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Lebanon, Oregon
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Lebanon /ˈlɛbɪnɛn/ or /ˈlɛbɪnən/ is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States. Lebanon is located in northwest Oregon, southeast of Salem, the population was 15,518 at the 2010 census. As of the census of 2010, there were 15,518 people,6,118 households, the population density was 2,326.5 inhabitants per square mile. There were 6,820 housing units at a density of 1,022.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 91. 2% White,0. 5% African American,1. 4% Native American,1. 1% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,2. 1% from other races, and 3. 7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 8% of the population,28. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the family size was 3.05. The median age in the city was 36.6 years. 25. 7% of residents were under the age of 18,9. 4% were between the ages of 18 and 24,24. 9% were from 25 to 44,23. 6% were from 45 to 64, and 16. 3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47. 7% male and 52. 3% female. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 6.87 square miles. This region experiences warm and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Lebanon has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated Csb on climate maps. Lowes RDC is the largest employer in Lebanon, with 650 employees, the other major employers are Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, Lebanon Schools, Wal-Mart, and Entek International. Lebanon is served by the Lebanon Community Schools public school district and it is also home to the private East Linn Christian Academy, which serves students from preschool through twelfth grade. The school opened with 107 students, Lebanon is the home of the Worlds Largest Strawberry Shortcake, a part of the annual Strawberry Festival that began in 1909. The Strawberry Festival includes a Junior Parade, a Grand Parade, and it is held the first weekend of June. The city has 15 developed parks, totaling 71.5 acres, which provide residents with baseball, softball, and soccer fields, as well as playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, and other resources. Gills Landing has a ramp and dock, as well as an RV park, camping area
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Disc jockey
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A disc jockey is a person who mixes different sources of pre-existing recorded music as it is playing, usually for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club or via broadcasting. DJs typically perform for an audience in a nightclub or dance club or a TV, radio broadcast audience, or in the 2010s. DJs also create mixes, remixes and tracks that are recorded for later sale, in hip hop music, DJs may create beats, using percussion breaks, basslines and other musical content sampled from pre-existing records. In hip hop, rappers and MCs use these beats to rap over, DJs use equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simultaneously and mix them together. This allows the DJ to create seamless transitions between recordings and develop unique mixes of songs, DJ equipment, notably the specialized DJ mixer, a small audio mixer with a crossfader and cue functions. The crossfader enables the DJ to blend or transition from one song to another, the cue knobs or switches allow the DJ to preview a source of recorded music in headphones before playing it for the live club or broadcast audience. Previewing the music in headphones helps the DJ pick the track they want to play. DJs may also use a microphone to speak to the audience, effects such as reverb to create sound effects, drum machines. The title DJ is also used by DJs in front of their real names or adopted pseudonyms or stage names as a title to denote their profession. Some DJs focus on creating a mix of songs for the club dancers or radio audience. Other DJs use turntablism techniques such as scratching, in which the DJ or turntablist manipulates the record player turntable to create new sounds. In many types of DJing, including club DJing and radio/TV DJing, there are several types of disc jockey. Radio DJs or radio personalities introduce and play music that is broadcast on AM, FM, club DJs select and play music in bars, nightclubs or discothèques, or at parties, raves, or even in stadiums. Mobile DJs travel with portable sound systems and play recorded music at a variety of events. Some mobile DJs also serve as the master of ceremonies at weddings or other events, directing the attention of attendees, there are also many competitions for DJs that specialize in different turntablism techniques, such as mixing, hip hop music-style scratching or other kinds of techniques. Other types of DJ use musical performance techniques that allow them to be categorized as performing musicians, hip hop DJs and are also often songwriters or music producers who use turntablism and sampling to create backing instrumentals for new tracks. In reggae, the DJ is a vocalist who raps, toasts, chants or chats over pre-recorded rhythm tracks, the individual who helps the DJ by selecting tracks or records to be played is called the selector. Many electronica artists and producers who work as DJs often perform music by combining turntablism with keyboards, digital musical instruments
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WKRP in Cincinnati
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WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta, many of the characters and even some of the stories are based on people and events at WQXI. The ensemble cast consists of Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Jan Smithers, Richard Sanders, the characters also developed somewhat over the course of the series. The series won a Humanitas Prize and received 10 Emmy Award nominations, Andy Ackerman won an Emmy Award for Videotape Editing in season 3. WKRP premiered September 18,1978 on the CBS television network, when WKRP went into syndication, it became an unexpected success. For the next decade, it was one of the most popular sitcoms in syndication, outperforming many programs which had more successful in prime time. Jump, Sanders, and Bonner reprised their roles, appearing as characters in a spin-off/sequel series, The New WKRP in Cincinnati. Hesseman, Reid and Anderson also reprised their roles on this show as guest stars, to help bolster ratings, Travis hires a new disc jockey, New Orleans native Venus Flytrap, and allows spaced-out former major market DJ Dr. Johnny Fever, to be himself. Rounding out the cast are super receptionist Jennifer Marlowe and enthusiastic junior employee Bailey Quarters, lurking in the background and making an occasional appearance is ruthless business tycoon Mrs. Carlson, the stations owner and the mother of Arthur Carlson. For the most part, program director Andy Travis serves as the man for the eccentric staff of the station he has been hired to run. Before coming to WKRP, he had a record of turning around failing radio stations. The shows opening song is about Andy and his decision to settle down in Cincinnati. In the episode The Creation of Venus, Andy echoes the theme lyrics in talking about his past. Arthur Carlson, occasionally called the Big Guy, is the general manager, whose main qualification for the job is that his mother. His bumbling, indecisive management style is one of the reasons the station is unprofitable, although he is a principled, kind, decent. It is revealed in at least two episodes Carlson was an Officer in the United States Marine Corps during WWII, and saw combat in the Pacific Theater, despite this, Carlson is deathly afraid of his strong-willed mother. Mr. Carlson has far more interest in fishing than he does in the radio station, Dr. Johnny Fever is a burned-out veteran disc jockey from Los Angeles who came to WKRP after being fired from a major station there when he said booger on the air. After WKRP changes its format, one of Fevers first on-air words is booger, cynical and neurotic and an occasional insomniac who consumes large amounts of coffee, Fever is usually in one sort of trouble or another
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
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Police Academy 2, Their First Assignment is a 1985 comedy film directed by Jerry Paris. It is the first of six sequels in the Police Academy series, many actors return from the first film to respectively reprise their roles. This was the film in the franchise that does not feature Leslie Easterbrook as Lt. Debbie Callahan. In the film, the Police Academy cadets have graduated and are assigned to the worst precinct in town, Lassard protests saying that his officers are outmanned and old, and cant get the job done any longer. Nevertheless, Hurst gives Lassard 30 days to turn the precinct around or he is out, before Hurst leaves, Lieutenant Mauser schemes his way into getting a promotion to Captain should Lassard fail. Capt. Lassard then calls his brother Eric who is in charge of the Police Academy, Mauser is seen talking with his dim-witted partner, Sgt. Proctor, as he attempts to control of the precinct. Fackler is assigned with Dooley, Mahoney to Vinnie Schtulman, Tackleberry later confides to Mahoney that he may have fallen in love with Kirkland. Mauser attempts numerous times to sabotage the new recruits while personally targeting Mahoney, during a patrol, Mahoney and Schtulman spot a robbery at a merchants place, but the robbers escape in the confusion caused in part by responding officers. Mauser is ready to suspend them, but Mahoney makes a plea that convinces Lassard to give them another chance. While all this is going on, Zed and his gang go shopping in a supermarket, causing havoc, Mauser gives Mahoney a new assignment, patrolling a tunnel which results in him and his partner being covered with soot. He gets revenge on Mauser by switching his shampoo with Tackleberrys epoxy resin solution from a repair kit. He ends up embarrassing himself in front of the station and has to wear a wig through the remainder of the film, Capt. Lassard spots some of Zeds men and tries to deal with them, but is over-powered and spray-painted. This humiliating act emboldens Lassard to allow the precinct to use whatever means possible to contain the gang. Mahoney sees that Mauser did this on purpose, so as revenge he informs the nurse in charge of a cavity search ordered earlier to perform the procedure on Mauser. Later, Tackleberry goes on a date with Kirkland, where they stay out late dancing and they profess their love for each other and they make love. Captain Lassard goes to see his brother Eric at a Japanese steakhouse, on the night of the fair though, Zeds men trash the place. Lassard is out of a job the day, while Mauser is promoted to captain
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Head of the Class
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Head of the Class is an American sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1991 on the ABC television network. The series follows a group of gifted students in the Individualized Honors Program at the fictional Monroe High School in Manhattan, the program was ostensibly a vehicle for Hesseman, best known for his role as radio DJ Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Hesseman left Head of the Class in 1990 and was replaced by Scottish personality Billy Connolly as teacher Billy MacGregor for the final season, after the series ended, Connolly appeared in a short-lived spin-off titled Billy. The series was created and executive produced by Rich Eustis and Michael Elias, Rich Eustis had previously worked as a New York City substitute teacher while hoping to become an actor. Head of the Class deals with a classroom of academically gifted high school students. The IHP students comprised a range of personalities, ethnicities. In the first three years of the show, the IHP class had ten students, Arvid Engen was a skinny, bespectacled nerd, mathematics expert and budding scientist. Arvids best friend was the overweight, wisecracking cynic Dennis Blunden, Alan Pinkard was an ultra-conservative preppy and egotist, his area of expertise was political science and he was a devout fan of Ronald Reagan. Alan competed for the highest grades in the class with Darlene Merriman, both Alan and Darlene held the ambition of being named class valedictorian. Sarah Nevins did not have any one area of expertise, she was the most down-to-earth of the IHP class. Maria Borges was very passionate about getting As, and Jawaharlal Choudhury was a student from India. Eleven-year-old Janice Lazarotto, despite her age, was in high school. Arts student Simone Foster was a quiet, sensitive redhead with a fondness for poetry. Eric hit constantly on Simone and the two eventually had an on-again-off-again romance, there was some turnover in the cast in seasons four and five. Janice left for Harvard, Maria went to Performing Arts High School, jones and Jasper Kwan, who had appeared as potential IHP members in earlier seasons, were eventually added to the program and the cast. Appearing as regulars throughout all five seasons were school staff members Dr. Harold Samuels, Dr. Samuels was the blustery, overweight principal of the school. Ms. Meara was Dr. Samuels’ level-headed administrative assistant, there was some romantic tension between her and Charlie, although this ultimately came to nothing, and later had a romantic friendship with Billy. In the series, the students often faced off against the rival Bronx High School of Science, also, in every season, the IHP students produced the school musical
