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Tracey Ullman
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She holds dual British and American citizenship. Her earliest appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties, after a brief singing career, she appeared as Candice Valentine in Girls on Top with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. She emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States where she starred in her own television comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show. She later produced programmes for HBO, including Tracey Takes On. for which she garnered numerous awards and her sketch comedy series, Tracey Ullmans State of the Union, ran from 2008 to 2010 on Showtime. She has also appeared in feature films. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own sketch show in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Since 2016, she stars in her own BBC sketch comedy show Tracey Ullmans Show, Ullman is currently the richest female British comedian and the third richest British comedian overall. She is also the second richest British actress, Tracey Ullman was born Trace Ullman in Slough, Buckinghamshire, the younger of two daughters, to Dorin and Antony John Ullman. Her mother was British, with Roma ancestry, and her father was a Roman Catholic Pole, on the subject of the spelling of her name, My real name is Trace Ullman, but I added the y. My mother said it was spelled the American way, but I dont think she can spell, I always wanted a middle name. My mum used to me it was Mary but I never believed her. I looked on my birth certificate and I didnt have one, Antony Ullman served in the Polish Army and was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. He subsequently worked as a solicitor, a salesman. He also brokered marriages and translated among the émigré Polish community, Dorin recognized their younger daughters talents early on and encouraged her to perform. When that happens to you as a child, you can face anything, Youre always waiting for the other shoe to drop. If something great happens, youre like, Wow, thats great that happened, the most disappointing thing happened when you were younger Youre just braver and if good things happen youre really grateful. After died, our fortunes came and went because Mum couldn’t speak Polish and had to give up the business, Mother Dorin would go on to take a host of odd jobs. My mother was always doing things like driving parts around for a garage, all covered in oil
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Barbara Bain
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Barbara Bain is an American film and television actress. She is known for co-starring in the original Mission, Impossible television series in the 1960s as Cinnamon Carter, Bain was born Mildred Fogel in Chicago, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in sociology. Developing an interest in dance, she moved to New York City, dissatisfied with her career as a dancer, she went into modeling, jobs with Vogue, Harpers, and other publications followed. Still uninspired, however, Bain entered the Theater Studio to study acting, first under Curt Conway, progressing to the Actors Studio, she was instructed by Lee Strasberg. Bains first acting role was in Paddy Chayevskys play Middle of the Night, accompanying Bain was fellow actor and new husband Martin Landau, the final leg of the tour brought the couple to Los Angeles, where they settled permanently. After moving, Bain established herself at the Actors Studio West, in 1965, she guest-starred alongside series star Jerry Van Dyke in an episode of My Mother The Car, which also featured Avery Schreibers recurring role of Captain Bernard Manzini. She also appeared in the 1966 final episode of the series alongside Van Dyke and she won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Dramatic Actress for her performance in 1967,1968, and 1969, in addition to a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1968. She starred opposite Landau again in the science-fiction TV series Space,1999, as Dr. Helena Russell, and the made-for-TV film The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligans Island. Bain also appeared in The Dick Van Dyke Show, in the episode Will You Two Be My Wife. and My So-Called Life, other appearances include Matroyoshka, an episode of the 1990s science-fiction series Millennium. In 1998, Bain appeared in the Walker, Texas Ranger episode Saving Grace, in 2006, she had a minor role in one episode of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation. In 2008, co-starring with her daughter Juliet Landau, Bain voiced the character of Verdona Tennyson in What Are Little Girls Made Of. an episode of Ben 10, Alien Force. On April 28,2016, Bain was honored with the 2, 579th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, lifelong friends Edward Asner and Dick Van Dyke were on hand to speak and assist in the unveiling of the star. Bain married actor Martin Landau in 1957, they divorced in 1993, the couple has two daughters, actress Juliet Landau and film producer Susan Bain Landau Finch. She has contributed to charitable causes, including literacy. Barbara Bain at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Barbara Bain, October,2014, Ames Tribune
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Paul Dooley
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Paul Dooley is an American actor, writer and comedian. Dooley was born Paul Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene, a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker. He has said that Parkersburg had few attractions that interested him, there were no theaters or cultural opportunities and he enjoyed listening to comedians on the radio, especially Jimmy Durante. Dooley was a cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a paper in Parkersburg. He joined the United States Navy, Dooley then returned home and graduated from West Virginia University in 1952. After graduating from West Virginia University, Dooley went to New York City to try his luck in the entertainment industry and he initially found work as a clown for childrens birthday parties. In New York he soon found success as a regular on the stage, in the early 1950s, he made his debut on the New York stage and was discovered by Mike Nichols. The director gave him his first break by casting him in 1965s The Odd Couple on Broadway, Dooley played a poker buddy and understudied Art Carney, who played Felix Unger. Eventually when Carney left the play Dooley got the part and he got an agent at William Morris Agency thanks to a referral from Walter Matthau, who played Oscar Madison in the play. Fellow members of The Second City at that time were Alan Arkin, Dooley also worked as a writer. He created and was one of the writers on The Electric Company. Dooley wrote runners, a series of sketches with 8 or 10 characters that were broadcast over the course of several weeks. He found out later that Carl Reiner had recommended him for the job. Dooley formed a company with Andrew Duncan and Lynne Lipton called All Over Creation to create commercials for radio and they produced around 500 TV commercials and 1,000 radio spots. A character named Paul the Gorilla that appeared in commercials was named after him. He worked with Robert Altman regularly and is known as a prolific journeyman, after Altman saw Dooley in the Jules Feiffer comedy Hold Me, he signed him for a role in his film A Wedding. He and Altman co-wrote the film Health and he was also in the directors cut of Little Shop of Horrors, but was replaced by Jim Belushi in the final cut. Dooley has worked with Christopher Guest on a number of films and he guest starred in other primetime shows like Bewitched, The Wonder Years, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Golden Girls, Hot in Cleveland, and Desperate Housewives
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Simon Helberg
