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Coalville, Utah
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Coalville is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 1,382 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Summit County, Interstate 80 runs through the town, as well as the Weber River which runs into the Echo Reservoir just north of Coalville. Coalville was founded in 1859 by William Henderson Smith, an early Mormon freighter and he noticed that wheat spilled by other wagons moving through the area would grow to maturity. He subsequently convinced four families to settle in the area with him, the settlement was originally called Chalk Creek. Early life in Chalk Creek was difficult, and during winters the settlers dealt with a constant scarcity of food, when food ran out, they would travel to Salt Lake City for supplies. The local Indian tribes were also hostile for a time, in 1854 the territorial government in Utah offered a $1000 reward to anyone who could find coal within 40 miles of Salt Lake City. Four years later, Thomas Rhodes found a vein in the Chalk Creek area. Hundreds of tons of coal were shipped to Salt Lake City, the settlement was renamed Coalville as a result of this early success mining coal. Unlike most Mormon settlements in Utah and the intermountain west, Coalville city streets are not aligned to true north, main Street in Coalville is offset such that it runs slightly north-northwest, and Center street runs slightly east-northeast. The Thomas L. Allen House in Coalville is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 3.3 square miles. Coalville has a humid continental climate, characterised by extreme diurnal temperature ranges that range from extremely cold winter nights to hot afternoons in the summer. However, the altitude and low humidity means that mornings in summer remain very cool. Owing to this phenomenon, observed low temperatures are often significantly lower than those forecasted by national agencies. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,382 people,465 households, the population density was 483.9 people per square mile. There were 495 housing units at a density of 173.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 93. 13% White,0. 07% African American,0. 80% Native American,0. 29% Asian,0. 07% Pacific Islander,4. 92% from other races, and 0. 72% from two or more races
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Luke Spencer
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Luke Spencer is a fictional character in the American television soap opera General Hospital, and has been played by Anthony Geary from 1978 until his on-screen exit in July 2015. Geary holds the record for most Daytime Emmy wins for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his work as Luke and he was the shows fifth most tenured character after Monica Quartermaine, Laura Spencer, Scott Baldwin, and Bobbie Spencer. Anthony Geary was originally hired for a 13-week stint on General Hospital in November 1978, Geary received Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1980,1981, and had his first win in 1982. Geary was nominated again in 1983, before leaving the show on December 27,1983, Geary later reprised the role from October 26 to December 10,1984. In 1991, Geary returned to General Hospital as Lukes cousin and look-alike Bill Eckert, however, due to audience feedback and demand, the character was killed off and Geary resumed the role of Luke on October 29,1993. Geary was nominated in 1997 and 1998 for Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actor, and had his win in 1999. He received another nomination in 2003, and had his win in 2004. When Geary won for the time in 2006, he set the record for most lead actor wins. Geary has been known in years for his annual long vacations from the show. As Geary explains to Entertainment Weekly, Thats my contractual situation, there came a point where they really couldnt offer me more money in negotiations. Ive made a fine living and Im grateful for that. But what they could offer me would be more time, so whats happened is that through the years Ive eked out what I think is an ideal situation. I have a number of shows,31 weeks a year. Geary received another Emmy nomination in 2007, and in 2008, also in 2008, Geary made a guest appearance on the General Hospital spin-off General Hospital, Night Shift. Having received his last nomination in 2009, Geary again set a record in 2012 with his win for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Drama Series. In May 2015, Geary announced his decision to permanently leave General Hospital, stating, This show has been a part of my life for over half my life. But Im just weary of the grind and have been for 20 years, Geary made his final appearance on July 27,2015. Lucas Lorenzo Spencer or Luke was born and raised in Port Charles, Luke is street smart and defended his sister Bobbie as much as he could while they grew up
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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Soap opera
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A soap opera, soap, or soapie, is a serial drama on television or radio that examines the lives of many characters, usually focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama. The term soap opera originated from such dramas being typically sponsored by soap manufacturers in the past, the first serial considered to be a soap opera was Painted Dreams, which debuted on October 20,1930 on Chicago radio station WGN. The first nationally broadcast radio soap opera was Clara, Lu, and Em, a crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the features that makes a television program a soap opera. While Spanish language telenovelas are sometimes called soap operas, telenovelas have conflicts that get resolved, but with soap operas each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode. You spend more time even with the characters, the apparent villains grow less apparently villainous. Soap opera storylines run concurrently, intersect and lead into further developments, each episode may feature some of the shows current storylines, but not always all of them. Soap operas rarely bring all the current storylines to a conclusion at the same time, when one storyline ends, there are several other story threads at differing stages of development. Soap opera episodes typically end on some sort of cliffhanger, evening soap operas and those that air at a rate of one episode per week are more likely to feature the entire cast in each episode, and to represent all current storylines in each episode. Evening soap operas and serials that run for only part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end-of-season cliffhanger, the article explained that at that time, many prime time series lost money, while daytime serials earned profits several times more than their production costs. Fitting in with these characteristics, most soap operas follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place, the storylines follow the day-to-day activities and personal relationships of these characters. These elements may be found across the gamut of soap operas, Due to the prominence of English-language television, most soap-operas are completely English. In many soap operas, in particular daytime serials in the US, Soap operas from the United Kingdom and Australia tend to focus on more everyday characters and situations, and are frequently set in working class environments. Many of the soaps produced in two countries explore social realist storylines such as family discord, marriage breakdown or financial problems. This diverges from US soap operas where such comedy is rare, UK soap operas frequently make a claim to presenting reality or purport to have a realistic style. Romance, secret relationships, extramarital affairs, and genuine hate have been the basis for many soap opera storylines, in US daytime serials, the most popular soap opera characters, and the most popular storylines, often involved a romance of the sort presented in paperback romance novels. Crimes such as kidnapping, rape, and even murder may go unpunished if the perpetrator is to be retained in the ongoing story, Australian and UK soap operas also feature a significant proportion of romance storylines. In Russia, most popular serials explore the romantic quality of criminal and/or oligarch life, in soap opera storylines, previously unknown children, siblings and twins of established characters often emerge to upset and reinvigorate the set of relationships examined by the series
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General Hospital
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General Hospital is an American daytime television medical drama. General Hospital premiered on the ABC television network on April 1,1963, same-day broadcasts as well as classic episodes were aired on SOAPnet from January 20,2000, to December 31,2013, following Disney-ABCs decision to discontinue the network. General Hospital is the serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment program in ABC television history. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, the show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, who originally set it in a general hospital, in an unnamed fictional city. In the 1970s, the city was named Port Charles, New York, from its beginning, General Hospital starred John Beradino and Emily McLaughlin, and both actors stayed with the show until their deaths in 1996 and 1991 respectively. They were joined a year later by Rachel Ames who remains to date the longest serving actress on an ABC soap opera, General Hospital was the second soap to air on ABC. In 1964, a sister soap was created for General Hospital, The Young Marrieds, taped at The Prospect Studios, General Hospital aired for a half-hour until July 23,1976. The series was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26,1976, ever since the late 1970s, most of the storylines have revolved around the Quartermaines and the Spencers. From 1979 to 1988, General Hospital had more viewers than any other soap opera. The soap opera is known for its high-profile celebrity guest stars who have included, among others, Roseanne Barr, James Franco. In 2007, the program was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME, on April 23,2009, General Hospital began broadcasting in high definition, making it the first ABC soap opera to make such a transition. The series aired its 13, 000th episode on February 24,2014, General Hospital became the oldest American soap opera on September 17,2010, following the final broadcast of CBS As the World Turns. On April 14,2011, ABC announced the cancellation of both All My Children and One Life to Live, leaving General Hospital as the last remaining soap opera airing on the network after January 13,2012, the show celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 1,2013. General Hospital was created by Frank and Doris Hursley and premiered on April 1,1963, the first stories were mainly set on the seventh floor of General Hospital, in an unnamed midsize Eastern city. Launched in 1963, the first stories were set at General Hospital in an unnamed midsized Eastern city. The name of the city, Port Charles, would not be mentioned until 1976 by headwriters Eileen, storylines revolved around Dr. Steve Hardy and his friend, Nurse Jessie Brewer. Jessies turbulent marriage to the much-younger Dr. Phil Brewer was the center of many early storylines, in 1964 Audrey March, a flight attendant and sister of Nurse Lucille, came to town, and was the woman who won Steves heart. By the end of the 1970s, General Hospital was facing dire ratings when executive producer Gloria Monty was brought in to turn the show around, Monty is credited with creation of the first supercouple, Luke Spencer and Laura Webber, played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis
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"Weird Al" Yankovic
