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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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John McEnroe
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John Patrick McEnroe Jr. is an American former World No.1 professional tennis player, often rated among the greatest players of all time in the sport, especially for his touch on the volley. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles, nine Grand Slam mens doubles titles and he also won a record eight year-end championships,19 Grand Prix Super Series titles, and finished his career with 77 ATP-listed singles titles and 78 in doubles. In 1981,1983 and 1984 he was both the ATP player of the year and the ITF World Champion for Mens singles and his match record of 82–3 in 1984 remains the best single season win rate of the Open Era. McEnroe is a former Captain of the United States Davis Cup team and he continues to play tennis and competes in senior events on the ATP Champions Tour. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1999, after his tennis career he became a television commentator, a game show host and a chat show host. Additionally, he has appeared in films and television shows as himself and has played music live. He has been married since 1997 to musician and former Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth, McEnroe was born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, West Germany, to American parents, John Patrick McEnroe Sr. and his wife Kay, née Tresham. His father, who is of Irish descent, was at the time stationed with the United States Air Force, in 1960, the family moved to the New York City area, where McEnroes father worked daytime as an advertising agent while attending Fordham Law School by night. He has two brothers, Mark and former professional tennis player Patrick. McEnroe grew up in Douglaston, Queens, New York City and he started playing tennis when he was eight, at the nearby Douglaston Club with his brothers. When he was nine, his parents enrolled him in the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association and he then began competing in national juniors tournaments, and at twelve—when he was ranked seven in his age group—he joined the Port Washington Tennis Academy, Long Island, New York. McEnroe attended Trinity School and graduated in 1977 and it was the best performance by a qualifier at a Grand Slam tournament and a record performance by an amateur in the open era. After Wimbledon in 1977, McEnroe entered Stanford University and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association singles, later in 1978, he joined the ATP tour and signed his first professional endorsement deal, with Sergio Tacchini. He again advanced to the semifinals at a Grand Slam, this time the US Open, following which, he proceeded to win five titles that year, including his first Masters Grand Prix, beating Arthur Ashe in straight sets. In 1979, McEnroe won the Wimbledon Doubles title, the duo later adding the 1979 US Open Doubles title to their haul as well, McEnroe won his first Grand Slam singles title at the US Open. He defeated his friend Vitas Gerulaitis in straight sets in the final to become the youngest male winner of the title at the US Open since Pancho Gonzales. He also won the prestigious season-ending WCT Finals, beating Björn Borg in four sets, McEnroe won 10 singles and 17 doubles titles that year. At Wimbledon, McEnroe reached the 1980 Wimbledon Mens Singles final—his first final at Wimbledon—where he faced Björn Borg, at the start of the final, McEnroe was booed by the crowd as he entered Centre Court following heated exchanges with officials during his semifinal victory over Jimmy Connors
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Ryan O'Neal
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Charles Patrick Ryan ONeal, known professionally as Ryan ONeal, is an American actor and former boxer. ONeal trained as a boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place, the series was an instant hit and boosted ONeals career. He later found success in films, most notably Love Story, for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor, Whats Up, Paper Moon, Stanley Kubricks Barry Lyndon, and A Bridge Too Far. Since 2007, he has had a role in the TV series Bones as Max. ONeal was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest son of actress Patricia Ruth Olga and novelist and his father was of English and Irish descent, while his mother was of paternal Irish and maternal Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. His brother, Kevin, is an actor and screenwriter, ONeal attended University High School in Los Angeles, and trained there to become a Golden Gloves boxer. During the late 1950s, his father had a job writing on a series called Citizen Soldier, and moved the family to Munich. ONeal appeared in guest roles on series that included The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Leave It to Beaver, Bachelor Father, Westinghouse Playhouse, from 1962 to 1963, he was a regular on NBCs Empire, another modern day western, where he played Tal Garrett. In 1964 he was cast as Rodney Harrington in the time serial drama Peyton Place. The series was a big success, making national names of its cast including ONeal, several were offered movie roles, including Mia Farrow and Barbara Parkins. Eventually ONeal was cast in the lead of The Big Bounce, then he played an Olympic athlete in The Games. The Games had been co written by Erich Segal, who recommended ONeal for the lead in Love Story, based on Segals novel, a number of actors had turned down the role including Beau Bridges and Jon Voight before it was offered to ONeal. His fee was $25,000, he had an offer that paid five times as much to appear in a Jerry Lewis film but ONeal knew that Love Story was the better prospect, I hope the young people like it, he said before the film came out. I dont want to go back to TV, I dont want to go back to those NAB conventions. In between the production and release. ONeal appeared in a TV movie written by Eric Ambler, Love Hate Love and he also made a Western, Wild Rovers with William Holden for director Blake Edwards. Love Story turned out to be a box office phenomenon and it made ONeal a star and earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor
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Joanna Moore
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Joanna Moore was an American film and television actress. Over the course of her career, she appeared in more than eighty television, Moores career hit its peak in the 1960s. During that time, she guest starred in popular shows of the era including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Perry Mason, Bewitched. One of her more notable recurring roles was as Sheriff Andy Taylors love interest, Moore was a guest star in television westerns like Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, The Rebel, and The Virginian. By the 1970s, her career began to wane because of drug and she made her final onscreen appearance in 1986. She was married to actor Ryan ONeal from 1963 to 1967, Moore died of lung cancer in 1997. She was born Dorothy Joanne Cook in Americus, Georgia, the elder of two daughters of Dorothy Martha and Henry Anderson Cook III, when she was a child, her parents and younger sister were involved in a fatal car accident, on March 31,1941. Her mother and sister died immediately, while her father died a year after the accident from the injuries he sustained, Moore was then adopted by a wealthy local family and changed her name from Dorothy to Joanna. As a teen, she married and quickly divorced Willis Moore in 1951, after the divorce, she attended Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. While attending college, she entered and won a beauty contest and was brought to Hollywood, Moores acting career began when she was spotted at a cocktail party by a producer for Universal. Moore made her debut in the November 8,1956 episode of Lux Video Theatre. The following year, she made her debut in the 1957 crime drama. Later that year, she appeared in episodes of Goodyear Theater and Harbourmaster, along with another film, Slim Carter. From 1958 to 1959, Moore landed guest spots on television including Studio One, Suspicion, The Rough Riders, Bourbon Street Beat, Bat Masterson, The Real McCoys, and Riverboat. She made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as the character in the 1958 episode. During the 1960s, Moore continued her career guest starring on television shows in addition to film appearances. From 1960 to 1961, she guest starred on Five Fingers, The Rebel, Hong Kong, The Untouchables,77 Sunset Strip, Going My Way, and Empire. In 1962, Moore appeared as Miss Precious in Walk on the Wild Side with Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck and Capucine, followed by the musical and that same year, Moore appeared in four episodes of The Andy Griffith Show as Peggy Peg McMillan, Sheriff Taylors love interest
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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Paper Moon (film)
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Paper Moon is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. Screenwriter Alvin Sargent adapted the script from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, the film, shot in black-and-white, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression. It stars the real-life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum ONeal as protagonists Moze, con man Moses Pray meets 9-year-old Addie Loggins at Addies mothers graveside service, where the neighbors suspect he is Addies father. He denies this, but agrees to deliver the orphaned Addie to her aunts home in St. Joseph, at a local grain mill, Moses convinces the brother of the man who accidentally killed Addies mother, to give him two hundred dollars for the newly orphaned Addie. Addie joins the scam, pretending she is his daughter, and exhibits a talent for confidence tricks, as time passes, Moses and Addie become a formidable team. Much to Addies chagrin, Moze invites Miss Trixie—and her downtrodden maid, Imogene —to join him, Addie soon becomes friends with Imogene, and becomes jealous of Trixie. At a hotel in Kansas, Moze finds a store of whiskey, steals some of it. Unfortunately, the brother is the sheriff, who quickly arrests Moze. Addie hides their money, steals back the key to their car, to elude pursuit, they trade their new car for a decrepit Model T farm truck after Moze beats a hillbilly in a wrasslin match. The sheriff finds them in Missouri, and unable to arrest Moze, he and his cohorts beat, humiliated, Moze drops Addie at her aunts house in St Joseph, but Addie, disappointed, rejoins him on the road. When he refuses her company, she reminds him that he owes her two hundred dollars, and reveals that his truck has rolled away without him, whereupon they leave together. Bogdanovich, a fan of films, and having two young daughters of his own, found himself drawn to the story, and selected it as his next film. At the suggestion of Polly Platt, Bogdanovich approached eight-year-old Tatum ONeal to audition for the role although she had no acting experience, Bogdanovich had recently worked with Tatums father Ryan ONeal on Whats Up, Doc. and decided to cast them as the leads. Various changes were made in adapting the book to film, the location was also changed from the rural south of the novel – primarily Alabama – to midwestern Kansas and Missouri. The film was shot in the towns of Hays, Kansas, McCracken, Kansas, Wilson, Kansas. The car Moses is driving when he agrees to take Addie home is a 1930 Ford Model A convertible, the car Moses buys to impress Miss Trixie is a 1936 Ford V8 De Luxe convertible. The whiskey being sold by the bootlegger shown toward the end of the film is Three Feathers blended whiskey, Peter Bogdanovich also decided to change the name of the film from Addie Pray. While selecting music for the film, he heard the song Its Only a Paper Moon, seeking advice from his close friend and mentor Orson Welles, Bogdanovich listed Paper Moon as a possible alternative
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The Bad News Bears
