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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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James Stacy
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Maurice William Elias, known professionally as James Stacy, was an American film and television actor. In 1973, Stacy was hit by a driver while driving his motorcycle, resulting in the amputation of his left leg and arm. He returned to acting in 1975 before retiring in 1991, Stacy was born Maurice William Elias on December 23,1936, in Los Angeles to an Irish-Scottish waitress and a Lebanese-American bookmaker. Stacy made his debut in Sayonara in 1957, and his television debut in Highway Patrol. He had a role as Fred in The Adventures of Ozzie. During the 1960s he made guest appearances in shows, including Gunsmoke, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show, Have Gun - Will Travel, Combat. Stacy is perhaps best remembered as a star of the western series Lancer, along with Andrew Duggan, Wayne Maunder, Lancer aired on CBS from 1968 to 1970. Stacy played the character Johnny Madrid Lancer, a former gunslinger, Stacy also acted in several motion pictures from the 1950s through the 1970s, including a minor part in the musical South Pacific. On September 27,1973, Stacy was taking Claire Cox for a ride on his motorcycle in the Hollywood Hills when a driver struck them. She died and Stacy lost his arm and leg. Stacys ex-wife, actress and singer Connie Stevens, organized a 1974 celebrity gala to raise money for his expenses, the gala, whose attendees included Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, raised $118,000 for his expenses. In 1976, he won a $1.9 million lawsuit against the bar that had served the drunk driver, after his recovery, Stacy appeared in roles created to accommodate his disability. His comeback film was the 1975 Kirk Douglas Western Posse, in which he was cast as newspaper editor Harold Hellman, in 1977, he starred in the TV movie Just a Little Inconvenience, playing a double-amputee Vietnam veteran. The role earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special, in 1980, Stacy starred in and produced the TV movie, My Kidnapper, My Love. His brother, Louie Elias, an actor and stuntman, wrote the screenplay, based on the novel by Oscar Saul. Elias was also the associate producer, other television appearances included Hotel, Cagney & Lacey, and Highway to Heaven. His last TV role was in five 1990 episodes of the cop series Wiseguy and he married actress and singer Connie Stevens on October 12,1963, in Hollywood. They were divorced in November 1966, stacys second marriage was to actress Kim Darby in 1968
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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True Grit (1969 film)
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True Grit is a 1969 American western film. It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis 1968 novel of the same name, the screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts. The film was directed by Henry Hathaway and starred Kim Darby as Mattie Ross, Wayne won his only Academy Award for his performance in this film and reprised his role for the 1975 sequel Rooster Cogburn. Historians believe Cogburn was based on Deputy U. S, marshal Heck Thomas, who brought in some of the toughest outlaws. The cast also features Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey, the title song, sung by Campbell, was also Oscar-nominated. True Grit was remade in 2010, starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, frank Ross is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney. Rosss young daughter, Mattie, travels to Fort Smith, Arkansas, marshal Reuben Rooster J. Cogburn to bring Chaney in, raising his fee by shrewdly horse trading with Colonel Stonehill. Mattie has heard that Cogburn has true grit and she gives him a payment to track and capture Chaney, who has taken up with outlaw Lucky Ned Pepper in Indian Territory. A young Texas Ranger, La Boeuf, is also pursuing Chaney and joins forces with Cogburn, the two try to ditch Mattie, but she catches up and is permitted to ride along. After several days, the three discover horse thieves Emmett Quincy and Moon, who are waiting for Ned Pepper at a remote dugout cabin, Cogburn captures and interrogates the two men. Moons leg is injured and Cogburn uses the injury as leverage to get information about Lucky Ned, in terrible pain and about to talk, Moon is stabbed by Quincy, who is then killed by Cogburn. In the remaining minute before Moon dies, he reveals that Pepper, Rooster and La Boeuf lay a trap. But as soon as Pepper and his men arrive, La Boeuf blows their cover by firing too soon, a firefight ensues, during which Cogburn and La Boeuf kill two of the gang, but Pepper and the rest of his men escape. Cogburn, La Boeuf, and Mattie make their way to McAlesters store with the dead bodies, Cogburn tries to persuade Mattie to stay at McAlesters, but she refuses. Fetching water one morning, Mattie finds herself face-to-face with Chaney in a stream, when he comes toward her menacingly, she shoots Chaney with her fathers Colt Dragoon, injuring him and calling out to her partners. Pepper and his gang get there first, capturing her, Lucky Ned then forces Cogburn and La Boeuf to abandon the girl and ride away. Pepper decides to leave Mattie in the care of Chaney, who has lost his horse and he promises he will send a horse back for Chaney, vowing to kill him if any harm comes to the girl. Cogburn doubles back and attacks Pepper and his gang single-handedly and they watch from a high bluff as a mounted Cogburn confronts Peppers gang
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Wiere Brothers
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The Wiere Brothers were a comedy team who appeared in 1930s and 1940s films, and as live performers from the 1920s to the late 1960s. The names of the three brothers were, Harry Wiere, Herbert Wiere, Sylvester Wiere, The Wiere Brothers were vaudeville performers who appeared in films. Their films include Hands Across the Border in 1944 with Roy Rogers, Road to Rio in 1947 with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, in 1962, the Wiere Brothers had their own television series called, Oh. Those Bells, that aired on CBS, the show was created by Jules White who had previously directed the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton and Andy Clyde in short-subject films for Columbia Pictures. Those Bells included a lot of comedy but only 13 episodes were aired. The team was appearing on television in 1970 on shows such as The Merv Griffin Show. But after Sylvesters death in July 1970, Harry and Herbert Wiere discontinued their act, Harry Wiere did make one appearance on the TV series Bionic Woman in 1976 as the Tipsy Man. One of their acts of the 1960s involved the three brothers playing the violin, guitar and bass fiddle. Herbert would try to do a number on the violin. With a shrug, Herbert would stop playing and decide to balance the violin on his chin, Harry would then notice Herberts accomplishment and would take the guitar and balance it on his chin. This left Sylvester smiling blandly at the audience, still plucking his bass fiddle, when Sylvester sees Herbert and Harry balancing their instruments on their chins, he would do a long take, turning from his brothers to his huge bass fiddle and then back at them. Then, finally Sylvester would lift the bass fiddle in the air, inga Wiere, a sister of Herbert, Harry and Sylvester Wiere, was married to dancer Jon Zerby. Together they were known as The Dancing Zerbys, a nightclub act in the 1940s and 1950s. Actress and dancer Kim Darby is their daughter and those Bells The Hollywood Palace The Sammy Davis Jr
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Bye Bye Birdie (film)
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Bye Bye Birdie is a 1963 American musical comedy film from Columbia Pictures. It is a adaptation of the stage production of the same name. The screenplay was adapted from Michael Stewarts book for the musical by Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse, the story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley being drafted into the United States Army in 1957. Jesse Pearson plays the role of teen idol Conrad Birdie, whose name is a word play on another pop singer of the era. Presley himself was the first choice for the role of Birdie, Ed Sullivan appears as himself, host of the popular, long-running CBS TV variety show. The film is credited with making Ann-Margret a superstar during the mid-1960s, Bye Bye Birdie opens with Ann-Margret singing a title song written especially for the movie. The soundtrack was released by RCA Victor in 1964, in 2006, the film was ranked number 38 on Entertainment Weeklys list of the 50 Best High School Movies. Conrad Birdie, a rock and roll star, receives an Army draft notice. Albert Peterson is a songwriter, and music is the family business. He schemes with his secretary and long-suffering girlfriend Rosie DeLeon to have Conrad sing a song Albert will write. Rosie convinces Ed Sullivan to have Conrad perform Alberts song One Last Kiss on The Ed Sullivan Show, and then kiss a randomly chosen high school girl goodbye before going off to the Army. Once he achieves success, Albert will feel free to marry Rosie, despite his widowed. Sweet Apple, Ohio, is chosen as the location for Conrads farewell performance, the random lucky girl chosen is Kim MacAfee, who is thrilled. Kim already has a school sweetheart, Hugo Peabody, who is not so thrilled. The teenagers of Sweet Apple, blissfully unaware of their towns impending fame, are spending the Telephone Hour catching up on the latest gossip, Kim, Kim feels grown up, and declares How Lovely to be a Woman. On the day Conrad arrives in town, the girls sing their anthem to him, We Love You Conrad. Harry, a salesman, sees a great future for himself in partnership with Albert marketing this pill. Hugo feels threatened by Conrad, but Kim reassures him that he is the One Boy for her, Rosie, meanwhile, feels like Albert does not appreciate her, so Albert persuades her to Put on a Happy Face
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Gunsmoke
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Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, the central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the series was initially titled Gun Law. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961, John Dunning wrote that among radio drama enthusiasts, Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, at the end of its run in 1975, Los Angeles Times columnist Cecil Smith wrote, Gunsmoke was the dramatization of the American epic legend of the west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte. It was ever the stuff of legend, robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task. Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created a script called Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye based on one of their Michael Shayne radio scripts. Two auditions were created in 1949, CBS liked the Culver version better, and Ackerman was told to proceed. A complication arose, though, Culvers contract as the star of Straight Arrow would not allow him to do another Western series, the project was shelved for three years, when producer Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston discovered it while creating an adult Western series of their own. Macdonnell and Meston wanted to create a radio Western for adults, in contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare such as The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas, during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes, The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism, the radio series first aired on CBS on April 26,1952 with the episode Billy the Kid, written by Walter Newman, and ended on June 18,1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, Dillon was played on radio by William Conrad and on TV by James Arness. Conrad was one of the last actors to audition for the role of Marshal Dillon, with a resonantly powerful and distinctive voice, Conrad was already one of radios busiest actors. Though Meston championed him, Macdonnell thought Conrad might be overexposed, during his audition, however, Conrad won over Macdonnell after reading only a few lines. Dillon as portrayed by Conrad was a lonely, isolated man, Macdonnell later claimed, Much of Matt Dillons character grew out of Bill Conrad. Meston relished the upending of cherished Western fiction clichés and felt that few Westerns gave any inkling of how brutal the Old West was in reality. Many episodes were based on mans cruelty to man and woman, inasmuch as the womans life
