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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
Hollywood Walk of Fame
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6801 Hollywood Boulevard near
Dolby Theatre
Hollywood Walk of Fame
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A typical Walk of Fame star in the phonograph record category. The charcoal terrazzo contrasts with the pink terrazzo star and brass surround, emblem and lettering.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame at the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard, looking eastward. The Dolby Theatre is in the foreground at left. In the upper left quadrant is the famous intersection of
Hollywood and Highland.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Joanne Woodward 's star, contrary to popular belief, was not the first.
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn
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Clockwise from top left:
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn brownstones,
Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch,
Brooklyn Borough Hall,
Coney Island
Brooklyn
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Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn, 1886.
Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Museum - Hooker's Map of the Village of Brooklyn
Brooklyn
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A typical dining table in the Dutch village of Brooklyn, c. 1664, from
The Brooklyn Museum.
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
New York (state)
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British general
John Burgoyne surrenders at
Saratoga in 1777.
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Flag
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1800 map of New York from
Low's Encyclopaedia
New York (state)
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The
Erie Canal at
Lockport, New York in 1839
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Tisch School of the Arts
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The New York University Tisch School of the Arts is a center of study in the performing and media arts. Founded on August 17,1965, Tisch is a ground for artists, scholars of the arts, filmmakers. The school merges the technical training of a school with the academic resources of a major research university to immerse students in their intended artistic disciplines. It is located at 721 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City, NYU has the most alumni working at Broadway theatre. Tisch School of the Arts was founded in order to provide training in theatre and film. The school created additional departments such as dance, theatre design, in recognition of the generosity of the Tisch family, the school was renamed Tisch School of the Arts. Tisch also offers a selection of classes to NYU students not enrolled in any of its programs through the Open Arts curriculum, the Graduate Acting Program offers a three-year MFA that equips acting students with the skills of a working career in theatre and/or film. The Department of the Dance offers training on the graduate and undergraduate level to students preparing for careers as dancers or choreographers, while taking full advantage of the liberal arts resources of the New York University and the cultural resources of the New York City. The Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program is an MFA program specially designed for the major collaborators in the creation of new theater and opera, composers, lyricists. NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program has gained a reputation for its selectivity. Zelda Fichandler became chair of the program in 1984 and stepped down in 2008, in May 2008, Mark Wing-Davey became chair. Graduate Acting alumni have gone on to achieve many acting accolades, faison Edi Gathegi Jordan Gelber,2000 Enver Gjokaj Matthew Gray Gubler Logan Marshall Green Christopher Guest,1971 Danai Gurira Michael C. Many of the faculty have their own independent of the dance department. The program strives to prepare students for the life of a dancer, preparing them by treating their third year students as a company. Students graduate in three years, hence the schedule which is accelerated in order for dancers to graduate earlier than their peers in other college dance programs. Because of brevity of the program, students attend a six-week summer course following their first. During these summer intensives, six different companies come in a week each and teach students their style of movement and this is an excellent way for students to be introduced to companies and have the chance to get noticed and get to know the different companies in an intimate setting. This is unique to the Tisch Dance Program, and is conducive to introducing dancers into the world of auditions
Tisch School of the Arts
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Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
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Undergraduate students perform in a main stage production of
Dancing at Lughnasa.
Tisch School of the Arts
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Post-production center on the 11th floor of the Tisch building at 721 Broadway in New York
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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883. The Republicans supported the pietistic Protestants who demanded Prohibition, nevertheless, by 1890 the Republicans had agreed to the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission in response to complaints from owners of small businesses and farmers
Republican Party (United States)
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Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican U.S. President (1861–1865).
Republican Party (United States)
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Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States (1901–1909)
Republican Party (United States)
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Dwight Eisenhower,
34th President of the United States (1953–1961)
Republican Party (United States)
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Richard Nixon,
37th President of the United States (1969–1974)
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Stand-up comedy
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Stand-up comedy is a comic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. The performer is known as a comic, stand-up comic, stand-up comedian. In stand-up comedy, the comedian usually recites a grouping of humorous stories, jokes and one-liners typically called a monologue, routine, some stand-up comedians use props, music, or magic tricks to enhance their acts. Stand-up comedy is often performed in clubs, bars and pubs, nightclubs. Outside of live performance, stand-up is often distributed commercially via television, DVD, CD, in stand-up comedy, the feedback of the audience is instant and crucial for the comedians act. Audiences expect a stand-up comic to provide a stream of laughs. Will Ferrell has called stand-up comedy hard, lonely and vicious, a stand-up comedy show may involve only one comedian, or feature a headline or a showcase format. This is followed by one or two middle or featured acts, who perform 15- to 20-minute sets, followed by a headliner who performs for longer, a showcase format may still feature an MC. Bringer shows are another opportunity for amateur performers, the performer must bring a specified number of paying guests in order to get stage time. The guests usually have to pay a charge and there is often a minimum number of drinks that must be ordered. These shows usually have a showcase format and this type of show gives comedians better exposure than open mics because there is usually better audience turnout and industry professionals sometimes go to watch. Different comedy clubs have different requirements for their bringer shows, gotham Comedy Club in New York City, for example, usually has ten-person bringers, while Broadway Comedy Club in New York City usually has six-person bringers. As the name implies, stand-up comedians usually perform their material while standing, stand-up comedy has its origin in classic Parrhesia in 400 BC used for cynics and epicureans in order to tell the reality without censorship. Stand-up comedy in the United Kingdom began in the halls of the 18th and 19th centuries. The heavy censorship regime of the Lord Chamberlains Office required all comedians to submit their acts for censorship, the act would be returned with unacceptable sections underlined in blue pencil. The comedian was then obliged not to deviate from the act in its edited form, the rise of the post-war comedians coincided with the rise of television and radio, and the traditional music hall circuit suffered greatly as a result. By the 1970s, music hall entertainment was virtually dead, alternative circuits had evolved, such as working mens clubs. The alternative comedy scene began to evolve
Stand-up comedy
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Bronze statue of Britain's
Max Miller
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy
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Bob Hope, America's most famous stand-up comedian, during
World War II
Stand-up comedy
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Lenny Bruce
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
Film
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A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera
Film
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The
Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first
cinema ever, with a short film presented by the
Skladanowsky brothers on 1 November 1895. The image depicts a July 1940
variety show.
Film
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A shot from
Georges Méliès Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
Film
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This
16 mm spring-wound
Bolex "H16" Reflex camera is a popular entry level camera used in
film schools.
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Television
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Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a set, a television program. Television is a medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip. Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920s. After World War II, a form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses. During the 1950s, television was the medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the US, for many reasons, the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s, digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity, another development was the move from standard-definition television to high-definition television, which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats, 1080p, 1080i, in 2013, 79% of the worlds households owned a television set. Most TV sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs, major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are gradually expected to be replaced by OLEDs, also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and. Until the early 2000s, these were transmitted as analog signals, a standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television, the word television comes from Ancient Greek τῆλε, meaning far, and Latin visio, meaning sight. The Anglicised version of the term is first attested in 1907 and it was. formed in English or borrowed from French télévision. In the 19th century and early 20th century, other. proposals for the name of a technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote. The abbreviation TV is from 1948, the use of the term to mean a television set dates from 1941
Television
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Flat-screen televisions for sale at a consumer electronics store
Television
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The first known photograph of a moving image produced by Baird's "televisor", circa 1926 (The subject is Baird's business partner Oliver Hutchinson)
Television
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Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates electronic television (1929)
Television
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Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,1975, under the original title NBCs Saturday Night, the shows comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and features performances by a musical guest, an episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live from New York, its Saturday Night. In 1980, Michaels left the series to other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews, Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned, Michaels has remained since then. Many of SNLs cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film. The show format has developed and recreated in several countries. Successful sketches have seen life outside of the show as feature films, throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 50 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and it was ranked tenth in TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show, the live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests. From 1965 until September 1975, NBC ran The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, in 1974, Johnny Carson announced that he wanted the weekend shows pulled and saved so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael ODonoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBCs Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on the rival network ABC, NBC purchased the rights to the name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26,1977. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, NBC executives agreed with Michaels and decided to keep the show on the air despite many angry letters and phone calls that the network received from viewers who were offended by certain sketches. Chevy Chase left the show in November of the season and was replaced a few months later by the then-unknown comic actor Bill Murray. Aykroyd and Belushi left the show in 1979 after the end of season four, in May 1980, Michaels—emotionally and physically exhausted—requested to put the show on hiatus for a year to give him time and energy to pursue other projects
Saturday Night Live
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The original 1975 cast, from left to right:
Laraine Newman,
John Belushi,
Jane Curtin,
Gilda Radner,
Dan Aykroyd,
Garrett Morris, and
Chevy Chase
Saturday Night Live
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Creator
Lorne Michaels.
Saturday Night Live
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Comcast Building (30 Rockefeller Plaza, or "30 Rock") from where the show is broadcast.
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SNL 's main stage, during rehearsal, 2008
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Billy Madison
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Billy Madison is a 1995 American comedy film directed by Tamra Davis. It stars Adam Sandler, Bradley Whitford, Bridgette Wilson, Norm Macdonald, the film was written by Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy, and produced by Robert Simonds. It made over $26.4 million worldwide and debuted at one at the box office. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics, Billy Madison is the 27-year-old heir to a Fortune 500 hotel company that his father, Brian, has created. He spends his days drinking with friends and creating disturbances across his fathers estate, one day, Billy ruins a dinner meeting between his father and his associates by acting obnoxiously. Brian loses confidence in his son and chooses the conniving Eric Gordon as his successor, when Billy begs his father to reconsider his decision, Brian reveals that he secretly bribed Billys school teachers to give him passing grades. The two finally compromise, Billy must complete all 12 grades in two-week intervals to prove he is competent enough to manage the company, shortly after enrolling into school, Billy becomes attracted to a teacher named Veronica Vaughn, who initially ignores him. Nevertheless, Billy successfully progresses through his first two grades and he finds himself as one of Veronicas students in the third grade and earns her respect by standing up for Ernie, his friend and classmate. Billy becomes popular among the third graders and misses them as he advances through school, Billys progress alarms Eric, who becomes increasingly agitated as Billy completes each grade. Eric blackmails Billys principal, Max Anderson, into claiming that Billy bribed him for passing grades, Brian swiftly terminates his agreement with Billy and renames Eric as his successor. Billy grows distraught and reverts to his carefree lifestyle, Veronica motivates him to return to school, while his grade school classmates convince Max to retract his bribery accusations. Brian agrees to give Billy another chance but Eric cites that Billy failed the challenge by taking more than two weeks to complete a grade and he then threatens to sue Brian if he does not pass the company onto him. Billy intervenes and challenges Eric to an academic decathlon to finally settle their feud, both men excel in different activities but Billy manages to take a single-point lead before the contests final event, a Jeopardy. -style academic test. Billy stumbles on the question in the event, and Eric is given the chance to win the contest by answering a question about business ethics. Eric is unable to withstand the pressure and breaks down and he brandishes a handgun, but Max tackles Eric before he can harm Billy. Eric recovers from the attack and attempts to shoot Veronica, but he is shot by Danny McGrath, at his graduation, Billy is delivering a speech. Billy announces he will pass the business to Carl Alphonse, one of his fathers more polite businessmen. Eric watches on and fumes in frustration over Billys decision, Billy Madison received mixed to negative reviews
