s Under the Radar Festival has presented over 194 companies from 40 countries. These artists provide a snapshot of theater today, richly distinct in terms of perspectives, aesthetics, and social practice, the Public serves as the home of the Emerging Writers Group, which seeks to target playwrights at the earliest stages in their careers. In so doing, The Public hopes to create a home for a diverse. The Public Writers Initiative creates a community and fosters a web of supportive artistic relationships across generations. The Emerging Writers Group is a component of The Public Writers Initiative, the Public also fosters Public Studio, a performance series dedicated to developing the works of new and emerging theater artists. The Public Theater invests in education, training classical actors through the annual summer acting intensive known as the Shakespeare Lab. The Public also educates through its Shakespeare Spring Break, Summer ShakeUP, suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Master Writer Chair of The Public, debuted her performance piece Watch Me Work as part of the 2011 Under The Radar Festival. As of April 2011, Parks continues to perform the piece in the lobby of The Public Theater
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The Astor Library in the latter half of the 19th century
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A drawing of the Library published in 1900
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The set of Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? in the Shiva Theater
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Timon of Athens
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Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio and probably written in collaboration with another author, most likely Thomas Middleton, in about 1605–1606. It is about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon, the central character is a well beloved citizen of Athens who through tremendous generosity spends his entire fortunes on corrupt hangers-on only interested in getting the next payout. The earliest known production of the play was in 1674, when Thomas Shadwell wrote an adaptation under the title The History of Timon of Athens, multiple other adaptations followed over the next century, by writers such as Thomas Hull, James Love and Richard Cumberland. The straight Shakespearean text was at Smock Alley in Dublin in 1761, Timon of Athens was originally grouped with the tragedies, but some scholars name it one of the problem plays. In the beginning, Timon is a wealthy and generous Athenian gentleman and he hosts a large banquet, attended by nearly all the main characters. Timon gives away money wastefully, and everyone wants to him to get more, except for Apemantus. He accepts art from Poet and Painter, and a jewel from the Jeweller, Timons servant, Lucilius, has been wooing the daughter of an old Athenian. The man is angry, but Timon pays him three talents in exchange for the couple being allowed to marry, because the happiness of his servant is worth the price, Timon is told that his friend, Ventidius, is in debtors prison. He sends money to pay Ventidiuss debt, and Ventidius is released, Timon gives a speech on the value of friendship. The guests are entertained by a masque, followed by dancing, as the party winds down, Timon continues to give things away to his friends, his horses, and other possessions. The act is divided arbitrarily into two scenes but the experimental and/or unfinished nature of the play is reflected in that it does not naturally break into a five-act structure. Now Timon has given all his wealth. Shadowing Timon is another guest at the banquet, the cynical philosopher Apemantus and he was the only guest not angling for money or possessions from Timon. Along with a Fool, he attacks Timons creditors when they show up to make their demands for immediate payment, Timon cannot pay, and sends out his servants to make requests for help from those friends he considers closest. Timons servants are turned down, one by one, by Timons false friends, elsewhere, one of Alcibiadess junior officers has reached an even further point of rage, killing a man in hot blood. Alcibiades pleads with the Senate for mercy, arguing that a crime of passion should not carry as severe a sentence as premeditated murder, the senators disagree, and, when Alcibiades persists, banish him forever. He vows revenge, with the support of his troops, the act finishes with Timon discussing with his servants the revenge he will carry out at his next banquet. Timon hosts a party, intended only for those he feels have betrayed him
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Illustration from Tales from Shakespeare, McLoughlin Bros., 1890
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Timon renounces society (1803 engraving for Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 1)
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The first page of Timon of Athens, printed in the Second Folio of 1632
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Drawing by
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FX (TV channel)
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FX is an American basic cable and satellite television channel launched on June 1,1994, based in Los Angeles, California and owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC. FXs programming primarily includes original drama and comedy series, and reruns of theatrical films, as of July 2015, FX is available to approximately 94,006,000 pay television households in the United States. In addition to the flagship U. S. network, the FX name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries around the world, FX, originally stylized as fX, launched on June 1,1994. Broadcasting from an apartment in Manhattans Flatiron District, fX was one of the first forays into large-scale interactive television. FX had two taglines during this period, TV Made Fresh Daily and The Worlds First Living Television Network, the live shows were each mostly focused on one broad topic. Shows included Personal fX, The Pet Department, Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace, other notable fX personalities included Karyn Bryant and Orlando Jones, who were panelists on Sound fX. The channel prided itself on its interactivity with viewers, FX, in 1994, was an early adopter of the internet, embracing e-mail and the World Wide Web as methods of feedback. Select viewers were allowed to spend a day at the apartment, the first incarnation of fX was not available on Time Warner Cable, one of the major cable systems in New York City, where its programming originated. TWC would not carry the channel until September 2001, the live shows gradually disappeared one by one until only Personal fX remained. Breakfast Time was moved to the Fox network and renamed Fox After Breakfast in mid-1996 and it underwent several format changes, but never found a substantial audience and was canceled less than a year later. By the time that all programming was dropped, the channel focused entirely on its classic television shows until its relaunch in mid-1997. Personal fX remained on the refocused FX until May 1,1998, FX vacated the apartment in the summer of 1998 and the channels operations were streamlined with the other Fox-owned cable channels. In early 1997, fX was relaunched as FX, Fox Gone Cable, during the first few years after its relaunch, FX was known for little else than airing reruns of such Fox shows as The X-Files and Married. With Children, as well as 20th Century Fox-produced shows such as M*A*S*H, the channel also added Major League Baseball games to its lineup at that time, and eventually expanded its sports programming to include NASCAR races in 2001. In the summer of 1998, FX debuted three original series, Bobcats Big Ass Show, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings and Penn & Tellers Sin City Spectacular, all three series were cancelled the following year. Soon after its relaunch, the Fox Gone Cable tagline was dropped, by 1999, new original programs were added with the debut of shows such as Son of the Beach and The X Show. Beginning in 2002, the channel emerged as a force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas. That year, FX debuted the police drama The Shield, which became a breakout hit, both shows were lauded by critics, and achieved equal success with viewers
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September 30, 1955
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September 30,1955 is a 1977 drama film written and directed by James Bridges. Filming of this movie was delayed for a year after Richard Thomas broke his ankle, Thomas had never ridden a motorcycle before and was practicing when he had an accident resulting in the ankle injury. The original cast included some Arkansas actors, including the part of Eugene, unfortunately, the delay in filming coincided with the young Arkansas actors growth spurt and the part of Eugene had to be re-cast. Set in Conway, Arkansas, the film portrays the reaction of the citizens of the town when they hear that James Dean has died in a car crash, Jimmy J. a young man who idolizes Dean, is particularly affected. Richard Thomas as Jimmy J. s Mother Ben Fuhrman as Coach Haynes The New York Times called the film, funny, solemn, September 30,1955 at the Internet Movie Database September 30,1955 at AllMovie
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Battle Beyond the Stars
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Battle Beyond the Stars, intended as a Magnificent Seven in outer space, is based on The Magnificent Seven, the Western remake of Akira Kurosawas film Seven Samurai. The screenplay was written by John Sayles, the score was composed by James Horner, the farmers of the peaceful planet Akir are threatened by the space tyrant Sador and his army of mutants, the Malmori. Sadors huge ship carries a weapon called a Stellar Converter, which turns planets into small stars and he threatens to use the Converter unless the planet submits to him when he returns in several days. Zed, the last Akira warrior, is old and nearly blind and he suggests they hire mercenaries to protect the planet. Lacking valuable resources, they can only offer food and shelter in payment, unable to go himself, Zed offers his ship for the job if they can find a pilot. The ship is fast and well-armed but, despite its AI navigation and tactical computer Nell, Shad, a young man who has piloted the ship and is well-known to Nell, volunteers for the recruiting mission. Shads first stop is the Hephaestus space station, which repairs androids, expecting to find weapons, Shad instead finds only two humans among the androids, Doctor Hephaestus, kept on life support, and his beautiful daughter Nanelia. The doctor attempts to force Shad to mate with his daughter, Shad doesnt want to abandon his people, and escapes, with Nanelia following in her own ship. Although she has no weapons, her highly advanced computer systems might be useful, the two split up to look for more mercenaries. Shad comes across Space Cowboy, a truck driver from Earth. Shad learns that Cowboy is late delivering a shipment of guns to a planet which, as they watch. Lacking the fuel to carry the weapons home, Cowboy offers to them to Akir. Shad talks him into teaching the Akira to use the guns, later, Shad meets a set of five alien clones who share a group consciousness named Nestor. They admit their life is dull, since their whole race shares one mind. In order to be entertained, they have sent five members to join Shads cause, Nestor does not require payment, saying they are completely self-sufficient. Next, Shad recruits Gelt, an assassin who is so well known he cant show his face on any civilized planet. Gelt offers his services in trade for the ability to live peacefully hiding among the Akira, gelts spaceship is highly maneuverable and well armed. On his way back to Akir, Shad is approached by Saint Exmin and she is a headstrong woman looking to prove herself in battle
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Theatrical poster by Gary Meyer
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Taking Woodstock
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Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock, A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and opened in New York and Los Angeles on August 26,2009, a hippie theater troupe, The Earthlight Players, rents the barn, but can hardly pay any rent. Due to financial trouble, the motel may have to be closed, the family is given until the end of the summer to pay up. Elliot plans to hold a musical festival, and has, for $1. When he hears that the organizers of the Woodstock Festival face opposition against the planned location, he offers his permit. Elliot comes to agreement about the fee for the motel more smoothly, initial objections by his mother quickly disappear when she sees the cash paid in advance. Elliot and Yasgur encounter a little bit of expected opposition, the local diner refuses to serve Elliot anymore, inspectors target the motel for building code violations, and some local boys paint a swastika and hate words on the hotel. However, resistance quickly dissolves in the wave of peace. The Tiber family works hard serving the influx of visitors. A cross-dressing veteran, Vilma, is hired as a security guard, Elliot also struggles with hiding his homosexuality from his family, when he connects romantically with one of the event organizers staying at the motel. On the first day of the concert, Elliot, his father, elliots father, transformed and enlivened by all the new life in town, tells Elliot to go and see the concert. Elliot hitches a ride through the traffic jam on the back of a benevolent state troopers motorcycle. There, he meets a couple, who invite him to join them on an LSD trip in their VW Bus a short distance from the crowd. Elliot has trouble relaxing at first, but gradually melts into a union with them. When they finally emerge after sundown, Elliot watches the vast crowd, Elliot returns home from his liberating experience and has breakfast with his parents. He suggests to his mother that now have enough money to replace him. Elliot storms out, facetiously suggesting his mom eat the hash brownies Vilma has just offered, the once-brittle family is united in joy and delirious affection
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Elliot Tiber is the author of the memoir on which the movie is based (
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Way Out (TV series)
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Way Out is a 1961 fantasy and science fiction television anthology series hosted by writer Roald Dahl. The series was paired by the network with the similar The Twilight Zone for Friday evening broadcasts, the shows primary sponsor was Liggett & Myers. Writers included Philip H. Reisman, Jr. and Sumner Locke Elliott, the premiere episode, William and Mary, adapted from a Roald Dahl short story, told of a wife getting revenge on her husband. Critical notices at the time were good, especially for Dahls comedic commentaries. While the series garnered high ratings in urban areas, it fared poorly in the hinterlands and was canceled after 14 episodes, the show was one of the last weekly dramatic television series produced in New York City. Only five episodes have ever turned up on videocassettes and none on DVD, however as of October 2016, the entire run is available for viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York and Los Angeles. The episodes are owned by Susskinds estate, Dahl later hosted an anthology series called Tales of the Unexpected on British television beginning in 1979. com Way Out at the Internet Movie Database Way Out at TV. com Petri Liukkonen. Archived from the original on 4 July 2013, Way Out at CVTA with episode list
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Barry Morse in Soft Focus on Way Out (July 7, 1961). Makeup by
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1, 2, 3 Go!
