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Ed Begley Jr.
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For his father, see Ed Begley. Edward James Ed Begley Jr. is an American actor and environmentalist, Begley has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He is most recognized for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere, for which he received six consecutive Emmy Award nominations and he also co-hosted, along with wife Rachelle Carson, the green living reality show entitled Living with Ed. He is a recurring cast member in the mockumentaries of Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Begley was born in Los Angeles, California to Allene Jeanne Sanders and Oscar-winning film actor Ed Begley. When his son was born Begley Sr. was married to Amanda Huff and he believed Huff to be his biological mother until he was sixteen, and only later became acquainted with his biological mother, Allene. His paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants, Begley grew up in Buffalo, New York and attended Stella Niagara Education Park Cadet School, a private Roman Catholic school, in Lewiston, New York. In 1962 the family moved back to California, where he graduated from Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks, a Catholic high school, Begleys numerous roles in television and film include one of his earliest appearances as a guest actor on Maude. He had guest appearances in the 1970s series Room 222 and he had recurring roles on Mary Hartman, 7th Heaven, Arrested Development, Meego and Six Feet Under and starring roles in Stephen Kings Kingdom Hospital, St. Elsewhere, and Wednesday 9,30. He has played significant roles in the mockumentary films Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, in 1995, he played The Riddlers boss in Batman Forever but is uncredited. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, in 1996, Begley appeared in a TV movie called The Late Shift, where he played real-life CBS executive Rod Perth. Perth himself appears briefly in a cameo role, Begley and Perth share an extraordinary physical resemblance, something the film makers milk for humor in the scene. He has guest-starred on shows such as Scrubs, Boston Legal and he had a recurring guest role in season three of Veronica Mars. He appeared in the 2008 HBO film Recount, which profiled the 2000 Presidential Election and its aftermath, Begley also made an appearance on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job. Season 3, Episode 3, as a spokesman for Cinco, in 2003, Begley wrote and directed the musical Cesar and Ruben. It was performed at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles and was revived in 2007, one of Begleys recent acting roles was in the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried. Begley played Dr. Walter Krandall, the former marriage counselor. Since 2008, he has appeared in a series of DirecTV commercials as a Cable Corp Inc. executive, in 2013, he appeared on the reality television show Beverly Hills Pawn. Begley has three children, a daughter and son from his first marriage, and a daughter from his current marriage
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Hartford, Connecticut
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Hartford is the capital of the U. S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, as of the 2010 Census, Hartfords population was 124,775, making it Connecticuts third-largest city after the coastal cities of Bridgeport and New Haven. Census Bureau estimates since then have indicated Hartfords subsequent fall to fourth place statewide as a result of sustained growth in the coastal city of Stamford. Nicknamed the Insurance Capital of the World, Hartford houses many insurance company headquarters, founded in 1635, Hartford is among the oldest cities in the United States. In 1868, resident Mark Twain wrote, Of all the towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief. Following the American Civil War, Hartford was the richest city in the United States for several decades, today, Hartford is one of the poorest cities in the nation with 3 out of every 10 families living below the poverty line. In sharp contrast, the Hartford metropolitan area is ranked 32nd of 318 metropolitan areas in total economic production, various tribes, all part of the loose Algonquin confederation, lived in or around present-day Hartford. The area was referred to as Suckiaug, meaning Black Fertile River-Enhanced Earth, the first Europeans known to have explored the area were the Dutch, under Adriaen Block, who sailed up the Connecticut in 1614. Dutch fur traders from New Amsterdam returned in 1623 with a mission to establish a trading post, the original site was located on the south bank of the Park River in the present-day Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhood. This fort was called Fort Hoop, or the House of Hope, in 1633, Jacob Van Curler formally bought the land around Fort Hoop from the Pequot chief for a small sum. It was home to perhaps a couple families and a few dozen soldiers, the area today is known as Dutch Point, and the name of the Dutch fort, House of Hope, is reflected in the name of Huyshope Avenue. The fort was abandoned by 1654, but its neighborhood in Hartford is still known as Dutch Point, the Dutch outpost, and the tiny contingent of Dutch soldiers that were stationed there, did little to check the English migration. The Dutch soon realized they were vastly outnumbered, the House of Hope remained an outpost, but it was steadily swallowed up by waves of English settlers. The English began to arrive 1637, settling upstream from Fort Hoop near the present-day Downtown, the settlement was originally called Newtown, but was changed to Hartford in 1637 in honor of Stones hometown of Hertford, England. Hooker also created the town of Windsor. The etymology of Hartford is the ford where harts cross, the Seal of the City of Hartford features a male deer, which in full maturity was referred to by the medieval hunting term hart. The fledgling colony along the Connecticut River had issues with the authority by which it was to be governed because it was outside of the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colonys charter. Historians suggest that Hookers conception of self-rule embodied in the Fundamental Orders went on to inspire the Connecticut Constitution, today, one of Connecticuts nicknames is the Constitution State
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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San Fernando Mission Cemetery
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The San Fernando Mission Cemetery has been owned and operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese since 1800. Mission Hills Catholic Mortuary operating as a business unit under a land lease agreement between the Archdiocese and Stewart Enterprises is also located on the grounds of the cemetery. San Fernando Mission Cemetery is an active cemetery providing burials, entombments and cremation options to members of the Roman Catholic Community, four mosaics by ecclesiastical artist Isabel Piczek were created to adorn a mid-century style mausoleum. Two of the pieces are dated in the mosaic,1963 and 1964, use the following alphabetical links to find someone
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
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Television
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Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a set, a television program. Television is a medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip. Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920s. After World War II, a form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses. During the 1950s, television was the medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the US, for many reasons, the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s, digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity, another development was the move from standard-definition television to high-definition television, which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats, 1080p, 1080i, in 2013, 79% of the worlds households owned a television set. Most TV sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs, major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are gradually expected to be replaced by OLEDs, also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and. Until the early 2000s, these were transmitted as analog signals, a standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television, the word television comes from Ancient Greek τῆλε, meaning far, and Latin visio, meaning sight. The Anglicised version of the term is first attested in 1907 and it was. formed in English or borrowed from French télévision. In the 19th century and early 20th century, other. proposals for the name of a technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote. The abbreviation TV is from 1948, the use of the term to mean a television set dates from 1941
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Radio
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When radio waves strike an electrical conductor, the oscillating fields induce an alternating current in the conductor. The information in the waves can be extracted and transformed back into its original form, Radio systems need a transmitter to modulate some property of the energy produced to impress a signal on it, for example using amplitude modulation or angle modulation. Radio systems also need an antenna to convert electric currents into radio waves, an antenna can be used for both transmitting and receiving. The electrical resonance of tuned circuits in radios allow individual stations to be selected, the electromagnetic wave is intercepted by a tuned receiving antenna. Radio frequencies occupy the range from a 3 kHz to 300 GHz, a radio communication system sends signals by radio. The term radio is derived from the Latin word radius, meaning spoke of a wheel, beam of light, however, this invention would not be widely adopted. The switch to radio in place of wireless took place slowly and unevenly in the English-speaking world, the United States Navy would also play a role. Although its translation of the 1906 Berlin Convention used the terms wireless telegraph and wireless telegram, the term started to become preferred by the general public in the 1920s with the introduction of broadcasting. Radio systems used for communication have the following elements, with more than 100 years of development, each process is implemented by a wide range of methods, specialised for different communications purposes. Each system contains a transmitter, This consists of a source of electrical energy, the transmitter contains a system to modulate some property of the energy produced to impress a signal on it. This modulation might be as simple as turning the energy on and off, or altering more subtle such as amplitude, frequency, phase. Amplitude modulation of a carrier wave works by varying the strength of the signal in proportion to the information being sent. For example, changes in the strength can be used to reflect the sounds to be reproduced by a speaker. It was the used for the first audio radio transmissions. Frequency modulation varies the frequency of the carrier, the instantaneous frequency of the carrier is directly proportional to the instantaneous value of the input signal. FM has the capture effect whereby a receiver only receives the strongest signal, Digital data can be sent by shifting the carriers frequency among a set of discrete values, a technique known as frequency-shift keying. FM is commonly used at Very high frequency radio frequencies for high-fidelity broadcasts of music, analog TV sound is also broadcast using FM. Angle modulation alters the phase of the carrier wave to transmit a signal
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Connecticut
