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PoliWood (film)
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PoliWood is a 2009 documentary film directed by Barry Levinson and produced by Tim Daly, Robin Bronk and Robert E. Baruc. i. It also got a special screening at Paley Center for Media in New York on October 29,2009, the event was attended by Poliwood director and producers. It had its TV premiere November 2,2009 on Showtime, poliWood at the Internet Movie Database
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Omaha, Nebraska
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Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omahas population was 408,958, according to the 2014 Population Estimates, Omahas population was 446,599. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U. S. Census Bureaus 2013 estimate. There are nearly 1.3 million residents within the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50-mile radius of Downtown Omaha, Omahas pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the Worlds Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omahas central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub, throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the worlds largest, Omaha is also the home to five Fortune 1000 headquarters, Green Plains Renewable Energy, TD Ameritrade, Valmont Industries, Werner Enterprises, and West Corporation. And Leo A Daly, the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame, Enron began in Omaha as Northern Natural Gas in 1930, before taking over a smaller Houston company in 1985 to form InterNorth, which Kenneth Lay moved permanently to Houston, in 1987. The modern economy of Omaha is diverse and built on skilled knowledge jobs, in 2009, Forbes identified Omaha as the nations number one Best Bang-For-The Buck City and ranked it number one on Americas Fastest-Recovering Cities list. Also, Omaha hosted the U. S. Olympic swim trials in 2008,2012 and 2016, the word Omaha means Dwellers on the bluff. In 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the riverbanks where the city of Omaha would be built, there was fierce competition among fur traders until John Jacob Astor created the monopoly of the American Fur Company. The Mormons built a town called Cutlers Park in the area in 1846, while it was temporary, the settlement provided the basis for further development in the future. Through 26 separate treaties with the United States federal government, Native American tribes in Nebraska gradually ceded the lands comprising the state. The treaty and cession involving the Omaha area occurred in 1854 when the Omaha Tribe ceded most of east-central Nebraska, Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha and signatory to the 1854 treaty, played an essential role in those proceedings. Before it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs, Brown is generally credited as having the first vision for a city where Omaha now sits. The passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854 was presaged by the out of claims around the area to become Omaha by residents from neighboring Council Bluffs. On July 4,1854, the city was established at a picnic on Capital Hill
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Emmy Award
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An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
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TV producer
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Tony Award
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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Ah, Wilderness
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Ah, Wilderness. is a comedy by American playwright Eugene ONeill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on October 2,1933. It varies from a typical ONeill play in its ending for the central character. The play was successful in its first Broadway production and the production that followed. It has since become a staple of community repertory, the play takes place on the Fourth of July,1906, and focuses on the Miller family, presumably of New London, Connecticut. The main plot deals with the son, 16-year-old Richard. Perhaps the most atypical of the works, the play presents a sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a turn-of-the-century New England town. The play was included in Burns Mantles The Best Plays of 1933–1934 with George M. Cohan in the cast and again as a revival in 1941–42. The story was made into the 1959 Broadway musical Take Me Along starring Jackie Gleason as the drunken Uncle Sid, Walter Pidgeon as Nat. The production ran for 448 performances, Gleason won the 1960 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A revival in 1984 had a run for six months in Connecticut and Washington, D. C. but closed on Broadway after only a short debut. The play was made into a 1935 film of the same title, mickey Rooney starred as Tommy in the former and Richard in the latter. The play was adapted for the radio on the Campbell Playhouse produced by and starring Orson Welles on September 17,1939. Ah, Wilderness, A Comedy of Recollection in Three Acts, at the Internet Broadway Database Ah, Wilderness. Production archive at eONeill. com Ah, Wilderness, at the Internet Broadway Database Take Me Along at the Internet Broadway Database Ah, Wilderness. At the Internet Movie Database Photos of a production of Ah,1954 Theatre Guild on the Air radio adaptation of original play at Internet Archive
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Poster for WPA production of Ah, Wilderness! at Federal Theater Playhouse,
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Elisha Cook, Jr. and
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Ah, Wilderness! playbill, 1934, Curran Theatre,
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The House of Blue Leaves
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The play won the Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and the Obie Award for Best American Play in 1971. The play is set in 1965, when Pope Paul VI visited New York City, the play is set in Sunnyside, Queens in 1965, on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York City. The black comedy focuses on Artie Shaughnessy, a zookeeper who dreams of making it big in Hollywood as a songwriter, Artie wants to take his girlfriend, Bunny with him to Hollywood. His wife Bananas is a schizophrenic destined for the institution provides the plays title. Their son Ronnie is a GI headed for Vietnam who has gone AWOL, three nuns are eager to see the pope and end up in Arties apartment. A political bombing mistakenly occurs in the apartment, the first act of The House of Blue Leaves was first staged in 1966 at the Eugene ONeill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. The House of Blue Leaves opened on February 10,1971 Off-Broadway at the Truck and Warehouse Theatre, directed by Mel Shapiro, the cast included Frank Converse, Harold Gould, Katherine Helmond, William Atherton, and Anne Meara. A revival directed by Jerry Zaks was staged Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E, the cast included Swoosie Kurtz, John Mahoney, Stockard Channing, Danny Aiello, Ben Stiller, and Julie Hagerty. Christine Baranski joined the production on June 24,1986 as Bunny and it won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival. It was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, a 2011 Broadway revival was staged by David Cromer at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Starring Ben Stiller, Edie Falco and Jennifer Jason Leigh, the production began previews on April 4, the telefilm was broadcast in May 1987. The film adaptation was shot before an audience, with minicams, clive Barnes, in his review of the 1971 Off-Broadway production for The New York Times wrote, You will have noticed, I presume, that comedy has taken on a hysterical edge. The laughter is manic, and the world is awry, few worlds are more awry than John Guares, whose play, The House of Blue Leaves, opened last night at the Truck and Warehouse Theater. Mr. Guares play is mad, funny, at times very funny, the Variety reviewer of the 2011 revival wrote, Guare’s iconic play not only holds up, it still sets the bar for smart comic lunacy. Guare is famous for the plots that illustrate his surreal visions of what passes for modern civilization
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Tartuffe