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Alfred Matthew Weird Al Yankovic is an American singer, songwriter, parodist, record producer, satirist, actor, voice actor, music video director, film producer, and author. Since his first-aired comedy song in 1976, he has more than 12 million albums, recorded more than 150 parody and original songs. His works have earned him four Grammy Awards and a further 11 nominations, four gold records, Weird Als first top ten Billboard album and single were both released in 2006, nearly three decades into his career. His latest album, Mandatory Fun, became his first number-one album during its debut week and he directed later videos himself and went on to direct for other artists including Ben Folds, Hanson, The Black Crowes, and The Presidents of the United States of America. Weird Al has stated that he may forgo traditional albums in favor of timely releases of singles, in addition to recording his albums, Weird Al wrote and starred in the film UHF and The Weird Al Show. He has also made guest appearances and voice acting roles on television shows and video web content. He has also written two books, When I Grow Up and My New Teacher and Me. Yankovic was born in Downey, California and raised in Lynwood. He is the child of Mary Elizabeth and Nick Yankovic. Mary, who was of Italian and English descent, had come to California from Kentucky, Als first accordion lesson, which sparked his career in music, was on the day before his sixth birthday. A door-to-door salesman traveling through Lynwood offered the Yankovic parents a choice of accordion or guitar lessons at a music school. Yankovic said that parents chose the accordion because they were convinced it would revolutionize rock and he continued lessons at the school for three years before continuing to learn on his own. Yankovics early accordion role models included Frankie Yankovic and Myron Floren, in the 1970s, Yankovic was a big fan of Elton John and claims Johns Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album was partly how I learned to play rock n roll on the accordion. Other sources of inspiration for his comedy come from Mad magazine, Monty Python, Yankovic began kindergarten a year earlier than most children, and he skipped second grade. My classmates seemed to think I was some kind of rocket scientist so I was labeled an early on. As his unusual schooling left him two years younger than most of his classmates, Yankovic was not interested in sports or social events at school and we started the club just to get an extra picture of ourselves in the yearbook. Weird Al graduated in 1975 and was valedictorian of his senior class, Yankovic attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where he earned a bachelors degree in architecture. Yankovic received his first exposure via southern California and syndicated radio personality Dr. Dementos radio show, saying If there hadnt been a Dr. Demento. The tapes first song, Belvedere Cruisin - about his familys Plymouth Belvedere - was played on Dementos comedy radio show, launching Yankovics career
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UHF (film)
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The film was directed by Jay Levey, Yankovics manager, who also co-wrote the screenplay with him. It was released by Orion Pictures and is owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He provokes the ire of a network station that dislikes the competitive upstart. The title refers to the Ultra High Frequency analog television broadcasting band on which such low-budget television stations often were placed in the United States. They struggled with finding a film company for financing the film. Principal filming took place around Tulsa, Oklahoma, with many of the extras for the film from the Tulsa, UHF earned mixed critical reviews, and was further impacted by being released in the middle of one of Hollywoods largest blockbuster summer periods. While only a modest success during its release, it became a cult film on home video. Factory released a special 25th Anniversary edition of UHF on November 11,2014 on DVD, George Newman is a Walter Mitty-esque daydreamer whose hyperactive imagination keeps him and his friend Bob from holding a steady job. Georges uncle Harvey Bilchik wins the deed to Channel 62, a UHF television station on the verge of bankruptcy and his wife Esther talks him into giving control of Channel 62 to the out-of-work George. George attempts to introduce himself to the rival VHF network station Channel 8, but its owner, George offers him a janitorial job at Channel 62. George and Bob stay late at the station brainstorming ways to keep it afloat, the next day a despondent George walks out in the middle of filming the kids show Uncle Nutzys Clubhouse so he can go to the bar and drown his woes in drink. Stanley takes over as host and his antics are an instant hit with the audience. Channel 62 finds success with a line up of original shows. Channel 62 eventually overtakes Channel 8 in the ratings, which infuriates Fletcher, concurrently, Bilchik loses big at a horse race and ends up with $75,000 of gambling debt that he cant repay. Fletcher offers Bilchik the $75,000 to buy out Channel 62, George learns of the deal and calls his aunt Esther, who forces Bilchik to give George a chance to match Fletchers offer. Led by Stanleys boundless energy, the telethon gets off to a quick start, George then leads a group to infiltrate Channel 8 and rescue Stanley. Despite Stanleys return, the ends with the station $2,000 short of its goal. As the film ends George and Teri rekindle their relationship, while the rest of the employees and fans of Channel 62 celebrate
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Johnny Got His Gun (film)
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It was based on the novel of the same name by Trumbo, and features an uncredited writing collaboration by Luis Buñuel. The film was released on DVD in the U. S on April 28,2009 via Shout, although Johnny Got His Gun was a minor success at the time of its release, it was largely forgotten soon after by mass audiences. Eventually, the members of Metallica bought the rights to the film in order to keep showing their music video without routinely paying royalties fees, Joe Bonham, a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell during World War I, lies in a hospital bed. He is an amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, mouth. He remains conscious and able to reason, but his wounds render him a prisoner in his own body, as he drifts between reality and fantasy, he remembers his old life with his family and girlfriend. He also forms a bond, of sorts, with a nurse who senses his plight. Eventually, Joe tries to communicate to his doctors, via Morse code by nodding his head and he wishes for the US Army to put him in a glass coffin in a freak show as a demonstration of the horrors of war. When told that his wish may be impossible to grant, he responds begging to be euthanized and he ultimately realizes that the Army can grant neither wish, and will leave him in a state of living death. His sympathetic nurse attempts to him by clamping his breathing tube. Joe realizes that he never be released from his state of entrapment and he is left alone, weakly chanting. His dreams are drug-induced, as when he talks to his father and Christ. His memories are in a color, such as the fishing trip. Joes face is never seen in the scenes, where his missing limbs are covered by hospital sheets. The film was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury, the film currently has a 70% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 1988, the metal band Metallica wrote the song One, based on the book. In early 2009, the 1971 film made its U. S. DVD debut, however, it contains some brief edits, because a European print was used for the video source. In October 2010, a special educational DVD of the 2008 film version starring McKenzie became available free of charge to high school library in the U. S. Johnny Got His Gun at the Internet Movie Database Johnny Got His Gun at Metacritic Johnny Got His Gun at Rotten Tomatoes Johnny Got His Gun at AllMovie Johnny Got His Gun at the TCM Movie Database
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Teacher's Pet (2004 film)
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Teachers Pet is a 2004 American animated musical comedy film based on the television series of the same name, the film ends the central storyline of the series. Produced by Disney Television Animation and released theatrically on January 16,2004, the movie is dedicated to creator Gary Basemans dog, Hubcaps, who died while the film was in production. Leonard is looking forward to spending the summer with his dog, Leonard sadly bids farewell to Spot as he and his mother depart. Spot, along with the Helpermans other pets, Pretty Boy and Mr. Jolly, are left with a pet-sitter when Spot accidentally sits on the remote and changes the channel to The Barry Anger Show. Angers special guest is a wacko named Dr. Ivan Krank, who claims he can turn animals into human beings, believing it to be fate, Spot chases down the RV. Spot and Leonard meet up at a gas station, Spot, Leonard, and Mrs. Helperman continue on their way to Florida, singing through all fifty states. Meanwhile, Pretty Boy and Mr. Jolly, back at home, see another episode of Barry Anger in which Anger reveals that Krank cannot turn animals into people, but rather into terrifying mutant creatures. They decide that they must track down Spot and stop him from being turned into a monster and he reveals to Leonard the real reason he came to Florida, to become a real boy. Leonard is skeptical, but accompanies Spot to Kranks lab, where Krank has just unsuccessfully tried to turn a frog human and he is ready to destroy his machine when Spot and Leonard show up. Spot tells him that his machine cant work with a frog because its a life form. Krank agrees to turn Spot human, and gives him a nickel as payment for being his test subject, Krank explains that, throughout his entire life, people have mocked his ideas and turns the machine on Spot. Spot wakes up to find that he is indeed not a boy as he expected. Still, he is happy to be human, but the happiness quickly fades when Krank tells him that he will have to travel around with him forever to prove that Krank is not a wacko. Krank locks Leonard and Scott up, and hope seems lost until Ian, Kranks nephew and Leonard and Spots classmate, shows up, Krank grounds Ian and sends Dennis and Adele off to find his dog-man. Leonard and Scott, meanwhile, are hungry, and Scotts clothes from when he was a dog disguised as a boy do not fit his adult body and they see a sign advertising a $100 reward for a lost dog. Scott uses the Twilight Bark to locate the lost dog, along with her four puppies that had been born while she was lost and this prompts the dogs owner to give them $500, as they brought back five dogs. Now rolling in money, Leonard and Scott enjoy a day on the town. The two lose track of time, but manage to make it back to the Wentawaygo just in time for dinner, Scott and Leonard quickly make up a story that this new person is Scott Manly-Manning, Scott Leadready II had to go home, and he helped him out
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Fish Tank (film)
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Fish Tank is a 2009 British drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. The film is about Mia Williams, a volatile and socially isolated 15-year-old who lives with her single mother, the mothers new boyfriend, Conor, becomes attracted to Mia and has sex with her. Fish Tank was well-received and won the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and it also won the 2010 BAFTA for Best British Film. It was filmed in the Mardyke Estate in Havering, the town of Tilbury, and the A13, and funded by BBC Films, the film was theatrically released on 11 September 2009 by Curzon Artificial Eye. Mia Williams is a volatile and socially isolated 15-year-old and she lives on an East London council estate with her single mother, Joanne, and younger sister, Tyler, and is highly antagonistic toward both of them. Mia is a loner, appearing to have had an out with her best friend Keely. She provokes Keelys other friends, criticises their dance routine, Mia regularly practises hip-hop dance alone in a deserted flat. Near the estate, Mia comes across a skinny, tethered horse in a Traveller encampment and she tries to free it, only to be caught, taunted, and assaulted by two young men, the horses owners. A third young man, Billy, the brother of the two, is more sympathetic. He shows kindness towards Mia and explains that the horse is old, Joannes new boyfriend, Conor OReily, is a charming and handsome Irishman. He complements Mia on her dance moves, invites Mia and Tyler to come with him and he introduces them to his favourite song, Bobby Womacks version of California Dreamin, and shows Mia how to catch a fish using noodling. Although Mia is abrupt with Conor, she appears to be intrigued by him, at an internet café, Mia watches amateur breakdancing videos on YouTube. As she is leaving, she finds and steals a flyer for a club seeking dancers, Keelys friends enter and they exchange taunts. Accompanying Billy, she sneaks into a junkyard where he steals a car engine part, Mia visits Conor at work, as a security guard at a hardware store. Conor encourages Mia to apply for the dancing audition and he lends her a video camera to record an audition tape. Their interactions continue to be flirtatious, after giving Mia the camera, Conor puts on cologne and leans into Mia while asking what she thinks of it before suddenly administering a spanking for running off when a social worker visited. One night Mia secretly witnesses Conor and Joanne having sex, Mia then goes back to her room and slams the door several times. Mia sends in her tape and is invited by the club to perform in person, late one night, with Joanne passed out drunk upstairs, and after Mia and Conor have both been drinking, he asks to see her dance routine in the living room
