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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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Ontario
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Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canadas most populous province by a margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and it is home to the nations capital city, Ottawa, and the nations most populous city, Toronto. There is only about 1 km of land made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. Ontario is sometimes divided into two regions, Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The great majority of Ontarios population and arable land is located in the south, in contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and is heavily forested. The province is named after Lake Ontario, a thought to be derived from Ontarí, io, a Huron word meaning great lake, or possibly skanadario. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes, the province consists of three main geographical regions, The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario. Although this area mostly does not support agriculture, it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes, Northern Ontario is subdivided into two sub-regions, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario. The virtually unpopulated Hudson Bay Lowlands in the north and northeast, mainly swampy. Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe, the highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at 693 metres above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario. In the south, elevations of over 500 m are surpassed near Collingwood, above the Blue Mountains in the Dundalk Highlands, the Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern region of the province. A well-known geographic feature is Niagara Falls, part of the Niagara Escarpment, the Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. Northern Ontario occupies roughly 87 percent of the area of the province. Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario that is the southernmost extent of Canadas mainland, Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N – slightly farther south than the border of California. The climate of Ontario varies by season and location, the effects of these major air masses on temperature and precipitation depend mainly on latitude, proximity to major bodies of water and to a small extent, terrain relief. In general, most of Ontarios climate is classified as humid continental, Ontario has three main climatic regions
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Canadians
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Canadians are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural, for most Canadians, several of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Canadian. Elements of Aboriginal, French, British and more recent immigrant customs, languages and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic and economic neighbour, the United States. Canadian independence from the United Kingdom grew gradually over the course of years since the formation of the Canadian Confederation in 1867. World War I and World War II in particular gave rise to a desire among Canadians to have their country recognized as a sovereign state with a distinct citizenship. Canadas nationality law closely mirrored that of the United Kingdom, legislation since the mid 20th century represents Canadians commitment to multilateralism and socioeconomic development. As of 2010, Canadians make up 0. 5% of the total population, having relied upon immigration for population growth. Approximately 41% of current Canadians are first- or second-generation immigrants, and 20 percent of Canadian residents in the 2000s were not born in the country. Statistics Canada projects that, by 2031, nearly one-half of Canadians above the age of 15 will be foreign-born or have one foreign-born parent. Aboriginal peoples, according to the 2011 Canadian Census, numbered at 1,400,685 or 4. 3% of the countrys 33,476,688 population. The French originally settled New France, in present-day Quebec and Ontario, approximately 100 Irish-born families would settle the Saint Lawrence Valley by 1700, assimilating into the Canadien population and culture. This arrival of newcomers led to the creation of the Métis, after the War of 1812, British, Scottish and Irish immigration was encouraged throughout Ruperts Land, Upper Canada and Lower Canada. Between 1815 and 1850, some 800,000 immigrants came to the colonies of British North America and these new arrivals included some Gaelic-speaking Highland Scots displaced by the Highland Clearances to Nova Scotia. Descendants of Francophone and Anglophone northern Europeans who arrived in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries are often referred to as old stock Canadians. Beginning in the late 1850s, the immigration of Chinese into the Colony of Vancouver Island, the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 eventually placed a head tax on all Chinese immigrants, in hopes of discouraging Chinese immigration after completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The population of Canada has consistently risen, doubling approximately every 40 years, from the mid- to late 19th century, Canada had a policy of assisting immigrants from Europe, including an estimated 100,000 unwanted Home Children from Britain. Block settlement communities were established throughout western Canada between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some were planned and others were spontaneously created by the settlers themselves. Canada was now receiving a number of European immigrants, predominantly Italians, Germans, Scandinavians, Dutch, Poles
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Second City Television
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SCTV is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Torontos Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984. Through multiple changes to format and casting the series maintained a consistent reputation as a spotlight on some of the best up and coming talent in Canadian and US comedy. Its general feeling of working within a budget of space, time, the premise of the show is the broadcast day of a fictitious TV station in the town of Melonville. The location of Melonville is left unspecified, the very earliest episodes imply its somewhere in Canada, a typical episode of SCTV presents a compendium of programming seen on the station throughout its broadcast day. A given episode could contain everything from SCTV news broadcasts to sitcoms, dramas, movies, talk shows, kid shows, commercial send-ups hawking non-existent products, also seen fairly frequently, particularly in later episodes, are behind-the-scenes plots focusing on life at the station. These often feature Guy Caballero, the cheap, tyrannical owner and president of SCTV, also seen regularly are weaselly, sweating station manager Maurice Moe Green, succeeded in the position by flamboyant, leopard-skin clad, foul-mouthed Mrs. The small cast, typically six to eight members at any given time and they also impersonate numerous popular celebrities appearing on the stations programming. SCTV was inducted into Canadas Walk of Fame in 2002, there is much dispute as to who actually created the SCTV series. The show itself bears no created by credit, although it developed by credits to Bernard Sahlins. What is clear is that, in 1976, Andrew Alexander was looking to expand his company into the realm of TV production and he called together the current cast of the stage show to discuss a format for a Second City TV series. Also in attendance at the meeting were Second City vets Harold Ramis, Sheldon Patinkin, from there, the actual content of the show was all the work of the cast, with contributions from producers Alexander and Sahlins. Alexander remained as producer throughout SCTVs run. Sahlins stayed for the first two seasons as a producer, Patinkin was a first-season writer and de facto editor and post-production supervisor. Close had no involvement with the series. SCTV was initially produced in 1976 at the Toronto studios of the Global Television Network, for the first six episodes, new episodes were seen once a month. For the next seven episodes new episodes were seen bi-weekly, in September 1977, Global ordered 13 additional episodes, which were seen once a week from September through December. These irregularly scheduled 26 episodes were considered one season for syndication purposes, all of the original cast were from the Toronto branch of The Second City theatre improv troupe, and many had previously worked together on The David Steinberg Show. Ramis was a Second City vet, but with the Chicago troupe, the original SCTV cast consisted of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine OHara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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Strange Brew
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Strange Brew is a 1983 Canadian comedy film starring the popular SCTV characters Bob and Doug McKenzie, portrayed by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. Co-stars include Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin, loosely based on elements of Shakespeares Hamlet, most of the film was shot in Toronto, Scarborough, Kitchener, and Hamilton, Ontario. Parts were also filmed in Prince George, British Columbia, after presenting the mouse to management at the brewery, the brothers are given jobs on the bottling line inspecting the bottles for mice. Smith tests this adulterated beer on patients of the neighbouring Royal Canadian Institute for the Mentally Insane, Bob and Doug learn that the brewerys former owner, John Elsinore, has recently died under mysterious circumstances and his daughter Pam has been given full control of the Elsinore brewery. Also, Bob recognizes a brewery employee as one-time hockey great Jean Rosie LeRose, eventually, Bob and Doug wander into Brewmeisters operations room while he is away and Doug takes a floppy disk containing video of John Elsinores murder. Unable to stop, the crash the van into Lake Ontario. All survive, and the brothers are arrested, the brothers antics at their trial cause the judge to declare them insane and put them under Brewmeister Smiths care at the asylum. Rosie soon finds them and helps them escape, and they find, having figured out Brewmeisters plan, Rosie formats an uprising among the brainwashed mental-patient test subjects. Meanwhile, Smith has locked Pam and Bob in a tank and filling it with beer, they escape this possible death when Bob consumes all the beer. John Elsinores ghost warns them that Smith has already shipped tainted beer to Oktoberfest, the police accompany the brothers back to their house to retrieve their dog, Hosehead, to invade the party. Enticed by promises of free beer and sausages, Hosehead leaps into the air and he crashes into the tent at the celebration and, mistaken for a skunk, frightens people away from the tainted beer. In the end, the McKenzie Brothers save the day and Pam, as for the contaminated beer, Bob and Doug are allowed to haul away the lot, apparently to try to drink it all. Based on this success, they thought about parlaying that into a feature film, after fellow SCTV cast member John Candy got an offer from Universal Pictures to do a film called Going Berserk, Moranis and Thomas started talking about writing a screenplay for a Bob and Doug film. Andrew Alexander, executive producer for SCTV reminded them that he had contracts with the two men and if they wrote a script he would sue them. They hired Steve De Jarnatt to write the first draft, initially, Thomas told De Jarnatt that he wanted to base the films story on Hamlet but he ended up being too faithful to the play and was told be more creative with the parallels to it. They were unhappy with the script because Bob and Doug were improvised characters done in their voices and they felt that nobody. Thomas began rewriting the script without Moranis who was now uncertain about doing the film, after working on the first 50 pages, Moranis took a look at what Thomas had done and they worked together rewriting it. D. Bob and Doug watching it in a theater, and causing a riot
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Ghostbusters
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Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis as three eccentric parapsychologists who start a business in New York City. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star as a client and her neighbor, Aykroyd conceived the film as a project for himself and fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus John Belushi, with the Ghostmashers travelling through time and space in the future with magic wands. He and Ramis dramatically rewrote the script following Belushis death and after Reitman deemed Aykroyds initial vision financially impractical, Ghostbusters was released in the United States on June 8,1984. It received a response from critics and audiences and grossed $242 million in the United States. It was nominated for two Oscars at the 57th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Original Song, but lost to Indiana Jones, the American Film Institute ranked Ghostbusters 28th in its AFIs 100 Years.100 Laughs list of film comedies. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it culturally, historically, a reboot, also titled Ghostbusters, was released on July 15,2016, by Columbia Pictures. Parapsychologists Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler are called to the New York Public Library to investigate recent paranormal activity and they encounter the ghost of a dead librarian but are frightened away when she transforms into a horrifying monster. After losing their jobs at Columbia University, the trio establish a paranormal investigation and elimination service known as Ghostbusters and they develop high-tech equipment capable of capturing ghosts and open their business in a disused, run-down firehouse. Egon warns them never to cross the energy streams of their proton pack weapons and they capture their first ghost, Slimer, at a hotel and deposit it in a specially built containment unit in the firehouse basement. As paranormal activity increases in New York City, they hire a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore, Venkman takes a particular interest in the case, and competes with Danas neighbor, accountant Louis Tully, for her affections. As the Ghostbusters investigate, Dana is demonically possessed by Zuul, which declares itself the Gatekeeper, and Louis by a demon, Vinz Clortho. Both demons speak of the coming of the destructive Gozer and the release of the ghosts. The ghosts wreak havoc throughout the city while Louis/Vinz advances toward Dana/Zuuls apartment, the Ghostbusters are released from custody to combat the supernatural crisis. As they trudge up 22 flights of stairs in Danas building, after reaching the roof, the team is unable to prevent the arrival of Gozer, who appears in the form of a woman. Briefly subdued by the team, Gozer disappears, but her voice echoes that the destructor will follow, the Ghostbusters cross their proton pack energy streams and fire them against Gozers portal, the explosion defeats the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and frees Dana and Louis. As thousands of New Yorkers wipe themselves free of marshmallow, the Ghostbusters are welcomed on the street as heroes, Aykroyd conceived it as a vehicle for himself and his friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus John Belushi. The original story, as written by Aykroyd, was different from what was eventually filmed
