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Low Rider
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Low Rider is a song written by American funk band War and producer Jerry Goldstein, which appeared on their album Why Cant We Be Friends. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart and peaked at number 7 on the Pop Singles chart, the songs most distinguishable feature is its driving bass line, which is present for nearly all of the song. It also ends with a noise that then becomes a saxophone solo. The song has been covered by artists, including the following. Low Rider was sampled by LTrimm on their song also titled Low Rider, Low Rider was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of Pretty Fly. Low Rider was sampled by Tito & Tarantula on the track Bullets From a Gun, the song Jorge Regula by The Moldy Peaches borrowed the main riff from Low Rider. Sublime sampled the riff of Low Rider in the song Foreman Freestyle on disc 2 of Everything Under the Sun, the song Surfin Buena Park by The Ziggens borrowed the main riff from Low Rider. The ending siren of Low Rider was heard in GDFR by Flo Rida,9, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, The Internship and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Low Rider is the song for George Lopez, Lopez Tonight. At the 2007 ALMA Awards, George Lopez called this song, The Chicano National Anthem, and performed it live. Low Rider is featured in the video games Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas, Skate 2, Skate It, Driver, Parallel Lines, MLB08, The Show, Rock Band 3 and George Lopez, Driveway Bowling. Low Rider is mentioned in That 70s Show in the episode Sparks, Low Rider is featured in the Misfits Episode Six of the first series, when Nathan uses it to protect himself from Rachel. Low Rider is featured in The Simpsons episode A Midsummers Nice Dream when Homer goes on tour with Cheech, Low Rider is featured in a 2014 advertisement for the drug Crestor, as well as in older ads for both the Canadian bank CIBC and the British food Marmite. The song ran on the 7 December 2016 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the song appears in a 2016 TV commercial for ESPNs SportsCenter
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Cast and characters
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War (band)
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War is an American funk band from Long Beach, California, known for the hit songs Spill the Wine, The World Is a Ghetto, The Cisco Kid, Why Cant We Be Friends. Formed in 1969, War was a crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was the album of 1973. The band also transcended racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic line-up, in 1962, Howard E. Scott and Harold Brown formed a group called The Creators in Long Beach, California. Within a few years, they had added Charles Miller, Morris B. B, Dickerson and Lonnie Jordan to the lineup. Lee Oskar and Papa Dee Allen later joined as well and they all shared a love of diverse styles of music, which they had absorbed living in the racially mixed Los Angeles ghettos. The Creators recorded several singles on Dore Records while working with Tjay Contrelli, in 1968, the Creators became Nightshift and started performing with Deacon Jones, a football player and singer. The original War was conceived by record producer Jerry Goldstein and singer Eric Burdon, in 1969, Goldstein saw musicians who would eventually become War playing at the Rag Doll in North Hollywood, backing Deacon Jones, and he was attracted to the bands sound. Eric Burdon and War began playing shows to audiences throughout Southern California before entering into the studio to record their debut album Eric Burdon Declares War. The albums best known track, Spill the Wine, was a hit, Eric Burdon and War toured extensively across Europe and the United States. A reviewer from New Musical Express called War the best live band I ever saw after their first UK gig in Londons Hyde Park. A second Eric Burdon and War album, a set titled The Black-Mans Burdon was released in 1970. They finished the tour without him and returned to record their first album as War, War met with only modest success, but later that year, the band released All Day Music which included the singles All Day Music and Slippin into Darkness. The latter single sold one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R. I. A. A. in June 1972. In 1972 they released The World Is a Ghetto which was more successful. Its second single, The Cisco Kid shipped gold, and the album attained the two spot on Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was Billboard magazines Album of the Year as the best-selling album of 1973. The next album, Deliver the Word contained the hits Gypsy Man and a version of Me and Baby Brother. The album went on to sell two million copies
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Original lineup in 1976
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2008 Reunion Flyer
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Telepictures
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Telepictures is an American television and film production company, currently operating as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Telepictures was established in 1978 by Michael Garin as a syndication firm. The company syndicated Rankin-Basss programming and specials that were produced from 1974 to 1988, including new and successful animated series, such as ThunderCats, Telepictures indeed bought Rankin-Bass outright in 1983. In addition, Telepictures had syndicated numerous television programs such as My Favorite Martian, Heres Lucy, Love Connection, Telepictures also operated a small publishing arm, which published magazines, such as Muppet Magazine and GoBots Magazine. In January 1986, the merged with Merv Adelson and Lee Richs Lorimar Productions, creating Lorimar-Telepictures and assumed production and distribution of shows like Dallas. The company also began distribution of first-run episodes of Mamas Family in June 1986, the company briefly dabbled into owning television stations by purchasing charter Fox affiliate WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh and attempted to purchase then-CBS affiliate WTVJ in Miami. However, after CBS made an attempt to purchase Fox affiliate WCIX from Taft Broadcasting. In 1988, Lorimar Television was created as a production entity of Lorimar Telepictures. Around this time, the purchased a 9% stake in Warner Communications. In 1989, Warner finally purchased the company, Lorimar Television became a separate subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television until 1993, while Lorimar-Telepictures unit was folded into Warner Bros, Telepictures became Telepictures Productions in 1990, a producer of syndicated programming that Warner Bros. Shortly after the purchase of Turner Broadcasting System by parent company Time Warner, the company distributed non-Warner Bros. produced programming to which the syndication rights have been licensed to Warner and/or Turner as well as Warner properties. In 2003, Telepictures Distribution was folded into Warner Bros
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Warner Horizon Television
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Television is the television production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner, as of 2015, it is the worlds largest television production company measured by revenue and library. Its most notable TV shows include Friends, ER, The West Wing, Smallville, Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, The Wire and Full House. The division was started on March 21,1955 with its first and most successful head being Jack L. Warners son-in-law William T. Orr. ABC had major success against its competition with Walt Disneys Disneyland TV series, WB formally entered television production with the premiere of its self-titled anthology series Warner Bros. The one-hour weekly show featured rotating episodes of series based on the WB films, Casablanca and Kings Row. One such segment for Rebel Without a Cause featured Gig Young notably talking about road safety with James Dean, with only Cheyenne being a success, Warner Bros. ended the ten-minute promotions of new films and replaced Warner Bros. Presents with a series titled Conflict. It was felt that Conflict was what the series lacked. Conflict showed the pilots for Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip, the company also produced Jack Webbs Red Nightmare for the U. S. Department of Defense that was later shown on American television on Jack Webbs General Electric True. During a Hollywood television writers strike, Warner Bros. reused many plots from its films and this was another example of imitating Warner Bros B Pictures who would remake an A film and switch the setting. Two of the most popular stars, James Garner and Clint Walker, Garner never returned to the Warners fold during this period. Successful Warners television stars found themselves in leading roles of many of the films with no increase in salary. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. was simultaneously the lead of 77 Sunset Strip, in a role on Maverick. Edd Byrnes and Troy Donahue would go on to become teen heartthrobs, Warners also contracted established stars such as Ray Danton, Peter Breck, Jeanne Cooper and Grant Williams. These stars often appeared as guest stars, sometimes reprising their series role in another TV series, the stars appeared in Warner Bros. Some stars such as Connie Stevens, Edd Byrnes, Robert Conrad, depending on the particular show, William Lava or David Buttolph would compose the music, with lyrics by Stan Jones or Paul Francis Webster, among others. For the crime shows, it was up to the team of Jerry Livingston and Mack David, who also scored the themes for the sitcom Room for One More
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Warner Bros. Television
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James Garner and
Diane McBain
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TBS (TV network)
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Turner Broadcasting System is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner, which shares its name with the channel. TBS carries a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy, along with sports events, including Major League Baseball. In its current form, TBS was originally established on December 17,1976 as a feed of Turners local, independent broadcast television station in Atlanta. The channel broadcast a variety of programming during this era, including films, syndicated series, Atlanta Braves baseball, wTBSs local programming was nearly identical to the national feed, aside from FCC-mandated public affairs and educational programming that only aired on the local signal. By the early 2000s, TBS had begun to more intensively on comedic programming, including sitcoms. As of February 2015, TBS is available to approximately 96.5 million pay television households in the United States, TBS is available on cable and satellite providers throughout the entire United States. The national TBS feed became available to cable and satellite subscribers within channel 17s viewing area as a result, TBSs programming was previously made available to cable and satellite subscribers in Canada through the WTBS Atlanta feed. As a result, following the separation of TBS and WTBS/WPCH in 2007, Canadian cable and satellite subscribers received access to WPCH/Atlanta, instead of TBS. Most of TBSs flagship programming, such as Major League Baseball and original series, are not broadcast on WPCH-TV, TBS originated as a broadcast television station in Atlanta, Georgia that operated on UHF channel 17, and maintained a general entertainment format as an independent station. Early programming included movies from the 1930s and 1940s, sitcoms, the station also carried sports, such as Atlanta Braves baseball, Atlanta Hawks basketball, Atlanta Flames hockey, and Georgia Championship Wrestling. WTCG also bid very low on programming, leaving the stations in the market – WSB-TV, WAGA-TV. By the mid-1970s, The Andy Griffith Show, The Flintstones, Leave It to Beaver, The Little Rascals, My Three Sons, Star Trek, The Three Stooges, cable providers in these areas carried stations from neighboring markets, and if possible, an independent station. Ted Turner decided to distribute his station through satellite, enabling WTCG to be received nationwide, the first broadcast was the 1948 Dana Andrews-Cesar Romero film Deep Waters, which had been in progress for 30 minutes on channel 17 in Atlanta. Instantly, WTCG went from being an independent television station that was available only in Georgia. WTCG became a superstation and set a precedent for todays basic cable television. By 1978, WTCG was carried on cable providers in all 50 states, TBS became only the second U. S. Ted Turners innovation signaled the start of the basic cable revolution. WTCG changed its callsign to WTBS on August 27,1979, the new call letters were acquired via a monetary donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys student radio station for the construction of a new transmitter. In the late 1970s, WTBS continued to acquire second-hand programming such as made-for-TV Popeye cartoons, The Brady Bunch, The Munsters, and other programs
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1080i
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1080i is an abbreviation referring to a combination of frame resolution and scan type, used in high-definition television and high-definition video. The number 1080 refers to the number of lines on the screen. The term assumes a widescreen ratio of 16,9, so the 1080 lines of vertical resolution implies 1920 columns of horizontal resolution. A1920 pixels ×1080 lines screen has a total of 2.1 megapixels and this format is used in the SMPTE 292M standard. The choice of 1080 lines originates with Charles Poynton, who in the early 1990s pushed for square pixels to be used in HD video formats, within the designation 1080i, the i stands for interlaced scan. A frame of 1080i video consists of two fields of 1920 horizontal and 540 vertical pixels. The first field consists of all odd-numbered TV lines and the second all even numbered lines, 1080i differs from 1080p, where the p stands for progressive scan, where all lines in a frame are captured at the same time. In native or pure 1080i, the two fields of a frame correspond to different instants, so motion portrayal is good and this is true for interlaced video in general and can be easily observed in still images taken of fast motion scenes. However, when 1080p material is captured at 25 or 30 frames/second, it is converted to 1080i at 50 or 60 fields/second, respectively, in this situation both fields in a frame do correspond to the same instant. The field-to-instant relation is more complex for the case of 1080p at 24 frames/second converted to 1080i at 60 fields/second. Both field rates can be carried by digital television broadcast formats such as ATSC, DVB. The frame rate can be implied by the context, while the rate is generally specified after the letter i. In this case 1080i60 refers to 60 fields per second, the European Broadcasting Union prefers to use the resolution and frame rate separated by a slash, as in 1080i/30 and 1080i/25, likewise 480i/30 and 576i/25. Resolutions of 1080i60 or 1080i50 often refers to 1080i/30 or 1080i/25 in EBU notation, 1080i is directly compatible with some CRT HDTVs on which it can be displayed natively in interlaced form, but for display on progressive-scan—e. g. Most new LCD and plasma TVs, it must be deinterlaced, depending on the televisions video processing capabilities, the resulting video quality may vary, but may not necessarily suffer. For example, film material at 25fps may be deinterlaced from 1080i50 to restore a full 1080p resolution at the frame rate without any loss. Preferably video material with 50 or 60 motion phases/second is to be converted to 50p or 60p before display, worldwide, most HD channels on satellite and cable broadcast in 1080i. This also allows local newscasts on these ABC affiliates to be produced in the resolution to match the picture quality of their 1080i competitors
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An example frame of poorly deinterlaced video. Despite the fact that most TV transmissions are interlaced, plasma and LCD display technologies are progressively scanned. Consequently, flat-panel TVs convert an interlaced source to progressive scan for display, which can have an adverse impact on motion portrayal on inexpensive models.
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First inauguration of Barack Obama
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The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20,2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D. C. marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Barack Obama as President and Joe Biden as Vice President. Based on the attendance numbers, television viewership, and Internet traffic. A New Birth of Freedom, a phrase from the Gettysburg Address, in his speeches to the crowds, Obama referred to ideals expressed by Lincoln about renewal, continuity and national unity. Obama mentioned these ideals in his speech to stress the need for shared sacrifice, for the first time, the committee opened the entire length of the National Mall as the public viewing area for the swearing-in ceremony, breaking with the tradition of past inaugurations. Among the celebrations for the inauguration, the committee hosted a first-ever Neighborhood Inaugural Ball with free or affordable tickets for ordinary citizens, in accordance with Article I, Section 6 of the United States Constitution, Obama resigned from the United States Senate effective November 16,2008. He was formally elected by the Electoral College on December 15,2008, the results were certified by a joint session of Congress on January 8,2009. Obama also represented a change as the first man elected President who was born in the 1960s. He inherited what Peter Orszag termed an economic mess that became known as the financial crisis. According to a CNN poll, he embodied youthful energy and transition at a time of economic despair, the inauguration was planned primarily by two committees, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies and the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee. Although the election was scheduled for November 4,2008, the committee began construction of the inaugural platform on September 24,2008. The committee is overseen by the U. S. Senate Committee on Rules, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies chose the inaugural theme, A New Birth of Freedom, a phrase from Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg Address from the Civil War era. In his reliance on the theme, Obama wanted to give Americans reassurance that today, as in Lincolns time. The congressional committee released the schedule of the January 20 inaugural events on December 17,2008. Obama decided to use his full name Barack Hussein Obama to follow the tradition, during the election campaign, Obamas detractors tried to use his middle name to imply falsely that he was a Muslim. The District of Columbia City Council passed legislation to enable bars, the co-chairs of the committee were William Daley, Penny Pritzker, John Rogers, Patrick Ryan and Julianna Smoot. The presidential committee set aside a section of the close to the U. S. Capitol for people holding reserved tickets for the inaugural event. To enable people in attendance to see and hear the swearing-in ceremony, despite criticism that such a large event could not be carbon-friendly, the presidential committee incorporated environment-friendly measures in its planning of the inaugural events
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Barack Obama takes the
oath of office as the
President of the United States.
