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Neil Young
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Neil Percival Young, OC OM, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. Young began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, in 1966, after a brief stint with the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds, he moved to Los Angeles, where he formed Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Young had released two albums by the time he joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969, in addition to two as a member of Buffalo Springfield. From his early albums and those with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has recorded a steady stream of studio and live albums. Youngs often-distorted electric guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature tenor singing voice transcend his long career, Young also plays piano and harmonica on many albums which frequently combine folk, rock, blues and other musical styles. Known to rip up live set lists, Young often plays acoustic versions of songs in one show and his gritty guitar work, especially with Crazy Horse, earned him the nickname Godfather of Grunge and led to his 1995 album Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam. More recently Young has been backed by Promise of the Real, Young directed films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past, Rust Never Sleeps, Human Highway, Greendale, and CSNY/Déjà Vu. He also contributed to the soundtracks of the films Philadelphia and Dead Man, Young has received several Grammy and Juno awards. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted him twice, as a solo artist in 1995, in 2000, Rolling Stone named Young the 34th greatest rock n roll artist. He has lived in California since the 1960s but retains Canadian citizenship and he was awarded the Order of Manitoba on July 14,2006, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 30,2009. Young was born on November 12,1945, in Toronto and his father, Scott Alexander Young, was a journalist and sportswriter who also wrote fiction. His mother, Edna Blow Ragland Rassy Young was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, although Canadian, his mother had American and French ancestry. Youngs parents married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, shortly after Youngs birth in 1945, his family moved to rural Omemee, Ontario, which Young later described fondly as a sleepy little place. Young suffered from polio in 1951 during the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario, after his recovery, the Young family vacationed in Florida. During that period, Young briefly attended Chisolm Elementary School in New Smyrna Beach, in 1952, upon returning to Canada, Young moved from Omemee to Winnipeg for a year, before relocating to Toronto and Pickering. Young became interested in music he heard on the radio. When Young was twelve, his father, who had several extramarital affairs and his mother asked for a divorce which was granted in 1960. Young went to live with his mother, who moved back to Winnipeg, during the mid-fifties, Young listened to rock n roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, R&B, country, and western pop
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Dean Stockwell
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Robert Dean Stockwell is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 70 years. In 1962 Stockwell played Edmund Tyrone in the version of Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey into Night. The following year he was the guest star in the episode High Named Today for Combat and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Married to the Mob. Stockwell was born in North Hollywood, California, but was raised in New York and his elder brother was television and film actor Guy Stockwell. In 1945, Stockwell appeared in a character role in the musical movie Anchors Aweigh alongside Frank Sinatra. Some of his other roles include that of Robert Shannon in The Green Years, Gregory Pecks son in Gentlemans Agreement. Jr. in Song of the Thin Man, as an orphaned runaway longing to go to sea in Deep Waters and he also starred in the lead role of The Boy with Green Hair in 1948, and in The Secret Garden in 1949. In 1950, he appeared in a role alongside Errol Flynn in Kim. He resumed his career as an adult. In 1957, he starred as Judd Steiner in the Broadway adaptation of Compulsion, based on the Leopold and Loeb story, he played the same role in the 1959 film adaptation. In 1958, he joined Gloria Talbott and Dan Blocker as guest stars in the episode Mercyday of the NBC western series The Restless Gun, in 1960, he played coal miners son Paul Morel in the British film Sons and Lovers, alongside Trevor Howard and Wendy Hiller. In 1961, he appeared in the episode of ABCs Bus Stop series. In 1962, he appeared in an adaptation of Eugene ONeills play Long Days Journey Into Night along with Katharine Hepburn, in 1964, Stockwell guest-starred in an episode of NBCs medical drama The Eleventh Hour. Stockwell appeared in a 1969 episode of Bonanza as a down-and-out former Union soldier and he then appeared in two episodes of the mystery series Columbo. In 1973, he was the lead in a horror B-film, during the mid-1970s, he worked as a real-estate broker and designed the distinctive cover of Youngs American Stars n Bars. In 1984, he appeared in Wim Wenders critically acclaimed film Paris, Texas, the following year, he turned in a brief but significant role as attorney Bob Grimes in William Friedkins To Live and Die in L. A. In 1986, Stockwell made an appearance in another Lynch production, in 1988, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Mafia boss Tony the Tiger Russo in the comedy Married to the Mob. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 29,1992 following the success of Quantum Leap, in 1997 Stockwell co-starred with Harrison Ford and Glenn Close in the blockbuster suspense thriller Air Force One
