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Peter Segal
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Not to be confused with NPR personality Peter Sagal Peter Segal is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Segal has directed the comedy films Tommy Boy, My Fellow Americans, The Nutty Professor II, The Klumps, Anger Management,50 First Dates, The Longest Yard, Get Smart, Grudge Match. Segal grew up in New York City, where his father was head of publicity at MGM, in the 1970s, Segal and his family moved to Los Angeles. Segal attended the University of Southern California, where he majored in Broadcast Journalism. Segal graduated from the USC School of Cinema and Television, Segal began his career writing and directing television, earning eight Emmy Awards. In 2002, he created the NBC sitcom Hidden Hills, in 1995, he formed his production company, Callahan Filmworks, along with long-time producing partner Michael Ewing. Segal made his film directorial debut in 1994 with Naked Gun 33 1/3, The Final Insult, starring Leslie Nielsen. Segal went on to direct Chris Farley in his most memorable film, the film also stars David Spade, and it is considered a now-iconic cult classic. Segal directed the comedy film My Fellow Americans, starring Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Segal directed the comedy Nutty Professor II, The Klumps, starring Eddie Murphy. Segal directed with Adam Sandler for the first time in Anger Management, when asked by the BBC who was the most famous person in his contacts book, Segal replied, I have to say, its very obvious now, its Jack Nicholson. Ive kept his number on my speed dial just so I can show it to friends, I could call him up out of the blue, but Im worried he might say Pete who. Segal collaborated with Sandler again in 50 First Dates, which also starred Drew Barrymore, Segal collaborated with Sandler for the third time in The Longest Yard, a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. The film has become the second highest grossing sports comedy in history, after directing three of Sandlers films, Segals next film became Get Smart. It is an adaptation of the 60s television series of the name that was created by Mel Brooks. Segal stated in an interview with AMC that he loved the show so much as a kid, the film starred Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin and Terence Stamp. Segals most recent film project was Grudge Match, which starred Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Hart, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger and it was reported in November 2014 that Segal will be directing Goblins for Disney. When asked by the BBC if he believed in God, Segal replied, Im very spiritual and Im Jewish by faith. Im not a practising Jew, Im more of a recreational Jew
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Adam Sandler
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Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and musician. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office. He has ventured into more dramatic territory with his roles in Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish, Reign Over Me, Sandler has released five comedy albums in his career. Theyre All Gonna Laugh at You. and What the Hell Happened to Me. are both certified double-platinum, in 1999, Sandler founded Happy Madison Productions. Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966, to Judith Judy, a school teacher, and Stanley Sandler. His family is Jewish and descends from Russian and Israeli immigrants on both sides and he grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire after moving there at the age of six. He attended Manchester Central High School, as a teen, Sandler was in BBYO, a popular Jewish youth group. Sandler graduated from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts in 1988, early in his career, Sandler played Theo Huxtables friend, Smitty in The Cosby Show and the Stud Boy or Trivia Delinquent in the MTV game show Remote Control. After his film debut Going Overboard in 1989, Sandler performed in comedy clubs and he was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandlers act in Los Angeles and recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler told Conan OBrien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him, in 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads with Chris Farley, David Spade, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads with Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi and he followed this film with Bulletproof, and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer. He was initially cast in the bachelor-party-themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy, although his earliest films did not receive critical praise, he started to receive more positive reviews, beginning with Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. Roger Eberts review of Punch-Drunk Love concluded that Sandler had been wasted in earlier films with poorly written scripts, Sandler has moved outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take on more serious parts such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish and Reign Over Me. He played a father figure in Big Daddy. He returned to more dramatic fare with Mike Binders Reign Over Me and he starred with Kevin James in the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Sandler headlined You Dont Mess with the Zohan, the film was written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel, it was directed by Dennis Dugan. It marked as Sandlers first family film and first film under the Walt Disney banner, in 2009, Sandler starred in Judd Apatows third directorial feature Funny People. The film was released on July 31,2009, Sandler appeared in Grown Ups, alongside Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade
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Jack Nicholson
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John Joseph Jack Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker, who has performed for over 60 years. Nicholson is known for playing a range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance and dark portrayals of antiheroes. In many of his films, he has played the eternal outsider, Nicholsons 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academys history. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, one for the drama One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and he also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment. Nicholson is one of three actors to win three Academy Awards. Nicholson is one of two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001, in 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institutes Life Achievement Award. He played Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubricks horror film The Shining, the Joker in Tim Burtons superhero film Batman, other films include the legal drama A Few Good Men, the Sean Penn-directed mystery film The Pledge, and the comedy-drama About Schmidt. Nicholson was born on April 22,1937, in Neptune City, New Jersey, Nicholsons mother was of Irish, English, and German descent. She married Italian-American showman Donald Furcillo in 1936, before realizing that he was already married, biographer Patrick McGilligan stated in his book Jacks Life that Latvian-born Eddie King, Junes manager, may have been Nicholsons biological father, rather than Furcillo. Other sources suggest June Nicholson was unsure of who the father was, in 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Nicholson, that his sister, June, was actually his mother, and his other sister, Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died, on finding out, Nicholson said it was a pretty dramatic event, but it wasnt what Id call traumatizing. I was pretty well psychologically formed. Nicholson grew up in Neptune City, New Jersey and he was raised in his mothers Roman Catholic religion. Before starting high school, his family moved to an apartment in Spring Lake, nick, as he was known to his high school friends, attended nearby Manasquan High School, where he was voted class clown by the Class of 1954. He was in every day for a whole school year. A theatre and an award at the school are named in his honor. In 2004, Nicholson attended his 50-year high school reunion accompanied by his aunt Lorraine and he served a tour of duty in the Air National Guard. Nicholson first came to Hollywood in 1954, when he was 17 and he took a job as an office worker for animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at the MGM cartoon studio
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Marisa Tomei
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Marisa Tomei is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, Tomei had initial success in films as an actress, followed by a series of unsuccessful films. Following her work on the television series As the World Turns, after having minor roles in a few films, she came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want, Anger Management, Wild Hogs. Other films include Untamed Heart, The Paper, Unhook the Stars, Slums of Beverly Hills, In the Bedroom, Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead, The Wrestler, Cyrus, and Love Is Strange. She has also been cast in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Aunt May and has appeared in Captain America, Civil War and will appear in Spider-Man, Tomei has also worked in theater. Tomei was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Patricia Adelaide Addie, an English teacher, and Gary A. Tomei and she graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School in 1982. She has a brother, actor Adam Tomei, and was partly raised by her paternal grandparents. Tomeis parents are both of Italian descent, her fathers ancestors came from Tuscany, Calabria, and Campania, while her mothers ancestors are from Tuscany, Tomei grew up in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. While there, she became captivated by the Broadway shows to which her parents took her and was drawn to acting as a career. At Andries Hudde Junior High School, she played Hedy LaRue in a production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. After graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School in 1982, Tomei followed up As the World Turns in 1986 with a role on the sitcom A Different World as Maggie Lauten during the first season. Her film debut was a role in the 1984 comedy film The Flamingo Kid, in which she played Mandy. She only had one line in the entire film, during this phase, she made her stage debut in 1987 at the age of 22 with the off-Broadway play Daughters, in which she played Cetta. The role earned her rave reviews and the Theatre World Award for outstanding debut on stage, following several small films, Tomei came to international prominence with her comedic performance in the 1992 film My Cousin Vinny, for which she received critical praise. Mona Lisa is also an auto mechanic, which comes in handy in the untying of the knotted story. For her performance, Tomei was named Best Supporting Actress at the 1993 Academy Awards, prevailing over Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave, American film critic Rex Reed created controversy when he suggested that Jack Palance had announced the wrong name after opening the envelope. While this allegation was repeatedly disproved – even the Academy officially denied it – Tomei called the story extremely hurtful, after her Oscar win, Tomei appeared as silent film star Mabel Normand in the film Chaplin, with her then-boyfriend Robert Downey Jr. playing the title character