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The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie. It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum ONeal, the film was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short-lived 1979–80 CBS television series, and a 2005 remake. The original screenplay was written by Bill Lancaster, notable was the score by Jerry Fielding, which is an adaptation of the principal themes of Bizets opera Carmen. To settle the lawsuit, the league agrees to add an additional team—the Bears—which is composed of the worst players, Buttermaker becomes coach of the unlikely team. Shunned by the competitive teams, the Bears are outsiders. He tells them that he is the one who had quit, that quitting is a thing to overcome. In fear and respect, the run out on the field. They then lose the next game 18-0, but they finished the game, Buttermaker rewards their efforts with hot dogs and soft drinks, showing that they are coming together as a team. She now peddles maps to movie-stars homes, Amanda tries to convince Buttermaker that she has given up baseball, but then she reveals that she had been practicing on the sly. Amanda makes a number of demands as conditions for joining the team. Buttermaker asks, Who do you think you are, Catfish Hunter, with Amanda on the team, the Bears become competitive, but after another loss in which Lupus drops a fly ball and allows the winning score, Tanner grows enraged at Lupus. Buttermaker instills in his team the concept of team wins and team losses, the next day at the snack bar, Tanner shuns Lupus for his apparently gross eating habits. Tanner then confronts Joey and shoves his burrito in Turners face, Lupus expresses his appreciation for Tanner taking up for him. Tanner responds by advising Lupus to wipe his nose more often so people will not give him all the time. The sight of a crestfallen Lupus leads Tanner to take a more friendly approach to the bullied boy, rounding out the team, Buttermaker recruits the best athlete in the area, who also happens to be a cigarette-smoking, loan-sharking, Harley-Davidson-riding troublemaker, Kelly Leak. No one else on the team is pleased at first with the new additions, but with Amanda and Leak on board, however, some issues begin to appear. Wanting to get to the game, Buttermaker tells Kelly to hog the fly balls to make the outs. When the other outfielders get resentful, Kelly stops, incurring Buttermakers ire, after the game, Amanda begins suggesting that she, Buttermaker, and her mom spend time together, but Buttermaker shrugs off the idea
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Nickelodeon (film)
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Nickelodeon is a 1976 comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and stars Ryan ONeal, Burt Reynolds and Tatum ONeal. According to Bogdanovich, the film was based on stories told to him by silent movie directors Allan Dwan. It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival, in 1914, Leo Harrigan goes from a lawyer to a writer and then to a film director, as his job. Leo is forced to move from New Jersey to California to keep one step ahead of the Motion Picture Patents Company, Leo finally settles in with other filmmakers in Hollywoodland, California, and makes a series of dramatic, romantic, and comedic shorts as throwaways. Winkler took the project to David Begelman at Columbia, who pursued Bogdanovich as director, winkler later stated, He made David come to his office and wait until the receptionist said, Mr. Bogdanovich will see you now. As soon as we came inside, we were very haughtily told that he thought the script was a piece of, Id been around long enough to know that I should take that as a bad sign. I remember coming out of the meeting, saying, David, and all David said was, Hey, hes a genius. What he filmed had nothing to do with the original script, I know it meant a lot to Peter to have all of the authentic stories about the silent period in the film, but Ricks script, authentic or not, was terrific. It was just a great drama, by the time Peter was done with it, it was authentic, but it wasnt dramatic anymore. Peter hadnt really experienced any failure yet -- we hired him before At Long Last Love had come out -- so he was easily the most arrogant person Id ever met in the business, when we shot the picture, he actually directed some of the scenes on horseback. When I asked him why he was on horseback, he said, Bogdanovich has an alternative version, I should have never gotten involved, I should have done it myself. Id been planning to do a big picture about the silent era, largely based on the interviews with Dwan, Walsh and McCarey. I was preparing it and I got a call from my agent and she said theyre preparing a movie called Starlight Parade, theres another director involved, I said, Well, I dont really want to do their script, Ill have to rewrite it completely. Theyll let you rewrite it, whatever you want, basically I rewrote the whole damn thing and never used any of Starlight Parade. The trouble was, again, the picture had a balance between comedy and drama and it was a comedy-drama, no question about it, and I had wanted to do it in black and white. It was very important to do it in black and white and Columbia, I had a big fight about that and they cancelled the picture. Then Barry Spikings at British-Lion came in and funded some of the picture and it ended up being a Columbia-British Lion picture and but when it was all done it was a difficult picture. The movies title was changed to Nickleodeon
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Little Darlings
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Little Darlings is a 1980 American teen comedy-drama film starring Tatum ONeal and Kristy McNichol and featuring Armand Assante and Matt Dillon. It was directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, the screenplay was written by Kimi Peck and Dalene Young and the original music score was composed by Charles Fox. The film was marketed with the tagline Dont let the title fool you, the film was notable for having a contemporary pop soundtrack, with music by artists like Blondie, Rickie Lee Jones, Supertramp, The Cars, and Iain Matthews. As of 2010, the film has not been released on DVD and it has since been removed from both services. Turner Classic Movies aired the original version, letterboxed, and with all original music and credits intact. Lionsgate has announced the release of the film on DVD, but has yet to be released, critic Roger Ebert said of the film that it somehow does succeed in treating the awesome and scary subject of sexual initiation with some of the dignity it deserves. A group of girls from the Atlanta area go to summer camp. The two girls then choose targets, or guys they want to be the ones they lose their virginity with. Unbeknownst to the adults, all the girls in camp bet money on the contest, at the same time, the girls engage in typical teenage behavior, such as food fights and other activities. The girls involved in the contest are opposites and rivals, cynical, suspicious and streetwise poor girl Angel Bright and naive, prissy, both girls discover that it is not what they thought it was. Ferris thinks of love as romance and wine and flowers and she imagines herself swept off her feet by Gary, the camp counselor. When she lies about making love with him, the biological side manifests itself in others reactions to what she said she did and she discovers that, at least in the context of a camp counselor having sex with a fifteen-year-old, sex can be hurtful and its consequences ugly. Her attitude is now more grounded in reality, she has more like street-wise Angel. Angel approaches the issue from the other side. She views winning the contest as a mechanical, purely biological function, but when she tries to do it with Randy in the boathouse, she becomes confused by feelings she did not know she had. She behaves very defensively, as if Randy is trying to force her to have sex, Randy, who could take it or leave it, is put off by her recalcitrance and leaves. She then must admit to herself that sex is not a function she can cynically turn on and off. Angel reconnects with Randy later with an improved attitude, one closer to Ferris
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8 Simple Rules
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8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter is an American sitcom, originally starring John Ritter and Katey Sagal. It debuted on ABC on September 17,2002, and concluded on April 15,2005, Ritters character in the series was not replaced following his death on September 11,2003. After entering a hiatus, the series continued without Ritter, incorporating the death of his character, James Garner and David Spade joined the cast afterward. ABC cancelled the series on May 17,2005 after three seasons because of low ratings, the shows premise and title were derived from the book 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, And Other Tips from a Beleaguered Father by W. Bruce Cameron. The rules are, Use your hands on my daughter and youll lose them after and you make her cry, I make you cry. Anything you try will be hazardous to your health, bring her home late, theres no next date. If you pull into my driveway and honk, you better be dropping off a package because youre sure not picking anything up No complaining while youre waiting for her, if youre bored, change my oil. If your pants hang off your hips, Ill gladly secure them with my staple gun, dates must be in crowded public places. After the novelty of newly added ensemble characters wore off, the returned to its original format. The first three episodes of the second season had been completed when Ritter reportedly suffered an undiagnosed aortic dissection. Following Ritters death, ABC announced that the show would continue after a hiatus, the three new episodes that Ritter completed were aired with Sagal introducing them. The show returned two months after Ritters death, with an episode, Goodbye, which was turned into a tribute to Ritters character. Subsequent episodes dealt with the reaction to his death and how they moved on from it. J. Garner and Spade later received starring roles as Ritters replacement for the rest of the shows broadcast, before Ritters death, the show ranked 42nd in the Nielsen ratings. After Ritters death, it had slipped to 50th, but was renewed for a third season, gamble was replaced by Judd Pillot and John Peaslee, who had performed the same role in the final season of Spades sitcom, Just Shoot Me. The series plunged to 94th in the ratings, even before the third-season finales airing, rumors began circulating that 8 Simple Rules was facing cancellation due to Ritters death and poor ratings. The Friday night death slot ratings took their toll on 8 Simple Rules, the third-season finale was not aired for May sweeps. The finale received a 3. 9/8 rating share which gave ABC a third-place finish behind NBCs Dateline and CBSs Joan of Arcadia, shortly afterwards, ABC officially cancelled 8 Simple Rules in 2005
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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Law & Order, Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30,2001, Criminal Intent focuses on the investigations of the Major Case Squad in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department set in New York Citys One Police Plaza. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on a crime that received media attention. The series aired on NBC for the first six seasons but was moved to the NBCUniversal-owned USA Network starting with the season to share costs. During its NBC run, each episode aired on USA the week after its original NBC airing, the series ended on June 26,2011, after 10 seasons comprising 195 episodes. The Major Case Squad investigates high-profile cases such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the industry. The series pays attention to the actions and motives of the criminals, rather than focusing exclusively on the police and prosecutions. A feature of each Criminal Intent episode is that the cold open always involves a series of cut-scenes that show events from the suspects and victims lives, clues to the crimes eventual solution can often be found in this teaser sequence. Unlike other Law & Order series, most Criminal Intent episodes end in confessions rather than continuing to the trial phase, seasons 1-4 and 10 focus on Detectives Robert Bobby Goren and Alexandra Eames as the primary detectives in every episode. After season 7, Mike Logan retired from the NYPD and was replaced with Detective Zack Nichols until season 10, the UK-aired version of Law & Order, Criminal Intent features the song Theres Only Me by Rob Dougan in the opening credits. Another Rob Dougan track, Im Not Driving Anymore, is used as the theme for Law & Order and Law & Order, from season 6 the UK-aired version theme is Urban Warfare by Paul Dinletir. Law & Order, Criminal Intent was created in 2001 by René Balcer, Balcer served as the shows executive producer, showrunner, and head writer for its first five seasons. The show dominated its time slot on Sundays at 9,00 p. m. for its first three seasons, and was often the highest-rated show of the night, with an average audience of 15.5 million viewers. The show aired Sundays on NBC, with each episode being repeated on USA Network the following Saturday. Beginning in Season 4, it faced new competition from ABCs night-time soap opera Desperate Housewives. Balcer left the show at the end of Season 5, and the show was handed off to Warren Leight, under Leights leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone. The mystery aspect of the show was simplified in favor of personal stories involving the detectives. For example, Goren endured his mothers battle with cancer