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Bonanza
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Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. The show continues to air in syndication, the show is set around the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the area of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series stars Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts, the show is known for presenting moral dilemmas. The shows theme song itself, called Bonanza, became a hit song in its own right, only instrumental renditions, absent Ray Evans words, were ever used during the series long run. In 2002, Bonanza was ranked No.43 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, the time period for the television series is roughly between 1861 to 1867 during and shortly after the American Civil War. During the summer of 1972, NBC aired reruns of episodes from the 1967–1970 period in time on Tuesday evening under the title Ponderosa. The show chronicles the adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright. Via exposition and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ancestry, English, Swedish, the familys cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing. Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally, the opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars. The family lived on a 600, 000+ acre ranch called the Ponderosa on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The vast size of the Cartwrights land was quietly revised to half a million acres on Lorne Greenes 1964 song, the ranch name refers to the Ponderosa Pine, common in the West. The nearest town to the Ponderosa was Virginia City, where the Cartwrights would go to converse with Sheriff Roy Coffee, or his deputy Clem Foster. You always saw stories about family on comedies or on an anthology, but Bonanza was the first series that was week-to-week about a family, Bonanza was a period drama that attempted to confront contemporary social issues. That was very difficult to do on television, most shows that tried to do it failed because the sponsors didnt like it, and the networks were nervous about getting letters, explains Stephen Battaglio, a senior editor for TV Guide magazine. Episodes ranged from high drama, to comedy, and addressed issues such as the environment, substance abuse, domestic violence, anti-war sentiment. The series sought to illustrate the cruelty of bigotry against, Asians, African-Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Mormons, originally, the Cartwrights tended to be depicted as put-off by outsiders. Lorne Greene objected to this, pointing out that as the areas largest timber and livestock producer, the producers agreed with this observation and changed the Cartwrights to be more amiable. Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation, the order of billing at the beginning of the broadcast appeared to be shuffled randomly each week, with no relation whatsoever to the current episode featured that week
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The One and Only (1978 film)
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The One and Only is a 1978 comedy film starring Henry Winkler, directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Gordon. Andy is so obnoxious, he wants Mary to marry him fast before he becomes too famous to give her a second look and she cant resist him, try as she might. Mary takes her new home to Columbus, Ohio, to meet her strait-laced parents. Andy proceeds to them in every possible way, hugging them, calling them Tom and Mom, interrupting dinner to do a series of impressions. Nevertheless, she elopes to a justice of the peace, marries Andy and moves him to New York City. Half a year passes and Andy gets nowhere and his ego isnt bruised and he remains his same insufferable self. Mary takes a job to support them. She gets pregnant and still loves her husband, but her parents are worried for Mary. Andy does manage to make a friend, Milton Miller, a person with a big ego. Milton might not look like a man, but he definitely is, as he tries to prove to everybody. Milton is an actor himself. He points out to Andy a way to make a few bucks, out of inspiration or desperation, Andy tries his hand at a new occupation, professional wrestling. He doesnt have the build for it, but by behaving and dressing in the manner of a Gorgeous George-type, at last, Andy has thousands of fans, even if theyre not the kind he had in mind. Henry Winkler as Andy Schmidt Kim Darby as Mary Crawford Gene Saks as Sidney Seltzer William Daniels as Mr. Crawford Hervé Villechaize as Milton Miller Ed Begley, Jr. The One and Only is more of that sort of safe, schmalzy comedy, roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave it 2 1⁄2 out of 4 stars. Its a pleasant movie, it has some funny moments. The One and Only at the Internet Movie Database The One and Only at the TCM Movie Database The One and Only at AllMovie The One and Only at Rotten Tomatoes
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Better Off Dead (film)
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Better Off Dead is a 1985 American teen romantic comedy film starring John Cusack and written and directed by Savage Steve Holland. It tells the story of school student Lane Meyer who is suicidal after his girlfriend breaks up with him shortly before Christmas. In the town of Greendale in northern California, high school student Lane Meyers two main interests are skiing and his girlfriend of six months, Beth, but, Beth dumps Lane for the captain of the ski team, Roy Stalin. Roy is handsome, popular, and has skied the dangerous K-12 slope, Beth also criticizes Lanes car, an old station wagon. Although Lane also owns a disabled 1967 Camaro, he has not been able to get it running, furthermore, Johnny claims that the Meyers owe him two dollars for newspapers, and persistently hounds Lane yelling I want my two dollars. Lane also regularly encounters two Japanese drag racers, one of whom learned to speak English by listening to Howard Cosell, Lane cannot get past Beths rejection and decides that death is the only way out of his misery. He makes several half-hearted attempts at suicide, which all comically fail, Lane is further embarrassed when he gets fired from his humiliating fast food job at Pig Burgers in front of Roy and Beth, who are there on a date. As Lane attempts to end his life or win back his ex-girlfriend, he gradually gets to know a new girl, a French foreign-exchange student named Monique. She is staying with Lanes overbearing neighbor Mrs. Smith and her socially backward son Ricky, Monique turns out to be an excellent auto mechanic and skier who helps Lane fix his Camaro and tries to build his confidence. When Roy insults Monique, Lane challenges him to a ski race down the K-12, Monique helps Lane prepare for the race, which he ultimately wins despite losing one ski and being pursued by Johnny. Beth rushes to embrace Lane at the line, but he rejects her and, after besting Ricky in a ski-pole swordfight. Lane and Monique are last seen kissing at home plate at Dodger Stadium, the film received positive reviews from critics with an 82% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 22 reviews. The consensus was that Better Off Dead is a mix of black humor and surreal comedy, anchored by John Cusacks winsome. However, Siskel & Ebert gave the two thumbs down. I will never trust you as a director again, so dont speak to me. Holland claimed that Cusack felt he had made to look foolish. I have nothing against the film, the films soundtrack was produced primarily by Rupert Hine. The opening track, With One Look, was produced by Hine and features Cy Curnin and Jamie West-Oram of The Fixx on lead vocals, Hine had previously worked with Curnin and West-Oram, and also contributed vocals to the song
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
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Halloween, The Curse of Michael Myers is a 1995 American slasher film and the sixth installment in the Halloween film series. The cast includes Paul Rudd as Tommy Doyle, a character from the original Halloween film. Jamie Lloyds appearance in the beginning of the ties up loose ends to The Revenge of Michael Myers. With an almost 6-year gap from Halloween 5, Halloween 6 marks one of the longest delays in the series sequel history. Curse opened to a respectable $7.3 million on September 29,1995, Halloween, The Curse of Michael Myers and the Thorn plotline would be rendered non-canon in succeeding installments, Halloween H20,20 Years Later and Halloween, Resurrection. The sixth installment is known for its controversial history, suffering from re-shoots demanded by The Weinstein company. As well as cuts and arrangements made in the editing room which resulted in the cast. The workprint of the film, with 43 minutes of alternative footage and this version, dubbed The Producers Cut developed a strong cult following, with bootleg DVD copies sold on eBay and online petitions targeting for an official release of it. In 2014, The Producers Cut was officially released on Blu-ray, on October 31,1989, Michael Myers and his niece Jamie Lloyd are abducted from the Haddonfield Police Station. On October 30,1995, Jamie has been impregnated and her baby is born, the baby is taken away by the Man in Black, the leader of a Druid-like cult. Later, a midwife helps Jamie escape with her baby and is killed by Michael. Jamie and her baby flee in a stolen pick-up truck, stopping briefly at a deserted bus station, Jamie makes a call to a Haddonfield radio station to warn them that Michael is about to return home, only to be ignored by the radio D. J. They overhear Jamies plea for help on a radio station. Later, Michael finds Jamie, and she crashes the truck into an old barn and he kills Jamie, but finds that her baby is not in the truck. Back in Haddonfield, Tommy Doyle, whom Laurie Strode babysat in 1978, ever since seeing Michael as a child, Tommy has been obsessed with finding the truth behind his motives. He finds Jamies baby at the bus station, takes him into his care, Tommy runs into Loomis and tells him about the Strode family living in the Myers house. The two believe Michael has returned to Haddonfield, Michael enters his home and kills Debra. Later, Tommy, Kara, and Danny go to the house, where Tommy reveals that he believes Michael has been inflicted with Thorn
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Mr. Novak
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Mr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which aired on NBC for two seasons, from 1963 to 1965. The series won a Peabody Award in 1963, the series follows John Novak, an idealistic first-year English teacher at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles who often got involved in the lives of his students and fellow teachers. Principal Albert Vane was played by Dean Jagger, the school seen in Mr. Novak duplicated Los Angeles John Marshall High School complete to walks, shrubs, and parking. After using the school itself for the pilot, the duplicate was built at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, the complete set filled an acre at the studio. Other construction on the MGM sound stages included duplicates of corridors, sol Moss Terri Garr, as Lisa in How Does Your Garden Grow. In its first season, Mr. Novaks principal competition was the ABC series Combat. in the second season, the competition was still Combat. on ABC, and the documentary series World War One on CBS. Skelton was moved a half-hour later in December 1964, Mr. Novak at the Internet Movie Database Mr. Novak at TV. com
