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North Hollywood, Los Angeles
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North Hollywood is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles. It is home to the NoHo Arts District and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, there is a municipal park and a recreation center. The neighborhood is an important transportation center, and it is also a place where many people have lived or worked. North Hollywood was established by the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company in 1887 and it was first named Toluca before being renamed Lankershim in 1896 and finally North Hollywood in 1927. It is not contiguous with Hollywood, being separated by parts of the San Fernando Valley. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 87,241, in 2000 the median age for residents was 30, considered an average age for city and county neighborhoods, the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the countys highest. The neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically within Los Angeles, the breakdown was Latinos,57. 7%, whites, 27%, Asians,5. 7%, blacks,5. 6%, and others, 4%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 46. 4% of the residents who were born abroad—a high percentage for Los Angeles, the percentages of never-married men and never-married women were among the countys highest. The median yearly income in 2008 dollars was $42,791, considered average for the city. The percentages of households that earned $40,000 or less were high for the county, renters occupied 75. 4% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 24. 6%. North Hollywood is bordered on the north by Sun Valley and on the northeast and east by Burbank, Toluca Lake borders North Hollywood on the southeast and south, and Studio City abuts it on the southwest. It is flanked by Valley Village and Valley Glen on the west, North Hollywood was once part of the vast landholdings of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, which was confiscated by the government during the Mexican period of rule. A group of investors assembled as the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association purchased the half of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. The leading investor was Isaac Lankershim, a Northern California stockman and grain farmer, in 1873, Isaac Lankershims son and future son-in-law, James Boon Lankershim and Isaac Newton Van Nuys, moved to the San Ferndando Valley and took over management of the property. Van Nuys thought the property could profitably grow wheat using the dryland farming developed on the Great Plains. In time the Lankershim property, under its name, the Los Angeles Farming and Milling Company. Lankershim established a townsite which the residents named Toluca along the old road from Cahuenga Pass to San Fernando, the land boom of the 1880s went bust by the 1890s, but despite another brutal drought cycle in the late 1890s, the fruit and nut farmers remained solvent. The Toluca Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1894, the next year the Southern Pacific opened a branch line slanting northwest across the Valley to Chatsworth
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Lankershim School, located near what is now the intersection of Vineland and Riverside, and the first school in the San Fernando Valley, c.1889
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Circus Liquor, landmark sign dating from 1959
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High-density property development in "NoHo"
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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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Chairman
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The chairman is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly. The person holding the office is elected or appointed by the members of the group. The chair presides over meetings of the group and conducts its business in an orderly fashion. When the group is not in session, the officers duties include acting as its head, its representative to the outside world. In some organizations, this position is called president, in others, where a board appoints a president. Other terms sometimes used for the office and its holder include chair, chairperson, chairwoman, presiding officer, president, moderator, facilitator, the chairman of a parliamentary chamber is often called the speaker. The term chair is used in lieu of chairman, in response to criticisms that using chairman is sexist. In his 1992 State of the Union address, then-U. S, president George H. W. Bush used chairman for men and chair for women. A1994 Canadian study found the Toronto Star newspaper referring to most presiding men as chairman, the Chronicle of Higher Education uses chairman for men and chairperson for women. An analysis of the British National Corpus found chairman used 1,142 times, chairperson 130 times, the National Association of Parliamentarians does not approve using chairperson. In World Schools Style debating, male chairs are called Mr. Chairman, the FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication, as well as the American Psychological Association style guide, advocate using chair or chairperson, rather than chairman. The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style suggests that the forms are gaining ground. It advocates using chair to refer both to men and to women, the word chair can refer to the place from which the holder of the office presides, whether on a chair, at a lectern, or elsewhere. During meetings, the person presiding is said to be in the chair and is referred to as the chair. Major dictionaries state that the word derives from chair and man, some authorities, however, including Riddicks Rules of Procedure, suggest that the second part of chairman derives from the Latin manus, and thus claim gender-neutrality for the word. Vladimir Lenin, for example, officially functioned as the head of Soviet Russia not as tsar or as president, note in particular the popular standard method for referring to Mao Zedong, Chairman Mao. In the absence of the chairman and vice chairman, groups sometimes elect a chairman pro tempore to fill the role for a single meeting. In some organizations that have titles, deputy chairman ranks higher than vice chairman, as there are often multiple vice chairs
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Chairman of a Swedish and American society of relatives of over 5000 members, in
Stockholm in 2015 with the society's banner flying
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Television in the United States
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Television is one of the major mass media of the United States. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, individual broadcast television stations in the U. S. transmit on either VHF channels 2 through 13 or UHF channels 14 through 51. Over-the-air and subscription television networks, however, are not required to file for a license to operate, channels are usually sold in groups, rather than singularly. A la carte subscription services in the U. S, the United States has a decentralized, market-oriented television system, particularly in regard to broadcast television. The nation has a public television service known as the Public Broadcasting Service. Local media markets have their own stations, which may either be affiliated with or owned and operated by a television network. Arrangements in which television stations carried more than one network on its main signal were more common between the 1940s and the 1960s, although some continued as late as 2010. However unlike in other countries, to ensure local presences in television broadcasting, the international programming model is used in the U. S. The five major U. S. broadcast television networks are the National Broadcasting Company, CBS, the American Broadcasting Company, the Fox Broadcasting Company and the CW Television Network. The first and elder three began as radio networks, NBC and CBS respectively began operations in 1924 and 1927, weekday schedules on ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates tend to be similar, with programming choices sorted by dayparts. Network daytime schedules consist of shows and soap operas, although one network – CBS – still carries game shows. Syndicated talk shows are shown in the afternoon, followed by additional local newscasts in the early evening time period. ABC, CBS and NBC offer network news programs each evening, local newscasts or syndicated programs fill the prime access hour or half-hour, and lead into the networks prime time schedules, which are the days most-watched three hours of television. The traditional prime time runs from 8,00 to 11,00 p. m. in the Eastern. Hour and leave that hour for their affiliates to provide programming of their own, later in the evening, drama series of various types air. Sunday is the night on American television, with many of TVs most popular shows airing on that night. At the end of time, another local news program is broadcast. Saturday mornings usually feature network programming aimed at children, while Sunday mornings include a form of public affairs program known as the Sunday morning talk shows, both of these help fulfill stations legal obligations, respectively to provide educational childrens programs and public service programming
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Satellite TV receiver dishes.
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On Wheel of Fortune, three people compete against each other to win cash and physical prizes such as overseas trips.
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The cast of
I Love Lucy (L-R):
Desi Arnaz,
Lucille Ball,
Vivian Vance, and
William Frawley. I Love Lucy has spent over 50 years in reruns after it ended in 1957.
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American family watching TV, 1958.
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Prime time
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Prime time or peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming. The term prime time is defined in terms of a fixed time period – for example. In Chinese television, the 19, 00-to-22,00 time slot is known as Golden Time, the term also influenced a nickname of a strip of holidays in known as Golden Week. Prime time here usually takes place from 19,00 until 22,00, after that, programs classified as “PG” are allowed to be broadcast. Frontline dramas appear during this time slot in Cantonese, as well as movies in English, in India, prime time occurs between 20,00 and 22,30. Prime time usually takes place from 18,00 to 23,00 WIB, after prime time, programs classified as Adult, as well as cigarette commercials, are allowed to be broadcast. Like another Muslim-majority country, there is also a prime time during sahur time in a month of Ramadan. It takes place from 02,00 and ends at the Fajr prayer call, the time slot is usually filled with comedy and religious programming. In Iraq, prime time runs from 20,00 to 23,00, the main news programs are broadcast at 20,00 and the highest-rated television program airs at 21,00. In Japanese television, the 19, 00-to-22,00 time slot is known as Golden Time. The term also influenced a nickname of a strip of holidays in known as Golden Week, malaysian prime time starts with the main news from 20,00 to 20,30 and ends either at 23,00 or 0,30, or possibly late. Usually, programmes during prime time are domestic dramas, foreign series, movies. Programmes that classify as 18 are not allowed to be broadcast before 10,00 p. m. but on RTM, however, programmes broadcast after 23,00 are still considered prime time. As of December 2010, NTV7s prime time continues until 12,00 a. m, programmes during prime time may have longer commercial breaks due to number of viewers. Some domestic prime time productions may be affected because of major sporting events such as FIFA World Cup. However, only FIFA World Cup in the Americas did not affect the domestic prime time programmes, in the Philippines, prime time blocks begin at 18,00 and run until about 23,00 on weekdays, and 19,00 to 23,00 on weekends. The weekday prime time blocks usually consists of local teleseryes and foreign television series, the networks highest-rated programs are usually aired right after the evening newscast at 20,00, while a foreign series usually precedes the late night newscast. On weekends, non-scripted programming such as talent shows, reality shows, for the minor networks, prime time consists of American television series on weekdays, with encores of those shows on weekends
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U.S. TV
dayparting; prime time is in light purple
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
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Video camera tube
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The video camera tube was a type of cathode ray tube used to capture the television image prior to the introduction of charge-coupled devices in the 1970s. Several different types of tubes were in use from the early 1930s to the 1980s, in these tubes, the cathode ray was scanned across an image of the scene to be broadcast. The resultant current was dependent on the brightness of the image on the target, the size of the striking ray was tiny compared to the size of the target, allowing 483 horizontal scan lines per image in the NTSC format, or 576 lines in PAL. Any vacuum tube which operates using a beam of electrons. However, in the popular lexicon CRT usually refers to the tube in a CRT television. With the introduction of the computer in the early 1980s, cathode ray tube became the word used for the display. It is only one of many types of cathode ray tubes, other CRTs include the tubes used in television, oscilloscopes, or radar displays. The camera pickup tubes described in this article are also CRTs, but they display no image and he noted that the real difficulties lie in devising an efficient transmitter, and that it was possible that no photoelectric phenomenon at present known will provide what is required. Campbell-Swinton later expanded on his vision in an address given to the Röntgen Society in November 1911. The photoelectric screen in the transmitting device was a mosaic of isolated rubidium cubes. In a letter to Nature published in October 1926, Campbell-Swinton also announced the results of not very successful experiments he had conducted with G. M. Minchin. They had attempted to generate a signal by projecting an image onto a selenium-coated metal plate that was simultaneously scanned by a cathode ray beam. These experiments were conducted before March 1914, when Minchin died, but they were repeated by two different teams in 1937, by H. Miller and J. W. Strange from EMI. These experiments are the base of the future vidicon, an image dissector is a camera tube that creates an electron image of a scene from photocathode emissions which pass through a scanning aperture to an anode, which serves as an electron detector. Among the first to design such a device were German inventors Max Dieckmann and Rudolf Hell, Dieckmann and Hell submitted their application to the German patent office in April 1925, and a patent was issued in October 1927. Their experiments on the image dissector were announced in the volume 8 of the popular magazine Discovery, however, they never transmitted a clear and well focused image with such a tube. In January 1927, Farnsworth applied for a patent for his Television System that included a device for the conversion and its first moving image was successfully transmitted on September 7 of 1927, and a patent was issued in 1930. The improved device was demonstrated to the press in early September 1928, unfortunately, it had very poor light sensitivity, and was therefore primarily useful only where illumination was exceptionally high
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vidicon tube (2/3 inch in diameter)
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Farnsworth image dissector tube from 1931
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Zworykin holding iconoscope tube
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Schematic of a Plumbicon tube. (This image is schematic, not to scale; a Plumbicon has the same shape as a vidicon.)