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MyNetworkTV
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Despite concerns about UPNs future that came up after Fox purchased the Chris-Craft stations, UPN signed three-year affiliation renewals with the networks Fox-owned affiliates in 2003. The CWs initial affiliation agreements did not include any of the UPN stations owned by Fox Television Stations. In fact, as part of an affiliation deal with The WBs part-owner, Tribune Broadcasting. In response to the announcement, Fox promptly removed all references from logos and promotional materials on its UPN affiliates. However, in all three cases, the WB affiliate was the station, CW executives were on record as preferring the strongest WB. Fox chose the route, and announced the launch of MyNetworkTV on February 22,2006, less than a month after CBS. MyNetworkTV began operations on September 5,2006, with the premieres of its two initial series, some affiliates unofficially began branding their stations on September 4,2006 – Labor Day – with supplied preview specials. Initially, programming aired Monday through Saturdays from 8,00 to 10,00 p. m, with the services switch to an all-rerun schedule in 2009, this effectively allows stations to pre-empt repeat programming at will to fit in sporting events without much consequence. During the telenovela era, affiliates often scheduled contractual make goods of the daily schedule between 3,00 and 6,00 a. m. local time. Not only are these light viewing hours, but they air after Nielsen processes its preliminary morning network ratings. WPWR-TV in Gary, Indiana/Chicago moved MyNetworkTV to an after primetime 10,00 p. m. -midnight timeslot on September 1,2016, and became the CW affiliate for Chicago, replacing WGN-TV. KRON-TV/San Francisco airs MyNetworkTV programming on a delay from 9,00 to 11,00 p. m. which is bookended by local evening newscasts. KPDX/Portland, Oregon airs MyNetworkTV programs from 10, 00PM to 12,00 AM, newscast that is produced by NBC-affiliated sister station KCRA-TV. KQCA then presented MyNetworkTV programming in pattern, with the 7,00 PM hour being filled by syndicated reruns until the 2014–15 television season. At that point KQCA started filling the 8,00 to 10,00 PM block with syndicated comedies, KQCA airs MyNetworkTV programming in late night. During its time as a MyNetworkTV affiliate, KJZZ-TV/Salt Lake City, the service had originally aired from 11,00 PM to 1,00 AM. at the networks launch. St. George independent station KCSG replaced KJZZ as Utahs MyNetworkTV affiliate on August 18,2008. KUSG, a former KUTV satellite, added MyNetworkTV to its schedule on September 20,2010, however, kEVU-CD/Eugene, Oregon airs the MyNetworkTV schedule from 9,00 to 11,00 PM Pacific Time, following a two-hour block of syndicated talk shows
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Wicked Wicked Games
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Wicked Wicked Games is a telenovela that debuted on December 6,2006 on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 63 episodes to air weekdays, the limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. It focuses on a bitter, obsessed womans vendetta against her former lover, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not announced plans to release this series on DVD and/or Blu-ray. This romantic melodrama starred Tatum ONeal as Blythe Hunter, a scorned woman. As revenge, she decides to destroy him by grooming her two sons to marry his two daughters and take over The Tides, a racetrack in Del Mar, California and she wreaks havoc on the Crawfords, but the plan doesnt go the way she had hoped. Wicked Wicked Games also starred David Smith and Jack Krizmanich as Blythes sons, Josh and Aaron, Josh is a doctor who gets manipulated into Blythes schemes by the more wicked son Aaron. Jessie Ward and Kate French played Emma and Brooke respectively, the Crawford daughters, Blythe approaches Aaron to pose as Daniel Karol and help her undermine Theodore and take control of the Tides. Blythe also employs her lawyer, Benjamin Grey to help her do her dirty work, Aaron quickly gets the job, and begins to work for Theo. Only Taylor Burns, CFO of the Tides, is suspicious of him, soon, Emma makes a startling discovery- that Theo is not Brooke and herselfs real father, but her late mother, Anna had a lover named Gavin. She confronts Theo and Madeline, Theos sister, who confirm the truth, Madeline indulges in cyber romance with Phillipe, who she confides in. Lani Walker, Blythes assistant, falls for Taylor, and is shocked by the lengths her boss is going to, Blythe loves to torture Lani, and she soon begins to undermine Blythe, a huge mistake on her part. Theo is soon on to Blythe, not too much later, Blythe takes over the Tides, and throws Theo out. She takes pride in revealing that Daniel is her son, Aaron, Theo is devastated, and turns to alcohol for comfort. Jennifer wants Edward to leave Emma, and Edwards obsession with Emma grows, Taylor ends things with Lani after realizing that she was aware of what Blythe was planning, and Lani is devastated. Brooke continues on a spiral with alcohol and drugs. She soon learns that her father, Gavin died several years ago, tension had been mounting between Theo and Hope following the loss of the Tides, and Hope decides to leave town for a while. Madeline asks her to stay and work out, but Hope thinks it is for the best. She has an encounter with Blythe, when Blythe strangles her to death
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Westwood, Los Angeles
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Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles, the 2000 census found the forty-seven thousand people living in the neighborhood were generally young and moderately diverse ethnically, with a generally high level of income and education. The neighborhood was developed after 1919, with a new campus of the University of California opened in 1926, other attractions besides the UCLA campus include Westwood Village, with its historic motion picture theaters, restaurants and shopping, Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and the Hammer Museum. Holmby Hills is considered one of the wealthiest residential areas in Los Angeles, a Mormon temple is also prominent. There are several schools and one middle school in the neighborhood. The 2010 U. S. census counted 47,916 residents in the 3. 68-square-mile Westwood neighborhood—or 13,036 people per square mile, in 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 52,041. The median age for residents was 27, considered young for the city, the neighborhood was considered moderately diverse ethnically, with a high percentage of Asians and of whites. The breakdown was whites,62. 9%, Asians,23. 1%, Latinos,7. 0%, blacks,2. 0%, and others,4. 9%. Iran and Taiwan were the most common places of birth for the 31. 3% of the residents who were born abroad—about the same percentage as in the city at large, the median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $68,716, a high figure for Los Angeles. The percentages of households that earned $125,000 yearly and higher or that earned $20,000 or less were high for Los Angeles County, the average household size of two people was low for Los Angeles. Renters occupied 64. 1% of the stock and house- or apartment owners held 35. 9%. The percentages of never-married men and women were among the countys highest, in 2000 there were 309 families headed by single parents, a low percentage for the city. Five percent of the population had served in the military, a low figure for both the city and the county, the southern portion of Holmby Hills is also part of the Westwood district. Upon Arthur Letts death, his son-in-law, Harold Janss, vice president of Janss Investment Company, inherited the land and developed the area and started advertising for new homes in 1922. The tract comprises approximately 1000 residential and business lots, situated west of the Los Angeles Country Club on Santa Monica Boulevard, the selection of a new campus in the Westwood hills was announced on March 21,1925. The owners of the estate, the Janss brothers, agreed to sell the property for approximately $1 million, municipal bond measures passed by Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and Venice provided for that amount. Proposition 10, a bond measure passed that year, provided $3 million for new campus construction. Thus the predecessor of the University of California, Los Angeles, was established in Westwood and her killer, Durrell DeWitt Collins,23, was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 27 years to life in prison
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Leigh Taylor-Young
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Leigh Taylor-Young is an American actress who has appeared on stage, screen, podcast, radio, and television. Young was born on January 25,1945, in Washington and she added the surname Taylor, which was the surname of her stepfather, a successful Detroit executive. Her father was a diplomat, and her siblings are actress/sculptor Dey Young. The siblings were raised in Oakland County, Michigan, Leigh graduated from Groves High School, Beverly Hills, Michigan in 1962. Before attending Northwestern University as a major, she spent a summer shifting scenery, modelling, acting. However, she left Northwestern before graduating to pursue an acting career. About dropping out of college, the actress explained, I left there because I lost the most wonderful teacher, I didnt want to go back when she left. My parents naturally were upset, and I spent four months at home thinking what to do, then went to New York, Taylor-Young got her first big break in 1966, when she was cast as Rachel Welles in the prime time soap opera Peyton Place. Her character was written in the show as a replacement for the character of Allison MacKenzie, the shows producer, Everett Chambers, cast her because of her great warmth and sweet angelic qualities not unlike Mia. At the time she received the role, Taylor-Young had been in California for only a few days and she initially went there in April 1966 to recuperate from an attack of pneumonia. She impressed the producer of Peyton Place, Paul Monash, with a performance from The Glass Menagerie and was immediately signed to a seven-year television. Shortly after, she told the press, Id have preferred to stay in New York to establish myself as an actress before coming to Hollywood and it was on this series that she met Ryan ONeal, whom she later married. Taylor-Young had difficulty working on the show, explaining in an April 1967 interview, When I got my first check for, I thought to myself, but after working in 70 chapters of Peyton Place out here in Hollywood, Im glad to get my paycheck. I can now understand why good actors and actress complain about going stale in television and its difficult to give a character depth when theres a man with a stop watch standing beside you complaining that the company is spending $3,000 a minute. Yes, Ive learned that when you act in a TV series it becomes your whole life, despite the huge amount of publicity she received while working on Peyton Place, Taylor-Young left the soap opera in 1967 due to her pregnancy. Following this, she pursued a career in films, landing a lucrative contract with a major studio. Her first film role came opposite Peter Sellers in the 1968 comedy, I Love You, the film was commercially successful, and she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Most Promising Female Newcomer. This was followed by her appearance with husband Ryan ONeal in The Big Bounce in 1969
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Farrah Fawcett
