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Steve Franks
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Steve Franks is an American screenwriter and musician based in Orange County, California. He devised the story for the 1999 comedy Big Daddy and wrote the screenplay with Tim Herlihy, Franks graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He also attended a program at Loyola Marymount University. Franks also created the USA Network original series Psych, and created the band The Friendly Indians, Steve Franks at the Internet Movie Database Steve Franks bio at the USA Network
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Adam Sandler
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Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, film producer, and musician. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office. He has ventured into more dramatic territory with his roles in Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish, Reign Over Me, Sandler has released five comedy albums in his career. Theyre All Gonna Laugh at You. and What the Hell Happened to Me. are both certified double-platinum, in 1999, Sandler founded Happy Madison Productions. Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1966, to Judith Judy, a school teacher, and Stanley Sandler. His family is Jewish and descends from Russian and Israeli immigrants on both sides and he grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire after moving there at the age of six. He attended Manchester Central High School, as a teen, Sandler was in BBYO, a popular Jewish youth group. Sandler graduated from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts in 1988, early in his career, Sandler played Theo Huxtables friend, Smitty in The Cosby Show and the Stud Boy or Trivia Delinquent in the MTV game show Remote Control. After his film debut Going Overboard in 1989, Sandler performed in comedy clubs and he was discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandlers act in Los Angeles and recommended him to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Sandler told Conan OBrien on The Tonight Show that NBC fired him, in 1993, Adam Sandler appeared in the film Coneheads with Chris Farley, David Spade, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, and Jane Curtin. In 1994, he co-starred in Airheads with Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi and he followed this film with Bulletproof, and the financially successful comedies Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer. He was initially cast in the bachelor-party-themed comedy/thriller Very Bad Things but had to back out due to his involvement in The Waterboy, although his earliest films did not receive critical praise, he started to receive more positive reviews, beginning with Punch-Drunk Love in 2002. Roger Eberts review of Punch-Drunk Love concluded that Sandler had been wasted in earlier films with poorly written scripts, Sandler has moved outside the genre of slapstick comedy to take on more serious parts such as the aforementioned Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish and Reign Over Me. He played a father figure in Big Daddy. He returned to more dramatic fare with Mike Binders Reign Over Me and he starred with Kevin James in the film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Sandler headlined You Dont Mess with the Zohan, the film was written by Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel, it was directed by Dennis Dugan. It marked as Sandlers first family film and first film under the Walt Disney banner, in 2009, Sandler starred in Judd Apatows third directorial feature Funny People. The film was released on July 31,2009, Sandler appeared in Grown Ups, alongside Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade
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Joey Lauren Adams
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Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director who has appeared in more than 40 films. She began her career in 1977 with a small role in Exorcist II. From there she began to find larger roles, in 1991, she appeared in Top of the Heap, the 100th episode of Married. With Children, and subsequently starred in its short-lived spinoff, in 1993, Adams landed her first major film role as Simone in Richard Linklaters Dazed and Confused. The same year, she appeared in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads as one of Connie Coneheads friends, two years later, Adams appeared in Mallrats, written and directed by Kevin Smith. The two started dating during the films post-production, and their relationship provided the inspiration for Smiths next film, the relationship did not last long but ended on friendly terms. Meanwhile, in 1996, while Smith was finalizing the script for Chasing Amy, Adams was cast in the slapstick comedy Bio-Dome, Adams played the role of Monique, Bud Macintoshs girlfriend. In 1997s Chasing Amy, Adams played the role of Alyssa Jones. Later, Smith would describe Chasing Amy as a sort of penance/valentine, in addition to her acting work on the film, Adams wrote and performed the song Alive for the films soundtrack. From there, Adams was originally slated to play the lead in Smiths next film, 1999s Dogma. In both of these appearances, Adams reprises the Alyssa Jones role and her post-Smith projects included playing a spunky veterinarians assistant who falls in love with a single father in 1998s A Cool, Dry Place. The following year, Adams appeared in her first big-budget Hollywood release and she then went on to appear in many smaller films, including Beautiful and In the Shadows. In 2005, she had a guest role in an episode of the TV series Veronica Mars, also in 2006, Adams released her directorial debut film, Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson and Laura Prepon. The film, shot on location in Little Rock, Arkansas, was selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, in 2006, she, along with Lian Lunson and Nicole Holofcener, was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award. On November 24,2009, Interscope Records released Adams directorial debut for a video entitled Belle of the Boulevard by Dashboard Confessional. Adams returned to TV in March 2010, on the Showtime series The United States of Tara and she appeared in six episodes as Pammy, a barmaid who falls for Buck, one of the title characters alternate personalities. Regarding her unique voice she has commented, Its not a normal voice and it doesnt fit into peoples preconceptions about what a womans voice should sound like. My mom doesnt think I have a voice, though
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Jon Stewart
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Jon Stewart is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, actor, media critic, and former television host. He was the host of The Daily Show, a news program on Comedy Central. Stewart started as a comedian, but branched into television as host of Short Attention Span Theater for Comedy Central. He went on to host his own show on MTV, The Jon Stewart Show and he has also had several film roles as an actor, but has done few cinematic projects since becoming the host of The Daily Show in 1999. He was also a writer and co-executive producer of the show, after Stewart joined, The Daily Show steadily gained popularity and critical acclaim, and his work won 22 Primetime Emmy Awards. Stewart has gained acclaim as an acerbic, satirical critic of personality-driven media shows, in particular those of the U. S. media networks such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Critics say Stewart benefits from a standard, he critiques other news shows from the safe. Stewart agrees, saying that neither his nor his channel purports to be anything other than satire. In spite of its self-professed entertainment mandate, The Daily Show has been nominated for news, Stewart hosted the 78th and 80th Academy Awards. He is the co-author of America, A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction, which was one of the books in the U. S. in 2004. Stewarts final show aired on August 6,2015, Stewarts family is Jewish, and emigrated to the U. S. from Poland, Ukraine and Belarus, one of his grandfathers was born in Manzhouli. Stewart is the second of four sons, with older brother Lawrence and younger brothers Dan, Stewarts parents divorced when Stewart was eleven years old, and Stewart was apparently largely estranged from his father. Because of his relationship with his father, which in 2015 he described as still complicated, he dropped his surname and began using his middle name. Stewart stated, There was a thought of using my mothers maiden name, yet people always view through the prism of ethnic identity. He had his surname changed to Stewart in 2001. Stewart and his brother Lawrence, who was previously the Chief Operating Officer of NYSE Euronext, grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, according to Stewart, he was subjected to anti-Semitic bullying as a child. He describes himself in school as very into Eugene Debs. Stewart grew up in the era of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal and his first job was working at a Woolworths at which his brother Lawrence worked, and jokingly describes being fired by Lawrence as one of the scarring events of his youth
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Rob Schneider