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Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State Area and it is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital city is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport, the state is named for the Connecticut River, a major U. S. river that approximately bisects the state. The word Connecticut is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for long tidal river, Connecticut is the third smallest state by area, the 29th most populous, and the fourth most densely populated of the 50 United States. It is known as the Constitution State, the Nutmeg State, the Provisions State, and it was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States. Connecticuts center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticuts first European settlers were Dutch. They established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park, initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers. The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by England, the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution, the Connecticut River, Thames River, and ports along the Long Island Sound have given Connecticut a strong maritime tradition which continues today. The state also has a history of hosting the financial services industry, including insurance companies in Hartford. As of the 2010 Census, Connecticut features the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index, and median household income in the United States. Landmarks and Cities of Connecticut Connecticut is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound, on the west by New York, on the north by Massachusetts, and on the east by Rhode Island. The state capital and third largest city is Hartford, and other cities and towns include Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, Danbury, New Britain, Greenwich. Connecticut is slightly larger than the country of Montenegro, there are 169 incorporated towns in Connecticut. The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain in Salisbury in the northwest corner of the state, the highest point is just east of where Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York meet, on the southern slope of Mount Frissell, whose peak lies nearby in Massachusetts. At the opposite extreme, many of the towns have areas that are less than 20 feet above sea level. Connecticut has a maritime history and a reputation based on that history—yet the state has no direct oceanfront
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United States Navy
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The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U. S. Navy is the largest, most capable navy in the world, the U. S. Navy has the worlds largest aircraft carrier fleet, with ten in service, two in the reserve fleet, and three new carriers under construction. The service has 323,792 personnel on duty and 108,515 in the Navy Reserve. It has 274 deployable combat vessels and more than 3,700 operational aircraft as of October 2016, the U. S. Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. It played a role in the American Civil War by blockading the Confederacy. It played the role in the World War II defeat of Imperial Japan. The 21st century U. S. Navy maintains a global presence, deploying in strength in such areas as the Western Pacific, the Mediterranean. The Navy is administratively managed by the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Navy is itself a division of the Department of Defense, which is headed by the Secretary of Defense. The Chief of Naval Operations is an admiral and the senior naval officer of the Department of the Navy. The CNO may not be the highest ranking officer in the armed forces if the Chairman or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, the United States Navy is a seaborne branch of the military of the United States. The Navys three primary areas of responsibility, The preparation of naval forces necessary for the prosecution of war. The development of aircraft, weapons, tactics, technique, organization, U. S. Navy training manuals state that the mission of the U. S. Armed Forces is to prepare and conduct prompt and sustained combat operations in support of the national interest, as part of that establishment, the U. S. Navys functions comprise sea control, power projection and nuclear deterrence, in addition to sealift duties. It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, the Navy was rooted in the colonial seafaring tradition, which produced a large community of sailors, captains, and shipbuilders. In the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, Massachusetts had its own Massachusetts Naval Militia, the establishment of a national navy was an issue of debate among the members of the Second Continental Congress. Supporters argued that a navy would protect shipping, defend the coast, detractors countered that challenging the British Royal Navy, then the worlds preeminent naval power, was a foolish undertaking. Commander in Chief George Washington resolved the debate when he commissioned the ocean-going schooner USS Hannah to interdict British merchant ships, and reported the captures to the Congress
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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Going Up (musical)
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Going Up is a musical comedy in three acts with music by Louis Hirsch and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and James Montgomery. Popular songs included Hip Hooray, If You Look in Her Eyes, Kiss Me, Going Up, Do It for Me, The Tickle Toe, the musical was a hit on Broadway in 1917 and again the following year in London. Revivals and a film adaptation followed, the development of aviation and flying in the early years of the 20th century captivated the publics attention. Going Up is based on a 1910 play, The Aviator, the play took on new significance during World War I. It ran for 351 performances, directed by Edward Royce and James Montgomery, starring Edith Day, a full-size biplane was used in the production, delighting audiences. The production ran through October 1918, and three companies were sent out to tour it, the London cast starred Joseph Coyne and Marjorie Gordon and featured Evelyn Laye. In Australia, Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott starred in the piece in 1919, the piece enjoyed various tours and revivals thereafter. A1976 Broadway revival tried out at the Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Connecticut, the production moved to Broadway, at the John Golden Theatre, on September 19,1976, closing on October 31,1976 after 49 performances. The director was Gile and the choreographer was Dan Siretta, with sets by Edward Haynes, costumes by David Toser and lighting by Peter M. Ehrhardt. The production starred Brad Blaisdell as Robert and featured Pat Lysinger, Stephen Bray, Kimberly Farr, Michael Tartel, Walter Bobbie, Maureen Brennan, Noel Craig, a 1923 motion picture farce was based on the musical, with a screenplay by Raymond Griffith. It starred Douglas MacLean, Hallam Cooley, Francis McDonald, Hughie Mack and his agent thinks it would be a great idea for him to go up in an airplane as a publicity stunt. His girlfriend Grace, whose parents would rather see her marry French flying ace Jules Gaillard, also thinks this is a good idea, Jules thinks so too, he challenges Robert to an air race. A mechanician, Sam Robinson, is sent for, but when he arrives, he is too stout to go up in the airplane, the flight is successful, Robert wins the race and lands in one piece. Miss Zonne, a telephone girl - Ruth Donnelly, Ruby Miller John Gordon, manager of the Gordon Inn - John Park, Clifton Alderson F. H. Douglas, a chronic bettor - Donald Meek, Arthur Chesney Mrs. Several of the songs were re-issued on CD in the collection Broadway Through the Gramophone, information about Going Up and Hirsch Internet Broadway Database, Going Up,1917 Song list and links to Midi files List of longest running plays in London and New York
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The Fat Man (radio)
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The Fat Man, a popular radio show during the 1940s and early 1950s was a detective drama created by Dashiell Hammett. It starred J. Scott Smart in the role, as a detective who started out anonymous. While the basic concept was credited to Hammett, The Fat Man was developed by producer, the program was directed by Clark Andrews, creator of Big Town, and Charles Powers. The main writer was Richard Ellington, with scripts by Robert Sloane. The veteran character actor Ed Begley co-starred as Sgt, oHara, and the supporting cast included Betty Garde, Paul Stewart, Linda Watkins, Mary Patton as Lila North and Vicki Vola, who was also the female lead in Mr. District Attorney. Amzie Strickland played Runyons girlfriend Cathy Evans, and Nell Harrison was Runyons mother during the early episodes, the cast also included Dan Ocko, Rolly Bester and Robert Dryden. An 11-piece orchestra was directed by Bernard Green, who wrote the programs theme. The sound effects were by Ed Blaney, and the announcers were Charles Irving, the success of the radio series led to a movie, The Fat Man, directed by William Castle with a flashback-within-a-flashback storyline. Smart retained his role as detective Brad Runyon, investigating the murder of a Los Angeles dentist with an assist from Bill Norton, one of the suspects is portrayed by famed Barnum & Bailey clown Emmett Kelly in his screen debut as an actor. Also in the cast are Rock Hudson, Julie London, Parley Baer, there was also an Australian version of The Fat Man, which premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on September 9,1954 and ran through 1955 for a total of 52 episodes. It was later syndicated by the Artansa label, and 36 episodes remain in circulation today, the role of Brad Runyon was played in this version by Lloyd Berrell. Most of the original American episodes have not survived
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Charlie Chan
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Charlie Chan is a fictional character created by Earl Derr Biggers. Biggers loosely based Chan on Honolulu, Hawaii detective Chang Apana, Chan is a detective for the Honolulu police, though many stories feature Chan traveling the world as he investigates mysteries and solves crimes. Chan first appeared in Biggers novels, then was featured in a number of media, over four dozen films featuring Charlie Chan were made, beginning in 1926. The character was first portrayed by East Asian actors, and the films met with little success, after Olands death, American actor Sidney Toler was cast as Chan, Toler made twenty-two Chan films, first for Fox and then for Monogram Studios. After Tolers death, six films were made, starring Roland Winters, many found it objectionable that he was played on screen by Caucasian actors in yellowface. Film adaptations in the 1990s have been poorly received, the character has been featured in several radio programs, two television shows, and comics. The character of Charlie Chan was created by Earl Derr Biggers, in 1919, while visiting Hawaii, Biggers planned a detective novel to be called The House Without a Key. It overwhelms me with sadness to admit it … for he is of my own origin, my own race, but when I look into his eyes I discover that a gulf like the heaving Pacific lies between us. Because he, though among Caucasians many more years than I, as Chinese to-day as in the first moon of his existence. While I – I bear the brand – the label – Americanized, for what I have won, I paid the price. Not in the eyes of Ah Sing, the amiable Chinese made his first appearance in The House Without a Key. The character was not central to the novel and was not mentioned by name on the dust jacket of the first edition. In the novel, Chan is described as walking with the light dainty step of a woman, a year later Universal Pictures followed with The Chinese Parrot, starring Japanese actor, Kamiyama Sojin, in the starring role. In both productions, Charlie Chans role was minimized, contemporary reviews were unfavorable, in the words of one reviewer, speaking of The Chinese Parrot, Sojin plays the Chink sleuth as a Lon Chaney cook-waiter … because Chaney cant stoop that low. In 1929, the Fox Film Corporation opted Charlie Chan properties and produced Behind That Curtain, again, Chans role was minimal, with Chan appearing only in the last ten minutes of the film. Not until an actor was cast in the title role in 1931 did a Chan film meet with success. In Charlie Chan Carries On Chan was played by Swedish actor Warner Oland, Oland starred in sixteen Chan films for Fox, often with Keye Luke, who played Chans Number One Son, Lee Chan. Olands warmth and gentle humor helped make the character and films popular, by attracting major audiences and box-office grosses on a par with As they kept Fox afloat during the Great Depression