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Helberg has appeared on the sketch comedy series MADtv and is also known for his role as Moist in Joss Whedons web miniseries Dr. Horribles Sing-Along Blog. He has further performed in such as Old School, Good Night. For portraying Cosmé McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Helberg was born on December 9,1980, in Los Angeles. He is the son of actor Sandy Helberg and casting director Harriet Helberg and he was raised in Judaism, Conservative to Reform but more Reform as time went on. Helberg attended middle and high school at the Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, with Jason Ritter and he attended New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, where he trained at the Atlantic Theater Company. Since the early 2000s, Helberg performed with comedian Derek Waters as the comedy duo Derek & Simon. In 2007, the two starred together in Derek & Simon, The Show, a web series created with comedian Bob Odenkirk for the comedy website Super Deluxe. They also made two short films Derek & Simon, The Pity Card and Derek & Simon, A Bee, one of Helbergs earliest jobs in television was briefly joining the cast of MADtv for one season in 2002. Helberg appeared in the 2002 feature film Van Wilder as one of the students for whom Van Wilder was throwing a party. He had a role in the 2003 movie Old School. In 2004, he was in two episodes of Reno 911, student Driver in Raineesha X and Hooker Buying Son in Not Without My Mustache. He had a role in the sixth episode of Quintuplets, Get a Job, as a man called Neil working behind the counter at a shoe shop where Paige. In 2004, he appeared in the film A Cinderella Story, starring Hilary Duff, Helberg played the minor role of Simon in George Clooneys 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, where he had one line. In 2005, he had a bit part on Arrested Development as Jeff, from 2006–07, he had a minor supporting role as Alex Dwyer in the drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In 2006, he appeared in a series of comical TV commercials for Richard Bransons UK financial services company Virgin Money and he played a small role in the 2007 film Walk Hard, The Dewey Cox Story as a Jewish record producer. In 2007, Helberg was cast as Howard Wolowitz, in the CBS comedy series The Big Bang Theory and he appeared as the character Moist in Dr. Horribles Sing-Along Blog, and had a small role in the pilot of the Judd Apatow-produced sitcom Undeclared. In the 2009 Coen brothers film A Serious Man, he played junior Rabbi Scott Ginsler and he had a minor role in the season 4 finale of The Guild as one of the Game Masters. Helberg married actress Jocelyn Towne on July 15,2007, Townes uncle is screenwriter Robert Towne
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Leslie Jordan
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Leslie Allen Jordan is an American actor and playwright. Leslie was born in Memphis, Tennessee and later moved to Chattanooga, Jordan has discussed his early life in Chattanooga, saying that he had a difficult time with religion growing up in the South and that he was baptized 17 times. Whenever the preacher would ask if anyone had sinned, Leslie would always think of something, during an appearance on Today with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, Jordan discussed his personal life and career. He described his mother, Peggy Ann, as being supportive, when asked about his mother he said that she was a very private woman and that she still lives in Chattanooga. Jordans father was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, Jordan left Tennessee and arrived in Los Angeles in 1982. During this time he involved with alcohol and other drugs and was arrested many times. When Jordan was seventeen years old, he started to write in every day. He said that writing in his journals helped him with recovering from drug, Jordan became involved in volunteer work. Early in the AIDS crisis, Jordan became involved in AIDS Project Los Angeles as a buddy, Jordan has made numerous appearances in both film and television. He is recognizable for his size and Southern drawl. He appeared as an editor named Mr. Blackly in the popular movie. He guest-starred on the comedy-drama Ugly Betty as celebrity-trasher Quincy Combs, in 2007, Jordan starred as Jesse Joe in the short-lived CW television program Hidden Palms. He also portrayed the ski patrol director in Ski Patrol and he is best known for his role as Karens pretentious, sexually ambiguous rival Beverley Leslie on the series Will & Grace. For that role he received an Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, Jordan starred in the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the worlds first interactive, gay-themed comedy show. On August 18,2014, Jordan became a housemate in the celebrity edition of the British reality game show Big Brother and he was the second person to leave the Big Brother house. In January 2015, Jordan guest starred in the British sitcom Benidorm for two episodes as the character Buck-A-Roo, Jordan is an accomplished stage actor and playwright. In one of his best-known performances onstage, he played Earl Brother Boy Ingram in Sordid Lives, Jordan reprised the role in the Sordid Lives, The Series, a televised spin-off of the movie airing on Logo where he plays a character that is in a mental hospital. He wrote and starred in the autobiographical play Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel and he recently toured the country performing his one-man stage comedy, Like a Dog on Linoleum, to generally favorable reviews
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Rose Marie
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Rose Marie Mazetta, known professionally as Rose Marie, is an American actress. As a child performer she had a singing career as Baby Rose Marie. A veteran of vaudeville and one of its last surviving stars, her career includes film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show. She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and was also a frequent panelist on the game show Hollywood Squares, Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New York City, New York, to Italian-American Frank Mazetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak. At the age of three, she started performing under the name Baby Rose Marie, at five, she became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films. Rose Marie was a nightclub and lounge performer in her years before becoming a radio comedian. She was billed then as The Darling of the Airwaves, according to her autobiography, Hold the Roses, she was assisted in her career by many members of organized crime, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She performed at the night of the Flamingo Hotel, which was built by Siegel. At her height of fame as a singer, from late 1929 to 1934, she had her own radio show, made numerous records. In 1929, the singer made a Vitaphone sound short titled Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder, now restored. DVD set of The Jazz Singer and she continued to appear in films through the mid-1930s, making shorts and a feature, International House, with W. C. Between 1930 and 1938, she made 17 recordings, three of which were unissued and her first issued record, recorded on March 10,1932, featured accompaniment by Fletcher Hendersons band, one of the premier black jazz orchestras. According to Hendersonia, the bio-discography by Walter C and her recording Say That You Were Teasing Me also featured Hendersons orchestra and was a national Top 20 hit, peaking at #19 in May 1932. According to Joel Whitburn, Rose Marie is the only pre-World War II hitmaker still living as of 2016, in the 1960–61 season, Rose Marie costarred with Shirley Bonne, Elaine Stritch, Jack Weston, Raymond Bailey, and Stubby Kaye in the CBS sitcom My Sister Eileen. She played Bertha, a friend of the Sherwood sisters, Ruth, a writer, played by Stritch, and Eileen. After five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rose Marie costarred in two seasons of CBSs The Doris Day Show as Doris Martins friend and coworker, Myrna Gibbons and she also appeared in two episodes of the NBC series The Monkees in the mid-1960s. She later had a seat in the upper center square on the original version of Hollywood Squares, alongside her friend and longtime Dick Van Dyke co-star. She also appeared on both the 1986 and 1998 syndicated revivals, Rose Marie performed on three 1966 and 1967 episodes of The Dean Martin Show variety series on NBC and also twice on The Hollywood Palace on ABC