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Little Shop of Horrors (film)
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Little Shop of Horrors is a 1986 American rock musical horror comedy film directed by Frank Oz. Menken and Ashmans Off-Broadway musical was based on the low-budget 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors, the 1986 film stars Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, and Levi Stubbs as the voice of Audrey II. The film also featured appearances by James Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest. It was produced by David Geffen through The Geffen Company and released by Warner Bros. on December 19,1986. Little Shop of Horrors was filmed on the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage at the Pinewood Studios in England, the film was produced on a budget of $25 million, in contrast to the original 1960 film, which, according to Corman, only cost $30,000. The films original 23-minute finale, based on the ending, was rewritten. For years only available as black-and-white workprint footage, the ending was fully restored in 2012 by Warner Home Video. Seymour Krelborn and his colleague, Audrey, work at Mushniks Flower Shop in a run-down and they lament that they cannot escape the neighborhood. Struggling from a lack of customers, Mr. Mushnik decides to close the store, immediately attracting a customer, Seymour explains he bought the plant, which he dubbed Audrey II, from a Chinese flower shop during a solar eclipse. Attracting business to Mushniks shop, the plant soon starts dying, worrying Seymour, accidentally pricking his finger, he then discovers Audrey II needs human blood to thrive. Audrey II continues to rapidly and Seymour becomes a local celebrity. Seymour soon attempts to ask Audrey out, but she turns him down because she has a date with her sadistic, despite this, Audrey is interested in Seymour, dreaming of marrying him and escaping Skid Row. After Seymour closes up shop, Audrey II begins to talk to Seymour, the plant proposes that Seymour murder someone in exchange for fame and fortune, Seymour initially refuses, but agrees after witnessing Orin beating Audrey. Orin, who abuses nitrous oxide, puts on a type of mask to receive a constant flow of the gas. Accidentally breaking an intake valve and unable to remove the mask, Orin begs Seymour for help removing it, when Orin asks Seymour what he ever did to him, Seymour coldly replies, Nothing, its what you did to her. Orin dies from asphyxiation and Seymour drags his body back to Audrey II, while dismembering the body to feed to the plant, Seymour is unknowingly witnessed by Mushnik, who flees in fear. After feeding Orins parts to Audrey II, which has grown to enormous size, Audrey, feeling guilty about wishing Orin would disappear, is comforted by Seymour and the two admit their feelings for each other. That night, Mushnik confronts Seymour about what he saw and holds Seymour at gunpoint, Mushnik then attempts to blackmail Seymour, giving the option to flee the country in exchange for the ownership of the plant
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Spaceballs
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Spaceballs is a 1987 American science fiction parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy, and Rick Moranis, the film also features Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, in addition to Brooks in a supporting role, the film also features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appearances. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 24,1987 and it has since become a cult classic on video and one of Brookss most popular films. Its setting and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other sci-fi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, Planet Spaceball, led by the incompetent President Skroob, has wasted all of its fresh air. Skroob sends the villainous Dark Helmet to complete this task with Spaceball One, before they can arrive, Vespa abandons her wedding and flees the planet in her Mercedes spaceship with her droid of honor, Dot Matrix. Roland contacts mercenary Lone Starr and his mawg sidekick Barf, offering a reward to retrieve Vespa before she is captured. Lone Starr readily accepts, as he is in debt with the gangster Pizza the Hutt. In their Winnebago space ship the Eagle 5, Starr and Barf are able to reach Vespa before Spaceball One, Spaceball One tries to follow, but Helmet foolishly orders the ship to ludicrous speed, causing it to overshoot the escapees. Out of fuel, Lone Starr is forced to crash-land on the desert moon of Vega. The escapees travel on foot in blazing sun and pass out and they are found by the Dinks, a group of diminutive red-clad aliens, and are taken to a cave occupied by Yogurt, who is old and wise. Yogurt introduces Lone Starr to The Schwartz, a power similar to the Force. Yogurt also introduces the audience to the merchandising campaign. Starr and Vespa begin to flirt, but Vespa insists she can only be married to a prince, Helmet and Sandurz break the fourth wall by using a VHS copy of the film to discover Vespas location, and Helmet orders Spaceball One to the moon. The Spaceballs capture Vespa and Dot, and return them to planet Spaceball. Their captors threaten to reverse Vespas nose job, forcing Roland to give over the code to the shield that protects Druidia. Helmet and Sandurz take Spaceball One to Druidia, where they transform the ship into Mega Maid, Lone Starr and Barf rescue Vespa and Dot from captivity, and then race to Druidia. When the vacuum bag is almost full, Lone Starr is able to use the Schwartz to reverse the robots sucking action, once the air is successfully returned to the planet, Lone Starr and his allies enter the Mega Maid to attempt to destroy it. Lone Starr is forced to fight Helmet with lightsaber-like Schwartz rings near the ships self-destruct button, Lone Starr manages to defeat Helmet, causing him to involuntarily strike the button
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 American science fiction family film. Rick Moranis stars as Wayne Szalinski, the inventor who accidentally shrinks his children, Amy, marcia Strassman portrays his wife, Diane, to whom he delivers the titular line. Matt Frewer, Kristine Sutherland, Thomas Wilson Brown, and Jared Rushton star as Russ, Mae, Russ Jr. and Ron Thompson, the Szalinskis next-door neighbors. The film became a box office success, grossing in excess of $222 million worldwide, and became the highest-grossing live-action Disney film ever. It was met with reviews from both critics and audiences, who praised the story, visuals and innovation. Eccentric scientist and inventor Wayne Szalinski lives in his suburban home attempting to perfect a ray gun capable of shrinking objects, younger son Ron, however, is enthusiastic, though his relationship with Russ Sr. is strained when he inadvertently sets off a booby trap in the yard. Wayne instructs Amy and Nick to clean the house in preparation for Dianes return home before leaving for his conference. Nick is assigned to do the lawn, but he makes a deal to let his friend Tommy Pervis mow the lawn with the remote-controlled mower, Ron accidentally hits his baseball through the Szalinskis attic window, which inadvertently activates the machine and blocks its targeting laser. Caught by little Russ, he is made to apologize to Nick and Amy, and Amy has her brother take Ron to retrieve his ball, the two encounter the machine and are hit by its beam, thus shrinking them. When Wayne returns home, they try to get his attention, frustrated by his day and the broken window he discovers, Wayne takes it out on the machine, damaging it and nearly crushing the children with the shrapnel of parts. He then sweeps the debris into a dust pan and takes them out in a trash bag and they escape and enter the uncut yards wilderness where Nick calculates over 3.2 miles at their size to get back to the house and they start walking. Meanwhile, Diane returns home and she and Wayne make up, while trying to summon their dog Quark, Nick falls into a flower and is picked up by a bee, and Russ jumps on it to help him. The bee flies around the backyard with the two stuck to its hair, as it attacks Wayne, he knocks it out of the air with a baseball bat, Wayne realizes that a baseball was what caused the window to break in the attic since Nick doesnt play sports. Once in the attic, he finds his shrunken couch and realizes what happened to the kids, afraid to step on the lawn he arranges a sling to hover over the grass and search for the children. Next door, Russ and Mae are forced to call off their trip because their boys havent returned yet, having been separated from Amy and Ron, Nick and Russ go to search for them. Wayne, after a snafu with his sling, resorts to using stilts to search for the kids, Amy is nearly drowned when she is knocked into a pool of mud, but Russ saves her with CPR. Soon, their hunger is sated by one of Nicks oatmeal creme cookies, Ron decides to tame it in order to take them home, but soon they grow attached to Antie and try to set him free, but he instead decides to follow Ron like a loyal pet. Antie comes to rescue Ron, but is wounded as the kids unite
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 American comedy science fiction film and the sequel to the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Made only three years after Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, this film is set five years after the events depicted in the previous film, the antagonist to the Szalinskis is Dr. This film would be followed by one last sequel in 1997, a TV show would also follow the film in 1997, called Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Five years after inventor Wayne Szalinski shrunk his children, his family have moved to Nevada, Wayne’s wife Diane leaves with their daughter Amy for college, leaving Wayne to look after Adam and their teenage son Nick, who struggles with puberty. He develops a crush on Mandy Park, who Wayne later arranges to babysit Adam, Wayne takes his sons to Sterling Labs, where he has constructed a device which could make objects grow. He tests it out on Adam’s toy Big Bunny, however, when Wayne and Nick’s backs are turned, Adam retrieves his toy and is zapped by the machine. Back home, Adam and Big Bunny are exposed to waves and grow in size. Wayne and Nick try to take Adam back to the lab to reverse the process, but are caught by Wayne’s superior Doctor Charles Hendrickson, Diane returns home and discovers the truth. Wayne and Diane drive to a warehouse and retrieve Wayne’s shrink ray to turn Adam back to normal, Mandy arrives to babysit Adam, Nick calming her down when she sees the gigantic toddler. Adam is exposed to a television’s electrical waves and grows to fourteen foot, Nick and Mandy search for him, but they and Adam are taken into custody, Adam placed into a truck. Wayne and Diane return home, finding the smug Hendrickson waiting for them and he has summoned Clifford Sterling, the company chairman, with the plan to fire Wayne and experiment on Adam. Sterling arrives, praising Wayne when he admits his mistake and agrees to help Adam, Adam grows even larger, escaping confinement, and heads for Las Vegas, pursued by his family and the authorities. Nick and Mandy are placed in Adam’s overalls pocket, Hendrickson gets permission to board a military helicopter and tranquilise Adam. Wayne needs Adam to stand still for twelve seconds so he can be shrunk, at first, he tries using Big Bunny to pacify Adam but it backfires when Wayne suggests his son takes a nap. After wandering through Las Vegas, Adam pursues an ice cream truck driven by Marshall Brooks, Hendrickson arrives and shoots Adam, causing him to drop the guitar and be electrocuted. Diane convinces Wayne to enlarge her so she can hug Adam, Wayne then fires the shrink ray, returning Adam and Diane to normal size. Hendrickson arrives, attempting to justify his actions, but Diane knocks him out, in the closing scene, Nick and Mandy are revealed to be the size of insects, trapped in a car Adam played with earlier, but are found by Wayne. The only problem left is to shrink Big Bunny to normal size, Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski, Waynes wife
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Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