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Robert Michael Rob Schneider is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. Schneider was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in the suburb of Pacifica. His parents are Pilar, a kindergarten teacher and ex-school board president, and Marvin Schneider. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic, Schneiders maternal grandmother was a Filipina who met and married his grandfather, a white American army private, while he was stationed in the Philippines. His mixed background is a theme in his comedy acts. His older brother, John, is a producer, Schneider graduated from Terra Nova High School in 1982. Schneider started his comedy career while still in high school, opening for San Francisco favorites Head On. After high school, he played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and The Other Cafe, after opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBOs 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller. Schneiders appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for the late night NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider was hired at Saturday Night Live in 1988. Schneider swiftly graduated from writer and featured player to full cast member, from 1990 to 1994 at SNL, he played such roles as Tiny Elvis and Orgasm Guy. Schneider is featured in the video release The Bad Boys of Saturday Night Live, along with colleagues Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, the Richmeister, an office worker who annoys people by giving them nicknames as they make copies. He also appeared in a part on the TV series Coach. In 1996, he co-starred in the NBC sit-com Men Behaving Badly, the U. S. version ran for two seasons. Schneider starred in the 1999 feature film Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo, the latter movie was not well received by critics or moviegoers, and as a result, Schneider won a 2005 Worst Actor Razzie Award for his role in the film. In 2006, Schneider co-starred in the family comedy The Benchwarmers. Other film roles include Schneiders appearance with Jim Hensons Muppets in the 1999 film Muppets from Space, Schneiders directorial debut, the comedy Big Stan, was released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, with a U. S. release in early 2009. In the film, he starred as a con artist who is arrested for perpetrating real-estate scams and he is sentenced to prison, so he takes a crash-course in martial arts to survive incarceration. Schneider has also appeared in numerous comedies starring his SNL comrade Adam Sandler, the comedic characters Schneider plays in these films include an overly enthusiastic Cajun man who proclaims the catch-phrase, You can do it
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Cole Sprouse
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Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse are American actors. They are twins and are referred to as the Sprouse brothers or Sprouse Bros and their first major theatrical film role was in the 1999 comedy, Big Daddy, in which they co-starred with Adam Sandler. They later appeared in television sitcoms and starred in the straight-to-DVD films I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. From 2005 until 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a result of the series success, the media has termed them heartthrobs and overwhelming draws among preteen and teen audiences. The following year, the brothers launched a franchise known as the Sprouse Bros brand, the majority of the Sprouses franchise ended in 2008, except for their clothing line. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was retooled in 2008 as The Suite Life on Deck, in which the brothers reprised their roles as Zack, the Suite Life on Deck went on to become the most-watched tween/childrens television show in 2008 and 2009. The show ended in May 2011 and they also starred in The Suite Life Movie, which aired in March of the same year. They began cultivating an image by starring in the independent theatrical suspense film The Kings of Appletown in 2009. Dylan and Cole were two of the wealthiest children alive in 2007, and in 2010, the Sprouse brothers were the highest-paid teenage Disney television actors, MSN reported by the end of the 2000s that the twin brothers became the richest teenage twins in the world. In 2010, the brothers were accepted to New York University and they deferred admission for one year, and attended the university from 2011 to 2015. Both Cole and Dylan have confirmed they wish to pursue acting post-university, Dylan was named after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and Cole is named after jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole. Dylan is 15 minutes older than Cole, the boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents native Long Beach, California. Some of the money Dylan and Cole earned by acting was used to buy a house in Calabasas, California, the Sprouses began acting at the age of eight months following a suggestion from their grandmother, Jonine Booth Wright, who was a drama teacher and actress. The twins first appeared in a commercial for diapers, switching on-screen time every few seconds, as with many twins, the two have often played the same role, due to child labor laws in California restricting the amount of time children can be filmed in a day. Casting twins in a single role thus allows more time for the character to be filmed, beginning at eight months old, the two played a single character, Patrick Kelly, on the ABC series Grace Under Fire. In 1999, the boys appeared in their first major film, Big Daddy, in which they shared the role of a five-year-old boy named Julian who is adopted by Adam Sandlers character. Though the film received mixed reviews, the two were nominated for awards for their role in the film. However, they did not win any, the same year, the boys also had a minor role in the thriller The Astronauts Wife
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Dylan Sprouse
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Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse are American actors. They are twins and are referred to as the Sprouse brothers or Sprouse Bros and their first major theatrical film role was in the 1999 comedy, Big Daddy, in which they co-starred with Adam Sandler. They later appeared in television sitcoms and starred in the straight-to-DVD films I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. From 2005 until 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a result of the series success, the media has termed them heartthrobs and overwhelming draws among preteen and teen audiences. The following year, the brothers launched a franchise known as the Sprouse Bros brand, the majority of the Sprouses franchise ended in 2008, except for their clothing line. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was retooled in 2008 as The Suite Life on Deck, in which the brothers reprised their roles as Zack, the Suite Life on Deck went on to become the most-watched tween/childrens television show in 2008 and 2009. The show ended in May 2011 and they also starred in The Suite Life Movie, which aired in March of the same year. They began cultivating an image by starring in the independent theatrical suspense film The Kings of Appletown in 2009. Dylan and Cole were two of the wealthiest children alive in 2007, and in 2010, the Sprouse brothers were the highest-paid teenage Disney television actors, MSN reported by the end of the 2000s that the twin brothers became the richest teenage twins in the world. In 2010, the brothers were accepted to New York University and they deferred admission for one year, and attended the university from 2011 to 2015. Both Cole and Dylan have confirmed they wish to pursue acting post-university, Dylan was named after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and Cole is named after jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole. Dylan is 15 minutes older than Cole, the boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents native Long Beach, California. Some of the money Dylan and Cole earned by acting was used to buy a house in Calabasas, California, the Sprouses began acting at the age of eight months following a suggestion from their grandmother, Jonine Booth Wright, who was a drama teacher and actress. The twins first appeared in a commercial for diapers, switching on-screen time every few seconds, as with many twins, the two have often played the same role, due to child labor laws in California restricting the amount of time children can be filmed in a day. Casting twins in a single role thus allows more time for the character to be filmed, beginning at eight months old, the two played a single character, Patrick Kelly, on the ABC series Grace Under Fire. In 1999, the boys appeared in their first major film, Big Daddy, in which they shared the role of a five-year-old boy named Julian who is adopted by Adam Sandlers character. Though the film received mixed reviews, the two were nominated for awards for their role in the film. However, they did not win any, the same year, the boys also had a minor role in the thriller The Astronauts Wife
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Leslie Mann
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Mann was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in Newport Beach. She was raised by her mother, an estate agent who had married three times. Mann has stated of her father, My dad is. I dont really have one, I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him. She has two siblings and three older step-brothers and her maternal grandmother, Sadie Viola Heljä Räsänen, was the daughter of Finnish immigrants. Mann has said that she was shy, kind of pent-up during her youth. She graduated from Corona del Mar High School, and studied acting at the Joanne Baron / D. W. Brown Studio and she attended college and studied communications, but dropped out before graduating. Mann began her career at 18 appearing in a number of television commercials, in 2007, Mann starred alongside Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in Judd Apatows comedy Knocked Up, which grossed more than $218 million worldwide. Manns performance in the film garnered her rave reviews as well as a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Chicago Film Critics Association, in 2009, Mann reunited with her Big Daddy co-star Adam Sandler and Knocked Up co-star Seth Rogen for Apatows Funny People. This film was named to many of the top ten lists including The New Yorker. That same year, Mann also starred in Burr Steers successful comedy 17 Again opposite Zac Efron and Matthew Perry and she was also seen in the indie hit I Love You Phillip Morris alongside Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Mann also starred alongside Elizabeth Banks in the film What Was I Thinking, based upon the