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Flat Creek Township, Barry County, Missouri
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Flat Creek Township is one of twenty-five townships in Barry County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 5,462, Flat Creek was organized in 1844, taking its name from Flat Creek. Flat Creek Township covers an area of 53.31 square miles and contains one incorporated settlement and it contains six cemeteries, Corinth, Horner, Oak Hill, Pilant, Quaker and Russell. Flat Creek Township contains one airport or landing strip, Cassville Municipal Airport, USGS Geographic Names Information System US-Counties. com City-Data. com
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Melanie Griffith
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Melanie Richards Griffith is an American actress. Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penns Night Moves. She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palmas Body Double, other roles include in John Schlesingers Pacific Heights, Milk Money, the neo-noir film Mulholland Falls, as Charlotte Haze in Adrian Lynes Lolita, and Another Day in Paradise. She later starred as Barbara Marx in The Night We Called It a Day, and has appeared on the television series Nip/Tuck, Raising Hope, and Hawaii Five-0. After acting on stage in London, in 2003 she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical Chicago, Griffith was born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and Peter Griffith, a former child stage actor and advertising executive. She is of Swedish, Norwegian, German, and English descent and her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall. During her childhood and adolescent years, she lived part of the time in New York with her father and part-time in Antelope Valley, California, Griffith appeared in advertisements and briefly worked as a child model before abandoning the career, citing extreme shyness as the reason. While attending the Hollywood Professional School, Griffith was advanced in her studies, Griffith began acting at nine months of age in a commercial and later appeared as an extra in Smith. Her first major role was in Arthur Penns Night Moves, in which she did several racy nude scenes at the age of 17 and this drew attention to her and typecast her as a nymphet in films such as Smile, The Drowning Pool, and One on One. She was cast as Melanie, the daughter of her real mother, Tippi Hedren, in the film Roar. During the filming she was attacked by a lion and had 50 stitches to her face, it was feared she would lose an eye but in the end the wound was not disfiguring. She then appeared in the made-for-television movie Shes in the Army Now with Jamie Lee Curtis and Steven Bauer, whom she married shortly after the film premiered. Griffiths well-known drug and alcohol addictions stalled her career, but she made a comeback at age 26 with her role as an actress in the Brian De Palma thriller Body Double. The film, although a failure, earned her the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. It led to her first starring role in Jonathan Demmes Something Wild, Griffith also starred in the science fiction film Cherry 2000, which went straight to video in 1988 but has also become a cult favorite. Griffiths performance was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, Griffiths next major role was opposite Matthew Modine in the urban thriller Pacific Heights. Griffith received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the successful TV movie Buffalo Girls, in 1998 she appeared in Woody Allens Celebrity which featured an all-star cast. Later that year, she starred as a heroin user in the independent film Another Day in Paradise
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Dakota Johnson
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Dakota Mayi Johnson is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson and she had her screen debut alongside her mother in the comedy-drama Crazy in Alabama and was named Miss Golden Globe in 2006. Following high school graduation, she returned to acting roles in The Social Network, Beastly,21 Jump Street, Need for Speed. The same year, she took part in Black Mass and A Bigger Splash and she also starred in the romantic comedy How to Be Single, and reprised her role as Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades Darker and the upcoming Fifty Shades Freed. Dakota Mayi Johnson was born on October 4,1989, in Austin, Texas, to actors Melanie Griffith and her former stepfather is actor Antonio Banderas. She has six half-siblings, four on her fathers side, including actor Jesse Johnson, Johnson attended Aspen Community School in Aspen, Colorado. She later attended the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California, for her year of high school before transferring to New Roads School in Santa Monica. She was a dancer as a child. She became interested in modeling at age 12 after a shoot with children of other celebrities for Teen Vogue. In 1999, Johnson made her debut in Crazy in Alabama where she and her half-sister, Stella Banderas, played daughters to their real-life mother. The film was directed by her then-stepfather, Antonio Banderas, in 2006, she was chosen as Miss Golden Globe 2006, where she served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes history. Once Johnson graduated from school, she signed with the William Morris Agency. She appeared in the critically acclaimed box office hit The Social Network which was directed by David Fincher and she has also appeared in Beastly, Ezna Sands film Chloe and Theo, and So Yong Kims film For Ellen. In 2012, she had roles in Christopher Neils film Goats, with David Duchovny, Nicholas Stollers film The Five-Year Engagement for producer Judd Apatow, and she also played the female lead in Chris Nelsons film Date and Switch written by Alan Yang. In March 2012, Johnson was cast as Kate in the Fox comedy series Ben and Kate, the show was cancelled on January 25,2013 after one season. Johnson quickly resumed her career, and appeared in Need for Speed. She also has been cast in the film adaptation of William Shakespeares Cymbeline. In 2013, she had a role as one of the new hires on the Finale episode of The Office, Johnson played Anastasia Ana Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey, which was released in February 2015
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James "Sonny" Crockett
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Detective James Sonny Crockett is a fictional character from the Miami Vice television series and Miami Vice. The character is portrayed by Don Johnson in the television series and he was introduced in the Miami Vice pilot in 1984 and appeared in almost all 111 episodes and in the motion picture. The character has appeared in video games and various popular culture references. James Crockett, more known as Sonny Crockett, is a former University of Florida Gators football star who had sustained an injury which put an end to his sports career. He served two tours in Vietnam – or as he calls it, the Southeast Asia Conference and he first appears in the pilot episode of Miami Vice as an undercover vice cop on the trail of a Colombian drug lord. While undercover he meets Ricardo Rico Tubbs, an NYPD undercover officer, Calderone and the Colombian are the same person. Crockett and Tubbs both go undercover as Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper respectively, trying to get closer to Calderone and they are successful and in the end capture him. Just as they go to see him in jail, Calderone makes his $2 million bail and is on his way out of the country, Crockett promises Tubbs that they will get him, but as reconciliation asks him if he is interested in a career in Southern Law Enforcement. There begins their new partnership as Vice Cops for the Metro-Dade Police Department, at first Crockett appears somewhat hard to get along with, and have a hard exterior, but is also a rather caring and loving person. This soft side becomes evident when innocent victims die or suffer injustice as the result of others mistakes, Crockett despises those who use or deceive others self-serving reasons. He assiduously honors his own promises and commitments, and despite being a man of few words and his hard exterior stems in part from the type of work hes doing, and also from rough experiences in his past. Losing friends, partners, and other people hes close to or otherwise deeply cares about. From time to time, these experiences haunt him, and he struggles with feelings of guilt and he is very close with his friends and colleagues, Switek, Zito, Gina and Trudy, as well as with his supervisor and especially with his partner, Tubbs. Crockett is depicted as a rogue character, that lives by his own set of rules and he is often angered by. This part of the character is emphasized by the fact that he lives on a yacht moored in Miamis luxurious Miamarina. Crocketts role in the investigations decreases in the end of the series, especially after he loses his memory for a while and thinks he is Sonny Burnett and he also loses faith in his work, realizing that he cannot win the battle against all the drug cartells and crooks. Tubbs realises the same thing a little later, and two of them quit their job, and give away their badges in the episode of the series. The name Sonny Crockett had previously used for a criminal played by actor Dennis Burkley on Hill Street Blues in 1983
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Miami Vice
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Miami Vice was an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson as James Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Rico Tubbs, the series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988, and broadcast an originally unaired episode during its run of the series on January 25,1990. Unlike standard police procedurals, the show drew heavily upon 1980s New Wave culture, the show became noted for its integration of music and visual effects. It has been called one of the Top 50 TV Shows, people magazine stated that Miami Vice was the first show to look really new and different since color TV was invented. In 2016, television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked Miami Vice as the 51st greatest American television show of all time, Michael Mann directed a film adaptation of the series, which was released on July 28,2006. The initial idea was for a movie about a pair of cops in Miami. Yerkovich then turned out a script for a pilot, titled Gold Coast. Yerkovich was immediately drawn to South Florida as a setting for his new-style police show, Miami Vice was one of the first American network television programs to be broadcast in stereophonic sound. It was mixed in stereo for its run, but not actually broadcast in stereo until 1985. In keeping with the namesake, most episodes focused on combating drug trafficking. Episodes often ended in a gun battle, claiming the lives of several criminals before they could be apprehended. An undercurrent of cynicism and futility underlies the entire series, the detectives repeatedly reference the Whac-A-Mole nature of drug interdiction, with its parade of drug cartels quickly replacing those that are apprehended. Co-executive producer Yerkovich explained, The choice of music and cinematography borrowed heavily from the emerging New Wave culture of the 1980s, as such, segments of Miami Vice would sometimes use music-based stanzas, a technique later featured in Baywatch. As Lee H. Katzin, one of the directors, remarked, The show is written for an MTV audience. These elements made the series into an instant hit, and in its first season saw an unprecedented fifteen Emmy Award nominations, while the first few episodes contained elements of a standard police procedural, the producers soon abandoned them in favor of a more distinctive style. Influenced by an Art Deco revival, no earth tones were allowed to be used in the production, mickey Rourke was also considered for the role, but he turned down the offer. Larry Wilcox, of CHiPs, was also a candidate for the role of Crockett, after dozens of candidates and a twice-delayed pilot shooting, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas were chosen as the vice cops
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Nash Bridges
