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Ally McBeal (character)
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Allison Marie Ally McBeal is the central fictional character in the Fox series Ally McBeal played by Calista Flockhart. She is shown as a woman who believes in love and is looking for her soul mate. She often hears songs in her head and experiences hallucinations, mostly of a baby, due to her biological clock ticking. Ally is the daughter of George McBeal, also a lawyer and she claims to have at least one sister and one brother although neither are ever seen. She had a sister who died at the age of five, Ally attended Harvard Law School with Billy Thomas, with whom she had had a relationship since they were eight years old so that she could be with him. Billy, however, left Harvard to attend University of Michigan Law School, the next thing the audience knows about Ally is that she lives with district attorney Renée Radick, and she is employed in a Boston law firm. Ally quit the law firm because her boss harassed her and was recruited by old classmate Richard Fish to join his law firm. To her own surprise she found out that Billy, now married to fellow lawyer and she falls in love with him again, to the horror of Georgia. However, Ally and Georgia become friends and Ally learns to work side by side with Billy, throughout the series Ally dated lots of men. Because Billy remained the love of her life, no relationship ever got serious until she met Dr. Greg Butters, Greg and Ally got quite serious until the two were spotted kissing by Billy. Billy felt so jealous that he imagined himself to be in love with Ally after which he declared his love for her. The two subsequently engaged in an affair, which Ally finally broke off. Nonetheless, Greg broke off the relationship after finding out. The third season began with Ally engaging in sex with a guy at a car wash, it turns out that he is the fiancée of a client. Later, Billy discovers he has a tumor, and grows closer to Ally again. Ally started dating again, finally meeting a British lawyer named Brian Selig, the two started dating and ended up having a six-month relationship. When, after six months, Brian asked Ally to move in with him, Ally realised Brian was much too boring for her, shortly after that, she fell in love with fellow lawyer Larry Paul. The two started a serious but rocky relationship, the two agreed to take the relationship long distance between Detroit and Boston when Larrys son visited and met Ally and told her he missed his dad at home
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Allison Marie McBeal
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Surrealism
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Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream, leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement. Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I, the word surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917. The Dadaists protested with anti-art gatherings, performances, writings and art works, after the war, when they returned to Paris, the Dada activities continued. Meeting the young writer Jacques Vaché, Breton felt that Vaché was the son of writer. He admired the young writers anti-social attitude and disdain for established artistic tradition, later Breton wrote, In literature, I was successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most. Back in Paris, Breton joined in Dada activities and started the literary journal Littérature along with Louis Aragon and they began experimenting with automatic writing—spontaneously writing without censoring their thoughts—and published the writings, as well as accounts of dreams, in the magazine. Breton and Soupault delved deeper into automatism and wrote The Magnetic Fields, continuing to write, they came to believe that automatism was a better tactic for societal change than the Dada form of attack on prevailing values. They also looked to the Marxist dialectic and the work of such theorists as Walter Benjamin, freuds work with free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious was of utmost importance to the Surrealists in developing methods to liberate imagination. They embraced idiosyncrasy, while rejecting the idea of an underlying madness, as Salvador Dalí later proclaimed, There is only one difference between a madman and me. Beside the use of analysis, they emphasized that one could combine inside the same frame, elements not normally found together to produce illogical. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be−the greater its emotional power, the group aimed to revolutionize human experience, in its personal, cultural, social, and political aspects. They wanted to people from false rationality, and restrictive customs. Breton proclaimed that the aim of Surrealism was long live the social revolution. To this goal, at various times Surrealists aligned with communism and anarchism, in 1924 two Surrealist factions declared their philosophy in two separate Surrealist Manifestos. That same year the Bureau of Surrealist Research was established, leading up to 1924, two rival surrealist groups had formed. Each group claimed to be successors of a revolution launched by Guillaume Apollinaire, the other group, led by Breton, included Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Paul Éluard, Jacques Baron, Jacques-André Boiffard, Jean Carrive, René Crevel and Georges Malkine, among others. Goll and Breton clashed openly, at one point literally fighting, at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées, in the end, Breton won the battle through tactical and numerical superiority
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Max Ernst,
The Elephant Celebes (1921),
Tate, London
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Cover of the first issue of
La Révolution surréaliste, December 1924.
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Yvan Goll, Surréalisme, Manifeste du surréalisme, Volume 1, Number 1, October 1, 1924, cover by
Robert Delaunay
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André Masson. Automatic Drawing. 1924. Ink on paper, 23.5 x 20.6 cm.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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David E. Kelley
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Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows aired on all four top commercial U. S. television networks. Kelley was born in Waterville, Maine, raised in Belmont, Massachusetts and he is the son of Boston University Terriers and New England Whalers hockey coach Jack Kelley, and played the game himself. For his senior thesis, he turned the Bill of Rights into a play, I made each amendment into a character, he said. The First Amendment is a guy who wont shut up. The Second Amendment guy, all he wanted to talk about was his gun collection, then the 10th Amendment, the one where they say leave the rest for the states to decide, he was a guy with no self-esteem. Also while at Princeton, he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and he began working for a Boston law firm, mostly dealing with real estate and minor criminal cases. In 1983, while considering it only a hobby, Kelley began writing a screenplay, a legal thriller, in 1986, Steven Bochco was searching for writers with a law background for his new NBC legal series, L. A. Law. His agent sent him Kelleys movie script for From the Hip, enthusiastic, Bochco made him a writer and story editor for the show. During this first year, Kelley kept his law office in Boston as a hedge, however, his involvement in the show only expanded. In the second year, he became story editor and co-producer. Finally, in 1989, Bochco stepped away from the series making Kelley the executive producer, while executive producer, Kelley received two Emmys for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series and the show received the award for Outstanding Drama Series for both years. For the first five seasons that he was involved with the show, Kelley left after the fifth season in 1991 and ratings began to fall. As Newsdays TV critic wrote, The difference between good and bad L. A. Law. was David Kelley, midway through the sixth season, both Bochco and Kelley were brought in as creative consultants after the show received bad press about its decline in quality. In 1992, after co-creating Doogie Howser, M. D. with his mentor Steven Bochco, Kelley formed his own company, David E Kelley Productions. Its first creation, Picket Fences, airing in 1992 and influenced by Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure, focused on the department in the fictional quirky town of Rome. Kelley wrote most of the episodes for the first three years, the show was critically acclaimed but never found a sizable audience. Picket Fences went on for four years, receiving a total of 14 Emmy awards including consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series for its first, in 1995, the fourth and final season, Kelley wrote only two episodes. We had almost 10 writers try to come in and take over for one man
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Kelley and Michelle Pfeiffer at the
47th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1994
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David E. Kelley
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David E. Kelley accepting award at the 62nd Annual Peabody Awards
David E. Kelley
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Calista Flockhart
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Calista Kay Flockhart is an American actress. Her roles on television include Ally McBeal, Brothers & Sisters and she has been featured in a number of films including The Birdcage and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Flockhart is a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award winner and has received three Emmy Award nominations, Calista Flockhart was born in Freeport, Illinois, the daughter of Kay, an English teacher, and Ronald Flockhart, a Kraft Foods executive. Her parents are retired and live in Morristown, Tennessee and she has one older brother, Gary. Her mother, Kay Calista, reversed her own first and middle names in naming her Calista Kay. Because her fathers job required the family to often, Flockhart and her brother grew up in several places including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey. As a child, she wrote a play called Toyland which she performed to an audience at a dinner party. Flockhart attended Shawnee High School in Medford Township, New Jersey, following graduation in 1983, Flockhart attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While there, she attended a specialized and competitive class, lasting from 6,00 a. m. to 6,00 p. m, in her sophomore year at Rutgers, Flockhart met aspiring actress Jane Krakowski, the best friend of her roommate. Later, they both would work together on Ally McBeal, people began recognizing Flockharts acting ability when William Esper made an exception to policy by allowing Flockhart to perform on the main stage. Though this venue usually is reserved for juniors and seniors, Harold Scott insisted that Flockhart perform there in his production of William Inges Picnic, Flockhart graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre in 1988 as one of the few students who successfully completed the course. Rutgers inducted her into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni on May 3,2003, Flockhart moved to New York City in 1989 and began seeking auditions, living with three other women in a two-bedroom apartment and working as a waitress and aerobics instructor. She would remain in the city until 1997, in spring 1989, Flockhart made her first television appearance in a minor role in an episode of Guiding Light as a babysitter. She made her debut on the New York stage, appearing in Beside Herself alongside Melissa Joan Hart. Two years later, Flockhart appeared in the television movie Darrow, though she later appeared in films Naked in New York and Getting In, her first substantial speaking part in a film was in Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford. Flockhart debuted on Broadway in 1994, as Laura in The Glass Menagerie, actress Julie Harris felt Flockhart should be hired without further auditions, claiming that she seemed ideal for the part. Flockhart received a Clarence Derwent Award for her performance, in 1995, Flockhart became acquainted with actors such as Dianne Wiest and Faye Dunaway when she appeared in the movie Drunks. Later that year, Flockhart starred in Jane Doe as a drug addict, in 1996, Flockhart appeared as the daughter of Dianne Wiest and Gene Hackmans characters in The Birdcage
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Flockhart at the 2009
Deauville American Film Festival
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Flockhart and Ford in September 2009
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Courtney Thorne-Smith
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Courtney Thorne-Smith is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, Cheryl in According to Jim, and her role on Two. Thorne-Smith was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Menlo Park and her father, Walter Smith, was a computer market researcher, and her mother, Lora Thorne, was a therapist. They divorced when Courtney was seven years old and she lived with parents at different stages. She has a sister, Jennifer, who is an advertising executive. She attended Menlo-Atherton High School, in Atherton, California, and graduated from Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California and she also performed with the Ensemble Theater Company in Mill Valley while attending high school. Thorne-Smith made her first film appearance in the 1986 feature film drama Lucas, alongside Winona Ryder, Corey Haim, and Charlie Sheen. She was also involved in a number of movies in the late 1980s, such as Welcome to 18, Revenge of the Nerds II, Nerds in Paradise, Summer School, in 1998, she starred in the box office flop Chairman of the Board with Carrot Top. In 2009, she appeared in Sorority Wars, in 1990, she was featured in six episodes of L. A. Law as Laker Girl Kimberly Dugan. Her first notable starring role was as Alison Parker on Melrose Place from 1992 to 1997. During this time, in 1995, she starred in a made-for-television movie Beautys Revenge which was marketed in CD. Following this, she went on to play Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal from 1997 to 2000, Thorne-Smith originally auditioned for the title role in the show, which ultimately went to Calista Flockhart. Her character was out of Ally McBeal at the beginning of season four in 2000. From 2001 to 2009, she starred as Cheryl on According to Jim, in 2007, her real-life pregnancy was hidden on the show at first, but was then written into the plot. On February 18,2010, she signed on to play Alan Harpers girlfriend, Lyndsey McElroy, in seven of Two. She appeared in 52 episodes from season seven through twelve, on September 18,2007, Thorne-Smiths novel, Outside In, was published by Broadway Books in New York. In 1997, she became a spokeswoman for Almay cosmetics, being the face of their new Skin Stays Clean line of make-up and she is also a spokeswoman for the Atkins diet. In the early 1990s, Thorne-Smith dated Andrew Shue, her lover from Melrose Place
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Thorne-Smith in 2013
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Jane Krakowski
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Jane Krakowski is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Jenna Maroney in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, Krakowski was born in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. Her father, Ed, is an engineer, and her mother, Barbara Krajkowski, is a college theater instructor. Her fathers family is entirely Polish, and although she knows only a few words in Polish, her father and her mother is of half Polish and half French Canadian and Scottish descent. Krakowski grew up immersed in the theater scene as a result of her parents activities, saying in one interview, Instead of hiring baby sitters. She took ballet lessons from age four, but later stopped because she had the body shape. She attended the Professional Childrens School in New York City and Rutgers University and her first major television role was as Theresa Rebecca T. R. Kendall in the NBC Daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow, which she played from 1984 until the show ended in 1986. She was nominated for two consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for the role in 1986 and 1987, from 1997 to 2002, Krakowski played office assistant Elaine Vassal on Ally McBeal, her role earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1999. In 2006, Krakowski was cast in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, where she played Jenna Maroney, in 2009,2010,2011, and 2013, she received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in 30 Rock. Krakowski was cast in the 2015 Netflix original comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Jacqueline White, Krakowski was originally cast in the horror film Sleepaway Camp, but dropped out just before filming began because she felt her characters death scene with a curling iron was too violent. She appeared in When Zachary Beaver Came to Town as a mother who wants to become a singer, in 2004, she starred in Alan Menkens TV movie version of A Christmas Carol, featured as The Ghost of Christmas Past. In 2006, she provided the voice of the deer Giselle in the Sony animated film, a trained singer, Krakowski has made numerous appearances on stage. At age 18, she originated the role of Dinah the Dining Car in the 1987 Broadway production of Starlight Express and she appeared in the 1989 Broadway musical Grand Hotel as the typist and would-be film star Flaemmchen, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Her solo number, I Want to Go to Hollywood, is included on the original cast recording, at the 2000 American Comedy Awards, Krakowski won rave reviews when she performed a sexually charged musical tribute and love letter to Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates. In 1995, she played the ditzy flight attendant April in the Roundabout Theater Companys revival of Company, in 1996, she starred alongside Sarah Jessica Parker in the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress. Brickman and Krakowski also recorded an alternate Christmas version of the song and she also appeared on the album Broadway Cares, Home for the Holidays, singing the song Santa Baby. In 2003, she starred in the Broadway revival of Nine playing Carla, Krakowski is known for her famous antigravity stunt during the number A Call from the Vatican. Krakowski and the director struggled finding a company that would let her do air stunts without a harness, Krakowski recalled that the material took a long time to arrive, and the second time she ever did it was on the first performance