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Michael A. Levine
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Michael A. Levine is an American composer, music producer and screenwriter born in Japan and currently based in Los Angeles. He is best known for his work in film and television and his Concerto for Pedal Steel Guitar and Orchestra is believed to be the first concerto ever written for the pedal steel guitar. It was premiered on April 16,2005, in a performance by the Nashville Chamber Orchestra with Gary Morse as soloist, Levine also composed Divination By Mirrors for musical saw and strings. It was premiered in New York Citys Merkin Hall in 1998 by the New York Virtuosi with Dale Stuckenbruck as the saw soloist, the piece makes extensive use of quarter tones and golden mean sections. Levine has also written several opera and musical pieces including Orpheus Electronica. Orpheus was developed for the stage by William Philip McKinley, who directed Spiderman, Turn Off the Dark, trained as a violinist, Levine began his career as a studio musician in New York in the 1980s playing both keyboards and violin. He appeared on recordings and/or live performances with Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, John Greaves, Peter Blegvad, Joe Jackson, Lenny Kravitz and his violin playing on Faithfulls rendition of Boulevard of Broken Dreams is considered signature. In the mid-1980s, Levine led the New York City-based quartet, No Guitars, in which he sang, patrick Moraz of Yes described him as The Jimi Hendrix of the violin. By the late 1980s, he switched his emphasis to composition, Levine, with lyricist Ken Shuldman, wrote Gimme a Break, the Kit Kat jingle. In a 2003 study of earworms Univ. of Cincinnati researcher James Kellaris named Gimme a Break as one of the top ten worst offenders. Levine is, perhaps, best known as the composer for the television dramas Cold Case and Close to Home, in 2007, he scored the features Adrift in Manhattan and Columbus Day and in 2011, the feature thriller No One Will Know. In 2012 he became the composer for the upcoming George Lucas-produced Star Wars Detours animated series featuring Seth Green, Levine also produced, with Michael Wolff, the songs for the Nickelodeon TV preteen comedy series and combo, The Naked Brothers Band. One of the songs, Crazy Car, peaked at #23 on the Top 200 Billboard Charts and was written by musician/actor Nat Wolff, thought to be the youngest person to ever compose a charting song. Michael has done work for other film composers including Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Rupert Gregson-Williams. He was the arranger of the version of Spider-Pig from The Simpsons Movie and co-composed the Megamind theme alongside Hans Zimmer. In addition, he composed the music for the scene in Veronica Guerin. Levine often plays violin on his and others recordings and he is a featured player on Hans Zimmers and James Newton Howards score for the Batman movie, The Dark Knight. He also plays tenor violin and the ciola an instrument the size of a viola and he is the recipient of eight ASCAP awards, two Clio awards, an NEA grant, a Meet The Composer grant, and a Massachusetts Arts Foundation grant
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Michael A. Levine
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Lily Tomlin
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Mary Jean Lily Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin began her career as a comedian, and performing Off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was performing as a cast member on the variety show Rowan & Martins Laugh-In from 1969 until 1973 and she currently stars on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie as Frankie Bergstein. Her performance as Frankie garnered her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015 and 2016. Her other notable films include 9 to 5, All of Me, Flirting with Disaster, Tea with Mussolini, I Heart Huckabees and she is also known as the voice of Ms. Frizzle on the childrens series The Magic School Bus. She won her first Emmy Awards in 1974 for writing and producing her own television special, Tomlin won a Grammy Award for her 1972 comedy album This Is a Recording. In 2014, she was given Kennedy Center Honors and in 2017 she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Lillie Mae, a housewife and nurses aide, and Guy Tomlin, a factory worker. She has a brother, Richard Tomlin, Tomlins parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. She is a 1957 graduate of Cass Technical High School, Tomlin attended Wayne State University and originally studied Biology. She auditioned for a play, and it sparked her interest in a career in the theatre, after college, Tomlin began doing stand-up comedy in nightclubs in Detroit and later in New York City. She continued studying acting at the HB Studio and her first television appearance was on The Merv Griffin Show in 1965. In 1969, after a stint as a hostess on the ABC series Music Scene, Tomlin joined NBCs sketch comedy show Rowan and Martins Laugh-In. Ernestine often snorted when she let loose a barbed response or heard something salacious, she wore her hair in a 1940s hairstyle with a hairnet. Her opening lines were often the comical one ringy dingy, two ringy dingy, and, is this the party to whom I am speaking. In the sketches, Ernestine was usually at her switchboard taking calls and she occasionally called her boyfriend, Vito, a telephone repair man, or her pal Phoenicia, another operator. Tomlin reprised the role in 2016 for a TV ad as part of PETAs campaign against SeaWorld and she often ends her monologues with And thats the truth, punctuating it with a noisy raspberry. Edith Ann sits in a rocking chair with her rag doll, Doris. Edith Ann has an oversized, playfully aggressive dog named Buster and a boyfriend named Junior Phillips, Tomlin voiced her in 2 prime-time cartoon adaptations of the character that aired on ABC in 1994
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Tomlin at the 2014
Kennedy Center Honors
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Tomlin as Edith Ann, 1975
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Tomlin in a 1970 publicity photo for
Laugh-In
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Tomlin in April 2013
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Boston Legal
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Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3,2004, to December 8,2008, prior to the shows premiere, it had a working title of Fleet Street, an allusion to the real street in Boston where the fictitious Crane, Poole & Schmidt had its offices. The working title was modified to The Practice, Fleet Street. The real building shown as the law office is located at 500 Boylston Street,1.4 miles away from Fleet Street, the American producers of the series also hired British writer Sir John Mortimer, QC, as a consultant for Boston Legal. The shows pilot was produced with former The Practice stars James Spader and Rhona Mitra, guest stars William Shatner and Lake Bell. It featured a storyline with Larry Miller as Edwin Poole. Monica Potter was later cast as junior partner Lori Colson and René Auberjonois as senior partner Paul Lewiston, the pilot premiered on ABC on October 3,2004. On November 30,2004, it was announced that Candice Bergen would join the cast as senior partner Shirley Schmidt, Lake Bell left the series mid-season, and René Auberjonois was promoted to main cast member. Anthony Heald and Betty White also made regular guest appearances, having appeared as the same characters on The Practice. The success of Greys Anatomy placed Boston Legal on hold until autumn 2005, both Rhona Mitra and Monica Potter left the series during the hiatus, while Julie Bowen was cast as Denise Bauer. Ryan Michelle Bathe and Justin Mentell were later cast as junior associates Sara Holt, the second episode of Season 3 introduced Craig Bierko as Jeffrey Coho and Constance Zimmer as Claire Simms. In Episode 11, guest star Gary Anthony Williams joined the cast, on June 4,2007, TV Guide announced that René Auberjonois, Julie Bowen, Mark Valley, and Constance Zimmer would not return for Season 4. Christian Clemenson, who had guest-starred occasionally as Jerry Espenson – was promoted to main cast, production also stated that René Auberjonois, Mark Valley, Julie Bowen, and Constance Zimmer may return in guest roles. Burrows later became a full-time cast member, on May 13,2008, ABC announced that Boston Legal would return for a fifth season in the fall. Saffron Burrows did not return as a regular, having joined the cast of My Own Worst Enemy. The final season consisted of 13 episodes to reach the 100 episode mark, there was speculation that Boston Legal might receive an additional episode-order if the show had another strong showing in the Emmy Awards and produced solid ratings in its new fall time slot. The season began airing on September 22,2008, on June 18 and June 20,2008, it was reported that Gary Anthony Williams and Taraji P. Henson would not return for Season 5 as Clarence Bell and Whitney Rome, respectively. On July 17,2008, Boston Legal was nominated for a series-high seven Emmy nominations, Spader, Bergen, and Shatner were each nominated for their respective roles
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Boston Legal
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
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Pictures of Hollis Woods is a 2002 young adult novel by Patricia Reilly Giff. The novel received a Newbery Honor Award in 2003 and it was adapted for television in 2007. Pictures of Hollis Woods is the story of an 11-year-old orphan girl who has moved to countless foster families during her life. She was originally abandoned at birth by her mother in a local park and her current foster home is with an older, kindly lady named Josie, who treats Hollis with love but is beginning to lose her memory and independence. Hollis realizes quickly that despite Josies good intentions, she is unable to care for Hollis as a guardian should, forgetting to take Hollis to school and to buy groceries. Hollis fears returning to the home of a foster mother who she calls the stucco woman. She knows that if Josies forgetfulness is discovered, her social worker will send Hollis to another foster home, when she is confronted by the social worker, who attempts to scrutinize Josies care, Hollis convinces Josie that they need to leave town. Hollis story is punctuated by flashbacks to her penultimate foster home. The father, whom Hollis calls Old Man, and the mother, Old Man and Izzy both care for Hollis deeply, nurturing her love for drawing through gifts and praise of her ability. The Regans also have a son named Steven, who Hollis becomes close friends with during the summer that she lives with them in their summer home, Branches is in the mountains, and has a lake and woods where Hollis and Steven explore. Hollis insists that she is determined to climb the mountain nearest them. After this extremely happy summer, the Regans ask Hollis if they can adopt her, Hollis is overwhelmed and agrees, feeling loved and accepted into a family for the first time in her life. She secretly leaves the house the day to climb the mountain. However, her journey takes longer than she expected, and she ends up climbing down the mountain in darkness, fortunately, Steven remembered her plan to climb the mountain and drives the family truck up to find her. They begin to descend the mountain in the truck, but the darkness and slipperiness of the path causes Steven to lose control and crash, the Regans, though heartbroken, accept her decision, causing her to be removed from their home and to be relocated to Josies. Hollis decides that she will take Josie to Branches to hide from her social worker and she struggles to care for both herself and Josie in the cabin, where there is little food and poor heating. Josie becomes more and more confused, forgetting why they left town in the first place and telling Hollis that she misses Beatrice, Hollis attempts to fish in the woods to provide some food, but sees a distant figure that she assumes is a fisherman. Josie and Hollis celebrate Christmas together in Branches, giving each other small gifts, Hollis eventually realizes that Josie can no longer care for Hollis or herself, and calls Beatrice, asking her to take Josie in
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
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Planet Earth (TV series)
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Planet Earth is a landmark 2006 British television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Five years in the making, it was the most expensive documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC. Planet Earth premiered on 5 March 2006 in the United Kingdom on BBC One, the original version was narrated by David Attenborough, whilst some international versions used alternative narrators. The series has eleven episodes, each of which features an overview of a different biome or habitat on Earth. At the end of each episode, a ten-minute featurette takes a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. Ten years later, the BBC announced a sequel had been commissioned, titled Planet Earth II. David Attenborough returned as narrator and presenter, in 2001 the BBC broadcast The Blue Planet, a landmark series on the natural history of the worlds oceans. It received critical acclaim, high viewing figures, audience appreciation ratings and it also became a hugely profitable global brand, eventually being sold to 150 countries worldwide. Feedback showed that audiences liked the epic scale, the scenes of new and unusual species. Programme commissioners were keen for a follow-up, so Alastair Fothergill decided that the Natural History Unit should repeat the formula with a looking at the whole planet. The idea for Planet Earth was born, and the series was commissioned by Lorraine Heggessey, then Controller of BBC One, in January 2002. A feature film version of Planet Earth was commissioned alongside the series, repeating the successful model established with The Blue Planet and its companion film. Earth was released around the world from 2007 to 2009, Planet Earth premiered on BBC One on 5 March 2006 in the United Kingdom. On the same day or in the subsequent weeks or months, the episodes are each an hour in length, comprising the main programme and a 10-minute featurette called Planet Earth Diaries, which details the filming of a particular event. In the UK, Planet Earth was split into two parts, broadcast in spring and autumn 2006, the first five episodes premiered on BBC One at 9, 00pm on Sundays, beginning on 5 March 2006. The programmes were repeated the following Saturday in an evening slot on BBC Two. Along with its 2005 dramatisation of Bleak House, the BBC selected Planet Earth for its trial of high-definition broadcasts, the opening episode was its first-ever scheduled programme in the format, shown 27 May 2006 on the BBC HD channel. The first episode in the series, Great Plains, received its first public showing at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on 26 August 2006
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Side Order of Life
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Side Order of Life is a dramatic television series broadcast by Lifetime on Sunday night. In its first five weeks it aired at 8, 00pm ET/PT, then switched to the 9, 00pm time slot. Marisa Coughlan plays Jenny McIntyre, a photographer who reconsiders her life and is reawakened to her options after her best friend, Jason Priestley returns to regular series television as Ian Denison, Jennys fiancé. Christopher Gartin rounds out the case as Jennys boss Rick Purdy at the fictional In Person magazine, he is in love with Vivy. Lifetime broadcast Side Order of Life with State of Mind and Army Wives in an effort to offer a night of new original programming aimed primarily at female viewers during the summer hiatus, Side Order of Life premiered on Lifetime on July 15,2007. Initial reviews were positive, with Variety. coms Brian Lowry saying, in a moment of candor, when discussing his role on a female-oriented show on a female-oriented network, Jason Priestley referred to himself as the man-meat, but stated, Im ok with that. Lifetime has decided not to renew Side Order of Life for a second season, Lifetime announced soon after this decision that it would be purchasing the show Project Runway, although no connection to the unrelated events was publicized. Marisa Coughlan as Jenny McIntyre, a photojournalist at In Person magazine, diana-Maria Riva as Vivy Porter, Jennys best friend, who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer. Steven Weber as Cell Phone Man, who Jenny called by accident when trying to reach Ian, joe Regalbuto as Mr. McIntyre, Jennys father, and a good friend of Ians, even after the breakup. Susan Blakely as Margot, Jennys mother, a trophy wife. Lisa Waltz as Dr. Misty Raines, Vivys Oncologist, who also has cancer, ron Fassler as Teddy Smalls Ian Ziering as Brian Fowler Side Order of Life at the Internet Movie Database Side Order of Life at TV. com