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Farrah Fawcett was an American actress and artist. In 1996, she was ranked No.26 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV stars of All-Time, Fawcett began her career in 1968 in commercials and guest roles on television. During the 1970s, she appeared in television series, including recurring roles on Harry O. Her breakthrough role came in 1976, when she was cast as Jill Munroe in the ABC series Charlies Angels, alongside Kate Jackson, the show propelled all three to stardom, but especially Fawcett. After appearing in only the first season, Fawcett decided to leave the show led to legal disputes. Eventually she signed a contract requiring her to make six guest appearances in the shows third, for her role in Charlies Angels she received her first Golden Globe nomination. In 1983, Fawcett received positive reviews for her performance in the Off-Broadway play Extremities and she was subsequently cast in the 1986 film version and received a Golden Globe nomination. She received two Emmy Award nominations for her roles in TV movies, as a wife in the 1984 film The Burning Bed. Her 1980s work in TV movies also earned her four additional Golden Globe nominations, in 1997, she gained some negative press for a rambling appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, but also garnered strong reviews for her role in the film The Apostle with Robert Duvall. She continued in numerous TV series, including recurring roles in the sitcom Spin City, for the latter, she received her third Emmy nomination. Her film roles include, Love Is a Funny Thing, Myra Breckinridge, Logans Run, Sunburn, Saturn 3, The Cannonball Run, Extremities, The Apostle, and Dr. T & the Women. Fawcett was diagnosed with cancer in 2006, the 2009 NBC documentary Farrahs Story chronicled her battle with the disease. She posthumously earned her fourth Emmy nomination for her work as a producer on the documentary, Fawcett was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the younger of two daughters. Her mother, Pauline Alice Fawcett, was a homemaker, and her father and her elder sister was Diane Fawcett Walls, a graphic artist. She was of Irish, French, English and Choctaw Native American ancestry, Fawcett once said the name Farrah was made up by her mother because it went well with their last name. Another theory is that her father, an oilman, reportedly named her Farah after the Arabic word for joy, a Roman Catholic, Fawcetts early education was at the parish school of the church her family attended, St. Patricks Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, where she was voted most beautiful by her classmates her freshman, sophomore, junior, for three years, she attended the University of Texas at Austin, studying art. She lived at Madison House on 22nd street, west of campus, during her freshman year, she was named one of the ten most beautiful coeds on campus, the first time a freshman had been chosen
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Walk on the Wild Side (film)
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Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by American author Nelson Algren. The film had a star-studded cast, including Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, and Barbara Stanwyck and it was not well received at the time, Bosley Crowther of the New York Times described it as a lurid, tawdry, and sleazy melodrama. While it passed its censors, it was a film noir with quite explicit overtones. It walks its audience through the lives and relationships between adults engaged in the business of prostitution at a stylish New Orleans brothel. The boss is a beautiful, stylish Madam whose combination of toughness and, during the Great Depression, Dove and Kitty meet on the road in Texas as each travels separately to New Orleans. They decide to travel together, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains, Dove is hoping to find his lost love Hallie, and is not interested when Kitty comes on to him sexually. After Kitty steals from the New Orleans-area café where she and Dove stop for a meal, he leaves her and makes things right with the owner and she gives Dove a job at the café and a place to stay while he searches for Hallie. He finds her working at the Doll House, an upscale French Quarter bordello, later it is revealed that, after Jos husband lost his legs in an accident, she lost interest in him. A lesbian relationship is suggested between Jo and Hallie, who is supported by the owner in pursuing her interest in sculpting on the side, but Hallie still works for Jo as a prostitute like the other women. Hallie is unhappy with her life at Jos, but does not want to give up her comforts to risk married life with Dove, meanwhile, Kitty starts working at the bordello after Jo bails her out of jail, where she had been confined for vagrancy. Seeing that Kitty and Dove appear to each other, Jo questions Kitty about her past. Jo threatens Dove with arrest for transporting the underage Kitty across state lines for immoral purposes and for statutory rape, as Dove leaves the bordello, the bouncer, another employee, and Jos husband beat him viciously. Kitty helps Dove return to the café, where Teresina cares for him, the younger woman goes back to the bordello to get Hallie, helping her reach the café. When Hallie cant be found at the bordello, Kitty is suspected and put under pressure, frightened, she brings Jo, during the ensuing struggle among the men, Hallie is shot and killed by a stray bullet. The film closes by showing a newspaper story reporting that Kittys testimony sent Jo. Omar Stroud Tensions among the actors and director caused problems on the set, after Harvey told Capucine she couldnt act, she sulked for a week. His opinion was seconded by actress Joan Perry, widow of studio head Harry Cohn, but the films producer Charles Feldman continued to promote Capucine. This and other incidents, including Jane Fondas insistence on changing dialogue, the films schedule slipped, causing difficulties for co-star Anne Baxter, six months pregnant when the production wrapped
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Follow That Dream
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Follow That Dream is a 1962 American musical film starring Elvis Presley made by Mirisch Productions. The movie was based on the 1959 novel Pioneer, Go Home, producer Walter Mirisch liked the song Follow that Dream and retitled the picture. The movie reached #5 on the Variety weekly Box Office Survey, when the car runs out of gas, Holly persuades Toby to persuade Pop to take up residence on the land next to the road. A chance encounter with an avid fisherman gives Holly an idea and they build a thriving business catering to sports fishermen. Toby rejects the advances of amorous social worker Alisha Claypoole, who goes to court to have the children away in revenge. Also, her government official boyfriend considers the squatters home to be an eyesore, finally, since the area is outside the jurisdiction of any law enforcement, two gamblers soon set up a casino in a trailer, and Toby has to deal with their armed thugs. In the end, Tobys earthy wits win over the judge, Holly also gets Toby to recognize that she is a grown woman. Elvis Presley as Toby Anne Helm as Holly Arthur OConnell as Pop Joanna Moore as Alisha Jack Kruschen as Carmine Simon Oakland as Nick Roland Winters as Judge Alan Hewitt as H. At first, Powell was unhappy that Presley had been chosen for the role, filming began July 6,1961 in the summer heat of Florida. It was filmed in Citrus, Marion, and Levy Counties, specifically Inverness, Ocala, Inglis, the courtroom scene took place in the 1912 Citrus County Old Courthouse in Inverness which has been restored and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Part of the courtroom restoration can be attributed to the film in that it was the only record of the original courtroom configuration. Yankeetown memorializes his stay in the form of a major highway, the parkway was so named because of the efforts of four Elvis fans. After months of meetings, the parkway had an opening under its new name, Follow That Dream Parkway. The dedication and celebration was held in Inglis, the bank scene was filmed in Ocala at a bank on Silver Springs Boulevard. During filming, Elvis met Tom Petty, who was only 11 years old at the time, pettys uncle was involved in the production of the movie. Shortly afterwards, Petty swapped his slingshot for a collection of Elvis records. Review by Stuart Galbraith IV at DVD Talk, May 25,2004
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database
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Great Depression
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, in most countries it started in 1929 and it was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the economy can decline. The depression originated in the United States, after a fall in stock prices that began around September 4,1929. Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide GDP fell by an estimated 15%, by comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s, however, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. The Great Depression had devastating effects in both rich and poor. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%, unemployment in the U. S. rose to 25% and in some countries rose as high as 33%. Cities all around the world were hit hard, especially dependent on heavy industry. Construction was virtually halted in many countries, farming communities and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by about 60%. Facing plummeting demand with few sources of jobs, areas dependent on primary sector industries such as mining and logging suffered the most. Even after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 optimism persisted for some time, john D. Rockefeller said These are days when many are discouraged. In the 93 years of my life, depressions have come, prosperity has always returned and will again. The stock market turned upward in early 1930, returning to early 1929 levels by April and this was still almost 30% below the peak of September 1929. Together, government and business spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the period of the previous year. On the other hand, consumers, many of whom had suffered losses in the stock market the previous year. In addition, beginning in the mid-1930s, a severe drought ravaged the agricultural heartland of the U. S, by mid-1930, interest rates had dropped to low levels, but expected deflation and the continuing reluctance of people to borrow meant that consumer spending and investment were depressed. By May 1930, automobile sales had declined to below the levels of 1928, prices in general began to decline, although wages held steady in 1930
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Confidence trick
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A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust. Confidence tricks exploit characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté, the perpetrator of a confidence trick is often referred to as a confidence man, con-artist, or a grifter. Samuel Thompson was the confidence man. Thompson was a swindler who asked his victims to express confidence in him by giving him money or their watch rather than gaining their confidence in a more nuanced way. A few people trusted Thompson with their money and watches, Thompson was arrested in July 1849. Reporting about this arrest, Dr. James Houston, a reporter of the New York Herald, although Thompson was an unsuccessful scammer, he gained reputation as a genius operator mostly because Houstons satirical writing wasnt understood. The National Police Gazette coined the term confidence game a few weeks after Houston first used the name, the confidence man. A confidence trick is known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko, a swindle, a flimflam. The intended victims are known as marks, suckers, or gulls, when accomplices are employed, they are known as shills. A short con or small con is a fast swindle which takes just minutes and it typically aims to rob the victim of everything in his or her wallet. A long con or big con is a scam that unfolds over several days or weeks and involves a team of swindlers, as well as props, sets, extras, costumes, and scripted lines. It aims to rob the victim of huge sums of money or valuable things, often by getting him or her to empty out banking accounts, in Confessions of a Confidence Man, Edward H. Smith lists the six definite steps or stages of growth of a confidence game. He notes that some steps may be omitted, foundation Work Preparations are made in advance of the game, including the hiring of any assistants required. Build-up The victim is given an opportunity to profit from a scheme, the victims greed is encouraged, such that their rational judgment of the situation might be impaired. Pay-off or Convincer The victim receives a small payout as a demonstration of the schemes effectiveness and this may be a real amount of money, or faked in some way. In a gambling con, the victim is allowed to win small bets. In a stock market con, the victim is given fake dividends, the Hurrah A sudden crisis or change of events forces the victim to act immediately. This is the point at which the con succeeds or fails, the In-and-In A conspirator puts an amount of money into the same scheme as the victim, to add an appearance of legitimacy to the scheme
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RuPaul's Drag Race
