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The Goldbergs (2013 TV series)
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The Goldbergs is an American sitcom that premiered on Tuesday, September 24,2013 on ABC. The series was created by Adam F. Goldberg and stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff Garlin, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, Hayley Orrantia, the show is produced by Goldberg, Seth Gordon, and Doug Robinson. It is loosely based on Goldbergs childhood and family in the 1980s, on May 8,2014, ABC announced the second season renewal of The Goldbergs. It was also announced that the show would move to Wednesdays at 8,30 pm ET, on May 7,2015, the show was renewed for a third season, which premiered on September 23,2015. The series was renewed for a season, on March 3,2016. The Goldbergs is set in the 1980s in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, the show is loosely based on the showrunners own childhood, during which he videotaped events, many of which are re-enacted throughout the program. It shows the reality of the 80s from a young boys eyes and gives a look into four aspiring writers. The series stars Jeff Garlin as patriarch Murray and Wendi McLendon-Covey as matriarch Beverly and their two older children are Erica and Barry. The youngest child, Adam, documents his life with his video camera. Beverlys father, Albert Pops Solomon, is frequently around to provide advice or to help out his grandchildren, the present-day Adult Adam narrates every episode as taking place in 1980-something. The narrator takes creative liberties with the time frame, many references to real-life Philadelphia-area businesses are made, including the Wawa Inc. convenience store chain, Willow Grove Park Mall and Kremps Florist of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Wendi McLendon-Covey as Beverly Goldberg, the matriarch of the Goldbergs. She frequently injects herself into her childrens lives, often to their embarrassment, Sean Giambrone as Adam Fredrick Goldberg, the pop-culture obsessed youngest child of the Goldbergs. Smart and geeky, he often films his familys activities on a VHS camcorder, patton Oswalt voices the adult Adam Goldberg, who narrates the show from the present day. Troy Gentile as Barry Norman Goldberg, the overconfident, slightly dim-witted middle child of the Goldbergs, though seemingly untalented in every way, he remains highly self-assured while trying to become popular in high school. Hayley Orrantia as Erica Dorothy Goldberg, the nonchalant oldest child of the Goldbergs, smart and musically gifted but rebellious, she is popular in school and dominant over her younger brothers. AJ Michalka as Lainey Lewis, Ericas best friend and one of the most popular girls at school, whom Barry has had a lifelong crush on. To the surprise of many, Lainey kisses Barry at a party in the first season finale, George Segal as Albert Pops Solomon, Beverlys laid back father
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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English Language
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English /ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/ is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the global lingua franca. Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, English is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states. It is the third most common language in the world, after Mandarin. It is the most widely learned second language and a language of the United Nations, of the European Union. It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch, English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the century, are called Old English. Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England, Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London and the King James Bible, and the start of the Great Vowel Shift. Through the worldwide influence of the British Empire, modern English spread around the world from the 17th to mid-20th centuries, English is an Indo-European language, and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Most closely related to English are the Frisian languages, and English, Old Saxon and its descendent Low German languages are also closely related, and sometimes Low German, English, and Frisian are grouped together as the Ingvaeonic or North Sea Germanic languages. Modern English descends from Middle English, which in turn descends from Old English, particular dialects of Old and Middle English also developed into a number of other English languages, including Scots and the extinct Fingallian and Forth and Bargy dialects of Ireland. English is classified as a Germanic language because it shares new language features with other Germanic languages such as Dutch, German and these shared innovations show that the languages have descended from a single common ancestor, which linguists call Proto-Germanic. Through Grimms law, the word for foot begins with /f/ in Germanic languages, English is classified as an Anglo-Frisian language because Frisian and