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University of Oregon
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The University of Oregon is a public flagship research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institutions 295-acre campus is along the Willamette River, since July 2014, UO has been governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon. The university has a Carnegie Classification of highest research activity and has 21 research centers, UO was admitted to the Association of American Universities in 1969. UO offers 316 undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide range of disciplines. Additionally, the Graduate School oversees the universitys graduate and certificate programs, UO student-athletes compete as the Ducks and are part of the Pac-12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With eighteen varsity teams, the Oregon Ducks are best known for their team and track. The Oregon State Legislature established the university on October 12,1872, the residents of Eugene struggled to help finance the institution, holding numerous fundraising events such as strawberry festivals, church socials, and produce sales. They raised $27,500, enough to buy eighteen acres of land at a cost of $2,500, the doors officially opened in 1876 with the name of Oregon State University and Deady Hall as its sole building. The first year of enrollment contained 155 students taught by five faculty members, the first graduating class was in 1878, graduating five students. In 1881, the university was closed, it was $8,000 in debt before Henry Villard donated $7,000 to help pay for the debt. In 1913, and again in 1932, there were proposals to merge the university with what is now Oregon State University, during Prince Lucien Campbells tenure as president from 1902 to 1925, the university experienced tremendous growth. The budget, enrollment, facilities, and faculty members all grew several times its amount prior to his presidency, however, the University of Oregon lost its School of Engineering to Oregon Agricultural College, now known as Oregon State University. The Zorn-MacPherson Bill in 1932 proposed the University of Oregon and Oregon State College merge, the bill lost in a landslide vote of over 6 to 1. The University of Oregon Medical School was founded in 1887 in Portland, however, in 1974 it became an independent institution known as Oregon Health Sciences University. In 1969, the UO was admitted into the Association of American Universities, with contributions exceeding $100 million from benefactors such as Phil Knight and Lorry I. Lokey, the goal was exceeded by over $253 million. The University occupies over 80 buildings and these projects, among others, were commissioned in part to support current student enrollment as well as possible future increases. Effective July 1,2014, the University of Oregon became an independent public body governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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Improvisational theatre
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Improvisational theatre exists in performance as a range of styles of improvisational comedy as well as some non-comedic theatrical performances. It is sometimes used in film and television, both to develop characters and scripts and occasionally as part of the final product. Improvisational techniques are used extensively in drama programs to train actors for stage, film. However, the skills and processes of improvisation are used outside of the context of performing arts. It is sometimes used in psychotherapy as a tool to gain insight into a persons thoughts, feelings, the earliest well documented use of improvisational theatre in Eastern history is found in the Atellan Farce of Africa 391 BC. From the 16th to the 18th centuries, commedia dellarte performers improvised based on an outline in the streets of Italy. Some people credit American Dudley Riggs as the first vaudevillian to use audience suggestions to create improvised sketches on stage, Spolin influenced the first generation of modern American improvisers at The Compass Players in Chicago, which led to The Second City. Her son, Paul Sills, along with David Shepherd, started The Compass Players, following the demise of the Compass Players, Paul Sills began The Second City. They were the first organized troupes in Chicago, and the modern Chicago improvisational comedy movement grew from their success. Many of the current rules of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills. From most accounts, David Shepherd provided the vision of the Compass Players. Mike Nichols, Ted Flicker, and Del Close were her most frequent collaborators in this regard, during this time, Forsberg trained many of the performers who went on to star on The Second City stage. Simultaneously, Keith Johnstones group The Theatre Machine, which originated in London, was touring Europe and this work gave birth to Theatresports, at first secretly in Johnstones workshops, and eventually in public when he moved to Canada. Toronto has been home to a rich improv tradition, in 1984, Dick Chudnow founded ComedySportz in Milwaukee, WI. Expansion began with the addition of ComedySportz-Madison, in 1985, the first Comedy League of America National Tournament was held in 1988, with 10 teams participating. The league is now known as World Comedy League and boasts a roster of 24 international cities, in San Francisco, The Committee theater was active in North Beach during the 1960s. It was founded by alumni of Chicagos Second City, Alan Myerson, when The Committee disbanded in 1972, three major companies were formed, The Pitchell Players, The Wing, and Improvisation Inc. The only company that continued to perform Closes Harold was the latter one and its two former members, Michael Bossier and John Elk, formed Spaghetti Jam in San Franciscos Old Spaghetti Factory in 1976, where shortform improv and Harolds were performed through 1983
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David Ogden Stiers
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He is also known for the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in several Perry Mason TV movies. Stiers was born in Peoria, Illinois, the son of Margaret Elizabeth and Kenneth Truman Stiers and he attended Urbana High School at the same time as film critic Roger Ebert. He moved to Eugene, Oregon where he graduated from North Eugene High School, Stiers studied at the Juilliard School. During his studies, Stiers was mentored by actor John Houseman, Stiers first appeared in the Broadway production The Magic Show in 1974 in the minor role of Feldman. Subsequent early credits include The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Kojak, Stiers also appeared in the pilot of Charlies Angels as the teams chief back-up. In 1977, Stiers joined the cast of the CBS-TV sitcom M*A*S*H, as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, Stiers filled the void created by the departure of actor Larry Linvilles Frank Burns character. In contrast to the buffoonish Burns, Winchester was a well-spoken and talented surgeon who presented a different type of foil to Alan Aldas Hawkeye Pierce, Burns usually served as the butt of practical jokes instigated by Pierce or Hunnicutt, and his surgical skills were often harshly criticized. At times, however, Winchester could align himself with Pierce and Hunnicutt and held considerable admiration for his commanding officer, for his portrayal of the pompous but nonetheless multifaceted Boston aristocrat, Stiers received two Emmy Award nominations. In 1984, he portrayed United States Olympic Committee founder, William Milligan Sloane in the NBC miniseries, The First Olympics, beginning in 1985, Stiers made his first of eight appearances in Perry Mason made-for-TV movies as District Attorney Michael Reston. He had guest appearances on ALF and Matlock and he appeared in two unsuccessful television projects, Love & Money and Justice League of America. In 2002, Stiers started a role as the Reverend Purdy on the successful USA Network series The Dead Zone with Anthony Michael Hall. In 2006, he was cast as the recurring character Oberoth in Stargate Atlantis, Stiers has provided voice work for dozens of film and television projects. His first work was on one of George Lucas earliest films, in 1992, he voiced Mr. Piccolo in the animated English-dubbed version of Porco Rosso. He lent his voice to the direct-to-video Batman, Mystery of the Batwoman as the Penguin, Stiers did voice work for Solovar in a two-part episode The Brave and The Bold in Justice League and voiced Solovar again in a Justice League Unlimited episode Dead Reckoning. He voiced characters in two of Disneys animated TV series, Gryzlikoff from Darkwing Duck, and Mr. Jolly from Teachers Pet and he voiced the king and prime minister in the 2004 short film The Cat That Looked at a King. In Hoodwinked, the animated movie based on Little Red Riding Hood, Stiers voiced the role of Nicky Flippers. He voiced Pops father, Mr. Maellard, in the animated TV series Regular Show, which debuted in 2010. Stiers had voices in video games, including Icewind Dale, Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts, Birth by Sleep, as Jeff Zandi in Uru, Ages Beyond Myst
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Dragnet (franchise)
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Dragnet was an American radio, television and motion picture series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history, the series gave audience members a feel for the danger and heroism of police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers, Actor and producer Jack Webbs aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting, he achieved both goals, and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media. Another Dragnet trademark is the opening narration, Ladies and gentlemen. Only the names have changed to protect the innocent. This underwent minor revisions over time, the only and ladies and gentlemen were dropped at some point, and for the television version hear was changed to see. Variations on this narration have been featured in subsequent crime dramas, Webb relaunched Dragnet in 1966, with NBC once again chosen to air the series. He tried to persuade Ben Alexander to rejoin him as Frank Smith, Alexander was then committed to an ABC police series, Felony Squad, and the producers would not release him. Webb reluctantly came up with a new character to take the role of Joe Fridays partner, Morgan had previously portrayed rooming house proprietor Luther Gage in the 1949 radio series episode James Vickers. George Fenneman returned as the primary announcer with John Stephenson replacing Hal Gibney in the role of announcing the trial dates. Fenneman replaced Stephenson in that role during the fourth season, unlike the previous Dragnet series, the revival was produced and aired in color. Webb produced a TV movie pilot for the new version of the show for Universal Television, NBC bought the show on the strength of the movie and it debuted as a midseason replacement for the sitcom The Hero on Thursday nights in January 1967. To distinguish it from the original, the year was included in the title of the show, although Friday had been promoted to lieutenant in the final episode of the 1950s production, Webb chose to have Friday revert to sergeant with his familiar badge,714. Cooke was technical advisor to the KNBC documentary Police Unit 2A-26, the show had good ratings on NBCs schedule for four seasons, although its popularity did not exceed that of the 1950s version. Much as was done 11 years earlier, Webb decided voluntarily to discontinue Dragnet after its season to focus on producing and directing his other projects through Mark VII Limited. The first of these projects was a spinoff of Dragnet titled Adam-12, a 30-minute police procedural like its parent series, the series premiered in the fall of 1968 and ran for seven seasons, coming to an end in 1975. Adam-12, in turn, spawned its own spinoff in early 1972 called Emergency, running as a weekly series until 1977 and as a series of made-for-television movies for two years after that, Emergency
