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Roseanne Barr
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Roseanne Cherrie Barr is an American actress, comedian, writer, and television producer. She was also the 2012 presidential nominee of the California-based Peace, Barr began her career in stand-up comedy at clubs before gaining fame for her role in the television sitcom Roseanne. The show ran for nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997 and she won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on the show. In 1974, she married Bill Pentland, with whom she had three children, before divorcing in 1990 and marrying comedian Tom Arnold for four years. Controversy arose when she sang The Star-Spangled Banner off-key at a 1990 nationally aired baseball game, followed by grabbing her crotch, after her sitcom ended, she launched her own talk show, The Roseanne Show, which aired from 1998 to 2000. In 2005, she returned to comedy with a world tour. In 2011, she starred in an unscripted TV show, Roseannes Nuts, in early 2012, Barr announced her candidacy for the presidential nomination of the Green Party. Barr lost the nomination to Jill Stein and she then sought the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party, which she won on August 4,2012. Barr received 61,971 votes in the election, placing sixth overall. Barr was born in Salt Lake City, to a working-class Jewish family and she is the oldest of four children born to Helen, a bookkeeper and cashier, and Jerome Hershel Jerry Barr, who worked as a salesman. Her fathers family were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and her grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Austria-Hungary and Lithuania. Her paternal grandfather changed his surname from Borisofsky to Barr upon entering the United States and her Jewish upbringing was influenced by her devoutly Orthodox Jewish maternal grandmother. Barrs parents kept their Jewish heritage secret from their neighbors and were involved in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Barr has stated, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning I was a Jew, Sunday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, when Barr was three years old, she got Bells palsy on the left side of her face. Barr said, my mother called in a rabbi to pray for me, then my mother got a Mormon preacher, he prayed, and I was miraculously cured. Years later Barr learned that Bells palsy was usually temporary and that the Mormon preacher came exactly at the right time, at six years old, Barr discovered her first public stage by lecturing at LDS churches around Utah and even was elected president of a Mormon youth group. At 16, Barr was hit by a car that left her with a brain injury. Her behavior changed so radically that she was institutionalized for eight months at Utah State Hospital, while institutionalized she had a baby, which she gave up for adoption
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Judi Dench
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Dame Judith Olivia Dench CH DBE FRSA, known as Judi Dench, is an English actress and author. Dench made her debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she performed in several of Shakespeares plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Although most of her work during this period was in theatre, she branched into film work. She drew strong reviews for her role in the musical Cabaret in 1968. Over the next two decades, Dench established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She achieved success in television during this period, in the series A Fine Romance from 1981 until 1984 and she has also received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Special Olivier Award. In June 2011, she received a fellowship from the British Film Institute, Dench is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Dench was born in Heworth, North Riding of Yorkshire and her mother, Eleanora Olive, was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor, was born in Dorset, England, and later moved to Dublin and he met Denchs mother while he was studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. Dench attended The Mount School, a Quaker independent secondary school in York and her brothers, one of whom was actor Jeffery Dench, were born in Tyldesley, Lancashire. Her niece, Emma Dench, is a Roman historian and professor previously at Birkbeck, University of London, and currently at Harvard University. In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the period, primarily through her work in theatre. She has more than once been named one in polls for Britains best actor. Through her parents, Dench had regular contact with the theatre and her father, a physician, was also the GP for the York theatre, and her mother was its wardrobe mistress. Actors often stayed in the Dench household, during these years, Judi Dench was involved on a non-professional basis in the first three productions of the modern revival of the York Mystery Plays in the 1950s. In 1957, in one of the last productions in which she appeared during this period, she played the role of the Virgin Mary, performed on a fixed stage in the Museum Gardens. Though she initially trained as a set designer, she became interested in school as her brother Jeff attended the Central School of Speech
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Jennifer Tilly
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Jennifer Ellen Tilly is a Canadian-American actress and poker player. She is a World Series of Poker Ladies Event bracelet winner and she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Olive Neal in the film Bullets over Broadway. Her other film roles include Let It Ride Made in America, Bound, Liar Liar and she has done extensive voice-over work including Celia in Monsters, Inc. She is the sister of actress Meg Tilly. Tilly was born Jennifer Ellen Chan in Harbor City, Los Angeles and she is the first child of Harry Chan, a used car salesman, and Patricia, a Canadian schoolteacher and former stage actress. Her father was of Chinese descent and her mother was of Irish, First Nations and she has an older brother, Steve, and two younger sisters, Meg and Rebecca. Following her parents divorce when she was five, Tilly was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Ward, on rural Texada Island and her mother divorced again when Tilly was 16, and moved to Victoria, where Tilly attended Belmont High School. Tilly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater from Stephens College in Missouri, in 1983, Tilly had small roles and had a recurring guest role on Hill Street Blues as Gina Srignoli, a mobsters widow who becomes romantically involved with detective Henry Goldblume. She played Frasier Cranes seductive-but-ditzy date Candi Pearson on an episode of the season of Cheers. She appeared as Garrys girlfriend on Its Garry Shandlings Show, which aired on Showtime and she was also cast as a high-end prostitute on the short-lived comedy Key West, alongside Fisher Stevens. In 1989, she had a prominent role in the comedy Let It Ride, Tillys breakthrough film role was as a singing waitress in The Fabulous Baker Boys in a role that was written specially for her by Steve Kloves. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a bad actress in Woody Allens Bullets over Broadway. In 1994, she also had a role in The Getaway with Alec Baldwin. Tilly starred in Bound, directed by The Wachowskis, which portrays a relationship her character has with Gina Gershon. She played Samantha Cole in the Jim Carrey comedy Liar Liar, in Dancing at the Blue Iguana, she played a stripper and part-time dominatrix. She portrayed gossip columnist Louella Parsons in the Peter Bogdanovich film The Cats Meow and she gained some additional popularity in recent years for her portrayal of serial killer Tiffany Ray for three of the six Childs Play films. The character was first introduced in the installment of the franchise, Bride of Chucky and subsequently appeared in Seed of Chucky. In Seed of Chucky, however, she plays a role providing the voice for Tiffany
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. is an American actor. For his portrayal of O. J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson, American Crime Story and he co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series American Horror Story, subtitled Roanoke. His other films include As Good as It Gets, American Gangster, Lee Daniels The Butler, Gooding was born on January 2,1968 in The Bronx, New York City. His mother, Shirley, is a singer with the Sweethearts, Gooding has three siblings, April, Omar, and Tommy. His paternal grandfather, Dudley MacDonald Gooding, was a native of Barbados and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1972 after his fathers music group had their hit single Everybody Plays the Fool, two years later, the elder Gooding left the family. He served as president in three of them. He became a born-again Christian at age 13, in 1994, Gooding married his high school sweetheart, Sara Kapfer, with whom he has three children. In 2014, Kapfer filed for separation from Gooding. Gooding filed for divorce in January 2017, goodings first job as an entertainer was as a breakdancer performing with singer Lionel Richie at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After high school, Gooding studied Japanese martial arts for three years, before turning his focus toward acting, early on, he landed guest starring roles on shows like Hill Street Blues, Amen and MacGyver and also had a tiny part in the popular comedy Coming to America. Goodings first major role was in John Singletons inner-city crime drama Boyz n the Hood, in which he played the lead, a box office surprise and critical hit, the film is now considered a modern classic. He followed this success with supporting roles in films such as A Few Good Men, Judgment Night, Lightning Jack. Most significantly, it earned Gooding an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and his exuberant Show me the money. Line in the film became a catch phrase. Additionally, his Oscar acceptance speech has often cited for its enthusiasm. Additionally, though not well received critically, the family comedy Snow Dogs was a commercial success, other roles of note during this time include Theo Caulder in the psychological thriller Instinct and the voice of Buck in the Disney animated film Home on the Range. On top of this, Gooding had allegedly turned down roles in films such as Amistad in the aftermath of his Oscar win. Ultimately, neither his earlier successes nor his leading roles in a couple of independent films