English share other features, such as the palatalisation of consonants that were velar consonants in Proto-Germanic. The earliest form of English is called Old English or Anglo-Saxon, in the fifth century, the Anglo-Saxons settled Britain and the Romans withdrew from Britain. England and English are named after the Angles, Old English was divided into four dialects, the Anglian dialects, Mercian and Northumbrian, and the Saxon dialects, Kentish and West Saxon. Through the educational reforms of King Alfred in the century and the influence of the kingdom of Wessex. The epic poem Beowulf is written in West Saxon, and the earliest English poem, Modern English developed mainly from Mercian, but the Scots language developed from Northumbrian. A few short inscriptions from the period of Old English were written using a runic script. By the sixth century, a Latin alphabet was adopted, written with half-uncial letterforms and it included the runic letters wynn ⟨ƿ⟩ and thorn ⟨þ⟩, and the modified Latin letters eth ⟨ð⟩, and ash ⟨æ⟩
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NBC Red Network
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The NBC Red Network is a defunct American radio network. Launched in 1926, it, along with the NBC Blue Network, were the two radio networks of the National Broadcasting Company, and the first two commercial radio networks in the United States. CBS Radio was established a year later, in 1943, NBC was required to divest itself of its Blue Network, which would eventually become the American Broadcasting Company. The Red Network continued as the NBC Radio Network, the NBC Radio Network itself no longer exists under its original configuration, having been spun off and gradually dissolved into eventual corporate parent Westwood One. In 1923, the Radio Corporation of America acquired control of WJZ in Newark, New Jersey, from Westinghouse, as part of the purchase, RCA also gained the rights to rent AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, and the technology for operating a quality radio network. On September 13,1926, RCA chairman of the board Owen D, Young and president James G. Harbord announced the formation of the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. to begin broadcasting upon RCAs acquisition of WEAF on November 15. The purpose of the National Broadcasting Company will be to provide the best programs available for broadcasting in the United States and it is hoped that arrangements may be made so that every event of national importance may be broadcast widely throughout the United States, announced M. H. Aylesworth, the first president of NBC, in the press release, although RCA was identified as the creator of the network, NBC was actually owned 50% by RCA, 30% by General Electric, and 20% by Westinghouse. The network officially was launched at 8 p. m. ET on Monday, carl Schlagel of the Metropolitan Opera opened the inaugural broadcast, which also featured Will Rogers and Mary Garden. The broadcast was made simultaneously on WEAF and WJZ, some of NBCs programming was broadcast that evening on WEEI WLIT, WRC, WDAF, and WWJ. noted by the different background color. NBC Blue would utilize this logo until their 1942 sale, on January 1,1927, NBC formally divided its programming along two networks. The two NBC networks did not have distinct identities or formats, the NBC Red Network, with WEAF as its flagship station and a stronger line-up of affiliated stations, often carried the more popular, big budget sponsored programs. The Blue Network and WJZ carried a somewhat smaller line-up of often lower-powered stations, NBC Blue often carried newer, untried programs, lower cost programs and un-sponsored or sustaining programs. In many cities in addition to New York, the two NBC affiliated stations were operated as duopolies, having the same owners and sharing the same staff, at this time, most network programs were owned by the sponsors and produced by their advertising agencies. The networks did not control or program their own schedules as they do now, Networks rented studio facilities to produce shows and sold air-time to sponsors. The only network produced programs were unsponsored programs used to fill unsold time periods, a similar two-part/two-color strategy appeared in the recording industry, dividing the market between classical and popular offerings. NBC Red then extended its reach into the midwest by acquiring two 50,000 watt clear-channel signals, Cleveland station WTAM on October 16,1930, on October 18,1931, Blue Network programming was introduced along the NBC Gold Network, which broadcast from San Franciscos KPO. In 1936 the Orange Network name was dropped and affiliate stations became part of the Red Network, the Gold Network adopted the Blue Network name
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CBS News Radio