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Woody Harrelson
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Woodrow Tracy Woody Harrelson is an American actor, activist and playwright. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee and has won one Emmy Award out of seven nominations and his breakout role came in 1985, joining the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd, for which he earned five Emmy Award nominations. Larry Flynt, country singer Dusty in A Prairie Home Companion and he will be portraying the Colonel in War for the Planet of the Apes. Larry Flynt and The Messenger, Harrelson earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas, the son of Diane and Charles Voyde Harrelson. He has two brothers, Jordan and Brett Harrelson, Charles Voyde Harrelson, who was a hitman, was arrested in 1979 for killing Federal Judge John H. Wood Jr. in San Antonio, Texas. His father was convicted and eventually died during his sentence in the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility. In 1973, Harrelson moved to his mothers native city, Lebanon and he attended Lebanon High School, working through much of high school as a woodcarver at Kings Island amusement park. He attended Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana, where he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity and he received a Bachelor of Arts in theater and English in 1983. He told Playboy in October 2009, I was getting into theology and studying the roots of the Bible, I started seeing things that made me ask, Is God really speaking through this instrument. My eyes opened to the reality of the Bible being just a document to control people, at the time I was a real mamas boy and deeply mesmerized by the church. Harrelson is widely known for his work on the NBC sitcom Cheers and he played bartender Woody Boyd, who replaced Coach. He joined the cast in 1985 in season four, spending the final eight seasons on the show, for this role, Harrelson was nominated for five Emmy Awards, winning once in 1989. His character, Woody Boyd, was from Hanover, Indiana, in 1999, Harrelson guest-starred in the Cheers spin-off success Frasier, in which he reprised the role of Woody Boyd. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for this performance and he appeared in several 2001 episodes of Will & Grace as Graces new boyfriend Nathan. On the November 12,2009 episode of the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, Harrelson was interviewed by Stephen Colbert, in response to Colberts questioning of his support for the troops, Harrelson agreed to let Colbert shave his head on camera. On June 6,2010, Harrelson took part playing in Soccer Aid 2010 for UNICEF UK at Old Trafford in Manchester, the match was broadcast live on UKs ITV television. After being brought on as a substitute for Gordon Ramsay, Harrelson took the penalty in the penalty shootout. When later interviewed he claimed that he didnt even remember the moment of scoring, Harrelson also took part in Soccer Aid 2012 on May 27,2012
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John Turturro
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He has appeared in over sixty films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Turturros mother was Sicilian and his father immigrated from Giovinazzo, Bari, Turturro was raised a Roman Catholic and moved to the Rosedale section of Queens, New York with his family when he was six. He majored in Theatre Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Turturros first film appearance was a non-speaking extra role in Martin Scorseses critically acclaimed Raging Bull. He created the role of John Patrick Shanleys Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Playwrights Conference at the Eugene ONeill Theatre Center in 1983. He repeated it the following year Off-Broadway and won an Obie Award, Spike Lee liked Turturros performance in Five Corners so much that he cast him in Do the Right Thing. He has also appeared in several of Adam Sandlers movies, such as Mr. Deeds and he played a severely disturbed patient of Jack Nicholsons character in the comedy Anger Management and played Johnny Depps characters antagonist in Secret Window. He won an Emmy award for his portrayal of Adrian Monks brother Ambrose in the USA Network series Monk and he has also been nominated and won many awards from film organizations such as Screen Actors Guild, Cannes Film Festival, Golden Globes and others. Turturro produced and directed, as well as acted in, the film Illuminata and he wrote and directed the film Romance and Cigarettes. In 2006 he appeared in Robert De Niros The Good Shepherd, in 2010 he directed Passione, which chronicles the rich musical heritage of Naples, Italy. The cast included Julie Kavner, Marlo Thomas, Mark Linn-Baker, Turturros fifth directorial film Fading Gigolo premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in mid-September 2013. Turturro also acts in the film alongside Woody Allen, who played a novice pimp overseeing the sex work of Turturros character. In March 2014, Turturro received the Career Achievement tribute and award at the 31st Edition of the Miami International Film Festival at the Olympia Theater in Downtown Miami, Turturros brother is actor Nicholas Turturro. Artist Ralph Turturro, composer and film director Richard Termini and actress Aida Turturro are his cousins and he has two sons, Amedeo and Diego, with his wife, actress Katherine Borowitz. Turturro participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, in January 2011, Turturro received his Italian passport, and holds dual Italian and U. S. citizenship
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Happy Madison Productions
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Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1996 by Adam Sandler which is best known for its comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, the elderly man depicted in the logo is Sandlers late father, Stanley. The 1998 films The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer helped jump start Sandlers movie career and he produced The Waterboy and co-wrote the script with Tim Herlihy. The company used to have a subsidiary, Madison 23 Productions, the only production under Madison 23 was Reign Over Me, starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle. This studio company on the trailer of Funny People and the poster and trailer for Reign Over Me is also known as Mr. Madison Productions, however, after the financial failure of Reign Over Me, the Madison 23 label was shut down. Happy Madisons most recent releases are The Ridiculous 6 and The Do Over, Happy Madisons films have, for the most part, received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. The production company has put out three films considered to be some of the worst ever made, NOTE, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores are out of 100. Rules of Engagement The Gong Show with Dave Attell Nick Swardsons Pretend Time Breaking In The Goldbergs Imaginary Mary Real Genius Nick Swardson – Party Nick Swardson – Seriously, Happy Madison page on Sandlers website Happy Madison at the Internet Movie Database
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Columbia Pictures
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The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jacks best friend Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924, and went public two years later and its name is derived from Columbia, a national personification of the United States, which is used as the studios logo. In its early years, it was a player in Hollywood. With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbias major contract stars were Jean Arthur, in the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studios premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio, in 1982, the studio was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company, and launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. Five years later, Coca-Cola spun off Columbia, which was sold to Tri-Star, after a brief period of independence with Coca-Cola maintaining a financial interest, the combined studio was acquired by Sony in 1989. It is one of the film studios in the world. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywoods Golden Age, Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. The studios early productions were short subjects, Screen Snapshots, the Hall Room Boys. The start-up CBC leased space in a Poverty Row studio on Hollywoods famously low-rent Gower Street, among Hollywoods elite, the studios small-time reputation led some to joke that CBC stood for Corned Beef and Cabbage. Brandt eventually tired of dealing with the Cohn brothers, and sold his stake to Harry Cohn. In an effort to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures Corporation on January 10,1924, Cohn remained head of production as well, thus concentrating enormous power in his hands. He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, even in an industry rife with nepotism, Columbia was particularly notorious for having a number of Harry and Jacks relatives in high positions. Humorist Robert Benchley called it the Pine Tree Studio, because it has so many Cohns, Columbias product line consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and short subjects including comedies, sports films, various serials, and cartoons. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-budget fare, eventually joining the tier of Hollywood studios along with United Artists. Like United Artists and Universal, Columbia was an integrated company. It controlled production and distribution, it did not own any theaters, helping Columbias climb was the arrival of an ambitious director, Frank Capra
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Taser