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Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves is a 1997 live-action direct-to-video sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. It is the third and final installment in the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids trilogy, Rick Moranis returns to portray Wayne Szalinski. He is the returning cast member from the previous films. His wife, Diane, is portrayed by Eve Gordon, and their youngest son Adam, Amy and Nick have gone off to college. This film includes Waynes extended family, including his brother Gordon and his wife, unlike the first film, where the kids had to get their parents attention, the parents have to get their kids attention. Only a few months after this film was released, the Disney Channel picked up a show based on the Szalinskis troubles, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and it starred Peter Scolari in the role of Wayne. This was the last incarnation of the franchise, this is also Disneys first live-action movie to get a direct-to-video release and this was Rick Moranis final live-action role. She also reminds him to get rid of Tiki Man that she sees as an eyesore, after the women leave, Wayne and Gordon have activities planned that bore the children. Meanwhile, Patty realizes she forgot to leave Mitch the pills for his potassium deficiency, hoping to catch their husbands by surprise, they sneak up to the attic, and are shrunk when another pool ball falls onto the machines button. Shortly after, the return home and, after hearing Waynes message about the launch, assume they are alone for the evening. Upstairs, the adults make use of a rod and line to lower themselves down into Adams room. Seeing Mitch struggling, Patty realizes that they need to get him his medicine soon, Mitch ignores his weaknesses, though, and goes downstairs. The parents witness the arrival of Jennys friends and decide to use a blower in order to get downstairs. The women land safely, but Wayne and Gordon fall into a bowl of dip and are devoured by the ravenous girls. Diane realizes her own insecurities about being small as she relates to the bug, whom she had tried to kill. After he is freed, Patty and Diane realize they can cling to the silk as it climbs up. Meanwhile, Gordon and Wayne decide to rewire the stereo to work as a microphone, and he takes Jenny into the kitchen, where he steals a kiss from her, but she spurns him for not asking permission first, thus earning Pattys respect. Angered, he returns to his friends and they begin to wreak havoc in the living room, Adam and Jenny discover him, and thinking quickly, Adam gets potassium-rich bananas to feed Mitch, and he begins to recover, weakly saying he had seen his mother
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Parenthood (film)
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The film was directed by Ron Howard, who assisted in developing the story with screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Much of it is based on the family and parenting experiences of Howard, Ganz, Mandel, and producer Brian Grazer, principal photography was filmed in and around Orlando, Florida with some scenes filmed at the University of Florida. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Dianne Wiest for Best Supporting Actress and Randy Newman for Best Song for I Love to See You Smile, the film was adapted into a NBC television series on two separate occasions, in 1990 and again in 2010. While the first series was cancelled after one season, the series ran for six seasons. Gil Buckman, a sales executive, is trying to balance his family. When his wife, Karen, becomes pregnant with their fourth child, Gil is also frustrated and fearful that the financial burdens of another child and office politics at work are turning him into the detached workaholic he despised his own father, Frank, for being. Humbled by family and work issues, Gil opens up to Frank about his doubts as a parent, Frank tells him that he worries too much, and the two have a reconciliation of sorts with Frank telling Gil that worry for ones children never ends. When a hired cowboy character fails to show up at his sons party, Gil dresses as a cowboy himself. His sister, Helen, is a bank manager whose ex-husband wants nothing to do with their children, Garry. Garry, who has just entered puberty, is quiet, withdrawn, at first Helen worries that the bag contains drugs or alcohol, but it actually contains pornography. Julie is still in school, but is not interested in her education. She and her boyfriend, Tod, get married, Julie becomes pregnant, when Helen asks Tod to talk with Garry, Tod is able to reassure Garry that his obsession with girls and sex is normal for a boy his age, something that is a relief to Garry. This also increases Helens respect for Tod, eventually she supports Tod and her daughters relationship to the extent that when Julie wants to break up with him, Helen orders her to face her fears and to support him. Gils other sister, Susan, is a school teacher married to a scientist. They have a daughter, Patty. Susan wants more children, but Nathan is more interested in their daughters cognitive development, Susan lashes out by compromising her diaphragm as a plan to get pregnant against Nathans wishes. She eventually gets so frustrated that she leaves him, Nathan eventually comes to one of her classes and serenades her to win her back, promising her he will try to change. Susan agrees to back home
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My Blue Heaven (1990 film)
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This is the third film in which Martin and Moranis starred together. It has been noted for its relationship to Goodfellas, which was released one month later, both films are based upon the life of Henry Hill, although the character is renamed Vincent Vinnie Antonelli in My Blue Heaven. Vinnie Antonelli is a former mobster recently inducted into the Witness Protection Program with his wife, the two are under the watchful eye of Barney Coopersmith. Vinnie and Barney soon find common ground when both of their wives leave them due to their lifestyles, doing this is not as simple as it appears to be. Originally, Martin was cast to play Coopersmith, with Arnold Schwarzenegger playing the role of Antonelli, however, Schwarzenegger was soon thereafter offered the role of Det. John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop, and left the production, failing to find another suitable Vinnie for Martins Coopersmith, Martin offered to take on the role of Vinnie himself. Producers agreed, and then cast Rick Moranis as Coopersmith, who had originally considered for the role. Some scenes were shot in San Diego, the films title comes from the famous song which appears on the soundtrack, performed by Fats Domino. The films score was composed by Ira Newborn and my Blue Heaven - Fats Domino Surfin U. S. A. It closed with a gross of $23,591,472. The film was received by critics. It holds a 71% score on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 17 reviews, Metacritic reports a 35 out of 100 score based on 14 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews. The New York Times said the film was a truly funny concept and my Blue Heaven at the Internet Movie Database My Blue Heaven at Box Office Mojo My Blue Heaven at Rotten Tomatoes My Blue Heaven at Metacritic
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The Flintstones (film)
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The Flintstones is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Brian Levant and written by Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, and Steven E. de Souza. It is a adaptation of the 1960s animated television series of the same name. The B-52s performed their version of the theme song. Fred Flintstone loans his best friend and neighbor Barney Rubble money so that he and his wife Betty can adopt a child named Bamm-Bamm, who can only pronounce his own name. Although the child is initially difficult to due to being raised by mastodons, as well as having super strength. Barney vows to repay his friend, despite his mother-in-law Pearl Slaghooples objections, Freds wife Wilma remains supportive of his decision. Cliff holds an aptitude test, where the worker with the highest mark will become the new president of the company. Barney gets the highest score but he switches his paper with Fred, Fred receives the promotion, but his first order is to dismiss Barney, since Barney now effectively has the lowest score. Fred accepts, but does his best to help Barney support his family, however, Freds job and newfound wealth put a strain on his relationships with Wilma and the Rubbles. Cliff eventually tricks Fred into dismissing the workers, over the objections of his office Dictabird, later, Barney confronts Fred after seeing worker riots on the news revealing that he switched tests with Fred and the Rubbles move out, despite having nowhere to live. Wilma and Pebbles also move out to her mothers house, leaving Fred behind. Fred goes to the quarry and realizes his mistake and Cliffs plan, a manhunt for Fred ensues by the police and the workers. Wilma and Betty see this on the news, and break into Slate and Co. to get the Dictabird and they are, however, unaware that Cliff saw them from his office window. As Fred attempts to enter a cave where the workers are seeking refuge, they see through his disguise, Barney is almost hanged as well after he admits his part. Fred and Barney reconcile, but before they can be hanged, Wilma and Betty arrive with the Dictabird, the workers release Fred and Barney. Cliff kidnaps Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm and demands the Dictabird in exchange for the safe return. Fred and Barney confront Cliff at the quarry, where Cliff has tied Pebbles, though they hand him the Dictabird, Cliff activates the machine to stall them. Barney rescues the children while Fred destroys the machine, the Dictabird escapes from Cliff and lures him back to the quarry, where Miss Stone knocks him out, having had a change of heart after learning that Cliff was planning to betray her
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Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Founded on October 16,1923, it is a division of The Walt Disney Studios. The studio has produced 56 feature films, from Snow White and it was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923 and incorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. The studio was dedicated to producing short films until it expanded into feature production in 1934. In 1983, Walt Disney Productions named its film studio Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, Walt Disney Feature Animation took on its current name, the studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding, which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking. Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to produce films using both traditional animation and computer-generated imagery, at the present, Andrew Millstein is the general manager of the studio for day-to-day business affairs, under the direction of Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter who also oversee Pixar. Kansas City, Missouri, natives Walt Disney and Roy O, in February 1924, the studio moved next door to office space of its own at 4649 Kingswell Avenue. Disney refused, and as Universal owned the rights to Oswald rather than Disney, most of Disneys staff was hired away by Mintz to move over, once Disneys Oswald contract was done in mid-1928. The first two Mickey Mouse cartoons, Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho, were previewed in limited engagements during the summer of 1928, the Mickey Mouse series of sound cartoons, distributed by Powers through Celebrity Productions, quickly became the most popular cartoon series in the United States. A second Disney series of cartoons, the Silly Symphonies. Powers in return signed away Ub Iwerks, who began producing cartoons at his own studio, columbia distributed Disneys shorts for two years before the Disney studio entered a new distribution deal with United Artists in 1932. The result was the Silly Symphony Flowers and Trees, the first film released in full Technicolor. Flowers and Trees was a success, and all Silly Symphonies were subsequently produced in Technicolor. In 1934, Walt Disney gathered several key members and announced his plans to make his first feature animated film. In the course of teaching the classes, Graham and the created or formalized many of the techniques and processes that became the key tenets. During the production of Snow White, work had continued on the Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse switched to Technicolor in 1935, by which time the series had added several major supporting characters, among them Mickeys dog Pluto and their friends Donald Duck and Goofy. Donald, Goofy, and Pluto would all be appearing in series of their own by 1940, the Silly Symphonies, which garnered seven Academy Awards, ended in 1939. The success of Snow White allowed Disney to build a new, larger studio on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, Walt Disney Productions had its initial public offering on April 2,1940, with Walt Disney as president and chairman and Roy Disney as CEO
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Brother Bear
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Brother Bear is a 2003 American animated adventure comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 44th Disney animated feature film, in the film, an Inuit boy named Kenai pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother Sitka is killed. He tracks down the bear and kills it, but the Spirits, angered by this needless death, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. A direct-to-video sequel, Brother Bear 2, was released on August 29,2006, the film is set in a post-ice age North America, where the local tribesmen believe all creatures are created through the Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora. Three brothers return to their tribe in order for Kenai to receive his totem, the particular animal it represents symbolizes what he must achieve to call himself a man. Unlike Sitka, who gained the eagle of guidance, and Denahi and he objects to this, stating that bears are thieves, and believes his point is made a fact when a bear takes some salmon. Kenai and his brothers pursue the bear, but a fight follows on a glacier, during which Sitka gives his life to save his brothers, angered, Kenai heads out to avenge Sitka. He chases the bear up onto a mountain and kills it, the Spirits, represented by Sitkas spirit in the form of a bald eagle, transform Kenai into a bear after the dead bears body evaporates. Denahi arrives, mistaking Kenai as dead, and believing his bear form is responsible, Kenai falls down some rapids, survives, and is healed by Tanana, the shaman of Kenais tribe. She does not speak the language, but advises him to return to the mountain to find Sitka and be turned back to normal. Kenai quickly discovers the wildlife can talk, meeting two brother moose, Rutt and Tuke and he gets caught in a trap, but is freed by an outgoing bear cub named Koda. They make a deal, Kenai will go with Koda to a salmon run. As the two form a sibling-like attachment, Koda reveals that his mother is missing. The two are hunted by Denahi, who is determined to avenge Kenai, unaware that the bear he is pursuing is actually Kenai. Eventually, Kenai and Koda reach the salmon run, where a number of bears live as a family, including the leader Tug. Kenai adjusts to his surroundings and is living with the other bears. During a discussion among the bears, Koda tells a story about his mother fighting human hunters, shocked and horrified, Kenai runs away, but Koda soon finds him. Kenai reveals the truth to Koda, who runs away, grief-stricken, an apologetic Kenai leaves to reach the mountain