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Randy Quaid
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Randy Randall Rudy Quaid is an American actor. He has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, Quaid also won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his portrayal of U. S. President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ, The Early Years. He also received Emmy nominations for his roles in A Streetcar Named Desire, Quaid is also well known for his roles in the National Lampoons Vacation movies, Brokeback Mountain, Independence Day and Kingpin. Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Juanita Bonniedale Nita, an estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid. He is the brother of actor Dennis Quaid. Quaid has English, Scots-Irish, and Cajun ancestry, through his father, Quaid is a first cousin, twice removed, of cowboy performer Gene Autry. Randy Quaid grew up in Bellaire, Texas, a city surrounded by Houston. Randy Quaid has appeared in over 90 films, Peter Bogdanovich discovered him when Quaid was a student at the University of Houston, and he received his first exposure in Bogdanovichs The Last Picture Show. His character escorts Jacy Farrow to a late-night indoor skinny-dip at a swimming pool and it was the first of several roles directed by Bogdanovich and/or based on the writings of Larry McMurtry. Other Peter Bogdanovich films he appeared in are Whats Up, Doc. Quaids first major critically acclaimed role was in The Last Detail. He played Larry Meadows, a young United States Navy sailor on his way to serve a sentence for stealing $40 from an admirals wifes pet charity. Jack Nicholson played the role as a sailor assigned to transport him to prison. Nicholsons character eventually becomes his friend and mentor, helping him experience different aspects of life before he goes behind bars, in 1976, he played the role of Little Tod opposite Marlon Brando in The Missouri Breaks. Quaid had a role in the 1978 feature Midnight Express, playing Jimmy Booth. Quaid acted opposite Charles Bronson in the 1975 action film of a Mexican prison escape Breakout, Quaid was also the lead in the comedy Martians Go Home and Cold Dog Soup and played the King of Spain in Goyas Ghosts. He previously starred in Quick Change with Bill Murray in 1990, Quaid also appeared in three of the five films in the National Lampoons Vacation film series as Cousin Eddie, jovial redneck relative to Beverly DAngelo, wife of Chevy Chases Clark Griswold. Quaid had a supporting role in Brokeback Mountain as an insensitive rancher. Quaid starred in Real Time, an independent film that opened Slamdance Film Festival in 2008, for unspecified reasons, he was not asked to reprised to his role in the 2015 film simply titled Vacation but his character is briefly mentioned
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Steve Buscemi
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Steven Vincent Steve Buscemi is an American actor and film director. He is also known for his appearances in films by the Coen brothers, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo. Buscemi provides the voice of Randall Boggs in the Monsters, Inc. franchise and he made his directorial debut in 1996, with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. Other works include Animal Factory, Lonesome Jim and Interview and he has also directed numerous episodes of TV shows, including Homicide, Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Oz,30 Rock, and Nurse Jackie. He currently hosts the Emmy Award-winning AOL On comedy talk-show Park Bench, Buscemi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to John Buscemi, a sanitation worker and Korean War veteran, and Dorothy, who worked as a host at Howard Johnsons. Buscemis father was of Italian descent, his ancestors were from the town of Menfi in Sicily, Buscemis mother was of Irish, English, and Dutch ancestry. He has three brothers, Jon, Ken, and Michael and he graduated in 1975 from Valley Stream Central High School in Nassau County, New York, a school which he attended with actress Patricia Charbonneau. In high school, Buscemi wrestled for the varsity squad and participated in the drama troupe, Buscemis 1996 film Trees Lounge, in which he starred and served as screenwriter and director, is set in and was largely shot in his childhood village of Valley Stream. Buscemi briefly attended Nassau Community College before moving to Manhattan to enroll in the Lee Strasberg Institute, in 1980, Buscemi became a firefighter in New York City, after taking a civil service test in 1976 when he was 18. For four years, Buscemi served on FDNYs Engine Co.55 in Manhattans Little Italy, after 9/11, Buscemi returned to Engine 55 and for several days worked 12-hour shifts alongside other firefighters to sift through the rubble from the World Trade Center. In 2003, he gave a speech supporting higher wages for firefighters at a union rally, in 2014, he was appointed as an Honorary Battalion Chief of the FDNY. His film debut was the 1985 No Wave Cinema film The Way it Is, other early films include Parting Glances in 1986, Slaves of New York in 1988, and Tales from the Darkside, a 1990 film with three segments. Buscemi starred in the first segment, playing Bellingham, a student who orders a mummy and unleashes it on fellow college students played by Christian Slater. In 1990, Buscemi had a couple of additional crime roles and he played the henchman of Laurence Fishburne named Test Tube in Abel Ferraras King of New York. He also played Mink in the Coen Brothers Millers Crossing, although he had to audition twice for this role, it marked the first of five of the Coen Brothers films in which Buscemi appeared. In 1991, he played the bellboy, Chet, in the Coen Brothers film and his first lead role was in 1992, when he played Adolpho Rollo in Alexandre Rockwells In the Soup. Then he came to attention for playing Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantinos 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs. He also appeared in Tarantinos next film, Pulp Fiction, in which he acts as a waiter at the 1950s themed restaurant which Mrs. Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega attend
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Alan Menken
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Alan Irwin Menken is an American musical theatre and film score composer and pianist. Menken is best known for his scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and his scores for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores for Little Shop of Horrors, Newsies, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Enchanted, Tangled and Sausage Party and he is also known for his work on musical theatre works for Broadway and elsewhere. Some of these are based on his Disney films, but other stage hits include Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol, Menken has collaborated with such lyricists as Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Glenn Slater, Stephen Schwartz and David Zippel. With eight Academy Award wins, Menken is the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman and he has also won eleven Grammy Awards, a Tony Award and other honors. Alan Irwin Menken was born on July 22,1949, at French Hospital in New York City, to Judith and his father was a boogie-woogie piano-playing dentist, and his mother was an actress, dancer and playwright. Menken developed an interest in music at an age, taking piano. He began to compose at an early age, at age 9, at the New York Federation of Music Clubs Junior Composers Contest, his original composition Bouree was rated Superior and Excellent by the judges. He attended New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York, Menken remembers, Id make up my own Bach fugues and Beethoven sonatas because I was bored with the piano and I didnt want to practice, so Id go off on tangents. He then enrolled at New York University and he graduated with a degree in Musicology in 1971 from the universitys Steinhardt School. Menken recalled, First, I was pre-med, I thought Id be a dentist like my Dad. Finally, I got a degree in music, but I didnt care about musicology and it wasnt until I joined BMI Workshop. Under Lehman Engel, and walked into a room with other composers that I knew this was it, Menken noted that Before college, I was writing songs to further my dream of being the next Bob Dylan. A lot of guitar songs – I was composing on piano before that, after college, he attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. After graduating, Menkens plan was to either a rock star or a recording artist. His interest in writing musicals increased when he joined the Broadcast Music, Musical Theatre Workshop and was mentored by Lehman Engel. From 1974 to 1978, he showcased various BMI workshop works, such as Midnight, Apartment House, Conversations with Pierre, Harry the Rat and he performed his material at clubs like The Ballroom, Reno Sweeny and Tramps. In 1976, John Wilson reported for The New York Times that members of Engels BMI Workshop began performing as part of the Broadway at the Ballroom series, featured Maury Yeston and Alan Menken, both playing their piano accompaniment and singing songs they have written for potential musicals
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Walt Disney Pictures