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RuPauls Drag Race is an American reality competition television series produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV, and beginning with season nine, for VH1. The show documents RuPaul in his search for Americas next drag superstar, RuPaul plays the role of host, mentor, and head judge for this series, as contestants are given different challenges each week. The title of the show is a play on drag queen and drag racing, RuPauls Drag Race has spanned eight seasons and inspired the spin-off shows RuPauls Drag U and RuPauls Drag Race, All Stars. The show has become the television program on Logo TV, and airs internationally, including in Australia, Canada. The show earned RuPaul a 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, in 2016, RuPauls Drag Race was renewed for a ninth season. Casting calls are announced online, where contestants submit audition tapes in hopes of being cast. All contestants selected must be 21 years of age or older at the time of taping and they may be any sexual orientation or gender identity, although most contestants to date have been gay men. Transgender women are eligible to compete and have more common as seasons have progressed. Sonique became the first openly transgender contestant, she came out as transgender during the Season 2 reunion special, monica Beverly Hillz, became the first transgender woman to reveal her status during the competition. Other transgender contestants have begun transitioning after their elimination, carmen Carrera, a season three contestant, announced her transition during an episode of ABCs Primetime, What Would You Do. Season 4 contestant Kenya Michaels announced her own transition via Facebook, other transgender contestants include Stacy Layne Matthews, Jiggly Caliente, Gia Gunn and Peppermint. RuPaul plays dual roles in the show, USA Todays Lifeline explains, RuPaul the drag queen will be the final word in judging and eliminations, while RuPaul the man will offer guidance to contestants for each challenge. In Seasons 1,2, and 3, the contestants were narrowed down to a two, with a winner being selected the final episode. Each episode follows a format consisting of a challenge, a main challenge, a runway walk, the judging panel. There have been exceptions to episodes, including double-elimination episodes, no-elimination episodes. In the mini challenge, each contestant is asked to perform a different task with varying requirements, certain mini challenges are repeated from season to season. For instance, the first mini challenge of the first six seasons is a shoot with the photographer Mike Ruiz that includes some kind of special twist. Another recurring mini challenge is dedicated to reading, a term for making insulting observations about ones peers for comedic effect
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Walter Matthau
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He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1966 Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie. Besides the Oscar, he was the winner of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Matthau was born Walter John Matthow on October 1,1920, in New York Citys Lower East Side. His mother, Rose, was a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant who worked in a garment sweatshop, as part of a lifelong love of practical jokes, Matthau himself created the rumors that his middle name was Foghorn and his last name was originally Matuschanskayasky. As a young boy, Matthau attended a Jewish non-profit sleepaway camp, Tranquillity Camp and he also attended Surprise Lake Camp. His high school was Seward Park High School and he worked for a short time as a concession stand cashier in the Yiddish Theatre District. He was based at RAF Old Buckenham, Norfolk during this time and he reached the rank of staff sergeant and became interested in acting. He took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School with German director Erwin Piscator and he often joked that his best early review came in a play where he posed as a derelict. One reviewer said, The others just looked like actors in make-up, Matthau was a respected stage actor for years in such fare as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter. He won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play, Matthau appeared in the pilot of Mister Peepers with Wally Cox. For reasons unknown he used the name Leonard Elliot and his role was of the gym teacher Mr. Wall. He made his motion picture debut as a bad guy in The Kentuckian opposite Burt Lancaster. He played a villain in King Creole, in which he gets beaten up by Elvis Presley, around the same time, he made Ride a Crooked Trail with Audie Murphy, and Onionhead starring Andy Griffith, the latter was a flop. Matthau had a role opposite Griffith in the well received drama A Face in the Crowd. Matthau also directed a movie called The Gangster Story and was a sympathetic sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave. He appeared opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade, appearances on television were common too, including two on Naked City, as well as an episode of The Eleventh Hour. He appeared eight times between 1962 and 1964 on The DuPont Show of the Week and as Franklin Gaer in an episode of Dr. Kildare, additionally he featured in the syndicated crime drama Tallahassee 7000, as a Florida-based state police investigator. Comedies were rare in Matthaus work at that time, Neil Simon cast him in the play The Odd Couple in 1965, with Matthau playing slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison, opposite Art Carney as Felix Unger. Matthau later reprised the role in the version, with Jack Lemmon as Felix Ungar
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International Velvet (film)
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International Velvet is a 1978 American drama film and a sequel to the 1944 classic National Velvet starring Tatum ONeal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins and Nanette Newman. International Velvet was partly filmed at Birmingham University, England, the film follows the story of a teenage girl from Cave Creek, Arizona, Sarah Velvet Brown. Sarah is the daughter of Velvets younger brother Donald Brown, and is orphaned when Donald, Velvet becomes Sarahs legal guardian after the death of her brother and sister-in-law. Sarah is sent to England to live with Velvet Brown and Velvets boyfriend John, after the events of National Velvet Donald got married, had Sarah, and moved from England to Arizona. The Pie is ultimately put out to stud upon his retirement and he sires his last foal after Sarahs arrival in England. Sarah and Velvet are present for the birth of this foal and she later finds out that Velvet has bought him for her. Sarah aptly names him Arizona Pie and she shows enough talent to be selected for the British Olympic team, where she is the junior, but she does well under the stern guidance of Captain Johnson. Sarah lives up to her dream and enters the Olympic Three Day Event helping Great Britain win the team competition and she falls in love with an American competitor named Scott Saunders and moves back to America with him. At the conclusion of the film Sarah is engaged to Scott, Sarah eventually returns to England and introduces Scott to Velvet and John. Tatum ONeal as Sarah Velvet Brown Christopher Plummer as John Seaton Anthony Hopkins as Captain Johnson Nanette Newman as Velvet Brown Peter Barkworth as Pilot Dinsdale Landen as Mr. V. Interviewer Brenda Cowling as Alice International Velvet was released in New York, in 1992,14 years after the movie was released Bryan Forbess novelization of International Velvet became available on May 7,1992
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Christopher Plummer
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Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. After making his debut in Stage Struck, Plummer went on to a successful film career. Plummer has ventured into television projects, including the miniseries The Thorn Birds. Plummer has won awards and accolades for his work, including an Academy Award. With his win at age 82 in 2012 for Beginners, Plummer is the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award and his fathers uncle was patent lawyer and agent F. B. Plummers parents were divorced shortly after his birth, and he was brought up at the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec and he is bilingual, speaking English and French fluently. Plummer is a cousin of actor Nigel Bruce, the British actor, best known as Doctor Watson to Basil Rathbones Sherlock Holmes. He had studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age and he began acting while he was living on Pine Avenue in Montreal and attending Montreal High. He attended McGill, at time he also took up acting. Whittaker, who was also stage director of the Montreal Repertory Theatre, cast Plummer, aged 18. Plummer made his Broadway debut in January 1953 in The Starcross Story and his next Broadway appearance, Home is the Hero, lasted 30 performances from September to October 1954. He appeared in support of Broadway legend Katharine Cornell and film legend Tyrone Power in The Dark is Light Enough, the play toured several cities, with Plummer serving as Powers understudy. Later that same year, he appeared in his first Broadway hit, Plummer appeared less frequently on Broadway in the 1960s as he moved from New York to London. From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the character in Cyrano. For that performance, Plummer won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simons adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor. In the 1980s, he appeared on Broadway in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello, playing Iago to James Earl Jones Moor, and the role in Macbeth with Glenda Jackson playing his lady. His Iago brought him another Tony nomination and he appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 revival of Harold Pinters No Mans Land and had great success in 1997 in Barrymore, which he also toured with after a successful Broadway run. His turn as John Barrymore brought him his second Tony Award and he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his 2004 King Lear and for a Tony playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 revival of Inherit the Wind
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Anthony Hopkins
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE, is a Welsh actor of film, stage, and television. In 1968, he got his break in film in The Lion in Winter, since 2016, he has starred in the critically acclaimed HBO television series Westworld. Along with his Academy Award, Hopkins has won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, and the Cecil B, in 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, Hopkins was born on New Years Eve 1937, in Margam, a suburb of Port Talbot, Glamorgan. His parents were Annie Muriel and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker and his school days were unproductive, he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing, or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to discipline, his parents insisted he attend Jones West Monmouth Boys School in Pontypool. He remained there for five terms and was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan. Hopkins was influenced and encouraged by Welsh compatriot Richard Burton, whom he met at the age of 15, Hopkins promptly enrolled at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, from which he graduated in 1957. After two years in the British Army doing his national service, he moved to London, where he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hopkins made his first professional appearance in the Palace Theatre, Swansea. In 1965, after years in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier. Hopkins became Oliviers understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a production of August Strindbergs The Dance of Death, despite his success at the National, Hopkins tired of repeating the same roles nightly and yearned to be in films. He made his debut in a 1967 BBC broadcast of A Flea in Her Ear. His first starring role in a film came in 1964 in Changes, in 1968, he got his break in The Lion in Winter playing Richard I. Although Hopkins continued in theatre he gradually moved away from it to more established as a television. He portrayed Charles Dickens in the BBC television film The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens in 1970, and Pierre Bezukhov in the BBCs mini series War and Peace. In 1972 he starred as British politician David Lloyd George in Young Winston, in 1980, he starred in The Elephant Man as the English doctor Sir Frederick Treves, who attends to Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man in 19th century London. That year he starred opposite Shirley MacLaine in A Change of Seasons
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Kristy McNichol