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The 30-minute educational series was telecast on NBC in 1961-62, opening with this theme song, Wonder what itll be today. What excitement is on its way and you can find out just by saying. Each episode had a theme and was narrated by Thomas, the show established that adult and child were on an equal footing, sometimes with the child in a superior position. For example, in a show with a theme of cinematic special effects, although Richard explains it is only a special effect, Lescoulie remains concerned. In the narration, Richard observes, Jack was getting worried about the arrow, during the Halloween weekend of 1961, Zacherley appeared for an episode exploring haunted houses. The show was produced by NBC Public Affairs,1,2,3 Go. at the Internet Movie Database
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Richard Thomas in the program's premiere.
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From These Roots
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From These Roots is an American soap opera that aired from June 30,1958, to December 29,1961. It was created and written by Frank Provo and John Pickard, the show was seen on NBC. Actress Ann Flood starred as Elizabeth Liz Fraser Allen, a writer who had returned to her New England hometown of Strathfield to run her familys newspaper. Her father, Ben Fraser, Sr. had suffered an attack, thus causing Liz. Another former beau, from her days in Strathfield, Dr. Buck Weaver, eventually married his secretary. Her family included a brother Ben, Jr. Jim and Emily had a daughter, named Lyddy, lizs first adversary was wealthy Enid Chambers, who was the first wife of the man she would eventually marry, David Allen. Her later adversary was alcoholic actress, Lynn Franklin, who, despite her own marriage to Tom Jennings, was much in love with David. Several actors featured on From These Roots found fame in later shows and these include Henderson Forsythe, who went on to fame as Dr. Dan Stewart, on As the World Turns. The show was directed by Joseph Behar, and Don Wallace and Paul Lammers and it was also known for a storyline dealing with the show-within-a-show performance of Madame Bovary, which heavily featured the shows villainess, Lynn Franklin. A dispute between Wallace and Lammers with actress Julie Bovasso which ended up getting the latter fired from the show, Bovasso, who played Rose Corelli, Ben Fraser, Jr. s wife, had a disagreement with a specific lines meaning, and she walked off the set. A line producer stepped in for her and did her roles that day, Bovasso was later fired and actress Tresa Hughes took over as Rose until the shows end in 1961. The show was cancelled in 1961 because not many people felt at home with this kind of drama and this soap opera was more literary than most that were on the air at that time. The owner of the show, Procter and Gamble, sold the show to network NBC, as such, all the stories were wrapped up and ended happily. From These Roots at the Internet Movie Database
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Scene from the show. From left: Ann Flood, Robert Mandan, and Sarah Hardy, 1961
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Marcus Welby, M.D.
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Marcus Welby, M. D. was an American medical drama television program that aired Tuesdays at 10, 00–11,00 p. m. on ABC from September 23,1969 to July 29,1976. Marcus Welby, M. D. was produced by David Victor, the pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26,1969. As with most medical dramas of the day, the plots often concerned a conflict between well-meaning physicians. Here, Dr. Welbys unorthodox way of treating patients was pitted against the more strait-laced methods of Dr. Steven Kiley, the catch with this particular program was that the roles were reversed in that Dr. Kiley was much younger than Dr. Welby. The opening credits of episode reminded viewers of the generation gap between the two doctors, Welby driving his sedan and Kiley riding a motorcycle. Welby had served in the US Navy as a doctor during the war and he owned a sail boat and enjoyed the ocean. The doctors worked alongside each other in their practice in Santa Monica, California. At the office, their loyal secretary-nurse and friend was Consuelo Lopez, Dr. Kiley met and married public relations director Janet Blake, in 1975, at the beginning of the shows last season on the air. Its handling of many varied medical cases – some common, some uncommon – made it an instant hit for ABC, at its second season, it ranked #1 in the Nielsen ratings, becoming the first ABC show to top the list. The same year, both Young and Brolin won Emmy Awards for their work, as did the show for Outstanding Dramatic Series, Young won a Golden Globe in 1972 for his performance. Members of the American Academy of Family Physicians served as advisers for the series. The show twice found itself at the center of controversy and protests by gay activists, the next year, The Outrage sparked nationwide demonstrations because its story of a teenage student being sexually assaulted by his male teacher conflated homosexuality with pedophilia. Seven sponsors refused to buy advertising time, and 17 television network affiliates refused to air the episode. This was the first known instance of network affiliates refusing a network episode in response to protests, during its run, Marcus Welby, M. D. had two crossover stories with Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law. In Men Who Care, Marshall defends the father of Welbys patient when the man is accused of murdering his daughters boyfriend, in Ive Promised You a Father, Marshall defends Kiley in a paternity suit filed by a nurse claiming that Kiley is the father of her child. It was the first show in ABCs history to become the #1 show on television, by the mid-1970s, the popularity of medical dramas began to wane. Ratings for both Marcus Welby, M. D. and CBS Medical Center began to drop, as did the ratings for daytime dramas General Hospital, previous episodes initially went into syndication in the fall of 1975 as Robert Young, Family Doctor. The show ended its run in 1976 after a total of 169 episodes were made, in 1984, the reunion movie The Return of Marcus Welby, M. D. aired, with Young and Verdugo reprising their roles
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Young and Wyatt on Marcus Welby, M.D.
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
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The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr. based on his book Spencers Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression, the series pilot aired as a television movie entitled The Homecoming, A Christmas Story and was broadcast on December 19,1971. Beginning in September 1972, the originally aired on CBS for nine seasons. After the series was canceled by CBS in 1981, NBC aired three television movie sequels in 1982, with three more in the 1990s on CBS, the Waltons was produced by Lorimar Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. The main story takes place in Waltons Mountain, a town at the foot of a mountain in fictitious Jefferson County. The actual place upon which the stories are based is in Nelson County, Virginia, the time period is from 1933 to 1946, during the Great Depression and World War II, during the presidential administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. The last episode of one, An Easter Story, is set in February–April 1934. The year 1934 takes two seasons to cover, while some years are covered over the course of a few months. The series finale, The Revel, revolves around a party, a span of 13 years is therefore covered in nine seasons. There are some errors, which ostensibly do not hinder the storyline. The series began relating stories that occurred 38 years in the past, the story is about the family of John Walton Jr. his six siblings, his parents John and Olivia Walton, and the elder Johns parents Zebulon Zeb and Esther Walton. John-Boy is the oldest of the children, who becomes a journalist and novelist. Each episode is narrated at the opening and closing by a middle-aged John Jr. John Sr. manages to eke out a living for his family by operating a mill with his sons help as they grow older. The family income is augmented by some small-scale farming, and John occasionally hunts to put meat on the table, the family shares hospitality with relatives and strangers as they are able. Jefferson County sheriff Ep Bridges, who fought alongside John in World War I, keeps law, the entire family attends a Baptist church, of which Olivia and Grandma Esther are the most regular attendees. The church that the Hamners actually attended was Schuyler Baptist Church, the church has helped host several events honoring Earl Hamner, Jr. including one in 2014. In the signature scene that closes almost every episode, the house is enveloped in darkness, save for one. Through voice-overs, two or more characters make some brief comments related to that events, and then bid each other goodnight
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John, John-Boy, and Olivia Walton
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The cast at the 40th Anniversary of the show in 2012
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Match Game 73
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Match Game is an American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962 and was revived several times over the course of the next few decades. The game featured contestants trying to come up with answers to fill-in-the-blank questions, the Match Game in its original version ran on NBCs daytime lineup from 1962 until 1969. The show returned with a changed format in 1973 on CBS and became a major success, with an expanded panel, larger cash payouts. Concurrently with the run, from 1975 to 1981, a five-night-a-week fringe time version. It returned to ABC in a prime time edition on June 26,2016. All of these used the 1970s format as their basis. The series was a production of Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Productions, along with its successor companies, in 2013, TV Guide ranked the 1973–79 version CBS version of Match Game as No.4 on its list of the 60 greatest game shows ever. The Match Game premiered on December 31,1962, Gene Rayburn was host and Johnny Olson served as announcer, for the series premiere, Arlene Francis and Skitch Henderson were the two celebrity panelists. The show was taped in Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, NBCs largest New York studio, a team scored 25 points if two teammates matched answers or 50 points if all three contestants matched. The first team to score 100 points won $100 and played the Audience Match, each contestant who agreed with the most popular answer to a question earned the team $50, for a possible total of $450. The questions used in the game were commonplace, Name a kind of muffin, Write down one of the words to ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’ other than ‘Row, the humor in the original series came largely from the panelists reactions to the other answers. In 1963, NBC cancelled the series with six weeks left to be recorded, question writer Dick DeBartolo came up with a funnier set of questions, like Mary likes to pour gravy all over Johns _____, and submitted it to Mark Goodson. NBC also occasionally used special episodes of the series as a program in prime time if one of its movies had an irregular time slot. The Match Game continued through September 26,1969 on NBC for 1,760 episodes, airing at 4,00 pm Eastern, running 25 minutes due to a five-minute newscast. Since Olson split time between New York and Miami to announce The Jackie Gleason Show, one of the networks New York staff announcers filled-in for Olson when he could not attend a broadcast. A successful match won a jackpot, which started at $500, very few episodes of the 1960s The Match Game survive. In the early 1970s, CBS vice president Fred Silverman began overhauling the networks programming as part of what has become known as the rural purge. As part of overhaul, the network reintroduced game shows beginning in 1972
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Gene Rayburn hosting The Match Game pilot in 1962.
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Brett Somers was a regular panelist from 1973 to 1982.
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Charles Nelson Reilly, seen here in 2000, was a regular panelist from 1973 to 1991.