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Russ Tamblyn
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Tamblyn who was born in Los Angeles, California, is the son of actors Sally Aileen and Eddie Tamblyn. He is the brother of Larry Tamblyn, organist for the 1960s band The Standells. Discovered at the age of ten by actor Lloyd Bridges after acting in a play and he also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show as a child. Tamblyn then portrayed the young Saul in Cecil B, deMilles 1949 version of Samson and Delilah. He played the version of John Dalls character in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy. Later the same year, he had a role as Elizabeth Taylors younger brother in Father of the Bride, as well as in the sequel, released the following year. He also played a soldier in boot camp in 1953s Take the High Ground. His training as a gymnast in high school and abilities as an acrobat prepared him for his role as Gideon. He appeared with Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford in The Fastest Gun Alive, though uncredited, he served as a choreographer for Elvis Presley in 1957s Jailhouse Rock. Tamblyn portrayed Norman Page in the 1957 film of Peyton Place, Tamblyn then played Tony Baker in 1958s High School Confidential prior to his being drafted into the United States Army. His performances in film musicals have included the role in 1958s Tom Thumb and Danny. His most famous role was Riff, the leader of the Jets in West Side Story. In 1960, he portrayed The Cherokee Kid in Cimarron and he appeared in two 1962 MGM-Cinerama movies, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and How the West Was Won. He was seen the year as Orm in The Long Ships, as Luke Sanderson in The Haunting. Tamblyn starred in the 1966 Japanese kaiju film War of the Gargantuas and he appeared in the horror film Necromancer in 1988. Tamblyn played the role in Neil Youngs 1982 Human Highway while also credited for screenplay. Tamblyn is credited as director, choreographer and actor for Neil Youngs Greendale concert tour, in 2011, he portrayed Doc in the action-thriller film Drive. The Academy Film Archive preserved First Film and Rio Reel by Tamblyn, from 1990–91, Tamblyn starred as Dr. Lawrence Jacoby on the David Lynch-created series Twin Peaks, though his scenes in the 1992 film Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me were cut
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Dennis Hopper
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Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, in the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s, Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider, which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best First Work, Film critic Matthew Hays notes that, no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper. Hopper was unable to capitalize on his Easy Rider success for several years, in 1970 he filmed The Last Movie, cowritten by Stewart Stern and photographed by Laszlo Kovacs in Peru, and completed production in 1971. On viewing the first release print, fresh from the lab, in his room at Universal, MCA founder Jules Stein rose from his chair and said. He worked on small projects until he found new fame for his role as the American photojournalist in Apocalypse Now. He went on to helm his second directorial work Out of the Blue, for which he was honored at Cannes. His third directorial outing came about through Colors, followed by an Emmy-nominated lead performance in Paris Trout, Hopper found even greater fame for portraying the villains of the films Super Mario Bros. Hoppers later work included a role in the short-lived television series Crash. Hopper has an additional credit in the completed, but unreleased Orson Welles drama The Other Side of the Wind. Hopper was born Dennis Lee Hopper on May 17,1936, in Dodge City, Kansas, Hopper had two brothers, Marvin and David. After World War II, the moved to Kansas City, Missouri. At the age of 13, Hopper and his moved to San Diego. Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School and it was there that he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and the Actors Studio in New York City. Hopper struck up a friendship with actor Vincent Price, whose passion for art influenced Hoppers interest in art and he was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare. Hopper was reported to have a role in Johnny Guitar in 1954. Hopper made his debut on film in two roles with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and Giant
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Devo
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Devo is an American rock band that formed in 1973, consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. Their classic line-up consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs and the Casales, along with Alan Myers, the band had a No.14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single Whip It and has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. Devos music and stage shows mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the LaserDisc format, with Whip It getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV. In the late 1960s, this idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis, at this time, Casale had also performed with the local band 15-60-75. They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, a talented keyboardist who had been playing with the band Flossy Bobbitt, the joke about de-evolution became serious following the Kent State shootings of May 4,1970. This event would be cited multiple times as the impetus