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The Andy Griffith Show
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It stars Andy Griffith, who portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, Aunt Bee, an aunt and housekeeper, and Opie. Eccentric townspeople and temperamental girlfriends complete the cast and it was, when we were doing it, of a time gone by. The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings, on separate occasions, it has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best and 13th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its run, co-stars Knotts. The series spawned its own spinoff, Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C, a sequel series, Mayberry R. F. D. and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. Reruns of the show are aired on TV Land, MeTV. The show has also made available on streaming video services such as Netflix. An annual festival celebrating the show, Mayberry Days, is each year in Griffiths hometown of Mount Airy. After conferences between Leonard and Griffith in New York, Griffith flew to Los Angeles and filmed the episode, on February 15,1960, The Danny Thomas Show episode Danny Meets Andy Griffith aired. In the episode Griffith played fictional Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, North Carolina, future players in The Andy Griffith Show, Frances Bavier and Ron Howard, appeared in the episode as townspeople Henrietta Perkins and Opie Taylor. General Foods, sponsor of The Danny Thomas Show, had first access to the spin-off, on October 3,1960 at 9,30 pm, The Andy Griffith Show made its debut. The shows production team included producers Aaron Ruben and Bob Ross, during season six, Greenbaum and Fritzell left the show and Ruben departed for Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C. A show which he owned in part, writer Harvey Bullock left after season six. Bob Sweeney directed the first three seasons save the premiere, the show was filmed at Desilu Studios, with exteriors filmed at Forty Acres in Culver City, California. Woodsy locales were filmed north of Beverly Hills at Franklin Canyon, Knotts auditioned for the shows creator and executive producer, Sheldon Leonard, and was offered a five-year contract playing Barney Fife. Whistling in the sequence, as well as the closing credits sequence, was performed by Earle Hagen. One of the tunes, The Mayberry March, was reworked a number of times in different tempo, styles
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Paul Hartman
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Paul Hartman was an American dancer, stage performer and television character actor. Born in San Francisco, California, Hartman, like Fred Astaire, along with Grace, Paul made his Broadway debut in Ballyhoo of 1932 alongside Bob Hope, but the show was not a success. The two found success with Cole Porters Red Hot and Blue a few later, and continued to flourish on the Great White Way. The main premise of their act involved the crisp and witty Grace overwhelming the gangly, slackjawed Paul, intermittently cut with dance numbers and musical comedy routines. The Hartmans success led them to Hollywood, but Paul only saw limited success there, most prominently appearing alongside Frank Sinatra, upon the Hartmans return to Broadway, they resolved to take charge and write their own revue. Their 1948 play, Angel in the Wings, was a smash success, Paul and Grace returned to Broadway, where they spent three years in a number of variety shows and revues. Hartmans wife Grace was diagnosed cancer in 1952. Television and Hollywood had once again risen to the top of the entertainment world, and the convenience of television shooting, Hartman began appearing in the 1953-1954 ABC situation comedy, The Pride of the Family, as Albie Morrison, the father and head of the household. Fay Wray, best known for King Kong, played his wife, Catherine, in 1957, Hartman returned one last time to Broadway, but then past fifty, he tired of the hectic stage life. He continued to play bit parts in movies and television throughout the rest of his life, most famously as handyman Emmett Clark on CBSs The Andy Griffith Show and he was cast in the 1960 film, Inherit the Wind. In 1967, he appeared with Robert Morse in the version of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Hartman died from an attack in Los Angeles at the age of sixty-nine. Paul Hartman at Find a Grave Paul Hartman at the Internet Broadway Database Paul Hartman at the Internet Movie Database
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Ken Berry
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Kenneth Ronald Ken Berry is an American sitcom actor, dancer and singer. Berry has appeared in television shows, one with his friend and mentor. Berry starred in the successful comedies F Troop, The Andy Griffith Show spin-off Mayberry R. F. D. Berry was born in Moline in Rock Island County in northwestern Illinois, one of two children of the accountant, Darrell Berry, and his wife, Bernice. Berry realized he wanted to be a dancer and singer at age 12, Berry immediately started tap dance class and, at age 15, won a local talent competition sponsored by radio and television big band leader Horace Heidt. Heidt asked Berry to join his traveling performance ensemble, The Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program and he toured the U. S. and Europe for 15 months with the program, dancing and singing for the public and at post-World War II United States Air Force bases overseas. Berry made lasting relationships with several of his co-cast members and Horaces son, Horace Heidt Jr. who later launched a big band and radio career. Interesting tidbit, Ken Berry and actress Aneta Corsaut who starred on The Andy Griffith Show were both born the same day. November 3,1933. After high school graduation, Berry volunteered for induction into the United States Army and his first year in the Army was spent in the Artillery division, where his sergeant announced a post talent contest. The winner would go to New York City to appear on Arlene Francis Soldier Parade, Berry, who always carried his tap shoes with him, worked out a routine and a few hours later won the contest. He headed to New York for his television debut, Berrys second and final year was as a part of the Special Services Corps, under the command of Sergeant Leonard Nimoy. As a part of Special Services, he toured Army posts and officers clubs entertaining the troops, soon another talent competition was held, the All Army Talent Competition, looking to find service personnel to appear on Ed Sullivans Toast of the Town. Berry placed third in the Specialty Act category with the song Therell Be Some Changes Made and returned to New York City, the Sullivan appearance was to take place shortly before Berry would muster out of the Army. Nimoy sent telegrams to several studios and talent agents asking them to watch Berry on the show, the performance led to an offer from Twentieth Century Fox and a screen test at Universal Studios. He signed with an agent as soon as he arrived in Hollywood, Berry accepted Universals offer and began as a contract player. Soon he was being groomed to take over for Donald OConnor in the Francis the Talking Mule movie series, however, Mickey Rooney became available and got the part. At Universal, Berry took full advantage of the talent development program and later, under the GI Bill of Rights, he took jazz dance, ballet, vocal. The movie musicals Berry admired had already seen their heyday, however, acting, while working with Abbott & Costello, he met Dee Arlen, an actress whom he credits with getting him his first big break. This was Berrys first performance on the Las Vegas strip, then, in 1957, Berry was asked by Ken Murray, a well-known vaudeville performer, to join his stage variety show, The Ken Murray Blackouts
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Perch
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Perch is a common name for fish of the genus Perca, freshwater gamefish belonging to the family Percidae. Many species of freshwater gamefish more or less resemble perch, in fact, the exclusively saltwater dwelling red drum is often referred to as a red perch, though by definition perch are freshwater fish. Though many fish are referred to as perch as a name, to be considered a true perch. The type species for genus is the European perch, Perca fluviatilis. Most authorities recognize three species within the genus, The European perch is found in Europe and Asia. This species is greenish in color with dark vertical bars on its sides with a red or orange coloring in the tips of its fins. The European perch has been introduced in New Zealand and Australia. In Australia, larger specimens have been bred, but the species grows larger than about six pounds. The Balkhash perch is found in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and China and it is very similar to the European perch, and grows to a comparable size. The yellow perch, smaller and paler than the European perch, is found in the United States, in northern areas, it is sometimes referred to as the lake perch. This species is prized for its quality and has often been raised in hatcheries. Yellow perch are almost identical in appearance to European perch, but have a yellow coloring. These fish typically reach a size of about 15 in and 2.2 lb. The general body type of a perch is somewhat long and rounded, true perch have rough or ctenoid scales. On the anterior side of the head are the maxilla and lower mandible for the mouth, a pair of nostrils, on the posterior sides are the opercula, which protect the gills, and the lateral line system, which is sensitive to vibrations in the water. The kidney of the runs along the backbone and forms a head. Perch have paired pectoral and pelvic fins, and two fins, the first one spiny and the second soft. These two fins can be separate or joined, Perch are carnivorous fish most commonly found in small ponds, lakes, streams, or rivers
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The Bob Newhart Show