Billy Madison
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Theatrical release poster
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Happy Gilmore
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Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan with music by Mark Mothersbaugh and produced by Robert Simonds. It stars Adam Sandler as the character, an unsuccessful ice hockey player who discovers a talent for golf. The screenplay was written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy, the film was released in cinemas on February 16,1996 by Universal Pictures. Happy Gilmore was a success, earning $41.2 million on a $12 million budget. This film was the first of multiple collaborations between Sandler and Dugan, the film won an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight for Adam Sandler versus Bob Barker. His girlfriend Terry, a schoolteacher, leaves him because of his hockey obsession and his grandmother has not paid her taxes for many years. As such, she owes the IRS $270,000 in back taxes, Gilmore has only 90 days to come up with the money or else the house will be auctioned off. Grandma Gilmore is forced to move into a retirement home. While repossessing Grandmas furniture, a pair of movers challenge Happy to hit golf balls, Happy wins the tournament and earns a spot on the Pro Golf Tour, though Chubbs advises him to wait 6 months so he can improve Happys performance. On the tour, Happy encounters Shooter McGavin, who sees Happy as both a detriment to golf and a threat to his career, although Happy has a powerful drive, his putting is terrible with violent outbursts and lack of golf etiquette. Thompson threatens to fire her as if there are any further incidents, Happy begins to improve his performance. During a pro-am tournament with then-host of The Price Is Right Bob Barker, he gets distracted by a fan named Donald, causing Barker and Happy to lose the tournament. Barker wins the fight, but its revealed that Shooter hired Donald to distract Happy, Happy tries to plead his case about Grandmas house, but is sent away by an angry Thompson. He seeks the help of Chubbs, admitting his past mistakes, though Happy makes progress, Chubbs falls to his death after seeing the alligator head that took his hand in golf. Determined to win the tournament for Chubbs, Happy is evenly matched with Shooter after the first two rounds and leads Shooter by the end of the third day. On the fourth and final day, multiple unusual scenarios occur between both Happy and Shooter, with the latter losing after the former succeeds in the trick shot learned from Chubbs. Afterwards, an angry and hysterical Shooter attempts to steal Happys gold jacket, but is chased down by Mr. Larson, back at Grandmas house, the film closes with Happy being congratulated by the two-handed ghost of Chubbs, Abraham Lincoln, and the alligator. Adam Sandler as Happy Gilmore, a man who wants to be a professional ice hockey player
Happy Gilmore
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Theatrical release poster
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The Waterboy
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Lynn Swann, Lawrence Taylor, Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher, Paul The Big Show Wight and Rob Schneider have cameo appearances. The movie was profitable, earning $161.5 million in North America alone. This was Sandlers second film to eclipse $120 million worldwide in 1998 along with The Wedding Singer, adam Sandlers character, Bobby Boucher, bears a strong resemblance to his The Excited Southerner comedic skits from his album What the Hell Happened to Me. The portrayal is one of a stereotypical Cajun from the bayous of South Louisiana and he also shares similarities in speech and mannerism to Canteen Boy, a recurring character, also portrayed by Sandler, on Saturday Night Live. Like Bobby, Canteen Boy was a soft-spoken manchild who preferred purified water, right out of the old canteen, which he always carried with him. Bobby Boucher is an inept, 31-year-old water boy with a stutter and hidden anger issues due to frequent teasing by his peers and excessive sheltering by his mother. After a few failed attempts to work, Bobby then approaches Coach Klein of the far more austere South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs. Coach Klein has been coach of SCLSU for years without success, the experience drove Klein to a mental breakdown and rendered him unable to come up with new plays. Furthermore, unlike the Cougars, the Mud Dogs are a struggling team both on and off the field and they have lost 40 consecutive games, their cheerleaders have become alcoholics, and players are forced to share equipment. Bobby insists he be the waterboy after noticing a keg full of stagnant water, Bobby gets the job when he says he will do it for free. Bobbys mother informs him of the evils of football and prevents him from playing and she also mentions that unlike everyone else who shows contempt for him, Helen is the only one who unconditionally loves him. After being picked on again by his new team, Coach Klein encourages Bobby to stand up for himself which leads to him tackling and knocking out the teams quarterback, Coach Klein begs Bobby to join the team but he refuses as his mother would never approve. Coach Klein then meets with Bobby and his mother and attempts to convince her to let Bobby play by emphasizing that Bobby can get a college education, but she refuses despite Bobbys interest. Coach Klein convinces Bobby to join in secret saying that what mama dont know, Bobby quickly becomes one of the most feared linebackers in college football, hitting opposing players with injury-causing force. In his first game, Bobby causes a turnover that costs the team the win, despite this, the Mud Dogs win their next game when Bobby scores a safety on the final play, ending their long losing streak. The Mud Dogs go on a streak and earn a trip to the annual Bourbon Bowl to face the Cougars. Bobbys newfound fame also allows him to rekindle a relationship with his friend and crush, Vicki Vallencourt. However, Helen forbids Bobby from seeing her again, Coach Beaulieu crashes the Mud Dogs pep rally and reveals that Bobby never finished high school and his high school transcript was fake, making him ineligible for college and football
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The Wedding Singer
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The Wedding Singer is a 1998 American romantic comedy film written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci. It stars Adam Sandler as a singer in the 1980s. It was produced by Robert Simonds for US$18 million and grossed $80.2 million in the United States and it was a box office hit and critically acclaimed with many calling it Sandlers best movie. Many have praised the chemistry of him and Barrymore, the film was later adapted into a stage musical of the same name, debuting on Broadway in April 2006 and closing on New Years Eve of that same year. In 1985, Robbie Hart is an engaging and entertaining wedding singer from Ridgefield and he is engaged to his long-time girlfriend, Linda, who was attracted to him at a time when he dreamed of becoming a rock star. He meets and befriends a waitress, Julia Sullivan, at the hall where he regularly performs. She is also engaged to businessman Glenn Gulia and he promises to sing at their wedding, on their wedding day, Robbies sister, Kate, tells him that Linda has changed her mind about the wedding, leaving him emotionally devastated and humiliated. Later that day, Linda visits Robbie and she reveals that she stopped loving him when she found out that he lost his ambitions of being a rock star and instead became a wedding singer. She tells him that talking to her friends, she realizes she cant continue lying to herself. He tries to move on with his life, but despair hinders his performances, Julia tries to cheer him up and later asks him to help her plan her own wedding. He eventually agrees and their friendship blossoms, meanwhile, as he spends more time with her, she begins to realize how shallow Linda is. During a double date between Julia and Glenn, and Julias cousin, Holly, Robbie learns that Glenn frequently cheats on Julia, Julia and Robbie are increasingly confused by their deepening feelings for each other. He tells her he has plans to retire from singing and pursue a more conventional career and she becomes angry with him for assuming that she is marrying Glenn for his money. When he arrives, he sees her through her bedroom window and she is wearing her wedding dress, to which he mistakenly concludes that she is looking forward to marrying Glenn. In actuality, she is expressing doubts about him, particularly her new name of Julia Gulia, heartbroken, Robbie leaves to get drunk and finds Glenn in the midst of his pre-bachelor party. After a heated exchange, he punches Robbie and proceeds to mock him, an intoxicated Robbie goes home and finds Linda waiting for him and wanting to reconcile. He passes out, but the morning, she answers the door. She runs to Glenn, wanting to be married immediately and he happily offers to take her to Las Vegas
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Big Daddy (1999 film)
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Big Daddy is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler and the Sprouse twins. It was Adam Sandlers last film before starting his production company and it was also Sandlers first film distributed by Columbia Pictures. Big Daddy was Adams highest-grossing film until Click, immature 32-year-old bachelor slacker Sonny Koufax lives in New York City and declines to take on adult responsibility. Although he has a law degree, he refuses to take the bar exam, works one day a week as a tollbooth attendant and his girlfriend, Vanessa, threatens to break up with him unless he grows up. His roommate, Kevin Gerrity, proposes to his podiatrist girlfriend Corinne Maloney before he leaves for China for his law firm, Sonny constantly abuses Corinne, especially about her former occupation at Hooters. The next day, Sonny wakes up to find five-year-old Julian McGrath abandoned at their apartment, a written explanation says that Julians mother now refuses to care for Julian and that Kevin is his biological father. Sonny assures Kevin that he look after Julian until Kevin returns from China. In order to win Vanessa back, Sonny introduces her to Julian, however, he learns that she is now dating Sid, a much older man who is more motivated and intelligent and has a 5-year plan. Posing as Kevin, Sonny takes Julian to his social worker Arthur Brooks, however, Brooks informs Sonny that Julians mother died of cancer. Sonny then decides to raise Julian his own way, as such, the boy nicknames himself Frankenstein and also helps Sonny find a new girlfriend in Corinnes lawyer sister Layla. Brooks finds a home for Julian and leaves messages for Sonny. At a meeting at Julians school, the teacher is shocked by the terrible habits Sonny has allowed Julian to develop and he turns himself and Julian around, but then Brooks arrives to find out Sonny impersonated Kevin and Julian is taken away. In court, numerous people including Corinne testify on Sonnys behalf, Julian also testifies, providing relevant information regarding his heritage. As a final straw, Sonny calls himself to the stand and asks his Florida lawyer father Lenny, despite Lennys fervent belief that Sonny is not father material, Sonny convinces Lenny that he will attempt his best at being a father. Impressed by Sonnys sincerity, Lenny vouches for him, nonetheless, the unconvinced judge orders Sonnys arrest. However, Kevin confesses to being Julians biological father and insists they drop the charges, Sonny remains friends with Julian and hands him off to Kevin, watching them bond. One year later, Sonny has turned his life around, he is now a lawyer, is married to Layla. Herlihy Geoffrey Horne as Sid Big Daddy received generally bad reviews from critics, on Rotten Tomatoes the film had an 40% rating by the critics
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Mr. Deeds
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Mr. Deeds is a 2002 American comedy film directed by Steven Brill and starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder. The movie is a remake of the 1936 Frank Capra film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, the movie was produced by Happy Madison and New Line Cinema and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Multibillionaire Preston Blake freezes to death while on a climbing expedition. With no widow or legitimate children, it is unclear who would earn the right to Blakes massive fortune. It is found that Blake has a living grandnephew named Longfellow Deeds, Deeds is contacted and flown to New York City by businessman Chuck Cedar, who is temporarily in control of Blake Media. Deeds unorthodox helicopter trip includes a stop at a Wendys for a Frosty as well as a singing of David Bowies Space Oddity. Deeds does so, and beats up her robber, and Babe goes out with him under the disguise of Pam Dawson, heartbroken and upset, Deeds decides to return home to Mandrake Falls and makes plans to donate his $40 billion inheritance to the United Negro College Fund. After returning to Mandrake Falls, he learns from Crazy Eyes that Cedar intends to sell off the company, which will cause thousands of people to lose their jobs. Babe follows Deeds to Mandrake Falls to win him back, but after saving her life when she falls through the ice over a lake, he rejects her, saying he does not really know who she is. At a shareholders meeting, Cedar has everyone convinced to sell the company, but Cedar claims control of a majority of the shares and the sale is approved. Realizing Emilio is his cousin, Deeds convinces him they must stop Cedar, as a result of Emilio supplanting Longfellow as the heir, Deeds sale of shares are retracted and Cedar is fired. Emilio immediately takes control of Blake Media, Babe then reconciles with and kisses Deeds after professing her love for him. As they leave the meeting, Emilio thanks Deeds for his support and offers him a billion dollars, some of which Deeds spends on red Corvettes for everyone in Mandrake Falls. When he returns to the pizzeria with Babe, he learns that Hallmark is interested in buying one of his greeting cards and they both share a kiss as the movie ends with Crazy Eyes crashing his Corvette and coming out unharmed. He has a habit of sneaking up on people unexpectedly, and he plots to seize control of Blake Media so he can make a huge profit selling it. Jared Harris as Mac McGrath, the head of Inside Access who reports on Deeds antics in New York. B, smoove as Reuben Walter Williamson as Kurt Roark Critchlow as William Billy St. Some scenes were shot in Carmel, New York. The film received negative reviews from critics
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Count Dracula
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Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stokers 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered to be both the prototypical and the vampire in subsequent works of fiction. He is also depicted in the novel to be the origin of werewolf legends, some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian Prince Vlad III the Impaler, who was also known as Dracula. Other character aspects have been added or altered in subsequent popular fictional works, the character has subsequently appeared frequently in popular culture, from films to animated media to breakfast cereals. Bram Stokers novel takes the form of a tale, in which Count Draculas characteristics, powers, abilities and weaknesses are narrated by multiple narrators. Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun and he inhabits a decaying castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. Unlike the vampires of Eastern European folklore, which are portrayed as repulsive, corpse-like creatures, details of his early life are obscure, but it is mentioned he was in life a most wonderful man. Which latter was the highest development of the knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay. He studied the arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains, overlooking the town of Sibiu and has a deep knowledge of alchemy. Taking up arms, as befitting his rank and status as a voivode, according to his nemesis Abraham Van Helsing, He must indeed have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. In Draculas Guest, the narrative follows an unnamed Englishman traveller as he wanders around Munich before leaving for Transylvania and it is Walpurgis Night and the young Englishman foolishly leaves his hotel, in spite of the coachmans warnings, and wanders through a dense forest alone. Along the way, he feels that he is being watched by a tall, the short story climaxes in an old graveyard, where the Englishman encounters a sleeping female vampire called Countess Dolingen in a marble tomb with a large iron stake driven into it. This malevolent and beautiful vampire awakens from her marble bier to conjure a snowstorm before being struck by lightning and returning to her eternal prison, however, the Englishmans troubles are not quite over, as he is dragged away by an unseen force and rendered unconscious. He awakens to find a wolf lying on his chest and licking at his throat, however. When the Englishman is finally back to his hotel, a telegram awaits him from his expectant host Dracula, with a warning about dangers from snow and wolves. As the Dracula novel begins in the late 19th century, Dracula acts on a plan for world domination. He summons Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, to legal support for a real estate transaction overseen by Harkers employer
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Count Dracula as portrayed by
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Max Schreck as
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Statue of
Béla Lugosi as Count Dracula, at the
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Gary Oldman as Dracula.