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Jenny McIntyre (Marisa Coughlan) has a nightmare about her wedding day in Side Order of Life
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God on Trial
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God on Trial is a 2008 BBC/WGBH Boston television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, starring Antony Sher, Rupert Graves and Jack Shepherd. The play takes place in Auschwitz during World War II, the Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is if God has broken His covenant with the Jewish people by allowing the Nazis to commit genocide, the play is based on an event described by Elie Wiesel in his book The Trial of God, though Boyce describes this tale as apocryphal. According to Boyce, producer Mark Redhead had been trying to turn the story into a film for almost 20 years by the time he called me in 2005 to write the screenplay. However, Wiesel later confirmed that the story was true, sam Wollaston in The Guardian found it powerful and thoughtful stuff, with some fine performances by some fine actors - Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Dominic Cooper. He also praises director Andy de Emmonys brilliant, arresting sleight of hand, the prisoners, naked and shorn, together with the present-day touring party in the gas chamber. For The Independent, Thomas Sutcliffe remarked on Shers role as the plays smouldering fuse, Every now and then you saw Antony Sher, featuring Esther Rantzen, God on Trial attracted 700,000 viewers on BBC2, a 3% share of the audience, according to overnight returns. When the show was shown in the United States on PBS, God on Trial aired on BBC2 on Wednesday 3 September 2008 and on PBS in the Masterpiece Contemporary strand on 9 November 2008. Lawsuits against God God on Trial at the Internet Movie Database
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30 Days (TV series)
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30 Days is an American reality television show on the FX cable network in the United States, created and hosted by Morgan Spurlock. As in Spurlocks film, Super Size Me, there are a number of unique to each situation which must be followed during each such experiment. At least one episode each season has featured Spurlock as the person spending the month in the particular lifestyle, season one premiered on June 15,2005, and its respective DVD set was released July 11,2006. The second season premiered on July 26,2006, season 3 of 30 Days premiered on June 3,2008. Later that same year, FX said that it would not be renewing the series for a fourth season, the show has recently been picked up for re-air by Destination America, though no new episodes have been ordered. In the United Kingdom, the program is broadcast on More4, in Australia, the program is broadcast on Network Ten and Lifestyle Channel. It currently airs in Canada on Independent Film Channel and Canal Vie and it also airs on FX in Latin America. In Norway it airs on TV2, in Sweden it airs on TV4 and Kanal 9. 30 Days at Planet Green 30 Days at Actual Reality Pictures 30 Days at the Internet Movie Database 30 Days at TV. com
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Whale Wars
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Whale Wars is a weekly American documentary-style reality television series that premiered on November 7,2008 on the Animal Planet cable channel. The program follows Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as he, on November 6,2014 Animal Planet announced a special three-part presentation that aired on December 28,2014 as part of its Month-Long Freeview. The Japanese claim that their whaling is legally research, which Sea Shepherd, the show came at a time when Animal Planet was being re-branded to attract broader audiences and compete with non-animal-centric programming. Notes The 2007–08 Antarctic campaign was named Operation Migaloo, after the only known albino humpback in the world and this campaign was the focus of the first season of Whale Wars, which premiered on November 7,2008. 2 from an inflatable boat. The pair were delivering a letter advising the Japanese that they were whaling illegally with the hope of creating an international incident, the Japanese responded by saying that the men would be held until Sea Shepherd stopped what they called dangerous and illegal activities. The crew of the Yushin Maru No and he was quoted as saying, Its all giant street theater. On March 3, Sea Shepherd members threw bottles of butyric acid, Watson said, They are so full of crap. We filmed and photographed the entire thing, not a single thing landed anywhere near their crew. It is their way of trying to get sympathy, the Australian Government also called for all parties to exercise restraint and responsible behaviour in the Southern Ocean. On March 17,2008 Paul Watson claimed that he was shot by the Japanese crew or coast guard personnel during the campaign. The incident is documented during the show in the final episode. The footage in Whale Wars shows Watson standing on the deck of the Steve Irwin while Sea Shepherd crew throws glass bottles filled with acid at the Nisshin Maru whaling vessel. The Japanese respond by throwing flashbang devices, Watson is then shown reaching inside his jacket and bullet-proof vest and remarking Ive been hit. Back inside the bridge of the Steve Irwin, a fragment is found inside the vest. The Institute of Cetacean Research has dismissed Sea Shepherds statements as lies, the Institute and Coast Guard said that they used seven flashbang devices designed to flash and make noise in the air without causing harm. Neither of the two conflicting accounts have been independently verified, the Australian Foreign Affairs Department had condemned actions by crew members of any vessel that cause injury. Two media releases were made on the day from the office
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 10)
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The tenth season of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS on September 24,2009, and ended May 20,2010. The series stars Marg Helgenberger and Laurence Fishburne, riley Adams leaves the CSI team in turmoil, as Catherines leadership skills are called into question, during the 10th season of CSI. Lauren Lee Smith is no part of the regular cast. Liz Vassey and David Berman both become main cast members
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Wheels (Glee)
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Wheels is the ninth episode of the American television series Glee. Written by series co-creator Ryan Murphy and directed by Paris Barclay, Quinn struggles with the medical expenses incurred by her pregnancy, and Puck renews his offer to support her. Sue accepts a student with Down syndrome onto the cheerleading squad, McHale called Wheels the most serious episode of Glee so far, while Murphy deemed it the turning point for the show. The episode introduces two new characters, Lauren Potter as Becky Jackson and Robin Trocki as Jean Sylvester and it features covers of Nouvelle Vagues rendition of Dancing with Myself, Defying Gravity from Wicked and Ike & Tina Turners rendition of Proud Mary. Dancing With Myself is McHales first solo performance on the show, Defying Gravity was included as a reflection of Colfers own high school experience, which saw his drama teacher refuse to allow him to sing the song because of his sex. Proud Mary is staged entirely in wheelchairs, and was described by series choreographer Zach Woodlee as the scariest number produced to date. Wheels was watched by 7.35 million US viewers, and it prompted criticism from a committee of performers with disabilities, who felt that it was inappropriate to cast an able-bodied actor in a disabled role. The episode received positive reviews from critics, with Entertainment Weeklys Tim Stack. In contrast, The New York Timess Mike Hale deemed the episode problematic, meanwhile, Quinn Fabray is struggling to cover the medical expenses of her pregnancy, and threatens to break up with Finn Hudson if he cannot pay her ultrasound bill. Puck fights with Finn, whom he feels is not doing enough to support Quinn, by including cannabis in the cupcakes, Puck ensures the bake sale is a success and offers Quinn the money raised. She apologizes for calling him a loser, but refuses to accept the money. Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel compete for a solo on Defying Gravity, Burt receives an anonymous abusive phone call about his sons sexual orientation, and Kurt deliberately sabotages his own audition to spare his father further harassment. Artie reveals the origin of his disability to Tina Cohen-Chang, explaining that he was paralyzed in a car accident at the age of eight and he likens his wheelchair use to Tinas speech impediment. Having previously removed Quinn from the squad due to her pregnancy. She accepts Becky Jackson, a sophomore with Down syndrome, will is suspicious of her motives, increasingly so when Sue donates money to the school to fund three new handicap ramps for students with disabilities. Sue is later seen visiting her sister, Jean, who also has Down syndrome. In the end, the club performs Proud Mary, staging the entire routine in wheelchairs in support of Artie. Kevin McHale deemed Wheels the most serious episode of Glee so far and he enjoyed Arties character development in the episode, explaining that when he was cast in the role, he did not know Arties background and thus made up his own backstory for him
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Maria Shriver
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Maria Owings Shriver is an American journalist, activist, author of six best-selling books, and former First Lady of California. She has received a Peabody Award and was co-anchor for NBCs Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics, as executive producer of The Alzheimers Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a television show with a conscience. She is a member of the Kennedy family, Shriver is currently a special anchor and correspondent for NBC News. Shriver was born in Chicago, Illinois, Shriver is the niece of United States President John F. Kennedy, U. S. Attorney General and U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy and six other siblings, Shriver attended Westland Middle School in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D. C. and graduated in 1973 from Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda. She attended Manhattanville College for two years, then transferred and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies from Georgetown University in Washington, vice presidential race, calling these orders the best thing that ever happened to me. Shriver also served as anchor on Saturdays, from 1989–1990. She was an anchor on Dateline NBC from 1992 until 2004. In August 2003, Shriver took a leave of absence from NBC News when her husband became a candidate in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election. Following her husbands November 17,2003, inauguration as the 38th Governor of California and she then returned to reporting, making two more appearances for Dateline NBC. She appeared as herself in the film Last Action Hero and she also played a minor role as herself in Be Prepared, a 2006 episode of the television series Thats So Raven promoting a Preparedness Plan. On March 23,2007, Shriver returned to television news as substitute host of talk show Larry King Live on CNN with musician Sheryl Crow. Shriver announced that she not return to the news media after the excessive media coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith. In 2008, Shriver executive-produced American Idealist, The Story of Sargent Shriver, the documentary originally aired on PBS on January 21,2008. The film chronicled the life, accomplishments and vision of her father, Shriver has been a lifelong advocate for people with intellectual disabilities. She is a member of the International Board of Special Olympics and she is also on the advisory board of Best Buddies, a one-to-one friendship and jobs program for people with intellectual disabilities. In addition, Shriver serves as Chair of the Audi Best Buddies Challenge, Hearst Castle, as First Lady, Shriver has been instrumental in the hiring of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the capitol and in various state offices through her WE Include program. In February 2008, Shriver launched an ice cream company called Lovin Scoopful with her brother, twenty-five percent of the proceeds from Lovin Scoopful benefits the Special Olympics
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National Geographic Explorer
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The first episode was produced by WQED and featured long-time Explorer camerman Mark Knobil, who is the few staff members with the franchise during all 24 seasons. The program is the documentary television series on cable television. Presented every Sunday from 5,00 pm to 8,00 pm, Tim Cowling and Tim Kelly were the executive producers for the series during this transition. In its 24 years on television, Explorer has worked for five television outlets, in February 1986, Explorer moved to TBS, where it had a successful run until September 1999, when it moved to CNBC. In October 2001, the moved to MSNBC. In June 2003, the series re-launched itself on MSNBC as Ultimate Explorer, on July 8,2004, Explorer joined the National Geographic Channel
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Taking Chance
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The film was selected for showing at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and premiered on HBO on February 21,2009. The film opens on a screen, with white letters describing the date and place, as we hear radio chatter about a suspicious vehicle followed by the sound of an explosion. We then cut to see two Marines driving, wearing blue uniforms, to an unmarked house in the middle of the night. Finally we cut to Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl searching on his computer the casualty report for the Middle East, after a couple clips of Michael running through the woods, service members coffins getting put into an airplane, and some driving. We find the Lt. Col. at work giving a presentation to several other Marines. Then the Lt. Col. makes his way home with his family for a short while, then the camera cuts to five Marines in woodland MarPat camouflage taking US Flag draped coffins off of an airplane in the rain. After a short clip of the Lt. Col. eating dinner with his family, we find him looking at the casualty report yet again but this time he writes down some information. The movie then cuts to him in an interview with a higher ranking Marine and he says it is because the PFC is from his hometown, then we see him discuss his choice with his wife. After the morticians are shown, the film cuts to the Lt. Col. leaving and telling his wife goodbye. He then arrives at Dover Port Mortuary where he gets his instructions along with other Marines on how to go about escorting a fallen Marine. After the instruction, all the service member escorts who are awaiting their turn to head outside. The Lt. Col. then gets told that Phelps isnt ready to be transported yet due to the amount of casualties and he is told that PFC Phelpss private effects are not to leave his side, under any circumstances. The Lt. Col. then verifies that the body in the van is in fact the PFC and then begins his drive to the airport where he has a talk with Rich Brewer of the Dover Port Mortuary. They talk about the military and how the driver knew two men from his school who enlisted, one of whom returned after sustaining severe injuries. Lt. Col. Strobl arrives at the airport, where he first renders honors to the PFC as he is offloaded to a cargo area, before saying a curbside goodbye to the driver. Lt. Col. Strobl heads to the counter, where the ticketing agent tells him that he has been upgraded to First Class. As he goes through security, he tells a somewhat annoyed TSA agent that he cant put Phelps personal items into the x-ray scanner and he also says that he wont take off his Marine Dress Uniform Jacket to go through the metal detector because it would degrade the uniform. Eventually he is screened in private, with the TSA agent using a metal-detector wand and he then renders honors to the PFC again as the coffin is loaded onto the airplane
