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Just like Heaven (film)
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Just Like Heaven is a 2005 American romantic comedy fantasy film directed by Mark Waters, starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. It is based on the French novel If Only It Were True written by Marc Levy, steven Spielberg obtained the rights to produce the film from the book. The film was released in the United States and Canada on September 16,2005, Elizabeth Masterson, a young emergency medicine physician whose work is her whole life, is in a serious car accident while on her way to a blind date. Elizabeths spirit begins to appear to David in the apartment with ghostly properties and abilities make it clear that something is not right. She can suddenly appear and disappear, walk or move through walls and objects, when they meet, they are both surprised, as Elizabeth is still unaware of her recent history and refuses to think she is dead. David tries to have her spirit exorcised from the apartment, since only David can see and hear her, others think that he is hallucinating and talking to himself. David and Elizabeths spirits begin to bond, as much as that is possible, together, assisted by a psychic bookstore clerk, Darryl, Elizabeth, and David find out who she is, what happened to her, and why they are connected. She is not dead, but in a coma, her body being kept on life support at the hospital where she used to work, one of Elizabeths young nieces is revealed to be able also to sense her presence. Abby thinks David is mentally disturbed and drives him out of her house, desperate, David decides to prevent Elizabeths death by stealing her from the hospital. He then admits to Jack and Elizabeth that he loves her, while stealing Elizabeth, they are quickly discovered in the hospital. The security guards find them, pulling Jack away from Elizabeth, David gets away from the guards a bit longer, but Elizabeth is now dying. David frantically kisses the dying Elizabeth, breathing some air into her lungs, then, amazingly, her heartbeat returns and she miraculously awakens from the coma. However, the recovered Elizabeth does not remember anything that happened during the coma or any of the events with David, sometime later, Elizabeth goes back to her apartment. She is drawn up to the roof of the building, which has transformed into a beautiful landscaped garden. She finds David there, who has gotten in with a spare key Elizabeths spirit had shown him, Just as he is about to leave, she asks for her key back. When their hands touch, her memory of the events during her coma are restored, the performances of Witherspoon, Ruffalo, and Heder were all generally well received. Heders appearance helped to debunk an urban legend that the actor had died shortly after filming Napoleon Dynamite, the DVD release in February 2006 was given unusually strong promotional publicity. The title of film is also that of a popular 1987 song
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University of Southern California
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The University of Southern California is a private research university founded in 1880 with its main campus in Los Angeles, California. As Californias oldest private university, USC has historically educated a large number of the regions business leaders. In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia, an engine for economic activity, USC contributes $8 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and California. For the 2014–15 academic year, there were 18,740 students enrolled in undergraduate programs. USC also has 23,729 graduate and professional students in a number of different programs, including business, law, engineering, social work, and medicine. The university is one of the top fundraising institutions in the world, consistently ranking among the top 3 in external contributions, multiple academic rankings list the University of Southern California as being among the top 25 universities in the United States. With an acceptance rate of 16 percent, USC is also among the most selective academic institutions in the nation. USC maintains a tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship, with alumni having founded companies such as Lucasfilm, Myspace, Salesforce. com, Intuit, Qualcomm, Box, Tinder. As of 2014, the university has produced the fourth largest number of billionaire alumni out of all institutions in the world. USC is home to the world’s most powerful computer, which is presently housed in a super-cooled. The only other commercially available quantum computing system is operated jointly by NASA, USC was also one of the earliest nodes on ARPANET and is the birthplace of the Domain Name System. Other technologies invented at USC include DNA computing, dynamic programming, image compression, VoIP, USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. Members of the teams, the Trojans, have won 102 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the nation. Trojan athletes have won 288 medals at the Olympic games, more than any university in the United States. If USC were a country, its athletes would have received the 12th-most Olympic gold medals in history. In 1969, it joined the Association of American Universities, the University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Hellman. The three donated 308 lots of land to establish the campus and provided the seed money for the construction of the first buildings. Originally operated in affiliation with the Methodist Church, the school mandated from the start that no student would be denied admission because of race, the university is no longer affiliated with any church, having severed formal ties in 1952
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Pomona College
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Pomona College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, United States. Established in 1887, it is the member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. Pomona is a selective, four-year undergraduate institution, and enrolled approximately 1,660 students representing 49 states and 63 countries in Fall 2016. The college maintains 48 majors and 600 courses, though students have access to nearly 2000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges, the colleges 140-acre main campus is located in a residential community near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The campus is located adjacent to the Village, an area of Claremont that has grown around the college. Pomona College is currently ranked seventh among all institutions in the United States by Forbes. And seventh among all liberal arts colleges by U. S. News & World Report, 70% of enrolled students hail from out of state, 56% receive need-based financial aid, and 57% self-identify as domestic students of color or international students. Pomona College was established as an institution on October 14,1887. The group’s goal was to create a college in the mold as small New England institutions. The College was originally formed in Pomona, California, classes first began in a house on September 12,1888. The next year, the moved to Claremont, at the site of an unfinished hotel. This building would eventually become Sumner Hall, current location of the Admissions, the name Pomona College remained after the relocation. The College’s first graduating class had ten members in 1894 and its founders’ values led to the College’s belief in educational equity. Like other Congregationalist-founded colleges such as Harvard, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Pomona received its own governing board, ensuring its independence. The board of trustees was composed of graduates of Williams, Dartmouth, Bates and Yale, among others. This would allow Pomona to retain its small, liberal arts-focused teaching while gaining the resources of a larger university, on October 14,1925, Pomona College’s 38th anniversary, the Claremont Colleges were incorporated. By 1997, the consortium reached its present membership of five undergraduate, Pomona ranks eighth in the country for graduates receiving the most competitive graduate fellowships per capita. In 2013, Pomona students received the most Goldwater Scholarships of any liberal arts college, nearly 85% of recent alumni attend graduate or professional school within ten years
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Simon Templeman
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He is also known as Simon Templeton. He was a regular on The Neighbors, an ABC sitcom. Templeman also gained fame playing the Angel of Death on the TV series Charmed and he is married to actress Rosalind Chao with whom he has two children. Simon Templeman at the Internet Movie Database
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Traditional Chinese characters
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Traditional Chinese characters are Chinese characters in any character set that does not contain newly created characters or character substitutions performed after 1946. They are most commonly the characters in the character sets of Taiwan, of Hong Kong. Currently, a number of overseas Chinese online newspapers allow users to switch between both sets. In contrast, simplified Chinese characters are used in mainland China, Singapore, the debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters has been a long-running issue among Chinese communities. Although simplified characters are taught and endorsed by the government of Mainland China, Traditional characters are used informally in regions in China primarily in handwriting and also used for inscriptions and religious text. They are often retained in logos or graphics to evoke yesteryear, nonetheless, the vast majority of media and communications in China is dominated by simplified characters. Taiwan has never adopted Simplified Chinese characters since it is ruled by the Republic of China, the use of simplified characters in official documents is even prohibited by the government in Taiwan. Simplified characters are not well understood in general, although some stroke simplifications that have incorporated into Simplified Chinese are in common use in handwriting. For example, while the name of Taiwan is written as 臺灣, similarly, in Hong Kong and Macau, Traditional Chinese has been the legal written form since colonial times. In recent years, because of the influx of mainland Chinese tourists, today, even government websites use simplified Chinese, as they answer to the Beijing government. This has led to concerns by residents to protect their local heritage. In Southeast Asia, the Chinese Filipino community continues to be one of the most conservative regarding simplification, while major public universities are teaching simplified characters, many well-established Chinese schools still use traditional characters. Publications like the Chinese Commercial News, World News, and United Daily News still use traditional characters, on the other hand, the Philippine Chinese Daily uses simplified. Aside from local newspapers, magazines from Hong Kong, such as the Yazhou Zhoukan, are found in some bookstores. In case of film or television subtitles on DVD, the Chinese dub that is used in Philippines is the same as the one used in Taiwan and this is because the DVDs belongs to DVD Region Code 3. Hence, most of the subtitles are in Traditional Characters, overseas Chinese in the United States have long used traditional characters. A major influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States occurred during the half of the 19th century. Therefore, the majority of Chinese language signage in the United States, including street signs, Traditional Chinese characters are called several different names within the Chinese-speaking world
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Simplified Chinese characters
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Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China. Along with traditional Chinese characters, it is one of the two character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language. The government of the Peoples Republic of China in mainland China has promoted them for use in printing since the 1950s and 1960s in an attempt to increase literacy and they are officially used in the Peoples Republic of China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese characters are used in Hong Kong, Macau. Overseas Chinese communities generally tend to use traditional characters, Simplified Chinese characters may be referred to by their official name above or colloquially. Strictly, the latter refers to simplifications of character structure or body, character forms that have existed for thousands of years alongside regular, Simplified character forms were created by decreasing the number of strokes and simplifying the forms of a sizable proportion of traditional Chinese characters. Some simplifications were based on popular cursive forms embodying graphic or phonetic simplifications of the traditional forms, some characters were simplified by applying regular rules, for example, by replacing all occurrences of a certain component with a simplified version of the component. Variant characters with the pronunciation and identical meaning were reduced to a single standardized character. Finally, many characters were left untouched by simplification, and are identical between the traditional and simplified Chinese orthographies. Some simplified characters are very dissimilar to and unpredictably different from traditional characters and this often leads opponents not well-versed in the method of simplification to conclude that the overall process of character simplification is also arbitrary. In reality, the methods and rules of simplification are few, on the other hand, proponents of simplification often flaunt a few choice simplified characters as ingenious inventions, when in fact these have existed for hundreds of years as ancient variants. However, the Chinese government never officially dropped its goal of further simplification in the future, in August 2009, the PRC began collecting public comments for a modified list of simplified characters. The new Table of General Standard Chinese Characters consisting of 8,105 characters was promulgated by the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China on June 5,2013, cursive written text almost always includes character simplification. Simplified forms used in print have always existed, they date back to as early as the Qin dynasty, One of the earliest proponents of character simplification was Lubi Kui, who proposed in 1909 that simplified characters should be used in education. In the years following the May Fourth Movement in 1919, many anti-imperialist Chinese intellectuals sought ways to modernise China, Traditional culture and values such as Confucianism were challenged. Soon, people in the Movement started to cite the traditional Chinese writing system as an obstacle in modernising China and it was suggested that the Chinese writing system should be either simplified or completely abolished. Fu Sinian, a leader of the May Fourth Movement, called Chinese characters the writing of ox-demons, lu Xun, a renowned Chinese author in the 20th century, stated that, If Chinese characters are not destroyed, then China will die. Recent commentators have claimed that Chinese characters were blamed for the problems in China during that time