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Hotel Transylvania
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Hotel Transylvania is a 2012 American 3D computer animated fantasy comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. It was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, and produced by Michelle Murdocca, the film stars the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, and CeeLo Green. The film tells a story of Count Dracula, the owner of a hotel called Hotel Transylvania where the monsters can take a rest from human civilization. Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis, the film was released on September 28,2012, by Columbia Pictures. It was met with mixed reception, while the general public received it favorably. Despite mixed reviews, Hotel Transylvania earned a total of $358 million on a budget of $85 million, the film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. It had launched a franchise, with a sequel, Hotel Transylvania 2, which takes place seven years after the film, in 2015, and a third film scheduled for 2018. A television series is planned for early 2017, and it will focus on the years of Mavis. The plan works, but the zombies inadvertently lead a 21-year-old human named Jonathan back to the hotel, Dracula frantically disguises him as a Frankensteinesque Monster and passes him off as Johnnystein, a distant cousin of Franks right arm. Jonathan soon encounters Mavis and the two Zing, unable to get Johnny out of the hotel without notice, Drac quickly improvises that Jonathan is a party planner, brought in to bring a fresher approach to his own traditional and boring parties. Jonathan quickly becomes a hit to the monsters, especially Mavis. Drac orders Johnny to leave, but Johnny is brought back by Mavis, after being shown the beauty of a sunrise by Johnny, Mavis is inspired to give humans another chance. Meanwhile, the hotel chef Quasimodo with the help of his pet rat Esmeralda learns that Johnny is a human, Dracula intervenes and magically freezes Quasimodo to keep him from telling anyone that Jonathan is human. Dracula leads Jonathan to his quarters and shows him a painting of his wife, Jonathan is understanding and Dracula develops respect for his knowledge, and the two bond, recognising that Jonathan is a good person. Jonathan then tries to leave for good, but Dracula convinces him to stay for the time-being to avoid ruining Maviss birthday, the party is a great success the next night, and Mavis looks forward to opening a gift from her deceased mother. However, when Jonathan and Mavis share their first kiss, Dracula overreacts, a still-frozen Quasimodo bursts in and the Fly translates from his frozen speech that Johnny is a human disguised by Dracula. The guests are outraged by the deceit at play, but Mavis is undeterred and wants to be with Johnny, Jonathan feigns disinterest in Mavis and rejects her out of respect for her father and leaves the hotel. Mavis then angrily yells at Dracula and flies off, Dracula finds Mavis on the roof with her mothers present
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Director Genndy Tartakovsky presented a few scenes from the film at the 2012
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Hotel Transylvania 2
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Hotel Transylvania 2 is a 2015 American 3D computer animated fantasy-comedy film. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, Hotel Transylvania 2 takes place seven years after the first film, with the hotel now open to human guests. Mavis and Johnny have a son named Dennis, whose lack of any vampire abilities worries his grandfather Dracula. When Mavis and Johnny go on a visit to Johnnys parents, soon, things turn upside-down when Draculas old-school human-hating father Vlad unexpectedly visits the hotel. The film was released on September 25,2015, by Columbia Pictures and was a box office success, a third film, titled Hotel Transylvania 3, is scheduled to be released on July 13,2018. Seven years after the first film, Mavis and her new fiancé Johnny are finally married, with the approval of her father Dracula, and the world becomes aware of the existence of monsters. Mavis later reveals to Drac that she is pregnant and a later, she gives birth to a baby boy named Dennis. Nearing his fifth birthday, Dennis has yet to grow his fangs, noticing the dangers of Transylvania, Mavis starts to consider raising Dennis where Johnny grew up, much to Dracs disapproval. Drac tells Johnny to bring Mavis to California to visit his parents, Mike and Linda, but to make sure to keep her distracted so that she will not move, leaving Drac to babysit Dennis. Drac enlists his friends, Frank, Wayne the Werewolf, Griffin the Invisible Man, Murray the Mummy and Blobby the Blob to help train Dennis to become a monster, to no avail. Drac takes Dennis to his summer camp, Camp Winnepacaca, where he learned to hone his vampire abilities. Drac stubbornly believes Dennis is a late fanger, so he hurls Dennis from a tall, Dennis does not transform, and Dracula has to fly and rescue him at the last second. The stunt is filmed by the campers and uploaded to the Internet, Mavis angrily transforms into a bat to fly her and Johnny back to Transylvania. Drac and his friends reach the hotel a couple of seconds after Mavis and she confronts her father for putting Dennis in grave danger and his inability to accept that he is human. She states she will move out of the hotel after Dennis fifth birthday the following Wednesday, Drac hangs his head with deep guilt. Mavis invites Vlad, her grandfather and Dracs father, to Dennis birthday party, as Vlad is much worse than he was when it comes to humans, Drac tells Johnny to have the human party-goers disguise themselves as monsters. Vlad receives the invitation and arrives with his monstrous bat-like servant Bela to meet his great-grandson for the first time, Drac confronts his father about how humans are different now. Mavis becomes upset with her grandfathers behavior and while the family argues, Dennis sadly flees the hotel and enters the forest with Winnie in tow and they are attacked by Bela, who mistakes Dennis for a human
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Director Genndy Tartakovsky at the 2015
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Jack and Jill (2011 film)
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Jack and Jill is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, written by Steve Koren and Adam Sandler, and starring Sandler, Katie Holmes, and Al Pacino. The film was released on November 11,2011 by Columbia Pictures, the film received poor reviews and has since been considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Jack and Jill won 10 Razzie Awards, breaking Battlefield Earths record for the most Razzie wins for a single film, the film opens with homemade videos of fraternal twins Jack and Jill Sadelstein growing up in New York City. As the videos progress, they reveal Jack as the gifted twin, in present-day Los Angeles, Jack is a successful advertising executive who lives with his beautiful wife Erin and their two kids, Sofie, Gary, a Hindu child they adopted at birth. Jill never left the neighborhood they grew up in, she recently inherited the Sadelstein home. As always, Jack is irritated by the upcoming Thanksgiving visit of his sister, Jill ruins Thanksgiving dinner by loudly embarrassing a homeless guest. Jack finally calls her out for making a fool of herself, of him, stung, Jill runs off into the woods with her pet cockatoo Poopsie. Erin demands that Jack apologize to his sister, which he unwillingly does. Jill has a list of things she wants to do while in Los Angeles, be on a show, go horseback riding. Since Jill has a plane ticket, she decides to stay until the end of Hanukkah - much to Jacks horror. Jacks agency client, meanwhile, wants him to somehow get actor Al Pacino to appear in a Dunkin Donuts commercial, Jack isnt sure how hes supposed to make that happen. She has no success until Jack poses as Jill and alters her profile, yet when Jills date - Funbucket - meets her, he sneaks out of the restaurant through the mens room. Jack takes Jill to a Lakers game where Pacino is supposed to be, Pacino blows off Jack but is taken with Jill and gives her his phone number. Jack was hoping Jill would go home by New Years Eve. Jacks friends and colleagues throw him a party, extending the invite to Jill. Again Jill loudly disgraces herself, Jack, and the celebrities in attendance. Pacino invites Jill to his home, where she destroys his Oscar statuette. Abruptly, she becomes bored with him and leaves, Jacks Mexican gardener Felipe, who is also taken with Jill, invites her to meet his family at their annual fiesta
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Raspberry Awards
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The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to Razzies and Razzie Awards, is an award in recognition of the worst in film. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, the awards themselves are in the form of a golf ball-sized raspberry which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold. The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31,1981, wilsons living-room alcove in Los Angeles, to honor the worst in film of the 1980 film season. The 37th ceremony was held on February 25,2017, american publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards. In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Cant Stop the Music and Xanadu. He gave them ballots to vote on worst in film, approximately three dozen people came to the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards. The 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards had double the attendance as the first, by the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, CNN and two major wire services covered the event. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in blowing a raspberry, Wilson commented to the author of Blame It on the Dog, When I registered the term with the Library of Congress in 1980, they asked me, Why raspberry. But since then, razz has pretty much permeated the culture and we couldnt have done it without Hollywoods help. Wilson is referred to as Ye Olde Head Razzberry, paying members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation vote to determine the recipients. For the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009, award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans, voters hailed from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries. The ceremony, typically one day before the Academy Awards, is modeled after the latter but deliberately low-end. Most winners do not attend the ceremony to collect their awards, notable exceptions include Tom Green, Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock, Michael Ferris, J. D. Shapiro, and Paul Verhoeven. Three people won both the Razzies and Oscars the same weekend, Alan Menken in 1993, Brian Helgeland in 1998, two actors had performances in the same movie scoring Oscar and Razzie nominations, James Coco and Amy Irving. Neil Diamond, winner of the inaugural Worst Actor Razzie for 1980s The Jazz Singer, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the same role, wall Street is the only film to date to win both an Oscar and a Razzie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, however Daryl Hannahs performance was not as well received and earned her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress, special prizes for the 25th anniversary of the Razzies awards were also given out in 2005. This is an award given by Razzie Award Governor John J. B. Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the Razzies other categories. It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography in the film From Justin to Kelly and this award is given to a critical and financial failure that wouldve been nominated if it had received an eligible release
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The Golden Raspberry Award statuette.
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John J. B. Wilson at the
29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009.
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John J. B. Wilson at the
28th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2008.
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Worst Supporting Actress at the
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Sylvester Stallone
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Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone is an American actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the films, Stallones film Rocky was inducted into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. Stallones use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps, Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the museum. It was announced on December 7,2010 that Stallone was voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the non-participant category, in 1977, Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for Rocky, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. He became the man in history to receive these two nominations for the same film, after Charles Chaplin and Orson Welles. He received critical raves, as well as his first Golden Globe Award win and third Academy Award nomination, Stallones father was born in Gioia del Colle, Apulia, Italy, and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. Stallones mother is of half French and half Russian Jewish descent and his younger brother is actor and musician Frank Stallone. As a result, the left side of his face is paralyzed – including parts of his lip, tongue. Around the age of 4, Stallone was flat-footed and put in a tap dancing school by his mother and his father moved the family to Washington, D. C. in the early 1950s, where he opened a beauty school. His mother opened a gymnasium called Barbellas in 1954. Stallones parents divorced when Sylvester was nine, and he lived with his mother. When Stallone was 16, he scored poorly in school and his mother got him a job at her beauty salon. He attended Notre Dame Academy and Lincoln High School in Philadelphia, and Charlotte Hall Military Academy, prior to attending Miami Dade College, Stallone had his first starring role in the soft core pornography feature film The Party at Kitty and Studs. He was paid US$200 for two days work, Stallone later explained that he had done the film out of desperation after being evicted from his apartment and finding himself homeless for several days. He has also said that he slept three weeks in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City prior to seeing a casting notice for the film. In the actors words, it was either do that movie or rob someone, the film was released several years later as Italian Stallion, in order to cash in on Stallones newfound fame. While he was in Switzerland, Stallone got his start in films, playing an extra eating in a restaurant near to stars Robert Redford and Camilla Sparv, in the sports drama, Downhill Racer. In 1970, Stallone appeared in the film No Place to Hide, which was re-cut and retitled Rebel, in the Lemmon film, Jack Lemmons character chases, tackles and mugs Stallone, thinking that Stallones character is a pickpocket
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Stallone at the
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Punch-Drunk Love
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After the release of his previous film Magnolia, Anderson stated that he would like to work with Adam Sandler in the future and that he was determined to make his next film ninety minutes long. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and New Line Cinema, the film received positive reviews from critics, with Sandlers performance receiving critical praise, but just barely failed to recoup its production budget at the box office. Barry Egan is a man who owns a company that markets themed toilet plungers. He has seven overbearing sisters who ridicule and emotionally abuse him regularly and leads a lonely life punctuated by fits of rage and anguish. Coping with his loneliness, Barry calls a phone-sex line, but the attempts to extort money and sends her four henchmen. After Lena leaves for Hawaii on a trip, Barry decides to follow her. He arrives and calls one of his sisters to learn where Lena is staying. When his sister starts abusing him again, Barry snaps and demands she give him the information, Lena is overjoyed to see Barry, and they later have sex. At first, Barry explains that he is in Hawaii on a trip by coincidence. The romance develops further, and Barry finally feels some relief from the isolation he has endured. After they return home, the four brothers ram their car into Barrys, with his new-found freedom from loneliness in jeopardy, a surprisingly aggressive and poised Barry adeptly fights off all four of the goons in a matter of seconds, using a tire iron as a weapon. Barry travels to the store in Provo, Utah, to confront Dean face to face. Dean, at first trying to intimidate Barry, finds Barry much more intimidating, Barry decides to tell Lena about his phone-sex episode and begs her for forgiveness, pledging his loyalty and to use his frequent-flier miles to accompany her on all future business trips. She readily agrees, and they embrace happily, some time later, Lena approaches Barry in his office while he plays the harmonium. She puts her arms around him and says, So, here we go, Punch-Drunk Love received generally positive reviews from critics and has a rating of 79% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes based on 184 reviews with an average rating of 7.4 out of 10. The consensus states Odd, touching, and unique, Punch-Drunk Love is also delightfully funny, the film also has a score of 78 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 37 reviews. The movie came at #33 in The A. V, clubs Top 50 films of the 00s. Roger Ebert praised Sandlers performance in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, saying, Sandler, liberated from the constraints of formula, watching this film, you can imagine him in Dennis Hopper roles
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Adam Sandler,
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Emily Watson and
Philip Seymour Hoffman at Cannes in 2002
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Spanglish (film)