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Christina Ann Kristy McNichol is an American actress and singer. Her first stint as a regular came in the role of Patricia Apple in the short-lived CBS television series Apples Way. In 1976, McNichol was cast as Letitia Buddy Lawrence in the drama series Family. In 1977, McNichol appeared on The Carpenters at Christmas TV special, in 1978, she and Jimmy made their own foray into music, recording the album Kristy & Jimmy McNichol for RCA Records. It included the single Hes So Fine, which peaked at #70 on the Billboard chart, the McNichols promoted the album at New Yorks Studio 54 discothèque with other celebrities, such as Brooke Shields. In 1978, McNichol performed with Jimmy in a second Carpenters holiday special, The Carpenters, McNichol was one of the biggest teen stars of that era. She appeared on shows such as The Mike Douglas Show and Dinah. and made several appearances on Battle of the Network Stars. In 1978, she starred in the acclaimed TV movie, Summer of My German Soldier, McNichol began her film career in 1977, in Black Sunday, but her scenes were cut during editing. In 1978, she starred with Burt Reynolds in the comedy The End, in 1980, she played the leading role in the hit coming of age movie Little Darlings, which co starred Tatum ONeal, Matt Dillon, and Cynthia Nixon. Her performance was acclaimed by reviewers, including those who disliked the film itself. In 1980, she appeared with Dennis Quaid and Mark Hamill in The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, the same year, she co starred in Neil Simons Only When I Laugh, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. McNichol was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performance in the 1982 movie The Pirate Movie. That same year McNichol suffered a breakdown while playing the lead role in the comedy-drama Just the Way You Are. She later said that the breakdown had caused by the pressures of her childhood career. In 1986, McNichol appeared in Women of Valor, a TV movie about American nurses in a World War II Japanese POW camp, in 1988, she made two theatrical films, You Cant Hurry Love and Two Moon Junction. In the same year, McNichol played Barbara Weston on the NBC sitcom Empty Nest and she left the show in 1992, but returned for its final episode in 1995. It was her last on-screen performance, though she went on to voice characters in the animated TV series Extreme Ghostbusters, in June 2001, McNichol announced that she has retired from acting. Her publicist released this statement, A lot of people have wondered what Ive been up to, I retired from my career after 24 years
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Richard Burton
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Richard Burton, CBE was a Welsh actor who was noted for his mellifluous baritone voice. Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s and he was called the natural successor to Olivier by critic and dramaturge Kenneth Tynan. An alcoholic, Burtons failure to live up to those expectations disappointed critics and colleagues, Burton was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won an Oscar. He was a recipient of BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor, Burton remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor. The couples turbulent relationship was rarely out of the news, Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr. on 10 November 1925 in a house at 2 Dan-y-bont in Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot. He was the twelfth of thirteen born to Richard Walter Jenkins Sr. Jenkins Sr. called Daddy Ni by the family, was a miner, while his mother worked as a bartender at a pub called the Miners Arms. He remembered his mother to be a strong woman and a religious soul with fair hair. Richard was barely two years old when his mother died on 31 October, six days after the birth of Graham, Ediths death was a result of postpartum infections, Richard believed it occurred due to hygiene neglect. According to biographer Michael Munn, Edith was fastidiously clean, following Ediths death, Richards elder sister Cecilia, whom he affectionately addressed as Cis, and her husband Elfed James, also a miner, took him under their care. I was immensely proud of her and she felt all tragedies except her own. Daddy Ni would occasionally visit the homes of his daughters but was otherwise absent. Another important figure in Richards early life was Ifor, his brother,19 years his senior, a miner and rugby union player, Ifor ruled the household with the proverbial firm hand. He was also responsible for nurturing a passion for Rugby in young Richard, although Richard also played cricket, tennis, and table tennis, biographer Bragg notes rugby union football to be his greatest interest. On rugby, Richard said he would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at The Old Vic, the Welsh rugby union centre, Bleddyn Williams believed Richard had distinct possibilities as a player. From the age of five to eight, Richard was educated at the Eastern Primary School while he attended the Boys segment of the school from eight to twelve years old. He took an exam for admission into Port Talbot Secondary School in March 1937. Biographer Hollis Alpert notes that both Daddy Ni and Ifor considered Richards education to be of paramount importance and planned to send him to the University of Oxford, Richard became the first member of his family to go to secondary school
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Faerie Tale Theatre
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Faerie Tale Theatre is an American live-action childrens anthology series retelling fairy tales. This was one of the first examples of original programming. Faerie Tale Theatre originally aired on Showtime from 1982 to 1987, winning a Peabody Award, TCA Award and it later aired as edited re-runs on the Disney Channel as well as in syndication on various television stations, including PBS and BookTelevision. Shelley Duvall began conception of Faerie Tale Theatre while filming Popeye and she reportedly asked her co-star, Robin Williams, his opinion on The Frog Prince, a fairy tale she was reading during production. Williams would later star in the episode of the series. Every episode opens with Shelley Duvall introducing herself and welcoming the viewer to the show, all the episodes feature live-action twist adaptations of fairy tales in costume by many well-known actors and are directed by such diverse directors as Tim Burton and Francis Ford Coppola. C. Wyeth, Kay Nielsen, Breughel and Muer, Jennie Harbour, Faerie Tale Theatre was released on VHS, Betamax, CED and Laserdisc in the 1980s through mid 1990s, by Playhouse Video, CBS/Fox, and later Razz Ma Tazz Entertainment/Cabin Fever Entertainment. Starmaker II held the rights to the series from 2004 to 2006 and this was followed by a double-sided 4-disc box set and then a 6-disc box set, each version containing the same 26 episodes. The Greatest Moments episode was not included in this release, after 2006, Koch Vision held the series distribution rights, and in November 2006 licensed the rights worldwide to the British company 3DD Entertainment. A new remastered 7-disc box set, including the lost Greatest Moments episode, was released by Koch Vision on September 2,2008, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Julius Caesar Rats monologue. Rumpelstiltskin, the Millers daughter singing with the animals in the forest. com Faerie Tale Theatre at epguides. com
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Basquiat (film)
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Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create collage-style paintings on canvas. Jeffrey Wright portrays Basquiat, and David Bowie plays Basquiats friend, the film was written by Schnabel and Michael Thomas Holman, who was also credited for story development, with story by Lech J. Majewski and John F. Bowe. Holman, a member of theatrical rock group The Tubes, had first met Basquiat in 1979 and together that year they founded an experimental. It begins as the roll with the back of a little boy. A grown-up dreadlocked Basquiat comes out of a box in the bushes behind a graffiti-ised park seat. As he walks the sky becomes a wave a surfer is riding. He catches up with Gina on the street and asks her to come to Mudd Club, when his park box bed collapses in the rain at night he visits Benny and they snort and get high. A prank call to a line then set to music at the Mudd Club where he sees Gina through the crowd. They leave, he cant flag a cab so with a look to her she steps to the front, while in a gallery working with an electrician painter he walks out after being bossed around by the owner, then peers into the art show opening. Hes painting inside with black and white TV on when Gina wakes up and she loses her block, hes painted her dress and paintings but he comforts her back to happiness. Snorting at a drug den where some of them check out passers-by with a telescope which is used to find him after hes left for Rene who runs down in admiration of his talent. Sure enough, the art shows, dealers and gallery owners start to be fixtures in his life, Benny is noticing a change in Basquiats attitude with his new found art world niche and storms out the taxi. The arty-fartyness of it all is coming out as dealers and gallery owners fight for him and his work, Rene loses his block at Mr Chous after an exhibition opening and is forcibly removed. His positive nature shows through being interviewed by a rather condesceding amateur reporter, bicycling around, visiting Andy who is now his friend. He and Gina catch up at a restaurant where a table of businessmen snigger. Andy relays that the gossip is Basquiat is killing himself but doesnt like the idea of him going to Hawaii and opening a tequilla shop, Basquiat sends Andy a dreadlock helmet. Basquiat walking down the street, tries to join in with some graffiti-ists who take offence and it filled everything and everyone up with beauty. Lets go to Ireland he says, stop in every pub and have a drink, the next screen gives his birthdate and that he died on August 12,1988 at 27 years
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Rescue Me (U.S. TV series)
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Rescue Me is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on the FX on July 21,2004 and concluded on September 7,2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters, the protagonist and focal point of the series is veteran New York City Firefighter Tommy Gavin. The series follows Tommys troubled family and co-workers as they deal with life issues. Tommy struggles with the loss of his cousin and best friend, Firefighter Jimmy Keefe, as well as fifty-nine other firefighters whom he knew, Jimmy frequently visits Tommy in ghostly dreams. Tommy is an impatient, self-loathing, hypocritical, manipulative, relapsed alcoholic who suffers with severe survivor guilt, in the pilot episode, Tommy and his wife Janet have already separated, although they are technically still married, and Tommy has moved across the street. Rescue Me mainly focuses on the family of Tommy Gavin and the men of Tommys firehouse, the show opens by exploring their lives, both at home and inside the firehouse. It also features the well-known comedian Denis Leary, who carries his humorous nature over into the show. Gavin and his wife, Janet are separated and, from across the street, he sees her begin to again and plans to get her back and prevent her from taking his children. Janet separated from Tommy several months prior, due to his failure to commit to his family and open up about 9/11. Tommy also begins an affair with Jimmys widow Sheila, and Probationary Firefighter, or probie Mike Silletti begins to date a fat chick named Theresa. Lt. Ken Shea, Tommys superior officer, deals with 9/11 by secretly writing poetry, after firefighter Billy Warren dies in a fire, the city sends Laura Miles to replace him. She clashes with the guys in general and with Tommy in particular and she is watching him, and believes he is becoming dangerous as he takes more and more seemingly unnecessary risks on the job. In the final scene of the finale, Tommy shows up at his wifes house to find her. While consuming a bottle of vodka he finds in a cupboard, the second season premiered on June 21,2005. It began with Tommy at a new firehouse on Staten Island and his replacement at 62 Truck, Sully, while responding to a fire at an underground sex club, they discover that the woman they rescued is really Sully in a black leather skirt and bustier. The next day, Sully requests a transfer because he knows that the crew will never let him live that down and this clears the way for Tommy to return. Back in the old house Tommy shifts his focus to finding his family and dealing with his father, Sheila has a miscarriage, but lies about it to keep Tommy near. Later on in the season, Sheila gets involved in a relationship with a woman who turns abusive towards Sheila, meanwhile, Tommy and Johnny Gavin find out that their father had a long, on-going affair during their childhood, which produced two children
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Tommy Gavin