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Cheech Marin
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He has also voiced characters in several Disney productions, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, Its Tough to Be a Bug. Cars, Cars 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, marins trademark is his characters strong Mexican accents. Marin was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Marin, a policeman in the LAPD, and his wife Elsa, Marin was born with a cleft lip, which was repaired. He speaks some Spanish and uses it in his movies, marins nickname Cheech is short for chicharron, a fried pork skin that is a popular snack and an ingredient in Mexican cuisine. Looks like a little chicharrón, you know, Marin graduated from Bishop Alemany High School, and then studied at San Fernando Valley State College, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. Marin auditioned to sing for Frank Zappa in 1967, but he moved to Vancouver, Marin met his future comedic partner, Tommy Chong, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As a part of the successful comedy duo Cheech & Chong, Marin participated in a number of comedy albums. Tommy Chong directed four of their films, while co-writing and starring in all seven with Marin, after Cheech & Chong disbanded in 1985, Marin starred in a number of films as a solo actor, most notably Born in East L. A. The Shrimp on the Barbie, Tin Cup, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico and he made a cameo appearance as a dockworker in Ghostbusters II. In recent years he has active in playing supporting roles in films. After appearing in a role in Judging Amy, playing an independently wealthy landscape designer, Marin starred in the CBS sitcom Rob. He provided his voice for several Disney animated films, most notably Tito the Chihuahua in Oliver & Company, Banzai the hyena in The Lion King and he reprised the Banzai role in the video game Kingdom Hearts II. In July 2007, the book Cheech the School Bus Driver was released, written by Marin, illustrated by Orlando L. Ramirez, in 2005, Marin lent his voice to the animated childrens series Dora the Explorer. He appeared in the episode A Crown for King Bobo, as the Puerto Rican folk hero Juan Bobo, in late 2006, Marin participated in Simon Cowells Celebrity Duets, having sung with Peter Frampton, Randy Travis, Clint Black, Aaron Neville, and Al Jarreau. He was the fourth to be eliminated, in that same year, he voiced as Gaspar Gomez in Scarface, The World Is Yours. Marin had a role in the hit television series Lost, playing David Reyes. He was a co-host for WWE Raw on March 1,2010 with his comedy partner Tommy Chong, Marin also sings on the hidden track Earache My Eye on Korns album Follow the Leader. In 2009, he appeared in the Hallmark Channel movie Expecting a Miracle, on March 18,2010, Marin beat journalist Anderson Cooper and actress Aisha Tyler on Celebrity Jeopardy. s Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational
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Debbie Reynolds
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Mary Frances Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, and humanitarian. In 1959, she released her first pop album, titled Debbie. She starred in How the West Was Won, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown and her performance as Brown earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other films include The Singing Nun, Divorce American Style, Charlottes Web, Mother, and In & Out. Reynolds was also a cabaret performer, in 1979 she founded the Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in North Hollywood, which still operates today. In 1969 she starred on television in the The Debbie Reynolds Show, in 1973 Reynolds starred in a Broadway revival of the musical Irene and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance in A Gift of Love, at the turn of the millennium, Reynolds reached a new younger generation with her role as Aggie Cromwell in Disneys Halloweentown series. In 1988 she released her autobiography titled, Debbie, My Life, in 2013, she released a second autobiography, Unsinkable, A Memoir. She served as president of The Thalians, a dedicated to mental health causes. Reynolds continued to perform successfully on stage, television, and film into her eighties, in January 2015, Reynolds received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2016, she received the Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, on December 28,2016, Reynolds was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a medical emergency, which her son Todd Fisher later described as a severe stroke. She died from the stroke that afternoon, one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher. Reynolds was born on April 1,1932, in El Paso, Texas, to Maxene Minnie and Raymond Francis Ray Reynolds and she was of Scottish-Irish and English ancestry and was raised in a strict Nazarene church. She had a two years her senior. Reynolds was a Girl Scout, once saying that she wanted to die as the worlds oldest living Girl Scout and her mother took in laundry for income, while they lived in a shack on Magnolia Street in El Paso. And Im trying to inculcate in my children the same sense of values and her family moved to Burbank, California in 1939. When Reynolds was a student at Burbank High School in 1948. Soon after, she had a contract with Warner Bros and acquired the nickname Debbie via Jack L. Warner, One of her closest high school friends said that she rarely dated during her teenage years in Burbank
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George Schlatter
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George Schlatter is an American television producer and director, best known for Rowan & Martins Laugh-In and founder of the American Comedy Awards. For his work on television, Schlatter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7030 Hollywood Blvd, Schlatter was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Webster Groves, Missouri, a St. Louis inner-ring suburb. Born the son of a violinist mother and a salesman father, as a teenager, Schlatter sang for two seasons with the St. Louis Municipal Opera, where his mother also performed. He attended Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, California and he was a Hollywood agent in the band and act department of MCA Records. After several years he left to general manager at the Sunset Strip nightclub Ciros. Following a short stint in Las Vegas, he started producing variety series, Schlatter began his long association with NBC in the 1950s, where he helped create variety shows for Dinah Shore, Nat King Cole, and Andy Williams. Between 1964 and 1970, he oversaw the annual telecast of the Grammy Awards, in 1968, he formed George Schlatter Productions, noted for Rowan and Martins Laugh In on NBC. In the 1970s and 1980s, Schlatter produced and/or directed several television series, in 1987, he started The American Comedy Awards, which has become an annual event. Schlatter also produced a few films, and owns The Editing Company. He is married to former actress Jolene Brand who was a regular on the The Ernie Kovacs Show, Andrea Justine is a champion equestrian rider. Maria S. Schlatter is an Emmy award winning television producer, as of 2016, Schlatter was collaborating with author Kliph Nesteroff on a memoir. He is continuing to produce, and recently created reality show The Boulevard in conjunction with David DiVona, a partial listing of his television achievements follows. A partial listing of films that he produced and/or directed follows and he was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America award in 1997. For his work on television, Schlatter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7030 Hollywood Blvd and he received the Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award from Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters on February 10,2017. George Schlatter at the Internet Movie Database George Schlatter at TVGuide. com Official website George Schlatter interview video at the Archive of American Television