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University of Utah
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The University of Utah is a public coeducational space-grant research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. As the states flagship university, the university more than 100 undergraduate majors. The university is classified in the highest ranking, R-1, Doctoral Universities – Highest Research Activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the Carnegie Classification also considers the university as selective, which is its second most selective admissions category. Quinney College of Law and the School of Medicine, Utahs only medical school, as of Fall 2015, there are 23,909 undergraduate students and 7,764 graduate students, for an enrollment total of 31,673. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret and it received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. The university ranks among the top 50 U. S. universities by total research expenditures with over $486 million spent in 2014, in addition, the universitys Honors College has been reviewed among 50 leading national Honors Colleges in the U. S. The university has also ranked the 12th most ideologically diverse university in the country. The universitys athletic teams, the Utes, participate in NCAA Division I athletics as a member of the Pac-12 Conference and its football team has received national attention for winning the 2005 Fiesta Bowl and the 2009 Sugar Bowl. A Board of Regents was organized by Brigham Young to establish a university in the Salt Lake Valley, early classes were held in private homes or wherever space could be found. The university closed in 1853 due to lack of funds and lack of feeder schools, the university moved out of the council house into the Union Academy building in 1876 and into Union Square in 1884. Additional Fort Douglas land has granted to the university over the years. Upon his death in 1900, Dr. John R. Park bequeathed his fortune to the university. One third of the faculty resigned in protest of these dismissals, the controversy was largely resolved when Kingsbury resigned in 1916, but university operations were again interrupted by World War I, and later The Great Depression and World War II. Student enrollment dropped to a low of 3,418 during the last year of World War II, ray Olpin made substantial additions to campus following the war, and enrollment reached 12,000 by the time he retired in 1964. Growth continued in the decades as the university developed into a research center for fields such as computer science. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the university hosted the Olympic Village, the University of Utah Asia Campus opened as an international branch campus in the Incheon Global Campus in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea in 2014. Three other European and American universities are also participating, the Asia Campus was funded by the South Korean government. Campus takes up 1,534 acres, including the Health Sciences complex, Research Park and it is located on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, close to the Wasatch Range and approximately 2 miles east of downtown Salt Lake City
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Room 222
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Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television that aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17,1969, until January 11,1974. The series focused on an American history class in Room 222 of the fictional Walt Whitman High School in Los Angeles, California, the class is taught by Pete Dixon, an idealistic African-American schoolteacher. Patsy Garrett played Mr. Kaufmans secretary, Miss Hogarth, in addition, many recurring students were featured from episode to episode. Pete Dixon delivers gentle lessons in tolerance and understanding to his students and they admire his wisdom, insight, and easygoing manner. However, most plots were timeless and featured themes still common to modern-day teenagers, for example, the 1971 episode What Is a Man. Deals with a student who is the victim of anti-gay harassment, lloyd Haynes as Mr. Pete Dixon Denise Nicholas as Miss Liz McIntyre Michael Constantine as Mr. Seymour Kaufman Karen Valentine as Miss Alice Johnson Ramon Bieri as Mr. In addition, former child stars David Bailey, Angela Cartwright, Ricky Kelman, Flip Mark, the program was filmed at 20th Century Fox studios. Exterior shots of Los Angeles High School were shown behind the opening credits, Room 222s initial episodes garnered weak ratings, and ABC was poised to cancel the program after one season. However, the show earned several nominations at the 1970 Emmy Awards, in the spring of 1970, Room 222 won Emmy Awards for Best New Series, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. The following year, Constantine and Valentine were again nominated in the acting awards category. After the shaky first season, Room 222 nevertheless managed to receive respectable ratings during its three years. Ratings peaked during the 1971–72 season, during which it held a #28 viewership ranking, by the start of the 1973–74 season, ratings had fallen drastically, and ABC canceled the show at midseason. After the series ended, the program entered syndication and was rerun on television stations throughout the United States. Room 222 was originally based on Chicagos Kenwood High School in Chicagos University of Chicago community, many of the stories used in the show were lifted right out of actual classroom situations at the school. The theme song was written by film composer Jerry Goldsmith, written in a 7/4 time signature and his theme and two episode scores for the series were later issued by Film Score Monthly on an album with his score for the film Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies. A series of novels based on characters and dialog of the series was written by William Johnston, dell Comics published a comic book for four issues during 1970 and 1971. Factory has released the first two seasons of Room 222 on DVD in Region 1, season 2 was released as a Shout. Factory select title, available exclusively through their online store
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All in the Family
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All in the Family is an American sitcom TV-series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979. The following September, it was replaced by Archie Bunkers Place, the show is often regarded in the United States as one of the greatest television series of all time. It became the first television series to reach the milestone of having topped the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years, the episode Sammys Visit was ranked number 13 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ranked All in the Family as number four, bravo also named the shows protagonist, Archie Bunker, TVs greatest character of all time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked All in the Family the fourth-best written TV series ever, All in the Family is about a typical working-class family living in Queens, New York. Its patriarch is Archie Bunker, an outspoken, narrow-minded white man, Archies wife Edith is sweet and understanding, though somewhat naïve and uneducated, her husband sometimes disparagingly calls her dingbat. Their one child, Gloria, is kind and good-natured like her mother. Gloria is married to college student Michael Stivic – referred to as Meathead by Archie – whose values are likewise influenced and shaped by the counterculture of the 1960s, the two couples represent the real-life clash of values between the so-called Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. For much of the series, the Stivics live in the Bunkers home to save money, the show is set in the Astoria section of Queens, with the vast majority of scenes taking place in the Bunkers home at 704 Hauser Street. The house seen in the opening is at 89-70 Cooper Avenue near the junction of the Glendale, Middle Village, supporting characters represent the demographics of the neighborhood, especially the African American Jeffersons, who live in the house next door in the early seasons. Carroll OConnor as Archie Bunker, Frequently called a lovable bigot, a World War II veteran, Archie longs for better times when people sharing his viewpoint were in charge, as evidenced by the nostalgic theme song Those Were the Days. His ignorance and stubbornness seem to cause his arguments to self-destruct. He often rejects uncomfortable truths by blowing a raspberry, scott Brady, formerly of the Western series Shotgun Slade, also declined the role of Archie Bunker, but appeared four times on the series in 1976 in the role of Joe Foley. OConnor appears in all but seven episodes of the series run, Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker, née Baines, Edith is Archies ditzy but kind-hearted wife. Despite their different personalities, they love each other deeply, Stapleton remained with the show through the original series run, but decided to leave before the first season of Archie Bunkers Place had wrapped up. At that point, Edith was written out as having suffered a stroke and died off-camera, Stapleton appeared in all but four episodes of All in the Family and had a recurring role during the first season of Archie Bunkers Place. In the series first episode, Edith is portrayed as being less of a dingbat and even refers to her husband as Mr. Religion. After they come home from church, something her character would not be expected to say later, sally Struthers as Gloria Stivic, née Bunker, The Bunkers college-aged daughter is married to Michael Stivic
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The Mod Squad