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The Bob Newhart Show is an American sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on CBS from September 16,1972, to April 1,1978, with a total of 142 half-hour episodes spanning over six seasons. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients, the show was filmed before a live audience. The show centers on Robert Hartley, Ph. D. a Chicago psychologist, Carlin was ranked 49th in TV Guides List of the 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time, and Riley reprised the character in guest appearances on both St. Elsewhere and Newhart. Most of the situations involve Newharts character playing straight man to his wife, colleagues, friends, and patients. A frequent running gag on the show is an extension of Newharts stand-up comedy routines, where Newhart played one side of a telephone conversation, in a nod to this, for the first two seasons, the episodes opened with Bob answering the telephone by saying Hello. Emily routinely acts as straight woman to slow-witted Howard, and on occasion to Bob, during the winter of the 1976–77 season, the program moved to 8,30 p. m. EST. For its final season during 1977–78, the moved to 8,00 p. m. EST. The program typically aired following The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was produced by MTM Enterprises. In 1977, the show received two Emmy nominations – for Outstanding Comedy Series and for Pleshette for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Comedy Series, Newhart was nominated for Golden Globes as Best TV Actor—Musical/Comedy in 1975 and 1976. In 1997, the episodes Over the River and Through the Woods and Death Be My Destiny were respectively ranked No.9, TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time listed it as No.44. In 2007, Time magazine placed the show on its unranked list of 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME, bravo ranked Bob Hartley 84th on their list of the 100 greatest TV characters. In 2004, TV Land commemorated the show with a statue of Newhart in character as Dr. Hartley, seated and facing an empty couch, the statue was temporarily installed in front of 430 North Michigan Avenue, the building used for exterior establishing shots of Hartleys office. The statue is now located in the sculpture park in front of Chicagos Navy Pier entertainment complex. In 2005, the TV Land Awards honored The Bob Newhart Show with its Icon Award, in 2013, TV Guide ranked the series #49 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. St. Elsewhere Jack Riley reprised his Elliot Carlin role on a 1985 episode of St. Elsewhere and partnered with Oliver Clark as the amnesiac John Doe Number Six. Carlin and Doe have been committed to the mental ward. Carlin blames his insanity on an unnamed quack in Chicago, while Oliver Clarks recurring portrayal of John Doe Number Six is essentially identical to Mr. Herd, the two are never stated to be the same individual. In a nod to the Mary Tyler Moore Show, John Doe Number Six addresses a character played by Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens, which Betty Whites character denied
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The Dick Cavett Show
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The Dick Cavett Show most often refers to the shows on ABC-TV that Dick Cavett hosted between 1968 and 1975 in New York. The first daytime show featured Gore Vidal, Muhammad Ali, ABC pressured Cavett to get big names, although subsequent shows without them got higher ratings and more critical acclaim. The late-night talk show that ran from December 29,1969 to January 1,1975 ran opposite NBCs The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Cavett took the time slot over from The Joey Bishop Show. In addition to the monologue, Cavett opened each show reading selected questions written by audience members. The late-night shows 45-minute midpoint would always be signaled by the musical piece Glitter and Be Gay from Leonard Bernsteins Candide. The Candide snippet became Cavetts theme song, being used as the introduction to his later PBS series, typically each show had several guests, but occasionally Cavett would devote an entire show to a single guest. In January 1973, despite a letter campaign, ratings forced the show to be cut back to occasional status. Jack Paar, who ABC had tried to recruit as Cavetts successor, by the end of 1974, it was airing only twice a month. The show remained on the PBS lineup until affiliates voted it off the schedule in 1982, on all three of the early ABC shows, the bandleader was Bobby Rosengarden and the announcer was Fred Foy of The Lone Ranger fame. The morning show was produced by Woody Fraser, tony Converse was the producer of the ABC Prime Time show and the original producer of the ABC late-night show, succeeded by John Gilroy. The Dick Cavett Show was also the name of a radio show. In the first broadcast of his 90-minute morning show, Cavett had as his first guest, engineer/designer/futurist Buckminster Fuller, later on in the program, Cavett chatted with actress Patricia Neal, who discussed her long rehabilitation from a near-fatal stroke in 1965. At 11,50, Cavetts show returned for its final 10 minutes, the assassination was the lone topic discussed during the entire 30 minutes the show was presented. On the following two mornings, the show began at its time of 10,30 a. m. and was once again devoted exclusively to assassination coverage. Due to conflicting network broadcasts, Dick Cavett pre-taped a one-man, in this interview, rock star Jimi Hendrix modestly downplays his abilities and displays his sense of humor. So, therefore you have to rely on more of a substance like music or the arts, theater, acting, painting. So, therefore the belief comes through electricity to people, that’s why we play so loud. Because it doesn’t actually hit through the eardrums like most groups do nowadays and they say ‘Well, we’re going to play loud too, because they’re playing loud. ’ And they’ve got this real shrill sound that’s really hard
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Janis Joplin
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She died of an accidental drug overdose in 1970, aged 27, after releasing three albums. A fourth album, Pearl, was released a more than three months after her death, reaching number 1 on the charts. Joplin rose to fame in 1967 during an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, as the singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and she appeared at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Five singles by Joplin went into the Billboard Top 100, including Me and Bobby McGee, which reached number 1 in March 1971. Her most popular include, Piece of My Heart, Cry Baby, Down on Me, Ball n Chain, Summertime, Maybe, and Mercedes Benz. Joplin, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, was known for her performing ability. Audiences and critics alike referred to her presence as electric. Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and she remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with Recording Industry Association of America certifications of 15.5 million albums sold in the USA. Janis Lyn Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on January 19,1943, to Dorothy Bonita East, a registrar at a college, and her husband, Seth Ward Joplin. She had two siblings, Michael and Laura. The family attended the Church of Christ, the Joplins felt that Janis needed more attention than their other children. Primarily a painter while still in school, she first began singing blues and she attended Thomas Jefferson High School, where she was a classmate of Super Bowl winning American football coach Jimmy Johnson. She stated while in school, that she was mostly shunned. Joplin was quoted as saying, I was a misfit, I read, I painted, I thought. As a teen, she became overweight, and her skin broke out so badly she was left deep scars that required dermabrasion. Other kids at school would routinely taunt her and call her names like pig, freak, nigger lover. The campus newspaper, The Daily Texan, ran a profile of her in the issue dated July 27,1962, while at UT she performed with a folk trio called the Waller Creek Boys and frequently socialized with the staff of the campus humor magazine The Texas Ranger
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Fantasmic!
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The area was reworked, including terracing the walkways to accommodate viewing and modifying part of Tom Sawyer Island to allow the shows staged live action segments. The producers employed the resources of Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Imagineering, a second version, featuring new scenes, debuted at Disney-MGM Studios in 1998 and a third version debuted at Tokyo DisneySea in 2011, replacing BraviSEAmo. Transpires on the waters of the Rivers of America at Disneyland, the show begins with a faint musical note that swells into a lush fanfare, revealing Mickey Mouse onstage. He dances and orchestrates various water effects to the shows theme, until bringing up the mist screens. From there, the stars of the scene bloom into flowers. The music segues into a guitar rendition of Pink Elephants on Parade from Dumbo, as animated pink elephants appear onscreen. The scene transitions into an onstage marionette sequence from Pinocchio, jiminy Cricket appears onscreen underwater searching for Pinocchio. An animated Monstro appears suddenly, accompanied by a musical score as he crashes through water. The sea morphs into the Sorcerers Apprentice flood scene, as Mickey looks around in the dark, a ship caught in a storm appears. The screens disappear, and the lights darken, a cannon is fired from Sailing Ship Columbia, portraying Captain Hooks pirate ship from Peter Pan. Hook, Smee, Peter Pan, Wendy, and pirates participate in a stunt sequence, following the ship is a crocodile barge, with the sound of a ticking clock emanating from its tail. The scene ends with Hook hanging from the end of the boat, the music takes on an ominous tone as Mickeys dream takes a turn for the worse. The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on stage, angered by Mickeys optimistic imagination, she transforms herself into her old hag disguise and invokes a riled Ursula, who ecstatically joins the Queens plot to destroy Mickey. Ursula calls upon Chernabog who summons deceased spirits and he summons Maleficent who threatens Mickey, now in his Brave Little Tailor outfit, as she transforms herself into an enormous dragon. On stage, the 45-foot dragon sets the waters ablaze breathing fire onto the river, Mickey faces the dragon, claiming that he is in control of his imagination, and defeats the dragon, destroying the villains in the process. Everything is silent, until Tinker Bell appears, Magical stars sparkle in the tavern as the Mark Twain Riverboat approaches. A spark of pyrotechnics ignite from The Mark Twain, revealing black, the vessel glides past the audience, carrying several dozens Disney characters as a celebratory atmosphere prevails. With another flash, Mickey appears atop the highest point of the tavern as the Sorcerers Apprentice as he controls a series of water, fireworks, laser
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Walt Disney World
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The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida. The resort is the destination of Disneys worldwide corporate enterprise. Opened on October 1,1971, Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world, the resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It was initially operated by Walt Disney World Company, Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open in the complex, in 1971, followed by Epcot in 1982, Disneys Hollywood Studios in 1989, and the most recent, Disneys Animal Kingdom in 1998. Designed to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the Florida Project, as it was known, was intended to present a distinct vision with its own diverse set of rides. Walt Disneys original plans called for the inclusion of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney died on December 15,1966, before construction began, without Disney spearheading the construction, the company created a resort similar to Disneyland, abandoning experimental concepts for a planned community. In 1959, Walt Disney Productions began looking for land to house a second resort to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955. Market surveys at the revealed that only 5% of Disneylands visitors came from east of the Mississippi River. Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the businesses that had sprung up around Disneyland, Walt Disney flew over a potential site in Orlando, Florida – one of many – in November 1963. To avoid a burst of land speculation, Walt Disney World Company used various dummy corporations to acquire 30,500 acres of land, in May 1965, some of these major land transactions were recorded a few miles southwest of Orlando in Osceola County. In addition, two tracts totaling $1. Some are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in Magic Kingdom, the smaller parcels of land acquired were called outs. They were 5-acre lots platted in 1912 by the Munger Land Company, most of the owners in the 1960s were happy to get rid of the land, which was mostly swamp at the time. Another issue was the rights to the land, which were owned by Tufts University. Without the transfer of rights, Tufts could come in at any time. Eventually, Disneys team negotiated a deal with Tufts to buy the rights for $15,000. Working strictly in secrecy, real estate agents unaware of their clients identity began making offers to landowners in April 1964 in parts of southwest Orange and northwest Osceola counties