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Glenn Shadix
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William Glenn Shadix was an American actor known for his role as Otho in Tim Burtons horror comedy film Beetlejuice and as the voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Shadix was born in Bessemer, Alabama and he added the surname Scott when his mother, Annie Ruth, remarried a few years after his birth. He attended Birmingham-Southern College for two years, studying with absurdist playwright-director Arnold Powell and he lived in New York City prior to moving to Hollywood in the late 1970s. He got his film role in Demolition Man as Associate Bob, while appearing in a stage play. Beetlejuice filmmaker Tim Burton went on to cast Shadix in 1993s The Nightmare Before Christmas, in 1995, Shadix was cast as Ray Cathode in the Space Mountain queue advertisements when the ride was sponsored by FedEx. In 2005, Shadix was cast as the voices of The Brain and his other voice work includes the aforementioned Nightmare, and episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures and Justice League Unlimited. He reprised his Nightmare Before Christmas role in the video game The Nightmare Before Christmas, Oogies Revenge, on stage, Shadix was set to begin rehearsals for a Birmingham production of Alan Bennetts History Boys. He also recorded a promo for Red Bar Radio, Shadix was openly gay throughout his life. According to an interview with the Truth Wins Out website, he out to his parents at the age of 17. They then enrolled him in so-called ex-gay therapy, which included shock treatments, when this failed to change his orientation, he attempted suicide by overdosing with Elavil. His parents rushed him to a hospital, where he survived a three-day coma, after the incident, his parents began to accept his sexuality. In 2007, after spending 30 years in Los Angeles, he retired to his native Bessemer, Alabama, the house was completely destroyed in a fire on December 13,2008. Shadix told reporters, I have lost my dream, on September 7,2010, according to Shadixs sister, Susan Gagne, he fell in the kitchen at his condominium in Birmingham, Alabama, and died of blunt trauma to his head. Shadix had mobility problems and was in a wheelchair, the Postman Always Rings Twice as Twin Oaks Customer Beetlejuice as Otho Sunset as Roscoe Arbuckle Heathers as Father Ripper Meet the Applegates as Greg Samson Sleepwalkers as Mr
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Jane Kaczmarek
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Jane Frances Kaczmarek is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character of Lois on the television series Malcolm in the Middle, Kaczmarek is a three-time Golden Globe and seven-time Emmy Award nominee. Kaczmarek was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Evelyn, a teacher, and Edward Kaczmarek, of Polish ancestry, she grew up in Greendale, where she was raised a Roman Catholic. She majored in theater at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later attended school at the Yale School of Drama. In 1998, Kaczmarek was cast as David and Jennifers mother in the movie Pleasantville and she has had several Broadway hits, including Lost in Yonkers and Raised in Captivity, where she won an L. A. Drama Critics Circle Award. Her first television role was that of Margie Spoletto on For Lovers Only, one of her first notable appearances was in the famous 1984 movie Falling in Love, starring Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro, playing the role of Ann Raftis, De Niros characters wife. She also played a role in The Heavenly Kid in 1985 as Emily, Kaczmarek has also appeared in over 40 television roles, the most notable including, Nurse Sandy Burns on St. Elsewhere. Connie Lehman in The Paper Chase, The Second Year, mrs. Hall, a school guidance counselor, in Something About Amelia a ABC made for TV movie Mary Newell Abbott on Hometown, a comedy/drama on CBS directly adapted from the 1983 hit movie The Big Chill. Linda Bauer, a lawyer, on the ABC legal drama Equal Justice, maureen Culter, girlfriend of Martin Crane on Frasier in Police Story and Dad Loves Sherry, the Boys Just Whine. Janet Rudman on Law & Order in Censure, carol Anderson, biological mother of Julie Emrick on Felicity in 5 episodes. Holly in five episodes of Cybill, helene Thompson in three episodes of Party of Five. Lois, mother of Malcolm, Reese, Francis, Dewey, and baby Jamie, Trudy Kessler, Courtroom Judge in 25 episodes of Raising the Bar from 2008–2009. Mrs. Armwood, Frankie Hecks dental teacher in The Middle, dr. Gallo, psychiatrist in The Big Bang Theory In 2000, Kaczmarek was cast to play Lois Wilkerson in the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. TV Guide dubbed her role in the series as a breakout, a female Homer Simpson. Later, Kaczmarek would credit the show for bringing out her side, claiming. For her performance as Lois, Kaczmarek was nominated for seven Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, following the end of Malcolm in the Middle, Kaczmarek went on to star in the short-lived series Help Me Help You co-starring Ted Danson. She starred in the short-lived TNT series Raising the Bar as Judge Trudy Kessler and she also continues to voice Judge Constance Harm on several Simpsons episodes. On November 19,2009, Kaczmarek played against Julie Bowen, million Dollar Celebrity Invitational, on which she won $50,000 for a charity
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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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Allan McKeown
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John McKeown, better known as Allan McKeown, was a British television and stage producer. In 2007, McKeown launched Allan McKeown Presents, LLC, John McKeown was born in Ealing, London on 21 May 1946. His parents Edith McKeown and Victor Albert McKeown moved first to Hackney and then to Hainault and his father was the Clerk of Works at the new estate. Educated at Beal Grammar school in Ilford, he left early and he was a figure in the London scene of the 1960s, and in 1966 he opened his own salon. As a hairdresser, he worked on a number of films and TV shows, Sunday Night at the London Palladium and films Villain, Get Carter and XYZ. In 1969 he changed course and became a producer at James Garrett and Partners and he was appointed Managing Director shortly after joining. He left to form a production company Witzend with Dick Clement, initially making commercials then the feature film Porridge. McKeown was the producer for Central Televisions Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, with Clement. He was one of the first independent television producers in the UK, McKeown not only produced in Britain with his company, WitzEnd, but also produced in the US for all of the networks. In 1986, Witzend acquired Selectv, and in the process became a public company, the company grew as it added Alomo, a venture with writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran to its stable of production companies. In 1990, McKeown was a member of the Meridian consortium. The consortium was awarded the ITV television franchise for the South East of England, McKeown was responsible for all of Meridians comedy programming. In 1994 Selectv was launched its programming, mainly produced by McKeown. In March 1996, McKeown accepted £51 million for SelecTV, now a broadcaster and a supplier of television programs, from Pearson. McKeown returned to the US producing the HBO comedy series, Tracey Takes On. for wife, the series won six Emmy Awards. McKeown invested in the media launching web site itstv. com, the company was sold in March 2000. McKeown produced the Indian comedy series, Mumbai Calling and he later produced Tracey Ullmans State of the Union. The success of the West Ends Anyone For Denis. and the Broadway show, The Big Love and he produced the massively successful Jerry Springer, The Opera, winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Tracey Takes On...