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Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film production company and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The subsidiary is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California and it took on its current name in 1983. Today, in conjunction with the units of Walt Disney Studios. Animated films such as those by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are released under this brand. Pirates of the Caribbean series is the corporations most successful franchise, the studios predecessor was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy, in 1923. The creation of Mickey Mouse and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Walt Disney Studio at the Hyperion Studio in 1926, in 1929, it was renamed again to Walt Disney Productions. With the profits from Snow White, Walt relocated to a studio in Burbank. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as The Reluctant Dragon and Song of the South. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. The Walt Disney Productions in April 1983 incorporated its film division as Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. Touchstone Films banner was used by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–85 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. The next TV season, Touchstone produced a hit with The Golden Girls, David Hoberman was promoted to president of production, Walt Disney Pictures in April 1988. In April 1994, Hoberman was promoted to president of motion pictures at Walt Disney Studios and was replaced as Disney President by David Vogel. Vogel added the position of Hollywood Pictures in 1997, then was promoted in 1998 to head up all live action motion picture units as president of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Pirates of the Caribbean launched a film series and made the ride into a franchise. After four Pirates sequels, the franchise took in more than $5.4 billion worldwide, so, the corporation was looking for addition of the ride adaptations. In 2010, Disney released Alice in Wonderland, an adaptation of the 1951 animated film of the name that became the second $1 billion-grossing film in the studios history. The film began a trend of fantasy genre films being green-lit. With sister units Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm successfully targeting the male market, with the success of Maleficent and Cinderella, the studio announced a whole series of live-action adaptations of animated films as being in early stages. The Jungle Book cemented this trend with a global near billion-dollar box office, some adaptations are sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels
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Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Founded on October 16,1923, it is a division of The Walt Disney Studios. The studio has produced 56 feature films, from Snow White and it was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923 and incorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. The studio was dedicated to producing short films until it expanded into feature production in 1934. In 1983, Walt Disney Productions named its film studio Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, Walt Disney Feature Animation took on its current name, the studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding, which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking. Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to produce films using both traditional animation and computer-generated imagery, at the present, Andrew Millstein is the general manager of the studio for day-to-day business affairs, under the direction of Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter who also oversee Pixar. Kansas City, Missouri, natives Walt Disney and Roy O, in February 1924, the studio moved next door to office space of its own at 4649 Kingswell Avenue. Disney refused, and as Universal owned the rights to Oswald rather than Disney, most of Disneys staff was hired away by Mintz to move over, once Disneys Oswald contract was done in mid-1928. The first two Mickey Mouse cartoons, Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho, were previewed in limited engagements during the summer of 1928, the Mickey Mouse series of sound cartoons, distributed by Powers through Celebrity Productions, quickly became the most popular cartoon series in the United States. A second Disney series of cartoons, the Silly Symphonies. Powers in return signed away Ub Iwerks, who began producing cartoons at his own studio, columbia distributed Disneys shorts for two years before the Disney studio entered a new distribution deal with United Artists in 1932. The result was the Silly Symphony Flowers and Trees, the first film released in full Technicolor. Flowers and Trees was a success, and all Silly Symphonies were subsequently produced in Technicolor. In 1934, Walt Disney gathered several key members and announced his plans to make his first feature animated film. In the course of teaching the classes, Graham and the created or formalized many of the techniques and processes that became the key tenets. During the production of Snow White, work had continued on the Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse switched to Technicolor in 1935, by which time the series had added several major supporting characters, among them Mickeys dog Pluto and their friends Donald Duck and Goofy. Donald, Goofy, and Pluto would all be appearing in series of their own by 1940, the Silly Symphonies, which garnered seven Academy Awards, ended in 1939. The success of Snow White allowed Disney to build a new, larger studio on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, Walt Disney Productions had its initial public offering on April 2,1940, with Walt Disney as president and chairman and Roy Disney as CEO
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company. The division took on its current name in late 2007, which before that had been Buena Vista Pictures Distribution since 1987, before 1953, Walt Disneys productions were distributed by Columbia Pictures, United Artists and RKO Radio Pictures. The name Buena Vista came from the street in Burbank, California, Buena Vistas first release was the Academy Award–winning live-action feature The Living Desert on November 10,1953 along with Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, Buena Vistas first animated release. Notable subsequent releases include the film, Yang Kwei Fei, released in US theaters in September 1956, The Missouri Traveler in March 1958. In April 1960, the company dropped Film from its name, in 1961, Disney incorporated Buena Vista International, distributing its first PG rated film, Take Down, in January 1979. The low-budget movie was not produced by the Disney studios and was acquired from an independent studio, in July 1987, Buena Vista changed its name to Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. Late in the 1980s, Disney purchased a stake in one of Pacific Theatres chain leading to Disneys Buena Vista Theaters and Pacific to renovate the El Capitan Theatre. The Crest was finished first while El Capitan opened with the premiere of The Rocketeer film on June 19,1991, the corporation purchased a 12. 8% share in Cinergi with its initial public offering in 1994. Soon, BVPD signed a 25 picture distribution deal with Cinergi, the Gaumont Film Company and Walt Disney formed Gaumont Buena Vista International, their joint venture French distribution company, in 1993. In August 1996, Disney and Tokuma Shoten Publishing agreed that Disney would distribute internationally Studio Ghibli animated films, in September 1996, following Disneys acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. was merged into ABC, Inc. the parent company of that group. In July 1998, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution purchased the Hollywood Masonic Temple building to continue using it as a promotional venue, by 1997, BVPDs share in Cinergi dropped to 5%.4 million and other loans. In 2002, Disney signed a four animated film deal with Vanguard Animation, however, since 2004, BVI and Gaumont dissolved their French distribution joint venture, Gaumont Buena Vista International. Buena Vista International agreed to a deal with MegaStar Joint Venture Company Limited in April 2006 for the Vietnam market. In April 2007, Disney discontinued using the Buena Vista brand in its distribution branding, the distribution deal ended in 2016, after DreamWorks and Disney decided to not renew their agreement in December 2015, with Universal replacing Disney as DreamWorks distributor. By the end of the deal, Disney had distributed 14 of DreamWorks original 30-picture agreement, Disney took complete ownership of the DreamWorks II film library in exchange for loans made to that company. In addition, Disney is the first of three studios that have released at least two billion-dollar films in the same year. Furthermore, Disney is the studio that has achieved this four times, in 2010,2013,2015, and 2016—that latter year of which included four $1 billion releases. Four of the top five highest-grossing animated films have been released by Disney, in addition, four of the top-five opening weekends were Disney releases
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Western (genre)
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Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, mounted cavalry, settlers, Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a. mythic vision of the plains, specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Many Westerns use a plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre, from the early 20th century to the 1960s, Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Fords landmark Western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939, Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time – including High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, the Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–frontier justice–dispensed by gunfights. These honor codes are played out through depictions of feuds or individuals seeking personal revenge or retribution against someone who has wronged them. The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, a showdown or duel at high noon featuring two or more gunfighters is a stereotypical scene in the popular conception of Westerns. In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances. And like knights errant, the heroes of Westerns frequently rescue damsels in distress, similarly, the wandering protagonists of Westerns share many characteristics with the ronin in modern Japanese culture. The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, Westerns often stress the harshness and isolation of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the Wild West, it is the place to go for music, women, gambling, drinking, brawling and shooting. The American Film Institute defines western films as those set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, the term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World Magazine. Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became an art form. Protagonists ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on their trusty steeds, Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era. With the advent of sound in 1927-28, the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and these smaller organizations churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s. Released through United Artists, Stagecoach made John Wayne a mainstream star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns