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Spanglish is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by James L. Brooks, and stars Adam Sandler, Paz Vega, and Téa Leoni. It was released in the United States on December 17,2004 by Columbia Pictures and by Gracie Films, the film grossed $55 million worldwide, less than the $80 million production budget. Cristina Moreno is applying to Princeton University, for her application essay, she tells the story of her childhood and narrates throughout the movie. Flor Moreno is a poor Mexican single mother who moved to America to have a life for her and her daughter. John is a man who cares about cooking food and raising his kids. Deborah is a former businesswoman turned stay-at-home mother, and Evelyn is a raging alcoholic, John is more laid back and supports the mental well-being of his children, but he feels he cannot stand up to Deborah on her parenting and often leaves it as it is. Summer comes and Flor is needed 24/7 at the Claskys summer home, unable to communicate well in English, Deborah finds a neighbor to interpret. To make Cristina feel more comfortable, John gives the children a small glass-collecting project in which they receive money and she was given $640 for her glass collection, which Flor finds out. The two argue with Cristina as the interpreter, and Flor wants to leave because of the awkwardness it will create afterwards and she begins to learn English so she can communicate better with the Claskys. She enrolls Cristina into a school with Bernice, upsetting Flor. She feels Deborah is overstepping her bounds and voices her objection to John, summer is over and it is Cristinas and Bernices first day of school, that afternoon, Cristina was allowed to bring friends back to the Claskys home from school, but not Bernice. Deborah tries to cover for Cristina to keep her there, the now-sober Evelyn realizes that her daughter is having an affair and that her marriage is in trouble. She pleads with Deborah to end the affair, telling her she will never get another man as good as John. He offers to give Flor a ride in his car, but he wanted to hang out when they arrived at her bus stop, and they ended up going to his restaurant, where he cooks for Flor. They become extremely close to the point of falling in love, while the two enjoyed the conversation of their lives, Flor tells John she loves him, but leaves him before he could kiss her. Deborah, though, becomes desperate and seeks to call John and she blames Evelyns mistakes as a mother that led Deborah to cheating on her husband, the two become closer as mother and daughter. Flor quits and takes her home, upsetting Cristina, who got along well with the Claskys. As they are about to leave, John tries to talk to Flor and confesses to her that he envies whoever will get to have her in the future before parting ways forever
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Theatrical release poster
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Reign Over Me
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Reign Over Me is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Mike Binder, and produced by his brother Jack Binder. The film stars Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, Saffron Burrows, distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film was released on March 23,2007. The film was released to DVD, and Blu-ray on October 9,2007, when the Twin Towers went down in 2001, Charlie Fineman lost everything important in his life. Five years have passed since Charlies wife and daughters died, and now the once-successful and he does not discuss his loss, causing his in-laws to worry for his sanity, believing that he has struck the tragedy from his mind. When fate brings Charlie and his college roommate Alan Johnson together once again on a Manhattan street corner. Charlies hair is long and he wears a headset constantly to let music drown out the memories of his wife. Though on the surface it would appear that Alan, a successful dentist, has it all, at a pivotal moment when Charlie and Alan both need a trusted friend, the restorative power of a rekindled friendship provides a lifeline needed to move forward. Alan endeavors to bring Charlie out of his shell by convincing him to see a therapist, Charlie is barely communicative, however, ending every session after only a couple of minutes. His therapist says he needs to tell the story about his family to someone eventually, Charlie soon tells Alan his tragic story, but afterwards tries to commit suicide by cop and ends up in a sanitarium. Legal proceedings commence, Judge David Raines must determine whether to commit Charlie to psychiatric care against his will, the judge leaves the decision to Charlies in-laws, asking them to think of what their daughter would want for Charlie. He approaches his in-laws in the lobby of the courthouse, stating that he doesnt carry pictures nor discuss his family because he sees every day. They decide that he should not be committed, instead, Charlie moves to a new apartment, at the end of the film, Alan visits Charlie for the day and his wife calls and tells him I love you and just want you to come home. Tom Cruise and Javier Bardem were initially signed on to play Adam Sandlers role and Don Cheadles role, jennifer Garner was initially signed on to play Liv Tylers role. When Cruise dropped out, Bardem suggested Sandler after seeing him in Punch-Drunk Love, although Sandler was initially hesitant about the project, he signed on after reading the script for a second time. Bardem later dropped from the project, so Cheadle was given the role, the latter song appears on the films soundtrack along with a cover version recorded specifically for the film by Pearl Jam. Televised trailers features the songs Ashes by English band Embrace, All These Things That Ive Done by The Killers, the score was written by Rolfe Kent, and orchestrated by Tony Blondal. The film opened at #8 with a gross of $7,460,690 from 1,671 theaters, the film closed on April 29,2007, with a final domestic gross of $19,661,987. It made another $2,560,321 internationally for a worldwide gross of $22,222,308
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Funny People
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Funny People is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Judd Apatow. The film was released on July 31,2009 and was a box office bomb, George Simmons is a middle-aged retired stand-up comedian turned movie star. Despite his wealth he is disillusioned and depressed as most of his recent film work is low-brow and he is diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and offered an experimental treatment that has only an eight-percent chance of therapeutic response. Believing he is about to die, he returns to his roots of stand-up comedy, Ira Wright is an aspiring stand-up comedian in his twenties who shares an apartment with his two best friends, Mark and Leo. Mark is a lead in his own TV comedy series and makes good money, Leo is a rising comedy star and guest star or a recurring role on Marks TV show. George meets Ira at a comedy club and hires him as his assistant. Ira becomes one of Georges only close relationships, George reconnects with his ex-fiancée, Laura who is currently married to Clarke. George′s physician tells him that the leukemia is in remission, George decides he wants Laura back. Laura invites George and Ira to her house in Marin County while her husband is away on business, George and Ira spend quality time with Laura and her two young daughters. George and Laura sneak off to have sex, but Clarke returns home, the plot of the movie now concerns whether Laura will choose her husband, Clarke, who she suspects has cheated on her, or George. Ira is not always on Georges side in the triangle, so when it doesnt go Georges way in the end, he fires Ira. Ira returns to his old food-service job, after some time has passed, George attends Iras stand-up act and sees that his old assistant has become a talented and competent performer. The next day, George finds Ira at work and they reconnect as friends, rapper Eminem, comedian Ray Romano, musician James Taylor, MADtv member Nicole Parker, and newcomer Bo Burnham also appeared in small roles. Undeclared alum Carla Gallo had a cameo in the film as a character on Yo Teach, the television show within the film that Mark stars in, while Justin Long and Apatow regular Ken Jeong have cameos in the film as characters in movies for which George is famous. Owen Wilson and Elizabeth Banks are featured on posters for movies in which George starred. Bryan Batt makes an appearance as Georges agent, musicians Jon Brion, Sebastian Steinberg, and James Gadson appear in the film as members of Georges jam band. Comedians Rod Man, Budd Friedman, Monty Hoffman, Mark Schiff, Orny Adams, Al Lubel, comedian/producer/writer Carol Leifer appears as herself. Judd Apatow had expressed his desire to make a stand-up comedian mentor film loosely based on his own experiences as a struggling performer
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Leslie Mann, Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow in Berlin (2009)
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Happy Madison Productions
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Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1996 by Adam Sandler which is best known for its comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, the elderly man depicted in the logo is Sandlers late father, Stanley. The 1998 films The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer helped jump start Sandlers movie career and he produced The Waterboy and co-wrote the script with Tim Herlihy. The company used to have a subsidiary, Madison 23 Productions, the only production under Madison 23 was Reign Over Me, starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle. This studio company on the trailer of Funny People and the poster and trailer for Reign Over Me is also known as Mr. Madison Productions, however, after the financial failure of Reign Over Me, the Madison 23 label was shut down. Happy Madisons most recent releases are The Ridiculous 6 and The Do Over, Happy Madisons films have, for the most part, received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. The production company has put out three films considered to be some of the worst ever made, NOTE, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores are out of 100. Rules of Engagement The Gong Show with Dave Attell Nick Swardsons Pretend Time Breaking In The Goldbergs Imaginary Mary Real Genius Nick Swardson – Party Nick Swardson – Seriously, Happy Madison page on Sandlers website Happy Madison at the Internet Movie Database
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Screenshot of the company's logo
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Judaism
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Judaism encompasses the religion, philosophy, culture and way of life of the Jewish people. Judaism is an ancient monotheistic Abrahamic religion, with the Torah as its text, and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash. Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the relationship that God established with the Children of Israel. With between 14.5 and 17.4 million adherents worldwide, Judaism is the tenth-largest religion in the world, Judaism includes a wide corpus of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization. Modern branches of Judaism such as Humanistic Judaism may be nontheistic, today, the largest Jewish religious movements are Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism. Major sources of difference between groups are their approaches to Jewish law, the authority of the Rabbinic tradition. Orthodox Judaism maintains that the Torah and Jewish law are divine in origin, eternal and unalterable, Conservative and Reform Judaism are more liberal, with Conservative Judaism generally promoting a more traditional interpretation of Judaisms requirements than Reform Judaism. A typical Reform position is that Jewish law should be viewed as a set of guidelines rather than as a set of restrictions and obligations whose observance is required of all Jews. Historically, special courts enforced Jewish law, today, these still exist. Authority on theological and legal matters is not vested in any one person or organization, the history of Judaism spans more than 3,000 years. Judaism has its roots as a religion in the Middle East during the Bronze Age. Judaism is considered one of the oldest monotheistic religions, the Hebrews and Israelites were already referred to as Jews in later books of the Tanakh such as the Book of Esther, with the term Jews replacing the title Children of Israel. Judaisms texts, traditions and values strongly influenced later Abrahamic religions, including Christianity, Islam, many aspects of Judaism have also directly or indirectly influenced secular Western ethics and civil law. Jews are a group and include those born Jewish and converts to Judaism. In 2015, the world Jewish population was estimated at about 14.3 million, Judaism thus begins with ethical monotheism, the belief that God is one and is concerned with the actions of humankind. According to the Tanakh, God promised Abraham to make of his offspring a great nation, many generations later, he commanded the nation of Israel to love and worship only one God, that is, the Jewish nation is to reciprocate Gods concern for the world. He also commanded the Jewish people to one another, that is. These commandments are but two of a corpus of commandments and laws that constitute this covenant, which is the substance of Judaism
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Judaica (clockwise from top):
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handwashing cup,
Chumash and
Tanakh,
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Silver case containing a handwritten
Torah (
Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris)
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Glass platter inscribed with the Hebrew word zokhreinu – remember us
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A 19th-century silver
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Manchester, New Hampshire
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It is located in Hillsborough County along the banks of the Merrimack River, which divides the city into eastern and western sections. Manchester is near the end of the Northeast megalopolis. It was first named by the merchant and inventor Samuel Blodget, blodgets vision was to create a great industrial center similar to that of the original Manchester in England, which was the worlds first industrialized city. Manchester often appears favorably in lists ranking the affordability and livability of American cities, in 2009, CNNMoney. com rated Manchester 13th in a list of the 100 best cities in which to live and launch a business in the United States. In addition, Kiplinger voted Manchester the second most tax-friendly city in the United States, second only to Anchorage, also in 2009, Forbes magazine ranked the Manchester region first on its list of Americas 100 Cheapest Places to Live. According to the Equality of Opportunity Project, released in 2013, pennacook Indians called it Namaoskeag, meaning good fishing place—a reference to the Amoskeag Falls in the Merrimack River. In 1722, John Goffe III settled beside Cohas Brook, later building a dam and it was granted by Massachusetts in 1727 as Tyngstown to veterans of Queen Annes War who served in 1703 under Captain William Tyng. But at New Hampshires 1741 separation from Massachusetts, the grant was ruled invalid and substituted with Wilton, Maine, Derryfield remains a neighborhood in contemporary Manchester, along its easternmost area adjacent to Massabesic Lake. In 1807, Samuel Blodget opened a canal and lock system to allow vessels passage around the falls and he envisioned here a great industrial center, the Manchester of America, like the Industrial Revolutions Manchester in England, the first industrialized city in the world. In 1809, Benjamin Prichard and others built a spinning mill operated by water power on the western bank of the Merrimack. Following Blodgetts suggestion, Derryfield was renamed Manchester in 1810, the year the mill was incorporated as the Amoskeag Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company. It would be purchased in 1825 by entrepreneurs from Massachusetts, expanded to 3 mills in 1826, on the eastern bank, Amoskeag engineers and architects planned a model company town, founded in 1838 with Elm Street as its main thoroughfare. Incorporated as a city in 1846, Manchester would become home to the largest cotton mill in the world—Mill No,11, stretching 900 feet long by 103 feet wide, and containing 4,000 looms. Other products made in the community included shoes, cigars, the Amoskeag foundry made rifles, sewing machines, textile machinery, fire engines, and locomotives in a division called the Amoskeag Locomotive Works. The rapid growth of the mills demanded a large influx of workers, resulting in a flood of immigrants, many current residents descend from these workers. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company went out of business in 1935, although its red brick mills have been renovated for other uses, indeed, the mill towns 19th-century affluence left behind some of the finest Victorian commercial, municipal, and residential architecture in the state. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 35.0 square miles, of which 33.1 square miles is land and 1.9 square miles is water. Manchester is drained by the Merrimack River, the Piscataquog River, Massabesic Lake is on the eastern border
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Downtown Manchester looking south along Elm Street
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Mills on the
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Elm Street, c. 1905
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Child laborers at Amoskeag Manufacturing in Manchester (1909); photo by
Lewis Hine
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Manchester Central High School
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Manchester High School Central is the oldest public high school in the state of New Hampshire. Located in the heart of Manchester, New Hampshire, approximately 2,100 students attend from communities such as Candia, Hooksett, the name was changed from Manchester High School in 1922 when Manchester West High School opened. Including Central, Manchester has a total of three high schools. Its athletics teams are nicknamed the Little Green, and predictably, sports Illustrated named the schools athletic department as the best in the state of New Hampshire in 2005. The school originally had crimson red as its color. After the start of the 20th century, the two decided that the winner of a league championship would keep its colors, Concord won. Ronald Mailhot was named principal at the end of 2011, following the retirement of former principal John R. Rist. Mailhot later resigned in the middle of the 2013-2014 school year and was replaced by John Rist for his stint as principal of Central. Rist retired at the end of the 2014 school year and was succeeded by John M. Vaccarezza, Central High Schools student newspaper The Little Green was commended by Columbia Scholastic Press and featured in the Manchester Daily Express as well as the New Hampshire Union Leader. In 2012, the New England Scholastic Press Association awarded its Highest Achievement award in Scholastic Editing and Publishing to the newspaper for the 2011-2012 school year, Manchester High School Central has a diverse student population. On a daily basis, Centrals faculty teaches students from sixty different countries who speak thirty different languages, New Hampshire Public Radio was so intrigued by the wide array of student backgrounds at Central that it decided to compose a project entitled Culture Lessons in 2006. The projects objective was to dive into the core of a school with a diverse population in a very homogeneous state. Jane Badler, actress, star of the 1983 TV miniseries V and its sequels L. A. Col. Jason Fettig, United States Marine Corps, director of the U. S. Marine Band James O.15,2011
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Bronze statue of
Abraham Lincoln by
John Rogers in front of the Burns Building at Central High School.