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CBS Radio News, historically known as the CBS Radio Network, provides news to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by CBS Corporation, it is the last of the three original national U. S. radio networks owned by its parent company. CBS Radio News is one of the programming services distributed by Westwood One, the network is the oldest unit of the CBS Corporation and traces its roots to CBSs predecessor, United Independent Broadcasters, founded in 1927 with 47 affiliates. The next year, Columbia Records invested in the radio network, eventually, Columbia pulled its backing from the struggling web. William S. Paley bought a half-interest in what became the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928, for more about the networks history, see CBS. Louis, KRLD in Dallas and WCCO in Minneapolis and its offerings include the top-of-the-hour newscasts and the half-hour news updates. In addition to the product, reports and actualities are made available to affiliates on its Newsfeeds. Newsfeeds are subscribed heavily to by WCBS, KYW and other top outlets, among its on-air programs are the CBS News-on-the-Hour and the morning Osgood File features with Charles Osgood. The network is home to the morning and evening editions of the CBS World News Roundup, steve Kathan anchors the morning show, while Bill Whitney hosts the evening edition. The daily Roundup dates back to a special on March 13,1938, each Friday, the network also produces the CBS News Weekend Roundup, a look at the top stories of the week, hosted by Dan Raviv, with a commentary from Charles Grodin. CBS Radio has an impressive list of reporters around the world including Barry Bagnato, Mark Knoller, Pam Coulter, Sabina Castelfranco, Robert Berger, Cami McCormick, Logan also reports for CBS Television, and many TV correspondents also appear on CBS Radio newscasts. In 2009, CBS launched a late night talk program hosted by Jon Grayson. CBS themselves handle the syndication of Graysons show, while syndication for Smerconishs show to non-CBS stations has been outsourced to Dial Global. Graysons show, Overnight America, also entered national syndication via Dial Global on January 30,2012, meanwhile, Smerconish discontinued the morning show in 2011. Three of CBSs television programs are currently simulcast on CBS Radio News, those are Face the Nation,60 Minutes, in addition, the Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten List was also broadcast by the network in a short-form-feature format until the shows conclusion in 2015. Other public-affairs features include CBS Healthwatch with Dr. Emily Senay, Raising Our Kids with WCBS morning anchor Pat Carroll, CBS has since announced plans to launch CBS Sports Radio in fall 2012 through a rival network, Cumulus Media Networks. During the overnight hours, CBSN carries a video simulcast of CBS Radio Newss top-of-the-hour reports, while the networks World News Roundup is the longest-running news show on radio or TV in the U. S. On February 2,2017, CBS Corporation announced that it had agreed to sell its radio unit with Entercom and it was not specified whether or not CBS Radio News was included in the sale
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Gertrude Berg
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Gertrude Berg was an American actress, screenwriter and producer. Her career achievements include winning a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, Berg was born Tillie Edelstein in 1899 in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, to Jacob and Diana Edelstein, natives of Russia and England, respectively. Bergs chronically unstable mother, Dinah, grieving over the death of her son, experienced a series of nervous breakdowns. Tillie, who lived with her family on Lexington Avenue, married Lewis Berg in 1918 and she learned theater while producing skits at her fathers Catskills Mountains resort in Fleischmanns, New York. After the sugar factory where her husband worked burned down, she developed a skit, portraying a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement. Though the household had a typewriter, Berg wrote her script by hand, when the executive she was meeting with protested that he could not read what Berg had written, she read the script aloud to him. Her performance not only sold the idea for the radio program, Berg continued to write the shows scripts by hand in pencil for as long as the program was on the air. On November 20,1929, a 15-minute episode of The Rise of the Goldbergs was first broadcast on the NBC radio network and she started at $75 a week. Less than two years later, in the heart of the Great Depression, she let the sponsor propose a salary and was told, Mrs. Berg, we cant pay a cent over $2,000 a week. Berg became inextricably identified as Molly Goldberg, the matriarch of her fictitious Bronx family who moved to Connecticut as a symbol of Jewish-American upward mobility. She wrote practically all the radio episodes plus a Broadway adaptation, Me. It took considerable convincing, but Berg finally prevailed upon CBS to let her bring The Goldbergs to television in 1949, early episodes portrayed the Goldberg family openly and personally struggling to adapt to American life. Just as Berg stated in her autobiography, she chose to depict her Jewish grandfathers