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James Franciscus
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James Grover Franciscus was an American actor, known for his roles in feature films and in four television series, Mr. Novak, The Naked City, The Investigators, and Longstreet. Franciscus was born in Clayton, Missouri, to Lorraine and John Allen Franciscus, in 1957, Franciscus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and theatre arts from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, from which he graduated magna cum laude. He was a classmate of Dick Cavett and Bill Hinnant and his first major role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the half-hour version of ABCs The Naked City television series. Franciscus guest starred on the CBS military sitcom/drama Hennesey, starring Jackie Cooper, CBS soon cast him in the lead in the 13-week series The Investigators, which aired from October 5 to December 28,1961. He played the insurance investigator Russ Andrews, with James Philbrook as a co-star, Franciscus was also cast in the role of Tom Grover in the 1961 episode The Empty Heart of the CBS anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Franciscus may be best-remembered for his roles in NBCs Mr. Novak and ABCs Longstreet. Along with Lloyd Bridges, he served as host as the syndicated adventure series Waterworld. In 1977, he starred in his television series, the short-lived Hunter. Over the years, Franciscus found film work with Italian cinema, in 1971, he accepted the lead role in Dario Argentos second film, The Cat o Nine Tails. In 1979, he appeared in Antonio Margheritis Killer Fish, and he continued appearing in roles on the screen and television. When less important roles were offered, Franciscus turned to writing screenplays, in 1991, the year of his death, he worked as an associate producer and screenwriter on the movie 29th Street starring Anthony LaPaglia and Danny Aiello, it was his final project. They had four children — Jamie, Kellie, Korie, after his divorce from Kathleen, he married the former Carla Ankney in 1980. They were still married at the time of Franciscus death in 1991 from emphysema in North Hollywood, California, James Franciscus at the Internet Movie Database Entry at NNDB James Franciscus at Find a Grave James Franciscus 1964 interview at tv. com
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The Eleventh Hour (U.S. TV series)
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In 1963, the series shared a two-part crossover episode with Dr. Kildare, both programs used the theme of wise teacher and young intern. The term eleventh hour refers to a time of last resort in a persons life. Ging appeared in both seasons as Dr. Paul Graham, a clinical psychologist to Coreys first-season character of the psychiatrist Dr. Theodore Bassett, the first season hence offered episodes about the mental health of criminals. In the second season, which ended new episodes on April 22,1964, Bellamy replaced Corey in the role of Dr. Richard Starke, the executive producer was Norman Felton, Sam Rolfe was the producer. The Eleventh Hour aired on Wednesdays following Perry Comos Kraft Music Hall, in its first season, The Eleventh Hour was placed opposite the alternating anthology series, Armstrong Circle Theatre and The United States Steel Hour on CBS and the last season of Naked City on ABC. In the second season, The Eleventh Hour faced The Danny Kaye Show variety program on CBS and Channing, a series about life on the campus of a small college. On June 7,2016, Warner Archive Collection will release The Eleventh Hour- The Complete First Season on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time and this is a manufacture-on-demand release, available exclusively through Warners online store and Amazon. com. Breaking Point, a similar TV show The Eleventh Hour at the Internet Movie Database The Eleventh Hour at TV. com
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The Fugitive (TV series)
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The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy Huggins. It was produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television and it aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen starred as Richard Kimble, a physician who is convicted of his wifes murder. En route to death row, Kimbles train derails over a switch, allowing him to escape and begin a search for the real killer. At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, the Fugitive aired for four seasons, and a total of 120 51-minute episodes were produced. The first three seasons were filmed in black and white, the season was in color. The Fugitive was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won the Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Series in 1966, in 2002, it was ranked No.36 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. TV Guide named the one-armed man No.5 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time, in the series first season, the premise was summarized in the opening title sequence of the pilot episode as follows, Name, Richard Kimble. Richard Kimble has been tried and convicted for the murder of his wife, but laws are made by men, carried out by men, and men are imperfect. Proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was that moments before discovering his wifes body, a man who has not yet been found. Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, but in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand. This title sequence was shortened for the remainder of the first season as follows, The name, the destination, Death Row, state prison. The irony, Richard Kimble is innocent, proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was that moments before discovering his murdered wifes body, he saw a one-armed man running from the vicinity of his home. Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, but in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand. Falsely convicted for the murder of his wife. reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route to the death house, freed him to hide in lonely desperation. Freed him to search for a man he saw leave the scene of the crime. Freed him to run before the pursuit of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture. It was not until episode 14, The Girl from Little Egypt, a series of flashbacks reveals the fateful night of Helen Kimbles death, and for the first time offers a glimpse of the One-Armed Man
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The Donna Reed Show
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The Donna Reed Show is an American situation comedy starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, the show originally aired on ABC from September 24,1958 to March 19,1966. When Fabares left the show in 1963, Petersens younger sister, Patty Petersen, Patty Petersen had first appeared in the episode, A Way of Her Own, on January 31,1963. Actress Janet Landgard was a regular from 1963-1965 as Karen Holmby. The series was created by William S. Roberts and developed by Reed and her then husband, episodes revolved around typical family problems of the period such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children. Then-daring themes such as rights and freedom of the press were occasionally explored. The show had a start in the ratings and was almost cancelled. In the shows seasons, Fabares sang what became a #1 teen pop hit Johnny Angel. The Donna Reed Show was one of televisions top 25 shows in 1963-1964, Reed was repeatedly nominated for Emmy Awards between 1959 and 1962, and won a Golden Globe as Best Female TV Star in 1963. She eventually grew tired of the work-a-day grind involved in the program, the series was sponsored by Campbell Soup Company, with Johnson & Johnson as the principal alternate sponsor. Following first-run, the show entered daytime reruns on ABC and then syndication on Nick at Nite, the first five seasons have been released on DVD. This show was the first TV family sitcom to feature the mother as the center of the show. Reeds character, Donna Stone, is a mother and wife, but also a strong woman, an active participant in her community, a woman with feelings. In a 2008 interview, Paul Petersen stated, depicts a better time and it has a sort of level of intelligence and professionalism that is sadly lacking in current entertainment products. The messages it sent out were positive and uplifting, the folks you saw were likable, the family was fun, the situations were familiar to people. It provided 22-and-a-half-minutes of moral instructions and advice on how to deal with the dilemmas of life. Jeff and Mary and their friends had all the problems that real kids in high school did. Petersen continued, Thats what the show was really about, the importance of family, Thats where lifes lessons are transmitted, generation to generation
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Ironside (1967 TV series)
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Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T Ironside, a consultant for the San Francisco police, the character debuted on March 28,1967, in a TV movie entitled Ironside. When the series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, in the 1970s, the show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations. Ironside was a production of Burrs Harbour Productions Unlimited in association with Universal Television, the show revolved around former San Francisco Police Department Chief of Detectives Robert T. In the pilot episode, a TV movie, Ironside shows his strength of character and gets himself appointed a special department consultant by his good friend and he does this by calling a press conference and then tricking Commissioner Randall into meeting his terms. In the pilot, Ironside eventually solves the mystery of the ambush and he requests Ed Brown and Eve Whitfield be assigned to him. Ironside uses a room in the Old San Francisco Hall Of Justice building. He uses a specially equipped, former fleet-modified 1940 1½ ton Ford police paddy wagon van and this is replaced in the episode entitled Pooles Paradise after the van is destroyed by Sergeant Brown as part of a way to trick a corrupt sheriff. At the end of the episode the paddy wagon is replaced by a fully custom modified 19691 ton Ford Econoline Window Van. He later recruits the angst-filled black ex-con Mark Sanger to be his assistant after Sanger is brought in as a suspect who wanted to kill Ironside. The show became a success as Ironside depended on brains and initiative in handling cases, although Ironside was good-hearted and honest, he maintained a gruff persona. Supporting characters on Ironside included Det, edward Ed Brown and a young socialite-turned-plainclothes officer, Eve Whitfield. Commissioner Randall was played by Gene Lyons, the series enjoyed a seven and a half-season run on NBC, drawing respectable, if not always high, ratings. After NBCs mid-season cancellation, however, the syndicated episodes reverted to the Ironside title, Raymond Burr as Chief Robert T. The shows contained stock footage of San Francisco, with pan shots of Coit Tower or clips of traffic scenes. Ironside and his team used a large open space on the fourth floor of the Old Hall of Justice in San Francisco at 750 Kearny Street between Washington and Merchant Streets. The Old Hall had already been demolished while Ironside was still in production and it had been abandoned in 1961 and demolished in late 1967. The SFPD had begun using their new home by January 1962, in December 1967 demolition finally began
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Star Trek