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The Princess and the Frog
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The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical romantic fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 49th Disney animated feature film, the film is based on the novel The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker. Set in 1920s New Orleans, Louisiana, the tells the story of a hardworking waitress named Tiana who dreams of owning her own restaurant. After kissing a prince who has turned into a frog by an evil witch doctor, Tiana becomes a frog herself. The Princess and the Frog began production under the working title The Frog Princess and it marked Disneys return to traditional animation, as it was the studios first traditionally animated film since Home on the Range. Co-directors Ron Clements and John Musker, directors of Disneys highly successful films The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, returned to Disney to direct The Princess, cars, and the Toy Story trilogy. The film also marked the return of Disney animated musical films based on well-known stories since the Disney Renaissance, the Princess and the Frog opened in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on November 25,2009, and in wide release on December 11,2009. The film was successful at the box-office, ranking first place on its opening weekend in North America and it received three Academy Award nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards, one for Best Animated Feature and two for its achievement in music. It lost to Up and Crazy Heart, respectively, in 1912 New Orleans, a seamstress, Eudora, is reading the story of The Frog Prince to her daughter, Tiana, and her friend, Charlotte La Bouff. Charlotte finds the story to be romantic, while Tiana proclaims she will never kiss a frog, Prince Naveen of Maldonia arrives in New Orleans to better his financial situation. After being cut off by his parents, Naveen intends to marry a rich southern belle, Eli Big Daddy La Bouff, a rich sugar baron and Charlottes father, is hosting a masquerade ball in Naveens honor. Charlotte hires Tiana to make beignets for the ball, giving her money to buy an old sugar mill to convert into her restaurant. Meanwhile, Naveen and his valet, Lawrence, encounter voodoo witch doctor Dr. Facilier, Facilier intends for Lawrence to marry Charlotte, after which he will kill Big Daddy and claim his fortune. At the ball, Tiana discovers she may lose the mill to a higher bidder, Tiana then meets Naveen, who, believing her to be a princess because of her costume, asks her to kiss him and break Faciliers spell. In exchange for the money needed, Tiana accepts, but when she kisses Naveen, a chase ensues, and Tiana and Naveen escape to a bayou. At the bayou, Tiana and Naveen meet Louis, an alligator who longs to be human, and Ray. Louis and Ray offer to lead Tiana and Naveen to the hoodoo priestess Mama Odie, during this time, Tiana and Naveen develop feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Facilier makes a deal with the spirits, offering them the souls of the people of New Orleans in exchange for finding Naveen
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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres
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Home on the Range
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Home on the Range is a classic western folk song, sometimes called the unofficial anthem of the American West. The lyrics were written by Dr. Brewster M. Higley of Smith County, Kansas in a poem entitled My Western Home in the early 1840s to 1927. In 1947, it became the song of the U. S. state of Kansas. In 2010, members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time, the poem was first published in a December 1840s to 1927 issue of the Smith County Pioneer under the title My Western Home. The music was written by Daniel E. Kelley, a carpenter. Higleys original words are similar to those of the version of the song, but not identical. The song was adopted by ranchers, cowboys, and other western settlers. During the early 20th century, it was arranged by Texas composer David W. Guion, the song has since gone by a number of names, the most common being Home on the Range and Western Home. It was officially adopted as the song of Kansas on June 30,1947. The antelope referred to in the song is not a true species, but rather the American pronghorn. The most popular version of the song was the version by Bing Crosby in 1933 which appeared in the charts of the day. This turned a little-known saddle song into a most renowned western hymn, the origin of Home on the Range was obscure and widely debated at the time. It was published in 1910, in Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Lomax who said he learned it from a black saloonkeeper in Texas, in 1925 a sheet-music arrangement found some popularity and in 1927 Vernon Dalhart recorded it for Brunswick Records. Californias radio cowboys picked it up from him, and in 1930 Hollywoods first crooning western star, Ken Maynard, however, it was not until the Crosby version that the song was seen as a national anthem for the west. Its popularity led to a suit that created a search for its background. Giddins praises Crosbys subtle embellishments which enhance the melody, president Franklin D. Roosevelt acknowledged Home on the Range as his favorite song. Bing Crosby recorded the song again in 1938 and 1939, frank Sinatra also recorded the song on March 10,1946, his version was released in Great Britain and was not available in the United States until 1993. Others who have recorded the song include Connie Francis, Gene Autry, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Johnnie Ray, Slim Whitman, Home on the Range is often performed in programs and concerts of American patriotic music, and is frequently used in plays and films
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Dairy cattle
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Dairy cattle are cattle cows bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made. Dairy cows generally are of the species Bos taurus, historically, there was little distinction between dairy cattle and beef cattle, with the same stock often being used for both meat and milk production. Today, the industry is more specialized and most dairy cattle have been bred to produce large volumes of milk. Dairy cows may be either in herds or dairy farms where dairy farmers own, manage, care for. Herd sizes vary around the world depending on landholding culture and social structure, the United States has 9 million cows in 75,000 dairy herds, with an average herd size of 120 cows. The number of herds is falling rapidly with the 3,100 herds with over 500 cows producing 51% of U. S. milk in 2007. The United Kingdom dairy herd overall has nearly 1.5 million cows, in New Zealand, the average herd has more than 375 cows, while in Australia, there are approximately 220 cows in the average herd. To maintain lactation, a dairy cow must be bred and produce calves, depending on market conditions, the cow may be bred with a dairy bull or a beef bull. Female calves with dairy breeding may be kept as replacement cows for the dairy herd, if a replacement cow turns out to be a substandard producer of milk, she then goes to market and can be slaughtered for beef. Male calves can either be used later as a bull or sold. Dairy farmers usually begin breeding or artificially inseminating heifers around 13 months of age, a cows gestation period is approximately nine months. Newborn calves are removed from their mothers quickly, usually three days, as the mother/calf bond intensifies over time and delayed separation can cause extreme stress on both cow and calf. Domestic cows can live to 20 years, however, those raised for dairy rarely live long, as the average cow is removed from the dairy herd around age four. In 2014, approximately 9. 5% of the slaughtered in the U. S. were culled dairy cows, cows that can no longer be seen as an economic asset to the dairy farm. These animals may be due to reproductive problems or common diseases of milk cows such as mastitis. Market calves are sold at two weeks of age and bull calves may fetch a premium over heifers due to their size. Calves may be sold for veal, or for one of several types of production, depending on available local crops. Such bull calves may be castrated if turnout onto pastures is envisaged, Purebred bulls from elite cows may be put into progeny testing schemes to find out whether they might become superior sires for breeding
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Bounty (reward)