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Jews
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The Jews, also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East. Jews originated as a national and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, the Merneptah Stele appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel, associated with the god El, somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE. The Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated their hold with the emergence of the Kingdom of Israel, some consider that these Canaanite sedentary Israelites melded with incoming nomadic groups known as Hebrews. The worldwide Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million prior to World War II, but approximately 6 million Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. Since then the population has risen again, and as of 2015 was estimated at 14.3 million by the Berman Jewish DataBank. According to the report, about 43% of all Jews reside in Israel and these numbers include all those who self-identified as Jews in a socio-demographic study or were identified as such by a respondent in the same household. The exact world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure, Israel is the only country where Jews form a majority of the population. The modern State of Israel was established as a Jewish state and defines itself as such in its Declaration of Independence and its Law of Return grants the right of citizenship to any Jew who requests it. The English word Jew continues Middle English Gyw, Iewe, according to the Hebrew Bible, the name of both the tribe and kingdom derive from Judah, the fourth son of Jacob. The Hebrew word for Jew, יְהוּדִי ISO 259-3 Yhudi, is pronounced, with the stress on the syllable, in Israeli Hebrew. The Ladino name is ג׳ודיו, Djudio, ג׳ודיוס, Djudios, Yiddish, ייִד Yid, ייִדן, Yidn. The etymological equivalent is in use in languages, e. g. but derivations of the word Hebrew are also in use to describe a Jew, e. g. in Italian. The German word Jude is pronounced, the corresponding adjective jüdisch is the origin of the word Yiddish, in such contexts Jewish is the only acceptable possibility. Some people, however, have become so wary of this construction that they have extended the stigma to any use of Jew as a noun, a factual reconstruction for the origin of the Jews is a difficult and complex endeavor. It requires examining at least 3,000 years of ancient human history using documents in vast quantities, as archaeological discovery relies upon researchers and scholars from diverse disciplines, the goal is to interpret all of the factual data, focusing on the most consistent theory. In this case, it is complicated by long standing politics and religious, Jacob and his family migrated to Ancient Egypt after being invited to live with Jacobs son Joseph by the Pharaoh himself. The patriarchs descendants were later enslaved until the Exodus led by Moses, traditionally dated to the 13th century BCE, Modern archaeology has largely discarded the historicity of the Patriarchs and of the Exodus story, with it being reframed as constituting the Israelites inspiring national myth narrative. The growth of Yahweh-centric belief, along with a number of practices, gradually gave rise to a distinct Israelite ethnic group
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Elementary school
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A primary school or elementary school is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about five to twelve, coming after preschool and before secondary school. In most parts of the world, primary education is the first stage of education, and is normally available without charge. The term grade school is used in the US though this term may refer to both primary education and secondary education. The term primary school is derived from the French école primaire, primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth Nations, and in most publications of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Elementary school is preferred in some countries, especially in the United States, in the United States, primary school may refer to a school with grades Kindergarten through second grade or third grade. In these municipalities, the school includes grade three through five or grades four to six
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Geddy Lee
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Geddy Lee Weinrib, OC, known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined what would become Rush in September 1968, at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson, replacing original bassist, Lees first solo effort, My Favourite Headache, was released in 2000. Along with his Rush bandmates – guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart – Lee was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9,1996, the trio was the first rock band to be so honoured, as a group. Lee is ranked 13th by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal vocalists of all time, Lee was born on July 29,1953 in Willowdale, Toronto, Ontario, to Morris and Mary Weinrib. They were about 13 years old when they were imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. It was kind of surreal pre-teen shit, says Lee, describing how his father bribed guards to bring his mother shoes, after a period, his mother was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and his father to Dachau. When the war ended four years later and the Allies liberated the camps, his father set out in search of his mother and they married there and eventually immigrated to Canada. In Canada, Lees parents gave him a Jewish education, with a bar mitzvah at age 13 and his father was a skilled musician, but died the year before from medical problems resulting from his imprisonment. This forced his mother to find work to support three children. He said that losing his father at such an early age made him aware of how life can disappear. He turned his basement into practice space for a band he formed with high-school friends, after the band began earning income from small performances at high-school shows or other events, he decided to drop out of high school and play rock and roll professionally. His mother was devastated when he told her, and he feels that he owes her for the disappointments in her life. All the shit I put her through, he says, on top of the fact that she just lost her husband, I felt like I had to make sure that it was worth it. I wanted to show her that I was a professional, that I was working hard, today, Lee considers himself a cultural Jew. Jweekly featured Lees reflections on his mothers experiences as a refugee, Lees name, Geddy, was derived from his mothers heavily accented pronunciation of his given first name, Gary. This was picked up by his friends in school, leading Lee to adopt it as his stage name, the song, for which Lee wrote the music, was released on the bands 1984 album Grace Under Pressure. The lyrics include the verse, I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate Are the liberators here. For my father and my brother, its too late But I must help my mother stand up straight Lee began playing music in school when he was 9 or 10, in school, he first played drums, trumpet and clarinet
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Band (rock and pop)
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A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music, pop music or a related genre. The four-piece band is the most common configuration in rock and pop music, before the development of the electronic keyboard, the configuration was typically two guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer. Another common formation is a vocalist who does not play an instrument, electric guitarist, bass guitarist, instrumentally, these bands can be considered as trios. The smallest ensemble that is used in rock music is the trio format. Two-member rock and pop bands are relatively rare, because of the difficulty in providing all of the elements which are part of the rock or pop sound. Some well-known power trios with the guitarist on lead vocals are The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Nirvana, The Jam, and ZZ Top. Two-member rock and pop bands are relatively rare, because of the difficulty in providing all of the elements which are part of the rock or pop sound. Two-member rock and pop bands typically omit one of musical elements. In many cases, two-member bands will omit a drummer, since guitars, bass guitars, honeyblood, Diet Cig and Royal Blood. When electronic sequencers became widely available in the 1980s, this made it easier for bands to add in musical elements that the two band members were not able to perform. Sequencers allowed bands to pre-program some elements of their performance, such as a drum part. Two-member pop music such as Soft Cell, Blancmange and Yazoo used pre-programmed sequencers. Other pop bands from the 1980s which were fronted by two performers, such as Wham. Eurythmics and Tears for Fears, were not actually two-piece ensembles, two-piece bands in rock music are quite rare. However, starting in the 2000s, blues-influenced rock bands such as The White Stripes and The Black Keys utilized a guitar, however, this is predated by the Flat Duo Jets and House of Freaks from the 1980s. Death from Above 1979 featured a drummer and bass guitarist, tenacious D is a two-guitar band, One Day as a Lion and The Dresden Dolls both feature a keyboardist and a drummer. The band Welk consists of a two-man psychedelic flute band, with the occasional synthesizer, two-person bands have grown in popularity in experimental rock music. Ratatat are a band that utilize a drum machine for beats
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Rush (band)
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Archives is a compilation album by Rush, released in April 1978. The compilation was a repackaging of the bands first three albums. Originally released with a grey cover, it was later repackaged with a darker. The minimalist cover art recycles the image of the Man in the Star from the 2112 album, on the original, vinyl Fly By Night album, the chimes at the end of By-Tor and the Snow Dog were printed into the fadeout groove of side one. This meant that on older turntables the chimes would play on forever, on the Archives version, By-Tor is 28 seconds longer as these additional chimes were included. Although Archives has never officially released on CD, it managed simultaneous gold
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Disc jockey
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A disc jockey is a person who mixes different sources of pre-existing recorded music as it is playing, usually for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club or via broadcasting. DJs typically perform for an audience in a nightclub or dance club or a TV, radio broadcast audience, or in the 2010s. DJs also create mixes, remixes and tracks that are recorded for later sale, in hip hop music, DJs may create beats, using percussion breaks, basslines and other musical content sampled from pre-existing records. In hip hop, rappers and MCs use these beats to rap over, DJs use equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simultaneously and mix them together. This allows the DJ to create seamless transitions between recordings and develop unique mixes of songs, DJ equipment, notably the specialized DJ mixer, a small audio mixer with a crossfader and cue functions. The crossfader enables the DJ to blend or transition from one song to another, the cue knobs or switches allow the DJ to preview a source of recorded music in headphones before playing it for the live club or broadcast audience. Previewing the music in headphones helps the DJ pick the track they want to play. DJs may also use a microphone to speak to the audience, effects such as reverb to create sound effects, drum machines. The title DJ is also used by DJs in front of their real names or adopted pseudonyms or stage names as a title to denote their profession. Some DJs focus on creating a mix of songs for the club dancers or radio audience. Other DJs use turntablism techniques such as scratching, in which the DJ or turntablist manipulates the record player turntable to create new sounds. In many types of DJing, including club DJing and radio/TV DJing, there are several types of disc jockey. Radio DJs or radio personalities introduce and play music that is broadcast on AM, FM, club DJs select and play music in bars, nightclubs or discothèques, or at parties, raves, or even in stadiums. Mobile DJs travel with portable sound systems and play recorded music at a variety of events. Some mobile DJs also serve as the master of ceremonies at weddings or other events, directing the attention of attendees, there are also many competitions for DJs that specialize in different turntablism techniques, such as mixing, hip hop music-style scratching or other kinds of techniques. Other types of DJ use musical performance techniques that allow them to be categorized as performing musicians, hip hop DJs and are also often songwriters or music producers who use turntablism and sampling to create backing instrumentals for new tracks. In reggae, the DJ is a vocalist who raps, toasts, chants or chats over pre-recorded rhythm tracks, the individual who helps the DJ by selecting tracks or records to be played is called the selector. Many electronica artists and producers who work as DJs often perform music by combining turntablism with keyboards, digital musical instruments