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Krakowski at the
60th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 21, 2008
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Krakowski in the 2007 Red Dress Collection for the
Heart Truth
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Krakowski at the Sundance Film festival, 2005
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Vonda Shepard
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Vonda Shepard is an American pop/rock singer, songwriter, and actress. She appeared as a regular in the television show Ally McBeal and her version of Kay Starr’s Christmas classic The Man with the Bag was featured on a season 4 episode of Ally McBeal and has become a popular holiday song. Vonda Shepard was born in New York City but her family relocated to California when she was a child and she played piano from an early age. Her father is Richmond Shepard, a mime and improv actor, after performing as a backing singer for many years she was eventually given her own recording contract. Shepards first chart appearance was in 1987 when she recorded a duet with Dan Hill entitled Cant We Try, before this she tried out for the part of Michael J. Foxs sister in Light of Day but lost the part to Joan Jett. She was also poised to sing on Peter Ceteras duet The Next Time I Fall and she released her first self-titled album in 1989 with little fanfare. The track is sung from the perspective of the white female friend, who harbors a desire to have the man for herself. The song peaked at Number 17 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart, after her third album, Shepard was signed up to appear on Ally McBeal after being spotted by the shows creator David E. Kelley. While on the show she recorded two full albums and was featured on two other Ally McBeal compilations. The songs Shepard recorded for Ally McBeal soundtrack albums were mainly covers of old songs with lyrics that paralleled what was happening in the characters life onscreen. However, the albums biggest hit single, Searchin My Soul was an original penned by Shepard, since appearing in the show, Shepard has released two more studio albums and a live album. Shepard has been married to music producer Mitchell Froom since 2004 and she is also the stepmother to Frooms daughter, Ruby, from his marriage to Suzanne Vega. Shepard provided vocals on I Need You by James Newton Howard for the 2010 film Love and Other Drugs, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. Vonda, along with the cast, won two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors’ Guild awards, and a Billboard award for selling the most TV soundtrack records in history
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Vonda Shepard
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Portia de Rossi
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Portia Lee James DeGeneres, also known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian–American actress, model, and philanthropist. She currently appears as a regular cast member on the American political thriller television series Scandal in the role of Elizabeth North and she also portrayed Veronica Palmer on the ABC television sitcom Better Off Ted, and Olivia Lord on the television drama Nip/Tuck. De Rossi is married to comedian and television host Ellen DeGeneres, de Rossi, born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia, is the daughter of Margaret, a medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers. Her father died when she was nine years old and she grew up in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, and modelled for print and TV commercials as a child. In 1988, at the age of 15, Rogers adopted the name Portia de Rossi, by which she remains best known. In 2005, she explained that she had intended to reinvent herself, using the name of Portia, a character from William Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. She was educated at Melbourne Girls Grammar School and the University of Melbourne and her first significant role was playing a young and impressionable model in the Australian 1994 film Sirens. Soon afterwards she moved to Los Angeles, and won guest roles on several TV shows, during this time in the United States, de Rossi worked diligently to replace her Australian accent with her current American one. She garnered international attention when she joined the main cast of Ally McBeal in 1998 and she remained with the show until its end in 2002. In 2001, she starred in Who Is Cletis Tout. with Christian Slater, from 2003–06, de Rossi starred as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Fox Televisions Arrested Development. She portrayed John F. Kennedy, Jr. s wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, in the made-for-TV movie Americas Prince, The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story in 2003 and an Australian reporter who inspires a protest against Frank Sinatra during a tour in The Night We Called It a Day. In 2005 she portrayed a fortune-teller named Zela in the Wes Craven thriller Cursed, from 2007–2008, de Rossi appeared in Nip/Tucks fifth season as Julia McNamaras girlfriend, Olivia Lord. In 2009 and 2010, de Rossi played the high-strung and controlling Veronica Palmer on the ABC show Better Off Ted, in 2011 she appeared in Better Off Ted cast member Malcolm Barretts music video for Revenge of the Nerds, spoofing her character Veronica in a cameo. In May 2007, she was featured as one of 100 Most Beautiful in a People special edition, TV Guide included her and Ellen DeGeneres in their Power A-List couples in 2007. In February 2012, it was announced that ABC had ordered a pilot for a new drama series The Smart One, executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres, and featured de Rossi in a leading role. The actress was to star as a brilliant and successful woman who goes to work for her less-brainy but more popular sister – a former beauty queen, weather girl. The show was not picked up to series for the 2012-13 season, six years after the series was canceled by Fox, filming for a revived fourth season of Arrested Development began on 7 August 2012 and de Rossi reprised her role as Lindsay Bluth Fünke
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de Rossi in February 2007
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De Rossi (left) and her wife,
Ellen DeGeneres, in September 2012.
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Lucy Liu
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Lucy Liu /ˈluː/ is an American actress, voice actress, director, producer, singer and artist. In 2008, she starred in an ABC comedy-drama, Cashmere Mafia, the show was one of only a few American television shows to have an Asian American series lead. In 2012, Liu joined the cast of the TNT series Southland in the role of Jessica Tang. Lucy Liu was born on December 2,1968 in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, in high school, she adopted a middle name, Alexis. She is the youngest of three born to Cecilia, who worked as a biochemist, and Tom Liu, a trained civil engineer who sold digital clock pens. Lius parents originally came from Beijing and Shanghai and emigrated to Taiwan as adults before meeting in New York and she has an older brother, Alex, and an older sister, Jenny. Her parents worked many jobs while Lucy and her siblings were growing up, Liu has stated that she grew up in a diverse neighborhood. She learned to speak Mandarin at home and began studying English when she was 5 and she studied the martial art kali-eskrima-silat as a hobby when she was young. Liu attended Joseph Pulitzer Middle School, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1986 and she later enrolled at New York University and transferred to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she was a member of the Chi Omega sorority. Liu earned a degree in Asian languages and cultures. Liu worked as a waitress at the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase club circa 1988–89, Liu was discovered by an agent at the age of 21 while traveling on the subway. As a member of the Basement Arts student-run theater group, she auditioned in 1989 for the University of Michigans production of Alice in Wonderland during her year of college. Although she had tried out for only a supporting part. While queuing up to audition for the musical Miss Saigon in 1990, she told The New York Times, There arent many Asian roles, in May 1992, Liu made her New York stage debut in Fairy Bones, directed by Tina Chen. Liu had small roles in films and TV, marking her debut, Liu originally auditioned for the role of Nelle Porter, and the character Ling Woo was later created specifically for her. Lius part on the series was originally temporary, but high audience ratings secured Liu as a permanent cast member, in Payback, Liu portrayed Pearl, a high-class BDSM prostitute with links to the Chinese mafia. Liu was cast as Alex Munday in the film Charlies Angels, alongside Drew Barrymore, the film opened in November 2000 and earned more than $125 million in the United States. Charlies Angels earned a total of more than $264 million
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Liu at the 2012
San Diego Comic-Con
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Lucy Liu as a high school senior in 1986
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Liu at the
2008 Cannes Film Festival
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Liu speaking at the USAID Human Trafficking Symposium in September 2009.
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Peter MacNicol
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Peter MacNicol is an American actor. He received a Theatre World Award for his 1981 Broadway debut in the play Crimes of the Heart and his film roles include Stingo in Sophies Choice, Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II and David Langley in Bean. MacNicol won the 2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as the eccentric lawyer John Cage in the FOX comedy-drama Ally McBeal and he made his New York debut in the 1980 off-Broadway play, Crimes of the Heart. The production eventually moved to Broadway in 1981, and he won the Theatre World Award and it was also during this production that a casting agent noticed him and called him in to read for his eventual role in Sophies Choice. In 1981 he landed the role in his first film, Dragonslayer. In 1987, he starred in the Trinity Repertory Companys original production of the adaptation of All the Kings Men. This adaptation was developed with the consultation of the author himself, among his other stage credits is the Broadway production of Black Comedy/White Lies. Other film credits include Housesitter and American Blue Note, however, he did return for one final guest appearance in episode five of the former shows fifth season. MacNicol is known by television viewers for his Ally McBeal performance as eccentric attorney John Cage and he also starred in the drama Numbers as physicist Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, and had a role as Tom Lennox in the sixth season of the hit FOX show 24. MacNicol reprised his role as Lennox in the film 24, Redemption and he also played a hotel receptionist in one episode of Cheers titled Look Before You Sleep. MacNicol has lent his voice to several comic book supervillains, Dr. Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat in The Batman, David Clinton/Chronos in Justice League Unlimited, Professor Ivo in Young Justice and he also voiced Firefly in G. I. MacNicol played Dr. Stark, a surgeon, on Greys Anatomy. Peter MacNicol at the Internet Movie Database
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MacNicol at Eagle Base, November 14, 2001
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Gil Bellows
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Gil Bellows is a Canadian film and television actor. He is best known for the roles of Tommy Williams in The Shawshank Redemption, Billy Thomas in the television series Ally McBeal, as of autumn 2016, he is a regular in the new USA Network series Eyewitness. Bellows was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended Magee Secondary School with fellow future actress Carrie-Anne Moss, after graduation, he pursued a career in acting, studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California. Bellows is known for his first motion picture role as Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption, Bellows also appeared in the psychological thriller Chasing Sleep as Detective Derm, opposite star Jeff Daniels. He appeared in The Weather Man as a rehabilitation counsellor. He was in the films Black Day Blue Night, Snow White, A Tale Of Terror, as Will, and Un amour de sorcière and he has appeared on the Hallmark Channel original film Final Days of Planet Earth and the Canadian television series Terminal City. In 2007, he completed filming for Kill Kill Faster Faster, Bellows also played a State Department Officer in 24, Redemption, a television film prequel to the seventh season of 24. He starred in the Super Channel Science-Fiction adventure thriller film Infected, Bellows has also appeared as Maxwell Lord on Smallville in the Season 9 episodes Charade and Hostage. In 2010, Bellows had a role in FlashForward as Timothy. Bellows also co-starred in the movie Unthinkable that same year and he co-starred with Steve Austin and Eric Roberts in the 2010 action film Hunt to Kill, and in 2011 co-starred with Macha Grenon and Julia Stone in The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom. He starred in the 2012 feature film Fury, in some Season 2 episodes of Boss he appeared as a casino investor. On October 16,2016, Gil debuted as a cast regular in USA Networks new, 10-episode straight-to-series police drama, Bellows plays Gabe Caldwell, a veterinarian and the husband of Sheriff Helen Torrance. The sheriff is trying to solve what appears to be a triple murder in a turkey farmers home. The killer is still at large, is someone she wouldnt normally suspect, meanwhile, off the clock and at home, Caldwell and Torrance seem to enjoy a genuinely happy marriage. The series, although set in western New York State--in the general vicinity of Buffalo and Poughkeepsie, Gil Bellows is married to American actress Rya Kihlstedt and has two children. The First Season Law & Order Flying Blind Going to Extremes The Shawshank Redemption Love and a.22.63 Eyewitness She Has a Name Gil Bellows at the Internet Movie Database
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Bellows at the
32nd Genie Awards in 2012
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Bellows at the
2008 Toronto International Film Festival
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Single-camera setup
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The single-camera setup, or single-camera mode of production, also known as Portable Single Camera, is a method of filmmaking and video production. In this setup, each of the shots and camera angles is taken using the same camera. Choices can then be made during the editing process for when in the scene to use each shot. This also then allows parts of the scene to be removed if it is felt that the scene is too long, in practice, sometimes two cameras shooting from the same angle are used, one to capture a medium shot, the other a close-up during the same take. Unlike film producers, who almost always opt for single-camera shooting, single-camera is mostly reserved for prime-time dramas, made-for-TV movies, music videos and commercial advertisements. Soap operas, talk shows, game shows, most reality television series, Multiple-camera shooting is the only way that an ensemble of actors presenting a single performance before a live audience can be recorded from multiple perspectives. Also for standard, dialogue-driven domestic situation comedies, the multi-camera technique, situation comedies may potentially be shot in either multiple- or single-camera modes. Several comedy series of the era also use of feature film techniques. These effects were created using editing and optical printing techniques, in the case of Get Smart, the single-camera technique also allowed the series to present fast-paced and tightly-edited fight and action sequences reminiscent of the spy dramas that it parodied. Single-camera comedies were also prevalent into the early 1970s, with its large cast, varied locations, and seriocomic tone, the TV series M*A*S*H was shot using single-camera style. Happy Days began in 1974 as a series, before switching to the multi-camera setup in its second season. Unlike single-camera sitcoms of the past, nearly all contemporary comedies shot in this manner are produced without a laugh track, list of single-camera sitcoms Multiple-camera setup Tapeless camcorder
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Diagram showing a single-camera setup.