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Tracey Takes On. is an HBO sketch comedy series starring actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons, and won multiple awards, Each week, each episode would focus on, or take on, a certain subject giving the show focus. Ullman decided on twenty characters to each episode, unlike her Fox series. Shooting the show on location gave her the ability to apply makeup, wigs, the Tracey Ullman Show featured makeups that had not been conducted to a live audience. Ullman found herself fainting on the floor, having to be revived. HBO commissioned a Takes On series after two specials were screened, Tracey Ullman, A Class Act, and Tracey Ullman Takes On New York. Cable television gave her the freedom to create content that would be considered unsuitable for network television, many Tracey Ullman Show alums, such as Julie Kavner, guest-starred throughout the run of the series. Ullman created and portrayed a wide spectrum of characters, men and women of all ages, of different ethnic or cultural backgrounds, the show was known to push the envelope with little to no controversy. Only her character Kay would return from The Tracey Ullman Show, over the course of the show, Ullman played a total of twenty-nine characters. In 2003, the character Ruby Romaine was spun-off into a television series for HBO. A pilot was filmed but a series was never green-lighted by the network. The pilot was aired as a special, Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales. In 1998, Ullman released a book based on the series, in 1990, Ullmans husband, television producer, Allan McKeown placed a bid for a television network. His bid included a possible show lineup, among the shows he submitted, he included a Tracey Ullman special. Ullman, who had just ended the run of her eponymous Fox series, had just given birth to their son, when McKeown informed her of the schedule he submitted, she expected nothing would come of it. When McKeown informed her that his bid was successful, Ullman felt a sense of dread, the special turned out to be Tracey Ullman, A Class Act, a show that poked fun at the British class system. The specials success led to HBOs interest in having Ullman do a special for their network and they requested that the show focus on a more American subject. That special, Tracey Ullman Takes On New York, was an award-winning success and its result led to HBO asking Ullman and McKeown doing a Takes On series
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Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed
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Tracey Ullman, Live and Exposed is an HBO stand-up special starring actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. The stage show documents Ullmans life, with reenactments of her childhood, her days as a dancer, her time on the stage, her music stint. Many of Ullmans characters are performed, revealing just who they actually were based on in real life. The characters are performed with no makeup and little costuming, the show filmed at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, where it ran for ten performances. The working title for the show was, Traceys Best Bits and was being readied for a Broadway run, Tracey Ullman, Live and Exposed at the Internet Movie Database Video clips via Spike. com Production photos Tracey Ullman, Live and Exposed promo
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Comedy
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In a modern sense, comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, and stand-up comedy. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece, in the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a Society of Youth and a Society of the Old, a revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. Satire and political satire use comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, parody subverts popular genres and forms, critiquing those forms without necessarily condemning them. Similarly scatological humour, sexual humour, and race humour create comedy by violating social conventions or taboos in comic ways, a comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society and uses humor to parody or satirize the behaviour and mannerisms of its members. Romantic comedy is a genre that depicts burgeoning romance in humorous terms. The adjective comic, which means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage. Of this, the word came into usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time. The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the comedy to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average, however, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly. The Ridiculous may be defined as a mistake or deformity not productive of pain or harm to others, the mask, for instance, in the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings. It is in this sense that Dante used the term in the title of his poem, as time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter. During the Middle Ages, the comedy became synonymous with satire. They disassociated comedy from Greek dramatic representation and instead identified it with Arabic poetic themes and forms and they viewed comedy as simply the art of reprehension, and made no reference to light and cheerful events, or to the troubling beginnings and happy endings associated with classical Greek comedy. After the Latin translations of the 12th century, the term gained a more general meaning in medieval literature. Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a playwright and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater wrote 40 comedies,11 of which survive. Aristophanes developed his type of comedy from the satyr plays
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Ruby Romaine
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Ruby Romaine is a fictional character portrayed by actress-comedian Tracey Ullman on her show Tracey Takes On. The character became so popular, that HBO commissioned a pilot for the character which resulted in the one-off special, Ruby is a self-professed star maker. When her family moved out to North Hollywood, they lived in a trailer and her parents were extremely obese, I dont think I ever saw them put anything in their mouths that didnt have milk, butter, and cheese in it. Rubys space in the trailer was whatever was left over after they sat down and she developed triple D-cup breasts and hair in all four locations. Sometime before age 15, Rubys uncle Rosco came to live with her and her family, Rosco made sexual advances towards her, an act for which he stood trial. The judge made him join the navy and sent him to Guam where he died, god rest his sweaty paws, says Ruby. According to the book Tracey Takes On, Ruby had a marriage to entertainer Tubby Lapels. However, according to the episode Tracey Takes On, america, Desiree was the product of an affair with Senator Joseph McCarthy. He was the first guy I did it with in a blimp, besides Desiree, Ruby also as a son, Buddy. Ruby gave birth to her six months apart, That way I could spend a lot of time with them. Desiree steals from the morgue where she works, Buddy was the product of incest. Ruby had an affair with her uncle, Shep and she was able to conceal her pregnancy by telling her mother that she was nursing kids for the county. Buddy didnt meet his Uncle Daddy until he was a competing in a car show contest. Shep took the car Buddy won and disappeared from his life yet again and he starred as the Tasty Bread Boy in television commercials. When he was seventeen, Buddy decided that he wanted to fight in the Vietnam war and he lives with Ruby to this very day. Even with his experience, Buddy still misses Vietnam. To fill the void, Buddy adopted a pot bellied pig, Ruby makes sure that Buddy takes his anti-psychotic medication daily, although he seemingly has lapses. Buddy acted as Secretary of State for the secessionist group, Army of Armageddon, the group called for their mobile home to be declared a separate state
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Hollywood
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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Vietnamese Pot-bellied