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CBC Television
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CBC Television is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6,1952 and its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Almost all of the CBCs programming is produced in Canada, on October 9,2006 at 6,00 a. m. the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last major English-language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule. Most CBC-owned stations previously signed off the air during the morning hours. Its French counterpart, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, still signs off every night, until 1998, the network carried a variety of American programs in addition to its core Canadian programming, directly competing with private Canadian broadcasters such as CTV and Global. Since then, it has restricted itself to Canadian programs, a handful of British programs, since this change, the CBC has sometimes struggled to maintain ratings comparable to those it achieved before 1995, although it has seen somewhat of a ratings resurgence in recent years. In the 2007-08 season, popular series such as Little Mosque on the Prairie, in 2002, CBC Television and CBC News Network became the first broadcasters in Canada that are required to provide closed captioning for all of their programming. On those networks, only outside commercials need not be captioned, all shows, bumpers, billboards, promos and other internal programming must be captioned. The requirement stems from a human rights complaint filed by deaf lawyer Henry Vlug, the CBCs flagship newscast, The National, airs Sunday through Fridays at 10,00 p. m. EST and Saturdays at 6,00 p. m. EST. This second airing was replaced with other programming, and as of the 2012-13 television season, was replaced on CBCs major market stations by a half-hour late newscast. There is also a news update, at most, on late Saturday evenings. During hockey season, this update is usually found during the first intermission of the game of the doubleheader on Hockey Night in Canada. Other newscasts include parts of CBC News Now airing weekday at 6,00 a. m. weekly newsmagazine the fifth estate is also a CBC mainstay, as are documentary series such as Doc Zone. One of the most popular shows on CBC Television is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games and it has been televised by the network since 1952. During the NHL lockout and subsequent cancellation of the 2004-2005 hockey season, CBC instead aired various recent and classic movies, branded as Movie Night in Canada, on Saturday nights. Other than hockey, CBC Sports properties include Toronto Raptors basketball, Toronto FC Soccer and it was also the exclusive carrier of Canadian Curling Association events during the 2004–2005 season. Due to disappointing results and fan outrage over many draws being carried on CBC Country Canada, after the CBC threatened legal action, both sides eventually came to an agreement under which early-round rights reverted to TSN. CBC Sports suffered another blow when it was announced that after the 2007 season, the CFL regular season games
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CBLA-FM
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CBLA-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the station of the CBC Radio One network, broadcasting at 99.1 FM in Toronto. CBLAs studios are located at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, while its transmitter is located atop the First Canadian Place, the station originally aired in 1925 as AM910 CKGW, a commercial station owned by Gooderham and Worts. Due to the instability of frequency allocations in North America at the time, the frequency changed several times over the next number of years, to 960,690. In 1932, the station was leased by the CBCs predecessor and it used the call letters CRCT until 1937, when the station was purchased outright by the CBC and adopted the callsign CBL, moving to a new transmitter facility in rural Hornby. The 650 ft guyed mast that the station transmitted from was for years the tallest structure in all of Canada. With NARBA in 1941, the moved to 740 kHz, its former channel, now 860, went to CFRB, while the 840 clear channel was relocated to Louisville, Kentucky. Between 1938 and 1943, CBL had a rebroadcaster, CBY, CBY broadcast on 960, switching to 1420 in 1939 and then to 1010 in 1941. CBY is now CJBC860, Torontos Première station, in 1946, CBL-FM was launched, bringing the CBCs FM network to Toronto. It originally broadcast on the same 99.1 frequency now used by CBLA, CBL established a large low-power relay transmitter network in Northern and Central Ontario during the 1950s and 60s. One example of this was the daily Northern Ontario Report, which aired in the late afternoon, most of these LPRT network transmitters now rebroadcast CBCS in Sudbury or CBQT in Thunder Bay. Some of these transmitters have switched to FM as well, or have been shut down as FM transmitters covering areas served by multiple AM transmitters have signed on, in 1997, CBL applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for conversion to FM. AM 740s daytime signal easily covered Buffalo, New York, Erie, Pennsylvania and Youngstown and it was also powerful enough to serve as the CBC outlet for the Waterloo Region as well. Its nighttime signal reached much of the half of North America. However, radio frequency interference made the station nearly unlistenable in parts of downtown Toronto. In a controversial decision, the CBC was awarded the 99, adding to the controversy of the CBC being awarded a station on the FM band in the countrys biggest market,99.1 was believed at the time to be the last available FM frequency in the city. On June 18,1999, the station completed its move to FM, CBL remained in operation for an additional day, broadcasting a recorded loop listing alternative FM frequencies for any remaining listeners. The final announcement ran thus, This is CBC Radio One, in the Toronto area, we will now move to 99.1 FM, with additional frequencies throughout southern Ontario
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The World at War
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The World at War is a 26-episode British television documentary series chronicling the events of the Second World War. At the time of its completion in 1973, it was, at a cost of £900,000 and it was produced by Jeremy Isaacs, narrated by Laurence Olivier and included music composed by Carl Davis. The book The World at War written by Mark Arnold-Forster to accompany the TV series was released in 1973, the World at War attracted widespread acclaim and is now regarded as a landmark in British television history. The producer Jeremy Isaacs was considered ahead of his time in resurrecting studies of military history, the World at War was commissioned by Thames Television in 1969. Such was the extent of its research, it took four years to produce at a cost of £900,000, at the time this was a record for a British television series. It was first shown in 1973 on ITV, the series featured interviews with major members of the Allied and Axis campaigns, including eyewitness accounts from civilians, enlisted men, officers and politicians. The most difficult person to locate and persuade to be interviewed was Heinrich Himmlers adjutant Karl Wolff, during the interview he admitted to witnessing a large-scale execution in Himmlers presence. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute during 2000, voted for by industry professionals, The World at War ranked 19th. The series was transmitted on the ITV network in the United Kingdom between 31 October 1973 and 8 May 1974, and has subsequently been shown around the world. It was first shown in the US in syndication on stations in 1975. WOR in New York aired the series in the mid-1970s, although episodes were edited both for content and to include sufficient commercial breaks. PBS station WGBH broadcast the series unedited and in its entirety in the late 1980s, the Danish channel DR1 first broadcast the series from August 1976 to February 1977 and it was repeated again on DR2 i December 2006 and January 2007. The History Channel in Japan began screening the series in its entirety in April 2007 and it repeated the entire series again in August 2011. The Military History Channel in the UK broadcast the series over the weekend of 14 and 15 November 2009, the Military Channel in the United States aired the series in January 2010, and has shown it regularly since. BBC Two in the UK transmitted a repeat run of the series since 5 September 1994 at teatime and has been shown continuously to this day at various times, in 2011, the British channel Yesterday started a showing of the series. Each episode was 52 minutes excluding commercials, as was customary for ITV documentary series at the time, the Genocide episode was screened uninterrupted. The series was released in various territories on VHS video as well as on 13 Laservision Longplay videodiscs by Video Garant Amsterdam, in 2001–2005 DVD box sets were released in the US and UK. In 2010 the series was restored and re-released on DVD
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Dave Thomas (actor)
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David William Thomas is a Canadian comedian, actor and television writer. He is best known for portraying Doug McKenzie on SCTV as well as in the film Strange Brew, david William Thomas was born May 20,1949 in St. Catharines, Ontario. His younger brother Ian is a Canadian singer-songwriter, the family moved to Durham, North Carolina, where his father attended Duke University and earned a PhD in Philosophy. Thomas attended George Watts and Moorehead elementary schools, Thomas was granted an honorary doctorate from McMaster University November 20,2009. Starting his career as a copywriter at ad agency McCann Erickson in 1974, after watching a Second City stage show in Toronto, and while suffering from self-proclaimed boredom in his advertising work, he auditioned for the Second City troupe and was chosen as a performer. He was a cast member of the Toronto production of Godspell, along with Victor Garber, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Paul Shaffer was the musical director. He first achieved fame as a cast member of the Canadian syndicated TV comedy series SCTV, Bob was portrayed by Rick Moranis. Thomass first movie was Home to Stay directed by Delbert Mann where Thomas played in a scene with Hollywood legend Henry Fonda and he then wrote for, co-directed and starred in the Bob & Doug McKenzie feature film Strange Brew. Soon after, he wrote for and acted in The New Show, short-lived, this show featured a powerhouse writing staff including Thomas along with Buck Henry, George Meyer, Jack Handey, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Valri Bromfield and Steve Martin. Thomas tried his hand at network television shows in 1986 when he wrote. The pilot was produced but did not go to series, in 1988 Thomas wrote another hour long show for CBS, B Men, which was back ordered, but Thomas took a directing job at Paramount, which caused the network to drop the series. He reportedly introduced John Travolta and Kelly Preston while directing them in the Paramount film The Experts and he wrote for, produced, and starred in The Dave Thomas Comedy Show. In 1991, he starred in the Showtime comedy, Public Enemy #2, in 1992, he tried his hand at reality TV and co-executive produced ABCs Americas Funniest People with Vin Di Bona, but left after thirteen weeks to appear in the film Coneheads. In 1993, he officially co-starred in ABCs Grace Under Fire with Brett Butler and Tom Poston, in 1995 Thomas starred in ABC TV movie Picture Perfect with Mary Page Keller and Richard Karn. In 1996, Thomas played the role in the Fox TV movie Mr. Fosters Field Trip aka Kidz in the Wood with Julia Duffy. In 1996, he wrote the book SCTV, Behind the Scenes, from 1999-2002, he voiced various roles on the animated series Mission Hill. He also voiced Rex Banner in the Simpsons, Thomas co-starred in the Paramount feature Rat Race. As of 2001, Thomas has been the Executive Creative Director of Animax Entertainment, in 2001-2002 Thomas appeared with Eugene Levy and Martin Short on Shorts show Primetime Glick as Bob Hope
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The Second City