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Respice, Adspice, Prospice (Look Towards the Past, Present, and Future)
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New York University
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New York University is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, NYU is considered one of the worlds most influential research universities, University rankings compiled by Times Higher Education, U. S. News & World Report, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all rank NYU amongst the top 32 universities in the world. NYU is a part of the creativity, energy and vibrancy that is Manhattan, located with its core in Greenwich Village. Among its faculty and alumni are 37 Nobel Laureates, over 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, over 30 Academy Award winners, alumni include heads of state, royalty, eminent mathematicians, inventors, media figures, Olympic medalists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and astronauts. NYU alumni are among the wealthiest in the world, according to The Princeton Review, NYU is consistently considered by students and parents as a Top Dream College. Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, declared his intention to establish in this immense, a system of rational and practical education fitting and graciously opened to all. A three-day-long literary and scientific convention held in City Hall in 1830 and these New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based upon merit rather than birthright or social class. On April 18,1831, an institution was established, with the support of a group of prominent New York City residents from the merchants, bankers. Albert Gallatin was elected as the institutions first president, the university has been popularly known as New York University since its inception and was officially renamed New York University in 1896. In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, in 1835, the School of Law, NYUs first professional school, was established. American Chemical Society was founded in 1876 at NYU and it became one of the nations largest universities, with an enrollment of 9,300 in 1917. NYU had its Washington Square campus since its founding, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU also had a desire to follow New York Citys development further uptown, NYUs move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken. The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was, as a result, most of the universitys operations along with the undergraduate College of Arts and Science and School of Engineering were housed there. NYUs administrative operations were moved to the new campus, but the schools of the university remained at Washington Square. In 1914, Washington Square College was founded as the undergraduate college of NYU. In 1935, NYU opened the Nassau College-Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead and this extension would later become a fully independent Hofstra University. In 1950, NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, financial crisis gripped the New York City government and the troubles spread to the citys institutions, including NYU
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Albert Gallatin
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The University Heights campus, now home to
Bronx Community College
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The
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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities
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Stars posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore.
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Palme d'Or awarded to
Apocalypse Now at the
1979 Cannes Film Festival
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The Cosby Show
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The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20,1984 until April 30,1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, according to TV Guide, the show was TVs biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBCs ratings fortunes. TV Guide also ranked it as #28 of their list of 50 Greatest Shows, in addition, Cliff Huxtable was named as the Greatest Television Dad. The Cosby Show spent five seasons as the number one rated show on television. The Cosby Show and All in the Family are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings and it spent all eight of its seasons in the Top 20. The Cosby Show was based on comedy routines in Cosbys stand-up act, the show spawned the spin off A Different World, which ran for six seasons from 1987 to 1993. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family, living in an brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, New York, the patriarch is Cliff Huxtable, an obstetrician, son of a prominent jazz trombonist. The matriarch is his wife, attorney Clair Huxtable and they have five children, four daughters and one son, Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa and Rudy. Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involves serious subjects, like Theos experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosbys dyslexic son, the show also deals with teen pregnancy when Denises friend, Veronica, becomes pregnant. The Cosby Show pilot episode uses the title sequence as the rest of the first season. However, it is notable for a number of differences from the remainder of the series, in the pilot, the Huxtables have only four children. Following the pilot, the Huxtables have five children, with the addition of their eldest daughter, Sondra, the character was created when Bill Cosby wanted the show to express the accomplishment of successfully raising a child. Whitney Houston was considered for the role of Sondra Huxtable, Houston, however, was unable to commit to the full-time television production schedule in the NBC contract as she was intending to be a full-time music recording artist. Most of the story in the presentation is taken from Bill Cosbys classic comedy film, Bill Cosby. Bill Cosbys character is called Clifford in the episodes of the first season. His name was switched to Heathcliff. Additionally, Vanessa refers to Theo as Teddy twice in the dining room scene, the interior of the Huxtables home features an entirely different living room from subsequent episodes, and different color schemes in the dining room and the master bedroom. Throughout the remainder of the series, the room is reserved for more formal occasions
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The cast of The Cosby Show in 1989
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The
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Game show
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Alternatively, a gameshow can be a demonstrative program about a game. In the former, contestants may be invited from a pool of public applicants, on some shows, contestants compete against other players or another team, while other shows involve contestants playing alone for a reward or a high score. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the shows sponsor prize suppliers, One of the reasons that television broadcasters make game shows is because they are substantially less costly than producing scripted drama shows. Some TV game shows fall under the category of reality television, Television game shows descended from similar programs on radio. The very first television show, Spelling Bee, was broadcast in 1938. Truth or Consequences was the first game show to air on commercially licensed television and its first episode aired in 1941 as an experimental broadcast. Over the course of the 1950s, as began to pervade the popular culture. Daytime game shows would be played for lower stakes to target stay-at-home housewives, higher-stakes programs would air in primetime. During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One, however, the rise of quiz shows proved to be short-lived. In 1959, many of the higher stakes game shows were discovered to be rigged, an early variant of the game show, the panel game, survived the quiz show scandals. On shows like Whats My Line, ive Got A Secret and To Tell The Truth, panels of celebrities would interview a guest in an effort to determine some fact about them, in others, celebrities would answer questions. Panel games had success in primetime until the late 1960s, when they were dropped from television because of their perceived “low budget” nature. Panel games made a comeback in American daytime television in the 1970s through comedy-driven shows such as Match Game, mock the Week, QI and 8 Out of 10 Cats, all of which put a heavy emphasis on comedy, leaving the points as mere formalities. The focus on quick-witted comedians has resulted in ratings, which. Game shows remained a fixture of US daytime television through the 1960s after the quiz show scandals, lower-stakes games made a slight comeback in daytime in the early 1960s, examples include Jeopardy. Which began in 1964 and the version of The Match Game first aired in 1962. Lets Make a Deal began in 1963 and the 1960s also marked the debut of Hollywood Squares, Password, The Dating Game, though CBS gave up on daytime game shows in 1968, the other networks did not follow suit. Color television was introduced to the game genre in the late 1960s on all three networks
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U.S. military servicemen participate in television game show
Wheel of Fortune with
host Pat Sajak.
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Dennis Miller
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Dennis Miller is an American stand-up comedian, talk show host, political commentator, sports commentator, actor, and television and radio personality. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 1985, from 2007 to 2015, Miller hosted a daily, three-hour, self-titled talk radio program, nationally syndicated by Westwood One. He is known for his critical assessments of current events, laced with pop culture references, Miller is listed as 21st on Comedy Centrals 100 greatest stand up comedians of all time, and was ranked as the best host of SNLs Weekend Update by Vulture. com. Miller was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the suburb of Castle Shannon, Millers parents separated and he was raised by his mother, Norma, a dietitian at a Baptist home. Miller is reticent to speak about his father, usually just saying he moved on when I was very young and he is the oldest of Normas five children, and in his early life often looked after the rest of his siblings. Miller attended Saint Anne School, a Catholic elementary school, Millers personality during this period was not that of an innate performer but of a shy kid. Millers childhood pastimes included playing football, backyard baseball, playing basketball at St. Annes. At St. Annes Miller, served as manager for the Catholic Youth Organization basketball team for boys 15 to 16 years-old, Miller went on to Keystone Oaks High School. His two earliest childhood comedy heroes were Jonathan Winters and Tim Conway, by high school he had already developed a reputation for humor. Miller and his brother Rich had an invitation to the home of his best friend Ted Wasik. The Wasik parents, Pauline and Ted Herc Wasik Sr, at Keystone Oaks, Miller was a member of the Physical Fitness Club, and in his senior year he worked on the Keynote newspaper and served on student council. His senior year he served as co-master of ceremonies for the Keystone Oaks May Pageant. Despite a reputation for humor Millers actual personality at this time was one that was reserved, lacking self-confidence and he graduated high school in 1971 with the intent of studying to become a Sports Writer. At Point Park University Miller became a member of Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity, Miller likened his social status at this period as being lower than Booger of Revenge of the Nerds. Inspired by the film All the President’s Men Miller majored in Journalism, in the fall of his senior year at University, Miller began writing for the South Hills Record, mixing humor into his sports reporting. When the paper changed its payment structure to pay around an eighth of a penny per column inch Miller quit, Miller graduated from Point Park in 1976 with a degree in journalism. Miller would later reflect on why he did not continue to pursue Journalism saying Im just not that interested in peoples business. After College Miller was unable to work in journalism
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Miller speaking at
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Lorne Michaels
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He was born Lorne Lipowitz to Florence Becker and Henry Abraham Lipowitz, a furrier, in British occupied Palestine. They moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, while he was an infant and he has two younger siblings, a sister, Barbara Lipowitz, who currently resides in Toronto, and a brother, Mark Lipowitz, who died from a brain tumor. Michaels attended the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute in Toronto and graduated from University College, University of Toronto, Michaels began his career as a writer and broadcaster for CBC Radio. He moved to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1968 to work as a writer for Laugh-In and he starred with Hart Pomerantz in The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour, a Canadian comedy series which ran briefly in the early 1970s. During the late 1960s, Michaels began a relationship with Rosie Shuster and she was the daughter of Frank Shuster, one half of the famous comedy team, Wayne and Shuster. Michaels and Shuster were married in 1971 and divorced in 1980, in 1975 Michaels created the TV show NBCs Saturday Night, which in 1977 changed its name to Saturday Night Live. The show, which is performed live in front of an audience, immediately established a reputation for being cutting-edge. It became a vehicle for launching the careers of some of the most successful comedians in the United States, originally the producer of the show, Michaels was also a writer and later became executive producer. He occasionally appears on-screen as well, where he is known for his deadpan humor, throughout the shows history, SNL has been nominated for more than 156 Emmy Awards and has won 36. It has consistently been one of the highest-rated late-night television programs, Michaels has been with SNL for all seasons except for his hiatus in the early 1980s. She also appeared in a sketch about underage drinking when Zac Efron hosted the show, perhaps Michaels best-known appearance occurred in the first season when he offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on the show. He later upped his offer to $3,200, but the money was never claimed, according to an interview in Playboy magazine, John Lennon and Paul McCartney happened to be in New York City that night and wanted to see the show. They very nearly went, but changed their minds as it was getting too late to get to the show on time and this near-reunion was the basis for the TV movie Two of Us. On the November 20,1976 show, musical guest George Harrison appeared, Harrison tells Michaels his refusal to pay him his share is chintzy, and Michaels counters by saying, The Beatles dont have to split the money equally. They can give, say, Ringo less if they want, Michaels started Broadway Video in 1979, producing such shows as The Kids in the Hall. Shortly afterwards, citing burnout, he left Saturday Night Live and he returned to the show in 1985. During his SNL hiatus, Michaels created another show titled The New Show. The show failed to garner the same enthusiasm as SNL and lasted only 9 episodes before being cancelled, Michaels was identified as the anointed successor to Greene
Lorne Michaels
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Michaels at the 2010
Time 100 Gala.