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A Taser or conducted electrical weapon is an electroshock weapon sold by Axon. It fires two small dart-like electrodes, which connected to the main unit by conductors, to deliver electric current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles causing neuromuscular incapacitation. Someone struck by a Taser experiences extreme pain and over-stimulation of sensory nerves and motor nerves, a 2009 Police Executive Research Forum study said that officer injuries drop by 76% when a Taser is used. However, while Taser CEO Rick Smith has stated that surveys show that the device has saved 75,000 lives. Although some other companies have produced similar devices, their significance as of 2014 is still marginal, Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the Taser in 1969. By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named after his childhood hero Tom Swift, the Taser Public Defender used gunpowder as its propellant, which led the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to classify it as a firearm in 1976. The backformed verb to tase is used sometimes, in 1993, Rick Smith and his brother Thomas began to investigate what they called safer use of force option for citizens and law enforcement. At their Scottsdale, Arizona, facilities, the worked with the. original Taser inventor. The U. S. firearms regulator, the ATF, stated that the Air Taser was not a firearm, in 1999, Taser International developed an. ergonomically handgun-shaped device called the Advanced Taser M-series systems, which used a. patented neuromuscular incapacitation technology. In May 2003, Taser International released a new weapon called the Taser X26, on July 27,2009 Taser International released a new type of Taser called the X3, which can fire three shots before reloading. It holds three new cartridges, which are much thinner than the previous model. The Taser fires two small dart-like electrodes, which connected to the main unit by conductive wire as they are propelled by small compressed nitrogen charges. The cartridge contains a pair of electrodes and propellant for a shot and is replaced after each use. There are a number of cartridges designated by range, with the maximum at 35 feet, cartridges available to non-law enforcement consumers are limited to 15 feet. The electrodes are pointed to penetrate clothing and barbed to prevent removal once in place, earlier Taser models had difficulty in penetrating thick clothing, but newer versions use a shaped pulse that increases effectiveness in the presence of barriers. Tasers also provide a safety benefit to police officers, Tasers have a greater deployment range than batons, pepper spray or empty hand techniques. This allows police to maintain a greater distance, the study found that only pepper spray was a safer intervention option. Use of the taser has been associated with deaths, the Guardian newspaper is running a database, The Counted, tracking US killings by police and other law enforcement agencies in 2015
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Anger management
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Anger management is a psycho-therapeutic program for anger prevention and control. It has been described as deploying anger successfully, anger is frequently a result of frustration, or of feeling blocked or thwarted from something we feel to be important. Anger can also be a response to underlying fear or feelings of vulnerability or powerlessness. Anger management programs consider anger to be a motivation caused by a reason which can be logically analyzed. We all experience anger, anger only becomes a concern when an individual is angry too frequently, too intensely. — Aristotle The ideal goal of management is to control. Anger is an emotion that calls the person feeling it to respond. People get into anger issues because both the instigator and instigated lack interpersonal and social skills to maintain self-control and they can train to respond to their anger as unwanted and unpleasant rather than react to its need. Turning a blind eye or forgiveness is a tool to turn anger off, getting enough sleep, exercise and good diet are tools which can assist in preventing anger. The negative effects of anger have been observed throughout history, advice for countering seemingly uncontrollable rage has been offered by ancient philosophers, pious men, and modern psychologists. In de Ira, Seneca the Younger advised for pre-emptively guarding against confrontational situations, perspective taking, other philosophers echoed Seneca with Galen recommending seeking out a mentor for aid in anger reduction. In the Middle Ages, gods would serve as examples of self-control and mediators of anger-induced disputes. Examples of intercession for the people from the wrath of local rulers abound in hagiographies. The story of St. Francis of Assisi and the metaphorical Wolf of Gubbio is one famous instance, in modern times, the concept of controlling anger has translated into anger management programs based on the research of psychologists. Classical psychotherapy based anger management interventions originated in the 1970s, success in treating anxiety with cognitive behavioral therapy interventions developed by Meichebaum inspired Novaco to modify the stress inoculation training to be suitable for anger management. Stress and anger are sufficiently similar that such a modification was able to create a branch of treatment. Both stress and anger are caused by external stimuli, mediated by internal processing, Meichebaum, and later Novaco, used each aspect of experiencing the relevant emotion as an opportunity for improvement to the patients overall wellbeing. Drug addiction, alcoholism, a disability, bio-chemical changes
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Buddhist temple
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A Buddhist temple is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called stupa, wat and pagoda in different regions, temples in Buddhism represent the pure land or pure environment of a Buddha. Traditional Buddhist temples are designed to inspire inner and outer peace and its structure and architecture varies from region to region. Usually, the temple not only of its buildings. The Buddhist temples are designed to symbolize 5 elements, Fire, Air, Earth, Water, the wat of Chinese temples typically includes a Main Hall and a Hall of the Heavenly Kings. The wat of Japanese temples typically include a Main Hall, a distinctive feature is the chinjusha, a Shinto shrine devoted to the temples kami
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New York Yankees
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The Essendon Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League, the sports premier competition. Formed in 1871 as a club and playing as a senior club since 1878. It is historically associated with Essendon, a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne, dyson Heppell is the current team captain. A founding member club of both the Victorian Football Association, in 1877, and the Victorian Football League, in 1896, the club claims to have over at least one million supporters Australia wide. Essendon has won 16 VFL/AFL premierships which, along with Carlton, is the most of any club in the competition, the club was founded by members of the Royal Agricultural Society, the Melbourne Hunt Club and the Victorian Woolbrokers. The Essendon Football Club is thought to have formed in 1872 at a meeting it the home of a well-known brewery family, the McCrackens, whose Ascot Vale property hosted a team of local junior players. Robert McCracken, the owner of several city hotels, was the founder and first president of the Essendon club and his son, Alex, Alex would later become president of the newly formed VFL. Alexs cousin, Collier, who had played with Melbourne, was the teams first captain. The club played its first recorded match against the Carlton second twenty on 7 June 1873, Essendon played 13 matches in its first season, winning seven, with four draws and losing two. The club was one of the junior members of the Victorian Football Association in 1877. During its early years in the Association, Essendon played its matches at Flemington Hill. In 1878, Essendon played in the first match on what would be considered by modern standards to be a field at Flemington Hill. In 1879 Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white, in 1883 the team played four matches in Adelaide. In 1891 Essendon won their first VFA premiership, which they repeated in 1892,1893 and 1894, one of the clubs greatest players, Albert Thurgood played for the club during this period. Essendon was undefeated in the 1893 season, at the end of the 1896 season Essendon along with seven other clubs formed the Victorian Football League. Essendons first VFL game was in 1897 was against Geelong at Corio Oval in Geelong, Essendon won its first VFL premiership by winning the 1897 VFL finals series. Essendon again won the premiership in 1901, defeating Collingwood in the Grand Final, the club won successive premierships in 1911 and 1912 over Collingwood and South Melbourne respectively. The nickname first appeared in print in the local North Melbourne Advertiser in 1889 and it was known firstly as Essendon Town and, after 1905, as Essendon
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Rudy Giuliani
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Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani is an American lawyer, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and an informal adviser on cybersecurity to the White House. Politically a Democrat, then an Independent in the 1970s, Giuliani prosecuted pivotal cases against the American Mafia, and against corrupt corporate financiers. Within several years, Giuliani was widely credited for major improvements in the quality of life. While still Mayor, Giuliani ran for the U. S. Senate in 2000, however, in 2002, Giuliani founded Giuliani Partners, acquired and later sold Giuliani Capital Advisors, and joined a Texas firm while opening a Manhattan office for the firm renamed Bracewell & Giuliani. Giuliani was considered a candidate for New York Governor in 2010. Giuliani declined all races, and instead remained in the business sector, on January 12,2017, then President-elect Trump named Giuliani his informal cybersecurity adviser. He was raised a Roman Catholic, Harold Giuliani, a plumber and a bartender, had trouble holding a job, and was convicted of felony assault and robbery, serving time in Sing Sing. After his release he worked as an enforcer for his brother-in-law Leo DAvanzo, the family lived in East Flatbush, Brooklyn until Harold died of prostate cancer in 1981, after which time Helen moved to Manhattans Upper East Side. Helen was featured in a commercial to promote her son in the 1993 Mayoral Election. In 1951, when Giuliani was seven, his family moved from Brooklyn to Garden City South, later, he commuted back to Brooklyn to attend Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, graduating in 1961 with an 85 percent average. Giuliani attended Manhattan College in Riverdale, Bronx, where he majored in science with a minor in philosophy. There he considered becoming a priest, Giuliani was elected president of his class in his sophomore year, but was not re-elected in his junior year. He joined the Phi Rho Pi fraternity, Giuliani started his political life as a Democrat. He volunteered for Robert F. Kennedys presidential campaign in 1968 and he also worked as a Democratic Party committeeman on Long Island in the mid-1960s, and voted for George McGovern for president in 1972. Upon graduation, Giuliani clerked for Judge Lloyd Francis MacMahon, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Giuliani did not serve in the military during the Vietnam War. His conscription was deferred while he was enrolled at Manhattan College, upon graduation from the latter in 1968, he was classified by the Selective Service System as 1-A, available for military service. He applied for a deferment but was rejected, in 1970, Giuliani received a high draft lottery number, he was not called up for service although by then he had been reclassified 1-A. In 1970, Giuliani joined the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, in 1973, he was named Chief of the Narcotics Unit and became executive U. S. attorney