for forming the band Devo, the first form of Devo was the Sextet Devo which performed at the 1973 Kent State performing arts festival. It included Casale, Lewis and Mothersbaugh, as well as Geralds brother Bob Casale on guitar and this performance was filmed and a part was included on the home video The Complete Truth About De-Evolution. Devo returned to perform in the Student Governance Center at the 1974 Creative Arts Festival with a line-up including the Casale brothers, Bob Lewis, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Jim Mothersbaugh on drums. The band continued to perform, generally as a quartet, but with a fluid line-up including Marks brothers Bob Mothersbaugh, Bob played electric guitar, and Jim provided percussion using a set of home-made electronic drums. Their first two videos, Secret Agent Man and Jocko Homo featured on The Truth About De-Evolution, were filmed in Akron, and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. This line-up of Devo lasted until 1976 when Jim left the band, Bob Lewis would sometimes play guitar during this period. In concert, Devo would often perform in the guise of characters, such as Booji Boy. Live concerts from this period were often confrontational, and would remain so until 1977, a recording of an early Devo performance from 1975 with the quartet line-up appears on DEVO Live, The Mongoloid Years, ending with the promoters unplugging Devos equipment. Following Jim Mothersbaughs departure, Bob Mothersbaugh found a new drummer, Alan Myers, Casale re-recruited his brother Bob Casale, and the line-up of Devo remained the same for nearly ten years. Devo gained some fame in 1976 when the short film The Truth About De-Evolution directed by Chuck Statler won a prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and this attracted the attention of David Bowie, who began work to get the band a recording contract with Warner Music Group. In 1977, Devo were asked by Neil Young to participate in the making of his film Human Highway, released in 1982, the film featured the band as Nuclear garbagemen. The band members were asked to write their own parts and Mark Mothersbaugh scored and recorded much of the soundtrack, his first of many. In March 1977, Devo released their first single Mongoloid b/w Jocko Homo and this was followed by a cover of the Rolling Stones Satisfaction
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Pseudonym
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A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their original or true name. Historically, they have taken the form of anagrams, Graecisms. Pseudonyms should not be confused with new names that replace old ones, actors, musicians, and other performers sometimes use stage names, for example, to mask their ethnic backgrounds. A collective name or collective pseudonym is one shared by two or more persons, for example the co-authors of a work, such as Ellery Queen, the term is derived from the Greek ψευδώνυμον, literally false name, from ψεῦδος, lie, falsehood and ὄνομα, name. A pseudonym is distinct from an allonym, which is the name of another person and this may occur when someone is ghostwriting a book or play, or in parody, or when using a front name, such as by screenwriters blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. See also pseudepigraph, for falsely attributed authorship, sometimes people change their name in such a manner that the new name becomes permanent and is used by all who know the person. This is not an alias or pseudonym, but in fact a new name, in many countries, including common law countries, a name change can be ratified by a court and become a persons new legal name. He then changed his name again to Malik El-Shabazz when he converted to Islam, likewise some Jews adopted Hebrew family names upon immigrating to Israel, dropping surnames that had been in their families for generations. The politician David Ben-Gurion, for example, was born David Grün in Poland and he adopted his Hebrew name in 1910, when he published his first article in a Zionist journal in Jerusalem. Criminals may use aliases, fictitious business names, and dummy corporations to hide their identity, a pen name, or nom de plume, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. Some female authors used male pen names, in particular in the 19th century, the Brontë family used pen names for their early work, so as not to reveal their gender and so that local residents would not know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books, anne Brontë published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published Shirley and Jane Eyre under the name Currer Bell, emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot, Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance novelists have used pen names. A few examples of male authors using female pseudonyms include Brindle Chase, Peter ODonnell and Christopher Wood. A pen name may be used if a real name is likely to be confused with the name of another writer or notable individual. Authors who write both fiction and non-fiction, or in different genres, may use different pen names to avoid confusing their readers, in some cases, an author may become better known by his pen name than his real name
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Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