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20th Century Fox Television
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Twentieth Century Fox Television is the television production subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, and a production arm of the Fox Television Group. 20th Television is the arm of 20th Century Fox Television. 20th Century Fox Television was formed in 1949 as other studios were branching out into production as well. At that time, the company was known as TCF Television Productions, since 1986, 20th Century Fox Television has served as the Fox television networks official production arm, producing the bulk of television series airing on the television network. TCFTV produced the first two series aired on Foxs sister network, MyNetworkTV, the telenovelas Desire and Fashion House. In 1989, 20th Century Fox Televisions functions were taken over by Twentieth Television Corporation, both companies were subsidiaries of News Corporation unit Fox Inc. the move was made to separate the television productions from the movie studio in order to increase the latters output. In 1998, MTM folded into 20th Century Fox Television, notable shows produced by 20th Century Fox Television include, M*A*S*H, Glee, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, Empire, Family Guy,24, Modern Family, This Is Us, American Dad. Sundance Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever. S. A
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20th Television
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Twentieth Television is an American television syndication studio and the syndication arm of 20th Century Fox Television itself a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. 20th Television was formed in 1989 by Fox, Inc. in order to separate 20th Century Foxs television productions from the studio in order to increase the latters output. During this time, 20th Television and 20th Century Fox served as two of Foxs four main units, along with the Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Television Stations, the company also syndicates and/or co-syndicates product from partners such as Regency Television and Debmar-Mercury. As a result, the companys president will now report to the latters chairmen. Greg Meidel is the president of 20th Television, 20th Television at the Internet Movie Database
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The studio's 2013 logo.
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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Dolby Surround
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Dolby Pro Logic is a surround sound processing technology developed by Dolby Laboratories, designed to decode soundtracks encoded with Dolby Surround. Dolby Stereo was originally developed by Dolby in 1976 for analog cinema sound systems, the format was adapted for home use in 1982 as Dolby Surround when HiFi capable consumer VCRs were introduced, it was then replaced by the newer and improved Pro-Logic system in 1987. Therefore, the term Dolby Surround can be used to describe the technology or matrix-encoded soundtrack, whereas Pro Logic refers to the decoding technology. The two technologies are mostly identical but a change in marketing was needed so as not to confuse cinema stereo which is at least four channels of audio with home stereo which is only two, Dolby Surround/Pro Logic is based on matrix technology. When a Dolby Surround soundtrack is created, four channels of sound are matrix-encoded into a stereo sound track. The centre channel is encoded by placing it equally in the left and right channels, one of the first was the MSP400 surround sound receiver and amplifier by RCA for their high-end Dimensia brand. It was released in 1987 for the Digital Command Component System, Dolby Surround is the earliest consumer version of Dolbys multichannel analog film sound decoding format Dolby Stereo. It was introduced to the public in 1982 during the home video recording formats were introducing Stereo. The term Dolby Surround is used so as not to confuse theater surround with home stereo, the term also applies to the encoding of material in this sound format. It was capable of decoding Dolby Stereo stereo tracks to 3.0 channels, in 1987 the decoding technology was updated and renamed Dolby Pro Logic. A Pro Logic decoder/processor unfolds the sound into the original 4.0 surround—left and right, center, a Pro-Logic decoder also uses Steering Logic, which drives amplifiers, to raise or lower the output volume of each channel based on the current dominant sound direction. For example, while a signal is played, the strong correlation to the center channel triggers the output volume of the left, right. This increases the channel separation achievable, to around 30 decibels between channels, by careful tuning of the response of the amplifiers, the total amount of signal energy remains constant and is unaffected by the operation of the channel steering. Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic decoders are similar in principle, the terms Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround and Lt/Rt are all used to describe soundtracks that are matrix-encoded using this technique. In 2000, Dolby introduced Dolby Pro Logic II, an implementation of Dolby Pro Logic created by Jim Fosgate. DPL II processes any high quality stereo signal source into five separate full frequency channels, Dolby Pro Logic II also decodes 5 channels from stereo signals encoded in traditional four-channel Dolby Surround. DPL II implements greatly enhanced steering compared to DPL, and as a result, DPL II forgoes this type of processing and replaces it with simple servo circuits used to derive five channels. It identifies spatial cues in low-level, uncorrelated information, such as ambience and effects like rain or wind in the side and rear surround channels, the channels it adds are matrixed, not discrete
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The Practice
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The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates, plots typically featured the firms involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirror current events. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme, Kelley claimed that he conceived the show as something of a rebuttal to L. A. Law and its romanticized treatment of the American legal system and legal proceedings. At the start of the series, attorney Bobby Donnell employs associate attorneys Ellenor Frutt, Eugene Young, Lindsay Dole, by the fourth episode, Bobbys friend Jimmy Berluti is hired as an associate. Before that, Jimmy is a working as a loan officer. When he falsifies loan documents to help Bobbys struggling practice, he loses his job, Bobby maintains sole control over the firm until an ultimatum by Lindsay motivates him to name Ellenor, Eugene, Lindsay, and Rebecca as junior partners. To maintain control over the firm, Bobby writes into the charter that each received one vote in partnership meetings. While this decision prevents Lindsays power play from becoming ugly, it causes some tension when Bobby and Lindsay later become romantically involved. The partnership agreement also initially alienates Jimmy who feels insulted that he was the one on staff not named a partner. This is exacerbated by the fact that Rebecca is made partner despite her being the receptionist, Rebecca earns her law degree in Season 3, and Jimmy is eventually made partner at the end of Season 7. Bobby and his associates all share a friendship with A. D. A, Helen Gamble, who even shares a brief romance with Bobby – all highly unusual, considering how often Helens job places her in opposition to the firm. While the strategy is effective, it would occasionally backfire once the D. A. s office grew familiar with the strategy. This tactic invariably causes great distress for the attorney employing the plan when they know that the target is most likely innocent. Thus, in cases, Plan B is used only as a last resort. In 2003, Bobby Donnell leaves the firm, fearing he had become the blue-chip lawyer he had long resented and he names Eugene as senior partner. Along with Ellenor, Eugene decides to make Jimmy a full partner and extends an offer to Lindsay, and her associate Claire Wyatt to return to the firm. This occurred at the end of seven, at the end of which most of the cast was fired for budgetary reasons as ABC agreed to renew the show only if the budget per episode was drastically cut. Season eight began with half the original cast missing
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Boston
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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1,1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles with a population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England. Alternately, as a Combined Statistical Area, this wider commuting region is home to some 8.1 million people, One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U. S. independence from Great Britain, it continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a center for education, through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year, Bostons many firsts include the United States first public school, Boston Latin School, first subway system, the Tremont Street Subway, and first public park, Boston Common. Bostons economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, the city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings. Bostons early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the renaming on September 7,1630 was by Puritan colonists from England who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River. The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC, in 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colonys first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city. Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history, over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America. Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century, Bostons harbor activity was significantly curtailed by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812. Foreign trade returned after these hostilities, but Bostons merchants had found alternatives for their investments in the interim. Manufacturing became an important component of the economy, and the citys industrial manufacturing overtook international trade in economic importance by the mid-19th century. Boston remained one of the nations largest manufacturing centers until the early 20th century, a network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region facilitated shipment of goods and led to a proliferation of mills and factories. Later, a network of railroads furthered the regions industry. Boston was a port of the Atlantic triangular slave trade in the New England colonies
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From top to bottom, left to right: the
Boston skyline viewed from the
Bunker Hill Monument; the
Museum of Fine Arts;
Faneuil Hall;
Massachusetts State House;
The First Church of Christ, Scientist;
Boston Public Library; the
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum;
South Station;
Boston University and the
Charles River;
Arnold Arboretum;
Fenway Park; and the
Boston Common
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State Street, 1801
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View of Boston from
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Scollay Square in the 1880s
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Wattle (anatomy)
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A wattle is a fleshy caruncle hanging from various parts of the head or neck in several groups of birds and mammals. A caruncle is defined as A small, fleshy excrescence that is a part of an animals anatomy. Within this definition, caruncles in birds include wattles, dewlaps, snoods, wattles are generally paired structures but may occur as a single structure when it is sometimes known as a dewlap. Wattles are frequently organs of sexual dimorphism, in some birds, caruncles are erectile tissue and may or may not have a feather covering. Wattles are often such a striking characteristic of animals that it features in their common name. For example, the southern and northern cassowary are known as the double-wattled and single-wattled cassowary respectively, in birds, wattles are often an ornament for courting potential mates. Large wattles are correlated with high levels, good nutrition and the ability to evade predators. It has also proposed that ornamental organs such as wattles are associated with genes coding for disease resistance
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A southern cassowary with double wattles hanging from the throat
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A goat with wattles at the base of the throat
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Fantasy
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Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other elements as a main plot element, theme. Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds, in popular culture, the fantasy genre is predominantly of the medievalist form. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy works by many writers, artists, filmmakers. Fantasy is studied in a number of disciplines including English and other studies, cultural studies, comparative literature, history. The identifying trait of fantasy is the reliance on imagination to create narrative elements that do not have to rely on history or nature to be coherent. This differs from realistic fiction in that whereas realistic fiction has to attend to the history and natural laws of reality, an author applies his or her imagination to come up with characters, plots, and settings that are impossible in reality. Fantasy has often compared with science fiction and horror because they are the major categories of speculative fiction. Fantasy is distinguished from science fiction by the plausibility of the narrative elements, a science fiction narrative is unlikely, though seeming possible through logical scientific and/or technological extrapolation, whereas fantasy narratives do not need to be scientifically possible. The imagined elements of fantasy do not need an explanation to be narratively functional. Authors have to rely on the suspension of disbelief, an acceptance of the unbelievable or impossible for the sake of enjoyment. Despite both genres heavy reliance on the supernatural, fantasy and horror are distinguishable, horror primarily evokes fear through the protagonists weaknesses or inability to deal with the antagonists. Beginning perhaps with the earliest written documents, mythic and other elements that would come to define fantasy. MacDonald was an influence on both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The other major fantasy author of this era was William Morris, lord Dunsany established the genres popularity in both the novel and the short story form. Many popular mainstream authors also began to write fantasy at this time, including H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Indeed, juvenile fantasy was considered more acceptable than fantasy intended for adults, nathaniel Hawthorne wrote fantasy in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, intended for children, though works for adults only verged on fantasy. Political and social trends can affect a societys reception towards fantasy, in the early 20th century, the New Culture Movements enthusiasm for Westernization and science in China compelled them to condemn the fantastical shenmo genre of traditional Chinese literature
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Fairy tales and legends, such as
Dobrynya Nikitich 's rescue of Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon
Gorynych, have been an important source for fantasy.