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Nash Bridges is an American television police drama created by Carlton Cuse. The show starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Departments Special Investigations Unit, the show ran for six seasons on CBS from March 29,1996 to May 4,2001 with a total of 122 episodes being produced. The show has aired in over 70 countries, Nash Bridges debuted on March 29,1996 on the CBS Television network. The show starred Don Johnson as the eponymous Nash Bridges, an Inspector with the San Francisco Police Departments elite Special Investigations Unit, as the show begins, hes in his 40s, twice-divorced, and dealing with a feisty teenage daughter, Cassidy. Nash convinces recently retired Inspector Joe Dominguez to return to the force to partner with him, Nash and Joe cruise the streets of San Francisco in Nashs curious yellow 1971 Plymouth Barracuda convertible, a gift from Nashs brother Bobby just before Bobby left for the Vietnam War. Bobby Bridges was reported as MIA, but turns up in later seasons, Nashs father Nick suffers from mild dementia and has a habit of getting kicked out of nursing homes. He eventually moves in with Nash, and is involved in comic subplots. Aiding Nash in his work is the technically savvy Harvey Leek, a middle-aged Deadhead, and young, hotheaded Evan Cortez. In later seasons, additional Inspectors and other supporting characters were added and subtracted from the main cast, for the first nine episodes, the commander of the SIU was Lieutenant A. J. Shimamura, a character that was written off after he failed to be promoted to Captain, shimamuras departure opened the door for Bridges to be promoted to Captain, and given command of the SIU. The show was produced and filmed on location in the San Francisco Bay Area, the show shot on the streets of San Francisco including The Embarcadero and Piers 30 through 32. Neighboring Treasure Island was used as the headquarters for the show, episode production was nearly $2 million per episode. The show premiered on March 29,1996 at 10, 00pm on CBS, the show was produced by the Don Johnson Company and Carlton Cuse Productions in association with Rysher Entertainment for the first 4 seasons. In 1999, Paramount Network Television took over Ryshers spot after acquiring that company, the show used 3 different theme songs during its initial run. Season 1 used an instrumental piece. Seasons 2–5 used a musical piece most well known by the lyrics I got a friend in you to me out of the cold. Season 6 changed the song again, using another primarily instrumental piece, written by Velton Ray Bunch, a fourth song, written by First season composer Elia Cmiral and which was Don Johnsons original choice, sometimes replaces the first season song in syndication. The sixth season of Nash Bridges would be its last, however, following its Friday night ratings battle, the show was canceled
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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American Power Boat Association
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The American Power Boat Association is a New York membership owned corporation that was created in 1903 by an act of the New York legislature as a racing association for powerboats. It is the United States sanctioning authority for the Union Internationale Motonautique and it is the sole governing body in the United States. Each category comprises a number of different classes, there are also many smaller regional clubs, including South Shore Outboard Association, located in New England. The APBA is headquartered in Eastpointe, Michigan, near Detroit and its current President is Mark Wheeler. The movie Madison showcased the APBA as the responsible for setting up the races throughout the film. The APBA annually inducts drivers from its categories of racing into the prestigious APBA Hall of Champions, membership in the Hall of Champions is limited to those drivers who have an extraordinary racing season during the previous year. The induction ceremony is held the year at the APBAs Annual Meeting. 2009 induction 2010 induction The APBA Honor Squadron recognizes APBA members who have made a significant contribution to the APBA in service, each year the APBA considers and accepts members into the Honor Squadron at the APBA Annual Meeting. American Power Boat Association official website
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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Wichita, Kansas
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Wichita is the largest city in the state of Kansas and the 48th-largest city in the United States. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County, as of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 382,368, as of 2014, it was estimated to have increased to 389,965. In 2015, the population of the Wichita metropolitan area was 644,610. The city began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and it subsequently became a key destination for cattle drives traveling north from Texas to access railroads, earning it the nickname Cowtown. In the 1920s and 1930s, businessmen and aeronautical engineers established a number of aircraft manufacturing companies in Wichita including Beechcraft, Cessna. The city transformed into a hub of U. S. aircraft production, in 1937, the city of Wichita established their official flag. As an industrial hub and the largest city in the state, Wichita is a center of culture, media. It hosts several museums, theatres, parks, and entertainment venues. Several universities are located in the city including Wichita State University, the citys daily newspaper, The Wichita Eagle, has the highest circulation of any newspaper in Kansas, and the Wichita broadcast television market includes the western two-thirds of the state. Wichita is also home to the Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center and Kansass largest airport, archaeological evidence indicates human habitation near the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers, the site of present-day Wichita, as early as 3000 B. C. In 1541, a Spanish expedition led by explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado found the area populated by the Quivira, or Wichita, conflict with the Osage in the 1750s drove the Wichita further south. Prior to American settlement of the region, the site was located in the territory of the Kiowa, the Wichita returned in 1864 due to the American Civil War and established a settlement on the banks of the Little Arkansas. During this period, trader Jesse Chisholm established a trading post at the site, after the war, the Wichita permanently relocated south to Indian Territory. In 1868, trader James R. Mead established another trading post at the site, and surveyor Darius Munger built a house for use as a hotel, community center, Business opportunities attracted area hunters and traders, and a new settlement began to form. That summer, Mead and others organized the Wichita Town Company, in 1870, Munger and German immigrant William Dutch Bill Greiffenstein filed plats laying out the citys first streets. Wichita formally incorporated as a city on July 21,1870, Wichitas position on the Chisholm Trail made it a destination for cattle drives traveling north from Texas to access railroads which led to markets in eastern U. S. cities. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached the city in 1872, as a result, Wichita became a railhead for the cattle drives, earning it the nickname Cowtown. Across the Arkansas River, the town of Delano became an entertainment destination for cattlemen thanks to its saloons, brothels
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West Side Story
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West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds, the members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a member of the Jets and best friend of the gang leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended scenes. Bernsteins score for the musical includes Somethings Coming, Maria, America, Somewhere, Tonight, Jet Song, I Feel Pretty, A Boy Like That, One Hand, One Heart, Gee, Officer Krupke, and Cool. The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince and it ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals, a 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor, Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress, in 1947, Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents about collaborating on a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He proposed that the focus on the conflict between an Irish Catholic family and a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The girl has survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Israel, the conflict was to be centered around anti-Semitism of the Catholic Jets towards the Jewish Emeralds, eager to write his first musical, Laurents immediately agreed. Bernstein wanted to present the material in operatic form, but Robbins and they described the project as lyric theater, and Laurents wrote a first draft he called East Side Story. Only after he completed it did the group realize it was more than a musicalization of themes that had already been covered in plays like Abies Irish Rose. When he opted to drop out, the three men went their ways, and the piece was shelved for almost five years. Laurents accepted and suggested Bernstein and Robbins join the creative team, Robbins felt if the three were going to join forces, they should return to East Side Story, and Bernstein agreed. Laurents, however, was committed to Gabel, who introduced him to the young composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim auditioned by playing the score for Saturday Night, his musical that was scheduled to open in the fall. Laurents liked the lyrics but was not impressed with the music, Sondheim did not care for Laurents opinion
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University of Kansas
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The University of Kansas, often referred to as KU or Kansas, is a public research university in the U. S. state of Kansas. The main campus in Lawrence, one of the largest college towns in Kansas, is on Mount Oread, two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area, the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, and the universitys medical school and hospital in Kansas City. There are also educational and research sites in Parsons, Topeka, Garden City, Hays, and Leavenworth, the university is one of the 62 members of the Association of American Universities. The university overall employed 2,814 faculty members in fall 2015, on February 20,1863, Kansas Governor Thomas Carney signed into law a bill creating the state university in Lawrence. The law was conditioned upon a gift from Lawrence of a $15,000 endowment fund, if Lawrence failed to meet these conditions, Emporia instead of Lawrence would get the university. The site selected for the university was a known as Mount Oread. Robinson and his wife Sara bestowed the 40-acre site to the State of Kansas in exchange for land elsewhere, the philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence donated $10,000 of the necessary endowment fund, and the citizens of Lawrence raised the remaining cash by issuing notes backed by Governor Carney. On November 2,1863, Governor Carney announced that Lawrence had met the conditions to get the university. The schools Board of Regents held its first meeting in March 1865, work on the first college building began later that year. The university opened for classes on September 12,1866, during World War II, Kansas was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission. KU is home to the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, the Beach Center on Disability, Lied Center of Kansas and radio stations KJHK,90.7 FM, and KANU,91.5 FM. The university is host to several including the University of Kansas Natural History Museum. The University of Kansas is a large, state-sponsored university, with five campuses, the university offers more than 345 degree programs. In its 2017 list, U. S. News & World Report ranked KU as tied for 118th place among National Universities and 56th place among public universities. The city management and urban policy program was ranked first in the nation, uSN&WR also ranked several programs in the top 25 among U. S. universities. The Bachelor of Architecture degree was added in 1920, in 1969, the School of Architecture and Urban Design was formed with three programs, architecture, architectural engineering, and urban planning. In 2001 architectural engineering merged with civil and environmental engineering, the design programs from the discontinued School of Fine Arts were merged into the school in 2009 forming the current School of Architecture, Design, and Planning. S in 2012. The University of Kansas School of Business is a business school on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Lawrence is the sixth largest city in the state of Kansas and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas. It is in northeastern Kansas next to Interstate 70, along the banks of the Kansas, as of the 2010 census, the citys population was 87,643. Lawrence is a town and the home to the University of Kansas. Lawrence was founded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company and was named for Amos Adams Lawrence who offered financial aid, Lawrence was central to the Bleeding