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Hey Hey, My My is a song written by Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart My My, Hey Hey, it bookends Youngs successful 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps, the song is about the alternatives of continuing to produce similar music or to burn out. A line from the version of the song, its better to burn out than to fade away. Young later said that he was so shaken that he dedicated his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to Cobain. The song Hey, Hey, My, My. and the phrase of the album, rust never sleeps on which it was featured sprang from Youngs encounters with Devo. Devo was asked by Young in 1977 to participate in the creating of his film Human Highway, a scene in the film shows Young playing the song in its entirety with Devo, who clearly want little to do with anything radio-friendly. The famous line Its better to burn out than it is to rust is often credited to Youngs friend Jeff Blackburn of The Ducks, some reviewers viewed Youngs career as skidding after the release of American Stars N Bars and Comes a Time. With the explosion of punk in 1977, some felt that Young. Young worried that they were right, the death of Elvis Presley that same year seemed to sound a death knell for rock, as The Clash cried, No Elvis, Beatles or The Rolling Stones in 1977. in the song 1977. From Youngs fear of becoming obsolete sprang an appreciation of the ethic. As Youngs commercial popularity waned in the 1980s, a rock movement began to embrace the artist. A collection of Neil Young covers emerged in the late eighties, when Nirvana appeared on the national stage with Nevermind, Cobain and Young took to acknowledging one another in the press. Hey Hey, My Mys most memorable influence on modern rock comes from the line Its better to burn out than to fade away, Kurt Cobains suicide note ended with the same line, shaking Young and inadvertently cementing his place as the so-called Godfather of Grunge. Its better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, if he was talking about burning out like Sid Vicious, forget it. I dont appreciate the worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or dead John Wayne, making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison—its garbage to me. I worship the people who survive—Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, theyre saying John Wayne conquered cancer—he whipped it like a man. You know, Im sorry that he died and all that—Im sorry for his family—but he didnt whip cancer, I dont want Sean worshiping John Wayne or Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious. I mean, its garbage you know, if Neil Young admires that sentiment so much, why doesnt he do it
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The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)
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The End of the World is a country and pop music hit song recorded by Skeeter Davis that enjoyed international success in the 1960s. The End of the World was written by Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee, Davis recorded her version on June 8,1962, at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd Cramer. It is the first, and, to date, only time that a song cracked the Top 10 on all four Billboard charts, Billboard ranked the record as the No.3 song of 1963. Daviss recording of The End of the World was played at Atkinss funeral in an instrumental by Marty Stuart, in 1975, American pop music duo Carpenters released a cover of The End of the World as a promotional single from their live album Live in Japan. It was recorded at the Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, in 1990, British singer Sonia covered End of the World. The fifth and final single from her album, Everybody Knows, it reached number 18 in the UK. The singles B-side Cant Help the Way That I Feel also appeared on Sonias debut album and this was her final single with Stock Aitken Waterman. 7 single End of the World Cant Help the Way That I Feel CD single and 12 vinyl single End of the World Cant Help the Way That I Feel Counting Every Minute A No. In 2009 Susan Boyle remade The End of the World for her debut album, a cover version by Allison Paige peaked at number 72 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 2000. The Brazilian band Roupa Nova made a version in Portuguese, in 1997. There have been three Cantonese versions covered by three different Hong Kong singers, namely 長相思 by Pauline Chan in 1968, 含羞草 by Annabelle Lui in 1987 and 冬戀 by Danny Chan in 1988. For the Mandarin version, the first one 打不動你的心 was covered by Hong Kong veteran female singer Rebecca Pan in 1965 while the second one 後會無期 by another Hong Kong female singer G. E. M. Subsequently, there was the one titled 星夢之光, lyrics written by an SNH48 member, Wu Yanwen. Cyndi Lauper covered the song in 2016, the cover is part of the album Detour, the song was used as the opening and closing theme for the political thriller radio drama Pandemic, produced by BBC Radio 4. It was also used in the 1999 drama film Girl, Interrupted, as well as in the Stephen King/Steven Spielberg CBS TV series Under the Dome season one episode five, an abbreviated version of the song is the theme music for the TV series Granite Flats. The song was used for the title and credit sequences in the 2008 film An American Affair. The song appears on the radio in the video game Fallout 4. In episode 8 of the 2015 TV series The Man in the High Castle, the song was also used in the second part of the 2015 Japanese dark fantasy action horror film Attack on Titan
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Cigar store Indian