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Many works are unclear as to the belief of the authors in the marvels they contain, as in the enchanted garden from the
Decameron.
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Dancing baby
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The Dancing Baby, also called Baby Cha-Cha, is a 3D-rendered animation of a baby dancing. It quickly became a phenomenon and one of the first viral videos in the second half of the 1990s. The Dancing Baby phenomenon refers to an animation of a baby performing a cha-cha type dance. The original sample source file was produced and prepared by the original Character Studio development team at Unreal Pictures and Kinetix/Autodesk, the cha-cha animation was created using the Biped animation system of Character Studio by Robert Lurye and Michael Girard. The 3D model of a baby was added later by the development team as one of the character skins for the rendered animation. Contrary to popular misconceptions, none of the original Dancing Baby animation data were created using motion capture, in late 1996, web developer John Woodell created a highly compressed animated gif from the source movie, as part of a demo of the movie-to-gif process. Woodell later published the gif to his web page of the Internet startup where he worked. Many users/animators were responsible for improved, diverse, and even more amusing variations of the dancing baby animation and character model itself. max model and animation. As a result, variations of the dancing baby animation did not become quite as popular or as influential as the original sk_baby. max animation, some exceptional variations have followed, but cannot be credited for the original internet phenomenon and proliferation. The Dancing Baby animation spread quickly on popular web forums, individual web sites, international e-mail, demo videos, commercials, awareness of the baby most significantly increased when featured on CBS, CNN, and on Foxs Ally McBeal comic drama series. The same animation was shown on episodes of Ally McBeal as a recurring hallucination. On that show, it was accompanied by a Blue Swede cover of the song Hooked on a Feeling. Various commercial advertisements presented the Dancing Baby animation to international markets continuing the mainstream media attention and this particular manifestation of the video, bound to the song, is widely distributed and referred to as the Ugachaka Baby. More examples of the Dancing Baby used in media are below. In 1996, the original Character Studio dancing baby animation appeared in trade show demo reels, including NAB, Siggraph, IBC, Game Developer Conference, E3. In 1996, the sequence appeared in Studio. K7 release X-Mix Electro Boogie, in 1996 and 1997, the dancing baby animation appeared on various local television broadcasts, including news and tech editorials, and CBS syndicated stations. The Dancing Baby appeared on an episode of Unhappily Ever After and it was parodied in the opening of The House that Dick Built, episode 15 from the 4th season of 3rd Rock from the Sun, with Harry Solomon as the baby. In the parody wrestling series Celebrity Deathmatch, during a match between Lucy Lawless and Calista Flockhart, the dancing baby appears in the ring with his back turned to the camera
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The shipped cha-cha dancing motion file assigned to the Baby model data
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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ABC's corporate headquarters are located at 77 West 66th Street, on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City.
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American Broadcasting Company
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Edward Noble, founder of ABC
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In 2002, dancers and other cast members from the 32-year run of American Bandstand reunited with host
Dick Clark to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show's local television debut.
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Ally McBeal (season 3)
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The third season of the television series Ally McBeal commenced airing in the United States on October 25,1999, concluded on May 22,2000, and consisted of 21 episodes. The entire season originally aired Mondays at 9pm, just like the seasons before,13 episodes of the show were shot, but only 10 were broadcast. It was released on DVD as a six disc boxed set under the title of Ally McBeal, Season Three on October 7,2002, just like the two seasons that aired before and in the U. S. on December 22,2009. The third season had a rating of 12.3 million viewers in the United States and was ranked #39 on the complete ranking sheet of all the years shows. This was the second highest rated season of Ally McBeal, on the 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards, the show won an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special for the season premiere episode Car Wash. The season was produced by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and David E. Kelley Productions, the executive producers were Bill DElia and the creator David E. Jonathan Pontell and Alicia West served as the co-executive producers, the third season had ten major roles receive star billing. The season featured the departure of two original cast members, Gil Bellows and Courtney Thorne-Smith, Bellows left to star on The Agency and Thorne Smith was cast on According to Jim. Bellows character was killed off in the episode Boy Next Door, According to the actor himself, the character was originally intended to stay only for one season, but the popularity kept him for two more. James LeGros made his debut as Mark Albert, a lawyer that replaced Billy at the firm, the character was recurring, and was upgraded to contract status as of season 4. Tracy Clark, and Renee Elise Goldsberry, Vatrena King and Sy Smith as the singers for Vonda Shepard. Gina Philips had a role as Billys secretary Sandy Hingle. This season also featured a variety of celebrities, al Green, Gladys Knight, and Gloria Gaynor all appeared in the form of Allys hallucinations, while Macy Gray and Randy Newman appeared as performers at the bar. Farrah Fawcett portrays Robin Jones, a newspaper editor accused of sexual harassment, loretta Devine appeared as a client who also sings during the course of one of Allys hallucinations following Billys death. And an appearance of Tina Turner, Ally McBeal Episode List at IMDb. com Ally McBeal Episode Guide at TV. com
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Season 3 DVD cover
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Ally McBeal (season 4)
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The fourth season of the television series Ally McBeal commenced airing in the United States on October 12,2000, concluded on May 21,2001, and consisted of 23 episodes. The entire season originally aired Mondays at 9pm, just like the seasons before. It was released on DVD as a six disc boxed set under the title of Ally McBeal, Season Four on February 10,2002, and this was the very first season of Ally McBeal to be released on DVD. The fourth season had a rating of 12.0 million viewers in the United States and was ranked #40 on the complete ranking sheet of all the years shows. This was the third highest rated season of Ally McBeal, on the 58th Golden Globe Awards, Robert Downey, Jr. won an award for his portrayal of Larry Paul and got a standing ovation as he approached the stage. The season was produced by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and David E. Kelley Productions, the executive producers were Bill DElia and the creator David E. Kelley, who also wrote all 23 episodes just like the seasons before. Staff writers Alicia Martin, Barb Mackintosh, Melissa Rosenberg, Kerry Lenhart, alice West served as the co-executive producer. The fourth season had nine major roles receive star billing, the shows season finale was titled The Wedding and was originally going to include Allys and Larrys wedding. Former castmember Courtney Thorne-Smith returned to guest star on episode Girls Night Out, james LeGros was upgraded to contract status after recurring the previous season, but his character was slowly phased out during the season and written out by the end of it. Lisa Nicole Carson, an original cast member, announced in June 2001 that she would not return for the season either. Taye Diggs appeared as recurring character Jackson Duper and was intended to return as a regular in the following season and this season also featured special guest stars Chubby Checker, Sting and Anastacia. Ally McBeal Episode List at IMDb. com Ally McBeal Episode Guide at TV. com
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Season 4 DVD cover
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Ally McBeal (season 5)
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The fifth and final season of the television series Ally McBeal commenced airing in the United States on October 29,2001, concluded on May 20,2002, and consisted of 22 episodes. The entire season originally aired Mondays at 9pm, just like the seasons before, following the episode that aired March 4,2002, the show went on a six-week hiatus and was replaced by The American Embassy. The show returned on April 15,2002, to air the final 7 episodes and it was released on DVD as a six disc boxed set under the title of Ally McBeal, Season Five on February 10,2003. The fifth season had a rating of 9.4 million viewers in the United States and was ranked #65 on the complete ranking sheet of all the years shows. In addition to being the season of Ally McBeal and the grounds for the shows cancellation. The season was produced by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and David E. Kelley Productions, the executive producers were Bill DElia and the creator David E. Kelley, who also wrote 21 out of 22 episodes. Staff writers this season included Constance M. Burge, Roberto Benabib, Peter Blake, cast member Peter MacNicol co-wrote the penultimate episodes with Kelley, while Greg Germann made his directing debut in the episode Fear of Flirting. Alice West served as the producer of this season. The fifth season had twelve major roles receive star billing, the most out of all of the seasons, cast members Peter MacNicol and Lucy Liu only signed on for a certain number of episodes and were subsequently written out. Former cast members Gil Bellows, Courtney Thorne-Smith and Lisa Nicole Carson returned for the finale, the new cast members introduced in the series premiere were Julianne Nicholson as Jenny Shaw, Josh Hopkins as Raymond Millbury and James Marsden as Glenn Foy. Nicholson and Marsden proved unpopular with the fans and were written out mid-season, while new character named Maddie Harrington, regina Hall was upgraded to contract status after recurring during the previous season. Jon Bon Jovi was added to the cast mid-season as Victor Morrison, Allys new love interest, Josh Groban returned as guest star Malcolm Wyatt. Barry Humphries, Matthew Perry and Christina Ricci all had recurring roles during the season, elton John, Mariah Carey and Barry White appeared as performers at the bar. Ally McBeal Episode List at IMDb. com Ally McBeal Episode Guide at TV. com
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Season 5 DVD cover
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Ling Woo
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Ling Woo is a fictional character in the US comedy-drama Ally McBeal, portrayed by Chinese-American actress Lucy Liu. A Mandarin-speaking Chinese-American lawyer, Ling has been described as cold and ferocious, at the time, she was the most famous and only significant representative of Asian women on US television. Thus, the portrayal of Ling Woo attracted much attention in the US. Ally McBeal is an American television series created by David E. Kelley which ran on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002, Ling Woo was a character written by Kelley specifically for actress Lucy Liu after she failed to secure the role of Nelle Porter in the show. Woo appeared for the first time in the season as a client suing a Howard Stern-like talk show host named Wick. She was suing because Wicks programs contributed to sexual harassment in her workplace, Wick claimed Woo brought suit because she had a slutty little Asian thing going, and Woo said that she wanted to sleep with Wick because if she did, she would kill him. The character proved to be a hit, and Liu was signed on as a regular for the series, Ling became a lawyer with the firm by pressuring Richard Fish, the firms senior partner, to hire her services as counsel. She remained a regular on the show until 2001, when her role was reduced to four episodes in the upcoming season, Lings employment history changes that season when the Governor of Massachusetts offers Ling a job as judge after Ling complimented her twin babies. Woo is a graduate of Cornell Law School where she was editor of the Law Review, Asian women are rarely given prominent roles on American television. In 1994 Margaret Cho had a brief prime-time show called All American Girl, when the show aired, there had not been another Asian-American-centered show or an Asian main character at the time the Ling character was created. Unlike the 1970s depictions of docile East Asian women on TV, Lings character was the opposite, but still a classic stereotype, that of the Dragon Lady. At the time, she was the only significant representative of Asian women on television in the United States and she remains the most memorable Asian TV character of the 1990s. Ling Woos character has described as the antithesis of Ally McBeals. For example, Woo is portrayed as evil, McBeal as good, Woo growls, at the same time, Woos verbal assaults present a fantasy of authority that appeals to even McBeal. Shes my hero, says McBeal, shes vicious, I disagree with almost everything she says, she treats me like dirt, Ling brings to mind the geisha, the unreadable Oriental, and the dragon lady. Describing her as fearsome, devouring, vicious, cool, and with an exotic sexuality, Georgia State University professor Greg Smith sees Woo as a stereotype of Asian women and her character was frequently used to examine matters related to gender definition and topics. Ling is the major character in Ally McBeal who does not have a story for the origin of her particular neurosis. She is exempt from the focus given to others in the series
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James LeGros
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James LeGros is an American actor. His mother was a teacher and his father was a real estate broker and he was raised in Redlands, California, and attended the Professional Conservatory at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, as well as the University of California, Irvine. LeGros is the son-in-law of late actor Robert Loggia, James LeGros appeared as Rick in Gus Van Sants 1989 Drugstore Cowboy. One of his roles was in Living in Oblivion. LeGros played Chad Palomino, an acting diva with endless a-list star demands for a b-movie director. LeGros appeared on Showtimes Sleeper Cell and on Law & Order and he was also a cast member on the television series Ally McBeal and guest-starred on Roseanne, Punky Brewster, The Outer Limits, and Friends. He portrayed Dr. Dan Harris on the NBC series Mercy, LeGros portrayed Peter Gray in the upcoming Dark Sky thriller Bitter Feast. He is the first actor to appear on TV as Deputy United States Marshall Raylan Givens in the TV film Pronto, LeGros also appeared on the TV series Justified as antagonist Wade Messer. Notes James LeGros at the Internet Movie Database
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LeGros at the
2006 Toronto International Film Festival
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Michael Shulman and James LeGros on the set of
Sherman's Way
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Robert Downey, Jr.