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Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite, first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles, while the king had little personal interest in suppressing the play, he did so because, as stated in the official account of the fête. As a result of Molières play, contemporary French and English both use the word tartuffe to designate a hypocrite who ostensibly and exaggeratedly feigns virtue, especially religious virtue, the play is written entirely in 1,962 twelve-syllable lines of rhyming couplets. Orgons family is up in arms because Orgon and his mother have fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, Tartuffe pretends to be pious and to speak with divine authority, and Orgon and his mother no longer take any action without first consulting him. Tartuffes antics do not fool the rest of the family or their friends, Orgon raises the stakes when he announces that he will marry Tartuffe to his daughter Mariane. Mariane, of course, feels very upset at this news, in an effort to show Orgon how awful Tartuffe really is, the family devises a scheme to trap Tartuffe into confessing to Elmire his desire for her. As a pious man and a guest, he should have no feelings for the lady of the house. Tartuffe is at first shocked but recovers very well, un malheureux pécheur tout plein diniquité. Orgon is convinced that Damis was lying and banishes him from the house, Tartuffe even gets Orgon to order that, to teach Damis a lesson, Tartuffe should be around Elmire more than ever. As a gift to Tartuffe and further punishment to Damis and the rest of his family, in a later scene, Elmire takes up the charge again and challenges Orgon to be witness to a meeting between herself and Tartuffe. Orgon, ever easily convinced, decides to hide under a table in the same room and he overhears, of course, Elmire resisting Tartuffes very forward advances. When Tartuffe has incriminated himself beyond all help and is close to violating Elmire, Orgon comes out from under the table. But this wily guest means to stay, and Tartuffe finally shows his hand and it turns out that earlier, before the events of the play, Orgon had admitted to Tartuffe that he had possession of a box of incriminating letters. Tartuffe had taken charge and possession of box, and now tells Orgon that he will be the one to leave. Tartuffe takes his leave and Orgons family tries to figure out what to do. Very soon, Monsieur Loyal shows up with a message from Tartuffe, Dorine makes fun of Monsieur Loyals name, mocking his fake loyalty. Even Madame Pernelle, who had refused to believe any ill about Tartuffe even in the face of her sons actually seeing it, has become convinced by this time of Tartuffes duplicity. Before Orgon can flee, Tartuffe arrives with an officer, the entire family thanks its lucky stars that it has escaped the mortification of both Orgons potential disgrace and their dispossession
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Frontispiece and titlepage of "Tartuffe or The Imposter" from a 1739 collected edition of his works in French and English, printed by John Watts. The engraving depicts the amoral Tartuffe being deceitfully seduced by Elmire, the wife of his host, Orgon who hides under a table.
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Heartbreak House
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Heartbreak House, A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. The Russian manner of the subtitle refers to the style of Anton Chekhov, the house is built in the shape of the stern of a ship. Lady Utterword, Shotovers other daughter, arrives from Australia, Hesione says they are running out of money. Shotover needs to invent a weapon of mass destruction and his last invention, a lifeboat, did not bring in much cash. Ellie intends to marry businessman Boss Mangan, but she loves a man she met in the National Gallery. Marriage to Mangan will be the sensible choice and they say they do not want to prosecute him, but he insists he will turn himself in unless they pay him not to. It turns out that the burglar is one of Shotovers old crewmen and he confesses that he is not a real burglar. He deliberately gets himself captured to get assistance from his victims. Shotover laments that the younger generation have lost their romance, Ellie suggests that she should marry Shotover, but he says hes already married to a black Jamaican wife, though its possible shes now dead. Lady Utterword says that everything will be put to right if only they get some horses, every English family should have horses. Mangan declares that he is to head a government department, Shotover predicts that the ship of England will founder, as the captain is drunk and the crew are all gambling. The maid enters with news that an air-raid is about to happen, the lights are switched off, but Hector switches them back on to demonstrate his lack of concern about the threat. A bomb lands in the garden, blowing up Shotovers store of dynamite and killing Mangan, when it is over everyone says how bored they are. They hope the bombs will come again tomorrow, in the preface to the play Shaw acknowledges his debt to Chekhov, in particular to The Cherry Orchard. He writes that in comparison to himself, Chekhov was more of a fatalist, had no faith in these charming people extricating themselves. They would, he thought, be sold up and sent adrift by the bailiffs, therefore he had no scruple in exploiting, critics have taken very different views about Shaws adaptation of Chekhov. Louis Kronenberger says that Shaw turns Chekhov into a sort of literary Hyde Park soapbox dialectic for the theatre, and Mr. Shaws play has none of the variety in emotional rhythm that Chekhovs has, either in tone or in profound self-revelation among the characters. Louis Crompton, in contrast, says that, Shaws avowed literary strategy, Shaw knew that Captain Shotover, his spokesman in the play, must first of all, like Coleridges Ancient Mariner, hold his audience spellbound if he was to strike home with his message
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Albert Perry as Shotover and Elizabeth Risdon as Ellie Dunn in the original 1920 production. This scene was inspired by Millais' painting
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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Sisters (TV series)
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Sisters is an American drama series which aired on NBC for six seasons from May 11,1991 to May 4,1996. The series was created by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, who were also the producers and showrunners. The show debuted on May 11,1991 for a seven-episode test run and was renewed for the 1991 fall schedule. Sisters was one of the first demographic hits because of its strong female viewership, Sisters focused on four very different sisters living in Winnetka, Illinois. Their recently deceased father, Thomas Reed, a doctor, had been absent, having always wanted sons, their father had called the girls by male versions of their full names, Alexandra was called Alex, Theodora, Teddy, Georgiana, Georgie, and Francesca, Frankie. Initially, the soundtrack used for the opening was the sounds of the characters. Most episodes of the featured a number of flashbacks, in which the characters would interact with or simply observe their younger selves. Although the show was a drama with soap opera-style storylines, the show was also quirky, one year after her husbands death, Beatrice has reluctantly sold the family home to move into a seniors condominium building. Depressed, Beatrice relapses on alcohol and is arrested for driving under the influence, Teddy comes back into town from California to discover her ex-husband Mitch is dating her younger sister Frankie. Alex believes her husband Wade is cheating on her, but instead discovers he is a crossdresser, Bea goes to court for her DUI charge, the judge on her case, Truman Ventner, is an acquaintance of hers who also happens to live in her building. Teddy pursues Mitch and although he resists her, they spend a night together, shortly afterward Mitch and Frankie announce their engagement. Teddy breaks up their wedding drunk with a shotgun, Frankie decides not to reschedule the wedding and she, ashamed of how her behavior is affecting the family and especially her daughter Cat, Teddy leaves Cat with Mitch and announces she will return to California alone. Georgies son Evan is diagnosed with leukemia, and Teddy decides to stay in Winnetka, Georgie attempts to balance her needs with Evans during his treatment. Alex discovers Wade has been cheating on her for six months with a former patient, Reed reacts by rebelling and dropping out of school. Frankie makes an investment in Mitchs fish market, while filing paperwork at City Hall. Teddy discovers she is pregnant with Mitchs baby following their brief encounter. Mitch eventually finds out the truth, but Frankie never does, Truman and Beatrice begin a relationship. Teddy begins a job doing window dressing at a fashion boutique, Alex begins dating her plumber, Victor, while Wade tries to win her back
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Sisters cast members Julianne Phillips, Patricia Kalember, Sela Ward and Swoosie Kurtz.