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Disneys Hollywood Studios, originally Disney-MGM Studios, is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, based on an idea by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1,1989, and was the third of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World. To increase public interest and the variety of representation within the park, Disney entered into a licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The parks current name took effect in 2008, with the removal of the MGM-branding throughout the park, the parks icon was originally the Earffel Tower from the parks opening until 2001 when the Sorcerers Hat—a stylized version of the magical hat from Fantasia—was erected in the parks central hub. It then served as the icon until its removal in January 2015. The tower was removed in April 2016. Currently, the park remains without an official designated icon, although both the Great Movie Ride and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror are represented as such in marketing materials. In 2015, the park hosted approximately 10.8 million guests, ranking it the fifth most-visited theme park in North America and we welcome you to a Hollywood that never was—and always will be. A team of Walt Disney Imagineers led by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright had been given an assignment to two new pavilions for Epcots Future World section. The brainstorming sessions led to Wonders of Life and Great Movie Ride pavilions, the latter was to look like a soundstage backdrop, with a movie theater-style entrance in the middle and would have sat between the Land and Journey Into Imagination pavilions. In 1988, MGM/UA responded by filing a lawsuit that claimed Disney violated the agreement by operating a working movie, when the park first opened, the only two attractions were the Studio Backlot Tour and The Great Movie Ride. Disney later filed a countersuit, claiming that MGM/UA and MGM Grand, on October 23,1992, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis B. The 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park opened in 1993 at the Las Vegas site, on August 9,2007, Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton announced that Disney-MGM Studios would be re-branded as Disneys Hollywood Studios, effective January 7,2008. On March 12,2015, during a shareholders meeting. Disneys Hollywood Studios is divided into six themed areas, the parks original layout featured a large Hidden Mickey, which was visible in aerial photographs of the park and on the parks early guide maps. Construction and other changes have eliminated much of this image. Hollywood Boulevard, inspired by the street in Los Angeles, serves as the main entrance and operates in the same vein as Main Street. It is lined with themed streetscape facades and venues selling Disney merchandise, guests enter through the main entrance gate, which resembles the Pan-Pacific Auditorium
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Disco
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Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa. It achieved popularity during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. It was popular with men and women, from many different backgrounds. The disco sound often has several components, a beat, an eighth note or 16th note hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers, particularly in the late 1970s, well-known 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Boney M. KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Sylvester, Village People, Gloria Gaynor and Chic. While performers and singers garnered much attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the disco sound. Many non-disco artists recorded songs at the height of discos popularity. Disco was the last mass popular movement that was driven by the baby boom generation. Disco was a phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1980. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on 12 July 1979, is thought of as a factor in discos fast. By the late 1970s most major U. S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, Studio 54, a venue popular amongst celebrities, is a well-known example of a disco club. Popular dances included the Hustle, a suggestive dance. Discotheque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions, Disco clubs were also associated with promiscuity. Disco was a key influence on the 1980s electronic dance style called house. The term is derived from discothèque, by the early 1940s, the terms disc jockey and DJ were in use to describe radio presenters. During WWII, because of restrictions set in place by the Nazi occupiers, eventually more than one of these jazz venues had the proper name discothèque. By 1959, the term was used in Paris to describe any of these type of nightclubs and that year a young reporter named Klaus Quirini started to select and introduce records at the Scotch-Club in Aachen, West Germany
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Dr. Johnny Fever
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Dr. Johnny Fever is a fictional character on the American television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. He was inspired by Atlanta DJ Skinny Bobby Harper who previously had been a DJ on Cincinnatis legendary Top 40 station WSAI The character was portrayed by Howard Hesseman, Johnny Fever, whose real name is John Caravella, grew up in a broken home. His relationship with his father was poor and his parents separated when he was still young. While still a child a tornado struck the home community where he. He was a hippie in the 1960s, 10–12 years before the time frame. Johnny began working his way up in the business and became a highly popular. At the height of his career he was a star at a station in Los Angeles. After he said the word booger on the air, he was fired with a left on his contract. After being forced out of L. A. his career took a nosedive, for several years he led a nomadic existence, going from town to town taking a series of unsatisfying and low paying jobs at low-rated stations including a job hosting a garden show in Amarillo. He has used many names, including Johnny Duke, Johnny Style, Johnny Cool, Johnny Midnight. He finally hit bottom, in his own words, when he landed in Cincinnati at the worst radio station in town, WKRP—the only station that would hire him. He found himself hosting a music show in the morning. He immediately adopts the new, hyper-excited persona of Dr. Johnny Fever, by playing the first record, Doctor Johnny Fever, and I am burnin up in here. We all in critical condition, babies, but you can tell me where it hurts, now I am talking about your 50,000 watt intensive care unit, babies. So just sit right down, relax, open your ears real wide and say, Give it to me straight and he then starts the stations first rock record, before donning his sunglasses and then triumphantly saying, I almost forgot, fellow babies, BOOGER. On the DVD audio commentary track for episode, series creator Hugh Wilson credits Hesseman for largely improvising this entire speech. The Doctor is a talker to his radio audience when he is in a confident mood. He can jive with the best D. J. s of his era and he once gives Bailey Quarters, nascent newswoman, this sage advice, Talk into the microphone as if you were talking to your best friend
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Flight of the Navigator
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Flight of the Navigator is a 1986 American science fiction adventure film directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H. Baker, Michael Burton and Matt MacManus. The film stars Joey Cramer as David Freeman, a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spaceship and it was partially shot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Norway, it being a co-production with Norwegian company Viking Film. When he comes to, he discovers that 8 years have passed, meanwhile, an alien spaceship crashes through power lines and is promptly confiscated by NASA. David is taken to a hospital for tests, but is sent to a NASA research facility when his brainwaves reveal images of the spaceship. Dr. Davids subconscious mind tells the scientists that he was taken to a planet called Phaelon,560 light years away, in just over 4.4 hours. They realize that David has experienced severe time dilation as a result of having traveled faster than the speed of light, explaining why eight years have passed on Earth, but not for him. David is unable to comprehend what Faraday tells him and flees the room, the next morning, following a telepathic communication from the ship, David secretly boards it and meets its robotic commander called Trimaxion Drone Ship, which refers to David as the Navigator. Phaelons scientists discovered humans only use 10% of their brain and, as an experiment and this includes all of the star charts discovered by Phaelons astronomers, some of which were shown to the NASA scientists during Davids interrogation. Max then returned him to Earth, but did not take him back to his own time, before leaving Earth, Max accidentally crashed the ship, erasing all the computers star charts and data. Therefore, Max needs the information in Davids brain to return home, Max and David start bickering while their antics trigger several UFO reports in Tokyo and other cities. When the ship stops at a gas station in the Florida Keys, David calls Jeff, Jeff sets off fireworks on the rooftop. David and Max arrive near the house, but NASA agents, having tracked the ships every move, fearing that he would be institutionalized for life if he remains in 1986, he orders Max to return him to 1978, regardless of the risk to his life. After the journey back in time, David wakes up in the ravine, walks home, during the Fourth of July celebration, he watches Max flash across the sky against the backdrop of fireworks while Jeff is surprised to see the Puckmaren in Davids backpack. Louis Faraday Robert Small as Troy Jonathan Sanger as Dr, the music score for the film was composed by Alan Silvestri. It is distinct from his scores in being entirely electronically generated, using the Synclavier. Kevin Thomas of the LA Times said its biggest plus was its entirely believable, the New York Times described it as definitely a film most children can enjoy. Empire gave it 3/5 stars, saying it was enough to keep the family happy. Variety was more critical, announcing that instead of creating an eye-opening panorama, dave Kehr gave it 3 stars and described it as a new high for Disney
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Bonnie Franklin