book by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman which was filmed in 2009 but never released. In 2011, Mann starred opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman in David Dobkins comedy The Change-Up, Mann continued her voice performance work in 2012 with her role in ParaNorman, an animated 3D, stop-motion film from writer/director Chris Butler. In December 2012, Mann appeared opposite Paul Rudd in Judd Apatows This Is 40, the movie reunited the trio from the film, with Mann and Rudd reprising their characters. The film was written and directed by Judd Apatow, and included their two daughters in the cast, in contrast to Knocked Up, This Is 40 centered squarely on Manns character and her family. An early response on Manns performance from Elle Magazine states that doesnt just walk off with scenes—she steals the show, Mann was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy by the Broadcast Film Critics Association for This Is 40. In 2013, Mann was in Sofia Coppolas The Bling Ring with Emma Watson, inspired by actual events, the film follows a group of fame-obsessed L. A. teenagers who burgled celebrity homes by tracking their whereabouts on the internet. In 2014, Mann narrated Women in Comedy, an episode of season 2 of Makers, Mann and Apatow have two daughters, Iris and Maude, who both appeared in the films Knocked Up, Funny People, and This Is 40 as the children of Manns characters. Mann and Apatow are both supporters of the non-profit organization 826LA, which focuses on encouraging the writing skills of disadvantaged youth
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Columbia Pictures
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The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jacks best friend Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924, and went public two years later and its name is derived from Columbia, a national personification of the United States, which is used as the studios logo. In its early years, it was a player in Hollywood. With Capra and others, Columbia became one of the homes of the screwball comedy. In the 1930s, Columbias major contract stars were Jean Arthur, in the 1940s, Rita Hayworth became the studios premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s. Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden also became major stars at the studio, in 1982, the studio was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company, and launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. Five years later, Coca-Cola spun off Columbia, which was sold to Tri-Star, after a brief period of independence with Coca-Cola maintaining a financial interest, the combined studio was acquired by Sony in 1989. It is one of the film studios in the world. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywoods Golden Age, Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. The studios early productions were short subjects, Screen Snapshots, the Hall Room Boys. The start-up CBC leased space in a Poverty Row studio on Hollywoods famously low-rent Gower Street, among Hollywoods elite, the studios small-time reputation led some to joke that CBC stood for Corned Beef and Cabbage. Brandt eventually tired of dealing with the Cohn brothers, and sold his stake to Harry Cohn. In an effort to improve its image, the Cohn brothers renamed the company Columbia Pictures Corporation on January 10,1924, Cohn remained head of production as well, thus concentrating enormous power in his hands. He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, even in an industry rife with nepotism, Columbia was particularly notorious for having a number of Harry and Jacks relatives in high positions. Humorist Robert Benchley called it the Pine Tree Studio, because it has so many Cohns, Columbias product line consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and short subjects including comedies, sports films, various serials, and cartoons. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-budget fare, eventually joining the tier of Hollywood studios along with United Artists. Like United Artists and Universal, Columbia was an integrated company. It controlled production and distribution, it did not own any theaters, helping Columbias climb was the arrival of an ambitious director, Frank Capra
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Dylan and Cole Sprouse
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Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse are American actors. They are twins and are referred to as the Sprouse brothers or Sprouse Bros and their first major theatrical film role was in the 1999 comedy, Big Daddy, in which they co-starred with Adam Sandler. They later appeared in television sitcoms and starred in the straight-to-DVD films I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. From 2005 until 2008, they starred in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a result of the series success, the media has termed them heartthrobs and overwhelming draws among preteen and teen audiences. The following year, the brothers launched a franchise known as the Sprouse Bros brand, the majority of the Sprouses franchise ended in 2008, except for their clothing line. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was retooled in 2008 as The Suite Life on Deck, in which the brothers reprised their roles as Zack, the Suite Life on Deck went on to become the most-watched tween/childrens television show in 2008 and 2009. The show ended in May 2011 and they also starred in The Suite Life Movie, which aired in March of the same year. They began cultivating an image by starring in the independent theatrical suspense film The Kings of Appletown in 2009. Dylan and Cole were two of the wealthiest children alive in 2007, and in 2010, the Sprouse brothers were the highest-paid teenage Disney television actors, MSN reported by the end of the 2000s that the twin brothers became the richest teenage twins in the world. In 2010, the brothers were accepted to New York University and they deferred admission for one year, and attended the university from 2011 to 2015. Both Cole and Dylan have confirmed they wish to pursue acting post-university, Dylan was named after Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and Cole is named after jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole. Dylan is 15 minutes older than Cole, the boys moved back to the United States four months after their birth to their parents native Long Beach, California. Some of the money Dylan and Cole earned by acting was used to buy a house in Calabasas, California, the Sprouses began acting at the age of eight months following a suggestion from their grandmother, Jonine Booth Wright, who was a drama teacher and actress. The twins first appeared in a commercial for diapers, switching on-screen time every few seconds, as with many twins, the two have often played the same role, due to child labor laws in California restricting the amount of time children can be filmed in a day. Casting twins in a single role thus allows more time for the character to be filmed, beginning at eight months old, the two played a single character, Patrick Kelly, on the ABC series Grace Under Fire. In 1999, the boys appeared in their first major film, Big Daddy, in which they shared the role of a five-year-old boy named Julian who is adopted by Adam Sandlers character. Though the film received mixed reviews, the two were nominated for awards for their role in the film. However, they did not win any, the same year, the boys also had a minor role in the thriller The Astronauts Wife
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Robert Simonds
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Robert Bruce Simonds, Jr. is an American film producer and the Chairman and CEO of movie studio STX Entertainment. Simonds has also produced a number of cult films, including The Wedding Singer, Joe Dirt, Half Baked. To this extent, throughout his hands-on producing career Simonds had the single best studio track record for profitability on his films, Simonds was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the son of Robert Bruce Simonds, Sr. a businessman. He and his wife Anne live in Los Angeles with their son, in March 2014 Simonds announced the formation of STX Entertainment. Debt is provided by a consortium of banks including JP Morgan, Bank of America, the studio financed and distributed actor Joel Edgertons directorial debut, The Gift, a thriller from Jason Blums Blumhouse. The film stars Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall and Edgerton, who wrote the script. Released in August 2015, the received a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes. In January 2015, the studio announced a premium television output deal
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Happy Madison Productions
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Happy Madison Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 1996 by Adam Sandler which is best known for its comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, the elderly man depicted in the logo is Sandlers late father, Stanley. The 1998 films The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer helped jump start Sandlers movie career and he produced The Waterboy and co-wrote the script with Tim Herlihy. The company used to have a subsidiary, Madison 23 Productions, the only production under Madison 23 was Reign Over Me, starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle. This studio company on the trailer of Funny People and the poster and trailer for Reign Over Me is also known as Mr. Madison Productions, however, after the financial failure of Reign Over Me, the Madison 23 label was shut down. Happy Madisons most recent releases are The Ridiculous 6 and The Do Over, Happy Madisons films have, for the most part, received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. The production company has put out three films considered to be some of the worst ever made, NOTE, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores are out of 100. Rules of Engagement The Gong Show with Dave Attell Nick Swardsons Pretend Time Breaking In The Goldbergs Imaginary Mary Real Genius Nick Swardson – Party Nick Swardson – Seriously, Happy Madison page on Sandlers website Happy Madison at the Internet Movie Database