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Huff (TV series)
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Huff is an American television comedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was broadcast for two seasons, during 2004–2006, the series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig Huff Huffstodt, a psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly when a 15-year-old client commits suicide in his office. The series follows Huff, his family, and his friend Russell Tupper, played by Oliver Platt, the first season was broadcast on Showtime between November 7,2004 and January 30,2005. The second season premiered on April 2,2006 and ended on June 25,2006, the two-hour pilot episode was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. Later, production for Huff was moved to Delfino Stages in Los Angeles, besides Azaria, the cast included Paget Brewster, Blythe Danner, Oliver Platt, Anton Yelchin, Andy Comeau, Kimberly Brooks, Liza Lapira, and Faith Prince. Those making recurring guest appearances on the show during its first season included Lara Flynn Boyle, Robert Forster, Swoosie Kurtz, Annie Potts, in its second season, Huff also managed to attract high-profile recurring guest stars, including Sharon Stone and Anjelica Huston. Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig Huff Huffstodt – a Los Angeles psychiatrist whose life is sent reeling when a tragedy occurs in his office, an eternal caretaker who thinks he can save people, Huff learns very brutally that he cant save everyone. He deals with the functionally insane all day, and when he comes home, Paget Brewster as Beth Huffstodt – Huffs loving yet capricious wife. She helps Huff avoid meltdowns, while providing welcome, wifely support, Oliver Platt as Russell Tupper – Huffs lawyer, longtime friend and former running buddy from their single days. Although a source of ethics and morality, he still gets it done with a sense of humor. Blythe Danner as Isabelle Izzy Huffstodt – Huffs mother who has lived in the apartment above the garage since the breakup of her marriage, Izzy is tough and manipulative but also funny and irreverent. Anton Yelchin as Byrd Huffstodt – Huff and Beths 14-year-old son and he is a loving child who is concerned with his fathers well being and to whats going on in the family. Andy Comeau as Theodore Teddy Huffstodt – Huffs younger brother, literally and figuratively locked away in a private mental institution, Teddys mental illness brings clarity of thought for Huff during his visits. Kimberly Brooks as Paula Dellahouse – Huffs office manager who protects him as much as she provokes him and she has been with Huff for a long time and knows him and his family very well. Liza Lapira as Maggie Del Rosario – Russells utterly devoted yet pull-no-punches assistant. She cares for him, covers for him and curses him, Faith Prince as Kelly Knippers – a television sales rep whom Russell meets and woos while shopping for a flat screen. A wild night of partying and debauchery results in a pregnancy that changes both their lives, Huff - Season One was released on Region 1 DVD on March 21,2006. All 13 episodes from the first season are presented in Anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio, extras include commentary tracks on four episodes, three featurettes, five minutes of deleted scenes and a gag reel
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Pushing Daisies
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Pushing Daisies is an American fantasy mystery comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC from October 3,2007, to June 13,2009. The series stars Lee Pace as Ned, a pie-maker with the ability to bring things back to life with his touch. Together with his deceased childhood crush Chuck, private investigator Emerson Cod. The cast also includes Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz, and Field Cate, touted as a forensic fairy tale, the series is known for its unusual visual style, eccentric production design, quirky characters, fast-paced dialogue, and grotesque situations. The series often uses wordplay, metaphor, and double entendre, the series received critical acclaim and won numerous awards. TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were Cancelled Too Soon, in 2015, Pushing Daisies was voted first in Esquires TV Reboot Tournament that asked fans to vote for the show they would most like to see return to television. Pushing Daisies centers on the life of Ned, a pie maker gifted with the ability to reanimate the dead by touching them. Some conditions come with this talent, Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, a similar life value in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived person or thing a second time, it dies again, in the pilot episode, Ned discovers his gift as a child by resurrecting his Golden Retriever, Digby, after the dog is hit by a truck. He later brings back his mother when she dies of an aneurysm, however, in doing this, he accidentally causes the death of the father of his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte Chuck Charles, as the price of keeping his mother alive. Even worse, Neds mother falls dead permanently when she kisses him goodnight, inheriting his mothers baking talents, Ned becomes a pie-maker, operating a restaurant called The Pie Hole, which he runs with the help of waitress Olive Snook. The scheme succeeds until they learn that Chuck, whom Ned has not seen since childhood, was murdered on a cruise ship, when her body is shipped home, Ned revives her, but cannot bring himself to allow her to stay dead by touching her a second time. Chuck, grateful for her chance at life, begins to appreciate life as a precious resource. And Ned, witnessing her happiness, begins to break out of his lonely shell, Chuck joins Ned and Emerson in investigating deaths for reward money, starting with tracking down her own killer. Emerson initially dislikes Chuck, whom he calls Dead Girl, other storylines include Emersons search for his missing daughter, after she was taken away by her mother, a con woman. Chucks aunts slowly learn to accept the death of their niece, and become friends with Olive. As the series goes on, we find that Chuck is actually Lilys daughter from an infidelity with Chucks father who was also Vivians fiancé and we also learn that Neds father, after abandoning him in boarding school, became the father of twins Maurice and Ralston, aspiring magicians. Ned revives Chucks father to ask questions, and Chuck fakes her fathers death so she can have her father back in her life
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Screenshot from "Bzzzzzzzzz!" showcasing its visual style—the use of colors, symmetry, and shapes.