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Standard Chinese
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Its pronunciation is based on the Beijing dialect, its vocabulary on the Mandarin dialects, and its grammar is based on written vernacular Chinese. Like other varieties of Chinese, Standard Chinese is a language with topic-prominent organization. It has more initial consonants but fewer vowels, final consonants, Standard Chinese is an analytic language, though with many compound words. There exist two standardised forms of the language, namely Putonghua in Mainland China and Guoyu in Taiwan, aside from a number of differences in pronunciation and vocabulary, Putonghua is written using simplified Chinese characters, while Guoyu is written using traditional Chinese characters. There are many characters that are identical between the two systems, in English, the governments of China and Hong Kong use Putonghua, Putonghua Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, and Mandarin, while those of Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, use Mandarin. The name Putonghua also has a long, albeit unofficial, history and it was used as early as 1906 in writings by Zhu Wenxiong to differentiate a modern, standard Chinese from classical Chinese and other varieties of Chinese. For some linguists of the early 20th century, the Putonghua, or common tongue/speech, was different from the Guoyu. The former was a prestige variety, while the latter was the legal standard. Based on common understandings of the time, the two were, in fact, different, Guoyu was understood as formal vernacular Chinese, which is close to classical Chinese. By contrast, Putonghua was called the speech of the modern man. The use of the term Putonghua by left-leaning intellectuals such as Qu Qiubai, prior to this, the government used both terms interchangeably. In Taiwan, Guoyu continues to be the term for Standard Chinese. The term Putonghua, on the contrary, implies nothing more than the notion of a lingua franca, Huayu, or language of the Chinese nation, originally simply meant Chinese language, and was used in overseas communities to contrast Chinese with foreign languages. Over time, the desire to standardise the variety of Chinese spoken in these communities led to the adoption of the name Huayu to refer to Mandarin and it also incorporates the notion that Mandarin is usually not the national or common language of the areas in which overseas Chinese live. The term Mandarin is a translation of Guānhuà, which referred to the lingua franca of the late Chinese empire, in English, Mandarin may refer to the standard language, the dialect group as a whole, or to historic forms such as the late Imperial lingua franca. The name Modern Standard Mandarin is sometimes used by linguists who wish to distinguish the current state of the language from other northern. Chinese has long had considerable variation, hence prestige dialects have always existed. Confucius, for example, used yǎyán rather than colloquial regional dialects, rime books, which were written since the Northern and Southern dynasties, may also have reflected one or more systems of standard pronunciation during those times
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Pinyin
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Pinyin, or Hànyǔ Pīnyīn, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Chinese, which is written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones, Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters. The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by many linguists, including Zhou Youguang and it was published by the Chinese government in 1958 and revised several times. The International Organization for Standardization adopted pinyin as a standard in 1982. The system was adopted as the standard in Taiwan in 2009. The word Hànyǔ means the language of the Han people. In 1605, the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci published Xizi Qiji in Beijing and this was the first book to use the Roman alphabet to write the Chinese language. Twenty years later, another Jesuit in China, Nicolas Trigault, neither book had much immediate impact on the way in which Chinese thought about their writing system, and the romanizations they described were intended more for Westerners than for the Chinese. One of the earliest Chinese thinkers to relate Western alphabets to Chinese was late Ming to early Qing Dynasty scholar-official, the first late Qing reformer to propose that China adopt a system of spelling was Song Shu. A student of the great scholars Yu Yue and Zhang Taiyan, Song had been to Japan and observed the effect of the kana syllabaries. This galvanized him into activity on a number of fronts, one of the most important being reform of the script, while Song did not himself actually create a system for spelling Sinitic languages, his discussion proved fertile and led to a proliferation of schemes for phonetic scripts. The Wade–Giles system was produced by Thomas Wade in 1859, and it was popular and used in English-language publications outside China until 1979. This Sin Wenz or New Writing was much more sophisticated than earlier alphabets. In 1940, several members attended a Border Region Sin Wenz Society convention. Mao Zedong and Zhu De, head of the army, both contributed their calligraphy for the masthead of the Sin Wenz Societys new journal. Outside the CCP, other prominent supporters included Sun Yat-sens son, Sun Fo, Cai Yuanpei, the countrys most prestigious educator, Tao Xingzhi, an educational reformer. Over thirty journals soon appeared written in Sin Wenz, plus large numbers of translations, biographies, some contemporary Chinese literature, and a spectrum of textbooks
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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AfterMASH
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AfterMASH is an American sitcom produced as a spin-off and continuation of M*A*S*H that aired on CBS from September 26,1983, to May 31,1985. The series takes place following the end of the Korean War. M*A*S*H supporting cast-member Kellye Nakahara joined them, albeit off-camera, as the voice of the public address system. Rosalind Chao rounded out the starring cast as Soon-Lee Klinger, a Korean refugee whom Klinger met, fell in love with and married in the M*A*S*H series finale Goodbye, Farewell and Amen. AfterMASH premiered in autumn 1983 in the same Monday night 9,00 P. M. EDT time slot as its predecessor and it finished 10th out of all network shows for the 1983-1984 season according to Nielsen Media Research television ratings. Ts signature mohawk, theorizing that AfterMASH would take a portion of the A-Team audience. Critics were mostly negative about the program, in 1999, Time magazine listed the show as one of the 100 worst ideas of the century, and in 2002, TV Guide listed it as the seventh-worst TV series ever. In the one-hour pilot episode September of 53/Together Again, Colonel Potter returned home from Korea to his wife Mildred in Hannibal and he soon found retirement stifling, and Mildred suggested he return to work. Potter was soon hired by the bombastic and bureaucratic hospital administrator Mike DAngelo as the chief of staff at General Pershing Veterans Hospital, located in the fictional River Bend, max Klinger had found himself in trouble with the law in Toledo. Colonel Potter wrote to him and offered him a job as his administrative assistant, Father Mulcahy, whose hearing was damaged in the final episode of M*A*S*H, was suffering from depression and drinking heavily. Potter arranged for Mulcahy to receive an operation at another VA Hospital in St. Louis, after his hearing was surgically corrected, he stopped drinking and joined Potter and Klinger at General General as its Catholic chaplain. Unlike the other patients and staff who addressed Potter by his rank of colonel. Halfway through the first season, Dr. Boyer was introduced as a veteran who lost a leg in Korea and had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. The only other character from the original series to appear on AfterMASH was Radar. The Radar character later appeared in a pilot called W*A*L*T*E*R, in which Radar moved from Iowa to St. Louis, after his wife left him on his wedding night, and he became a police officer. The season closed in March with Klinger being arrested for decking a shady real estate agent as pregnant Soon Lee went into labor, in May, CBS announced the show was renewed for a second season. Mike DAngelo was transferred to Montana and was replaced by smarmy new administrator Wally Wainwright, anne Pitoniak was brought in to replace Barbara Townsend as Mildred Potter. David Ackroyd was promoted to a regular cast member after multiple guest appearances in the half of the first season
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Keiko O'Brien
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This is a list of secondary characters from the science fiction television series Star Trek, Deep Space Nine. Characters are ordered alphabetically by name, and only characters who played a significant major role in the series are listed. Bareil Antos was a Bajoran Vedek and he was played by Philip Anglim. Bareil becomes romantically involved with Major Kira Nerys of the Deep Space Nine space station and he runs against Vedek Winn Adami for the role of Kai, but is forced to drop out to protect the reputation of the previous Kai, Opaka. Bareil is injured in an explosion, and Dr. Julian Bashir has to replace his failing organs with cybernetics so that he can continue to advise Winn in negotiations with the Cardassians. His continued efforts in this state cause brain damage. In the mirror universe, Bareil Antos is a petty thief who is close to the alternate Kira and he leaves his universe in a foiled attempt to steal an orb. Brunt is a liquidator with the Ferengi Commerce Authority, portrayed by Jeffrey Combs and he is the nemesis of Quark, whom he perceives as a threat to the Ferengi way of life, and often attempts to either destroy him or supplant Grand Nagus Zek. By sharp contrast, his mirror universe counterpart was a friendly and congenial person, with unrequited feelings for his universes Ezri Tigan, Brunt appeared in eight episodes beginning with Season Threes Family Business. Combs has described Brunt as the IRS guy from Hell, kimara Cretak is a representative of the Romulan empire for a short time aboard Deep Space Nine. She is accused of treason against the Star empire and imprisoned in the episode Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges, kimara Cretak was first portrayed by Megan Cole in Image in the Sand and Shadows and Symbols, and Adrienne Barbeau in Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges. Damar is a Cardassian military officer portrayed by Casey Biggs, as a glinn, he served under Gul Dukat aboard the freighter Groumall, and later as Legate Dukats aide when the Cardassian Union joined the Dominion and then captured Deep Space Nine. As the Federation re-took the station, Damar learned that Tora Ziyal had been helping Kira and others undermine them and this earned him personal enmity from Kira. After Dukats subsequent mental breakdown following his daughters death, Damar was promoted to legate. As leader, he learned that the Dominion was merely using the Cardassians as pawns in its effort to conquer the Alpha Quadrant, so he switched sides and encouraged his people to fight the Dominion. As leader of the new Cardassian rebellion, he had to accept Federation aid and advice from a Starfleet advisor, while fighting beside Colonel Kira Nerys and Elim Garak in a final push to retake Cardassia Prime, Damar was killed in action. Damar appeared in 23 episodes beginning with Season Fours Return to Grace and he was stationed on Deep Space Nine by Starfleet due to their lack of complete trust in Odo. Following orders from a Starfleet admiral, he sabotaged the Defiants cloaking system when Captain Sisko defied orders by taking the ship on a mission to the Gamma Quadrant and he later defected to the Maquis after working for them to steal several industrial grade replicators destined for the Cardassian Union