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Thomas Michael Tommy Gavin is a fictional character and the protagonist of the FX television series Rescue Me. He is portrayed by Denis Leary, for his portrayal, Leary was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. The characters name was created by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan, thomas Michael Tommy Gavin is a third generation New York City Fire Department Firefighter with an Irish Catholic upbringing, although a Lapsed Catholic into adulthood. Tommy followed in his fathers footsteps and became a firefighter in 1986, Tommy was first assigned as a Probie or Probationary Firefighter to a firehouse in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. Throughout his career, Tommy has transferred several times to firehouses in both Brooklyn and Uptown, Manhattan, during one season of the show, Tommy was temporarily transferred to Engine Co. 73, a firehouse on Staten Island, Tommys fire company and firehouse lost four men during the attacks of 9/11, one of whom was Tommys cousin and best friend, Jimmy Keefe. Jimmy had been the Senior Man of 62 Truck prior to his death, Tommy also personally knew fifty-six other firefighters who were killed on 9/11. Tommy is also a motivational speaker/consultant for the New York City Fire Academy, as seen in the pilot, Tommy is married to his high school sweetheart Janet Gavin, who became pregnant with their oldest daughter, Colleen, when she was only seventeen. Their relationship is mostly unstable, however at some points they appear to be united, theyve had five children together, two girls and three boys. Connor was killed in an accident, putting further strain on Tommy and Janets relationship. Tommy is also throughout the series in an affair with his dead cousins widow. The two are sleeping together numerous times on the basis of sharing mutual grief over Jimmy Keefes death. He is an alcoholic, as well as a chain-smoker. Throughout the series, a theme is that Tommy is very mentally and emotionally disturbed as a result of what he witnessed on 9/11. Because of the loss he endured, Tommy suffers from intense survivors guilt. Tommy is often visited by ghosts, deceased people from his past - most frequently his cousin Jimmy and it is left ambiguous whether these are real ghosts or figments of Tommys imagination. For the first, fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons, during the second, third, and fourth season, Tommy lived in various apartments in Manhattan. Tommy claims to have voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election in the Season 7 episode Vows, Season 1 Throughout the first season of Rescue Me, Tommy is living across the street from his estranged wife Janet in Queens
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Denis Leary
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Denis Colin Leary is an American actor, writer, producer, singer and comedian. Leary was the star and co-creator of Rescue Me, which ended its seventh, from 2015 to 2016, Leary wrote and starred in the comedy series, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll on FX. Denis Colin Leary was born on August 18,1957, in Worcester, Massachusetts and his mother, Nora, was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic. Being the son of Irish parents, Leary is a citizen of both the United States and Ireland, through marriage, Leary is a third cousin of talk show host, Conan OBrien. He attended Saint Peters High School, in Worcester and graduated from Emerson College, at Emerson, he met fellow comic Mario Cantone, whom to this day Leary considers his closest friend. At the school, he founded the Emerson Comedy Workshop, a troupe that continues on-campus today, after graduating with the Emerson Class of 1981, he took a job at the school teaching comedy writing classes and maintained the job for five years. He wrote and appeared on a comedy series, The Late, Late Show, hosted by his friend, Lenny Clarke. He appeared in skits on the MTV game show Remote Control, playing characters as Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, the brother of co-host Colin Quinn. Leary earned fame when he ranted about R. E. M. in an early 1990s MTV sketch, several other commercials for MTV quickly followed, in which Leary would rant at high speeds about a variety of topics, playing off the then-popular and growing alternative scene. One of these serves as an introduction to the video of Shamrocks. He released two records of his comedy, No Cure for Cancer and Lock n Load. In late 2004, he released the EP Merry F#%$in Christmas, which included a mix of new music, previously unreleased recordings and it was voted #1 in an Australian youth radio poll. The song was used as part of the Holsten Pils series of ads in the UK, in which Leary was participating, the single was a minor hit there, peaking at No.58 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1996. Leary has appeared in more than 40 films, including, The Sandlot as Scotts stepfather Bill, the Matchmaker, The Ref, Draft Day, Suicide Kings, Dawg, Wag the Dog, Demolition Man, Judgment Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Operation Dumbo Drop. He had a part in Oliver Stones Natural Born Killers that was eventually cut. Leary was offered the role of Dignam in The Departed but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with Rescue Me, as a Boston Red Sox fan, he narrated the official 2004 World Series film. As an ice hockey fan, Leary hosted the National Hockey League video NHLs Greatest Goals, in 2003, he was the subject of the Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary. Leary did the TV voiceover for MLB 2K8 advertisements, where he used his trademark rant style in baseball terms and he has also appeared in commercials for Hulu and DirecTVs NFL Sunday Ticket package
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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate
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Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)
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Dancing with the Stars is an American dance competition television series that premiered on June 1,2005, on ABC. It is the US version of the UK series Strictly Come Dancing, the show is hosted by Tom Bergeron, alongside Erin Andrews, who became co-host in season 18. Lisa Canning was co-host in season 1, Samantha Harris co-hosted seasons 2 through 9, the series has been renewed through seasons 23 and 24 as of March 3,2016. The 24th season premiered on March 20,2017, the format of the show consists of a celebrity paired with a professional dancer. Each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges points, the couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains. Tom Bergeron has been the host since the premiere in 2005. In season 1, his co-host was Lisa Canning and she was replaced by Samantha Harris for seasons 2 through 9, who was then replaced by Brooke Burke-Charvet from seasons 10 through 17. Erin Andrews took over as co-host starting in season 18, Drew Lachey served as a temporary replacement for Harris during season 5 during her absence for 3 weeks due to maternity leave. Leah Remini filled in for Andrews in week 6 of season 19, due to commitments with the 2014 World Series, season 19 champion Alfonso Ribeiro filled in for Bergeron on week 4 of season 21, due to Bergerons ailing father. The regular judges are Len Goodman, who serves as judge, Carrie Ann Inaba. Goodman was absent for much of season 19, all of season 21, and much of season 23. Julianne Hough, who was a dancing partner for seasons 4–8, was added as a full-time judge on the panel for 3 seasons, 19–21. She did not return for season 22, Hough did return as a full-time judge for season 23 on. Several former contestants appeared as judges in episode 200, including Hélio Castroneves, Mel B, Drew Lachey, Gilles Marini, Kelly Osbourne, color key, A total of 273 celebrities have appeared in the 24 seasons of the series. For each season, the celebrities are paired with a partner who instructs them in the various dances each week. A total of 43 professional partners have appeared alongside celebrities, some for one season. Key, In season 12, the introduced the troupe consisting of professional dancers who perform on the show but are not paired with celebrity partners. The 1st troupe in season 12 included Tristan MacManus, Peta Murgatroyd, Kiki Nyemchek, Nicole Volynets, Ted Volynets, members of the season 24 troupe are Brandon Armstrong, Alan Bersten, Brittany Cherry, Hayley Erbert, KC Monnie, and Britt Stewart
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Entertainment Tonight
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As of 2015, the programs weekday broadcasts are currently anchored by Nancy ODell and Kevin Frazier, while the weekend editions are anchored by Cameron Mathison and Nischelle Turner. It is the entertainment news program on television, having made its premiere telecast on September 14,1981. It was announced on January 30,2006, that Entertainment Tonight was renewed through the 2011–12 season, in its early years, ET was co-produced in association with TeleRep, Cox Broadcasting, and Taft/Great American Broadcasting. Paramount Domestic Television would later absorb the syndication companies that the two companies had once owned, Rysher Entertainment and Worldvision Enterprises. The show also provides individualized teasers to some of the stations air the program to be carried during newscasts that lead into the show. ET Radio Minute, a radio feature, is syndicated by Westwood One. As of mid-April 2016, ET cut back on mentioning celebrity birthdays again, early on, Frank, Goldhammer and Harris held many discussions with producers, writers and directors about what kind of program ET should be. Although the pilot was produced by Jack Haley Jr. Andy Friendly was hired as the shows first producer, when Entertainment Tonight premiered on September 14,1981, Ron Hendren was one of the original co-hosts, with Marjorie Wallace and Tom Hallick. Friendly left the show after six weeks, with Goldhammer taking over his role, around that same time, Dixie Whatley replaced Wallace and Hallick, becoming Hendrens sole co-host. Goldhammer established the unique look, sound, pace and reporting style. Friendly put together a diverse staff ranging from former rock roadies to veteran television reporters of the Vietnam War era – some of whom continued to work on the show for more than 20 years. In 1982, Goldhammer hired Mary Hart and Leeza Gibbons to respectively host the weekday, Hendren departed from the program in 1984, and was replaced as co-host by Robb Weller, Weller left two years later and was replaced by John Tesh. In its early years, Entertainment Tonight – following a local newscast-style format – consisted primarily of coverage of the latest movies, music and television releases, during Bellows tenure, the program also produced a series of investigative reports about Hollywoods drug use issues and hiring practices. S. Stern, who represented Daniel Birkhead in the paternity case of the late Anna Nicole Smiths daughter Dannielynn, ET has also aired exclusive stories related to Anna Nicole Smith, including coverage of her funeral, and her surviving daughter. In a letter he sent to Paramount, Clooney stated that he would encourage his friends to do the same, Mary Hart stepped down from her role as anchor on May 20,2011, after 29 years with Entertainment Tonight. Mark Steines and Nancy ODell became the primary hosts once Hart left. ODell then became the sole host of the show after Steines left on July 27,2012, behind-the-scenes staffing changes throughout 2014 and technology have also played a role in reducing the shows paparazzi footage considerably
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NaShawn Kearse
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NaShawn Kearse is an American television and film actor. Kearse has made appearances in HBO series Entourage, as rapper Saigons cousin. Kearse had a part in ABC series Desperate Housewives, replacing the fired Page Kennedy in the role of Caleb Applewhite. Prior to Desperate Housewives, Kearse had roles in Taxi, Marci X, Cross Bronx, Kearse co-starred in the 2007 film My Brother alongside Vanessa L. Williams. Kearse appeared as a regular on Late Night with Conan OBrien for several years in the late 1990s. NaShawn Kearse at the Internet Movie Database
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Vanessa Williams