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960. Shortly before his death in 2004, actor/comedian Alan King wrote a pair of stories about the character set in 1948. They were published posthumously in 2016, dick Powell starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend, Helen Asher. Other regular cast members included Ricks friend and former partner on the force, Lt. Walter Levinson, played variously by Ed Begley. Bryan, Ted DeCorsia and Alan Reed, and Wilms Herbert as Walts bumbling sergeant and it began airing on NBC Radio on April 24,1949, picked up Rexall as a sponsor on April 5,1950, and continued until December 6,1950. Many of the shows were written or directed by Edwards. Its theme, Leave It to Love, was whistled by Powell at the beginning of each episode. With Camel cigarettes as a sponsor, it moved to ABC from January 5,1951, to June 29,1951, with Rexall returning for a run from October 5,1951, until June 27,1952. Substituting for Amos n Andy, it aired Sunday evenings on CBS from May 31,1953 until September 20,1953, dick Powells company, Four Star Television, produced the television version of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, which premiered in the summer of 1957 on CBS. It returned to CBS in January 1958 for the season and in February 1959 for the third season. In the fall of 1959, the fourth and final aired on NBC. David Janssen, before The Fugitive, starred as Diamond, a officer of the New York Police Department. Don Taylor played the role in a 1956 television pilot. The first two seasons followed radio’s characterization the most closely. In the noirish opening sequence, clad in hat, suit, and tie, he walks down a dimly lit street toward the camera and lights up a cigarette, the light from which shows his face. ”Following the second season, the setting was switched from New York City to Los Angeles, and the production was entirely redesigned. I. image that often seemed more inspired by Hugh Hefner than by Dashiell Hammett, Diamond no longer occupied a low-rent, cloistered office, but now operated from a modern, beautifully appointed ranch house—complete with pool—in the Hollywood Hills. Following the lead of the Sunset Strip private eyes, he drove a convertible—in this case a 1959 DeSoto Fireflite. The Hefner-like fantasy was enhanced by gadgets, especially Diamond’s car phone, which connected him directly to an answering service overseen by the shapely, enigmatic “Sam. ”Season 3’s modern, more youthful ambience was complemented by a score by composer/arranger Pete Rugolo
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The Lambs
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The Lambs, Inc. is a social club in New York City for actors, songwriters, and others involved in the theater. It is Americas oldest theatrical organization, the Lambs is a registered trademark of The Lambs, Inc. and the club has been commonly referred to as The Lambs Club and The Lambs Theater since 1874. In 1868, The Lambs was founded in London by actors, led by John Hare, several of those, most notably Henry James Montague, came to the United States and formed The Lambs of New York during Christmas week of 1874. It was incorporated in 1877 in New York City, shortly afterward, the London Lambs closed. The clubs name honors the essayist Charles Lamb and his sister Mary, in 1924 they celebrated their golden jubilee at the Earl Carroll Theatre. The Lambs, the New York Friars Club, and The Players in New York are often confused, the president of The Lambs is called The Shepherd. The Club displays the portraits of all its presidents, painted by such as James Montgomery Flagg. In 1905 at 128–130 West 44th Street, in a designed by Stanford White. Until 1974 the Club remained at the building at 128 West 44th Street, the building was designed by architect Stanford White, and was erected in 1904–1905, the expanded in 1915 to include 132 West 44th Street. The church leased part of the building for what would become the Off Broadway Lambs Theatre which is not related to the Club except for the name of the building. The building was designated a New York City Landmark in September 1974, in 2006 the Church of the Nazarene sold the building and theatre, which has been renovated by the Chatwal Hotel. They operate a restaurant in the hotel and named it The Lambs Club although there is no relation between the hotel and The Lambs other than what was left of the building. The Lambs, Inc. is still active in its quarters at 3 West 51st Street adjacent to Rockefeller Center. Its members have been instrumental in the formation of ASCAP, Actors Equity and The Actors Fund of America, of the first 21 Council members of Actors Equity,20 were members of The Lambs. Historically, The Lambs has been the ground of plays. Mark Twain Tonight and Stalag 17 were first performed at The Lambs prior to their national successes, alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe first met at The Lambs, often trying works-in-progress on their fellow Lambs. Loewe left a percentage of his share of Brigadoon royalties to The Lambs Foundation, since its founding, there have been more than 6,000 Lambs including Spencer Tracy, Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, John Philip Sousa, Fred Waring and Albert Hague, current members include Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners, Jim Dale, Matthew Broderick, and the Tony Award-winning conductor/arranger Donald Pippin
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Monte Markham
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Monte Markham is an American actor. He has appeared in films, television series and on Broadway, Markham was born in Manatee County, Florida, the son of Millie Content and Jesse Edward Markham, Sr. who was a merchant. One of his earliest stage experiences was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 1961, Markham made his Broadway debut in 1973 in Irene, for which he won the Theatre World Award. He also appeared on stage in Same Time, Next Year, markhams film work includes Hour of the Gun, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, Midway and Airport 77. He has served as a consultant, director, producer, and narrator for A&Es Classroom, randolph Life Partners We Are Still Here - Dave McCabe Monte Markham at the Internet Movie Database Monte Markham interview http, //www. wonderland-site. com/html/interviews4. htm
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Eddie Albert
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Edward Albert Heimberger, known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma. And the sadistic prison warden in 1974s The Longest Yard and he starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television sitcom Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest. Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on April 22,1906, the oldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger, a realtor and his year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. His parents were not married when Albert was born, and his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage, when he was one year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young Edward secured his first job as a boy when he was only six. During World War I, his German name led to taunts as the enemy by his classmates and he studied at Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. His schoolmate Harriet Lake graduated in the same class, finishing high school in 1926, he entered the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business. When he graduated, he embarked on a business career, however, the stock market crash in 1929 left him essentially unemployed. He then took odd jobs, working as a performer, an insurance salesman. Albert stopped using his last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as Hamburger and he moved to New York City in 1933, where he co-hosted a radio show, The Honeymooners - Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. At the shows end, he was offered a contract by Warner Bros. In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat and he had lead roles in Room Service and The Boys from Syracuse. Performing regularly on television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, The Love Nest. Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays. In 1938, he made his debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. The next year, he starred in On Your Toes, adapted for the screen from the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart
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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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Situation comedy
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A situation comedy, or sitcom, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. This form can also include mockumentaries, a situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the programs production format. The effect of a studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. The terms situational comedy or sitcom werent commonly used until the 1950s, there were prior examples on radio, but the first television sitcom is said to be Pinwrights Progress, ten episodes being broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom between 1946 and 1947. There have been few long-running Australian-made sitcoms, but many U. S. UK sitcoms are a staple of government broadcaster Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in the 1970s and 1980s many UK sitcoms also screened on the Seven Network. By 1986, UK comedies Bless This House and Are You Being Served, had been repeated by ABC Television several times, and were then acquired and screened by the Seven Network, in prime time. In 1981, Daily at Dawn was the first Australian comedy series to feature a gay character. In 1987, Mother and Son was winner of the Television Drama Award presented by the Australian Human Rights Commission, in 2013, Please Like Me was praised by the critics, receiving an invitation to screen at the Series Mania Television Festival in Paris. And has garnered three awards and numerous nominations, nominated to the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards for Best Television Comedy Series. Conversely, however, Canadian television has had greater success with sketch comedy and dramedy series. The popular show King of Kensington, aired from 1975 to 1980, corner Gas, which ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009, became an instant hit, averaging a million viewers per episode. It has been the recipient of six Gemini Awards, and has been nominated almost 70 times for various awards, other noteworthy recent sitcoms have included Call Me Fitz and Schitts Creek, Letterkenny and Kims Convenience. Sitcoms started appearing on Indian television in the 1980s, with serials like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, since it ceased production in 1992, the show has earned an estimated billion in syndication fees alone for Televisa. Gliding On, a popular sit-com in New Zealand in the early 1980s, won awards over the course of its run, including Best Comedy, Best Drama. The first Russian sitcom series was Strawberry, which was aired in 1996-1997 on the RTR channel, however, the boom of Russian sitcoms began only in the 2000s - when in 2004 the STS started very successful sitcom My Fair Nanny. Since that time sitcoms in Russia were produced by the two largest entertainment channels of the country - STS and TNT, in 2007 the STS released the first original domestic sitcom - Daddys Daughters, and in 2010 TNT released Interns - the first sitcom, filmed as a comedy. Most American sitcoms generally include episodes of 20 to 30 minutes in length, some popular British shows have been successfully adapted for the U. S
