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Tacoma, Washington
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Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washingtons Puget Sound,32 miles southwest of Seattle,31 miles northeast of the capital, Olympia. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census, Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of activity for the South Sound region. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Takhoma or Tahoma and it is locally known as the City of Destiny because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacomas neighboring deep-water harbor, by connecting the bay with the railroad, Tacomas motto became When rails meet sails. Today, Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of trade on the Pacific Coast. Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a decline in the mid-20th century as a result of suburbanization. Neighborhoods such as the 6th Avenue District have become revitalized, tacoma-Pierce County has been named one of the most livable areas in the United States. In 2006, Tacoma was listed as one of the most walkable cities in the country and that same year, the womens magazine Self named Tacoma the Most Sexually Healthy City in the United States. In contrast, Tacoma was also ranked as the most stressed-out city in the country in a 2004 survey, Tacoma gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname Galloping Gertie. The city of Tacoma and surrounding areas were inhabited for thousands of years by American Indians, predominantly the Puyallup people, mcCarver, who named his project Tacoma City, derived from the indigenous name for the mountain. Tacoma was incorporated on November 12,1875, following the merger of Old Tacoma, the transcontinental link was effected in 1887, but the railroad built its depot on New Tacoma, two miles south of the Carr-McCarver development. The two communities together and joined. The population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890, rudyard Kipling visited Tacoma in 1889 and said it was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest. George Francis Train was a resident for a few years in the late 19th century, in 1890, he staged a global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote the city. A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start and finish line, in November 1885, white citizens led by then-mayor Jacob Weisbach expelled several hundred Chinese residents peacefully living in the city. The next day two Chinese settlements were burned to the ground, the discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898 led Tacomas prominence in the region to be eclipsed by the booming development of Seattle
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Cary Grant
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Cary Grant was a British-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywoods definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s, and became known for his accent, debonair demeanor. He became an American citizen in 1942, Born in Horfield, Bristol, Grant became attracted to theatre at a young age, and began performing with a troupe known as The Penders from the age of six. After attending Bishop Road Primary School and Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol, he toured the country as a stage performer and he established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s. Along with the later Arsenic and Old Lace and I Was a Male War Bride, having established himself as a major Hollywood star, he was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart. In the 1940s and 1950s, Grant forged a relationship with the director Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in films such as Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief. Hitchcock admired Grant and considered him to have been the actor that he had ever loved working with. His comic timing and delivery made Grant what Premiere magazine considers to have quite simply. Grant was married five times, three of his marriages were elopements with actresses—Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon and he has one daughter with Cannon, Jennifer Grant. After his retirement from acting in 1966, Grant pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm Fabergé. He was presented with an Honorary Oscar by his friend Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970, in 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema, after Humphrey Bogart. Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18,1904 at 15 Hughenden Road in the northern Bristol suburb of Horfield and he was the second child of Elias James Leach and Elsie Maria Leach. Elias, the son of a potter, worked as a tailors presser at a factory, while Elsie. Grants elder brother, John William Elias Leach, died of tuberculous meningitis, Grant considered himself to have been partly Jewish. He had an upbringing, his father was an alcoholic. Wanting the best for her son, Elsie taught Grant song and dance when he was four and she would occasionally take him to the cinema where he enjoyed the performances of Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling, Mack Swain and Broncho Billy Anderson. Grant entered education when he was four-and-a-half and was sent to the Bishop Road Primary School, Bristol, another biographer, Geoffrey Wansell, notes that Elsie blamed herself bitterly for the death of Grants older brother John, and never recovered from it. Grant later acknowledged that his experiences with his fiercely independent mother affected his relationships with women later in life
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Jennifer Grant
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Jennifer Diane Grant is an American actress, the only child of actors Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. She is best known for roles in the television series Beverly Hills,90210, Jennifer Grant was born on February 26,1966, in Burbank, California. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. The reasons given for their divorce were that her father was unable to find his wife, in addition. Jennifer had a relationship with her father for the rest of his life. Partly because her father did not want her to become an actress, in 1993, seven years after her fathers death, Grant played her first acting role in the Aaron Spelling television drama Beverly Hills,90210, in the recurring role of Celeste Lundy. She appeared as a guest star in a variety of shows including Friends, in 1999, she was the lead actress in the WB television sitcom Movie Stars. Her memoir, Good Stuff, A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, is a portrait of her relationship with her father, who was 62 when she was born and who died 20 years later. The title refers to an expression of his, said in reference to things he approved of or situations he was happy about. Grant was married to Randy Zisk for three years, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1996, Grant gave birth to a son, Cary Benjamin, on August 12,2008. Grant has volunteered as an actress and mentor with the Young Storytellers Foundation, Jennifer Grant Jennifer Grant at the Internet Movie Database Sampling of photos from the book Good Stuff, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, publisher
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Ashkenazi Jews
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The traditional diaspora language of Ashkenazi Jews is Yiddish, with Hebrew used only as a sacred language until relatively recently. Throughout their time in Europe, Ashkenazim have made important contributions to philosophy, scholarship, literature, art, music. Ashkenazim originate from the Jews who settled along the Rhine River, in Western Germany, there they became a distinct diaspora community with a unique way of life that adapted traditions from Babylon, The Land of Israel, and the Western Mediterranean to their new environment. The Ashkenazi religious rite developed in such as Mainz, Worms. The eminent French Rishon Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki would have a significant impact on the Jewish religion, in the late Middle Ages, the majority of the Ashkenazi population shifted steadily eastward, moving out of the Holy Roman Empire into the Pale of Settlement. The genocidal impact of the Holocaust devastated the Ashkenazim and their culture, immediately prior to the Holocaust, the number of Jews in the world stood at approximately 16.7 million. Statistical figures vary for the demography of Ashkenazi Jews, oscillating between 10 million and 11.2 million. Sergio DellaPergola in a calculation of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Other estimates place Ashkenazi Jews as making up about 75% of Jews worldwide, genetic studies on Ashkenazim—researching both their paternal and maternal lineages—suggest a significant proportion of Middle Eastern ancestry. Ashkenazi Jews are popularly contrasted with Sephardi Jews, who are descendants of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, there are some differences in how the two groups pronounce certain Hebrew letters, and in points of ritual. The name Ashkenazi derives from the figure of Ashkenaz, the first son of Gomer, son of Khaphet, son of Noah. The name of Gomer has often been linked to the ethnonym Cimmerians, the intrusive n in the Biblical name is likely due to a scribal error confusing a waw ו with a nun נ. In Jeremiah 51,27, Ashkenaz figures as one of three kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni and Ararat, perhaps corresponding to Urartu, called on by God to resist Babylon. Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia, viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes and his contemporary Saadia Gaon identified Ashkenaz with the Saquliba or Slavic territories, and such usage covered also the lands of tribes neighboring the Slavs, and Eastern and Central Europe. In modern times, Samuel Krauss identified the Biblical Ashkenaz with Khazaria, sometime in the early medieval period, the Jews of central and eastern Europe came to be called by this term. In conformity with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was denominated Sefarad, France was called Tsarefat, Rashi uses leshon Ashkenaz to describe German speech, and Byzantium and Syrian Jewish letters referred to the Crusaders as Ashkenazim. Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France and Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to both the Jews of medieval Germany and France. Outside of their origins in ancient Israel, the history of Ashkenazim is shrouded in mystery, the most well-supported theory is the one that details a Jewish migration from Israel through what is now Italy and other parts of southern Europe
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Russians
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Russians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. The majority of Russians inhabit the state of Russia, while notable minorities exist in Ukraine, Kazakhstan. A large Russian diaspora exists all over the world, with numbers in the United States, Germany, Israel. Russians are the most numerous group in Europe. They are predominantly Orthodox Christians by religion, the Russian language is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, and also spoken as a secondary language in many former Soviet states. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians. One is русские, which most often means ethnic Russians, another is россияне, which means citizens of Russia. The former word refers to ethnic Russians, regardless of what country they live in, under certain circumstances this term may or may not extend to denote members of other Russian-speaking ethnic groups from Russia, or from the former Soviet Union. The latter word refers to all people holding citizenship of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity, translations into other languages often do not distinguish these two groups. The name of the Russians derives from the Rus people, the name Rus would then have the same origin as the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden, Ruotsi and Rootsi. According to other theories the name Rus is derived from Proto-Slavic *roud-s-ь, the modern Russians formed from two groups of East Slavic tribes, Northern and Southern. The tribes involved included the Krivichs, Ilmen Slavs, Radimichs, Vyatiches, genetic studies show that modern Russians do not differ significantly from Belarusians and Ukrainians. Some ethnographers, like Zelenin, affirm that Russians are more similar to Belarusians, such Uralic peoples included the Merya and the Muromians. Outside archaeological remains, little is known about the predecessors to Russians in general prior to 859 AD when the Primary Chronicle starts its records and it is thought that by 600 AD, the Slavs had split linguistically into southern, western, and eastern branches. Later, both Belarusians and South Russians formed on this ethnic linguistic ground, the same Slavic ethnic population also settled the present-day Tver Oblast and the region of Beloozero. With the Uralic substratum, they formed the tribes of the Krivichs, in 2010, the worlds Russian population was 129 million people of which 86% were in Russia,11. 5% in the CIS and Baltic countries, with a further 2. 5% living in other countries. Roughly 111 million ethnic Russians live in Russia, 80% of whom live in the European part of Russia, ethnic Russians historically migrated throughout the area of former Russian Empire and Soviet Union, sometimes encouraged to re-settle in borderlands by the Tsarist and later Soviet government. On some occasions ethnic Russian communities, such as Lipovans who settled in the Danube delta or Doukhobors in Canada, after the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War starting in 1917, many Russians were forced to leave their homeland fleeing the Bolshevik regime, and millions became refugees