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Bonnie Gail Franklin was an American actress, known for her leading role in the television series One Day at a Time. She was nominated for Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe Awards, Franklin was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Claire who outlived her and Samuel Benjamin Franklin, an investment banker who founded the Beverly Hills chapter of Bnai Brith. Her parents were both Jewish immigrants, her father from Russia and her mother from Romania, they married in Montreal before moving to the United States and her family moved to Beverly Hills when she was 13 years old, and she graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1961. She attended Smith College, performing in an Amherst College production of Good News as a freshman and she moved back to California to attend UCLA, and earned a bachelors degree in English in 1966. Franklin first appeared on television at age 9 in The Colgate Comedy Hour, as a small child, she later appeared in a non-credited role in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man. In the 1960s, she portrayed a teenage character in Youre the Judge. She debuted on Broadway in 1970 in the musical Applause, earning a Tony Award nomination and her recording of Applause, the shows title track, was the most successful Broadway song of the season, vocally upstaging the star of the show, Lauren Bacall. Although she was on stage for only a fraction of the time of that show. In its July 1970 edition, for example, Vogue published a photo spread in which the predicted big careers for three young women, Melba Moore, Sandy Duncan, and Franklin. Franklin appeared at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey in both George M. and A Thousand Clowns and she guest-starred on several television series, including The Man from U. N. C. L. E. and Hazel. She had a role in the ABC series Gidget. She directed several episodes of the 1980s sitcom Charles in Charge, Franklin was best known for her portrayal of divorced mother Ann Romano on the television situation comedy One Day at a Time. In April 2011, Franklin and other cast members from One Day at a Time accepted the Innovators Award from the TV Land cable channel—one of several awards in the annual event. The citation on the TV Land web site reads, the Innovator Award. is given to a series that carved out new territory, tackled important issues of its day. Developed and written in part by TV visionary Norman Lear, One Day At A Time aired on CBS for nine seasons from 1975–1984, also taking part in the cast reunion is Glenn Scarpelli, who joined the series in 1980 as the son of Anns boyfriend, Nick. In 1988, Franklin appeared at the Bucks County Playhouse and at the Pocono Playhouse, also in 1988, she appeared with Tony Musante at the Westside Arts Theatre in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally. She later performed in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, in 1997, she appeared at Fords Theatre, Washington, D. C. in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. In 2005, she appeared with Bruce Weitz at the New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park and she played Ouiser in a production of Steel Magnolias at the Rubicon Theater, Ventura, California
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Marquis de Sade
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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. He was a proponent of freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion. The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name, during the French Revolution, he was an elected delegate to the National Convention. Many of his works were written in prison and he was his parents only surviving child. He was educated by an uncle, the Abbé de Sade, in Sades youth, his father abandoned the family, his mother joined a convent. He was raised with servants who indulged his every whim, which led to him becoming known as a rebellious, later in his childhood, Sade was sent to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, a Jesuit college, for four years. While at the school, he was tutored by Abbé Jacques-François Amblet, later in life, the Abbé testified at one of Sades trials, saying that Sade had a passionate temperament which made him eager in the pursuit of pleasure but had a good heart. At the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he was subjected to corporal punishment, including flagellation. At age 14, Sade began attending a military academy. At age 15, he was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 14 December 1755 after 20 months of training, becoming a soldier. After 13 months as a sub-lieutenant, he was commissioned to the rank of cornet in the Brigade de S. André of the Comte de Provences Carbine Regiment and he eventually became Colonel of a Dragoon regiment and fought in the Seven Years War. In 1766, he had a theatre built in his castle. In January 1767, his father died, the men of the Sade family alternated between using the marquis and comte titles. His grandfather, Gaspard François de Sade, was the first to use marquis, occasionally, he was the Marquis de Sade, but is identified in documents as the Marquis de Mazan. The Sade family were noblesse dépée, claiming at the time the oldest, Frank-descended nobility, so, at Court, precedence was by seniority and royal favor, not title. There is father-and-son correspondence, wherein father addresses son as marquis, for many years, Sades descendants regarded his life and work as a scandal to be suppressed. At that time, the marquis of legend was so unmentionable in his own family that Xavier de Sade only learned of him in the late 1940s when approached by a journalist. He subsequently discovered a store of Sades papers in the family château at Condé-en-Brie and his youngest son, the Marquis Thibault de Sade, has continued the collaboration
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Geffen Playhouse
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The Geffen Playhouse is a not-for-profit theater company producing in two venues—both owned by University of California Los Angeles. The Playhouse is located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Geffen Playhouse was built in 1929 as the Masonic Affiliates Club, or the MAC, for students and alumni at UCLA. One of the first 12 structures built in Westwood Village, it was designed by architect Stiles O. Clements, originally named the Westwood Playhouse, the property was purchased by UCLA in 1993. UCLAs then chancellor, Charles E. Young, appointed Gil Cates, founder and former president of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, as its producing director. The theater was renamed in 1995 after media mogul David Geffen donated $5 million, in 2002, the David Geffen Foundation made a $5-million lead gift towards an eventual $17-million capital campaign to renovate the theater. The renovation gutted the theater while keeping its historical character, the Geffen reopened on November 16,2005 with the main 500 seat theater retained and a new 125-seat Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater added. In March 2010, the Playhouses board of directors named the mainstage the Gil Cates Theater, the Geffen Playhouse offers five plays per season in the Gil Cates Theater and three plays per season in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, as well as producing special events in both venues. Geffen Playhouse website UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television website Ronald Frink Architects -
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That '70s Show
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That 70s Show is an American television period sitcom that originally aired on Fox from August 23,1998, to May 18,2006. The series focused on the lives of a group of friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17,1976. The main teenage cast members were Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Laura Prepon, the main adult cast members were Debra Jo Rupp, Kurtwood Smith, Don Stark, Tommy Chong and Tanya Roberts. The show usually opens with the song, In the Street, written by Alex Chilton. The original version of the song appeared on Big Stars 1972 debut album #1 Record, in 2000, Chilton confirmed that he was paid $70 in royalties each time the show aired, an amount he thought ironic, given the shows title. Big Stars original version of the song was not used on the show, instead, a cover version sung by Todd Griffin was used as the theme song for the shows first season. Beginning in the season, the theme song was performed by the band Cheap Trick. Unlike previous versions of the song, Cheap Trick ended the song with the repeated phrase Were all alright, quoting the ending of their 1978 hit song Surrender. Both versions of the used on the show end with somebody yelling Hello. In Griffins version, Masterson is the one yelling Hello, Wisconsin, while it is unknown who yells it in Cheap Tricks version during the opening. On the soundtrack, That 70s Album, Cheap Tricks lead singer Robin Zander yells Hello, alternate holiday versions of the theme song were arranged for Halloween and Christmas specials, using organ music and bells, respectively. Opening credits for seasons 1–7 showed members of the cast driving in Erics car singing the song together. At the conclusion of the opening, a shot of a 1970s-style Wisconsin license plate is seen, during the first seasons opening, a single shot of the group is used, beginning with season 2, numerous alternating shots were used of the cast in various groupings. After Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher left the series, the credits were reworked for season 8 to feature close-up shots of each of the actors singing a line of the theme song in the Circle. Smith looks at the camera frowning and rolls his eyes, Chong looks around the room, confused as he hears Hello, Wisconsin. The final episode omits most of the sequence and instead only shows the license plate shot. The series also highlighted developments in the entertainment industry, including the remote, the video game Pong, MAD magazine. The show has been compared to Happy Days, which was similarly set 20 years before the time in which it aired, beginning with the second season, the show focused less on the sociopolitical aspects of the story
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Boston Legal
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Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3,2004, to December 8,2008, prior to the shows premiere, it had a working title of Fleet Street, an allusion to the real street in Boston where the fictitious Crane, Poole & Schmidt had its offices. The working title was modified to The Practice, Fleet Street. The real building shown as the law office is located at 500 Boylston Street,1.4 miles away from Fleet Street, the American producers of the series also hired British writer Sir John Mortimer, QC, as a consultant for Boston Legal. The shows pilot was produced with former The Practice stars James Spader and Rhona Mitra, guest stars William Shatner and Lake Bell. It featured a storyline with Larry Miller as Edwin Poole. Monica Potter was later cast as junior partner Lori Colson and René Auberjonois as senior partner Paul Lewiston, the pilot premiered on ABC on October 3,2004. On November 30,2004, it was announced that Candice Bergen would join the cast as senior partner Shirley Schmidt, Lake Bell left the series mid-season, and René Auberjonois was promoted to main cast member. Anthony Heald and Betty White also made regular guest appearances, having appeared as the same characters on The Practice. The success of Greys Anatomy placed Boston Legal on hold until autumn 2005, both Rhona Mitra and Monica Potter left the series during the hiatus, while Julie Bowen was cast as Denise Bauer. Ryan Michelle Bathe and Justin Mentell were later cast as junior associates Sara Holt, the second episode of Season 3 introduced Craig Bierko as Jeffrey Coho and Constance Zimmer as Claire Simms. In Episode 11, guest star Gary Anthony Williams joined the cast, on June 4,2007, TV Guide announced that René Auberjonois, Julie Bowen, Mark Valley, and Constance Zimmer would not return for Season 4. Christian Clemenson, who had guest-starred occasionally as Jerry Espenson – was promoted to main cast, production also stated that René Auberjonois, Mark Valley, Julie Bowen, and Constance Zimmer may return in guest roles. Burrows later became a full-time cast member, on May 13,2008, ABC announced that Boston Legal would return for a fifth season in the fall. Saffron Burrows did not return as a regular, having joined the cast of My Own Worst Enemy. The final season consisted of 13 episodes to reach the 100 episode mark, there was speculation that Boston Legal might receive an additional episode-order if the show had another strong showing in the Emmy Awards and produced solid ratings in its new fall time slot. The season began airing on September 22,2008, on June 18 and June 20,2008, it was reported that Gary Anthony Williams and Taraji P. Henson would not return for Season 5 as Clarence Bell and Whitney Rome, respectively. On July 17,2008, Boston Legal was nominated for a series-high seven Emmy nominations, Spader, Bergen, and Shatner were each nominated for their respective roles
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John from Cincinnati
