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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town
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Impeachment of Bill Clinton
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Clinton was subsequently acquitted of these charges by the Senate on February 12,1999. Two other impeachment articles – a second charge and a charge of abuse of power – failed in the House. The Independent Counsel, Ken Starr, turned over documentation to the House Judiciary Committee, the Chief Prosecutor, David Schippers, and his team reviewed the material and determined there was sufficient evidence to impeach the president. The trial in the United States Senate began right after the seating of the 106th Congress, a two-thirds vote was required to remove Clinton from office. Fifty senators voted to remove Clinton on the obstruction of justice charge and 45 voted to him on the perjury charge. Clinton, like Johnson a century earlier, was acquitted on all charges, the charges arose from an investigation by Ken Starr, the Independent Counsel. In the course of the investigation, Linda Tripp provided Starr with taped phone conversations in which Monica Lewinsky, at the deposition, the judge rejected the plaintiffs lawyers definition of the term sexual relations that Clinton claims to have construed to mean only vaginal intercourse. Judge Wright then told the attorneys they could be as explicit as necessary in asking their questions, a much-quoted statement from Clintons grand jury testimony showed him questioning the precise use of the word is. If the—if he—if is means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing, if it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. Starr obtained further evidence of behavior by seizing the computer hard drive. Based on the conflicting testimony, Starr concluded that Clinton had committed perjury. Starr submitted his findings to Congress in a document, and simultaneously posted the report on the internet. Starr was criticized by Democrats for spending $70 million on an investigation that substantiated only perjury, after rumors of the scandal reached the news, Clinton publicly stated, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. In his Paula Jones deposition, he swore, I have never had relations with Monica Lewinsky. Ive never had an affair with her, months later, Clinton admitted that his relationship with Lewinsky was wrong and not appropriate. Lewinsky engaged in sex with Clinton several times. Nevertheless, impeachment was one of the issues in the election. In November 1998, the Democrats picked up five seats in the House, impeachment proceedings were initiated during the post-election, lame duck session of the outgoing 105th United States Congress
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George Carlin
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George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author. Carlin was noted for his comedy and thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians, in 2004, Carlin was placed second on the Comedy Central list of Top 10 Comedians of US Audiences compiled for an April 2004 special. The first of his 14 stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977, from the late 1980s, Carlins routines focused on sociocultural criticism of American society. He often commented on political issues in the United States. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era and his final HBO special, Its Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death. In 2008, he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him second on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, Carlin was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City. He was the son of The Suns advertising manager Patrick John Carlin, an immigrant from County Donegal in Ireland, and secretary Mary Carlin. While he came from a Catholic family, Carlin rejected religion and his parents separated when he was 2 months old because of his fathers alcoholism. Mary subsequently raised George and his brother, Patrick Jr. on her own. His maternal grandfather, Dennis Bearey, was an Irish immigrant who worked as a New York City policeman, One immigrant grandmothers maiden name once was OGrady, he recalled, but it changed to Grady before she reached America. Theyd dropped the O in the ocean on the way here and he would later name his character OGrady on The George Carlin Show as an act of homage. Carlin said that he picked up an appreciation for the use of the English language from his mother, with whom he had a difficult relationship. He grew up on West 121st Street, in a neighborhood of Manhattan he said he and his friends called White Harlem and he attended Corpus Christi School, a Roman Catholic parish school of the Corpus Christi Church, in Morningside Heights. After three semesters, Carlin was thrown out of Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx at age 15 and he briefly attended Bishop Dubois High School in Harlem and the Salesian High School in Goshen, New York. He spent many summers at Camp Notre Dame on Spofford Lake in Spofford and he regularly won the camps drama award, and specified that after his death a portion of his ashes be spread at the lake. Carlin joined the United States Air Force when he was old enough and he was stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana
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The Simpsons (season 6)