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Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of abuse and legal troubles. For three consecutive years from 2012 to 2015, Downey has topped the Forbes list of Hollywoods highest-paid actors, making an estimated $80 million in earnings between June 2014 and June 2015. He starred as the character in the 1992 film Chaplin. This earned him a Golden Globe Award and his character was written out when Downey was fired after two drug arrests in late 2000 and early 2001. After his last stay in a drug treatment program, Downey achieved sobriety. Each of these films has grossed over $500 million at the box office worldwide, four of these—The Avengers, Avengers, Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3 and Captain America, Downey Jr. has also played the title character in Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holmes and its sequel. Downey was born in Manhattan, New York, the younger of two children and his father, Robert Downey Sr. is an actor and filmmaker, while his mother, Elsie Ann, was an actress who appeared in Downey Sr. s films. Downeys father is of half Lithuanian Jewish, one-quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one-quarter Irish descent, while Downeys mother had Scottish, German, Downey and his older sister Allyson grew up in Greenwich Village. As a child, Downey was surrounded by drugs and his father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father has said he now regrets. Eventually, Downey began spending every night abusing alcohol and making a phone calls in pursuit of drugs. During his childhood Downey had minor roles in his fathers films and he made his acting debut at the age of five, playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound, and then at seven appeared in the surrealist Greasers Palace. At the age of ten, he was living in England and he attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a teenager. When his parents divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California with his father, Downey and Kiefer Sutherland, who shared the screen in the 1988 drama 1969, were roommates for three years when he first moved to Hollywood to pursue his career in acting. Downey began building upon theater roles, including in the short-lived off-Broadway musical American Passion at the Joyce Theater in 1983, rolling Stone magazine named Downey the worst SNL cast member in its entire run, stating that the Downey Fail sums up everything that makes SNL great. That same year, Downey had a dramatic acting breakthrough when he played James Spaders sidekick in Tuff Turf and he was considered for the role of Duckie in John Hughes film Pretty in Pink, but his first lead role was with Molly Ringwald in The Pick-up Artist. Because of these and other coming-of-age films Downey did during the 1980s, in 1987, Downey played Julian Wells, a drug-addicted rich boy whose life rapidly spirals out of his control, in the film version of the Bret Easton Ellis novel Less Than Zero. In 1992, he starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role for which he prepared extensively, learning how to play the violin and he had a personal coach in order to help him imitate Chaplins posture and way of carrying himself
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Downey at the 2014
San Diego Comic Con International
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Downey at the premiere of
Air America, 1990
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With
Rachel McAdams promoting
Sherlock Holmes at the 2009
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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With the cast of
The Avengers,
Joss Whedon and
Kevin Feige at the 2010
San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Julianne Nicholson
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Julianne Nicholson is an American actress. Megan Wheeler on Law & Order, Criminal Intent, and also appeared in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Showtimes Masters of Sex, as well as Ivy in the adaptation of August. As of autumn 2016, she plays the role in the new USA series Eyewitness. Nicholson was born and raised in Medford, Massachusetts, the daughter of Kate and James O. Nicholson and she is the eldest of four siblings. After graduating from Arlington Catholic High School, she modeled in New York for six months, quit for a year, after returning to New York, she attended Hunter College as a general studies major for two years. While in New York, Nicholson supported herself by waitressing and eventually left school to study acting, in her first feature film role, Nicholson starred opposite Michael Caine and James Spader in the Peter Yates film Curtain Call. Later she won what proved to be both her breakthrough and favorite role as a young feminist in Peter Chans The Love Letter. She has worked with other directors in films such Alain Berliners Passion of Mind. Her domestic comedy credits include Seeing Other People and Puccini For Beginners, among Nicholsons television credits are a supporting role in the television miniseries Storm of the Century and guest-starring roles in ER and Law & Order. She began to work some of televisions top producers. She was tapped by Steven Spielberg for the role in the paranormal drama The Others. In late 2001, Nicholson became one of the main cast members of the hit show produced by David E. Kelley, Ally McBeal and she worked with John Wells on the medical drama Presidio Med and Steven Bochco on the HBO pilot Marriage. Nicholson said her favorite Criminal Intent episode was Weeping Willow, which she described as different from a lot of the ones weve done before and very exciting. As of the Criminal Intent episode Major Case, Nicholson departed the series and was replaced by actress Saffron Burrows, in 2011, she guest-starred on Royal Pains as Jess, one of Dr. Lawsons patients, suffering from panic attacks. She also appeared on Boardwalk Empire, as the character of U. S. Assistant Attorney General Esther Randolph. In 2012, she guest-starred on The Good Wife as Callie Simko, on October 16,2016, Julianne debuted in the lead role of Sheriff Helen Torrance in USA Networks new 10-episode police drama, Eyewitness. The series involves two boys who are exploring their new feelings for each other when they witness a triple murder. But the boys hide as the murders take place, and the killer gets a look at one of them
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Julianne Nicholson the at
Toronto Film Festival in 2015.
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James Marsden
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James Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. Marsden began his acting career guest-starring in television shows Saved by the Bell, The New Class, Touched by an Angel and he gained prominence with his portrayal of Scott Summers/Cyclops in the X-Men film series and starred in 2006s Superman Returns. Since 2016, Marsden has starred as gunslinger Teddy Flood, a sentient android, in the HBO science fiction-western thriller series Westworld, as Corny Collins, he sang two songs for the films soundtrack which has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Hes had starring roles in films such as Enchanted and Hop and leading man roles in 27 Dresses. Marsden later starred in a range of independent films such as Small Apartments, Bachelorette and he also returned to television guest-starring in Modern Family and playing Liz Lemons love interest, Criss Chros in 30 Rock in a supporting role. Marsden then portrayed President John F. Kennedy in Lee Daniels The Butler and had a role as an antagonist in Anchorman 2. Marsden was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the son of Kathleen and his ancestry includes English, Scottish, German, and distant French. He has four siblings, two sisters, Jennifer and Elizabeth, and two brothers, Jeff and Robert. He attended Hefner Middle School and Putnam City North High School, in Oklahoma City, and later went on to attend Oklahoma State University and he was also a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Marsden left after one and a half years, opting instead to move to Los Angeles in order to pursue his acting career, Marsden got his first job in a series of episodes of The Nanny as Eddie, Margaret Sheffields boyfriend. Then he went on to star in the Canadian television series Boogies Diner, with the end of that series, he guest starred on other television shows such as Saved by the Bell, The New Class and Party of Five. He later starred in the ABC show Second Noah and he lost out to Edward Norton for a role in Primal Fear and turned down the lead role in 54, which later went to Ryan Phillippe. He then went on to star in Disturbing Behavior opposite Katie Holmes and he also appeared in the television series Ally McBeal, as one of the main cast members during the first half of season 5, where he also showcased his singing abilities. He also starred in a 1998 episode of The Outer Limits, Marsden was cast as Cyclops in the X-Men films. His character is prominent in the comics, his time in the films, however, is increasingly reduced. Notably, Marsden also appeared in Bryan Singers Superman Returns, Marsdens portrayal of Cyclops in the films was well received and garnered him a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has expressed interest in returning for future films, the second man Allie Hamilton falls in love with. He was apparently cast for his resemblance to Garner, who played the older Noah Calhoun
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Marsden at the world premiere of
Robot & Frank in January 22, 2012
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Marsden on the set of
Enchanted in 2006
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Josh Hopkins
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William Joshua Josh Hopkins is an American actor and amateur musician. Hopkins was born in Lexington, Kentucky and he has participated in many TV series and films. He is the writer and performer of the song Feigning Interest, in 2015, he starred in the ABC thriller Quantico as Liam OConnor. Hopkins was born in Lexington, Kentucky on September 12,1970, Hopkins joined the fourth, and the last season, of New York Undercover in 1998. In 1999 Hopkins starred in Alanis Morissettes Unsent music video, Hopkins portrayed Paul Allen in the 1999 film Pirates of Silicon Valley, and Raymond Milbury on the television series Ally McBeal. He portrayed womanizer Charlie Babcock on the television series Pepper Dennis and he later worked with his former Ally McBeal co-star Calista Flockhart when he had a recurring role on Brothers & Sisters. He also had a regular role as Peter Manning on the cancelled Fox drama Vanished. In 2005, Hopkins guest starred on Foxs hit show Bones as Temperance Brennans former professor and lover, Michael Stires, Hopkins has also guest starred in CSI, Miami. Season 1 of the CBS series Cold Case saw Hopkins play the role of Assistant District Attorney Jason Kite, the show was especially noted for the on-screen chemistry between Hopkins character and the character of Detective Lilly Rush, played by Kathryn Morris. Hopkins starred in the 2008 CBS summer drama Swingtown as Roger Thompson, the series was originally intended for the Fall 2007 season, but was postponed due to the writers strike. It has sparked controversy for its portrayal of 1970s culture, including open marriage. In 2009, Hopkins appeared as Dr. Noah Barnes in season 2 of ABCs Private Practice and he went on to play the character Grayson Ellis on the sitcom Cougar Town, which premiered September 23,2009 on ABC and later moved to TBS. In 2015, Hopkins joined the main cast for Quantico playing the role of Liam OConnor, buddyTV ranked him #73 on its list of TVs Sexiest Men of 2011
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Hopkins in 2010
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Hayden Panettiere
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Hayden Leslie Panettiere is an American actress, model, singer, and activist. A native of New York City, she first appeared in a commercial at the age of 11 months. Other notable roles include her portrayal of the character in the true crime drama Amanda Knox, Murder on Trial in Italy. She received two nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Panettiere was born in and partly raised in Palisades, New York. She is the daughter of Lesley R. Vogel, a soap opera actress, and Alan Lee Skip Panettiere. She has Italian, and some English and German ancestry and she has one younger brother, fellow actor Jansen Panettiere. Her mothers family lives in Indiana, after Panettiere attended South Orangetown Middle School in New York, she was homeschooled from grade nine to the completion of high school. Panettiere first appeared in commercials at the age of 11 months, while on Guiding Light, Panettieres character Lizzie battled leukemia. For drawing the attention of viewers to the disease, and for improving national awareness. In 2004, Panettiere had her first starring role in the Disney Channel film Tiger Cruise, Panettiere became most prominent as Claire Bennet in the NBC series Heroes, which was created by Tim Kring, as a high school cheerleader with regenerative healing powers. Panettiere has complained that her options are sometimes limited because people look at as either the popular cheerleader type or just the blonde. In early 2007, Panettiere appeared on the MTV show, Punkd, the appearance was engineered by her mother and involved a male fan discussing her work with her, instigating a jealous reaction from the mans spouse. In April 2012, she hosted an episode of the new series, in March 2012, it was announced Panettiere had been cast opposite Connie Britton on the ABC musical drama series Nashville. In May 2012, ABC bought the pilot as a series, the pilot reunites Panettiere with Burgess Jenkins from Remember the Titans. ABC canceled the series in May 2016 but it was picked up by CMT. In 1999, she portrayed the girl on a sailboat in Message In A Bottle. She played the role of Coach Yoasts daughter, Sheryl, in the 2000 Disney film Remember the Titans, in 2004, she played Kate Hudsons title characters adolescent niece in Raising Helen. In 2005, she was the title characters rival in a skating contest in Ice Princess, in the same year she played the main role in the film Racing Stripes as budding jockey Channing Walsh
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Panettiere at The 6th Annual Hollywood Style Awards in
Beverly Hills, 2009
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Panettiere with Heroes co-star
Milo Ventimiglia (left)
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Panettiere in London, 2007
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At Fan Expo 2011 in Toronto, Canada
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Dylan McDermott