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Star Trek, The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran between 1987 and 1994. Roddenberry, Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor served as producers at different times throughout its production. The series involves a starship named Enterprise and is set in the regions of the Milky Way galaxy. The first episode takes place in the year 2364,100 years after the start of the mission described in the original series. It features a new cast and a new starship Enterprise, the fifth to bear the name within the franchises storyline and these are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission, to strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations. TNG premiered the week of September 28,1987, drawing 27 million viewers, in total,176 episodes were made, ending with the two-hour finale All Good Things. The week of May 23,1994, the series was broadcast in first-run syndication with dates and times varying among individual television stations. Three additional Star Trek spin-offs followed The Next Generation, Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, Star Trek, Voyager, and Star Trek, Enterprise. The series formed the basis for the seventh through to the tenth of the Star Trek films, and is also the setting of novels, comic books. In its seventh season, Star Trek, The Next Generation became the first, the series received a number of accolades including 19 Emmy Awards, two Hugo Awards, five Saturn Awards, and a Peabody Award. The series follows the adventures of a crew on board the starship USS Enterprise, the fifth Federation vessel to bear the name and registry. The series is set about 70 years after the mission of the original Enterprise crew under the command of James T. Kirk. Beverly Crusher, conn officer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, and junior officer Lieutenant Worf, the death of Lieutenant Yar in the series first season prompts an internal shuffle of personnel, making Worf official chief of security. Geordi La Forge is promoted to engineer at the beginning of season 2. The series begins with the crew of the Enterprise-D put on trial by a nefarious, the god-like entity threatens the extinction of mankind for being a race of savages, forcing them to solve a mystery at nearby Farpoint Station to prove their worthiness to be spared. After successfully solving the mystery and avoiding disaster, the crew departs on its mission to explore strange new worlds. Subsequent stories focus on the discovery of new life and sociological and political relationships with alien cultures, several new species are introduced as recurring antagonists, including the Ferengi, the Cardassian, and the Borg
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Star Trek, Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the Milky Way galaxy, in the years 2369–2375. In contrast to other Star Trek TV shows, it takes place on a space station instead of a starship, so as not to have two series with starships in the same time period. The show is noted for its characters, original and complex plots, and religious themes. It often showcased darker themes, less physical exploration of space, and, in later seasons, DS9 premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons until 1999. The series was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller at the request of Brandon Tartikoff, as overall head of Star Trek production, Berman served as executive producer for the seriess entire run. Piller initially served as executive producer and showrunner, but left the series in 1995 to manage Star Trek Voyager. Writer Ira Steven Behr was promoted by Berman to replace Piller as showrunner, in addition to Berman, Piller, and Behr, key writers included Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ronald D. Moore, Peter Allan Fields, Bradley Thompson, David Weddle, Hans Beimler and René Echevarria. DS9 began while Star Trek, The Next Generation was still on the air, the stations first appearance in TNG was during the sixth-season episode Birthright. In addition, two Next Generation characters, Miles OBrien and Worf, became members of DS9. The station also appeared in the Star Trek, Voyager pilot episode, each DS9 episode began with the same opening sequence. A small comet is traveling through deep space, leaving an icy trail. As shuttle craft are seen moving about, the ends with the wormhole seen opening. DS9 centers on the formerly Cardassian space station Terok Nor, the station is renamed Deep Space Nine, and a Starfleet crew is assigned to manage it. Deep Space Nine and Bajor quickly become a center for exploration, interstellar trade, political maneuvering, Deep Space Nine becomes a key military base for the Federation in the Dominion War, and is assigned the starship USS Defiant to aid in its protection. While its predecessors tended to restore the status quo ante at the end of episode, allowing out-of-order viewing, DS9 contains story arcs that span episodes. One installment often builds upon earlier ones, with several cliffhanger endings, Michael Piller considered this one of the seriess best qualities, allowing repercussions of past episodes to influence future events and forcing characters to learn that actions have consequences. This trend was especially noticeable toward the finale, by which time the show was intentionally scripted as a serial. Unlike Star Trek, The Next Generation, interpersonal conflicts were prominently featured in DS9, in Pillers words, People who come from different places—honorable, noble people—will naturally have conflicts
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Disneyland
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Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17,1955. It is the theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. It was originally the attraction on the property, its name was changed to Disneyland Park to distinguish it from the expanding complex in the 1990s. Walt Disney came up with the concept of Disneyland after visiting various amusement parks with his daughters in the 1930s and 1940s. He initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit, however, after hiring a consultant to help him determine an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a 160-acre site near Anaheim in 1953. Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17,1955. Opened in 2001, Disney California Adventure Park was built on the site of Disneylands original parking lot, Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with over 650 million guests since it opened. In 2013, the park hosted approximately 16.2 million guests, according to a March 2005 Disney report,65,700 jobs are supported by the Disneyland Resort, including about 20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees. To all who come to this place, Welcome. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy. The concept for Disneyland began when Walt Disney was visiting Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters Diane and Sharon. While watching them ride the merry-go-round, he came up with the idea of a place where adults and their children could go and have fun together and he may have also been influenced by his fathers memories of the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Another likely influence was Benton Harbor, Michigans nationally famous House of Davids Eden Springs Park, Disney visited the park and ultimately bought one of the older miniature trains originally used there, the colony had the largest miniature railway setup in the world at the time. His ideas evolved to a play park with a boat ride. The initial concept, the Mickey Mouse Park, started with an 8-acre plot across Riverside Drive and his designers began working on concepts, though the project grew much larger than the land could hold. Disney hired Harrison Price from Stanford Research Institute to gauge the proper area to locate the theme based on the areas potential growth. Based on Prices analysis, Disney acquired 160 acres of groves and walnut trees in Anaheim
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Garden Grove, California
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Garden Grove is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, located 34 miles south of the city of Los Angeles. The population was 170,883 at the 2010 United States Census, State Route 22, also known as the Garden Grove Freeway, passes through the city in an east-west direction. The western portion of the city is known as West Garden Grove, Garden Grove was founded by Alonzo Cook in 1874. A school district and Methodist church were organized that year and it remained a small rural crossroads until the arrival of the railroad in 1905. The rail connection helped the town prosper with crops of orange, walnuts, chili peppers, in 1933, much of the towns central business district was destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake, and one person was killed at the high school. The post-World War II boom led to development, and Garden Grove was incorporated as a city in 1956 with about 44,000 residents. An annual event held over Memorial Day weekend, the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival is one of the largest community festivals in the western United States, attracting an estimated 250,000 visitors. It began in 1958 and celebrates the agricultural past, which includes cultivating crops such as chili peppers, oranges, walnuts. Part of the include the cutting of the worlds largest strawberry shortcake, carnival rides and vendors. Numerous Garden Grove organizations, including the Miss Garden Grove Scholarship Program, are part of the Memorial Day weekend festivities every year, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 46.5 km20. 10% of which is water. West Garden Grove is west of Beach Boulevard, the 2010 United States Census reported that Garden Grove had a population of 170,883. The population density was 9,515.3 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Garden Grove was 68,149 White,2,155 Black,983 Native American,63,451 Asian,1,110 Pacific Islander,28,916 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 63,079 persons. Non-Hispanic whites were 22. 6% of the population, down from 90. 6% in 1970, vietnamese Americans numbered 47,331 of the population. At 27. 7% this was the highest concentration of any city in the U. S. except for neighboring Westminster, the Census reported that 168,942 people lived in households,1,234 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 707 were institutionalized. There were 2,025 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 269 same-sex married couples or partnerships,6,491 households were made up of individuals and 2,842 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.67, there were 37,113 families, the average family size was 3.94. The median age was 35.6 years, for every 100 females there were 99.6 males
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Villa Park, California
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Villa Park is a city in Orange County, California, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 5,812, the city is largely zoned for single-family residences on lots that average about 20,000 square feet, or 1/2 acre, in size. Within the city there is one small shopping center. City Hall, including a community room, and a branch of the Orange County Public Libraries system is adjacent to the only shopping center. After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Father Junipero Serra named the area Vallejo de Santa Ana, on November 1,1776, Mission San Juan Capistrano became the areas first permanent European settlement in Alta California, New Spain. In 1810, the Spanish Empire granted 62,500 acres to Jose Antonio Yorba, yorbas rancho included the lands where the cities of Olive, Orange, Villa Park, Santa Ana, Tustin, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach stand today. After the Mexican-American war in 1848, Alta California became part of the United States in 1850, Villa Park was known as Mountain View in the 1860s. It was then an area producing, in turn, grapes, walnuts. Finally, citrus became the crop for about 60 years. Ranchers established the Serrano Water District, which still provides Villa Parks water, Villa Park is located at 33°48′58″N 117°48′40″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 2.1 square miles. There are no parks within city limits, many homes have pools and/or tennis courts. Unlike more urban areas of Orange County west of the city, Villa Park has winding streets with few sidewalks, throughout are trees and flower beds in planted medians and parkways. The 2010 United States Census reported that Villa Park had a population of 5,812, the population density was 2,796.6 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Villa Park was 4,550 White,42 African American,34 Native American,854 Asian,1 Pacific Islander,162 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 598 persons. The census reported that 5,767 people lived in households,40 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, there were 36 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 8 same-sex married couples or partnerships. 208 households were made up of individuals and 144 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.92. There were 1,728 families, the family size was 3.11
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White people
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White people is a racial classification specifier, used for people of Europid ancestry, with the exact implications dependent on context. The contemporary usage of people or a white race as a large group of populations contrasting with black, American Indian. It is today used as a racial classifier in multiracial societies, such as North Africa, United States. The term white race or white people entered the major European languages in the later 17th century, in the context of racialized slavery, description of populations as white in reference to their skin color predates this notion and is found in Greco-Roman ethnography and other ancient sources. Scholarship on race generally distinguishes the concept from pre-modern descriptions of collective difference. In the literature of the Ancient Near East and Classical Antiquity and we know that Egyptians were not oblivious to skin color, however, because artists paid attention to it in works of art, to the extent the pigments at the time permitted. Classicist James Dee states the Greeks do not describe themselves as white people—or as anything else because they had no word in their color vocabulary for themselves. Peoples skin color did not carry meaning, what mattered is where they lived. Religious conversion was sometimes described figuratively as a change in skin color, similarly, the Rigveda uses krsna tvac black skin as a metaphor for irreligiosity. The Ancient Egyptian funerary text known as the Book of Gates distinguishes four groups in a procession and these are the Egyptians, the Levantine/Canaanite peoples or Asiatics, the Nubians and the fair-skinned Libyans. The Egyptians are depicted as a reddish brown, the Nubians as black skinned, the Semites from the Levant and Canaan as light skinned. Herodotus described the Scythian Budini as having blue eyes and bright red hair. And the Egyptians – quite like the Colchians – as melánchroes and he also gives the possibly first reference to the common Greek name of the tribes living south of Egypt, otherwise known as Nubians, which was Aithíopes. Later Xenophon described the Aethiopians as black and the Persian troops as white compared to the skin of Greek troops. These color adjectives are found in contrast to the standard set by the own group. According to historian Irene Silverblatt, Race thinking … made social categories into racial truths, Alastair Bonnett argues that white identity, as it is presently conceived, is an American project, reflecting American interpretations of race and history. According to Gregory Jay, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Before the age of exploration, group differences were based on language, religion. … the European had always reacted a bit hysterically to the differences of skin color, in the 16th and 17th centuries, East Asian peoples were almost uniformly described as white, never as yellow