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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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Paley's management saw a twentyfold increase in gross income in his first decade.
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Wholesome
Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth
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When
Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after 20 years of mime, he chose CBS's airwaves to do it on.
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CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent.
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Wildcats (film)
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Wildcats is a 1986 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie starring Goldie Hawn, James Keach and Swoosie Kurtz, and is also the film debut of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Molly McGrath is the daughter of a football coach who is dying to head her own team. At first the new coach’s idealism and optimism are suffocated with racial and gender prejudice, at the same time, she must also struggle to win a battle for the custody of her two young daughters. The real test for Molly comes when her Central High team faces Prescott in the city championship, the film was met with a mostly negative response from critics. The film debuted at No.4, white savior narrative in film Wildcats at the Internet Movie Database Wildcats at Rotten Tomatoes
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Theatrical release poster
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Dangerous Liaisons
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The film was directed by Stephen Frears. Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick and Peter Capaldi appeared in supporting roles, as did the young, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it won those for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Art Direction. In 1781 pre-Revolution Paris, the Marquise de Merteuil plots revenge against her ex-lover, the Comte de Gercourt, Merteuil calls on the similarly unprincipled Vicomte de Valmont to do the deed, offering him her own sexual favors as a reward. Merteuil is amused and incredulous, how can Valmont ever hope to bed the virtuous Madame Tourvel, never one to refuse a challenge, Valmont modifies the proposal, If he succeeds in sleeping with Tourvel, Merteuil must sleep with him as well. Merteuil accepts, on the condition that he furnish written proof of the liaison, Tourvel rebuffs all of Valmonts advances. Searching for leverage, he instructs his page Azolan to seduce Tourvels maid Julie to gain access to Tourvels private correspondence, one of the letters he intercepts is from Madame de Volanges, Céciles mother and Merteuils cousin, warning Tourvel that Valmont is a nefarious and untrustworthy individual. On reading this, Valmont resolves to seduce Cécile after all, meanwhile in Paris, Cécile meets the charming Chevalier Raphael Danceny. Danceny becomes Céciles music teacher and slowly, with a little coaxing from Merteuil, after gaining access to Céciles bedchamber on a false pretense, Valmont forces himself upon her as she pleads with him to leave. On the pretext of illness Cécile remains locked in her chambers, a concerned Madame de Volanges calls upon Merteuil to speak to her. Cécile, naively assuming that Merteuil has her best interests at heart, Merteuil advises Cécile to welcome Valmonts advances, young women should take advantage of all the lovers they can acquire, she says, in a society so repressive and contemptuous of women. The result is a perverse relationship, by day, Cécile is courted by Danceny. In the meantime, Merteuil begins an affair with Danceny, meanwhile, Valmont somehow manages to win Tourvels heart — but at a cost, the lifelong bachelor playboy falls in love. In a fit of jealousy, Merteuil mocks Valmont and threatens to trash his reputation as a carefree gigolo and she also refuses to honor her end of their agreement, since Valmont has no written proof that the relationship has been consummated. Valmont abruptly dismisses Tourvel with an excuse, It is beyond my control. Cécile, meanwhile, after a rough night in Valmonts bed. Tourvel, overwhelmed with grief and shame, retreats to a monastery where her health deteriorates rapidly, Valmont warns Danceny of Merteuil’s ulterior motives in seducing him, Merteuil retaliates by informing Danceny that Valmont has been sleeping with Cécile. Danceny challenges Valmont to a duel with swords, and mortally wounds him, with his dying breath, Valmont asks Danceny to communicate to Tourvel—by now at deaths door—his genuine love for her. He then gives Danceny his collection of letters from Merteuil, all of Paris learns the entire, grisly range of her schemes
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Theatrical release poster
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Citizen Ruth
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Citizen Ruth is a 1996 comedy film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne. The film is the debut of Payne. It stars Laura Dern in the role of a poor, irresponsible. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1996 and it later opened in limited release in the United States on December 13,1996. As of 2015, Citizen Ruth remains the film directed by Alexander Payne not nominated for any Academy Awards. The movie opens with Ruth Stoops and a man having intercourse on a bed in a flophouse and she later goes to a hardware store to buy patio sealant and huffs it in a paper bag in an alley to get high. Ruth is portrayed as a dumb, inebriated addict, capable of doing anything to get money or drugs. Ruth has 4 kids, all of whom have taken from her custody by the state because of her inability to care for them. Her kids are scattered among three different homes, Ruth goes to the home of her brother and sister-in-law to sneak a look at two of her kids and to beg her brother for money. After Ruth is arrested for her drug use, she learns that she is pregnant again. At her arraignment, she learns to her horror that she is facing felony charges, the judge, who knows of the situation with Ruths other offspring, suggests to her after the hearing that he will deal with her less harshly if she has an abortion. Through a chance encounter with a group of jailed abortion protesters, both sides engage in deceitful tactics to influence Ruths decision. The pro-life people run a fake abortion clinic, where they seek to dissuade patients from receiving the advertised service. The pro-choice people have spies in the group who spirit Ruth away. Both sides offer incentives into the thousands of dollars to the hapless, dollar-conscious Ruth rampantly encourages the bidding. She becomes the object of a news and political obsession. On the day Ruth is to receive her abortion, she suffers a miscarriage and he has personally given her the money, free of organizational sponsorship, to match the bid given by the Pro-Life group, so that she can make her decision without the influence of money. She then breaks out of the clinic by dropping a toilet tank cover on a guards head, even though shed been on the TV news for weeks, none of the picketers on either side pay any attention to her actual presence
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Original film poster
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Liar Liar
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Liar Liar is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac, written by Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur and starring Jim Carrey, who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Comedy. The film is the second of three collaborations between Carrey and Shadyac, the first being Ace Ventura, Pet Detective and the third being Bruce Almighty and it is also the second of three collaborations between Guay and Mazur, the others being The Little Rascals and Heartbreakers. It has been remade in Bollywood as Kyo Kii. If Fletcher wins this case, it will bring his firm a fortune, Fletcher calls and lies to Audrey about missing Maxs birthday due to work, when he is actually having sex with his boss, Miranda, in order to get a promotion. Dejected, Max makes a wish that for one day his father cannot tell a lie. The wish immediately comes true, and Fletcher accidentally tells Miranda he has had better after they have sex, the following day, Fletcher immediately realizes that he is unable to do anything dishonest. Realizing that Max had wished for this to happen, Fletcher tries to him that adults need to lie. He calls Audrey from the phone and pleads with her to bail him out and give him another chance. Greta returns and bails Fletcher from jail, who forgives him and realizes that telling the truth has made him a man and he rushes to the airport to stop Audrey. After waking up, he tells Max how much he cares about him, despite no longer being under the wishs influence, Fletcher means what he says and adds that Max is his priority, and Max convinces Audrey to stay in Los Angeles. One year later, Fletcher is healed and is running his own law firm with Greta as his continued assistant, Max makes a wish with his birthday cake and the lights come on to reveal Fletcher and Audrey kissing, but explains he wished for rollerblades instead of them reconciling. Fletcher clutches his hands into The Claw - a game he likes to play with Max by chasing him - and chases him and it was also the last film to feature Don Keefer and Jason Bernard, who died shortly after filming was completed. The film was dedicated in Bernards memory, Liar Liar received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 81%, based on 54 reviews, on Metacritic the film has a score of 68 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. In CinemaScore polls, audiences gave the film an A- grade from an A+ to F scale. In particular, one scene that bears a resemblance to an element used in Liar Liar is the part where the salesmans assistant asks for a raise, American Film Institute recognition, AFIs 100 Years. 