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John from Cincinnati is an American television drama, set against the surfing community of Imperial Beach, California, that aired on HBO from June 10,2007 to August 12,2007. John from Cincinnati is the result of an effort between writer/producer David Milch and author Kem Nunn, whose novels have been termed surf noir. The program deals with a young man of mysterious origin. The series includes surfing sequences by well-respected surfers such as Brock Little, Keala Kennelly, Dan Malloy, John-John Florence, Shane Beschen, the series theme song is Johnny Appleseed, performed by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. A diverse soundtrack includes Tic by Kava Kava and songs from TV on the Radio, Muse, Buddy Guy, Kasabian, the pilot for the series was shown directly after the highly anticipated series finale of The Sopranos, but it failed to sustain an audience. The Sopranos received an audience of 11.9 million people according to Nielsen ratings, subsequent episodes initially lost viewers, but ratings began to see a slow increase, and by the final episode viewership had reached over 3 million, more than some episodes of Deadwood. One day after the finale aired, HBO officially canceled the show. John from Cincinnati at the Internet Movie Database John from Cincinnati at TV
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Psych
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Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network with syndicated reruns on ION Television. It is produced by Franks and Tagline Televisions Chris Henze and Kelly Kulchak, Psych debuted on Friday, July 7,2006, immediately following the fifth-season premiere of Monk, and continued to be paired with the series until Monks conclusion on December 4,2009. During the second season, a segment titled The Big Adventures of Little Shawn. It was the highest-rated U. S. basic cable television premiere of 2006. USA Network renewed the series for a season on December 19,2012, to include eight episodes. On February 5,2014, USA Network confirmed that the season of Psych would be its last. Most episodes begin with a cold open in the form of a flashback to Shawn, the flashbacks usually involve Shawn and Gus being taught a lesson by a young Henry Spencer, who wishes that his son would follow in his footsteps and become a law enforcement officer. These lessons often play a role for the climax of the episode, as a child, Shawn was taught by Henry to hone his powers of observation and deduction, often using games and challenges to test him. Each flashback also sets the theme for the episode, Shawn originally becomes known as a psychic when, after calling in tips on dozens of crimes covered on the news which help the police to close the case, the police become suspicious of his knowledge. The police theorize that such knowledge could only come from the inside, to avoid being sent to jail, Shawn uses his observational skills to convince the police that he is psychic. The interim police chief warns Shawn that if his powers are fake, pretending to have psychic powers allows him to engage in strange and comic behavior as he turns real clues into hunches and otherworldly visitations. He enjoys teasing lifelong friend Burton Guster, a pharmaceutical representative, Henry and Shawn have a difficult relationship, but despite this, Henry reluctantly helps Shawn on various occasions. Shawn Spencer is a consultant with the Santa Barbara Police Department who pretends to be a psychic. However, really his exceptional skills and eidetic memory allow him to obtain his visions. He refuses to take anything seriously, but has matured throughout the seasons. He has had romantic tension with Juliet OHara since they met, in the middle of season six, he tries to propose to her, but finds out that neither of them is ready. Though the two hit a bump in season seven when she discovers he is not psychic, they soon reconcile, when she moves to San Francisco to be Vicks head detective, he realizes he cannot live without her and resolves to move there. In a final effort to clean, he makes several DVDs, one of which he sends to Lassiter, upon which he starts to confess the truth to him
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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes
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Psilocybin mushroom
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Psilocybin mushrooms, also known as psychedelic mushrooms, are mushrooms that contain the psychedelic compounds psilocybin and psilocin. Common colloquial terms include magic mushrooms and shrooms, biological genera containing psilocybin mushrooms include Copelandia, Galerina, Gymnopilus, Inocybe, Mycena, Panaeolus, Pholiotina, Pluteus, and Psilocybe. Over 100 species are classified in the genus Psilocybe, Psilocybin mushrooms may have been used since prehistoric times. They are possibly depicted in Stone Age rock art in Europe and Africa, many cultures have used these mushrooms in their religious rites and ceremonies. Archaeological evidence suggests that psilocybin-containing mushrooms have been used by humans since prehistoric times, mushroom stones and motifs have been found in Guatemala. A statuette dating from ca.200 AD and depicting a mushroom strongly resembling Psilocybe mexicana was found in a west Mexican shaft, a Psilocybe species was known to the Aztecs as teonanácatl and were reportedly served at the coronation of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II in 1502. Aztecs and Mazatecs referred to psilocybin mushrooms as genius mushrooms, divinatory mushrooms, and wondrous mushrooms, bernardino de Sahagún reported ritualistic use of teonanácatl by the Aztecs, when he traveled to Central America after the expedition of Hernán Cortés. The Spanish believed the mushroom allowed the Aztecs and others to communicate with devils, in converting people to Catholicism, the Spanish pushed for a switch from teonanácatl to the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist. Despite this history, in remote areas the use of teonanácatl has remained. The doctor who treated them later described how the youngest child was attacked with fits of immoderate laughter, in 1955, Valentina and R. Gordon Wasson became the first known Caucasians to actively participate in an indigenous mushroom ceremony. The Wassons did much to publicize their discovery, even publishing an article on their experiences in Life in 1957, inspired by the Wassons Life article, Timothy Leary traveled to Mexico to experience psilocybin mushrooms firsthand. Upon returning to Harvard in 1960, he and Richard Alpert started the Harvard Psilocybin Project, promoting psychological and religious study of psilocybin, after Leary and Alpert were dismissed by Harvard in 1963, they turned their attention toward promoting the psychedelic experience to the nascent hippie counterculture. The popularization of entheogens by Wasson, Leary, authors Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson, by the early 1970s, many psilocybin mushroom species were described from temperate North America, Europe, and Asia and were widely collected. Books describing methods of cultivating Psilocybe cubensis in large quantities were also published, the availability of psilocybin mushrooms from wild and cultivated sources has made it among the most widely used of the psychedelic drugs. At present, psilocybin mushroom use has been reported among some groups spanning from central Mexico to Oaxaca, including groups of Nahua, Mixtecs, Mixe, Mazatecs, Zapotecs, and others. An important figure of mushroom usage in Mexico was María Sabina, Psilocybin is present in varying concentrations in about 200 species of Basidiomycota mushrooms. Guzmán increased his estimate of the number of psilocybin-containing Psilocybe to 144 species in a 2005 review, many of these are found in Mexico, with the remainder distributed in the US and Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia and associated islands. In general, psilocybin-containing species are dark-spored, gilled mushrooms that grow in meadows and woods of the subtropics and tropics, usually in rich in humus
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The Sunshine Boys
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The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway in 1972 and later adapted for film and television. The plays protagonists are Al Lewis and Willie Clark, Lewis and Clark were once a successful vaudevillian comedy duo known as the Sunshine Boys. During the later years of their 43-year run, animosity between the partners grew to the point where they ceased to speak with each other, eleven years prior to the events of the play, Al retired from show business, leaving Willie struggling to keep his career afloat. Willie, now an old man struggling with memory loss, reluctantly accepts an offer from his nephew Ben, Willie and Al meet in Willies apartment to rehearse their classic doctor and tax collector sketch. The reunion gets off to a bad start, with the two getting into heated arguments over various aspects of the performance, however, thanks to the urging of Als daughter, the two decide to go through with the performance. Willie and Als dress rehearsal at CBS studio ends badly, Willie is enraged when Al repeats his old habits of poking his chest and accidentally spitting on his face. Al walks off the stage in regret, while Willie has an attack as a result of his agitated state. Two weeks later, Willie is under the care of a nurse as he recovers from his heart attack, upon Bens recommendation, he decides to move into an actors home in New Jersey. Al, concerned about Willies well-being, comes over to visit, when the two talk, it is revealed that Al will be moving into the same home as Willie. Neil Simon was inspired by two venerable vaudeville teams, the longevity of Lewis and Clark was inspired by Smith and Dale who, unlike their theatrical counterparts, were inseparable lifelong friends. The undercurrent of hostility between Lewis and Clark was inspired by the team of Gallagher and Shean, who were successful professionally. Other sources say this is based on Weber and Fields, produced by Emanuel Azenberg and directed by Alan Arkin, the original cast featured Sam Levene as Lewis, Jack Albertson as Clark, and Lewis J. Stadlen as Ben. Replacements later in the run included Lou Jacobi as Lewis and Jack Gilford as Clark, Tony Award nominations went to Simon, Albertson and Arkin, and Albertson won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. The play was revived on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, opening on December 8,1997, directed by John Tillinger, the cast starred Jack Klugman as Willie Clark and Tony Randall as Al Lewis. A West End production of the play, starring Danny DeVito ) and Richard Griffiths, opened on 17 May 2012, the Blog A Cultured Lad spoke very highly of the production and gave it a full five star rating saying that Productions like this don’t come often. This show glitters, like fireworks on the fourth of July, the production was scheduled for a run in Los Angeles, but Griffiths untimely passing delayed it. DeVitos old Taxi co-star Judd Hirsch stepped into the role of Lewis, Burns won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance. In 1995, Simon adapted his play for a Hallmark Entertainment production that aired on December 28,1997
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Overland Park, Kansas
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Overland Park /ˈoʊvərlənd ˈpɑːrk/ is the second most populous city in the U. S. state of Kansas. Located in Johnson County, it is also the second most populous city in the Kansas City metropolitan area, as of the 2010 census, the city population was 173,372. One of those subdivisions was named Overland Park, and was the site for the first airplane flight west of the Mississippi with shows by the Wright brothers, sponsored by Strang, the city was incorporated as a first class city on May 20,1960. Its initial population was 28,085 and was bounded by Antioch Road, 107th Street, Chadwick, by 1990 the population was 111,790 and in 1995 the incorporated land area was 56.6 square miles. Since 1995, the population has grown to 173,250 in 2008 with 75.33 square miles of land area, Overland Park is now the second most populous city in Kansas. In early 2008, the city voted to annex an additional 15 square miles south of existing city limits. The annexation was approved for an additional 8 miles and went into effect March 10, after the annexation, the city spans nearly the entire distance between the northern and southern borders of Johnson County. The city lies on the edge of the Osage Plains a few miles south of the Kansas River. One of the tributaries, Turkey Creek, flows northeast through the extreme northern part of the city. South of Turkey Creek, the majority of the city lies in the watershed of the Blue River, several of the rivers tributaries run east-northeast across the city, from north to south, these include Indian Creek, Tomahawk Creek, and Negro Creek. In the far part of the city, two more tributaries, Coffee Creek and Wolf Creek, join to form the main stem of the Blue River itself. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 75.37 square miles of which 74.84 square miles is land and 0.53 square mile is water. As a suburb of Kansas City, Overland Park is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, Most of Overland Park, specifically the part of it lying north of 159th Street, lies within the area of Johnson County referred to as Shawnee Mission. Overland Park lies in the zone between North Americas humid subtropical climate and humid continental climate zones, typically experiencing hot, humid summers and cold. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 173,372 people,71,443 households, the population density was 2,316.5 people per square mile. There were 76,280 housing units at a density of 1,019.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 84. 4% White,4. 3% African American,0. 3% American Indian,6. 3% Asian,2. 1% from other races, hispanics and Latinos of any race were 6. 3% of the population. 29. 8% of all households were made up of individuals, the average household size was 2.41, and the average family size was 3.04