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The pot-bellied pig is a breed of domesticated pig originating in Vietnam. Considerably smaller than standard American or European farm pigs, they weigh 43 to 136 kg, or, according to one source,60 to 100kg, boars, intact male pigs, become fertile at six months of age, long before they are completely physically mature. Pot-bellied pigs are considered fully grown by six years of age, because pot-bellied pigs are the same species as ordinary farmyard pigs and descended from wild boars, they are capable of interbreeding. Most pot-bellied pigs have been crossed with various farm pig breeds, a 2004 study by them revealed extreme genetic diversity in indigenous Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs. They were also different from each other according to location of origin in Vietnam. Pig breeds from developed countries were refined over centuries to a specific genetic make-up and this means a cross between a purebred Vietnamese pot-bellied and another pig type, its genetic material is more diverse and the offspring will resemble the more specific pig imports. The German Agriculture Ministry has been assisting Vietnam with its production by introducing large breeds of pigs into Vietnam since the mid-1980s. Today, the Vietnamese and German governments have realized that the indigenous Vietnamese pig breed exists only in mountainous Vietnam and Thailand. The Vietnamese government has begun to subsidize local farmers who continue to raise the indigenous pot-bellied pigs because it realizes they are neither as prolific nor as large as other breeds. Many breeders recommend the spaying or neutering of both sexes at a young age if the owner does not wish to breed them, many local laws also require licensed pet pigs to be neutered. The procedure is different from the used in farm pigs. Neutering is said to reduce the aggression of boars and female pigs during estrus, as well as the risk of testicular cancer, the hoofs and tusks are also recommended to be trimmed. Pot-bellied pigs have been abandoned when owners discover that these pigs actually grow to larger sizes, others are forced to give up pet pigs due to local ordinances. We saw this in the 90s when there was the initial pot-bellied pig craze, a lot of people went to buy them because they are so cute when they are little, but then they get big. Pot-bellied pig associations recommend adoption from shelters instead of buying. Others like the Southern California Association for Miniature Pot-bellied Pigs and the California Pot-bellied Pig Association are actively involved in housing abandoned pet pigs, despite this, shelters often have difficulty in finding new homes for abandoned pigs. Domestic pig Ironwood Pig Sanctuary Kunekune Miniature pig
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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TV.com
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TV. com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. Australia and UK versions of the website are available, at au. tv. com and uk. tv. com. CNET originally acquired the name in the mid-1990s to host a website for the companys technology-related TV shows. One of these shows was titled TV. com, the program, highlighting the best of the Internet for new and casual computer users, aired in U. S. syndication. CNET then acquired TV Tome, a television database. TV. com was launched a few months after that acquisition on June 1,2005, many of the features and content from the original TV Tome site were maintained in the new TV. com site. On May 15,2008, CBS formally announced its purchase of CNET Networks, TV. com continually looked at innovating the television-viewing experience by incorporating it with technology, as seen with the creation of WatchList. This service offered personalized TV listings influenced by user actions and social media, TV Tome was an American website devoted to documenting English-language television shows and their production. It was run by volunteer editors, with the assistance of user contributions, the site was founded by John Nestoriak III. The site had over 2,500 complete television series guides, over 3,500 developing television series guides, in addition to the television series guides, TV Tome had a forum for each television series, with information regarding episodes, their interpretation, and general discussions. A spin-off site, Movie Tome, was established in August 2003, a video game tome and a music tome were originally planned as well, but such plans were abandoned with the purchase of TV Tome and Movie Tome by CNET. On April 22,2005, TV Tome officially announced its acquisition by CNET, CNET reportedly bought TV Tome for US $5 million in January 2005. CNET announced plans to relocate the site to its TV. com domain, a preliminary version of the new site launched on June 1,2005 and on June 13,2005, the site was permanently redirected to TV. com with an entirely new layout. TV. com provides show descriptions, cast and crew listings, full episodes, clip length videos, discussion forums, episode guides may include synopsis information, a recap, credits, notes, trivia, quotes, and images provided by the networks. All textual information in the guides is user-generated, after a user earns a certain number of points, s/he becomes an editor for the guide and can moderate user submissions. The site provides actor guides that include actor bios, credits, trivia, like show pages, users can become editors for these guides after earning points by providing sourced content. The sites mobile application allows users to video content, including clips and full length episodes
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The Tracey Ullman Show
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The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show starring Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5,1987, as the Fox networks second prime-time series after Married, with Children, and ran until May 26,1990. The show is produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television, the show blended sketch comedy shorts with many musical numbers, featuring choreography by Paula Abdul. By the 1980s, acclaimed television producer James L. Brooks, had left the industry for the big screen. At the time that he won the Oscar for his film, Terms of Endearment, Brooks began receiving videotapes from Ullmans Los Angeles agent, hoping to get his attention. Ullman, who was famous in her homeland, England, was already landing a variety of television deals and proposals in America. These projects did not suit Ullmans interests, shows with morals, where everyone learns something at the end of the show, related Ullman to a television critic for TV Guide in 1989, describing the television show ideas that were offered to her. Brooks was so taken by what he saw in Ullman that he decided to take the young actress under his wing, Brooks was determined to develop the right vehicle to showcase Ullmans talents — acting, dancing, and singing — and decided to create a sketch comedy show. A typical episode would begin with Ullman giving an introduction, ostensibly from her dressing room. Then two or three comedy sketches would be presented in episode, most designed to showcase Ullmans ability to skillfully mimic various accents. One popular recurring character was timid, slow-talking Kay Typically, the sketch of the night would include a musical and/or dance number featuring Ullman solo or other members of the cast. The final segment saw Ullman, clad in a robe, deliver a monologue to the studio audience before ending the show with her catchphrase Go Home. Go Home. and dancing as the credits rolled, Ullman often talked about her husband, Allan McKeown, and her daughter, Mabel. Ullman chose the phrase, Go home, during the pilot episode because she could not think of anything clever to end with. Ullman performed an array of characters, most only appeared once, as the sketches concentrated on plot, with characters created to best tell that particular storyline. A handful of characters did return for subsequent sketches. Among the recurring characters portrayed by other cast members, besides those mentioned, were Gulliver Dark, singer and rival to Marty Tish, and Dr. Alexander Gibson. In the course of its four season run, Ullman performed a total of 108 characters, the Tracey Ullman Show regularly featured short animated cartoons as interstitials in the first three seasons
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Tracey Ullman's Visible Panty Lines
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Tracey Ullmans Visible Panty Lines is American television series talk show hosted by actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. The show focuses on fashion and individual style, each episode consists of makeovers and celebrity guests. Celebrities reveal whats in their wardrobe and present childhood mementos, the show was inspired by Ullmans online fashion boutique Purple Skirt. The series was set to air on 13 September 2001. Visible Panty Lines at the Internet Movie Database
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Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