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Barefoot in the Park
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Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon. The play premiered on Broadway in 1963 and starred Robert Redford, the play was made into a film in 1967, also starring Redford, and Jane Fonda. The play opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on October 23,1963 and this was Neil Simons longest-running hit, and the tenth longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history. Directed by Mike Nichols, the cast starred Elizabeth Ashley, Robert Redford, Mildred Natwick, the scenic design was by Oliver Smith, costumes by Donald Brooks and lighting by Jean Rosenthal. The play was nominated for three 1964 Tony Awards, and Mike Nichols won the award for Best Director, myrna Loy starred in the national tour during the time the play was still on Broadway. A revival opened on Broadway at the Cort Theater on February 16,2006, the cast included Amanda Peet, Patrick Wilson, Jill Clayburgh, and Tony Roberts. The revival was directed by Scott Elliott, a revival production toured the United Kingdom in 2012. The cast included Maureen Lipman, Faye Castelow, Dominic Tighe, the play was directed by Lipman in partnership with Peter Cregeen. Corie and Paul Bratter are a newlywed couple, for their first home, they live in an apartment on the top floor of a brownstone in New York City. During the course of four days, the couple learns to live together while facing the usual daily ups-and-downs, Corrie wants Paul to become more easy-going, for example, to run barefoot in the park. Simon adapted his play for a 1967 feature film, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, a television series based on the play began on ABC in September 1970. It was an African-American situation comedy which ran for twelve weeks, the show featured Scoey Mitchell and Tracy Reed as a young middle-class couple living in a New York City apartment and struggling through the first years of marriage. This was one of two television series based on Neil Simon plays to debut on the network that month, the other being The Odd Couple. A production of Barefoot in the Park ran at the Moore Theater in Seattle for one week in late 1981, the play - and movie - starred Richard Thomas as Paul, Bess Armstrong as Corie, Barbara Barrie as Mrs. Banks, and Hans Conreid as Velasco. It was initially telecast in March 1982, Bess Armstrong glows in the role of his wife, Corrie, but Barbara Barrie virtually walks away with the show as her bemused mother. Barefoot in the Park at the Internet Broadway Database Barefoot in the Park at the Internet Broadway Database
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Pavarotti and Friends
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Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. As one of the Three Tenors, Pavarotti became well known for his televised concerts, Pavarotti was also noted for his charity work on behalf of refugees and the Red Cross, amongst others. He died from cancer on 6 September 2007. Luciano Pavarotti was born in 1935 on the outskirts of Modena in Northern Italy, the son of Fernando Pavarotti, a baker and amateur tenor, and Adele Venturi, a cigar factory worker. Although he spoke fondly of his childhood, the family had little money, according to Pavarotti, his father had a fine tenor voice but rejected the possibility of a singing career because of nervousness. World War II forced the family out of the city in 1943, for the following year they rented a single room from a farmer in the neighbouring countryside, where the young Pavarotti developed an interest in farming. After abandoning the dream of becoming a goalkeeper, Pavarotti spent seven years in vocal training. Pavarottis earliest musical influences were his fathers recordings, most of them featuring the popular tenors of the day – Beniamino Gigli, Giovanni Martinelli, Tito Schipa, at around the age of nine he began singing with his father in a small local church choir. He was interested in pursuing a career as a football goalkeeper. He subsequently taught in a school for two years but finally allowed his interest in music to win out. Recognising the risk involved, his father gave his consent only reluctantly, Pavarotti began the serious study of music in 1954 at the age of 19 with Arrigo Pola, a respected teacher and professional tenor in Modena who offered to teach him without remuneration. According to conductor Richard Bonynge, Pavarotti never learned to read music and he later said that this was the most important experience of his life, and that it inspired him to become a professional singer. At about this time Pavarotti first met Adua Veroni, like Pavarotti, Freni was destined to operatic greatness, they were to share the stage many times and make memorable recordings together. During his years of study, Pavarotti held part-time jobs in order to sustain himself – first as an elementary school teacher. The first six years of study resulted in only a few recitals, all in small towns, when a nodule developed on his vocal cords, causing a disastrous concert in Ferrara, he decided to give up singing. Pavarotti attributed his immediate improvement to the psychological release connected with this decision, Pavarotti began his career as a tenor in smaller regional Italian opera houses, making his debut as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Teatro Municipale in Reggio Emilia in April 1961. He made his first international appearance in La traviata in Belgrade, very early in his career, on 23 February 1963, he debuted at the Vienna State Opera in the same role. In March and April 1963 Vienna saw Pavarotti again as Rodolfo, while generally successful, Pavarottis early roles did not immediately propel him into the stardom that he would later enjoy
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Luciano Pavarotti performing at the opening of the Constantine Palace in
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Luciano Pavarotti performing on 15 June 2002 at a concert in the
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Hank Williams Jr.
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Randall Hank Williams, known professionally as Hank Williams Jr. is an American singer, songwriter and musician. His musical style is considered a blend of Southern rock, blues. He is the son of country music singer Hank Williams and the father of Hank Williams III, Holly Williams, Hilary Williams, Samuel Williams. Williams began his career by following in his fathers footsteps, singing his fathers songs. Williams own style evolved as he struggled to find his own voice and place within the country music industry. This trend was interrupted by a fall off the side of Ajax Peak in Montana on August 8,1975. After an extended recovery, he challenged the country music establishment with a blend of country, rock, Williams enjoyed much success in the 1980s, from which he earned considerable recognition and popularity both inside and outside the country music industry. As a multi-instrumentalist, Williams repertoire of skills include guitar, bass guitar, upright bass, steel guitar, banjo, dobro, piano, keyboards, harmonica, fiddle, and drums. From 1989 until October 2011, a version of his song All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight was used as the opening for broadcasts of Monday Night Football, Williams was born on May 26,1949 in Shreveport, Louisiana. After his fathers death in 1953, he was raised by his mother, while he was a child, a number of contemporary musicians visited his family, who influenced and taught him various music instruments and styles. Among these figures of influence were Johnny Cash, Fats Domino, Earl Scruggs, Lightnin Hopkins, Williams first stepped on the stage and sang his fathers songs when he was eight years old. In 1964, he made his debut with Long Gone Lonesome Blues. Williams provided the voice of his father in the 1964 film Your Cheatin Heart. He also recorded an album of duets with recordings of his father, by the mid-1970s Williams began to pursue a musical direction that would eventually make him a superstar. While recording a series of successful songs, Williams began a heavy pattern of both drug and alcohol abuse. Hank Williams Jr. and Friends, often considered his watershed album was the product of these then-groundbreaking collaborations, in 1977 Williams recorded and released One Night Stands and The New South, and worked closely with his old friend Waylon Jennings on the song Once and For All. On August 8,1975 Williams was nearly killed in a mountain-climbing accident, while he was climbing Ajax Peak in Montana, the snow beneath him collapsed and he fell almost 500 feet onto rock. He suffered multiple skull and facial fractures, the incident was chronicled in the semi-autobiographical, made-for-television film Living Proof, The Hank Williams Jr. Story
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Hank Williams, Jr. in concert, 2006
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Hank Williams, Jr., in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California, on August 4, 2006
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John Hay
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John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hays highest office was United States Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley. Hay was also an author and biographer and wrote poetry and other literature throughout much of his life, born in Indiana to an anti-slavery family that moved to Illinois when he was young, Hay showed great potential, and his family sent him to Brown University. After graduation in 1858, Hay read law in his uncles office in Springfield, Illinois, Hay worked for Lincolns successful presidential campaign and became one of his private secretaries at the White House. Throughout the American Civil War, Hay was close to Lincoln, in addition to his other literary works, Hay co-authored with John George Nicolay a multi-volume biography of Lincoln that helped shape the assassinated presidents historical image. After Lincolns death, Hay spent several years at posts in Europe, then worked for the New-York Tribune under Horace Greeley. Yet, Hay remained active in politics, and from 1879 to 1881 served as Assistant Secretary of State, afterward, he remained in the private sector, until President McKinley, for whom he had been a major backer, made him Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1897. Hay became Secretary of State the following year, Hay served for almost seven years as Secretary of State under President McKinley, and after his assassination, under Theodore Roosevelt. Hay was responsible for negotiating the Open Door Policy, which kept China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis, John Milton Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, on October 8,1838. He was the son of Dr. Charles Hay and the former Helen Leonard. Charles Hay, born in Lexington, Kentucky, hated slavery, a doctor, he practiced in Salem and married there in 1831. Helens father, David Leonard, had moved his family west from Assonet, Massachusetts, in 1818, but died en route to Vincennes, Indiana, Charles was not successful in Salem, and moved, with his wife and children, to Warsaw, Illinois, in 1841. John attended the schools, and in 1849 his uncle Milton Hay invited John to live at his home in Pittsfield, Pike County, and attend a well-regarded local school. Milton was a friend of Springfield attorney Abraham Lincoln and had read law in the firm Stuart, in Pittsfield, John first met John Nicolay, who was at the time a 20-year-old newspaperman. Once John Hay completed his studies there, the 13-year-old was sent to live with his grandfather in Springfield and his parents and uncle Milton sent him to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, alma mater of his late maternal grandfather. Hay enrolled at Brown in 1855, although he enjoyed college life, he did not find it easy, his Western clothing and accent made him stand out, he was not well prepared academically and was often sick. Hay gained a reputation as a student and became a part of Providences literary circle that included Sarah Helen Whitman. He wrote poetry and experimented with hashish, Hay received his Master of Arts degree in 1858, and was, like his grandfather before him, Class Poet
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The
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Hay in 1862
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The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)
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The Outer Limits is a Canadian-American television series that originally aired on Showtime, Syfy and in syndication between 1995 and 2002. The series is a revival of the original The Outer Limits series that aired from 1963–65, the revival series maintained an anthology format, but occasionally featured recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows. Over the course of the series,154 episodes were aired, after an attempt to bring back The Outer Limits during the early 1980s, it was finally relaunched in 1995. The success of television speculative fiction such as Star Trek, The X-Files, a deal was made with Trilogy Productions, the company behind such cinema hits as Backdraft and Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. The show would run on the pay-TV channel Showtime, the episodes appeared in syndication the following season. It continued on Showtime until 2001, when Sci Fi quietly took over production for the seventh, as a result that series, unlike the previous ones, was completely free of any swearing or nudity. It was canceled in 2002, after a total of 154 episodes—far more than the incarnation of the show. In the revived show, the Control Voice was supplied by Kevin Conway, the series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. The series contained a story arc about mysterious or extraterrestrial forces. Leslie Stevens was a consultant for the first four seasons, while Joseph Stefano served as an executive consultant. Stefano also remade his episode A Feasibility Study, retitling it Feasibility Study for the third season, Mark Mancina and John Van Tongeren composed new music different from that of Dominic Frontiere and Harry Lubin. They scored ten episodes for the first season, the musical theme for the modern Outer Limits series is credited to Mark Mancina and John VanTongeren. However, the music is used in The Ambush, a theme in the soundtrack of Dune 2000. In most seasons there was a show that intertwines the plots of several of the shows episodes. At each commercial interval, the Control Voice can be heard saying The Outer Limits. please stand by, the voice repeats this phrase upon return from the television ads. The surreal images from the opening are mostly the work of Jerry Uelsmann, a number of episodes from seasons 1–6 feature nudity and adult content, though originally broadcast uncensored, those episodes have been edited for commercial syndication. These DVDs all contain the uncut episodes, as originally aired. The Aliens and Sex titles were released by MGM in the UK
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The Miracle of the Cards
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The Miracle of the Cards is 2002 American television drama film distributed by Cloud Ten Pictures. It starred Kirk Cameron, Karin Konoval, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Wingfield and it first aired on November 10,2001 on PAX. The Miracle of the Cards taglines were Witness the power of faith and it was not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. The Miracle of the Cards is based on the story of 9-year old English youngster Craig Shergold. Broadcasting a plea to everyone in the world, Marion is successful in bringing 350 million cards to Craigs door, one of those cards provides the key for Craigs ultimate salvation. A cynical reporter, Josh, finds himself witnessing a miracle he can hardly believe, the Miracle of the Cards at the Internet Movie Database The Miracle of the Cards at MSN The Miracle of the Cards at The New York Times The Miracle of the Cards at Rotten Tomatoes
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Charles Ingalls
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Charles Phillip Ingalls was the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House series of books. Ingalls is depicted as the character Pa in the books and the television series, for information on the relatives, see, List of real-life individuals from Little House on the Prairie. Ingalls was the second of nine children of Lansford Whiting Ingalls and Laura Louise Colby Ingalls, lansfords mother was Margaret Delano, of the famed Delano family, and was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. In the 1840s, when Ingalls was a boy, his family moved from New York to the tallgrass prairie of Campton Township, just west of Elgin. Charles grew into a high-spirited, outgoing man, with a love of music and reading, as well as becoming an accomplished hunter-trapper, carpenter, on February 1,1860, Charles Ingalls married a neighbor, the quiet and proper Caroline Lake Quiner. They had five children, Mary, Laura, Carrie, Charles Frederick Freddie, for his entire life, Ingalls had a strong case of wanderlust. He is quoted by Laura in her Little House series of books as saying and he loved travelling and did not like living among big crowds of people so, with his family in the early years of his marriage, he traveled a great deal and often changed homes. From their original home in the woods of Wisconsin, he moved his family to Indian Territory in southeastern Kansas, then back to Wisconsin, then presented with a job opportunity in Dakota Territory, he longed to move yet again, as the family was struggling financially in Minnesota. Caroline agreed, but extracted a promise from her husband that this would be their last move, Ingalls agreed, and the family settled down for good in De Smet, South Dakota. He held various elected positions in the town, including Justice of the Peace and he also operated a retail store in De Smet for a few years and lastly, sold insurance. He died on June 8,1902, of cardiovascular disease and he is buried at De Smet Cemetery. Ingalls helped organize, and was an member of, the Congregational Church in De Smet. He was a Freemason and he was given Masonic rites at his funeral
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Charles Ingalls with his wife Caroline Ingalls
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House built by Charles Ingalls in De Smet where he spent the later years of his life.