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Water gun
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A water gun is a type of toy gun designed to shoot water. Similar to water balloons, the purpose of the toy is to soak another person in a game such as water warfare. Historically, water guns were made of metal and used rubber squeeze bulbs to load and propel water through a nozzle Traditionally, water guns have worked on the same principle as a spray bottle. The body is essentially a container for water and the trigger is attached to a pump which squirts water out of a hole at the muzzle or nozzle. However, many modern water guns employ more complex technologies to more power and water output than their predecessors. Modern variations may employ compressed air, rubber chambers, springs, peristaltic pumps, some even use an electric pump powered by batteries. Some employ a combination of technologies to produce better stream performance, a common term for large high pressure water guns is water blasters. This design has inherent limitations regarding the amount of pressure that one can achieve as well as the need to refill after each shot, many early small water guns used the same trigger based pumping mechanism used for spray bottles. In this type of device, the trigger actuates a positive displacement pump shaft, with the aid of two check valves, often using small balls, fluid is drawn into the pump from a reservoir, then forced out the nozzle upon squeezing the trigger. The simplicity of the mechanism allowed these toys to be manufactured cheaply. The primary limitation with this design is the volume of water that can be moved per pump. Increasing pump volume would require more effort to push the fluid out. However, this technology widely used today both in spray bottles as well as small water guns that can be found in a wide variety of shapes. A piston pumper is another version of this system and they are generally bigger than squirt guns and spray bottles. Piston pumpers do not have triggers, instead, they fire by moving the pump back and forth. Although the piston pumper has greater output than squirt guns, they tend to be powerful than pressurized water guns. Another simple method employed is a syringe or piston type, in essence, the water gun is made up primarily of the pumping mechanism that comprises an outer pump shaft with an inner pump-rod and water-tight seal. This allows water to be drawn into the pump as the pump is extended, Stream performance is dependent on the users strength
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West Side Story
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West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds, the members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a member of the Jets and best friend of the gang leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended scenes. Bernsteins score for the musical includes Somethings Coming, Maria, America, Somewhere, Tonight, Jet Song, I Feel Pretty, A Boy Like That, One Hand, One Heart, Gee, Officer Krupke, and Cool. The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince and it ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals, a 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor, Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress, in 1947, Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents about collaborating on a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He proposed that the focus on the conflict between an Irish Catholic family and a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The girl has survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Israel, the conflict was to be centered around anti-Semitism of the Catholic Jets towards the Jewish Emeralds, eager to write his first musical, Laurents immediately agreed. Bernstein wanted to present the material in operatic form, but Robbins and they described the project as lyric theater, and Laurents wrote a first draft he called East Side Story. Only after he completed it did the group realize it was more than a musicalization of themes that had already been covered in plays like Abies Irish Rose. When he opted to drop out, the three men went their ways, and the piece was shelved for almost five years. Laurents accepted and suggested Bernstein and Robbins join the creative team, Robbins felt if the three were going to join forces, they should return to East Side Story, and Bernstein agreed. Laurents, however, was committed to Gabel, who introduced him to the young composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim auditioned by playing the score for Saturday Night, his musical that was scheduled to open in the fall. Laurents liked the lyrics but was not impressed with the music, Sondheim did not care for Laurents opinion
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Kurt Fuller
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Kurt Fuller is an American character actor. He has appeared in a number of television, film, and he graduated from Lincoln High School in Stockton, California in 1971, and U. C. He is best known for his roles in Psych and Supernatural, standing 6-foot-3-inch-tall, Fuller is frequently cast as a weaselly executive, a smarmy authority figure, a law enforcement officer or a father at odds with his daughters boyfriend. Brell in No Holds Barred, a real estate agent in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Usually cast in roles, Fuller played Werner Klemperer, whom he resembles, in Paul Schraders Auto Focus. He also portrayed Pacific Bell Retirement Fund Executive Walter Ribbon in The Pursuit of Happyness, Fuller has also appeared in many television shows, including Knight Rider, Timecop, Quantum Leap, L. A. He has had a role as Woody the Coroner on Psych and another on Supernatural. He also acted as a Senior Police Officer in the 2000 comedy Scary Movie, from 2010 to 2011, Fuller appeared in the ABC Network series Better with You, the show was cancelled after a single season. Fuller portrays director of the C. I. A, grayden Osborne, in the ABC drama Scandal. He also appears in FOXs Us & Them with Jane Kaczmarek, Fuller was born in San Francisco, California. He is married to actress and author Jessica Hendra and has two daughters named Julia and Charlotte, kurt Fuller at the Internet Movie Database
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Krista Allen
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Krista Allen is an American model and actress. She is best known for her work in the television series Days of Our Lives and Baywatch Hawaii and she also portrays the eponymous character on The CW series Significant Mother, and starred in the erotic movie series Emmanuelle in Space. Krista Allen was born in Ventura, California, Allen has an older brother, Dalton Earl Allen, Jr. She grew up in Houston and later lived in Austin, Texas, going to school at Austin Community College, Krista transferred to, and graduated from, the University of Texas with an education degree. She considered teaching as a profession, interning as a kindergarten teacher, Allen also is a certified yoga instructor. Allen played a virtual reality character Maitreya/Jade Blue Afterglow in an episode of The X-Files. In 2002, she appeared in an episode of Friends, The One Where Joey Dates Rachel as Joeys girlfriend Mable, in 2005 she appeared in the short-lived Fox sitcom Head Cases. In both Smallville and Mutant X, Allen played a woman who could control men with her sex pheromones and she returned later in the first season as a murder victim. In 2002, she had a role in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, in 2005, she was one of the stars of HBOs Unscripted, playing herself as an actress who struggles to overcome her sex symbol status in order to win more serious roles. Allen had a role on the ABC series What About Brian as Bridget. In 2007, Allen appeared in the ABC reality television series Fast Cars and Superstars, The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race, in the first round, she matched up against skateboarder Tony Hawk and rodeo champion Ty Murray. Allen appeared on the season of Denise Richards, Its Complicated which premiered on June 7,2009. Allen also appeared on an episode of NBCs Love Bites in 2011, in August 2015, Allen began appearing as Lydia Marlowe on The CW series Significant Mother. In addition to acting, Allen also has done modeling, being featured in Spanish magazine, Interviu. Allen was featured in Maxim magazines Girls of Maxim gallery and was Named #70 on the Maxim Hot 100 of 2005 list, Allen had a T-shirt line called Superexcellent for several years. On September 14,1996, she married Justin Moritt, a manager and producer. She gave birth to her first child at age 26, a son named Jakob Nolan Moritt on July 12,1997, the couple later divorced in 1999. On October 10,2010, she married Mams Taylor, an Iranian rapper and they separated in April 2011 and Allen filed for divorce at Los Angeles County Superior Court on February 12,2012
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January Jones
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January Kristen Jones is an American actress and model. Since 2015, Jones has been starring as Melissa Chartres in the Fox series The Last Man on Earth, for her work on Mad Men she received two Golden Globe nominations and one Emmy nomination. Jones was born in South Dakota, the daughter of Karen, who manages a Scheels sporting goods store, and Marvin Jones, a coach, gym teacher and she is of Czech, Danish, English, Welsh, and German descent. She is named after January Wayne, a character in Jacqueline Susanns Once Is Not Enough and she has two sisters, Jacey and Jina. She spent much of her childhood in Hecla, South Dakota, Jones has had supporting roles in Anger Management, Love Actually, and Dirty Dancing, Havana Nights. In 2005, she appeared as a U. S. border guards wife in the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by, in We Are Marshall, she played the role of Carol Dawson, wife of American football coach William Red Dawson. Jones also starred in Good Kill, opposite Ethan Hawke and she played the lead female role in the movie Loves Enduring Promise as a pioneer familys oldest child. Her character falls in love with a man who saves her fathers life. She also appeared in the AMC original television drama series Mad Men for seven seasons as young suburban housewife and she received two Golden Globe nominations and one Emmy nomination for her performances. She also appeared in The Boat That Rocked, a British film about offshore pirate radio in the 1960s, Jones was ranked No.82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002. She appeared on the cover of The Hot Issue of British GQ magazine in May 2009 and she appeared on the cover of the November 2009 issue of American GQ magazine, and has been a topic in the magazine several times. On November 14,2009, Jones hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live which featured the musical guest The Black Eyed Peas and she portrayed Emma Frost in X-Men, First Class. She appears in the Fox television show The Last Man on Earth and she dated Josh Groban from 2003 to 2006. Jones announced in Vanity Fair magazine in 2009 that she has joined Oceana as a celebrity spokesperson, Jones gave birth to a son, Xander Dane Jones, on September 13,2011. She has declined to give any information regarding his father, January Jones at the Internet Movie Database January Jones on Instagram