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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as The Original Series, debuted in 1966 and it followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, an exploration vessel. The Star Trek canon of the franchise include The Original Series, a series, four spin-off television series, its film franchise. In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by the Horatio Hornblower novels, the satirical book Gullivers Travels and these adventures continued in the short-lived Star Trek, The Animated Series and six feature films. The adventures of The Next Generation crew continued in four feature films. In 2009, the franchise underwent a reboot set in an alternate timeline, or Kelvin Timeline. This film featured a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the show, their adventures were continued in the sequel film. The thirteenth film feature and sequel, Star Trek Beyond, was released to coincide with the franchises 50th anniversary, a new Star Trek TV series, titled Star Trek, Discovery, will premiere in May 2017 on the digital platform CBS All Access. Star Trek has been a phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers, the franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek had an attraction in Las Vegas that opened in 1998. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world, the series has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek, in addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of July 2016, the franchise had generated $10 billion in revenue, Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also noted for its civil rights stances. The Original Series included one of televisions first multiracial casts, Star Trek references can be found throughout popular culture from movies such as the submarine thriller Crimson Tide to the animated series South Park. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the series that would become Star Trek
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Western (genre)
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Cowboys and gunslingers typically wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, cowboy boots and buckskins. Other characters include Native Americans, bandits, lawmen, bounty hunters, outlaws, mounted cavalry, settlers, Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape of deserts and mountains. Often, the vast landscape plays an important role, presenting a. mythic vision of the plains, specific settings include ranches, small frontier towns, saloons, railways and isolated military forts of the Wild West. Many Westerns use a plot of depicting a crime, then showing the pursuit of the wrongdoer, ending in revenge and retribution. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre, from the early 20th century to the 1960s, Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Fords landmark Western adventure Stagecoach became one of the biggest hits in 1939, Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time – including High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, the Western depicts a society organized around codes of honor and personal, direct or private justice–frontier justice–dispensed by gunfights. These honor codes are played out through depictions of feuds or individuals seeking personal revenge or retribution against someone who has wronged them. The popular perception of the Western is a story that centers on the life of a semi-nomadic wanderer, a showdown or duel at high noon featuring two or more gunfighters is a stereotypical scene in the popular conception of Westerns. In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances. And like knights errant, the heroes of Westerns frequently rescue damsels in distress, similarly, the wandering protagonists of Westerns share many characteristics with the ronin in modern Japanese culture. The Western typically takes these elements and uses them to tell simple morality tales, Westerns often stress the harshness and isolation of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape. Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the Wild West, it is the place to go for music, women, gambling, drinking, brawling and shooting. The American Film Institute defines western films as those set in the American West that embodies the spirit, the struggle, the term Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World Magazine. Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became an art form. Protagonists ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on their trusty steeds, Western films were enormously popular in the silent film era. With the advent of sound in 1927-28, the major Hollywood studios rapidly abandoned Westerns, leaving the genre to smaller studios and these smaller organizations churned out countless low-budget features and serials in the 1930s. Released through United Artists, Stagecoach made John Wayne a mainstream star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns
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The Road West
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The Road West is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 12,1966 to May 1,1967 for twenty-nine episodes with rebroadcasts continuing until August 28. Perry Comos Kraft Music Hall originally alternated with the series as monthly specials, the Road West stars Barry Sullivan as Benjamin Ben Pride, the patriarch of a pioneer family in Kansas. The series also stars Kathryn Hays as Elizabeth Pride, Bens second wife, Andrew Prine as Bens 30-year-old son, Timothy Tim Pride, and Brenda Scott as the daughter, Midge Pride. Prine and Scott, who played brother and sister in the series, had been married in real life prior to the debut of the program. Other cast members were Kelly Corcoran as son Kip Pride, Glenn Corbett as Chance Reynolds, Elizabeths brother, and Charles Seel as Tom Pride, Bens father and the grandfather of the family. The Prides left Springfield, Ohio where the family had lived for several generations, Ben, a widower, marries Elizabeth Reynolds, played by Hays, who is twenty-one years his junior and only three years older than stepson Tim, played by Prine. The Road West featured some well-known guest stars, in the two-part premiere episode entitled This Savage Land, George C. Scott appeared as Jud Barker, Roy Roberts as Dr. Reynolds, John Drew Barrymore as Stacey Daggart and Rex Holman as India. James Gammon and Barbara Anderson each appeared in two episodes, as Deputy Virgil Bramley and Barbara, flippen, Tom Tryon, Cloris Leachman, Gavin MacLeod, John M. Pickard, John Anderson, Victor Jory, Elisha Cook Jr. Michael Pate, and Don Stroud. The Road West at the Internet Movie Database The Road West at TV. com
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Barry Sullivan (actor)
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Barry Sullivan was an American movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s. Born in New York City, Sullivan was a law student at New York University and he fell into acting when in college playing semi-pro football. During the later Depression years, Sullivan was told that because of his 6 ft 3 in stature and this began a successful career on Broadway, movies and television. Sullivans first appearance on Broadway was in I Want a Policeman in 1936 and he later appeared in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial on Broadway. One of Sullivans most memorable roles was playing a director in The Bad. Sullivan starred opposite Bette Davis in the 1951 film Payment on Demand, in 1950, Sullivan appeared in the film A Life of Her Own. His debut in film came in 1943 in Ladi in the Dark, Barry Sullivan appeared in over 100 movies either in lead roles or co-starring in films Oh God and Earthquake. Sullivan replaced Vincent Price in the role of Leslie Charteris Simon Templar on the NBC Radio show The Saint, Sullivan lasted only two episodes before the show was cancelled. In the 1953-1954 television season, Sullivan appeared with other celebrities as a judge in ABCs Jukebox Jury. In the 1957-1958 season, Sullivan starred in the television series Harbormaster. Sullivan appeared again with Bette Davis, on stage, in 1960, Davis and her husband Gary Merrill were touring the US in a theatrical staging of selected prose and poetry of Carl Sandburg, but their marriage was failing, and Sullivan substituted for Merrill. In 1960, Sullivan played frontier sheriff Pat Garrett opposite Clu Gulager as outlaw Billy the Kid in the NBC western television series The Tall Man. In the same year Sullivan had one of his best roles, albeit in a B-Western, as the charming, in 1965 he appeared in a pinch-hit role for Raymond Burr as Attorney Ken Kramer in the Perry Mason episode, The Case of the Thermal Thief. Sullivan appeared in Sam Peckinpahs Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as John Chisum and he had featured roles in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, Once an Eagle and The Immigrants. In addition to The Tall Man, Sullivan also starred in the television series The Road West, Sullivan played the role of family patriarch Ben Pride. He starred in many Hallmark Hall of Fame specials including an acclaimed production of The Price opposite George C. Scott. Sullivan was in demand for the most of his career and his acting career spanned romantic leading man roles to villains and finally to character roles. In his later years, Sullivan had roles in the films, Oh, in 1965-66 he guest starred on Twelve Oclock High as Lt. Gen Max Gallagher, father of Colonel Joe Gallagher in the episode Grant Me No Favor
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William Shatner
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William Shatner is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director. In his seven decades of television, Shatner became an icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS Enterprise. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek and he has written a series of science fiction novels called TekWar, which were adapted for television. Shatner also appeared in the NBC series, 3rd Rock from the Sun in seasons 4 and 5 as the role of the Big Giant Head whom the characters of the Series reported to. He has worked as a musician, an author, a director, and he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the final season of the legal drama The Practice and its spinoff series Boston Legal, a role that earned him two Emmy Awards. Shatner was born on March 22,1931, in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Anne and Joseph Shatner and he has two sisters, Joy and Farla. His paternal grandfather, Wolf Schattner, anglicized the name to Shatner. All of Shatners grandparents were Jewish immigrants, and he was raised in Conservative Judaism, Shatner attended two schools in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Willingdon Elementary School and Westhill High School, and is an alumnus of the Montreal Childrens Theatre. He studied Economics at the McGill University Faculty of Management in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. Shatner began performing at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, in 1954, he was cast as Ranger Bob on The Canadian Howdy Doody Show. Shatner was an understudy to Christopher Plummer, the two would appear as adversaries in Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. Shatner had a role in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents third-season episode titled The Glass Eye. In 1959, he received good reviews when he played the role of Lomax in the Broadway production of The World of Suzie Wong. He appeared twice as Wayne Gorham in NBCs Outlaws Western series with Barton MacLane, in 1961, he starred in the Broadway play A Shot in the Dark with Julie Harris and directed by Harold Clurman. Walter Matthau and Gene Saks were also featured in this play, Shatner featured in two episodes of the NBC television series Thriller and the film The Explosive Generation. Guthrie had called the young Shatner the Stratford Festivals most promising actor, Shatner was not as successful as the others, however, and during the 1960s he became a working actor who showed up on time, knew his lines, worked cheap and always answered his phone. His motto was Work equals work, but Shatners willingness to take any role, no matter how forgettable, in the 1963–1964 season, he appeared in episodes of two ABC series, Channing and The Outer Limits. In 1963, he starred in the Family Theater production called The Soldier and that same year, he guest starred in Route 66, in the episode, Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea
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Rich Man, Poor Man (miniseries)