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Baptists
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Other tenets of Baptist churches include soul competency, salvation through faith alone, Scripture alone as the rule of faith and practice, and the autonomy of the local congregation. Baptists recognize two ministerial offices, elders and deacons, Baptist churches are widely considered to be Protestant churches, though some Baptists disavow this identity. Historians trace the earliest church labeled Baptist back to 1609 in Amsterdam, in accordance with his reading of the New Testament, he rejected baptism of infants and instituted baptism only of believing adults. Baptist practice spread to England, where the General Baptists considered Christs atonement to extend to all people, while the Particular Baptists believed that it extended only to the elect. Thomas Helwys formulated a distinctively Baptist request that the church and the state be kept separate in matters of law, Helwys died in prison as a consequence of the religious persecution of English dissenters under King James I. In 1638, Roger Williams established the first Baptist congregation in the North American colonies, in the mid-18th century, the First Great Awakening contributed to Baptist growth in both New England and the South. Baptist missionaries have spread their church to every continent, the largest Baptist denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention, with the membership of associated churches totaling more than 15 million. Modern Baptist churches trace their history to the English Separatist movement in the century after the rise of the original Protestant denominations and this view of Baptist origins has the most historical support and is the most widely accepted. Adherents to this position consider the influence of Anabaptists upon early Baptists to be minimal and it was a time of considerable political and religious turmoil. Both individuals and churches were willing to give up their theological roots if they became convinced that a more biblical truth had been discovered, during the Protestant Reformation, the Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church. There were some Christians who were not content with the achievements of the mainstream Protestant Reformation, there also were Christians who were disappointed that the Church of England had not made corrections of what some considered to be errors and abuses. Of those most critical of the Churchs direction, some chose to stay and they became known as Puritans and are described by Gourley as cousins of the English Separatists. Others decided they must leave the Church because of their dissatisfaction, historians trace the earliest Baptist church back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with John Smyth as its pastor. Three years earlier, while a Fellow of Christs College, Cambridge, reared in the Church of England, he became Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separatist, and ended his days working with the Mennonites. He began meeting in England with 60–70 English Separatists, in the face of great danger, Smyth and his lay supporter, Thomas Helwys, together with those they led, broke with the other English exiles because Smyth and Helwys were convinced they should be baptized as believers. In 1609 Smyth first baptized himself and then baptized the others, in 1609, while still there, Smyth wrote a tract titled The Character of the Beast, or The False Constitution of the Church. In it he expressed two propositions, first, infants are not to be baptized, and second, Antichristians converted are to be admitted into the true Church by baptism. Hence, his conviction was that a church should consist only of regenerate believers who have been baptized on a personal confession of faith
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West Seattle High School
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West Seattle High School is a comprehensive public high school in Seattles West Seattle neighborhood that serves grades nine through twelve as part of the Seattle School District. The school opened in 1902 and it was first called West Seattle School, in 1917, the current building was opened and the school was renamed West Seattle High School. The mascot was an Indian Chief, and the teams were known as the Indians. A change in the nickname was considered several times beginning in 1974, the mascot was changed to a Wildcat in 2004. The current neo-Renaissance building was designed by architect Edgar Blair on 3.5 acres, various expansions of the site increased the property to its current 8.6 acres. At various times portable classrooms had been installed on the site, the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board designated the building a Landmark in 1981. There was a major remodel in 2000-2002 by Bassetti Architects and this involved featuring the historic building while doubling the size of the facility. The addition was arranged to provide a new entrance to the school surrounded by a new gymnasium, theater, the main entrance was restored, the central auditorium was converted to the Commons, and a gym was converted as the library. West Seattle is a member of the 3A metro league, the 2006 Senior Varsity Baseball Team was Metro League Champions. The 2004 and 2005 Varsity volleyball team were Metro League Champions, the 2004 Wrestling Team was the Metro League Champions. The 2007-08 Mens basketball team made it to the State championship playoffs for the first time in 38 years, the team graduated 3 division one players. Rainier guide service Jim Whittaker, first American to climb Mt. Everest Gregory C
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University of Washington
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The University of Washington, commonly referred to as simply Washington, UW, or informally U-Dub, is a public flagship research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast, the university has three campuses, the oldest and largest in the University District of Seattle and two others in Tacoma and Bothell. Washington is a member of the Association of American Universities and is ranked among the top 15 universities in the world by a variety of international publications. In athletics, the university competes in the NCAA Division I Pac-12 Conference and its athletic teams are called the Huskies. Seattle was one of several settlements in the mid to late 19th century vying for primacy in the new Washington Territory, in 1854, territorial governor Isaac Stevens recommended the establishment of a university in Washington. Several prominent Seattle-area residents, chief among them Methodist preacher Daniel Bagley and they convinced early founder of Seattle and member of the territorial legislature Arthur A. Denny of the importance of Seattle winning the school. When no site emerged, the legislature, encouraged by Denny, in 1861, scouting began for an appropriate 10 acres site in Seattle to serve as the campus for a new university. Arthur and Mary Denny donated eight acres, and fellow pioneers Edward Lander and Charlie and this tract was bounded by 4th and 6th Avenues on the west and east and Union and Seneca Streets on the north and south. UW opened on November 4,1861, as the Territorial University of Washington, the following year, the legislature passed articles incorporating the University and establishing a Board of Regents. The school struggled initially, closing three times, in 1863 for lack of students, and again in 1867 and 1876 due to shortage of funds. However, Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt became the first graduate of UW in 1876 when she graduated from UW with a degree in science. By the time Washington entered the Union in 1889, both Seattle and the University had grown substantially, enrollment increased from 30 students to nearly 300, and the relative isolation of the campus had given way to encroaching development. A special legislative committee headed by UW graduate Edmond Meany was created to find a new campus able to serve the growing student population. The committee selected a site on Union Bay northeast of downtown, the university relocated from downtown to the new campus in 1895, moving into the newly built Denny Hall. The regents tried and failed to sell the old campus, the University still owns what is now called the Metropolitan Tract. In the heart of the city, it is among the most valuable pieces of estate in Seattle. The original Territorial University building was torn down in 1908 and its former site houses the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. The sole surviving remnants of UWs first building are four 24-foot, white, hand-fluted cedar and they were salvaged by Edmond S. Meany—one of the Universitys first graduates and the former head of the history department
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond is a 1960 film directed by Budd Boetticher. The picture marked the debut of Dyan Cannon and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Howard Shoup. In the 1920s, ambitious but smalltime thief Jack Diamond and his sickly brother Eddie Diamond move to New York City, Jack meets dance instructor Alice Shiffer, lies to her to date her and to steal a necklace from a jewelry store. After being incarcerated for a time, he works with Alice at her school while on probation. He then gets hired as bodyguard of infamous Arnold Rothstein who gives him the nickname Legs and his plan is to supplant Rothstein with the intention of stealing his bootleg, drugs and gambling businesses. After Arnold is murdered, Legs Diamond sells protection, when he travels to Europe with Alice on a vacation, he sees in the newspaper that the New York underworld has changed with the National Prohibition Act. Legs returns to America and confronts the syndicate, demanding a cut from their operations and he kicks Alice out of his life and turns to Monica, who betrays him. Hit men enter his room and shoot him dead. In the final scene, as his corpse is being removed on a stretcher, Alice says he was loved by many, joe Cassidy Frank de Kova as The Chairman Frank de Kovas role is only listed as The Chairman of the new crime syndicate. He was portraying Lucky Luciano, but as Luciano was still alive at the time, the lead role was first offered to Robert Evans. When he turned it down Warner Bros, television contract star Ray Danton took the lead. Evans also had turned down the lead for The George Raft Story that Danton also played, Danton reprised his role as Legs Diamond in Portrait of a Mobster. From Howard Thompson of The New York Times, After he saw the film, guitarist Hank Marvin was inspired to give the name of the film to his The Rise, in 2008, the American Film Institute nominated this film for its Top 10 Gangster Films list. List of American films of 1960 The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond at the Internet Movie Database The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond at AllMovie
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Bat Masterson (TV series)