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Preparations at the
United States Capitol
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One of the one million public
invitations to the inaugural ceremony of Barack Obama
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One of the color-coded tickets issued by members of the 111th U.S. Congress
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Late-night television
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Late night television in television broadcast programming is dayparting. It follows prime time and precedes the overnight television programming graveyard slot, the slot generally runs from about 11,30 PM to 2,00 AM local time, with variations according to the time zone. In the United States and Canada the term is synonymous with the talk show. Thus, the late night programming block is considered important in North America. On most major-network stations, a local newscast airs at the beginning of the block. Similarly, Australian television primarily airs American late shows, lower-priority imported series or overflows of sports programming in the night time slot. An example is the childrens channel Nickelodeon, which changes over to Nick at Nite at an hour when most pre-adolescent children go to sleep, Nick at Nite typically airs series programming, such as reruns of sitcoms, that may have coarser language and more adult themes. After 11, Japan airs adult talk or variety shows as well as late night anime, Late-night news Late-night talk show Late night television in the United States List of late-night American network TV programs
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dayparting; late night television is in shades of green and labelled "Late Fringe" and "Post Late Fringe".
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Mexican-American
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Mexican Americans are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent. As of July 2015, Mexican Americans made up 11. 1% of the United States population, as of July 2015, Mexican Americans comprised 63. 4% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The United States is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world, second only to Mexico itself, canada is a distant third, with a small Mexican Canadian population of 96,055 as of 2011. Over 60% of all Mexican Americans reside in the states of California, in 2015, the United States admitted 157,227 Mexican immigrants, and as of November 2016,1.31 million Mexicans were on the waiting list to immigrate to the United States through legal means. Communities of Spanish-speaking Tejanos, Nuevomexicanos, Californios and Mission Indians have existed in the American southwest since the area was part of New Spains Provincias Internas, the majority of these historically Hispanophone populations eventually adopted English as their first language as part of their overall Americanization. Mexican-American history spans more than 400 years and varies from region to region within the United States, in 1900, there were slightly more than 500,000 Hispanics of Mexican descent living in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, California and Texas. Most were Mexican Americans of Spanish descent and other Hispanicized European settlers who settled in the Southwest during Spanish colonial times, as well as local and Mexican Indians. Approximately ten percent of the current Mexican-American population are descended from the colonial settlers. As early as 1813, some of the Tejanos who colonized Texas in the Spanish Colonial Period established a government in Texas that desired independence from Spanish-ruled Mexico, in those days, there was no concept of identity as Mexican. Many Mexicans were more loyal to their states/provinces than to their country as a whole and this was particularly true in frontier regions such as Zacatecas, Texas, Yucatán, Oaxaca, New Mexico, etc. As shown by the writings of colonial Tejanos such as Antonio Menchaca, Mexico encouraged immigration from the United States to settle east Texas and, by 1831, English-speaking settlers outnumbered Tejanos ten to one in the region. Both groups were settled mostly in the part of the territory. The Mexican government became concerned about the volume of Anglo-American immigration. Consistent with its abolition of slavery, the Mexican government banned slavery within the state and his story is complex because he joined the Anglo rebels and helped defeat the Mexican forces of Santa Anna. But later on, as Mayor of San Antonio, he, after receiving a series of death threats, Seguín relocated his family in Mexico, where he was coerced into military service and fought against the US in 1846–1848 Mexican–American War. As a Spanish colony, the territory of California also had an population of colonial settlers. In the mid-19th century, more settlers from the United States began to enter the territory, in California, Spanish settlement began in 1769 with the establishment of the Presidio and Catholic mission of San Diego. 20 more missions were established along the California coast by 1823, along with military Presidios, settlers in California tended to stay close to the coast and outside of the California interior
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Eastern Time Zone (North America)
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Places that use Eastern Standard Time when observing standard time are 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Eastern Daylight Time, when observing daylight saving time DST is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, in the northern parts of the time zone, on the second Sunday in March, at 2,00 a. m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3,00 a. m. EDT leaving a one-hour gap, on the first Sunday in November, at 2,00 a. m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1,00 a. m, southern parts of the zone do not observe daylight saving time. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 ruled that daylight saving time would run from the last Sunday of April until the last Sunday in October in the United States, the act was amended to make the first Sunday in April the beginning of daylight saving time as of 1987. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended daylight saving time in the United States beginning in 2007. So local times change at 2,00 a. m. EST to 3,00 a. m. EDT on the second Sunday in March, in Canada, the time changes as it does in the United States. However, a handful of communities unofficially observe Eastern Time because they are part of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area – Phenix City, Smiths Station, Lanett, and Valley. Florida, All of Florida is in the Eastern Time zone except for the portion of the Florida Panhandle west of the Apalachicola River, as the Eastern–Central zone boundary approaches the Gulf of Mexico, it follows the Bay/Gulf county line. Indiana, All of Indiana observes Eastern Time except for six counties in the Chicago metropolitan area. Kentucky, Roughly, the half of the state, including all of metropolitan Louisville, is in the Eastern Time Zone. Historically the entire state observed Central Time, when daylight saving time was first introduced, the Lower Peninsula remained on DST after it formally ended, effectively re-aligning itself into the Eastern Time Zone. The Upper Peninsula continued to observe Central Time until 1972, when all, Tennessee, Most of the eastern third of Tennessee is legally on Eastern Time. Eastern Time is also used somewhat as a de facto official time for all of the United States, since it includes the capital and the largest city. Major professional sports leagues also post all game times in Eastern time, for example, a game time between two teams from Pacific Time Zone will still be posted in Eastern time. Most cable television and national broadcast networks advertise airing times in Eastern time, national broadcast networks generally have two primary feeds, an eastern feed for Eastern and Central time zones, and a tape-delayed western feed for the Pacific Time Zone. The prime time is set on Eastern and Pacific at 8,00 p. m. with the Central time zone stations receiving the eastern feed at 7,00 p. m. local time. Mountain Time Zone stations receive a separate feed at 7,00 p. m. local time, as Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, during the summer months, it has its own feed at 7,00 p. m. local time
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Pacific Time Zone
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The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC−7 and is based on the mean solar time of the 105th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. In the United States and Canada, this zone is generically called the Pacific Time Zone. Specifically, it uses Pacific Standard Time when observing standard time, most of Canada uses daylight saving time. In Mexico, the UTC−8 time zone is known as the Northwest Zone, the largest city in the Pacific Time Zone is Los Angeles, the citys metropolitan area is the largest in the zone. The following states or areas are part of the Pacific Time Zone, California Washington Oregon – all, except for most of Malheur County, nevada Idaho Panhandle – the northern half of Idaho, north of the Salmon River. The town of Hyder, Alaska, is officially in the Alaska Time Zone, however, most of the town observes the Pacific Time because of strong connections with nearby Stewart, British Columbia, which is in the Pacific Time Zone. The United States Post Office in Hyder strictly adheres to Alaska Time, in Canada, the Pacific Time Zone includes most of British Columbia, all of Yukon, and the townsite of Tungsten. In Mexico, the state of Baja California lies completely within the Pacific Time Zone and this does not include the state of Baja California Sur, which is south of Baja California. Through 2006, the time changed to daylight time at 02,00 LST to 03,00 LDT on the first Sunday in April. The Canadian provinces and territories that use daylight time each adopted these dates between October 2005 and February 2007, in Mexico, beginning in 2010, the portion of the country in this time zone uses the extended dates, as do some other parts. The vast majority of Mexico, however, still uses the old dates
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Conan (talk show)
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Conan is a late-night talk show airing each Monday through Thursday at 11,00 p. m. eastern time on TBS in the United States. The hour-long show premiered on November 8,2010, and is hosted by writer, comedian and performer Conan OBrien, accompanied by his long-time sidekick Andy Richter. Describing itself as a traditional late-night talk show, Conan draws its comedy from recent news stories, political figures and prominent celebrities, on May 14,2014, TBS renewed the show through 2018. The show opens with Richter proclaiming Coming to you from Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, its Conan. and introducing OBrien, The Basic Cable Band, as well as the episodes guests. For the first several seasons of Conan, each episode had a title, the titles were in the style of old fashioned murder-mystery radio shows, television sitcoms, or other assorted jokes. The episode titles were dropped in early 2014, the title sequence was designed by Rob Ashe, Dan Dome and Eric McGilloway. There were several different variations of the credits, with the final product being inspired by graphic designer Saul Bass. The opening design process was described by Ashe as utilizing organic-looking textures made of paper, soak them in soda. OBrien opens each episode with a drawing from current news stories and issues. The monologue is sometimes accompanied by clips and brief comedy skits, one or more comedy bits follow the monologue. Following the monologue, some bits are presented from the monologue stage. Following the first commercial break, additional sketches are typically presented from the desk area. Some sketches are original and appear only once, occasionally an additional sketch will air between the first and second guest. October 31–November 3,2011, taped at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, Guests included Jimmy Fallon, Hugh Jackman, Matthew Broderick and Louis C. K. June 11–14,2012, taped at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago, Guests included Jack McBrayer, Andy Samberg, Johnny Galecki and Adam Sandler. April 1–4,2013, taped at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Guests included Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Steven Yeun and Charles Barkley. March 31–April 3,2014, taped at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas, Texas to coincide with the NCAA Final Four, Guests included Dirk Nowitzki, Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Simon Helberg and Charles Barkley. July 8–11,2015, taped at the Spreckels Theatre in San Diego, Guests include Elijah Wood, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Peter Capaldi
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Conan O'Brien at a supporter rally held outside TBS headquarters in
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Conan tapes at Stage 15 on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California.
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Conan in production on Stage 15.
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
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Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans, are Americans who are descendants of the peoples of Spain, Portugal, or the Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking countries of Latin America. More generally, it includes all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino, other U. S. government agencies have slightly different definitions of the term, including Brazilians and other Portuguese-speaking groups. The Census Bureau uses the terms Hispanic and Latino interchangeably, origin can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the persons parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify as Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino may be of any race, as the only specifically designated category of ethnicity in the United States, Hispanics form a pan-ethnicity incorporating a diversity of inter-related cultural and linguistic heritages. Most Hispanic Americans are of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Guatemalan, the predominant origin of regional Hispanic populations varies widely in different locations across the country. Hispanic Americans are the second fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States after Asian Americans, hispanic/Latinos overall are the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, after non-Hispanic Whites. Hispanics have lived within what is now the United States continuously since the founding of St. Augustine by the Spanish in 1565, after Native Americans, Hispanics are the oldest ethnic group to inhabit much of what is today the United States. Spain colonized large areas of what is today the American Southwest and West Coast, the terms Hispanic and Latino refer to an ethnicity, people of this group may be of any race. Hispanic people may share some commonalities in their language, culture, history, according to the Smithsonian Institution, the term Latino includes peoples with Portuguese roots, such as Brazilians, as well as those of Spanish-language origin. In the United States, many Hispanics and Latinos are of both European and Native American ancestry, others are wholly or predominately of European ancestry, or wholly or predominantly of Amerindian ancestry. Many Hispanics and Latinos from the Caribbean, as well as regions of Latin America where African slavery was widespread. The difference between the terms Hispanic and Latino is confusing to some, the U. S. Census Bureau equates the two terms and defines them as referring to anyone from Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. The term Latino has developed a number of definitions, one definition of Latino is a Latin male in the United States. This is the oldest and the definition used in the United States. This definition encompasses Spanish speakers from both Europe and the Americas, under this definition, immigrants from Spain and immigrants from Latin America are both Latino. This definition is consistent with the 21st-century usage by the U. S. Census Bureau and OMB, a later definition of Latino is as a condensed form of the term Latino-Americano, the Spanish word for Latin-American, or someone who comes from Latin America. Under this definition a Mexican American or Puerto Rican, for example, is both a Hispanic and a Latino, a Brazilian American is also a Latino by this definition, which includes those of Portuguese-speaking origin from Latin America. An immigrant from Spain, however, would be classified as Hispanic, while the U. S. Census Bureaus definition of Hispanic is limited to Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America, other government agencies have slightly different definitions of the term
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, 16th century Spanish admiral who founded the first European settlement in North America (
Saint Augustine, Florida).
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Percent of Hispanic and Latino population by state in 2012.
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Castillo de San Marcos in
Saint Augustine, Florida. Built in 1672 by the Spanish, it is the oldest masonry fort in the United States.