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The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise, best known as the first ever on-going improvisational theater troupe based in Chicago. It also has programs that run out of Toronto and Los Angeles, the Second City Theatre opened on December 16,1959 and has since become one of the most influential and prolific comedy theatres in the world. The Second City has produced programs in both the United States and Canada including SCTV, Second City Presents, and Next Comedy Legend. The Second City chose its name from the title of an article about Chicago by A. J. Liebling that appeared in The New Yorker in 1952. In 1959, the first Second City revue show premiered at 1842 North Wells Street, the cabaret theater, comedy style of the Second City tended towards satire and commentary of current social norms and political figures and events. In 1961, the theater sent a cast to Broadway with the revue, From the Second City, directed by Sills. Eventually, the theater expanded to include three touring companies and a resident company, and now fosters a company devoted to outreach. The style of comedy has changed with time, but the format has remained constant, a number of well-known performers began careers as part of the historic troupe and later moved to television and film. In 1973, Second City opened a theater in Toronto, theater became the second resident stage in Old Town, Chicago location, handling overflow crowds and increasing the number of resident company members. Co-founder Bernard Sahlins owned the company until 1985, before selling it to Andrew Alexander. Along with its theaters, training centers, and television shows, Second City also produces improv, Second City Television, or SCTV, was a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from the Toronto troupe of the Second City and ran from 1976 to 1984. The basic premise of SCTV was modeled on a station in the fictional city of Melonville. Edith Prickley, Catherine OHaras washed-up, alcoholic, narcissist former leading-lady Lola Heatherton, martin Short originated his dorky Ed Grimley character here, which he later brought to Saturday Night Live. Andrew Alexander took the reins of Second City Toronto in 1974 and formed a partnership with Len Stuart in 1976 and its first television production was SCTV. Alexander co-developed and executive produced over 185 half-hour shows for the comedy series. In 1985, Alexander and Stuart became owners of Chicagos Second City and he has produced or executive produced over 200 Second City revues in Canada and the United States. Most recently, Alexander has expanded The Second City TV & Film Division with offices in Los Angeles and he serves on the Columbia College Board of Trustees, is Chair of the Gildas Club Honorary Board, and is also an Honorary Member of the Chicago Gildas Club Board. As of 2014, the Second City has been awarded thirty-seven Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards, which have recognized them for Best Revue five times, the first being Paradigm Lost
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Woody Allen
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Heywood Woody Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian, playwright, and musician whose career spans more than six decades. He worked as a writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, as a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen in fourth place on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians and he is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup, some of the best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Hannah and Her Sisters. In 2007 he said Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, critic Roger Ebert described Allen as a treasure of the cinema. Allen won four Academy Awards, three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director and he also won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. His screenplay for Annie Hall was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the 101 Funniest Screenplays, in 2011, PBS televised the film biography Woody Allen, A Documentary on the American Masters TV series. Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in Brooklyn, New York and he and his sister, Letty, were raised in Midwood, Brooklyn. He is the son of Nettie, a bookkeeper at her familys delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg and his family was Jewish, his grandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. His parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His childhood was not particularly happy, his parents did not get along, Allen spoke German quite a bit in his early years. He would later joke that when he was young he was sent to inter-faith summer camps. While attending Hebrew school for eight years, he went to Public School 99 and to Midwood High School, at that time, he lived in an apartment at 968 East 14th Street. Unlike his comic persona, he was interested in baseball than school. He impressed students with his talent at card and magic tricks. To raise money, he wrote jokes for agent David O. Alber, at the age of 17, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen and later began to call himself Woody Allen. According to Allen, his first published joke read, Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O. P. S and he was then earning more than both parents combined
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Merv Griffin
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Mervyn Edward Merv Griffin Jr. was an American television host, musician, singer, actor, and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer who went on to appear in film, from 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, The Merv Griffin Show. He also created the popular game shows Jeopardy. and Wheel of Fortune through his television production companies, Merv Griffin Enterprises. During his lifetime, Griffin was considered an entertainment business magnate, Griffin was born July 6,1925, in San Mateo, California to Mervyn Edward Griffin, Sr. a stockbroker, and Rita Elizabeth Griffin, a homemaker. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Griffin started singing in his church choir as a boy and his abilities as a pianist played a part in his early entry into show business. He attended San Mateo High School, graduating in 1942, and he attended San Mateo Junior College and then the University of San Francisco. He was a member of the international fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon, during World War II, Griffin was declared 4F after failing several military physical examinations due to having a slight heart murmur. During the Korean War several years later, he was examined and deemed healthy enough to serve, Griffin started as a singer on radio at age 19, appearing on San Francisco Sketchbook, a nationally syndicated program based at KFRC. Griffin was overweight as an adolescent and a man, which disappointed some radio fans when they saw him in person. He wrote years later in his autobiography that there was a deliberate effort to keep the public from finding out how he looked. Embarrassed by the issue, Griffin resolved to change his appearance. Freddy Martin heard him on the show and asked Griffin to tour with his orchestra. Griffin had a role as a radio announcer in the 1953 horror/science fiction classic The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. By 1945, Griffin had earned money to form his own record label, Panda Records, which produced Songs by Merv Griffin. In 1947, he had a 15-minute Monday–Friday singing program on KFRC in San Francisco and he became increasingly popular with nightclub audiences, and his fame soared among the general public with his 1950 hit Ive Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts. The song reached the one spot on the Hit Parade. At one of his performances, Griffin was discovered by Doris Day. Day arranged for a screen test at the Warner Bros, studios for a role in By the Light of the Silvery Moon
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David Brinkley
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David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program, over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He wrote three books, including the critically acclaimed 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War, about how World War II transformed the nations capital and this social history was largely based on his own observations as a young reporter in the city. In 1972 Vice President Spiro Agnew was re-nominated with 1,345 votes, against one vote for television journalist David Brinkley, the NBC network, for which Brinkley worked, had some Brinkley for Vice President buttons made, which the news team wore as a joke. Brinkley was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, the youngest of five born to William Graham Brinkley. He began writing for a newspaper, the Wilmington Morning Star. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emory University, following a medical discharge, he worked for United Press in several of its Southern bureaus. In 1943, he moved to Washington, D. C. looking for a job at CBS News. Instead, he took a job at NBC News, became its White House correspondent, in 1952, Brinkley began providing Washington reporting on NBC Televisions evening news program, The Camel News Caravan, hosted by John Cameron Swayze. Brinkleys dry wit offset the serious tone set by Huntley, and he knows Washington and he knows the people. Another example of Brinkleys seething wryness was evinced on the night of Chicagos infamous Democratic Convention of 1968. Daley – voiced a protest of Daleys behavior and his interference with freedoms of the press following Senator Abraham Ribicoffs stormy nomination of George McGovern. The Huntley–Brinkley Report was Americas most popular television newscast until it was overtaken, at the end of the 1960s, by the CBS Evening News, from 1961 to 1963, Brinkley anchored a prime time news magazine, David Brinkleys Journal. Produced by Ted Yates, the program won a George Foster Peabody Award, when Huntley retired from the anchor chair in 1970, the evening news program was renamed NBC Nightly News, and Brinkley co-anchored the broadcast with John Chancellor and Frank McGee. In 1971, Chancellor was named anchor and Brinkley became the programs commentator. By 1976, though, NBC decided to revive the dual-anchor format, however, the early years of Nightly News never achieved the popularity Huntley-Brinkley Report had enjoyed. For its part, NBC attempted to launch several news shows during the 1970s with Brinkley as anchor. An unhappy Brinkley left NBC in 1981, NBC Magazine was his last show for that network, almost immediately after leaving NBC, Brinkley was offered a job at ABC
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Bob and Doug McKenzie
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Bob and Doug McKenzie are a pair of fictional Canadian brothers who hosted Great White North, a sketch which was introduced on SCTV for the shows third season when it moved to CBC Television in 1980. Bob is played by Rick Moranis and Doug is played by Dave Thomas, although created originally as filler to both satisfy and mock network Canadian content demands, the duo became a pop culture phenomenon in both Canada and the United States. The characters were revived for an animated series, Bob & Doug. Great White North was a show that played upon Canadian stereotypes. The sketch was conceived when SCTV moved to the CBC television network, due to the difference in the amount of time allocated for commercials, each episode to be broadcast on that network was two minutes longer than those syndicated to the United States. The CBC network heads asked the producers to add specifically identifiably Canadian content for those two minutes. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas thought that this was a ridiculous request, given that the show had been taped in Canada, with a mostly Canadian cast and crew, the request inspired them to create a parody that would incorporate every aspect of the humorous stereotype of Canadians. The segments were videotaped at the end of a shooting, with just Thomas and Moranis. The sketches were for the most part improvised on the set, Moranis recalled, We went on the stage with no preparation, and did 15. Two of them were lousy, in three we cracked up and fell apart and it was all very low key and stupid, and we thought, Well, they get what they deserve. To their shock, the found that this filler material had become the most popular part of the show. Though initially intended for Canadian TV only, some of the two-minute Great White North segments would find their way into U. S. versions of the 30-minute shows due to a shortage of content that week. They rode the crest of a fad, peaking in 1982-83, that produced one album, The Great White North. It is noted for the song Take Off which featured fellow Canadian Geddy Lee of the rock group Rush chorusing between the McKenzies banter. On this album, they sing their own improvised version of The Twelve Days of Christmas. While hugely popular in the U. S. the album was also #1 in Canada for six weeks, the Strange Brew movie was released by MGM in 1983. While receiving only minimal praise from critics, it performed well at the box office. Strange Brew continued to perform for Warner Brothers as a DVD title most likely because of the strong college cult following for Bob, a second album, a soundtrack to their movie Strange Brew, was released in 1983
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The Great White North (album)
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The title is a popular nickname for Canada. The Great White North entered the RPM Canadian album charts at #3 on 12 December 1981, overall, RPM ranked the album #40 of albums released in Canada during 1981. The Great White North peaked at number 8 on the American Billboard 200 album chart in 1982, the song Take Off, featured guest vocalist Geddy Lee of Rush. It was indeed a hit, peaking at number 16 on the Billboard 100 singles chart in March 1982, in 1982, this album received the Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year. School Announcements -1,52 This sketch features Doug as a school vice-principal who encourages his charges to have a beer and you Are Our Guest -2,14 The duos exaggerated accents pronounce are and our as homophones for comedic effect. Listeners play the guest by reading the enclosed script, other hosers are going to find it extremely confusing. Track #7, Take Off is featured in The Simpsons Season 13 episode, Take Off is also featured in Ash vs. Evil Dead Season 2 episode, DUI. Featured among other artists, track #15, The Twelve Days of Christmas also appears on a compilation album entitled. The Twelve Days of Christmas is also featured as a song in numerous versions. Strange Brew Bob & Doug McKenzies Two-Four Anniversary Bob & Doug Second City Television Brother Bear bobanddoug. com dmdb. org
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The Great Movie Ride