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Tracey Ullmans State of the Union is an American sketch-comedy series starring actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. The series was written by Ullman along with Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner, gail Parent and Craig DiGregorio acted as contributing writers to the series first season. On May 17,2010, it was announced that State of the Union would not be returning for a fourth season, the series first season debuted on March 30,2008, on premium cable network, Showtime. A second season of seven episodes debuted on April 12,2009, Arianna Huffington, one of Ullmans frequent parodies, stated that she and Ullman had tea together. Ullman was looking to more material for the series second season. Season three began airing January 25,2010 on Showtime, the first season of the series is directed by Troy Miller. The show is shot in cutaway fashion and its her kind of sketch show, where she plays many, many characters. No sketch is longer than a minute and a half, each episode is a day in the life of the United States. You pop in on all over the country, really quick visits. Youll go to some famous people, youll see some recognizable faces and some regular Americans. You revisit characters from episode to episode, youll go in and out, like the Google map of the U. S. in and out from the outer atmosphere. Ullman will play 90 percent of the characters, men and women, as described by Showtime network executive, each sketch lasts from a few seconds, to a few minutes, much like a YouTube clip, a style Ullman was looking to achieve. The series is narrated throughout by, Peter Strauss, the series was inspired by a PBS commercial which featured a tractor and talked about a farmer waking up in the Midwest to provide a high-quality breakfast to a child on the Pacific rim. I just thought, What a nice journey across America, says Ullman, celebrity impersonations have become a recent addition to Ullmans comedic repertoire, something that she had not dabbled in since her early days at the BBC, nearly thirty years prior. The slightly famous to the infamous are skewered in, ‘’State of the Union’’, reaction to the parodies were fast coming from the actual celebrities themselves. One of the very first reactions came from actress Renée Zellweger, in a sketch, Zellweger is featured on a press junket for her new movie, where her character has a condition called chronic narcissistic squint. The real Zellweger was shown a picture of Ullman doing an impersonation of her on the Late Show with David Letterman, Ullman revealed that she wore no make-up to get her Zellweger appearance. She simply donned long eyelashes, very much like Shari Lewis’ Lambchop and this is why I need therapy… I better watch what I say
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Tracey Ullman: A Class Act
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Tracey Ullman, A Class Act is a sketch-comedy special starring actress-comedian Tracey Ullman, along with Michael Palin playing a variety of original characters. It originally aired on ITV, subsequently HBO in the United States on 23 November 1993, a Class Act skewers the British class system. The show is broken up into three sketches, Ullman, accompanied by Monty Python alum Michael Palin, play the majority of the shows characters. Two of Ullmans characters would go on to appear in Tracey Ullman Takes On New York HBO special, the special was produced for ITV in the United Kingdom. The show would go on to make its American television debut on HBO in late 1993, the American cut of the special opens with Ullman explaining the English class system. The show opens aboard Class Air, a British airline that seats passengers according to class, lower, middle. Airline steward, Trevor Ayliss, explains to an American passenger the seating arrangement, in a parody of the British documentary Seven Up. three children are followed from childhood to adulthood. Ullman plays a multitude of characters in a powder room. A young girl, Jeannine Pillsworth is placed into a boarding school by her working class parents. Her mother and father give up all their possessions in order to afford tuition, Jeannine, now calling herself Janie, is reinvented into a posh young woman. She disowns her parents, making them promise to never speak to her again, despite Janies contempt, Mr and Mrs Pillsworth couldnt be happier that Jeannine has become exactly what they wanted to become. Trevor visits the American passenger in the Working Class section of the plane, the show closes with Trevor singing I Am What I Am. A Class Act was released on video in the UK in 1993. In 2009, the special became available in the United States via iTunes, the character Trevor Ayliss is deleted entirely, as is the concluding song I Am What I Am. The unedited British cut of the special was available on Hulu in the United States in 2012. The special was nominated for a CableAce Award in 1995 in the category of International Dramatic or Comedy Special or Series/Movie or Miniseries. Entertainment Weekly, BRIT WIT TRACEY ULLMAN GIVES THE ENGLISH A FUNNY POUNDING Variety, Tracey Ullman, A Class Act Tracey Ullman, A Class Act at the Internet Movie Database
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Tracey Ullman Takes On New York
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Tracey Ullman Takes On New York is a comedy special starring actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. New York was Ullmans first project for HBO, the special helped launch the series Tracey Takes On. Couple, Penny and Gordon Johnson, travel to New York to attend a Broadway show, Penny and Gordon get separated from each other in the city, and both experience two different sides of New York, Penny, the good. Penny is even chosen to model for a fashion photographer, after Linda Granger gets hit by a bus, Penny is chosen to replace her in the show. Tracey Ullman, A Class Act character, Janie Pillsworth, now an adult, Pillsworth, who disowned her parents as a young girl, is reunited with them during an interview. Janie, although mortified at first, reconciles with them and decides to put them on the cover of her magazines next issue, harry and Fern Rosenthal welcome their daughters future in-laws to the city. Fern becomes jealous of her future mother, and begins to suspect that she is trying to steal her daughter away from her. It became available on Hulu in the United States in 2012, Tracey Ullman Takes On New York at the Internet Movie Database
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Kay Clark
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For the sport shooter, see Kay Clark-Miculek Kay Clark is a fictional character created and portrayed by actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. She is the longest character Ullman has ever portrayed, spanning four decades. The character was out of a sketch for a guest appearance on the British television comedy. Ullman says that Kay is based on a woman who worked at her bank in England, basically, shes forty-three, has never been touched by a man and never will be. Theres always one like her in office who sells sanitary napkins and stamps. Once, at a party, someone got her behind the filing cabinets. People go, Oh, you and Kayyy -1982, I never did nothing with her. For the Fox show series, Kay works for a paper products distribution company, in her HBO series, Kay was employed as a bank teller. Kay is described an eternal optimist and she has devoted herself to caring for her invalid mother. While she loves her mother, Kay has outbursts of hatred for her time to time. Kay wears clothing made from polyester, along with a pen on a string which hangs around her neck and she cuts her own hair using a ceramic kitchen bowl and scissors. Kays mode of transportation is a moped, she is shown wearing a helmet. Kay, a New York City paper distribution company office worker, is the constant victim of her co-workers, Kay takes it all in stride though. She frequently checks in on her mother on the phone and we never see her mother on screen or hear her on the phone. We do know that shes an invalid, the cause of Mummys injuries are revealed in the sketch Kay Babysits, Once there was a little girl about your age who was told never, never to listen to the radio. Because her mother said it was the Devil’s instrument and would give her bad thoughts, and one day, she couldn’t resist, and listened to it anyway. And she heard a report saying that a storm was coming. Now later, her mother discovered that the radio was warm, and she asked the little if she played it
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You Broke My Heart in 17 Places
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You Broke My Heart in 17 Places is the debut studio album by singer-actress-comedian Tracey Ullman released in 1983. It peaked at number 14 on the UK album chart and number 34 on the Billboard 200 in the U. S. in the spring of 1984, the album consists of covers, such as Move Over Darling and Blondies Presence Dear. They Dont Know—originally written, recorded and released by singer Kirsty MacColl—became Ullmans biggest hit and it reached #8 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, and #2 in the UK. The songs music video included an appearance by Paul McCartney
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Breakaway (Irma Thomas song)
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Breakaway is a song written by Jackie DeShannon and Sharon Sheeley. It was originally recorded by Irma Thomas in 1964 and released as the B-Side of her biggest hit, the original version of Breakaway was never a hit. Nevertheless, Breakaway is today generally a better-remembered song than the A-Side of Thomas record and it has become a staple in Thomas live performances and appears on several recent Irma Thomas and New Orleans music compilations. Breakaway was Tracey Ullmans 1983 debut single in the UK, the track then appeared on Ullmans album You Broke My Heart In 17 Places, which was released in 1984. In North America, Breakaway was actually Ullmans second single, being released after her hit They Dont Know and it charted at a modest #70 in the US in 1984, although the video for Ullmans version received significant play on the then-fledgling MTV and Canadas MuchMusic. In 2010, a version of the song by the Detroit Cobras was used in commercials for the NFL RedZone channel and this song should not be confused with one of the same title recorded by Kelly Clarkson. Article from OffBeat Magazine Bio from Soul Express Bio with song origin and inspiration