Lorne Michaels
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Michaels' star on
Canada's Walk of Fame.
Lorne Michaels
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Michaels at the 2008
Tribeca Film Festival.
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The Chanukah Song
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Sandler subsequently performed the song as part of his stand-up act, later updating it with new lyrics. All variations center on the theme of Jewish children feeling alienated during the Christmas season and this version appeared on Sandlers 1996 comedy album What the Hell Happened to Me. J. Simpson was declared as not a Jew. to great applause from the audience. Rod Carew Ann Landers Dear Abby Harrison Ford, ebenezer Scrooge, described as not Jewish. All of The Three Stooges Tom Cruise, a Scientologist, is mentioned in the song as not Jewish, during the final verse, performed originally on Saturday Night Live and on a radio cut, Sandler sings the line Drink your gin and tonic-ah, but dont smoke marijuan-icah. On the uncut version, and during various concert appearances, the line was changed to Drink your gin and tonic-ah. The uncut version, despite the reference to marijuana, receives most radio airplay today, another radio edit skips completely over the gin, the The Chanukah Song, Part II was recorded live at Brandeis University for Sandlers 1999 album Stan and Judys Kid. Other pop culture include, Manischewitz wine, Hooked on Phonics and Tijuana. Included on the Eight Crazy Nights soundtrack featuring vocals from actor Rob Schneider, persons referenced in The Chanukah Song, Part III, Ross and Phoebe from Friends David Lander of Laverne & Shirley Debra Messing Melissa Gilbert Michael Landon Jerry Lewis Ben Stiller. Jack Black Tom Arnold Deuce Bigalow Mickey Raphael Osama bin Laden and this version is hidden about four minutes after the edited version on the Eight Crazy Nights soundtrack. As Sandler mentions Bigelow, Schneider walks on stage, yells, and joins in for an abbreviated chorus. After the chorus, he sings a Jewish reference for the song, using an Elvis-esque vocal tic, to which Sandler seemingly ad libs tiny Elvis, ladies and gentlemen, in the aired version, Schneider states, Im a Filipino Jew. Schneider responds, There are four of us and he then puts on a blonde wig and joins the Drei-dels, the backing chorus of children, to whom he is already similarly dressed. Sandler first performed this version at a live Judd Apatow & Friends event, part of the New York Comedy Festival, Lyrics can be found at the Huffington Post link here. Drew Princess Leia Queen Elsa from Frozen David Beckham Ron Jeremy Shia LaBeouf Ice Creams Ben & Jerry Jimmy Fallon impersonated Adam Sandler during a Celebrity Jeopardy, sketch on Saturday Night Live on October 24,1998. In the sketch, Fallon, as Sandler, interrupts Will Ferrells Alex Trebek by playing guitar and singing, Robert De Niro, Bela Lugosi, Snuffleupagus, and Parker Posey. In 2004, Jewish-Australian hardcore punk band Yidcore covered it as The Punk Rock Chanukah Song in which they list Jews involved with punk music and this song was covered on two different occasions for the Broadway charity albums Carols for a Cure. In 2006, the cast of Broadways The Wedding Singer sang the first installment of the song, led by Constantine Maroulis and these lyrics were written by the shows Shlomo actor Eric Anderson, who himself has been pointed out in the song as not a Jew. In the season 3 The Office episode Diwali, Michael Scott parodies Sandler by performing The Diwali Song during a Hindu Diwali festival, in 2008, Unitarian-Universalist Evan Austin performed a parody of this song called The Chalica Song about the Unitarian-Universalist holiday of Chalica
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"The Chanukah Song"
The Chanukah Song
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Traditions
37.
NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
NBC
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The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
NBC
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National Broadcasting Company
NBC
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Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
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Entrance at the GE Building.
38.
Chris Farley
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Christopher Crosby Chris Farley was an American actor and comedian. Farley died of an overdose in 1997 at the age of 33. Farley was born on February 15,1964 in Madison, Wisconsin and his father, Thomas John Farley, Sr. owned an oil company, and his mother, Mary Anne, was a housewife. He had four siblings, Tom Jr. Kevin, John and his cousin, Jim, is the CEO and Chairman at Ford Motor Company Europe. Farleys family is Roman Catholic and of Irish and Scottish descent, according to Joel Murray, a fellow Second City cast member, Farley would always make it to Mass. Many of his summers were spent as a camper and counselor at Red Arrow Camp, near Minocqua and he graduated from Marquette University in 1986, with a concentration in communications and theater. At Marquette, he played rugby and discovered a love for comedy, after college, he worked with his father at the Scotch Oil Company in Madison. He got his start in comedy at the Ark Improv Theatre in Madison. He then performed at Chicagos Second City Theatre, initially as part of Second Citys touring group and he was eventually promoted to their main stage. Along with Chris Rock, Farley was one of two new Saturday Night Live cast members announced in the spring of 1990, on SNL, Farley frequently collaborated with his fellow cast members Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade, among others. This group came to be known as the Bad Boys of SNL, popular characters performed by Farley included Matt Foley, an over-the-top motivational speaker who constantly reminded other characters that he lived in a van, down by the river. The name of the character was drawn from a real friend of Farleys named Matt Foley. He later became a Catholic priest and appeared in the 2015 documentary I am Chris Farley, some of these characters were brought to SNL from his days at Second City. Off-screen, Farley was well known for his pranks in the offices of Saturday Night Live and he was also known to frequently get naked and do various stunts for laughs. Chris Rock once claimed that he probably saw Farleys private parts more than Farleys girlfriend did, Sandler told Conan OBrien on Late Night that NBC fired him and Farley from the show in 1995. During his time on SNL, Farley appeared in the comedy films Waynes World, Coneheads, Airheads and he also appeared in the Red Hot Chili Peppers music video for Soul to Squeeze, which was a song featured on the Coneheads soundtrack. After Farley and most of his fellow cast members were released from their contracts at Saturday Night Live following the 1994–1995 season and his first two major films co-starred his fellow SNL colleague and close friend David Spade. Together, the duo made the films Tommy Boy and Black Sheep and these were a success at the domestic box office, earning around $32 million each and gaining a large cult following on home video
Chris Farley
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Farley featured in a
NBC promotional photo for
Saturday Night Live.
Chris Farley
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Farley's grave in 2010
39.
Coneheads (film)
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Coneheads is a 1993 American science fiction comedy film from Paramount Pictures, produced by Lorne Michaels, directed by Steve Barron, and starring Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and Michelle Burke. The film is based on the NBC Saturday Night Live comedy sketches about aliens stranded on Earth, Michelle Burke took over the role played by Laraine Newman on SNL. The film also features roles and cameos by actors and comedians from other television series of the time. Upon discovering a UFO in American airspace, the National Guard sends fighter jets to investigate, activating a cloaking device too late, the spaceship crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, near Manhattan. The aliens aboard, Beldar Clorhone and his life-mate Prymaat, survive and quickly adapt to our way of life. Beldar was assigned by the Highmaster to conquer earth as a Protoid Re-fueling Station under the title of Fuel Survey Underlord of the Wilderness Planet at the end of the Noctolium Solar Chain. Meanwhile, after communicating with their world and discovering that a vessel will not arrive for seven Zurls. They now need to adapt and safely blend in in order to raise their child among humans. Ambitious INS agent Gorman Seedling and his assistant Eli attempt to capture Beldar and Prymaat, months later, Beldar has become a respected taxi driver, and the couple live in his bosss basement. After the birth of their daughter Connie, they buy a home and move to suburban Paramus, New Jersey, Beldar begins a new career, this time as a driving instructor. Meanwhile, Gorman gets a promotion and decides to leave the Coneheads case to the agent replacing him and his promotion, however, is soon held-up by the cases extreme expense, forcing Gorman to continue until its closed. Now a teenager, all Connie Conehead wants to do is fit in with her peers, much to the objections of her father, especially when she begins seeing Ronnie, an auto mechanic. This caused tension between Connie and Beldar, who disapproves of Ronnie, with Beldar going so far as tearing the roof off Ronnies car. Gorman and Eli track the Coneheads down to their home and pose as Jehovahs Witnesses to gain entry to the Conehead home. During the conversation, Prymaat discovers their communication device to Remulak is beeping and this cause Beldar to promptly eject Gorman and Eli from their home. Beldar then receives word that their vessel is on its way. At a costume party that night, Connie is told that they will be rescued soon and she disobeys her parental units by returning home with Ronnie. Once there Connie consummates their relationship using her parents senso-rings, Beldar and Prymaat walk in on them, just as the INS shows up to take the Coneheads into custody
Coneheads (film)
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Theatrical release poster
40.
David Spade
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David Wayne Spade is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and he also starred and co-starred in the films Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Joe Dirt, Joe Dirt 2, Beautiful Loser, Grown Ups, and Grown Ups 2, among others. He has also been part of an ensemble cast of two long-running sitcoms, Just Shoot Me. and Rules of Engagement and he also starred as C. J. Barnes in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules. In animation, he voiced Kuzco in the 2000 film The Emperors New Groove and its direct-to-video sequel, Spade is known for a comedic style, in both his stand-up material and acting roles, that relies heavily on sarcasm and self-deprecation. Spade was born in Birmingham, Michigan and he is the son of Judith J. a writer and magazine editor, and Wayne M. Spade, a sales representative. His brothers are Bryan and Andy Spade, Andy Spade is an entrepreneur who, together with his wife Kate Spade, Spade and his family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, when David was four years old. His parents divorced soon thereafter, and he and his brothers were raised for the most part by their mother, Spade attended Saguaro High School and later Scottsdale Community College, before transferring to Arizona State University, where he earned his bachelors degree in business in 1986. He also was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Spade performed standup at the universitys long-running sketch comedy show, Farce Side Comedy Hour, on numerous occasions. In the mid-80s he also did stand up in the Monday night comedy show at Greasy Tonys Pizza in Tempe, with the help of friend and fellow comedian Dennis Miller, he joined Saturday Night Live in 1988. By 1990, Spade was a regular cast member as well as writer, other characters include Christy Henderson from the Gap Girls, and Karl from the Karls Video sketches. He also did impressions of celebrities, including Brad Pitt. According to interviews with Spade, most of the material that he early in his time at SNL was given to Dana Carvey to perform on the show. Due to his relatively low rate, he was in danger of being fired as a performer. Referring to Murphys lack of box office success at the time, the crack led to audience boos, and made Murphy upset at both Spade and SNL for years afterwards. Though most of the cast left in 1995, Spade stayed the following year to help in the transition with the new cast and he then quit in 1996 citing burnout as the reason. Said Spade, When I leave, it will be to ease the pressure and you cant stay there forever – it kills you inside. It ages you in dog years and he returned to host an episode in 1998 and another in 2005. He appeared with fellow Saturday Night Live cast member and friend Chris Farley in two comedy films, Tommy Boy and Black Sheep
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Spade in 2008
41.
Dan Aykroyd
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Daniel Edward Dan Aykroyd is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter, musician and businessman. He was an member of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players on Saturday Night Live. A musical sketch he performed with John Belushi on SNL, The Blues Brothers, turned into a performing band and then a highly successful 1980 film. He conceived and starred in Ghostbusters, which spawned a sequel, in 1990, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy. He starred in his own sitcom, Soul Man, from 1997–98, Aykroyd is also a successful businessman, having co-founded the House of Blues chain of music venues and the Crystal Head Vodka brand. Aykroyd was born on Canada Day,1952 at Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario and he grew up in Ottawa, Canadas capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Hélène, was a secretary and his mother was of French Canadian descent and his father of English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch and French ancestry. His brother, Peter, is also an actor, Aykroyd was born with syndactyly, or webbed toes, which was revealed in the film Mr. Mikes Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live titled Dont Look Back In Anger. Aykroyd was raised in the Catholic Church, and until age 17 he intended to become a priest and he attended St. Pius X and St. Patricks high schools, and studied criminology and sociology at Carleton University, but dropped out before completing his degree. He worked as a comedian in various Canadian nightclubs and ran a speakeasy, Club 505. Aykroyd developed his career in Ottawa, particularly through his regular attendances at Le Hibou. He describes these influences as follows. there was a disco club there called Le Hibou. I was going to Le Hibou and hearing James Cotton, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, I actually jammed behind Muddy Waters. S. P. Leary left the drum kit one night, and I walked on stage and we started, I dont know, Little Red Rooster, something. He said keep that going, you make Muddy feel good. Many, many times I saw Howlin Wolf, and of course Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. So I was exposed to all of these players, playing there as part of scene to service the academic community in Ottawa. He was a member of the Second City comedy troupe in 1973 in both Toronto and Chicago, Aykroyd gained fame on the American late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live
Dan Aykroyd
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Aykroyd in February 2009
Dan Aykroyd
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Aykroyd (right) on the set of
The Great Outdoors, 1987
Dan Aykroyd
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Aykroyd in
Santa Monica, California for a documentary about Ghostbusters
Dan Aykroyd
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Aykroyd's star on
Canada's Walk of Fame
42.