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Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American actress, singer, and fashion designer. She initially gained recognition as the first African-American recipient of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. However, a few prior to the end of her reign. Williams thus resigned as Miss America on July 22,1984, a few years later, she rebounded as an entertainer with the song The Right Stuff. She then had a string of albums and singles and also found success as an actress. You have lived life in grace and dignity, and never was it more evident than during the events of 1984. Though none of us currently in the organization were involved then, on behalf of todays organization, I want to apologize to you and to your mother, Miss Helen Williams. I want to apologize for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less the Miss America you are, Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in the The Bronx, New York, with a birth announcement that read, Here she is, Miss America. Her maternal great-great grandfather was William A. Feilds, an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives and her mother, Helen Tinch, met her father, Milton Augustine Williams Jr. while both were music education students at Fredonia State Teachers College in the late 1950s. They both became elementary school music teachers after marriage, though their positions were in separate districts. Milton also served as the Assistant Principal of his school for a period of time. Williams was raised Roman Catholic, the religion of her father and her mother, who had been raised Baptist, converted to Catholicism when she got married. Williams was baptized at Our Lady of Grace Church in the Bronx, Williams mother played the organ at St. Theresas Church in Briarcliff Manor for weddings and at mass and Williams used to assist her mother by turning the pages of sheet music. Williams and her younger brother Chris grew up in a predominantly white suburb of New York City. Williams believes that she may have been the first African-American student to go from the first grade to the 12th grade in the Chappaqua Central School District. As the child of teachers, Williams grew up in a musical household, studying classical and jazz dance, French horn, piano. Thus, in 1981, Williams joined Syracuses College of Visual and Performing Arts and she stayed at Syracuse through her sophomore year, until she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. Twenty-five years later in May 2008, Syracuse granted Williams a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, according to Syracuse News, Williams earned the remaining credits for her degree through industry experience and her substantial performances on stage and screen
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Michael Jackson
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance, the eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music, the popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame. Jacksons 1987 album Bad spawned the U. S and he continued to innovate with videos such as Black or White and Scream throughout the 1990s, and forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and his distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres. Thriller is the album of all time, with estimated sales of 65 million copies worldwide. Jacksons other albums, including Off the Wall, Bad, Dangerous and he is recognized as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time by Guinness World Records. Jackson won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. He became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when Love Never Felt So Good reached number nine on May 21,2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, aspects of Jacksons personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In 1993, he was accused of sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse allegations. While preparing for his concert series, This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25,2009. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician, Jacksons death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world. Forbes ranks Jackson as the dead celebrity with earnings of $825 million in 2016. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 and his mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovahs Witness. She played clarinet and piano and once aspired to be a country-and-western performer, michaels father, Joseph Walter Joe Jackson, a former boxer, was a steelworker at U. S. Steel
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Martin Bashir
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Martin Henry Bashir is a British journalist. He was previously an anchor for ABCs Nightline, on 4 December 2013, Bashir resigned from his position at MSNBC after he made ill-judged comments about the former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Bashir was appointed as BBC News Religious Affairs correspondent from October 2016, Bashir was born and raised in Wandsworth, London, to parents of Pakistani Christian origin. He started work as a journalist in 1986, Bashir came to wide prominence in 1995 when he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales about her failed marriage to the Prince of Wales. Since then he has conducted interviews with, among others, Louise Woodward, the five suspects in the Stephen Lawrence case, Michael Barrymore, Jeffrey Archer, Major Charles Ingram, Bashir was employed by ABC and co-anchored their current affairs show Nightline. Along with Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran, he took over Nightline from Ted Koppel in 2005, in August 2010 Bashir left ABC for MSNBC where he served as a political commentator until 4 December 2013, as well as an occasional substitute host for Lawrence ODonnell. It was announced in September 2016 that Bashir was returning to the BBC as religious affairs correspondent, Bashir had a role as himself in the satirical comedy film Mike Bassett, England Manager. In 2003, Bashir conducted a series of interviews with pop singer Michael Jackson, as part of an ITV documentary Living with Michael Jackson, which Uri Geller, a friend of Jacksons, had arranged. In response, Jackson and his personal cameraman released a rebuttal interview, Bashir defended the documentary, stating, I dont believe that Ive betrayed Michael Jackson at all. I agreed that we would make an honest film about his life, the film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself. Im not accusing anybody of being a child molester or a paedophile, during the speech, he stated, Im happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes. Im happy that the podium covers me from the waist down and he wrote an apology to the journalist association which stated, Upon reflection, it was a tasteless remark that I now bitterly regret. I … hope that the work of the organization will not be harmed or undermined by my moment of stupidity. On 15 November 2013, Bashir criticized Sarah Palin for comments that she made comparing the Federal debt to slavery, Bashir then concluded by saying if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, she would be the outstanding candidate. After many complaints, Bashir apologized on 18 November, stating among other things and they were neither accurate, nor fair. They were unworthy of anyone who would claim to have an interest in politics, on 2 December, Bashir was suspended by the network and then resigned two days later. He released an album, Bass Lion, on 26 October 2010. Bashir is fluent in English and Urdu and he identifies himself as a committed Christian, and has attended Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York
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Central Park West
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Eighth Avenue is a north-south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. While the avenue has different names at different points in Manhattan, north of Frederick Douglass Circle, it resumes its Eighth Avenue designation, but is also known as Frederick Douglass Boulevard. The avenue ends north of 155th Street, and merges into the Harlem River Drive, the New York City Subway IND Eighth Avenue Line runs under Eighth Avenue. MTA Regional Bus Operations primarily operates two bus routes on the avenue, the northbound M20 serves Eighth Avenue between Abingdon Square and Columbus Circle, while the M10 serves the length of Eighth Avenue north of 59th Street in its entirety. The southernmost section is solely as Eighth Avenue between Abingdon Square and Columbus Circle. This portion of Eighth Avenue has carried traffic one-way northbound since June 6,1954, in fact, New York Citys annual gay pride parade takes place along the Greenwich Village section of Eighth Avenue. As its name indicates, CPW forms the edge of Central Park. It also forms the boundary of the Upper West Side. It runs 51 blocks from Columbus Circle to Frederick Douglass Circle, Central Park Wests expensive housing rivals that of Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side. Most of these housing cooperatives were built around 1930, replacing late 19th century hotels with the same names, some, including The Century, The San Remo, and The Majestic, are twin towers. Other landmarks and institutions along its length include the New-York Historical Society, the area from 61st to 97th Streets is included in the Central Park West Historic District. The building located at 55 Central Park West is the infamous Spook Central from the movie Ghostbusters, the famed New York City restaurant Tavern on the Green is located off of Central Park West, at 66th Street, within the grounds of Central Park. In 1899, while exiting a streetcar, Henry Bliss was run over by a taxi at CPW and West 74th Street, becoming the first person to be run down and killed by a motor car in the Americas. North of Frederick Douglass Circle at 110th Street in Harlem, it is Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Frederick Douglass Boulevard eventually terminates near the Harlem River at the Harlem River Drive around West 159th Street. While Central Park West has its own system, address numbers on Frederick Douglass Boulevard continue from where they would be if Central Park West used the Eighth Avenue numbering system. Formerly described as being like Detroit in its urban blight, it is now gentrified, especially in the restaurants along its route and this gentrification is partly due to massive city investment. The share of whites jumped to 12.4 percent from 2.3 percent, median household income rose 28 percent, to $34,694. Notes New York Songlines, Eighth Avenue, a walking tour
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Oprah Winfrey Network (U.S. TV channel)
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The Oprah Winfrey Network, named for the former daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, is an American television channel owned by Harpo Productions and Discovery Communications. It debuted on January 1,2011, in approximately 80 million homes, in late 2012, Tyler Perry partnered with OWN to provide it with scripted television programming. One of Perrys series, The Haves and the Have Nots has consistently posted very successful ratings and has set a preeminent record on OWN, as of February 2015, OWN is available to approximately 81.9 million pay television households in the United States. OWN broadcasts in both resolution and high-definition resolution. All markets of DirecTV, AT&T Uverse, Dish Network, Cablevision, charter Communications, Cox, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS carry the HD feed of the channel only in some markets. PlayStation Vue carries the channel at on its service, which is broadcast over the internet, comcast/Xfinity have yet to carry the channel in HD. The primetime programming varies and is repeated in late night, followed by a movie and a morning block of talk shows including Dr. Phil, Rachel Ray. The programming includes a mix of programs, specials, documentaries. The channel does not air infomercials, in Canada, the former Canadian version of Discovery Health, owned by Shaw Media, did not become a Canadian version of OWN, instead shifting to a reality-based format known as Twist TV. Instead, Corus Entertainment agreed to launch a Canadian version of OWN—its existing channel Viva was re-launched as OWN on March 1,2011, during January and February 2011, selected OWN programming aired on both Viva and the co-owned W Network. Both Shaw Media and Corus share common ownership interests from the J. R. Shaw family, Winfrey revealed to The New York Times that she is in final negotiations to release the channel in Brazil and Argentina. An OWN Programming Block that features popular series such as Oprahs Next Chapter, Oprahs Lifeclass, the same programming block began airing Discovery Home & Health in Australia on August 4,2013. It was announced on September 20,2013, that the OWN Programming Block would begin airing in South Africa on DStv beginning October 17,2013. OWN Programming Block also debuted in Poland and Russia in August and September, it debuted on October 28,2013. In October 2012, Tyler Perry entered into a partnership with OWN, according to the terms, all of Perrys new TV projects would air on the OWN network. These TV projects would comprise a total of 90 episodes and help the network fill its schedule with original content. All three series were renewed after their respective first seasons on OWN, on January 9,2014, it was announced that OWN ordered a drama series If Loving You Is Wrong. The show premiered on September 9,2014
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