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The Mod Squad is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC from 1968 to 1973. It stars Michael Cole as Peter Pete Cochran, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln Linc Hayes, the executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The iconic counterculture police series earned six Emmy Award nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America Award, in 1997, a 1970 episode Mother of Sorrow was ranked #95 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. They were The Mod Squad, the hippest and first young undercover cops on TV, the concept was to take three rebellious, disaffected young social outcasts and convince them to work as unarmed undercover detectives as an alternative to being incarcerated themselves. Their youthful, hippie personas would enable them to get close to the criminals they investigated, the times are changing, said Captain Greer. They can get into places we cant, more than a year before the release of the film Easy Rider, The Mod Squad was one of the earliest attempts to deal with the counterculture. Spelling intended the show to be about the relationships and promised that the Squad would never arrest kids. or carry a gun or use one. Significantly, The Mod Squad presented an African-American character as being on a footing, as roles went. In one Mod Squad episode, the called for Linc to give Barnes a friendly kiss. Since the first interracial kiss on an American television show was in 1967, the studio was frightened of a negative public reaction, so they asked Spelling to cut it, You cant do that, I was told. You cant have a man kissing a white girl. I won and ABC agreed to let it in, but they warned me Id receive thousands of complaint letters, lincs famous solid and keep the faith were among the current-day slang used on the show, which included pad, dig it and groovy. The kids traveled in Petes famous Woody, an old green 1950 Mercury Woodie station wagon that was burned up by an arsonist during the second season. Among the series guest stars were Spellings ex-wife Carolyn Jones, Leslie Nielsen, William Windom, Ed Asner, Vincent Price, Sammy Davis Jr. Andy Griffith, Richard Pryor, Lee Grant, Richard Dreyfuss, Jo Van Fleet, Tom Bosley, Danny Thomas, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen, Louis Gossett, Jr. Sugar Ray Robinson, Billy Dee Williams, Cleavon Little, Barbara McNair and Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. in three episodes. In the U. S. MeTV reran the series from May 26,2014 to August 29,2014, a television pilot was shot in 1968, with a running time of 74 minutes, but it was never aired in its entirety. The film was edited to 50 minutes and aired as the shows first episode, the uncut 74-minute version appears on the DVD set as the opening episode, The Teeth of the Barracuda
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Mannix
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Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 to 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller and he is played by Mike Connors. During the first season of the series, Joe Mannix works for a large Los Angeles detective agency called Intertect and his superior is Lew Wickersham, played by Joseph Campanella, with the agency featuring the use of computers to help solve crimes. He wears plaid sport coats and has his own office that he keeps sloppy between his assignments, Lew has cameras in all the rooms of Intertect monitoring the performance of his employees and providing instant feedback through intercoms in the room. Unlike the other Intertect operatives, Mannix attempts to block the camera with a rack and insults Lew. To improve the ratings of the show, Desilu head Lucille Ball and producer Bruce Geller made some changes, Ball thought the computers were too high-tech and beyond the comprehension of the average viewer of the time and had them removed. He also receives help from the Los Angeles police department, the two most prominent officers being Lieutenant Art Malcolm and Lieutenant Adam Tobias, other police contacts are Lieutenant George Kramer, who had been the partner of Peggys late husband, and Lieutenant Dan Ives. In the 1969 season, he employs the services of a competitive private investigator, Albie Loos. In the 1972 season, Albie returns, played by a different actor, while Mannix was not generally known as a show that explored socially relevant topics, several episodes had topical themes. Season six had an episode focusing on the effects the Vietnam War had on returning veterans, Joseph R. Joe Mannix is a regular guy, without pretense, who has a store of proverbs on which to rely in conversation. What demons he has come from having fought in the U. S. Army during the Korean War. Over the length of the series, a percentage of his old Army comrades turn out to have homicidal impulses against him. During the series, Mannix is also revealed to have worked as a mercenary in Latin America, like the actor who plays him, Mannix is of Armenian descent. He speaks fluent Armenian from time to time during the series, Mannix is notable for the high level of physical punishment he withstands. During the course of the series, he is shot and wounded over a dozen separate times and he frequently takes brutal beatings to the abdomen, some of these went on quite a long time, particularly by the television standards of the era. Whenever he gets one of his convertibles, he can expect to be shot at or run off the road by another car or find his vehicle sabotaged. Nevertheless, he keeps his cool and perseveres until his antagonists are brought down and this character aspect was lampooned multiple times by radio comedians Bob and Ray, as Blimmix, portrayed as dim-witted, and ending with Blimmix being soundly beaten by his adversary. These parodies retained the Lalo Schifrin composed theme song at the beginning, starting in season two, Mannix lives at 17 Paseo Verde, West Los Angeles
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Marcus Welby, M.D.
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Marcus Welby, M. D. was an American medical drama television program that aired Tuesdays at 10, 00–11,00 p. m. on ABC from September 23,1969 to July 29,1976. Marcus Welby, M. D. was produced by David Victor, the pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26,1969. As with most medical dramas of the day, the plots often concerned a conflict between well-meaning physicians. Here, Dr. Welbys unorthodox way of treating patients was pitted against the more strait-laced methods of Dr. Steven Kiley, the catch with this particular program was that the roles were reversed in that Dr. Kiley was much younger than Dr. Welby. The opening credits of episode reminded viewers of the generation gap between the two doctors, Welby driving his sedan and Kiley riding a motorcycle. Welby had served in the US Navy as a doctor during the war and he owned a sail boat and enjoyed the ocean. The doctors worked alongside each other in their practice in Santa Monica, California. At the office, their loyal secretary-nurse and friend was Consuelo Lopez, Dr. Kiley met and married public relations director Janet Blake, in 1975, at the beginning of the shows last season on the air. Its handling of many varied medical cases – some common, some uncommon – made it an instant hit for ABC, at its second season, it ranked #1 in the Nielsen ratings, becoming the first ABC show to top the list. The same year, both Young and Brolin won Emmy Awards for their work, as did the show for Outstanding Dramatic Series, Young won a Golden Globe in 1972 for his performance. Members of the American Academy of Family Physicians served as advisers for the series. The show twice found itself at the center of controversy and protests by gay activists, the next year, The Outrage sparked nationwide demonstrations because its story of a teenage student being sexually assaulted by his male teacher conflated homosexuality with pedophilia. Seven sponsors refused to buy advertising time, and 17 television network affiliates refused to air the episode. This was the first known instance of network affiliates refusing a network episode in response to protests, during its run, Marcus Welby, M. D. had two crossover stories with Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law. In Men Who Care, Marshall defends the father of Welbys patient when the man is accused of murdering his daughters boyfriend, in Ive Promised You a Father, Marshall defends Kiley in a paternity suit filed by a nurse claiming that Kiley is the father of her child. It was the first show in ABCs history to become the #1 show on television, by the mid-1970s, the popularity of medical dramas began to wane. Ratings for both Marcus Welby, M. D. and CBS Medical Center began to drop, as did the ratings for daytime dramas General Hospital, previous episodes initially went into syndication in the fall of 1975 as Robert Young, Family Doctor. The show ended its run in 1976 after a total of 169 episodes were made, in 1984, the reunion movie The Return of Marcus Welby, M. D. aired, with Young and Verdugo reprising their roles
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The Streets of San Francisco
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It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two detectives in San Francisco. The show ran for five seasons, between 1972 and 1977 on ABC, amassing a total of 119 60-minute episodes, the series started with a pilot movie of the same title a week before the series debuted. Edward Hume, who wrote the teleplay for the pilot, was credited as having developed the series based on characters in Westons novel, the pilot featured guest stars Robert Wagner, Tom Bosley and Kim Darby. Douglas left the series at the start of its season and was replaced by Richard Hatch. The Streets of San Francisco debuted on ABC on Saturday, September 16,1972, at 9 p. m. Eastern, by all accounts Malden and Douglas developed a strong professional and personal relationship from their time on the series. Twenty years after last working together on an episode they were both onstage at the 1996 Peoples Choice Awards, Malden referred to Douglas as the son I never had and mentioned that he had wanted producer Quinn Martin to cast Douglas on the series. Douglas responded to the compliment by calling Malden my mentor, the show revolved around two police officers who investigated homicides in San Francisco. He was partnered with a young, plainclothes detective and energetic partner, Assistant Inspector Steve Keller, a graduate, aged twenty-eight. Stone would become a father to Keller as he learned the rigors. Eventually, Keller was promoted to full inspector, as the series went on, Douglas became a star in his own right. Mikes daughter, Jeannie Stone, made occasional appearances, after the second episode of the fifth and final season, Douglas left the show after successfully producing the film One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, which won the Academy Award for Best Film for 1975. He in turn would establish a film career. His characters absence was explained by having him take a position at a local college, while Lt. Stone was partnered with another detective. Dan Robbins, who had started his career on the ABC soap All My Children, the change was not popular with audiences, and the show ended in 1977, due to low ratings. Also in 1977, writer James J. Sweeney won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for the four episode Requiem for Murder. Starting in January,1973, ABC shook up its lineup and shuffled a number of its programs around, and moved it to Thursdays night, in the United Kingdom, the series debuted on 19 November 1973. Both Malden and Douglas spent time with SFPD detectives in order to lend an air of authenticity to the show, SFPD Detectives took a liking to both Malden and Douglas, whom they characterized as very fine fellows. Unlike subsequent generations of production the show made an effort to insinuate itself as seamlessly as possible into the fabric of the city
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Barnaby Jones
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Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as a father and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was introduced as a replacement on the CBS network. Halfway through the run, Mark Shera was added to the cast as the cousin of Ebsens character. William Conrad guest-starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first Barnaby Jones episode, Requiem for a Son, the series was produced by QM Productions. It had the second longest QM series run following the eight years of The FBI, the series bore the Quinn Martin trademark where commercial breaks divided each episode into 4 Acts concluding with an epilogue. The opening credits were narrated by Hank Simms, after Barnaby Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer and his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones, joined forces with him to solve the case. The two decided that they worked so well together, they would continue to keep the detective agency open, Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. Until the cancellation of Cannon, the characters of both moved back and forth between the two shows. In 1976, the character of J. R. the son of Barnabys cousin and he had come to try to solve the murder of his father, but stayed around to help Barnaby and Betty, while also attending law school. During the first year of the series, a theme would be where Jones would make an astute observation or collect a sample. The show was cancelled in 1980 due to declining ratings, Ebsen had also had enough of playing the role, after the series cancellation, reruns could be seen in syndication. During the mid-1990s, Meriwether and Shera expressed interest in a Barnaby Jones reunion television movie, however, in 1993, Ebsen reprised the role of Barnaby Jones in the big-screen remake of his most famous television series, The Beverly Hillbillies. It would be his final theatrical appearance, among the guest stars who appeared over the years were Conlan Carter and Gary Lockwood, who appeared together in the third episode of the series entitled Sunday, Doomsday on February 25,1973. Marshall Colt, later cast with James Arness on McClains Law, donald May played the role of Curt Phillips in the 1978 episode Blind Jeopardy. Character actress Lurene Tuttle played Emily Carter in the 1980 episode The Killin Cousin, future Trapper John, M. D. stars Pernell Roberts, Gregory Harrison, and Charles Siebert all made guest appearances on one episode. Future WKRP in Cincinnati stars Loni Anderson and Gary Sandy made guest appearances, on February 16,2010, CBS DVD released season one of Barnaby Jones on DVD in Region 1 for the first time. The episodes on the DVD include their broadcast trailers, as of September 2014, this release has been discontinued and is out of print
