The 60-second film was created by the advertising agency Chiat/Day, whose creative director Lee Clow was responsible for this and the later Energizer Bunny and Taco Bell chihuahua campaigns, with copy written by Steve Hayden and directed by Ridley Scott (who had just finished filming Blade Runner). It was shown to a large audience for the first time in October 1983, at Apple's annual sales conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Based on their initial reaction, Apple executives booked two slots during the upcoming Super Bowl. Ho ...

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Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Marin County, California. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, of English, Welsh, and Irish descent, was a senior executive at Ford in charge of the Midwest area, and his mother Laurie was a New Orleans-born former model of French descent. He first achieved notice for his stand-up routines in San Francisco. After studying at Claremont McKenna College (then called Claremont Men's College) with the Strut and Fret theatre group in Claremont, Californ ...

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Follows the actual fads in lists and divided by category. List of YTMND fads - Most Popular YTMNDs. Have you lost possession of YOUR Yidish Cup? Letter from Neil at eBaum's - Check out the shirt! http://www.phatrags.com/pages/store/skudetail.nhtml?profile=home&uid=10548&returnURL=http://www.phatrags.com/ "KHAN!", Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Kirk's KHAN! fury scream. The first major fad on YTMND aside from the original Youre The Man Now Dog.< ...

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September 11 2001 attacks timeline for September - Wednesday September 12. 2:30 AM, CBS reports that a van packed with explosives has been stopped on the George Washington Bridge. The New Jersey police claim there were enough explosives to destroy the entire bridge. Apparently the FBI has denied the report. According to a later report, three men have been arrested but there were no explosives involved. They were arrested because they had been seen celebrating the attack. Before See also:

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First settled in the early 1600s as a part of Boston, Massachusetts known as the hamlet of Muddy River, Brookline was incorporated as an independent town in 1705. Its name is derived from the brooks that created the town lines with the former towns of Allston and Roxbury, which are both now parts of Boston. Its physical separation from the rest of Norfolk County comes from the fact that the former towns of West Roxbury and Hyde Park were both part of the county until they were absorbed by Boston. Throughout its history, Brookline resisted being absorbed by Boston, thus giving it its ...

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List of comedians - A. Bud Abbott (1895-1974) Roger Abbott (1946-) Russ Abbott (1947-) Chris Addison (19??-) Joe Alaskey (1949-) Carlos Alazraqui (1962-) Jack Albertson (1907-1981) Jason Alexander (1959-) Dave Allen (1936-2005) Gracie Allen (1902?-1964) Steve Allen (1921-2000) Tim Allen (1953-) Woody Allen (1935-) Eddie Anderson (1905-1977) Louie Anderson (1953-) Tom Arnold ...

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The Tonight Show - Steve Allen. Tonight's original host was Steve Allen, as noted above. Thanks to his popularity on this program, he was given his own nighttime series, leading him to share hosting duties with Ernie Kovacs during the 1956-1957 season; while Allen prepared his prime time show, Kovacs hosted Tonight on Monday and Tuesday nights. Kovacs is sometimes r ...

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Julia Stiles - Television career. Stiles began her acting career in television roles. After two appearances as the computer punk "Erica" on the PBS series Ghostwriter in 1993 and 1994, she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama Chicago Hope. She has been seen in two made-for-TV movies: in Before Women Had Wings (1997) on CBS, she played opposite Ellen Burstyn and Oprah Winfrey in an adaptation of the novel by Connie May Fowler; and she played a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant a ...

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2009 - January-April. January 1 - Bulgaria and Slovakia are set to adopt the Euro January 1 - Deadline by which goods in all member states of the European Union must be sold in metric units (this has already been completed everywhere, except in the UK). Road signs in the UK are unaffected (road signs in all other member states will already be in metric units). January 20 - The next President of the United States (elected November 4, 2008) will be inaugurated. January 26 Annular so ...

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2000s - Technology. A huge jump in broadband internet usage, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June, 2000 to what one study predicts will be 62% by 2010. Boom in music downloading and the use of data compression to quickly transfer music over the Internet, with a corresponding rise of portable digital audio players typified by Apple Computer's iPod. Digital cameras become very popular due to rapid decreases in size and cost while photo resolution steadily increases. Sales of film reel came ...

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Here is a collection of latest poll results. The opinion pollsters' methods may vary, as do the samples and the conducting time, which give the differences. The total percentages may exceed 100% due to rounding. 1 Conducted via telephone for YLE by Taloustutkimus on January 10th and 11th, and the sample size was 1582 persons. The margin of error is ± 2.5 percentage points. 2 Conducted for MTV3 by Research International during the weeks 52, 1 and 2. The sample size was 1200 persons (500 on w ...

