Williams was raised in Elmira, New York, where he attended Hendy Avenue Elementary. Later, Williams moved with his parents to Middletown, New Jersey where he was a volunteer fireman, worked at a pancake restaurant and local Sears store. After graduation from Mater Dei High School, Williams attended George Washington University and transferred to Catholic University of America, both schools in Washington, DC. Upon leaving college without a degree, a decision that he terms "one of my great regrets" [1], Williams began his broadcasting c ...

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Danner first appeared on stage with the Theater Company of Boston and the Trinity Square Playhouse of Boston, and first gained national attention at age 25 by winning the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Lincoln Center Rep's production of The Miser. She went on to win a Tony Award in 1970 for her Broadway debut in Butterflies Are Free, playing the role later portrayed by Goldie Hawn in the film adaptation. The same year she appeared in her first film role, in a television production of Dr. Cook's Garden. Sh ...

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Founded in 1911 by what is now the United Methodist Church, SMU is nonsectarian in its teaching and committed to academic freedom and open inquiry. The city of Dallas has supported SMU since its beginning, when local citizens pledged $300,000 to secure the University's location. In appreciation of the city, SMU named its first building Dallas Hall, which remains the University’s symbol and centerpiece. Designed after the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Dallas Hall opened its doors in 1915 and housed the entire University as well as ...

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The Shield - Strike Team. Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) - Leader of the Strike Team, anti-hero, corrupt cop, devoted father. Detective Shane Vendrell (Walton Goggins) - Vic's friend and member of the Strike Team. His short temper and racism often lead to trouble as does his intense need for the approval of Vic. Shane is the only person who knows that Vic murdered Terry Crowley in the pilot episode. Detective Curtis "Lem" Lemansky (Kenny Johnson) - Member of th ...

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Maria Shriver was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was the second child and only daughter of the politician Sargent Shriver and his wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and a niece of the assassinated American President John F. Kennedy. Shriver received a B.A. degree in American Studies from Georgetown University. She was introduced to her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger by NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw she married on April 26, 1986 she has four children: Katherine Eunice (born December 13, 1989) Christina Maria Aurelia (born July 23, 1991) Patrick Arnold (born September 18, 1993) Christopher Sarge ...

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Marshall Texas - 19th Century. The city was founded in 1841 as the seat of Harrison County, after repeated failed attempts to establish a county seat on the Sabine River since the county was established in 1839. The Republic of Texas decided to choose the site of land granted by Peter Whetstone and Isaac Van Zandt after Whetstone had proven that the hilly location had a good water source. The city quickly became a major city in the state because of its position as a gateway to Texas on several major stage ...

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Minnelli's first film appearance was at the age of three in the final scene of the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime, starring her mother and Van Johnson. Liza started performing at age of 16, in 1963, in an off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for which she received good notices. The next year, her mother invited her to perform with her at the London Palladium. The audience loved her, and her musical career was born. She returned to Broadway at 19, and won a 1965 Tony Award for Flora th ...

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There have been dozens of major stage and film adaptions, and countless references in popular culture. The very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has become shorthand to mean wild controversial and polar behaviour. Most adaptions of the work omit the reader-identification figure of Utterson, instead telling the story from Jekyll and Hyde's viewpoint, thus eliminating the mystery aspect of the tale about who Hyde is; indeed there have been no major adaptions to date that stay close to Stevenson's original work, almost all introducing some form of romantic element. For a complete list of derivative works s ...

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William Shatner was first cast as Captain James Tiberius Kirk for the second pilot of Star Trek, entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before". He subsequently was contracted to play Captain Kirk for the Star Trek series and held the role from 1966 to 1969. In 1973, Shatner returned to the role of Captain Kirk, albeit only in voice, in the animated Star Trek series. He was slated to reprise the role of Kirk for Star Trek: Phase II, a follow-up series chronicling the second five-year mission of the Enterprise, but Star Trek: Phase II was cancelled in pre-product ...

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List of University of California Los Angeles people - Nobel Laureates. Ralph Bunche - Peace, 1950 Bruce Merrifield - Chemistry, 1984 Glenn T. Seaborg - Chemistry, 1951 William Sharpe - Economics, 1990 List of University of California Los Angeles people - Academia Science and Technology. William Arveson - mathematician; professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley Paul Baran - Internet pioneer Mich ...

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Acting was always her passion and she graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with acting as her major. She then got her start in a bit part on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. In the late '80s, Parker travelled to New York where she got a job measuring feet at Ecco. After a few minor roles, she made her Broadway debut in a 1990 production of Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss, playing the main role of Rita. For her performance she won the Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for a Tony award. Parker also briefly dated her co-star Timothy Hutton. However, when the play wa ...