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Miami 's
Brickell neighborhood is known for its large concentration of wealthy Hispanics, largely of
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Kobe Bryant
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Kobe Bean Bryant is an American retired professional basketball player and businessman. He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association and he entered the NBA directly from high school and won five NBA championships with the Lakers. Bryant is an 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team and he led the NBA in scoring during two seasons, and ranks third on both the leagues all-time regular season scoring and all-time postseason scoring lists. He holds the NBA record for the most seasons playing with one franchise for an entire career and he declared for the NBA draft upon graduation, and was selected with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets, who traded him to the Lakers. As a rookie, Bryant earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest, despite a feud between them, Bryant and Shaquille ONeal led the Lakers to three consecutive championships from 2000 to 2002. In 2003, Bryant was accused of assault in Colorado, but the charges were eventually dropped. After the Lakers lost the 2004 NBA Finals, ONeal was traded to the Miami Heat, Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers, and he led the NBA in scoring during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. In 2006, he scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, Bryant was awarded the regular seasons Most Valuable Player Award in 2008. After losing in the 2008 NBA Finals, he led the Lakers to two championships in 2009 and 2010, earning the Finals MVP Award on both occasions. He continued to be among the top players in the league through 2013, although he recovered, his play was limited the following two years by season-ending injuries to his knee and shoulder, respectively. Citing his physical decline, he announced that he would be retiring after the 2015–16 season, at 34 years and 104 days of age, Bryant became the youngest player in league history to reach 30,000 career points. He became the leading scorer in Lakers franchise history on February 1,2010. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, he won medals as a member of the U. S. national team. Sporting News and TNT named Bryant the top NBA player of the 2000s, Bryant was born in Philadelphia, as the youngest of three children and the only son of Joe Bryant and Pamela Cox Bryant. He is also the nephew of basketball player John Chubby Cox. His parents named him after the famous beef of Kobe, Japan and his middle name, Bean, is derived from his fathers nickname Jellybean. When Bryant was six, his left the NBA and moved his family to Rieti in Italy to continue playing professional basketball. Bryant became accustomed to his new lifestyle and learned to speak fluent Italian, during summers, he would come back to the United States to play in a basketball summer league
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Bryant in 2014
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Bryant's retired No.33 jersey and banner at the Lower Merion High School gym.
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Bryant was a member of the Lakers teams that won three consecutive NBA Championships from 2000 to 2002.
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Bryant scored a career high of 81-points against the
Toronto Raptors in
Staples Center, second-highest single scoring performance in NBA history, surpassed only by
Wilt Chamberlain 's
100-point game in
1962.
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Eva Longoria
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Eva Longoria Bastón is an American actress, producer, director, activist and businesswoman. She has also appeared in Harsh Times, The Sentinel, from 2015 to 2016, Longoria starred as Ana Sofia Calderón on the short-lived NBC sitcom Telenovela, and served as an executive producer for the Lifetime television series Devious Maids. Longoria has also appeared in advertising campaigns and has been named one of Hollywoods most beautiful women by several publications, including People en Español. She currently holds contracts with LOréal, Hanes, and New York & Co, Longoria was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four daughters born to ninth-generation Mexican-American parents, Ella Eva and Enrique Longoria, Jr. While in high school, she worked at a Wendys restaurant part-time for three years, Longoria earned her Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology at nearby Texas A&M University-Kingsville. During this time, she won the title of Miss Corpus Christi USA in 1998, after completing college, Longoria entered a talent contest that led her to Los Angeles, shortly after, she was spotted and signed by a theatrical agent. While auditioning for roles, Longoria worked as a headhunter for four years and she received her masters degree in Chicano Studies from California State University, Northridge, in May 2013 following three years of study. Her thesis was entitled, Success STEMS From Diversity, The Value of Latinas in STEM Careers, Longoria landed her first television role in 1999 after meeting Executive Producer Gary Ghiaey at a political reception in Los Angeles Longoria guest-starred in an episode of Beverly Hills,90210. Another guest appearance in General Hospital the same year brought her big break on the CBS Daytime soap opera The Young, after leaving The Young and the Restless, Longoria appeared in the Dick Wolf revival of Dragnet. Following Dragnet, she starred in Señorita Justice, a poorly received film. Shortly after her debut on Desperate Housewives, Longoria starred in a film titled Carlitas Secret. In 2006, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy along with her co-stars in Desperate Housewives, Longoria was awarded the ALMA Award and named entertainer of the year that year. She also starred opposite Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland in the 2006 thriller The Sentinel, in 2006, she played the character Sylvia in Harsh Times, starring Freddy Rodríguez and Christian Bale. In the 2000s, Longoria appeared in several advertising campaigns and numerous mens magazines. She was featured on the cover of international womens magazines, including Vogue, Marie Claire. People en Español listed her among its Most Beautiful People for 2003, Longoria continues to be included in lists of Hollywoods Most Beautiful. She was listed as No.1 in Maxims Hottest Female Stars of 2005 and 2006 and she was ranked No.9 in the magazines Hot 100 of 2007 list. In honor of Maxims 100th issue in 2006, Longoria was featured on a 75-by-110-foot vinyl mesh replica of its January 2005 cover located in a Clark County, More recently, she was ranked No.14 of Peoples Most Beautiful 2011
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Longoria at the
2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Longoria at the
2010 Cannes Film Festival
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Longoria at a book signing for her book Eva's Kitchen: Cooking with Love for Family and Friends in April 2011
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Longoria with
Victoria Beckham in 2010
16.
Carlos Santana
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Carlos Santana audio is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. The bands sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales, Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s, in 2003 Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards, Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico. He learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight under the tutelage of his father and his younger brother, Jorge Santana, would also become a professional guitarist. Young Carlos was heavily influenced by Ritchie Valens at a time there were very few Mexicans in American rock. The family moved from Autlán de Navarro to Tijuana, the city on Mexicos border with California, Carlos stayed in Tijuana but later joined his family in San Francisco, graduating from James Lick Middle School, and in 1965 from Mission High School. Carlos was accepted at California State University, Northridge, and Humboldt State University, Santana was influenced by popular artists of the 1950s such as B. B. King, T-Bone Walker, and John Lee Hooker. Soon after he began playing guitar, he joined local bands along the Tijuana Strip where he was able to begin adding his own touch to 50s Rock n Roll. He was also introduced to a variety of new influences, including jazz and folk music. After several years spent working as a dishwasher in a diner and busking for spare change, in 1966 he gained prominence due to a series of accidental events, all happening on the same day. Santana was a frequent spectator at Bill Grahams Fillmore West, during a Sunday matinee show, Paul Butterfield was slated to perform there but was unable to do so as a result of being intoxicated. Santanas manager, Stan Marcum, immediately suggested to Graham that Santana join the impromptu band, during the jam session, Santanas guitar playing and solo gained the notice of both the audience and Graham. During the same year, Santana formed the Santana Blues Band, with street musicians David Brown, Marcus Malone. With their highly original blend of Latin-infused rock, jazz, blues, salsa and African rhythms, the bands early success, capped off by a memorable performance at Woodstock in 1969, led to him signing a recording contract with Columbia Records, then run by Clive Davis. Santana was signed by CBS Records and went into the studio to record their first album and they were not satisfied with the release and decided changes needed to be made. This resulted in the dismissal of drummer Bob Livingston, Santana replaced him with Mike Shrieve, who had a strong background in both jazz and rock. Percussionist Marcus Malone was forced to quit the band due to manslaughter charges
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Santana in Indianapolis, 2010
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New Year's Eve 1976 at the
Cow Palace in San Francisco
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Santana during his "inner secrets" tour in the Netherlands in 1978
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2010 Tonight Show conflict
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The 2010 Tonight Show conflict was a media and public relations conflict involving American television network NBC and two of its then-late-night talk show hosts, Conan OBrien and Jay Leno. Leno, the host of long-running franchise The Tonight Show since 1992, when OBriens contract neared its end and he was courted by other networks in 2001, NBC extended his contract and essentially guaranteed him he would be the fifth host of The Tonight Show. The network neglected to let Leno know this until his contract extension in 2004, the Tonight Show with Conan OBrien and The Jay Leno Show failed to attract immediate viewers, and NBC affiliates, seeing their viewership decline, grew restless. NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Zucker, alongside chairman Jeff Gaspin and executive Rick Ludwin, created a remedy, move Leno back to his 11,35 pm start time and bump OBrien a half-hour later, to 12,05 am. OBrien and his staff were disappointed and furious, when it became clear OBrien would not agree to the proposed changes. Though not a breach of either hosts contract, the resulted in a public outcry. OBriens public statement that he would not participate in the destruction of The Tonight Show led to negotiations with NBC for a settlement, the controversy surrounding the scheduling move was described by media outlets as embarrassing for the network and a public relations disaster. On May 22,1992, Johnny Carson, host of NBCs The Tonight Show for nearly 30 years, the network signed Jay Leno, Carsons permanent guest host, to become the programs fourth host upon Carsons exit. Carson very clearly viewed the position best for David Letterman, host of his own program, Late Night, which had directly followed Carsons Tonight Show for ten years. NBC tried to appease both stars, but Letterman left the network in a public conflict that resulted in the creation of his own competing show on CBS. Lenos Tonight Show started rocky, prior to Lettermans move, NBC considered matching CBSs offer to allow Letterman to take over from Leno. From that point on, Letterman slipped below Leno in the ratings, Late Night with Conan OBrien was constantly at risk for cancellation in its early years, at one low point in 1994, NBC threatened to put him on a week-to-week contract. Executives were anxious to replace him with Greg Kinnear, who followed OBrien with Later at 1,30 am, interns filled empty seats in the audience while affiliates began to inquire about replacement hosts. Near the turn of the millennium, NBCs late-night lineup—Leno at 11,35, OBrien at 12,35, and Saturday Night Live on the weekend—remained leaders in the ratings. That year, competing network Fox mounted an extended, comprehensive campaign to lure OBrien away from the network, viewing his style suitable for the networks image—young, hip, somewhat subversive. News Corporation chairman and CEO Peter Chernin pursued OBrien personally, taking him, Chernin also offered the host seven times his current pay. While many of OBriens professional advisors and managers pushed for the Fox deal, Chernin warned OBrien that waiting around for Leno to leave would be only an invitation to long-term disappointment, and potentially a path toward undermining a promising career. By the time Lenos contract again came up for renewal, a discussion would be needed regarding the future of The Tonight Show, facing the prospect of attempting to keep both Leno and OBrien, Zucker made the final call on Lenos deal, Yes, we’ll extend your deal
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The conflict centered on
late-night talk show hosts
Conan O'Brien (left) and
Jay Leno who at the time had worked for
NBC, seen here years prior in 2004.
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Jeff Zucker, former CEO of
NBCUniversal, was at the forefront of the conflict.
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Conan O'Brien with his first Tonight Show guest,
Will Ferrell.
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The "I'm With CoCo" poster was widely circulated online and at rallies during the conflict.
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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
NBC
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The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
NBC
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National Broadcasting Company
NBC
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Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
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Entrance at the GE Building.
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The Tonight Show
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The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show currently broadcast from the Rockefeller Center in New York City and airing on NBC since 1954. It is the worlds longest-running talk show, and the longest running and it is the third-longest-running show on NBC, after the news-and-talk shows Today and Meet the Press. Over the course of more than 60 years, The Tonight Show has undergone only minor title changes and it aired under the name Tonight for several of its early years, eventually settling on The Tonight Show after the seating of long-time host Johnny Carson in 1962. In 1957, the show briefly tried a more news-style format and it has otherwise remained a talk show throughout its run. The Tonight Show began broadcasting in 1954 and it has had six official hosts, beginning with Steve Allen, followed by Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, Conan OBrien, and Jimmy Fallon. It has had recurring guest hosts, a practice especially common during the Paar. Carson is the longest-serving host to date, the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson aired for 30 seasons between October 1962 and May 1992. Leno, however, has the record of having hosted the greatest number of total televised episodes, during Johnny Carsons first eighteen years, the show ran for ninety minutes. During Johnnys 1980 contract negotiations, the show was shortened to sixty minutes, besides the guest hosts Johnny used, NBC ran The Best of Carson which was reruns of popular older shows Johnny had done. Prior to the starting of Saturday Night Live in 1975, NBC showed The Best of Carson on Saturday nights at 11,30 pm, outside of its brief run as a news show in 1957, OBrien is the shortest-serving host. OBrien hosted 146 episodes over the course of less than eight months, current host Fallon took the helm on February 17,2014. Fallon had previously hosted Late Night, and before Late Night he was a member of the cast of Saturday Night Live. From 1950 to 1951 NBC aired Broadway Open House, a variety show hosted primarily by comic Jerry Lester. Broadway… demonstrated the potential for late-night network programming. The format of The Tonight Show can be traced to a nightly 40-minute local program in New York, hosted by Allen and it was quickly retitled The Steve Allen Show. This premiered in 1953 on WNBT-TV, the local affiliate in New York City. Beginning in September 1954, it was renamed Tonight. and began its run on the full NBC network. Notes for hosting history The first Tonight announcer was Gene Rayburn, when the show became a success, Allen got a primetime Sunday comedy/variety show in June 1956, leading him to share Tonight hosting duties with Ernie Kovacs during the 1956–57 season
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Jack Paar and
Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Senator
John F. Kennedy (of
Massachusetts) in 1959, prior to the
Presidential Election of 1960.
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The Tonight Show
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New Year's Eve 1962, with (L-R) Skitch Henderson, Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon.