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The cigar store Indian or wooden Indian is an advertisement figure, in the likeness of a Native American, used to represent tobacconists. The figures are often three-dimensional wooden sculptures several feet tall – up to life-sized and they are still occasionally used for their original advertising purpose, but are more often seen as decorations or advertising collectibles, with some pieces drawing sales prices of up to $500,000. People within the Native American community often view such likenesses as a caricature or as depictions that perpetuate stereotypes, American Indians and tobacco had always been associated because American Indians introduced tobacco to Europeans, and the depiction of native people on smoke-shop signs was almost inevitable. As early as the 17th century, European tobacconists used figures of American Indians to advertise their shops, because European carvers had never seen a Native American, these early cigar-store Indians looked more like black slaves with feathered headdresses and other fanciful, exotic features. These carvings were called Black Boys or Virginians in the trade, the cigar store Indian became less common in the 20th century for a variety of reasons. Sidewalk-obstruction laws dating as far back as 1911 were one cause, later issues included higher manufacturing costs, restrictions on tobacco advertising, and increased racial sensitivity, all of which relegated the figures to museums and antique shops. Many also were destroyed during scrap drives for metal and wood during World War I, Cigar store figures are now viewed as folk art and some models have become collectors items, drawing prices up to $500,000. Modern replicas of cigar store Indians are still made for sale, people within the Native American community often view such likenesses as offensive for several reasons. Some objections are because they are used to promote tobacco use as recreational instead of ceremonial, drawing parallels to the African-American lawn jockey. Media related to Cigar store Indian at Wikimedia Commons
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Pow wow
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A pow wow is a social gathering held by many different American Indian communities. The word is derived from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning spiritual leader, a similar gathering by California Indians, usually in the fall, is called a Big Time. A modern pow wow is a type of event for American Indian people to meet and dance, sing, socialize. Pow wows may be private or public, there is generally a dancing competition, often with significant prize money awarded. Pow wows vary in length from an event, to major pow wows called for a special occasion which can be up to one week long. In popular culture, such as older Western movies, the term has also used to describe any gathering of Indians, or to refer to any type of meeting. However, such use may be viewed as cultural appropriation and disrespectful, planning for a pow wow generally begins months, perhaps even a year, in advance of the event by a group of people usually referred to as a pow wow committee. A pow wow committee consists of a number of individuals who do all the prior to the event. If a pow wow has a sponsor, such as a tribe, college, or organization, the head staff of a pow wow are the people who run the event on the day or days it actually occurs. They are generally hired by the pow wow committee several months in advance, to be chosen as part of the head staff is an honor, showing respect for the persons skills or dedication. The arena director is the person in charge during the pow wow, sometimes the arena director is referred to as the whip man, sometimes the whip man is the arena directors assistant, and many pow wows dont have a whip man. The arena director makes sure dancers are dancing during the pow wow, If there are contests the arena director is ultimately responsible for providing judges, though he often has another assistant who is the head judge. The arena director is responsible for organizing any ceremonies that may be required during the pow wow, such as when an eagle feather is dropped. One of the duties of the arena director is to ensure that the dance arena is treated with the proper respect from visitors to the pow wow. The master of ceremonies, or MC, is the voice of the pow wow and it is his job to keep the singers, dancers, and public informed as to what is happening. The MC sets the schedule of events, and maintains the drum rotation, the MC is also responsible for filling any dead air time that may occur during the pow wow, often with jokes. The MC often runs any raffles or other contests that may happen during the pow wow, the head dancers lead the other dancers in the grand entry or parade of dancers that opens a pow wow. In many cases, the dancers are also responsible for leading the dancers during songs
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
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The film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Notable for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and it was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind. It did win in two categories, including Best Original Song for Over the Rainbow and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart. However, the film was a box office disappointment on its release, earning only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget. It was MGMs most expensive production at that time, and did not completely recoup the studios investment and turn a profit until theatrical re-releases starting in 1949. The film was named the most-viewed motion picture on television syndication by the Library of Congress, designation on the registry calls for efforts to preserve it for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. It is also one of the few films on UNESCOs Memory of the World Register, the Wizard of Oz is often ranked on best-movie lists in critics and public polls. It is the source of many quotes referenced in popular culture. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming, noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but uncredited contributions were made by others. The songs were written by Edgar Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, the musical score and the incidental music were composed by Stothart. The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone, Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothys dog gets in trouble with a neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch. However, Dorothys family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay attention to her, Miss Gulch arrives with permission from the sheriff to have Toto euthanized. She takes him away, but he escapes and returns to Dorothy and they meet Professor Marvel, a phony but kindly fortune teller, who realizes Dorothy has run away and tricks her via his crystal ball into believing that Aunt Em is ill so that she must return home. She races home just as a tornado strikes. Unable to get into her familys storm cellar, she seeks safety in her bedroom, a wind-blown window sash hits her in the head, knocking her out. The house is picked up and sent spinning in the air by the twister, the farmhouse crashes in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz, where the film changes to Technicolor. Glinda the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins welcome her as their heroine, as the house has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East, leaving only her stocking feet exposed
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Sally Kirkland
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Sally Kirkland is an American film and television actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna, Kirkland was born in New York City, New York. She was named after her mother, Sally Kirkland, who was an editor at Vogue and LIFE magazines. Her father, Frederic McMichael Kirkland, worked in the metal business. Kirkland began acting Off-Broadway in 1963, after a few uncredited and bit parts in film and television, she appeared in the underground film Coming Apart. In the 1970s, she had roles in popular films such as The Sting, The Way We Were, A Star Is Born. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Anna, and she won a Golden Globe Award and her performance received widespread critical praise, in a performance that Rita Kempley writing for the Washington Post deemed superb. Kirkland hosts a program on the syndicated HealthyLife Radio Network. Films in which she has appeared include EDtv, JFK, Adam and Steve, Kirkland is also a health activist including advocating for women harmed by breast implants. She founded the Kirkland Institute for Implant Survival Syndrome in August 1998, Kirkland is an ordained minister in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
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David Lynch
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David Keith Lynch is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, and photographer. He has been described by The Guardian as the most important director of this era, allMovie called him the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking, while the success of his films has led to him being labelled the first popular Surrealist. He moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, meanwhile, Lynch embraced the Internet as a medium, producing several web-based shows, such as the animated DumbLand and the surreal sitcom Rabbits. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay. He has won Frances César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival, the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the countrys top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007. Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are widely considered by critics to be among the greatest films of their respective decades, Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana on January 20,1946. His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Lynchs maternal great-grandparents were Finnish, and had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century. The Lynch family often moved around according to where the USDA assigned Donald and it was here that Lynchs sister Martha was born. The family then moved to Durham, North Carolina, then Boise, Idaho, Lynch found this transitory early life relatively easy to adjust to, noting that he found it fairly easy to meet new friends whenever he started attending a new school. Commenting on much of his life, Lynch has remarked, Alongside his schooling, Lynch joined the Boy Scouts, although he would later note that he only became so I could quit. He rose to the highest rank of Eagle Scout and it was through being an Eagle Scout that he was present with other Boy Scouts outside of the White House at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, which took place on Lynchs birthday in 1961. They had some hopes that in Europe they could train with the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka at his school. Upon reaching Salzburg, however, they found that he was not available and, Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he stayed with his friend Toby Keeler for a while. He decided to move to the city of Philadelphia and enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, after advice from Jack Fisk and it was here that he began a relationship with a fellow student, Peggy Reavey, and they were married in 1967. The following year, Peggy gave birth to their daughter Jennifer, later describing this situation, Peggy stated that definitely was a reluctant father, but a very loving one. Hey, I was pregnant when we got married, later describing living there, Lynch stated that We lived cheap, but the city was full of fear. A kid was shot to death down the street and we were robbed twice, had windows shot out and a car stolen. The house was first broken into three days after we moved in
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David Blue (musician)