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Mary-Louise Parker, Mary-Louise Parker - Her Early Work, Mary-Louise Parker - The 1990s, Mary-Louise Parker - 2001 - 2003, Mary-Louise Parker - 2004-present, Mary-Louise Parker - Selected Filmography, Mary-Louise Parker - Awards, Mary-Louise Parker - Trivia

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Angelou was an unwed mother. To support her young son, Clyde Bailey "Guy" Johnson, born in San Francisco, she danced in night clubs, conducted cable cars, cooked at a Creole cafe, removed paint at a body shop, and was a madam and prostitute at a San Diego brothel. However, she soon returned home, to Stamps, Arkansas, then Louisville, Kentucky. While working in a record shop in 1950, Marguerite met and married Tosh Angelos, a Greek-American sailor. They lived in relative comfort in Los Angeles, California, but fell out of love and divorced after a few years. In 1976, Angelou bec ...

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Naima Mora has done segments for CG, known as "My Life As A Cover Girl". She's modeled for CoverGirl, Elle Magazine, Fuego Magazine, US Weekly Magazine, IN Touch Magazine, Star Magazine, Teen People Magazine, Split Clothing, Jazz Album Cover and Elle Girl Magazine for Samsung. She also modelled with her sister Ife for iTunes and was nominated for the PETA’s fifth annual “World’s Sexiest Vegetarians” poll She's done a few runway shows Christopher Deane Spring 2006 Collection, Carlos Miele Fashion Show, Walmart and ELLEgirl Presents Dare To Be You Spring 2006, ...

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Most NYU buildings are scattered across a roughly square area bounded by Houston Street to the south, Broadway to the east, 14th Street to the north, and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west. The majority of NYU buildings surround Washington Square Park. In the past, there has often been tension between NYU and other neighborhood residents and businesses over real estate issues. In spite of this, NYU is the third largest landowner in the city (the largest being the City itself, the second being the Catholic Church). ...

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NYPD Blue gained notoriety for profanity and nudity never previously broadcast on American network television. As Milch noted in a May 2002 interview: It took an extra year to get on the air to negotiate with ABC what could and could not be done. The good thing about that delay was that I got to spend an extra year with cops to research and come to understand more about what i ...

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Streep has received countless awards, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—all of which can be seen at numerous sites, including her page at the Internet Movie Database (link below). Summarized below are her awards from the best recognized institutions. Awards: 1978 - Emmy for best actress in a mini-series, in Holocaust 1980 - Golden Globe for best supporting actress, in Kramer vs. Kramer 1980 - Academy Award for best supporting actress, in Kramer vs. Kramer < ...

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McCloud - The Westerner in New York City. The most enduring theme of the show was the conflict between the good-natured, clear-eyed buoyancy of McCloud and the metropolitan cynicism of the residents of New York City, including his fellow officers. McCloud's attire, typically consisting of a sheepskin coat or Western jacket, kerchief tie and cowboy hat, allowed for implied comic relief in many encounters with New Yorkers. That New Yorkers might mistake him for a naif because of his appearance occasionally worked to his advantage. He would often allay suspicion of his moti ...

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Medium TV series - Executive producers. Glenn Gordon Caron René Echevarria Ronald L. Schwary Kelsey Grammer Steve Stark ...

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List of University of Michigan people - Nobel laureates. Stanley Cohen PhD 1949, co-winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering growth factors (proteins regulating cell growth) in human and animal tissue Marshall Nirenberg, Ph.D. 1957, Chief of Biomedical Genetics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968 Thomas H. Weller, A.B. 1936, M.S. 1937, received the Nobel Prize Medicine in 1954 Jerome Karle, (Ph.D. 1944) Chief Scientist, L ...

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After succeeding as a stand-up comedian in the San Francisco Bay Area, Goldberg created a one woman show in 1983 called The Spook Show. This show caught the attention of Mike Nichols who produced a one-woman show for Goldberg on Broadway, called simply Whoopi Goldberg, which ran from October 24, 1984 to March 10, 1985, for a total of 156 performances. Goldberg's performance caught the eye of Steven Spielberg, who was inspired to cast Goldberg in her film debut, an adaption of the award-winning novel The Color Purple by A ...

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Peanuts had its origin in Li'l Folks, a weekly panel comic that appeared in Schulz's hometown paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from 1947 to 1949. When his work was picked up by United Feature Syndicate, they decided to go for the new comic strip he had been working on. This strip was somewhat similar to the panel comic, but it had a cast of characters, rather than different nameless little folk for each page. Maybe the name would have been the same, though, had it been less close to the names of two other comics of the ...

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List of mathematicians - Aa — Ac. Abakanowicz, Bruno (Poland, 1852 – 1900) Abdelkader, Mostafa A. (?, ? – ) Abel, Niels Henrik (Norway, 1802 – 1829) Abelson, Harold (USA, ? – ) Al-Abhari Athir al-Din Mufaddal ibn Umar (Persia, 1200 – 1265) Abhyankar, Shreeram Shankar (India/USA, 1930 – ) Abouabdillah, Driss (Morocco, 1948 – ) Abraham, Ralph (USA, 1936 – ) Abramowitz, Milton (?, ? – ) Achenwall, Gottfried (Germany, 1719 – 1772) Ackerm ...

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