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Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961, the series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for hit first-run syndicated series such as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol. Masterson was also portrayed as a man who traveled the West looking for women. Dinehart left the series, and Barry was hence cast as a 40-something Masterson in a series on a different network. In the year 1958-1959 both actors were featured in the role of Masterson, the black derby, fancy vest, black jacket, and elegant cane were his trademarks. Miniaturized versions were marketed to children as tie-in products during the run of the show, the theme song was sung by Bill Lee, a member of the Mellomen. The series was based on Richard OConnors 1957 biography of Masterson. This was highlighted by the front cover being shown at the end of the closing credits with an onscreen notation based on. Stephanie Powers appeared in 1961 episode named Dead Mans Claim as Ann, george Macready appeared as Clyde Richards in the 1961 episode Tempest at Tioga Pass. Quintin Sondergaard appeared in roles on the series five times between 1958 and 1961. Dan Sheridan was cast as Joe Rankin in the 1959 episode Election Day, yvonne Lime Fedderson was cast as Lola White in the 1960 episode The Snare. Ron Hayes appeared four times in the role of Wyatt Earp, gary Vinson appeared as Billy Thompson in the 1958 episode A Noose Fits Anybody. Tyler McVey appeared from 1958 to 1961 in different roles in three episodes, ron Foster appeared twice as Toby Dawson in Six Feet of Gold and as Sheriff Buck Simpson in Jeopardy at Jackson Hole. James Coburn also appeared in Six Feet of Gold, tom Greenway guest starred twice, as Charlie in Buffalo Kill and as Ben Pick in Dagger Dance. Brett King appeared four times, beginning with the role of Hub Elliott in License to Cheat, william Tannen was cast in four episodes of Bat Masterson. Kevin Hagen appeared as Ace Williams in The Fourth Man, lon Chaney, Jr. played the role of Rance Fletcher in Bat Trap. Dell Comics issued nine issues of a quarterly Bat Masterson comic book between Aug. /Oct,1962 with the initial issue a Four Color tryout. Columbia Features syndicated a comic strip from September 7,1959 to April 1960 written by Ed Herron and drawn by Howard Nostrand, notably Nostrand was assisted by Neal Adams who had just graduated from the School of Industrial Arts, it was among his first professional art jobs
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The Price of Paradise
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The Price of Paradise is a BBC Books original novel written by Colin Brake and based on the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was published on September 21,2006, alongside The Nightmare of Black Island and it features the Tenth Doctor and Rose. Laylora, the Paradise Planet, is a world of breathtaking beauty, years ago, a human called Rez arrived on the planet as a baby in an escape pod, and was adopted by the native people. The Doctor and Rose arrive to answer a distress signal from a group of scientists, natural disasters are becoming more frequent, and creatures from ancient legends are appearing and attacking people. When an alarm sounds in the TARDIS console room, Rose asks if it is a mauve alert and this universal danger alert was mentioned in The Empty Child. The crystal trisilicate is used as fuel in the book. Trisilicate was first seen in The Curse of Peladon, when Rose searches through the pockets of the Doctors coat, she likens them to the TARDIS as they go on forever. She discovers a number of items, including a banana, a yo-yo. The long-held fan theory that the Doctors pockets are bigger on the inside was confirmed in The Runaway Bride, a spaceship is reported drifting out of control at the edge of Draconian Space. The Doctor quotes Shakespeare, and later credit for the final edit of Hamlet. For the first time in the novels, a reference is made to one of the novels in the New Series range. Rose mentions that she is reminded of her visit to Ancient Rome, the Doctor mentions the Axons and the Zygons. This story probably takes place after The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit as Rose mentions the Ood, an abridged audio book version of The Price of Paradise read by Shaun Dingwall was released in November 2006 by BBC Audiobooks. Also included was a discussion between the author and reader
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Wanted Dead or Alive (TV series)
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Wanted Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons in 1958–61, the black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television, the series launched McQueen, known for the concept of cool in entertainment, as the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen. Josh Randall is a Confederate veteran and bounty hunter with a soft heart and he often donates his earnings to the needy and helps his prisoners if they have been wrongly accused. Randall carries a shortened Winchester Model 1892 carbine called the Mares Leg in a holster patterned after gunslinger rigs then popular in movies, Randall can draw and fire his weapon with blazing speed. Three Mares Legs were used in the series, differing in the shape of the lever, although Randall is a bounty hunter, he doesnt chase and capture only men on wanted posters. This variety, as well as his pursuit of justice and not just money, contributed to the shows attraction, except for a few episodes at the beginning of the series, Randall rode a horse named Ringo. Several episodes in 1960 included a sidekick named Jason Nichols, a deputy sheriff turned bounty hunter and he and Randall worked well together on-screen, sharing a chemistry audiences enjoyed. By the start of the season, Nichols had been dropped. Dyan Cannon billed as Diane Cannon daughter of magician Season 2- Episode 52, wright King appeared as Jason Nichols in eleven episodes in 1960. Guest stars included Noah Beery, Jr. James Best, Lon Chaney, Jr. James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Lawrence Dobkin, John Dehner, Betsy Drake, Alan Hale, Jr. The series was filmed in black and white at the Selznick Studios, writers included Samuel A. Peeples and Charles Beaumont. The first season theme song was written and conducted by William Loose and it was replaced by a new theme titled Wanted. This theme was used until the end of the series and was written, October 1958 – April 1959, No.16 –28.0 October 1959 – April 1960, No.9 –28. In 1987, New World Pictures adapted the series into a film of the same name, Rutger Hauer played modern-day bounty hunter Nick Randall. On June 7,2005, New Line Home Video released season 1 of Wanted, in 2007, BCI Eclipse acquired the distribution rights to the series and released the final two seasons on DVD. Season 2 was released on July 17,2007, and season 3 on October 16,2007 and these releases are now out of print as BCI Eclipse ceased operations in December 2008. In June 2009, Mill Creek Entertainment acquired the rights to the series and have subsequently re-released the first two seasons, on August 25,2009, they released an 11-disc box set featuring all 94 episodes of the series on DVD for the first time
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Steve McQueen
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Terence Steven Steve McQueen was an American actor. Called The King of Cool, his anti-hero persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. In 1974, he became the movie star in the world. McQueen was combative with directors and producers, but his popularity placed him in high demand, Terence Steven McQueen was born on March 24,1930 at St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove, Indiana. His father, William Terence McQueen, was a stunt pilot for a flying circus who left McQueens mother, Julia Ann. Unable to cope with caring for a child, she left him with her parents in Slater, Missouri. As the Great Depression set in shortly thereafter, McQueen and his grandparents moved in with Lillians brother Claude at his farm in Slater. McQueen expressed having good memories of living at his Uncle Claudes farm, later stating, He was a good man, very strong. I learned a lot from him, Claude gave him a red tricycle on the boys fourth birthday that McQueen later said sparked his interest in racing. At age eight, he was home by his mother. McQueen retained a special memory of leaving the farm, The day I left the farm Uncle Claude gave me a personal going-away present—a gold pocket watch, the inscription read, To Steve – who has been a son to me. Dyslexic and partly due to a childhood ear infection, Steve did not adjust well to his new life. His new stepfather beat him to an extent that at the age of nine he left home to live on the streets, soon he was running with a street gang and committing acts of petty crime. Unable to control his behavior, his mother sent him back to Slater, when he was 12, Julia wrote to Claude asking that her son be returned to her again to live in her new home in Los Angeles, California. Julias second marriage had ended in divorce and she had married a third time, by McQueens own account his new stepfather and he locked horns immediately. McQueen recalls him being a son of a bitch who was not averse to using his fists on McQueen. As McQueen began to rebel again he was sent back to live with Claude a final time, McQueen was caught stealing hubcaps by police, who handed him over to his stepfather, who beat him severely, ending the fight by throwing McQueen down a flight of stairs. McQueen looked up at his stepfather and said, You lay your hands on me again and I swear
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Johnny Ringo (TV series)
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Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1,1959, until June 30,1960. It is loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter and outlaw Johnny Ringo, ringgold, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Buckskin Franklin Leslie. This fictional account has Ringo putting aside his gunfighting ways to become the 27-year-old sheriff of fictitious Velardi in the Arizona Territory. Ringo has two deputies, William Charles, Jr. or Cully, played by Mark Goddard and Case Thomas, portrayed by Terence De Marney, Case is killed in a robbery in the episode Border Town, which aired on March 17,1960. Cases daughter, Laura Thomas, played by Karen Sharpe, is Ringos girlfriend in the series, michael Hinn appeared in nine episodes as George Haig. The program was a creation of Aaron Spelling for Four Star Television. Spelling created Johnny Ringo at the specific request of Dick Powell as a role for Durant and it was filmed at CBS Studio Center. The pilot episode was shot as part of Dick Powells Zane Grey Theater, titled Man Alone, a second pilot was shot with Terence de Marney in the role. Mead breaks a storefront glass to compel Ringo to arrest him, Ringo urges caution, but the irate townspeople want to take the matter into their own hands. Flippen, Mona Freeman, Dabbs Greer, Alan Hale, Jr. Connie Hines, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. Arch Johnson, the gimmick gun introduced in the second pilot was a custom-built revolver called the LeMat, based on its historically authentic counterpart. The Le Mat featured a shotgun barrel under its primary barrel. Many episodes found Ringo getting into scrapes where that final round in the barrel was the deciding factor. Aesthetically, Ringos LeMat most resembles the historical percussion model LeMat, Johnny Ringo scored good ratings in its Thursday competition with ABCs The Real McCoys with Walter Brennan, sometimes reaching into the Top Twenty. The program was dropped at the request of a sponsor, Johnson Wax Company, at the time there were thirty Western series on the networks. New York, Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-024916-8 Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network, new York, Ballantine Books ISBN 0-345-42923-0 Johnny Ringo at the Internet Movie Database Golden Wheel Saloon -- showcasing Mark Goddard/Johnny Ringo
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Don Durant