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A bounty is a payment or reward often offered by a group as an incentive for the accomplishment of a task by someone usually not associated with the group. Bounties are most commonly issued for the capture or retrieval of a person or object and they are typically in the form of money. By definition bounties can be retracted at any time by whomever issued them, two modern examples of bounties are the bounty placed for the capture of Saddam Hussein and his sons by the United States government and Microsofts bounty for computer virus creators. Those who make a living by pursuing bounties are known as bounty hunters, a bounty system was used in the American Civil War. It was an incentive to increase enlistments, another bounty system was used in New South Wales to increase the number of immigrants from 1832. Bounties were sometimes paid as rewards for killing Native Americans, in 1862, a farmer received a $500 bounty for shooting Taoyateduta. In 1856 Governor Isaac Stevens put a bounty on the head of Indians from Eastern Washington, $20 for ordinary Indians and $80 for a chief. In Australia in 1824, a bounty of 500 acres of land was offered for capturing alive the Wiradjuri warrior Windradyne, a week after the bounty being offered the word alive was dropped from the reward notices, however he was neither captured nor betrayed by his people. Bounties have been offered on animals deemed undesirable by particular governments or corporations, in Tasmania, the thylacine was relentlessly hunted to extinction based on such schemes. Gray wolves too were extirpated from much of the present United States by bounty hunters, since after the Restoration criminality was increasing, the dissatisfaction with the penal system led to the implementation of the rewards. £10 were promised to anyone who gave information about a robber or burglar, between 1660 and 1692 Parliament introduced a series of statutes that offered rewards up to £40. Under William III the rewards became an element in the fight against crime. As it was written in the legislation of 1692, when a statutory reward overlapped a proclamation, prosecuting or convicting of a highway robber could be worth £140 a head, £240 for a pair or £420 for a three-person group. These were huge sums at the time when an artisan earned about £20, supplementary reward was part of the administration of the law for six years, then with the death of George I it came to an end. After two years, in February 1728 a new proclamation reinstated the £100 reward by respecting the original terms, private parties were also free to offer rewards in addition to rewards by proclamations, then this practice was taken up by governmental departments and local authorities. In 1716, Robert Griffith was indicted for stealing from Thomas Brooks, one watch, value £51. She offered a reward of £15 to anyone who gave information about the robber, the reward was received by Mr. Holder, after he brought Mrs. Smith the silver watch that was stolen. In 1732 Henry Carey offered a reward of 2 guineas for the securing of Richard Marshall, Marshall together with Mary Horsenail and Amy Mason were indicted for breaking and entering the house of Mr. Carey in Dorrington-street
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Cattle
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Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, cattle are raised as livestock for meat, as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draft animals. Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel, in some regions, such as parts of India, cattle have significant religious meaning. From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, according to an estimate from 2011, in 2009, cattle became one of the first livestock animals to have a fully mapped genome. Some consider cattle the oldest form of wealth, and cattle raiding consequently one of the earliest forms of theft. Cattle were originally identified as three species, Bos taurus, the European or taurine cattle, Bos indicus, the zebu, and the extinct Bos primigenius. The aurochs is ancestral to both zebu and taurine cattle and these have been reclassified as one species, Bos taurus, with three subspecies, Bos taurus primigenius, Bos taurus indicus, and Bos taurus taurus. Complicating the matter is the ability of cattle to interbreed with other related species. Hybrid individuals and even breeds exist, not only between taurine cattle and zebu, but also one or both of these and some other members of the genus Bos – yaks, banteng. Hybrids such as the breed can even occur between taurine cattle and either species of bison, leading some authors to consider them part of the genus Bos. However, cattle cannot successfully be hybridized with more distantly related bovines such as water buffalo or African buffalo, the aurochs originally ranged throughout Europe, North Africa, and much of Asia. In historical times, its range became restricted to Europe, breeders have attempted to recreate cattle of similar appearance to aurochs by crossing traditional types of domesticated cattle, creating the Heck cattle breed. Cattle did not originate as the term for bovine animals and it was borrowed from Anglo-Norman catel, itself from medieval Latin capitale principal sum of money, capital, itself derived in turn from Latin caput head. Cattle originally meant movable personal property, especially livestock of any kind, the word is a variant of chattel and closely related to capital in the economic sense. The term replaced earlier Old English feoh cattle, property, which today as fee. The word cow came via Anglo-Saxon cū, from Common Indo-European gʷōus = a bovine animal, compare Persian gâv, Sanskrit go-, Welsh buwch. The plural cȳ became ki or kie in Middle English, and a plural ending was often added, giving kine, kien. This is the origin of the now archaic English plural, kine, the Scots language singular is coo or cou, and the plural is kye
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Yodeling
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Yodeling is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register and the high-pitch head register or falsetto. The English word yodel is derived from the German word jodeln and this vocal technique is used in many cultures worldwide. Alpine yodeling was a longtime rural tradition in Europe, and became popular in the 1830s as an entertainment in theaters, in Central Africa, yodeling was a form of communication announcing the yodelers location and identity. In the United States, traveling minstrels were yodeling in the 19th century, Music historians credit the first country recording to include yodeling to Riley Puckett in 1924. In 1928, blending Alpine yodeling with traditional work, blues, hobo, the popularity lasted through the 1940s, but by the 1950s it became rare to hear yodeling in Country or Western music. The Swiss Amish maintain the practice of yodeling to this day, most experts agree that yodeling was used in the Central Alps by herders calling their stock or to communicate between Alpine villages. The multi-pitched yelling later became part of the traditional lore. The earliest record of a yodel is in 1545, where it is described as the call of a cowherd from Appenzell. In Norwegian traditional music, the oral-song tradition Laling, also called huving, is a form of signal song, usually it is considered to transhumance tradition. The cry could be designed so that it was not just a cry for contact. The cry may have a form of text, but is just as well without words, characteristically big melody scope and exchange between breast and falsetto voice. Laling is related to yodeling in Switzerland and Austria, the overture Hjalarljod has a background in the phenomenon of yodeling. Laling is a mix of yelling and singing, and is related to lokk. In Persian classical music, singers frequently use tahrir, a technique that oscillates on neighbor tones. It is similar to the Swiss yodel, and is used as an ornament or trill in phrases which have long syllables, and usually falls at the end of a phrase. Tahrir is also prevalent in Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Armenian, Afghan, and Central Asian musical traditions, in Georgian traditional music, yodeling takes the form of krimanchuli technique, and is used as a top part in three/four part polyphony. In Central Africa Pygmy singers use yodels within their elaborate polyphonic singing, the Mbuti of the Congo incorporate distinctive whistles and yodels into their songs. Living from hunting and gathering, they sing hunting and harvest songs, in 1952, ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey recorded their songs and they have been released on compact discs
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Chris Buck
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Chris Buck is an American film director known for co-directing Tarzan, Surfs Up, and Frozen. He also worked as an animator on Home on the Range. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck was inspired to explore animation by the first film he saw in a movie theatre as a child. His family eventually moved to Placentia, California, where he graduated from El Dorado High School, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988 to 1993. At CalArts, Buck became friends with both John Lasseter and Michael Giaimo, whom he would work many years later on Frozen. He began his career as an animator with Disney in 1978, Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebes Kids. Bucks credits include a number of animated commercials for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, Buck went on to co-direct Surfs Up at Sony Pictures Animation, which was released in June 2007. In 2008, Bucks old friend Lasseter, by then Disney Animations chief creative officer, after it was put on hold during 2010, the film was officially announced in December 2011 under the title Frozen, with a release date of November 27,2013. In September 2014 it was announced that Buck and Lee would co-direct a short based on the Frozen characters called Frozen Fever. It was released in spring 2015, on March 12,2015, Disney announced that Buck and Lee would co-direct a full length sequel to Frozen. They have three sons, Ryder, Woody, and Reed and their oldest son, Ryder, died at age 23 on October 27,2013, in a car collision, when he was hit by two cars after his car broke down on the Glendale Freeway. Ryder was a singer and songwriter performing in his band Ryder Buck and the Breakers, on March 2,2014, upon accepting the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for co-directing Frozen at the 86th Academy Awards, Buck dedicated the award to his son Ryder. Reed lent his voice to Arnold, a penguin from Surfs Up. Chris Buck at the Internet Movie Database
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G. W. Bailey
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Bailey is an American stage, television and film actor. He currently stars in the TNT series Major Crimes, a spinoff of The Closer, Bailey was born in Port Arthur, Texas. He went to Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur with Janis Joplin and he started college at Lamar University in nearby Beaumont and transferred to Texas Tech University in Lubbock. His film debut was in A Force of One, an early Chuck Norris film and he then got his breakout role as Rizzo in M*A*S*H. He also did a star making turn as Tom Berengers sidekick in Rustlers Rhapsody and he returned to college in 1993, and graduated from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas in May 1993, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theatre. For the 1999–2000 school year, he was the Artist-in-Residence, in the late 1990s he starred in three of TNTs acclaimed The Bible Series films, Solomon, Jesus, and Saint Paul aka Paul The Apostle. Since 2001, Bailey has served as the Executive Director of the Sunshine Kids Foundation and he has been a volunteer for more than 15 years since being introduced to the organization by his goddaughter, who was diagnosed with leukemia. Bailey - Museum of the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur, TX