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Bright Promise
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Bright Promise is an American daytime soap opera that ran on NBC from September 29,1969 to March 31,1972. It aired weekdays at 3,30 PM Eastern/2,30 PM Central, the show revolved around students and faculty at the fictional Bancroft College, located in the community of Bancroft, somewhere in the American Midwest. The name of the reflected the overarching theme of the bright promise that the leaders of tomorrow graduating from Bancroft would ostensibly bring. At first, the character was College president Thomas Boswell. Later, the focus shifted from the College, to the town of Bancroft at large, the main character by this time was Sandra Jones, who had been a student at Bancroft College, and married herself into the wealthy Pierce family. Bright Promise was created by the writing team of Frank and Doris Hursley, who had previously created General Hospital. Bing Crosby Productions was the packager, with assistance from Cox Broadcasting, the title and closing sequences were filmed at UCLA. Having replaced the game show You Dont Say, actress Gail Kobe, a regular on Bright Promise, would become Returns executive producer. Later additions included David Lewis, Annette OToole, Dabney Coleman, Marion Brash, Anne Seymour, Anthony Geary, Gail Kobe, John Considine, Philip Carey, years later, Geary became famous for his role as Luke on General Hospital. Bright Promise at the Internet Movie Database Bright Promise at TV. com
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The Young and the Restless
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The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, first broadcast on March 26,1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4,1980, in 2006, the series began airing encore episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when Y&R moved to TVGN. Pop still airs the episodes on weeknights, starting July 1,2013. The series is syndicated internationally. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two families, the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the characters except Jill Foster. Bell replaced them with the new families, the Abbotts. Over the years, other such as the Newmans, Winters. Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the entire run is the feud between Jill Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, the longest rivalry on any American soap opera. Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series and it is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988. As of December 12,2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young, on January 15,2014, the series was in the middle of its final year of its 2010 contract, and was renewed by CBS through 2017. Y&R is also a show to the Bells other soap opera The Bold. To compete with the youthful ABC soap operas, All My Children, One Life to Live, William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless in 1972 for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years. We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence, innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist. They changed the title of the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it reflected the youth, the Young and the Restless began airing on March 26,1973, replacing the canceled soap opera, Where the Heart Is. Bell worked as writer from the debut of the series until his retirement in 1998
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Contract killing
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Contract killing is a form of murder in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people. It involves an agreement between two or more parties in which one party agrees to kill the target in exchange for some form of payment. Either party may be a person, group, or an organization, contract killing has been associated with organized crime, government conspiracies and with vendettas. For example, in the United States, the gang Murder, contract killing provides the hiring party with the advantage of not having to commit the actual killing, making it more difficult for law enforcement to connect said party with the murder. In the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries, any contract to commit an indictable offense is not enforceable under contract law. Thus, if a hitman takes the money but then fails or refuses to perform, conversely, if the hitman performs the killing as promised but the customer refuses to pay, the hitman cannot sue the customer for monetary damages. Furthermore, both the killer and the person who paid the killer can be found guilty of murder. In some U. S. jurisdictions with capital punishment, a contract killing may be a special circumstance that allows for the contractor as well as the killer to receive the death penalty, criminal code statutes prohibiting solicitation of murder are also intended to curb contract killings. The study also found that the payment for a hit was $15,000 with variation from $5,000 up to $30,000. Contract killings accounted for 2% of murders in Australia during that time period, contract killings also make up a relatively similar percentage of all killings elsewhere. For example, they made up about 5% of all murders in Scotland from 1993 to 2002, Siegel was also the Italian mobs main hitman during Prohibition. Vincent Coll, an Irish-American hitman who worked for Dutch Schultz, li Fuguo, a Tang Dynasty Eunuch killed by a hitman hired by Emperor Tang Daizong. Shiori Ino, a 21-year-old University student killed by hitman Yoshifumi Kubota and he was paid by her ex-boyfriend and his brother, the case gained some notoriety in Japan. Grady Stiles, freak show performer whose family hired a hitman to kill him because of his abusiveness, Harry Greenberg, a Mafia associate of Charles Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Siegel. He was killed by Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Albert Tannenbaum, Joe Masseria, was a Mafia boss that was murdered by Siegel, Vito Genovese, and Lepke Buchalter in 1931. Salvatore Maranzano, was a Castellammarese Mafia boss and rival to Masseria in the Castellammarese War and was killed by Siegel, benjamin Siegel, Las Vegas mob boss and Flamingo Hotel owner, killed by unknown assailants in 1947. Nicole Doucet Ryan attempted to hire an undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer to kill her husband, after ruling she could not use the defense of duress, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered she not be retried. Tim Lambesis, former vocalist of metal bands As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine and Pyrithion
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Laura Spencer (General Hospital)
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Laura Spencer is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. Laura, originally played by Stacey Baldwin, was introduced in 1974 as the daughter of Dr. Lesley Williams. The character was out in the summer of 1976. In early 1977, Genie Francis took over the role of the rebellious teenage Laura, Luke and Lauras 1981 wedding — which featured a guest appearance from Elizabeth Taylor — was viewed by 30 million people. In 1982, Francis quit the show and the character was out having disappeared. Francis returned to the series for brief stints in 1983 to reunite Luke and Laura, in 1993, Laura was re-introduced by producer Wendy Riche, along with Luke and their young son Lucky Spencer. Francis quit the series in 2002, claiming unequal treatment compared to her male costar, Laura was written out after suffering a psychotic breakdown, after killing her adoptive father Rick Webber. Francis returned in 2006 to celebrate Luke and Lauras 25th wedding anniversary, the return garnered Francis the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Francis returned to the again in 2008 to help Lulu. In 2013, in honor of the shows 50th anniversary celebration, Francis would reprise the role of Laura when the writers revisited the iconic Ice Princess plot, although initial reports said the actress would stick around, Francis left the role again in August 2013. Francis returned to the series in 2015, this time as part of Lukes exit storyline, Francis later signed a deal for her to remain with the series indefinitely. In 1974, Dr. Lesley Williams is shocked to learn one of her patients. Gordon wanted to be with Lesley, but she convinces him to stay with his wife, Lesley then marries the wealthy Cameron Faulkner and only to learn from dying patient Doris Roach a former nurse at General Hospital that her daughter is actually alive. Lesleys father paid Doris to switch Lesleys healthy baby with the child of Jason Vining. Jason, a teacher struggled to make ends meet to take care of his family, Laura hoped for a new type writer for Christmas in 1975 but Barbara had to tell her no because they cant afford it. Lesleys determination to contact with Laura put a strain on her marriage. Lesley is overjoyed when she finally sees Laura for the first time at a candy store, Lesley follows her to park and Laura is captivated when they meet. Lesley promises to buy Laura a new bike and a new typwriter making Amy jealous, Lesley finally confesses that Laura is her daughter and Laura is thrilled
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Genie Francis