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Hotel Transylvania 2
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Hotel Transylvania 2 is a 2015 American 3D computer animated fantasy-comedy film. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, Hotel Transylvania 2 takes place seven years after the first film, with the hotel now open to human guests. Mavis and Johnny have a son named Dennis, whose lack of any vampire abilities worries his grandfather Dracula. When Mavis and Johnny go on a visit to Johnnys parents, soon, things turn upside-down when Draculas old-school human-hating father Vlad unexpectedly visits the hotel. The film was released on September 25,2015, by Columbia Pictures and was a box office success, a third film, titled Hotel Transylvania 3, is scheduled to be released on July 13,2018. Seven years after the first film, Mavis and her new fiancé Johnny are finally married, with the approval of her father Dracula, and the world becomes aware of the existence of monsters. Mavis later reveals to Drac that she is pregnant and a later, she gives birth to a baby boy named Dennis. Nearing his fifth birthday, Dennis has yet to grow his fangs, noticing the dangers of Transylvania, Mavis starts to consider raising Dennis where Johnny grew up, much to Dracs disapproval. Drac tells Johnny to bring Mavis to California to visit his parents, Mike and Linda, but to make sure to keep her distracted so that she will not move, leaving Drac to babysit Dennis. Drac enlists his friends, Frank, Wayne the Werewolf, Griffin the Invisible Man, Murray the Mummy and Blobby the Blob to help train Dennis to become a monster, to no avail. Drac takes Dennis to his summer camp, Camp Winnepacaca, where he learned to hone his vampire abilities. Drac stubbornly believes Dennis is a late fanger, so he hurls Dennis from a tall, Dennis does not transform, and Dracula has to fly and rescue him at the last second. The stunt is filmed by the campers and uploaded to the Internet, Mavis angrily transforms into a bat to fly her and Johnny back to Transylvania. Drac and his friends reach the hotel a couple of seconds after Mavis and she confronts her father for putting Dennis in grave danger and his inability to accept that he is human. She states she will move out of the hotel after Dennis fifth birthday the following Wednesday, Drac hangs his head with deep guilt. Mavis invites Vlad, her grandfather and Dracs father, to Dennis birthday party, as Vlad is much worse than he was when it comes to humans, Drac tells Johnny to have the human party-goers disguise themselves as monsters. Vlad receives the invitation and arrives with his monstrous bat-like servant Bela to meet his great-grandson for the first time, Drac confronts his father about how humans are different now. Mavis becomes upset with her grandfathers behavior and while the family argues, Dennis sadly flees the hotel and enters the forest with Winnie in tow and they are attacked by Bela, who mistakes Dennis for a human
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Law degree
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A law degree is an academic degree conferred for studies in law. Such degrees are generally preparation for careers, but while their curricula may be reviewed by legal authority. The first academic degrees were all law degrees- and the first law degrees were doctorates, the foundations of the first universities in Europe were the glossators of the 11th century, which were schools of law. The first European university, that of Bologna, was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars in the 12th century who were students of the school in that city. It is from history that it is said that the first academic title of doctor applied to scholars of law. The degree and title were not applied to scholars of other disciplines until the 13th century, the rising of the doctor of philosophy to its present level is a modern novelty. At its origins, a doctorate was simply a qualification for a guild—that of teaching law, the University of Bologna served as the model for other law schools of the medieval age. In the medieval Islamic madrasahs, there was a doctorate in the Islamic law of the Sharia, the type of law degree conferred differs according to the jurisdiction. Some examples include, Bacharel em Direito or Bacharel em Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais, the abbreviation for Bachelor is Bel. Bachelor of Laws also referred to as a B. A. in Law or an LL. B. in the United Kingdom, Master of Laws in the United Kingdom and various current or former Commonwealth countries. Also referred to as an LL. M. from its Latin name and it is an advanced academic degree pursued by those holding a professional law degree or a degree in a relevant field. Laurea di Dottore in Giurisprudenza for graduates before the Bologna Process reforms, or Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza after the Bologna Process reforms, in Italy. It is a masters degree, however all graduates of Italian universities. Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen is the equivalent to the law degree, since the part is the German equivalent to the Bar exam in the U. S. At some universities you either become a Lizentiat des Rechts, a Magister iuris or a Diplom-Jurist, Juris Doctor in the United States and Japan. It is a doctorate degree. Legum Doctor is in some jurisdictions the highest academic degree in law and is equivalent to a Ph. D. Doctor of Juridical Science is a research doctorate in law awarded mostly in the United States and Canada. Lizentiat der Rechtswissenschaften / Licence en droit until 2004 and Master of Law since 2004 in Switzerland and it is a masters level degree
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China
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China, officially the Peoples Republic of China, is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the worlds most populous country, with a population of over 1.381 billion. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China and its capital is Beijing, the countrys major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a power and a major regional power within Asia. Chinas landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from forest steppes, the Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third and sixth longest in the world, respectively, Chinas coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China emerged as one of the worlds earliest civilizations in the basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, Chinas political system was based on hereditary monarchies known as dynasties, in 1912, the Republic of China replaced the last dynasty and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949, when it was defeated by the communist Peoples Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War. The Communist Party established the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, both the ROC and PRC continue to claim to be the legitimate government of all China, though the latter has more recognition in the world and controls more territory. China had the largest economy in the world for much of the last two years, during which it has seen cycles of prosperity and decline. Since the introduction of reforms in 1978, China has become one of the worlds fastest-growing major economies. As of 2016, it is the worlds second-largest economy by nominal GDP, China is also the worlds largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a nuclear weapons state and has the worlds largest standing army. The PRC is a member of the United Nations, as it replaced the ROC as a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council in 1971. China is also a member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BCIM, the English name China is first attested in Richard Edens 1555 translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. The demonym, that is, the name for the people, Portuguese China is thought to derive from Persian Chīn, and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit Cīna. Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata, there are, however, other suggestions for the derivation of China. The official name of the state is the Peoples Republic of China. The shorter form is China Zhōngguó, from zhōng and guó and it was then applied to the area around Luoyi during the Eastern Zhou and then to Chinas Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing
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Hooters