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Dennis Weaver
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William Dennis Weaver was an American actor who was best known for his work in television. Weavers two most notable roles were as Marshal Matt Dillons trusty helper Chester Goode on the CBS western Gunsmoke and he appeared in the 1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welless film Touch of Evil, Weaver was born in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Walter Weaver and his wife Lenna Prather. His father was of English, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, Weaver wanted to be an actor from childhood. He lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, for years and for a short time in Manteca. During World War II he served as a pilot in the United States Navy, after the war, he married Gerry Stowell, with whom he had three children. Weaver tried out for the 1948 U. S. Olympic team in the decathlon, however, only the top three finishers were selected. Weaver later commented, I did so poorly, I decided to, stay in New York and try acting. Weavers first role on Broadway came as an understudy to Lonny Chapman as Turk Fisher in Come Back and he eventually took over the role from Chapman in the national touring company. Solidifying his choice to become an actor, Weaver enrolled in The Actors Studio, in the beginning of his acting career, he supported his family by doing odd jobs, including selling vacuum cleaners, tricycles, and womens hosiery. In 1952, Shelley Winters helped him get a contract from Universal Studios and he made his film debut that same year in the movie The Redhead from Wyoming. Over the next three years, he played in a series of movies, but still had to work odd jobs to support his family. It was while delivering flowers that he heard he had landed the role of Chester Goode and it was his big break, the show would go on to become the highest-rated and longest-running live action series in United States television history. He received an Emmy Award in 1959 for Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series, according to the Archive of American Television interview with Weaver, the producer had him in mind for Chester, but could not locate him, and was delighted when he showed up to audition. Never having heard the show, Weaver gave Chesters inane dialog his best Method delivery. Disappointed in his delivery, however, the producer asked for something humorous, the stiff leg came about when the producer pointed out that sidekicks almost always have some failing or weakness that makes them less-capable than the star. Weaver decided that a leg would be just the right thing. In 1960, he appeared in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled Insomnia, in 1961, he did an episode of The Twilight Zone called Shadow Play where he was trapped inside his own dream
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Patrick Warburton
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Patrick John Warburton is an American actor and voice actor. In television he has played a control enthusiast in a series of commercials for National Car Rental, Warburton was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of orthopedic surgeon John Charles Warburton Jr. and Barbara Jeanne Gratz. He later attended Servite High School, and later transferred to Newport Harbor High School and he studied marine biology at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, but dropped out to pursue modeling and acting. Warburtons acting roles often rely on his deep, booming voice, in the 1990s, he was known for his role as David Puddy on Seinfeld, the on-again, off-again boyfriend of Elaine Benes. He had a role in the 2002 film Men in Black II as Js’ new partner. He starred in FOXs short-lived series The Tick, in which he held the title role and he played Nick Sharp in 8 Simple Rules and joined the cast of Less Than Perfect in 2003, as anchorman Jeb Denton. He also played Jeff Bingham in Rules of Engagement, and Rip Riley in the FX series Archer, Warburton reprised his role as Kronk for the direct-to-video sequel, Kronks New Groove, and the subsequent TV series The Emperors New School. He voices Steve Barkin in the Disney Channel show Kim Possible, Warburton was also cast in The Venture Bros. in which he voices Brock Samson. He voices Joe Swanson on Fox’s Family Guy and Detective Cash in The Batman and he lent his voice talent to the computer-animated feature films Hoodwinked, Chicken Little, Bee Movie, Open Season, and Tak, Tak and the Power of Juju. He was also the voice of Commander Blaine H. Tate on the Comedy Central animated series Moonbeam City in October 2015, Warburton appeared on GSN’s Poker Royale Celebrities vs. the Pros tournament in 2005, winning the tournament and the $50,000 grand prize. On November 8,2009, Warburton appeared as the wild west character Cal Johnson on Seth & Alex’s Comedy Show, hosted by Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein and he was also cast as the sheriff in the Cartoon Network series Scooby-Doo. He appeared as Bowser in a video by CollegeHumor entitled The Roast of Mario and he appeared on the American version of Top Gear on February 21,2012. He set the “Big Star, Small Car” lap record, beating previous record-holder Arlene Tur, Warburton starred in the 2016 NBC sitcom Crowded, which was canceled after one season. He is the voice of Lewis in the Clark & Lewis Expedition radio commercials for Horizon Air, in August 2009, Warburton played a high-end PC in a Get a Mac ad for Apple Inc. Warburton also became the spokesman for Japanese automaker Hondas Good Reasons advertising campaign in September 2011 and he is also the voice in NAPAs Can of Know How commercial. In 2015, Warburton became the star of National Car Rental commercials Be the Boss of You and he also became the voice in the current Discover Fresh radio ad campaign by Souplantation, a California-based buffet-style restaurant chain. Warburton voices the forest ranger in a Smokey Bear radio ad campaign sponsored by the U. S. Forest Service and the Ad Council. He is featured in the video shown to guests at Soarin Over California in Disney California Adventure and Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort
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Estelle Harris
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Estelle Harris is an American actress, voice artist and comedian. Estelle Nussbaum was born in Manhattan, the younger of two daughters of Isaac and Anna Nussbaum, Polish Jewish immigrants who owned a candy store and she appeared in Brad Paisleys music video for the song Online. In 2013, she played the mother of CBGB founder Hilly Kristal in the film CBGB, estelle Harris at the Internet Movie Database
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Ann Richards
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Dorothy Ann Willis Richards was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. A Democrat, she first came to attention as the state treasurer of Texas. Richards served as the 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994 by George W. Bush, Richards was the second female governor of Texas, and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken feminism and her one-liners. Ann Richards was born Dorothy Ann Willis in Lakeview, in McLennan County, Texas and she grew up in Waco, participated in Girls State, and graduated from Waco High School in 1950. She attended Baylor University on a Debate team scholarship, and earned a bachelors degree, after marrying high school sweetheart David Dave Richards, she moved to Austin, where she earned a teaching certificate from the University of Texas. David and Ann Richards had four children Cecile, Daniel, Clark, Richards taught social studies and history at Fulmore Junior High School in Austin from 1955–1956. She campaigned for Texas liberals and progressives such as Henry B, gonzalez, Ralph Yarborough, and future U. S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes. She supported ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U. S, during this time, her marriage ended, in part because of the strain of politics on the relationship. Richards drinking became more pronounced, and she sought and completed treatment for alcoholism in 1980, after the incumbent Texas State Treasurer, Warren G. Harding, became mired in legal troubles in 1982, Richards won the Democratic nomination for that post. Winning election against a Republican opponent in November that year, Richards became the first woman elected to office in more than fifty years. In 1986, she was re-elected treasurer without opposition, Richards was a popular and proactive treasurer who worked to maximize the return of Texas state investments. Richards said that when she took office, the Treasury Department was run something like a 1930s country bank, Richards keynote address to the 1988 Democratic National Convention put her in the national spotlight. The speech was highly critical of the Reagan Administration and then-Vice President George H. W. Bush and he was born with a silver foot in his mouth, …two women in 160 years is about par for the course. But if you give us a chance, we can perform, after all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels, and When we pay billions for planes that wont fly, billions for tanks that wont fire, and billions for systems that wont work, that old dog wont hunt. And you dont have to be from Waco to know that when the Pentagon makes crooks rich and doesnt make America strong, Richards convention address has been cited by rhetorical experts as a historically significant speech. The speech set the tone for her political future, in 1989, with co-author Peter Knobler, she wrote her autobiography, Straight from the Heart, My Life in Politics and Other Places. In 1990, Texas Republican governor, Bill Clements, decided not to run for re-election to a third nonconsecutive term, Richards painted herself as a sensible progressive, and won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination against Attorney General Jim Mattox of Dallas and former Governor Mark White of Houston