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Jay Leno in 1993
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Jay Leno
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James Douglas Muir Jay Leno is an American comedian, actor, philanthropist and television host. After doing standup comedy for years, he became the host of NBCs The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2009. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show. After The Jay Leno Show was canceled in January 2010 amid a host controversy and he hosted his last episode of The Tonight Show on February 6,2014. That year, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame, Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York. His homemaker mother, Catherine, was born in Greenock, Scotland and his father, Angelo, was an insurance salesman who was born in New York, to immigrants from Flumeri, Italy. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated from Andover High School, Leno obtained a bachelors degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, where he started a comedy club in 1973. His older brother, Patrick, was a Vietnam War veteran who worked as an attorney, Leno made his first appearance on The Tonight Show on March 2,1977, performing a comedy routine. During the 1970s, Leno appeared in roles in several television series and films, first in the 1976 episode J. J. in Trouble of Good Times. After an uncredited appearance in the 1977 film Fun with Dick and Jane, he played more prominent roles in 1978 in American Hot Wax, Lenos only starring film role was the 1989 direct-to-video Collision Course, opposite Pat Morita. He also appeared numerous times on Late Night with David Letterman, starting in 1987, Leno was a regular substitute host for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. The story of this turbulent transition was later turned into a book, Leno continued to perform as a stand-up comedian throughout his tenure on The Tonight Show. In 2004, Leno signed an extension with NBC which would keep him as host of The Tonight Show until 2009. Later in 2004, Conan OBrien signed a contract with NBC under which OBrien would become the host of The Tonight Show in 2009, during the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, Leno was accused of violating WGA guidelines by writing his own monologue for The Tonight Show. While NBC and Leno claim there were meetings with the WGA where there was a secret agreement allowing this. In 1998, Leno competed in a match at the WCWs Road Wild pay-per-view. Since 2001, he has voiced The Crimson Chin, a superhero in the Nickelodeon animated series The Fairly OddParents. Leno said in 2008 that he was saving all of his income from The Tonight Show, on April 23,2009, Leno checked himself into a hospital with an undisclosed illness
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Leno in July 2008.
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Leno in 1993, in the year after becoming host of The Tonight Show
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Leno in 2006.
Jay Leno
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Leno with President
Barack Obama in March 2009
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The Jay Leno Show
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The Jay Leno Show is an American talk show created by and starring Jay Leno. Premiering on NBC on September 14,2009, the program aired on weeknights at 10,00 p. m. ET/PT through February 9,2010, sketches from The Tonight Show were carried over to The Jay Leno Show, along with new sketches. The program was the result of a compromise by NBC Universals then-CEO Jeff Zucker to keep Jay Leno with the following his retirement from The Tonight Show. NBC hoped to attract Lenos existing fans, as well as a larger audience than that of his late-night program. The Jay Leno Show was met with mixed reception from critics, although viewership of The Jay Leno Show was initially on par with NBCs projections, by November, the programs ratings began to fall significantly. NBCs affiliates complained that the viewership of The Jay Leno Show also had a ripple effect on the viewership of their late local newscasts. Despite much support for OBrien from both the public and media alike, NBC maintained its plan to move Leno to 11,35. On January 21,2010, NBC reached a $45 million settlement with OBrien in order to end his contract. The Jay Leno Show ended on February 9,2010, after being on the air for four months. Leno resumed his duties as host of The Tonight Show on March 1,2010, NBC announced in 2004 that Jay Leno would leave The Tonight Show in 2009, with Conan OBrien as his replacement. He began to regret his decision to retire in 2007, and several networks and studios including ABC, Fox, Sony, Jeff Zucker, then-President and CEO of NBC Universal, sought to keep Leno from defecting to a competitor. Leno rejected several NBC offers for free network daytime slots, or cable TV slots, a series of recurring specials, Leno was announced on December 9,2008. WHDH backed down on April 13,2009, and announced that it would air Leno instead of the proposed program. Though Leno was the first to move the entire five-day-a-week late night show to prime time. Jack Paar, who hosted Tonight from 1957 to 1962, next hosted a talk show known as The Jack Paar Program that ran until 1965. The scheduling change would have been implemented on February 28 after the 2010 Winter Olympics, Leno himself commented on the rumors during his January 7 monologue, joking that NBC stands for Never Believe your Contract. This isnt about Jays popularity, says WJAR Providence VP/General Manager Lisa Churchville and this is about having that kind of show at 10 p. m. NBC announced plans to move Leno to 11,35 pm, OBrien refused to participate in the move and, on January 21,2010, reached an agreement with NBC allowing him to leave the network
The Jay Leno Show
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Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC Universal (2007–2011).
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The Jay Leno Show
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Jay Leno, creator and host
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Steve Allen
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Stephen Valentine Patrick William Steve Allen was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer and advocate of scientific skepticism. He achieved notability as the first host of The Tonight Show, though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his television career. He first gained attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfreys Talent Scouts. After he hosted the The Tonight Show, he went on to host numerous game and variety shows, including his own The Steve Allen Show, Ive Got a Secret and he was a regular panel member on CBS Whats My Line. From 1977 until 1981, he wrote, produced and hosted the award-winning show Meeting of Minds, Allen was a creditable pianist and a prolific composer, having written over 8,500 songs, some of which were recorded by numerous leading singers. Allen won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition, Allen wrote more than 50 books, including novels, childrens books, and books of opinions, including his final book, Vulgarians at the Gate, Trash TV and Raunch Radio. In 1996 Allen was presented with the Martin Gardner Lifetime Achievement Award from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Hollywood theater named in his honor. Allen was born in New York City, the son of Billy and Isabelle Allen, Allen was raised on the South Side of Chicago by his mothers Irish Catholic family. Milton Berle once called Allens mother the funniest woman in vaudeville, Allens first radio job was on station KOY in Phoenix, Arizona, after he left Arizona State Teachers College in Tempe, while still a sophomore. He enlisted in the U. S. Army during World War II and was trained as an infantryman and he spent his service time at Camp Roberts, California, and did not serve overseas. Allen returned to Phoenix before deciding to back to California. During a shows segment, Allen went into the audience with the microphone to ad lib on-air for the first time and his radio show attracted a huge local following, and in 1950 it replaced Our Miss Brooks, exposing Allen to a national audience for the first time. Allens first television experience had come in 1949 when he answered an ad for a TV announcer for professional wrestling and he knew nothing about wrestling, so he watched some shows and discovered that the announcers did not have well-defined names for the holds. When he got the job, he created names for many of the holds, now the boys go into a double pretzel bend with variations on a theme by Velox and Yolanda. After CBS radio gave Allen a weekly prime time show, CBS television believed it could groom him for national small-screen stardom, the Steve Allen Show premiered at 11 am on Christmas Day,1950, and was later moved into a thirty-minute, early evening slot. This new show required him to uproot his family and move from LA to New York, the show was canceled in 1952, after which CBS tried several shows to showcase Allens talent. Allen achieved national attention when he was pressed into service at the last minute to host Arthur Godfreys Talent Scouts because Godfrey was unable to appear. Allen turned one of Godfreys live Lipton commercials upside down, preparing tea and instant soup on camera, with the audience uproariously and thoroughly entertained, Allen gained major recognition as a comedian and host
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Press photo from 1977
Steve Allen
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The hand prints of Allen in front of
Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at
Walt Disney World 's
Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park
Steve Allen
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Bookmark promotion for Allen's late-night show
Steve Allen
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Steve Allen with
Jayne Meadows in 1987
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Johnny Carson
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John William Johnny Carson was an American talk show host and comedian, best known for his 30 years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Television Academys 1980 Governors Award, and he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993, although his show was already successful by the end of the 1960s, during the 1970s Carson became an American icon and remained so even after his retirement in 1992. He adopted a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with guests, former late-night host and friend David Letterman cited Carsons influence. John William Carson was born on October 23,1925, in Corning, Iowa, to Homer Lloyd Kit Carson, a company manager, and Ruth Elizabeth Carson. He grew up in the towns of Avoca, Clarinda. There, Carson grew up and began developing his talent for entertaining, at the age of 12, Carson found a book on magic at a friends house and immediately purchased a mail-order magicians kit. After the purchase of the kit, Carson practiced his entertainment skills on family members with card tricks and he was known for following his family members around saying, Pick a card, any card. Carsons mother sewed him a cape, and his first performance was staged in front of the local Kiwanis Club and he debuted as The Great Carsoni at age 14 and was paid $3 a show. Soon, many performances at local picnics and country fairs followed. After graduating from school, Carson had his first encounter with Hollywood. He hitchhiked to Hollywood, where he was arrested and fined $50 for impersonating a midshipman, Johnny embarked on an adventure, one so laden with implications about his future, that some have wondered if the escapade might not actually be a legend. Carson joined the United States Navy on June 8,1943, commissioned an ensign late in the war, Carson was assigned to the USS Pennsylvania in the Pacific. While in the Navy, Carson posted a 10–0 amateur boxing record and he was en route to the combat zone aboard a troop ship when the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war. Carson served as a officer in charge of decoding encrypted messages. He said that the point of his military career was performing a magic trick for United States Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal. In a conversation with Forrestal, the Secretary asked Carson if he planned to stay in the navy after the war, in response, Carson said no and told him he wanted to be a magician. Forrestal asked him to perform, and Carson responded with a card trick, Carson made the discovery that he could entertain and amuse someone as cranky and sophisticated as Forrestal
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Carson in October 1970
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Navy portrait of Carson
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Carson as a guest on Jack Benny's television program, 1955.
Johnny Carson
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With
Dick Cavett and
Alan King in 1968
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Jersey Shore (TV series)
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Jersey Shore is an American reality television series which ran on MTV from December 3,2009 to December 20,2012 in the United States. The series follows the lives of eight housemates spending their summer at the Jersey Shore in the U. S. state of New Jersey, Season 2 followed the cast escaping the cold northeast winter to Miami Beach, Florida, with Season 3 returning to the Jersey Shore. The fourth season, filmed in Italy, premiered on August 4,2011, the show returned for a fifth season, at Seaside Heights, New Jersey on January 5,2012. The fifth-season finale aired on March 15,2012, on March 19,2012, MTV confirmed that the series would return for their sixth season. On August 30,2012, MTV announced that the Jersey Shore would end after the sixth season, the series finale aired on December 20,2012. The University of Chicago and the University of Oklahoma are among the institutions that have had classes or conferences about the show. In 2010, the cast of Jersey Shore were named on Barbara Walters 10 Most Fascinating People list, in Japan the series was titled MTV Jersey Shore - the New Jersey life of macaroni rascals. Another remake of the show is Gandía Shore, set in Gandía, acapulco Shore was announced in January 2014, with the premiere to take place in September 2014. VH1 producer Anthony Beltempo proposed the idea of a show focusing on the lifestyle for TV. Van Toffler described the process by saying they looked for candor, honesty, boldness. You could honestly say none of these people were traditionally beautiful, the series follows the lives of eight housemates spending their summer in a summer share in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, known as The Jersey Shore House. Jersey Shore premiered on December 3,2009, with back-to-back episodes, Season 1 posted strong growth every week and ranked #1 in its time period versus all cable competition among P12–34 during the first quarter of 2010, with a season high 2.6 rating for the finale. The season 1 finale audience,4.8 million, was more than triple that of the premiere, an increase of more than 3.4 million, overall, the season 1 averaged 2.7 million viewers. In an article in Rolling Stone, it was mentioned that the house had 35 remote-controlled cameras in fixed locations,12 hand-held ones, one IMX camera, Nicole Polizzi said that, They have cameras everywhere, all the time. You kind of get a little paranoid, because youre like, but thats why we go crazy. Thats why we fight each other. Were living in a house for two months with that shit and we cant have cellphones, TV, radio or internet. Its like a prison, with cameras, the only time were not on camera is when were in the shower, and thats why we all take three-hour showers, just to get away from it all
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Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino during shooting in
Florence, Italy in May 2011.
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Jersey Shore
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
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A blueprint sketch, c. 2006, by
Jack Dorsey, envisioning an
SMS -based
social network.