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Clint Black
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Clint Patrick Black is an American singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Blacks debut album Killin Time produced five straight number one singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, although his momentum gradually slowed throughout the 1990s, Black consistently charted hit songs into the 2000s. He has had more than 30 singles on the US Billboard country charts, twenty-two of which have reached number one, in addition to having released twelve studio albums, in 2003, Black founded his own record label, Equity Music Group. Black has also ventured into acting, having made a appearance in the 1994 film Maverick, as well as a starring role in 1998s Still Holding On. Clint Patrick Black was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, the youngest of four born to G. A. and Ann Black. The family moved back to Texas, where G. A, Black had been raised, before Clint was one year old. He was raised in Katy, Texas, Music was always present in the house. Black taught himself to play harmonica before he was 13, and his father remarked that it was at that age that the parents first noticed that he had a great voice. By 15, Black had learned to play guitar, as a teenager Black joined his elder brothers, Mark, Kevin and Brian, in their small band. On Saturday afternoons, the family would host backyard barbecues and invite the neighborhood to listen to the boys sing, some weekends would attract up to 70 people. Black eventually dropped out of school to play with his brothers. Black was initially drawn to a variety of musical genres, for six years, Black supported himself as a construction worker, bait cutter, and fishing guide, while singing at various lounges as a solo singer and guitarist. In 1987, at one of the gigs he met another guitarist, the two men connected musically and began a song writing partnership that would last decades. In the late 1980s, Black delivered a demo of their collaboration Nobodys Home to record promoter Sammy Alfano, within two days of that delivery, Black was invited to a meeting with Bill Ham, who managed ZZ Top. Black soon signed with RCA at that time considered one of the most aggressive labels in country music and his first album, Killin Time, was released in 1989. Each song on the album was penned at least in part by Black, four of them were attributed solely to him, in a departure from most other country albums, Black used his road band instead of session musicians to record Killin Time. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching number one on the Billboard Country Albums chart and he made his debut in 1989 with the single, A Better Man, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in early June. This marked the first time in 14 years that a single by a male artist had peaked at the top of the chart
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Lynne Thigpen
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Cherlynne Theresa Lynne Thigpen was an American actress, best known for her role as The Chief in the various Carmen Sandiego television series from 1991 to 1997. For her varied television work, Thigpen was nominated for six Daytime Emmy Awards, born in Joliet, Illinois, Thigpen obtained a degree in teaching. She taught English in high school briefly while studying theatre and dance at the University of Illinois, Thigpen moved to New York City in 1971 to begin her career as a stage actress. She had a long and prolific career and appeared in numerous musicals including Godspell, The Night That Made America Famous, The Magic Show, Working, Tintypes. Her first feature role was Lynne in Godspell, co-starring opposite Victor Garber. She had a role in Shaft, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, as Carla Howard and she also played the Second President of the World Congress in Bicentennial Man. Her last film was Anger Management, starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson, which involves both education and comedy, and, on occasion, musical performance. She remained The Chief in the show, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. But of ACME Time Net. C. police department, on the CBS crime drama The District and she guest-starred in episodes of Gimme A Break. She appeared in radio skits of the Garrison Keillor program The American Radio Company of the Air and her voice was also heard on over 20 audio books, primarily works with socially relevant themes. Thigpen died of a hemorrhage on March 12,2003, in her Marina del Rey. Drugs and foul play were ruled out by the autopsy, which found acute cardiac dysfunction, non-traumatic systemic and spontaneous intraventricular hemorrhage. She was entombed next to her parents at Elmhurst Cemetery in her hometown, Joliet, when Thigpen died, the Season 3 finale of The District had a tribute to her character, Ella Mae Farmer. Thigpens death also led to a hiatus of Bear in the Big Blue House. Two years after Thigpens death, Bear star, Tara Mooney, Thigpen was posthumously nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for voicing Luna the moon in Bear in the Big Blue House, but she lost to Jeff Corwin. Her final film, Anger Management, was dedicated to her memory, also, Lynne Thigpen Elementary School in her hometown was named in her honor. Tracy Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. as The Chief Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. A
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Kevin Nealon
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Nealon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Kathleen M. and Emmett F. Nealon, an aircraft company executive. A few months after he was born, the moved to Bridgeport. He was raised Catholic, and graduated from St. Joseph High School in Trumbull, Connecticut, Nealon graduated with a bachelors degree in marketing from Sacred Heart University. Nealon debuted on network television doing a routine for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1984. On the September 24,1985 nighttime syndicated episode of Sale of the Century, Nealon can be seen onstage congratulating his friend Tim Holleran on winning more than $150,000 in cash and prizes. In 1986, Saturday Night Live recruited his friend Dana Carvey, both joined the cast that year, and Nealon became a full-time performer in the 1987–1988 season, and remained for nine seasons. Nealons SNL characters include Mr. Subliminal, Franz along with Dana Carvey, Mr. No Depth Perception, the anchor of Weekend Update, in 1991, he starred in the Christmas movie, All I Want for Christmas. More recently Nealon has appeared in the movies Happy Gilmore, Anger Management, Little Nicky, Daddy Day Care, Good Boy. in fall 2005, he appeared in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, where he played himself. Nealon had a television role on the 2002-06 CBS comedy Still Standing playing Ted Halverson. He has also appeared as a patient in an institution on the first season of Monk. Deja Vu is an episode of The Outer Limits television show and it first aired on 9 July 1999, during the fifth season. Nealon also had a supporting role as Doug Wilson on the show Weeds on Showtime. In 1994, Nealon hosted the 13 part series Amazing America on the Discovery Channel, in 2002, Nealon hosted The Conspiracy Zone on The New TNN for 26 episodes plus an unaired pilot. Nealon appeared as a counselor on the sitcom, 3rd Rock from the Sun. He had a cameo appearance in the 2008 film Get Smart. Nealon also hosted the Worlds Funniest Commercials on TBS, in a performance similar to Bob Saget, Nealon tells corny jokes in between each funny commercial. In 2008, a book authored by Nealon chronicling his experiences during his wifes pregnancy called Yes, Youre Pregnant, Nealon played Stuart Pearson in the adventure comedy Aliens in the Attic. Shooting took place in Auckland, New Zealand, Nealon married actress Susan Yeagley on September 3,2005 in Bellagio, Italy
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Nancy Carell
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Nancy Ellen Carell is an American actress, comedian, and writer best known for her work on Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and The Office. She is the wife of actor-comedian Steve Carell, the couple are creators of the TBS comedy series Angie Tribeca. Nancy Walls was born and raised in Cohasset, Massachusetts and she attended Boston College where she graduated in 1988. While a student at BC, she was a member of the improvisational troupe My Mothers Fleabag, a few years later, she held a correspondent position on the satirical TV news program The Daily Show. She voiced the character of Helen Goode on the Mike Judge-created animated series The Goode Family on ABC and she also had a brief appearance in the movie Bridesmaids. Carrell and her husband Steve created the TBS comedy series Angie Tribeca starring Rashida Jones, the series premiered on January 17,2016. Carell is married to actor-comedian Steve Carell, whom she met when she was a student in a class he was teaching at Second City. They have two children, daughter Elisabeth and son John
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John C. Reilly