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Tour guide
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In 18th century Japan, a traveler could pay for a tour guide or consult guide books such as Kaibara Ekkens Keijō Shōran. In Europe, tourist guides are represented by FEG, the European Federation of Tourist Guide Associations, in Europe, the tourist guiding qualification is specific to each and every country, in some cases the qualification is national, in some cases it is broken up into regions. In all cases it is embedded in the educational and training ethic of that country, eN15565 is a European Standard for the Training and Qualification of Tourist Guides. In Australia, tour guides are qualified to a minimum of Certificate III Guiding and they belong to a couple of organisations, notably the Professional Tour Guide Association of Australia and Guides of Australia. Qualities of a guide, travel expert in travel industry Notes Salazar. Tourism and glocalization, ‘Local’ tour guiding, annals of Tourism Research,32, 628-646. Touristifying Tanzania, Local guides, global discourse, annals of Tourism Research,33, 833-852. Asian tourism redefining the roles of Asian tour guides, envisioning Eden, Mobilizing imaginaries in tourism and beyond. The Professional Guide, Dynamics of Tour Guiding, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold,1993. Ruitenberg, Claudia W. Learning by Walking, Non-Formal Education as Curatorial Practice, international Journal of Lifelong Education 31, no. The Tour Guide, Walking and Talking New York, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press,2011. City Tour Guides, Urban Alchemists at Work, city & Community 9, no.2. World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations European Federation of Tourist Guide Associations lobuche peak climbing in Nepal
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Peking opera
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Peking opera or Beijing opera is a form of Chinese opera which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century, the form was extremely popular in the Qing dynasty court and has come to be regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China. Major performance troupes are based in Beijing and Tianjin in the north, the art form is also preserved in Taiwan, where it is known as Guójù. It has also spread to countries such as the United States. Peking opera features four main types of performers, performing troupes often have several of each variety, as well as numerous secondary and tertiary performers. With their elaborate and colorful costumes, performers are the focal points on Peking operas characteristically sparse stage. They use the skills of speech, song, dance, and combat in movements that are symbolic and suggestive, above all else, the skill of performers is evaluated according to the beauty of their movements. Performers also adhere to a variety of conventions that help audiences navigate the plot of the production. The layers of meaning within each movement must be expressed in time with music, the music of Peking opera can be divided into the Xipi and Erhuang styles. Melodies include arias, fixed-tune melodies, and percussion patterns, the repertoire of Peking opera includes over 1,400 works, which are based on Chinese history, folklore, and, increasingly, contemporary life. After the Cultural Revolution, these transformations were largely undone, in recent years, Peking opera has attempted numerous reforms in response to sagging audience numbers. These reforms, which include improving performance quality, adapting new performance elements, Peking opera is the English term for the art form, the term entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 1953. Beijing opera is a more recent equivalent, in China, the art form has been known by many other names in different times and places. The earliest Chinese name was a combination of the Xipi and Erhuang melodies, as it increased in popularity, its name became Jingju or Jingxi, which reflected its start in the capital city, Jing, and the form of the performance, Xi. From 1927 to 1949, Beijing was known as Beiping, the Taiwanese name for this type of opera, Guoju, national theatre style, reflects disputes over the true seat of the Chinese government. Peking opera was born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes brought Anhui opera, or what is now called Huiju, in 1790 to Beijing and it was originally staged for the court and only made available to the public later. In 1828, several famous Hubei troupes arrived in Beijing and performed jointly with Anhui troupes, the combination gradually formed Peking operas melodies. Peking opera is regarded as having fully formed by 1845
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Taiwan
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Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, is a state in East Asia. Neighbours include China to the west, Japan to the northeast, Taiwan is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations, and the one with the largest economy. The island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, was inhabited by Taiwanese aborigines before the 17th century. After a brief rule by the Kingdom of Tungning, the island was annexed by the Qing dynasty, the Qing ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895 after the Sino-Japanese War. While Taiwan was under Japanese rule, the Republic of China was established on the mainland in 1912 after the fall of the Qing dynasty, following the Japanese surrender to the Allies in 1945, the ROC took control of Taiwan. However, the resumption of the Chinese Civil War led to the ROCs loss of the mainland to the Communists, and the flight of the ROC government to Taiwan in 1949. As a founding member of the United Nations, the ROC continued to represent China at the United Nations until 1971, in the early 1960s, Taiwan entered a period of rapid economic growth and industrialization, creating a stable industrial economy. In the 1980s and early 1990s, it changed from a one-party military dictatorship dominated by the Kuomintang to a multi-party democracy with universal suffrage, Taiwan is the 22nd-largest economy in the world, and its high-tech industry plays a key role in the global economy. It is ranked highly in terms of freedom of the press, health care, public education, economic freedom, the PRC has consistently claimed sovereignty over Taiwan and asserted the ROC is no longer in legitimate existence. Under its One-China Policy the PRC refused diplomatic relations with any country that recognizes the ROC, the PRC has threatened the use of military force in response to any formal declaration of independence by Taiwan or if PRC leaders decide that peaceful unification is no longer possible. There are various names for the island of Taiwan in use today, the former name Formosa dates from 1542, when Portuguese sailors sighted the main island of Taiwan and named it Ilha Formosa, which means beautiful island. The name Formosa eventually replaced all others in European literature and was in use in English in the early 20th century. This name was adopted into the Chinese vernacular as the name of the sandbar. The modern word Taiwan is derived from this usage, which is seen in forms in Chinese historical records. Use of the current Chinese name was formalized as early as 1684 with the establishment of Taiwan Prefecture, through its rapid development, the entire Formosan mainland eventually became known as Taiwan. The official name of the state is the Republic of China and it was a member of the United Nations representing China until 1971, when it lost its seat to the Peoples Republic of China. Over subsequent decades, the Republic of China has become known as Taiwan. In some contexts, especially ones from the ROC government
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Advertisement film
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A television advertisement is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization, which conveys a message, typically to market a product or service. Advertisers and marketeers may refer to television commercials as TVCs, Advertising revenue provides a significant portion of the funding for most privately-owned television networks. As of 2016 the vast majority of television advertisements consist of advertising spots. Advertisements of this sort have promoted a variety of goods, services. The effects of television advertising upon the public have been the subject of philosophical discourse by such luminaries as Marshall McLuhan. In many countries, including the United States, television advertisements are considered indispensable for a political campaign. In other countries, such as France, political advertising on television is heavily restricted, while some countries, such as Norway, completely ban political advertisements. The announcement for Bulova watches, for which the company paid anywhere from $4.00 to $9.00, displayed a WNBT test pattern modified to look like a clock with the hands showing the time. The Bulova logo, with the phrase Bulova Watch Time, appeared in the lower quadrant of the test pattern while the second hand swept around the dial for one minute. The first TV ad broadcast in the UK went to air on ITV on September 22,1955, the first TV ad broadcast in Asia appeared on Nippon Television in Tokyo on August 28,1953, advertising Seikosha, it also displayed a clock with the current time. To accomplish the first step means different things in different parts of the world depending on the regulation in place, in the UK for example, clearance must be given by the body Clearcast. Another example is Venezuela where clearance is governed by a body called CNAC, the clearance provides guarantee to the broadcasters that the content of the advertisement meets legal guidelines. Because of this, special extended clearance sometimes applies to food, after the advent of cheap video software and consumer cameras, numerous individuals have offered video production services on the internet. Some of these ad jingles or catch-phrases may take on lives of their own, spawning gags that appear in films, television shows, magazines, comics, or literature. These long-lasting advertising elements may be said to have taken a place in the pop culture history of the demographic to whom they appeared. An example is the phrase, Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. Variations of this dialogue and direct references to it appeared as long as two decades after the advertising campaign expired, another example is Wheres the Beef. which grew so popular it was used in the 1984 presidential election by Walter Mondale. Another popular catch-phrase is Ive fallen and I cant get up, Advertising agencies often use humor as a tool in their creative marketing campaigns
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Adolescence
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Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. Adolescence is usually associated with the years, but its physical, psychological or cultural expressions may begin earlier. For example, puberty now typically begins during preadolescence, particularly in females, physical growth, and cognitive development can extend into the early twenties. Thus age provides only a marker of adolescence, and scholars have found it difficult to agree upon a precise definition of adolescence. A thorough understanding of adolescence in society depends on information from various perspectives, including psychology, biology, history, sociology, education, and anthropology. Within all of these perspectives, adolescence is viewed as a period between childhood and adulthood, whose cultural purpose is the preparation of children for adult roles. It is a period of transitions involving education, training, employment and unemployment. The end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood varies by country, Adolescence is usually accompanied by an increased independence allowed by the parents or legal guardians, including less supervision as compared to preadolescence. Major pubertal and biological changes include changes to the sex organs, height, weight, cognitive advances encompass both increment in knowledge and in the ability to think abstractly and to reason more effectively. The study of adolescent development often involves interdisciplinary collaborations, for example, researchers in neuroscience or bio-behavioral health might focus on pubertal changes in brain structure and its effects on cognition or social relations. Sociologists interested in adolescence might focus on the acquisition of social roles, developmental psychologists might focus on changes in relations with parents and peers as a function of school structure and pubertal status. Some scientists have questioned the universality of adolescence as a developmental phase, puberty is a period of several years in which rapid physical growth and psychological changes occur, culminating in sexual maturity. The average age of onset of puberty is at 11 for girls and 12 for boys, every persons individual timetable for puberty is influenced primarily by heredity, although environmental factors, such as diet and exercise, also exert some influences. These factors can contribute to precocious and delayed puberty. Some of the most significant parts of pubertal development involve distinctive physiological changes in height, weight, body composition. These changes are largely influenced by hormonal activity, puberty occurs through a long process and begins with a surge in hormone production, which in turn causes a number of physical changes. It is the stage of life characterized by the appearance and development of sex characteristics. This is triggered by the pituitary gland, which secretes a surge of hormonal agents into the blood stream, initiating a chain reaction to occur