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The Great Movie Ride is a guided vehicle dark ride located in Disneys Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. The attraction employs the use of Audio-Animatronic figures, live actors, special effects, the attraction—which debuted with the park on May 1, 1989—is located inside a replica of Graumans Chinese Theatre, one of Hollywoods most famous movie palaces. The Great Movie Ride directly inspired the creation of Disneys Hollywood Studios, however, the newly assigned Disney CEO Michael Eisner and WDI president Marty Sklar decided the idea was strong enough to lead an entire new theme park. The idea for the ride was expanded, and the Disney-MGM Studios went into official development, plans called for The Great Movie Ride to be the main attraction for the Disney-MGM Studios Paris theme park, which was scrapped due to the early financial difficulties of the Euro Disneyland Resort. A show called CinéMagique was built in lieu of the due to claims by Disney management that the French preferred shows to ride-through attractions. Three separate attempts have been made by Walt Disney Imagineering to bring The Great Movie Ride to California, due to budget cuts, however, Hollywoodland was canceled. Later, plans called for the ride to be built as part of the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area of the Disney California Adventure Park theme park at the Disneyland Resort. But budget cuts in the original development planning forced the rides projected cost to be spent on smaller, original. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Disney was interested in purchasing Jim Hensons Muppets, Walt Disney Imagineering developed a Muppet-themed land for Disney-MGM Studios called Muppet Movieland. However, after Henson died, the deal fell apart and Disney cut back on the Muppet-themed area to just Muppet*Vision 3D, where the screen is now was where the Wizard would have appeared surrounded by flames. Along the outer walls of the theatre, is currently large empty carpeted areas, here was supposed to be large platforms where models of all of the audio-animatronic characters seen earlier in the ride would be standing and would take a bow. Unlike many Disney dark rides that feature separate embarkation and debarkation areas, the last people to exit the vehicles often pass the next group of guests waiting to board the vehicles. At the time the ride was designed, it was throughout the theme park industry to have all major rides exit into a store selling merchandise associated with the attraction. The Great Movie Ride, however, does not exit directly into a store, in 2014, as part of an exclusive programming deal with Disney, Turner Classic Movies agreed to become the sponsor of the attraction. The attraction underwent a refurbishment in 2015, with the addition of a new pre-show and post-show hosted by Robert Osborne, the changes were unveiled on May 29,2015. Since its inception, The Great Movie Ride has had some modifications worth noting, the first sequence of the ride, Footlight Parade, was plagued with engineering and technical problems from the beginning. When the ride was opened, the Footlight Parade segment was different than it is today. The entire portion following the neon lighted entrance was fleshed out, all the walls leading up to, around, and beyond the cake were painted in art deco style patterns as seen in By A Waterfall
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Walt Disney World
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The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida. The resort is the destination of Disneys worldwide corporate enterprise. Opened on October 1,1971, Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world, the resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It was initially operated by Walt Disney World Company, Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open in the complex, in 1971, followed by Epcot in 1982, Disneys Hollywood Studios in 1989, and the most recent, Disneys Animal Kingdom in 1998. Designed to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the Florida Project, as it was known, was intended to present a distinct vision with its own diverse set of rides. Walt Disneys original plans called for the inclusion of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney died on December 15,1966, before construction began, without Disney spearheading the construction, the company created a resort similar to Disneyland, abandoning experimental concepts for a planned community. In 1959, Walt Disney Productions began looking for land to house a second resort to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955. Market surveys at the revealed that only 5% of Disneylands visitors came from east of the Mississippi River. Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the businesses that had sprung up around Disneyland, Walt Disney flew over a potential site in Orlando, Florida – one of many – in November 1963. To avoid a burst of land speculation, Walt Disney World Company used various dummy corporations to acquire 30,500 acres of land, in May 1965, some of these major land transactions were recorded a few miles southwest of Orlando in Osceola County. In addition, two tracts totaling $1. Some are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in Magic Kingdom, the smaller parcels of land acquired were called outs. They were 5-acre lots platted in 1912 by the Munger Land Company, most of the owners in the 1960s were happy to get rid of the land, which was mostly swamp at the time. Another issue was the rights to the land, which were owned by Tufts University. Without the transfer of rights, Tufts could come in at any time. Eventually, Disneys team negotiated a deal with Tufts to buy the rights for $15,000. Working strictly in secrecy, real estate agents unaware of their clients identity began making offers to landowners in April 1964 in parts of southwest Orange and northwest Osceola counties
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Disneys Hollywood Studios, originally Disney-MGM Studios, is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, based on an idea by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1,1989, and was the third of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World. To increase public interest and the variety of representation within the park, Disney entered into a licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The parks current name took effect in 2008, with the removal of the MGM-branding throughout the park, the parks icon was originally the Earffel Tower from the parks opening until 2001 when the Sorcerers Hat—a stylized version of the magical hat from Fantasia—was erected in the parks central hub. It then served as the icon until its removal in January 2015. The tower was removed in April 2016. Currently, the park remains without an official designated icon, although both the Great Movie Ride and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror are represented as such in marketing materials. In 2015, the park hosted approximately 10.8 million guests, ranking it the fifth most-visited theme park in North America and we welcome you to a Hollywood that never was—and always will be. A team of Walt Disney Imagineers led by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright had been given an assignment to two new pavilions for Epcots Future World section. The brainstorming sessions led to Wonders of Life and Great Movie Ride pavilions, the latter was to look like a soundstage backdrop, with a movie theater-style entrance in the middle and would have sat between the Land and Journey Into Imagination pavilions. In 1988, MGM/UA responded by filing a lawsuit that claimed Disney violated the agreement by operating a working movie, when the park first opened, the only two attractions were the Studio Backlot Tour and The Great Movie Ride. Disney later filed a countersuit, claiming that MGM/UA and MGM Grand, on October 23,1992, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis B. The 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park opened in 1993 at the Las Vegas site, on August 9,2007, Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton announced that Disney-MGM Studios would be re-branded as Disneys Hollywood Studios, effective January 7,2008. On March 12,2015, during a shareholders meeting. Disneys Hollywood Studios is divided into six themed areas, the parks original layout featured a large Hidden Mickey, which was visible in aerial photographs of the park and on the parks early guide maps. Construction and other changes have eliminated much of this image. Hollywood Boulevard, inspired by the street in Los Angeles, serves as the main entrance and operates in the same vein as Main Street. It is lined with themed streetscape facades and venues selling Disney merchandise, guests enter through the main entrance gate, which resembles the Pan-Pacific Auditorium
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Cartoon
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A cartoon is a type of two-dimensional illustration. An artist who creates cartoons is called a cartoonist, the concept originated in the Middle Ages and first described a preparatory drawing for a piece of art, such as a painting, fresco, tapestry, or stained glass window. In the 19th century, it came to refer to humorous illustrations in magazines and newspapers, in the 21st century, cartoons could be published on the Internet. A cartoon is a drawing made on sturdy paper as a study or modello for a painting. Cartoons were typically used in the production of frescoes, to link the component parts of the composition when painted on damp plaster over a series of days. Such cartoons often have pinpricks along the outlines of the design so that a bag of soot patted or pounced over the cartoon, held against the wall, would leave black dots on the plaster. Cartoons by painters, such as the Raphael Cartoons in London, tapestry cartoons, usually coloured, were followed with the eye by the weavers on the loom. In modern print media, a cartoon is an illustration or series of illustrations and this usage dates from 1843, when Punch magazine applied the term to satirical drawings in its pages, particularly sketches by John Leech. The first of these parodied the preparatory cartoons for grand historical frescoes in the then-new Palace of Westminster, Cartoons can be divided into gag cartoons, which include editorial cartoons, and comic strips. Modern single-panel gag cartoons, found in magazines, generally consist of a drawing with a typeset caption positioned beneath. Newspaper syndicates have also distributed single-panel gag cartoons by Mel Calman, Bill Holman, Gary Larson, George Lichty, Fred Neher, many consider New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno the father of the modern gag cartoon. The roster of magazine gag cartoonists includes names like Charles Addams, Charles Barsotti, Bill Hoest, Jerry Marcus and Virgil Partch began as magazine gag cartoonists and moved to syndicated comic strips. Richard Thompson is noteworthy in the area of newspaper cartoon illustration, the sports section of newspapers usually featured cartoons, sometimes including syndicated features such as Chester Chet Browns All in Sport. Editorial cartoons are found almost exclusively in news publications and news websites, although they also employ humor, they are more serious in tone, commonly using irony or satire. The art usually acts as a metaphor to illustrate a point of view on current social and/or political topics. Editorial cartoons often include speech balloons and sometimes use multiple panels, editorial cartoonists of note include Herblock, David Low, Jeff MacNelly, Mike Peters and Gerald Scarfe. Comic strips, also known as cartoon strips in the United Kingdom, are daily in newspapers worldwide. In the United States, they are not commonly called cartoons themselves, nonetheless, the creators of comic strips—as well as comic books and graphic novels—are usually referred to as cartoonists
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Barney Rubble
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Bernard Barney Rubble is a cartoon character who appears in the television animated series The Flintstones. He is the diminutive, blond-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and his best friends are his next door neighbors, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Barneys personality was based on that of Ed Norton on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners, usually after Fred had hatched one of his plans, Barney showed his agreement by laughing and saying, uh hee hee hee. OK, Fred. or hee hee hee. whatever you say, in early episodes, Barney had a joisey accent, but when Barneys accent was getting too annoying, it was changed to a deeper, more chuckle-like voice. In On the Rocks and Stone-Age Smackdown, his Jersey accent returns, Barneys interests included bowling, playing pool, poker, tinkering around in Freds garage, and playing golf. He, like Fred, was also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes lodge and its predecessor in earlier episodes and he is also a talented pianist and drummer. In the first episode of the series, he was an inventor of a human-powered helicopter. Though clearly depicted as being in shape than Fred, he is not shown to be quite as enthusiastic a sportsman as Fred is. This distinction can be attributed to Freds fondness for food, though Barney is shown to be almost as capable of excessive appetite on a number of occasions. While the mid-1980s spinoff series The Flintstone Kids depicts Barney as a child and it is suggested in the original series that Barney grew up at 142 Boulder Avenue in Granitetown. The original series also suggested in one episode that Barney was the nephew of Freds boss, Mr. Slate, though subsequent episodes and spinoffs do not seem to support this claim. As young adults, Barney and Fred worked as bellhops at a resort, where they first met Wilma and Betty, an early episode of the original series does have a brief scene of Barney working at the Granite Building. It could also be possible that both Fred and Barney work at the quarry, but may work in different sections of it, in one episode, Barneys boss tells him to put down his broom, which implies some sort of janitorial work is involved. During the fourth season of the series, Betty and Barney found an abandoned infant on their doorstep. A court battle ensued between the couple and a man who also had wanted to adopt Bamm-Bamm. Barney and Betty were successful in their efforts to adopt Bamm-Bamm because the man gave up upon learning his wife became pregnant. For a number of episodes after Bamm-Bamms debut, no sign of him is seen on the show, in the fifth season, the family buys a pet hopparoo named Hoppy. When Bamm-Bamm grew into a teenager, Barney joined the Bedrock police force with Fred for a period of time as part-time officers, both characters were paired with the Shmoo from Lil Abner