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The title comes from the famous RMS Titanic docu-pic A Night to Remember. Futurama TV series - season 2 - Summary. Returning from a delivery mission to the planet Cannibalon, Fry, Leela, and Bender announce their resignations to Professor Farnsworth. They reconsider when the Professor tells them he has scheduled a company vacation. Unfortunately, the vacation is a cruise on the largest space cruise ship ever built: the Titanic. Acting as the honorary captain for Titanic's first voyage, Zapp B ...

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The show stars Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger named Cordell Walker, who lives in modern Dallas, Texas. The police unit he works in is the Department of Public Safety, the real-life name for the Texas state police force, the agency responsible for the modern Texas Rangers division. Ranger Walker shares values with the sheriffs from the Wild West, and was raised by a Native American named Ray Firewalker; Walker also fought in the Vietnam War as a part of the United States Marine Corps. He works with a partner, a former player for the Dallas Co ...

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After attending Lakeside School, a prestigious high school in Seattle, he graduated from nearby Whitman College where he majored in literature and psychology and was married. He served two years in the United States Army. He worked as a disc jockey, truck driver, and cowboy, then travelled with his wife around Europe, where he sometimes worked as a milkman. Eventually he settled in Hawaii where he got a role on a light entertainment show called The Kini Popo Show. In Hawaii he divorced his f ...

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A play (with music) called Boyband, featuring a band named 4ORCE and parodying the boy band phenomonen of the 90s with songs such as "Coming from Behind", "Our Love is Like Water - H40" and "Integrity", was performed at the Seymour Centre in Sydney, Australia for 2 weeks in 2005 and is returning for a 4 week season in March 2006. The television series 2ge+her created a parody ...

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**Edward P. Jones – author 1952 Laraine Newman – comedian and former Saturday Night Live star Amy Tan – writer Herb Ritts – photographer Liam Neeson – actor Marilyn Chambers – porn actress Mr. T. – actor Rick James – musician David Byrne – The Talking Heads, etc. Vikram Seth – Indian novelist John Tesh – musician Joe Strummer – The Clash Christopher Reeve – actor-deceased Da ...

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Crunk was originated in the early 1990s but did not become mainstream until the early 2000s. In the year 2003, the crunk genre had surprise hit singles with "Never Scared" by Bone Crusher, featuring Killer Mike and T.I., "Damn!" by Youngbloodz (and produced by Lil Jon) and most notably "Get Low" by Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz featuring the Ying Yang Twins, which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. By 2004, crunk and especially Lil Jon were in such high demand that superstar R&B singer Usher enlisted Lil Jon to produce h ...

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1963 - January. January 1 - CSIRO scientist Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler are found dead, believed to have been poisoned, in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney. Known as the Bogle-Chandler case. January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 - Elysée treaty between France and Germany January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clem ...

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Tarja Halonen was born on 24 December 1943 in Helsinki in the district of Kallio, which has traditionally been a working-class quarter. Her parents were Vieno Olavi Halonen and Lyyli Elina Loimola. She obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Helsinki in 1968. Halonen served as the social secretary and organisation secretary of the National Union of Students in Finland in 1969–1970 and partly thanks to this she obtained a position as the lawyer of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) for the years 1970–1974. She ...

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First settled in the early 1600s as a part of Boston, Massachusetts known as the hamlet of Muddy River, Brookline was incorporated as an independent town in 1705. President John F. Kennedy was born here, as was his brother Attorney General and Senator Bobby Kennedy. It was also the home of influential American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, 60 Minutes icon Mike Wallace, former Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, television talk show host Conan O'Brien, television commentato ...

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Rice was originally the singer for Juniper, a rock band with a notable stage show, which released the singles "The World Is Dead" and "Weatherman". On the eve of recording their first full album for Polygram in 1999, Rice became disenchanted with the commercial direction he felt pushed into by the label, and quit. His Juniper bandmates would become Bell X1. Moving to rural Italy, he lived quietly, until deciding to return to the music business on his own terms. Turning to acoustic guitar and intensely personal songwriting, he b ...

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Geek chic - Celebrities as examples of geek chic. Elvis Costello Rivers Cuomo Jack Black Quentin Tarantino Kevin Smith Conan O'Brien Adrien Brody Geek chic - Fictional characters as examples of geek chic. Napoleon Dynamite Seth Cohen Michelle from American Pie Geek chic - Other references to geek chic. The Huey Lewis And The News song "It's ...

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