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John Christopher Reilly is an American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and producer. He has performed in fifty films, including Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Gangs of New York, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, Wreck-It Ralph. For his performance in Chicago, Reilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He was later nominated for a Grammy Award and a second Golden Globe Award for Walk Hard, the title song of Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, performed by Reilly in the film. Since 2010, Reilly has been starring in the television series Check It Out. with Dr. Steve Brule, playing a character originated on Tim and Eric Awesome Show. Reilly performs with his band John Reilly and Friends and worked as an actor in True West. Reilly was born in Chicago, Illinois, the fifth of six children and his father was of Irish and Scottish descent, and his mother was of Lithuanian ancestry. His father ran an industrial supply company. Reilly has described himself as being mischievous during his childhood, highlighting an event when he was 12 in which he, Reilly, though he no longer professes Catholicism, was raised Roman Catholic and attended Brother Rice High School. He is an alumnus of DePaul University in Chicago, Reilly made his film debut in the Brian De Palma war film Casualties of War as PFC Herbert Hatcher in 1989. Although his role was written as a one, De Palma liked Reillys performance so much that the role was significantly expanded. He played Buck, Tom Cruises characters NASCAR car chief in Tony Scotts Days of Thunder in 1990 and he continued to appear in several significant supporting roles, including 1992s Hoffa and 1993s Whats Eating Gilbert Grape. The following year, Reilly was cast in the romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, in 2002, he appeared in three of the years Academy Award for Best Picture nominees, Chicago, Gangs of New York and The Hours. For Chicago, he played Amos Hart, Roxannes trusting husband and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Reilly appeared in Martin Scorseses 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, as Noah Dietrich, Howard Hughes trusted business partner. Of the role Reilly said, “Noah was almost a father figure to Hughes. Howard would have a scheme, and it was Noah who had to say, in 2007, Reilly starred as the title character in parody bio-pic Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story, singing various songs, parodying Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and others. The next year, Reilly reunited with Ferrell to star in Step Brothers, in 2008, he was among the many notable actors to perform in the online political musical, Proposition 8 – The Musical. Reilly voiced himself in the The Simpsons episode Any Given Sundance and co-starred alongside Sean William Scott in The Promotion in 2008
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Heather Graham
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Heather Joan Graham is an American actress. In 1999, she co-starred in Bowfinger and Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me, in the 2000s, Graham starred in films Committed, Say It Isnt So, Mary, Gray Matters, The Hangover and its sequel, The Hangover Part III. She also had a role on the television series Scrubs in 2004 and she also had recurring roles on Showtimes Californication and Netflixs Flaked. Noted for portraying characters with vast sex appeal, she appears in magazine lists of Most Beautiful. Graham is an advocate for Children International, and supported the climate change campaign Global Cool in 2007. Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at St. Michaels Hospital and her family is of three-quarters Irish descent, with her fathers side from County Cork. Her younger sister, Aimee Graham, is also an actress and their mother, Joan, is a teacher and author of childrens books. Their father, James Graham, is a retired FBI agent and her family relocated repeatedly before moving to Agoura Hills, California, when she was 9 years old. She was introduced to acting during a production of The Wizard of Oz. After high school, Graham enrolled in classes at the University of California at Los Angeles where she studied English for two years. Despite her parents objections, Graham withdrew from UCLA to pursue acting full-time, grahams first film appearance was an uncredited cameo in Mrs. Soffel. Her first credited appearance was in the television film Student Exchange. In 1986, she appeared on a special Teen Week episode of the NBC game show Scrabble, then she appeared in numerous television commercials, and an episode of the sitcom Growing Pains in 1987. Her first high-profile starring role came in the 1988 Corey Haim/Corey Feldman vehicle License to Drive, as a girl named Mercedes Lane. Her efforts won her a Young Artist Award nomination in the Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Fantasy category and her strict parents forbade her to accept a role in the black comedy Heathers, which had an expletive-rich script. The same year she had an appearance as Danny DeVito. In 1989, Graham was featured in Gus Van Sants Drugstore Cowboy as Nadine and her performance gave her career an initial boost and earned her a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress. She rejected a steady role in a TV soap opera and a deal with a major studio because she thought it would be too restrictive
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Harry Dean Stanton
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Harry Dean Stanton is an American actor, musician, and singer. Stanton played a role as an LDS polygamist offshoot leader for the first 3 seasons of the HBO television series Big Love. Stanton was born in Irvine, Kentucky, the son of Sheridan Harry Stanton, a farmer and barber, and Ersel. His parents divorced when Stanton was in school and both later remarried. He has two brothers, Archie and Ralph, and a younger half-brother, Stan. The family had a musical background, I could have been a writer, he told an interviewer for a 2011 documentary, Harry Dean Stanton, Crossing Mulholland, in which he sings and plays the harmonica. I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor, I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it. Briggs encouraged him to leave the university and become an actor and he studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where his classmates included his friends Tyler MacDuff and Dana Andrews. Stanton is a United States Navy veteran of World War II and he served as a cook aboard an LST during the Battle of Okinawa. He has been an actor of Sam Peckinpah, John Milius, David Lynch, and Monte Hellman. He appears as a complaining BAR man in the beginning of the Gregory Peck film Pork Chop Hill in 1959. His breakthrough part came with the role in director Wim Wenders film Paris. Playwright Sam Shepard, the screenwriter, had spotted Stanton at a Santa Fe. I was telling him I was sick of the roles I was playing, I told him I wanted to play something of some beauty or sensitivity. I had no inkling he was considering me for the lead in his movie, not long afterward, Shepard phoned him in Los Angeles to offer Stanton the part of protagonist Travis, a role that called for the actor to remain largely silent. As a lost, broken soul trying to put his back together. Stanton was a favorite of film critic Roger Ebert, who said that no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a role can be altogether bad. However, Ebert later admitted that Dream a Little Dream, in which Stanton appeared, was a violation of this rule
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Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
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Isaac Charles Singleton Jr. is an American actor. He is best recognized for portraying the irate air marshal in Anger Management and he also voiced the villainous Thanos in the television programs Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers Assemble, as well as the video game Lego Marvels Avengers. Singleton also shares the screen with Ryan Reynolds in the comedy film Deadpool. He spent his teen years in Germany, while his father was stationed at Bitburg Air Base and he has been a prolific actor since the late 1990s
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Stephen Dunham
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Stephen Dunham was an American actor, best known as Edward Pillows on the series DAG and known internationally for his roles as Mr. Henderson in The Mummy and Dr. Paul Chamberlain in Monster-in-Law. Stephen Dunham was born Stephen Dunham Bowers in Boston, Massachusetts on September 14th 1964 and he grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was married to actress Alexondra Lee, Dunham had a role in The Mummy as Henderson. He played Peter on What I Like About You and Chad on True Jackson and he was also known for his role as Charlie Thorpe in Hot Properties. He played Edward in DAG from 2000 to 2001 and he also acted in dozens of other television shows and major films. He played Hunter Franklin on the short-lived sitcom Oh, Grow Up, more recently he appeared in Monster-in-Law, The Bill Engvall Show and a small cameo appearance in Get Smart. In 2011, he appeared on Hot in Cleveland, playing an Amish bartender and he suffered a heart attack and died on September 14,2012, his 48th birthday, in Burbank, California. The end credits of Paranormal Activity 4 include a dedication to him, Stephen Dunham at the Internet Movie Database
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John McEnroe
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John Patrick McEnroe Jr. is an American former World No.1 professional tennis player, often rated among the greatest players of all time in the sport, especially for his touch on the volley. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles, nine Grand Slam mens doubles titles and he also won a record eight year-end championships,19 Grand Prix Super Series titles, and finished his career with 77 ATP-listed singles titles and 78 in doubles. In 1981,1983 and 1984 he was both the ATP player of the year and the ITF World Champion for Mens singles and his match record of 82–3 in 1984 remains the best single season win rate of the Open Era. McEnroe is a former Captain of the United States Davis Cup team and he continues to play tennis and competes in senior events on the ATP Champions Tour. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999, after his tennis career he became a television commentator, a game show host and a chat show host. Additionally, he has appeared in films and television shows as himself and has played music live. He has been married since 1997 to musician and former Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth, McEnroe was born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, West Germany, to American parents, John Patrick McEnroe Sr. and his wife Kay, née Tresham. His father, who is of Irish descent, was at the time stationed with the United States Air Force, in 1960, the family moved to the New York City area, where McEnroes father worked daytime as an advertising agent while attending Fordham Law School by night. He has two brothers, Mark and former professional tennis player Patrick. McEnroe grew up in Douglaston, Queens, New York City and he started playing tennis when he was eight, at the nearby Douglaston Club with his brothers. When he was nine, his parents enrolled him in the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association and he then began competing in national juniors tournaments, and at twelve—when he was ranked seven in his age group—he joined the Port Washington Tennis Academy, Long Island, New York. McEnroe attended Trinity School and graduated in 1977 and it was the best performance by a qualifier at a Grand Slam tournament and a record performance by an amateur in the open era. After Wimbledon in 1977, McEnroe entered Stanford University and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association singles, later in 1978, he joined the ATP tour and signed his first professional endorsement deal, with Sergio Tacchini. He again advanced to the semifinals at a Grand Slam, this time the US Open, following which, he proceeded to win five titles that year, including his first Masters Grand Prix, beating Arthur Ashe in straight sets. In 1979, McEnroe won the Wimbledon Doubles title, the duo later adding the 1979 US Open Doubles title to their haul as well, McEnroe won his first Grand Slam singles title at the US Open. He defeated his friend Vitas Gerulaitis in straight sets in the final to become the youngest male winner of the title at the US Open since Pancho Gonzales. He also won the prestigious season-ending WCT Finals, beating Björn Borg in four sets, McEnroe won 10 singles and 17 doubles titles that year. At Wimbledon, McEnroe reached the 1980 Wimbledon Mens Singles final—his first final at Wimbledon—where he faced Björn Borg, at the start of the final, McEnroe was booed by the crowd as he entered Centre Court following heated exchanges with officials during his semifinal victory over Jimmy Connors