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Robert Montgomery Presents
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Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30,1950, until June 24,1957. The Johnsons Wax Program, and so on. In 1949, to develop the series for NBC, Montgomery relocated his family from the West Coast to New York City. Robert Montgomery Presents originally was telecast on a basis, alternating with Musical Comedy Time. Initially offering hour-long dramas adapted from successful Hollywood films, the series was hosted and produced by Robert Montgomery and his presence lent a degree of respectability to the new medium of television, and he was able to persuade many of his Hollywood associates to appear. Montgomery introduced each episode and also acted in many episodes, the program was noted for the high level of production values and the consistent attempt to present quality entertainment within the constraints of a live presentation. A drama built around the Hindenburg disaster, including interviews with survivors of the event, was one example of the ambitious nature of the program. In the 1950-1951 season, the series finished #11 in the Nielsen ratings, the debut episode was W. Somerset Maughams The Letter. During its first season, the movie adaptations included Rebecca, The Egg and I, Dark Victory, over the following seasons it adapted highly respected works but also showcased new writers and original dramas written expressly for the series. From 1952, a repertory cast appeared on the show along with guest artists, Montgomerys daughter, Elizabeth Montgomery, made her acting debut as a repertory player in 1951 and remained with the show until 1956. Cliff Robertson also made his debut as part of the same group in 1954. Notable guest stars included, Robert Montgomery Presents at the Internet Movie Database Robert Montgomery Presents at TV. com Robert Montgomery Presents at CVTA with episode list
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Lucky Strike
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Lucky Strike is an American brand of cigarettes owned by the British American Tobacco groups. Often referred to as Luckies, Lucky Strike was the cigarette brand in the United States during the 1930s. Lucky Strike brand was introduced in 1871 by the company R. A, patterson in the USA as chewing tobacco. The founder of Luckies was inspired by the rush for gold searching. Only some of the diggers were fortunate enough to find gold. By choosing this expression as the name, it meant consumers who were choosing the brand were lucky. Lucky Strike was a brand of chewing tobacco, and by the early 1900s, the brand was first introduced by R. A. Patterson of Richmond, Virginia, in 1871 as cut-plug chewing tobacco, in 1905, the company was acquired by the American Tobacco Company. In the late 1920s, the brand was sold as a route to thinness for women, one typical ad said, sales of Lucky Strikes increased by more than 300% during the first year of the advertising campaign. Sales went from 14 billion cigarettes in 1925 to 40 billion sold in 1930, Lucky Strikes association with radio music programs began during the 1920s on NBC. By 1928, the bandleader and vaudeville producer B. A. Rolfe was performing on radio and recording as B. A. Rolfe, in 1935, ATC began to sponsor Your Hit Parade, featuring North Carolina tobacco auctioneer Lee Aubrey Speed Riggs. The weekly radio shows countdown catapulted the brands success, remaining popular for 25 years, the shows capitalized on the tobacco auction theme and each ended with the signature phrase Sold, American. Lucky Strike was also a sponsor of comedian Jack Bennys radio and TV show, The Jack Benny Program, the brands signature dark-green pack was changed to white in 1942. American Tobacco actually used chromium to produce the ink. A limited supply of each was available, and substitute materials made the package look drab, the war effort became a convenient way to make the product more marketable while appearing patriotic at the same time. Famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy was challenged by company president George Washington Hill to improve the green and red package. Loewy changed the background from green to white, making it attractive to women. He also placed the Lucky Strike target logo on both sides of the package, a move that increased both visibility and sales, the message L. S. M. F. T. was introduced on the package in 1945
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Union Pacific Railroad
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The Union Pacific Railroad is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Union Pacific Railroad network is the largest in the United States and it is also one of the worlds largest transportation companies. Union Pacific Railroad is the operating company of Union Pacific Corporation. Union Pacific Corporations main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the second largest freight railroad. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all freight rail lines in the U. S. The original company was incorporated on July 1,1862, under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union. It was constructed westward from Council Bluffs, Iowa to meet the Central Pacific Railroad line, the line was constructed primarily by Irish labor who had learned their craft during the recent Civil War. The two lines were joined together at Promontory Summit, Utah,53 miles west of Ogden on May 10,1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Under the guidance of its dominant stockholder Dr. Thomas Clark Durant, the namesake of the city of Durant, Iowa, the first rails were laid in Omaha. It built or purchased local lines that gave it access to Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon and it also owned narrow gauge trackage into the heart of the Colorado Rockies and a standard gauge line south from Denver across New Mexico into Texas. UP was entangled in the Crédit Mobilier scandal, exposed in 1872 and its independent construction company the Crédit Mobilier had bribed congressmen. The UP itself was not guilty but it did get bad publicity, the financial crisis of 1873 led to financial troubles but not bankruptcy. The company was reorganized as the Union Pacific Railway on January 24,1880, the new company declared bankruptcy during the Panic of 1893. When it emerged in 1897 it reverted to the original name, the corporate headquarters of the Union Pacific Corporation were located in New York City from its initial founding in the 1860s until Drew Lewis became CEO in the mid-1980s. He relocated it to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, later the headquarters was shifted to Dallas, Texas, before relocating to Omaha to join the operating headquarters. From the ICC annual reports, except 1979 is from Moodys, on December 31,1925 UP-OSL-OWRN-LA&SL-StJ&GI operated 9,834 route-miles and 15,265 track-miles. At the end of 1980, Union Pacific operated 9,266 route-miles and 15,647 miles of track, Moodys shows 220,697 million revenue ton-miles in 1993 on the expanded system
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Union Pacific Big Boy
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The Big Boy fleet of twenty five locomotives were used primarily in the Wyoming Division to haul freight over the Wasatch mountains between Green River, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah. According to a Union Pacific executive, the 4-8-8-4 series originally was to have been called Wasatch, one day while one of the engines was being built an unknown worker scrawled Big Boy in chalk on its front. With that, the name was born and has stuck ever since. Union Pacific introduced the Challenger-type locomotives in 1936 on its main line over the Wasatch Range between Green River, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah. For most of the route, the grade is 0. 82% in either direction. Hauling a 3, 600-short-ton freight train demanded double heading and helper operations, to eliminate the need for double heading and helper operations, Union Pacific decided to design a new locomotive. For such a locomotive to be worthwhile, it would have to be faster, to avoid locomotive changes, the new class would need to pull long trains at a sustained speed of 60 miles per hour once past mountain grades. In fact, it was designed so that it could travel smoothly and safely at 80 miles per hour — even though it was not intended to be used that fast. Led by mechanic Otto Jabelmann, the Union Pacific Railroads design team worked with the American Locomotive Company to re-examine their Challenger locomotives, the Big Boys are articulated, like the Mallet locomotive design. They were built with a margin of reliability and safety. Peak horsepower was reached at about 35 mph, optimal tractive effort, without the tender, the Big Boy has the longest engine body of any reciprocating steam locomotive. The American Locomotive Company manufactured 25 Big Boy locomotives for Union Pacific, the Big Boy locomotives had large grates to burn the low-quality bituminous coal from Union Pacific-owned mines in Wyoming. As an experiment, Locomotive 4005 was converted to oil, unlike a similar effort with the Challengers, it failed due to uneven heating in the Big Boys large. Another experiment that took place for a time was giving locomotive 4019 smoke lifters. They were later removed for unknown reasons, towards the end of their career, the Big Boys could still pull more than their rated tonnage of 6,573 short tons. The Big Boys ratings were increased several times until they regularly pulled 8,727 short tons over the Wasatch range, the last revenue train hauled by a Big Boy ended its run early in the morning on July 21,1959. Most were stored operational until 1961 and four remained in operational condition at Green River and their duties were assumed by diesel locomotives and gas turbine-electric locomotives. The engineer and fireman were killed instantly on impact and the brakeman died in a hospital a few days later from his severe burns
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Sweet Bird of Youth