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David Blue, born Stuart David Cohen, was an American folk music singer-songwriter and actor. ”Hitchhiking back east, David discovered Greenwich Village, finding it an environment where he did not have to adjust but could simply hang out. At first he got a job washing dishes in the Gaslight Cafe, allen Ginsberg used to do readings there, Jack Elliot played guitar, I ran into Bob in the kitchen. David took acting classes, wrote poetry and songs, and began performing in Village clubs, when he began singing professionally, at the urging of Dylan and others, he changed his name to Blue. Actually, I got the name from Eric Andersen and we were together one day, and I knew there were two other David Cohens in the music business, one with Country Joe and The Fish, the other a studio cat in LA. We felt that was too many, so Eric said, You’ve got such blue eyes, you should be David Blue. I called Ramblin’ Jack Eliot and Dylan because they had changed their names and Dylan thought it was funny and started singing to me, It’s all over now. Blue became a part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene in New York, which included Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Paxton, Bob Neuwirth. Blue is best known for writing the song Outlaw Man for the Eagles, Blues original version of Outlaw Man was the lead track of his own Nice Baby and the Angel album, issued on CD, with the entire David Blue catalogue, in 2007 on Wounded Bird Records. Blue joined Dylans Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975 and appeared in Renaldo and Clara, Blue acted in other films including, The American Friend, directed by Wim Wenders, The Ordeal of Patty Hearst and Human Highway by Neil Young. Human Highway premiered in 1983 after Blues death, Blue also performed onstage in Stephen Poliakoffs play American Days at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City, in December 1980, directed by Jacques Levy. Blue died of an attack in December 1982 at the age of 41
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Gerald Casale
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Gerald Vincent Jerry Casale is an American singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and music video director. Casales music career more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder and bass player of the new wave band Devo and he is one of only two members who have been with Devo throughout its entire history. Casale began his career in 2005 while still a member of Devo with the project Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers. The project received little promotion beyond a music video for the single Army Girls Gone Wild, Jihad Jerry performed at several shows near the end of Devos 2006 tour, performing the song Beautiful World. He has also performed occasionally with other bands, Casale has also directed music videos for other recording artists, including The Cars, Rush, A Perfect Circle, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, and Silverchair, among others. Gerald Vincent Pizzute was born on July 28,1948, in Ravenna and he was born with the last name Pizzute because his father, Bob, had legally changed his name to that of his foster parents. Four years after Geralds birth, his changed his name back to his birth name. Gerald Casale grew up in Kent, Ohio and graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1966, prior to Devo, Casale had played bass guitar with The Numbers Band in his native Kent, Ohio. He caused friction in the band by suggesting that they should incorporate advertising jingles and he was forced out of the band after slipping on a monkey mask during a performance. After leaving the Numbers Band and graduation, Casale attended Kent State University, in the late 1960s, he was a self-described hippie until the May 4,1970 shootings. Being involved with Freshman orientation at the KSU Honors College, he knew two of the victims, Jeffrey Miller and Allison Krause, and was near Krause when she was shot. Casale described that day in multiple interviews as being the day I stopped being a hippie, together with Bob Lewis, Casale used the shooting as a catalyst to develop the concept of Devolution, forming the band Devo in 1973. According to Casale, the album Oh, No and its Devos sound was inspired by reviewers alternately describing them as both fascists and clowns. Following the commercial failure of their studio album Shout, on which Casale sang the majority of the tracks. Shortly after, claiming to feel creatively unfulfilled, Alan Myers left the band, causing the band members to abandon the plans for a Shout video LP. In 1987, Devo reformed with new drummer David Kendrick, formerly of Sparks to replace Myers and their first project was a soundtrack for the flop horror film Slaughterhouse Rock, starring Toni Basil and they released the albums Total Devo and Smooth Noodle Maps, on Enigma. Devo had an out and played two shows in 1991 before breaking up
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Different Fur
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Different Fur Studios is a recording studio located in the Mission District area of San Francisco, California, at 3470 19th Street. Since 1968, Different Fur has recorded music from a range of artists, including major Grammy. Different Fur was founded in 1968 by the music composer and keyboardist Patrick Gleeson. Its name was suggested by poet Michael McClure, while he was being recorded by Gleeson, by the early 1970s Gleeson was doing sessions with Jefferson Starship on his recently acquired 8-track recorder and Moog synthesizer. It was his expertise in early synthesizers, like the Moog, which eventually led Gleeson to collaborations with Herbie Hancock, by 1971 Gleeson was working with Hancock on his albums Crossings and Sextant. He went on to many of the synthesizers on Hancocks master work Head Hunters. Gleeson eventually sold Different Fur in 1985, however, it remains an active recording studio to this day. The studio is owned by Engineer Patrick Brown. In February 2009, the unknown and very recently signed to Fat Possum band Wavves filmed a video with bloggers yourstru. ly. The project was a three-part live filming of the band playing some of the songs off their new EP including So Bored. R. I. T. Toro Y Moi, P. O. S, Girls, Freddie Gibbs, Different Fur was featured in the SF Weekly Music section on June 15,2011. The article focuses on work done with a number of local bands and artists