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The Simpsons sixth season originally aired on the Fox network between September 4,1994, and May 21,1995, and consists of 25 episodes. The Simpsons is a series about a working class family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the city of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society, television. The showrunner for the production season was David Mirkin who executive-produced 23 episodes. Former showrunners Al Jean and Mike Reiss produced the two, they produced the two episodes with the staff of The Critic, the show they left The Simpsons to create. This was done in order to some of the stress The Simpsons writing staff endured. Fox moved The Simpsons back to its original Sunday night time and it has remained in this slot ever since. The sixth season won one Primetime Emmy Award, and received three additional nominations and it also won the Annie Award for Best Animated Television Production. The Complete Sixth Season DVD was released in the United States on August 16,2005, September 28,2005, in Australia, the set featured a plastic clam-shell Homer-head design and received many complaints. David Mirkin served as showrunner and executive producer for season six, steven Dean Moore and Swinton O. Scott III received their first directing credit. Other credited writers included Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath, Bill Oakley, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, other directors included Bob Anderson, Wes Archer, Susie Dietter, Mark Kirkland, Jeffrey Lynch, Jim Reardon and David Silverman. The main cast consisted of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, other cast members included Doris Grau, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor and Marcia Wallace. Guest stars included Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Kelsey Grammer, Phil Hartman, Larry King, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Stewart, Meryl Streep and Winona Ryder. The seasons first two episodes, Bart of Darkness and Lisas Rival, were held over from the previous season, the season finale Who Shot Mr. Burns. Came from Groening, who had wanted to do an episode in which Mr. Burns was shot, the writers decided to write the episode in two parts with a mystery that could be used in a contest. It was important for them to design a mystery that had clues, took advantage of freeze frame technology, during the production of the season, Groening and Brooks pitched a live-action spin-off series centered in Krusty the Clown entitled Krusty. Groening and Michael Weithorn wrote an episode where Krusty moved to Los Angeles. A recurring joke throughout the script was that Krusty lived in a house on stilts which were continuously being gnawed by beavers
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Matt Groening
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Matthew Abram Matt Groening is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell, the Simpsons has gone on to become the longest-running U. S. primetime-television series in history, as well as the longest-running animated series and sitcom. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978, at its peak, the cartoon was carried in 250 weekly newspapers. Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. Brooks, in 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his Life in Hell characters for the show, the shorts would be spun off into their own series The Simpsons, which has since aired 615 episodes. Groening has won 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons, in 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on Life in Hell. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14,2012, Groening was born on February 15,1954 in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children. His Norwegian American mother, Margaret Ruth, was once a teacher, Homer, born in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada, grew up in a Mennonite, Plautdietsch-speaking family. Matts grandfather, Abram Groening, was a professor at Tabor College, Groening grew up in Portland, and attended Ainsworth Elementary School and Lincoln High School. He served as the editor of the newspaper, The Cooper Point Journal, for which he also wrote articles. He befriended fellow cartoonist Lynda Barry after discovering that she had written a fan letter to Joseph Heller, one of Groenings favorite authors, Groening has credited Barry with being probably biggest inspiration. He first became interested in cartoons after watching the Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, in 1977, at the age of 23, Groening moved to Los Angeles to become a writer. Groening distributed the book in the book corner of Licorice Pizza. He made his first professional sale to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The strip, titled Forbidden Words, appeared in the September/October issue of that year, Groening had gained employment at the Los Angeles Reader, a newly formed alternative newspaper, delivering papers, typesetting, editing and answering phones. He showed his cartoons to the editor, James Vowell, who was impressed, Life in Hell made its official debut as a comic strip in the Reader on April 25,1980. Vowell also gave Groening his own weekly column, Sound Mix. However, the column would rarely actually be about music, as he would write about his various enthusiasms, obsessions, pet peeves
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Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
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Sunday, Cruddy Sunday is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 31,1999, just after Super Bowl XXXIII, in the episode, while buying new tires for his car, Homer meets a travel agent called Wally Kogen. After becoming friends, Kogen offers Homer a free bus ride to the Super Bowl, several people, including Bart, tag along what soon becomes a problematic trip. Meanwhile, Marge and Lisa set out to find the parts of Vincent Prices Egg Magic. Sunday, Cruddy Sunday was directed by Steven Dean Moore and written by George Meyer, Brian Scully, Mike Scully and Tom Martin, Mike Scully jokingly said that the episode was thrown together without thought or structure by the writers. For the subplot, the tried to come up with the most boring thing Lisa. All guest-stars played themselves, except for Willard who portrayed Kogen, the episode pokes fun at folk singer Burl Ives, former United States president Bill Clinton as well as the series fans, among other things. The episode was released on video for the first time in 2004, and in 2007. Following its broadcast, the episode received positive reviews from critics. After its original broadcast, however, a scene in the episode involving a fictitious, in September the same year, when the episode was supposed to repeat, the Catholic League asked Fox if they could censor the scene, which