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It was produced by Universal Television and was the second time programming of this nature had been attempted. The first TV miniseries, QB VII, had aired — also on ABC — in 1974 and these projects proved to be a critical and ratings success and were the forerunner for similar projects based on literary works, such as Roots and Shōgun. The film stars Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte and Susan Blakely and it spawned the sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, which aired from September 1976 through March 1977. The network repeated the original series Tuesday nights at 9, 00pm from May to June 1977, rudy was the titular rich man, a well-educated and very ambitious entrepreneur who triumphed over his background and constructed a corporate and political empire. Poor man Tom was a rebel who eventually turned to boxing to support himself, axel and Mary were their parents, and Julie Prescott was Rudys lifelong sweetheart who eventually married him. Later, another important character appears, the dangerous and eccentric Falconetti, lifelong nemesis of the Jordache Brothers, while the first series spans a twenty year period between 1945 and 1965, the second series begins in 1968. The series became a success in the countries that aired it. Dean Riesner wrote all twelve episodes, and direction was shared by Bill Bixby, David Greene, the musical score was composed by Alex North, who was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special. Notes Rich Man, Poor Man at the Internet Movie Database
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Nick Nolte
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Nicholas King Nick Nolte is an American actor and former model. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and he went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Affliction and Warrior. His other film appearances include The Deep,48 Hrs, down and Out in Beverly Hills, Another 48 Hrs. Everybody Wins, Cape Fear, Lorenzos Oil, The Thin Red Line, Hulk, The Good Thief, Hotel Rwanda, Tropic Thunder, A Walk in the Woods and The Ridiculous 6. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy for his role in the TV series Graves, Nolte was born February 8,1941 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Franklin Arthur Nolte, was a son who ran away from home. His mother, Helen, was a department store buyer and his ancestry includes German, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish and Swiss-German. Noltes maternal grandfather, Matthew Leander King, invented the hollow-tile silo and was prominent in early aviation and his maternal grandmother ran the student union at Iowa State University. He has a sister, Nancy, who was an executive for the Red Cross. Nolte attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa and he studied at Westside High School in Omaha, where he was the kicker on the football team. He also attended Benson High, but was expelled for fighting and hiding beer before practice, at Eastern Arizona, Nolte lettered in football as a tight end and defensive end in basketball with forward, and as a catcher on the baseball team. Poor grades eventually ended his studies, at which point his career in began in earnest. While in college, Nolte worked for the Falstaff Brewery in Omaha, Nolte was a model in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1992, Nolte was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, Nolte first starred in the television miniseries, Rich Man, Poor Man, based on Irwin Shaws 1970 best-selling novel. Later he appeared in forty films, playing a wide variety of characters. Diversity of character, and his athleticism, and gravelly voice are signatures of his career. In 1973, he guest-starred in the Griff episode, Who Framed Billy the Kid. as Billy Randolph, a football player accused of murder. He co-starred with Andy Griffith in Winter Kill, a film made as the pilot of a possible television series, and another one, Adams of Eagle Lake
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Peter Strauss
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Peter Lawrence Strauss is an American television and movie actor, known for his roles in several television miniseries in the 1970s and 1980s. Strauss was born in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, the son of Warren B, Strauss graduated from the Hackley School in 1965 and Northwestern University in 1969. He married actress Rachel Ticotin on December 31,1998, notably, he plays Abel Roznovski in Kane and Abel, the TV miniseries from Jeffrey Archers book of the same title. He won an Emmy Award for his role on the 1979 made-for-television movie The Jericho Mile and his other noted television miniseries credits include starring roles in Rich Man, Poor Man, its sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, and Masada. Strauss plays Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in the 1977 TV movie Young Joe, Strauss starred in the films Soldier Blue and Spacehunter, Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, and has appeared in several others. He voiced the character of Justin, Captain of the Guard, in the 1982 animated film The Secret of NIMH, Strauss starred as an abused husband in the television movie Men Dont Tell, alongside Judith Light. In 2005, he played the U. S. president in the thriller XXX and he was the voice of Moses in the animated series K10C, Kids Ten Commandments. He starred in the short-lived series Body & Soul as Dr. Isaac Braun in 2002 and he provided the voice for Stoker Van Rotten in both the 1990s and 2006 versions of Biker Mice From Mars. Other work includes commercials for Miracle-Gro, Strauss runs a successful citrus production business and is on the advisory board of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. He sold a property to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. The ranch has since acquired by the National Park Service as the Peter Strauss Ranch. Peter Strauss at the Internet Movie Database
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Susan Blakely
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Susan Blakely is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role in the 1976 ABC miniseries, Rich Man, Poor Man. Blakely also has appeared in films include The Towering Inferno, Report to the Commissioner, Capone, airport 79, and Over the Top. Blakely was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the daughter of American parents, Mary Louise, an art teacher, and Colonel Larry Blakely. Blakely arrived in Hollywood in the early 1970s, and began appearing in supporting roles in films include Savages, The Way We Were and her first major role was as Patty Simmons in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. The following year, she played the lead roles in films Report to the Commissioner alongside Michael Moriarty. Blakely gained wide acclaim with her leading role in the 1976 ABC television miniseries Rich Man. She earned a second Emmy Award nomination the year when she reprised her role in Rich Man. After her television success, she played leading roles in two movies in 1979, disaster film The Concorde, airport 79 opposite Alain Delon, and sport drama Dreamer with Tim Matheson. During 1980s and 1990s, Blakely played leading roles in made for television movies. She played Eva Braun opposite Anthony Hopkins in Adolf Hitler biographical film The Bunker and she appeared in such feature films as Over the Top, My Moms a Werewolf, and Hate Crime. She guest starred on Hotel, The Twilight Zone, Falcon Crest, Murder, She Wrote, Nip/Tuck, Brothers & Sisters, Southland, in 1969, Blakely married a lawyer Todd Merer, but the pair divorced in 1977. In 1982, Blakely married media consultant and crisis management expert Steve Jaffe, in 2003, Blakely created a semi-precious jewelry line from her own designs. Susan Blakely at the Internet Movie Database Susan Blakely at AllMovie
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 film)
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Dont Be Afraid of the Dark is an American made-for-television dark fantasy film directed by John Newland and starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton. It was released by Lorimar Productions and was first telecast on ABC on Wednesday October 10,1973 and it has since been shown many times in syndication and was distributed on home video and now on DVD. It is known as Nightmare in certain countries in Europe, the film focuses on a housewife who unleashes a band of goblin creatures from within a sealed fireplace in the Victorian mansion that she and her husband are restoring. It has since become a film, and a theatrical remake of the same name was released in August 2011. Sally Barnum and her husband Alex inherit an old mansion from Sallys recently deceased grandmother, shortly after moving in, she discovers a bricked-up fireplace in the basement den, and asks the estates handyman, Mr. Harris, about it. He tells her that Sallys grandmother had him seal it up after her grandfather died, after he leaves for the day and Sally is alone in the room, she uses some of Mr. Harris tools to try to remove the bricks herself. She is unable to budge the bricks, but is able to pry open a side door that Mr. Harris had said was used for removing ashes from the fireplace. Inside is not a fireplace at all but a large, dark, as Sally leaves the den, several whispering voices are heard coming from behind the fireplace, calling her name, and proclaiming that she set us free. Sally soon begins to feel unsettled in the house, one night while sleeping, she is woken by voices whispering her name, and an ashtray mysteriously falls off her bedside cabinet. However, Alex dismisses her concerns and believes she is suffering from nervous tension, the next evening, when she is alone in the house, something grabs her dress as she is walking down the stairs and she hears voices whispering We want you. She manages to free herself and sees something scuttling away behind a curtain, soon afterwards, she hears the same whispering coming from behind the fireplace in the basement den. When Alex returns home, he remains unconvinced of her story, the following night, Sally throws a dinner party for Alexs colleagues as he is up for partnership at his law firm. During the party, Sally sees a small, hideous goblin-like creature near her leg under the dinner table and she screams, but nobody believes what she saw as the creature quickly vanishes. Alex grows impatient with her and thinks she is becoming delusional, later, while Sally is in the shower, three of the goblin creatures make their way into the bathroom and turn out the lights so that they can attack her with a razor. As Sally turns the back on, the creatures shriek. Sally then tells Alex that they should sell the house, the following day, Alex goes away on business and Sally arranges to go and stay with her friend Joan. However, before she goes, the attempt to trip Sally down a flight of stairs. Sally tries to confront the creatures and asks them what they want and that evening, Sallys doctor prescribes sedatives while her friend Joan stays with her
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Crazy Like a Fox (TV series)
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Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30,1984 to May 3,1986. The shows opening would always feature Harry and Harrison talking on the phone in their offices like this, Harrison, Harry, Harrison, I need your help. Reruns were later shown in syndication, as well as on the CBN Cable Network, for his performance, Warden received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Jack Warden as Harrison Harry Fox, Sr. John Rubinstein as Harrison Fox Jr, penny Peyser as Cindy Fox Robby Kiger as Josh Fox Crazy Like a Fox at the Internet Movie Database Crazy Like a Fox at TV. com
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Family (1976 TV series)