100 Laughs - Nominated The film is the second of three Carrey/Shadyac collaborations, all of which did well at the box office, the opening weekend made $31,423,025 in 2,845 theaters. In North America, the film made $181,410,615, and at the box office in other territories it made $121,300,000 for a total of $302,710,615
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United States Air Force
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The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a branch of the military on 18 September 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the most recent branch of the U. S. military to be formed, the U. S. Air Force is a military service organized within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The Air Force is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force, who reports to the Secretary of Defense, the U. S. Air Force provides air support for surface forces and aids in the recovery of troops in the field. As of 2015, the service more than 5,137 military aircraft,406 ICBMs and 63 military satellites. It has a $161 billion budget with 313,242 active duty personnel,141,197 civilian employees,69,200 Air Force Reserve personnel, and 105,500 Air National Guard personnel. According to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the USAF and it shall be organized, trained, and equipped primarily for prompt and sustained offensive and defensive air operations. The stated mission of the USAF today is to fly, fight, and win in air, space and we will provide compelling air, space, and cyber capabilities for use by the combatant commanders. We will excel as stewards of all Air Force resources in service to the American people, while providing precise and reliable Global Vigilance, Reach and it should be emphasized that the core functions, by themselves, are not doctrinal constructs. The purpose of Nuclear Deterrence Operations is to operate, maintain, in the event deterrence fails, the US should be able to appropriately respond with nuclear options. Dissuading others from acquiring or proliferating WMD, and the means to deliver them, moreover, different deterrence strategies are required to deter various adversaries, whether they are a nation state, or non-state/transnational actor. Nuclear strike is the ability of forces to rapidly and accurately strike targets which the enemy holds dear in a devastating manner. Should deterrence fail, the President may authorize a precise, tailored response to terminate the conflict at the lowest possible level, post-conflict, regeneration of a credible nuclear deterrent capability will deter further aggression. Finally, the Air Force regularly exercises and evaluates all aspects of operations to ensure high levels of performance. Nuclear surety ensures the safety, security and effectiveness of nuclear operations, the Air Force, in conjunction with other entities within the Departments of Defense or Energy, achieves a high standard of protection through a stringent nuclear surety program. The Air Force continues to pursue safe, secure and effective nuclear weapons consistent with operational requirements, adversaries, allies, and the American people must be highly confident of the Air Forces ability to secure nuclear weapons from accidents, theft, loss, and accidental or unauthorized use. This day-to-day commitment to precise and reliable nuclear operations is the cornerstone of the credibility of the NDO mission, positive nuclear command, control, communications, effective nuclear weapons security, and robust combat support are essential to the overall NDO function. OCA is the method of countering air and missile threats, since it attempts to defeat the enemy closer to its source
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First
F-35 Lightning II of the
33rd Fighter Wing arrives at
Eglin AFB
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Seal of the Department of the Air Force (
United States Air Force portal)
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U.S. Air Force airmen from the 720th STG jumping out of a
C-130J Hercules aircraft during water rescue training in the
Florida panhandle
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Combat Controllers participating in
Operation Enduring Freedom provide air traffic control to a
C-130 taking off from a remote airfield.
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B-17 Flying Fortress variants
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The following is an extensive catalogue of the variants and specific unique elements of each variant and/or design stage of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. For a broader article on the history of the B-17, see B-17 Flying Fortress. The Boeing 299 was the bomber design made by Boeing to fulfill a request by the United States Army Air Corps for a bomber capable of carrying 2,000 lb of bombs 2,000 mi at 200 mph. In 1935, the Boeing 299 competed with entries by other companies at an evaluation at Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio. On its flight from Seattle)Washington to Wright Field for the competition, though it crashed to its destruction on takeoff during a demonstration, the crash was due to flight-crew error, not from any flaw in the airplane. Subsequent implementation of a mandatory checklist by the crew prior to take-off ensured avoidance of the flight crew error. Despite the crash, Air Corps leaders were impressed by the 299, Boeing was awarded with a development contract. The aircraft has since referred to as the XB-17 but the designation is not contemporary or official. Though still enthusiastic about the Boeing design, the Army Air Corps decided to cut its order for service test YB-17s from 65 to 13 after the crash of the original Model 299. On November 20,1936, the Army Air Corps changed the source of funding from normal funding to F-1 procurement, unlike its predecessor, which had used Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet radial engines, the Y1B-17 used the Wright R-1820 Cyclone that would become standard on the B-17. Several changes were made in the armament and the crew was reduced from seven to six, most changes were minor, the most notable was switching from double-wishbone to single-arm landing gear. On December 7,1936, five days after the first flight of the Y1B-17, the brakes on the aircraft fused during landing, though damage was minimal, the cumulative impact of this event and the crash of the Model 299 triggered a Congressional investigation. After the crash the Army Air Corps was put in notice, though they were meant for testing, the commander of Army General Headquarters, Major General Frank Andrews, decided to assign twelve Y1B-17s to the 2nd Bomb Group at Langley Field, Virginia. Andrews reasoned that it was best to develop heavy bombing techniques as quickly as possible, of the thirteen built, one was used for stress testing. In 1937, the twelve Y1B-17s with the 2nd Bombardment Group at Langley Field represented the entire American fleet of heavy bombers, most of the time spent with the planes entailed eliminating problems with the aircraft. The most important development was the use of a checklist, to be reviewed by the pilot and copilot before takeoff and it was hoped that this system would prevent accidents similar to that which led to the loss of the 299. In May 1938, the Y1B-17s of the 2nd Bombardment Group, led by the lead planes navigator Curtis LeMay, coming into contact with the liner while it was still 610 mi out at sea, the demonstration was meant to prove the range and navigational superiority of the B-17. It also showed that the bomber would be a tool for attacking an invasion force before it could reach the United States
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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress.