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Pocahontas (1995 film)
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Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated epic musical romantic-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 33rd Disney animated feature film, the film is part of the era known as the Disney Renaissance which lasted from 1989 to 1999. The voice cast features Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers, Russell Means, Christian Bale, Billy Connolly, the musical score was written by Alan Menken, with songs written by Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz. Pocahontas was released on June 23,1995 to a reaction from critics. Nevertheless, the film was a success, grossing $346 million at the worldwide box office. Pocahontas received two Academy Awards for Best Musical or Comedy Score for Menkens score and Best Original Song for Colors of the Wind, in 1607, the Susan Constant sails to the New World from London, carrying English settlers. On board are Captain John Smith and the voyages leader Governor Ratcliffe, along the way, the Susan Constant is caught in a North Atlantic storm, and Smith saves a young, inexperienced crewmate named Thomas from drowning. In the Powhatan tribe in Virginia, Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan, fears being possibly wed to Kocoum, Powhatan gives Pocahontas her mothers necklace as a present. Grandmother Willow then alerts Pocahontas to the arriving English, Ratcliffe has Jamestown built in a wooded clearing and immediately has the crewmen dig for gold. Smith departs to explore the wilderness and encounters Pocahontas and they quickly bond, fascinated by each others worlds and develop a relationship, despite Powhatans orders to keep away from the English after Kocoum and other warriors engage them in a fight. Meanwhile, Meeko meets Percy, Ratcliffes dog, and becomes the bane of his existence, Pocahontas introduces Smith to Grandmother Willow and avoids two other crewmen, but Pocahontass best friend Nakoma discovers her relationship with Smith and warns Kocoum. Later, Smith and Pocahontas meet with Grandmother Willow and plan to bring peace between the colonists and the tribe, Smith and Pocahontas kiss, while Kocoum and Thomas witness from afar. Enraged, Kocoum attacks and attempts to kill Smith, but Thomas inadvertently shoots and kills Kocoum, Smith commands Thomas to leave just before the tribesmen come and capture Smith while Kocoums body is taken away. Enraged, Powhatan declares war on the English, beginning with Smiths execution at sunrise, Pocahontas tries to convince her father otherwise, but the chief refuses to listen, as he is very angry with Pocahontas for disobeying his orders to remain in the village. Thomas warns the crewmen of Smiths capture, while Ratcliffe rallies his men to battle, using this as an excuse to annihilate the tribe, a desperate Pocahontas visits Grandmother Willow, where Meeko hands her Smiths compass. Pocahontas realizes Smiths compass was the arrow from her real life encounter. Just as Powhatan is about to kill Smith, Pocahontas stops him, both parties accept gracefully, except Ratcliffe, who tries to kill Chief Powhatan in anger, but wounds Smith instead when he protected the chief. Ratcliffe is then arrested by his crewmen, in the end, Smith is forced to return home to receive medical treatment, while Ratcliffe is also sent back to England to face justice for his crimes
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Captains Courageous
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The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClures, beginning with the November 1896 edition. In 1900, in his essay “What We Can Expect of the American Boy, ” Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book and praised Kipling for describing “in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do. ”The books title comes from the ballad Mary Ambree, which starts, When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt. Kipling had previously used the title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers. Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr. is the son of a railroad magnate and his wife, in San Diego. Harvey accuses the captain, Disko Troop of taking his money Disko Troop, captain of the Were Here, bloodies his nose, Harvey comes to accept his situation. Through a series of trials and adventures, Harvey, with the help of the captains son Dan Troop, becomes acclimated to the fishing lifestyle, and even skillful. Great stories of the cod fishery with references to New England whaling and 19th century steam, eventually, the schooner returns to port and Harvey wires his parents, who immediately hasten to Boston, Massachusetts, and thence to the fishing town of Gloucester to recover him. The book was written during Kiplings time living in Brattleboro, Vermont, Kipling recalled in his autobiography, Now our Dr. Conland had served in fleet when he was young. One thing leading to another, as happens in this world and my part was the writing, his the details. This book took us to the shore-front, and the old T-wharf of Boston Harbour, and to queer meals in sailors’ eating-houses, thanks to Conland I came near this. The resulting account, in Chapter 9, of the Cheynes journey from San Diego to Boston, is a classic of railway literature. The couple travel in the Cheynes private rail car, the Constance and it takes precedence over 177 other trains. Two and one-half minutes would be allowed for changing engines, three for watering and two for coaling, the Constance is attached to the scheduled express New York Limited to Buffalo, New York and then transferred to the New York Central for the trip across the state to Albany. Switched to the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Cheynes complete the trip to Boston in their private car, Disko Troop claims to receive his given name for his birth on board his fathers ship near Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland. His crewman Long Jack once calls him Discobolus, tracy won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in this film. In 1977 for television, directed by Harvey Hart and starring Karl Malden, Jonathan Kahn, Ricardo Montalbán, Fritz Weaver, Fred Gwynne, in 1996 for television, directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Urich, Kenny Vadas, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Sandra Nelson and Colin Cunningham. Musical theatre, Captains Courageous, The Musical was a 1999 Off Broadway production at the Manhattan Theatre Club, other adaptations, The Billion Dollar Boy by Charles Sheffield is a retelling of Captains Courageous in a futuristic science fiction setting. Cabin Boy, a movie starring Chris Elliott, is a loose adaptation, Captain Courageous in the singular is sometimes used as praise for a leader of a group or team, e. g
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Ghost town
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A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains. Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific architecture, have become tourist attractions, visiting, writing about, and photographing ghost towns is a minor industry. The town of Plymouth on the Caribbean island of Montserrat is a ghost town that is the de jure capital of Montserrat and it was rendered uninhabitable by volcanic ash from an eruption. The definition of a ghost town varies between individuals, and between cultures, lindsey Baker, author of Ghost Towns of Texas, defines a ghost town as a town for which the reason for being no longer exists. Some believe that any settlement with visible tangible remains should not be called a ghost town, others say, conversely, whether or not the settlement must be completely deserted, or may contain a small population, is also a matter for debate. Generally, though, the term is used in a sense, encompassing any. The American author Lambert Florins preferred definition of a ghost town was simply a shadowy semblance of a former self, a town can also be abandoned when it is part of an exclusion zone due to natural or man-made causes. Ghost towns may result when the activity or resource that created a boomtown is depleted or the resource economy undergoes a bust. Boomtowns can often decrease in size as fast as they initially grew, sometimes, all or nearly the entire population can desert the town, resulting in a ghost town. The dismantling of a boomtown can often occur on a planned basis, modular buildings can be used to facilitate the process. A gold rush would often bring intensive but short-lived economic activity to a remote village, in other cases, the reason for abandonment can arise from a towns intended economic function shifting to another, nearby place. This happened to Collingwood, Queensland in Outback Australia when nearby Winton outperformed Collingwood as a centre for the livestock-raising industry. The railway reached Winton in 1899, linking it with the rest of Queensland, the Middle East has many ghost towns that were created when the shifting of politics or the fall of empires caused capital cities to be socially or economically unviable, such as Ctesiphon. The rise of condominium investment caused for real estate bubbles also leads to a ghost town, as real estate prices rise, such examples include China and Canada, where housing is often used as an investment rather than for habitation. Railroads and roads bypassing or no longer reaching a town can create a ghost town. This was the case in many of the ghost towns along Ontarios historic Opeongo Line, some ghost towns were founded along railways where steam trains would stop at periodic intervals to take on water. Amboy, California was part of one series of villages along the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad across the Mojave Desert. River re-routing is another factor, one example being the towns along the Aral Sea, Ghost towns may be created when land is expropriated by a government and residents are required to relocate
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The Road to El Dorado