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The main reason for his homecoming is to get back what he had in his youth, primarily, his old girlfriend, whose father had run him out of town years before. The play was written for Tallulah Bankhead, a friend of Tennessee. Failed St. Cloud, Mississippi native son Chance Wayne has fled his home town, seeking to profit from his beauty, when he fails as an actor and then a personality in both cities he turns to the freelance career of gigolo. And as the escort of his current employer, Chance returns to his home town of St. Cloud, escorting an aging, depressed, semi-alcoholic film star. Ms. del Lago is running away from the criticism she believes is the publics. Del Lago herself had been running away and burying herself in sex, alcohol and he saw in her a last chance to build a relationship. Chance is using his perceived gallantry to entice del Lago to give him the imprimatur of stardom which he failed to achieve on his own, unfortunately once returned to St. Cloud, Chance discovers Heavenly is only a shadow of the girl he knew. During his last visit to St. Cloud, he had infected her with a disease he picked up as a result of his own promiscuity. When she discovered the problem, she had to have surgery to cut the disease out, heavenlys corrupt father and brother are determined to make Chance pay for the injury done to Heavenly. Chance worries that he receive the same fate as a black man who was recently attacked and castrated in the town. Using Alexandras car and funds, Chance tries to prove to the town that he is a success, meanwhile, Alexandra receives news that the criticism shes been running from is actually praise and that her comeback could not have been better. Chance believes that he will ride with her to the top and his youth gone, Chance does not know how to move on with his life. Though she will not recommend him for a job in Hollywood, Alexandra urges him to continue as her escort, Williams began work on the play in the fall of 1959, calling it at first The Enemy of Time. Both he and Cheryl Crawford were party to the secret and petitioned Audrey to let them produce, the original production by Cheryl Crawford opened on March 10,1959 at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City. Directed by Elia Kazan, it starred Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Sidney Blackmer, Madeleine Sherwood, Diana Hyland, Logan Ramsey, John Napier, bruce Dern also played a small role. The production was nominated for 4 Tony Awards, including Best Actress for Geraldine Page, the play ran for 375 performances. A revival opened on December 29,1975 at the Harkness Theatre, in a directed by Edwin Sherin. Irene Worth won the 1976 Tony Award for Best Actress, a production was planned to open in 2011 with David Cromer directing and Scott Rudin serving as producer
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12 Angry Men (1957 film)
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12 Angry Men is a 1957 American courtroom drama film adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. In the United States, a verdict in most criminal trials by jury must be unanimous, the film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set, out of 96 minutes of run time, only three minutes take place outside of the jury room. 12 Angry Men explores many techniques of consensus-building, and the difficulties encountered in the process, among a group of men whose range of personalities adds intensity and conflict. In 2007, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. In a New York City courthouse a jury commences deliberating the case of an 18-year-old boy from a slum, if there is any reasonable doubt they are to return a verdict of not guilty. If found guilty, the boy will receive a death sentence, in a preliminary vote, all jurors vote guilty except Juror 8, who argues that the boy deserves some deliberation. Juror 8 questions the accuracy and reliability of the two witnesses, and the prosecutions claim that the murder weapon, a common switchblade, was rare. Juror 8 argues that reasonable doubt exists, and that he therefore cannot in conscience vote guilty, Juror 8 suggests a secret ballot, from which he will abstain, and agrees to change his vote if the others unanimously vote guilty. The ballot is held and a new not guilty vote appears, an angry Juror 3 accuses Juror 5, who grew up in a slum, of changing his vote out of sympathy towards slum children. However, Juror 9 reveals it was he that changed his vote, Juror 8 argues that the noise of a passing train would have obscured the verbal threat that one witness claimed to have heard the boy tell his father Im going to kill you. Juror 5 then changes his vote, Juror 11 also changes his vote, believing the boy would not likely have tried to retrieve the murder weapon from the scene if it had been cleaned of fingerprints. An angry Juror 3 shouts that they are losing their chance to burn the boy, Juror 8 accuses him of being a sadist. Jurors 2 and 6 then change their votes, tying the vote at 6–6, Juror 4 doubts the boys alibi of being at the movies, because he could not recall it in much detail. Juror 8 tests how well Juror 4 remembers previous days, which he does, Juror 2 questions the likelihood that the boy, who was almost a foot shorter than his father, could have inflicted the downward stab wound found in the body. Jurors 3 and 8 then conduct an experiment to see whether a person could stab downwards on a taller person. Increasingly impatient, Juror 7 changes his vote to hasten the deliberation, coincidentally, it begins to storm outside, rendering his selfish decision pointless. Jurors 12 and 1 then change their votes, leaving only three dissenters, Jurors 3,4 and 10, Juror 10 then vents a torrent of condemnation of slum-born people, claiming they are no better than animals who kill for fun. Most of the others turn their backs to him, except for Juror 4, Juror 12 then reverts his vote, making the vote 8–4
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown (film)
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a 1964 American musical film directed by Charles Walters and starring Debbie Reynolds. The screenplay by Helen Deutsch is based on the book of the 1960 musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown by Richard Morris, the song score was composed by Meredith Willson. The plot is an account of the life of Margaret Brown. Debbie Reynolds was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Brown, rescued from the Colorado River as an infant and raised by Seamus Tobin, tomboy Molly Brown is determined to find a wealthy man to marry. She journeys to Leadville, Colorado and is hired as a singer by Christmas Morgan. After miner Johnny Brown renovates his cabin, the two wed, and he sells his claim in a mine for $300,000. Soon after the money Molly hid in the stove accidentally is burned and she and Johnny go to Europe, where they are embraced by royalty, and the couple return to Denver with their new friends. Mollys plan to them to the people who formerly rejected her is derailed by Johnnys rough and tumble friends, whose unexpected. Molly decides to return to Europe, leaving Johnny behind and she initially falls for the charms of Prince Louis de Lanière, but eventually decides she prefers to live with Johnny in Leadville. For the first time in her life, she realizes that someone elses feelings, setting sail for home aboard the Titanic, she becomes a heroine when the ship sinks and she helps rescue many of her fellow passengers. When her deed makes international headlines, Molly is welcomed home by Johnny, harve Presnell was the sole member of the original Broadway cast who was invited to reprise his stage role in the film. After she signed, producer Hal Wallis claimed she was under contract to him, exteriors were filmed in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in western Colorado. Only five of the seventeen musical numbers from the musical were used in the film. Peter Gennaro, who had choreographed the original Broadway production, staged the musical sequences, during production, M-G-M was putting all its resources into its forthcoming Doctor Zhivago, and at least $1 million was cut from the budget of Molly Brown. Running out of money to complete the film, director Charles Walters proposed cutting the rousing dance number Hes My Friend, to save the number, cast and crew ultimately decided to film it in one rigorous day using multiple cameras to reduce shooting time. The film was the 12th largest grossing attraction of 1964, grossing $11,070,559 at the box office. It earned $7.5 million in US theatrical rentals, Prince Louis de Lanière Martita Hunt. Grand Duchess Elise Lupovinova Harvey Lembeck, polak Maria Karnilova. Daphne Audrey Christie. Gladys McGraw Belly Up to the Bar, Boys
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Wild in the Streets
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Wild in the Streets is a 1968 film featuring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. It was produced by American International Pictures and based on a story by writer Robert Thom. The movie, described as ludicrous and cautionary, was nominated for an Academy Award and became a cult classic of the counterculture era. Wild in the Streets was first released to theaters in 1968 and its storyline was a reductio ad absurdum projection of contemporary issues of the time, taken to extremes, and played poignantly during 1968 —an election year with many controversies. The original magazine story, titled The Day It All Happened, Baby. was expanded by its author to book length. The movie features cameos from several media personalities, including Melvin Belli, Dick Clark, Pamela Mason, Army Archerd, millie Perkins and Ed Begley have supporting roles, and Bobby Sherman interviews Max as president. In a pre-Brady Bunch role, Barry Williams plays the teenaged Max Frost at the beginning of the movie, child actress Kellie Flanagan, who plays Johnny Fergus daughter, Mary, also appeared in director Barry Shears television special All Things Bright and Beautiful in the same year. She discussed filming Wild in the Streets in a 2014 interview with Adam Gerace, telling him, I get a kick out of Wild in the Streets. A soundtrack album was released on Tower Records and became successful, taken from the soundtrack and film, Shape of Things to Come and performed by the band Max Frost and the Troopers, was released as a single and also became a hit, reaching #22 on Billboard. Wild in the Streets was released on VHS home video in the late 1980s, according to filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, the part eventually played by Christopher Jones was first offered to folk singer Phil Ochs. After reading the screenplay, Ochs rejected the offer, claiming the story distorted the actual nature of the counterculture of the period. Christopher Jones stars as popular singer and aspiring revolutionary Max Frost. Frosts band, the Troopers, live together with him, their women, Maxs band performs a song noting that 52% of the population is 25 or younger, making young people the majority in the country. And a call for a demonstration, Maxs fans stir to action, and within 24 hours protests have begun in cities around the United States. Max agrees, and the two together on television, and in person the next day using the less offensive mantra fifteen. Most states agree to lower the voting age within days, in the wake of the demonstrations, and Max Frost and the Troopers campaign for Johnny Fergus until the election, which he wins by a landslide. Taking his place in the Senate, Fergus wishes Frost and his people would now just go away, but instead they get involved with Washington politics. When a congressman from Sally LeRoys home district dies suddenly, the band enters her in the election that follows
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Patterns (Kraft Television Theatre)