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Model 299
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Boeing Y1B-17 in flight.
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Boeing Y1B-17 with camouflaged paint scheme, assigned to the 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, based at
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The Swoose (B-17)
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The Swoose is a B-17D-BO Flying Fortress, USAAF Ser. 40-3097, that saw use in the Southwest Pacific theatre of World War II. The 38th of 42 B-17Ds built by Boeing, 40-3097 was accepted by the Army Air Corps on 25 April 1941 in Seattle, Washington. It was ferried to Hickam Field, Hawaii, 13–14 May 1941, by the 19th Bomb Group as part of a group of 21 B-17C, B-17 40-3097, then designated aircraft number 21, arrived at Nichols Field, on 12 September in the midst of a typhoon. The two squadrons sent to Del Monte, including 40-3097, were pressed into bombing duty for the two months as newer B-17Es began to reach the Pacific in January 1942. Spare parts were scarce and ground crews patched up battle damage with parts salvaged from destroyed aircraft. The last combat mission flown by 40-3097 was a raid on the east coast of Borneo on 11 January 1942, piloted by the commander of the 19th Bomb Group, Major Cecil Combs. In late January 1942, 40-3097 was flown to a Royal Australian Air Force Base at Laverton, near Melbourne, Australia, a depiction of the chimerical bird was soon painted on the starboard fuselage just aft of the main entrance door with the hopeful statement It Flys. It carried various military brass for the four months, including future president Lyndon B. Johnson, then a congressman and active-duty US Navy lieutenant commander, on a flight from Darwin on 11 June 1942, the crew had navigation problems and Kurtz had to make a forced landing at Carisbrooke Station near Winton, Queensland. Used for a war bond tour, 40-3097 continued to serve as General Bretts personal transport through 1944, in 1943, Harcourt Brace published the book Queens Die Proudly, by W. L. White, a follow-up to Whites earlier wartime best-seller, They Were Expendable. A routine inspection in February 1944 at Albrook Field in the Panama Canal Zone uncovered cracked wing spars, Kurtz piloted the aircraft on what was at the time described as her last flight. C. It is unlikely that an air delivery of such an artifact would be attempted now, the Swoose was stored outside at Andrews until April 1961, during which time it suffered at the hands of both the weather and vandals, who picked the airframe clean of souvenirs. Amidst mounting criticism about the treatment of historic artifacts like the Swoose and the B-29 Enola Gay, the Smithsonian finally moved 40-3097 indoors in a dismantled state in the mid-1970s. The panel forwarded its decision to Gen. John R. Jack Dailey, the director, and Donald S. Lopez Sr. the deputy director. The Swoose has never been in a plan to be displayed, a recommended condition of this transfer was that the National Museum of the United States Air Force transfer ownership of a restored B-17 to the National Air and Space Museums Udvar V. Hazy site for display, as that museum lacks a B-17, upon completion of the restoration and display of the Swoose, Shoo Shoo Baby will be transferred to the Washington D. C. museum for display. On 15 July 2008 the Swoose was permanently transferred to the National Museum of the United States Air Force for restoration and it was placed in the Museums restoration facility alongside the Memphis Belle
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The Swoose at
Hammer Field,
Fresno, California
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B-17D-BO 40-3097 The Swoose disassembled at the Smithsonian.
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World War II
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the worlds countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the bombing of industrial and population centres. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history, from late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. The Axis advance halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, in 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy, thus ended the war in Asia, cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, the United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts. The victorious great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia, most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities, the start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. Others follow the British historian A. J. P. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and this article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, the exact date of the wars end is also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945, rather than the formal surrender of Japan
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Clockwise from top left: Chinese forces in the
Battle of Wanjialing, Australian
25-pounder guns during the
First Battle of El Alamein, German
Stuka dive bombers on the
Eastern Front in December 1943, a U.S. naval force in the
Lingayen Gulf,
Wilhelm Keitel signing the
German Instrument of Surrender, Soviet troops in the
Battle of Stalingrad
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Switzerland, 1930
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Adolf Hitler at a German
National Socialist political rally in
Weimar, October 1930
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Italian soldiers recruited in 1935, on their way to fight the
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
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Military brat
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A military brat is the child of a person in the military. Military brats are associated with a unique subculture and cultural identity, a military brats childhood or adolescent life may be immersed in military culture to the point where the mainstream culture of their home country may seem foreign or peripheral. In a number of countries there are military brat subcultures. For highly mobile military brats, a cultural identity often results. Within military culture, the term military brat is not considered to be a pejorative, like many military things, the word brat is sometimes an acronym for born, raised and trained, since they have been immersed in military environments for years, sometimes from birth. A common pattern in these subcultures is a childhood and adolescent immersion in military culture to the point of marginalizing ones national civilian culture. This is characterized by an identification with military culture rather than civilian culture. Another term for this is the militarization of childhood, highly mobile Military brat subcultures have also been described as modern nomadic or peripatetic subcultures. The English-language term military brat occurs within military cultures in Australia, India, Canada, Pakistan the Philippines, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, military-dependent subcultures, also known as camp followers, have existed in many parts of the world for thousands of years. In the United Kingdom the expression military brat is not normally used, the equivalent is service brat, but more normally kids refer to themselves as army brats or as air force brats. The expression service or forces is normally used as the adjective to cover all three services and this technically meant that RAF personnel on parade could traverse the entire parade-ground sideways, like crabs. A second - slightly off-colour - explanation associates the term with the tendency of RAF airmen to be promiscuous. Many military brats report difficulty in identifying where they belong and frequently feel like outsiders in relation to the culture of their native countries. These military-dependent subcultures are generations old, however, some ex-military dependents have found that their mobile upbringing has actually been massively influential in determining their eventual career in adulthood. One example of this is British actress/comedian Dawn French who discussed her childhood as an RAF dependent in an interview with Radio 4 and she stated that she felt that the need to make new friends every few years was one of the reasons she discovered her talent for comedy. She also discusses this aspect of her life in her autobiography, American military brats have also been identified as a distinct, 200-year-old American subculture. The Little Princess, film about a British Military brat during the Boer War, third culture kid Military Brats, Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress. Military Brats, Film Representations of Children from Military Families, armed Forces & Society 32, no.1
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Five-year-old Evan Moriarty
Make-A-Wish Foundation
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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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The Widney Alumni House, the campus's first building
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University of Southern California
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"
Tommy Trojan " is a major symbol of the university, though he is not the mascot.