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Here's Lucy
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Heres Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The series co-starred her long-time partner Gale Gordon and her real-life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz and it was broadcast on CBS from 1968 to 1974. It was Balls third network sitcom following I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show, Ball did not wish to continue to star in a show unless her two children agreed to co-star, and thus an entirely new show was written for this purpose. Heres Lucy was produced by Balls newly created company, Lucille Ball Productions. Desilus successor Paramount Television co-produced the first season, but sold its stake in the show to Ball afterwards. Unlike most sitcoms of the era, Heres Lucy was filmed before an audience, standard practice at the time was to film an episode on a closed set. However, a track was still used to fill any gaps in audience reactions or missed punchlines. The live format was requested by Ball herself, as she performed better in the presence of an audience, the programs premise changed from The Lucy Show. In this new incarnation, Lucy was a widow with two children named Kim and Craig, played by her real children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz. She was employed at Carters Unique Employment Agency by her bachelor brother-in-law Harry, Mary Jane Croft, who had been a regular featured player on the last three seasons of The Lucy Show, also became a semi-regular on the new series. Character actress Vanda Barra, who had played small parts on The Lucy Show, was added to this sitcom. Towards the end of the run of Heres Lucy, Barra became part of the ensemble cast, Balls longtime costar Vivian Vance also made six guest appearances as Vivian Jones through the series run. The series was created by Milt Josefsberg and Bob OBrien in 1968 and they wanted to comically present the generation gap struggle between a working mother and her two increasingly independent teenagers. They wanted change this time around and to escape the shows for which Lucy had previously been so well known, the writers interviewed Lucie and Desi Jr. to allow a more realistic approach to how teenagers acted. In addition, they were given free rein to choose the names for their respective characters, richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor guest-starred in the 1970 season opener, in a storyline involving their famous diamond, which becomes stuck on Lucys finger. Ball and Burton reportedly did not get along, as he found Balls rigid perfectionism grating, another noteworthy episode was Lucy Visits Jack Benny. In addition to Jack Benny appearing, Jackie Gleason made a cameo reprising his role of bus driver Ralph Kramden. During its run, Heres Lucy featured a number of famous guest stars, many of whom were Balls real-life friends, Ball appeared as herself in an episode in which Lucy Carter enters a Lucille Ball look-alike contest
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Yul Brynner
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Yul Brynner was a Russian-born Swiss film and stage actor. Brynner was best known for his portrayal of King Mongkut of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I and he played the role 4,625 times on stage. He also starred as Ramesses II in the 1956 Cecil B, deMille blockbuster The Ten Commandments, and played General Bounine in the 1956 film Anastasia, and the gunman Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his voice and for his shaved head. Earlier, he was a model and television director, and later a photographer, Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner July 11,1920 in Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic. He enjoyed telling tall tales and exaggerating his background and early life for the press, claiming that he was born Taidje Khan of part-Mongol parentage, in reality of Swiss-German and Russian ancestry, he was born at home in a four-story residence at 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok. He had a sister, Vera. He occasionally referred to himself as Julius Briner, Jules Bryner or Youl Bryner, the 1989 biography by his son, Rock Brynner, clarified some of these issues. Brynners paternal grandmother, Natalya Yosifovna Kurkutova, was a native of Irkutsk, Brynners mother, Marousia Dimitrievna, came from the Russian intelligentsia and studied to be an actress and singer. Brynner felt a personal connection to the Romani people, in 1977, Brynner was named honorary president of the International Romani Union. Boris Briners work required extensive travel, and in 1923, he fell in love with an actress, Katya Kornukova, at the Moscow Art Theatre, and soon after abandoned his family. Yuls mother took his sister, Vera, and him to Harbin, China. In 1932, fearing a war between China and Japan, she took them to Paris, Brynner played his guitar in Russian nightclubs in Paris, sometimes accompanying his sister, playing Russian and Roma songs. He trained as an acrobat and worked in a French circus troupe for five years. In 1938, his mother was diagnosed with leukemia, and they moved back to Harbin. In 1940, speaking little English, he and his mother immigrated to the United States aboard the President Cleveland, arriving in New York City on October 25,1940, where his sister already lived. Vera, a singer, starred in The Consul on Broadway in 1950 and appeared at The Metropolitan Opera as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and she later taught voice in New York. During World War II, Brynner worked as a French-speaking radio announcer and commentator for the US Office of War Information, at the same time, he studied acting in Connecticut with the Russian teacher Michael Chekhov
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KNX (AM)
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KNX is an AM radio station broadcasting on 1070 kHz in Los Angeles, California, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Radio subsidiary of CBS Corporation, KNX holds a Class A license as one of the original clear-channel stations allocated under the 1928 U. S. band plan. Its non-directional 50, 000-watt signal can be heard during the day around Southern California and some nights through much of the Western United States and parts of Mexico, KNX broadcasts from facilities shared with sister stations KCBS-FM, KTWV and KAMP-FM located on Los Angeles Miracle Mile. Its transmitter and antenna array site are located at Columbia Park in Torrance, the station also broadcasts an HD Radio signal, streams online, and simulcasts on the FM band on KAMP-FM-HD2, and on KTWV-HD3. KNX is one of nine All-News stations owned by CBS, KNX began as a five-watt amateur radio station, 6ADZ, which Fred Christian put on the air on September 10,1920, broadcasting on a wavelength of 200 meters. In December 1921, the moved to 360 meters and became KGC. On May 4,1922, the increased power to 50 watts. Power was raised to 100 watts in 1923, a year later, Fred Christian sold KNX to Guy Earl, owner of the Los Angeles Evening Express. In 1929, the transmitter was upgraded from 500 to 5,000 watts. During this time, the station changed owners and was operated by the Western Broadcast Company. In 1933, the station moved its studios to another part of Hollywood, after being granted permission by the FRC on June 7,1932, the following year, KNXs transmitting power was raised to the nationwide maximum of 50,000 watts, which the station continues presently. It changed to its current 1070 AM channel in 1941, CBS purchased and began operating KNX as its West Coast flagship station in 1936, ending CBSs eight-year affiliation with KHJ. In 1938, the CBS Columbia Square studios were dedicated for KNX as well as West Coast operations for the entire CBS radio network and that October, the station carried Orson Welles celebrated version of The War of the Worlds. KNX was a competitor in the Los Angeles market while Crane was a morning personality. Following the example of sister station WCBS in New York City. In August 2005, KNX moved out of Columbia Square after operating there for 67 years, in 2009, KNX adopted the slogan All News, All the Time. It was previously used for 40 years by KFWB, KNXs historic rival in the news radio wars before both became sister stations through the 1995 merger of Westinghouse Electric and CBS, the stations antenna array features a 494-foot main antenna. The original main antenna was destroyed by vandals on September 14,1965, an unused 365-foot tower was brought in from KFAC and was used while the new main antenna was constructed
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M*A*S*H (TV series)
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M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH. The shows title sequence features a version of Suicide Is Painless. The show was created after an attempt to film the original sequel, M*A*S*H Goes to Maine. The television series is the version of the M*A*S*H works. The series premiered in the U. S. S. television history at the time, with a record-breaking 125 million viewers and it had struggled in its first season and was at risk of being cancelled. Season two of M*A*S*H placed it in a time slot, the show became one of the top 10 programs of the year. It is still broadcast in syndication on television stations. The series, which depicted events occurring during a war, spanned 256 episodes. The Korean War lasted 1,128 days, meaning each episode of the series would have averaged almost four, Many of the stories in the early seasons are based on tales told by real MASH surgeons who were interviewed by the production team. Like the movie, the series was as much an allegory about the Vietnam War as it was about the Korean War. The episodes Abyssinia, Henry and The Interview were ranked number 20 and number 80, respectively, in 2002, M*A*S*H was ranked number 25 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the fifth-best written TV series ever, M*A*S*H aired weekly on CBS, with most episodes being a half-hour in length. The series is usually categorized as a comedy, though it is also described as a dark comedy or a dramedy because of the dramatic subject material often presented. The show was an ensemble piece revolving around key personnel in a United States Army Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War, the 4077th MASH was one of several surgical units in Korea. As the show developed, the took on more of a moralistic tone. Richard Hooker, who wrote the book on which the television, while the show is traditionally viewed as a comedy, many episodes were of a more serious tone. Airing on network primetime while the Vietnam War was still going on, for this reason, the shows discourse, under the cover of comedy, often questioned, mocked, and grappled with Americas role in the Cold War. Episodes were both plot- and character-driven, with episodes being narrated by one of the shows characters as the contents of a letter home
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War bride
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One of the largest and best documented war bride phenomenons is American servicemen marrying German Fräuleins after World War II. By 1949, over 20,000 German war brides had emigrated to the United States, furthermore, it is estimated that there are. 15,000 Australian women who married American servicemen based in Australia during World War II, allied servicemen also married many women in other countries where they were stationed at the end of the war, including France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Philippines and Japan. This also occurred in Korea and Vietnam with the wars in those countries involving U. S. troops. As many as 100,000 GI war brides left the United Kingdom,150,000 to 200,000 hailed from continental Europe,15,500 from Australia and 1,500 from New Zealand, between the years 1942 and 1952. In 2008 the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, B. C, Canada, had as its major exhibit paintings by Calgary artist Bev Tosh. The exhibit chronicled the experience in Canada and New Zealand via a painting medium. Due to the Philippine Insurrection, a few U. S. servicemen would take Filipinas as their wives and these Filipinas were already U. S. nationals, when immigrating to the United States, making their legal status significantly different from previous Asian immigrants to the UK. During and immediately after World War II, more than 60,000 U. S. servicemen married women overseas and they were promised that their wives and children would receive free passage to the U. S. The U. S. Armys Operation War Bride, which eventually transported more than 70,000 women and children, the first batch of war brides arrived in the U. S. on 4 February 1946. They had married Australian soldiers involved in the occupation of Japan,47,783 British war brides arrived in Canada accompanied by some 21,950 children. Since 1939, most Canadian soldiers were stationed in Britain, as such, about 94% of all war brides arriving in Canada were British. 3,000 war brides came from the Netherlands, Belgium, Newfoundland, many of these war brides emigrated to Canada, beginning in 1944 and peaking in 1946. A special Canadian agency, the Canadian Wives Bureau was set up the Canadian Department of Defence to arrange transport, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 has exhibits and collections dedicated to war brides. There is a National Historic Site marker located at Pier 21, during the campaign of 1943-1945, there were more than 10,000 marriages between Italian girls and American soldiers. Several thousand Japanese who were sent as colonizers to Manchukuo and Inner Mongolia were left behind in China, the majority of Japanese left behind in China were women, and these Japanese women mostly married Chinese men and became known as stranded war wives. Because they had children fathered by Chinese men, the Japanese women were not allowed to bring their Chinese families back with them to Japan so most of them stayed, Japanese law only allowed children fathered by Japanese fathers to become Japanese citizens. However, recently Japan lifted the restrictions on the women and citizenship for children born to foreign men and they have been migrating back to Japan with their Chinese husbands and children