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Patterns was the first major breakthrough of Rod Serling when the live television drama received critical acclaim as the January 12,1955 installment of the anthology series Kraft Television Theatre. Directed by Fielder Cook, the intense big-business drama starred Richard Kiley as up-and-coming vice-president Fred Staples, ruthless corporate boss Walter Ramsie attempts to edge out aging employee Andy Sloane to make room for newcomer Staples. Ramsie uses every opportunity to humiliate the fragile Sloane, while Staples sees Sloane as a professional who makes contributions to the firm. Serlings celebrated script tore apart the dynamics of the business world, in writing, acting and direction, Patterns will stand as one of the high points in the TV mediums evolution. Patterns is a play with one point of view toward the fiercely competitive world of big business and is bound to be compared with the current motion picture Executive Suite, by comparison, Executive Suite might be Babes in Toyland without a score. For sheer power of narrative, forcefulness of characterization and brilliant climax, in one of those inspired moments that make the theater the wonder that it is, Patterns was an evening that belonged to the many, not only to Mr. Serling. The performances of Everett Sloane, Ed Begley and Richard Kiley were truly superb, the production and direction of Fielder Cook constituted a fluid use of videos artistic tools that underscore how little the TV artistic horizons really have been explored. Patterns was seen from 9 to 10pm Wednesday over the National Broadcasting Companys network, Goulds request for a repeat was an unusual suggestion, since in that pre-videotape era, live shows were not repeated. Surprisingly, NBC took Goulds suggestion seriously and made plans for another production, when Patterns returned on February 9,1955, it was once again performed live, an unprecedented event. This was the first time a television drama was repeated due to popularity, on March 27,1956, a feature-length film version of Patterns was released. The film featured a script by Serling. Van Heflin replaced Kiley in the role of Fred Staples, Patterns was so well-received that Kraft mounted a live repeat of the show a month later, and the intimate TV show was turned into a less intimate movie in 1956. Except for the use of terms like “mimeographed” and “teletype, ” little about the drama seems dated, unless one is of the opinion that corporate politics, Television Heaven Writing for Television by Rod Serling Serlings Patterns an Icon of Lost Era by Tom Shales
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Rod Serling
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Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the young man of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism. Serling was born on December 25,1924, in Syracuse, New York and he was the second of two sons born to Esther and Samuel Lawrence Serling. Serlings father had worked as a secretary and amateur inventor before having children, sam Serling later became a butcher after the Great Depression forced the store to close. Rod had a brother, Robert J. Serling. Serling spent most of his youth 70 miles south of Syracuse in the city of Binghamton after his family moved there in 1926 and his parents encouraged his talents as a performer. Sam Serling built a stage in the basement, where Rod often put on plays. His older brother, writer Robert, recalled that, at the age of six or seven, Rod often talked to people around him without waiting for their answers. On a two-hour-long trip from Binghamton to Syracuse, the rest of the family remained silent to see if Rod would notice their lack of participation and he did not, talking nonstop through the entire car ride. In elementary school, Serling was seen as the class clown, however, his seventh-grade English teacher, Helen Foley, encouraged him to enter the schools public speaking extracurriculars. He joined the team and was a speaker at his high school graduation. He began writing for the newspaper, in which, according to the journalist Gordon Sander. He was also interested in sports and excelled at tennis and table tennis, when he attempted to join the varsity football team, he was told he was too small at 5 feet 4 inches tall. Serling was interested in radio and writing at an early age and he listened to various radio programs, especially thrillers with a fantasy or horror feel. Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin were two of his favorite writers and he also did some staff work at a Binghamton radio station. He was accepted into college during his year of high school. As editor of his school newspaper, Serling encouraged his fellow students to support the war effort. He wanted to leave school before graduation to join the fight, War is a temporary thing, Gus Youngstrom told him
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Inherit the Wind (play)
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Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which debuted in 1955. The story fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials, the debate over creationism versus evolution has contemporary resonance, as evidenced by the plays numerous revivals and screen adaptations decades after its initial theatrical run. Bryan did die shortly after the trial, but it happened five days later in his sleep, political commentator Steve Benen said of the plays inaccuracies, Scopes issued no plea for empathy, there was no fiancee and the real Scopes was never arrested. In fact, the film that was nominated for four Academy Awards and has helped shape the American understanding of the Scopes Monkey Trial for decades is an inadequate reflection of history. Lawrence explained in a 1996 interview that the purpose was to criticize the then-current state of McCarthyism. The play was intended to defend intellectual freedom. According to Lawrence, we used the teaching of evolution as a parable and its about the right to think. The role of Matthew Harrison Brady is intended to reflect the personality and beliefs of William Jennings Bryan, the character of E. K. Hornbeck is modeled on that of H. L. Mencken. Bryan and Darrow, formerly close friends, opposed one another at the Scopes trial, and Mencken covered the trial for The Baltimore Sun. The plays title comes from Proverbs 11,29, which in the King James Bible reads, He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. In Act Two, Scene One, Brady admonishes Reverend Brown with this Bible quote for alienating his daughter when he gives a sermon against Cates. Matthew Harrison Brady, a presidential candidate and nationally known attorney. He is a Populist and still a public speaker, even though he is in his late 60s or early 70s. Henry Drummond, another nationally known attorney who was once Bradys closest friend and he is about the same age as Brady. Bertram Bert Cates, a Hillsboro high school teacher in his 20s who has taught the theory of evolution in violation of a law banning its teaching in classrooms. E. K. Hornbeck, a reporter for the fictional Baltimore Herald newspaper and he is young, sarcastic, cynical, and deeply opposed to religious belief. Rachel Brown, the Rev. Browns daughter and she is 22 and the colleague/romantic interest of Bertram Cates. Her loyalties are torn between her father and Cates, and she is manipulated by others
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Tony Award
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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Justice (1954 TV series)
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Justice is an NBC half-hour drama television series about attorneys of the Legal Aid Society of New York, which aired from April 8,1954 to March 25,1956. In the 1954-1955 season, Justice starred Dane Clark as Richard Adams, in the 1955-1956 season, William Prince replaced Clark in the role of Richard Adams. Westbrook Van Voorhis was the series narrator, in the April 15,1954, episode entitled Keiths Case with Richard Kiley, Phyllis Kirk, and Warren Stevens, a war veteran believed dead reappears to find his wife has remarried. Another early Justice episode, Run from Honor, is the story of Ed Simmons, Simmons, however, fears that being in the limelight from accepting his award will unveil his hidden past. His son goes to the Legal Aid Society for help, in The Quiet Life on May 6,1954, an immigrant laborer played by J. Carrol Naish keeps quiet about inferior-grade cement being used on a new building by his dishonest boss played by Ed Begley. In the May 13,1954, episode Hit and Run with the teleplay by Earl Hamner, Jr. Harry Larner, played by E. G. Marshall, after a moment of indecision, Larner drives off from the scene of the accident. He tells no one about the tragedy, but the crime haunts him at every turn, Ed Begley also appears in this episode. In The Deep Night on May 27,1954, a woman stands trial on charges that she stabbed her husband. Two witnesses appear, one of whom withholds information that would incriminate the real killer, Rod Steiger guest stars. On June 3,1954, in the episode The Eight Alien Boys, the hallowed ground, however, is endangered by the pending construction of a road. Series director Daniel Petrie stepped in to play the role after James Barton lost his voice. In Call Me Guilty on July 1,1954, Ernest Truex, later on The Ann Sothern Show, with a desire to be noticed, the man begins confessing to unsolved crimes which he did not commit. Royal Dano also appears in this episode, in The Scandal That Rocked the Town on July 8,1954, 23-year-old John Kerr, in his acting debut, plays a basketball player who claims that gamblers are causing him grief on the court. Harry Townes, Jack Klugman, and June Walker, the mother of John Kerr, in Murder at Red Oaks on July 15,1954, a man is falsely accuses of murder because of his past record and pending circumstantial evidence. In The Deadly Silence on September 16,1954, an eyewitness to a crime fears giving information to police, as a result, dennis OKeefe guest stars as a Legal Aid lawyer. In Guilty Secret on March 17,1955, Peter Mark Richman portrays a parolee who is threatened by hoodlums who threaten to harm his wife, in Fearful Hour, Mary Astor plays a forgotten film star facing financial reverses. The actress cashes a large check for which she has no funds, rather than face disgrace, she attempts suicide. Gary Merrill in the role of Jason Tyler intervenes to save her life, pat OMalley, Jason Robards, Robert F. Simon, Maureen Stapleton, Rod Steiger, Jack Warden, and Dick York
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Empire (1962 TV series)
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Empire is an hour-long Western television series set on a 1960s 500, 000-acre ranch in New Mexico, starring Richard Egan, Terry Moore, and Ryan ONeal. It ran on NBC from September 25,1962, to May 14,1963, Egan starred in the series at the age of forty-one, having previously been in the hit film A Summer Place, with the catchy theme song. Redigo was a ranch manager, having a Master of Business Administration degree. The ranch was located somewhere in the American Southwest, but the location was never pinpointed. The Garretts did have an empire, besides ranching they were involved in oil, agriculture, and mining. The series has unusually- titled episodes, Empire also featured 22-year-old Ryan ONeal, some two years before he gained greater recognition as Rodney Harrington in ABCs Peyton Place. ONeal, who began acting in 1959, played the son, Terry Moore portrayed ONeals 33-year-old sister, Connie, who had a romantic interest in Redigo. Their mother and ranch matriarch, Lucia, was played by 53-year-old Anne Seymour, another cast member, Warren Vanders, appeared in fifteen episodes as Chuck Davis. Anne Seymour and Terry Moore were dropped at mid-season, it was said that Seymours character, Lucia, had died and Moores character, Connie, had left the ranch in her grief. Charles Bronson, then forty-one, entered at mid-season in an all-male cast to portray the tough ranch hand, Paul Moreno, in the second 15-episode season, ONeal and Bronson were gone, too. Roger Davis, later of ABCs Alias Smith and Jones, was added to the cast as Redigos new ranch hand, elena Verdugo, later of Robert Youngs Marcus Welby, M. D. starred as Gerry. The pilot episode of Empire entitled This Rugged Land, with Denver Pyle and Charles Bronson, in the pilot, a ranch foreman persecutes a man whom he believes killed his daughter. Robert Vaughn guest starred as Captain Paul Terman, a friend of Redigos in need of life-saving spinal surgery. Inger Stevens also appeared as a paraplegic, Ellen Thompson, in another episode, jeremy Slate portrayed Mike Novak, a ranch hand whose competition with Tal Garrett ends in a deadly boxing match, in the 1963 episode The Loner. Harry Dean Stanton was cast as Nick Crider in the 1963 episode Nobody Dies on Saturday, john M. Pickard, formerly of Boots and Saddles and Gunslinger, was cast as a sheriff in the 1962 episode, A Place to Put a Life. Dayton Lummis appeared as Jason Simms, with Joanna Moore as Althea Dodd, Joanna Moore thereafter married Ryan ONeal and became the mother of actress Tatum ONeal. Lummis was cast again on the series as Thomas Fenton Giler in the 1963 episode Down There, in addition to the aforementioned, many other guest stars appeared on Empire, including, Empire was created by Kathleen Hite, a writer for CBSs Gunsmoke. William Sackheim and Hal Hudson, formerly with CBSs Dick Powells Zane Grey Theatre, produced the series, the program was filmed at the Eaves Movie Ranch near Santa Fe and near Storrie Lake in Las Vegas, New Mexico