Kansas era and was the site of the Wakarusa War, the sacking of Lawrence, and the Lawrence Massacre. Lawrence began as a center of Kansas politics, prior to Kansas Territory being opened to settlement in May 1854, most of Douglas County was part of the Shawnee Indian Reservation. The Oregon Trail followed the Kansas River through what would become Lawrence and Mount Oread was used as a landmark, dr. Charles Robinson and Charles Branscomb were sent by the New England Emigrant Aid Company to scout for a location for a city. They arrived in the vicinity of Lawrence in July 1854 and noted the beauty of the area, the original “pioneer party” left Massachusetts on July 17,1854 and consisted of 29 men. They arrived at the site Robinson and Branscomb selected on August 1, the second party arrived in Lawrence on September 9 after leaving near the end of August. The town was officially named Lawrence City on October 6, the main street of the town was named Massachusetts to commemorate the origins of the pioneer party. The first post office in Lawrence was established in January 1855, in March 1857, the Quincy School was started in the Emigrant Aid office before moving to the basement of the Unitarian Church in April. The Plymouth Congregational Church was started in September 1854 by Reverend S. Y, lum, a missionary sent to Kansas. Shortly after Lawrence’s founding, two newspapers were started, The Kansas Pioneer and the Herald of Freedom, both touted the Free State mission which caused problems from the people of Lecompton, then the pro-slavery headquarters, about ten miles northwest of Lawrence, and land squatters from Missouri. The Kansas Free State began in early January 1855, on November 21,1855, Charles Dow was shot and killed by Franklin Coleman in Hickory Point about fourteen miles south of Lawrence. Shortly after, an army of Missourians led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel L. Jones entered Kansas to attack Lawrence. John Brown and James Lane had hustled Lawrence citizens into an army and erected barricades, a treaty was signed and the Missouri army reluctantly left. Harassment by Sheriff Jones and other Southern sympathizers continued unabated, the Herald of Freedom, the Kansas Free State and the Free State Hotel were indicted as “nuisances. ”On April 23,1856 Sheriff Jones was shot while trying to arrest free-state settlers. On May 21, Sheriff Jones and a posse of 800 Southern sympathizers converged on Lawrence, dr. Robinson’s house on Mount Oread was taken by the federal marshal as headquarters and the newspaper printing presses were damaged and thrown in the river. The Free State Hotel was also destroyed, despite the constant presence of impending war, Lawrence continued to grow
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American Conservatory Theater
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American Conservatory Theater is a large non-profit theater company in San Francisco, California, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions, as well as being an acting school. A. C. T. was founded in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Carnegie Mellon University by theatre, San Francisco Chronicle critic Paine Knickerbocker acclaimed Balls opening performance of Molières Tartuffe as a screaming, bellowing unbelievable triumph. In the mid-1980s, Ball, suffering from exhaustion and under accusations of mismanagement, was forced to relinquish his post as artistic director. Founding member and stage director Edward Hastings, who revived the companys fortunes until the Geary Theatre was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the company continued performing in a variety of San Francisco venues while laying the groundwork for its restoration. Since 1992, Carey Perloff has served as A. C. T. s Artistic Director, a. C. T. is now financially secure and has achieved continued acclaim for its work. Released a cast album of Perloffs production of the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical Happy End and it includes the full score and is the first English language recording of this musical. A. C. T. s home in San Francisco is the eponymous American Conservatory Theater, previously known as the Columbia Theater, the American Conservatory Theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 27,1975. A. C. T. s founders vision was for it to be both a company and acting school. The conservatory currently offers a range of classes and is accredited to grant Master of Fine Arts degrees for actors. Its MFA program is competitive, admitting only eight students per year among hundreds who audition. It was ranked by U. S. News & World Report as one of the top five graduate acting training programs in the U. S. along with schools like Juilliard, Yale, the current director of the conservatory is Melissa Smith. Tom OBrien, Harry Hamlin, Anna Deavere Smith, Omar Metwally, Steven W. Bailey, in addition to the MFA program, A. C. T. offers training through the Studio A. C. T. The Summer Training Congress, and Young Conservatory programs, alumni of these programs include Nicolas Cage, Teri Hatcher, Delroy Lindo, Milo Ventimiglia, Winona Ryder, Camryn Manheim, Marcus Orelias, Darren Criss, and Chris Pine. A. C. T. s Young Conservatory is a recognized professional theater training program for youth through the ages of 19. It was founded by Luanne and Ross Graham in 1971, successive YC directors include, Candace Birk, Sharon Newman, Linda Aldrich, and Susan Stauter. The program has led since 1988 by the acclaimed Craig Slaight. The Young Conservatory is geared at performing new works specifically for young actors, the conservatory members are also offered roles in the mainstage productions, most frequently A Christmas Carol, which is performed every winter. The first person to be given the sound designer in regional theatre was Dan Dugan at A. C. T. in the late 1960s
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Fortune and Men's Eyes
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Fortune and Mens Eyes is a 1967 play and 1971 film written by John Herbert about a young mans experience in prison, exploring themes of homosexuality and sexual slavery. The title comes from William Shakespeares Sonnet 29, which begins with the line When in disgrace with fortune and it has been translated into 40 languages and produced in over 100 countries. It is the most published Canadian play, and won the Dominion Drama Festivals Massey Award in 1968, which Herbert refused, and the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1975. The play was inspired in part by Herberts own experience, he spent four months imprisoned in a reformatory after having been convicted of wearing drag in 1947. The character of Queenie in the play is an authorial self-insertion, Herbert encountered difficulties in getting the play staged. Ive taken the liberty of sending it to a producer of my acquaintance in New York and, cohen recommended the play to Broadway press agent David Rothenberg, who in turn recommended it to Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman workshopped the play at the New York Actors Studio in 1966, taking the role of Rocky, in 1967 the play, produced by Rothenberg, premiered off-Broadway at the Actors Playhouse from 23 February 1967 to January 1968. Reviews were initially mixed, and many reviewers were shocked by the subject matter, reviewer Herbert Whittaker wrote in The Globe and Mail that the play was the art of washing our dirty linen in the neighbors yard. Cohen wrote in the Toronto Star that the lifts the carpet and shows what is underneath. It does not enrich our vision, the panel discussions held in conjunction with the play led to the creation of the Fortune Society, a New York City-based advocacy and support organization for former prisoners. The play toured to Chicago, San Francisco and Montreal and ran for 15 weeks at the Central Library Theatre in Toronto, in 1969, the play was produced and directed by Sal Mineo at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Don Johnson played the role of Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession. Michael Greer played the role of Queenie, Smittys cellmate and this production garnered more critical approval. In the 1971 film, directed by Harvey Hart, Wendell Burton played Smitty, Michael Greer reprised his role as Queenie and it was filmed in Quebec, Canada. Wendell Burton as Smitty Michael Greer as Queenie Zooey Hall as Rocky Danny Freedman as Mona Larry Perkins as Screwdriver James Barron as Holy Face Peters Lázaro Pérez as Catso Jon Granik as Sgt
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The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart
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The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart is a 1970 American film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a confused college students experiences with sex, relationships, and drugs in late 1960s New York City. Produced by Martin Poll and directed by Leonard J. Horn, the film was based on the novel of the same name by Robert T. Westbrook. It was the debut of Don Johnson, who appeared in the title role. Stanley Sweetheart is a filmmaker and junior at Columbia University who moved to New York City from Beverly Hills. His father is dead, he is not close to his mother and he lives alone in a Manhattan apartment on the Upper West Side across from a noisy construction site, and seems to have no friends. Bored with his classes and seeking an outlet, he fantasizes about a beautiful blonde classmate. Later, he visits a bar where he runs into a talkative hippie acquaintance, Barbara. He has a stand with Barbara, and in the night he sees and is attracted to her beautiful roommate. On a later visit to the bar, he meets their friend Danny, back on campus, Stanley finally meets and dates the classmate who is the object of his fantasies, Cathy. Cathy and Stanley fall in love, but she is a virgin and initially refuses his sexual advances, finally she agrees to sleep with him and the two settle into happy domestic life for a time, but Stanley soon becomes bored with the relationship and fantasizes about Andrea. When Cathy expresses concern about the behavior of her chubby roommate Fran. He gets Fran drunk and films her in a variety of positions, culminating with her masturbating in a bathtub, after which Stanley. He initially feels guilty, but Fran comes to his apartment when Cathy is away, Stanley, who by now has dropped out of college, accompanies Danny to a psychedelic rock concert/ happening in a loft performance space. Soon after, Danny, Barbara and Andrea drop by Stanleys apartment while he is home with Cathy and they all smoke pot together and Stanley finally gets to talk with Andrea, while Cathy is attracted to Danny. Later, Cathy breaks up with Stanley, saying that they havent loved each other for a long time, Stanley gets mad and throws her out of his apartment, but afterwards misses her and unsuccessfully looks for her. He confronts Danny, who admits that he doesnt really care about Cathy, Stanley visits Andreas apartment, where they smoke pot and eventually make love, joined later by Barbara. At first Stanley is the happiest he has ever been in his life, when he finally sees Cathy at another psychedelic event, he is so high he cant respond to her efforts to talk to him. Danny shoots himself behind his mothers house, Stanley wakes up at Andrea and Barbaras apartment and tells Andrea hes going uptown to change his clothes
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Sheilah Graham
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Sheilah Graham was a British-born, nationally syndicated American gossip columnist during Hollywoods Golden Age. Along with Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper, Graham came to wield sufficient power to make or break Hollywood careers—prompting her to herself as the last of the unholy trio. In her youth, she had been a showgirl and a writer for Fleet Street in London and had published several short stories. These early experiences would converge in her career in Hollywood, which spanned four decades, as a successful columnist. Graham was born Lily Shiel in Leeds, England, the youngest of Rebecca and her father, a tailor who had fled the pogroms, died of tuberculosis on a trip to Berlin while she was still an infant. Her mother and the moved to a basement flat in a Stepney Green slum in the East End of London. Her mother, who spoke little English, struggled to provide for her there by cleaning public lavatories. In 1914, her mother was forced by circumstances to place her in the Jews Hospital. In Recollections of Sheilah Graham, her daughter, Wendy Fairey, wrote, Entering this institution at age six, to the end of her life, she was haunted by the degradation of this experience. Graham, then known as Lily, had been trained for a career in teaching. When she left the orphanage, her mother was dying of cancer, upon her mothers death, the 16-year-old took a job in a department store demonstrating a specialty toothbrush and moved into a tiny flat in Londons West End. At 18, she married John Graham Gillam, whom her daughter describes as an older man who proved impotent, went bankrupt. During this marriage, largely through the tutelage of her husband, she improved her speech and she also enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, changed her name, and became a music hall dancer as a Cochrans girl. While still in Britain, she attained success as a freelance writer. In 1933, Graham sought her fortune in the U. S. leaving her first husband, whom she would divorce in June 1937. Her modest, youthful success as a writer enabled her to land jobs as a reporter in New York City working successively for the New York Mirror. She energetically pursued scoops and wrote features with sensational headlines like Who Cheats Most in Marriage, a survey comparing the infidelities of various nationalities of men. In 1935, John Neville Wheeler, head of the North American Newspaper Alliance and she describes having landed in the film capital on two left feet and needing to temper her brash outspokenness with film industry sensibilities