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Maxwell Klinger
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Captain Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce is the lead protagonist in the MASH novels, film, and television series. The character was played by Donald Sutherland in the film and by Alan Alda on television, in the series he is Chief Surgeon of the unit. Pierce was born and raised in New England, most often mentioning Crabapple Cove, Maine, the character refers to having a sister but at other times identifies himself as an only child. His mother is deceased, and he is close to this father, in the film Hawkeye is married with children, but in the TV series he is a bachelor and something of a ladies man. He was given the nickname Hawkeye by his father, from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans and his birth name is taken from a member of Hookers own family named Franklin Pierce. In the book and the film, Hawkeye had played football in college, in the series, Alda said of Pierce, Some people think he was very liberal. But he was also a traditional conservative, I mean, he wanted nothing more than to have people leave him alone so he could enjoy his martini, you know. Government should get out of his liquor cabinet, Pierce has little tolerance for military red tape and customs, feeling they get in the way of his doing his job, and has little respect for most Regular Army personnel. He never wears rank insignia on his fatigues, never polishes his combat boots, on occasions, he assumes temporary command of the 4077th due to the absence or disability of Colonel Blake or Colonel Potter. Although he acquits himself well, it is plain he is not comfortable with the responsibility that goes with being the commanding officer, as a surgeon, he does not like the use of firearms. He refuses to carry a sidearm as required by regulations when serving as Officer of the Day. When ordered by Col. Potter to carry his pistol on a trip to an aid station. In Hookers two sequels, M*A*S*H Goes to Maine and M*A*S*H Mania, Hawkeye returns to live in Crabapple Cove, Captain John Francis Xavier McIntyre appears in the novels, the film, the M*A*S*H TV series, and the Trapper John, M. D. series. He is one of the protagonists in the M*A*S*H series during the first three seasons, and the character of the latter series. His nickname comes from an incident in which he was caught having sex with a woman in the lavatory aboard a Boston & Maine Railway train, who claimed in her defense that he trapped me. In the book and the film, Trapper John is a graduate of Dartmouth College and serves as thoracic surgeon, in the film, he has a dry, sardonic deadpan sense of humor, while in the M*A*S*H TV series he is more of a class clown. While Trapper expresses great love for his wife and daughters, he fraternizes with the nurses a great deal. The character of B. J. Hunnicutt was created to replace him, the character of Trapper John returned to television in 1979 in the series Trapper John, M. D
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Jamie Farr
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Jamie Farr is an American television, film, and theatre actor. He is known for playing a cross-dressing Corporal from Toledo, Ohio, bucking for a Section 8 discharge, in the role of Maxwell Q. Klinger in the CBS television sitcom M*A*S*H. Farr was born in Toledo, Ohio, to Lebanese-American parents Jamelia M. a seamstress, and Samuel N. Farah and he and his family attended Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Toledo. Farrs first acting success occurred at age 11, when he won two dollars in an acting contest. He won the role of the challenged student, Santini. With the encouragement of his Toledo mentor, Danny Thomas, he decided to become an actor, farr’s first film roles were in 1955 in Blackboard Jungle and as a fruit vendor in Kismet. After this, he was drafted into the United States Army, undergoing his training with the 6th Infantry Division Fort Ord California. In 1958, Warner Brothers cast him as an airman in the Andy Griffith military comedy No Time for Sergeants, Farr appeared as Thaddaeus in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told, along with minor roles in Who’s Minding the Mint. and With Six You Get Eggroll. Farr got a new acting role on television when, in the late 1950s, Farr also appeared on The Dick Van Dyke Show and was a regular on the gangster-comedy series The Chicago Teddy Bears. In 1964 he appeared in an episode of Hazel as a soon-to-be father, Farr also worked in TV commercials, including a memorable spot for Wonder Bread. In October 1972, he was hired for one work as “Corporal Klinger” on the M*A*S*H episode “Chief Surgeon Who. ”. His character wore dresses to try to convince the army that he was crazy and he was asked back for a dozen episodes in the second season and he became a regular in the fourth. Eventually, his character gave up wearing women’s clothing, like most of the characters on M*A*S*H, Corporal Klinger matured as the years passed. He gradually progressed from being a visual joke, and became a more sensitive. His favorite episodes are Officer of the Day and Big Mac, mars bar in commercials during the 1980s and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985. In the 1990s, Farr played the role of Nathan Detroit in a Broadway revival of Guys, Farr is still active in regional theater and guest-stars occasionally on television. Since 1984, he has hosted a womens professional golf tournament on the LPGA tour. The tournament has raised over $6.5 million for childrens charities
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Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
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Goodbye, Farewell and Amen is a television film that served as the 256th and final episode of the American television series M*A*S*H. Closing out the series 11th season, the 2½ hour episode first aired on CBS on February 28,1983 and it was written by a large number of collaborators, including series star Alan Alda, who also directed Goodbye, Farewell and Amen. After the ceasefire goes into effect, the members of the 4077th throw a party before taking down the camp for the last time. After tear-filled goodbyes, the characters go their separate ways. As peace negotiations continue during the Korean War, Hawkeye Pierce is being treated by Dr. Sidney Freedman at a hospital for a nervous breakdown. Sidney is trying to get Hawkeye to release repressed memories of an outing most of the 4077th staff attended at a beach near Incheon which appears to have led to the breakdown. At the beginning of the episode, Hawkeye remembers the trip home as having an atmosphere with him calling for a bottle of whiskey to be passed to a person who cant wait to drink it. Sidneys questioning gets Hawkeye to remember that the person in question was actually a soldier who needed the bottle, then he remembers that the bottle did not contain whiskey, but plasma, and the soldier was severely wounded. Hawkeye was actually yelling impatiently that this guy cant wait, through repeated counseling sessions, Hawkeye recalls that they picked up some refugees and wounded soldiers farther up the road as an enemy patrol was coming. The bus had to hide off the road and the occupants were forced to remain quiet, Hawkeye refuses to tell Sidney anything further, but then lashes out at two of his fellow patients for getting into a loud argument. Hawkeye says they were screaming like chickens and jokes about taking the bus. Using that as a clue, Sidney digs deeper and Hawkeye remembers a refugee woman who boarded the bus carrying a chicken that would not stop clucking, Sidney begins to piece together what led to Hawkeyes breakdown. Hawkeye then breaks down sobbing as he remembers that the woman was not carrying a chicken. Hawkeye is initially angry at Sidney for making him remember, but Sidney tells him, Hawkeye initially believes he will be sent home to Maine, but after more sessions, Sidney informs him he must go back to the 4077th and promises to check in on him. Back at the 4077th, the camp is helping to shelter some of the North Korean, the soldiers surrender to him and reveal themselves to be musicians. Winchester brings the soldiers back to camp along with the motorcycle, as Winchester is trying to listen to music, the Chinese musicians annoy him with their own playing. When Winchester tells them to stop, they recognize the name Mozart, an impressed Winchester decides to teach them how to play it properly, eventually forming a bond with the Chinese POWs. Winchester is also distressed over the future of his career after the end of the war, Margaret decides to assist Winchester in his application, as a friend of her fathers is the chief of staff at Mercy Hospital
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Tasha Yar
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Natasha Tasha Yar is a fictional character that mainly appeared in the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek, The Next Generation. Portrayed by Denise Crosby, she is chief of security aboard the Starfleet starship USS Enterprise-D, the characters concept was originally based upon the character of Vasquez from the 1986 film Aliens. Following further development she became known first as Tanya, and then Tasha, Crosby had originally auditioned for the role of Deanna Troi, while Rosalind Chao became a favorite for Tasha. After Marina Sirtis auditioned for the role, the shows creator Gene Roddenberry decided to switch the roles for the actresses, with Sirtis becoming Troi, Chao would later appear on the series in a recurring role as Keiko OBrien. The character first appeared in the pilot episode, Encounter at Farpoint. After Crosby decided to leave the show, Yar was killed by the creature Armus in Skin of Evil, in events set prior to the pilot. Questions were raised over the sexuality of the character, and it was thought that the events in the episode The Naked Now were designed to establish her heterosexuality, the manner of her first death was received with mostly negative reviews. One critic called it typical of the death of a Star Trek security officer, inspired by Vasquez in Aliens, the character was initially named Macha Hernandez and was the tactical officer of the Enterprise. This had been changed by the first casting call—issued on December 10, the producers considered Jenette Goldstein, who had played Vasquez, for the role, but writer Dorothy Fontana pointed out that the actress is not Latina. The character was subsequently renamed Tanya around March 13, by the time that the writers and directors guide for the series was published, dated March 23,1987, the character was named Natasha Tasha Yar. Her surname was suggested by Robert Lewin, drawing inspiration from the Babi Yar atrocities in Ukraine during the Second World War and her biography stated that she was 28 years old, and confirmed her Ukrainian descent. She was planned to have a friendship with teenager Wesley Crusher, wes is the childhood friend that Tasha never had. In April 1987, Lianne Langland, Julia Nickson, Rosalind Chao, Leah Ayres, Chao was a favorite candidate, while Denise Crosby was described as the only possibility for the character of Troi. The production staff were not keen on having two actresses in the bridge crew roles with similar types and hair colors, and so the team took account of the casting of the two parts together. The writers and directors guide described Yar as having a muscular but very feminine body type, after Crosby and Marina Sirtis had each auditioned for Troi and Yar respectively, Gene Roddenberry decided to switch the actresses and cast Crosby as Tasha Yar. He felt that Sirtis appearance was better suited to the exotic Troi, before the end of the first season, Crosby asked to be released from her contract as she was unhappy that her character was not being developed. She later said I was miserable, I couldnt wait to get off that show. Roddenberry agreed to her request, and she left on good terms, the final episode she filmed was Symbiosis, which was completed after Yars death in Skin of Evil
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Disneyland Hotel (California)