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Dylan McDermott is an American actor. He also starred as Lt. Carter Shaw on the TNT series Dark Blue, McDermott was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of Diane and Richard McDermott. He is of Italian, Irish, English, and French descent, Diane was 15 and Richard was 17 when McDermott was born, by 1967, the couple had divorced, and Diane and her two children were living with her mother, Avis Marino. On February 9,1967, Diane was killed, sponza told authorities that Diane accidentally shot herself after picking up a gun he had been cleaning. Sponza, who police say had ties to organized crime, was killed in 1972, his body was found in the trunk of a car in a Waltham, Massachusetts, McDermott and his sister were raised by Avis in Waterbury. As a teenager, he began taking trips to visit his father, the two would go to the movies and the younger McDermott would work in his fathers bar, serving drinks and breaking up fights. He would also fast-talk his way into the Mudd Club and Studio 54, McDermott was uncomfortable with himself as a teenager, saying he had a Dorothy Hamill hairdo. He began to imitate his acting heroes, such as Marlon Brando and Humphrey Bogart, McDermott graduated from Holy Cross High School in Waterbury. McDermotts fathers third wife was playwright Eve Ensler, who legally adopted McDermott when he was 15 and she has since divorced his father. Ensler, with whom McDermott has remained close, encouraged him to pursue an acting career, after Ensler suffered a miscarriage, he took on the name Dylan, the name planned for her unborn child. He attended acting school at the Jesuit-run Fordham University, as well as studying under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, McDermott starred as Chris in the 1989 film Twister about a man who tried to rescue his girlfriend and daughter from a tornado storm. The same year brought Neon Empire, a movie about the rise, however, his first big break as an actor was in the hit film In the Line of Fire. Through his connection with Clint Eastwood, McDermott was able to land his first major gig in The Practice, the show expanded McDermotts stardom, and he made Peoples list of the 50 Most Beautiful People In The World 1998 with the magazine calling him a prime-time heartthrob. He got this distinction again in 2000, despite his success on The Practice, McDermott was cut from the show. Executive producer David E. Kelley cited economic and creative realities as a result of pressure from ABC to reduce costs, McDermott did appear in the final two episodes of the final season. In 2004, McDermott starred alongside Julianna Margulies four-part mini-series The Grid, returning to theater in 2006, the actor played a returned soldier suffering from post traumatic stress disorder in the Enslers play The Treatment. In 2007, McDermott starred in the television series Big Shots, due to low viewership, the show was canceled in January 2008 after 11 episodes without completing the planned 13-episode season. Beginning in 2009, McDermott starred in the TNT drama Dark Blue, the show ran for two seasons, each consisting of ten episodes
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McDermott at a charity event in
West Hollywood, California, February 2014
34.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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Lara Flynn Boyle is an American actress. She is best known for her performances as Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks and she has also appeared in films including Happiness and Men in Black II. Boyle was born in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of Sally, a worker, assistant, and manager. She has German, Irish, and Italian ancestry and she is named after a character in Boris Pasternaks novel Doctor Zhivago. She was raised in Chicago, Illinois and Wisconsin and she graduated from The Chicago Academy for the Arts. Boyles first film role was a bit part in Ferris Buellers Day Off and she then appeared in the mini-series Amerika and feature film Poltergeist III. Although she was cast in Dead Poets Society, her scenes were deleted and her first major role was as Donna Hayward in the critically acclaimed television series Twin Peaks. When the series ended in 1991, creator David Lynch produced a movie, Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me, in November 2015, it was revealed that she will not be reprising the role for the third season set to air in 2017. She starred on show until 2003, when, in a dramatic attempt to revamp the show and cut costs. For her performance as Helen Gamble, she received an Emmy nomination as well as several Screen Actors Guild ensemble cast nominations. Boyle also made a appearance in the role of Helen Gamble in an episode of Ally McBeal. In 2002, Boyle played a role in the blockbuster feature film Men in Black II as the villainous shapeshifting alien Serleena. She also guest-starred on one of the last episodes of Ally McBeal, this time as Tally Cupp, in 2005, Boyle joined the cast of Las Vegas for a seven-episode stint as Monica Mancuso, a new hotel owner. She played Barbara Amiel in the TV true story Shades of Black, about Amiels controversial husband, Boyle also guest-starred as an ambitious reporter involved with the suspects in a possible murder in the Law & Order 2008 episode Submission. Boyle was in a relationship with Twin Peaks partner Kyle MacLachlan. She also dated comedian David Spade and they went public with their romance at the 1999 Emmys, and remained together until the end of 2000. Her first husband was John Patrick Dee III, whom she married on August 11,1996 and her current husband is Donald Ray Thomas II, a real-estate investor, whom she married on December 18,2006, in San Antonio, Texas. Lara Flynn Boyle at the Internet Movie Database Lara Flynn Boyle at AllMovie
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Lara Flynn Boyle at the 42nd Emmy Awards - Governor's Ball in September 1990
35.
Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics
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Volume 1, Number 1 (February 16, 1990), cover featuring singer
k.d. lang
36.
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and womens rights activist who played a pivotal role in the womens suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, in 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of womens rights. In 1852, they founded the New York Womens State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female, in 1866, they initiated the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. In 1868, they began publishing a womens rights newspaper called The Revolution, in 1869, they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association as part of a split in the womens movement. In 1876, Anthony and Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage, the interests of Anthony and Stanton diverged somewhat in later years, but the two remained close friends. In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, although she refused to pay the fine, the authorities declined to take further action. In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote, popularly known as the Anthony Amendment and introduced by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent, it became the Nineteenth Amendment to the U. S. Anthony traveled extensively in support of suffrage, giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year. She worked internationally for womens rights, playing a key role in creating the International Council of Women and she also helped to bring about the Worlds Congress of Representative Women at the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. When she first began campaigning for rights, Anthony was harshly ridiculed and accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage. Public perception of her changed radically during her lifetime, however and her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley. She became the first actual woman to be depicted on U. S. coinage when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar coin. Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15,1820, to Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read in Adams, Massachusetts and her family shared a passion for social reform. Her brothers Daniel and Merritt moved to Kansas to support the movement there. Merritt fought with John Brown against pro-slavery forces during the Bleeding Kansas crisis, Daniel eventually owned a newspaper and became mayor of Leavenworth. Anthonys sister Mary, with whom she shared a home in years, became a public school principal in Rochester. Anthonys father was an abolitionist and a temperance advocate, a Quaker, he had a difficult relationship with his traditionalist congregation, which rebuked him for marrying a non-Quaker and then disowned him for allowing a dance school to operate in his home
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Headmistress Susan B. Anthony in 1848 at age 28
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Portrait of Susan B. Anthony that was used in the
History of Woman Suffrage
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Susan B. Anthony
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Betty Friedan
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Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the movement in the United States. The national strike was successful beyond expectations in broadening the feminist movement, in 1971, Friedan joined other leading feminists to establish the National Womens Political Caucus. Regarded as an author and intellectual in the United States, Friedan remained active in politics and advocacy for the rest of her life. As early as the 1960s Friedan was critical of polarized and extreme factions of feminism that attacked groups such as men, one of her later books, The Second Stage, critiqued what Friedan saw as the extremist excesses of some feminists. Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein on February 4,1921 in Peoria, Illinois, to Harry and Miriam Goldstein, whose Jewish families were from Russia and Hungary. Harry owned a store in Peoria, and Miriam wrote for the society page of a newspaper when Friedans father fell ill. Her mothers new life outside the home seemed much more gratifying and she attended Peoria High School, and became involved in the school newspaper. When her application to write a column was turned down, she and six other friends launched a magazine called Tide. She attended all-female Smith College in 1938 and she won a scholarship prize in her first year for outstanding academic performance. In her second year she became interested in poetry, and had poems published in campus publications. In 1941, she became editor-in-chief of the college newspaper, the editorials became more political under her leadership, taking a strong antiwar stance and occasionally causing controversy. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1942 with a major in psychology, in 1943 she spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley on a fellowship for graduate work in psychology with Erik Erikson. She became more active, continuing to mix with Marxists. In her memoirs, she claimed that her boyfriend at the time had pressured her into turning down a Ph. D. fellowship for further study, after leaving Berkeley, Friedan became a journalist for leftist and labor union publications. Between 1943 and 1946 she wrote for The Federated Press and between 1946 and 1952 she worked for the United Electrical Workers UE News, one of her assignments was to report on the House Un-American Activities Committee. Friedan was dismissed from the union newspaper UE News in 1952 because she was pregnant with her second child, after leaving UE News she became a freelance writer for various magazines, including Cosmopolitan. For her 15th college reunion in 1957 Friedan conducted a survey of graduates, focusing on their education, subsequent experiences
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Friedan in 1960
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(left to right): Billington, Friedan, Ireton, and
Rawalt
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Gloria Steinem
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Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969, Steinem published an article, After Black Power, Womens Liberation, in 2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Womens Media Center, an organization that works to make women visible and powerful in the media. Steinem currently travels internationally as an organizer and lecturer, and is a spokeswoman on issues of equality. Steinem was born on March 25,1934, in Toledo, Ohio and her mother was a Presbyterian of mostly German, and some Scottish, descent. Her father was Jewish, the son of immigrants from Württemberg, Germany and Radziejów, pauline also rescued many members of her family from the Holocaust. The Steinems lived and traveled about in the trailer from which Leo carried out his trade as an antiques dealer. Before Steinem was born, her mother Ruth, then aged 34, had a breakdown which left her an invalid. Ruth spent long periods in and out of sanatoriums for the mentally ill, Steinem was ten years old when her parents finally separated in 1944. Her father went to California to find work, while she, Steinem concluded that her mothers inability to hold on to a job was evidence of general hostility towards working women. She also concluded that the general apathy of doctors towards her mother emerged from a similar anti-woman animus, years later, Steinem described her mothers experiences as having been pivotal to her understanding of social injustices. These perspectives convinced Steinem that women lacked social and political equality, Steinem attended Waite High School in Toledo and Western High School in Washington, D. C. graduating from the latter. She then attended Smith College, an institution with which she continues to remain engaged, in the late 1950s, Steinem spent two years in India as a Chester Bowles Asian Fellow. After returning to the U. S. she served as director of the Independent Research Service and she worked to send non-Communist American students to the 1959 World Youth Festival. In 1960, she was hired by Warren Publishing as the first employee of Help and her resulting 1962 article about the way in which women are forced to choose between a career and marriage preceded Betty Friedans book The Feminine Mystique by one year. In 1963, while working on an article for Huntington Hartfords Show magazine, the article, published in 1963 as A Bunnys Tale, featured a photo of Steinem in Bunny uniform and detailed how women were treated at those clubs. However, for a period after the article was published, Steinem was unable to land other assignments, in her words. Steinem eventually landed a job at Felkers newly founded New York magazine in 1968, in the interim, she conducted a 1964 interview with John Lennon for Cosmopolitan magazine. In 1965, she wrote for NBC-TVs weekly satirical revue, That Was The Week That Was, in 1969, she covered an abortion speak-out for New York Magazine, which was held in a church basement in Greenwich, New York
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Gloria Steinem at the
Ms. Foundation for Women 's 23rd annual Gloria Awards, which were named for her, on May 19, 2011.