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Derek Jeter
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Derek Sanderson Jeter is an American former professional baseball shortstop who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. A five-time World Series champion, Jeter is regarded as a figure of the Yankees success of the late 1990s and early 2000s for his hitting, baserunning, fielding. He is the Yankees all-time career leader in hits, doubles, games played, stolen bases, times on base, plate appearances and at bats. His accolades include 14 All-Star selections, five Gold Glove Awards, five Silver Slugger Awards, Jeter became the 28th player to reach 3,000 hits and finished his career sixth all-time in career hits and the all-time MLB leader in hits by a shortstop. The Yankees drafted Jeter out of school in 1992. The following year, he became the Yankees starting shortstop, won the Rookie of the Year Award and he consistently placed among the AL leaders in hits and runs scored for most of his career, and served as the Yankees team captain from 2003 until his retirement in 2014. Throughout his career, Jeter contributed reliably to the Yankees franchise successes and he holds many postseason records, and has a.321 batting average in the World Series. Jeter has earned the nicknames of Captain Clutch and Mr. November due to his play in the postseason. Jeter is one of the most heavily marketed athletes of his generation and is involved in several product endorsements and his personal life and relationships with celebrities have drawn the attention of the media throughout his career. Teammates and opponents alike regard Jeter as a professional and one of the best players of his generation. Jeter was born in Pequannock Township, New Jersey, on June 26,1974 and his mother, Dorothy, an accountant, is of Irish, as well as some German and English, ancestry. His father, Sanderson Charles Jeter, Ph. D. a substance abuse counselor, is African-American and they met while serving in the United States Army in Germany. His father played baseball at Fisk University in Tennessee as a shortstop, when Jeter was a child, his parents made him sign a contract every year that defined acceptable and unacceptable forms of behavior. Dorothy instilled a positive attitude in her son, insisting that he not use the word cant and it was a baseball family, and Jeters younger sister Sharlee was a softball star in high school. The Jeters lived in New Jersey until Derek was 4 years old, at which point they moved to Kalamazoo, Jeter and Sharlee lived in Kalamazoo with their parents during the school year and spent their summers with their grandparents in New Jersey. Attending New York Yankees games with his grandparents, Jeter became a fan of the team. Watching Yankees player Dave Winfield inspired him to pursue a career in baseball, Jeter attended Kalamazoo Central High School, where he ran cross country in the fall, played basketball in the winter and baseball in the spring. Jeter posted high batting averages for the baseball team, he batted.557 in his sophomore year
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Robert Merrill
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Robert Merrill was an American operatic baritone and actor, who was also active in the musical theatre circuit. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1993, Merrill was born Moishe Miller, later known as Morris Miller, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of tailor Abraham Miller, originally Milstein and his paternal grandaparents were Berl Milstein and Chana, both from Pultusk, Poland. His mother claimed to have had an operatic and concert career in Poland and encouraged her son to have voice training, he had a tendency to stutter. In his early appearances as a crooner he was sometimes billed as Merrill Miller. With Toscanini conducting, he sang in two of the maestros NBC broadcasts of famous operas, La traviata, and Un ballo in maschera. Both of those broadcasts were released on both LP and CD by RCA Victor. Merrills 1944 operatic debut was in Verdis Aida at Newark, New Jersey, with the famous tenor Giovanni Martinelli, then in the later stages of his long operatic career. Also in 1945, Merrill recorded a 78 rpm record set with Jeanette MacDonald, featuring selections from the operetta Up in Central Park, MacDonald and Merrill did two duets together on this album. In 1952 Merrill, Björling, and Victoria de los Ángeles made a widely admired RCA Victor recording of Puccinis La bohème, in 1953, Merrill, Björling, de los Angeles and Zinka Milanov recorded the complete Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana. His role in the comedy film Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick led to a conflict with Sir Rudolf Bing. Merrill sang many different baritone roles, and after the untimely death of the celebrated Leonard Warren in 1960. He was described by Time as one of the Mets best baritones and he was accused by the reviewer of loud, coarse sounds and no grace, no charm, as he butchered the text and galumphed around the stage. Merrill appeared on Voice of Firestone with Joanne Hill, Merrill also continued to perform on radio and television, in nightclubs and recitals. In 1973, Merrill teamed up with Richard Tucker to present a concert at Carnegie Hall—a first for the two vocal supermen, and a first for the demanding New York public and critics, Merrill recalled. The event marked a precedent that led to the Three Tenors concerts many years later. Merrill retired from the Met in 1976, for many years, he led services, often in Borscht Belt hotels, on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. In honor of Merrills vast influence on American vocal music, on February 16,1981 he was awarded the prestigious University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit, the AGMA Relief Fund, award sponsor, provides financial assistance and support services to classical performing artists in need
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Bob Sheppard
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Sheppards smooth, distinctive baritone and precise, consistent elocution became iconic aural symbols of both the old Yankee Stadium and Giants Stadium. Reggie Jackson famously nicknamed him The Voice of God, and Carl Yastrzemski once said, Sheppard was secretive about his age throughout his life, but according to New York voter records he was born October 20,1910, in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City. He graduated from Saint Johns Preparatory School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in 1928 and he was also elected president of his senior class. In 1933, he received a Masters degree in Speech Education from Columbia University, during World War II he served in the Navy as a gunnery officer aboard cargo ships, both in convoys and on independent missions in the Pacific Theater. After the War he became Chairman of the Speech Department at John Adams High School in Queens and he also served as speech and debate coach for Sacred Heart Academys Forensic Team in Hempstead, New York. His multiple teaching jobs overlapped more than 25 years into his announcing career, as an announcer, he said, All I have to recommend is longevity. After World War II, Sheppard was hired as the public address announcer for St. Johns football and basketball games, in the late 1940s, he became the announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference at Ebbets Field. He came to the attention of the Yankees when a front-office official heard him deliver a tribute to Babe Ruth at a Dodgers football game in 1948. He debuted at Yankee Stadium on April 17,1951 with the Yankees home opener, Sheppards first year as the Yankees announcer was the only one in which Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle shared the outfield. His first game featured eight future Hall of Famers, DiMaggio, Mantle, Johnny Mize, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto for the Yankees, and Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, the first player he introduced was the Yankee Clippers brother, Dominic DiMaggio. His 1951 salary was $15 per game, $17 for a doubleheader, Sheppards distinctive announcing style became an integral component of the Yankee Stadium experience. For more than half a century each game began with his trademark cadence – Good afternoon. ladies and gentlemen. each in-game announcement began, Your attention please, ladies and gentlemen. He introduced every player, Yankee or visitor, with equal divine reverence and he communicated the players position, uniform number, name, and repeated the number, during his first at-bat, while announcing the players position and name during each succeeding at-bat. He eschewed flamboyant nicknames, Dennis Boyd was never introduced as Oil Can, anglo-Saxon names are not very euphonious, he said. What can I do with Steve Sax, what can I do with Mickey Klutts. But Mickey Mantle remained his favorite, Sheppard said Mantle once told him, Everytime Bob Sheppard introduced me at Yankee Stadium, and I said to him, So did I. Sheppard took great pride in pronouncing every name correctly, and made certain to check directly with a player if he had any doubt on the correct or preferred pronunciation. Minnie Miñoso, for example, preferred a precise Spanish pronunciation of his name, complete with tilde and he admitted that early in his career, whenever the Senators were in town he particularly feared tripping over Wayne Terwilligers name