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Big Bully (film)
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Big Bully is a 1996 American comedy-drama film starring Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold. The film was directed by Steve Miner and featured Don Knotts, growing up in Hastings, Minnesota, young David Leary was bullied by Roscoe Bigger, nicknamed Fang because of a pointed tooth. David is ecstatic when his parents announce theyre moving to Oakland, David informs teachers about Fang stealing a moon rock and Fang is arrested. Twenty-six years later, David is divorced and raising his troubled son Ben as a single parent, not having much success as a writer, Davids old school offers him a job teaching creative writing for the semester. He meets his neighbors Art and Betty Lundstrum and begins rekindling a relationship with his old flame Victoria and he also encounters the school librarian Mrs. Rumpert who is still waiting for David to return Green Eggs and Ham to the library. After Ben begins picking on a kid named Kirby, David meets the boys father Ross Bigger when both are called to the office of Principal Kokelar, following a fire drill, David meets with his old friend Ulf, a firefighter. When meeting with Ulf, Alan and Gerry at a bar, David learns that after Ross got out of juvenile hall, when Ross learns who David is, he reembarks on his old routine of bullying him to make himself feel better. Ross drops his mild-mannered and pushover attitude and begins taking charge in his classroom, Davids son begins bullying Rosss son, but after a discussion they become friends. Ross begins to intimidate until David becomes paranoid, and begins freaking out another teacher, Clark, who thinks he is on crack. Later that night, they meet at the old see-saw where Ross reaffirms that David has never stood up for himself at which point David admits snitching to get Ross put in Juvenile hall. After a game of cat-and-mouse in the school hours, David flees to his hiding place he used when he was a child. Ross chases him onto a waterfall and tells David that he thought of him as a friend. David hits him with a piece of driftwood causing Ross to fall into the river, fearing that he has killed his enemy, David tries to turn himself over to the police only to find that the cops are out. Ulf drives David to his home while he tries to find Ross body, after a talk with Art, David attempts to go to sleep only to discover Ross alive and well. The two men once again until Kirby and Ben come in and reveal that theyve made up. Ross reveals he stole the moon rock because he wanted to be an astronaut and it was also shown that during their recent fight, Ross fang was chipped. With nothing left for him in Hastings, Davids semester teaching job was over, David begins to pack up and move to New York. He has Victoria return Green Eggs and Ham to the library for him
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Kamakiriad
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Kamakiriad is the second solo album by Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen, released in 1993. It was his first collaboration since 1980 with Steely Dan partner Walter Becker, the album is a futuristic, optimistic eight-song cycle about the journey of the narrator in his high-tech car, the Kamakiri. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1993, the album follows a lengthy writers block for Fagen, the songs are based on personal observations about middle age. Music videos were produced for Tomorrows Girls and Snowbound, Fagen and Becker embarked on their first tour as Steely Dan since 1974 to support the album. The literal action takes place a few years in the future, in the first song, Trans-Island Skyway, the narrator tells us he is about to embark on a journey in his new dream-car, a custom-tooled Kamakiri. Its built for the new century, steam-driven, with a vegetable garden. The next six songs describe his adventures along the way, in the last song, Teahouse on the Tracks, the narrator lands in dismal Flytown where he must decide whether to bail out or to rally and continue moving into the unknown
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Donald Fagen
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Donald Jay Fagen is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and co-founder of the band Steely Dan. His family moved to the suburb of Fair Lawn around 1958 and soon after to a house on Bedford Road in the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick, the transition upset him, he detested living in the suburbs. He later recalled that it was like a prison, I think I lost faith in judgment. It was probably the first time I realized I had my own view of life and his life in Kendall Park, including his teenage love of late-night radio, inspired his album The Nightfly. Fagen became interested in rock and rhythm and blues in the late 1950s, the first record he bought was Chuck Berrys Reelin and Rockin. He regularly took the bus to Manhattan to see performances by jazz musicians Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, soon after, he learned to play the piano. He played baritone horn in the school marching band. During his teens, he developed a fondness for table tennis. After graduating from South Brunswick High School in 1965, he enrolled at Bard College to study English literature, having been inspired by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, at Bard he met musician Walter Becker. With a revolving assortment of musicians, which included future actor Chevy Chase, Becker and Fagen formed the bands the Leather Canary, the Don Fagen Jazz Trio, Fagen later described his college bands as sounding like The Kingsmen performing Frank Zappa material. None of the groups lasted long, but the partnership between Fagen and Becker did, the duos early career included a stint with Jay and the Americans, for which they used pseudonyms. In the early 1970s they worked as pop songwriters for ABC/Dunhill Records, donald Fagen met Walter Becker in a coffee house at Bard College in 1967. Denny Dias was immediately impressed by the abilities, and particularly by the fact that they already had a whole stack of original material. The groups first lineup was assembled in December 1971 in Los Angeles, California, Becker and Fagen formed the core of the band and wrote all the songs, with Becker on bass, and later lead guitar, and Fagen on keyboards and vocals. After the release of their third LP in 1974, the members left or were fired from the band. Steely Dans bestselling album was 1977s Aja, which was certified platinum, three years later, they released Gaucho. Their next album wasnt until 1995, when released the live album Alive in America. It was followed by Two Against Nature in 2000 and Everything Must Go in 2003, a concert DVD, Two Against Nature, included material from much of the bands history
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The TV Show is an American syndicated comic science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the films concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry. It debuted in syndication on September 1,1997 and ran for three seasons, concluding with the 66th episode on May 20,2000. Peter Scolari took over the role as Wayne Szalinski, the inventor in the original film. Each episode incorporates new technologies and digital effects to feature the family in new adventures. The series was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, with its studios located in Currie Barracks. The Szalinski family are the only returning characters from the films, Wayne Szalinski, the shows protagonist, is the husband of Diane and the father of Amy and Nick. The well-meaning Wayne constructs a variety of inventions, including the Shrink-Ray, Neuron Nudger and Brainiactivator among others and his wife, Diane Szalinski, is a lawyer. Diane supports Wayne and is loving, but gets fed up with his antics. The family have a dog, Quark, who is played by Matese in the first season, Amy Szalinski is the oldest child of Wayne and Diane. She displays the normal teenage angst, but loves her no matter what. Her younger brother, Nick, is much like Wayne. However, unlike his father, he believes in and has a knowledge of the supernatural. He and Amy bicker like most siblings, but generally get along well and will go out of their way for each other when one is in trouble. The series picks up with the Szalinski household relocating to Matheson, next door to the Szalinskis are the McKennas. Jake McKenna is chief of the police force and he is usually caught up with the Szalinskis mishaps. His younger son, Joel, is one of Nicks friends and his older son, Jack, is an occasional love interest for Amy. The Honey, I Shrunk the Kids television series launched in September 1997, shortly after the last film in its trilogy, Honey
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Brother Bear 2
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Brother Bear 2 is a 2006 American animated comedy-drama/fantasy film and the direct-to-video sequel to the animated feature Brother Bear, which was released on August 29,2006. Melissa Etheridge contributed three songs to the film, in the film, the adventures of bear brothers Kenai and Koda continue. While the first film dealt with Kenais relationship with Koda, this one more on his bond with a young human. Only five of the characters return for the sequel, including Kenai, Koda, Rutt, Tuke. Only four of those actors came back to do their original roles, which include Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, and Michael Clarke Duncan. Jason Marsden, as heard in the first trailer, was announced to voice Kenai, originally voiced by Joaquin Phoenix in the first film. However, the end credits still note Marsden as one of the additional voices, picking up several months after the events of the first film, Kenai, now a cave bear, is living happily with his foster brother Koda. Having just awoken from hibernation, the bears begin traveling to Crowberry Ridge for the first berries of the season, however, Kenai is haunted by memories of his childhood friend Nita, to whom he gave a special amulet many years ago. Eventually, Kenai and Koda meet up with Nita, who wants to burn her amulet so she can marry Atka, however, she has to do it with Kenai to send the bond back up to the spirits. At first, Kenai refuses, but finally agrees, Nita misses Kenai, but does not tell him. Instead, she asks if he misses being human, and if he thought of changing back. He replies that he has thought about it, Koda, who heard it all, races up a mountain and is finally found by Nita. However, the two are caught in an avalanche. Kenai digs them out and tells Koda he will never leave him and they make it to Hokani Falls, where they burn the amulet. Without it, Nita can no longer understand animals, so she says goodbye, Koda asks his mother in the Spirit-land to turn Kenai back into a human so he can be happy. Koda goes to the village to retrieve Nita, but Kenai is told by Rutt, when Kenai makes it there, he gets into a fight with Atka. He falls off a cliff into water, where the spirits come. Koda tells Kenai that he asked the spirits to him back into a human
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The Breakfast Club
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The film premiered in Los Angeles on February 7,1985. Universal Pictures released the film in cinemas in the United States on February 15,1985 and it received critical acclaim and earned $51.5 million on a $1 million budget. Critics consider it one of the greatest high school films of all time, the media referred to the films five main actors as members of a group called the Brat Pack. The title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for morning detention at New Trier High School, thus, those who were sent to detention before school starting time were designated members of The Breakfast Club. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, the film was digitally remastered and was re-screened throughout 430 theaters in celebration of its 30th anniversary in 2015. On Saturday, March 24,1984, five students report at 7,00 a. m. for all-day detention at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois. They gather in the school library, where assistant principal Richard Vernon instructs them not to speak, move from their seats. He assigns them a 1, 000-word essay, in which each must describe who you think you are and he then leaves, returning only occasionally to check on them. Bender, who has an antagonistic relationship with Vernon, ignores the rules and frequently riles up the other students, teasing Brian and Andrew. Allison is initially quiet, except for an occasional random outburst, over the course of the day, Vernon gives Bender several weekends worth of additional detention and even locks him in a storage closet, but he escapes and returns to the library. The students pass the hours by talking, arguing, and, at one point, the students realize that, even with their differences, they face similar pressures and complications in their lives. Despite their differences in status, the group begins to form friendships as the day progresses. Claire gives Allison a makeover, to reveal just how pretty she really is, Claire decides to break her pristine virgin appearance by kissing Bender in the closet and giving him a hickey. Although they suspect that the relationships will end with the end of their detention, as the detention nears its end, the group requests that Brian complete the essay for everyone and John returns to the storage closet to fool Vernon into thinking he has not left. Brian writes the essay and leaves it in the library for Vernon to read after they leave, as the students part ways outside the school, Allison and Andrew kiss, as do Claire and Bender. Allison rips Andrews state champion patch from his jacket to keep, and Claire gives Bender one of her diamond earrings. Vernon reads the essay, in which Brian states that Vernon has already judged who they are, using simple definitions and stereotypes. One by one, the five students voices add, But what we found out is that one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess