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Doheny Library
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London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a drama school situated in the west of London, United Kingdom. LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK, lAMDAs president is Timothy West and its Principal is Joanna Read. It is registered as a company under the name LAMDA Ltd, there is an associate organisation in America under the name LAMDA in America, Inc. previously known as The American Friends of LAMDA. LAMDA accredited examinations at Level 3 or above are recognised within the UCAS Tariff system, as an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, LAMDA receives funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This means that eligible UK/EU students are able to access loans to assist with their tuition fees, in addition, LAMDA and the Conservatoire have a range of scholarships and bursaries available. The London Academy of Music was founded by Henry Wylde in 1861, providing training for, and examinations in, various musical disciplines was originally the dominant purpose of the institution. However, providing instruction in spoken English quickly became an area of the Academy’s work. In the 1880s, LAMDA began offering speech examinations to the public, since then, these examinations have been refined and developed into a comprehensive system of performance evaluation. LAMDA Examinations has emerged as the largest Speech and Drama Board in the United Kingdom, later the Hampstead Academy was also amalgamated. The name was changed to the current name in 1935, under the direction of Wilfrid Foulis, in 1939, it was moved from London due to the war, when it reopened in 1945, it no longer provided musical training. The past few years have witnessed important growth for the Academy, a move to a larger and more visible home on the Talgarth Road in West London has enabled LAMDA to further develop the campus and training facilities for its students. Furthermore, in June 2004, the Academy became an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance, LAMDA regularly presents productions at the Lyric Hammersmith, Riverside Studios and the Linbury Studio Theatre. Edward Akrout – Angélica Aragón - Richard Armitage – Colin Baker – Jim Broadbent – Kim Cattrall – Sam Claflin – Dominic Cooper – Brian Cox – Benedict Cumberbatch – James D’Arcy –, W. E
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The main entrance to LAMDA
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John Guare
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John Guare is an Irish American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation and his style, which mixes comic invention with an acute sense of the failure of human relations and aspirations, is at once cruel and deeply compassionate. We try to fight it all by creating various mythologies, Guare was born in New York City and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens. He was raised a Roman Catholic, but is now a lapsed Catholic. The song humorously attributed the success of many people to the syllable O in their names. Under the direction of Donn B, murphy, his play The Toadstool Boy, about a country singers quest for fame, won first place in the District of Columbia Recreation Departments One-Act-Play competition. In 1949 his father suffered an attack and subsequently moved the family to Ellenville. His fathers beloved Aunt Teen and other relatives lived there, making it an experience for him. Instead of attending school, Guare was assigned home study and took exams intermittently and this had a lasting influence on Guare, and his career, later in life. In 1960, the Mask and Bauble presented The Thirties Girl, a musical for which Guare did the book, much of the music, set in Hollywoods turbulent 1920s, it dealt with the dethronement of a reigning diva by a fresh-faced starlet. Guare went on to the Yale School of Drama, receiving the M. F. A in Playwriting in 1963. Guares early plays, mostly comic one-acts exhibiting a flair for the absurd, include To Wally Pantoni, We Leave a Credenza, produced at Caffe Cino in 1965 and Muzeeka. Cop-Out premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre on April 7,1969 and closed on April 12,1969, cop-Out starred Linda Lavin and Ron Leibman. The House of Blue Leaves, a drama by turns wildly comic and despairingly poignant, premiered Off-Broadway in 1971 at the Truck. It was revived Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1986 before transferring to Broadway later in 1986, the play was revived on Broadway in 2011, starring Ben Stiller, whose mother, Anne Meara had appeared in the 1971 production. According to Marilyn Stasio, writing in Variety the play sets the bar for smart comic lunacy, chaucer in Rome, said to be a sequel of sorts to. Bosoms and Neglect was produced on Broadway in 1979, and revived Off-Broadway in 1998 by the Signature Theatre Company, moon Over Miami was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1987 and then at the Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven in February 1989. Guare’s cycle of plays on nineteenth-century America are, Gardenia Lydie Breeze and Women, the so-called Lydie Breeze series, also called the Nantucket series follows a group of idealistic 19th century characters and their attempts to create a utopian society
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Guare at the 2009 premiere of
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Tribeca Film Festival
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The mission of the festival is to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a filmmaking center. In 2006 and 2007, the Festival received over 8600 film submissions, the Festivals program line-up includes a variety of independent films including documentaries, narrative features and shorts, as well as a program of family-friendly films. The Festival also features panel discussions with personalities in the entertainment world, past artists of the Artists Awards program have included Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and Julian Schnabel. The festival now draws an estimated three million people—including often-elusive celebrities from the worlds of art, film, and music—and generates $600 million annually, the inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with the help of more than 1,300 volunteers. It was attended by more than 150,000 people and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers, the 2003 festival brought more than 300,000 people. It became one of the venues of the festival, in an effort to serve its mission of bringing independent film to the widest possible audience, in 2006, the Festival expanded its reach in New York City and internationally. In New York City, Tribeca hosted screenings throughout Manhattan as the Festivals 1, internationally, the Festival brought films to the Rome Film Fest. As part of the celebrations in Rome, Tribeca was awarded the first ever Steps and Stars award, presented on the Spanish Steps. A total of 169 feature films and 99 shorts were selected from 4,100 film submissions, the festival featured 90 world premieres, nine international premieres,31 North American premieres,6 U. S. premieres, and 28 New York City premieres. In 2009, Rosenthal, Hatkoff and De Niro were named number 14 on Barrons list of the worlds top 25 philanthropists for their role in regenerating TriBeCas economy after September 11, as of 2010, the festival is run as a business by Tribeca Enterprises. Andrew Essex has been the CEO of Tribeca Enterprises since January,2016, in 2011, L. A. Noire became the first video game to be recognized by the Tribeca Film Festival. com,02.23.2013
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New York Governor
David Paterson opens the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
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Festival founders
Jane Rosenthal and
Robert De Niro.