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Family is an American television drama series that aired on the ABC television network from 1976 to 1980. Creative control of the show was split among executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling, a total of 86 episodes were produced. It is seen occasionally on the Decades digital TV network and this series is not related to the ABC sitcom A New Kind of Family that aired concurrently with Family during its final season. The show raised the profile of all of its actors and, in particular. Family was an attempt to depict a traditional family with realistic. Kate was the practical, rational voice of the show and she always stood by her opinion and was motivated to do what was right, even if it made her unpopular. An accomplished full-time homemaker, she resented it when told her she could have attained much more. However, at one point she expressed frustration with the monotony of her life, feeling that all she did was run errands and make phone calls and she eventually returned to college as a music major. Doug was an independent lawyer who aspired to be a judge and he was a family man who listened to what Kate told him and always made time for Buddy. Younger daughter Buddy was somewhat tomboyish, although she at times expressed interest in adopting a more feminine appearance and she was a loyal friend, compassionate toward others and well-liked by her classmates. She had a habit of walking into a room where adults were discussing something confidential and she usually sought her mothers help when faced with a dilemma. She was self-conscious about her height and considered short, believing that her body was not developing as quickly as it should. Son Willie had a relationship with Buddy, whom he affectionately called Peaches. An aspiring writer, he secured his parents permission to take a year off from school to write a screenplay but later dropped out of school completely. Although he was making passing grades and his father believed he had a high IQ, ironically, the schools yearbook named him most likely to succeed. He later pursued work assisting in a studio but eventually quit, saying the work didnt inspire him. Later in the series they would divorce and Nancy would enroll in law school, story lines were very topical, and the show was one of the first to feature what have recently been termed very special episodes. In the first episode, Nancy walked in on her husband having sex with one of her friends, during the second season she and Jeff divorced, but he appeared regularly as an active father to Timmy and became involved in more of the Lawrence familys affairs
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The Love Boat
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The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship which aired on the ABC Television Network from May 5,1977, until May 24,1986, three-hour specials aired in 1986–87 and 1990. The show revolves around the captain and a handful of its crew, with several passengers – played by different guest actors for each episode – having romantic. It was part of ABCs popular Saturday night lineup that included Fantasy Island until that ended in 1984. The original 1976 made-for-TV movie on which the show was based was itself based on the nonfiction book Love Boats by Jeraldine Saunders, two more TV movies would follow before the series began its first season in September 1977. The executive producer for the series was Aaron Spelling, who produced several TV series for ABC from the 1960s into the 1980s. In 1997, the episode with segment titles Hidden Treasure, Picture from the Past, the Love Boat ran for nine seasons plus four specials. A made-for-TV movie, titled The Love Boat, A Valentine Voyage, starring four of the original cast members, aired on February 12,1990. Gavin MacLeod as Captain Merrill Stubing Bernie Kopell as Dr. Fred Grandy was in every episode throughout the run of the series, MacLeod was not the captain in the first two TV movies, however. However, when MacLeods character was introduced, there was mention of him being the new captain, among the series attractions was the casting of well-known actors in guest-starring roles, with many famous film stars of yesteryear making rare television appearances. The show was followed on Saturday nights on ABC by Fantasy Island, which was produced by Aaron Spelling. The one-hour sitcom was set aboard a Princess Cruises cruise liner called Pacific Princess. Other ships used were twin sister Island Princess, Stella Solaris, Pearl of Scandinavia, Royal Viking Sky and Royal Princess, the series was filmed primarily on sets in California—20th Century Fox Studios for seasons one through five and Warner Hollywood Studios for the remainder of the series. Another unique aspect of The Love Boat was its writing format, every episode contained several storylines, each written by a different set of writers working on one group of guest stars. As a result, episodes ended up with titles like Disco Baby/Alas, Poor Dwyer/After the War/Ticket to Ride/Itsy Bitsy. This also led to continuity errors, most notably in Julies outfits during boarding and disembarkation. Even though the cast of Charlies Angels had been on separate episodes of the show, on rare occasions there would be crossovers between the stories. In one episode actors Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, formerly of The Brady Bunch, in one scene, the two pass each other in a corridor, exchange a Do I know you. Double-take, and then continue on their separate ways without talking, in a one-time Fantasy Island crossover episode, the cruise ship makes a detour to deliver a troubled woman to the mysterious island, and her storyline continued on that show
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The Streets of San Francisco
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It starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two detectives in San Francisco. The show ran for five seasons, between 1972 and 1977 on ABC, amassing a total of 119 60-minute episodes, the series started with a pilot movie of the same title a week before the series debuted. Edward Hume, who wrote the teleplay for the pilot, was credited as having developed the series based on characters in Westons novel, the pilot featured guest stars Robert Wagner, Tom Bosley and Kim Darby. Douglas left the series at the start of its season and was replaced by Richard Hatch. The Streets of San Francisco debuted on ABC on Saturday, September 16,1972, at 9 p. m. Eastern, by all accounts Malden and Douglas developed a strong professional and personal relationship from their time on the series. Twenty years after last working together on an episode they were both onstage at the 1996 Peoples Choice Awards, Malden referred to Douglas as the son I never had and mentioned that he had wanted producer Quinn Martin to cast Douglas on the series. Douglas responded to the compliment by calling Malden my mentor, the show revolved around two police officers who investigated homicides in San Francisco. He was partnered with a young, plainclothes detective and energetic partner, Assistant Inspector Steve Keller, a graduate, aged twenty-eight. Stone would become a father to Keller as he learned the rigors. Eventually, Keller was promoted to full inspector, as the series went on, Douglas became a star in his own right. Mikes daughter, Jeannie Stone, made occasional appearances, after the second episode of the fifth and final season, Douglas left the show after successfully producing the film One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, which won the Academy Award for Best Film for 1975. He in turn would establish a film career. His characters absence was explained by having him take a position at a local college, while Lt. Stone was partnered with another detective. Dan Robbins, who had started his career on the ABC soap All My Children, the change was not popular with audiences, and the show ended in 1977, due to low ratings. Also in 1977, writer James J. Sweeney won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for the four episode Requiem for Murder. Starting in January,1973, ABC shook up its lineup and shuffled a number of its programs around, and moved it to Thursdays night, in the United Kingdom, the series debuted on 19 November 1973. Both Malden and Douglas spent time with SFPD detectives in order to lend an air of authenticity to the show, SFPD Detectives took a liking to both Malden and Douglas, whom they characterized as very fine fellows. Unlike subsequent generations of production the show made an effort to insinuate itself as seamlessly as possible into the fabric of the city
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Riptide (U.S. TV series)
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Riptide is an American TV detective series that ran on NBC from January 3,1984 to August 22,1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray. The series was created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, the main theme was composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. A mid-season replacement, it debuted as a two-hour TV movie in early 1984, after its cancellation, reruns were aired on the USA Network during the late 1980s. Cody Allen and Nick Ryder are two former Army buddies who decided to open the Pier 56 Detective Agency in Los Angeles, the team operate out of Codys boat, the Riptide, moored at Pier 56 at King Harbor Marina. The men have other tools in their fight against crime. Nick also owns a classic red Chevrolet Corvette and in early episodes Cody drives an orange Woodie station wagon which is replaced by a four-wheel custom GMC Jimmy. Lt. Quinlan is a police officer who continually harasses the trio. Lt. Parisi, the police contact during the final episodes, is more cooperative. During the first few episodes, Mama Jo is the crusty skipper of the Barefoot Contessa, introduced later in the first season is Max, a comedian at a local club. Second season episodes also feature Dooley, a boy who occasionally assists the team in their escapades. Although local mobsters were depicted in most episodes, some reflected sensitive topics, like corruption among the U. S. Army, high-level cover-ups, the third seasons Home for Christmas, with a performance by James Whitmore, has a strongly emotional tone. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released a three-disc DVD set of Riptide, The Complete First Season on February 14,2006, although the Sony release includes all of the episodes from the season, many of the opening teasers are missing. Visual Entertainment has released all three seasons of Riptide, available in Canada only, unlike the U. S. release, all of the opening teasers are intact. However, several episodes have music replaced and sequences edited out due to copyright issues, on October 14,2008 VEI released Riptide, The Complete Series, a 13-disc box set featuring all 58 episodes of the show. The release was scheduled to be released on September 9,2008. As of 2013, these releases have been discontinued and are out of print, in Germany the show is known under the title Trio mit vier Fäusten. Universum Films has released all three seasons of Riptide for Germany on May 29,2009, July 31,2009 and September 25,2009. The DVD sets feature 4,3 Pal, DD2.0 mono German and English, no teasers, the Season 2 boxes will contain an episode not broadcast in Germany, The Twisted Cross, in English with German subtitles
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Becker (TV series)