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Twitter's homepage as of August 2015 (only in select countries)
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Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and the chairman of Twitter, in 2009
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Twitter's San Francisco, California headquarters, as seen from a corner on Market Street
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List of WWE personnel
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WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Stamford, Connecticut. Executives and board members are also listed, WWE contracts typically range from developmental contracts to multi-year deals. WWE describes most personnel as independent contractors,205 Live is a weekly program exclusive to cruiserweight competitors, whom are assigned to the Raw brand. Personnel from the NXT brand appear on the series of the same name. Personnel on the roster may also periodically wrestle in NXT. Personnel are organized below by their role in WWE and their ring name is on the left and their real name is on the right. If someone is inactive for any reason, due to injury, suspension, not appearing in more than 30 days, or otherwise, WWE refers to all in-ring performers as Superstars. The following section pertains to announcers who cover WWE and NXT broadcasts and this group includes presenters, ringside commentators, ring announcers, backstage interviewers, and pre-show hosts and analysts. The following section lists personalities who appear on primarily non-wrestling specific programming on the WWE Network - such as reality shows, comedy shows, and documentaries. Select former or retired WWE wrestlers not currently on the roster have contracts to make periodic appearances—either on WWE TV or for promotional events—serving as Ambassadors for the company. List of current champions in WWE List of professional wrestling rosters List of WWE alumni List of current WWE tag teams and stables WWE roster at WWE. com NXT roster at WWE. com
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Kevin Owens
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Alberto Del Rio
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The New Day -
Kofi Kingston (left),
Big E (center), and
Xavier Woods (right)
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Benjamin Bratt
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Benjamin George Bratt is an American actor. On television, Bratt portrayed NYPD Detective Rey Curtis on the NBC drama series Law & Order, Dr. Jake Reilly on ABCs Private Practice, and Steve Navarro on Foxs 24, Live Another Day. Bratt was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Eldy, a nurse and his mother is an Indigenous activist of the Quechua ethnic group, born in Peru, she moved to the United States at age 14. His father was American and had Austrian, English, and German ancestry and they married December 30,1960 in San Francisco, but divorced in September 1967. Bratts paternal grandfather, George Cleveland Bratt, was a Broadway actor and he married Bratts paternal grandmother, Wiltrude Hildner, on August 6,1920 in Detroit, Michigan. Bratt attended Lowell High School in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society, Bratt earned a B. F. A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1986, where he also joined the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Although accepted into the M. F. A. program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, as a child, Bratt went with his mother and siblings to participate in the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz. One of Bratts first television series was Nasty Boys, based on a film by the name in which he appeared. His best-known role has been that of Detective Reynaldo Curtis on the television show Law & Order, in 1999, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on the series. His more popular films include Miss Congeniality, Blood In Blood Out, on June 23,2009, Bratt appeared on The View to promote The Cleaner. On October 23,2009, it was announced that Bratt would return as Detective Curtis on Law & Order, Curtis reunited with his former boss, Lt. Anita van Buren, in the episode that aired on December 11,2009. He left the show that year to continue his film career. In 2012, Bratt was passionate about his opportunity to play a Tlicho Indian in the film The Lesser Blessed, a project dear to his heart because of his own Native background. He voiced El Macho, the main antagonist, in Despicable Me 2, Bratt has for years been a strong supporter and board member of San Francisco Bay Areas Friendship House Association of American Indians and Native American Health Center. In 1998, Bratt began dating actress Julia Roberts and he escorted her to the 2001 Academy Awards ceremony, at which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Four months later, they announced that they were no longer a couple, in 2002, he received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors. In 2002, he began dating and then married his pregnant girlfriend, actress Talisa Soto, the two met ten years earlier during the casting audition of Blood In Blood Out and afterward they saw each other on and off. It was not until the filming of Piñero that they began to develop a relationship and their first child, daughter Sophia Rosalinda Bratt, was born on December 6,2002, their second child, son Mateo Bravery Bratt, was born on October 3,2005
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Bratt in May 2010
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Jon Cryer
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Jonathan Niven Jon Cryer is an American actor, screenwriter, television director, and film producer. In 1998, he wrote and produced the independent film Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God, in 2003, Cryer was cast as Alan Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2009 and 2012. Cryer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television in 2011, Cryers other film appearances include Hiding Out, Hot Shots, Tortured, Shorts, and Hit by Lightning. He also has a role in the CBS drama series, NCIS. After appearing on the podcast Crime Writers On and it was announced Cryer is joining the team at the Undisclosed podcast for their second season. Cryer was born in New York City, New York and his mother, Gretchen Cryer, is a playwright, songwriter, actress, and singer, his father, Donald David Cryer, is an actor and singer who originally studied to be a minister. Cryers paternal grandfather, Rev. Dr. Donald W. Cryer, was a well-known Methodist minister and he has two sisters, Robin and Shelly. When Cryer was twelve years old, he decided that he wanted to become an actor, when his mother heard this, she thought he should have a backup plan, and joked, Plumbing is a pretty good career. Cryer attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center for several summers as a teenager and he was classmates with screenwriter and film director Boaz Yakin. To his mothers disappointment, Cryer skipped college and went to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Cryers first professional acting effort was as David in the Broadway play Torch Song Trilogy, replacing Matthew Broderick, Cryer was later an understudy and replacement for Broderick in Neil Simons Brighton Beach Memoirs in 1989. He went on to have roles in films and television movies. In 1989, he got the role in the TV comedy series. His performance gained poor reviews and the show was canceled after the first season, a year later, he starred with Charlie Sheen in the Jim Abrahams comedy Hot Shots. which was received very positively. Cryer is frequently linked to the Brat Pack, in a March 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell, Cryer stated that he had auditioned for St. Elmos Fire but was not cast in a role. In 1993, he was asked to audition for the role of Chandler Bing on Friends and his reading was videotaped by a British casting agent but the tape failed to arrive in the U. S. before the network had made its final decision. In 1995, he was cast as Bob in the sitcom Partners, in an interview with Time Out New York he stated, Hey, every show Im in goes down. Think about this, George Clooney was in 28 pilots, or something, after guest starring on shows such as Dharma & Greg and The Outer Limits, he successfully wrote and produced the film, Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God
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Cryer at his
Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on September 19, 2011
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Cryer at the
Los Angeles premiere of
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in 2006
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Cryer with wife
Lisa Joyner in September 2011
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Oye Como Va
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The song also reached #11 on the Billboard Easy Listening survey and #32 on their R&B chart. However, the first sentence is actually Oye como va mi ritmo, the song has the classic rhythm and tempo of cha-cha-cha. It has similarities with Chanchullo by Israel Cachao López, the Latin Beat Magazine writes, Cachaos tumbaos for his 1937 composition of Rareza de Melitón inspired Tito Puentes signature tune Oye Como Va. On the original recording of the song the voice of Santitos Colon, Cachao can be heard playing contrabass in some of Tito Puentes live versions of Oye Como Va. The song has had many arrangements and remakes by a number of artists in various tempi, NPR included the song in its NPR100, The most important American musical works of the 20th century. The electric guitar part takes on Puentes flute melody, and the organ provides accompaniment, there are several guitar solos and an organ solo, all of which are rooted in rock and the blues but also contain licks similar to those of the original arrangement. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001, Tito Puente, speaking in the intro to his recording of Oye Como Va on the album Mambo Birdland, said Everybodys heard of Santana. He put our music, Latin rock, around the world, and Id like to thank him publicly cause he recorded a tune and he gave me credit as the composer of the tune. The version of the song on Mambo Birdland is a Santana-ized version and this song has been recorded by many Latin musicians in the last fifty three years, with Santanas version being the most widely recognized. The Joe Cuba Sextette and Cheo Feliciano, cambodian singer Chea Savoeun has covered this song in Khmer called Im Always Satisfied in 1972. Jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson on his 1975 album, Montara, Latin rapper and singer Gerardo recorded the song on his 1991 debut album, Mo Ritmo. Celia Cruz covered the song on her album, Siempre Viviré, Mexican electronic/rock band Kinky covered the song for their 2004 album Oye Como Va. The jazz/funk band New Orleans Nightcrawlers covered the song on their 2000 album Live at the Old Point. The Salsa Brothers featuring OJT on My Electric Oye Como Va Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer and pianist, recorded the song in 2006,36 years after Santana, on Elias version, there are additional lyrics written by Elias. Julio Iglesias included the song in 1994 on his album Crazy, azúcar Moreno recorded the song on their 1990 album Bandido, and coupled it with Santanas 1971 song Guajira in a two-songs medley. 2 Live Crew sampled the song on the track Mamolapenga on their 1990 album Banned in the U. S. A, the Mexican group Banda M-1 recorded a cumbia version in 1994. Joe Strummer and The Latino Rockabilly War, Natalie Cole recorded the song in 2013,43 years after Santana, on her #1 and Latin Grammy nominated album Natalie Cole en Español. The song is referenced in the Syfy Channels Warehouse 13 series in the season episode Around the Bend
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"Oye Como Va"
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Larry David
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Lawrence Gene Larry David is an American comedian, writer, actor, playwright, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television series Seinfeld, where he served as its head writer, David has subsequently gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he also created, in which he stars as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. He is worth an estimated $900 million US dollars, Davids work won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1993. Formerly a stand-up comedian, David went into comedy, writing and starring in ABCs Fridays. He has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, and was voted by fellow comedians and comedy insiders as the 23rd greatest comedy ever in a 2004 British poll to select The Comedians Comedian. David was born in the neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Rose and Morty David and he graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School, and then from the University of Maryland, College Park with a bachelors degree in History. After college, he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve, while a stand-up comedian, Larry David also worked as a store clerk, limousine driver, and historian. David then became a writer for and cast member of ABCs Fridays from 1980 to 1982, during his time at SNL, he was able to get only one sketch on the show, which aired at 12,50 AM, the last time slot on the show. David quit his job at SNL in the first season. That event inspired an episode of Seinfeld entitled The Revenge. David met his future Seinfeld stars during that stage of his career, he worked with Michael Richards on Fridays. Entertainment Weekly ranked it the third-best TV show of all time, David made occasional uncredited appearances on the show, playing such roles as Frank Costanzas cape-wearing lawyer and the voice of George Steinbrenner. He was also the inspiration for the shows character George Costanza. David left Seinfeld on friendly terms after the season but returned to write the series finale in 1998. He also continued to provide the voice for the Steinbrenner character, syndication of Seinfeld earned David an estimated US$250 million in 1998 alone. This amount has been steadily decreasing each year, but payments will continue until the full $1.7 billion from the deal has been paid. In 2008 David made $55 million from Seinfeld syndication, DVD sales and he was nominated for an Emmy award 19 times for Seinfeld, winning twice – once for best comedy and once for writing. The HBO cable television channel aired Davids 1-hour special, Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm and this was followed by Curb Your Enthusiasm, a television series on HBO that aired its first episode on October 15,2000
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David at the 2009
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David in December 2009
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Arsenio Hall
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Arsenio Hall is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is best known for hosting The Arsenio Hall Show, a talk show that ran from 1989 until 1994. Other television shows and films Hall has appeared in are Martial Law, Star Search, Coming to America, Hall is also known for his appearance as Alan Thickes sidekick on the talk show Thicke of the Night. In 2012, Hall won NBCs reality-competition game show Celebrity Apprentice 5, Arsenio was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Fred and Anne Hall. His father is a Baptist minister, Hall performed as a magician when he was a child. He graduated from Warrensville Heights High School in Warrensville Heights, Ohio in 1973, after he graduated, he attended Ohio University, where he was on the speech team with Nancy Cartwright. He then transferred to and graduated from Kent State University in 1977, Hall later moved to Chicago, and then Los Angeles, to pursue a career in comedy, making a couple of appearances on Soul Train. In 1984, he was the announcer/sidekick for Alan Thicke during the talk show Thicke of the Night. Arsenio was the voice of Winston Zeddemore in the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters from 1986 to 1987. In 1988, he co-starred in the comedy film Coming to America with Eddie Murphy, in 1986, the Fox network introduced The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, created to directly challenge The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. After a moderate start, ratings for the show sagged, behind-the-scenes relations between Rivers and network executives at Fox quickly eroded, and Rivers left in 1987. The series was subsequently renamed The Late Show, and featured several hosts, including Ross Shafer, Suzanne Somers, Richard Belzer and Robert Townsend before it was cancelled in 1988. Hall was also chosen to host the show in the fall of 1987, from January 2,1989 until May 27,1994, he had a Paramount contract to host a nationwide syndicated late night talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show. The practice soon became such a ritual that by 1991 had become a pop culture stamp of approval — one that Hall said had become so popular its getting on peoples nerves. In Disneys Aladdin, the Genie character voiced by Robin Williams performs the gesture while mimicking the appearance of Hall. This popular gesture can also be found in the 1993 Mel Brooks comedy, Robin Hood and it was also seen in the movie Passenger 57, in which an old woman confuses the character played by Wesley Snipes with Arsenio Hall. After saving the day, the passengers on the plane do the gesture toward the protagonist. He also had a rivalry with Jay Leno, after the latter was named host of The Tonight Show, Hall used his fame during this period to help fight worldwide prejudice against HIV/AIDS, after Magic Johnson contracted the disease
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Arsenio Hall
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Hall at the
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George Lopez (TV series)
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George Lopez stars the titular comedian George Lopez, who plays a fictionalized version of himself and revolves around his life at work and raising his family at home. The series was produced by Fortis Films and Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros, the executive producers consisted of George Lopez, Bruce Helford, Deborah Oppenheimer and Sandra Bullock. On September 2,2016, George Lopez announced through his Instagram that there are talks to bringing the back on the air. After Carmens departure from the series, the role fulfilled by her character was replaced with Angies overindulged niece Veronica, with a large trust fund that has been entrusted under Georges care. However, Mannys personality was commonly depicted as being uncaring toward his son and former wife in the few appearances that he made, nonetheless, he prohibits his sons family from attending his funeral in protection of his reputation, much to Georges anger. For the first five seasons, the show had an all-Latino cast with the exception of Albanian American actress Masiela Lusha, George Lopez said that due to creative differences between him and Lusha, Lushas character was written out of the show after season 5. During the shows last season, Aimee Garcia was cast as Georges niece, the shows theme song is Low Rider, performed by War. The theme plays in the credits and was present when the show aired on ABC as well as syndication. At the 9th ALMA Awards in 2007, George Lopez called the song the Chicano National Anthem, the series finale aired on May 8,2007, after the show was canceled by ABC. Lopez said that ABC dealt with us from the bottom of the deck, Lopez attributed the cancellation in part to the fact that the show was not produced directly by ABC Studios, but instead by Warner Bros. Lopez also criticized ABCs decision to approve the show Cavemen, being perplexed at the circumstances, So a Chicano cant be on TV, according to Lopez,170 staff members who worked on the show lost their jobs. Lopez explained that he took the five years of good, and I did a lot with the good and my popularity, I was involved in charities, I overcame my illness, all on TV. I shared all of that with America – every secret I had, everything was open to the show. In spite of the cancellation, nightly episode re-runs continue to air on various networks both in the United States and abroad, George Lopez was critically acclaimed and received positive reviews from critics. The show entered syndication one month after the finale on ABC. The show moved to ION Television on Thursday, Sept.29,2011, on March 8,2007, it was announced that George Lopez would join the Nick at Nite lineup. It first aired on Nick at Nite on September 10,2007 – it was the most current non-original show to air on Nick at Nite, to this date, it continues to be their highest rated series and one of cables best for an off-network sitcom. Never a major hit in primetime, the became an unexpected success in syndication
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A scene from Season 2, Episode 11, "
Meet the Cuban Parents." The main cast of the show for much of the series is pictured here.
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George Lopez
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The season 4 cast of George Lopez (from left to right): Valente Rodriguez as Ernie Cardenas, Constance Marie with Luis Armand Garcia as Angie and Max Lopez, Emiliano Díez as Vic Palmero, Belita Moreno as Benny Lopez, George Lopez, and Masiela Lusha as Carmen Lopez.