the network agreed to. The networks decision was criticized by journalists and staff members, the censored version of the episode is still in syndication. When Bart, Lisa and the students of Springfield Elementary go on a trip to the post office, Bart gets a coupon book as a souvenir. Homer uses one of his coupons at a business on a free wheel balancing. While waiting for the new tires, Homer meets Wally Kogen and they go to Moes and watch a special on the Super Bowl on TV. Wally says his agency has a bus going to the game and suggests to Homer that he can fill the bus. Moe agrees to come as do other prominent men of Springfield, Homer, Bart and the group arrive at Miamis Pro Player Stadium for pre-game festivities, but the ticket agent reveals the tickets Wally had bought were counterfeit. Attempting to sneak into the stadium, the group is locked up in the detention center and they are freed when Kogens friend Dolly Parton uses her extra-strength makeup remover to dissolve the lock on the door. They run into a suite and get a view of the game until the owner Rupert Murdoch arrives
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Simpsons Bible Stories
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Simpsons Bible Stories is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on Easter Sunday and it is the first of The Simpsons now annual trilogy episodes, and consists of four self-contained segments. In the episode, the Simpson family fall asleep during a sermon in church, Simpsons Bible Stories was written by Matt Selman, Larry Doyle and Tim Long, and was the first episode Nancy Kruse directed for The Simpsons. Because the episode takes place outside Springfield, the animators had to design completely new sets. While the episode features references to the Old Testament and Christianity, it also parodies childrens television programs, American politicians. In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 12.2 million viewers, following its broadcast, the episode received mixed reviews from critics, but won an Annie award in the category of Best Animated Television Production. The episodes ending scene is one of series creator Matt Groenings favorite moments on The Simpsons, the episode has been credited with fostering a critical literacy towards religion and the Bible among its viewers. It is an unseasonably hot Easter at church, and no one is interested in Reverend Lovejoys sermons, Marge dreams that she and Homer are Adam and Eve. They peacefully live in the Garden of Eden until a snake tempts Adam into eating dozens of apples from the forbidden tree and he persuades Eve to try one when God witnesses his sin. Even though Adam ate many apples, God only caught Eve eating an apple, Adam is unwilling to come clean, but misses Eve and thinks of a way of getting her back in by digging a tunnel with the help of some of the animals. Gods unicorn, named Gary, becomes exhausted from the digging, the death of the unicorn enrages him further, and he expels them both from the Garden of Eden. Lisa imagines she and all the other Springfield Elementary students are Hebrews in ancient Egypt, only Moses can liberate the Hebrews. When Bart defaces the Pharaohs sarcophagus, supposedly incited by the burning bush, Lisa helps Milhouse produce plagues to scare the Pharaoh into freeing the Israelites, they fail. This in turn gets Lisa and Milhouse thrown in a Pyramid prison, when they escape, Milhouse gathers all the students and they attempt to leave. When they reach the sea, Lisa has an idea to get across, as they cross, the Pharaoh and his guards follow, but the water fills the sea back up and swallows them. They enjoy splashing each other, and then return to the shore, pleased that they have escaped, Milhouse asks Lisa what the future holds for the Israelites, but Lisa disappoints Milhouse when she says that they have to wander the desert for forty years. Milhouse then asks if it is going to be sailing for the Jews after that. Rather than disappoint Milhouse again with news of the ongoing anti-Semitism that will plague the Jews for many centuries, Homer pictures himself as King Solomon
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Mike Scully
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Michael Mike Scully is an American television writer and producer. He is known for his work as producer and showrunner of the animated sitcom The Simpsons from 1997 to 2001. Scully grew up in West Springfield, Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing and he was an underachiever at school and dropped out of college, going on to work in a series of jobs. Eventually, in 1986, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a stand-up comic, Scully went on to write for several television sitcoms before 1993, when he was hired to write for The Simpsons. There, he wrote episodes, including Lisa on Ice and Team Homer. Scully won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the series, with publications praising his episodes. Scully still works on the show and also co-wrote 2007s The Simpsons Movie, more recently, Scully co-created The Pitts and Complete Savages as well as working on Everybody Loves Raymond and Parks and Recreation. He co-developed the short-lived animated television version of Napoleon Dynamite, Scully is married to fellow writer Julie Thacker. Scully was born October 2,1956 at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts, as a child he hoped to be a musician or a hockey player. At Main Street Elementary School, with the encouragement of his teacher James Doyle and he took up work in the clothing department at Steigers department store, as a janitor at the Baystate Medical Center and also as a driving instructor. He commented, I think if I had actually succeeded at college and gotten a degree in accounting or something, having no marketable job skills was a tremendous incentive to keep trying to succeed as a writer. Regardless, he moved to Los Angeles, California in 1982, in California, Scully worked in a tuxedo store. He also got a job writing jokes for comedian Yakov Smirnoff and he purchased scripts from a variety of half-hour comedy shows, including Taxi, to train himself to write them and had numerous speculative scripts rejected. He started bouncing around Hollywood working on some of the lousiest sitcoms in history and he served on the writing staff of The Royal Family, Out of This World, Top of the Heap and What a Country. Where he did audience warm-up, a role he performed on Grand. In 1993, David Mirkin hired Scully to write for The Simpsons, as a replacement for the departing Conan OBrien, after reading some of his sample scripts. He began as a writer and producer for the show during its season and wrote the episodes Lisas Rival, Two Dozen and One Greyhounds. Lisas Rival was his first episode, he wrote the script, similarly, he wrote the script for Two Dozen and One Greyhounds, which was based on an idea by Al Jean and Mike Reiss