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Zachariah (film)
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Zachariah is a Western film starring John Rubinstein as Zachariah and Don Johnson as his friend Matthew as two gunfighters journeying through the American West. The film is based on Hermann Hesses novel Siddhartha, surrealistically adapted as a musical Western by Joe Massot. This film was billed as, The first electric Western and it features appearances and music supplied by rock bands from the 1970s, including the James Gang and Country Joe and the Fish as The Cracker Band. Fiddler Doug Kershaw has a cameo as does Elvin Jones as a gunslinging drummer named Job Cain. Creams drummer Ginger Baker and The Band were originally scheduled to be major players in the film, the Minneapolis group White Lightnin performs their rock and roll version of the William Tell Overture on the soundtrack and the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble perform Grave Digger. The soundtrack features songs by the James Gang, Joe Walsh, and Country Joe, the soundtrack album was released as a vinyl LP by Probe Records, a subsidiary label owned by ABC Records. Don Johnson later said in a 2014 interview with The A. V, club I was sort of the Govinda character. I am aware that male relationships are a stock in trade of most Westerns, the film recorded a loss of $1,435,000. Zachariah was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on August 24,2004 as a Region 1 widescreen DVD
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A Boy and His Dog (1975 film)
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A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 American science fiction comedy-drama thriller film produced, written, and directed by L. Q. Jones, starring Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Alvy Moore, the film was distributed in the United States by LQ/JAF Productions and in the United Kingdom by Anglo-EMI Film Distributors. The films script is based on the 1969 cycle of narratives by fantasy author Harlan Ellison titled A Boy, the film concerns a teenage boy and his telepathic dog, who work together as a team in order to survive in the dangerous post-apocalyptic wasteland of the Southwestern United States. Factory released the film on Blu-ray, set in a post-nuclear war of the year 2024, the main character, Vic is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States. Vic is most concerned with food and sex, having lost both of his parents, he has no education and does not understand ethics or morality. He is accompanied by a well-read, misanthropic, telepathic dog named Blood, Blood cannot forage for himself, due to the same genetic engineering that granted him telepathy. The two steal for a living, evading bands of marauders, berserk androids, and mutants, Blood and Vic have an occasionally antagonistic relationship, though they realize they need each other. Blood wishes to find the legendary promised land of Over the Hill where above ground utopias are said to exist, searching a bunker for a woman for Vic to rape, they find one, but she has already been severely mutilated and is on the verge of death. Vic displays no pity, and is angered by the wastefulness of such an act as well as disgusted by the thought of satisfying his urges with a woman in such a condition. They move on, only to find slavers excavating another bunker, Vic steals several cans of their food, later using them to barter for goods in a nearby shantytown settlement. That evening, while watching old vintage stag films at an outdoor movie house, Blood claims to smell a woman. There, they meet Quilla June Holmes, the scheming and seductive teenage girl from Downunder, unknown to the pair, Quilla Junes father, Lou Craddock, had sent her above ground to recruit surface dwellers. Blood takes an instant dislike to her, but Vic ignores him, after Vic saves Quilla June from raiders and mutants, they have repeated sex. Eventually, though, she takes off secretly to return to her underground society, Vic, enticed by the thought of women and sex, follows her, despite Bloods warnings. Blood remains at the portal on the surface, Downunder has an artificial biosphere, complete with forests and an underground city, which is named Topeka, after the ruins of the city it lies beneath. Vic is told that he has brought to Topeka to help fertilize the female population and is elated to learn of his value as a stud. Then he is told that Topeka meets its need for exogamous reproduction by electroejaculation and artificial insemination, anybody who refuses to comply or otherwise defies the committee is sent off to the farm and never seen again. Vic is then told that when his sperm has been used to impregnate 35 women, Quilla June helps Vic escape, as she wants him to kill the committee members and their android enforcer, Michael, so she can usurp power
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Sal Mineo
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Salvatore Mineo, Jr. was an American film and theatre actor, known for his performance as John Plato Crawford opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his roles in Rebel Without a Cause, Mineo was born in the Bronx, the son of coffin makers Josephine and Salvatore Mineo, Sr. He was of Sicilian descent, his father was born in Italy and his mother and his mother enrolled him in dancing and acting school at an early age. He had his first stage appearance in Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo and he also played the young prince opposite Yul Brynner in the stage musical The King and I. Brynner took the opportunity to help Mineo better himself as an actor, as a teenager, Mineo appeared on ABCs musical quiz program Jukebox Jury, which aired in the 1953-1954 season. Mineo made several appearances before making his screen debut in the Joseph Pevney film Six Bridges to Cross. He beat out Clint Eastwood for the role, Mineo had also successfully auditioned for a part in The Private War of Major Benson, as a cadet colonel opposite Charlton Heston. His breakthrough as an actor came in Rebel Without a Cause, in which he played John Plato Crawford and his performance resulted in an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and his popularity quickly developed. In Multiculturalism and the Mouse, Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment, Douglas Brode states that the casting of Mineo as White Bull again ensured a homosexual subtext. By the late 1950s, the actor was a celebrity, sometimes referred to as the Switchblade Kid—a nickname he earned from his role as a criminal in the movie Crime in the Streets. ]In 1957, Mineo made a brief foray into pop music by recording a handful of songs. Two of his singles reached the Top 40 in the United States Billboard Hot 100, the more popular of the two, Start Movin, reached #9 on Billboards pop chart. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc and he starred as drummer Gene Krupa in the movie The Gene Krupa Story, directed by Don Weis with Susan Kohner, James Darren, and Susan Oliver. He appeared as the celebrity guest challenger on the June 30,1957, Mineo made an effort to break his typecasting. By the early 1960s, he was becoming too old to play the type of role that had made him famous, for example, he auditioned for David Leans film Lawrence of Arabia, but was not hired. He also appeared in The Longest Day, wherein he played a private who is killed by a German after the landing in Sainte-Mère-Église. Mineo was baffled by his loss of popularity, later saying, One minute it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle. The high point of this period was his portrayal of Uriah in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Mineo also appeared on the Season 2 episode of The Patty Duke Show, Patty Meets a Celebrity. Mineo guest-starred in an episode of ABCs TV series Combat. in 1966 and he did two more appearances on the same show, including appearing in an installment with Fernando Lamas
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West Hollywood, California
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West Hollywood, occasionally referred to locally as WeHo, is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated in 1984, it is home to the Sunset Strip, as of the 2010 census, its population was 34,399. It is considered one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States, the citys irregular boundary is featured in its logo, it was largely formed from the unincorporated Los Angeles County area that had not become part of the surrounding cities. West Hollywood benefits from a dense, compact urban form with small lots, mixed land use. According to Walkscore, a website that ranks cities based on walkability, commercial corridors include the nightlife and dining focused on the Sunset Strip, along Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Avenues of Art & Design along Robertson, Melrose, and Beverly Boulevard. Major intersecting streets typically provide amenities within walking distance of adjacent neighborhoods, West Hollywood has a Subtropical-semi-arid climate with year-round warm weather. The record high temperature of 111 °F was recorded September 26,1963, snow is rare in West Hollywood, with the last accumulation occurring in 1949. Rainfall is sparse, and falls mainly during winter months, around 5,000 of the indigenous inhabitants from the Tongva Indian tribe canoed out to greet Juan Cabrillo. The Tongva tribe was a nation of hunter-gatherers known for their reverence of dance, by 1771, these native people had been severely ravaged by diseases brought in by the Europeans from across wide oceans. The Spanish mission system changed the name to Gabrielinos, in reference to the Mission de San Gabriel. The Gabrielinos are believed to have burned the pitch for fuel, by 1780, what became the Sunset Strip was the major connecting road for El Pueblo de Los Angeles, and all ranches westward to the Pacific Ocean. This land passed through the hands of owners during the next one hundred years. Most of this area was part of the Rancho La Brea, Sherman became the location of the railroads main shops, railroad yards, and car barns. Many working-class employees of the railroad settled in this town and it was during this time that the city began to earn its reputation as a loosely regulated, liquor-friendly place for eccentric people wary of government interference. Despite several annexation attempts, the town elected not to part of the City of Los Angeles. For many years, the area that is now the city of West Hollywood was an area in the midst of Los Angeles. Because gambling was illegal in the city of Los Angeles, but still legal in Los Angeles County and these businesses were immune from the sometimes heavy-handed law-enforcement of the L. A. Some people connected with movie-making were attracted to this area of the County
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Revenge of the Stepford Wives