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Eugenie Ann Genie Francis Frakes is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Laura Spencer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. Francis was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts and her father, Ivor Francis, a Canadian actor of English descent, died in 1986 from the effects of multiple strokes. He played a role on General Hospital as an adoption counselor when his daughter was also on the show. Her mother, Rosemary Daley, is a former actress/model of Lithuanian descent, Genie has an older brother, Ivor Jr. a younger brother, Kenneth, and an older half-sister, Shelley, from her fathers first marriage. Francis began acting in the 2–part episode titled Jury Duty in the television series Family and her biggest role came in 1977 with Laura Spencer on General Hospital as she was a recast. It would bring her instant stardom in the late 1970s, the television couple of Luke and Laura wed on November 17,1981, with 30 million viewers tuning in to make the episode the highest-rated hour in soap opera history. At the peak of her success, Francis left the show in 1982 to try her hand at prime-time television, soon afterward, she landed a starring role in her own series, Bare Essence, which was unsuccessful. She returned to General Hospital in 1983 for a limited run, Francis was also offered the lead role for the movie Splash but turned it down because she thought the script was silly. In 1984,1987, and 1990, Francis guest starred on Murder, in 1985, she starred in the miniseries North and South as Brett Main Hazard. Francis would reprise her role of Brett Main Hazard in 1986 and 1994 in the miniseries North and South, Book II and Heaven and Hell, North and South Book III respectively. In 1993, she starred in the Made-for-TV-Movie Perry Mason, The Case of the Killer Kiss as Kris Buckner which was based on the CBS television series of the same name, through the years, Francis has appeared on numerous other daytime soaps. She starred on Days of Our Lives as Diana Colville from 1987 to 1989 and she reprised her role as Ceara on Loving in a cross-over storyline in November 1991. She then returned to General Hospital in 1993, in 1994, when Francis became pregnant with her first child, the pregnancy was written into the show and she took six weeks off for maternity leave. However, in early 1997, when she was pregnant again, she took a much longer absence from the show, staying away for nearly a year, Francis abruptly left General Hospital in 2002 due to contract issues. In 2004, Francis starred in Teachers Pet and Thunderbirds, in June 2006, she began negotiating with the casting directors on the show to return to the role of Laura Spencer for a limited run through November. Francis returned with spectacular fanfare to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Luke, though she reprised the role for only one month, Francis stint garnered her a Daytime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, which she won in June 2007. Francis later returned to General Hospital again in August 2008 to reprise her role, in December 2007, she had a starring role in the Hallmark Channel movie, The Note, which earned her critical acclaim. On January 31,2009, Francis reprised her role of Peyton MacGruder in the Hallmark Channel movie, in 2012 she again reprised her role as Peyton MacGruder in the Hallmark Channel movie Notes from the Heart Healer
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Oliver Stone
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William Oliver Stone is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express and he also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie Scarface. As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama Platoon, for which Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director, Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July —for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth. Many of Stones films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century and they often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as evidenced in JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon. Stone was born September 15,1946, in New York City, the son of Jacqueline and Louis Stone and he grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His parents met during World War II, when his father was fighting as a part of the Allied force in France and his American-born father was a non-practicing Jew, and his French-born mother was a non-practicing Roman Catholic. Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church, and now practices Buddhism, Stone attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School, a college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were divorced abruptly while he was away at school, Stones mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life, father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stones films. He often spent parts of his vacations with his maternal grandparents in France. Stone also worked at 17 in the Paris mercantile exchange in sugar, Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964. Stone was admitted into Yale University, but left in June 1965 at age 18 to teach school students English for six months in Saigon at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam. Afterwards, he worked as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship in 1966 and he returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time. In April 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army, from September 16,1967 to April 1968, he served in Vietnam with 2nd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division and was twice wounded in action. He was then transferred to the First Cavalry Division participating in long range patrols before being transferred again to drive for an infantry unit of the division until November 1968. Stone graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film in 1971, Stone made a short, well received 12-minute film Last Year in Viet Nam. In 1979, Stone won his first Academy Award, after adapting true-life prison story Midnight Express into a hit film for British director Alan Parker. Stones screenplay for Midnight Express was criticized by some for its inaccuracies in portraying the events described in the book, the original author, Billy Hayes, around whom the film is set, spoke out against the film, protesting that he had many Turkish friends while in jail
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Pigeonholing
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Pigeonholing is any process that attempts to classify disparate entities into a small number of categories. The term usually carries connotations of criticism, implying that the classification scheme referred to inadequately reflects the entities being sorted, common failings of pigeonholing schemes include, Categories are poorly defined. Entities may be suited to more than one category, example, rhubarb is both poisonous and edible. Entities may not fit into any available category, example, asking somebody from Washington, DC which state they live in. Entities may change over time, so no longer fit the category in which they have been placed. Example, certain species of fish may change from male to female during their life, attempting to discretize properties that would be better viewed as a continuum. Example, attempting to sort people into introverted and extraverted, criteria used to categorize entities do not accurately predict the properties ascribed to those categories. Example, relying on astrological sign as a guide to someones personality
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Philo Farnsworth
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many contributions that were crucial to the development of all-electronic television. He was also the first person to such a system to the public. In later life, Farnsworth invented a nuclear fusion device. Although not a device for generating nuclear energy, the fusor serves as a viable source of neutrons. The design of this device has been the inspiration for other fusion approaches including the Polywell reactor concept in terms of a general approach to fusion design. Farnsworth held 300 patents, mostly in radio and television, in 1918, the family moved to a relatives 240-acre ranch near Rigby, Idaho, where Lewis supplemented his farming income by hauling freight with his horse-drawn wagon. Philo was excited to find his new home was wired for electricity, with a Delco generator providing power for lighting, Farnsworth excelled in chemistry and physics at Rigby High School. He asked his high school teacher, Justin Tolman, for advice about an electronic television system he was contemplating. He provided the teacher with sketches and diagrams covering several blackboards to show how it might be accomplished electronically and he asked his teacher if he should go ahead with his ideas, and he was encouraged to do so. One of the drawings he did on a blackboard for his teacher was recalled and reproduced for a patent interference case between Farnsworth and Radio Corporation of America. In 1923, the Farnsworths moved to Provo, Utah, and his father died of pneumonia in January 1924, at age 58, and Farnsworth, as eldest son, assumed responsibility for sustaining the family while still attending high school and graduating in June 1924. He went on to attend Brigham Young University that year, and to earn Junior Radio-Trician certification from the National Radio Institute, while attending college, he met Provo High School student Elma “Pem” Gardner, whom he would later marry. Later in 1924, Farnsworth applied to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and he returned to Provo and enrolled again at Brigham Young University, where he was allowed to take advanced science classes. Philo worked while his sister Agnes, the elder of the two sisters, took charge of the home and the second-floor boarding house. The Farnsworths later moved into half of a duplex, with friends the Gardners moving into the other side when it became vacant. Philo developed a friendship with Pem Gardners brother, Cliff Gardner. The two moved to Salt Lake City to start a radio repair business, the business failed, and Gardner returned to Provo
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Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, Einsteins work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led him to develop his theory of relativity during his time at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. Briefly before, he aquired the Swiss citizenship in 1901, which he kept for his whole life and he continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules. He also investigated the properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917, Einstein applied the theory of relativity to model the large-scale structure of the universe. He was visiting the United States when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and, being Jewish, did not go back to Germany and he settled in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1940. This eventually led to what would become the Manhattan Project, Einstein supported defending the Allied forces, but generally denounced the idea of using the newly discovered nuclear fission as a weapon. Later, with the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, Einstein signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, Einstein was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955. Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along with over 150 non-scientific works, on 5 December 2014, universities and archives announced the release of Einsteins papers, comprising more than 30,000 unique documents. Einsteins intellectual achievements and originality have made the word Einstein synonymous with genius, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879. His parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, the Einsteins were non-observant Ashkenazi Jews, and Albert attended a Catholic elementary school in Munich from the age of 5 for three years. At the age of 8, he was transferred to the Luitpold Gymnasium, the loss forced the sale of the Munich factory. In search of business, the Einstein family moved to Italy, first to Milan, when the family moved to Pavia, Einstein stayed in Munich to finish his studies at the Luitpold Gymnasium. His father intended for him to electrical engineering, but Einstein clashed with authorities and resented the schools regimen. He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought was lost in strict rote learning, at the end of December 1894, he travelled to Italy to join his family in Pavia, convincing the school to let him go by using a doctors note. During his time in Italy he wrote an essay with the title On the Investigation of the State of the Ether in a Magnetic Field
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Bill Eckert