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Durant was born as Donald Allison Durae in Long Beach, California. His father was killed in an accident near Bakersfield two months before Durants birth, his mother remarried three times before she died of lung cancer at the age of only forty-six in 1959. Durant himself was injured a few weeks before his eleventh birthday, when his bicycle chain broke. He lay in a coma for three days, his arm fractured, his right femur and hip so badly damaged that doctors nearly amputated the leg before his family scraped up enough money for a specialist. Young Durant was bedridden for more than a year, one of Durants stepfathers owned a cattle ranch near Elko in northeastern Nevada. Durant spent a summer there and learned to shoot and ride before he returned to California, in junior high school, he was a deejay for a local radio station. In high school, he played on the team, having worn special plates because of his previous injuries. He enlisted in the United States Navy, at one point, he served in the United States Army as well because of a mixup in paperwork. Toward the end of his commitment, he entertained veterans at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco, Durant then began touring the American West as a singer/actor. He opened at many nightclubs, such as The Sands. He garnered a role in the 1955 Van Heflin film Battle Cry. To supplement his income, Durant taught actors how to ride horses and shoot guns and he helped to build the first kinescopic recorder and stereophonic sound recorder for Warner Brothers. In 1954, he signed with CBS to take roles as the singer or young lover in a variety of legendary series. He sang Groucho Marxs popular Its delightful, its Delovely, its DeSoto advertising jingle for the former DeSoto automobiles, in 1955, Durant met big band leader Ray Anthony and began filming various television advertisements. One for Papermate pens featured his wife, the former Trudy Wroe. In 1956, Durant starred and did his own stunts in Roger Cormans She-Gods of Shark Reef, continuing to tour, he sang on Anthonys ABC variety series and recorded an album. Durant had auditioned for the role of Bart but was instead cast as a bad guy in the episode. For that part, he learned to play the guitar the weekend before filming, about this time, Durant finally met Trudy while they were en route to film an advertisement for the Ford Motor Company
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Jack Lord
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John Joseph Patrick Ryan, best known by his stage name, Jack Lord, was an American television, film and Broadway actor and director and producer. He was known for his role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. Lord appeared in feature films earlier in his career, among them Man of the West and he was the first actor to play the recurring character Felix Leiter in Dr. No, the first James Bond film. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lord was the son of Irish-American parents and his father, William Lawrence Ryan, was a steamship company executive. He grew up in Morris Park, Queens, New York, young Lord developed his equestrian skills on his mothers fruit farm in the Hudson River Valley. He started spending summers at sea, and from the decks of cargo ships painted and sketched the landscapes he encountered—Africa and he attended New York University on a football scholarship, and earned a degree in Fine Arts. He spent the first year of the United States involvement in World War II with the United States Army Corps of Engineers and he returned to the Merchant Marine as an Able Seaman before enrolling in the deck officer course at Fort Trumbull. While making maritime training films, he took to the idea of acting, Lord received theatrical training from Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He worked first as a car salesman for Horgan Ford, then later as a Cadillac salesman in New York to fund his studies, later he studied at the Actors Studio. His Broadway debut was as Slim Murphy in Horton Footes The Traveling Lady with Kim Stanley, the show ran for 30 performances, October 27,1954 through November 20,1954. Lord won the Theatre World Award for his performance, Lord was then cast as Brick in a replacement for Ben Gazzara in the 1955–1956 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He had been in The Little Hut, The Illegitimist, and his first commercial film role was in the 1949 film The Red Menace a. k. a. He was associate producer in his 1950 film Cry Murder, in 1957, Lord starred in Williamsburg, the Story of a Patriot, which has run daily at Colonial Williamsburg since then. In 1958, Lord co-starred as Buck Walden in Gods Little Acre, Lord was the first actor to play the character Felix Leiter in the James Bond film series, introduced in the first Bond film, Dr. No. In 1962, Lord starred as series namesake Stoney Burke, a cowboy from Mission Ridge. The basis for the series was real-life champion rodeo rider Casey Tibbs, the series featured Warren Oates and Bruce Dern in recurring supporting roles. Lord credited Gary Cooper as his role model, and the inspiration for his characterization of Stoney Burke. Lord was considered for Eliot Ness in The Untouchables before Robert Stack won the role, ironically, he appeared in the Season One episode The Jake Lingle Killing
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Stoney Burke (TV series)
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Stoney Burke was an American Western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1,1962 until May 20,1963. Jack Lord starred in the title role, Stoney Burke was a rodeo rider competing for the Golden Buckle, the award given to the world champion saddle bronc rider. During his quest for the Golden Buckle, Stoney became entangled in the lives of numerous people and he was accompanied on the rodeo circuit by his friends Ves Painter, Cody Bristol, and E. J. Stocker. Dick Clark of American Bandstand was cast as Sgt, andy Kincaid in the 1963 episode Kincaid. Rodeo performer Casey Tibbs appeared as himself in this episode. James Coburn was cast as Jamison in the 1963 episode The Test, J. Pat OMalley, Richard Eyer, and Ivan Dixon were also featured in this episode. The same year that Stoney Burke premiered, NBC aired its own drama about rodeo performers, The Wide Country, starring Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine. Both series were Westerns that debuted at the end of the time when Western programs--a fixture of 1950s, both rodeo series were canceled after one season. On April 16,2013, Timeless Media Group released Stoney Burke - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the first time, the six disc set includes all 32 episodes of the series. New York, Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-024916-8 Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network, new York, Ballantine Books ISBN 0-345-42923-0 Stoney Burke at the Internet Movie Database Stoney Burke at TV. com
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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Hawaiian Eye
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Hawaiian Eye is an American detective television series that ran from October 1959 to April 1963 on the ABC television network. Private investigator Tracy Steele and his partner, Tom Lopaka, own Hawaiian Eye. Their principal client is the Hawaiian Village Hotel, which in exchange for security services, provides the agency with a private compound on the hotel grounds. Engineer turned detective Greg McKenzie, joins the agency later on as a full partner, Hawaiian Eye was one of several ABC/Warner Brothers Television detective series of the era situated in different exotic locales. Others included Hollywood-based 77 Sunset Strip, Bourbon Street Beat, set in New Orleans, in reality, all were shot on the Warner Brothers lot in Los Angeles, making it easy for characters—and sometimes whole scripts—to cross over. Although the shows arent spin-offs in the sense, Sunset was the first in this chain of exotic location detective series. In this regard, Hawaiian Eye was the most viable of the Sunset look-alikes, the shows debut coincided with several real-world developments that helped contribute to its longevity. Kaiser, whose real estate projects in Honolulu included building the complex originally known as Kaisers Hawaiian Village. The program did well in the ratings on Wednesday evenings, in its last season, it was placed on the Tuesday schedule opposite CBSs The Red Skelton Show and a new NBC Western drama Empire set on a modern New Mexico ranch. Skelton survived the competition, and Empire was cut to a program called Redigo the following season and was soon cancelled. Each episode in season 3 followed the Hanna-Barbera cartoon show, Top Cat, the series regulars, who were shown during the opening credits, are listed below in the order in which they debuted during the shows four-year run. Lt. Danny Quon, played by Mel Prestidge, was the Hawaiian Eyes main contact with the Honolulu Police Department, moke, played by Doug Mossman, was the chief uniformed security officer for Hawaiian Eye. He went by several variant names in the first season before the writers settled on one. Paul, played by Andre Philippe, was the MC at the Shell Bar in the Hawaiian Village Hotel, bert, played by Sam Rawlins, was the doorman at the Hawaiian Village Hotel. Teo, played by actors including Ralph Hanalei and Keone, was a uniformed security guard for the Hawaiian Eye agency. Roy Hondine, played by Rush Williams, was a columnist for a major Honolulu newspaper, sunny Day, played by Tina Cole, was a singer at the Shell Bar in the Hawaiian Village Hotel. The role was created after Connie Stevens temporarily left the series in the season over a contract dispute. Alika, played by Makee K. Blaisdell, was a detective for the Hilo police force, bubbles Smith, played by Karen Griffin, was a temporary girlfriend of Tom Lopaka in several second-season episodes
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Franchot Tone
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Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone, known as Franchot Tone, was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was the star of many films and television series throughout his career, such as Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. He is perhaps best known for his role as Midshipman Roger Byam in Mutiny on the Bounty, starring alongside Clark Gable and his maternal great-grandfather was congressman Richard Franchot. Tone was a distant relative of Wolfe Tone, his great grandfather John Tone was a first cousin of Peter Tone. Tone was of French Canadian, Irish, and English ancestry, through his ancestor, the nobleman Gilbert BasqueHomme, he was of French Basque descent. Tone was educated at The Hill School, where he was dismissed “for being an influence for disorder throughout the fall term. ”He then entered Cornell University. He also joined Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and he gave up the family business to pursue an acting career in the theatre. After graduating, he moved to Greenwich Village, New York, the following year, he joined the Theatre Guild and played Curly in their production of Green Grow the Lilacs. Strasberg had been a castmate of Tones in Green Grow the Lilacs and these were intense and productive years for him, among the productions of the Group he acted in were 1931 and Success Story. The same year, however, Tone was the first of the Group to turn his back on the theatre, in his memoir on the Group Theatre, The Fervent Years, Harold Clurman recalls Tone as the most confrontational and egocentric of the group in the beginning. Nevertheless, he always considered cinema far inferior to the theatre and he often sent financial support to the Group Theatre, which often needed it. He eventually returned to stage work after the 1940s. Tone summered at Pine Brook Country Club, located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut, Tones screen debut was in the 1932 movie The Wiser Sex. In 1935, he starred in Mutiny on the Bounty, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Tone worked steadily through the 1940s, but he often played second leads or love interests in films that focused on a major female star. He played the lead in the 1940 Western comedy Trail of the Vigilantes featuring Warren William, Broderick Crawford. Tones tour de force role as a manic depressive sociopath included performing many of his own stunts on the Paris landmark, in the 1950s, facing subtle blacklisting in Hollywood, he found parts in New York City-based live television, including the original production of Twelve Angry Men. He also returned to Broadway, notably appearing in A Moon for the Misbegotten with Wendy Hiller in 1957, also that year he co-produced, co-directed, and starred in an adaptation of Chekhovs Uncle Vanya, which was filmed concurrently with an off-Broadway revival. He also co-starred in the Ben Casey medical series from 1965 to 1966 as Caseys supervisor, on film, he received acclaim as the charismatic, dying president in Otto Premingers 1962 film version of Advise & Consent
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The Reporter (TV series)
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The Reporter is an American drama series that aired on CBS from September 25 to December 18,1964. The series was created by Jerome Weidman and developed by executive producers Keefe Brasselle, the series stars Harry Guardino as Danny Taylor, a reporter for the fictitious New York Globe newspaper. Guardinos co-stars were Gary Merrill as city editor Lou Sheldon, George OHanlon as taxi driver Artie Burns, a friend of Dannys, and Remo Pisani as bartender Ike Dawson. The Reporter aired at 10 p. m. Eastern on Fridays following the first season of the CBS situation comedy, Gomer Pyle and it aired opposite The Jack Paar Program on NBC and the second half of ABCs military drama, Twelve OClock High starring Robert Lansing. The series was replaced by CBS Reports, which, on the orders of programming executive Jim Aubrey, travanti Franchot Tone Rip Torn Jessica Walter Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. The Reporter at the Internet Movie Database The Reporter at TV. com