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Revenge of the Stepford Wives is a 1980 American made-for-television science fiction-thriller film inspired by the Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives. It was directed by Robert Fuest with a screenplay by David Wiltse and starring Sharon Gless, Julie Kavner, Don Johnson, Arthur Hill and it is the first in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film The Stepford Wives. Set 10 years after the film, a prologue sets the scene as a couple unhappy in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, attempts to leave town. Spirited investigative TV reporter Kaye Foster arrives in Stepford to do a story on the American town with the lowest crime and divorce rates and the tightest real-estate market in the country. She immediately notices the beautiful, but compliant and domestic women of the town, Kaye meets Megan and Andy Brady, newcomers to town. Disillusioned hotel manager Wally seems guiltily on the verge of divulging something important to Kaye about his wifes inability to change, Andy assumes the job with the Stepford Police and Megan has chosen a house when she is sent to the Mens Association and disappears for a few days. Suspicious, Kaye sneaks into a party at the Association attended by the townswomen, there. All three wear the frilly and outdated fashions so popular in town and exhibit the brainless behavior of the other wives, Kaye overhears Diz explaining to the husbands that the wives have been brainwashed and kept compliant by the thyroid pills. To keep them subservient, they must not drink alcohol, miss the medication, or be overstimulated, or the women will become hostile, Kaye is discovered and narrowly escapes, and the men set out to track her down. Kaye shows up at Megans house, throws out her pills and compels her to down some vodka, at first, Megan attempts to stab Kaye and manically clean the house. Overcome, she recovers and the two women knock out Andy. Kaye, now disguised as a Stepford wife, enlists the aide of Wally to help them escape, he betrays them, however, their plan to escape by train fails, and Megan is taken to the Mens Association for reconditioning. Eventually, Kaye arrives and holds Diz at gunpoint while Megan repeatedly sounds the pill siren, all the women of the town overdose on their pills, becoming disoriented and then violent. Having second thoughts about the scheme, Andy shows up in time to reconcile, Kaye is finally caught by Diz, however, and just as he is about to kill her, he is confronted by the vengeful women of the town. Screaming and clawing, they push him over a balcony, trample him, shocked and horrified, Kaye makes her escape. The film first aired on October 12,1980, despite the suburban Connecticut setting, it was filmed in California as is evident by the presence of palm trees and canyons. This is the first sequel in a string of stories suggested by, although the feel, costumes, and even music suggest the original film, a new and different twist is written for the sequel. Later sequels include The Stepford Children starring Barbara Eden which retained the secret of the original and this third sequel The Stepford Husbands, revisits the concept, reversing the roles, with the women as oppressors
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Ferrari Daytona
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The Ferrari Daytona, officially designated the Ferrari 365 GTB/4, is a two-seat grand tourer produced by Ferrari from 1968 to 1973. It was introduced at the Paris Auto Salon in 1968 to replace the 275 GTB/4, the Daytona was succeeded by the mid-engined 365 GT4 Berlinetta Boxer in 1973. To this day, Ferrari itself only rarely refers to the 365 as the Daytona, unlike Lamborghinis then-new, mid-engined Miura, the Daytona was a traditional front-engined, rear-drive car. At a compression ratio of 9.3,1, it produced 357 PS, 0-60 mph acceleration was just 5.4 seconds. The five-speed manual transmission was mounted in the rear for optimal weight distribution, although a Pininfarina design, as with many previous Ferrari road cars styled by Leonardo Fioravanti, the 365 GTB/4 was radically different. Its sharp-edged styling resembled a Lamborghini more than a traditional Pininfarina Ferrari, early Daytonas featured fixed headlights behind an acrylic glass cover. A new U. S. safety regulation banning headlights behind covers resulted in retractable pop-up twin headlights in 1971, the generally accepted total number of Daytonas from the Ferrari club historians is 1,406 over the life of the model. This figure includes 156 UK right-hand-drive coupés,122 factory-made spyders, all bodies except the first Pininfarina prototype were produced by Italian coachbuilder Scaglietti, which at the time already had a reputable record of working with Ferrari. Historically, and especially since the mid-1980s and early 1990s, there has mostly been a market price difference between a real berlinetta and a real spyder. Many berlinettas were turned into spyders by aftermarket mechanics, often to increase the monetary value or simply because of the owners preference for an open car. Differences in value have typically remained, however, even after the most skillful conversions, no Berlinettas were converted into Spyders by Scaglietti, Ferrari would not allow this, then or now. The first racing version of the 365GTB/4 was prepared in 1969, Ferrari did not produce an official competition car until late in 1970. The official cars were built in three batches of five each, in 1970-1,1972 and 1973. They all featured a lightweight body making use of aluminium and fibreglass panels, the engine was unchanged from the road car in the first batch of competition cars, but tuned in the latter two batches. The cars were not raced by the official Scuderia Ferrari team and they enjoyed particular success in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with results including a 5th overall in 1971, followed by GT class wins in 1972,1973 and 1974. In 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4s took the first 5 places of the GT class, the final major success of the car was in 1979, when a 1973 car achieved a class victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona. In 1971, the Daytona gained fame when one was driven by Dan Gurney and Brock Yates in the inaugural Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. Showcasing the cars potential for sustained high speed travel, the pair won with an speed of 80.1 miles per hour
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Chevrolet Corvette
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The Chevrolet Corvette, known colloquially as the Vette, or Chevy Corvette, is a sports car manufactured by Chevrolet. The car has produced through seven generations. The first model, a convertible, was introduced at the GM Motorama in 1953 as a show car. Myron Scott is credited for naming the car after the type of small, originally built in Flint, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri, the Corvette is currently manufactured in Bowling Green, Kentucky and is the official sports car of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The first generation of Corvette was introduced late in the 1953 model year, originally designed as a show car for the 1953 Motorama display at the New York Auto Show, it generated enough interest to induce GM to make a production version to sell to the public. First production was on June 30,1953 and this generation was often referred to as the solid-axle models. 300 hand-built polo white Corvette convertibles were produced for the 1953 model year, the 1954 model year vehicles could be ordered in Pennant Blue, Sportsman Red, Black, or Polo White. 3,640 were built, and sold slowly, the 1955 model offered a 265 cu in V8 engine as an option. With a large inventory of unsold 1954 models, GM limited production to 700 for 1955, with the new V8, the 0-60 mph time improved by 1.5 seconds. A new body was introduced for the 1956 model featuring a new face and side coves, an optional fuel injection system was made available in the middle of the 1957 model year. Other options included power windows, hydraulically operated power convertible top, heavy duty brakes and suspension, delco Radio transistorized signal-seeking hybrid car radio, which used both vacuum tubes and transistors in its radios circuitry. Exclusive to the 1958 model were hood louvers and twin trunk spears, the 1959–60 model years had few changes except a decreased amount of body chrome and more powerful engine offerings. In 1961, the rear of the car was redesigned with the addition of a duck tail with four round lights. The light treatment would continue for all following model year Corvettes until 2014, in 1962, the Chevrolet 283 cu in Small-Block was enlarged to 327 cu in. In standard form it produced 250 bhp, for an extra 12% over list price, the fuel-injected version produced 360 bhp, making it the fastest of the C1 generation. 1962 was also the last year for the wrap around windshield, solid rear axle, the trunk lid and exposed headlamps did not reappear for many decades. The second generation Corvette, which introduced Sting Ray to the model, continued with fiberglass body panels, the C2 was later referred to as mid-years. Earlier, Mitchell had sponsored a car known as the Mitchell Sting Ray in 1959 because Chevrolet no longer participated in factory racing
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Ferrari Testarossa
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The Ferrari Testarossa is a 12-cylinder mid-engine sports car manufactured by Ferrari, which went into production in 1984 as the successor to the Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer. Almost 10,000 Testarossas,512 TRs, and F512 Ms were produced, making it one of the most-produced Ferrari models, despite its high price, in 1995, the F512 M retailed for $220,000. The Testarossa is a two-door coupé that premiered at the 1984 Paris Auto Show, all versions of the Testarossa had the power fed through the wheels from a rear-mounted, five-speed manual transmission. The F512 M was introduced at the 1994 Paris Auto Show, the F512 M was Ferraris last mid-engine 12-cylinder car, apart from the limited edition F50, Enzo and LaFerrari, featuring the companys last flat engine. The Testarossa was replaced in 1996 by the front-engined 550 Maranello coupé, the Testarossa name paid homage to the famed World Sportscar Champion 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa sports racing car. Testa Rossa, which means red head in Italian, refers to the red-painted cam covers sported by both cars 12-cylinder engines. The Testarossa can trace its roots back to the faults of the 1981 512i BB, to fix these problems Ferrari and Pininfarina designed the Testarossa to be larger than its predecessor, the Berlinetta Boxer. For instance, at 1,976 millimetres wide the Testarossa was half a foot wider than the Boxer. This resulted in an increased wheelbase that stretched about 64 mm to 2,550 mm which was used to accommodate luggage in a storage space under the front forward-opening hood. The increase in length created extra space behind the seats in the cabin. Headroom was also increased with a half an inch taller than the Boxer. The design team at Pininfarina consisted of Ian Cameron, Guido Campoli, Diego Ottina, with little surprise, they were led by design chief Leonardo Fioravanti, the designer of many contemporary Ferraris. The design was originated by Nicosia, but the guidance of Fioravanti was equally important, being a trained aerodynamist, Fioravanti applied his know-how to set the aerodynamics layout of the car. As a result, the Testarossa did not need a rear spoiler like Lamborghinis Countach yet produced zero lift at its rear axle, the aerodynamic drag coefficient of 0.36 was also significantly better than the Lamborghinis 0.42. Pininfarinas body was a departure from the curvaceous boxer—one which caused some controversy, the side strakes sometimes referred to as cheese graters or egg slicers, that spanned from the doors to the rear fenders were needed for rules in several countries outlawing large openings on cars. The Testarossa had twin radiators in the back with the engine instead of a single radiator up-front, in conjunction the strakes provided cool air to the rear-mounted side radiators, thus keeping the engine from overheating. The strakes also made the Testarossa wider at the rear than in the front, thus increasing stability, One last unique addition to the new design was a single high mounted rear view mirror on the drivers side. On US based cars, the mirror was lowered to a more normal placement in 1987, like its predecessor, the Testarossa used double wishbone front and rear suspension systems
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Cinematography