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Rust Never Sleeps
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Rust Never Sleeps is an album by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young and American band Crazy Horse. It was released on July 2,1979, by Reprise Records, most of the album was recorded live, then overdubbed in the studio. Young used the phrase rust never sleeps as a concept for his tour with Crazy Horse to avoid complacency and try more progressive. The bulk of the album was recorded live at San Franciscos Boarding House and during the Neil Young/Crazy Horse tour in late 1978, audience noise is removed as much as possible, although it is clearly audible at certain points, most noticeably on the opening and closing songs. The album is acoustic and half electric, opening and closing with different versions of the same song, Hey Hey. My My, Hey Hey, Thrasher and Ride My Llama were recorded live at the Boarding House in early 1978 and all of side two was recorded during the late 1978 tour. Two songs from the album were not recorded live, Sail Away was recorded without Crazy Horse during or after the Comes a Time recording sessions, Young also released a film version of the album under the same title. Later on in 1979, Young and Crazy Horse released the album Live Rust, the title is borrowed from the slogan for Rust-Oleum paint, and was suggested by Mark Mothersbaugh of the new wave band Devo. It is also an aphorism describing Youngs musical self-renewal to avert the threat of irrelevance, hes wiser but not wearier, Christgau wrote, victor so far over the slow burnout his title warns of. Rust Never Sleeps was voted the second best album of 1979 in The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics poll, Christgau, the polls creator, ranked it second on his own list for the poll, as did fellow critic Greil Marcus. The album also won Rolling Stone magazines 1979 critics poll for Album of the Year, in a decade-end list for The Village Voice, Christgau named it the ninth best album of the 1970s. In 2003, Rust Never Sleeps was ranked number 350 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, in a retrospective review, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that the acoustic and electric sides were both astounding. Rob Sheffield, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, felt that Powderfinger, Pocahontas, Thrasher, all tracks written by Neil Young except where noted. Himmel — drums on Sail Away Rust Never Sleeps at Discogs
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Crazy Horse (band)
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Crazy Horse is an American rock band best known for their association with Neil Young. They have also released six albums of their own, issued between 1971 and 2009. Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina have been the consistent members of the band. On four of Crazy Horses studio albums, Talbot and Molina serve as the section to an entirely different group of musicians. The latter two would become the members of Crazy Horse present in every incarnation of the band. In San Francisco as the Psyrcle, Sly Stone produced their 45 on Lorna and this lineup recorded the Rockets only album, a self-titled set released in 1968 on White Whale Records. With their album complete, the Rockets reconnected with Neil Young, credited to Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere includes the Top 100 pop hit Cinnamon Girl and the extended guitar workouts Down by the River and Cowgirl in the Sand. Crazy Horse toured with Young during the first half of 1969 and, with the addition of Jack Nitzsche on electric piano, the 1970 tour was showcased on the 2006 album Live at the Fillmore East. Young would later opine that some of the stuff, Nitzsche was in the way tonally, Crazy Horse was so good with the two guitars, bass and drums it didnt need anything else. Although Nitzsche disdained the rhythm section of Talbot and Molina, he retrospectively lauded Whitten as the black man in the band. When Young returned to his album in 1970, Crazy Horse found its participation more limited. Crazy Horse capitalized on its exposure and recorded its eponymous debut album for Reprise Records that year. Stewart would record the three times and score a hit with it on the same number of occasions—including a UK No.1 in 1977 as a double A-side with The First Cut Is the Deepest. In 1988 the song would become a hit in the UK again. Two songs from the album were covered by Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, Beggars Day appears on Nazareths Hair of the Dog, the band released two albums with different lineups in 1972, Loose and At Crooked Lake. After Whittens death and the reception accorded to both albums, Talbot and Molina were the only full-fledged members of the band. They let the Crazy Horse name go unused without retiring it altogether, in mid-1973, Young brought together a band comprising Talbot, Molina, Lofgren, and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith to record Tonights the Night, the majority of which eventually saw release in 1975. It was great, Talbot would say of the coming together and it was the first time we heard the Horse since Danny Whitten died