worship to America and her characters Molly, Jake, Sammy and Rosie emphasized her day to day stories of Jewish immigration to America. Immigrant life and the Goldberg family struggle were familiar and relatable to many families during this point in American history, Radio seemed to lend a hand to new settlers and produced a common place to tie patriotism and families together. The programs victory is largely because of the feelings of the American people portrayed in the programs scripts. The first season script was published into a book form. The Goldbergs ran into trouble in 1951, during the McCarthy Era, co-star Philip Loeb was one of the performers named in Red Channels, The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television and blacklisted as a result. Loeb resigned rather than cause Berg trouble and he reportedly received a generous severance package from the show, but it didnt prevent him from sinking into the depression that ultimately drove him to suicide in 1955
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Philip Loeb
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Philip Loeb, was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was blacklisted under McCarthyism and committed suicide in response, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Loeb first performed in a high school production of Lady Gregorys The Workhouse Ward. He served in the Army, then worked as manager of The Green Goddess. His stage career gained strength in the early 1920s when he associated with the newly formed Theatre Guild in New York City. He worked in a number of plays throughout the decade and his stage work lessened in the 1930s, while he worked with Actors Equity Association. In 1948, Loeb portrayed the role of Jake Goldberg on Broadway in Gertrude Bergs play Me, after the play, he reprised the role on the television adaptation of The Goldbergs on CBS. Loeb became a favorite as the exasperated, loving husband Jake to Bergs meddlesome. In June 1950, Red Channels, The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television, Loeb denied being a Communist, but the sponsors of The Goldbergs, General Foods, insisted that he be dropped from the shows cast due to his controversiality. Berg refused to fire Loeb, but Loeb soon resigned, accepting a settlement which was estimated at $40,000, loebs last acting job was in the 1952 Broadway production of Time Out For Ginger and its subsequent Chicago production in 1954. In his memoirs, Inside Out, blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein describes Loeb as being disconsolate, Loeb was the sole support of a mentally disturbed son, and was burdened with money worries. Bernstein was part of a circle of friends including Zero Mostel, the following year Loeb committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills in the Taft Hotel in midtown Manhattan on September 1,1955. Loeb was buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery in his native Philadelphia, loebs suicide was reflected in the character Hecky Brown, played by his real-life friend Zero Mostel, in Martin Ritts 1976 film examining the Hollywood blacklist, The Front. The screenplay of the movie was written by another friend from that era, loebs case is also noted in the Philip Roth novel, I Married a Communist. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts—where Loeb was an instructor—awards an annual scholarship in his memory, Equity briefly issued the Philip Loeb Humanitarian Award. Philip Loeb at the Internet Broadway Database Philip Loeb at the Internet Movie Database Philip Loeb at Find a Grave
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Harold J. Stone
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Harold J. Stone was an American stage, radio, film, and television character actor. In 1949, he co-starred on the live television sitcom The Hartmans. Valentines Day Massacre, The Big Mouth, The Seven Minutes, Mitchell, edd Byrnes plays Benji Danton, the son of the slain couple whose girlfriend is being held hostage by Larkins only surviving son. The key to resolution of the story is illuminating material left by an itinerant photographer seeking to capture the spirit of the Old West, in the 1961–1962 season, Stone appeared three times in Stephen McNallys ABC crime drama Target, The Corruptors. In 1963, he appeared with Marsha Hunt in the ABC medical drama Breaking Point in an episode which was nominated for an Emmy Award for writing, in September 1964, he appeared in the Western series, Bonanza. Also in 1964, Stone appeared in Daniel Boone starring Fess Parker, Stone was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in CBSs The Nurses. The Blue Dahlia The Harder They Fall as Art Leavitt Somebody Up There Likes Me as Nick Barbella Back from Eternity as Dealer The Wrong Man as Det, hogans Heroes S5 E10 The Defector as Field Marshal Rudolph Richter. Hogans Heroes S6 E23 Looking at the Pretty Snowflakes as General Strommberger, Harold J. Stone at Find a Grave Harold J. Stone at the Internet Movie Database 16266 Harold J. Stone at the Internet Broadway Database