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Vanguard (TV series)
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Vanguard is a television documentary series that was broadcast on the now defunct Current TV television network. Vanguard reported on issues as the environment, drugs. The focus of most Vanguard episodes is to explore and immerse viewers in global issues that have a social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show’s correspondents conduct interviews with affected peoples and they were subsequently pardoned after former U. S. President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-il. They were producing a piece for Vanguard at the time of their detainment as shown in a Vanguard episode titled Captive in North Korea, in April 2012 Current announced that it would produce six new episodes of Vanguard. However, according to their own Facebook Page, apparently only two episodes were created in season 6 before the Vanguard series was ended, falling 4 episodes short of their originally announced plan. The Vanguard homepage and blog, a section of Current TVs website, were ended when the Current TV website was shut down. In 2013 Al Jazeera Media Network bought Current TV and after several months created Al Jazeera America, the new channel took what remained of Vanguards team and merged them into Al Jazeeras investigative unit and the America Tonight team. Christof Putzel continues on at Al Jazeera America as a correspondent on the investigative reporting series America Tonight, special - Captive in North Korea Official Webpage
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Private Practice (TV series)
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Private Practice is an American medical drama television series which aired on ABC from September 26,2007, to January 22,2013. Private Practice also revolves around Addisons co-workers at Seaside Wellness Center, and how they deal with patients, on May 11,2012, Private Practice was renewed for a sixth season. The sixth season was the first not to feature Tim Daly and was announced on October 19,2012, the series finale aired on January 22,2013. Reruns can be seen in syndication on some local ABC stations, on February 21,2007, The Wall Street Journal reported that ABC was pursuing a spin-off of Greys Anatomy featuring Kate Walshs character Addison Montgomery. Subsequent reports confirmed the report, stating that an expanded two-hour broadcast of Greys Anatomy would serve as a pilot for the spinoff. The backdoor pilot episode features Montgomery on leave from Seattle Grace Hospital, the broadcast served as the 22nd and 23rd episodes of the season, and was directed by Michael Grossman, according to Variety. Gossip columnists Kristin Veitch and Michael Ausiello reported that the spinoff would be set in Los Angeles, the cast included Amy Brenneman, Paul Adelstein, Tim Daly, Taye Diggs, Chris Lowell, and Merrin Dungey. The 2-hour episode averaged 21 million viewers,1.9 million more viewers than Greys Anatomys third season 19.1 million viewers-per-episode average at the time of its airing, the episode was also No.1 in the 9,00 pm and 10,00 pm timeslots. On May 5,2007, it was announced, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the first TV promo for the series aired during the season finale of Greys Anatomy, on May 17,2007. The series premiere aired on September 26,2007, averaging 14.41 million viewers being the most watched show in its time slot, the series premiered on British television on July 15,2008, on LIVING. It was later moved to Thursday at 10,00 pm after Greys Anatomy during mid-season 2009, on June 29,2007, it was announced by ABC that Merrin Dungey, who played the role of Naomi Bennett, would be replaced by four time Tony winner Audra McDonald. ABC gave no reason for this change, on July 11,2007, it was announced that a new character, played by KaDee Strickland, had been added to the main cast. Tony Award Winner Idina Menzel appeared in two episodes during the second season, Menzel was married to Private Practice star Taye Diggs. David Sutcliffe, Jayne Brook, and Josh Hopkins also appeared in Private Practice, Private Practice films a lot of their exterior shots in Santa Monica, California. The Oceanside Group building can be found at the corner of 4th and Wilshire in Santa Monica, Addison Montgomery and Sam Bennett live in rare Malibu beachfront houses right on the sand, which in reality would cost upwards of $4 million each. The first season deals with Addisons move from Seattle to Los Angeles and her attempts to adjust to a different type of working environment at Oceanside Wellness Group. The first season deals with her budding relationships with her new co-workers. Among them include her best friend Naomi Bennett, a fertility specialist, and Naomis ex-husband Sam Bennett, also working within the practice is psychiatrist Violet Turner, pediatrician Cooper Freedman, alternative medicine specialist Pete Wilder, and receptionist Dell Parker
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The Dr. Oz Show
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The eighth season premiered on September 12,2016. For the first four seasons, shows were taped in Studio 6A at NBC Studios in New York, beginning with season five, Dr. Oz originates from ABC Television Center East on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In the first season, the show was nominated for an Emmy in best informative talk show, the show was renewed for a third season and launched on September 12,2011, with a new studio set. The shows fourth season premiered on September 10,2012, in several markets, it moved to the timeslot that had been occupied by Oprah, which had left the air at the end of the 2011 season. In 2010, The Dr. Oz Show was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Talk Show Episode for the episode The Science of Intersex during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards. The Dr. Oz Show has a full-time in-house medical unit made up of researchers, medical producers, the medical unit also evaluates and approves all products that appear on the show. In 2012, Oz stated that the staff had learned Transcendental Meditation through the David Lynch Foundation. In 2013, Oz began OzWatch after a number of products using his show, name, Oz considers the practice reckless and dangerous and does not endorse any product featured or use brand names. Starting in May 2013, he began to warn his viewers of websites trying to profit off his name, profiling Oz in The New Yorker, Michael Specter noted instances of Oz inviting controversial guests onto his show. One example is Jeffrey M. Smith, an activist against genetically modified food, Oz identified Smith as a scientist, Specter wrote, but Smith has no experience in genetics or agriculture, and has no scientific degree from any institution. Specter also criticized Oz because he seems to have moved more firmly into the realm of tenuous treatments for serious conditions. Oz replied that he himself as a mediator and wants to provide many differing points of view. Health claims made on the show have been criticized by the community as 54% of health recommendations were not supported by published studies. The Dr. Oz Show was also criticized in the study for an overreliance on dietary suggestions. The study warned that conflicts of interest were rarely addressed and that viewers should be skeptical of claims made on the show, official website The Dr. Oz Show at the Internet Movie Database The Dr. Oz Show at TV. com
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The Five (TV program)
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The Five is an American news and talk show on Fox News Channel featuring a rotating panel who discuss current stories, political issues, and pop culture. The show premiered on July 11,2011, replacing the Glenn Beck program, in 2013, The Five was the second-most-watched program in all of cable news in the United States, placing only behind The OReilly Factor, also on the Fox News Channel. The program has occasionally been the number one rated cable news series in the key 25 to 54 viewing demographic. Fox News chairman Roger Ailes said the format for the show was inspired by chat-oriented programs such as The View, the show is made up of six blocks. Each of the first five blocks is introduced, closed and loosely moderated by a different co-host, the co-hosts block may be on a single topic or multiple topics. The final block is One More Thing, The co-hosts take turns sharing a final thought before the show ends, julie Roginsky and Geraldo Rivera frequently fill in for them, while Tom Shillue, Brian Kilmeade and Jesse Watters occasionally fill in for Greg Gutfeld. The show also features guests, including politicians, Fox News personalities, celebrities. Conservative commentator Andrea Tantaros formerly sat in for Perino or Guilfoyle, before being moved to Outnumbered in 2014, Beckel was absent from the show for much of early 2015, it was later announced he had left Fox News. He returned to much fanfare in January 2017, monica Crowley and Andrew Napolitano were originally announced as additional co-hosts for the show, though upon its debut, the cast was narrowed down. Occasionally, Fox News has aired special editions of the show during special coverage. Unlike the previous, host-driven generation of opinion shows, The Five adds a new element to cable news– a plot. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart would later take that line of thought to new places when correspondent Samantha Bee debuted her one-woman show about the supposed romantic subplot on The Five. The shows anything goes attitude has led it into some minor controversies, particularly involving former co-host Bob Beckels on-air profanity, Beckel was later compelled to apologize for using the term Chinamen. After not being seen on air since early 2015, it was reported that Bob Beckel was recovering from back surgery, in April, Fox later released a statement informing viewers that Beckel entered a rehab facility for treatment of an addiction to prescription pain medication. Finally, on June 25,2015, it was confirmed that Beckel had been fired from the network, while a Fox News spokesman initially stated that it was an amicable split, a Fox executive later stated that Fox couldn’t hold The Five hostage to one man’s personal issues. On June 26,2015, co-host Dana Perino briefly informed viewers of Beckels departure with a statement at the end of the show. He was not mentioned on the show otherwise, as of January 16,2017, Beckel returned as co-host of the Five. In 2011, Tantaros was named a co-host of the hour-long, unscripted program, on April 25,2016, she was placed off-air, indefinitely, for what Fox News said were contract issues
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Hot Coffee (film)
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Hot Coffee is a 2011 documentary film that analyzes and discusses the impact of tort reform on the United States judicial system. It is directed by Susan Saladoff, who has practiced as a medical malpractice attorney for at least 26 years. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on January 24,2011, the title is derived from the Liebeck v. McDonalds Restaurants lawsuit, in which the plaintiff Liebeck was severely burned after spilling into her lap hot coffee purchased from a McDonalds. Hot Coffee discusses several cases and relates each to tort reform in the United States, cV-93-02419,1995 WL360309, vacated,1994 WL16777704, how tort cases are publicized to instigate tort reform. Gourley v. Neb. Methodist Health Sys.663 N. W. 2d 43, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce funded negative campaign ads against judicial candidate Oliver E. Diaz and in support of candidate Keith Starrett. Oliver E. Diaz estimates ~$1,000, 000+ dollars was spent on Keith Starretts behalf for the judicial election, Jones v. Halliburton Co.625 F. Supp. 2d 339, aff’d,583 F. 3d 228 This segment features interviews with Liebecks family, the concept of accountability is also discussed. The film also discussed in depth how Liebeck v. McDonalds Restaurants is often used and misused to describe a frivolous lawsuit. It argued that corporations have spent millions distorting certain tort cases in order to promote tort reform, senator Al Franken features prominently in this segment. He worked closely with Jones to get her case heard in court, subsequent to the films release, Jones succeeded in trying her civil case before a federal court in Houston. However, she was unsuccessful in convincing a jury that she had raped or that KBR had engaged in fraud when inducing her to sign her employment contract. There was a long list of inconsistencies and contradictions exposed in her story during the trial, official website Hot Coffee at the Internet Movie Database Hot Coffee at Rotten Tomatoes HBO site for film Extended interview with filmmaker Susan Saladoff on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
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List of Men of a Certain Age episodes
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Men of a Certain Age is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered on TNT on December 7,2009. The hour-long program stars Ray Romano, Andre Braugher, and Scott Bakula as three best friends in their late forties dealing with the realities of being middle aged and it won a Peabody Award in 2010. On July 15,2011, TNT cancelled the series two seasons. The series follows the adventures of three lifelong friends – Joe, Owen, and Terry – who are now in their late 40s. Joe is a separated father of two who had dreamed of becoming a pro golfer but now owns a party supply store. Owen is an anxiety-stricken, diabetic husband and father, who works at a job he hates, at a car owned and managed by his father, Owen. Terry is an unemployed actor desperate to relive his past glory and he has never married, and usually dates younger women. In the second season, Owens father has retired and left Owen in charge of the dealership, where Terry now works as a salesman, Ray Romano as Joe Tranelli Scott Bakula as Terry Elliot Andre Braugher as Owen Thoreau, Jr. Lisa Gay Hamilton as Melissa Thoreau Richard Gant as Owen Thoreau, both men had previously worked together on Everybody Loves Raymond. Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula were announced in June and July, respectively, in January 2009, TNT ordered 10 episodes of Men of a Certain Age. Men of a Certain Age premiered on TNT on December 7,2009 and it was given a TV-MA-L rating because of strong language. On January 14,2010 TNT renewed the show for a second season, the second season was aired in two batches of six episodes each. On July 15,2011, TNT announced that they would not be renewing Men of a Certain Age for a third season, season one was met with positive reviews. According to aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an 89% approval rating based on 18 reviews, the sites consensus reads, Witty, insightful, and poignant, Men of a Certain Age is a second-act triumph for stars Scott Bakula, Andre Braugher, and Ray Romano. It holds a Metacritic score of 79 out of 100, based on 24 collected reviews, season two was met with equally positive reviews. It holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews, the sites consensus reads, Sharply written and deftly acted, Men of a Certain Age continues to be an observational sitcom of rare insight and depth. It holds a Metacritic score of 86 out of 100, based on 15 collected reviews, in Latin America, Men of a Certain Age premiered on July 13,2010 on the prime time block of Warner Channel. Men of a Certain Age at the Internet Movie Database Men of a Certain Age at TV. com