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Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as JLo, is an American singer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, author, and producer. Lopez gained her first high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991 and she received her first leading role in the Selena biopic of the same name in 1997, a portrayal that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. For her role in Out of Sight the following year, Lopez became the first Latina actress to earn over US$1 million for a film. She ventured into the industry in 1999 with her debut studio album On the 6. With the simultaneous release of her studio album J. Lo and her film The Wedding Planner in 2001, Lopez became the first woman to have a number one album. Her 2002 remix album, J to tha L–O, the Remixes, became the first in history to debut at number one on the U. S. Billboard 200. Following her second divorce, Lopez had a relationship with Ben Affleck. Then, while also overshadowing the release of Gigli, a critical and commercial failure and she subsequently married longtime friend Marc Anthony, and rebounded with the box office successes Shall We Dance. and Monster-in-Law. Her fifth studio album, Como Ama una Mujer, received the highest first-week sales for a debut Spanish album in the United States, in 2016, she began starring as Harlee Santos in the crime drama series Shades of Blue. Time listed her as one of the 25 most influential Hispanic Americans, for her contributions to the arts, Lopez has received a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Billboard Icon Award, among other honors. Beyond entertainment, she enjoys a successful business career consisting of various clothing lines, accessories, fragrances, a company. Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24,1969, in the Castle Hill neighborhood of The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and she has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda, a journalist. David worked the night shift at the Guardian Insurance Company before becoming a technician at the firm. When Lopez was born, the family was living in a small apartment, a few years later, her parents had saved up enough money to be able to purchase a two-story house, which was considered a big deal for the relatively poor family. At the age of five, Lopez began taking singing and dancing lessons and she toured New York with her school when she was seven years old. Her parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English and they encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home—singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay out of trouble. Lopez spent her academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at Preston High School. In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level and she excelled athletically rather than academically, competing in national track championships
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Lopez at the
25th GLAAD Media Awards, April 2014
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Lopez in 2004
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Lopez performing during her
Dance Again World Tour, June 2012.
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Usher (entertainer)
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Usher Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Born in Dallas, Texas but raised and lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee until moving to Atlanta, at the age of 12, his mother put him in local singing competitions, before catching the attention of a music A&R from LaFace Records. In 1994 he released his debut album, Usher. 8701 produced the number-one singles U Remind Me and U Got It Bad and it sold 8 million copies worldwide and won his first two Grammy Awards as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2002 and 2003. Confessions established him as one of the musical artists of the 2000s decade. Bolstered by its four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number one singles, Burn, Confessions Part II, and My Boo, it has been certified Diamond by the RIAA. Here I Stand and Raymond v. Raymond, debuted atop of the Billboard 200, the EP, Versus, also produced the Hot 100 top-five single DJ Got Us Fallin in Love. Looking 4 Myself, also debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, Raymond v. Raymond and Looking 4 Myself received Grammy Awards for R&B singles There Goes My Baby and Climax. Hard II Love peaked at five of the Billboard 200 albums chart. Usher has sold 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the United States, to date, his worldwide sales stand at 43 million albums and 75 million records overall, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Usher has won awards and accolades including 18 Billboard Music Awards and 8 Grammy Awards. Billboard also placed him at number 6 on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years, Usher has attained 9 US Hot 100 number-one singles. Considered an icon and sex symbol, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, in 2008, he started his own record label Raymond-Braun Media Group, a joint venture with talent manager Scooter Braun that includes Canadian singer Justin Bieber. Usher was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Jonetta Patton, from Tennessee, Usher spent the majority of his young life in Chattanooga, his father left the family when Usher was a year old. Usher grew up with his mother, then-stepfather, and half-brother, while in Atlanta, Usher attended North Springs High School. At age 10, Usher joined an R&B local quintet called the NuBeginnings, Usher recorded 10 songs with the group in 1991, and the ensuing album, Nubeginning Featuring Usher Raymond IV, was only made available regionally and by mail order. However, Patton took him out because, according to her, the album was re-released nationally in April 2002 by Hip-O Records. At age 13, Usher would meet A. J, alexander at local talent show in Atlanta
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Usher during the Division 1 launch party, 2010
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Usher arriving in
Miami, Florida, to attend the 2004
MTV Video Music Awards
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Usher performing with
Stevie Wonder and
Shakira at the
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
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Usher performing in 2010
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Louis C.K.
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Louis Székely, known professionally as Louis C. K. is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and editor. He began his writing for several comedy shows in the 1990s and early 2000s for comedians including David Letterman, Conan OBrien, Dana Carvey. Louie, an acclaimed semi-autobiographical comedy-drama series that C. K. created, stars in, writes, directs, executive produces and he had supporting acting roles in the films The Invention of Lying, American Hustle, Blue Jasmine, and Trumbo. During an extended Louie hiatus, C. K. created and starred in his web series Horace and Pete in 2016, C. K. has released nine comedy albums in his career, often directing and editing his specials as well. He is known for his use of observational, self-deprecating, dark and vulgar humor. C. K. won a 2012 Peabody Award, and has received six Emmy awards, as well as awards for The Chris Rock Show, Louie. He has won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album twice and his favorite comedian was his friend Patrice ONeal, and he cited ONeal as one of the best counterculture comedians of the 21st century. C. K. was born on September 12,1967, in Washington, D. C. the son of Mary Louise Székely, an engineer, and Luis Székely. C. K. s parents met at Harvard University, where his mother was completing her degree in a summer-school program and they were married at St. Francis Church in Traverse City, Michigan. C. K. s paternal grandfather, Dr. Géza Székely Schweiger, was a surgeon, Székely Schweiger was a Hungarian Jew whose family immigrated to Mexico, where he met C. K. s paternal grandmother, Rosario Sánchez Morales. Sánchez Morales was a Catholic Mexican, C. K. s grandfather agreed to have his children raised Catholic, but was quietly Jewish. C. K. s mother, an American with Irish ancestry and she graduated from Owosso High School in Owosso, Michigan. She attended University of Michigan and graduated from Ohio State University Phi Beta Kappa, C. K. s maternal grandparents were M. Louise Davis and Alfred C. C. K. s first language was Spanish, it was not until after the back to the U. S. that he began to learn English. He claims he has forgotten much of his Spanish, however. At age seven, C. K. left Mexico with his family to back to the United States. Upon moving from Mexico to suburban Boston, C. K. wanted to become a writer and comedian, citing Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, when he was 10, his parents divorced. C. K. said that his father was around but he did not see him much and when he remarried, C. K. s father converted to Orthodox Judaism, C. K. and his three sisters were raised by their single mother in Newton, Massachusetts
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C.K. at the
2012 Time 100.
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Louis C.K. performing in
Kuwait, December 2008
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Louis C.K. speaking in Montreal, July 29, 2011
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Clint Eastwood
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Clinton Clint Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring icon of masculinity. For his work in the Western film Unforgiven and the sports drama Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor. Eastwoods greatest commercial successes have been the adventure comedy Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel, the war drama biopic American Sniper set box office records for the largest January release ever and was also the largest opening ever for an Eastwood film. Eastwood received considerable praise in France for several films, including some that were not well received in the United States. Eastwood has been awarded two of Frances highest honors, in 1994 he became a recipient of the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in 2000, Eastwood was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own company, Malpaso. Starting in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a non-partisan office, Eastwood was born Clinton Eastwood Jr. May 31,1930, in San Francisco, California, the son of Clinton Eastwood Sr. and he has one younger sister, Jeanne Bernhardt. Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry and he is descended from Mayflower passenger William Bradford, and through this line is the 12th generation of his family born in North America and the 13th generation to live in North America. His family moved often as his father worked at jobs along the West Coast, settled in Piedmont, California, the Eastwoods lived in a very wealthy part of town, had a swimming pool, belonged to the country club, and each parent drove their own car. Clint attended Piedmont Junior High School, shortly before he was to enter Piedmont High School, he rode his bike on the schools sports field and tore up the wet turf, this resulted in his being asked not to enroll. Clint graduated from the airplane shop, I think that was his major, joked classmate Don Kincaid. Another high school friend, Don Loomis, echoed I dont think he was spending much time at school because he was having a pretty good time elsewhere. I think what happened is he just went off and started having a good time, I just dont think he finished high school, explained Fritz Manes, a boyhood friend two years younger than Eastwood, who remained associated with him until their falling out in the mid-1980s. Biographer Patrick McGilligan notes that high school records are a matter of strict legal confidentiality. Eastwood worked at a number of jobs, including lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, Eastwood has said that he tried to enroll at Seattle University but was then drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War. He always dropped the Korean War reference, hoping everyone would conclude that he was in combat, actually, hed been a lifeguard at Fort Ord in northern California for his entire stint in the military, commented Eastwoods former longtime companion, Sondra Locke
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Eastwood at the
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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Publicity photo for
Rawhide, 1961
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Eastwood as the
Man with No Name in
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
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Eastwood directing
William Holden in Breezy (1973)
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Tom Cruise
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards and he started his career at age 19 in the film Endless Love. After portraying supporting roles in Taps and The Outsiders, his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business, Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete Maverick Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun. One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, Cruise starred in more successful films in the 1980s, including the dramas The Color of Money, Cocktail, Rain Man. In 2012, Cruise was Hollywoods highest-paid actor,16 of his films grossed over $100 million domestically,22 have grossed in excess of $200 million worldwide. In 2002, Cruise won the Saturn Award for Best Actor for Vanilla Sky, in 2003, he won an AFI Movie of the Year Award for The Last Samurai and an Empire Award for Best Actor for Minority Report. Cruise is an advocate for the Church of Scientology and its associated social programs. Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Mary Lee, a special teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III. He has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass and they are of English, German, and Irish ancestry. One of Cruises paternal great-great-great-grandfathers, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in north County Dublin in 1799, he married Teresa Johnson in County Meath and they left Ireland for the United States that same year and settled in New York. They had a daughter, Mary Paulina Russell Cruise, whose son Thomas Cruise Mapother was Cruises great-grandfather, a cousin, William Mapother, is also an actor, he and Cruise have appeared in five films together. Cruise grew up in poverty, and had a Catholic upbringing. The family was dominated by his father, whom Cruise has described as a merchant of chaos. Cruise has said that he was beaten by his father, whom he has called a bully and he stated, He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a lesson in my life—how hed lull you in, make you feel safe and then. For me, it was like, Theres something wrong with this guy, Cruise spent part of his childhood in Canada. His family moved to Beacon Hill, Ottawa, in late 1971 so that Cruises father could take a position as a consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces. There, Cruise attended the newly opened Robert Hopkins Public School for much of grade four, in grade four, Cruise first became involved in drama, under the tutelage of George Steinburg
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Cruise at the Edge of Tomorrow premiere in May 2014
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Cruise at the
61st Academy Awards in 1989
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With
Katie Holmes in May 2009
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Donald Trump
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Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Prior to entering politics he was a businessman and television personality, Trump was born and raised in Queens, New York City, and earned an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He then took charge of The Trump Organization, the estate and construction firm founded by his paternal grandmother, which he ran for four. During his real career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos. Besides real estate, he started several ventures and has lent the use of his name for the branding of various products. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he hosted The Apprentice, as of 2017, Forbes listed him as the 544th wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of $3.5 billion. Trump first publicly expressed interest in running for office in 1987. He won two Reform Party presidential primaries in 2000, but withdrew his candidacy early on, in June 2015, he launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election and quickly emerged as the front-runner among 17 candidates in the Republican primaries. His final opponents suspended their campaigns in May 2016, and in July he was nominated at the Republican National Convention along with Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate. His campaign received unprecedented media coverage and international attention, many of the statements he made at rallies, in interviews, or on social media were controversial or false. Trump won the election on November 8,2016, in a surprise victory against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. His political positions have been described by scholars and commentators as populist, protectionist, Trump was born on June 14,1946 at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York City. He was the fourth of five born to Frederick Christ Fred Trump. His siblings are Maryanne, Fred Jr. Elizabeth, and Robert, Trumps ancestors originated from the village of Kallstadt, Palatinate, Germany on his fathers side, and from the Outer Hebrides isles of Scotland on his mothers side. All his grandparents, and his mother, were born in Europe and his mothers grandfather was also christened Donald. On a visit to his village, he met Elisabeth Christ. He died from the flu pandemic of 1918 and Elizabeth incorporated the family real estate business, Elizabeth Trump and Son, which would later become The Trump Organization. Trumps father Fred was born in the Bronx, and worked with his mother since he was 15 as a real estate developer, primarily in the New York boroughs of Queens and he eventually built and sold thousands of houses, barracks and apartments
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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
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The Trump Organization owns, operates, develops and invests in real estate around the world such as
Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago.