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The Disneyland Hotel is a resort hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, owned by the Walt Disney Company and operated through its Parks and Resorts division. Opened on October 5,1955 as an inn owned and operated by Jack Wrather under an agreement with Walt Disney. Under Wrathers ownership, the hotel underwent several expansions and renovations over the years before being acquired by Disney in 1988, the hotel was downsized to its present capacity in 1999 as part of the Disneyland Resort expansion. At the time of its construction in the early 1950s, Disneyland was in an area outside Anaheim. Walt Disney wanted to build a hotel for Disneyland visitors to stay overnight, but Disneys financial resources were significantly depleted by the construction of the park. Initially he tried to interest his friend Art Linkletter in building the hotel, at the time, Linkletter was hesitant about the prospects of the park. Wrather was a Texas oil millionaire turned film producer who owned hotels in Las Vegas and Palm Springs. The original Disneyland Hotel was designed by the firm of Pereira & Luckman and opened on October 5,1955, various strikes caused the opening to be postponed from the August date advertised in pre-opening promotional materials, and the hotel only had limited capacity when it initially opened. The hotel originally consisted of just over 100 rooms in 5 two-story guest room complexes that rented for $15 a night shopping, dining. Additionally, it had a doctor and dentist on site as well as a barber, on August 25,1956, the hotel celebrated its official grand opening with many Hollywood stars and celebrities attending the festivities. It was quickly expanded in 1956 with three North Garden guest room structures, one more North Garden structure in 1958 and lastly, the hotel now boasted over 300 guest rooms and suites. It was one of the first hotels in the region to offer accommodations for four persons per room, when the Wrather-Alvarez partnership ended acrimoniously in 1958, Wrather bought Alvarez share of Wrather-Alvarez Hotels, making him sole owner of the Disneyland Hotel. Over the years, the hotel was expanded to three guest room towers, Sierra, Marina, and Bonita. Guests traveled between the hotel and the Disneyland Park main entrance via a tram, the Disneyland Monorail was extended from its original 1959 configuration and a station opened at the hotel in 1961. Recreational areas, attractions, and a convention center were added over the years. The hotel also featured a Richfield service station for years as part of Richfields sponsorship of several Disneyland attractions. Wrather refused to sell, just as he had refused Walt Disney many years before, Wrather died two months after Eisner took over at Disney, and in 1988, after Wrathers widow Bonita Granville died, Disney bought the entire Wrather company. At the time Wrathers company also owned the rights to The Lone Ranger and the Lassie TV series, though Disney kept the hotel, it has since sold the other assets that came with the purchase
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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as detective brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew were both successful book publishing franchises, owned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a publishing group which owned many successful childrens book lines. The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe, are brother amateur detectives, the two boys live in the fictional city of Bayport, Massachusetts with their famous father, Fenton Hardy, a private detective who spent twenty years with the New York Police Department. The only other character who played a part of the Hardy Boys books, Chet Morton. Nancy Drew is the amateur sleuth — she prefers the term part time investigator — daughter of attorney Carson Drew and she lives with her father, Carson, in the fictional town of River Heights, New Jersey. In addition to Nancy Drew and her father, her stories feature two characters with some regularity, her close friend Georgia Fayne and Ned Nickerson. Another prominent character from the Nancy Drew books, Bess Marvin, in the novels on which the series was based, Nickerson is explicitly identified as Nancys boyfriend. In the television series, their romance is more ambiguous, in the first season, Nickerson is a law student who does part-time work for Carson Drew. The TV show marked the first time that the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew met, in the first episode of the second season they meet in a hotel room in Europe. The boys, tracking their father, who was working on a case with Nancy Drew, though the relationship between Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys is mostly platonic, there is a heavily-implied romance between Nancy Drew and Frank Hardy. In one episode they kiss briefly, Pamela Sue Martin as Nancy Drew Janet Louise Johnson as Nancy Drew William Schallert as Carson Drew Jean Rasey as George Fayne Susan Buckner as George Fayne George OHanlon Jr. The theme music was composed by long-time Glen A. Larson collaborator Stu Phillips, actress Jamie Lee Curtis stated that she had auditioned for the role of Nancy Drew. During the first season episodes were entirely focused either on the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. The opening credits featured a maze under the title. At the end of the theme music, a voice-over announcer would state who was featured in the episode. This worked well for cross-over episodes featuring both the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, as the credits featured all of the performers. For the shows second and third seasons the title sequence was altered, the maze replaced with clips from the series, depending on which characters were featured - the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew or both - the sequence was altered to give emphasis to one or the other
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Kojak
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Kojak was an American crime drama television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. Taking the time slot of the popular Cannon series, it aired on CBS from 1973 to 1978, in 1999 TV Guide ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. The show was created by Abby Mann, an Academy Award–winning film writer best known for his work on drama anthologies such as Robert Montgomery Presents and Playhouse 90. Universal Television approached him to do a story based on the 1963 Wylie-Hoffert Career Girls Murders, Mann developed the project as a gritty police procedural, but with a subtext focusing on institutionalized prejudice and the civil rights of suspects and witnesses. The result was the 1973 made-for-TV movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders, the opening and closing titles of the film emphasized the point that it was a fictional account of the events that led to the creation of Miranda rights by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1966. Telly Savalas starred in The Marcus-Nelson Murders as a detective whose last name was spelled Kojack. The film served as a pilot for the Kojak television series, Kojak himself was a composite character, based on a number of detectives, lawyers, and reporters who were involved in the Wylie-Hoffert murder case. The series was set in the New York City Police Departments Eleventh Precinct, Manhattan South Patrol Borough. and Cootchie-coo. Kojak was stubborn and tenacious in his investigation of crimes—and also displayed a dark, cynical wit and he frequently ribbed his subordinates, especially the rotund Stavros, whom he referred to as Fatso. Foot chase scenes involving Stavros also brought on the type of physical humor. However, Kojak was especially abusive toward criminals, often stretching the truth, one of whom Kojak said he witnessed them do something he did not actually witness, Kojak was so abusive, Mad Magazine carried a TV satire titled, Kojerk. In the context of the script, Kojaks was seen as typical squad room humor, Kojaks Greek American heritage, shared by actor Savalas, was featured prominently in the series. In the early episodes of the series, Kojak is often seen smoking cigarettes, following the 1964 Surgeon Generals Report on smoking, cigarette commercials were banned from American television in 1971, and trying to quit smoking became common in the 1970s. To cut down on his own habit, Kojak began using lollipops as a substitute, later in the episode, Kevin Dobsons character Crocker asks about the lollipop and Kojak replies, Im looking to close the generation gap. Later in the series, McNeil was promoted to Chief of Detectives in Manhattan, Kojak is the commander of the Manhattan South Precincts detective squad. His squad includes one of his employees, young plainclothes officer. Detective Stavros, Detective Saperstein, and Detective Rizzo, all gave Kojak support, roger Robinson appeared in 12 episodes as Detective Gil Weaver. Among the guest stars in the original run were F
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The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)
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The Incredible Hulk is an American television series based on the Marvel Comics character The Hulk. The series aired on the CBS television network and starred Bill Bixby as David Banner, Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, in his travels, Banner earns money by working temporary jobs while searching for a way to control his condition. All the while, he is pursued by a tabloid newspaper reporter, Jack McGee. The series was originally broadcast by CBS from 1978 to 1982, the two-hour pilot movie, which established the Hulks origins, aired on November 4,1977. It was developed and produced by Kenneth Johnson, who wrote or directed some episodes. After the series ended, the fate of David Banner was a cliffhanger until 1988, the filming rights were purchased from CBS by rival NBC. They produced three films, The Incredible Hulk Returns, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk and The Death of the Incredible Hulk. Since its debut, The Incredible Hulk series has garnered a fan base. D. Ph. D. is a physician and scientist employed at the Culver Institute who is traumatized by the car accident that killed his beloved wife, Laura. Banner has even higher levels of adenine/thymine than any of the subjects, working late one night, Banner hypothesizes that high levels of gamma radiation from sunspots contribute to the subjects increase in strength. Impatient to test his theory, Dr. Banner conducts an experiment in the lab. Unknown to Dr. Banner, the equipment has been upgraded, despite this, he exhibits no immediate increase in strength, and leaves the lab in frustration. Driving home in a rainstorm, Dr. Banners frustration peaks when his car has a flat tire. This triggers his transformation into the Incredible Hulk, a 7-foot-tall, 330-pound, green-skinned savage creature, with a sub-human mind, the Hulk destroys Banners car and wanders off into the nearby woods. As the sun rises, the Hulk stumbles upon a girl, in the ensuing confusion, the Hulk is shot by the girls father, and responds by breaking his rifle and throwing him into the pond. Leaving the area, the Hulk eventually transforms back into Dr. Banner, with no memory of his time as the Hulk, wounded and confused, he visits Dr. Marks. Her amazement at Dr. Banners healing powers is replaced by shock, drs. Banner and Marks relocate to a laboratory isolated from the rest of the Culver Institute but still on its grounds. Marks locks him in a pressure chamber designed for deep underwater usage in an attempt to simulate the conditions which preceded the hole in his memory
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The Amazing Spider-Man (TV series)
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The Amazing Spider-Man was shown in the United States from September 19,1977 to July 6,1979. Though it was a ratings success, the CBS series was cancelled after just 13 episodes. None of the episodes were released on DVD, but almost all of them have been released on VHS, despite its storylines being set in New York City, the series was mostly filmed in Los Angeles. During the mid-1970s, Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee sold CBS the rights to produce a prime time live-action Spider-Man series, veteran actor Nicholas Hammond was cast in the lead role. Lee and Goodman fiercely clashed over the direction of the series during the initial production, Lee once said in an interview for Pizzazz magazine that he felt the series was too juvenile. In it, Peter Parker gains super powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider and he uses those powers to get a job at the Daily Bugle, and to stop a con man who is covertly using mind control for personal gain. The pilot garnered a 17.8 rating with a 30 share - CBS highest rating for the entire year, however, citing concern over the pilots relatively weak ratings in the lucrative adult-demographic, CBS picked up the series for only a limited, five-episode order. The series ended up being the 19th-highest-rated show of the entire season, however, CBS was reluctant to commit to giving the show a regular/fixed time slot for the 1978-79 season, as the series was expensive to produce and continued to underperform with older audiences. Former Six Million Dollar Man producer Lionel Siegel took over duties for season two, noticeably changing the show in an attempt to grow its adult audience. The second season aired throughout the 1978-79 TV season. The series continued to do well in the ratings during its second season, however, CBS officially cancelled the series soon after the season ended. The chief reason for the cancellation was that CBS feared being perceived as merely a one-dimensional, superficial, the series yielded the first and only live-action depictions of Peter Parkers spider-tracer tracking/homing devices, they are prominently featured in several episodes throughout the series. In a 2002 interview with SFX magazine, Nicholas Hammond revealed that there were plans to do an Amazing Spider-Man series reunion movie in 1984. The proposal would have had the original cast team-up with the cast of The Incredible Hulk television series, according to Hammond, a deal was arranged to have Columbia and Universal Studios co-produce the project. Bill Bixby was going to direct the TV-movie, in addition to reprising the role of David Banner, however, Universal eventually canceled the project. Hammond said he was told that Lou Ferrigno was unavailable to reprise his role as the Hulk, the only characters to appear regularly in both the television series and comics were Peter Parker/Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson, and Aunt May. Joe Robbie Robertson also appeared, but only in the pilot, farley Stillwell, a scientist in the Marvel universe, makes a cameo in Wolfpack. A different actress played Aunt May in each episode in which she appeared, in both these incarnations, J. Jonah Jamesons abrasive, flamboyant personality was toned-down, and the character was portrayed as more avuncular
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Emergency!