List of Men of a Certain Age episodes
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Scott Bakula, Rory Rosegarten, Ray Romano, Mike Royce, Andre Braugher and Cary Hoffman of Men of a Certain Age at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards
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A Smiles As Big As The Moon
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A Smile as Big as the Moon is a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. The film debuted on ABC on January 29,2012, john Corbett stars in this film based on the 2002 memoir of the same title by teacher Mike Kersjes and Joe Layden. Several actors playing students in the film have Down syndrome, autism and/or learning disabilities, Ben, a student with Down syndrome, in Mike Kersjess Forest Hills Northern High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan, special education class, dreams of becoming an astronaut. Kersjes, who is also a coach is inspired to pursue Space Camp for his students. Obstacles mount as school administrators object to the expense and Space Camp officials have no experience with special-ed students, teacher Robynn McKinney supports Kersjess efforts. Kersjes engages the team in these endeavors. The film was primarily in Wilmington, North Carolina and at United States Space Camp in Huntsville. One scene used Sky Theater inside Ingram Planetarium of Sunset Beach, North Carolina, filming took place there September 28,2011. She is also never one to let anything slide, abigale Coorigan as Lisa Casey, A girl with ADHD and OCD. She is also the class tattletale, peter ten Brink as Ben Schmidt, A boy with Down syndrome. David Lambert as Steve Bennett, A boy with ADHD and Tourette syndrome and he is the most hyperactive student in the class. Jimmy Bellinger as Matt Snyder, A boy with Autism and he is a whiz of mathematics and science. Kesun Loder as Lewis Dayhuff, A boy with Dyslexia and he lives with his 13th foster family, and also had a temper that made Scott seem tame. Tyrin Niles Wyche as Jamal Davis, A boy who is slow and slow to get agitated. He is the most quiet student, tanner Dow as Adam Plowright, A boy with Autism and OCD. He is the gentle giant with a heart that matches his size. E. Roger Mitchell as Tom Keller, The principal at Forest Hills Northern High School, keith Flippen as Dennis Schmidt, The father of Ben Schmidt. Moira Kelly as Darcy Kersjes, The wife of Mike Kersjes, Mike Pniewski as Big Dan, The owner of a fast food restaurant called Big Dans Burger Shed
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The Newsroom (U.S. TV series)
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The series chronicles the behind-the-scenes events at the fictional Atlantis Cable News channel. Other cast members include Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr. Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, Sorkin, who created the Emmy Award–winning political drama The West Wing, had reportedly been developing a cable-news-centered TV drama since 2009. After months of negotiations, premium cable network HBO ordered a pilot in January 2011, Sorkin did his research for the series by observing several real-world cable news programs first-hand. He served as producer, along with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul. Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy, the anchor and managing editor of News Night, a moderate Republican news anchor whose broadcast persona is characterized as unwilling to offend anyone. Known for being difficult to work with, his world is turned upside down when his ex-girlfriend MacKenzie re-enters his life with a plan to revamp his news broadcast, MacKenzie had an affair with her ex-boyfriend Brian Brenner during her relationship with Will. John Gallagher Jr. as James Jim Harper, Senior Producer who follows MacKenzie to News Night, at his new job, he develops feelings for Maggie. Alison Pill as Margaret Maggie Jordan, an eager, young associate producer of News Night, formerly Wills somewhat inept personal assistant, she is appointed an assistant producer by MacKenzie. She has complicated personal relationships with Don and Jim, plain-speaking and straightforward, but also quite insecure, Don begins to doubt his feelings for Maggie Jordan. Ultimately, he breaks up with her, encouraging her to go after Jim and he subsequently goes on to date Sloan. Dev Patel as Neal Sampat, writer of Wills blog and electronic media expert who covered the London Underground bombings with a camera phone, Neal works with the team to develop the use of electronic media as part of the new format. Olivia Munn as Sloan Sabbith, an economist with two Ph. D. s, she presents a news segment on Wills show. Sloan is good at her job, but also socially inept and prone to creating uncomfortable situations for herself. Sam Waterston as Charlie Skinner, Atlantis Cable News president and retired US Marine, charlies role is to joust with Atlantis World Media owner Leona Lansing and her son, AWM president Reese Lansing while defending the new News Night format. Jane Fonda as Leona Lansing, CEO of Atlantis World Media, adina Porter as Kendra James, a booker for News Night. Chris Chalk as Gary Cooper, a producer for News Night. Chris Messina as Reese Lansing, president of AWM, and Leonas son, Terry Crews as Lonny Church, Wills bodyguard assigned to him after Will receives death threats. Kelen Coleman as Lisa Lambert, Maggies roommate who dates Jim, david Harbour as Elliot Hirsch, the anchor of Right Now, Dons new program on the network
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Nick News with Linda Ellerbee
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Nick News with Linda Ellerbee was an educational childrens and teenagers television show on Nickelodeon that was shown from 1992 to 2015. With 178 episodes from 1992 to 2015, It is one of the series of Nickelodeon. The show is known for allowing normal teenagers to speak out on their own opinions on a number of past and current worldwide issues and topics. Nick News has been hosted by Linda Ellerbee since the inception in 1992. Ellerbee was one of five candidates auditioned over the course of two weeks and she was chosen because her competitors were too loud and obnoxious, claimed one of the shows set designers. According to Ellerbee, I was honored when I was named the host of Nick News, the show will be about kids and their everyday lives. Ellerbee has never missed an episode due to illness, the show is officially known as Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. Throughout the years, Nick News has featured guests of honor, such as Al Gore, Bill Cosby, Faith Hill, Rosie ODonnell, Magic Johnson, Bill Clinton. Nick News was originally known as Nick News W/5 until the shows who, what, when, where, and why type format was dropped. Nick News with Linda Ellerbee has been shown on Sunday nights at 8 p. m. and later 8,30 p. m. on Nickelodeon, and ran in reruns at various time slots. Nick News was #1 in the ratings on Nickelodeon in 1992–1993, the show was also shown in prime time on CBS on Saturdays from 1993 until 1996. The show won two Peabody Awards, one in 1991 and one in 1994, and Linda Ellerbee won a Personal Award in 1998 for her work on the show. Nick News is currently on the air only 2 or 3 times a year, teenNick aired two episodes of the show in reruns on both October 25,2010 and February 15,2011, and also aired once as part of their nighty block The Splat from November 5–6. Nick News is well known for many trademarks during its run on Nickelodeon, such as Ellerbees signature tagline, If you want to know, ask. After nearly 25 years on the air, an hour-long finale titled Hello, the episode featured clips from older episodes of the series. 411,000 people watched its original airing, the episode was mistakenly aired in 4,3 letterbox on Nick HD. In 1993, there was an episode on global warming entitled Plan it for the Planet, on December 9,2007, Nick News had shown another global warming special entitled A Global Warning From the Kids of the World. During the later part of the December 9,2007, episode, in 2002, Nick News celebrated its tenth anniversary with a show called Happy Birthday, Nick News
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Parenthood (2010 TV series)
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Parenthood is an American television drama series developed by Jason Katims and produced by Imagine Television and Universal Television for NBC. The show tells of the Braverman clan, which comprises a couple, their four children. One of the grandchildren depicted has Asperger syndrome, which has gained throughout the press. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the title, the series is the second adaptation of the film to air on television, preceded by the 1990–91 TV series. The series ran for six seasons from March 6,2010 to January 29,2015, despite strong reviews, the series never gained a strong audience, the pilot received the highest audience figures, with ratings declining thereafter. On May 11,2014, Parenthood was renewed for a sixth and final season, the final season premiered on September 25,2014. The series finale aired on January 29,2015, the series is set in Berkeley, California on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay. Adam is married to Kristina and they have children, Haddie, Max, Max is diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Sarah is divorced and has two teen children, Amber and Drew, crosby has a son Jabbar with girlfriend Jasmine and later a daughter Aida. Julia is married to Joel and has a daughter Sydney, later in the series they adopt a son Victor, with intention to add his newborn baby sister in the series finale. Nelson as Zeek Braverman Tyree Brown as Jabbar Trussell Xolo Mariduena as Victor Graham Parenthood is based on the 1989 film of the name, co-written. Following the release of the film, a series was created and aired in 1990 on NBC. The show was given the green-light from NBC in January 2009, erika Christensen was the first actress to land a role in the pilot in early March 2009. By the end of the month, Peter Krause, Maura Tierney, Dax Shepard, Mae Whitman, Sarah Ramos, Nelson came aboard the project after passing on the role of the grandfather in Modern Family. In April, Max Burkholder was chosen to portray Peter Krauses son, in that same month Bonnie Bedelia, Sam Jaeger and Monica Potter were cast. Diane Farr was originally chosen as Kristina Braverman, but she left the series due to scheduling conflicts with Californication and was replaced by Potter. The series was scheduled to premiere on NBC on September 23,2009. However, on July 10,2009, it was announced that Parenthood would be pushed back to due to actress Maura Tierneys breast cancer
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Lucille Ball
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Lucille Désirée Ball was an American actress, comedienne, model, film-studio executive, and producer. She was best known as the star of the self-produced sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Heres Lucy, Balls career began in 1929 when she landed work as a model. Shortly thereafter, she began her career on Broadway using the stage names Diane Belmont. She later appeared in minor film roles in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. During this time, she met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, in the 1950s, Ball ventured into television. In 1951, Arnaz and she created the sitcom I Love Lucy, the same year, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Arnaz, followed by Desi Arnaz, Jr. in 1953. Ball and Arnaz divorced in May 1960, and she married comedian Gary Morton in 1961, in 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu Productions, which produced many popular television series, including Mission, Impossible and Star Trek. Ball did not back away from acting completely, appearing in film, Ball was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning four times. In 1977, Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award and she was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. Born in Jamestown, New York, Lucille Désirée Ball was the daughter of Henry Durrell Ball and her family lived in Wyandotte, Michigan for a time. When she was three and a half, her father died from fever at age 27. Her family and she moved to Celoron to live with her grandparents. She sometimes later claimed that she had born in Butte. A number of magazines reported inaccurately that she had decided that Montana was a romantic place to be born than New York. In fact, her father had moved the family to Anaconda, Montana and her family was Baptist, and her ancestry was mostly English, and included small amounts of Scottish, French, and Irish. Her father, a lineman for Bell Telephone Company, was transferred because of his occupation. Within three years of her birth, Lucille had moved with her parents from Jamestown to Anaconda, Montana, while DeDe Ball was pregnant with her second child, Frederick, Henry Ball contracted typhoid fever and died in February 1915. Ball recalled little from the day her father died, but remembered a bird getting trapped in the house, from that day forward, she suffered from ornithophobia
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Ball in 1941
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A scene from "Lucy Goes to Scotland", 1956
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Ball at her last public appearance at the
61st Academy Awards in 1989, four weeks before her death. Ball's husband
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Milton Berle
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Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor. As the host of NBCs Texaco Star Theater, he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as Uncle Miltie and Mr. Television during TVs golden age. Milton Berle was born into a Jewish family in a five-story walkup at 68 W. 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan and his given name was Mendel Berlinger. He chose Milton Berle as his name when he was 16. His father, Moses Berlinger, was a paint and varnish salesman and his mother, Sarah Glantz Berlinger, eventually became stagestruck and changed her name to Sandra Berle when Milton became famous. Berle entered show business at the age of five when he won a talent contest. He appeared as an actor in silent films, beginning with The Perils of Pauline, filmed in Fort Lee. The director told Berle that he would portray a boy who would be thrown from a moving train. In Milton Berle, An Autobiography, he explained, I was scared shitless, which is exactly what happened, except that at the crucial moment they threw a bundle of rags instead of me from the train. I bet there are a lot of comedians around today who are sorry about that. By Berles account, he continued to play roles in other films, Bunnys Little Brother, Tess of the Storm Country, Birthright, Loves Penalty, Divorce Coupons. In 1916, Berle enrolled in the Professional Childrens School, around 1920, at age 12, Berle made his stage debut in a revival of the musical comedy Florodora in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which later moved to Broadway. By the time he was 16, he was working as a Master of Ceremonies in Vaudeville, by the early 1930s he was a successful stand-up comedian, patterning himself after one of Vaudevilles top comics, Ted Healy. In 1933, he was hired by producer Jack White to star in the theatrical featurette Poppin the Cork, Berle also co-wrote the score for this film, which was released by Educational Pictures. Berle continued to dabble in songwriting, with Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Lil Abner, an adaptation of Al Capps comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat. Berle wrote a Spike Jones B-side, Leave the Dishes in the Sink, in 1939, he was the host of Stop Me If Youve Heard This One with panelists spontaneously finishing jokes sent in by listeners. In the late 1940s, he canceled well-paying nightclub appearances to expand his radio career, three Ring Time, a comedy-variety show sponsored by Ballantine Ale, was followed by a 1943 program sponsored by Campbells Soups. The audience participation show Let Yourself Go could best be described as radio with studio audience members acting out long suppressed urges—often directed at host Berle