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Hooters, Inc. is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains, Hooters of America, Incorporated, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated, based in Clearwater, Florida. The company employs other men and women as cooks, hosts, busboys, the menu includes hamburgers and other sandwiches, steaks, seafood entrees, appetizers, and the restaurants specialty, chicken wings. Almost all Hooters restaurants hold alcoholic beverage licenses to sell beer and wine, and where local permits allow, Hooters T-shirts, sweatshirts, and various souvenirs and curios are also sold. As of 2016 there were more than 430 Hooters locations and franchises around the world, there are Hooters locations in 44 U. S. states, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and in 28 other countries. The three largest Hooters restaurants are in Singapore, Tokyo, and São Paulo, in 2015 Hooters announced that it is planning to open more than 30 restaurants in Southeast Asia over the next six years. In January 2011 Chanticleer Holdings LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina and others completed the purchase of Hooters of America Inc. from the Brooks family. Hooters, Inc. was incorporated in Clearwater, Florida, on April 1,1983, by six Clearwater businessmen, Lynn D. Stewart, Gil DiGiannantonio, Ed Droste, Billy Ranieri, Ken Wimmer and Dennis Johnson. The date was an April Fools Day joke because the six owners believed that their prospect was going to fail. Their first Hooters restaurant was built on the site of a former rundown nightclub that had purchased at a low price. So many businesses had folded in that location that the Hooters founders built a small graveyard at the front door for each that had come. The first restaurant opened its doors on October 4,1983 and this original location was decorated with memorabilia from Waverly, Iowa, hometown to some of the original Hooters 6. In 1984 Hugh Connerty bought the rights to Hooters from the Original Hooters 6, Robert H. Brooks and a group of Atlantan investors bought out Hugh Connerty. In 2002, Brooks bought majority control and became chairman, under Brookss leadership, the collective Hooters brand expanded to more than 425 stores worldwide. Brooks died on July 15,2006, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Brookss will gave most of Hooters of America Inc. to his son Coby Brooks and daughter Boni Belle Brooks. The Hooters Casino Hotel was opened February 2,2006, off the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise and this hotel has 696 rooms with a 35, 000-square-foot casino. The hotel is owned and operated by 155 East Tropicana, LLC and it is adjacent to the Tropicana, across the street from the MGM Grand Las Vegas. As of 2014, it is the only Hooters facility offering lodging since a Hooters Inn motel located along Interstate 4 in Lakeland, as part of their 25th anniversary, Hooters Magazine released its list of top Hooters Girls of all time. Among the best-known were Lynne Austin, the late Kelly Jo Dowd, Bonnie-Jill Laflin, Leeann Tweeden, and Holly Madison
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Kristy Swanson
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Kristen Noel Kristy Swanson is an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Buffy Summers in the 1992 cult film Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Swanson began her career appearing in teen films, including Pretty in Pink. Her first starring role was in Wes Cravens horror film Deadly Friend, Swanson was born and raised in Mission Viejo, California, the daughter of physical education teachers Robert and Rosemary Swanson. Swanson graduated from El Toro High School, Swanson has one older brother, Rob. Swansons paternal grandfather was Swedish, and her grandfather was of German ancestry. She has an uncle who taught English and Journalism in Anaheim, at the age of nine, Swanson expressed interest in acting to her parents, and began pursuing roles in television commercials. She landed her first job appearing in a doll house commercial, Swanson began her acting career at The Actors Workshop with R. J. Adams and promptly moved into TV advertising roles and several appearances in TV series such as Cagney and Lacey. Her first starring role was later in 1986, in Wes Cravens Deadly Friend as Samantha – the girl next door, the next year she played Cathy in the adaptation of V. C. Andrews best-seller Flowers in the Attic. Swanson revealed in a 2015 television interview how she was cast in Pretty In Pink, John Hughes said, Were re-shooting the end of Pretty in Pink. I was wondering if you would come be in this scene with our main character, Ducky, because the way we tested it in the movie theater and we need him to end up with somebody else at the end of the movie. So would you play the part. L, throughout the 1990s, she starred mostly in films. She played the role in the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although not a hit at the box office originally, it had a profitable rental life and she appeared in both starring and supporting roles in movies such as Hot Shots. The Program, The Chase, or her most critically acclaimed role, playing Kristen Connor and she also appeared in the film adaptation of the comic-book The Phantom and the dark comedy 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag with Joe Pesci. Most of these films failed at the box office, and she reverted to TV work in the late 1990s, in the 1998–99 season of Early Edition, Swanson played Erica Paget, a love interest of the main character, Gary Hobson. In 1999, Swanson played Vanessa, the girlfriend of Adam Sandler in the movie Big Daddy, in 2000, she returned to a television series, as the star of Grapevine, a revamp of a 1992 TV series that was canceled after five episodes. Swanson posed nude for Playboy magazine in November 2002 in a cover-featured pictorial and she appeared in and won the 2006 Fox television program Skating with Celebrities, partnered with Lloyd Eisler
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Joseph Bologna
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Joseph Bologna is an American actor. He is notable for roles in the comedy films My Favorite Year, Bologna was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Brown University, where he majored in art history, Bologna served a tour of duty with United States Marine Corps. Bologna was hired to produce and direct Manhattan-based TV commercials, Bologna has a long history in film and television. Several relatives performed as extras in the final cut, a year later, in 1971, the couple again collaborated to write and perform in the movie Made for Each Other. Bologna stayed close with his aunts and uncles after becoming successful. Bolognas aunt Pauline chastised him for starring in the nudity-contained Blame it on Rio co-starring Michael Caine, Bologna replied, Blame it on me, its the last time I invite Aunt Pauline to a film premiere. In 1976 he starred in the television drama What Now, Catherine Curtis. with Lucille Ball. Other film roles for Bologna include the 1982 comedy hit My Favorite Year, starring Peter OToole, and as Lenny Koufax, by 1987, Bologna was starring in the TV musical sitcom Rags to Riches as the millionaire mogul turned foster father, Nick Foley. The show aired for two seasons and he played the mad scientist Dr. Malavaqua in the 1985 comedy Transylvania 6-5000. From 1996 to 1998, he voice-acted the character Inspector Dan Turpin, in 2006, he became the voice of Mr. Start in Ice Age, The Meltdown. He is married to actress Renée Taylor, with whom he has a son, Taylor and Bologna have also co-starred on stage and on TV. He also appeared in the first-season episode The Gym Teacher as an actor for whom Maxwell Sheffield once interned. Joseph Bologna at the Internet Movie Database 85781 Joseph Bologna at the Internet Broadway Database Joseph Bologna at AllMovie
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Steve Buscemi
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Steven Vincent Steve Buscemi is an American actor and film director. He is also known for his appearances in films by the Coen brothers, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. franchise and he made his directorial debut in 1996, with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. Other works include Animal Factory, Lonesome Jim and Interview and he has also directed numerous episodes of TV shows, including Homicide, Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Oz,30 Rock, and Nurse Jackie. He currently hosts the Emmy Award-winning AOL On comedy talk-show Park Bench, Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, and Dorothy, who worked as a host at Howard Johnsons. Buscemis father was of Italian descent, his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily, Buscemis mother was of Irish, English, and Dutch ancestry. He has three brothers, Jon, Ken, and Michael and he graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School in Nassau County, New York, a school which he attended with actress Patricia Charbonneau. In high school, Buscemi wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe, Buscemis 1996 film Trees Lounge, in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director, is set in and was largely shot in his childhood village of Valley Stream. Buscemi briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasberg Institute, in 1980, Buscemi became a firefighter in New York City, after taking a civil service test in 1976 when he was 18. For four years, Buscemi served on FDNYs Engine Co.55 in Manhattans Little Italy, after 9/11, Buscemi returned to Engine 55 and for several days worked 12-hour shifts alongside other firefighters to sift through the rubble from the World Trade Center. In 2003, he gave a speech supporting higher wages for firefighters at a union rally, in 2014, he was appointed as an Honorary Battalion Chief of the FDNY. His film debut was the 1985 No Wave Cinema film The Way it Is, other early films include Parting Glances in 1986, Slaves of New York in 1988, and Tales from the Darkside, a 1990 film with three segments. Buscemi starred in the first segment, playing Bellingham, a student who orders a mummy and unleashes it on fellow college students played by Christian Slater. In 1990, Buscemi had a couple of additional crime roles and he played the henchman of Laurence Fishburne named Test Tube in Abel Ferraras King of New York. He also played Mink in the Coen Brothers Millers Crossing, although he had to audition twice for this role, it marked the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which Buscemi appeared. In 1991, he played the bellboy, Chet, in the Coen Brothers film and his first lead role was in 1992, when he played Adolpho Rollo in Alexandre Rockwells In the Soup. Then he came to attention for playing Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. He also appeared in Tarantinos next film, Pulp Fiction, in which he acts as a waiter at the 1950s themed restaurant which Mrs. Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega attend
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David Spade