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The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated adventure musical fantasy comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. It was directed by Eric Bibo Bergeron and Don Paul, Will Finn, the film stars Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Armand Assante, Jim Cummings, Edward James Olmos, Tobin Bell, and Rosie Perez. The soundtrack features songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, as well as composers Hans Zimmer, the film follows two con artists, who after winning the map to El Dorado escape from Spain. After being stranded on the island, they use it to them to the city of El Dorado. Released on March 31,2000, The Road to El Dorado grossed $76.4 million worldwide on a $95 million budget. In Spain 1519, two con artists, Tulio and Miguel, win a map to the legendary City of Gold, El Dorado, in a rigged gamble. After their conning is exposed, the two evade the guards and hide aboard one of the ships to be led by Hernán Cortés to the New World. During the voyage, they are caught as stowaways and imprisoned, but manage to break free and take a rowboat with the help of Cortés horse Altivo. Later, they land on a shore at the edge of Mexico. Just then, they encounter a woman named Chel being chased by guards. When the guards see Tulio and Miguel riding Altivo as depicted on the totem, they escort them to an entrance behind the falls, along with Chel. They are brought to the elders, kind-hearted Chief Tannabok. Tzekel-Kan, seeking to seize the city from Tannabok, insists that the two, mistaken as gods, demonstrate their powers, Tulio and Miguel bicker between themselves while a nearby volcano begins to erupt. When Tulio yells at Miguel to stop pestering him, the volcano suddenly stops erupting, celebrations are held, and the pair are given luxurious quarters to stay, along with charge of Chel. Chel is aware the two are conning the people but promises to remain if they take her with them when they leave the city. The two are showered with gifts of gold from Tannabok, but disapproves Tzekel-Kan in sacrificing a civilian as the gods ritual. Tulio convinces Tannabok to build them a vessel that will allow them to leave the city all the gifts theyve been given. Miguel explores the city, allowing Chel to get close to Tulio
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Hercules (1997 film)
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Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 35th Disney animated feature film, the film was directed by Ron Clements, the film is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles, the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology. The film also featured the first positive portrayal of African American women in a Disney animated film, development of Hercules began in 1992 following a pitch adaptation of the Heracles mythological stories by animator Joe Haidar. Meanwhile, Ron Clements and John Musker re-developed their idea for Treasure Planet following the critical and commercial success of Aladdin and their project was removed from development in 1993, and Musker and Clements joined Hercules later that same year. Following an unused treatment by Haidar, Clements and Musker studied multiple interpretations of Greek mythology before abandoning Zeuss adulterous affair with Alcmene. The project underwent multiple story treatments and a first script draft was inspired by the comedy films of the classic Hollywood era. Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi were brought on board to shorten the script, british cartoonist Gerald Scarfe was recruited as production designer and produced over seven hundred visualization designs of the characters. Research trips to Greece and Turkey provided inspiration for the background designs, Animation for the film was done in California and Paris. Computer animation was utilized in several scenes, predominantly in the Hydra battle sequence, Hercules was released on June 27,1997 to positive reviews from film reviewers who praised James Woodss portrayal of Hades. After imprisoning the Titans beneath the ocean, the Greek gods Zeus, while the other gods are joyful, Zeus jealous brother Hades plots to overthrow Zeus and rule Mount Olympus. Turning to the Fates for help, Hades learns that in eighteen years, an alignment will allow him to locate and free the Titans to conquer Olympus. Hades sends his minions Pain and Panic to dispose of Hercules, years later, the teenage Hercules becomes an outcast due to his strength, and wonders where he came from. After his foster parents reveal the necklace they found him with, the temples statue of Zeus comes to life and reveals all to Hercules, telling him that he can regain his godhood by becoming a true hero. Zeus sends Hercules and his forgotten infanthood friend Pegasus to find the satyr Philoctetes—Phil for short—who is known for training heroes. The two meet Phil, who has retired from training due to numerous disappointments, but Hercules inspires him to follow his dream to train a true hero that will be recognized by the gods. Phil trains Hercules into a hero, and when he is older. On the way, they meet Megara—Meg for short—a sarcastic damsel whom Hercules saves from the centaur Nessus, however, after Hercules, Phil, and Pegasus leave, Meg is revealed to be Hades minion, having sold her soul to him to save an unfaithful lover. Arriving in Thebes, Hercules is turned down by the citizens until Meg says that two boys are trapped in a gorge
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Richard Rodgers
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Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television and he is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music up to the present day and he has also won a Pulitzer Prize, making him one of two people to receive each award. Richard began playing the piano at age six,10, Townsend Harris Hall and DeWitt Clinton High School. Rodgers spent his teenage summers in Camp Wigwam where he composed some of his first songs. Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University, at Columbia, Rodgers joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. In 1921, Rodgers shifted his studies to the Institute of Musical Art, Rodgers was influenced by composers such as Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as by the operettas his parents took him to see on Broadway when he was a child. In 1919, Richard met Lorenz Hart, thanks to Phillip Leavitt, Rodgers and Hart struggled for years in the field of musical comedy, writing several amateur shows. They made their debut with the song Any Old Place With You. Their first professional production was the 1920 Poor Little Ritz Girl and their next professional show, The Melody Man, did not premiere until 1924. When he was just out of college Rodgers worked as director for Lew Fields. Among the stars he accompanied were Nora Bayes and Fred Allen, Rodgers was considering quitting show business altogether to sell childrens underwear, when he and Hart finally broke through in 1925. They wrote the songs for a show presented by the prestigious Theatre Guild, called The Garrick Gaieties. Only meant to run one day, the Guild knew they had a success, the shows biggest hit — the song that Rodgers believed made Rodgers and Hart — was Manhattan. The two were now a Broadway songwriting force, throughout the rest of the decade, the duo wrote several hit shows for both Broadway and London, including Dearest Enemy, The Girl Friend, Peggy-Ann, A Connecticut Yankee, and Present Arms. Their 1920s shows produced standards such as Here in My Arms, Mountain Greenery, Blue Room, My Heart Stood Still, with the Depression in full swing during the first half of the 1930s, the team sought greener pastures in Hollywood. Rodgers also wrote a melody for which Hart wrote three consecutive lyrics which either were cut, not recorded or not a hit, the fourth lyric resulted in one of their most famous songs, Blue Moon. In 1935, they returned to Broadway and wrote an almost unbroken string of hit shows that only with Harts death in 1943
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K.d. lang
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Lang, OC, known by her stage name k. d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her performances, hits include Constant Craving and Miss Chatelaine. She has contributed songs to soundtracks and has collaborated with musicians such as Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Anne Murray, Ann Wilson. Lang is also known for being an animal rights, gay rights and she is a tantric practitioner of the old school of Tibetan Buddhism. She performed Leonard Cohens Hallelujah live at the ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Previously, she had performed at the ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Lang possesses the range of a mezzo-soprano. Lang was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Audrey and she is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian Jewish, Icelandic, and Sioux ancestry. When Lang was nine months old, her moved to Consort, Alberta. Her father, an owner, left the family when she was twelve. After secondary school, Lang attended Red Deer College, where she became fascinated with the life and music of Patsy Cline and she formed a Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines in 1983, and they recorded a debut album, Friday Dance Promenade, at Sundown Recorders. Label owner Larry Wanagas became her personal manager, the first band featured Stu Macdougal on keys, Dave Bjarnson on drums, Gary Koligar on guitar and bassist Farley Scott. The Reclines regularly played the legendary Sidetrack Cafe, a venue that featured live bands six nights a week. In 1983, Lang presented a piece, a seven-hour re-enactment of the transplantation of an artificial heart for Barney Clark. A Truly Western Experience was released in 1984 and received strong reviews, in August 1984, Lang was one of three Canadian artists to be selected to perform at the World Science Fair in Tsukuba, Japan. I was broke at the time, so Id find things at Value Village or get my mom to make me a skirt from the curtains she was about to throw out, I loved playing with the clothes as much as the music. Lang made several recordings that received positive reviews and earned a 1985 Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She accepted the award wearing a wedding dress borrowed from her roommate at the time
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