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The Virginian (TV series)
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The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was a spin-off from a 1958 summer series called Decision, filmed in color, The Virginian became televisions first 90-minute Western series. Immensely successful, it ran for nine seasons—televisions third longest running western, behind Bonanza at 14 seasons and 430 episodes, the series is loosely based on the novel of the same name. When Revue Productions popular hour-long series Wagon Train moved from the NBC network to ABC, from the beginning, the series was filmed in color on 35mm film. Set in the late 19th century, and loosely based on the 1902 novel by Owen Wister and his top hand Trampas and he were the only characters to remain with the show for the entire run. As in the book, the foreman went only by the name The Virginian, the Virginians real name was never revealed in the nine years the show was on the air. The series was set in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, various references in the first season indicate that setting is about 1898 – in episode 5, The Brazen Bell, guest star George C. The series circled around the foremans quest to maintain an orderly lifestyle at Shiloh, the ranch was named after the two-day American Civil War Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee. The Virginians white Appaloosa was named Joe D. and Trampas buckskin horse was named Buck, as the show progressed, Trampas became the more developed of the characters, and it continues to be the role for which actor Doug McClure was best known. Several cast changes were made throughout the programs run, in the first three seasons, the owner of the ranch was Judge Garth. His daughter Betsy lived at the ranch with him, and had a relationship with the ranch hands. Ranch hand Steve Hill joined in episode storylines, Randy Boone joined the show in the second season as a youthful ranch hand who played guitar and sang duets with Betsy. In the episode First To Thine Own Self Boones character sings Im So Lonesome I Could Cry and this is odd in that the series was set in the 1890s but the song was written by Hank Williams in 1949. In the third season, Clu Gulager was added to the show as the restless deputy Emmett Ryker, after executive producer Frank Price was replaced by Norman Macdonnell at the end of season 3, season 4 became a troublesome time. When Roberta Shore left the cast, Macdonnell added a new leading woman—Diane Roter, who played Jennifer, when Lee J. Cobb also left the show, John Dehner was brought in as the new owner, Morgan Starr. His demanding presence and tough demeanor did not fit well with the show, Frank Price was brought back on board for season 5 to straighten out the series. He replaced the characters of Randy, Morgan Starr and Jennifer with a few actors who brought back the atmosphere to the show. John Grainger became the new owner, Elizabeth Grainger, was John Graingers granddaughter
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Bonanza
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Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. The show continues to air in syndication, the show is set around the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series stars Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts, the show is known for presenting moral dilemmas. The shows theme song itself, called Bonanza, became a hit song in its own right, only instrumental renditions, absent Ray Evans words, were ever used during the series long run. In 2002, Bonanza was ranked No.43 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, the time period for the television series is roughly between 1861 to 1867 during and shortly after the American Civil War. During the summer of 1972, NBC aired reruns of episodes from the 1967–1970 period in time on Tuesday evening under the title Ponderosa. The show chronicles the adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright. Via exposition and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ancestry, English, Swedish, the familys cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing. Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally, the opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars. The family lived on a 600, 000+ acre ranch called the Ponderosa on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The vast size of the Cartwrights land was quietly revised to half a million acres on Lorne Greenes 1964 song, the ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee, or his deputy Clem Foster. You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family, Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television, most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didnt like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters, explains Stephen Battaglio, a senior editor for TV Guide magazine. Episodes ranged from high drama, to comedy, and addressed issues such as the environment, substance abuse, domestic violence, anti-war sentiment. The series sought to illustrate the cruelty of bigotry against, Asians, African-Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Mormons, originally, the Cartwrights tended to be depicted as put-off by outsiders. Lorne Greene objected to this, pointing out that as the areas largest timber and livestock producer, the producers agreed with this observation and changed the Cartwrights to be more amiable. Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation, the order of billing at the beginning of the broadcast appeared to be shuffled randomly each week, with no relation whatsoever to the current episode featured that week
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The Fugitive (TV series)
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The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy Huggins. It was produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television and it aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen starred as Richard Kimble, a physician who is convicted of his wifes murder. En route to death row, Kimbles train derails over a switch, allowing him to escape and begin a search for the real killer. At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, the Fugitive aired for four seasons, and a total of 120 51-minute episodes were produced. The first three seasons were filmed in black and white, the season was in color. The Fugitive was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won the Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Series in 1966, in 2002, it was ranked No.36 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. TV Guide named the one-armed man No.5 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time, in the series first season, the premise was summarized in the opening title sequence of the pilot episode as follows, Name, Richard Kimble. Richard Kimble has been tried and convicted for the murder of his wife, but laws are made by men, carried out by men, and men are imperfect. Proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was that moments before discovering his wifes body, a man who has not yet been found. Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, but in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand. This title sequence was shortened for the remainder of the first season as follows, The name, the destination, Death Row, state prison. The irony, Richard Kimble is innocent, proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was that moments before discovering his murdered wifes body, he saw a one-armed man running from the vicinity of his home. Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, but in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand. Falsely convicted for the murder of his wife. reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route to the death house, freed him to hide in lonely desperation. Freed him to search for a man he saw leave the scene of the crime. Freed him to run before the pursuit of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture. It was not until episode 14, The Girl from Little Egypt, a series of flashbacks reveals the fateful night of Helen Kimbles death, and for the first time offers a glimpse of the One-Armed Man
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The Dick Van Dyke Show
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The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3,1961 to June 1,1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning over five seasons. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews and it centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The show was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, the music for the shows theme song was written by Earle Hagen. The series won 15 Emmy Awards, in 1997, the episodes Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth and It May Look Like a Walnut were ranked at 8 and 15 respectively on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, it was ranked at 13 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time and in 2013, the two main settings show the work and home life of Rob Petrie, the head writer of a comedy/variety show produced in Manhattan. Viewers are given a look at how a television show was written. Many scenes deal with Rob and his co-writers, Buddy Sorrell, Mel Cooley, a balding straight man and recipient of numerous insulting one-liners from Buddy, was the shows producer and the brother-in-law of the shows star, Alan Brady. As Rob, Buddy, and Sally write for a comedy show, Other scenes focus on the home life of Rob, his wife Laura, and son Richie, who live at 148 Bonnie Meadow Road in suburban New Rochelle, New York. Also often seen are their neighbors and best friends, Jerry Helper, a dentist. In the pilot, Carl Reiner, who created the show based on his own experiences as a TV writer, played Robbie Petrie, with a long first e, the pilot was unsuccessful, which led Reiner to rework the show with Dick Van Dyke playing the central character. The pilot was subsequently the basis of the series episode Father of the Week. Reiner considered moving the production of the series to full color as early as three, only to drop the idea when he was informed that it would add about $7,000 to the cost of each episode. On December 11,2016, two episodes from the series were presented on CBS-TV colorized, the Last Chapter was the last episode that aired, The Gunslinger was the last episode filmed. Main, Robert Simpson Rob Petrie – head writer for The Alan Brady Show, the role of Rob Petrie was almost given to Johnny Carson, but Sheldon Leonard, the shows executive producer, suggested Van Dyke. As a 17-year-old dancer in the United Service Organizations, she met, then, she became a stay-at-home mom. About 60 actresses auditioned for the part before Moore was signed, Moore later wrote that she almost skipped the audition. Maurice Buddy Sorrell – an energetic and at times sarcastic human joke machine, one of the comedy writers, Amsterdam was recommended for the role by Rose Marie as soon as she had signed on to the series. Buddy is constantly making fun of Mel Cooley, the producer, for being bald
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Target: The Corruptors!