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Judith Giuliani
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She was also actively involved in coordinating assistance efforts at Pier 94 following the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001. Born Judi Ann Stish, she is a native of Hazleton, Pennsylvania and her family is Roman Catholic, the surname was originally Sticia and of Northern Italian origin. Her father, Donald Stish, Sr. was a manager for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and her mother, Joan Ann. She had a brother, Donald, Jr. who died in 2004. Her parents still reside in the home where she grew up in Hazleton. On December 8,1974, at the age of 19, she and Jeffrey Ross, the couple soon relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina where they both took jobs with U. S. She and Ross separated amicably after four years, and their marriage ended in divorce which was finalized on November 14,1979. Five days later, on November 19,1979, Judi Stish Ross married wallpaper salesman Bruce Nathan, Judi Nathan stopped working around that time, the couple lived in Charlotte for two years, then moved to Atlanta, Georgia. The Nathans adopted a daughter, Whitney, in March 1985, the family moved to Manhattan in 1987 and Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles in 1991. During these years, she worked for DynaMed Surgical in California. She also converted from Roman Catholicism to Presbyterianism, the Nathans marriage fell apart during the early 1990s and led to a well-publicized divorce case and custody battle. She accused him of abuse, and he accused her of physical and mental abuse, along with being an unfit mother who kidnapped their daughter. The Nathans divorce was finalized in 1992 and she won custody of their child. Nathan, who came to prefer the name Judith around this time, moved back to New York in March 1992, Nathan used her alimony payments to cover part of the tuition for her daughter, the rest came from scholarships her friends helped to secure. Nathan lived with friends for almost a year, borrowing pots, around this time Judith became romantically involved with Woodhull Hospital clinical psychologist Manos Zacharioudakis, she and her daughter lived with him for four years, until early 1999. Meanwhile, she one of Bristol-Myers top sales managers, by 1997 managing a 12-person sales team. Judith Nathan met Mayor Giuliani in May 1999 at Club Macanudo, Giuliani took the initiative in forming an ongoing relationship. The mayor was still married to and living with his wife, Donna Hanover, although they had been publicly distant since 1996
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Bob Knight
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Robert Montgomery Bob Knight is a retired American basketball coach. Knight is best known as the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000. He also coached at Texas Tech and at Army, while at Indiana, Knight led his teams to three NCAA championships, one National Invitation Tournament championship, and 11 Big Ten Conference championships. He received National Coach of the Year honors four times and Big Ten Coach of the Year honors eight times. In 1984, he coached the USA mens Olympic team to a gold medal, Knight was one of college basketballs most successful and innovative coaches, having perfected and popularized the motion offense. He has also praised for running clean programs and graduating most of his players. Knight remains the object of near fanatical devotion from his former players, in 2008, Knight joined ESPN as a mens college basketball studio analyst during Championship Week and for coverage of the NCAA Tournament. He continued covering college basketball for ESPN through the 2014-15 season, Knight was born in Massillon, Ohio, and grew up in Orrville, Ohio. Knight began his career as a player at Orrville High School and he continued under Basketball Hall of Fame coach Fred Taylor at Ohio State in 1958. The Buckeyes lost to the Cincinnati Bearcats in each of the next two NCAA Championship games, of which Knight was also a part. Due in part to the power of those Ohio State teams, playing time was usually scarce for Knight. In the 1961 NCAA Championship game, Knight came off the bench with 1,41 on the clock and Cincinnati leading Ohio State, 61-59. In the words of then-Ohio State assistant coach Frank Truitt, Knight got the ball in the front court. Then crossed over like he worked on it all his life and drove right in and laid it up. That tied the game for us, and Knight ran clear across the floor like a 100-yard dash sprinter and ran right at me and said, See there, coach, to which Truitt replied, Sit down, you hot dog. Youre lucky youre even on the floor, Knight graduated with a degree in history and government in 1962. After graduation in 1962, Knight coached junior varsity basketball at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio for one year, in six seasons at West Point, Knight won 102 games, with his first as a head coach coming against Worcester Polytechnic Institute. One of his players was Mike Krzyzewski, who served as his assistant before becoming a Hall of Fame head coach at Duke
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Roger Clemens
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William Roger Clemens, nicknamed Rocket, is a retired American baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball for four teams. Clemens was one of the most dominant pitchers in major league history, tallying 354 wins, a 3.12 earned run average, and 4,672 strikeouts, the third-most all time. An 11-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, he won seven Cy Young Awards during his career, Clemens was known for his fierce competitive nature and hard-throwing pitching style, which he used to intimidate batters. Clemens debuted in the leagues in 1984 with the Boston Red Sox. In 1986, he won the American League Cy Young Award, the AL Most Valuable Player Award, and the All-Star Game MVP Award, after the 1996 season, Clemens left Boston via free agency and joined the Toronto Blue Jays. In each of his two seasons with Toronto, Clemens won a Cy Young Award, as well as the triple crown by leading the league in wins, ERA. Prior to the 1999 season, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees where he won his two World Series titles, in 2003, he reached his 300th win and 4, 000th strikeout in the same game. Clemens left for the Houston Astros in 2004, where he spent three seasons and won his seventh Cy Young Award and he rejoined the Yankees in 2007 for one last season before retiring. Clemens was alleged by the Mitchell Report to have used steroids during his late career. Clemens firmly denied these allegations under oath before the United States Congress, leading congressional leaders to refer his case to the Justice Department on suspicions of perjury. On August 19,2010, a grand jury at the U. S. District Court in Washington, D. C. indicted Clemens on six felony counts involving perjury, false statements. Clemens pleaded not guilty, but proceedings were complicated by prosecutorial misconduct, the verdict from his second trial came in June 2012. Clemens was found not guilty on all six counts of lying to Congress in 2008, Clemens was born in Dayton, Ohio, the fifth child of Bill and Bess Clemens. He is of German descent, his great-grandfather Joseph Clemens having immigrated in the 1880s, Clemens parents separated when he was an infant. His mother soon married Woody Booher, whom Clemens considers his father, Booher died when Clemens was nine years old, and Clemens has said that the only time he ever felt envious of other players was when he saw them in the clubhouse with their fathers. Clemens lived in Vandalia, Ohio, until 1977, and then spent most of his school years in Houston. At Spring Woods High School, Clemens played baseball for head coach Charles Maiorana. He was scouted by the Philadelphia Phillies and Minnesota Twins during his senior year and he began his college career pitching for San Jacinto College North in 1981, where he was 9–2
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Blondie (band)
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Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American new wave, Blondie broke up after the release of its sixth studio album The Hunter in 1982. The band re-formed in 1997, achieving renewed success and a one single in the United Kingdom with Maria in 1999. The group toured and performed throughout the world during the following years, Blondie has sold 40 million records worldwide and is still active. The bands tenth studio album Ghosts of Download, was released in 2014, inspired by the burgeoning new music scene at the Mercer Arts Center, Chris Stein sought to join a similar band. He joined the Stillettoes in 1973 as their guitarist and formed a relationship with one of the bands vocalists, Debbie Harry. Harry had been a member of a band, the Wind in the Willows. In July 1974, Stein and Harry parted ways with the Stillettoes and Elda Gentile, originally billed as Angel and the Snake for two shows in August 1974, they renamed themselves Blondie by October 1974. The name derived from comments made by truck drivers who catcalled Hey, by the spring of 1975, after some personnel turnover, Stein and Harry were joined by drummer Clem Burke, and bass player Gary Valentine. Blondie became regular performers at Maxs Kansas City and CBGB, in June 1975, the bands first recording came in the way of a demo produced by Alan Betrock. To fill out their sound, they recruited keyboard player Jimmy Destri in November 1975, the band signed with Private Stock Records and their debut album, Blondie, was issued in December 1976 but was initially not a commercial success. In September 1977, the bought back its contract with Private Stock. The first album was re-released on the new label in October 1977 and it also noted that Harry was the possessor of a bombshell zombies voice that can sound dreamily seductive and woodenly Mansonite within the same song. Jimmy Destri later credited the shows Molly Meldrum for their initial success, Stein asserted that X-Offender was too crazy and aggressive, while In the Flesh was not representative of any punk sensibility. Over the years, Ive thought they played both things but liked one better. In retrospect, Burke described In the Flesh as a forerunner to the power ballad, the single reached number 2 in Australia, while the album reached the Australian top twenty in November 1977, and a subsequent double-A release of X-Offender and Rip Her to Shreds reached number 81. A successful Australian tour followed in December, though it was marred by an incident in Brisbane when disappointed fans almost rioted after Harry cancelled a performance due to illness, in February 1978, Blondie released their second album, Plastic Letters. The album was recorded as a four-piece as Gary Valentine had left the band in mid 1977, Plastic Letters was promoted extensively throughout Europe and Asia by Chrysalis Records