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George Meyer
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George A. Meyer is an American producer and writer. Meyer is best known for his work on The Simpsons, where he led the group script rewrite sessions and he has been publicly credited with thoroughly shap. the comedic sensibility of the show. Raised in Tucson, Meyer attended Harvard University, there, after becoming president of the Harvard Lampoon, he graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry. Abandoning plans to attend school, Meyer attempted to make money through dog racing. Meyer left after two seasons and went on to write for The New Show, Not Necessarily the News, tired of life in New York, Meyer moved to Boulder, Colorado where he wrote a screenplay for a film for Letterman to star in. The project fell through and Meyer then founded the humor zine Army Man which garnered a strong following, the producer Sam Simon was a fan and he hired Meyer to write for the animated sitcom The Simpsons in 1989. He has held a number of positions on the show and also cowrote The Simpsons Movie, Meyer is in a relationship with the writer Maria Semple and the two have a daughter. Born in Pennsylvania, United States in 1956, Meyer grew up in Tucson and he is the eldest of eight children in a Roman Catholic family of German ancestry. His parents both worked in the estate business. Due to its size, family activities were limited so Meyer watched lots of television and he was an Eagle Scout and an altar boy and wrote for the student newspaper. He grew up hoping to one day become either a priest or ballplayer and he was disinterested in television, only finding humor in Get Smart and Batman, where he appreciated its loopy, irreverent humor. Meyer attended Harvard University where he served as president of the Harvard Lampoon, the fact that people took humor very seriously at the Lampoon changed life. In 1977, he and several other Lampoon staffers wrote The Harvard Lampoon Big Book of College Life, aside from the Lampoon, his grades at Harvard were average and he suffered several bouts of depression. He graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry and was accepted into medical school, Meyer commented on his Roman Catholic upbringing in a 2000 New Yorker profile, People talk about how horrible it is to be brought up Catholic, and its all true. The main thing was there was no sense of proportion. I would chew a piece of gum at school, and the nun would say, Jesus is very angry with you about that, thats a horrifying image to throw at a little kid. You really could almost think that your talking in line, say, was on a par with killing Jesus, after college, Meyer moved to Denver, Colorado, planning to scientifically win a fortune through dog racing. However, he ran out of money after two weeks and he then worked in a variety of jobs including as a substitute teacher, and a salesman in a clothing store, and also won $2,000 on the game show Jeopardy
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Martin Mull
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Martin Eugene Mull is an American actor, comedian and singer who has appeared in many television and film roles. He is also a painter and a recording artist, as an actor, he first became known in his role on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spin-off Fernwood 2 Night. Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Betty, an actress and director, and Harold Mull and he moved with his family to North Ridgeville, Ohio, when he was two years old. They stayed there until he was 15 years old, when his family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut and he studied painting and went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in painting. Mulls first well known acting role was as Garth Gimble in the 1976 television nighttime absurdist soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. This led to work in the comedy talk shows Fernwood 2 Night and America 2-Night, in which he played talk show host Barth Gimble, opposite Fred Willard. In 1979, he appeared in the Taxi episode Hollywood Calling, Mull created, wrote for and starred in the short-lived 1984 CBS sitcom Domestic Life, with Megan Follows playing his teenaged daughter. In one episode of The Golden Girls, he played a hippie who was afraid of the outside world and he had a long-running role as Leon Carp, Roseanne Conners gay boss on the TV series Roseanne. During the 1980s, Mull starred in a series of commercials for Michelob and Pizza Hut and he appeared in the Pecos Bill episode of the Shelley Duvall TV series Tall Tales & Legends. Mull voiced the role of The Evil Cad on the 1995–97 animated series Freakazoid and he also did the voice of Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius, the main villain in Danny Phantom. Mull has appeared as a guest star on the game show Hollywood Squares, appearing as the square in the shows final season. In late 2004 and in 2013s Netflix-produced Season 4, he portrayed Gene Parmesan, during 2008 and 2009, Mull guest starred in two episodes of the television series Gary Unmarried as Allisons father. Mull also starred in the Fox sitcom, Dads, Mull broke into show business as a songwriter, penning Jane Morgans 1970 country single A Girl Named Johnny Cash, which peaked at #61 on Billboards country charts. Shortly thereafter, he began his own recording career, throughout the 1970s, and especially in the first half of the decade, Mull was best known as a musical comedian, performing satirical and humorous songs both live and in-studio recordings. His self-titled debut Album, released by Capricorn in 1972, featured many musicians, including Ramblin Jack Elliott, Levon Helm from The Band, Keith Spring of NRBQ. Elvis Costello and Gary Sperrazza attribute the phrase, Writing about music is like dancing about architecture to Martin Mull. Mull has been a painter since the 1970s, and has had his work appear in group and solo exhibits since that time. He participated in the June 15,1971 exhibit Flush with the Walls in the room of the Boston Museum of Art to protest the lack of contemporary