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Harry Guardino
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Harry Guardino was an American actor whose career spanned from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Guardino appeared on stage, in films, and on television. His Broadway theatre credits included A Hatful of Rain, One More River, Anyone Can Whistle, The Rose Tattoo, The Seven Descents of Myrtle, and Woman of the Year. Guardinos other film credits include Houseboat, Pork Chop Hill, The Five Pennies, King of Kings, Madigan, Lovers and Other Strangers, Dirty Harry and he was nominated twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He guest starred on John Cassavetess 1959–1960 series, Johnny Staccato, mcClure two years later would join the long-running The Virginian series on NBC after a preceding stint on the CBS detective series Checkmate. In 1964, he was cast in a CBS series entitled The Reporter and his principal co-star was Gary Merrill as city editor Lou Sheldon. He had co-starred with Merrill the year before in The Human Factor episode of The Outer Limits, in 1971 Guardino starred in the short-lived series Monty Nash. Guardino had a role as Perry Masons nemesis, Hamilton Burger, in the 1973 television series The New Perry Mason. He made guest appearances in dozens of series, including Studio One, Target. The Eleventh Hour, Untouchables, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Kraft Television Theatre, Playhouse 90 and he had the lead role of Det. Lee Gordon in the 1969 made-for-television suspense film The Lonely Profession, in 1993, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. Guardino died of cancer in Palm Springs, California in 1995. Harry Guardino at the Internet Broadway Database Harry Guardino at the Internet Movie Database Harry Guardino at Find a Grave
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77 Sunset Strip
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77 Sunset Strip is an American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes. Each episode was one hour long, the show was the subject of an ownership battle between Roy Huggins and Warner Bros. which was the proximate cause of Huggins departure from the studio. The show ran from 1958 to 1964, Roger Smith played Jeff Spencer, also a former government agent, and a nonpracticing attorney. The duo worked out of an office at 77 Sunset Boulevard, between La Cienega Boulevard and Alta Loma Road on the south side of the strip next door to Dean Martins real-life lounge. Suzanne, the beautiful French switchboard operator played by Jacqueline Beer, Byrnes had originally been cast as a contract killer in the series pilot, but proved so popular that he was brought back in a new role for the series. Despite Huggins hopes for a drama, the tone of the series was much lighter. Many of the episodes were named capers, the catchy theme song, written by the accomplished team of Mack David and Jerry Livingston, typified the shows breezy, jazzed atmosphere. The song became the centerpiece of an album of the music in Warren Barker-led orchestrations, which was released in 1959. The Kookie character became a phenomenon, with his slang expressions such as ginchy. Kookie was also used to provide product placement for Harley-Davidson, appearing on their Topper motor scooter in the show and in Harley-Davidson advertisements. When Byrnes demands for money and an expanded role were not met, he left the show. In 1961, Robert Logan became the new parking lot attendant, J. R. Hale, in 1960, Richard Long moved from the recently canceled detective series Bourbon Street Beat with his role of Rex Randolph, but he left the program in 1962. One of the more unusual episodes was the 1960 The Silent Caper, written by Smith, it presented its story completely without dialogue. Another off-beat entry was 1961s Reserved For Mr. Bailey, which finds Zimbalist alone in a ghost town and he is the only actor on-screen for the entire hour. The shows popularity was such that rising young actors clamored for guest spots, the show occasionally featured sports stars such as Sandy Koufax in guest roles. In 1963, as the popularity waned, the entire cast except for Zimbalist was let go. Jack Webb was brought in as producer and William Conrad as director. The character of Stuart Bailey became a private investigator
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The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. The book was made into a film in 1987 by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet. A powerful, dynamic, hard-hitting action drama, and a crime series. This squad was nicknamed The Untouchables, because of their courage and honesty, Eliot Ness himself had died suddenly in May 1957, shortly before his memoir and the subsequent TV adaptation were to bring him fame beyond any he experienced in his lifetime. The pilot for the series was an episode entitled The Untouchables originally aired on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27,1959. CBS, which had broadcast most of Desilus television output since 1951 beginning with I Love Lucy, was offered the new series following the success of the pilot film, chairman William S. Paley rejected it on the advice of network vice president Hubbell Robinson. ABC agreed to air the series, and The Untouchables premiered on October 15,1959, in the pilot movie, the mobsters generally spoke with unrealistic pseudo-Italian accents, but this idiosyncratic pronunciation was dropped when the series debuted. The weekly series first followed the premise of a struggle to establish a new boss in Capones absence. The show drew criticism from some Italian-Americans, including Frank Sinatra. The Capone family unsuccessfully sued CBS, Desilu Productions, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation for their depiction of the Capone family. In the first episode of the first season, the character of Agent Rossi and they expressed displeasure with the program, which to them vilified Italian-Americans, stereotyping them as the singular criminal element. The boycott and the attendant firestorm of publicity had the effect Anastasio, there will be more stress on the law-enforcement role of Rico Rossi, Nesss right-hand man on the show. The second episode of the series, for example, depicted Ness and his crew involved in the capture of the Ma Barker gang, the producers agreed to insert a spoken disclaimer on future broadcasts of the episode stating that the FBI had primary responsibility for the Barker case. The series had 118 episodes which ran 50 minutes each, the television episodes were broadcast in no chronological timeline, but were set mostly in the early 1930s. The gripping theme music was by Nelson Riddle, quinn Martin produced the shows first season, which contained elements that could be found in future TV series produced by Martin. ** The character of Untouchable William Youngfellow, portrayed by Abel Fernandez, has been referred to by Saturday Night Live actor Dan Aykroyd as Youngblood. The Untouchables was notable for the number of past and future motion picture and television stars, and cult actors. Johnsons wife and manager rejected the deal, and demanded double the salary offer, Arnaz refused and signed Stack, instead
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Gunsmoke
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, the central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the series was initially titled Gun Law. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961, John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, at the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote, Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte. It was ever the stuff of legend, robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task. Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created a script called Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts. Two auditions were created in 1949, CBS liked the Culver version better, and Ackerman was told to proceed. A complication arose, though, Culvers contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series, the project was shelved for three years, when producer Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston discovered it while creating an adult Western series of their own. Macdonnell and Meston wanted to create a radio Western for adults, in contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare such as The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes, The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism, the radio series first aired on CBS on April 26,1952 with the episode Billy the Kid, written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18,1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. Conrad was one of the last actors to audition for the role of Marshal Dillon, with a resonantly powerful and distinctive voice, Conrad was already one of radios busiest actors. Though Meston championed him, Macdonnell thought Conrad might be overexposed, during his audition, however, Conrad won over Macdonnell after reading only a few lines. Dillon as portrayed by Conrad was a lonely, isolated man, Macdonnell later claimed, Much of Matt Dillons character grew out of Bill Conrad. Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality. Many episodes were based on mans cruelty to man and woman, inasmuch as the womans life
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Walter Coy
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Walter Darwin Coy was an American stage, radio, film, and, principally, television actor, originally from Great Falls, Montana. He was best known for narrating the NBC western anthology series, Frontier, Coy performed on Broadway from 1930–1948. He appeared in several early Group Theatre productions and he was the first actor to play Lone Wolf on the radio series of the same name. The House of Connelly - Charlie and as Seranader Night Over Taos - Felipe Men in White - Dr. OHara Assassin The Hanging at Thunder Butte Creek The Hostage, Coy begins each Frontier episode with the line, This is the way it happened. Movin west, and he closed with the refrain, Thats the way it happened, Coy appeared as John Waynes doomed brother in the early sequences of the 1956 film The Searchers. Dr. Joseph Warren in the Walt Disney film Johnny Tremain, Dr. Warren, a spy for the Patriots, was thereafter killed six days after his 34th birthday fighting as a common soldier in the Battle of Bunker Hill in Boston, Massachusetts. Coys other film appearances included The Lusty Men, Gunmen from Laredo, The Gunfight at Dodge City, and North by Northwest and he appeared in the anthology series, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars and Four Star Playhouse and The Loretta Young Show. He played a Confederate States of America general in the 1959 episode entitled Corporal Hardy of another anthology series and he played Dr. Steele in the 1960 episode The House in Order on NBCs The Barbara Stanwyck Show. Coy also appeared in all three of Rod Camerons 1950s syndicated series, City Detective, State Trooper, and COronado 9, senator and 1860 Democratic presidential nominee Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois in the 1957 episode Springfield Incident of CBSs The 20th Century Fox Hour. He also played a prosecutor on the series in 1956 in the episode The Last Patriarch. Coy made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murder victim Denver Leonard in the 1960 episode, The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor. Other guest-starring roles in drama include Reed Hadleys The Public Defender, Brian Keiths Crusader, The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, Crossroads, Whirlybirds, U. S. Marshal, Rescue 8, The Lineup, George C. Scotts East Side/West Side, Mike Hammer, The Defenders, The Man from U. N. C. L. E, navy Log, Tightrope, Lock-Up, Lassie, Ironside, M Squad, and I Spy. Coy also appeared in two comedies, McKeever and the Colonel and Shirley Booths Hazel, coys last television role was as Chief Blackfish in the 1970 episode How to Become a Goddess on the NBC series Daniel Boone, starring Fess Parker as Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone. Coy died of heart failure at the age of 65 in Santa Maria, California. Walter Coy at the Internet Broadway Database
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Ripcord (TV series)