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The marquee of Tribeca Cinemas
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The Donna Reed Show
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The Donna Reed Show is an American situation comedy starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, the show originally aired on ABC from September 24,1958 to March 19,1966. When Fabares left the show in 1963, Petersens younger sister, Patty Petersen, Patty Petersen had first appeared in the episode, A Way of Her Own, on January 31,1963. Actress Janet Landgard was a regular from 1963-1965 as Karen Holmby. The series was created by William S. Roberts and developed by Reed and her then husband, episodes revolved around typical family problems of the period such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children. Then-daring themes such as rights and freedom of the press were occasionally explored. The show had a start in the ratings and was almost cancelled. In the shows seasons, Fabares sang what became a #1 teen pop hit Johnny Angel. The Donna Reed Show was one of televisions top 25 shows in 1963-1964, Reed was repeatedly nominated for Emmy Awards between 1959 and 1962, and won a Golden Globe as Best Female TV Star in 1963. She eventually grew tired of the work-a-day grind involved in the program, the series was sponsored by Campbell Soup Company, with Johnson & Johnson as the principal alternate sponsor. Following first-run, the show entered daytime reruns on ABC and then syndication on Nick at Nite, the first five seasons have been released on DVD. This show was the first TV family sitcom to feature the mother as the center of the show. Reeds character, Donna Stone, is a mother and wife, but also a strong woman, an active participant in her community, a woman with feelings. In a 2008 interview, Paul Petersen stated, depicts a better time and it has a sort of level of intelligence and professionalism that is sadly lacking in current entertainment products. The messages it sent out were positive and uplifting, the folks you saw were likable, the family was fun, the situations were familiar to people. It provided 22-and-a-half-minutes of moral instructions and advice on how to deal with the dilemmas of life. Jeff and Mary and their friends had all the problems that real kids in high school did. Petersen continued, Thats what the show was really about, the importance of family, Thats where lifes lessons are transmitted, generation to generation
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First season title screen
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From the 1958 first season (L-R):
Donna Reed as Donna Stone,
Carl Betz as Dr. Alex Stone,
Paul Petersen as Jeff Stone, and
Shelley Fabares as Mary Stone
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Reed with Patty Petersen, who played Trisha, 1963.
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Bob Crane as Dr. Dave Kelsey with Donna and Alex Stone
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To Tell the Truth
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As of the 2016 version, a total of 26 seasons of the various versions of To Tell the Truth have been produced, surpassing the 25 of Whats My Line. and the 20 of Ive Got a Secret. The show features a panel of four celebrities whose object is the identification of a described contestant who has an unusual occupation or has undergone an unusual experience. This central character is accompanied by two impostors who pretend to be the character, together, the three persons are said to belong to a team of challengers. The celebrity panelists question the three contestants, the impostors are allowed to lie, but the character is sworn to tell the truth. After questioning, the attempts to identify which of the three challengers is telling the truth and is thus the central character. Although there have some variations in the rules over the years. Three challengers are introduced, all claiming to be the central character, the announcer typically asks the challengers, who stand side by side, What is your name, please. Each challenger then states, My name is, the celebrity panelists then read along as the host reads aloud a signed affidavit about the central character. The panelists are given a period of time to question the challengers. Questions are directed to the challengers by number, with the central character sworn to give truthful answers, and the impostors permitted to lie and pretend to be the central character. Any panelist who knows one of the challengers or has another advantage is required to recuse or disqualify himself or herself which. Once the votes are in, the host asks, Will the real please stand up, the central character then stands, often after some brief playful feinting and false starts among all three challengers. Occasionally, the character would be asked to do something else related to their story instead of standing up. The two impostors then reveal their names and their actual occupations. Prize money is awarded and divided among all three of the based on the number of incorrect votes the impostors draw. The series was recorded in New York City, initially at CBS-TV Studio 52, the existence of an audience ticket for a taping indicates that the show originated in color at the CBS Broadcast Center in late 1966. Bud Collyer was the shows host, recurring panelists by the 1960s included Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and Kitty Carlisle. Earlier regular panelists had included Johnny Carson, Polly Bergen, Jayne Meadows, Don Ameche, Hy Gardner, Dick Van Dyke, Faye Emerson, Hildy Parks, John Cameron Swayze, and Ralph Bellamy
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The original daytime panel with Bud Collyer. From left:
Sam Levenson,
Mimi Benzell, and
Barry Nelson. The fourth panel member was
Sally Ann Howes.
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Tony award
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The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at a ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre, several discretionary non-competitive awards are also given, including a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The awards are named after Antoinette Tony Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, the rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official document Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, which applies for that season only. It also forms the fourth spoke in the EGOT, that is someone who has won all four awards, the Tony Awards are also considered the equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award in the United Kingdom and the Molière Award of France. From 1997 to 2010, the Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and broadcast live on CBS television, except in 1999, in 2011 and 2012, the ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, the 67th, 68th, and 69th ceremonies returned to Radio City Music Hall, the 70th Tony Awards were held on June 12,2016 at the Beacon Theatre. The 71st Tony Awards will be held on June 11,2017, as of 2014, there are 24 categories of awards, plus several special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number of categories have changed over the years, some examples, the category Best Book of a Musical was originally called Best Author. The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards, for two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best Costume Designer and Best Costume Designer. It then went to a category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For the category of Best Director of a Play, a category was for directors of plays. A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson Award, was given for the first time at the ceremony in 2009. The award is for an individual who has made a contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian. The category of Best Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the 2009–2010 season, the categories of Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015 season. Performance categories Show and technical categories Special awards Retired awards The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946. As her official biography at the Tony Awards website states, At Jacob Wilks suggestion, proposed an award in her honor for distinguished stage acting, at the initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony
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