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Berle circa 1950
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Berle in 1943
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Caricature of Milton Berle by
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Paddy Chayefsky
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Sidney Aaron Paddy Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. He was considered one of the most renowned dramatists of the so-called Golden Age of Television and his intimate, realistic scripts provided a naturalistic style of television drama for the 1950s, and he was regarded as the central figure in the kitchen sink realism movement of American television. Martin Gottfried wrote in All His Jazz that Chayefsky was a successful writer, following his critically acclaimed teleplays, Chayefsky continued to succeed as a playwright and novelist. As a screenwriter, he received three Academy Awards for Marty, The Hospital and Network, the movie Marty was based on his own television drama about two lonely people finding love. Network was his scathing satire of the industry and The Hospital was also satiric. Film historian David Thomson called The Hospital years ahead of its time, few films capture the disaster of Americas self-destructive idealism so well. Chayefskys early stories were influenced by the authors childhood in The Bronx. Chayefsky was part of the class of inductees into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Television Hall of Fame. He received this honor three years after his death, in 1984, Chayefsky was born in The Bronx, New York City to Ukrainian Jewish parents, Harry and Gussie Stuchevsky Chayefsky. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School, and then the City College of New York, while there, he played for the semi-professional football team Kingsbridge Trojans. He graduated with a degree in accounting in 1943, and then studied languages at Fordham University, during World War II, Chayefsky joined the United States Army, where he received both a Purple Heart and the nickname Paddy. The nickname was given spontaneously when he was awakened at dawn for kitchen duty, although actually Jewish, he asked to be excused to attend Mass. Okay, Paddy, said the officer, and the name stuck, serving with the 104th Infantry Division in the European Theatre, he was near Aachen, Germany when he was wounded, reportedly by a land mine. While recovering from his injuries in the Army Hospital near Cirencester, England, he wrote the book and lyrics to a musical comedy, first produced in 1945 by the Special Services Unit, the show toured European Army bases for two years. The London opening of No T. O. for Love at the Scala Theatre in the West End was the beginning of Chayefskys theatrical career, kanin enabled Chayefsky to spend time working on his second play, Put Them All Together, but it was never produced. Producers Mike Gordon and Jerry Bressler gave him a junior writers contract and he wrote a story, The Great American Hoax, which sold to Good Housekeeping but was never published. He relocated to Hollywood, where he met his future wife Susan Sackler, failing to find work on the West Coast, Chayefsky returned to New York
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Circa 1972
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Chayefsky as a senior in high school, 1939.
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Chayefsky in 1958
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Paddy Chayefsky's monument in Sharon Gardens Division of
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Norman Lear
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Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights, Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Enie/Jeanette and Hyman Herman Lear, a traveling salesman. He had a sister, Claire Lear Brown. Lear grew up in a Jewish home and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony and his mother was born in Elizabethgrad in Kherson Gubernia in Ukraine, while his father was born in Connecticut, to Russian-born parents. When Lear was 9 years old, his father went to prison for selling fake bonds. Lear thought of his father as a rascal and said that the character of Archie Bunker was in inspired by his father. Lear graduated from Weaver High School in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1940 and subsequently attended Emerson College in Boston and he flew 52 combat missions, for which he was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Lear was discharged from the Army in 1945, after World War II, Lear had a career in public relations. The career choice was inspired by his Uncle Jack, My dad had a brother, Jack and he was a press agent so I wanted to be a press agent. Thats the only role model I had, so all I wanted was to grow up to be a guy who could flip a quarter to a nephew. Lear decided to move to California to restart his career in publicity and his first night in Los Angeles, Lear stumbled upon a production of George Bernard Shaws Major Barbara at a 90-seat theater in the round Circle Theater off Sunset Boulevard. One of the actors in the play was Sydney Chaplin, who was the son of actors Charlie Chaplin, Chaplin and Alan Mowbray and Dame Gladys Cooper sat in front of him, and after the show was over, Chaplin performed. Lear had a first cousin in Los Angeles, Elaine, who was married to a man named Ed Simmons, Simmons and Lear teamed up to sell home furnishings door-to-door for a company called The Gans Brothers and then sold family photos door-to-door, again with Simmons. Throughout the 1950s Lear partnered with Simmons, and they turned out comedy sketches for television appearances of Martin and Lewis, Rowan and Martin, in 1954 Lear was enlisted as a writer hoping to salvage the new Celeste Holm CBS sitcom, Honestly, Celeste. But the program was canceled after eight episodes, during this time, he became the producer of NBCs The Martha Raye Show, after Nat Hiken left as the series director. In 1959 Lear created his first television series starring Henry Fonda, starting out as a comedy writer, then a film director, Lear tried to sell a concept for a sitcom about a blue-collar American family to ABC. They rejected the show after two pilots were taped, after a third pilot was taped, CBS picked up the show, known as All in the Family. It premiered January 12,1971, to disappointing ratings, but it took home several Emmy Awards that year, the show did very well in summer reruns, and it flourished in the 1971–72 season, becoming the top-rated show on TV for the next five years
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Lear at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
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Edward R. Murrow
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Edward R. Murrow KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He was generally referred to as Ed Murrow, during the war he assembled a team of foreign correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. A pioneer of television broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Murrow was born Egbert Roscoe Murrow at Polecat Creek, near Greensboro, in Guilford County, North Carolina and he was the youngest of three brothers and was a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish and German descent. The firstborn, Roscoe Jr. lived only a few hours, lacey Van Buren was four years old and Dewey Roscoe was two years old when Murrow was born. His home was a log cabin without electricity or plumbing, on a farm bringing in only a few hundred dollars a year from corn and hay. When Murrow was six years old, his family moved across the country to Skagit County in western Washington and he attended high school in nearby Edison, and was president of the student body in his senior year and excelled on the debate team. He was also a member of the team which won the Skagit County championship. After graduation from school in 1926, Murrow enrolled at Washington State College across the state in Pullman. A member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, he was active in college politics. By his teen years, Murrow went by the nickname Ed and during his year of college. After earning his bachelors degree in 1930, he moved back east to New York and he married Janet Huntington Brewster on March 12,1935. Their son, Charles Casey Murrow, was born in the west of London on November 6,1945, Murrow joined CBS as director of talks and education in 1935 and remained with the network for his entire career. CBS did not have news staff when Murrow joined, save for announcer Bob Trout, Murrows job was to line up newsmakers who would appear on the network to talk about the issues of the day. But the onetime Washington State speech major was intrigued by Trouts on-air delivery, Murrow went to London in 1937 to serve as the director of CBSs European operations. The position did not involve on-air reporting, his job was persuading European figures to broadcast over the CBS network, during this time, he made frequent trips around Europe. In 1937, Murrow hired journalist William L. Shirer, and this marked the beginning of the Murrow Boys team of war reporters. Murrow gained his first glimpse of fame during the March 1938 Anschluss, Murrow immediately sent Shirer to London, where he delivered an uncensored, eyewitness account of the Anschluss
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Murrow in April 1956
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Edward R. Murrow and
Harry S. Truman,
This I Believe series, 1951–1955
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Edward R. Murrow at work with CBS, 1957
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William S. Paley
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Paley was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Goldie and Samuel Paley. His family was Jewish, and his father was an immigrant from Ukraine who ran a cigar company, as the company became increasingly successful, Paley became a millionaire, and moved his family to Philadelphia in the early 1920s. In 1927, Paleys father, brother-in-law and some business partners bought a struggling Philadelphia-based radio network of 16 stations called the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. Samuel Paleys intention was to use his acquisition as a medium for promoting the familys cigar business. Within a year, under Williams leadership, cigar sales had more than doubled, and, in 1928, within a decade, William S. Paley had expanded the network to 114 affiliate stations. Before Paley, most businessmen viewed stations as stand-alone local outlets or, in other words, individual stations originally bought programming from the network and, thus, were considered the networks clients. Paley provided network programming to stations at a nominal cost. The advertisers then became the primary clients and, because of the wider distribution brought by the growing network. Affiliates were required to carry programming offered by the network for part of the broadcast day, at other times in the broadcast day, affiliates were free to offer local programming and sell advertising time locally. During his prime, Paley was described as having a sense for popular taste. While based in England during the war, Paley came to know and befriend Edward R. Murrow, in 1946, Paley promoted Frank Stanton to president of CBS. CBS expanded into TV and rode the post-World War II boom to surpass NBC, CBS has owned the Columbia Record Company and its associated CBS Laboratories since 1939. In 1948, Columbia Records introduced the 33-1/3-rpm long-playing vinyl disc to successfully compete with RCA Victors 45-rpm vinyl disc, also, CBS Laboratories and Peter Goldmark developed a method for color television. PAL or Phase Alternating Line, an analogue TV-encoding system, is today a standard used in large parts of the world. Bill Paley erected two towers of power, one for entertainment and one for news,60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt claimed in his autobiography, and he decreed that there would be no bridge between them. In short, Paley was the guy who put Frank Sinatra, the relationship between Paley and his news staff was not always smooth. His friendship with Ed Murrow, one of the lights in the CBS news division. In 1955, Alcoa withdrew its sponsorship of See It Now, in 1959, James T. Aubrey, Jr. became the president of CBS
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New York, 1939
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Samuel L. Paley library at
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David Sarnoff
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David Sarnoff was an American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970. He ruled over an ever-growing telecommunications and consumer electronics empire that included both RCA and NBC, and became one of the largest companies in the world, named a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945, Sarnoff thereafter was widely known as The General. Sarnoff is credited with Sarnoffs law, which states that the value of a broadcast network is proportional to the number of viewers, David Sarnoff was born to a Jewish family in Uzlyany, a small town in Belarus, the son of Abraham and Leah Sarnoff. Abraham emigrated to the United States and raised funds to bring the family, Sarnoff spent much of his early childhood in a cheder studying and memorizing the Torah. In 1906 his father became incapacitated by tuberculosis, and at age 15 Sarnoff went to work to support the family. He had planned to pursue a career in the newspaper business. Over the next 13 years Sarnoff rose from office boy to commercial manager of the company, learning about the technology and he also served at Marconi stations on ships and posts on Siasconset, Nantucket and the New York Wanamaker Department Store. The following year, he led two other operators at the Wanamaker station in an effort to confirm the fate of the Titanic, some researchers question whether Sarnoff was at the telegraph key at all. By the time of the Titanic disaster in 1912, Sarnoff was a manager of the telegraphers and that same year Marconi won a patent suit that gave it the coastal stations of the United Wireless Telegraph Company. Sarnoff used H. J. Rounds hydrogen arc transmitter to demonstrate the broadcast of music from the New York Wanamaker station. This demonstration and the AT&T demonstrations in 1915 of long-distance wireless telephony inspired the first of many memos to his superiors on applications of current and future radio technologies. Sometime late in 1915 or in 1916 he proposed to the president, Edward J. Nally. Nally deferred on the proposal because of the volume of business during World War I. Throughout the war years, Sarnoff remained Marconis Commercial Manager, including oversight of the factory in Roselle Park. Unlike many who were involved with radio communications, viewing radio as point-to-point. One person could speak to many, up to 300,000 people heard the fight, and demand for home radio equipment bloomed that winter. By the spring of 1922 Sarnoffs prediction of popular demand for broadcasting had come true, in 1925, RCA purchased its first radio station and launched the National Broadcasting Company, the first radio network in America
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Sarnoff in 1922
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Albert Einstein and other noted scientists and engineers on a tour of the RCA wireless station in
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Sarnoff with the first RCA videotape recorder in 1954
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Sarnoff receiving his brigadier general's star from Major General Harry C. Ingles, chief signal officer of the US Army.