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Steinem at Brighton High School, Brighton, Colorado, in November 2008
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Both Sides Now (song)
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Both Sides, Now is a song by Joni Mitchell, and one of her best-known songs. First recorded by Judy Collins in 1967, it appeared on Mitchells 1969 album Clouds. Mitchell wrote Both Sides, Now in March 1967, inspired by a passage in Henderson the Rain King, I was reading Saul Bellows Henderson the Rain King on a plane and early in the book Henderson the Rain King is also up in a plane. Hes on his way to Africa and he looks down and sees these clouds, I put down the book, looked out the window and saw clouds too, and I immediately started writing the song. I had no idea that the song would become as popular as it did, Both Sides, Now is written in F-sharp major. Mitchell used a tuning of E–B–E–G♯–B–E with a capo at the second fret. The song uses a modified I–IV–V chord progression, in April 2000 Mitchell sang the song with a 70-piece orchestra at the end of an all-star celebration for her at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. The version was featured on the soundtrack of the movie Love Actually, Judy Collins recorded the first commercially released version of the song, shortly after Mitchell wrote it, for her 1967 Wildflowers album. In October 1968 it was released as a single, reaching #8 on the U. S. pop singles charts by December, in early 1969 it won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. The record peaked at #3 on Billboards Easy Listening survey and Both Sides, rolling Stone ranked Both Sides, Now #171 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Mitchells song has been recorded by other artists over the decades. For his version, folk legend Pete Seeger added a fourth verse with her permission. Fairport Convention recorded the song as a demo in 1967, the bands recording did not become available until 2000, however, when it appeared on The Guvnor Vol 4 by Ashley Hutchings. 1960s Dave Van Ronk recorded the song under the title Clouds for his 1967 album Dave Van Ronk, anne Murray recorded the song for her 1968 debut album What About Me. Catherine McKinnon Claudine Longet recorded a French version of the song for her 1968 album Colours, the Collection released the song on their 1968 single on the Hot Biscuit Disc Company label. Frank Sinatra recorded the song under the title From Both Sides, Harpers Bizarre recorded the song for their 1968 album Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre. Leonard Nimoy recorded the song for his 1968 album The Way I Feel, marie Laforêt recorded a French version of the song with adapted lyrics by Eddy Marnay in 1968 under the title Je nai rien appris. Robert Goulet recorded the song for his 1968 album Both Sides Now, christine Charbonneau recorded her own version of the song under the title Je navais pas compris released in Quebec in 1969 on Gamma Records
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"Both Sides, Now"
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Piano bar
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A piano bar consists of a piano or electronic keyboard played by a professional musician, located in a cocktail lounge, bar, hotel lobby, office building lobby, restaurant, or on a cruise ship. Usually the pianist receives a small salary plus tips in a jar or basket on or near the piano, some piano bars feature a baby grand or grand piano surrounded by stools for patrons. Others have a bar surrounding the piano or keyboard, jimmy Durante started as a piano bar player, as did Billy Joel. Joels classic hit Piano Man is based on his experiences as a piano bar player, italian tenor Andrea Bocelli also played in piano bars to pay for singing lessons. Theatre historian John Kenrick describes the piano bar as follows, A piano bar is a creature, part performance space, part living room, part cruise-a-thon. The bar is there to sell drinks, the pianist is there to perform, all of this means that its impossible to predict what a given evenings chemistry will be, even if most of the people on hand are regular customers. While every factor counts, the most important issue is the person at the piano, the pianist determines the type of music, the style of performance, and the general tone of the evening. The experienced piano bar player knows how to take control of most any situation. Only the musician sings, the professional piano/keyboard player sings to his/her accompaniment, usually on microphone, examples include Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge. Musician and waiters sing, the musician sings and also invites waiters to sing solos. But in some cases pop or rock and it is a social venue for singing. Examples include Maries Crisis Cafe and The Duplex in Greenwich Village, dueling pianos, usually on stage with two grand pianos, each played by a professional player who sings and entertains, humor and audience participation are prevalent. Usually these types of piano bars have substantial sound systems, and most of the songs performed are rock and roll, classic rock, Top 40, R&B or country, the format is based on dueling piano entertainments offered at Pat OBriens Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Alley in Oakland, California, uses this format, combination, some piano bars include the characteristics of two or more of the above, either on different nights or combined on the same night. Able to perform at any location
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Tom Saputo at
Open Mic piano bar at Squire Rockwell's, Annandale, Virginia
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Postcard from Pat O'Brien's Bar in New Orleans showing the dueling pianos format
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Leitmotif
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A leitmotif or leitmotiv /ˌlaɪtmoʊˈtiːf/ is a short, constantly recurring musical phrase associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related to the concepts of idée fixe or motto-theme. The spelling leitmotif is an anglicization of the German Leitmotiv, literally meaning leading motif, or perhaps more accurately, a musical motif has been defined as a short musical idea. It may also be combined with other leitmotifs to suggest a new dramatic condition or development, although usually a short melody, it can also be a chord progression or even a simple rhythm. Leitmotifs can help to bind a work together into a coherent whole, by association, the word has also been used to mean any sort of recurring theme, in literature, or the life of a fictional character or a real person. It is sometimes used in discussion of other musical genres, such as instrumental pieces, cinema. The use of characteristic, short, recurring motives in orchestral music can be traced back to the seventeenth century. In French opera of the eighteenth century, reminiscence motif can be identified. Their use, however, is not extensive or systematic, indeed, the first use of the word leitmotif in print was by the critic Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns in describing Webers work, although this was not until 1871. Motives also figured occasionally in purely instrumental music of the romantic period, the related idea of the musical idée fixe was coined by Hector Berlioz in reference to his Symphonie fantastique. This purely instrumental, programmatic work features a recurring melody representing the object of the artists obsessive affection and depicting her presence in various real, in La forza del destino, the opening theme of the overture recurs whenever Leonora feels guilt or fear. In Il Trovatore, the theme of the first aria by Azucena is repeated whenever she invokes the horror of how her mother was burnt alive, Richard Wagner is the earliest composer most specifically associated with the concept of leitmotif. His cycle of four operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, uses hundreds of leitmotifs, often related to characters, things. While some of these occur in only one of the operas. Wagner had raised the issue of how music could best unite disparate elements of the plot of a drama in his essay Opera and Drama. Some controversy surrounded the use of the word in Wagners own circle, Wagner never authorised the use of the leitmotiv, using words such as Grundthema. His preferred name for the technique was Hauptmotiv, which he first used in 1877, the word gained currency with the overly literal interpretations of Wagners music by Hans von Wolzogen, who in 1876 published a Leitfaden to the Ring. In it he claimed to have isolated and named all of the motifs in the cycle
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Leitmotif associated with Siegfried in
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The leitmotif associated with Salome herself in Richard Strauss's opera
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Wicked Witch of the West
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The Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional character and the most significant antagonist in L. Frank Baums childrens book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In Baums subsequent Oz books, it is the Nome King who is the principal villain, the witchs most popular depiction was in the classic 1939 film based on Baums book, where she was portrayed by Margaret Hamilton. The Wicked Witch of the West is the malevolent ruler of the Winkie Country and her castle is described as beautiful instead of being the sinister fortress shown in the movie. In all versions, she is seriously aquaphobic, Frank Baums Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. She shows no interest in the death of the Eastern Witch, W. W. Denslows illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz depict her as a paunched old hag with three pigtails and an eye-patch. L. Frank Baum himself specified that she only had one eye, other illustrators, such as Paul Granger, placed her eye in the center of her forehead, as a cyclops. Usually, she is wearing an eye patch, however some illustrations show her with two eyes. Possibly to suggest that the witch actually has two eyes, but has no vision in one of them, most of her power resides in the creatures she controls. She has a pack of wolves, a swarm of bees, a flock of crows and she possesses the enchanted Golden Cap, which compels the winged monkeys to obey her on three occasions. First, the witch commanded the creatures to help her enslave the Winkies, second, she made the winged monkeys drive Oz out of the Winkie Country, when he attempted to overthrow her. Each of these attempts were thwarted, but the protagonists are eventually subdued by the Witchs third, nevertheless, the old witch cannot kill Dorothy because the girl is protected by the Good Witch of the Norths kiss. She therefore settles for enslaving Dorothy, and tries to force the Cowardly Lion into submission by starving him, upon seeing the Silver Shoes on the girls feet, the Wicked Witch decides to steal them, and thereby acquire even more power. When she succeeds in acquiring one silver shoe by making Dorothy trip over an invisible bar and this causes the old witch to melt away. The Wicked Witchs dryness was enumerated in some clues before this, furthermore, when Toto had bitten her, she had not bled, her wickedness had dried her up long ago. Unfortunately, L. Frank Baum did not explain precisely why water had this effect on her, nor did he ever imply that all evil witches could be likewise destroyed. However, the wicked witch Mombi is similarly disposed of in The Lost King of Oz, the most likely explanation of Baum making water the Achilles heel of these witches is the long held belief amongst major religions that water is effective for purifying the soul and combating evil. The Witch did not carry a broom in the novel, but rather an umbrella and her nature is a volatile and yet somewhat cowardly one. Despite her immense power, she avoids face-to-face contact with her enemies and she is also afraid of the dark in Baums original story for reasons never revealed
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Margaret Hamilton as the Witch in the 1939 film version, threatening Dorothy (
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Margaret Hamilton and Oscar The Grouch in 1976
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Mila Kunis as Theodora in
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
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The film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Notable for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and it was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind. It did win in two categories, including Best Original Song for Over the Rainbow and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart. However, the film was a box office disappointment on its release, earning only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget. It was MGMs most expensive production at that time, and did not completely recoup the studios investment and turn a profit until theatrical re-releases starting in 1949. The film was named the most-viewed motion picture on television syndication by the Library of Congress, designation on the registry calls for efforts to preserve it for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. It is also one of the few films on UNESCOs Memory of the World Register, the Wizard of Oz is often ranked on best-movie lists in critics and public polls. It is the source of many quotes referenced in popular culture. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming, noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but uncredited contributions were made by others. The songs were written by Edgar Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, the musical score and the incidental music were composed by Stothart. The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone, Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothys dog gets in trouble with a neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch. However, Dorothys family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay attention to her, Miss Gulch arrives with permission from the sheriff to have Toto euthanized. She takes him away, but he escapes and returns to Dorothy and they meet Professor Marvel, a phony but kindly fortune teller, who realizes Dorothy has run away and tricks her via his crystal ball into believing that Aunt Em is ill so that she must return home. She races home just as a tornado strikes. Unable to get into her familys storm cellar, she seeks safety in her bedroom, a wind-blown window sash hits her in the head, knocking her out. The house is picked up and sent spinning in the air by the twister, the farmhouse crashes in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz, where the film changes to Technicolor. Glinda the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins welcome her as their heroine, as the house has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East, leaving only her stocking feet exposed
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Theatrical release poster
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Dorothy (
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The film's main characters (left to right): the
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Buddy Ebsen 's first makeup test as the Tin Man.
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Kay Starr
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Katherine Laverne Starks, known as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, Wheel of Fortune and The Rock And Roll Waltz, Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, jazz, pop and country. But her roots were in jazz, billie Holiday, considered by many the greatest jazz singer of all time, called Starr the only white woman who could sing the blues. Kay Starr was born Katherine Laverne Starks on a reservation in Dougherty and her father, Harry, was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian, her mother, Annie, was of mixed Irish and American Indian heritage. When her father got a job installing water systems for the Automatic Sprinkler Company. There, her mother raised chickens, whom Kay serenaded in the coop, Kays aunt Nora was impressed by her 7-year-old nieces singing and arranged for her to sing on a Dallas radio station, WRR. First she took a talent competition by storm, finishing 3rd one week, eventually she had her own 15-minute show. She sang pop and hillbilly songs with a piano accompaniment, by age 10 she was making $3 a night, which was quite a salary during the Great Depression. When Starrs father changed jobs, the moved to Memphis, Tennessee. She sang Western swing music, still mostly a mix of country, during this time at Memphis radio station WMPS, misspellings in her fan mail inspired her and her parents to change her name to Kay Starr. At 15, she was chosen to sing with the Joe Venuti orchestra, Venuti had a contract to play in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis which called for his band to feature a girl singer, a performer he did not have at the time. Venutis road manager heard Starr on the radio and recommended her to his boss although she was still in high school. Though she had stints in 1939 with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller. It was, however, with Miller that she cut her first two recordings, Baby Me and Love with a Capital You. They were not a success, in part because the band played in a key that, while appropriate for Marion Hutton. In 1946 Starr became a soloist, and in 1947 signed a contract with Capitol Records. The label had a number of female singers signed up including Peggy Lee, Ella Mae Morse, Jo Stafford and Margaret Whiting, so it was hard to find her a niche of her own. In 1948 when the American Federation of Musicians was threatening a strike, being junior to all these other artists meant that every song Starr wanted to sing was taken by her rivals on the label, leaving her a list of old songs which nobody else wanted to record
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Starr in 1999
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance, the eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music, the popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame. Jacksons 1987 album Bad spawned the U. S and he continued to innovate with videos such as Black or White and Scream throughout the 1990s, and forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and his distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres. Thriller is the album of all time, with estimated sales of 65 million copies worldwide. Jacksons other albums, including Off the Wall, Bad, Dangerous and he is recognized as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time by Guinness World Records. Jackson won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. He became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when Love Never Felt So Good reached number nine on May 21,2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, aspects of Jacksons personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In 1993, he was accused of sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse allegations. While preparing for his concert series, This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25,2009. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician, Jacksons death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world. Forbes ranks Jackson as the dead celebrity with earnings of $825 million in 2016. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 and his mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovahs Witness. She played clarinet and piano and once aspired to be a country-and-western performer, michaels father, Joseph Walter Joe Jackson, a former boxer, was a steelworker at U. S. Steel
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Jackson performing in 1988, during the Bad World Tour
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Jackson's childhood home in
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Jackson (center) as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1972.