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Ripcord is an American syndicated television series that ran for a total of 76 episodes from 1961 to 1963 about the exploits of a skydiving operation of its namesake. The premise was a variety of surrounding the then-new, thrilling sport of skydiving. The two men and their private Cessna airplane were placed in situations where their special skills. This led them on exciting weekly adventures from chasing criminals to performing difficult and daring, if occasionally absurd. Airlplane pilot Chuck Lambert, played by Paul Comi, was replaced midway through the first season by Charlie Kern, guest stars included Richard Arlen, Harry Carey, Jr. Simon, Allison Hayes, Dyan Cannon and the then little known James Coburn. The stuntmen performing the actual skydiving were Bob Fleming, an airline pilot, Fleming also doubled as the pilot at the controls when not involved in the scene. Cameramen included Tom Ryan, whose experience included early parachute development, testing. Ryan was a pioneer in capturing closeup movies of free-falling skydivers, in 1962, the filming of this series involved the transfer of a stuntman between two planes, which was being filmed from a third one. Due to the air turbulence, the two planes of the transfer touched and both subsequently crashed, the pilots of both planes and the stuntman were all able to parachute to safety. Later, the footage from this event was subsequently used in two Ripcord episodes. At the end of episode, Larry Pennell as Ted McKeever, along with Ken Curtis as Jim Buckley, delivered a brief comment. Some of the Ripcord episodes can be found on YouTube and Veoh. com, Ripcord aired in Brazil in the 1960s under its original title at the same time as in the United States. Ripcord aired in the UK on Independent Television also in the 1960s under its title with the last episode airing on Tuesday. On July 23,2013, TGG Direct released both seasons of Ripcord on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time ever, Ripcord at the Internet Movie Database Ripcord at TV. com
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
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The cinematography for the film was by Charles Lang. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including ones for Gould, after a weekend of emotional honesty at an Esalen-style retreat, Los Angeles sophisticates Bob and Carol Sanders return to their life determined to embrace complete openness. They share their enthusiasm and excitement over their new-found philosophy with their conservative friends Ted and Alice Henderson. Soon after, Bob, a filmmaker, has an affair with a young and he admits this to Carol after arriving home, describing the event as a purely physical act, not an emotional one. To Bobs surprise, Carol is completely accepting of this, later, Carol gleefully reveals the affair to Ted and Alice as they are leaving a dinner party. Alice is particularly disturbed both by Bobs infidelity, as well as Carols candor, becoming ill on the drive home. She and Ted have a hard time coping with the news in bed later that evening, however, as time passes, they grow to accept that Bob and Carol really are fine with the affair. Later, Ted admits to Bob that he was tempted to have an affair once, during another visit to San Francisco, Bob decides to skip a second encounter with the blonde woman, and instead returns home a day earlier than expected. When he arrives, he finds that Carol is having an affair of her own, although initially outraged, Bob quickly realizes that, like his own affair, the encounter was purely physical. Bob settles down, and even shares a drink and conversation with the tennis instructor, when the two couples travel together to Las Vegas, Bob and Carol reveal Carols affair to Ted and Alice. Ted then admits to an affair on a recent business trip to Miami, an outraged Alice demands that this new ethos be taken to its obvious conclusion, a mate-sharing foursome. Ted is reluctant, explaining that he loves Carol like a sister, after discussing it, all four remove their clothes and climb into bed together. Swapping partners, Bob and Alice kiss fervently, as do Ted and Carol, however, after a few moments, the scene cuts to the couples walking to the elevator, riding it down, and walking out of the casino hand-in-hand with their original partners. Over this final scene, the theme song reminds the viewer that what the world needs now is love. As Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice look into each partners eyes, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice became the signature film for Paul Mazursky and was a critical and commercial success. It was the fifth highest-grossing film of 1969, after this films release, it led to other movies dealing with wife swapping, infidelity, and other types of experimentation with interpersonal relationships inside American society. Mazursky himself would do a few stories set in California, including Alex in Wonderland and Down. Writing in The New Yorker the film critic Pauline Kael praised both the film and director Mazursky, calling it a slick, whorey movie, and the liveliest American comedy so far this year
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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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The Love Machine (film)
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The Love Machine is a 1971 film adaptation of Jacqueline Susanns best-selling 1969 novel of the same name. Directed by Jack Haley, Jr. the film stars Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Shecky Greene, and John Phillip Law. Robin Stone, a handsome, ambitious newsman for a New York television station, attracts the attention of Judith Austin, wife of Gregory Austin, concerned about ratings, Greg is encouraged by Judith to hire Robin as IBCs new anchorman. Although he opposes Gregs decision, Danton Miller, the head of programming, is unable to overrule his boss, after her first spot airs, Amanda skips a celebratory party and goes to Robin. Shattered when she finds Robin with a woman, she attends the party alone. Christie Lane, smitten with Amanda, proposes marriage when a drunken Amanda agrees to go home with him, Judith persuades Robin to have lunch with her, but they end up in bed instead. During their rendezvous, Greg suffers a heart attack. Judith, who holds Gregs power of attorney, appoints Robin to act as head of the network while she takes her husband to Switzerland to recuperate, soon afterward, having rejected Amanda yet again, Robin is shaken by the news of Amandas suicide. Propositioned by a prostitute, he accompanies her to his room, but then changes his mind and he then confesses to Jerry, who agrees to provide an alibi for Robin. In return, Jerry asks for a bracelet engraved with Robins name. Judith returns to New York with Greg, now recovered, when Robin refuses to resume their affair, Judith convinces her husband to reclaim control of the network, thereby demoting Robin. In response, Robin threatens to quit entirely, a move which would result in problems between Greg and the shareholders, when Robin visits Los Angeles, Jerry persuades him to attend a party at the home of the actor Alfie Knight, Jerrys new boyfriend. Robin, in turn, invites Judith who is also in the city, at the party, Robin is pleased to see aspiring actress Maggie Stewart, who rebuffs him. Judith, meanwhile, becomes annoyed when Robin neglects her for Jerry, after most of the guests have gone, Judith, still angry, finds Jerrys slave bracelet on the floor. Reading the inscription, she threatens to expose Robin, Jerry and Alfie try to retrieve the bracelet, which leads to a brawl. Soon the police arrive, and Robin explains the fight by claiming that he had instigated it by making a pass at Judith. Later, as Robin leaves the station, his reputation in ruins, Maggie Stewart pulls up in her car. He declines.5 million for the rights to her best-selling book
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Doctors' Wives (1971 film)
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Doctors Wives is a 1971 American drama film directed by George Schaefer and starring Dyan Cannon, Gene Hackman, Carroll OConnor, Richard Crenna, Janice Rule, John Colicos, and Rachel Roberts. It was based on a novel by Frank G. Slaughter, the theme song, The Costume Ball, was sung by Mama Cass Elliot. While playing cards with her girlfriends, all of whom suspect their doctor husbands of having affairs, the plan backfires when Lorrie is caught in bed with Paul McGill by her husband, brain surgeon Dr. Mort Dellman, who shoots them both. Dr. Pete Brennan is able to save McGills life, Brennan is fed up with wife Amy and her migraines. He is having an affair with Helen, a nurse, Dr. Dave Randolph is a psychiatrist. Randolph discovers that shes had a relationship with the late Lorrie. Maggie, an alcoholic, is found face-down in her swimming pool by Dr. Joe Gray, with all of their lives in turmoil, they attend Lorries funeral, where Helen reveals that her young son needs a brain operation. The doctors agree that Dr. Dellman is the man best suited to do the surgery, the district attorney, Douglas, agrees to release the surgeon for a few hours to perform the surgery, under a police guard. He is unaware that Dellman has made a deal with Lorries wealthy father, Jake Porter, to help him flee to Mexico as soon as the operation is done
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The Anderson Tapes
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The Anderson Tapes is a Technicolor 1971 American crime film in Panavision directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery and featuring Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, and comedian Alan King. The screenplay was written by Frank Pierson, based upon a best-selling 1970 novel of the name by Lawrence Sanders. The film is scored by Quincy Jones and marks the film debut of Christopher Walken. It was the first major film to focus on the pervasiveness of electronic surveillance, following the Watergate scandal a few years later, covert surveillance, and who is listening, became the themes of several 1970s films such as The Conversation and The Parallax View. Burglar John Duke Anderson is released ten years in prison. He renews his relationship with his old girlfriend, Ingrid and she lives in a high-class apartment block in New York City and Anderson, almost instantly, decides to burgle the entire building in a single sweep – filling a furniture van with the proceeds. He gains financing from a nostalgic Mafia boss and gathers his four-man crew, also included is an old ex-con drunk, Pop, whom Anderson met in jail, and who is to play concierge while the real one is bound and gagged in the cellar. Less welcome is a man the Mafia foists onto Anderson – the thuggish Socks, Socks is a psychopath who has become a liability to the mob and, as part of the deal, Anderson must kill him in the course of the robbery. Anderson is not keen on this, since the operation is complicated enough, as Anderson advances the scheme, he moves from the surveillance of one group to another as locations or individuals change. Yet, because the federal, state and city agencies performing the surveillance are all after different goals, none of them is able to connect the dots. The operation proceeds over a Labor Day weekend, disguised as a Mayflower moving and storage crew, the crooks cut telephone and alarm wires and move up through the building, gathering the residents as they go and robbing each apartment. However, the son of two of the residents is a paraplegic and asthmatic who is left behind in his air-conditioned room, using his amateur radio equipment, he calls up other radio amateurs, based in other states, who contact the police. The alarm is raised, but only after resolving which side should take the phone bill. As the oblivious criminals work, the police array enormous forces outside to prevent their escape, in the shootout that follows, Anderson kills Socks, but is himself shot by the police. The other robbers are killed, injured or captured, but none gets away, Pop gives himself up after letting the police believe that he is the real concierge for a while. Having never adapted to life on the outside, he looks forward to going back to prison, cast notes This was the first major motion picture for Christopher Walken, as well as the last on-screen film appearance by Margaret Hamilton. Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, and director Sidney Lumet were to work again on Murder on the Orient Express. Connery had previously worked with the director on The Hill, and they would reunite the following year on The Offence, Balsam and Lumet had worked together previously on 12 Angry Men