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Becker is an American sitcom that ran from 1998 to 2004 on CBS. Despite everything, his patients and friends are loyal because Becker genuinely cares about them, the series was produced by Paramount Network Television. The show revolved around Becker and the things that annoyed him, the relationships between Becker and Reggie formed the key plots of many episodes. The show tackled more serious issues as well, such as race, homosexuality, Cerebral AVM, Paramount had Terry Farrell written out of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine so that she could appear in Becker as Ted Dansons love interest. According to Farrell, the plan was for them to have a relationship with romantic tension over the course of the show. However, the producers worried that this would be compared to Sam and Dianes relationship on Cheers. At the end of four, Nancy Travis was introduced for a short arc playing Chris. Chris was a cheerful and optimistic character, the opposite of Becker, the season ended with a cliffhanger as Reggie kissed Becker and then left. However, Farrell was dropped at the end of season four, creator and EP David Hackel and Farrell have both stated that it had nothing to do with Farrell supporting the cast in claims for a promised pay rise after season three. Dr. John Becker is a Harvard Medical School graduate who runs a medical practice. He is frequently annoyed by such as a flickering street lamp, noisy neighbors. Becker is pessimistic and superstitious, believing that just about everything brings him bad luck, always trying to quit smoking, Becker hides a packet of cigarettes in the cash register of the diner where he hangs out to control his intake and keep his habit from Margaret. An atheist, because he cant accept a God who lets bad things happen and he has been divorced twice and is very stingy. Becker is politically liberal, though he hates political correctness, despite his gruff nature, Becker exhibits moments of kindness and shows the utmost professionalism in dealing with his patients, accepting gifts from those who cant pay. Danson, whose hair had gone completely white, dyed his hair brown to match his appearance as Sam Malone on Cheers. Margaret Wyborn – Becker’s nurse and office manager, and one of the few people who can tolerate Becker, Margaret is a figure to Becker. She is married, at best rockily, to the often mentioned but never-seen Lewis and she once thought about becoming a singer instead of a nurse. Margaret is a Christian, specifically a Baptist, and often quotes the Bible, Margaret is generally the most level-headed character and acts as the voice of reason
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University of California, Los Angeles
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The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919 and it offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the university is organized into six undergraduate colleges, seven professional schools, and four professional health science schools. Fourteen Nobel laureates, three Fields Medalists, two Chief Scientists of the U. S. Air Force and three Turing Award winners have been faculty, researchers, or alumni, the university was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1974. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015–2016 ranked UCLA 16th in the world for academics, in 2015-2016, UCLA ranked 12th in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and 31st in the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings. UCLA student-athletes compete as the Bruins in the Pac-12 Conference, the Bruins won 126 national championships, including 113 NCAA team championships, more than any other university. UCLA student-athletes, coaches and staff won 251 Olympic medals,126 gold,65 silver and 60 bronze, UCLA student-athletes competed in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception, and won a gold medal in every Olympics that the United States participated in since 1932. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29,1882, the facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their technique with children. That elementary school is related to the present day version, UCLA Lab School, in 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School. In 1914, the moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in East Hollywood. However, David Prescott Barrows, the new President of the University of California, the same legislation added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science. After the athletic teams entered the Pacific Coast conference in 1926, the Southern Branch student council adopted the nickname Bruins, in 1927, the Regents renamed the Southern Branch the University of California at Los Angeles. In the same year, the state broke ground in Westwood on land sold for $1 million, less than one-third its value, by real estate developers Edwin and Harold Janss, the campus in Westwood opened to students in 1929. The original four buildings were the College Library, Royce Hall, the Physics-Biology Building, the first undergraduate classes on the new campus were held in 1929 with 5,500 students. A timeline of the history can be found on its website, during its first 32 years, UCLA was treated as an off-site department of UC. As such, its presiding officer was called a provost, in 1951, UCLA was formally elevated to co-equal status with UC Berkeley, and its presiding officer Raymond B. Allen was the first chief executive to be granted the title of chancellor. The appointment of Franklin David Murphy to the position of Chancellor in 1960 helped spark an era of growth of facilities. By the end of the decade, UCLA had achieved distinction in a range of subjects
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The X-Files
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The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter, which originally aired from September 10,1993 to May 19,2002 on Fox. The program spanned nine seasons, included 202 episodes, and a film of the same name. Later in 2008, a film was made and preceded a tenth season revival. The series revolves around FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files, early in the series, both agents become pawns in a larger conflict and come to trust only each other and a very few select people. The agents also discover an agenda of the government to keep the existence of life a secret. They develop a relationship which begins as a platonic friendship. In addition to the story arc, Monster-of-the-Week episodes form roughly two-thirds of all episodes. When creating the characters, Carter sought to reverse gender stereotypes by making Mulder a believer. The first seven seasons featured Duchovny and Anderson equally, in the last two seasons, Anderson took precedence while Duchovny appeared intermittently. New main characters were introduced, FBI agents John Doggett and Monica Reyes, Mulder and Scullys boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, also became a main character. The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, the series later returned to Vancouver to film The X-Files, I Want to Believe as well as the tenth season of the series. The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received positive reviews. Initially considered a series, it turned into a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and embraced conspiracy theories. Both the series itself and lead actors Duchovny and Anderson received multiple awards and nominations, the series also spawned a franchise which includes The Lone Gunmen spin-off, two theatrical films and accompanying merchandise. The revival premiered on January 24,2016, the X-Files follows the careers and personal lives of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Mulder is a profiler and strong believer in the supernatural. He is also adamant about the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life and this set of beliefs earns him the nickname Spooky Mulder and an assignment to a little-known department that deals with unsolved cases, known as the X-Files. His belief in the springs from the claimed abduction of his sister Samantha Mulder by extraterrestrials when Mulder was 12
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Fox Mulder
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FBI Special Agent Fox William Mulder is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series The X-Files, played by David Duchovny. Mulders peers consider his theories on extraterrestrial activity as spooky and far-fetched and he also has a photographic memory and is partially colorblind. Mulder was a character for the first seven seasons, but was limited to a recurring character for the following two seasons. He returns as a character for the tenth season. Mulder made his first appearance in the first season pilot episode, Mulder believes in extraterrestrial unidentified flying objects and a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of their existence. Mulder considers the X-Files and the truth behind the conspiracy so important that he has made them the main focus of his life. Mulder was born on October 13,1961 in Chilmark, Massachusetts, the mysterious disappearance of Mulders sister and his ensuing search for her became the consuming drive of his life. In 1982, Mulder graduated with first class honours from University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and he then graduated with honors from the Quantico FBI Training Academy in 1984. Mulder joined the FBI on October 24,1984, on graduating from the Academy, Mulder began his work in the Behavioral Science Unit under Agent Bill Patterson, with whom he had a testy relationship. In 1988, the FBI assigned Mulder to the Violent Crimes Unit, around this time, Mulder first came across the X-Files, an obscure FBI section dealing with cases relating to the paranormal, he pored over these cases in his spare time, becoming obsessed with them. In 1991, Mulder re-opened the X-Files with Special agent Diana Fowley, Mulders ultimate goal was to uncover what he believed to be a government conspiracy to hide the truth about alien life, and to find out what had happened to his sister. His quest and belief in the existence of aliens was, for most of the series, during the seventh season, Mulder eventually discovers the truth about his sister. Samantha was abducted, and various tests were performed on her and she was then returned to The Smoking Man to live out her life under his supervision, all the while undergoing additional tests. She was unable to bear the testing any longer so she ran away from her home and was admitted to a nearby hospital. It is revealed that Samantha was taken by spiritual intervention, with the help of beings called Walk-ins, Mulder is briefly reunited with Samanthas spirit. Mulder was also abducted by the aliens himself in 2000, and returned to Earth, almost dead and he had been infected by an alien virus, but Scully found a way to rescue him. He returned to work for a period of time, but was eventually fired for failure to follow orders not to investigate any X-Files. After Scully gave birth to William, Mulder went into hiding in New Mexico after Kersh said his life was in danger, despite a defense organized by Walter Skinner with numerous witnesses, the judges sentence Mulder to death
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Dana Scully
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Dana Scully is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson. Scully is an FBI agent and a doctor, partnered with fellow Special Agent Fox Mulder for the first seven, and the tenth, seasons. In the television series, they out of a cramped basement office at FBI headquarters in Washington. In 2002, Scully left government employment, and in 2008 she began working as a surgeon in Our Lady of Sorrows, in contrast to Mulders credulous believer character, Scully is the skeptic for the first seven seasons, choosing to base her beliefs on what science can prove. She later on becomes a believer after Mulders abduction at the end of season seven. Scully has appeared in all but four episodes of The X-Files, and in the 20th Century Fox films The X-Files, released in 1998, the episodes she does not appear in are 3, Zero Sum, Unusual Suspects, and Travelers. Dana Katherine Scully was born on February 23,1964 in Annapolis, Maryland, to William and Margaret Scully, into a close-knit Catholic family with Irish ancestry. She has a brother, Bill Jr. an older sister, Melissa, and a younger brother, Charles. Scullys father was a captain, who died of a heart attack in early January 1994. Dana Scully grew up in Annapolis, Maryland and later in San Diego, as a young girl, Scullys favorite book was Moby-Dick and she came to nickname her father Ahab from the book, and in return, he called her Starbuck. Due to this she named her dog Queequeg, Scully attended The University of Maryland, and in 1986 received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. Her undergraduate thesis was titled Einsteins Twin Paradox, A New Interpretation, while in medical school at Stanford University she was recruited by the FBI, she accepted the agencys offer of employment because she felt she could distinguish herself there. After two years in the bureau, Division Chief Scott Blevins assigned her to work with agent Fox Mulder, upon being partnered with Mulder, Scully maintained her medical skills by acting as a forensic pathologist, often performing or consulting on autopsies of victims on X-Files cases. In Season 3 she found out that a super hi-tech microchip has been implanted in the back of her neck, after having it removed, she developed cancer in the fourth season and was hospitalized after the cancer became terminal. She was saved after Mulder broke into the Department of Defense to retrieve another chip to be implanted back into her neck, at the time, Scully was also undergoing experimental medical treatments and was having a dramatic renewal of her faith. Scully was pronounced infertile during the fifth season, in the season five episode Emily, Scully discovers that she unknowingly mothered a daughter during her abduction. Her daughter Emily was adopted by another family, Emily died shortly afterwards, and they were unable to further investigate after Emilys body went missing. In the seventh season finale, Requiem, Scully mysteriously became pregnant, the child, named William, after her own father, as well as Mulders father, was born at the end of the eighth season