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Carol Burnett
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Carol Creighton Burnett is an American actress, comedienne, singer and writer, whose career spans six decades of television. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show and she has achieved success on stage, television and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. She also has appeared on talk shows and as a panelist on game shows. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Burnett moved with her grandmother to Hollywood, later she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She soon made her debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962. In 1963, she was the star of the Dallas State Fair Musicals presentation of Calamity Jane, Burnett moved to Los Angeles, California, and began an 11-year run as star of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that combined comedy sketches with song, the comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces. Burnett created many characters during the shows run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. During and after her variety show, Burnett appeared in many television and her film roles include Pete n Tillie, The Front Page, The Four Seasons, Annie, Noises Off, and Horton Hears a Who. She returned to the Broadway stage in 1995 in Moon Over Buffalo, Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas, on April 26,1933, the daughter of Ina Louise, a publicity writer for movie studios, and Joseph Thomas Burnett, a movie theater manager. Both of her parents were alcoholics, and at an age, she was left with her grandmother. Burnetts parents divorced in the late 1930s, and she and her grandmother moved to an apartment near Burnetts mother’s in an area of Hollywood. There they stayed in a house with Burnetts younger half-sister Chrissie. When Burnett was in grade, she briefly invented an imaginary twin sister named Karen. Then I became exhausted and Karen mysteriously vanished, for a while, she worked as an usherette at what is now the Hollywood Pacific Theatre. After graduating from Hollywood High School in 1951, Burnett received an envelope containing $50 for one years tuition at UCLA. During her first year of college, Burnett switched her focus to theatre arts and English and she found she had to take an acting course to enter the playwright program, I wasnt really ready to do the acting thing, but I had no choice. The audience response moved her deeply, During this time, Burnett performed in university productions, garnering recognition for her comedic
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Burnett in 1974
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Carol and sister Chrissie on Person to Person, 1961
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Burnett and Larry Blyden from The Garry Moore Show, 1960
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Burnett, in her well-known
charwoman character, gets a hand from guest star
Rita Hayworth in 1971.
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Sid Caesar
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Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between the years 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. Caesar was considered a comic and actor, as opposed to a stand-up comedian. He also relied more on body language, accents, and facial contortions than simply dialogue, unlike the slapstick comedy which was standard on TV, his style was considered avant garde in the 1950s. He conjured up ideas and scene and used writers to flesh out the concept, among the writers who wrote for Caesar early in their careers were Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, Michael Stewart, Mel Tolkin, and Woody Allen. Sids was the show to which all comedy writers aspired and it was the place to be, said Steve Allen. His TV shows subjects included satires of real events and people—and parodies of popular film genres, theater, television shows. But unlike other shows at the time, the dialogue was considered sharper, funnier. Honored in numerous ways over 60 years, he was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards and he was also a saxophonist and author of several books, including two autobiographies in which he described his career and later struggle to overcome years of alcoholism and addiction to barbiturates. Caesar was the youngest of three born to Jewish immigrants living in Yonkers, New York. His father was Max Ziser and his mother was Ida and they likely were from Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Poland. Reports state that the surname Caesar was given to Max, as a child, according to Marian L. Smith, senior historian of the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, there is no case of a name changed at Ellis Island. Max and Ida Caesar ran a restaurant, a 24-hour luncheonette, by waiting on tables, their son learned to mimic the patois, rhythm and accents of the diverse clientele, a technique he termed double-talk, which he used throughout his career. He first tried double-talk with a group of Italians, his head barely reaching above the table, Sid Caesars older brother, David, was his comic mentor and one-man cheering section. They created their earliest family sketches from movies of the day like Test Pilot, at 14, Caesar went to the Catskill Mountains as a saxophonist in the Swingtime Six band with Mike Cifichello and Andrew Galos and occasionally performed in sketches in the Borscht Belt. After graduating from Yonkers High School in 1939, Caesar left home and he arrived in Manhattan and worked as an usher and then a doorman at the Capitol Theater there. Mentored by Don Appel, the social director, Caesar played in the dance band and learned to perform comedy. He audited classes in clarinet and saxophone at the Juilliard School of Music, in 1939, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, and was stationed in Brooklyn, New York, where he played in military revues and shows
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Caesar in 1961
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Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar in
Your Show of Shows (1952)
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Caesar in 1980
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Caesar as guest on The Big Show with host
Steve Allen in 1980
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Walter Cronkite
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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years. During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr. and Beatles musician John Lennon. He was also known for his coverage of the U. S. space program. He was the only recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase And thats the way it is, Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born on November 4,1916, in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena, and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite, a dentist. He had remote Dutch ancestry on his fathers side, the family surname originally being Krankheyt, Cronkite lived in Kansas City, Missouri, until he was ten, when his family moved to Houston, Texas. He was a member of the Boy Scouts and he attended college at the University of Texas at Austin, entering in the Fall term of 1933, where he worked on the Daily Texan and became a member of the Nu chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He also was a member of the Houston chapter of DeMolay, while attending UT, Cronkite had his first taste of performance, appearing in a play with fellow student Eli Wallach. He dropped out in 1935, not returning for the Fall term and he dropped out of college in his junior year, in the fall term of 1935, after starting a series of newspaper reporting jobs covering news and sports. He entered broadcasting as an announcer for WKY in Oklahoma City. In 1936, he met his wife, Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, while working as the sports announcer for KCMO in Kansas City. His broadcast name was Walter Wilcox and he would explain later that radio stations at the time did not want people to use their real names for fear of taking their listeners with them if they left. In Kansas City, he joined the United Press in 1937 and he became one of the top American reporters in World War II, covering battles in North Africa and Europe. With his name now established, he received a job offer from Edward R. Murrow at CBS News to join the Murrow Boys team of war correspondents, CBS offered Cronkite $125 a week along with commercial fees amounting to $25 for almost every time Cronkite reported on air. Up to that point, he had been making $57.50 per week at UP, when he informed his boss Harrison Salisbury, UP countered with a raise of $17.50 per week, Hugh Baillie also offered him an extra $20 per week to stay. Cronkite ultimately accepted the UP offer, a move which angered Murrow and he also landed in a glider with the 101st Airborne in Operation Market Garden and covered the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he covered the Nuremberg trials and served as the United Press main reporter in Moscow from 1946 to 1948, in 1950, Cronkite joined CBS News in its young and growing television division, again recruited by Murrow. Cronkite began working at WTOP-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington and he originally served as anchor of the networks 15-minute late-Sunday-evening newscast Up To the Minute, which followed Whats My Line. at 11,00 pm ET from 1951 through 1962
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Cronkite reported on location during the Vietnam War.
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Cronkite giving a speech in 2004
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Cronkite meets with President
Ronald Reagan at the White House, 1981
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Walter Cronkite speaks at a NASA ceremony in February 2004
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Joyce C. Hall
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Joyce Clyde Hall was an American businessman and the founder of Hallmark Cards. Born in 1891 in David City, Nebraska, the son of Nancy Dudley Houston and George Nelson Hall, when Hall was seven, his father abandoned the family. Hall worked odd jobs, mostly involving sales, from age 8 on, Halls response to his fathers mantra, the Lord will provide, was, Its a good idea to give the Lord a little help. In 1905, Hall and his brothers invested US$540 to buy picture postcards to sell to store owners and other dealers around their area. They also convinced some of the salesmen who came into the Halls bookstore. Hall conceived the Norfolk Post Card Company in 1908 in Norfolk, in 1910, Hall moved to Kansas City, Missouri, with little more than two shoe boxes of postcards. By 1913, he and his brothers were operating a store selling not only postcards, the store burned in 1915, and a year later, Hall bought an engraving business and began printing his own cards. It turned into a business than he had had before. In 1928, he began marketing his cards under the Hallmark brand name, Hall, who objected to the name Joyce and typically went by J. C. retired in 1966 and spent his retirement in efforts to revitalize the Kansas City downtown area. One of the results was Crown Center, a combination business/shopping district surrounding the Hallmark corporate headquarters, Hall died in 1982 in Kansas City. People to People Student Ambassador Program
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Joyce C. Hall founder of Hallmark Cards
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Rod Serling
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Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the young man of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism. Serling was born on December 25,1924, in Syracuse, New York and he was the second of two sons born to Esther and Samuel Lawrence Serling. Serlings father had worked as a secretary and amateur inventor before having children, sam Serling later became a butcher after the Great Depression forced the store to close. Rod had a brother, Robert J. Serling. Serling spent most of his youth 70 miles south of Syracuse in the city of Binghamton after his family moved there in 1926 and his parents encouraged his talents as a performer. Sam Serling built a stage in the basement, where Rod often put on plays. His older brother, writer Robert, recalled that, at the age of six or seven, Rod often talked to people around him without waiting for their answers. On a two-hour-long trip from Binghamton to Syracuse, the rest of the family remained silent to see if Rod would notice their lack of participation and he did not, talking nonstop through the entire car ride. In elementary school, Serling was seen as the class clown, however, his seventh-grade English teacher, Helen Foley, encouraged him to enter the schools public speaking extracurriculars. He joined the team and was a speaker at his high school graduation. He began writing for the newspaper, in which, according to the journalist Gordon Sander. He was also interested in sports and excelled at tennis and table tennis, when he attempted to join the varsity football team, he was told he was too small at 5 feet 4 inches tall. Serling was interested in radio and writing at an early age and he listened to various radio programs, especially thrillers with a fantasy or horror feel. Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin were two of his favorite writers and he also did some staff work at a Binghamton radio station. He was accepted into college during his year of high school. As editor of his school newspaper, Serling encouraged his fellow students to support the war effort. He wanted to leave school before graduation to join the fight, War is a temporary thing, Gus Youngstrom told him
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Publicity photo of Serling, 1959
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Serling as a senior in high school, 1943
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Men and equipment on Leyte beachhead, October 20, 1944
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Serling family, 1959, his wife Carol in left photo, his daughters in right
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Ed Sullivan
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He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, later popularly—and, eventually, officially—renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the variety show in US broadcast history. It was, by almost any measure, the last great TV show and its one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories. Sullivan was a pioneer at many levels during televisions infancy. As TV critic David Bianculli wrote, Before MTV, Sullivan presented rock acts, before Bravo, he presented jazz and classical music and theater. Before the Comedy Channel, even there was the Tonight Show. Before there were 500 channels, before there was cable, Ed Sullivan was where the choice was, from the start, he was indeed the Toast of the Town. In 1996, Sullivan was ranked number 50 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. Sullivan was born in Harlem, New York City, the son of Elizabeth F. and Peter Arthur Sullivan, a customs house employee, the entire family loved music, and someone was always playing the piano or singing. A phonograph was a possession, the family loved playing all types of records on it. Sullivan was an athlete in high school, earning 12 athletic letters at Port Chester High School. He played halfback in football, he was a guard in basketball, with the baseball team, Ed was catcher and team captain, and he led the team to several championships. Baseball made an impression on him that would affect his career as well as the culture of America, Sullivan noted that in high school sports integration was taken for granted, When we went up into Connecticut, we ran into clubs that had Negro players. In those days this was accepted as commonplace, and so and it was just as simple as that. His first job was for the The Port Chester Daily Item—for which he had written sports news while in high school, in 1919 he joined The Hartford Post. The newspaper folded in his first week there, but he landed another job on The New York Evening Mail as a sports reporter, finally, in 1927, Mr. Sullivan joined The Evening Graphic as first sports writer and then sports editor. In 1929, when Walter Winchell moved to The Daily Mirror and his theatre column was later carried in the New York Daily News. His column, Little Old New York, concentrated on Broadway shows and gossip, as Winchells had, Sullivan continued writing for The News throughout his broadcasting career, and his popularity long outlived Winchells