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David Wayne Spade is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and he also starred and co-starred in the films Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Joe Dirt, Joe Dirt 2, Beautiful Loser, Grown Ups, and Grown Ups 2, among others. He has also been part of an ensemble cast of two long-running sitcoms, Just Shoot Me. and Rules of Engagement and he also starred as C. J. Barnes in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules. In animation, he voiced Kuzco in the 2000 film The Emperors New Groove and its direct-to-video sequel, Spade is known for a comedic style, in both his stand-up material and acting roles, that relies heavily on sarcasm and self-deprecation. Spade was born in Birmingham, Michigan and he is the son of Judith J. a writer and magazine editor, and Wayne M. Spade, a sales representative. His brothers are Bryan and Andy Spade, Andy Spade is an entrepreneur who, together with his wife Kate Spade, Spade and his family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, when David was four years old. His parents divorced soon thereafter, and he and his brothers were raised for the most part by their mother, Spade attended Saguaro High School and later Scottsdale Community College, before transferring to Arizona State University, where he earned his bachelors degree in business in 1986. He also was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Spade performed standup at the universitys long-running sketch comedy show, Farce Side Comedy Hour, on numerous occasions. In the mid-80s he also did stand up in the Monday night comedy show at Greasy Tonys Pizza in Tempe, with the help of friend and fellow comedian Dennis Miller, he joined Saturday Night Live in 1988. By 1990, Spade was a regular cast member as well as writer, other characters include Christy Henderson from the Gap Girls, and Karl from the Karls Video sketches. He also did impressions of celebrities, including Brad Pitt. According to interviews with Spade, most of the material that he early in his time at SNL was given to Dana Carvey to perform on the show. Due to his relatively low rate, he was in danger of being fired as a performer. Referring to Murphys lack of box office success at the time, the crack led to audience boos, and made Murphy upset at both Spade and SNL for years afterwards. Though most of the cast left in 1995, Spade stayed the following year to help in the transition with the new cast and he then quit in 1996 citing burnout as the reason. Said Spade, When I leave, it will be to ease the pressure and you cant stay there forever – it kills you inside. It ages you in dog years and he returned to host an episode in 1998 and another in 2005. He appeared with fellow Saturday Night Live cast member and friend Chris Farley in two comedy films, Tommy Boy and Black Sheep
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Metacritic
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products, music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged, Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source, a color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics recommendations and therefore the general appeal of the product to reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public. It is regarded as the game industrys foremost review aggregator. Metacritics scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critics fame, stature, and volume of reviews. Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005, CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2004, Mr. Doyle,36, is now a product manager at CNET. Speaking of video games, Doyle said, A site like ours helps people cut through. unobjective promotional language and he added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. In August 2010, the appearance was revamped, reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. Certain publications are given more significance because of their stature, games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to get a look behind the metascoring process. Stuart wrote, the phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years. The ranging of metascores is, Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review site for the video game industry. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic influence the sales of games and he explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Many executives say that low scores can hurt the sales potential. He claimed that a number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as an early indicator of a games potential sales and, by extension. In 2004, Jason Hall of Warner Bros. began including quality metrics in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games, if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games and these are the top 10 individual games with the highest scores on the site as of 2 April 2017
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Broadcast Music, Inc.
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Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP, Global Music Rights and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers, in FY2015, BMI collected more than $1.013 billion in licensing fees and distributed $877 million in royalties. BMI songwriters create music in genres, ranging from mainstream pop and country, to death metal. BMI also represents Michael Jacksons music catalog, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, in the 1930s, radio was coming to prominence as a source of musical entertainment that threatened to weaken record sales and opportunities for live acts. The Great Depression was already draining artist revenues from recordings and live performances, in 1939, ASCAP announced a substantial increase in the revenue share licensees would be required to pay. BMI was founded by the National Association of Broadcasters to provide a lower-cost alternative to ASCAP, as such, BMI created competition in the field of performing rights, providing an alternative source of licensing for all music users. The vast majority of U. S. radio stations and all three radio networks refused to renew their ASCAP licenses for 1941, choosing to forgo playing ASCAP music entirely and relying on the BMI repertoire. The U. S. District Court in Milwaukee was chosen by the Justice Department to supervise the decree for both BMI and ASCAP, competing against the strongly established ASCAP, BMI sought out artists that ASCAP tended to overlook or ignore. BMI also purchased the rights to numerous catalogs held by independent publishers or whose ASCAP contracts were about to expire, BMI has offices in Atlanta, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New York, and Puerto Rico. BMI annually hosts award shows that honor the songwriters, composers, ASCAP BMI Foundation Copyright collective Recording Academy David Sanjek Choquette, Frederic, The Returned Value of PROs, Music Business Journal, Berklee College of Music, May 2011
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GLAAD Media Award
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In addition to film and television, the Awards also recognize achievements in other branches of the media and arts, including theatre, music, journalism and advertising. Results are then certified by a Review Panel who determine the final list of recipients based on voting results, the 1st GLAAD Media Awards ceremony honoring the 1989 season was held in 1990, and recognized 34 nominees in 7 competitive categories. The 1st Annual Awards ceremony recognized 34 nominees in 7 competitive categories and was a small affair. Twenty years ago when I proudly accepted the first GLAAD Media Award…it was a small crowd. There are more photographers here tonight than there were people then, for the first six years, winners were announced prior to the ceremony. Beginning with the 7th Annual Awards held in 1996, the change was made to its current format, the 15th Annual Awards held in 2004 marked the first year nominations were expanded to recognize media in Spanish-language categories. The 16th Annual Awards held in 2005 marked the first year that the ceremonies were televised, the original GLAAD Media Award stood approximately 6-inches tall, consisting of a flat, 5-inch square shaped crystal sculpture with a design of five concentric circles on a newsprint background. The sculpture was traditionally etched with the year it was presented followed by the words GLAAD Media Award and was mounted perpendicular to its flat, quadrant shaped base. The award remained unchanged until 2009, when an all new statuette designed by David Moritz of Society Awards was unveiled for the 20th annual GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies. Nominees are selected by GLAAD Nominating Juries consisting of over 90 volunteers with interest, Nominating Juries may select up to five nominees in each category. If no projects are deemed worthy of nomination in a particular category, at the end of the year, the Nominating Juries submit their list of recommended nominees to GLAADs staff and Board of Directors for approval. GLAAD does not monitor media created by and for the LGBT community for defamation, therefore media outlets created by, over 600 GLAAD Media Award voters participate in the selection of Honorees from the pool of Nominees in each category via online balloting. Voters are made up of three groups, GLAAD staff and board, GLAAD Alliance and Media Circle members, and GLAAD volunteers & allies. These results are reviewed for certification by a Review Panel which consists of the GLAAD Board co-chairs, senior GLAAD program and communications staff. The first Annual Awards recognized Honorees in just 7 competitive categories, while many of the categories have been expanded over time, several early categories have been merged or phased out altogether. One notable example being the omission of the Outstanding Daytime Drama category in 2011, the most notable of these Special Honorary Awards are, Advocate for Change Award – Presented at the Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards in 2013. Its inaugural recipient was former U. S. Davidson/Valentini Award – Presented annually at the San Francisco GLAAD Media Awards and it is named in memory of Craig Davidson, GLAADs first executive director, and his partner Michael Valentini, a GLAAD supporter. It is presented to an openly LGBT individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for the LGBT community, excellence in Media Award – Presented annually at the New York GLAAD Media Awards
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Golden Raspberry Awards