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General Hospital is the longest running American television serial drama, airing on ABC. Created by Frank and Doris Hursley, who set it in a general hospital. In the 1970s, the city was named Port Charles, New York, the series premiered on April 1,1963. This is a list of characters who significantly impacted storylines and began their run, or significantly returned. Brook Lynn Ashton is a character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. On the series, she is the daughter of Ned Ashton and Lois Cerullo, originally played by actress Brooke Radding in 1996, the character was last portrayed by actress Adrianne León when her birth date was revised to 1987 starting in 2004. Leon was nominated for two awards for the role in 2005, the Soap Opera Digest Outstanding Female Newcomer Award, Leon continued to play the character until 2006. It was announced in 2010 that Leon would return to the show as Brook Lynn that May and she left the series again in 2011. Brook Lynn is raised by her mother after her parents divorce and she is a talented songwriter and singer and her mother, a band manager and record company executive, often pressures her to pursue a singing career. Brook dates Diego Alcazar for a time, but they break up. She is also involved in adventures with Georgie Jones, her uncle Dillon Quartermaine, and Sage Alcazar, the obnoxious Sage is murdered by serial killer Mary Bishop after she is locked in the Quartermaine freezer by a fed-up Georgie. Sage is a duck for the killer, who mistakes her for Brooks adopted cousin Emily Quartermaine. After her death, Brook puts a poignant song written by Sage to music, Sages uncle Lorenzo Alcazar blames Brook and the other teens for her death, but is brought to tears when he hears Brook perform the song. The following year, Brook is a victim of the Port Charles Stalker, the stalker later turns out to be Sages cousin Diego, who had read her journals and decided to get revenge on Brook and the others on her behalf. Soon after, Brook decided to leave Port Charles and return to New York to pursue her music career, Carly hired Brook Lynn to sing at the Metro Court and purchased her an apartment across from Dantes. Brook succeeds in drugging Dante at a bar and attempts to have sex with him in his apartment, but Lulu arrives to stop this and blames Brook entirely. Feeling guilty, Brook later tells Lulu that she had been working for Carly, Lulu believes Carly, and continues to blame Brook. Finding Brook in a state of devastation, the wealthy Nikolas Cassadine invites her into his castle, while he teaches her etiquette, the two begin a flirtation, and then a romance
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Hip hop
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Hip hop is a subculture and art movement developed by African-Americans and Latinos from the inner-city South Bronx neighbourhood in New York City in the late 1970s. Jamaican immigrant DJ Kool Herc also played a key role in developing hip hop music, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Herc mixed samples of existing records and DJed percussion breaks, mixing this music with his own Jamaican-style toasting to rev up the crowd and dancers. These youths mixed these influences with existing musical styles associated with African Americans prior to the 1970s, Hip hop music became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s, with the mainstream commercial success of gangsta rap. Critic Greg Tate described the hip hop movement as the only avant-garde still around, Hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the United States and subsequently the world. These elements were adapted and developed considerably, particularly as the art spread to new continents and merged with local styles in the 1990s. Sampling older culture and re-using it in a new context or a new format is called flipping in hip hop culture. Hip hop music follows in the footsteps of earlier African-American-rooted musical genres such as blues, jazz, rag-time, funk, cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into his stage performance. The group frequently performed with artists who would refer to this new type of music by calling them hip hoppers. The name was meant as a sign of disrespect, but soon came to identify this new music. The song Rappers Delight, by The Sugarhill Gang, released in 1979, begins with the phrase I said a hip, hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, and you dont stop. Lovebug Starski, a Bronx DJ who put out a single called The Positive Life in 1981, and DJ Hollywood then began using the term when referring to this new disco rap music. Bill Alder, an independent consultant, once said, There was hardly ever a moment when rap music was underground, one of the very first so-called rap records, was a monster hit. Hip hop pioneer and South Bronx community leader Afrika Bambaataa also credits Lovebug Starski as the first to use the hip hop. Bambaataa, former leader of the Black Spades gang, also did much to popularize the term. In the 1970s, an urban movement known as Hip Hop began to develop in the South Bronx in New York City. It focused on emceeing over breakbeats, house parties and neighbourhood block party events, Hip hop music has been a powerful medium for protesting the impact of legal institutions on minorities, particularly police and prisons. Jamaican-born DJ Clive Kool Herc Cindy Campbell pioneered the use of DJing percussion breaks in hip hop music, beginning at Hercs home in a high-rise apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the movement later spread across the entire borough. Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of impromptu toasting, on August 11,1973 DJ Kool Herc was the DJ at his sisters back-to-school party
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The Fat Boys
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The Fat Boys are an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s. The group was known originally as the Disco 3. Prince Markie Dee Damon Wimbley a. k. a, the Human Beat Box Manager Charlie Stettler was a Swiss national who had embraced hip-hop culture. In 1983, putting the two together he contacted the nascent Swatch company and offered the talents of his group, Stettler, knowing the video channel was playing no hip-hop, readily agreed. Even with no fee he sensed the exposure would catapult his trio into youths mainstream, the company returned to The Fat Boys for a 1985 Christmas commercial, created by former MTV creative heads Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert. Big Buff Love, the Human Beatbox, was a pioneer in beatboxing and he and another contemporary, Doug E. Fresh, popularized beatboxing, inspiring other artists to innovate, including Biz Markie. For its 1987 album, Crushin, the Fat Boys made a version of The Surfaris hit Wipe Out with The Beach Boys singing back-up vocals. The single made it to #12 on the Billboard chart, the Fat Boys also recorded a version of The Twist with Chubby Checker, who performed it originally in 1960. Capitalizing on their personalities, the trio starred in the 1985 Run-D. M. C. The group was approached to record the theme song for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Dream Master, called Are You Ready for Freddy. Attempting to capitalize on the name of the Fat Boys, another hip hop group dubbed itself the Skinny Boys. The popularity of groups was mild in comparison, however. The groups popularity declined by the 1990s, for example, in the 1992 feature film Boomerang, Chris Rocks character laments the breakup of the Fat Boys. He was later quoted by Jay-Z in his 2001 song the Heart of the City, prince Markie Dee left the group to pursue solo interests, which included producing many early tracks for Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige which included her debut single, Real Love. In 1991, the two members, Kool Rock Ski and Buff Love, carried on as a duo and released Mack Daddy, but shortly thereafter. On December 10,1995, Buff Love died of an attack in Rosedale, Queens. He was 28 years old and reportedly weighed 450 pounds, prince Markie Dee is a current radio host for WEDR99 Jamz in Miami, Florida working weekends. Kool Rock-ski resides in New York, the surviving members of the Fat Boys launched its first official homepage, OriginalFatBoys. com, on November 5,2008
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The Partridge Family
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The Partridge Family is an American musical-sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones plays a mother, and Cassidy plays the oldest of her five children who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25,1970, until March 23,1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, the family was loosely based on the real-life musical family The Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through the efforts of precocious 10-year-old Danny they find a manager, Reuben Kincaid, after more persuading, Shirley agrees that the family can go on tour. They acquire an old bus, a 1957 Chevrolet Series 6800 Superior, for touring, paint it with Mondrian-inspired patterns. Subsequent episodes usually feature the band performing in various venues or in their garage, the shows often contrast suburban life with the adventures of a show-business family on the road. After the first season, more of the action takes place in their hometown than on tour. Created for television by Bernard Slade, the executive producer was Bob Claver. The show was inspired by and loosely based on The Cowsills, Shirley Jones had already been signed as mother Shirley Partridge and star of the show. The pilot was filmed in December 1969 and this unaired pilot differs from the pilot broadcast in 1970. In the unaired pilot, Shirleys name is Connie and she has a boyfriend played by Jones real-life husband at the time, Jack Cassidy, Laurie mentions her late father once getting drunk at a Christmas party, and the family has a different address and live in Ohio. The unaired pilot is unavailable on home video, the show proved popular, but the fame had its toll on several, if not most, of the starring cast. In the midst of his rise to fame, David Cassidy soon felt stifled by the show, in May 1972, he appeared nude on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in a cropped Annie Leibovitz photo. He used the article to get away from his clean image. Among other things, the article mentions Cassidy was riding around New York in the back of a car stoned, shortly after the series ended, scriptwriter Roberta Tatum launched a lawsuit against Screen Gems concerning the creation of the show. Tatum claimed that she had submitted a similar premise to Screen Gems prior to 1970 called Bakers Half-Dozen, the matter was resolved out of court, with Tatum receiving a reported $150,000 from Screen Gems. Arte Johnson, Harvey Lembeck, Harry Morgan, Slim Pickens, Richard Pryor, Barbara Rhoades, William Schallert, Nita Talbot, Larry Wilcox, Dick Wilson, and William Windom. Others would later become famous in other roles, such as Meredith Baxter, Richard Bull, Bert Convy, Farrah Fawcett, Norman Fell, Anthony Geary, country singer Johnny Cash made a cameo appearance in the pilot episode
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The Return of Captain Nemo
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It was written by six screenwriters including Robert Bloch and has been considered an attempt by producer Irwin Allen to duplicate the success of his Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. During naval exercises in 1978, Captain Nemo is found in suspended animation aboard his submarine Nautilus beneath the Pacific Ocean. Not originally aired as a movie, it was divided into three parts expanded somewhat with about 45 minutes of footage over the three episodes to become a very brief action series. Sometimes described as a miniseries, it was intended to be the first story-arc in an ongoing serial, ratings were dismal, and the series never materialized. Instead this proved to be Irwin Allens final foray into science fiction television. The network gave the go-ahead on it, and they were going to do a four-part story and they assigned each individual episode to a different writer. You had four writers working, neither one of them knew what the ones were doing. And it went off the air after those first four weeks, blochs segment was titled Atlantis Dead Ahead although in the theatrical release there are no titles for individual segments of the story. The Return of Captain Nemo was a co-production between Irwin Allen Productions and Warner Bros, josé Ferrer as Captain Nemo Burgess Meredith as Professor Waldo Cunningham Mel Ferrer as Dr. This resulted in a two dimensional comic strip that compared poorly with contemporary science fiction based on the character of Nemo, the final production for theatre release was condensed into 102 minutes and marketed as The Amazing Captain Nemo, and only served to highlight the inherent defects. Despite this the production was nominated for several awards, in 1978, The Return of Captain Nemo received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts. These were for Frank Van der Veer and L. B. Abbott, science Fiction Film Source Book The Return of Captain Nemo at the Internet Movie Database The Return of Captain Nemo at TV Acres
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Project U.F.O.