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Robert H. Harris
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Robert H. Harris was an American character actor born in Manhattan. A veteran of the Yiddish Art Theater from his teens, Harris made his first Broadway appearance in 1937 in Schoolhouse on the Lot. His other Broadway credits include Xmas in Las Vegas, Minor Miracle, Foxy, Look, Ma, Im Dancin. and Brooklyn, in 1952, Harris was the managing director of the Woodstock Playhouse in Woodstock, New York. Prior to that, he had directed repertory theatera in Boston, from 1950 on, he appeared extensively on television series, specializing in playing shady, if not outright evil, characters. From 1953–1956 he played Jake Goldberg in The Goldbergs, one of his few sympathetic roles, in 1957, Harris played the lead role in The Court of Last Resort. He also made many guest appearances in many other TV series and these include eight appearances in Alfred Hitchcock Presents between 1956–1961 and seven appearances in Perry Mason between 1958–1965. Among his seven appearances, he played the three times, the murder victim once, and defendant once. He also appeared in television series such as 77 Sunset Strip, Ben Casey, The Asphalt Jungle. Harris and his wife, actress Viola Harris, had a son, Harris died November 30,1981, and was buried December 3,1981. He was survived by his wife, Viola Harris, a son, a daughter, appearances in Alfred Hitchcock Presents playing Mr. Fox in episode, Shopping for Death, first broadcast on January 29,1956. Playing Laurence Appleby in episode, The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby, playing John Hurley in episode, The Hidden Thing, first broadcast on May 20,1956. Playing Albert Birch in episode, Toby, first broadcast on November 4,1956, playing LaFontaine in episode, The Dangerous People, first broadcast on June 23,1957. Playing George Piper in episode, The Safe Place, first broadcast on June 8,1958, playing Ben Prowdy in episode, Graduating Class, first broadcast on December 27,1959. Playing Morty Lenton in episode, The Greatest Monster of Them All, appearances in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour playing Dr. Perrigan in episode, Consider Her Ways, first broadcast on December 28,1964. Playing Aaron Hubble in episode, The Case of The Purple Woman, playing Gordon Russell in episode, The Case of the Slandered Submarine, first broadcast on May 14,1960. Playing Claude Demay in episode, The Case of the Torrid Tapestry first broadcast on April 22,1961, playing Jerry Janda in episode, The Case of the Dodging Domino first broadcast on November 1,1962. Playing Harry Bronson in episode, The Case of the Frustrated Folksinger, playing Marty Webb in episode, The Case of the Runaway Racer, first broadcast on November 14,1965. Appearances in Gunsmoke playing Ben Pitcher in episode, Cow Doctor, playing Fred Myers in episode, Kick Me, first broadcast on January 26,1957
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Eli Mintz
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Eli Mintz was an American actor of Polish Jewish descent. Born as Edward Satz in Lwów, Poland, the son of a tailor, he began acting professionally as a child in the theatre and he immigrated to the United States in 1927 with the intent of pursuing a career as an actor. His brother Ludwig Satz was already working as an actor in New York City before his arrival, Mintz worked as a waiter, a presser and a clothing salesman in New York City until he procured his first acting jobs within Yiddish theater during the 1930s. He decided to use the stage name Eli Mintz at this time, Mintzs first major break came in 1948 when he was cast as Uncle David in Gertrude Bergs Broadway play Me and Molly. The work was based on the radio drama The Goldbergs where Menasha Skulnick played the role of Uncle David. Skulnick was unable to reprise his role on the stage, and since he was Mintzs friend, Mintz played the role so admirably that he was asked to play the part in the television adaptation of The Goldbergs which ran from 1949 through 1956. He also portrayed the role in the 1950 movie adaptation, after the end of the The Goldbergs television series, Mintz remained active as an actor in theatre, television, and film. On Broadway he appeared in The 49th Cousin, I Was Dancing, Catch Me If You Can, Jimmy Shine and he also appeared in the films The Proud Rebel, Murder, Inc. Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, Boardwalk, in 1980 he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for his portrayal of the recurring character of Locksmith on the soap opera All My Children. Mintz had two daughters, Leona Schwartz and Iva Loftman, with his wife Hasha and they also had four grandchildren, Adam and Elena Loftman and Paulette and Monica Schwartz. He died of pneumonia at Point Pleasant Hospital in Point Pleasant, New Jersey and he was a resident of Brick Township, New Jersey. Eli Mintz at the Internet Broadway Database Eli Mintz at the Internet Movie Database Eli Mintz at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