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The Good Wife
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The Good Wife is an American legal and political drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22,2009, to May 8,2016. The executive producers are Ridley Scott, Charles McDougall, and David W. Zucker, the Good Wife is a heavily serialized show featuring several story arcs that carry over several episodes, as well as stand-alone procedural storylines that are concluded by the end of each episode. The serial plots have been showcased in its highly praised fifth season. This is a rarity among The Good Wifes broadcaster CBS, as most of its shows are procedural, the Good Wife won numerous prestigious awards, including five Emmys and the 2014 Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drama. The performances of the shows cast have been recognized, with Julianna Marguliess role as Alicia Florrick receiving significant praise. The show has received wide acclaim for its insight on social media. CBS announced in a promo aired during Super Bowl 50, on February 7,2016, the final episode aired on May 8,2016. The series focuses on Alicia Florrick, whose husband Peter, the former Cook County, Illinois States Attorney, has been jailed following a political corruption. After having spent the previous thirteen years as a stay-at-home mother, the image of a wife standing silently beside her husband as he publicly admitted to his sexual or political misconduct has, according to Robert King, become a sort of cliché. This image led the Kings to question why these women stood by their husbands and they were further intrigued by the fact that many of the wives were lawyers, who had halted their personal careers for the sake of their husbands professional ambitions. The actual idea for the series was first postulated in the following the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal of 2008. As Michelle King, explains, The series was created by Michelle and Robert King, the pair had produced the short-lived legal drama In Justice that aired as a mid-season replacement in early 2006. The creators had worked extensively in feature films. Scott Free productions helped to finance The Good Wife and Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, executive producer Dee Johnson added television writing experience to the team. Charles McDougall directed the episode and was the pilots other executive producer. McDougall had previously enjoyed success as the director of the pilot for Desperate Housewives, All seven executive producers returned when a full series was ordered and they were joined by executive producer Brooke Kennedy. McDougall left the crew after directing and executive producing the second episode, several new producers were added to the crew once CBS ordered a full season. Todd Ellis Kessler, who had completed production on The Unit
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Julianna Margulies as
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Robert King, Michelle King, Julianna Margulies, Christine Baranski, Mary Beth Peil, Matt Czurchy and David Zucker of The Good Wife at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards
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Elementary (TV series)
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Elementary is an American procedural drama series that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles character Sherlock Holmes. The series was created by Robert Doherty and stars Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes, the series premiered on CBS on September 27,2012. The series is set and filmed primarily in New York City, the show follows Holmes, a recovering drug addict and former consultant to Scotland Yard, as he assists the New York City Police Department in solving crimes. His indifference to police procedure often leads to conflict with Captain Thomas Gregson and he is accompanied by Dr. Joan Watson, who initially acts as his sober companion. She is a surgeon and was hired by Sherlocks father to help him in his rehabilitation. They eventually begin to work together on his cases, and she becomes Holmes apprentice, the series also features Holmes ongoing conflict with his nemesis Jamie Moriarty. Other supporting roles include Jon Michael Hill as Detective Marcus Bell, Rhys Ifans as Sherlocks brother, Mycroft Holmes, before the series premiered, it was met with some criticism given it followed closely on the heels of the BBCs modern adaptation Sherlock. After the premiere, it was picked up for a full season, the season two premiere was partly filmed on location in London. The series has since been received by critics, who have praised the performances, writing. On March 25,2016, CBS renewed the series for a fifth season, formerly a successful surgeon until she lost a patient, Watson views her current job as another opportunity to help people. However, Sherlock is nothing like her previous clients and he informs her that none of her expertise as an addiction specialist applies to him and that he has devised his own post-rehab regimen – resuming his work as a police consultant in New York City. Watson has no choice but to accompany her new charge on his jobs. Over time, Sherlock finds her medical background helpful, and Watson realizes she has a talent for investigation. Sherlocks police contact, Captain Thomas Gregson, knows from previous experience working with Scotland Yard that Sherlock is brilliant at solving cases, the investigative group also includes Detective Marcus Bell, an investigator with sharp intuition and intimidating interrogation skills. Although initially skeptical of Holmes and his methods, Bell begins to recognize Sherlock as an asset to their investigations. Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes, A former Scotland Yard consultant who now lives in New York City after completing drug rehabilitation there for addiction-related problems in the United Kingdom, Holmes is a deductive genius with a variety of unusual interests and enthusiasms that assist him in his investigations. Feeling that the more interesting cases are in America, he stays in New York. He contacts an old associate, Captain Thomas Gregson of the NYPD to resume his previous work as a consulting detective and he is forced by his father to live with Dr. Joan Watson, his sober companion who provides him with aftercare
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Robert Young (actor)
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Born in Chicago, Young was the son of an Irish immigrant father, Thomas E. Young, and an American mother, Margaret Fife. When Young was young, the moved to different locations within the U. S. Seattle, followed by Los Angeles. After graduation, he studied and performed at the Pasadena Playhouse while working at odd jobs, while touring with a stock company producing The Ship, Young was discovered by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talent scout with whom he subsequently signed a contract. Young made his film debut for MGM in the 1931 Charlie Chan film. Young appeared in over 100 films between 1931 and 1952, yet, most of his assignments consisted of B movies, also known as programmers, which required two to three weeks of shooting. Actors who were relegated to such a hectic schedule appeared, as Young did, in 1936, MGM summarily loaned Young to Gaumont British for two films, the first was directed by Alfred Hitchcock with the other co-starring Jessie Matthews. While there he surmised that his employers intended to terminate his contract and he unexpectedly received one of his most rewarding roles late in his MGM career, in H. M. Pulham, Esq. featuring one of Hedy Lamarrs most effective performances. He once remarked that he was assigned only those roles which Robert Montgomery, after his contract ended at MGM, Young starred in light comedies as well as in trenchant dramas for studios such as 20th Century Fox, United Artists, and RKO Radio Pictures. From 1943, Young assayed more challenging roles in films like Claudia, The Enchanted Cottage, They Wont Believe Me, The Second Woman and his portrayal of unsympathetic characters in several of these later films—which was seldom the case in his MGM pictures—was applauded by numerous reviewers. Youngs career began an incremental and imperceptible decline, despite a propitious beginning as an actor without the nurturing of a major studio. Today, Young is most remembered as the affable insurance salesman in Father Knows Best, for which he, elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin played the Anderson children in the television version. Young then created, produced, and starred with Ford Rainey and Constance Moore in the nostalgic CBS comedy series Window on Main Street, youngs final television series was Marcus Welby, M. D. co-starring a young James Brolin. This show earned Young an Emmy for best leading actor in a drama series, until the late 1980s, he also made numerous television commercials in which he persuaded edgy people to drink Sanka coffee. Young was married to Betty Henderson from 1933 until her death in 1994 and they had four daughters, Carol Proffitt, Barbara Beebe, Kathy Young, and Betty Lou Gleason. They also had six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, later, he spoke candidly about his personal problems in an effort to encourage others to seek help. Young died of respiratory failure at his Westlake Village, California home on July 21,1998 and he has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the stars are in the categories of film, television, and radio. Muscatine, IA, Films of the Golden Age, the Great Movie Stars, The Golden Years. Robert Young at the Internet Movie Database Robert Young at the TCM Movie Database Robert Young at The New York Times Robert Young at Find a Grave Literature on Robert Young
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from
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Raymond Burr
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Raymond William Stacy Burr was a Canadian-American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. He was prominently involved in multiple charitable endeavors, such as working on behalf of the United Service Organizations, Burrs early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television and in film, usually as the villain. His portrayal of the murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window is regarded as his best-known film role. He won two Emmy Awards, in 1959 and 1961, for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons and his second hit TV series, Ironside, earned him six Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. After Burrs death from cancer in 1993, his life came into question. In 1996, Burr was listed as one of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time by TV Guide, a 2014 study found that Burr was rated as the favorite actor by Netflix users, with the greatest number of dedicated microgenres. Raymond William Stacy Burr was born May 21,1917, in New Westminster, British Columbia and his father, William Johnston Burr, was a hardware salesman, his mother, Minerva Annette, was a pianist and music teacher who had been born in Chicago, Illinois. Burrs ancestry included Irish, English, Scottish, and German, when Burr was six, his parents divorced. Burrs mother moved to Vallejo, California, with him and his siblings, Geraldine. His father remained in New Westminster, Burr attended San Rafael Military Academy in San Rafael, California, for awhile and graduated from Berkeley High School. In later years, Burr freely invented stories of a happy childhood, in 1986 he told journalist Jane Ardmore that when he was 12 years old his mother sent him to New Mexico for a year to work as a ranch hand. He developed a passion for growing things and, while still a teenager, throughout his teenage years, he had some acting work, making his stage debut at age 12 with a Vancouver stock company. Growing up during the Great Depression, Burr hoped to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater and school in Pasadena, California. In 1934 he joined a theatre group in Toronto that toured throughout Canada, then joined another company that toured India, Australia. He briefly attended Long Beach Junior College and taught for a semester at San Jose Junior College, working nights as a radio actor and he also began his association with the Pasadena Playhouse in 1937. Burr moved to New York in 1940, and made his first Broadway appearance in Crazy With the Heat and his first starring role on the stage came in November 1942, when he was an emergency replacement in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Quiet Wedding, directed by Lenore Shanewise. He became a member of the Pasadena Playhouse drama faculty for 18 months and he returned to the Broadway stage for Patrick Hamiltons The Duke in Darkness, a psychological drama set during the French Wars of Religion. Burrs performance as the friend of the imprisoned protagonist led to a contract with RKO Radio Pictures
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Raymond Burr (
Perry Mason) on the cover of
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Victoria Shaw in
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Mariette Hartley and Burr in
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Robert Stack
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Robert Stack was an American actor, sportsman, and television host. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind, Robert Stack was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his childhood growing up in Europe. He became fluent in French and Italian at an early age and his parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth. His father, James Langford Stack, an advertising agency owner, later remarried his mother. He had always spoken of his mother with the greatest respect, when he collaborated with Mark Evans on his autobiography, Straight Shooting, he included a picture of himself and his mother. He captioned it, Me and my best girl and his maternal grandfather, the opera singer Charles Wood, studied voice in Italy and performed there under the name Carlo Modini. On the paternal side of his family, Stack had another opera-singer relative, the American baritone Richard Bonelli, by the time he was 20, Stack had achieved minor fame as a sportsman. He was a polo player and shooter. His brother and he won the International Outboard Motor Championships, in Venice, Italy and he set two world records in skeet shooting and became National Champion. In 1971, he was inducted into the National Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame, Stack took drama courses at Bridgewater State College. His deep voice and good looks attracted producers in Hollywood, when Stack visited the lot of Universal Studios at age 20, producer Joe Pasternak offered him an opportunity to enter the business. Recalled Stack, He said, Howd you like to be in pictures, well make a test with Helen Parrish, a little love scene. Helen Parrish was a beautiful girl, gee, that sounds keen, I told him. Stacks first film, which teamed him with Deanna Durbin, was First Love and he was the first actor to give Durbin an on-screen kiss. Stack won acclaim for his role, The Mortal Storm starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. He played a man who joins the Nazi party. As a youth, Stack mentioned that he had a crush on Carole Lombard and he admitted he was terrified going into this role, but he credited Lombard with giving him many tips on acting and with being his mentor
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Robert and Rosemarie Stack at home in 1961.