Phil Hartman
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Philip Edward Phil Hartman was a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his moved to the United States in 1958. After graduating from California State University, Northridge, with a degree in arts, he designed album covers for bands like Poco. Feeling the need for a more socially-creative outlet, Hartman joined the comedy group The Groundlings in 1975, Hartman co-wrote the screenplay for the film Pee-wees Big Adventure and made recurring appearances as Captain Carl on Reubens show Pee-wees Playhouse. Hartman garnered fame in 1986 when he joined the comedy show Saturday Night Live. He won fame for his impressions, particularly of President Bill Clinton, given the moniker The Glue for his ability to hold the show together and help other cast members, Hartman won a Primetime Emmy Award for his SNL work in 1989. In 1995, after scrapping plans for his own variety show and he had voice roles on The Simpsons, from seasons 2–10 as Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure, and others, and appeared in the films Houseguest, Sgt. Bilko, Jingle All the Way, Small Soldiers and the English dub of Kikis Delivery Service, Hartman had been divorced twice before he married Brynn Omdahl in 1987, the couple had two children together. However, their marriage was fractured, due in part to Brynns drug use, on May 28,1998, Brynn shot and killed Hartman while he slept in their Encino, Los Angeles, home, then committed suicide several hours later. In the weeks following his death, Hartman was celebrated in a wave of tributes, Hartman was posthumously inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame in 2012 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014. Hartman was born Philip Edward Hartmann on September 24,1948 in Brantford, Ontario and he was the fourth of eight children of Doris Marguerite and Rupert Loebig Hartmann, a salesman specializing in building materials. His parents were Catholic and raised their children in that faith, as a child Hartman found affection hard to earn and stated, I suppose I didnt get what I wanted out of my family life, so I started seeking love and attention elsewhere. He and his moved to the United States in 1958. The family first lived in Connecticut, and later moved to the West Coast, there, Hartman attended Westchester High School and frequently acted as the class clown. After graduating, Hartman studied art at Santa Monica City College and he returned to school in 1972, this time studying graphic arts at California State University, Northridge. In the late 1970s, Hartman made his first television appearance on an episode of The Dating Game, working alone as a graphic artist, Hartman frequently amused himself with flights of voice fantasies. While watching one of the performances, Hartman impulsively decided to climb on stage. After several years of training, paying his way by re-designing the groups logo and merchandise, Hartman formally joined the cast of The Groundlings, Hartman met comedian Paul Reubens and the two became friends, often collaborating on writing and comedic material
Phil Hartman
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Phil Hartman in character as Chick Hazard, Private Eye, circa 1978
Phil Hartman
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Hartman designed album covers for bands such as
Poco.
Phil Hartman
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Hartman appears as
Bill Clinton on an episode of Saturday Night Live. In this episode, Clinton visits a
McDonald's restaurant, in one of Hartman's most famous sketches.
43.
Jane Curtin
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Jane Therese Curtin is an American actress and comedian. She is sometimes referred to as Queen of the Deadpan, The Philadelphia Inquirer once called her a refreshing drop of acid and she was included on a 1986 list of the Top Prime Time Actors and Actresses of All Time. Curtin later starred in the hit series 3rd Rock from the Sun, Curtin has also appeared in many movie roles, including Charlene in the The Librarian series of movies. She also reprised one of her Saturday Night Live characters, Prymaat Conehead, Curtin was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Mary Constance and John Joseph Curtin, who owned an insurance agency. She grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts and graduated from Convent of the Sacred Heart, Elmhurst Academy in Portsmouth and she married Patrick Francis Lynch on April 2,1975, they have one daughter, Tess Curtin Lynch. She has a brother, Larry Curtin, who lives in South Florida, their brother, John J. Jack Curtin. Curtin is a cousin of actress and writer Valerie Curtin and her uncle was the radio personality Joseph Curtin. Curtin holds a degree from Elizabeth Seton Junior College in New York City. She then attended Northeastern University from 1967 to 1968, in 1968, Curtin decided to pursue comedy as a career and dropped out of college. She joined a group, The Proposition, and performed with them until 1972. She starred in Pretzels, a play written by Curtin, John Forster, Judith Kahan and Fred Grandy. One of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players for NBCs Saturday Night Live, guest host Eric Idle said that Curtin was very much a Lets come in, lets know our lines, lets do it properly, and go. She was very sensible, very focused, and disliked the drug culture that many of the cast participated in, show writer Al Franken stated that she was so steady. Had a really strong moral center, and as such was disgusted by much of the show, on this show, and mirroring her own low-key real life, she frequently played straight-woman characters, often as a foil to John Belushi and Gilda Radner. Curtin anchored SNLs Weekend Update segment in 1976–77, and was paired with Dan Aykroyd in 1977–78, on occasional Weekend Update segments, her newscaster character served as a foil to John Belushi, who often gave a rambling and out-of-control commentary on events of the day. During these sketches, she tried to get Belushi to come to the point. She also sang in the Chevys Girls sketch in season 2, episode 2, alongside Laraine Newman, Curtin presented the liberal Point portion first. Then Aykroyd presented the Counterpoint portion, sometimes beginning with the statement, Jane, you ignorant slut, to which she replied, Dan, the recurring segment has been discussed in an article on How to Respectfully Disagree in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jane Curtin
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at the 41st Emmy Awards, September 1989
44.
Airheads
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AirHeads are a tangy, taffy-like, chewy candy manufactured by Dutch-Italian company Perfetti Van Melle in Erlanger, Kentucky, USA. They were created August 7,1985 by Steve Bruner, AirHeads is available nationwide in the United States. The candy is available in over 12 different flavors, Perfetti Van Melle has resided in Erlanger, Kentucky since 1979, manufacturing candy-based products since 1982. It is a 120, 000-square-foot plant, employing 200 workers to create, produce, in December 2015, an explosion occurred inside the factory, causing it to catch on fire. This prevented production to occur for a period of time, nobody was harmed in the explosion. Special edition flavors, such as Superman, SpongeBob and Spider-Man, are sold as promotions, AirHeads Xtremes are fruit rolls with a sour taste. AirHeads Pops are lollipops available in apple, blue raspberry, strawberry, cherry, watermelon, grape, strawberry kiwi, in 2007, a new BerryHot flavor was introduced that claims to heat up in your mouth. In 2008, Chillin flavors were released that have a minty cold feeling, AirHeads Blue Mystery Blast bars were distributed to all travellers on JetBlue Airways on October 31,2007, in honor of Halloween. Perfetti Van Melle partnered with Koldwave Foods LLC to create AirHeads ice cream in August 2015 and it comes in 8 different flavors, blue raspberry, cherry, watermelon, orange, green apple, pink lemonade, grape, and strawberry. Other frozen treats like ice cream sandwiches and sundae cups are included as well, a normal 3.3 oz pack of AirHeads is 360 calories,51 grams of sugar, and 3 grams of saturated fat. AirHeads Xtremes Sweetly Sour Belts is 300 calories,45 grams of sugar, Taffy poses a health-risk, especially towards AirHeadss main audience, children. Dr. Timothy Chase, Doctor of Dental Medicine from Boston University, reported that bacteria can feed in the mouth the longer sticky food, like taffy and it is best advised to keep the sticky and chewy candy at a minimum, and remember to floss when needed. Airheads are made in a very similar to the toys used to create long strips of Playdoh. AirHeads prides itself for being one of the few candy that uses taffy, other taffy-like candy include Bit-O-Honey, Abba-Zaba, and Laffy Taffy. It is run on a belt style, where the taffy goes through sugars and sweeteners leading up to the thinning, forming. The machines stir about 3,000 pounds of taffy, Airheads were originally sold across Canada and the United States but an expansion into the United Kingdom was announced in 2015. Airheads Xtremes and Bars are manufactured in the US and Airheads Pops in Mexico and it was reported that Perfetti Van Melle spent $2.5 million for media exposure in 1999. In 2000, Perfetti Van Melle started a partnership with Mattel to reach out the all over the country
Airheads
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Bag of mini AirHeads
Airheads
Airheads
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AirHeads Extreme Sweet Sour Belts Candy
45.
Brendan Fraser
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Brendan James Fraser is a Canadian-American actor. He also starred in dramatic roles, such as Gods and Monsters, The Quiet American, Crash. Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Canadians Carol Mary and his mother was a sales counselor, and his father was a former journalist who worked as a Canadian foreign service officer for the Government Office of Tourism. His ancestry includes Czech, French Canadian, German, Irish and his maternal uncle, George Genereux, was the only Canadian to win a gold medal in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He has three brothers, Kevin, Regan, and Sean. Frasers family moved often during his childhood, living in Eureka, California, Seattle, Washington, Ottawa, Ontario, the Netherlands and he attended Upper Canada College, a private boarding school in Toronto, Ontario. While on vacation in London, he attended his first professional theatre show in the West End and he graduated from Seattles Cornish College of the Arts in 1990. He began acting at a small acting college in New York City and he planned on attending graduate school in Texas, but stopped in Hollywood, California on the way and decided to stay there to work in film. Fraser made a appearance in the reenactment of Americas Most Wanted. After his film debut Encino Man, he starred with Matt Damon, in 1994, he played Steve Nebraska in The Scout and Montgomery Monty Kessler in With Honors. He went on to supporting roles, such as Philip Ridleys The Passion of Darkly Noon. He went on to appear in comedy films, such as Blast from the Past, Bedazzled. He also starred in two based on Jay Ward creations, George of the Jungle and Dudley Do-Right. He also starred in Gods and Monsters, which was based on the life of James Whale who directed Frankenstein and his biggest commercial success came with the adventure fantasy film, The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns, both of which were hugely successful at the box office. He lent his voice for the animated film Big Bug Man. In 2004, he appeared in the Academy Award-winning film Crash and he has also made guest appearances on the television shows, Scrubs, King of the Hill and The Simpsons. In March 2006, he was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame, however, as of 2014, he does not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After a six-year hiatus in the franchise, Fraser returned for the sequel to The Mummy released in August 2008 and titled The Mummy
Brendan Fraser
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Fraser in
Canada 2006
46.