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Trump Tower, at 725
Fifth Avenue, in
Midtown Manhattan
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Russell Brand
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Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author, and activist. Beginning his career as a comedian and later becoming an MTV presenter, Brand first achieved notoriety in 2004 as the host of Big Brothers Big Mouth. He also worked as an actor in the animated films Despicable Me in 2010, Hop in 2011, and Despicable Me 2 in 2013. In 2013, he released the successful stand-up special Messiah Complex, in 2014, Brand launched his political-comedy web series The Trews, released a book entitled Revolution, and began work on a documentary about financial inequality with Michael Winterbottom. He has incorporated many of his public antics into his comedic material. In 2015 a biographical documentary called Brand, A Second Coming was released, Russell Edward Brand was born in Orsett Hospital in Grays, Essex, England. He is the child of Barbara Elizabeth and photographer Ronald Henry Brand. Brands parents split up when he was six months old, when he was 7, a tutor sexually abused him. When Brand was 8, his mother contracted uterine cancer and then breast cancer one year later, while she underwent treatment, Brand lived with relatives. When he was 14, he suffered from bulimia nervosa, when he was 16, he left home because of disagreements with his mothers partner. Brand then started to use drugs such as cannabis, amphetamines, LSD. Brand says he had a relationship with his father, whom he saw sporadically. He made his debut at the age of 15 in a school production of Bugsy Malone. Brand attended Grays School Media Arts College and in 1991, he was accepted to the Italia Conti Academy and had his first year of tuition funded by Essex County Council, after his first year at Italia Conti Academy, Brand was expelled for illegal drug use and poor attendance. Brand performed stand-up at the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year final in 2000, although he finished fourth, his performance attracted the attention of Gagged and Bound Comedy Ltd agent Nigel Klarfeld. That year, he made his Edinburgh debut as one-third of the stand-up show Pablo Diablos Cryptic Triptych, alongside ventriloquist Mark Felgate. In 2004, he took his first one-man show, the confessional Better Now, to the Edinburgh Festival and he returned the following year with Eroticised Humour. He launched his first nationwide tour, Shame, in 2006, Brand drew on embarrassing incidents in his own life and the coverage about him in the tabloid press
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Brand at the premiere for
Arthur in 2011
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Russell Brand in April 2011
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Brand performs stand-up at the London Roundhouse, 25 January 2008
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Brand speaking with
Courtney Love in Los Angeles, 2008
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Eddie Van Halen
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Edward Lodewijk Eddie Van Halen is a Dutch-American musician, songwriter and producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, occasional keyboardist and he is considered one of the most influential guitarists in the history of rock music. In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Van Halen number eight in the list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists, in 2012, he was voted number one in a Guitar World magazine readers poll for The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Born in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Edward Lodewijk van Halen is the son of Dutch father, Jan van Halen, a clarinetist, saxophonist, and pianist, Van Halens middle name, Lodewijk, is after composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Lodewijk being the Dutch equivalent of Ludwig. He continued this tradition by naming his son Wolfgang Van Halen after composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in February 1962, the Van Halen family moved to the United States, settling in Pasadena, California. Both Eddie and his brother, Alex, are naturalized U. S. citizens. The Van Halen brothers learned to play the piano as children starting at the age of six and they commuted from Pasadena to San Pedro to study with an elderly man, Stasys Kalvaitis who taught them classical piano. Although they hated the commute, they continued as their mother would discipline them if they refused to go, Van Halen revealed in an interview that he never could read the music. Instead, he learned from watching and listening, during recitals of Bach or Mozart, he would simply wing it. From 1964 through 1967, Edward won first place in the piano competition held at Long Beach City College. Afterward, the judges would comment that he had an interpretation of the classical piece. I thought I was playing it correctly, however, according to one interview, playing the piano did not prove to be challenging or interesting to him. Consequently, while Alex began playing the guitar, Eddie bought a drum kit, after Eddie heard Alexs performance of The Surfaris drum solo in the song Wipe Out, he decided to switch instruments and began learning how to play the electric guitar. According to Eddie Van Halen, as a teen, he would often practice while walking around at home with his guitar strapped on or sitting in his room for hours with the door locked. Van Halen acknowledged the importance of super group Creams Im So Glad on Goodbye Cream to be mind-blowing and he once claimed that he had learned almost all of Eric Claptons solos in the band Cream. note for note. Ive always said Eric Clapton was my influence, Van Halen said. Van Halen would later say that this was when he first felt the desire to become a professional musician, in 1972, Van Halen formed another band, originally called Genesis. The name was changed to Mammoth when Van Halen became aware of the English progressive rock band of the same name, Mammoth consisted of Van Halen on guitar and lead vocals, his brother Alex on drums and bass guitarist Mark Stone
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Van Halen onstage in 2007
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Van Halen in
New Haven, 1977
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Van Halen (right) with
David Lee Roth (left), November 2007
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Van Halen's Frankenstrat Guitar
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Van Halen
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Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. From 1974 until 1985, the band consisted of guitarist Eddie Van Halen, vocalist David Lee Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, the band went on to become major stars, and by the early 1980s they were one of the most successful rock acts of the time. 1984 was their most successful album, the lead single, Jump, became an international hit and their only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The following singles, Panama and Ill Wait, both hit number 13 on the U. S. charts, the album went on to sell over 12 million copies in the U. S. alone. In 1985, the band replaced lead singer David Lee Roth with former Montrose lead vocalist Sammy Hagar, with Hagar, the group would release four U. S. number-one albums over the course of 11 years. Hagar left the band in 1996 shortly before the release of the bands first greatest hits collection, former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone was quickly recruited as lead singer to replace Hagar, and Van Halen III was released in 1998. Cherone left the band in frustration in 1999 after the due to the poor commercial performance of the album. Van Halen went on hiatus until 2003 when they reunited with Hagar for a worldwide tour, the reunited band released a second greatest hits collection the following year, The Best of Both Worlds. Like Volume I before it, The Best of Both Worlds included material from both the Roth and Hagar eras but omitted any Cherone era tracks, the album featured three brand new tracks recorded by the reunited band, two of which were released as singles. Hagar again left Van Halen in 2005, and in 2006 Roth returned as lead vocalist for their highest-grossing tour, Anthony was not invited to participate in the tour and was essentially fired from the band, replaced by Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddies son. In 2012, the released the commercially and critically successful. According to the RIAA, Van Halen is the 19th-best-selling band/artist in United States history and they were also revealed at number 4 on the Billboards top moneymakers list in 2013. Controversy surrounded the band following the exits of Roth, Hagar, and Anthony, in 2007, Van Halen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. VH1 ranked them 7th on their list of the top 100 hard rock artists of all time, the Van Halen brothers were born in The Netherlands, Edward Van Halen in Nijmegen and Alex Van Halen in Amsterdam, sons to musician Jan Van Halen. The family moved to Pasadena, California in 1962, young Edward first began studying classical piano, and became quite proficient. Eventually the brothers started playing together in the 1960s – Eddie on drums. While Eddie was delivering newspapers to pay for his new set, Alex would sneak over. Eventually Eddie found out about it, and out of frustration he told Alex, OK, you play drums, the Van Halen brothers formed their very first band called The Broken Combs in the early 1970s
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Current line-up: David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Wolfgang Van Halen
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Van Halen at
La Cañada High School 1975
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Flyer handed out at
La Cañada High School show
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Vocalist Gary Cherone (pictured in 2008) joined the band briefly in the late 1990s
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Panama (song)
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Panama is a song from Van Halens album 1984. It was the single released from that record and is one of their most recognized songs. The song was written about a car. In an interview with Howard Stern, lead singer David Lee Roth explained the meaning behind the trademark song. Although the song features some suggestive lyrics, it is about a car that Roth saw race in Las Vegas, its name was Panama Express, in the Stern interview, Roth did not explain why the song was about a car rather than the usual Van Halen material. Panama was the name of Roths car and he had the hood and bumper mounted in his hallway, which can be seen in his video for SHOOBop. He has a stuffed deers behind crashing through the front windshield, a plaque underneath reads, Your First deer, courtesy of PANAMA. During the bridge of the song where Roth says I can barely see the road from the heat comin off it, the car was backed up to the studio and microphones were attached to the exhaust pipe to record the sound for the song. The music video for the song, directed by Pete Angelus, the video was shot at The Spectrum in Philadelphia during soundcheck and the live show. It uses numerous shots of band members flying through the air attached to a cable, during the breakdown, Roth is seen sword dancing and ribbon dancing. Bassist Michael Anthonys Jack Daniels whiskey bottle bass guitar is also seen, Eddie Van Halen played an instrumental version on Late Night with David Letterman. The Smashing Pumpkins also released a cover of the song in their Live Smashing Pumpkins album series, the band re-recorded the song for the video game Guitar Hero, Van Halen. Christian parody band ApologetiX did a spoof of the song called Santa Claus. in June 2012 comedian and musician Reggie Watts recorded a live a cappella version with looped vocals for The A. V. Panama is featured in the title for the American version of the PlayStation 2 game Gran Turismo 4. Panama is used as music for the conservative talk show The Mike Gallagher Show. Panama is featured in TV shows, films and video games including The Drew Carey Show, Rock Band 4, Superbad, Guitar Hero, Van Halen, The Amazing World of Gumball and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Panama was one of the songs for Operation Just Cause. Panama was reportedly one of the songs played outside Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in order to coax Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega, Panama was the seventh track on the playlist Barneys Get Psyched Mix in the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother
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"Panama"
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Bow Wow (rapper)
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Shad Gregory Moss, better known by his stage name Bow Wow, is an American rapper, actor and television host. As Lil Bow Wow, he released his first album, Beware of Dog in 2000 at age 13, in 2003, Bow Wow released his third album Unleashed, which was the first album released without using Lil in his name. As of September 27,2015, Bow Wow had officially signed to a new label, Bad Boy Records. Bow Wow made his first movie appearance in All About the Benjamins, in the same year, Bow Wow made his debut as the lead role in Like Mike. He later began to lead roles in movies, such as Johnson Family Vacation in 2004. He also played a role in the film The Fast. Bow Wow also appeared in five episodes of the television series Entourage and he is currently working on his new album entitled Underrated and starred as Brody Nelson in CSI, Cyber until the shows cancellation in 2016. Bow Wow was born Shad Gregory Moss in Columbus, Ohio, at age three, he became interested in rap. Under the moniker Kid Gangsta, he began rapping recreationally at age six, in 1993, he performed at a concert in Los Angeles, and was noticed by rapper Snoop Dogg, who subsequently gave him a stage name, Lil Bow Wow. In 1998, at the age of eleven, Bow Wow met record producer Jermaine Dupri, in 1999, the soundtrack to the movie Wild Wild West featured his song The Stick Up with his mentor Jermaine Dupri. At the age of 13, in 2000 he debuted with Beware of Dog under the stage name Lil Bow Wow and its debut single was Bounce with Me, which featured R&B girl group Xscape. The album also included Bow Wow featuring Snoop Dogg, which topped the rap chart, Puppy Love, the Recording Industry Association of America certified Beware of Dog double platinum on March 5,2001, signifying sales of two million copies. In a 2009 interview, the claimed that the album had sold over 3 million copies since its release. Doggy Bag peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and was certified platinum. Lil Bow Wow performed the track Basketball for the soundtrack of his film Like Mike, Bow Wow dropped the Lil from his stage name in April 2002, he told MTV News, I changed my name because Im getting older now and its too many Lils. All these Lil rappers, Im just kind of getting real irritated by it, besides, Im growing up, Im not little anymore. Its all these Lil cats, forget it, everything is just Bow Wow, no Lil Bow Wow. The first album released under his new name was Unleashed in 2003 and its first single was Lets Get Down featuring Birdman, the founder of Cash Money Records, which reached #14 on the Hot 100 and #6 on the Hot Rap Tracks charts
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Bow Wow performing at the Obama "We Are the Future" concert, January 19, 2009.
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Los Angeles Lakers
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The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association, as a club of the leagues Western Conference Pacific Division. The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA, as of 2015, the Lakers are the second most valuable franchise in the NBA according to Forbes, having an estimated value of $2.7 billion. The franchise began with the 1947 purchase of a disbanded team, the new team began playing in Minneapolis, calling themselves the Minneapolis Lakers in honor of the states nickname, Land of 10,000 Lakes. The team was propelled by center George Mikan, who is described by the NBAs official website as the leagues first superstar, after struggling financially in the late 1950s following Mikans retirement, they relocated to Los Angeles before the 1960–61 season. Led by Hall of Famers Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, Los Angeles made the NBA Finals six times in the 1960s, but lost each series to the Boston Celtics, beginning their long and storied rivalry. After the retirement of West and Chamberlain, the team acquired another center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had won multiple MVP awards and this team featured Hall of Famers in Johnson, Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy, and a Hall of Fame coach, Pat Riley. After Abdul-Jabbar and Johnsons retirement, the team struggled in the early 1990s before acquiring Shaquille ONeal, led by ONeal, Bryant, and another Hall of Fame coach, Phil Jackson, Los Angeles won three consecutive titles between 2000 to 2002, securing the franchise its second three-peat. After losing both the 2004 and 2008 NBA Finals, the Lakers won two championships by defeating the Orlando Magic in 2009 and Boston in 2010. The Lakers hold the record for NBAs longest winning streak,33 straight games,21 Hall of Famers have played for Los Angeles, while four have coached the team. Four Lakers—Abdul-Jabbar, Johnson, ONeal, and Bryant—have won the NBA MVP Award for a total of eight awards, Minneapolis sportswriter Sid Hartman played a key behind the scenes role in helping put together the deal and later the team. Inspired by Minnesotas nickname, Land of 10,000 Lakes, Hartman helped them hire John Kundla from College of St. Thomas, to be their first head coach, by meeting with him and selling him on the team. The Lakers had a roster which featured forward Jim Pollard, playmaker Herm Schaefer, and center George Mikan. In their first season, they led the league with a 43–17 record, in 1948, the Lakers moved from the NBL to the Basketball Association of America, and Mikans 28.3 point per game scoring average set a BAA record. In the 1949 BAA Finals they won the championship, beating the Washington Capitols four games to two, the following season, the team improved to 51–17, repeating as champions. In the 1950–51 season, Mikan won his third straight scoring title at 28.4 ppg, one of those games, a 19–18 loss against the Fort Wayne Pistons, became infamous as the lowest scoring game in NBA history. In the playoffs, they defeated the Indianapolis Olympians in three games but lost to the Rochester Royals in the next round, during the 1951–52 season, the Lakers won 40 games, finishing second in their division. They faced the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals, which won in seven games
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Hall of Famer George Mikan (#99) led the Lakers franchise to their first five NBA championships. He is described by the NBA's official website as the "first superstar" in league history.
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Los Angeles Lakers
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Minneapolis team co-owner Benjamin Berger
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Jerry West led the team to nine NBA Finals appearances in the 1960s and 1970s. Nicknamed "Mr. Clutch", his silhouette is featured on the NBA's official logo.