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Typically, a lens is used to repeatedly focus the light reflected from objects into real images on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a questioned exposure, creating multiple images. With an electronic sensor, this produces an electrical charge at each pixel. The result with photographic emulsion is a series of invisible latent images on the film stock, the images on the film stock are played back at a rapid speed and projected onto a screen, creating the illusion of motion. Cinematography finds uses in fields of science and business as well as for entertainment purposes. The word cinematography was created from the Greek words κίνημα, meaning movement, motion and γράφειν meaning to record, the word used to refer to the art, process, or job of filming movies, but later its meaning was restricted to motion picture photography. In the 1830s, moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks, with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer in Austria, Joseph Plateau in Belgium, and William Horner in Britain. In 1845, Francis Ronalds invented the first successful camera able to make recordings of the varying indications of meteorological. The cameras were supplied to numerous observatories around the world and some remained in use well into the 20th century. William Lincoln patented a device, in 1867, that showed animated pictures called the wheel of life or zoopraxiscope, in it, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit. On 19 June 1873, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named Sallie Gardner in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras. The cameras were arranged along a parallel to the horses. They were 21 inches apart to cover the 20 feet taken by the horse stride, although it was never played back at speed to create motion, this was the first step towards motion pictures. The late nineteenth to the twentieth century brought rise to the use of film not only for entertainment purposes. The experimental film Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on 14 October 1888, in Roundhay, Leeds and this movie was shot on paper film. W. K. L. Dickson, working under the direction of Thomas Alva Edison, was the first to design a successful apparatus and this camera took a series of instantaneous photographs on standard Eastman Kodak photographic emulsion coated onto a transparent celluloid strip 35 mm wide. The results of work were first shown in public in 1893, using the viewing apparatus also designed by Dickson. Contained within a box, only one person at a time looking into it through a peephole could view the movie. The Lumière brothers were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, in 1896, movie theaters were open in France, Italy, Brussels, and London
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Philip Michael Thomas
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Philip Michael Thomas is an American actor. Thomas most famous role is that of detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series Miami Vice and his first notable roles were in Coonskin and opposite Irene Cara in the 1976 film Sparkle. After his success in Miami Vice, Thomas appeared in numerous made-for-TV movies, Thomas was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in San Bernardino, California. His father, Louis Diggs, was a plant foreman at Westinghouse and he and his seven half brothers and sisters went by the surname Thomas, which was the last name of his mothers first husband. As a child, he acted in his churchs theater group and he graduated from San Bernardino High in 1967 and briefly took up work as a janitor to save money for college. Thomas earned a scholarship to the predominantly black Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, after two years at Oakwood College, Thomas transferred to the University of California, Riverside. During this time, he auditioned for and won a role in the San Francisco cast of Hair, Thomas ultimately quit school to pursue acting as a profession, appearing in several features during the 1970s. His big break came in 1984, when he landed a role in the popular television series, Miami Vice. Thomas played the role of Ricardo Tubbs, a police officer from the Bronx who came to Miami seeking revenge on the person who killed his brother Rafael Tubbs. In Miami he encounters another undercover cop, Sonny Crockett, who is looking for the same person. Thomas was reportedly paid $25,000 per episode for Seasons 1-2, in 1986, he was given an increase to $50,000 per episode for Seasons 3-5. While his co-star, Don Johnson, was paid $30,000 per episode for Seasons 1-2, Thomas coined the acronym EGOT, meaning Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, in reference to his plans for winning all four. He has not, as yet, been nominated for any of these awards, but has received a Peoples Choice Award, in 1994 Thomas signed an agreement with Florida-based Psychic Readers Network to become the spokesman for the Philip Michael Thomas International Psychic Network. He appeared in ads and claimed to have met the planets premier psychics through his world travels. He dressed similarly to his Miami Vice alter ego, even opening the ads with the phrase and he appeared in informercials with Eileen Brennan and Todd McKee and his daughter, Sacha Nicole, to promote the psychic line. Thomas even released a cassette of music tied to his psychic business titled PMT Psychic Connection, traffix replaced Thomas with Miss Cleo. Thomas sued, alleging breach of contract, and won, in 2002 a New York arbitrator awarded Thomas $1.48 million for improper use of his name and likeness and an additional $780,000 in interest. In 1997, Thomas was reunited with Don Johnson in the police drama Nash Bridges and he played Cedrick Rick Hawks, a U. S. Postal Inspector from Miami visiting Bridges in San Francisco
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The Long, Hot Summer
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The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt. The title is taken from The Hamlet, as Book Three is called The Long Summer, the plot follows the conflicts of the Varner family after ambitious drifter Ben Quick arrives in their small Mississippi town. Will Varner, the patriarch, has doubts about his son, Jody. Will therefore tries to push Ben and his daughter Clara into marriage, filmed in Clinton, Louisiana, the cast was composed mostly of former Actors Studio students, whom Ritt met while he was an assistant teacher to Elia Kazan. For the leading role, Warner Brothers loaned Newman to 20th Century Fox, the production was marked by conflicts between Welles and Ritt, which drew media attention. The music score was composed by Alex North, and the song, The Long Hot Summer, written by North. The film was received by critics but did not score significant results at the box office. Its critical success revitalized the career of Ritt, who had been blacklisted during most of the 1950s, Newman won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Ben Quick is on trial, suspected of barn-burning, but when no evidence is found. Ben hitches a ride to Frenchmans Bend, Mississippi, with two women in a convertible, Clara Varner and her sister-in-law Eula. Claras father, Will Varner, is the owner of most of the town. Ben goes to the Varner plantation, will is away, but his only son, Jody, agrees to let Ben become a sharecropper on a vacant farm. Will is also disappointed with the man that his 23-year-old daughter, Clara, has been seeing for five or six years, Alan Stewart, a genteel Southern blue blood and a mamas boy. Will therefore schemes to push his daughter and Ben together, to try to bring fresh, however, she is openly hostile to the crude, if magnetic, upstart. Will is determined to have his bloodline go on, so he offers to make Ben wealthy if he marries Clara, meanwhile, Minnie Littlejohn, Wills long-time mistress, is dissatisfied with their arrangement and wants to marry him. Jody becomes increasingly frustrated, seeing his position in the family being undermined, after Ben sells some wild horses for Will, he is rewarded with the position of clerk in the general store, alongside Jody. Will even invites him to live in the family mansion and this is the final straw for Jody. He pulls a gun on Ben and threatens to kill him, Ben talks his way out by telling Jody about buried Civil War-era treasure he has supposedly found on a property that Will gave him, a down payment to seal their bargain over Clara
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Cheech Marin
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He has also voiced characters in several Disney productions, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, Its Tough to Be a Bug. Cars, Cars 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, marins trademark is his characters strong Mexican accents. Marin was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Marin, a policeman in the LAPD, and his wife Elsa, Marin was born with a cleft lip, which was repaired. He speaks some Spanish and uses it in his movies, marins nickname Cheech is short for chicharron, a fried pork skin that is a popular snack and an ingredient in Mexican cuisine. Looks like a little chicharrón, you know, Marin graduated from Bishop Alemany High School, and then studied at San Fernando Valley State College, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. Marin auditioned to sing for Frank Zappa in 1967, but he moved to Vancouver, Marin met his future comedic partner, Tommy Chong, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As a part of the successful comedy duo Cheech & Chong, Marin participated in a number of comedy albums. Tommy Chong directed four of their films, while co-writing and starring in all seven with Marin, after Cheech & Chong disbanded in 1985, Marin starred in a number of films as a solo actor, most notably Born in East L. A. The Shrimp on the Barbie, Tin Cup, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico and he made a cameo appearance as a dockworker in Ghostbusters II. In recent years he has active in playing supporting roles in films. After appearing in a role in Judging Amy, playing an independently wealthy landscape designer, Marin starred in the CBS sitcom Rob. He provided his voice for several Disney animated films, most notably Tito the Chihuahua in Oliver & Company, Banzai the hyena in The Lion King and he reprised the Banzai role in the video game Kingdom Hearts II. In July 2007, the book Cheech the School Bus Driver was released, written by Marin, illustrated by Orlando L. Ramirez, in 2005, Marin lent his voice to the animated childrens series Dora the Explorer. He appeared in the episode A Crown for King Bobo, as the Puerto Rican folk hero Juan Bobo, in late 2006, Marin participated in Simon Cowells Celebrity Duets, having sung with Peter Frampton, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Aaron Neville, and Al Jarreau. He was the fourth to be eliminated, in that same year, he voiced as Gaspar Gomez in Scarface, The World Is Yours. Marin had a role in the hit television series Lost, playing David Reyes. He was a co-host for WWE Raw on March 1,2010 with his comedy partner Tommy Chong, Marin also sings on the hidden track Earache My Eye on Korns album Follow the Leader. In 2009, he appeared in the Hallmark Channel movie Expecting a Miracle, on March 18,2010, Marin beat journalist Anderson Cooper and actress Aisha Tyler on Celebrity Jeopardy. s Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational
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Jeff Perry (American actor)
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Jeffrey Perry is an American actor of stage, television, and film. He currently stars in the ABC political drama Scandal, at an early age, his elder sister Jo took him to an audition at Ravinia Festival where American Conservatory Theater was staging Luigi Pirandellos Six Characters in Search of an Author. He auditioned and got the part and he is one of the original co-founders of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. It has since grown into a national theater company whose alumni include John Malkovich, John Mahoney. Perry remains an Executive Artistic Director along with co-founders Kinney and Sinise, after spending nearly two decades with Steppenwolf, Perry made the move to Los Angeles in 1987 to pursue film and television work. Perry is perhaps best known as Inspector Harvey Leek on the CBS police drama series Nash Bridges and he was a tough superior to Kevin Bacons detective in the thriller Wild Things. He replaced John Billingsley in the role of Terrence Steadman in the critically acclaimed TV show Prison Break, Perry has also been in multiple stage productions. These include Time of your Life, Grapes of Wrath, and he starred in the Tracy Letts play August, Osage County on Broadway, which originated at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. As of 2012, Perry starred in the ABC drama series Scandal as Cyrus Beene, the series debuted on April 5,2012 as a mid-season replacement in the 2011–12 television season. The series was created by Shonda Rhimes and is currently in its sixth season, Perry was born in Highland Park, Illinois, where his father was a teacher at Highland Park High School. He graduated from Illinois State University in 1978, in 2011, Perry received an honorary doctorate from Illinois State University in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the field of theatre. Perry is the youngest of three siblings, sisters Jo and Janice are both deceased. His nephew, Jai Henry serves as his social media assistant, Perry was married to actress Laurie Metcalf from 1983 until 1992. They had a child, actress Zoe Perry, together in 1984 and he is currently married to Greys Anatomys casting director, Linda Lowy, with whom he has a daughter named Leah. Jeff Perry at the Internet Movie Database Jeff Perry at the Internet Broadway Database Jeff Perry at Internet Off-Broadway Database The Steppenwolf Theater Company