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E. G. Marshall
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Among his film roles he is perhaps best known as the unflappable, conscientious Juror #4 in Sidney Lumets courtroom drama 12 Angry Men. He also played the President of the United States in Superman II and Superman II, Marshall was born Everett Eugene Grunz in Owatonna, Minnesota, the son of Hazel Irene and Charles G. Grunz. During his life, he not to reveal what E. G. stood for. According to the Social Security Death Index, even his Social Security card showed his name as. He attended both Carleton College and the University of Minnesota, although most familiar for his later television and movie roles, Marshall also had a distinguished Broadway career. In subsequent years, hed land the roles in The Crucible. In 1973, he returned to the stage to play the title role in a highly praised production of Macbeth in Richmond, Virginia. From January 1974 until February 1982, Marshall was the original host of the nightly radio drama. He had seven children in all, including Jed, Sarah, Jill, Degen and he died of lung cancer in Bedford, New York, on August 24,1998. His grave is in the Middle Patent Rural Cemetery, located in the hamlet of Banksville, as a member of the Committee for National Health Insurance, E. G. Marshall was a long-time advocate for government-provided health care in the United States. During the 1968 United States presidential campaign, he filmed and narrated a political advertisement endorsing Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, E. G. Marshall at the Internet Movie Database E. G. Marshall at the Internet Broadway Database E. G. Marshall at Internet off-Broadway Database E. G. Marshall at Find a Grave E. G. Marshall interview video at the Archive of American Television
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Bill Cosby
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William Henry Bill Cosby, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and singer. Cosbys start in comedy began at the hungry i in San Francisco and was followed by his landing a starring role in the 1960s television show I Spy. He was also a regular on the television series The Electric Company during the shows first two seasons. Throughout the 1970s, Cosby starred in a number of films, after attending Temple University in the 1960s, he received his bachelors degree there in 1971. In 1973, he received a degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a tool in elementary schools. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family, Cosby has been the subject of publicized sexual assault allegations since about 2000. He surrendered to authorities on December 30,2015, and was released on $1 million bail, Cosby is scheduled to go on trial on or before June 5,2017. Cosby was born on July 12,1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he is one of four sons of Anna Pearl, a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr. who served as a mess steward in the U. S. Navy. During much of Cosbys early childhood, his father was away in the U. S. armed forces, as a student, he described himself as a class clown. Cosby was the captain of both the team and the track and field team at Mary Channing Wister Public School in Philadelphia. Early on, though, teachers noted his propensity for clowning around rather than studying, at FitzSimons Junior High School, Cosby began acting in plays as well as continuing his devotion to playing sports. Cosby went on to Philadelphias Central High School, a magnet and academically rigorous university prep school where he played football, basketball, baseball, and ran track. In addition, Cosby was working before and after school, selling produce, shining shoes and he transferred to Germantown High School, but failed the tenth grade. Instead of repeating, he got a job as an apprentice at a repair shop, which he liked. In 1956, Cosby enlisted in the Navy, serving at the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. During his four years in the Navy, Cosby served as a Hospital Corpsman working in therapy with Navy. He finished his equivalency diploma via correspondence courses and was awarded a track, there, he studied physical education while running track and playing fullback on the universitys football team
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Cosby before receiving the
U.S. Navy Lone Sailor Award at the
National Building Museum,
Washington, D.C. in 2010
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Cosby in 1957
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Cosby in 1969
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Cosby, a production assistant, and
Ginna Marston of
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids review the script for a 1990 public service spot at Cosby's studio in
Astoria, Queens.
62.
Carl Betz
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Carl Lawrence Betz was an American stage, film and television actor. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Betz participated in childhood theatricals and he graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1939 and then served in the military. Following military service, he graduated from Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, between 1967 and 1969, he played defense attorney Clinton Judd in ABCs Judd for the Defense, and won an Emmy Award in 1969 for his work. After graduating from Mount Lebanon High School, in 1939, he won a scholarship to Duquesne University, during the summer, Betz performed in a Pittsburgh summer stock company and decided to transfer to Carnegie Mellon University, then known as Carnegie Tech, in Pittsburgh to study drama. His education was interrupted when, in 1942, he was drafted into the United States Army and he served in Italy and North Africa during World War II and eventually became a technical sergeant with the Corps of Engineers. After the war, Betz returned to Carnegie Tech and earned a degree in drama, after graduation, Betz worked as a radio announcer and disk jockey before moving to New York City. He continued working in summer and winter stock companies and also worked as a doorman at Radio City Music Hall, Betz made his Broadway debut in 1952 in The Long Watch, and toured with Veronica Lake in the summer stock play, The Voice of the Turtle. He then appeared for 18 months as Collie Jordan on Love of Life, prior to his eight-year run on The Donna Reed Show, Betz made guest appearances on such television series as Sheriff of Cochise, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Millionaire and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1958, Betz was cast as pediatrician Dr. Alex Stone in ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show, the show revolves around the home and school problems of a middle-class American family in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Alex was often called upon to rescue wife Donna Stone from awkward situations and to monitor the behavior of their children, Mary, Jeff Stone introduced the sentimental hit song My Dad in a 1962 episode, specifically singing the tune to Betz. The series was a hit for ABC and aired for eight seasons from September 1958 to March 1966, during the run of the series, Betz continued acting in stage roles during the shows hiatus. In 1964, he appeared as Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon in a stage run of The Night of the Iguana. After Donna Reeds cancellation, Betz returned to roles and stage work. In 1967, producer Paul Monash offered Betz the role of defense lawyer Clinton Judd in the drama, Judd. Monash had seen Betzs performance in Night of the Iguana in 1964 and was impressed with his acting, Betz initially thought the role was for a guest spot but soon realized Monash had proposed that he star in a new series. Betz initially had misgivings, stating I did not want to do another series, you get bored, the series, which premiered on ABC in September 1967, was praised by critics but struggled in the ratings. Shortly after ABC canceled the series in 1969, Betz won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series for his work on the series. He also made many guest appearances on a variety of television shows such as Mission, Impossible, The Mod Squad, Love, American Style
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Betz as Clinton Judd (1967)
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Donna Reed as Donna Stone,
Paul Petersen as Jeff Stone, Carl Betz as Dr. Alex Stone,
Shelley Fabares as Mary Stone,
The Donna Reed Show (1960)
63.
Telly Savalas
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Aristotelis Telly Savalas was an American singer and film, television, and character actor whose career spanned four decades of television. He was noted for his deep, gravelly voice and his bald head and he also released the one-hit wonder song, If. which he introduced in the UK in 1975. He had also appeared as a guest on talk and variety shows. Savalass career began in films in 1961 and he then continued achieving success in the television crime drama Kojak, co-starring his real-life brother George Savalas, in which Savalas played the title role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz, one set of grandparents originated from Ierakas, Greece, in the Peloponnese. Savalas and his brother Gus sold newspapers and shined shoes to help support the family and he entered Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York, and graduated in 1940. He initially spoke only Greek when he entered school. He attended Cobbett Junior High School in Lynn, Massachusetts and he won a spelling bee there in 1934, though through an oversight he did not receive his prize until 1991, when the Boston Herald newspaper and local school principal decided to award it to him. After graduation from school he worked as a lifeguard, but on one occasion was unsuccessful at rescuing a man from drowning. When he entered Columbia University School of General Studies Savalas took courses including English language, radio, at that time he fell in love with radio and television, which led to his interest in acting. In 1950, Savalas hosted a show called The Coffeehouse in New York City. Savalas began as a director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC. He then became a producer for the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports where he gave Howard Cosell his first job in television. Savalas was an actor on television series during 1959 and the 1960s. His first acting role was on And Bring Home a Baby and he appeared on two more episodes of this same series in 1959 and 1960. The Fugitive, Breaking Point, Bonanza, The Man from U. N. C. L. E, the F. B. I. and the The Twilight Zone classic episode Living Doll in which he can be seen with hair. He had a role as Brother Hendricksen on the popular crime drama series,77 Sunset Strip and was a regular on the short-lived NBC television series Acapulco. In 1980, he starred in the TV film Alcatraz, The Whole Shocking Story, while playing Lucky Luciano on the TV series The Witness, he was discovered by actor Burt Lancaster
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Telly Savalas, 1973
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Telly Savalas and
Sally Field, 1971
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Savalas presenting the much-criticized Return to Titanic Live show on 28 October 1987
64.