Steve Buscemi
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Steven Vincent Steve Buscemi is an American actor and film director. He is also known for his appearances in films by the Coen brothers, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. franchise and he made his directorial debut in 1996, with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. Other works include Animal Factory, Lonesome Jim and Interview and he has also directed numerous episodes of TV shows, including Homicide, Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Oz,30 Rock, and Nurse Jackie. He currently hosts the Emmy Award-winning AOL On comedy talk-show Park Bench, Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, and Dorothy, who worked as a host at Howard Johnsons. Buscemis father was of Italian descent, his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily, Buscemis mother was of Irish, English, and Dutch ancestry. He has three brothers, Jon, Ken, and Michael and he graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School in Nassau County, New York, a school which he attended with actress Patricia Charbonneau. In high school, Buscemi wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe, Buscemis 1996 film Trees Lounge, in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director, is set in and was largely shot in his childhood village of Valley Stream. Buscemi briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasberg Institute, in 1980, Buscemi became a firefighter in New York City, after taking a civil service test in 1976 when he was 18. For four years, Buscemi served on FDNYs Engine Co.55 in Manhattans Little Italy, after 9/11, Buscemi returned to Engine 55 and for several days worked 12-hour shifts alongside other firefighters to sift through the rubble from the World Trade Center. In 2003, he gave a speech supporting higher wages for firefighters at a union rally, in 2014, he was appointed as an Honorary Battalion Chief of the FDNY. His film debut was the 1985 No Wave Cinema film The Way it Is, other early films include Parting Glances in 1986, Slaves of New York in 1988, and Tales from the Darkside, a 1990 film with three segments. Buscemi starred in the first segment, playing Bellingham, a student who orders a mummy and unleashes it on fellow college students played by Christian Slater. In 1990, Buscemi had a couple of additional crime roles and he played the henchman of Laurence Fishburne named Test Tube in Abel Ferraras King of New York. He also played Mink in the Coen Brothers Millers Crossing, although he had to audition twice for this role, it marked the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which Buscemi appeared. In 1991, he played the bellboy, Chet, in the Coen Brothers film and his first lead role was in 1992, when he played Adolpho Rollo in Alexandre Rockwells In the Soup. Then he came to attention for playing Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. He also appeared in Tarantinos next film, Pulp Fiction, in which he acts as a waiter at the 1950s themed restaurant which Mrs. Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega attend
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Buscemi at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival
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Buscemi in 1996
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Bulletproof (1996 film)
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Bulletproof is a 1996 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Ernest Dickerson. The film stars Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler, the film grossed $22.6 million and has an 8% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 39 critics. The film was released in the United States on September 6,1996, Archie Moses is a small-time crook and a thief who lives in Los Angeles, who also smuggles drugs for a local drug lord named Frank Colton. One night, Jack goes out with Moses and gets him drunk, and manages to get including in the next drugs shippment, the plan is to wait till Colton arrives, but Jack gets exposed first. Jack miraculously survives and makes a recovery with the aid of his physical therapist Dr. Traci Flynn. Moses then flees the state, and is found and arrested later on. Moses is brought into custody, and he agrees to testify against Colton, after Jacks recovery, his superior officer Will Jensen orders him to get Moses to transfer him personally to the courtroom. Carter and Moses slowly mend their friendship and are successful in returning to their police department. However, Colton apparently holds Flynn hostage, and blackmails Carter into turning Moses over in order to save Flynn, however, Carter and Moses pretend to comply with Colton and shoot their way through Coltons guards. It is later revealed that Flynn was responsible for leaking Carters, Carter manages to distract Colton after Moses gets shot in the shoulder by Colton and after apprehending Flynn and Moses manages to kill Colton. However, Moses gives the incriminating documents on Colton to Carter, and he heads to Mexico, Damon Wayans as Rock Keats/Jack Carter Adam Sandler as Archie Moses James Caan as Frank Colton Jeep Swenson as Bledsoe James Farentino as Capt. Will Jensen Kristen Wilson as Dr. Adam Sandler earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actor for the film, Ernest Dickerson said, Theres a movie I did a couple years ago called Bulletproof. Id like to just erase that whole experience, Bulletproof was a case where we shot an R-rated film and the studio made us cut it to PG-13. So Bulletproof is a big sore point with me because its the only time Ive ever kicked a hole in a room wall. Because of the frustration of dealing with the studios and dealing with a producer who when the studio said Jump and you make a movie with an R-rating, and then they tell you to cut it to PG-13. So it meant butchering performances, storylines, and really simplifying the film, the story is scripted by Lewis Colick, who is much deeper. It was about the responsibilities of friendship, the relationship that Damon Wayans had with Kristen Wilson was much stronger and all that was taken out. Bulletproof grossed $6,014,400 its opening weekend placing it at #1 at the box office
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Bulletproof poster
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Very Bad Things
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Very Bad Things is a 1998 American black comedy film directed by Peter Berg. It stars Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven, Christian Slater, Leland Orser and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Before his wedding to fiancée Laura, Kyle Fisher organizes a party in a Las Vegas hotel with his friends, Charles Moore, Robert Boyd, brothers Adam. Michael pays Tina, a stripper/prostitute, for sex in the bathroom, soon thereafter, a security guard comes to investigate the ruckus and discovers Tinas corpse. In desperation, Boyd stabs the guard to death, Boyd convinces the group to dismember the bodies, bury them in the desert, and never speak of it again. At the rehearsal dinner, Adam cracks under the pressure, leading to a confrontation with Michael outside, the fight is broken up and Michael is convinced to leave. While leaving, he tries to ram his jeep into Adams beloved minivan, Adam runs in front of his van and is crushed in the collision. In the hospital, Adam whispers something to his wife Lois before dying, Lois demands answers about what happened in Las Vegas. Fisher makes up a story about Adam sleeping with a prostitute, Boyd, suspecting she does not believe them, kills Lois. Later, Boyd calls Fisher and Moore to bring Michael to the house and he concocts a story about a Michael/Lois/Adam love triangle to answer any interrogation by police. After these events and being named beneficiary of Adam and Lois estate, Fisher breaks down and confesses the story to Laura, on the wedding day, Boyd confronts Fisher, demanding the money from Adams life insurance policy. Fisher refuses and a fight ensues which ends with Laura bludgeoning Boyd, during the ceremony, Fisher and Moore realize that Boyd has the wedding rings. Moore goes to them, opening a door that knocks Boyd down a stairwell where he dies. Laura demands Fisher bury Boyds body in the desert and then ensure no loose ends remain by killing Moore, ultimately, Fisher cannot go through with the act and as drives home, he loses focus and crashes into an oncoming car. Kobe Tai as Tina The film scored a 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus, Mean-spirited, roger Ebert wrote that Very Bad Things is not a bad movie, just a reprehensible one. Very Bad Things at the Internet Movie Database Very Bad Things at AllMovie Very Bad Things at Box Office Mojo Very Bad Things at Rotten Tomatoes Very Bad Things at Metacritic
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Theatrical release poster
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Roger Ebert
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Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase Two Thumbs Up, used when both hosts gave the film a positive review. After Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, Ebert lived with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands from 2002. This required treatments necessitating the removal of his jaw, which cost him the ability to speak or eat normally. His ability to write remained unimpaired, however, and he continued to publish frequently both online and in print until his death on April 4,2013. Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, the child of Annabel, a bookkeeper, and Walter Harry Ebert. He was raised Roman Catholic, attending St. Marys elementary school and his paternal grandparents were German immigrants and his maternal ancestry was Irish and Dutch. In his senior year, he was president and editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper. In 1958, he won the Illinois High School Association state speech championship in radio speaking, regarding his early influences in film criticism, Ebert wrote in the 1998 parody collection Mad About the Movies, I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine. Mads parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin – of the way a movie might look original on the outside, I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies, I lost it at Mad magazine, Ebert began taking classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an early-entrance student, completing his high-school courses while also taking his first university class. After graduating from Urbana High School in 1960, Ebert then attended and received his degree in 1964. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, One of the first movie reviews he ever wrote was a review of La Dolce Vita, published in The Daily Illini in October 1961. Ebert spent a semester as a student in the department of English there before attending the University of Cape Town on a Rotary fellowship for a year. He returned from Cape Town to his studies at Illinois for two more semesters and then, after being accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge and he attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while working as a general reporter at the Sun-Times for a year
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Ebert giving an interview for
Sound Opinions in 2006
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Roger Ebert (right) with
Russ Meyer in 1970.
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Ebert and his wife Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert (left) giving the thumbs up to
Nancy Kwan (right) at the
Hawaii International Film Festival on October 20, 2010
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Ebert (right) at the
Conference on World Affairs in September 2002, shortly after his cancer diagnosis
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Golden Globe
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Don Cheadle
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Donald Frank Don Cheadle Jr. is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He had a role in Hamburger Hill, before building his career in the 1990s with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, Rosewood. He started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films Out of Sight, Traffic and Oceans Eleven. Other films include Volcano, The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Swordfish, Crash, Oceans Twelve, Oceans Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me, Traitor and The Guard. Cheadle co-wrote, directed and starred in Miles Ahead, based on the life of jazz musician Miles Davis. He plays the superhero Colonel James Rhodey Rhodes / War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has appeared in Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Avengers, Age of Ultron and Captain America, Civil War. He stars as Marty Kaan on the Showtime sitcom House of Lies, for which he most recently won a Golden Globe Award in 2013. Cheadle has campaigned to end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and co-authored, with John Prendergast, in 2010, Cheadle was named U. N. Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Bettye, a teacher and he has a sister, Cindy, and a brother, Colin. His family moved from city to city throughout his childhood, after he graduated from East, Cheadle went on to California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in Acting. Cheadle first became eligible for his Screen Actors Guild card when he appeared as a burger joint employee in the 1985 comedy Moving Violations. He then appeared in Hamburger Hill in 1987, and played the role of Jack in the April 1,1988 Jung, although his character was supposed to be 16 years old, Cheadle was 23 at the time. Cheadle then played the role of Rocket in the 1988 movie Colors, in 1989, he appeared in a video for Angela Winbushs No.2 hit single Its the Real Thing, performing dance moves in an orange jump suit, working at a car wash. In 1990, he appeared in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air titled Homeboy, Sweet Homeboy, playing Will Smiths friend and Hilarys first love interest, in 1992, he played a supporting role in The Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace. Cheadle subsequently played district attorney John Littleton on three seasons of Picket Fences, following soon thereafter was his performance in the title role of the 1996 HBO TV movie Rebound, The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault. He also starred in the 1997 film Volcano, directed by Mick Jackson, Cheadles television credits include Emmy-nominated performances in the movies The Rat Pack, A Lesson Before Dying, Things Behind the Sun and in a guest appearance on ER. The last of these four episodes during the shows ninth season, in which he portrayed Paul Nathan. He has made appearances in films including Rosewood, The Family Man, Boogie Nights, an appearance in the film Abby Singer, Out of Sight, Traffic
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Cheadle shooting for
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Cheadle in February 2007
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Kevin James
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Kevin George Knipfing, known professionally by his stage name Kevin James, is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, voice actor, and producer. He is best known for playing Doug Heffernan on the hit CBS sitcom The King of Queens. He is also known for his roles in films including Hitch, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart, Mall Cop, Grown Ups, Zookeeper, Here Comes the Boom. Kevin James was born Kevin George Knipfing in Mineola, New York and he is the second son of Janet, a homemaker who also worked in a chiropractors office, and Joseph Valentine Knipfing Jr. who owned an insurance agency. He has a brother, Gary Joseph Knipfing, known as Gary Valentine, who is also a comedian and actor, Leslie works for James and helped raise money through charity events for retinitis pigmentosa, with which she is afflicted. James graduated from Ward Melville High School, while there, he reached the number one spot on the wrestling team, just ahead of friend and WWE star Mick Foley. Both wrestled at 145 lb weight class, a season-ending back injury to James resulted in Foley taking over the first string position. James began doing comedy in 1989, making his debut at the East Side Comedy Club on Long Island. James was listed at #89 on Comedy Centrals list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians, James has also done his stand-up routine on Just for Laughs, an annual comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec. Later he was on commercials for Mazzios Italian Eatery, in 2001, James did his own stand-up special called Kevin James, Sweat the Small Stuff. He has also appeared as a musical guest on Just for Laughs, James first television job was in 1991 on The New Candid Camera, where he used his comedy timing and improvisation skills playing the actor that pulled the practical jokes on unsuspecting people. James appeared on television as the announcer for the MTV sports game show SandBlast from 1994 to 1996, James later moved to Los Angeles and befriended Ray Romano, and later guest-starred on a few episodes of Romanos hit CBS sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond. These appearances led to the development of his own sitcom, The King of Queens and his father-in-law, Arthur lives with them. For his work on the season, James was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006. James stars in the sitcom Kevin Can Wait, which premiered on September 19,2016, James made his film debut in the 2005 romantic comedy Hitch, alongside Will Smith and Eva Mendes. In 2006, he co-starred with his Everybody Loves Raymond colleague Ray Romano in the comedy Grilled, James co-starred with Adam Sandler in the comedies I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Dont Mess with the Zohan, and Paul Blart, Mall Cop. In the latter film, his character patrolled the fictional West Orange Pavilion Mall, filmed at the Burlington Mall in Burlington, Massachusetts, on a Segway PT. The film opened as the #1 film in North America with a gross of $39 million, despite overwhelmingly negative reviews
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James at Adam Sandler's Hollywood Walk of Fame presentation ceremony on February 1, 2011
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James on the set of
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan. It stars Adam Sandler and Kevin James as the title characters Chuck and Larry, the film was released in the United States on July 20,2007. Chuck Levine, a bachelor, and Larry Valentine, a widower struggling to raise his two children, are two veteran New York City firefighters. During a routine sweep of a building, a segment of floor collapses on Chuck. Chuck vows to repay Larry in any way possible, experiencing an epiphany from the incident, Larry tries to increase his life insurance policy, but he runs into difficulties naming his children as primary beneficiaries. He is told he should remarry so his new spouse can be the beneficiary, however. Inspired by an article about domestic partnerships, Larry asks Chuck to enter a civil union with him. Although Chuck declines at first, he is reminded of his debt to Larry and finally agrees, entering a domestic partnership, to their dismay, however, investigators arrive to inquire about their abrupt partnership, suspecting fraud. Chuck and Larry decide to enlist the help of lawyer Alex McDonough, the pair travel to Niagara Falls in Canada for a quick marriage at a wedding chapel and begin living together. At a gay benefit costume party, the partygoers are confronted by homophobic protesters, Chuck is provoked into punching their leader, and the incident is picked up by the local news. With their apparent homosexuality and marriage revealed, Chuck and Larry are heckled and their only ally is Fred G. Duncan, an angry, intimidating firefighter who comes out to Chuck. Chuck becomes romantically interested in Alex after the two spend time together, but finds himself unable to get close to her because she thinks he is gay, in another meeting at her apartment, Chuck and Alex are making charm bracelets. They soon kiss, but Alex, still believing Chuck is gay and married, is shocked, meanwhile, city agent Clinton Fitzer arrives to investigate the couple, and the strain on both Larry and Chuck causes them to fight. Larry learns about the kiss and confronts Chuck about it, asserting that Chucks absence is jeopardizing their ability to maintain the ruse of their relationship. During the argument, Larry reveals that he is still in love with his wife, Paula. Later that evening, a petition circulates to have Chuck and Larry thrown out of the firehouse, upon discovering it, a hurtful Larry confronts the crew about personal embarrassments on the job that Chuck and Larry helped them overcome. Afterwards, Chuck and Larry reconcile their differences, eventually, numerous women publicly testify to having slept with Chuck in the recent past, and the couple is called into court to defend their marriage against charges of fraud. They are defended by Alex, and their fellow firefighters arrive in support, having realized all that Chuck, Fitzer interrogates both men, and eventually demands the pair to kiss to prove that their relationship is physical
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