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Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
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Jodi Lyn OKeefe is an American actress and model, who at age 17 began portraying Cassidy Bridges on Nash Bridges. She is also known for her role on Prison Break as Gretchen Morgan, anthony, and as Josette Jo Laughlin in The Vampire Diaries. OKeefe was born in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, the daughter of Noreen, a homemaker, and Jack OKeefe and she has Czech, Irish, Polish, Swedish and Austrian ancestry. OKeefe has two sisters, Jenna and Heather. OKeefe started her career as a model at the age of 8 years old, midway through her junior year of high school, OKeefe left school to star on the soap opera Another World, playing Marguerite “Maggie” Cory. She then got a role on Nash Bridges playing Cassidy, the daughter of Don Johnson’s title character and she and her mother moved to Hollywood so OKeefe completed her schooling by mail. OKeefe made her big debut in 1998 in Halloween H20,20 Years Later and later starred in such films as The Crow, Salvation, Whatever It Takes. In 1999, she co-starred in the teen film Shes All That as Taylor Vaughan alongside Freddie Prinze Jr. when asked if it was hard to play her character, a high school prima donna, she replied, “Everybody knew a Taylor Vaughan in high school. Working in show business, you meet girls like that every day. ”OKeefe kept on filming both movies and Nash Bridges until the series ended in 2001, Later films have included Out for Blood, in which she played a vampire named Layla Simmons and Venice Underground. On the small screen, she has appeared in shows including Dharma & Greg, Boston Legal, Two and a Half Men, Charmed, The Evidence, The Big Bang Theory. In 2007, OKeefe was cast in a role on the series Prison Break, she was a part of the shows cast through its third. OKeefe has said that she loved playing the part of her Prison Break character Gretchen Morgan, because it challenged her. In 2014 OKeefe was cast in a role in VH1s TV series Hit the Floor. The same year, she was also cast in the role of Jo in the sixth season of The CW series The Vampire Diaries. In 2009 she appeared in the stand-alone add-on of the video game Command & Conquer, Red Alert 3, in June 2013, OKeefe did a photoshoot for NOH8 campaign. OKeefe was in 3 Doors Downs video for Let Me Go, on June 22,2011, OKeefe started her own clothing line, Queen George Clothing. In 2012, OKeefe launched her own line, Q. OKeefe is also a licensed bounty hunter together with her friend Victoria Pratt, Jodi Lyn OKeefe at the Internet Movie Database Jodi Lyn OKeefe on Twitter Jodi Lyn OKeefe as Lionel Davenport on VH1s Hit the Floor
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San Francisco Police Department
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The San Francisco Police Department is the city police department of the City and County of San Francisco, California. The departments motto is the same as that of the city and county, Oro en paz, fierro en guerra, archaic Spanish for Gold in peace, iron in war. The SFPD should not be confused with the San Francisco Sheriffs Department and it is the 11th largest police department in the United States. The SFPD began operations on August 13,1849, during the Gold Rush under the command of Captain Malachi Fallon, at the time, Chief Fallon had a force of one deputy captain, three sergeants and thirty officers. In 1851, Albert Bernard de Russailh wrote about the nascent San Francisco police force, As for the police, the police force is largely made up of ex-bandits, and naturally the members are interested above all in saving their old friends from punishment. Policemen here are quite as much to be feared as the robbers and you pay them well to watch over your house, and they set it on fire. In short, I think that all the people concerned with justice or the police are in league with the criminals, the city is in a hopeless chaos, and many years must pass before order can be established. In a country where so many races are mingled, a severe and inflexible justice is desirable, on October 28,1853, the Board of Aldermen passed Ordinance No. 466, which provided for the reorganization of the police department, sections one and two provided as follows, The People of the City of San Francisco do ordain as follows, Sec.1. The Police Department of the City of San Francisco, shall be composed of a day and night police, consisting of 56 men, each to be recommended by at least ten tax-paying citizens. There shall be one Captain and one assistant Captain of Police, who shall be elected in joint convention of the Board of Aldermen and assistant Aldermen. The remainder of the force, viz.54 men, shall be appointed as follows, By the Mayor,2, by the City Marshal,2, by the City Recorder,2, in July 1856, the Consolidation Act went into effect. This act abolished the office of City Marshal and created in its stead the office of Chief of Police, the first Chief of Police elected in 1856 was James F. Curtis a former member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The SFPD is known for being one of the forces for modern law enforcement. In early August 1975, the SFPD went on strike over a pay dispute, the city quickly obtained a court order declaring the strike illegal and enjoining the SFPD back to work. The court messenger delivering the order was met with violence and the SFPD continued to strike, only managers and African-American officers remained on duty, with 45 officers and 3 fire trucks responsible for a city population of 700,000. Supervisor Dianne Feinstein pleaded Mayor Joseph Alioto to ask Governor Jerry Brown to call out the National Guard to patrol the streets, when enraged civilians confronted SFPD officers at the picket lines, the officers arrested them. Again, the SFPD ignored the court order, on August 20 a bomb detonated at the Mayors home with a sign reading Dont Threaten Us left on his lawn
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Plymouth Barracuda
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The Plymouth Barracuda is a two-door car that was manufactured by Plymouth from the 1964 to 1974 model years. The first-generation Barracuda, a fastback A-body coupe based on the Plymouth Valiant, had distinctive wraparound back glass and was available from 1964 to 1966, the second-generation 1967 to 1969 Barracuda, though still Valiant-based, was heavily redesigned. Second-generation A-body cars were available in fastback, notchback, and convertible versions, the third-generation 1970 to 1973 E-body Barracuda, no longer Valiant-based, was available as a coupe and a convertible, both of which were very different from the previous models. The final model year for the Barracuda was 1973, although a prototype of the Plymouth Cuda was introduced as a concept in 1974, it was never produced. Automotive trends in the early to mid-1960s had all the U. S. manufacturers making vehicles in the rapidly increasing sporty compact-size market segment, Chryslers A-body Plymouth Valiant was chosen for the focus of the companys efforts in this direction. Plymouths executives had wanted to name the car Panda, an idea that was unpopular with the cars designers, in the end, John Samsens suggestion of Barracuda was selected. This hybrid design approach significantly reduced the development and tooling cost, the fastback body shape was achieved primarily with a giant back glass, which wrapped down to the fender line. Pittsburgh Plate Glass collaborated with Chrysler designers to produce this 14.4 ft² backlight, powertrains were identical to the Valiants, including two versions of Chryslers slant-6 six-cylinder engine. The standard-equipment engine had a displacement of 170 cu in and an output of 101 bhp. The highest power option for 1964 was Chryslers all-new 273 cu in LA V8, a compact and relatively light engine equipped with a two-barrel carburetor, it produced 180 bhp. The Barracuda sold for a price of US$2,512. It also marked the first use of the smaller TorqueFlite 6 transmission behind a V8, in 1965, the 225 slant-6 became the base engine for the U. S. market, though the 170 remained the base engine in Canada. New options were introduced for the Barracuda as the competition among pony cars intensified, the 273 engine was made available as an upgraded Commando version with a four-barrel carburetor,10.5,1 compression, and a more aggressive camshaft, still with solid tappets. These and other upgrades increased the output to 235 bhp. Also in 1965, the Formula S package was introduced and it included the Commando V8 engine, suspension upgrades, larger wheels and tires, special emblems, and a tachometer. Disc brakes and factory-installed air conditioning became available after the start of the 1965 model year, for 1966, the Barracuda received new taillamps, new front sheet metal, and a new instrument panel. The latter had room for oil pressure and tachometer gauges on models so equipped, the 1966 front sheet metal which, except for the grille, was shared with the Valiant, and gave a more rectilinear contour to the fenders. Deluxe models featured fender-top turn signal indicators with a stylized fin motif, the bumpers were larger, and the grille featured a strong grid theme
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Demi Moore
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Demi Gene Guynes, professionally known as Demi Moore, is an American actress, former songwriter, and model. Moore dropped out of school at age 16 to pursue an acting career. After making her debut later that year, she appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and subsequently gained recognition for her work in Blame It on Rio. Her first film to both a critical and commercial hit was About Last Night. Which established her as a Hollywood star, in 1990, Moore starred in Ghost, the highest-grossing film of that year, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. She had a string of additional successes in the early 1990s, including A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal. In 1996, Moore became the actress in film history when she was paid a then-unprecedented fee of $12.5 million to star in Striptease. Her next major role, G. I. Moore was born on November 11,1962 in Roswell and her biological father, Air Force airman Charles Harmon, Sr. left her mother, Virginia, after a two-month marriage, before Moore was born. When Moore was three months old, her mother married Dan Guynes, an advertising salesman who frequently changed jobs, as a result. Moore said in 1991, My dad was Dan Guynes, there is a man who would be considered my biological father who I dont really have a relationship with. Moore learned of him at age 13, when she found her mother and stepfathers marriage certificate, Dan Guynes committed suicide in October 1980 at age 37, two years after he separated from Moores mother. Charles Harmon appeared on Inside Edition in 1995, making an appeal to see his grandchildren, Virginia Guynes had a long record of arrests for crimes, including drunk driving and arson. Moore broke off contact with her in 1990, when Guynes walked away from a rehab stay Moore had paid for at the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota. Guynes posed nude for the magazine High Society in 1993, where she spoofed Moores Vanity Fair pregnancy and bodypaint covers, Moore and Guynes briefly reconciled shortly before Guynes died of cancer in July 1998 at age 54. Moore was cross-eyed as a child, this was corrected by two operations. She also suffered from kidney dysfunction, at age 15, Moore moved to West Hollywood, California, where her mother worked for a magazine-distribution company. Moore attended Fairfax High School there, and recalled, I moved out of my familys house when I was 16 and left high school in my junior year. In August 1979, three months before her 17th birthday, Moore met musician Freddy Moore who was married and at the leader of the band Boy
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Ashton Kutcher