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Target, The Corruptors. is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired on ABC from September 29,1961 to June 8,1962. The series was produced by Dick Powells Four Star Television, the program was created by Lester Velie, who was also a co-producer. Velie had written articles about the New York City slums and the infiltration of organized crime into the garment industry and he also wrote about Teamsters President James Hoffa. Aired on Friday evenings after 77 Sunset Strip, then at the height of its six seasons on the air. The competition was Rod Serlings The Twilight Zone on CBS and the half of The Dinah Shore Show. There were also a number of Target, The Corruptors. McNally stars as newspaper reporter Paul Marino, the character of Jack Flood, Marinos undercover agent, was portrayed by Robert Harland. The pair infiltrated the mob and reported on different crimes in New York City, Stephen McNally Robert Harland Harold J. Stone Target, The Corruptors
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The Invaders
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The Invaders is an American science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that aired on ABC for two seasons, from 1967 to 1968. Dominic Frontiere, who had provided scores for Twelve OClock High and The Outer Limits, the series was a Quinn Martin Production. As the series progresses Vincent is able to convince a number of people to help him fight the aliens. In The Leeches a millionaire survives an alien abduction after being rescued by Vincent, while in Quantity, in The Saucer guest stars Anne Francis and Charles Drake witness an alien saucers landing. In the second season, larger groups of surviving witnesses were featured, as in episodes Dark Outpost and The Pursued, and three scientists in Labyrinth. Most significant of these is millionaire industrialist Edgar Scoville who became a character as of December 1967, heading a small. Later episodes saw the military involved as Vincents claims were now clearly being taken more seriously, in The Miracle, after an alien encounter Vincent manages to retain a piece of alien technology both as evidence and for examination by both his group and the authorities. In Moonshot the NASA official is fully expecting Vincent to arrive, and in Condition, Red a NORAD Officer and staff witness an alien UFO formation onscreen, each of these incidents is kept to just the individual episode, with hinted official backing of Vincent. Thus viewers were left to draw their own conclusions as to the situation regarding Vincents actual standing, some controversy arose regarding the sudden ending of the TV show after season two as it was deemed no proper ending had been written. Neither the Invaders nor their planet were ever named, unless they receive periodic treatments in what Vincent called regeneration chambers, which consume a great deal of electrical power, they revert to their alien form. One scene in the series showed an alien beginning to revert, filmed in soft focus and they had certain characteristics by which they could be detected, such as the absence of a pulse or heartbeat and the inability to bleed. There were also a number of mutant aliens, who experienced similar to those of humans. On several occasions, an alien would deliberately touch a piece of their technology to prevent it from falling into the hands of humans. In episode 3 one of them tells David Vincent, Thats what happens to us when we die here on Earth, the series was produced by Quinn Martin, who was looking for a show to replace the immensely popular The Fugitive, which was ending its run in 1967. Larry Cohen, the creator, had conceived two earlier series with similarities to The Invaders. All he could remember were the words Coronet Blue, the flying saucer design was influenced by two UFO photographs. The first case happened in 1965 in Santa Ana, California, on August 3, the highway traffic engineer Rex Heflin took several pictures of a flying craft, while working near the Santa Ana freeway. Heflin did not report his sighting, but the photographs were published by the Santa Ana Register on September 20,1965, the second is the Adamski case
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The Wild Wild West
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The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17,1965 to April 4,1969. Two television movies were made with the original cast in 1979 and 1980, developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as James Bond on horseback. The show featured a number of elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque technology has inspired some to give the credit as being one of the more visible origins of the steampunk subculture. These elements were accentuated even more in the 1999 movie adaptation, despite high ratings, the series was cancelled near the end of its fourth season as a concession to Congress over television violence. The Wild Wild West told the story of two Secret Service agents, the fearless and handsome James T. West, and Artemus Gordon and their unending mission was to protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats. The agents traveled in luxury aboard their own train, the Wanderer, thereafter, however, there is no pretense, and his reputation as the foremost Secret Service agent often precedes him. According to the TV movies, West retires from the Service by 1880, Gordon, who was a captain in the Civil War, had also been in show business. When he retires in 1880 he returns to performing as the head of a Shakespeare traveling players troupe, the show incorporated classic Western elements with an espionage thriller, science fiction/alternate history ideas, in one case horror and plenty of humor. In the tradition of James Bond, there were beautiful women, clever gadgets. The title of each episode begins with The Night and this followed other idiosyncratic naming conventions established by shows like Rawhide, where each episode title began with Incident at or Incident of, and The Man from U. N. C. L. E. Where episodes were titled The Affair, in 1954, Michael Garrison and Gregory Ratoff purchased the film rights to Ian Flemings first Bond novel, Casino Royale, for $600. CBS bought the TV rights for $1,000, and on October 21,1954 broadcast an adaptation on its Climax. Series, with Barry Nelson playing American agent ‘Jimmy Bond’ and Peter Lorre playing the villain, CBS also approached Fleming about developing a Bond TV series. In 1955 Ratoff and Garrison bought the rights to the novel in perpetuity for an additional $6,000 and they pitched the idea for a film to 20th Century Fox, but studio turned them down. After Ratoff died in 1960, his widow and Garrison sold the rights to Charles K. Feldman for $75,000. Feldman eventually produced the spoof Casino Royale in 1967, by then, Garrison and CBS had brought a James Bond to television in a unique way. The pilot episode, The Night of the Inferno, was produced by Garrison and, according to Robert Conrad, the episode was scripted by Gilbert Ralston, who had written for numerous episodic TV series in the 1950s and 1960s
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Going My Way (TV series)
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Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series starring dancer and actor Gene Kelly. Based on the 1944 film of the same name starring Bing Crosby, the program was Kellys first and only attempt at a weekly television series. The series was canceled after one season of thirty episodes, Kelly stars as Father Chuck OMalley, a Roman Catholic priest who is sent to St. Dominics Parish located in a lower-class section of New York City. Leo G. Carroll co-starred as the pastor, Father Fitzgibbons. Dick York, later of Bewitched, portrayed Chucks boyhood friend, Tom Colwell, nydia Westman played Mrs. Featherstone, the housekeeper of the rectory. Episodes focus on Father OMalleys attempts to connect with the congregation, the failure of the series to enter a second season is usually attributed to its competition, particularly The Beverly Hillbillies. Going My Way was also scheduled opposite the final season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis on CBS, aired at 8,30 p. m. Eastern time on Wednesdays, Going My Way followed the western series Wagon Train on the ABC schedule. The program itself was followed on ABC by the sitcom, Our Man Higgins, starring Stanley Holloway, Frank Maxwell, on December 6,2011, Timeless Media Group released Going My Way, The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. Going My Way at the Internet Movie Database Going My Way at TV. com