James Garner
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James Garner was an American actor, producer, and voice artist. Garner was born in Norman, Oklahoma on April 7,1928 and he was the youngest of three sons of Weldon Warren Bumgarner and Mildred Scott. His older brothers were Jack Garner and Charles Bumgarner, an administrator who died in 1984. His mother died when he was 5 years old, after their mothers death, Garner and his brothers were sent to live with relatives. Garner was reunited with his family in 1934, when Weldon remarried, Garner came to hate one of his stepmothers, Wilma, who beat all three boys. He said that his stepmother also punished him by forcing him to wear a dress in public, when he was 14 years old, he fought with her, knocking her down and choking her to keep her from killing him in retaliation. She left the family and never returned and his brother Jack later commented, She was a damn no-good woman. Garners last stepmother was Grace, whom he said he loved and called Mama Grace, after the war, Garner joined his father in Los Angeles and enrolled at Hollywood High School, where he was voted the most popular student. A high school gym teacher recommended him for a job modeling Jantzen bathing suits and it paid well, but in his first interview for the Archives of American Television, he said he hated modeling, he soon quit and returned to Norman. He played football and basketball at Norman High School), and competed on the track, however, he dropped out in his senior year. In a 1976 Good Housekeeping magazine interview, he admitted, I was a student and I never actually graduated from high school. Shortly after his fathers marriage to Wilma broke up, his father moved to Los Angeles, leaving Garner, after working at several jobs he disliked, Garner joined the United States Merchant Marine at age 16 near the end of World War II. He liked the work and his shipmates, but he suffered from chronic seasickness, Garner enlisted in the California Army National Guard, serving his first 7 months in California. He then went to Korea for 14 months, as a rifleman in the 5th Regimental Combat Team during the Korean War, Garner received the Purple Heart in Korea for the first wound. He qualified for a second Purple Heart, but he did not actually receive it until 1983,32 years after the event, Garner was a self-described scrounger for his company in Korea, a role he later played in The Great Escape and The Americanization of Emily. During the week of Garners death, TCM broadcast most of his movies, introduced by Robert Osborne, Garner subsequently moved to television commercials and eventually to television roles. His first film appearances were in The Girl He Left Behind, Boyne, a librarian from 1997, and involved a 1997 Almanac that was mistakenly left in the past by Boyne and found by Johnny in a bookstore. He changed his last name from Bumgarner to Garner after the studio had credited him as James Garner without permission and he then legally changed it upon the birth of his first child, when he decided she had too many names
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Garner in 1959
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With
Karen Steele in 1957
James Garner
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Garner as Bret Maverick and
Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick
James Garner
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With
Bob Hope in a 1961 Hope TV special
65.
Ed Asner
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Yitzhak Edward Ed Asner is an American actor, voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is also known for portraying Santa Claus in the comedy film Elf and its animated remake Elf, in 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixars animated film Up, and made a guest appearance on CSI, NY in the episode Yahrzeit. In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class and he starred in the Canadian television series Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, on CBC Television and has appeared in the 2013 television series The Glades. Asner has most recently starred as Guy Redmayne, a wealthy, Asner was born on November 15,1929 in Kansas City, Missouri. His Jewish Russian-born parents, Lizzie, a housewife, and David Morris Asner ran a second-hand shop and he was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. Asner attended Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas, and he worked on the assembly line for General Motors. Asner served with the U. S. Army Signal Corps, following his military service, Asner joined the Playwrights Theatre Company in Chicago, but left for New York City before members of that company regrouped as the Compass Players in the mid-1950s. He later made guest appearances with the successor to Compass, The Second City, in New York City, Asner played Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in the Off-Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera, and began to make inroads as a television actor. There were two performances on television. The first was as Detective Sgt and he was also cast on Jack Lords ABC drama series Stoney Burke and in the series finale of CBSs The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino. He also appeared on Mr. Novak, Mission, Impossible, Asner also played a minor character in childrens television show W. I. T. C. H. Asner is best known for his character Lou Grant, who was first introduced on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970, in 1977, after the series, Asners character was given his own show, Lou Grant. In contrast to the Mary Tyler Moore series, a thirty-minute comedy, other television series starring Asner in regular roles include Thunder Alley, The Bronx Zoo and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Additionally, he appeared as a veteran streetwise officer in an episode of the 1973 version of Police Story. Asner was acclaimed for his role in the ABC miniseries Roots, as Captain Davies, the morally conflicted captain of the Lord Ligonier and that role earned Asner an Emmy Award, as did the similarly dark role of Axel Jordache in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. In contrast, he played a former Pontiff in the role of Papa Giovanni, Ioannes XXIII. Asner has also had a voice acting career. In 1987, he performed the role of the character, George F. Babbitt
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Asner in 1985, age 56
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Asner in May 2013
Ed Asner
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Asner at the 2012
Phoenix Comicon
66.
Ed Flanders
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Edward Paul Ed Flanders was an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Donald Westphall in the television series St. Elsewhere. Flanders was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Bernice and his mother was killed in an automobile accident when he was 14. After graduating from Patrick Henry High School in 1952, he enlisted in the United States Army, after his service with the United States Army ended, Flanders began his acting career on Broadway before moving on to guest parts in television series. From 1967 through 1975, Flanders appeared in more than a dozen American TV shows, during this time, he was also prolific in TV movies. He married actress Ellen Geer, with whom he had a son, in the late 1970s, Flanders moved away from small TV roles to take major credits in both TV and feature films, while continuing his stage career. In 1974 Flanders won a Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Dramatic Presentation for A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene ONeill on Broadway and he also won an Emmy award in 1976 for the TV movie adaptation of A Moon for the Misbegotten. In 1982 he began his role in St. Elsewhere that was to him four Emmy Award nominations as Outstanding Lead Actor in a TV Series. After a stormy departure from the series in 1987, he returned for two episodes in 1988, including the series finale. During a scene in which Westphall addressed the staff, Flanders began speaking extemporaneously about the quality of art and had to be edited for broadcast. His exit on St. Elsewhere as a regular cast member was titled Moon for the Misbegotten after the play won him a Tony Award. The episode gained much publicity as Westphall left the hospital after mooning his new boss, Flanders continued his working relationship with executive producer Bruce Paltrow in the short-lived 1994 CBS series The Road Home. In addition to his role as Dr. Donald Westphall, Flanders is noted as the actor who has played President Harry Truman more times. In the last, Flanders had second billing to Gregory Pecks lead as General Douglas MacArthur, Flanders is one of a very short list of actors, including Jason Robards and Anthony Hopkins, who have portrayed two different presidents. See also this list of actors who played presidents, in feature films, Flanders performed major roles in two dark movies based on novels by William Peter Blatty. In the first, The Ninth Configuration, he plays Col. Richard Fell, the film was based on Blattys darkly satirical novel Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane. In 1990, Flanders played Father Dyer alongside star George C. Scott in Blattys The Exorcist III based on the novel Legion, when Hawkeye and Trapper react to Brickers filmmaking by destroying the negatives, Bricker abandons the project and leaves. Hawkeye takes over the making of the film, which, instead of a documentary, becomes a farce in the style of the Marx Brothers but maintaining a somber ending. Flanders also played nationally known journalist William Allen White in the 1977 made-for-TV movie Mary White and this movie was based on the famous eulogy White wrote about his daughter after her death in 1922 from being hit in the head while riding her horse
Ed Flanders
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from
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
67.
Tom Selleck
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Thomas William Tom Selleck is an American actor and film producer. He is known for starring as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum and he also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on Robert B. Parker novels. Since 2010, he has also been a primary cast member as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the drama Blue Bloods on CBS. Selleck has appeared in more than 50 film and television roles since Magnum, P. I. including Three Men and a Baby, Quigley Down Under, Mr. Baseball, Selleck also appeared as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends and as A. J. Cooper on the TV series Las Vegas, Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Martha Selleck, a housewife, and Robert Dean Selleck, who was an executive and real estate investor. Selleck is of mostly English ancestry, including recent immigrant ancestors, Tom Sellecks father was of primarily English ancestry but also had distant German ancestry as well, while his mother was of English descent. Through an entirely paternal line Selleck is a descendant of English colonist David Selleck who moved to Massachusetts from Somerset. Through this line, Tom Selleck is the 11th generation of his family born in North America, Sellecks family moved to Sherman Oaks, California, during his childhood. He has a brother named Robert, a younger sister named Martha. Selleck graduated from Grant High School, in 1962, while working as a model, Selleck attended the University of Southern California on a basketball scholarship where he played for the USC Trojans mens basketball team. He is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and a member of the Trojan Knights, while majoring in business administration, a drama coach suggested Selleck try acting. He then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, under Milton Katselas, Selleck served in the 160th Infantry Regiment of the California Army National Guard from 1967 to 1973. Sellecks first TV appearance was as a senior on The Dating Game in 1965. Soon after, he appeared in commercials for such as Pepsi-Cola. He began his career with bit parts in movies, including Myra Breckinridge, Coma. He also appeared in a number of TV series, mini-series, Selleck also had a recurring role in the 1970s as too good to be true private investigator Lance White in The Rockford Files. Lance was very trusting and always lucky, much to the annoyance of Jim Rockford, Sellecks character was based on one played in Garners earlier TV series Maverick by Wayde Preston in the episode The Saga of Waco Williams. Selleck, an accessible but relatively untested actor, spent years receiving little interest from the entertainment industry and his big break came when he was cast in the lead role as Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P. I
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Selleck in 2010
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Magnum, P.I. publicity photo, 1980
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Selleck at the
1992 Cannes Film Festival.
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Selleck on the Red Carpet at the
61st Annual Academy Awards in 1989
68.
William Daniels
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William David Daniels is an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. William Daniels was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irene and David Daniels and he has two sisters, Jacqueline and Carol. He was drafted into the U. S. Army in 1945 and stationed in Italy, where he served as a disc jockey at an Army radio station. At the suggestion of Howard Lindsay, co-author of Life With Father and he graduated from Northwestern n 1949, and was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. William Daniels began his career as a member of the singing Daniels family in Brooklyn and he made his television debut as part of a variety act in 1943, on NBC, then a single station in New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1943 in Life With Father and his Broadway credits include roles in 1776, A Thousand Clowns, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and A Little Night Music. He earned an Obie Award for The Zoo Story, danielss motion picture debut was as a school principal in the 1963 anti-war drama Ladybug Ladybug. In 1965, he reprised his Broadway role as a welfare worker in the screen version of A Thousand Clowns. In 1967 he starred in The Graduate, with Dustin Hoffman, in 1969, Daniels starred as John Adams in the Broadway musical 1776, he also appeared in the film version in 1972. Two years later, he co-starred with Larry Hagman, Linda Blair, - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. Danielss first network television came in 1952 when he portrayed the young John Quincy Adams, eldest son of John. In 1976, he reprised the role as the middle-aged and elder John Quincy Adams in the acclaimed PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles and he also starred in the short-lived series Captain Nice as police chemist Carter Nash, although he told an interviewer in TV Guide he hated the role. He appeared as acid-tongued Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere from 1982 to 1988, concurrently, he provided the voice of KITT in Knight Rider from 1982 to 1986. Daniels said in 1982, My duties on Knight Rider are very simple, I do it in about an hour and a half. I havent even met the producer and he reprised the voice-only role of KITT in 1991 for the television movie Knight Rider 2000, again in the movie The Benchwarmers. He performed the role in AT&T and GE commercials about talking machines and he also performed the voice for a special edition GPS sold by Radio Shack. Daniels then portrayed teacher George Feeny at John Adams High School in Boy Meets World from 1993 to 2000, in addition to the previously mentioned 1967 superhero sitcom Captain Nice, he was a regular on the 1970s TV series Freebie and the Bean and The Nancy Walker Show. A familiar character actor, he has appeared as a guest star on numerous TV comedies and dramas, including Soap, The Rockford Files, Quincy, M. E. and many others
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Daniels at the Emmy Awards September 20, 1987
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Daniels and his wife, Bonnie Bartlett at the 1987 Emmy Awards
69.