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Sullivan in 1955
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Sullivan with
Cole Porter on Toast of the Town in 1952
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Carmen Miranda on
The Ed Sullivan Show in 1953
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Ed Sullivan congratulates 13-year-old
Itzhak Perlman after a concert in
Tel Aviv, in 1958
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Pat Weaver
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Sylvester Laflin Pat Weaver, Jr. was an American radio advertising executive, who became president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. He has been credited with reshaping commercial broadcastings format and philosophy as radio gave way to television as Americas dominant home entertainment and his daughter is actress Sigourney Weaver. Weaver was born Sylvester Laflin Weaver, Jr. in Los Angeles and he was of Scottish descent, as well as of Ulster-Scots and early New England ancestry. He was a great-great-grandson of Charles Laflin, a gunpowder manufacturer, Charles Laflin and his family were living at Oxford, Massachusetts, when he purchased land in 1749 in the Southern village part of the town of Westfield, Massachusetts. He was the brother of comedian Doodles Weaver and he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1930, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He also served in the United States Navy from 1942 through 1945 and he married Elizabeth Inglis in 1942. She was born Desiree Mary Lucy Hawkins on July 10,1913 in Colchester, Essex, England and she made her screen debut in Borrowed Clothes as well as having a number of small parts in some of Alfred Hitchcocks early movies. She reached the point of her career when she co-starred with Bette Davis in William Wylers movie The Letter. She retired from acting when she married in 1942, the couple were the parents of two children, Trajan Victor Charles and Sigourney. Weaver worked for the Young & Rubicam advertising agency during the age of radio. In the mid-1930s he produced Fred Allens Town Hall Tonight radio show, NBC hired him in 1949 to challenge the CBS networks programming lead. At NBC, Weaver established many operating practices that became standard for network television and he introduced the practice of networks producing their own television programming, then selling advertising time during the broadcasts. Prior to that, ad agencies usually created each show for a particular client, because commercial announcements could now more easily be sold to more than one company sponsor for each program, a single advertiser pulling out would not necessarily threaten a program. Weaver created Today in 1952, followed by Tonight Starring Steve Allen, Home with Arlene Francis and Wide Wide World, years later, Paar said, He didnt invent programs, but wrote great memos. Weaver did not ignore NBC Radio, either and he was the developer of the magazine style of advertising which was very favorable towards the Networks. The sponsors would purchase blocks of time in a show, rather than sponsor an entire show, like a magazine, a television network could now control what advertisements were being broadcast and no one advertiser could own exclusive rights to a particular show. NBC Monitor long outlived Weavers tenure running the network, following disputes with chieftain David Sarnoff, Weaver departed. His ideas were too expensive or too highbrow for company tastes
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Weaver with his daughter
Sigourney Weaver in 1989
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Steve Allen
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Stephen Valentine Patrick William Steve Allen was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer and advocate of scientific skepticism. He achieved notability as the first host of The Tonight Show, though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his television career. He first gained attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfreys Talent Scouts. After he hosted the The Tonight Show, he went on to host numerous game and variety shows, including his own The Steve Allen Show, Ive Got a Secret and he was a regular panel member on CBS Whats My Line. From 1977 until 1981, he wrote, produced and hosted the award-winning show Meeting of Minds, Allen was a creditable pianist and a prolific composer, having written over 8,500 songs, some of which were recorded by numerous leading singers. Allen won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition, Allen wrote more than 50 books, including novels, childrens books, and books of opinions, including his final book, Vulgarians at the Gate, Trash TV and Raunch Radio. In 1996 Allen was presented with the Martin Gardner Lifetime Achievement Award from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Hollywood theater named in his honor. Allen was born in New York City, the son of Billy and Isabelle Allen, Allen was raised on the South Side of Chicago by his mothers Irish Catholic family. Milton Berle once called Allens mother the funniest woman in vaudeville, Allens first radio job was on station KOY in Phoenix, Arizona, after he left Arizona State Teachers College in Tempe, while still a sophomore. He enlisted in the U. S. Army during World War II and was trained as an infantryman and he spent his service time at Camp Roberts, California, and did not serve overseas. Allen returned to Phoenix before deciding to back to California. During a shows segment, Allen went into the audience with the microphone to ad lib on-air for the first time and his radio show attracted a huge local following, and in 1950 it replaced Our Miss Brooks, exposing Allen to a national audience for the first time. Allens first television experience had come in 1949 when he answered an ad for a TV announcer for professional wrestling and he knew nothing about wrestling, so he watched some shows and discovered that the announcers did not have well-defined names for the holds. When he got the job, he created names for many of the holds, now the boys go into a double pretzel bend with variations on a theme by Velox and Yolanda. After CBS radio gave Allen a weekly prime time show, CBS television believed it could groom him for national small-screen stardom, the Steve Allen Show premiered at 11 am on Christmas Day,1950, and was later moved into a thirty-minute, early evening slot. This new show required him to uproot his family and move from LA to New York, the show was canceled in 1952, after which CBS tried several shows to showcase Allens talent. Allen achieved national attention when he was pressed into service at the last minute to host Arthur Godfreys Talent Scouts because Godfrey was unable to appear. Allen turned one of Godfreys live Lipton commercials upside down, preparing tea and instant soup on camera, with the audience uproariously and thoroughly entertained, Allen gained major recognition as a comedian and host
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Press photo from 1977
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The hand prints of Allen in front of
Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at
Walt Disney World 's
Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park
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Bookmark promotion for Allen's late-night show
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Steve Allen with
Jayne Meadows in 1987
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Fred Coe
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Among the live TV dramas he produced were Marty and The Trip to Bountiful for Goodyear/Philco, Peter Pan for Producers Showcase, and Days of Wine and Roses for Playhouse 90. Coe made his mark in the years of network television when Lights Out moved from radio to TV on July 3,1946. Variety reviewed, Credit for the shows all-around excellence belongs jointly to scripter Wyllis Cooper and producer Fred Coe, Cooper was the last writer of the radio version with an eight-week series on the NBC net last summer. He followed Arch Oboler at the task and has made the switch from radio to tele without a single letdown in the programs eerie quality, killer was never seen, with the camera following the action and taking in just what the eyes of the murderer would see. Thoughts in the subconscious, meanwhile, told what might go on in the mind of such a person as he contemplates his crime, is convicted in court. Coe achieved some admirable effects with the camera, drawing the viewer both into the mind and into the action. Technical director Bill States was on the beam with the controls in following Coes direction, numerous important actors appeared on Coes shows, which were directed by, among others, Delbert Mann and Arthur Penn. Coe also was a significant producer on Broadway and his plays include The Trip to Bountiful, The Miracle Worker, Two for the Seesaw, All the Way Home, A Thousand Clowns, and Wait Until Dark. He also produced the film versions of The Miracle Worker and A Thousand Clowns, Coe is buried in Green River Cemetery in Springs, New York. His biography, The Man in the Shadows, Fred Coe, the UCLA Film and Television Archive has kinescopes of many Fred Coe productions and has made some digital transfers. The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research also has kinescopes
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Walt Disney
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Walter Elias Walt Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons, as a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors, several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing and he took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio with his brother Roy, with Ub Iwerks, Walt developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928, his first highly popular success, he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years. As the studio grew, Disney became more adventurous, introducing synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor, feature-length cartoons, the results, seen in features such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi, furthered the development of animated film. New animated and live-action films followed after World War II, including the critically successful Cinderella and Mary Poppins, in the 1950s, Disney expanded into the amusement park industry, and in 1955 he opened Disneyland. In 1965, he began development of theme park, Disney World, the heart of which was to be a new type of city. Disney was a smoker throughout his life, and died of lung cancer in December 1966 before either the park or the EPCOT project were completed. Disney was a shy, self-deprecating and insecure man in private and he had high standards and high expectations of those with whom he worked. Although there have been accusations that he was racist or anti-semitic and his reputation changed in the years after his death, from a purveyor of homely patriotic values to a representative of American imperialism. Nevertheless, Disney is considered an icon, particularly in the United States. Walt Disney was born on December 5,1901, at 1249 Tripp Avenue and he was the fourth son of Elias Disney—born in the Province of Canada, to Irish parents—and Flora, an American of German and English descent. Aside from Disney, Elias and Calls sons were Herbert, Raymond and Roy, in 1906, when Disney was four, the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri, where his uncle Robert had just purchased land. In Marceline, Disney developed his interest in drawing when he was paid to draw the horse of a neighborhood doctor. Elias was a subscriber to the Appeal to Reason newspaper, Disney also began to develop an ability to work with watercolors and crayons. He lived near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line and he and his younger sister Ruth started school at the same time at the Park School in Marceline in late 1909. In 1911, the Disneys moved to Kansas City, Missouri, before long, he was spending more time at the Pfeiffers house than at home
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Disney in 1946
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Walt's parents, Elias and Flora (Call) Disney
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10-year-old Walt Disney (center right) at a gathering of Kansas City newsboys in 1912.
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Disney as an
ambulance driver immediately after World War I
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Jackie Gleason
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John Herbert Jackie Gleason was an American comedian, actor, and musician who developed a style and characters in his career from growing up in Brooklyn, New York. He was known for his visual and verbal comedy style. By filming the episodes with Electronicams, Gleason later could release the series in syndication and he also developed The Jackie Gleason Show, which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s until its cancellation in 1970. After originating in Hollywood, filming moved to Miami, Florida, John Herbert Gleason was born in 1916 at 364 Chauncey Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. He grew up at 328 Chauncey, named Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. at birth, he was baptized John Herbert Gleason. His parents were Herbert Walton Herb Gleason, an Irish-American insurance auditor, Gleason was one of two children, his brother, Clement J. died of meningitis at age 14. Gleason remembered him and his father having a beautiful handwriting, and he used to watch him work at the kitchen table. Once it became evident that he was not coming back, Mae went to work as an attendant for the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation. With the disappearance of his father, young Gleason began hanging around with a gang, hustling pool. 73 Elementary School in Brooklyn, John Adams High School in Queens, Gleason became interested in performing after being part of a class play, he quit school before graduating and got a job that paid $4 per night as master of ceremonies at a theater. Other jobs he held at that time included working in a hall, as a stunt driver. He performed the same duties twice a week at the Folly Theater, Gleason was raised by his mother. When she died in 1935 of sepsis from a large neck carbuncle, Gleason was 19, he had nowhere to go, and he had 36 cents to his name. The family of his first girlfriend, Julie Dennehy, offered to him in, Gleason, however, was headstrong. His friend Sammy Birch made room for him in the room he shared with another comedian. Birch also told him of a gig in Reading, Pennsylvania. The booking agent advanced him bus fare for the trip against his salary and this was Gleasons first job as a professional comedian, henceforth, he would always have regular work in small clubs. Gleason worked his way up to a job at New Yorks Club 18, Gleason greeted noted skater Sonja Henie by handing her an ice cube and saying, Okay, now do something
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as
Minnesota Fats in
The Hustler (1961)
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Early photo of Gleason
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Gleason and
Rosemary DeCamp as Chester and Peg Riley in The Life of Riley.
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Gleason and June Taylor dancer Margaret Jeanne get ready for
St. Patrick's Day 1955
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