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Not to be confused with Emergency, a TV program aired on GMA Network in the Philippines. Is an American television series that combines the drama and action-adventure genres. It was a joint production of Mark VII Limited and Universal Television, was created and produced by Jack Webb and Robert A. Cinader, who were also responsible for the police dramas Adam-12 and Dragnet. Harold Jack Bloom is also credited as a creator, Webb does not receive credit as a creator. In the shows original TV-movie pilot, Webb was credited only as its director. The plot of the pilot film described the passing of state legislation, eventually signed by then State Governor Ronald Reagan. Squad 51 worked in concert with the fictional Rampart General Hospital medical staff, debuted, the Smithsonian Institution accepted Emergency. Memorabilia into its National Museum of American Historys public-service section, including the firefighters helmets, turnouts, biophone, the vehicles of Station 51 are a part of the collection of the Los Angeles County Fire Museum. To train for their parts, the actors, Mantooth and Tighe. sat in on paramedic classes and rode out on extensive ride-alongs with LACoFD. In an interview with Tom Blixa of WTVN, Mantooth said that the wanted them to train so that they would at least know the fundamentals. Mantooth mentioned that you needed to take the course to be a paramedic. Mantooth became an advocate for firefighters and paramedics after the series ended and he continued, as of late October 2014, to give speeches and make appearances all over the country at special events. Supporting characters were the crew of Station 51s A shift, some of whom were played by professional firefighters, chet Kelly, Marco Lopez, Mike Stoker, Captain Dick Hammer, and Captain Hank Stanley. Lanier, an actual LACoFD Dispatcher, retired from the department shortly after Emergency, Lopez spoke Spanish, and occasionally translated for the crew when a victim or onlooker spoke Spanish but no English. Boyett was also a regular on Adam-12, playing Sergeant MacDonald, Robert Fuller as Kelly Brackett, M. D. F. A. C. S. Julie London as Dixie McCall, R. N, bobby Troup as Joe Early, M. D. F. A. C. S. Ron Pinkard as Mike Morton, M. D. Randolph Mantooth as Firefighter Paramedic John Roderick Johnny Gage, County FD Squad 51 Kevin Tighe as Firefighter Paramedic Roy DeSoto, L. A. County FD Squad 51 Tim Donnelly as Firefighter Chester B, County FD Engine 51 Marco Lopez as Firefighter Marco Lopez, L. A
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Diff'rent Strokes
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Diffrent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3,1978, to May 4,1985, and on ABC from September 27,1985, to March 7,1986. During the first season and first half of the season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds housekeeper. The lives of stars were later plagued by legal troubles. In pre-production, the proposed title was 45 Minutes From Harlem. The series was devised as a joint vehicle for Maude co-star Conrad Bain, and child actor Gary Coleman. The sitcom starred Coleman as Arnold Jackson and Todd Bridges as his older brother and they played two children from a poor section of Harlem whose deceased mother previously worked for rich widower Philip Drummond, who eventually adopted them. They lived in a penthouse with Drummond, his daughter Kimberly, there were three maids during the shows run, Edna Garrett, Adelaide Brubaker, and Pearl Gallagher. They lived in the Penthouse Suite at 697 Park Avenue in New York City, as Arnold, Coleman popularized the catchphrase Whatchu talkin bout, Willis. The ending often varied, depending on whom he was addressing, early episodes addressed typical issues in a family. Later episodes at times focused on drug abuse, alcoholism, hitchhiking, crime. In Season 1, Charlotte Rae appeared in every episode as Edna Garrett, following Raes departure, Nedra Volz took over as the housekeeper, Adelaide Brubaker. Although she was not part of the main cast and not added to the opening credits. In Season 5, Mary Jo Catlett portrayed Pearl Gallagher, the last of the three maids, and joined the cast as a series regular, Pearl appeared in almost every episode until the final season. Midway through Season 6, Dana Plato became pregnant and approached the producers of the show to include her pregnancy, Platos character, Kimberly, was written out of the story lines with the explanation that she moved to Paris to study for a couple of years. Plato did not appear as a regular cast member in the two seasons of the series, but she made several guest appearances. At the same time, ratings were beginning to fall, so new characters were added to open up future storylines, Dixie Carter and Danny Cooksey portrayed recently divorced television aerobics instructor Margaret Maggie McKinney, and her son, Sam McKinney. Phillip proposed to Maggie, and they married, several past characters attended the wedding ceremony including Dudley, Aunt Sophia, Adelaide, and Mrs. Garrett. Dana Plato was no longer appearing as a main cast member, the producers felt that the pregnancy wouldnt be acceptable, so she was dropped from the show and returned for the season finale A Special Friend as a guest star
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Falcon Crest
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Falcon Crest is an American prime time television soap opera that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4,1981 to May 17,1990. The series revolved around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry, Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angelas nephew who returns after the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco, the show was created by Earl Hamner, Jr. who had previously created The Waltons, which had just finished its final season in 1981. Hamner wanted to create a drama involving the wine industry entitled The Vintage Years. An unaired pilot episode was produced, but CBS requested that Hamner make the show more along the lines of Dallas, the script was rewritten and several cast members changed for what became Falcon Crest. The series first aired in December 1981, when CBS scheduled Falcon Crest at 10 pm on Friday nights, the Dallas-Falcon Crest one-two punch proved lucrative for the network and Falcon Crest was a top-20 show in the Nielsen Ratings for several years. Both shows were produced for CBS by the company, Lorimar Productions. At the center of the action is Angela Channing, a corrupt, when her brother Jason Gioberti dies from a fall in the winery, his son Chase Gioberti arrives to claim his inherited portion of Falcon Crest. The rivalry between Angela and Chase — whom Angela sees as an interloper — sets the tone for much of the series, surrounding Angela are her daughters, Julia and Emma, and her lazy playboy grandson, Lance Cumson, who aids her in her battles against Chase. Julia is chief winemaker, though often feels oppressed by her domineering mother, kind-natured Emma does not work in the family business, but is emotionally troubled. Julias son Lance loves money and yearns for power, but lacks Angelas discipline and her ever-tightening grip on him eventually sends him to work for his grandfathers newspaper, The San Francisco Globe. Aiding Angela in her quest for power is her crooked lawyer, Phillip Erikson. Chases wife Maggie is a writer who later works at The New Globe newspaper, their grown son Cole works at the winery with Chase. Scheming Melissa becomes embroiled in a triangle with Lance and Cole. In the second season, a rival for Angela arrives in the form of conniving Richard Channing. Richard crosses them at every turn and makes attempts to wrest control of Falcon Crest. The distinctive location filming in the Napa Valley and the dry, the rivalry between Angela, Chase, and Richard stayed at the core of the show for several years, as more romantic entanglements spun around them. Lance and Cole found themselves not only caught up in their family battles for control of Falcon Crest, like Dallas and Dynasty, Falcon Crest employed memorable end-of-season cliffhangers to boost ratings
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The A-Team
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The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1987 about members of a fictitious former United States Army Special Forces unit. The members, after being court-martialed for a crime they didnt commit, escaped from prison and, while still on the run. The series was created by Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo, a feature film based on the series was released by 20th Century Fox in June 2010. The A-Team was created by writers and producers Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo at the behest of Brandon Tartikoff, NBCs Entertainment president. Cannell was fired from ABC in the early 1980s, after failing to produce a hit show for the network, and was hired by NBC, his first project was The A-Team. Brandon Tartikoff pitched the series to Cannell as a combination of The Dirty Dozen, Mission Impossible, The Magnificent Seven, Mad Max and Hill Street Blues, with Mr. T driving the car. The A-Team was not generally expected to become a hit, although Stephen J. Cannell has said that George Peppard suggested it would be a hit before we ever turned on a camera. The A-Team was always portrayed as acting on the side of good and helping the oppressed. I. and Airwolf as well as the films Rambo, First Blood Part II and Top Gun. The show boosted the career of Mr. T, who portrayed the character of B. A. Baracus, some of the shows catchphrases, such as I love it when a plan comes together, Hannibals on the jazz, and I aint gettin on no plane. Have also made their way onto T-shirts and other merchandise, the shows name comes from the A-Teams, the nickname coined for U. S. Special Forces Operational Detachments Alpha during the Vietnam War, although this connection was never mentioned on-screen, in 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didnt commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground, today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, as the television ratings of The A-Team fell dramatically during the fourth season, the format was changed for the shows final season in 1986–87 in a bid to win back viewers. After years on the run from the authorities, the A-Team is finally apprehended by the military, in order to do so, the A-Team must first escape from their captivity. With the help of a new character, Frankie Dishpan Man Santana, the new status of the A-Team, no longer working for themselves, remained for the duration of the fifth season while Eddie Velez and Robert Vaughn received star billing along with the principal cast. These changes proved unsuccessful with viewers, however, and ratings continued to decline, Only 13 episodes aired in the fifth season. In what was supposed to be the episode, The Grey Team, Hannibal, after being misled by Stockwell one time too many. At the end, the team discusses what they were going to do if they get their pardon, the character of Howling Mad Murdock can be seen in the final scene wearing a T-shirt that says, fini
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Miami Vice
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Miami Vice was an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson as James Sonny Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo Rico Tubbs, the series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988, and broadcast an originally unaired episode during its run of the series on January 25,1990. Unlike standard police procedurals, the show drew heavily upon 1980s New Wave culture, the show became noted for its integration of music and visual effects. It has been called one of the Top 50 TV Shows, people magazine stated that Miami Vice was the first show to look really new and different since color TV was invented. In 2016, television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked Miami Vice as the 51st greatest American television show of all time, Michael Mann directed a film adaptation of the series, which was released on July 28,2006. The initial idea was for a movie about a pair of cops in Miami. Yerkovich then turned out a script for a pilot, titled Gold Coast. Yerkovich was immediately drawn to South Florida as a setting for his new-style police show, Miami Vice was one of the first American network television programs to be broadcast in stereophonic sound. It was mixed in stereo for its run, but not actually broadcast in stereo until 1985. In keeping with the namesake, most episodes focused on combating drug trafficking. Episodes often ended in a gun battle, claiming the lives of several criminals before they could be apprehended. An undercurrent of cynicism and futility underlies the entire series, the detectives repeatedly reference the Whac-A-Mole nature of drug interdiction, with its parade of drug cartels quickly replacing those that are apprehended. Co-executive producer Yerkovich explained, The choice of music and cinematography borrowed heavily from the emerging New Wave culture of the 1980s, as such, segments of Miami Vice would sometimes use music-based stanzas, a technique later featured in Baywatch. As Lee H. Katzin, one of the directors, remarked, The show is written for an MTV audience. These elements made the series into an instant hit, and in its first season saw an unprecedented fifteen Emmy Award nominations, while the first few episodes contained elements of a standard police procedural, the producers soon abandoned them in favor of a more distinctive style. Influenced by an Art Deco revival, no earth tones were allowed to be used in the production, mickey Rourke was also considered for the role, but he turned down the offer. Larry Wilcox, of CHiPs, was also a candidate for the role of Crockett, after dozens of candidates and a twice-delayed pilot shooting, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas were chosen as the vice cops
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Murder, She Wrote
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Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons with 264 episodes from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network and it was followed by four TV films and an unsuccessful spin-off series, which was produced in 1987, The Law & Harry McGraw. In syndication, the series is highly successful throughout the world. Lansbury was nominated for ten Golden Globes and 12 Emmy Awards for her work on Murder, the series received three nominations but no wins in the Outstanding Drama Series category at the Emmys. It was nominated for a Golden Globe in the same six times. After the series finished in 1996, four TV movies were released between 1997 and 2003, in 2009, a point-and-click video game was released for the PC platform, followed in 2012 by a sequel. A spin-off book series, written by Donald Bain, continues publication at present, earlier, she had acted in two film adaptations of Agatha Christies mystery novels, as Salome Otterbourne in Death on the Nile and as the famous sleuth Miss Marple in The Mirror Crackd. With Murder, She Wrote debuting on Sunday, September 30,1984 and it also made Lansbury, known previously for her motion picture and Broadway stage work, a household name for millions of television viewers. The title comes from Murder, She Said, which was the title of a 1961 film adaptation of Agatha Christies Miss Marple novel 4,50 from Paddington. The show revolves around the life of Jessica Fletcher, a childless. Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a coastal community in Maine. Exterior shots of Cabot Cove were filmed in Mendocino, California, the show mostly starts with a preview of the episodes events, with Jessica stating, Tonight On Murder, She Wrote. Jessica invariably proves more perceptive than the official investigators of a case, by carefully piecing the clues together and asking astute questions, she always manages to trap the real murderer. Murder occurred with regularity in her vicinity that the term Cabot Cove syndrome was coined to describe the constant appearance of dead bodies in remote locations. Jessicas relationship with law enforcement officials varies from place to place, both sheriffs of Cabot Cove resign themselves to having her meddle in their cases. However, most detectives and police officers do not want her anywhere near their crime scenes, some are happy to have her assistance from the start, often because they are fans of her books. With time, she makes friends in many departments across the U. S. as well as with a British police officer attached to Scotland Yard. At the start of eight, more of the stories were set in New York City with Jessica moving into an apartment there part-time in order to teach criminology
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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes