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a procedural forensics crime drama television series that premiered on CBS October 6,2000. The series, starring William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Danson, the series concluded on September 27,2015, after 15 seasons, with a feature-length finale titled Immortality. The team is led by Gil Grissom, a socially-awkward forensic entomologist. Grissoms second-in-command, Catherine Willows, is a mother with a cops instinct. Born and raised in Vegas, Catherine was a stripper before being recruited into law enforcement, following Grissoms departure during the ninth season of the series, Catherine is promoted to Supervisor. After overseeing the training of new investigator Raymond Langston, Willows is replaced by D. B, Russell, and recruited to the FBI shortly thereafter. Russell is a man, a keen forensic botanist and a veteran of the Seattle Crime Lab. In the series season, Russell is reunited with his former partner Julie Finlay. During the 1990s, Anthony Zuiker caught producer Jerry Bruckheimers attention after writing his first movie script, Zuiker was convinced that there was a series in the concept, Bruckheimer agreed and arranged a meeting with the head of Touchstone Pictures. The studios head at the time liked the script and presented it to ABC, NBC and Fox executives. The head of development at CBS saw potential in the script, and the network had a pay-or-play contract with actor William Petersen. The networks executives liked the pilot so much that they decided to include it in their 2000 schedule immediately, airing on Fridays after The Fugitive. Initially it was thought that CSI would benefit from The Fugitive, which was expected to be a hit, formerly a co-production with the now-defunct Alliance Atlantis Communications, that companys interest was later bought by the investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs. CBS acquired AACs international distribution rights to the program, though the non-US DVD distribution rights did not change, the series is currently in syndication, and reruns are broadcast in the U. S. on the Spike and TV Land cable networks. The show has aired in reruns on the USA Network since January 14,2011, the CSI catalog has been exclusive to the whole NBC Universal portfolio since September 2014. Occasionally, the cast would still shoot on location in Las Vegas, other California locations include Verdugo Hills High School, UCLAs Royce Hall, Pasadena City Hall, and California State University, Los Angeles. While shooting took place primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California, CSIs theme song was, since season one, Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend with vocals by lead singer Roger Daltrey of The Who. In certain countries, to music licensing fees, a unique theme was used instead
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MeTV
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MeTV is an American broadcast television network that is owned by Weigel Broadcasting and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The network is available nationwide on free-to- air C band satellite via SES-1 in the DVB-S format. MeTVs operations are based out of Weigel Broadcastings corporate headquarters on North Halsted Street in Chicago, the block – which initially aired for three hours daily from 12,00 to 3,00 p. m. Channel 23s former ethnic programming and WFBT-CA call letters were transferred to its station on UHF channel 48. On August 4,2007, WWME launched a morning block that primarily featured Spanish dubs of select classic series. Most of the programs carried as part of the Sí, on March 1,2008, Weigel expanded the MeTV format to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it began airing on the third digital subchannel of the groups CBS affiliate in that market, WDJT-TV. The Milwaukee version of the service featured much of the programming as that aired on the Chicago outlets. MeTV continued to be carried on digital channel 58.3 until October 30,2008, the national MeTV network launched on December 15,2010. As with This TV, MGM handles distribution of the network to prospective affiliate stations, in the Chicago market, the national MeTV is carried on WCIU subchannel 26.3 and WWME-CA, the new MeToo moved to WCIU subchannel 26.4 and remained on WMEU-CA. Low-powered WBME-CD in Milwaukee carries the national feed of MeTV in its entirety on digital channel 41.2 subchannel on December 15,2010. On April 1,2013, Nielsen began to tabulate national viewership for MeTV, including the network in its prime time and total day ratings reports. In February 2016, the network began to transmit its master feed in 16,9 widescreen standard definition, with the conversion, MeTV also began to carry remastered widescreen prints of some programs and present its program promotions in the 16,9 format. Since MeTV broadcasts programs that it acquired through the syndication market, the network does not air a split-screen credit sequence or feature voiceovers promoting upcoming network programming during the closing credits. Unlike other digital multicast networks such as sister network This TV. Since its inception as a network, MeTV has also aired marathons of The Doris Day Show on Christmas Eve as well as Christmas-themed specials during the month of December. MeTV has program licensing agreements with 20th Television, CBS Television Distribution, the networks programming lineup covers a mix of sitcoms, dramas and westerns from the 1950s to the 1990s, and includes series such as Emergency. MeTV regularly carries many of its programs in organized genre-based programming blocks, MeTVs Sunday Funnies – Debuting on September 6,2015, MeTVs Sunday Funnies is a weekly afternoon block of classic comedies. Airing Sundays from 2,00 to 8,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the block is made up of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley
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Petulia
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Petulia is a 1968 American drama film directed by Richard Lester. The screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus is based on the novel Me, the film has a non-linear construction with frequent flash-backs and flash-forwards The title character is a young San Francisco socialite married to a savagely abusive man. She finagles a meeting with physician Archie Bollen, whom she first saw and with whom she became smitten as he treated an injured Mexican boy. Bollen is in the process of divorcing his wife, is sifting through new relationships with his ex, the new man in her life, his sons, the two soon embark on a quirky relationship. Julie Christie as Petulia Danner George C, Petulia had been listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. Both Marcus and Turner were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama. Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Jerry Garcia also appears in duplicate on a large mural and in triplicate on a bus bench both times in stylized solid black and white. Petulia has influenced filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, the film was released on VHS. A US DVD was released in 2006, and now, following a deal Warner UK struck with former special interest label Digital Classics to release four titles from Warner Bros. Petulia was released on DVD in the UK in 2009, on the Digital Classics label, Petulia at the Internet Movie Database
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Billy Jack
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Filming began in Prescott, Arizona, in the fall of 1969, but the movie was not completed until 1971. American International Pictures pulled out, halting filming, 20th Century-Fox came forward and filming eventually resumed but when that studio refused to distribute the film, Warner Bros. stepped forward. Still, the film lacked distribution, so Laughlin booked it into himself in 1971. The film died at the box office in its initial run, Billy Jack is a half-breed American Navajo Indian, a Green Beret Vietnam War veteran, and a hapkido master. Jack defends the hippie-themed Freedom School and students from townspeople who do not understand or like the counterculture students, the school is organized by Jean Roberts. A group of children of various races from the go to town for ice cream and are refused service and then abused and humiliated by Bernard Posner. This prompts a violent outburst by Billy, later, the director of the Freedom School, Jean, is raped and an Indian student is then murdered by Bernard, the son of the countys corrupt political boss. Billy confronts Bernard and sustains a wound before killing him with a hand strike to the throat. After a climactic shootout with the police, and pleading from Jean, as he is driven away, a large crowd of supporters raise their fists as a show of defiance and support. Billy Jack holds a Fresh rating of 62% at Rotten Tomatoes, roger Ebert also saw the message of the film as self-contradictory, writing, Im also somewhat disturbed by the central theme of the movie. Billy Jack seems to be saying the same thing as Born Losers, delores Taylor received a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcoming Actress. Tom Laughlin won the prize for the film at the 1971 Taormina International Film Festival in Italy. The Allmusic review states a strange and striking combination of styles that somehow is effective, a listenable disc whose flaws only add to the warmth. The films theme song, a re-recording of One Tin Soldier by Jinx Dawson with session musicians providing the backing, all compositions by Mundell Lowe, except as indicated. The centerpiece of the film features Billy Jack, enraged over the mistreatment of his Indian friends, fighting racist thugs using hapkido techniques
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The Christian Licorice Store
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The Christian Licorice Store is a 1971 film drama directed by James Frawley. It stars Beau Bridges and Maud Adams, the unusual title is based on lyrics from the song Pleasant Street by Tim Buckley. Promising tennis pro Franklin Cane lives in Los Angeles and is mentored by his coach, Jonathan J. C. Carruthers, who warns him of the perils of success. J. C. advises him to concentrate on his game and not on outside interests and he wins a tournament in Houston and has a one-night stand there with a girl, cheating on Cynthia Vicstrom, the photographer he has been seeing. Things are going well for Cane until one day J. C. dies peacefully in his sleep, a distraught Cane begins going to wild California parties and spending time on Hollywood interests, neglecting Cynthia and his tennis. Cynthia breaks up him and begins seeing Monroe, a film director who has fallen for her. Cane leaves a party with a girl hes just met, drives down the Pacific Coast Highway at a rate of speed, then crashes. The next time she turns on a TV, Cynthia sees him in the hair-spray ad
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