Richard Kiley
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Richard Paul Kiley was an American stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for his theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor In A Musical. Kiley created the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record The Impossible Dream, the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph and was one of the quartet introducing the song And This Is My Beloved. Additionally, he won three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards during his 50-year career and his sonorous baritone was also featured in the narration of a number of documentaries, Kiley was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised Roman Catholic. He graduated from Mt. Carmel High School in 1940, in the late 40s, he performed in Chicago-area summer stock theaters with actors such as Alan Furlan. Following his service in the United States Navy in World War II, he returned to Chicago working as an actor, in New York he studied singing with Ray Smolover. He starred in the play, Patterns, which aired live on January 12,1955. It caused a sensation, and won an Emmy for its writer and he played the role of role of John Malcolm Patterson, future Attorney General of Alabama, in the 1955 film The Phenix City Story. He won Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for Redhead, in 1959, Kiley had gone on record as saying that he had grown tired of the regular leading man role but was always grateful for having been given the chance to play it. Kiley won three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for his work in television and he won both an Emmy and Golden Globe awards for The Thorn Birds and A Year in the Life. His third Emmy win was for Guest Actor in a Drama Series and he narrated the award-winning seven-part 1986 PBS documentary Planet Earth. Kiley often narrated documentaries on PBS and other TV channels, in Jurassic Park, Kileys voice is used to narrate the parks vehicle tour. Visitors to Universals Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, Florida, in 1993, Christian filmmakers set out to make a Jesus film which would be a Word-for-Word of the Gospel. Kiley was chosen to do a narration style film as the Apostle Matthew in his latter days and he is seen doing many flashbacks as Matthew in the days when Jesus walked the Earth. From 1994 until 1998, Kiley narrated the A&E documentary television series Mysteries of the Bible and his final acting role was in the 1999 TV movie Blue Moon, which debuted the month after his death. Kiley died of a bone marrow disease in Warwick, New York, on March 5,1999. He was survived by his wife and six children, sons David and Michael Kiley and his remains were interred in Warwick
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Kiley in 1960.
Richard Kiley
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Kiley with
Peter Falk in
Columbo, 1974.
70.
James Earl Jones
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James Earl Jones is an American actor. His career has spanned more than 60 years, and he has described as one of Americas most distinguished and versatile actors. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has won awards, including a Tony Award. Jones has won three Emmy Awards, including two in the year in 1991, and he also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the film version of The Great White Hope. He is also known for his roles as Darth Vader in the Star Wars film series and Mufasa in Disneys The Lion King as well as many other film, stage. As a child Jones had a stutter, in his episode of Biography, he said he overcame the affliction through poetry, public speaking, and acting, although it lasted for several years. A pre-med major in college, he went on to serve in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting, on November 12,2011, he received an Honorary Academy Award. On November 9,2015, Jones received the Voice Arts Icon Award, Jones and his father reconciled many years later. His parents were African-American, and Jones has learned they also had Irish, from the age of five, Jones was raised by his maternal grandparents, John Henry and Maggie Connolly, who had moved from Mississippi and had a farm in Jackson, Michigan. Jones has described his grandmother, Maggie, as the most racist person I have ever known and his grandmother was of African-American, Cherokee and Choctaw ancestry. Jones found the transition to his grandparents in Michigan traumatic, when his family moved to Brethren, Michigan, a teacher helped him overcome his stutter. He remained functionally mute for eight years, until he entered high school and he credits his English teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him end his silence. Crouch urged him to challenge his reluctance to speak, so my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school. He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps, and excelled and he felt comfortable within the structure of the military environment, and enjoyed the camaraderie of his fellow cadets in the Pershing Rifles Drill Team and Scabbard and Blade Honor Society. During the course of his studies, Jones discovered he was not cut out to be a doctor, after four years of college, Jones graduated from the university in 1955. With the war intensifying in Korea, Jones expected to be deployed as soon as he received his commission as a second lieutenant. As he waited for his orders, he worked as a stage crew hand at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan. Jones was commissioned in mid-1953 and reported to Fort Benning to attend Infantry Officers Basic Course and he then attended Ranger School and received his Ranger Tab
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Jones in 2013
71.
Christopher Lloyd
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Lloyd has an equally prominent television profile, having won two Primetime Emmy Awards for playing Jim Ignatowski on the comedy series Taxi. He earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance on Road to Avonlea and he has also done extensive voiceover work for animated programs, most notably voicing The Hacker on the PBS Kids series Cyberchase. The role earned him two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Lloyd was born on October 22,1938, in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Samuel R. Lloyd, Jr, a lawyer, and his wife Ruth, a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham. He is the youngest of four girls and three boys, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s. Lloyds maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company, Lloyd was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut. Lloyd began his career apprenticing at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York, power Failure, and, in mid-1972, appeared in a Jean Cocteau double bill, Orphee and The Human Voice, at the Jean Cocteau Theater at 43 Bond Street. Lloyd returned to Broadway for the musical Happy End and he performed in Andrzej Wajdas adaptation of Dostoyevskys The Possessed at Yale Repertory Theater, and in Jay Broads premiere of White Pelican at the P. A. F. Playhouse in Huntington Station, New York, on Long Island, in 1977, he said of his training at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Meisner, My work up to then had been very uneven. I would be one night, dull the next. Meisner made me aware of how to be consistent in using the best that I have to offer, but I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage. His first movie role was as a patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. In 1985, he was in Street Hawk the pilot episode, in 1986, he played the reviled Professor B. O. Beanes on the television series Amazing Stories, Lloyd portrayed the star character in the adventure game Toonstruck, released in November 1996. In 1999, he was reunited onscreen with Michael J and that same year, Lloyd starred in the movie remake of the 1960s series My Favorite Martian. He starred on the television series Deadly Games in the mid-1990s and was a regular on the sitcom Stacked in the mid-2000s, in 2003, he guest-starred in three of the 13 produced episodes of Tremors, The Series as the character Cletus Poffenburger. In November 2007, Lloyd was reunited onscreen with his former Taxi co-star Judd Hirsch in the season-four episode Graphic of the television series Numb3rs and he played Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of A Christmas Carol at the Kodak Theatre with John Goodman and Jane Leeves. In 2009, he appeared in a trailer for a faux horror film entitled Gobstopper
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Lloyd at the Phoenix Comicon, May 2015
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Christopher Lloyd as a senior in high school, 1958
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Tom Skerritt
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Thomas Roy Tom Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is known for his roles in MASH, Alien, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, Skerritt has earned several awards and nominations, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences. Skerritt was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt and he is the youngest of three children. A1951 graduate of Detroits Mackenzie High School, Skerritt attended Wayne State University, Skerritt served a tour of duty in the United States Air Force. Skerritt made his debut in War Hunt, produced by Terry Sanders. In 1988, he starred with Nancy Allen and Lara Flynn Boyle in Poltergeist III, in 1989, he played the role of Thomas Drummond Drum Eatenton in Steel Magnolias, it was a highly acclaimed movie. In 1992, he appeared in the critically acclaimed Robert Redford-directed film A River Runs Through It, Skerritt guest-starred in the television series The Real McCoys, as a letter carrier in the episode Aunt Win Steps In. In another Death Valley Days episode, A Sense of Justice, he played a young Roy Bean in San Diego, California,1850, with his older brother, Joshua Bean, played by Tris Coffin. He also appeared in the ABC series, Twelve OClock High, five episodes, Gunsmoke, also five episodes) and he then appeared in CBSs Picket Fences, in the role of Sheriff Jimmy Brock, for which he won an Emmy Award. More recently, he has starred in Homeland Security and The Grid and he portrayed the deceased William Walker on Brothers and Sisters, having appeared in the pilot as well as in several flashbacks scenes. This was his time playing the husband of Sally Field. He played the role of Ezekiel on ABC Familys Fallen miniseries and he also appeared as the guide on the showcase website for Microsofts Windows Vista operating system. He lent his voice in the video game Gun, where he voices as Clay Allison and he guest-starred in seasons three and four of Leverage as Nate Fords father. In February 2012, Skerritt played the role in Pacific Northwest Ballets production of Don Quixote. In 2014, Skerritt was reunited with ex-Picket Fences co-star, Lauren Holly, Skerritt is a co-founder of TheFilmSchool, in which he is also an instructor. Since 1988, he has divided his life between his Lake Washington home in suburban Seattle, Washington, and a second home on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands. Skerritts first wife, Charlotte, is the mother of Skerritts three older children and his second wife, Sue, operates a Seattle bed and breakfast. She and Skerritt had one child Colin, Skerritt has an adopted daughter with his current wife Julie Tokahashi
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Skerritt at the Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest (December 2014)
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Dennis Franz
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He also portrayed Lt. Norman Buntz in the similar NBC series Hill Street Blues and its short-lived spinoff, Beverly Hills Buntz. Franz was born in Maywood, Illinois, the son of German immigrants Eleanor, a worker, and Franz Schlachta. He has two sisters, Heidi and Marlene. Franz is a graduate of Proviso East High School, Wilbur Wright College, after graduating from college, Franz was drafted into the United States Army. He served eleven months with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st in Vietnam, Franz began his acting career at Chicagos Organic Theater Company. Although he has in the past performed Shakespeare, his appearance led to his being typecast early in his career as a police officer and he has also guest starred in shows such as The A-Team. Other major roles were on the television series Hill Street Blues in which he played two characters over the run of that show, Franz first played the role of Detective Sal Benedetto, a corrupt cop in the 1983 season, who later kills himself. Due to his popularity with fans, he returned in 1985 as Lt. Norm Buntz and he also starred in the short-lived Beverly Hills Buntz as the same character. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Franz worked regularly with directors Brian De Palma and he appeared in three of Altmans films from this period, and five of De Palmas, most prominently as a low budget movie director in Body Double. Franz went on to win four Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue, the character of Sipowicz was ranked #23 on Bravos 100 Greatest TV Characters list. Portrait of an Ass-Grabber, in which Franz portrays Homer, on May 11,2001, Franz was a contestant on a celebrity edition of the hit television game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, winning $US250,000 for his charity. Franz also was a spokesman for Nextel in the early 2000s. The concept was that Franz refused to do the commercials, saying they were not something he did and it would be his last film as he spent the final years of his career on NYPD Blue. Franz has stayed out of the spotlight since 2005 to focus on his private life. He has told Access Hollywood he would be interested in returning to acting if given the right opportunity and he made a special appearance at the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards. In 1995 Franz married Joanie Zeck, whom he met in 1982 and he is the stepfather of Zecks two daughters, Tricia and Krista, from a previous marriage. Dennis Franz at the Internet Movie Database Dennis Franz interview video at the Archive of American Television
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Franz at a rehearsal for the 1994 Emmy Awards
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Mandy Patinkin