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The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to Razzies and Razzie Awards, is an award in recognition of the worst in film. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, the awards themselves are in the form of a golf ball-sized raspberry which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray painted gold. The first Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony was held on March 31,1981, wilsons living-room alcove in Los Angeles, to honor the worst in film of the 1980 film season. The 37th ceremony was held on February 25,2017, american publicist John J. B. Wilson traditionally held potluck parties at his house in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards. In 1981, after the 53rd Academy Awards had completed for the evening, Wilson decided to formalize the event, after watching a double feature of Cant Stop the Music and Xanadu. He gave them ballots to vote on worst in film, approximately three dozen people came to the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards. The 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards had double the attendance as the first, by the 4th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony, CNN and two major wire services covered the event. The term raspberry is used in its irreverent sense, as in blowing a raspberry, Wilson commented to the author of Blame It on the Dog, When I registered the term with the Library of Congress in 1980, they asked me, Why raspberry. But since then, razz has pretty much permeated the culture and we couldnt have done it without Hollywoods help. Wilson is referred to as Ye Olde Head Razzberry, paying members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation vote to determine the recipients. For the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards in 2009, award results were based on votes from approximately 650 journalists, cinema fans, voters hailed from 45 states in the United States and 19 other countries. The ceremony, typically one day before the Academy Awards, is modeled after the latter but deliberately low-end. Most winners do not attend the ceremony to collect their awards, notable exceptions include Tom Green, Halle Berry and Sandra Bullock, Michael Ferris, J. D. Shapiro, and Paul Verhoeven. Three people won both the Razzies and Oscars the same weekend, Alan Menken in 1993, Brian Helgeland in 1998, two actors had performances in the same movie scoring Oscar and Razzie nominations, James Coco and Amy Irving. Neil Diamond, winner of the inaugural Worst Actor Razzie for 1980s The Jazz Singer, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the same role, wall Street is the only film to date to win both an Oscar and a Razzie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, however Daryl Hannahs performance was not as well received and earned her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress, special prizes for the 25th anniversary of the Razzies awards were also given out in 2005. This is an award given by Razzie Award Governor John J. B. Wilson to an individual whose achievements are not covered by the Razzies other categories. It was awarded in 2003 to Travis Payne for Distinguished Under-Achievement in Choreography in the film From Justin to Kelly and this award is given to a critical and financial failure that wouldve been nominated if it had received an eligible release
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Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
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The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, also known as the KCAs or Kids Choice Awards, is an annual awards show that airs on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Usually held on a Saturday night in late March or early April, the show that honors the years biggest television, movie, winners receive a hollow orange blimp figurine, a logo outline for much of the networks 1984–2009 era, which also functions as a kaleidoscope. The show features celebrity guests and musical acts. In recent years, slime stunts have been incorporated into the show, the KCAs also host live entertainment. It has also known to overwhelmingly cover people with the networks trademark green slime. The series SpongeBob SquarePants has won the most KCA awards, with fourteen overall through the series run, individually, Selena Gomez and Will Smith have both won the most trophies with ten, followed by, Miley Cyrus and Amanda Bynes. Whoopi Goldberg is the person to have won a Kids Choice Award, along with the mainstream EGOT combination of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar. Rosie ODonnell and Jack Black have hosted the show the most times, alan Goodman, Albie Hecht, and Fred Seibert created the awards show after Nickelodeon produced a show called The Big Ballot in 1987, named for the ballots kids voted with. To vote, the viewers would send in ballots and then before the show, the ballots would be counted, Goodman, Hecht, and Seibert felt that the network needed a bigger, more exciting platform. Hecht selected the awards logo from a series of network designs created by original logo designers Tom Corey and Scott Nash, overseen by Goodman, the award was configured into the current blimp shape/kaleidoscope in 1990. The only change to the award since that time has been to change the embossed logotype on the side of the trophy for 2010 to fit the new logo typeface. In 2010, an application and mobile browser voting was also added. The 2009 Kids Choice Awards featured a new award called The Big Green Help Award which goes to the celebrity who goes above, the inaugural award was presented to Leonardo DiCaprio. For the 2010 awards, the The Big Green Help award was renamed The Big Help award, unlike traditional awards shows, the Kids Choice Awards uses other items to announce an award winner rather than a traditional envelope. The show sometimes uses balloons, T-shirts, models, giant letters, stickers. voting for Canadians became available for the 2010 ceremony with the inauguration of Nickelodeons Canadian service in November 2009. In June 2010, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Mexico, the Australian Kids Choice Awards had its last one in 2012. In August 2011, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Argentina, in June 2014, Nickelodeon Latin America announced a Kids Choice Awards for Colombia. In July 2014, Nickelodeon presented the Kids Choice Sports awards, honoring kids favorite athletes, teams, michael Strahan produced and hosted the ceremony
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People's Choice Awards
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The Peoples Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing the people and the work of popular culture, voted on by the general public. The show has been held annually since 1975, the Peoples Choice Awards is broadcast on CBS and is produced by Procter & Gamble and Mark Burnett. In Canada, it is shown on Global, the award shows creator was Bob Stivers, who produced the first show in 1975. The first awards recognized The Sting as Favorite Picture of 1974, Barbra Streisand as the years Favorite Film Actress, ratings for the annual event peaked in 1977, when the third Peoples Choice Awards attracted 35. Procter & Gamble, the only sponsor, bought the show from Stivers in 1982. Apart from the local advertising and network promotional time, all advertising during the awards show is solely by P&G brands. The award categories have varied over the years, for example, the 16th Peoples Choice Awards had categories including Favorite All-Around Movie, and both a Favorite Movie Actor and a World Favorite Movie Actor. At the 23rd Peoples Choice Awards, Rob Reiner was named the Peoples Choice Awards Honoree, in 2008, the Peoples Choice Awards introduced a new category, Favorite Sci-Fi Show. The nominees were Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, Stargate Atlantis was the first recipient of the award. In the 20th century, the awards were based on results from Gallup polls, each year, Gallup took a survey of different categories for favorite actor, actress, movie, artist, television program or group. The scope was unlimited—the public could choose whomever or whatever it liked, the results of the annual survey were announced in the form of the Peoples Choice Awards. Since polls have margins of error, many awards have had ties in at least one category. For instance, in 2003, both Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring were recognized as Favorite Motion Picture, the winners of the 31st Peoples Choice Awards were decided by online voting rather than Gallup polls. The nominees submitted for Internet voting were selected using a process involving editors at Entertainment Weekly, the shows production team. After being presented with a list of candidates determined by national ratings averages, box office grosses and album sales, the nominees for the 2010 Peoples Choice Awards were determined by the media research company Visible Measures, which specializes in measuring Internet video audience behavior. To measure True Reach, Visible Measures deploys a robust and patented set of technologies with the goal of capturing the universe of Internet video viewership data in near real-time, the first ceremony in 1975 had 14 categories. From Entertainment Weekly A 35th Anniversary article from The Hollywood Reporter
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Young Artist Awards