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999, Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables, Connery has been polled as The Greatest Living Scot and Scotlands Greatest Living National Treasure. In 1989, he was proclaimed Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland on 25 August 1930. His mother, Euphemia McBain Effie, was a cleaning woman and his paternal grandfathers parents emigrated to Scotland from Ireland in the mid-19th century. The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and his maternal great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife and his father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant. He has a brother, Neil. He was generally referred to in his youth as Tommy, although he was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft 2 in at 18. He was known during his teen years as Big Tam, and has stated that he lost his virginity to a woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14. Connerys first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthberts Co-operative Society, one tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads Mum and Dad, and the other is self-explanatory, Scotland Forever. Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, Scotland, Archie Brennan, a coffin polisher. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour, student artist Richard Demarco who painted several notable early pictures of Connery described him as very straight, slightly shy, too, too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis. Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife, while on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess, Connery admits that he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves, looking to pick up some extra money, Connery helped out backstage at the Kings Theatre in late 1951. He became interested in the proceedings, and a career was launched, the production returned the following year out of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, which Larry Hagman had portrayed in the West End. While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the notorious Valdor gang, there Connery launched an attack single-handedly against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by a biceps and cracked their heads together
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The Burglars
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Le Casse is a 1971 movie directed by French director Henri Verneuil, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon and Robert Hossein. It is based on the 1953 novel by David Goodis and revolves around a team of four burglars chased by a cop in Athens. Its a remake of the 1957 film The Burglar with Jayne Mansfield, the movie is known for its spectacular car chase and Belmondos incredible fall from a construction truck down a steep, rocky hillside. The movie was shot twice, once in French and once in English, in Athens, Azad, Ralph and 2 other accomplices, Renzi and Helen, rob a suitcase of emeralds from a rich Greek citizen, M. Tasco, when the latter is away on vacation. The thieves break into the house, crack the safe, a police detective, Abel Zacharia, spots the burglars’ car in front of the house. Azad chats with the detective and spins a story of being a salesman with engine trouble. Zacharia leaves and Azad thinks he has gotten away with it, the thieves plan to leave the country immediately on a merchant ship. However when they arrive at the dock they discover the ship is undergoing repairs and they stash the money, split up, and agree to wait out the delay. Zacharia reappears, having decided to find and keep the emeralds himself, azard falls in love with Lena. Mr Tasco identifies the thieves and kills Renzi, framing Ralph, Azad narrowly escapes the police with Lena, but he soon discovers that she is in cahoots with Zacharia. Azad and Zacharia have a confrontation which results in Zacharia being buried under wheat, Goodis was popular with French filmmakers, his novel Down There had been adapted by Francois Truffaut as Shoot the Piano Player. Filming took place in Athens and Paris, the film was a massive box office hit in France, being the sixth most popular movie of the year. The New York Times called it yet another international caper film and that does nothing very well and almost everything in excess in which the director would fill up a great deal of film time with a device rather than with an action
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Such Good Friends
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Such Good Friends is a 1971 American comedy-drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Esther Dale is based on the novel of the title by Lois Gould. The film stars Dyan Cannon, James Coco, and Jennifer ONeill, the following day, Julie is told Richard has overcome the reaction, but his liver has sustained serious damage requiring immediate treatment. In quick succession, all his organs begin to fail, while trying to comfort Julie, family friend Cal Whiting reveals his girlfriend Miranda has confessed to having had a lengthy affair with Richard. Distressed by the news, Julie seeks advice from her egocentric mother and she decides to confront Miranda and asks her what future she anticipated having with her husband. Miranda confesses she and Richard are deeply in love and have discussed marriage and she visits Cal, whose attempted seduction of her fails due to impotence. At the hospital, she tells the unconscious Richard she will never divorce him, stunned and confused, Julie lashes out at Timmy, then seduces him, and he succumbs to her advances. At home later that evening, Julie finds a book in Richards desk and realizes it contains coded data about his numerous extramarital affairs. She gives it to Cal, who shows it to Miranda to prove she was just one of Richards many conquests. The following day, Richard goes into cardiac arrest, and Julie realizes she wants him to survive despite his betrayal of her, when Timmy reports her husband has died, a grieving Julie takes her sons for a walk in Central Park to contemplate their future. Through his son Erik, who was working as his story editor and he negotiated with the author and purchased the film rights for $200,000 in February 1970, three months before the book was published. The novel, narrated in stream-of-consciousness mode by Julie Messinger, proved to be difficult to adapt for the screen. Joan Micklin Silver initially tackled the project, but Preminger found her to be too much of a feminist who was more attuned to the character than he thought was necessary. He then hired Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and worked them for several months. Finally, in early 1971, Elaine May, his choice for screenwriter. May worked on the script for ten weeks, although Preminger found it difficult to adjust to her method of writing. The two would meet for a conference, then May would disappear and remain incommunicado for two weeks or so, finally emerging with a substantial part of the screenplay completed. Preminger would give her notes and she would again
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Burt Reynolds
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Burton Leon Burt Reynolds is an American actor, director and producer. He has starred in films, such as Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Smokey. Reynolds is the son of Fern H. and Burton Milo Reynolds and he has English, Scottish, Scots-Irish and Dutch ancestry, and is also said to have Cherokee roots. In his 2014 book, But Enough About Me, Reynolds said his mother had Italian ancestry, during his career, Reynolds often claimed to have been born in Waycross, Georgia, but confirmed in 2015 that he was born in Lansing, Michigan. He was born on February 11,1936, and in his autobiography stated that Lansing is where his family lived when his father was drafted into the United States Army. Reynolds, his mother and sister joined his father at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, when Reynolds father was sent to Europe, the family moved to Lake City, Michigan, where his mother had been raised. In 1946, the moved to Riviera Beach, Florida. His father became Chief of Police of Riviera Beach, which is adjacent to the north of West Palm Beach, during 10th grade at Palm Beach High School, Reynolds was named First Team All State and All Southern as a fullback, and received multiple scholarship offers. After graduating from Palm Beach High in West Palm Beach, he attended Florida State University on a football scholarship, while at Florida State, Reynolds became roommates with now notable college football broadcaster and analyst Lee Corso, and also became a brother of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Ending his university career, Reynolds became a police officer. To keep up with his studies, he began taking classes at Palm Beach Junior College in neighboring Lake Worth, in his first term at PBJC, Reynolds was in an English class taught by Watson B. Duncan III. Duncan pushed Reynolds into trying out for a play he was producing and he cast Reynolds in the lead role based on having heard Reynolds read Shakespeare in class, leading to Reynolds winning the 1956 Florida State Drama Award for his performance. In his autobiography, Reynolds refers to Duncan as his mentor, the Florida State Drama Award included a scholarship to the Hyde Park Playhouse, a summer stock theater, in Hyde Park, New York. Reynolds saw the opportunity as an alternative to more physically-demanding summer jobs. While working there, Reynolds met Joanne Woodward, who helped him find an agent, after his Broadway debut Look, Weve Come Through, he received favorable reviews for his performance and went on tour with the cast, driving the bus and appearing on stage. After the tour, Reynolds returned to New York and enrolled in acting classes and his classmates included Frank Gifford, Carol Lawrence, Red Buttons, and Jan Murray. After the play closed, the director, John Forsythe, arranged an audition with Joshua Logan for Reynolds. Reynolds was told that he could not be in the film because he looked too much like Marlon Brando, Logan advised Reynolds to go to Hollywood, but Reynolds did not feel confident enough to do so
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Shamus (film)
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Shamus is a 1973 American film directed by Buzz Kulik, and stars Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon. New York private detective Shamus McCoy is called to the house of Hume, a diamond dealer. His investigation is thwarted at every turn and it is only when he is beaten by a gang of thugs to warn him off the job that he realizes that hes onto something really big. Using his friend Springy as well as Alexis Montaigne, the sister of a nightclub owner, the trail leads to an Army colonel called Hardcore who is in cahoots with Alexiss brother, then full circle to Hume, whos been behind the plot all along. Perhaps something was lost in translation to the screen, on this level it is workmanlike, well paced, modest, sometimes scary, and sometimes genuinely funny. Burt Reynolds said it was not a bad film, kind of cute, if the picture had been as good as the title sequence it would have made millions. As it was it made $5 million, robert M. Weitman produced a TV movie about the same character, A Matter of Wife. and Death with the role played by Rod Taylor. It was a pilot for a series that did not eventuate. List of American films of 1973 Shamus at the Internet Movie Database Shamus at Rotten Tomatoes
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The Last of Sheila
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The Last of Sheila is a 1973 mystery thriller that was directed by Herbert Ross and written directly for the screen by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. It starred Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason, Ian McShane, the original music score was composed by Billy Goldenberg. The song Friends, sung by Bette Midler, can be heard during the scene of the film. The trip is, in fact, a reunion, all were together at Clintons home one year before, on the night a hit-and-run accident resulted in the death of Clintons wife, gossip columnist Sheila Greene. Once the cruise is under way, Clinton, a game enthusiast. The six guests are each assigned an index card containing a secret that must be hidden from the others. The object of the game is to everyone elses secret while protecting ones own. Each night the yacht anchors at a different Mediterranean port city, the guests are given a clue, then sent ashore to find the proof of who among them holds the card bearing that nights secret. The game for that night ends when the holder of the subject secret discovers the proof. Anyone who has not yet solved the clue receives no points on Clintons scoreboard for that round. Following the revelation of the first card, YOU are a SHOPLIFTER, suspicion begins that each guests card does not contain pretend gossip but in fact an actual, embarrassing secret about each guest. When Clinton does not return from the second installment of the game, where the second card was revealed to be YOU are a HOMOSEXUAL. Before contacting authorities, one reveals that his card reads, YOU are a HIT-AND-RUN KILLER and this begins a macabre game of musical chairs of sorts, with guests jousting over who lays claim to which dirty little secret. Paranoia grows over the obvious implication that both Sheila and Clinton were killed by somebody on this yacht. Although his own diabolical game did not end as Clinton planned, characters continue to discover these clues, resulting in death on board ship. Herb Ross also took part in the treasure hunts with his wife Norma, the winning team eventually recognized the clue—2, 45—and immediately headed for room 245 of the hotel, where bottles of Champagne awaited them. Sondheim later recalled, The idea for the movie out of two murder games I devised some time ago. One was for Phyllis Newman, the other for four couples just after I got out of college, with the four couples, I told each person to think of a way to kill one of the others over the weekend we would be spending together in the country