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They Don't Know (Kirsty MacColl song)
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They Dont Know is a song, written and composed by Kirsty MacColl, who recorded it in 1979. It became popular on radio in the United Kingdom, reaching #2 on the Music Week airplay chart, however, complications involving a strike at her distributors prevented the single from being shipped and promoted properly, preventing release of the single. MacColls version of They Dont Know thus failed to appear on the official UK Singles Charts, although the song was not taken from an album, it later appeared on MacColls compilation Galore. They Dont Know Motor On In 1983, Tracey Ullman recorded a version of the song, already well known in the UK as an actress and comedian, They Dont Know was issued as her second single there, reaching #2. MacColl performed backing vocals on Ullmans version and reprised her original bay-ay-be-ee in the middle of the song, the song was also included on Ullmans debut album, You Broke My Heart in 17 Places. The track was released in the United States the following year, at the time, Ullman was almost a complete unknown in the US, as her TV appearances had not been seen in that country. They Dont Know eventually reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it is sometimes erroneously reported that Ullmans version of They Dont Know simply uses the backing track from MacColls original single. The confusion may stem from the fact that Ullman did use a previously-existing MacColl backing track when recording her own version of MacColls Terry in 1984, in 1997, They Dont Know became the theme song for the final three seasons of Ullmans later television series Tracey Takes On. The Tracey Ullman version was used as the theme for the opening credits of Our Nixon. Cotton Club recorded the Swedish rendering Vår Hemlighet on their 1984 eponymous album, anja Niskanen recorded the Finnish rendering Syy On Rakkauden on her 1984 eponymous album. In 1994, a cover by American power pop Gigolo Aunts was included on the Volume 10 compilation, in 1997, Young Fresh Fellows covered the song for their album A Tribute To Music. In 2001, Kenny Howes and the Yeah, included a cover on their self-titled album. The album was later re-released in 2002 under the new title of Until Dawn, in 2001, Leslie Carter recorded a cover for her unreleased album Like Wow. possibly done as an homage recorded shortly after Kirstys death. In 2006, indie band The Boyfriends covered the song as a B-side for their single Once Upon a Time, in 2006, Katrina Leskanich released a cover of the song. In 2006, Belgian band Nailpin covered the song for their album White Lies & Butterflies, in 2006, Swedish pop singer Moneybrother recorded a Swedish cover for his album Pengabrorsan as Dom Vet Ingenting Om Oss. He also recorded an English language version with Swedish a cappella group The Sweptaways, in 2011, after performing the song live in concert, Kim Wilde recorded a studio version for her album of cover songs Snapshots. In 2011, Andrea Corr included a cover on her solo album Lifelines, in 2013, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs covered the song for their album Under the Covers, Vol.3. In 2014, country singer Lydia Loveless recorded a version for her album Somewhere Else released by Bloodshot Records, in 2014, a cover by American singer-songwriter Graham Alexander was included on the compilation Here Comes the Reign Again, The Second British Invasion
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My Girl (Madness song)
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My Girl is a song by British ska/pop group Madness from their debut album, One Step Beyond. It was written by Mike Barson, the song was released as a single on 21 December 1979 and spent 10 weeks on the UK Singles Chart peaking at number 3. The song was reissued in 1992 following the success of the reissued It Must Be Love and it reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart. The song first made its way into the set when they were performing as The Invaders. The first performance of the came in July 1978, when it was performed by the band at the Blind Alley Shop. Barson originally performed lead vocals, and even sang on the demo for the song, having written the song about his then girlfriend, however, Suggs took over the vocal duties before long, and sang the album version of the song. When the group performed the song on Top of the Pops in January 1980, the music video for My Girl features Madness performing the song at the Dublin Castle pub, London. For the video, the stage was extended especially, in order to ensure that the band could perform comfortably, a demo version of My Girl was released on the B-Side of the 12 version of The Return of the Los Palmas 7, featuring Mike Barson on vocals. In 2006, The Ordinary Boys released a recording of the song at the Brixton Academy featuring Suggs. On 2 May 2008, Graham McPherson and Carl Smyth performed a new arrangement by Pet Shop Boys live at the Heaven in London and they appeared as part of Pet Shop Boys live set during the benefit evening for Dainton Connells family, Can You Bear It. A Pet Shop Boys version of the song appears on the Pet Shop Boys Christmas EP, Barson wrote a follow-up song, My Girl 2, which was recorded by Madness and released as a single in 2012. Though it contains the phrase my girl, My Girl 2 is otherwise musically and lyrically quite distinct from My Girl, in addition to its single release and appearance on the album One Step Beyond. My Girl also appears on the Madness collections Divine Madness, Complete Madness, Madness, Total Madness and The Business. These are the formats and track listings of single releases of My Girl. 7 vinyl single 12 vinyl single 7 vinyl single The song Precious One is to date the only Madness original to have released only as a live version. Tracey Ullman covered Madnesss My Girl in 1984, the title was changed to My Guy, and the single was titled My Guys Mad at Me. Madness Mark Bedford played bass on the track and her version was in the UK Top 40 at the same time as Madness Michael Caine and peaked at number 23. The music video featured the British politician Neil Kinnock, at the time the Leader of the Opposition, the single was also released as a 7 picture disc, with a picture of Ullman and Kinnock sitting at a table
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Terry (Kirsty MacColl song)
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Terry is a song by Kirsty MacColl, released as a single in October 1983, and charting at #82 in the UK the following month. The music video featured an appearance from actor and comedian Ade Edmondson who played MacColls rejected boyfriend who got her back after fighting off a rival man. Just over a year later, in January 1985, Tracey Ullman took the one place higher on the UK charts. Ullmans version of Terry used the backing track to the MacColl version, merely erasing MacColls lead vocal. Terry Quietly Alone On the 12 release, a version of Terry is used. Terry I Dont Want Our Loving To Die
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Tracey Takes On (book)
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Tracey Takes On is a book based on the HBO comedy series of the same name, and is authored by its star Tracey Ullman. The majority of the material is taken from the first two seasons of the show. Sketches are presented in the form of letters, newspaper articles, diary entries, magazine interviews, questionnaires, each character gets its own dedicated font and letterhead. The book relies on official press photos and screen captures. Like the series, each opens with a story from Ullman in relation to each chapters subject. Un-aired or unused sketches and some new material can also be found in the book, the book also comes with character biographies and paper dolls. But Tracey Takes On, like its wildly talented author, is very funny, entertainment Weekly gave the book a B+. Enter the antic world of Tracey Ullman CNN - Book Reviews Tracey Takes On February 6,1998
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Purple Skirt
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Purple Skirt was a style and fashion-focused web site with an online boutique, the brainchild of actress-comedian Tracey Ullman. The site collected and sold clothing and accessories from both established and up-and-coming designers and it provided advice from stylists and costumes designers in the entertainment industry. The web site was launched in November 1999 and co-founded by Stephanie Laing, in 2001, Ullman hosted a spin-off television talk show series for Oxygen Network, Tracey Ullmans Visible Panty Lines. Like Purple Skirt, the show showcased fashion and style advice from industry experts, press release concerning the launch of Purple Skirt Whats So Funny About a Purple Skirt. Tracey takes on skirts Ullmans Clothes Call
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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town