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Jackson wearing his famous
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Barry White
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Barry White, was an American singer-songwriter and composer. During the course of his career in the business, White achieved 106 gold albums worldwide,41 of which also attained platinum status. White had 20 gold and 10 platinum singles, with record sales in excess of 100 million. His influences included Rev. James Cleveland, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Elvis Presley plus Motown artists The Supremes, the Four Tops, White was born Barry Eugene Carter in Galveston, Texas on September 12,1944, and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. White was the older of two children and his brother Darryl was 13 months younger than Barry. He grew up listening to his mothers classical music collection and first took to the piano, White has often been credited with playing piano, at age eleven, on Jesse Belvins 1956 hit single, Goodnight My Love. However, in a 1995 interview with Larry Katz of the Boston Herald and he believed the story was an exaggeration by journalists. While White and Belvin lived in the neighborhood, Belvin was twelve years older than White. Whites voice deepened suddenly when he was 14, White recalled, I had a normal squeaky kid voice. Then as a teenager, that completely changed and my mother cried because she knew her baby boy had become a man. His brother Darryl was murdered in a clash with a rival gang, while in jail, White listened to Elvis Presley singing Its Now or Never on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life. After his release from jail, White left gang life and began a career at the beginning of the 1960s in singing groups. He first released Too Far to Turn Around in 1960 as part of The Upfronts before working for small independent labels in Los Angeles. He also recorded several singles under his own name in the early 1960s, backed by vocal groups the Atlantics and he discovered singer Felice Taylor and arranged her song I Feel Love Comin On co-written with his friend Paul Politi It became a big hit in the UK. Other charting hits written by White and Politi for her included It May Be Winter Outside, White also wrote Doin the Banana Split for TV bubblegum act The Banana Splits in 1968. In 1972, White got his big break producing a group he had discovered called Love Unlimited. Formed in imitative style of the Motown girl group The Supremes and his friend Paul Politi hooked him up with music industry businessman Larry Nunes, who helped to finance their album. After it was recorded, Nunes took the recording to Russ Regan, the album, 1972s From A Girls Point of View We Give to You
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Barry White at the Grand Gala du Disque Populaire, 1974.
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Al Green
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Inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, Green was referred to on the museums site as being one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music. He has also referred to as The Last of the Great Soul Singers. Green was included in the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Al Green was born Albert Leornes Greene on April 13,1946, in Forrest City, Arkansas. The sixth of ten born to Cora Lee and Robert G. Greene, Jr. a sharecropper. The Greene family relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the late 1950s, Al was kicked out of the family home while in his teens, after his religiously devout father caught him listening to Jackie Wilson. I also listened to Mahalia Jackson, all the great gospel singers, but the most important music to me was those hip-shakin’ boys, Wilson Pickett and Elvis Presley. Whatever he got, I went out and bought, in high school, Al formed a vocal group called Al Greene & the Creations. Two of the members, Curtis Rodgers and Palmer James. In 1968, having changed their name to Al Greene & the Soul Mates, they recorded the song Back Up Train, the song was a hit on the R&B charts. However, the groups subsequent follow-ups failed to chart, as did their debut album, while performing with the Soul Mates, Green came into contact with Memphis record producer Willie Mitchell, who hired him in 1969 to be a vocalist for a Texas show with Mitchells band. Following the performance, Mitchell asked Green to sign with his Hi Records label, having noted that Green had been trying to sing like Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett and James Brown, Mitchell became his vocal mentor, coaching him into finding his own voice. Before releasing his first album with Hi, Green removed the final e from his name, subsequently, he released Green Is Blues, which was a moderate success. His follow-up album, Al Green Gets Next to You, featured the hit R&B cover of the Temptations I Cant Get Next to You, Greens next album, Lets Stay Together, solidified his place in soul music. The title track was his biggest hit to date, reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts, the album became his first to be certified gold. His follow-up, Im Still in Love with You went platinum with the help of the singles Look What You Done for Me and the title track, both of which went to the top ten on the Hot 100. His next album, Call Me, released in 1973, produced three top ten singles, You Ought to Be with Me, Call Me and Here I Am. Greens album Livin for You, released at the end of 1973, was his last album to be certified gold, Green continued to record successful R&B hits in the next several years including Livin for You, Lets Get Married, Sha-La-La, L-O-V-E and Full of Fire. His last Hi Records album, Truth n Time, was released in 1978, two years later, he left Hi for Myrrh Records and recorded only gospel music for the next decade and a half
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Green in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort,
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Tina Turner
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Tina Turner, is an American-born Swiss recording artist, dancer, actress, and author, whose career has spanned more than half a century, earning her widespread recognition and numerous awards. Born and raised in the Southeastern United States, Turner obtained Swiss citizenship in 2013 and she began her musical career in the mid-1950s as a featured singer with Ike Turners Kings of Rhythm, first recording in 1958 under the name Little Ann. Her introduction to the public as Tina Turner began in 1960 as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of notable hits credited to the duo, including A Fool in Love, River Deep – Mountain High, Proud Mary, and Nutbush City Limits, a song which she herself wrote. In her autobiography, I, Tina, she revealed several instances of domestic abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split. After her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career through live performances, Whats Love Got to Do with It, the lead single won three Grammy Awards including Record of the Year. Whats Love Got to Do with It was later used as the title of a loosely based biographical film adapted from her autobiography, One of the worlds best-selling artists of all time, she has also been referred to as The Queen of Rock n Roll. Turner has been termed the most successful female Rock n Roll artist, receiving eleven Grammy Awards, including eight competitive awards, Turner has also sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. Her combined album and single sales total approximately 180 million copies worldwide and she is noted for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and career longevity. In 2008, Turner returned from semi-retirement to embark on her Tina, Turners tour became one of the highest selling ticketed shows of 2008–09. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Turner no.63 on their list of 100 greatest artists of all time, in 1991, Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Turner announced in December 2016 that she has been working on Tina, Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26,1939, in Nutbush, an unincorporated area in Haywood County, Tennessee. Her parents were Zelma Priscilla and Floyd Richard Bullock, Anna Mae was born at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180, where her father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers. She is of African-American descent, with approximately 33% European and 1% Native American ancestry, Anna Mae had an older sister, Ruby Aillene. As young children, Anna Mae and Aillene were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, after the war, the sisters reunited with their parents and moved with them to Knoxville. Two years later, the returned to Nutbush to live in the Flagg Grove community. In 1889, her uncle had sold the land on which the school was built to the school trustees. As a youngster, Anna Mae sang in the choir at Nutbushs Spring Hill Baptist Church
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Turner performing in 1996
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Turner performing with
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Turner performing 1972
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Turner on tour with special guest
Eric Clapton, June 17, 1987 in
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Macy Gray
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Macy Gray is an American R&B, jazz and soul singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actress, known for her distinctive raspy voice, and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday. Gray has released six albums, and received five Grammy Award nominations. She has appeared in a number of films, including Training Day, Spider-Man, Scary Movie 3, Lackawanna Blues, Idlewild, Gray is best known for her international hit single I Try, taken from her multi-platinum debut album On How Life Is. In 2016, Gray made an artistic leap by changing labels to record an album produced with binaural sound. Stripped marked the singers first steps into the world of audiophile recordings, Natalie McIntyre was born in Canton, Ohio, the daughter of Laura McIntyre, a math schoolteacher, and Otis Jones who left when she was a baby. Her stepfather was a steelworker, and she has a sister who would become a biology teacher and she began piano lessons at age seven. A childhood bicycle mishap resulted in her noticing a mailbox of a man named Macy Gray, she used the name in stories she wrote, Gray attended school with Brian Warner although they did not know each other. She attended more than one school including a boarding school which asked her to leave due to her behavior. She attended college at the University of Southern California and studied scriptwriting, while attending the University of Southern California, she agreed to write songs for a friend. A demo session was scheduled for the songs to be recorded by another singer, I started forming bands and writing songs just for fun and then I really got into it and got attached to it. Then a friend of mine asked me to be a singer in his jazz band and he gave me all these jazz CDs and I studied all these different singers and I kind of taught myself how to sing for a gig, but I didnt take it seriously until later. She then met writer-producer Joe Solo while working as a cashier in Beverly Hills, together, they wrote a collection of songs and recorded them in Solos studio. The demo tape gave Gray the opportunity to sing at jazz cafés in Los Angeles, initially, Gray did not consider her unusual voice desirable for singing, Atlantic Records signed her. She began recording her debut record but was dropped from the label upon the departure of A&R man Tom Carolan, in 1998, she landed a record deal with Epic Records. She performed on Love Wont Wait, a song on the Black Eyed Peas debut album Behind the Front, Gray worked on her debut album in 1999 with producer Darryl Swann. Released in the summer of 1999, On How Life Is became a worldwide smash, despite the first single Do Something stalling on the charts, the release of the second single I Try made the album a success for Gray. I Try was one of the biggest singles of 1999, and subsequent singles Still and Why Didnt You Call Me ensured the album triple platinum in the US, quadruple platinum in the UK. In 2001, Gray won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for I Try and she then collaborated with Fatboy Slim, the Black Eyed Peas, and Slick Rick, as well as acting for the first time, in the thriller Training Day
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Macy performs in Memphis, April 2011
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Gray in 1995
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Gray visiting the Astrodome as a volunteer, in Houston, Texas, September 3, 2005
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Gray performing at the Live Earth Brazil concert at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro on July 7, 2007
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Gloria Gaynor
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Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits I Will Survive, Never Can Say Goodbye, Let Me Know and I Am What I Am. Gloria Fowles was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Daniel Fowles and her grandmother lived nearby and was involved in her upbringing. There was always music in our house, Gaynor wrote in her autobiography and she enjoyed listening to the radio, and to records by Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan. Her father played the ukulele and guitar and sang professionally in nightclubs with a group called Step n Fetchit and her brothers sang gospel and formed a quartet with a friend. Gaynor was not allowed to sing with the group, nor was her younger brother, Arthur. Arthur later acted as a manager for Gaynor. The family was poor, but Gaynor recalls the house being filled with laughter and happiness. They moved to a project in 1960 and Gloria grew up as a tomboy. All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it, Gaynor was a singer with the Soul Satisfiers, a jazz/R&B music band, in the 1960s. She recorded Shell Be Sorry/Let Me Go Baby in 1966, for Johnny Nashs Jocida label and her first real success came in 1975 when she was signed to Columbia Records by Clive Davis. The fruit of that was the release of her album Never Can Say Goodbye on Columbia Records, the first side of the album consisted of three songs with no break between the songs. This 19-minute dance marathon proved to be popular, especially at dance clubs. All three songs were released as singles via radio edits and all of them became hits, the album was instrumental in introducing disco music to the public, Never Can Say Goodbye becoming the first song to top Billboard magazines dance chart. The Jackson 5 cover was successful on the mainstream Pop Charts as well, peaking at #9 and it also marked her first significant chart success internationally, making it into the Top 5 in Australia, Canada, Germany and the UK. The song would go on to be certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry, capitalizing on the success of her first album, she quickly released her second album, Experience Gloria Gaynor, later that same year. Many charted on the Hot 100 and R&B charts as well, with songs like Do It Yourself - a #1 disco hit - peaking at #98 on the Pop Charts and #24 on the R&B Charts. Her cover of How High The Moon topped the US Dance Charts, after her 1976 album, Ive Got You, she shifted from her hit production team, to work with other productions. Since then, Gloria Gaynor had recorded some 16 albums including one in England, One in Germany, in the next few years, Gaynor released the albums Glorious and Gloria Gaynors Park Avenue Sound, but would only enjoy a few more moderate hits
Gloria Gaynor
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Gaynor in 1976