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Perception (U.S. TV series)
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Perception is an American crime drama television series created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman. The series stars Eric McCormack as Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuropsychiatrist with schizophrenia who assists the FBI on some of their most complex cases. The series aired in the United States on the cable channel TNT from July 9,2012 to March 17,2015 and was produced by ABC Studios, on November 13,2014, Perception was canceled after three seasons. The remaining episodes of season 3 began airing February 17,2015, Dr. Daniel Pierce, a talented but eccentric neuropsychiatrist, is enlisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist in solving some of its most complex cases in Chicago. Dr. Pierce works closely with Special Agent Kate Moretti, a student who recruited him to work with the FBI. Also on the team are Max Lewicki, Dr. Pierces teaching assistant, and Natalie Vincent, episodes typically begin with a scene of Pierce giving a lecture to his students about an aspect of the human brain that becomes significant within the plot of the episode. The episodes also typically end with observations said to students about the paradoxes of human perception, Eric McCormack as Dr. Daniel J. Pierces interest in neuroscience stems from his own long history of paranoid schizophrenia. His hallucinations sometimes enable him to pick out subtle clues in solving crimes, in the season 2 finale, Pierce quits CLMU after realizing that the faculty cares more about the schools image and benefactors than its education and moves to Paris. Rachael Leigh Cook as Special Agent Katherine Rose Kate Moretti, Pierces former student, Kate has a tendency to go beyond the scope of the assigned investigation, which cost her a position in Washington, D. C. and caused her demotion back to Chicago. She had a crush on Pierce during her years and is his most trusting ally. Arjay Smith as Max Lewicki, Dr. Pierces live-in teaching assistant and it is later revealed in the season 1 episode Nemesis that the two met when Lewicki was working as an orderly at the same psychiatric hospital in which Pierce had been confined for his mental illness. Pierce then asked Lewicki to come with him to Chicago on the promise of an assistantship to help Max finish graduate school. Kelly Rowan as Natalie Vincent, Pierces imaginary best friend and adviser, Rowan also plays Dr. Caroline Newsome, Pierces psychiatrist and the physical basis for Natalie. LeVar Burton as Paul Haley, a professor of cultural anthropology and he and Pierce have been close friends since they were roommates in college. Scott Wolf as Assistant U. S. Attorney Donald Donnie Ryan, Kates ex-husband and he has recently transferred back to Chicago in an attempt to re-ignite his relationship with Kate. Jonathan Scarfe as FBI Agent Roger Probert, Kates former work partner, brad Rowe as FBI Agent Bobby Dalton, Kates current work partner. Dan Lauria as Joe Moretti, Kates widowed father, a retired CPD homicide detective who now runs a bar in Chicago, shane Coffey as the young Daniel DJ Pierce, before he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Peter Coyote as James Alan Pierce, Daniels wealthy but estranged father, joBeth Williams as Margaret Pierce, Daniels late mother, who died from cancer 25 years earlier, but reappears in Daniels hallucinations
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Bus Riley's Back in Town
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Bus Rileys Back in Town is a 1965 film written by William Inge, directed by Harvey Hart, and starring Ann-Margret and Michael Parks. Inge, who had one of Americas top playwrights and screenwriters since the early 1950s, was very unhappy with changes made to his script. He had his name removed from the credits, replacing it with the name Walter Gage and it turned out to be the last of Inges works brought to the screen during his lifetime. Though Ann-Margret was the films best-known cast member, trailers for Bus Riley heavily promoted Parks as Hollywoods next big star, however, the movie had only modest success, and did little for Parks career. A man returns to his small Midwestern hometown after three years in the Navy and begins trying to make a life for himself, moving in with his mother and sister and he suffers a series of personal and career disappointments. Riley discovers that a male friend who has promised him a mechanics job wants a live-in sexual relationship as part of the bargain. To compound his unhappiness, Riley learns that his beautiful but shallow girlfriend Laurel has married a man in his absence. She is willing to rekindle her affair with Riley, however, judy, a friend who loses her mother in a fire, then moves in with the Rileys, leading to a romance with Riley. It was produced at Pennsylvania State University in 1958, and he set about expanding it. In 1962, he said, Right now its in a stage, half movie. I intend to make it into a play and its about a success symbol of today - a young movie actor returning to his home town. It deals with some of the forces in his life that compelled his drive for success and it is not based on any particular person. Its more of a composite portrait and it was originally known as All Kinds of People. Michael Parks was cast off the back of his work in Daffy, bruce Springsteens video for Im on Fire contains a homage to Bus Rileys Back in Town, with a young woman shown dropping off car keys to a young man working under a vehicle. Bus Rileys Back in Town at the Internet Movie Database
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The Karate Killers
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The Karate Killers is a 1967 feature-length film version of The Man from U. N. C. L. E. s third season two-part episode The Five Daughters Affair. The episodes were originally broadcast in the United States on March 31,1967 and it, as does the television series, stars Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. It is the sixth feature film that used as its basis a reedited version of one or more episodes from the series. Joan Crawford, Telly Savalas, Herbert Lom, Diane McBain, Jill Ireland, the film was directed by Barry Shear and written by Norman Hudis with the story by Boris Ingster. Feature films made significant changes and additions to the episodes from which they were drawn and this movie, like the one immediately before it, makes relatively minimal changes to the episodes. No major scenes were added or removed, but various trims were made to fit the episodes into the time of the film and musical cues. Also changed were some scenes that became more violent or sexy than generally shown on American network television at the time. For example, both the bodies of Amanda True and Randolph are shown with eyes closed in the TV episode, in the movie, their eyes are open. In some fight scenes, the version contains more violent images compared to the episodes. Margo De Fanzini’s initial nudity is seen in versions, but is more pronounced in the movie. Other changes were made for no reason other than artistic. Like One of Our Spies Is Missing, the film required a new score due to The Five Daughters Affair being tracked with music from other episodes. Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are being attacked with missiles from small helicopters while on their way to see Dr. Simon True, the attackers work for THRUSH and, though they fail to stop the agents, are the titular “Karate Killers” Dr. True has discovered a process to extract gold from sea water, fearing theft, he hid the formula, saying someone would have to “hunt down the four winds” to find it. But during his presentation of the process to U. N. C. L. E and he dies from apparently natural causes. Trues dying words are that his daughter is the key to finding the formula, alexander Waverly informs Solo and Kuryakin that the dead man has four step-daughters and one biological daughter, Sandy True. True sent each of his four step-daughters something that, when assembled, will mean something to Sandy, Dr. True’s widow, Amanda was having an affair with THRUSH operative Randolph, but he was only using her to get closer to Dr. True’s notes and formula. With no further use for her, Randolph orders her murdered by the Karate Killers, finding her body, the agents recruit Sandy to come with them as they find her step-sisters
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The Strawberry Statement (film)
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Bruce Davison, Simon Kim Darby, Linda Bud Cort, Elliott Murray MacLeod, George Tom Foral, The Coach Bob Balaban, Elliott The film details the life of one student. Its setting is not Columbia University in New York City but a university in Stockton, California. Thunderclap Newmans Something in the Air and numerous other songs are used on the soundtrack. Simon, a student at a university in San Francisco is indifferent to the student protests around him. While she quickly runs over to the toilets to dress, Simon protests to his roommate that their time should only be devoted to studying, so they can get good jobs, coming back clothed, the woman refuses setting another date with the roommate because shell be busy protesting. She explains the plan to construct a gymnasium in an African-American neighborhood. She tells him that she and others plan to take one of the universitys buildings. Simon later experiences love at first sight with a female student. Following her into the university building the students are taking over and she approaches him while he boringly fools around in the toilets. She says her name is Linda and asks him to rob a store with her so the striking students can eat. In a later student protest, Simon is arrested and he then tells Linda he is not a radical like her. He does not want to blow the building after doing his best to be accepted into the school in the first place. Linda later claims she cant see someone who is not likewise dedicated to the movement, nevertheless, she announces temporarily leaving college to decide for sure. In the showers, the rightist jock George beats up Simon, gaining fame, his friend tells him a white version of page 43 of Simons National Geographic looks for him. Alone in a room, a large breasted redhead with a tight sweater smiles at Simon. Seeing his injured lip, she puts his hands on her right breast. She then takes off her sweater telling Simon did you know Lenin loved women with big breasts, after quick flashes of her large breasts, Simon confirms liking them, but asks her if she saw The Graduate. Replying no, she takes him between some filing cabinets and takes off his belt, to her surprise, Simon does not want people to see whatever it is she plans to do to with him