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Mandel Bruce Mandy Patinkin is an American actor, singer, comedian and voice artist. Patinkin is well known for his portrayal of Inigo Montoya in the 1987 movie The Princess Bride and his other film credits include Yentl, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, and Wish I Was Here. He has appeared in roles in television series such as Chicago Hope, Dead Like Me, and Criminal Minds. His mother wrote Grandma Doralee Patinkins Jewish Family Cookbook and he attended South Shore High School, Harvard St. George School, and Kenwood High School, and graduated in 1970. He attended the University of Kansas and the Juilliard School, at Juilliard, he was a classmate of Kelsey Grammer. When the producers of the popular American sitcom Cheers were holding auditions for the role of Dr. Frasier Crane, after some television commercial and radio appearances, Patinkin had his first success in musical theater, where he played the part of Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979. Patinkin went on to win the 1980 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical and he then moved to film, playing parts in movies such as Yentl and Ragtime. He returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in Rob Reiners 1987 The Princess Bride, in which he delivers the iconic line Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. Over the next decade, he continued to appear in movies, such as Dick Tracy, on Broadway, Patinkin appeared in the musical The Secret Garden in 1991, and was nominated for the 1991 Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He also released two albums, titled Mandy Patinkin and Dress Casual. In 1994, Patinkin took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBSs Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award. However, despite the award and the success of the show. He returned to the show in 1999 at the beginning of the sixth season, since Chicago Hope, Patinkin has appeared in a number of films. However, he has performed as a singer, releasing three more albums. In 1995, he guest-starred in The Simpsons in the episode Lisas Wedding as Hugh Parkfield, Mamaloshen, Patinkins musical production of songs sung entirely in Yiddish, premiered in 1998. He has performed the show on Broadway and in venues around the United States, the recorded version won a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis award in Germany. In 1999 he co-starred in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland as Huxley and he returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of John LaChiusas The Wild Party, earning another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor. In 2003-2004 he appeared in the Showtime comedy–drama Dead Like Me as Rube Sofer, in 2004 he played a six–week engagement of his one–man concert at the Off-Broadway complex Dodger Stages
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Patinkin in 2008
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James Gandolfini
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James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. was an American actor and producer. He was best known for his role as Tony Soprano, an Italian-American crime boss and he garnered enormous praise for his performance, winning three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. His other notable roles included mob henchman Virgil in True Romance, enforcer and stuntman Bear in Get Shorty, after finishing The Sopranos, Gandolfini produced the documentary Alive Day Memories, Home from Iraq, in which he interviewed injured Iraq War veterans. His second documentary, Wartorn, 1861–2010, analyzed the impact of posttraumatic stress disorder on soldiers, Gandolfini was born in Westwood, New Jersey. His mother, Santa, was a school lunch lady of Italian ancestry who was born in the United States. His father, James Joseph Gandolfini Sr. was a native of Borgo Val di Taro who worked as a bricklayer and cement mason, James Sr. earned a Purple Heart in World War II. Gandolfinis parents were devout Roman Catholics and spoke Italian at home, due to the influence of his parents, he developed a strong sense of Italian American identity and visited Italy regularly. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in studies from Rutgers University in 1982. He also worked as a bartender and club manager in Manhattan prior to his acting career, Gandolfini performed in a 1992 Broadway production of On the Waterfront for six weeks. In the film Terminal Velocity, Gandolfini played Ben Pinkwater, a seemingly mild-mannered insurance man who turns out to be a violent Russian mobster, in 1995 he was in the box office hit Crimson Tide. In that same year in Get Shorty, he appeared as a bearded ex-stuntman with a Southern accent, the show debuted in 1999 and was broadcast until 2007. For his depiction of Soprano, Gandolfini won three Emmys for Best Actor in a Drama and Entertainment Weekly listed him as the 42nd Greatest TV Icon of All Time. In addition to the awards that he won, Gandolfini received numerous nominations, in 2007 Gandolfini produced a documentary with HBO focused on injured Iraq War veterans and their devotion to America while surveying the physical and emotional costs of war. Gandolfini interviewed ten surviving soldiers, who revealed their thoughts about the challenges they face reintegrating into society and they also reflected on their memories of the day when they narrowly escaped death and what life may have been like in other circumstances. He returned to the stage in 2009, appearing in Broadways God of Carnage with Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, and Jeff Daniels. He received a Tony Award nomination in the category of Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in the play but lost to Geoffrey Rush from the play and he played the Mayor of New York in the 2009 remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. In 2010 Gandolfini produced another documentary with HBO, which analyzed the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder throughout American history and it featured interviews with American military officials on their views of PTSD and how they are trying to help soldiers affected by it. Letters from soldiers of the American Civil War and World War I who were affected by PTSD are examined, along with interviews with soldiers affected by PTSD, Gandolfini was executive producer of the HBO film about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with Martha Gellhorn, titled Hemingway & Gellhorn
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Gandolfini in 2011.
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Gandolfini and
Tony Sirico visit a member of the
U.S. Air Force during a
United Service Organizations trip to Southwest Asia, March 2010.
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Gandolfini with
Rose McGowan in Kuwait, March 2010.
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Michael Chiklis
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Michael Charles Chiklis is an American actor, director, musician and television producer. He is perhaps best known for his role as LAPD Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield, additionally, he co-starred as Vincent Savino in the CBS crime drama Vegas. In 2014 Chiklis joined the cast of American Horror Story for its season, American Horror Story. The following year he was cast as Nathaniel Barnes, in the season of Gotham. Chiklis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and his mother, Katherine, is a hospital administrative aide, and his father, Charlie Chiklis, runs a hair/beauty salon. Chiklis has been described as inheriting his acting ability from his mother and his father is a second-generation Greek American and his mother is of Greek and Irish descent. Chiklis grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and began entertaining his family with celebrity imitations when he was five years old, as a child, Chiklis appeared in regional theater productions and became a member of the Actors Equity Association at age thirteen. In the ninth grade, he portrayed Hawkeye Pierce in Andover High Schools production of M*A*S*H and he later attended Boston University College of Fine Arts, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After graduation, Chiklis moved to Brooklyn, New York City and was cast in the role of John Belushi in the controversial biopic Wired in 1989, the film was panned in general and flopped at the box office. He also guest starred in popular television series such as Miami Vice. Stryker, Wiseguy, L. A. Law, Murphy Brown, chikliss first successful role was in The Commish, a police comedy/drama that ran from 1991–1996 on ABC. Chiklis played Anthony Tony J. Scali, a commissioner in a small city in upstate New York. After The Commish, Chiklis starred in the short-lived NBC sitcom Daddio, after playing Curly Howard in the 2000 TV movie The Three Stooges, Chiklis decided to reinvent his image. With his wifes help, he spent six months on a workout regimen. He turned up to audition for The Shield looking nothing like the pudgy, winning over creator Shawn Ryan, Chiklis nabbed the leading role of the shows anti-hero, LAPD Detective Vic Mackey. He won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series for the role, Chiklis received a Golden Globe Award that same year for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Drama as well. Between 2004 and 2005, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series, Chiklis later parodied his role as Vic Mackey in Monstourage, an episode of Robot Chicken. The skit involved Mackey accidentally switching places with Ben Grimm and he has also performed in several episodes of Family Guy and had a voice role in Heavy Gear, The Animated Series
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Chiklis at
PaleyFest 2014 for
American Horror Story: Coven
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Chiklis in May 2007
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Jon Hamm
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Jonathan Daniel Jon Hamm is an American actor, director, and television producer best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series, Mad Men. For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in Los Angeles, making appearances in television series Providence, The Division, What About Brian, during 2000, he made his feature movie debut in the space adventure movie Space Cowboys. The next year, he had a role in the independent comedy. He gained wide recognition when Mad Men began broadcast during July 2007 and he directed two episodes of the show. During 2008, Hamm appeared in a remake of the science fiction movie The Day The Earth Stood Still and his first leading movie role was in the 2010 independent thriller Stolen. He also had supporting roles in the movies The Town, Sucker Punch, Hamm has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Mad Men,30 Rock, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. His other television credits include featuring in the Sky Arts series A Young Doctors Notebook and guest roles in Parks and Recreation and Wet Hot American Summer, First Day of Camp. He provided his voice to the animated movie Shrek Forever After during 2010, Hamm was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Deborah and Daniel Hamm. His father managed a family trucking company, and his mother was a secretary and he is of German, English, and Irish descent, his surname originates with German immigrants. Hamms parents divorced when he was two old, and he lived in Missouri in Creve Coeur with his mother until her death from colon cancer. Hamm then lived with his father and his first acting role was as Winnie the Pooh for first grade. At 16, he was cast as Judas for the play Godspell and he attended John Burroughs School, a private school in Ladue, where he was a member of the football, baseball, and swim teams. During this time, he dated future actress Sarah Clarke and his father died when Jon was 20. After graduation during 1989, Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas, there, Hamm was arrested for participating with a violent hazing incident that occurred during November 1990, involving another student, Mark Sanders. Sanders was beaten with a paddle and a broom, while Hamm was leading him around the fraternity house, the incident resulted in the fraternity being ended on campus. Hamm completed the terms of a deferred adjudication, and the charges were dismissed during August 1995, Hamm then enrolled at the University of Missouri. At Missouri he answered an advertisement from a company seeking players for a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, auditioned. Other roles followed, such as Leon Czolgosz in Assassins, after graduating during 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Hamm returned to his high school to teach eighth-grade acting
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At Paley Center in 2014
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Hamm in November 2008
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Hamm with former partner
Jennifer Westfeldt at the
60th Primetime Emmy Awards, 2008
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Hamm on the set of
The Town in September 2009.
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Rami Malek
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Rami Said Malek is an American-Egyptian Coptic actor. He also received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and he was also in Until Dawn as Joshua Josh Washington. Malek was born in Los Angeles, to Egyptian Coptic parents and his late father was a tour guide in Cairo, and later sold insurance. Malek was raised in the Coptic Orthodox faith, Malek has an identical twin brother named Sami, younger by four minutes, who is a teacher. He has a sister who is a medical doctor. Malek attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California, Malek attended high school with Kirsten Dunst, who was a grade below and shared a musical theater class with him. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003 from the University of Evansville in Evansville, in 2004, Malek began his acting career with a guest-starring role on the TV series Gilmore Girls. That same year he voiced characters for the video game Halo 2. In 2005, he got his Screen Actors Guild card for his work on the Steven Bochco war drama Over There, in which he appeared in two episodes. That same year, he appeared in an episode of Medium and was cast in the prominent recurring role of Kenny, on the Fox comedy series The War at Home. In the spring of 2007, he appeared on-stage as Jamie in the Vitality Productions theatrical presentation of Keith Bunins The Credeaux Canvas at the Elephant Theatre in Los Angeles. While shooting the Night at the Museum films, Malek returned to television in 2010 in a role as the suicide bomber Marcos Al-Zacar on the eighth season of the Fox series 24. Later that same year, he received acclaim for his portrayal of Corporal Merriell Snafu Shelton on the Emmy Award-winning HBO World War II mini-series The Pacific. After this period, Malek acted in supporting roles in major films. In August 2010, it was announced that Malek had been cast as the Egyptian coven vampire Benjamin in The Twilight Saga, in 2013, he played Nate, a new employee of a group home for youths, in the indie darling Short Term 12, opposite Brie Larson. He appeared in two Spike Lee films during this time, the 2012 remake of the South Korean film Oldboy in a part that was cut and he also had minor roles in Battleship, Oscar-nominated The Master, and Aint Them Bodies Saints. He appeared as Josh, one of the characters, in Until Dawn. He lent his voice and likeness to the character and was motion captured for the game
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Rami Malek at the premiere of Larrie Crowne in 2011
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Rami Malek speaking at the 2012
San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
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Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata. VIAFs clustering algorithm is run every month, as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records
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Screenshot 2012
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Integrated Authority File
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The Integrated Authority File or GND is an international authority file for the organisation of personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies from catalogues. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries and increasingly also by archives, the GND is managed by the German National Library in cooperation with various regional library networks in German-speaking Europe and other partners. The GND falls under the Creative Commons Zero license, the GND specification provides a hierarchy of high-level entities and sub-classes, useful in library classification, and an approach to unambiguous identification of single elements. It also comprises an ontology intended for knowledge representation in the semantic web, available in the RDF format
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GND screenshot