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
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Revenge of the Pink Panther is the sixth film in The Pink Panther comedy film series. Released in 1978, it is the last entry released during the lifetime of Peter Sellers and it is also the last entry to be distributed solely by United Artists, which was purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981. The opening credits are animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and this is Graham Starks first stint as Professor Auguste Balls. He portrays him once more in Son of the Pink Panther, to demonstrate otherwise, Douviers aide Guy Algo suggests a show of force with the murder of the famous Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Unfortunately for Douvier, his first attempt at bombing Clouseau fails, in Russos clothes and insisting on his true identity, Clouseau is taken to the asylum himself but escapes into Dreyfus room, who faints from the shock of seeing Clouseau alive. Clouseau manages to disguise himself as Dreyfus and is home by François. Meanwhile, Dreyfus is assigned to read an elegy at Clouseaus funeral by the chiefs wife. During his recital, Dreyfus is barely able to control his incredulity and laughter at the praise of Clouseau, at the cemetery, Clouseau attends the burial disguised as a priest and then surreptitiously reveals himself to Dreyfus, who recognizes him, faints, and falls into the grave. Meanwhile, due to his unfaithfulness, Douviers wife threatens him with divorce, needing her respectability, Douvier tells his secretary and paramour Simone LeGree that their relationship is over, to which Simone reacts angrily. At Simones flat, Clouseau reveals his identity, prompting her to reveal that Douvier ordered Clouseaus assassination, attacked by more hit men, Clouseau and Simone escape into a nearby flat, which coincidentally happens to be Dreyfus. Dreyfus overhears Simone telling Clouseau of Douviers plan to meet the New York Mafia godfather Julio Scallini in Hong Kong, after evading their pursuers, Clouseau, Cato, and Simone follow Douvier to Hong Kong in disguise, unaware that the now suspicious Dreyfus has followed them. A car chase begins, ending in a crash at the Hong Kong docks, inside, Dreyfus mistakenly sets the fireworks off and the resulting explosions sow chaos among all the participants, which eventually leads to the arrests of Douvier and Scallini. Clouseau is awarded for their arrest by the President of France and it was the first time since Inspector Clouseau in 1968 that DePatie-Freleng animated the opening titles of a Pink Panther film. They later went on to produce the television series The All-New Pink Panther Show. Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther would be animated by the retitled Marvel Productions, romance of the Pink Panther was a Pink Panther film that Sellers was working on—and willing to make without Edwards—before Sellers fatal heart attack. UA considered recasting the role before convincing Blake Edwards to return to the series, composed by Henry Mancini in his fifth Pink Panther, the theme music and much of the soundtrack draw heavily from the disco trends of the late 1970s. The theme itself being reworked to include a more dancy bassline, electric piano and guitar solo
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Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)
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Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American fantasy-comedy film co-directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry. It was the film adaptation of Harry Segalls play of the same name. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, the cast reunites Beatty and Julie Christie, who also starred together in the 1971 McCabe & Mrs. Miller and the 1975 Shampoo. A third film adaptation of the play was done in 2001, Joe Pendleton, a backup quarterback for the American football team Los Angeles Rams, is looking forward to leading his team to the Super Bowl. While riding his bicycle through the older west side of one on Kanan-Dume road in Malibu. Once there, he refuses to believe that his time was up and, upon investigation, unfortunately, his body has already been cremated, so a new body must be found. After rejecting several possibilities of men who are about to die, Leo Farnsworth has just been drugged and drowned in his bathtub by his cheating gold digger wife Julia Farnsworth and her lover, Farnsworths personal secretary, Tony Abbott. Julia and Tony are naturally confused when Leo reappears, alive, Leo buys the Los Angeles Rams to lead them to the Super Bowl as their quarterback. To succeed, he must first convince, and then secure the aid of, long-time friend, at the same time, he falls in love with an environmental activist, Betty Logan, who disapproves of the original Farnsworths policies and actions. With the Rams about to play in the Super Bowl, the characters all face a crisis, Mr. Jordan informs Farnsworth that he must give up this body as well. Farnsworth resists, but hints to Betty that she might someday meet someone else, Julia and Abbott continue their murderous plans, and Abbott shoots Farnsworth dead. The Rams are forced to another quarterback, Tom Jarrett. A detective, Lt. Krim, interrogates the suspects while they watch the game on TV, with the help of Corkle, he gets Julia and Abbott to incriminate one another. After a brutal hit on the field, Jarrett is himself killed, with Mr. Jordans help, Joe then occupies his final body. He is shown snapping to life in Jarretts body, then leading the Rams to victory, during the teams post-game celebration, Mr. Jordan removes Joes memory of his past life and departs. Joe becomes Tom Jarrett and the balance is restored. The one left crestfallen is Corkle, who understands what really happened, Jarrett bumps into Betty while leaving the stadium. They strike up a conversation, and Betty suddenly experiences a realization who he really is, a number of former Los Angeles Rams players have cameo roles in the film, including Deacon Jones, Les Josephson, Jack Snow, Jim Boeke, and Charley Cowan
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,1975, under the original title NBCs Saturday Night, the shows comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and features performances by a musical guest, an episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live from New York, its Saturday Night. In 1980, Michaels left the series to other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews, Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned, Michaels has remained since then. Many of SNLs cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film. The show format has developed and recreated in several countries. Successful sketches have seen life outside of the show as feature films, throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 50 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and it was ranked tenth in TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show, the live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests. From 1965 until September 1975, NBC ran The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, in 1974, Johnny Carson announced that he wanted the weekend shows pulled and saved so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael ODonoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBCs Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on the rival network ABC, NBC purchased the rights to the name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26,1977. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, NBC executives agreed with Michaels and decided to keep the show on the air despite many angry letters and phone calls that the network received from viewers who were offended by certain sketches. Chevy Chase left the show in November of the season and was replaced a few months later by the then-unknown comic actor Bill Murray. Aykroyd and Belushi left the show in 1979 after the end of season four, in May 1980, Michaels—emotionally and physically exhausted—requested to put the show on hiatus for a year to give him time and energy to pursue other projects
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The Muppet Show
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The Muppet Show is a family-oriented comedy-variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets. The programmes were recorded at ATVs Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England, the series shows a vaudeville or music hall-style song-and-dance variety show, as well as glimpses behind the scenes of such a show. Kermit the Frog stars as a showrunner who tries to control of the antics of the other Muppet characters. The show was known for physical slapstick, sometimes absurdist comedy. Each episode also featured a human guest star, as the shows popularity rose, many celebrities were eager to perform with the Muppets on television and in film. Many of the puppeteers also worked on Sesame Street, Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns were two of the show writers. The music was performed by Jack Parnell and his orchestra, since 1969, Sesame Street had given Jim Hensons Muppet creations exposure, however, Henson began to perceive that he was pigeonholed as a childrens entertainer. He sought to create a programme that could be enjoyed by young, Two specials were produced and aired on ABC that are considered pilots for The Muppet Show. Neither led to the sale of a network series. However, the prime-time access rule had just been enacted, which took the 7,30 to 8 pm ET slot from the networks and turned it over to their affiliates. CBS suggested it would be interested in Hensons proposal as a series it could purchase for its owned-and-operated stations. According to the pitch reel, Rowan & Martins Laugh-In co-creator George Schlatter was originally going to be involved. Henson put aside his misgivings about syndication and accepted, the Muppet Show Theme is the shows theme song. It is the opening and closing theme for episode of The Muppet Show and was performed by The Muppets in a scene of The Muppets. Each episode ended with an instrumental performance of The Muppet Show Theme by the Muppet orchestra before Statler. Some last laugh sequences featured other Muppets on the balcony, for example, in one episode, the Muppets of Sesame Street appeared behind the duo who told them, How should we know how to get to Sesame Street. We dont even know how to get out of this stupid theater box, every series, the TV version of the song was presented with re-worked lyrics. While the opening sequence evolved visually over the course of the five series
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Honeysuckle Rose (film)
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Buck Bonham is a country singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career with his responsibilities to his wife and he has everything going his way until the daughter of his former guitarist joins his tour. The road leads to temptation, which leads to his downfall, the only question is will his family and friends stand by him. Honeysuckle Rose opened theatrically in 826 venues on July 18,1980 and earned $2,189,966 in its first weekend, in 1981, Nelson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for On the Road Again. Irving won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress, roger Ebert called the film sly and entertaining, but said that the story was predictable and disappointing. The film grossed over $17 million and it was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival