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Miami Heat
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The Miami Heat are an American professional basketball team based in Miami. The Heat compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division and they play their home games at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami. The team owner is Carnival Corporation owner Micky Arison, the president and general manager is Pat Riley. The mascot is Burnie, an anthropomorphic fireball, formed in 1988 as an expansion team, the Heat have won three league championships, five conference titles and eleven division titles. In 2013, the Heat won twenty-seven regular season games in a row, in 2016, Forbes valued the Heat at $1.3 billion as the tenth most valuable among NBA franchises. In 1987 the NBA granted one of its four new teams to Miami. The Miami Heat began their early years with much mediocrity, only making the two times in their first eight years and falling in the first round both times. Upon the purchasing of the franchise by Micky Arison in 1995, Pat Riley was brought in as the team president, Riley acquired center Alonzo Mourning and point guard Tim Hardaway to serve as the centerpieces for the team, transforming Miami into a championship contender throughout the late 1990s. With them they brought in a new team trainer, Cody Posselt. The Heat underwent a dramatic turnaround in the 1996–97 season, improving to a 61–21 record – a franchise record at the time and that same year, Miami earned the moniker of Road Warriors for its remarkable 32–9 record on the road. Their biggest rivals of the time were the New York Knicks, Rileys former team, a period of mediocrity followed after, highlighted by missing the playoffs in 2002 and 2003. In the 2003 NBA draft, with the fifth overall pick, free-agent swing-man Lamar Odom was signed from the Los Angeles Clippers. Just prior to the start of the 03–04 season, Riley stepped down as coach to focus on rebuilding the Heat. In the offseason, Riley engineered a summer blockbuster trade for Shaquille ONeal from the Los Angeles Lakers, Alonzo Mourning returned to the Heat in the same season, serving as a backup to ONeal. Returning as championship contenders, Miami finished with a 59–23 record, sweeping through the first round and the semifinals, Miami went back to the Conference Finals for the first time in eight years, where it met the defending champion Detroit Pistons. Despite taking a 3–2 lead, Miami lost Wade to injury for Game 6, the Heat would go on to lose Game 7 at home despite Wades return. In the summer of 2005, Riley brought in free agent Gary Payton from the Boston Celtics. After a disappointing 11–10 start to the 05–06 season, Riley relieved Van Gundy of his duties, the Heat made it to the Conference Finals in 2006 and in a re-match, defeated the Pistons, winning the series 4–2
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Alonzo Mourning
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Miami Heat
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Dwyane Wade
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Shaquille O'Neal
46.
Jackass 3D
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Jackass 3D is a 2010 American 3D adult comedy film and the third film in the Jackass film series. The film stars Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Danger Ehren, Dave England and Wee Man. It was released on October 15,2010 by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films to American theaters and marked the 10th anniversary of the franchise, Jackass 3D earned $171.7 million on a $20 million budget. The DVD and Blu-ray versions of Jackass 3D were released on March 8,2011 in three different versions, a sequel titled Jackass 3.5 was released on June 13,2011 and a spin-off titled Jackass Presents, Bad Grandpa was released on October 25,2013. Beavis and Butt-head introduced the film by explaining 3D technology, the opening sequence features the cast lining up and then being attacked by various objects in slow-motion. The opening sequence, as well as many of the stunts, were filmed with Phantom high speed cameras which shoot at 1,000 frames per second, Jackass 3D follows the same premise as the past movies and the television series. It is a compilation of various pranks, stunts and skits, the final stunt includes Steve-O being launched in the air while inside a portable toilet filled with excrement. The closing skit is done in a fashion as the introduction. After the explosions are finished, the cast members are flushed away by a wave pool, as in the past two Jackass films, comedian Rip Taylor makes an appearance before the credits roll, celebrating the end of the film in overly dramatic fashion. As the ending credits play, a retrospective is shown with clips from the show along with old photographs of cast and crew set to Weezers Memories. Knoxvilles daughter, Madison, is seen in the ending credits. The entire cast from the movies returned for the third movie, with the notable exceptions of former Jackass mainstays Brandon DiCamillo. Knoxvilles daughter Madison and son Rocko are shown in the credits, in December 2009, director Jeff Tremaine began doing camera tests with the 3D equipment. In that same month, Johnny Knoxville announced the return of the entire cast of the two movies. According to Deadline. com, a stunt called The Heli-cockter was filmed, Chris Pontius tethered a remote control-operated helicopter to his penis, and grinned while he swung it around. During filming, recurring guest cast member Loomis Fall suffered a fracture of his clavicle after an improper landing during a stunt involving an umbrella. In April 2010, JackassWorld. com was closed, leaving a posting that says gone filmin, to keep abreast and adick of all things related to the world of jackass and Dickhouse, follow us on Facebook and Twitter. In an interview with Rick Kosick, he revealed that JackassWorld. com will no longer be a web site after the movie releases, despite this, it was relaunched as the main website for Dickhouse Productions
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Theatrical release poster
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Jackass 3D: Music from the Motion Picture
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Andy Richter
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Paul Andrew Andy Richter is an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer. He is best known for his role as the sidekick of Conan OBrien on each of the programs, Late Night and The Tonight Show on NBC. He is also known for his work as Mort in the Madagascar films and for starring in the sitcoms Quintuplets, Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Richter was raised in Yorkville, Illinois and he graduated from Yorkville High School in 1984, where he was elected Prom King. His parents divorced when he was 4 and his father came out as gay. In the late 1980s, Richter attended Columbia College Chicago as a film major, while at Columbia, he learned the basics of comedic acting and writing by starring in numerous student films and videos. After leaving Columbia in 1988, Richter worked as an assistant on commercial shoots in Chicago. In 1989, he began taking classes at Chicagos Improv Olympic and he went from student to House Performer within a year. Richter branched out working with The Comedy Underground and the Annoyance Theater, Richter wrote for the short-lived Jonathan Brandmeier television show. In the early 1990s, the Annoyance Theater hit gold when producer Jill Soloway staged The Real Live Brady Bunch with live, the show was so popular that it attracted national attention and moved to New York City. Richter was not a member of the cast but the actor who played Mike Brady in the Chicago cast opted not to go to New York. Richter asked Soloway if he could play Mike in New York and, since Soloway had not cast a replacement, at the same time, The Real Live Brady Bunch was playing in New York, two fellow Annoyance members were hired as cast members on Saturday Night Live. With friends on SNL, Richter was able to get into the parties where he met SNL writer Robert Smigel. Two years later, Smigel hired Richter for a new show he was producing, after seven years with the show, Richter departed from Late Night after the May 26,2000 show. He later said of the decision, After seven years of being on the show, I got itchy. I have a philosophy that if you enjoy good fortune, rather than sit there and say, Oh, thats fine and you should see how much you can stretch your good fortune. Richter left his post at Late Night in 2000 to pursue a career acting in films and his first major venture, Foxs Andy Richter Controls the Universe, was canceled after two mid-season runs. His next Fox sitcom, Quintuplets, lasted one season and his 2007 television series, Andy Barker P. I. was co-written and executive produced by Conan OBrien
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Andy Richter reigns as "Pope" of the "
Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus " 2015
New Orleans Mardi Gras parade.
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Andy Richter in mid-1997 at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, in Gainesville, Florida
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Bret Michaels
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Bret Michael Sychak, professionally known as Bret Michaels, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He gained fame as the singer of the glam metal band Poison who have sold over 50 million records worldwide and 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and a number-one single, Every Rose Has Its Thorn. Besides his career as the singer, he released several solo recordings including the soundtrack album to the movie A Letter from Death Row, Songs of Life. Michaels has appeared in movies and TV shows, including as a judge on the talent show Nashville Star. He starred in the hit VH1 reality show Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and its sequels, in 2006, Hit Parader ranked Michaels at #1 on their list of greatest Heavy metal singers of all-time. Michaels was born Bret Michael Sychak, to Wally and Marjorie Sychak, north of Pittsburgh in the city of Butler, Pennsylvania and he attended Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School. He has two sisters, Michelle and Nicole and he claims that his parents had originally intended for him to have the middle name Maverick, after the title character in the popular James Garner TV Western series Maverick. He is of Carpatho-Rusyn, Irish, English, German, Brets great-uncle Nick Sychak fought at Omaha Beach in the Invasion of Normandy and was killed in action in France in 1944. At the age of 6, Michaels fell ill, and during a stay in the hospital. Michaels began playing the guitar as a teenager, forming a band with drummer Rikki Rockett, bass player Bobby Dall and original guitarist and creative force, the lead guitarist who actually introduced Brett to Rikki and Bobby, soon left the band for creative differences. The band then hired Matt Smith and formed the band Paris in Mechanicsburg, after playing the Pennsylvania bar circuit, in early 1984 they moved to Los Angeles to seek fame on the Sunset Boulevard scene, eventually changing their name to Poison. That same year, Michaels met 16-year-old Tracy Lewis, who would become both his girlfriend and the muse for one of his most memorable songs, eventually, Matt Smith tired of the bands struggle to find fame and returned home. DeVille, who would become both Michaels friend and a source of conflict, local publicity about the band eventually led to a record deal with Enigma Records, and their first album, Look What the Cat Dragged In. It did not see success until 1987, when Michaels convinced the band to film a video for their song. The album went platinum, and the band became famous, in March of that year, Poison headlined a show at Madison Square Garden. Michaels took his insulin injection before the show but was so nervous about performing that he neglected to eat, several songs into Poisons set, Michaels went into insulin shock and collapsed onstage. When subsequent media reports alleged that Michaels collapsed due to a drug overdose,1987 also saw the dissolution of his relationship with Lewis, who felt that fame had changed him
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Bret Michaels live with Poison on July 11, 2008 at the
Moondance Jam
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Bret Michaels performs at John J. Burns Park in Massapequa, NY.
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Bret Michaels (center) singing "Talk Dirty to Me" in the video game
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
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Good Charlotte
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Good Charlotte is an American pop punk band from Waldorf, Maryland, that formed in 1996. After a four-year-long hiatus, the announced its comeback on November 3,2015. Each original member of the band attended La Plata High School in Maryland, the band made a name for itself in nearby Washington, D. C. playing the WHFS annual rock show HFStival in 1998 and 1999. The band mainly played out small bars which soon earned the group attention, the band also released two demos and two EPs along their career. Good Charlottes debut studio album Good Charlotte was released in 2000 and was the start of the music career. The album contains three singles, Little Things, Motivation Proclamation, and Festival Song, Aaron Escolopio was the bands drummer for this album, but left the band before The Young and the Hopeless to join his brothers band Wakefield, and was replaced by Nate Foutz. 2002s The Young and the Hopeless sold 4.9 million copies, the bands breakthrough single, titled Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, topped both pop and rock charts around the globe. Singles that were released from the album include The Anthem, Girls & Boys, The Young and the Hopeless, the band cited Rancid, Social Distortion, and The Clash as influences for the album. The album eventually went on to triple platinum certification from the RIAA. The band also became popular on MTV, where the music videos were played in heavy rotation on both MTV and MTV2. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous received the Viewers Choice Award at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, after a few months of touring, Nate Foutz returned to join his band for the bands summer tour. The band hired drummers during the recording, release and touring of The Young, in 2003, the band added Chris Wilson as a drummer, he was introduced to the band through mutual friends from the group The Used. Good Charlottes third album, The Chronicles of Life and Death, was released by Epic Records in 2004, the album received mixed reactions from both the music press and Good Charlottes fan base. The album sold 2.2 million copies, the album has been widely considered a departure from the bands previous two albums, mixing new elements such as lyrical topics into Good Charlottes youthful sound. Singles released from the album include the two hits Predictable and I Just Wanna Live, as well as The Chronicles of Life and Death, the only single from The Chronicles of Life and Death which managed to chart on the U. S. Hot 100 was the hit I Just Wanna Live, All of the singles released from the album went top 30 in the UK, except for We Believe. The band would go on tour with Sum 41. In May 2005, after much speculation from fans, it was confirmed that Chris Wilson had left the band citing personal health reasons
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From left to right:
Paul Thomas,
Joel Madden,
Benji Madden,
Dean Butterworth, and
Billy Martin.
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Good Charlotte in 2007
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Good Charlotte performing in 2011.
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Janet Jackson
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Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. After signing a contract with A&M Records in 1982, she became a pop icon following the release of her third studio album Control. Her collaborations with record producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis incorporated elements of rhythm and blues, funk, disco, rap, and industrial beats, which led to crossover success in popular music. In 1991 Jackson signed the first of two record-breaking multimillion-dollar contracts with Virgin Records, establishing her as one of the highest paid artists in the industry. Her debut album under the label, Janet, saw her develop an image as a sex symbol as she began to explore sexuality in her work. That same year, she appeared in her first starring role in Poetic Justice. By the end of the 1990s, she was the second most successful recording artist of the decade, the release of her seventh studio album All for You coincided with a celebration of her impact on popular music as the inaugural MTV Icon. After parting ways with Virgin she released her studio album, Discipline, her first. In 2015 she partnered with BMG Rights Management to launch her own label, Rhythm Nation. Having sold over 100 million records, Jackson is one of the artists in the history of contemporary music. In 2016, Billboard placed her number seven on its list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, in December 2016, the magazine named her the second most successful dance artist of all-time. One of the worlds most awarded artists, her longevity, records and she has been cited as an inspiration among numerous performers. Janet Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, the youngest of ten children, to Katherine Esther, the Jacksons were lower-middle class and devout Jehovahs Witnesses, although Jackson would later refrain from organized religion. At a young age, her brothers began performing as The Jackson 5 in the Chicago-Gary area, in March 1969, the group signed a record deal with Motown, and soon had their first number-one hit. The family then moved to the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, Jackson had initially desired to become a horse racing jockey or entertainment lawyer, with plans to support herself through acting. Despite this, she was anticipated to pursue a career in entertainment, at age seven, Jackson performed at the Las Vegas Strip at the MGM Casino. A biography revealed her father, Joseph Jackson, was emotionally withdrawn and she began acting in the variety show The Jacksons in 1976. In 1977, she was selected to have a role as Penny Gordon Woods in the sitcom Good Times
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Jackson performing on her
Unbreakable World Tour, 2015
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Jackson (bottom row) in a 1976 CBS photo on the set of
The Jacksons
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Janet Jackson featured on an iconic cover of Rolling Stone with the hands of her then-unknown husband
René Elizondo, Jr. cupping her breasts
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