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Yo La Tengo
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Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, in 2015, original guitarist Dave Schramm rejoined the band and appears on their fourteenth album, Stuff Like That There. Despite achieving limited success, Yo La Tengo has been called the quintessential critics band. Though they mostly play original material, Yo La Tengo is renowned for its repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record. Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley formed the band as a duo in 1984. They chose the name Yo La Tengo in an effort to avoid any connotations in English, the name came from a baseball anecdote. During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn, when Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, I got it. Only to run into Chacón, who spoke only Spanish, Ashburn learned to yell, ¡Yo la tengo. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off, as a way to avoid outfield collisions. After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, What the hell is a Yellow Tango and they placed an advertisement to recruit other musicians who shared their love for bands such as The Soft Boys, Mission of Burma, and Arthur Lees Love. In 1986, Yo La Tengo released their first LP, Ride the Tiger on Coyote Records. Produced by former Mission of Burma bassist Clint Conley who also took over duties on three songs, the album marked Yo La Tengo as a band with real potential according to reviewer Mark Deming. Schramm and Lewis left the band after the release, with Kaplan subsequently taking on the role of lead guitar. The groups next album New Wave Hot Dogs sold poorly, produced by Gene Holder of The dBs, the album was the bands last release on Coyote. Despite the positive reception of the album, sales were still poor, Hubley and Kaplan carried on as a duo and began playing two-electric-guitar shows. Kaplan, though typically a pragmatist, started carrying a bug trapped in amber in his pocket for luck, again produced by Gene Holder, the albums folk sound was a change of pace for the band. Years later, Kaplan recalled that the album was just me and Georgia looking for an excuse to record with Dave Schramm and Al Greller who played guitar and double bass on the album, respectively. In 1991, with Dave Schramm in tow, Yo La Tengo collaborated with Daniel Johnston on the song Speeding Motorcycle which was released as a single
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The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
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The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace is the second episode of the tenth season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 20,1998, the idea behind The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace came from Dan Greaney, who assigned John Swartzwelder to write the episode. William Daniels made a guest appearance in the episode as the character KITT from the television series Knight Rider, in general, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace received positive reviews from television critics, with many singling it out as a strong beginning to a season. Homer becomes depressed after learning he has lived past the point of the average life expectancy for men without accomplishing anything worthwhile. His family tries to him up by showing him a film of his accomplishments. When the film projector stops working, Lisa mentions that Thomas Edison invented the projector, Homer decides to learn more about Edison and eventually idolizes him. In an attempt to follow his footsteps, he quits his job at the plant to become an inventor. However, they like one particular invention, a chair with two hinged legs on the back, making it impossible to tip over backwards, Homer is encouraged until he notices his poster of Edison shows him sitting in the same type of chair. Bart points out that the chair is not featured on a list of Edisons inventions, feeling a renewed connection to Edison, he decides not to destroy the chair. Homer and Bart return to Springfield, unaware they left Homers electric hammer at the museum, the Wizard of Evergreen Terrace was written by John Swartzwelder, who had a deal with the producers of the show to write five scripts for season ten. Although he was the one who wrote the episode, Dan Greaney was the one who came up with the idea for it. Greaney based Homers intense obsession with Edison on the fact that when he himself would have an obsession with something in life, he would badger and bore people with details of it. The untippable chair was also an idea of Greaneys, while working on the episode, he was leaning back in his chair and fell backwards. He casually said it would be if there were legs on the back of the chair. Soon after coming up with the story, Greaney told it to Swartzwelder so that he could turn it into a script, Greaney said it couldnt in my best dreams have turned out as good as it did if I had written it. Mark Kirkland was the director of The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace and he recalls that when he attended the table-read for the episode, the staff thought it was hilarious and they could tell it was going to be a good one. It was decided that The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace would be the episode of season ten. As a result, the premiere party was held at the Museum of Science
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