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The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/1979 season. The 38th Annual Young Artist Awards ceremony, honoring young performers of 2016, was held at the Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, the scholarship program is funded exclusively by donations including contribution from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Young Artist Awards are presented annually by the Young Artist Association, originally known as the Youth In Film Awards for the first twenty years, the name was officially changed to the Young Artist Awards for the 21st annual awards ceremony in March 2000. Originally held in the autumn in its years, the awards ceremony has traditionally taken place in the spring for more than 20 years. The original Youth In Film Award was a statuette was similar to a miniature Oscar, a gilded figure of a man holding a laurel wreath instead of a sword and standing upon a relatively large trophy style base. The current Young Artist Award statuette, is a figure displaying a Five-pointed star above its head, candidates considered for nomination must be between the ages of 5 and 21 and are usually submitted for consideration by producers or by the young artists agent and/or manager. Submissions are traditionally due by the end of January to mid-February and nominees are announced about one month later at an annual nomination ceremony, winners are selected by members of the Young Artist Association. Today, the Young Artist Association has a board of over 125 members composed of journalists, agents. Winners are selected by ballot of all associated with the Young Artist Association as well as former nominees. The various Young Artist Awards categories have evolved extensively since the first awards were presented, after the ceremony is the annual banquet dinner and then dancing with live musical entertainment often provided by talented young musical artists of the day. The first Youth In Film Awards were presented in October 1979 at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood. Subsequent venues over the years have included the Ambassador Hotels Coconut Grove, the Globe Theater, the Beverly Garland Hotel and the Sportsmens Lodge
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Soundtrack
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In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the composite track. A dubbing track is later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as a M & E track containing all sound elements minus dialogue which is supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its territory. The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with the advent of so-called soundtrack albums in the late 1940s and these phrases were soon shortened to just original motion picture soundtrack. More accurately, such recordings are made from a music track, because they usually consist of the isolated music from a film, not the composite track with dialogue. The soundtrack to the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first commercially issued film soundtrack. It was released by RCA Victor Records on multiple 78 RPM discs in January 1938 as Songs from Walt Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and has since seen numerous expansions and reissues. The first live-action musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM’s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, the album was originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. Only eight selections from the film were included in this first edition of the album, in order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original, the playback recordings were purposely recorded very dry, otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theatres. This made these albums sound flat and boxy, the phrase is also sometimes incorrectly used for Broadway cast recordings. While it is correct in some instances to call a soundtrack a cast recording it is never correct to call a cast recording a soundtrack, contributing to the vagueness of the term are projects such as The Sound of Music Live. Which was filmed live on the set for an NBC holiday season special first broadcast in 2013, film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era, although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums. Like the 1967 re-release of the film, this version of the score was artificially enhanced for stereo, in recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound. One of the film scores of all time was John Williams music from the movie Star Wars. Many film score albums go out-of-print after the films finish their theatrical runs, in a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records. The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the films musical score
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Sweet Child o' Mine
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Sweet Child o Mine is a song by the American rock band Guns N Roses, featured on their debut album, Appetite for Destruction. It reached number six on the UK Singles Chart, when re-released in 1989, lead guitarist Slash has been quoted as having an initial disdain for the song due to its roots as simply a string skipping exercise and a joke at the time. During a jam session at the house in the Sunset Strip, drummer Steven Adler and Slash were warming up. Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin asked Slash to play it again, Stradlin came up with some chords, Duff McKagan created a bassline and Adler planned a beat. In his autobiography, Slash said within an hour my guitar exercise had become something else, meanwhile, lead singer Axl Rose was listening to the musicians upstairs in his room and was inspired to write lyrics, which became complete by the following afternoon. He based it on his girlfriend Erin Everly, and declared that Lynyrd Skynyrd served as an inspiration to make sure that wed got that heartfelt feeling, on the next composing session in Burbank, the band added both a bridge and a guitar solo. While the band was recording demos with producer Spencer Proffer, he suggested adding a breakdown at the songs end, the musicians agreed, but were not sure what to do. Listening to the demo in a loop, Rose started saying to himself, and Proffer suggested that he sing that. The Sweet Child o Mine video depicts the band rehearsing in the Huntington Ballroom at Huntington Beach, All of the band members girlfriends at the time were shown in the clip. Rose was dating Erin Everly at the time, whose father is Don Everly of The Everly Brothers fame, mcKagans girlfriend Mandy from the all-female rock band The Lame Flames was there, as was Adlers girlfriend Cheryl and Slashs girlfriend Sally. The video was successful on MTV, and helped launch the song to success on mainstream radio. In an effort to make Sweet Child o Mine more marketable to MTV and radio stations and this move drew the ire of the band members, including Rose, who commented on it in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone, I hate the edit of Sweet Child O Mine. Radio stations said, Well, your vocals arent cut and my favorite part of the song is Slashs slow solo, its the heaviest part for me. Theres no reason for it to be missing except to create space for commercials. When you get the chopped version of Paradise City or half of Sweet Child and Patience cut, the video uses the same edits as the radio version with the exception of Slashs solo, which is fully intact. A 7-inch vinyl format and cassette single were released, the album version of the song was included on the US single release, while the UK single was the edit/remix version. The 12 vinyl format also contained the longer LP version, the b-side to the single is a non-album, live version of Its So Easy. On an interview on Eddie Trunks New York radio show in May 2006, according to Rose, the video was to depict an Asian woman carrying a baby into a foreign land, only to discover at the end that the child was dead and filled with heroin
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Sheryl Crow
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Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of pop, rock, folk, country and she has released eight studio albums, two compilations, a live album and has contributed to a number of film soundtracks. She has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, Crow has garnered nine Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. B. King, George Strait, Tony Bennett, Kid Rock and Sting, among others and she has also performed backing vocals for Tina Turner, Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, Belinda Carlisle, Bob Dylan and Joe Cocker. Sheryl Suzanne Crow was born in Kennett, Missouri, the daughter of Bernice, a teacher, and Wendell Wyatt Crow. Her great-grandfather was congressman Charles A. Crow and she has two older sisters named Kathy and Karen and a younger brother named Steven. While studying at Kennett High School, Crow was a majorette and she also joined the pep club, the National Honor Society, and the National FFA Organization, and was crowned Paperdoll Queen in a celebrity-judged beauty contest during her senior year. She then enrolled at the University of Missouri in Columbia and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in composition, performance. While at the university, she sang in the local band Cashmere, Crow was later awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Missouri and Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Crow has stated that her musical inspirations are not restricted to one genre—she likes anything with a drum beat, in 2008, she told Ellen DeGeneres that If it didnt have a drum beat, you can just forget about it. After graduating from the University of Missouri, Crow worked as a teacher at the Kellison elementary school in Fenton. Teaching during the day gave her the opportunity to sing in bands on the weekends and she was later introduced to local musician and record producer Jay Oliver. He had a studio in the basement of his parents home in St. Louis. Her first jingle was a back to school spot for the St Louis department store Famous-Barr, soon after she created commercial jingles for McDonalds and Toyota. She was quoted in a 60 Minutes segment as saying she made $40,000 on her McDonalds ad alone, Crow toured with Michael Jackson as a backing vocalist during his Bad World Tour 1987–89 and often performed with Jackson on I Just Cant Stop Loving You. She also recorded vocals for performances for a number of established artists such as Stevie Wonder, Belinda Carlisle. Crow also sang in the short-lived Steven Bochco drama Cop Rock in 1990 and that same year, her song Heal Somebody appeared in the film Bright Angel. In 1992, Crow recorded her first attempt at an album with Phil Collins record producer Hugh Padgham