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Christopher Ashton Kutcher is an American actor and investor. Kutcher began his career as a model and began his career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That 70s Show. He made his debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon and became known by audiences in the comedy film Dude. In 2004, Kutcher starred in the role of the psychological film The Butterfly Effect. Kutcher subsequently appeared in romantic comedies, including Guess Who, A Lot Like Love, What Happens in Vegas. From 2011 to 2015, he starred as Walden Schmidt on the CBS sitcom Two, in 2013, Kutcher portrayed Steve Jobs in the biographical film Jobs. Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Diane, a Procter & Gamble employee, and Larry M. Kutcher and his father is of Czech descent, while his mother is of Czech, German, and Irish ancestry. Kutcher was raised in a relatively conservative Catholic family and he has an older sister named Tausha and a fraternal twin brother named Michael, who had a heart transplant when the brothers were young children. Michael also has cerebral palsy and is a spokesperson for the advocacy organization Reaching for the Stars, michaels cardiomyopathy caused Kutchers home life to become increasingly stressful. He has said that he didnt want to come home and find more bad news about his brother, stating, Kutcher attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids for his freshman year, before his family moved to Homestead, Iowa, where he attended Clear Creek Amana High School. During high school, he developed a passion for acting and appeared in school plays, however, Kutchers home life worsened as his parents divorced when he was 16. During his senior year, he broke into his school at midnight with his cousin in an attempt to steal money. Kutcher was convicted of burglary and sentenced to three years probation and 180 hours of community service. Kutcher stated that although the experience straightened him out, he lost his girlfriend and anticipated college scholarships, Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, where his planned major was biochemical engineering, motivated by the desire to find a cure for his brothers heart ailment. At college, Kutcher was kicked out of his apartment for being too noisy, Kutcher stated, I thought I knew everything but I didnt have a clue. I was partying, and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before, I am amazed I am not dead. To earn money for his tuition, Kutcher worked as a college summer hire in the department for the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids. While at the University of Iowa, he was approached by a scout at a bar called The Airliner in Iowa City, Iowa
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The WB
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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Just Legal
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Just Legal is a television courtroom drama that stars Don Johnson and Jay Baruchel as two courtroom lawyers in Venice, California. The series premiered on The WB on September 19,2005 and was canceled on October 3,2005 after only three episodes had been aired, almost a year later The WB burned off five unaired episodes following a repeat of the pilot on August 6,2006. The series concluded on September 10,2006, Just Legal, starring Don Johnson and Jay Baruchel, is a drama about two amusingly mismatched lawyers that comes at you unassumingly. David Skip Ross,19, is a genius who graduated from law school at the top of his class. Enter Grant Cooper, a washed-up middle-aged lawyer who has one too many bad choices in his career, leaving him a jaded court-appointed attorney. Grant has no intention of actually bringing Skip into his practice, but his charm, enthusiasm, intelligence, there are a variety of cases featured on the show, from murder cases to botched plastic surgery. Many of the storylines are based on real-life cases, the series is set in Venice and neighboring Santa Monica, California. Don Johnson as Grant H. Cooper, A functioning alcoholic with a view of the world. Skips brilliant mind allowed him to excel at all things academic, Skip needs the practical advice that can only come from an experienced trial lawyer, and Cooper is only too happy to have someone around to do the “grunt” work. As he helps the man make the transition from school and boyhood to the tough world of court and manhood. Cooper repeatedly prides himself with being jaded after 27 years on the job. After refusing to agree to a bargain for one of his clients, he lost the case and that client was put to death by lethal injection. From then on, he was forced to make a living as an ambulance chaser. Jay Baruchel as David Skip Ross, David Ross is nicknamed Skip by his peers, not because he skipped classes, by age 18 he is already a lawyer and a member of the California Bar Association, having graduated first in his class. His ambition is to become the best trial lawyer ever, originally inspired by one of his favorite movies, unfortunately for him, no downtown law firm is willing to hire him because of his age. His young age is hard on him because its difficult for him to find a place to rent. With Grants help, Skip learns the inner workings of the legal system, unlike Cooper, Skip is an optimist and looks at everything in a positive way. David Skip Ross is similar to Doogie Howser, M. D, an African-American in her mid-twenties, Dee is tough, blue collar and strikingly beautiful, a woman who looks amazing in jeans, a T-shirt and an electronic ankle bracelet
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Jay Baruchel
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Jonathan Adam Saunders Jay Baruchel is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, and producer. He plays Josh Greenberg in the FXX comedy television series Man Seeking Woman and played the character in Judd Apatows comedy series. Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Robyne, a writer, and Serge Baruchel. He grew up in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec and his paternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew, while his three other grandparents were from a Christian background. Baruchel has said that he is probably agnostic, one of his first major acting roles was on local television series My Hometown in 1996. From 1997 to 1998, he co-hosted Popular Mechanics for Kids with Elisha Cuthbert and he then appeared with James Van Der Beek in Roger Avarys The Rules of Attraction. In 2004, Baruchel played boxing hopeful Danger Barch in Clint Eastwoods Million Dollar Baby, Baruchel then starred in Nemesis Game and Fetching Cody, before appearing opposite Don Johnson on the WBs Just Legal in 2005, and guest-starring on the CBS drama Numb3rs in 2006. Baruchel appeared in the films Knocked Up, Im Reed Fish, Just Buried, and he co-starred with Seth Rogen in the 2007 trailer for Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse, created by Rogen and Evan Goldberg as a strategy to garner interest and funding for a similar, in 2008, he appeared in Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist. He also made a appearance in Night at the Museum 2. In 2010, Baruchel starred in the films The Trotsky, DreamWorks Shes Out of My League, and he also voiced the starring role in the acclaimed animated feature, How to Train Your Dragon, a role he has subsequently continued throughout the franchise, including its television series. Also in 2010, he played two supporting characters in the Canadian comedy series The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour and he developed the screenplay for Goon, with Evan Goldberg, playing Johnny Klutz, a character of his own creation. Goon co-stars Seann William Scott and fellow Canadian actor, Eugene Levy, Baruchel will also star in and direct the comedy/horror/slasher film Pig. Baruchel also appeared in the 2010 Adidas Originals ad campaign, Cantina, in conjunction with the FIFA World Cup, in July 2012, he appeared in the music video for the song Toxsik Waltz by rapper Necro. In the summer of 2013, he starred in the hit apocalyptic comedy This Is the End and in 2014, he appeared in the RoboCop remake, Baruchel is in the process of writing the sequel to Goon. In July 2014, it was announced that Baruchel will be starring in the FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman which premiered in January 2015, Baruchel was previously engaged to actress Alison Pill from 2011 to 2013. He alluded to their break-up in a Twitter posting on February 16,2013, Baruchel has several tattoos, a Celtic cross to honour his Irish heritage, his mothers maiden name and a red Maple Leaf on his left pectoral. Baruchel is also a fan of Celtic F. C
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West End of London
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Use of the term began in the early 19th century to describe fashionable areas to the west of Charing Cross. The West End covers much of the boroughs of Westminster and Camden, while the City of London, or the Square Mile, is the main business and financial district in London, the West End is the main commercial and entertainment centre of the city. It is one of the most expensive locations in the world in which to rent office space and it was also close to the royal seat of power at Westminster, and is largely contained within the City of Westminster. Developed in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, it was built as a series of palaces, expensive town houses, fashionable shops. The areas closest to the City around Holborn, Seven Dials, as the West End is a term used colloquially by Londoners and is not an official geographical or municipal definition, its exact constituent parts are up for debate. The Edgware Road to the north-west and the Victoria Embankment to the south-east were also covered by the document but were treated as adjacent areas to the West End. According to Ed Glinerts West End Chronicles the districts falling within the West End are Mayfair, Soho, Covent Garden, Fitzrovia, one of the local government wards within the City of Westminster is called West End. This covers a area that defined by Glinert, Mayfair, Soho. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 10,575, the New West End Company is a business improvement district and runs services including street cleaning and security on Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street. NWEC also runs the Red Caps service, the West End is laid out with many notable public squares and circuses, the latter being the original name for roundabouts in London. London West End Things to do General overview of what to do in the West End
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Guys and Dolls
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Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The premiere on Broadway was in 1950 and it ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Guys and Dolls was selected as the winner of the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Guys and Dolls was conceived by producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin as an adaptation of Damon Runyons short stories and these stories, written in the 1920s and 1930s, concerned gangsters, gamblers, and other characters of the New York underworld. Runyon was known for the dialect he employed in his stories, mixing highly formal language. Frank Loesser, who had spent most of his career as a lyricist for movie musicals, was hired as composer, George S. Kaufman was hired as director. When the first version of the book, or dialogue, written by Jo Swerling was deemed unusable, Feuer. Loesser had already much of the score to correspond with the first version of the book. Burrows would recall as follows, Frank Loessers fourteen songs were all great, later on, the critics spoke of the show as integrated. The word integration usually means that the composer has written songs that follow the story line gracefully, well, we accomplished that but we did it in reverse. The character of Miss Adelaide was created specifically to fit Vivian Blaine into the musical, when Loesser suggested reprising some songs in the second act, Kaufman warned, If you reprise the songs, we’ll reprise the jokes. A pantomime of never-ceasing activities depicts the hustle and bustle of New York City, three small-time gamblers, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, and Rusty Charlie, argue over which horse will win a big race. The band members of the Save-a-Soul Mission, led by the pious and beautiful Sergeant Sarah Brown, call for sinners to Follow the Fold, Nicely and Bennys employer, Nathan Detroit, runs an illegal floating crap game. Due to local policeman Lt. Brannigans strong-armed police activity, he has only one likely spot to hold the game. However, the owner, Joey Biltmore, requires a $1,000 security deposit, Nathan hopes to get $1,000 by winning a bet against Sky Masterson, a gambler willing to bet on virtually anything. Nathan proposes a bet which he believes he cannot lose, Sky must take a doll of Nathans choice to dinner in Havana, Sky agrees, and Nathan chooses Sarah Brown. At the mission, Sky claims he wants to be saved and he offers Sarah a deal, He will bring the mission one dozen genuine sinners if she will accompany him to Havana the next night. Sarah rebuffs him, telling him that she plans to fall in love with an upright, Sky replies that he plans on being surprised when he falls in love