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Project U. F. O. is an American anthology television series which ran on NBC from 1978 to 1979. Running for two seasons of 13 episodes each, the show was based loosely on the real-life Project Blue Book, the show was created by Jack Webb, who pored through Air Force files looking for episode ideas. The show was a production of Mark VII Limited in association with Worldvision Enterprises and it was also one of the rare times that Webb did not produce a series with Universal Television or Warner Bros. Television, Webb partnered with Universal for every series he made following his departure from Warner Bros. who had named him the president of its division in the 1960s. The show features two U. S. Air Force investigators with the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the first season starred William Jordan as Maj. Jake Gatlin alongside Caskey Swaim as Staff Sgt. Jordan was a rather nondescript leading man, while Swaim, who had never had any significant acting experience before landing the role, in season two, Jordan was replaced by Edward Winter as Capt. Dr. Joyce Brothers appeared in two episodes, Gatlin also told Fitz that he himself had once seen something I cant explain while flying as an Air Force pilot, which led to his interest in Blue Book. Anticipated many of the themes of The X-Files, which aired 14 years later, as with Blue Book, many of the UFO sightings on Project UFO turned out to have conventional explanations. Some, however, were left unexplained, and suggestive of alien contact, by the second season, the investigators had themselves experienced a UFO sighting. The season one opening montage showed flying saucer diagrams and schematics, a voice-over then spoke, Ezekiel saw the wheel. This is the wheel he said he saw and these are Unidentified Flying Objects that people say they are seeing now. Are they proof that we are being visited by civilizations from other stars, the United States Air Force began an investigation of this high strangeness in a search for the truth. What you are about to see is part of that 20-year search, notable was the extensive use of miniatures for the UFOs by Brick Price Movie Miniatures, usually cobbled together from off-the-shelf model kits. The episodes ended with this disclaimer, The U. S. Air Force stopped investigating UFOs in 1969, after 22 years, they found no evidence of extra-terrestrial landings and no threat to national security. Mark VII had creative control over the series and originally held the copyright, in Italy, the first season of the series was shown on syndication in different Italian districts, with Tony Fusaro as the dubbing voice of the narrator in the opening credits. This series was shown on Indian state run television network Doordarshan around 1985. Project U. F. O. at the Internet Movie Database Project UFO at TV. com
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Starsky & Hutch
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Starsky & Hutch is an American cop thriller television series, which consisted of a 70-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 50 minutes each. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions and it was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television in the United States and, originally, Metromedia Producers Corporation in Canada and some other parts of the world. Sony Pictures Television is now the distributor for the series. The series also inspired a film and a video game. The series protagonists were two Southern California police detectives, David Michael Starsky, the dark-haired, Brooklyn transplant and U. S, under the radio call sign Zebra Three, they were known for usually tearing around the streets of fictional Bay City, California. The vehicle of choice was Starskys two-door Ford Gran Torino, which was bright red and they used around four different cars for filming. Earlier shots had red wing mirrors usually for long shots or footage used in episodes, close ups. The Torino was nicknamed the Striped Tomato by Hutch in the episode Snowstorm, however, this moniker didnt come from the writers, it came from a real-life comment that Glaser made. In characteristic contrast, Hutchs vehicle was a battered, tan,1973 Ford Galaxie 500 and it occasionally appeared when the duo needed separate vehicles, or for undercover work. However, the cover was often blown because Hutchs vehicle had a bad habit, when its drivers side door was opened. It was also due to the severely cluttered back seat. The detectives main confidential informant was the street-wise, ethically ambiguous, jive-talking Huggy Bear, the duos boss was the gruff, no-nonsense-but-fair Captain Harold C. Starsky and Hutch continued the 1960s trend in some prime-time, U. S. TV dramas of portraying African-Americans in a positive light, Huggys immense popularity with viewers caused producers Spelling and Goldberg to consider giving actor Fargas his own TV series. In the episode it was revealed that Huggys last name is Brown, two series characters were named for people from William Blinns past, Starsky was the name of a high school friend, and Huggy Bear was a local disc jockey. While likely normal by the standards of 1990s-and-later America, such body language conflicted with 1970s norms of masculinity. In a blooper tape made during the run that can be found on YouTube. Soul verified this statement in a 1999 cast reunion interview in the United Kingdom, many fans were attracted not just by the characters, but the quality of writing during the first two seasons. The part was written with Parton in mind, but Anderson wound up playing the role, Season 1, Starsky & Hutch aired on Wednesday nights at 10pm and aired against the long forgotten Kate McShane on CBS and the second season law drama Petrocelli on NBC
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The Six Million Dollar Man
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The Six Million Dollar Man is an American science fiction and action television series about a former astronaut, Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by American actor Lee Majors. Austin has superhuman strength due to bionic implants and is employed as an agent by a fictional U. S. government office titled OSI. The series was based on the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg, which was the title of the series during pre-production. Steve Austin became a pop icon of the 1970s. A spin-off television series, The Bionic Woman, featuring the female character Jaime Sommers. Three television movies featuring both characters were also produced from 1987 to 1994. When NASA astronaut Steve Austin is severely injured in the crash of a lifting body aircraft. He uses his abilities to work for the OSI as a secret agent. Caidins novel Cyborg was a best-seller when it was published in 1972, in March 1973, Cyborg was loosely adapted as a made-for-TV movie titled The Six Million Dollar Man starring Majors as Austin. The adaptation was done by writer Howard Rodman, working under the pseudonym of Henri Simoun, the film, which was nominated for a Hugo Award, modified Caidins plot, and notably made Austin a civilian astronaut rather than a colonel in the United States Air Force. Absent were some of the features of the later series, the electronic sound effects, the slow-motion running. Instead, another character named Oliver Spencer, played by Darren McGavin, was Austins supervisor, Austin did not use the enhanced capabilities of his bionic eye during the first TV movie. The first movie was a ratings success and was followed by two more made-for-TV movies in October and November 1973 as part of ABCs rotating Suspense Theater series. The first was titled The Six Million Dollar Man, Wine, Women and War, the first of these two bore strong resemblances to Caidins second Cyborg novel, Operation Nuke, the second, however, was an original story. This was followed in January 1974 by the debut of The Six Million Dollar Man as a weekly hour-long series, the last two movies, produced by Glen A. The slow motion sequences were originally referred to as Kung Fu slow motion in popular culture. Ultimately, her body rejected her bionic hardware and she died, Majors reprised the role of Steve Austin in all three productions, which also featured Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks, and Lindsay Wagner reprising the role of Jaime Sommers. The reunion films addressed the partial amnesia Sommers had suffered during the original series, the first two movies were written in the anticipation of creating new bionic characters in their own series, but nothing further was seen of the new characters introduced in those produced
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Antony and Cleopatra (opera)
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Antony and Cleopatra is an opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber. The libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli and it was based on the play Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare and made use of Shakespeares language exclusively. The opera was first performed on September 16,1966, at the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. After an unsuccessful premiere, the opera was revised by Barber. For the premiere, which was also the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House, Franco Zeffirelli was hired as stage director. The stage design and costumes were elaborate, the cast was enormous including 22 singers, a chorus. The opera was received by the press, and not enthusiastically received by the public. Less kindly, the 1966 premiere was described as a hair-curlingly awful production. … The night has gone down in the annals of opera as a landmark of vulgarity, mr. Barber’s score, as we discovered from subsequent exposure to revised excerpts in concert and on records, was to a great extent an innocent victim of the over-all fiasco. The opera was dropped from the Mets repertory after the performances of the production. Barber later revised the opera, with revisions by Gian-Carlo Menotti, Barbers partner. This version was premiered under Menottis direction at the Juilliard American Opera Center on February 6,1975, there were further productions at the Spoleto Festival USA and Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, in 1983, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1991. Samuel Barber, Two Scenes from Antony and Cleopatra, Op.40, Knoxville, Summer of 1915, leontyne Price, soprano, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Thomas Schippers, conductor, recorded 1968 Antony and Cleopatra. Esther Hinds, soprano, Jeffrey Wells, bass, The Spoleto Festival Orchestra and Westminster Choir, Christian Badea, recorded during the 1983 Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy Freeman, John W. The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas, New York, W. W. Norton Co. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera,4 vols, edited by Stanley Sadie, managing editor, Christina Bashford. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera,4 vols, edited by Stanley Sadie, managing editor, Christina Bashford. Samuel Barber, The Composer and His Music, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-509058-6 Kolodin, Music to my Ears, Barber’s Antony, after Zeffirelli
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Hotel (U.S. TV series)
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Based on Arthur Haileys 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood, episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff. Rich aristocrat Victoria Cabot ran the St. Gregory Hotel, assisted by general manager Peter McDermott, McDermott and assistant general manager Christine Francis became romantically involved. Halfway through the series Cabot died, leaving McDermott her share of the St. Gregory Hotel, when McDermott inherited half of the St. Gregory, he ran the hotel and promoted Francis to general manager. Characters Eric Lloyd, Cheryl Dolan and Ryan Thomas were added to the cast during its final season, cast members Brolin, Sellecca, Belafonte and Cook appeared in every episode of the series. Bette Davis appeared in the episode as hotel owner Laura Trent. Ironically, Davis would outlive Baxter by four years and the series itself by over a year, similar to Spellings other hit ABC show, The Love Boat, episodes of Hotel relied heavily on the appearance of recognizable guest stars. Note, All Nielsen ratings are provided by Wikipedia, on July 21,2009, Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS DVD released Season 1 of Hotel on DVD in Region 1 for the first time. As of 2015, this release is out of print and has been discontinued, on October 20,2015, Visual Entertainment will release Hotel- The Complete Collection on DVD in Region 1 for the first time. In 2003, Aaron Spelling tried to remake the show, twenty years after the originals premiere, the pilot, which starred Michael Jai White and Christina Vidal, was shot for UPN, who passed on the show. Hotel at the Internet Movie Database, Hotel DVD review and production history of series
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Perry Mason (TV series)
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Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21,1957, to May 22,1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on stories written by Gardner, Hollywoods first weekly one-hour series filmed for television, Perry Mason is one of TVs longest-running and most successful legal series. During its first season, it received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination as Best Dramatic Series, Raymond Burr received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor, and Barbara Hale received an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Masons secretary Della Street. Perry Mason and Burr were honored as Favorite Series and Favorite Male Performer in the first two TV Guide Award readers polls, in 1960, the series received the first Silver Gavel Award presented for television drama by the American Bar Association. Perry Mason has aired in syndication in the United States and internationally ever since its cancellation, a 2014 study found that Netflix users rate Raymond Burr as their favorite actor, with Barbara Hale number seven on the list. The New Perry Mason, a 1973 revival of the series with a different cast, was poorly received and ran a mere 15 episodes. In 1985, the first in a series of 30 Perry Mason television films aired on NBC. Perry Mason is a criminal defense lawyer practicing in Los Angeles. He represents clients, most of whom have been charged with murder, each episode typically follows a formula. The first half of the show introduces a prospective murder victim, the body is found, often through circumstance by Mason and private investigator Paul Drake, or with his secretary Della Street. Clues point to Masons client, who is charged with murder, in the second-half courtroom setting, Mason spars most often with his legal adversary Hamilton Burger, Los Angeles district attorney, and police homicide detective Lt. Arthur Tragg. Mason establishes his clients innocence by dramatically demonstrating the guilt of another character, the murderer often breaks down and confesses to the crime in the courtroom. In the closing scene, the characters together to discuss how the case was solved. In many episodes, the identity of the guilty party is uncovered without a trial being held. During this stage, other malefactors — such as blackmailers, frauds, and forgers — are frequently forced into confessions by Masons relentless and clever questioning, and the killer is exposed. Lieutenant Andy Anderson – another police homicide detective and lead police official on the series, lieutenant Steve Drumm – another police homicide detective and lead police official on the series, who appeared in the final season. Dr. Hoxie – autopsy surgeon Sgt and his literary agent was advertising executive Thomas Cornwell Jackson, who had, in 1947, married actress Gail Patrick
