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Born in San Diego, California, RuPaul's tumultuous youth was marked by the bitter divorce of his parents. RuPaul struggled as a drag performer, musician, and filmmaker in Atlanta in the 1980s. In Atlanta, he participated in underground cinema, helping create a low-budget picture known as "Starbooty" (and an album by the same name). RuPaul came into the public eye in 1989, appearing in the music video for The B-52's immensely popular single "Love Shack". In the early 1990s, RuPaul became a fixture in the New York club scene, and was voted "Qu ...

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RuPaul, RuPaul - Biography, RuPaul - Trivia, RuPaul - Quotes, RuPaul - Discography, RuPaul - Albums, RuPaul - Singles, RuPaul - Bibliography, RuPaul - Filmography

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Richard Adler - Most Popular Songs. Rags To Riches Hey, There Hernando's Hideaway Steam Heat Whatever Lola Wants You Gotta Have Heart Everybody Loves A Lover Another Time, Another Place ...

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Richard Adler, Richard Adler - Selected Works, Richard Adler - Most Popular Songs, Richard Adler - Awards and Nominations

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The show is designed to encourage reading amongst youth. Using no puppets or gimmicks, this sincere, evenly paced show remains popular among children and educators. It is hosted by actor and executive producer LeVar Burton, well known for his roles in Roots and in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Each episode centers on a theme from a book or other children's literature. The theme is explored through a number of segments or stories where the viewer is immersed in the topic. One of the successes of the series is the fascin ...

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Reading Rainbow, Reading Rainbow - Plot for the show, Reading Rainbow - Trivia & Funding

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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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Peanuts, Peanuts - Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts - History, Peanuts - Cast, Peanuts - Ages of the Peanuts characters, Peanuts - Books, Peanuts - Television film and theater, Peanuts - Feature films, Peanuts - Animated TV specials, Peanuts - Other media

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Paul Dini - Early years. Paul Dini was born on August 7, 1957 in New York City. He attended the Robert Louis Stevenson school in Pebble Beach, California on an art scholarship. He attended Emerson College in Boston, where he earned a BFA degree in creative writing. (He also took zoology classes at Harvard University.) During college, he began doing freelance animation scripts for Filmation, and a number of other studios. In 1984, he was hired to work for George Luca ...

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Paul Dini, Paul Dini - Biography, Paul Dini - Early years, Paul Dini - Professional career, Paul Dini - Hobbies, Paul Dini - Awards

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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 8,708 people, 3,161 households, and 2,389 families residing in the borough. The population density is 1,293.1/km² (3,353.3/mi²). There are 3,258 housing units at an average density of 483.8/km² (1,254.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 93.48% White, 0.86% African American, 0.14% Native American, 3.86% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.73% from other races, and 0.91% from two or more races. 5.32% ...

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Park Ridge New Jersey, Park Ridge New Jersey - Geography, Park Ridge New Jersey - Demographics, Park Ridge New Jersey - Government, Park Ridge New Jersey - Federal state and county representation

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The long opening segment of Osama bin Laden's threat video, in which he made frequent mistakes and joked around, was actually composed of bloopers from the studio; Seth's fake Afghan (Saudi?) accent was lost whenever he laughed, and his co-workers were joking around with him while he was recording lines. The studio decided to add the bloopers into the segment. The original scene had Osama saying his last words for his threat video and then Stewie jumping into the scene fighting the terrorists. The fight between bin Laden and Stewie begins by matching move-for-move the duel between Yoda and C ...

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PTV Family Guy episode, PTV Family Guy episode - Plot Summary, PTV Family Guy episode - Cultural references, PTV Family Guy episode - Osama Bin Laden Scene, PTV Family Guy episode - Quotes

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By 1985, Penn & Teller were receiving rave reviews for their Off Broadway show and Emmy award-winning PBS special, Penn & Teller Go Public. In 1987, they began the first of two successful Broadway runs. Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, the pair made numerous television appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live, as well as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'BrienSee also:

Penn and Teller, Penn and Teller - Career, Penn and Teller - Tricks, Penn and Teller - Television projects, Penn and Teller - Movies, Penn and Teller - Books, Penn and Teller - Awards and recognitions

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His first starring role was as the title character in the movie Joe which was released in 1970, in which Boyle played a hardhat bigot to wide acclaim. The film's release was surounded by controversy over its violence and language. Ironically, it was during this time that Boyle became close friends with the actress Jane Fonda, and with her he participated in many protests against the Vietnam War. After seeing people cheer at his role in Joe, Boyle refused the lead role in The French Connection (1971) as well as other movie and TV r ...

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Peter Boyle, Peter Boyle - Rise to fame, Peter Boyle - External link

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Ray Liotta - From Goodfellas:. "And when the cops, they assigned a whole army to stop Jimmy, what'd he do? He made them partners." "When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy." "For a second, I thought I was dead. But when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they'd been wiseguys, I wouldn't have he ...

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Ray Liotta, Ray Liotta - Film quotes, Ray Liotta - From Goodfellas:, Ray Liotta - Partial filmography

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In its first season, Project Runway received critical acclaim including an Emmy nomination for outstanding competitive reality series. Growth in audience popularity was also dramatic from its debut to the season finale, making it a sleeper hit. Project Runway gave Bravo one of its most successful series since Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The winning designer of the first season was Pennsylvania-based designer Jay McCarroll. As his prize for winning the competition among 12 designers, McCarroll received $100,000 ...

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Project Runway, Project Runway - Format, Project Runway - Season 1, Project Runway - Season 1 contestants, Project Runway - Season 1 challenges, Project Runway - Season 2, Project Runway - Season 2 contestants, Project Runway - Season 2 challenges

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Following his service in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Salinger was appointed as a Democratic United States Senator from California to fill the vacancy resulting from the July 30, 1964 death of Senator Clair Engle, taking office on August 4, 1964. In his bid for a full six-year term in the 1964 election, he was defeated by George Murphy following a campaign in which Salinger's recent move to California, following many years living elsewhere, became an issue. He resigned from the Senate on December 31, 1964, only three days before ...

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Pierre Salinger, Pierre Salinger - Early life, Pierre Salinger - A career in broadcast journalism, Pierre Salinger - Bibliography

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Tippett was born in Illinois. At the age of seven, Phil saw Ray Harryhausen's special effects classic, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and his life's direction was set. Phil completed a Bachelor's degree in Art at the University of California, Irvine, and went to work at the animation studio Cascade Pictures in Los Angeles. In 1978, Phil headed the ILM animation department with Jon Berg for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Tippett used Stop-motion to animate the sinister Imperial Walkers and the hybrid alien T ...

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Phil Tippett, Phil Tippett - Early career, Phil Tippett - Later career

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Seen today as one of the landmarks in the evolution of television and sketch comedy, SCTV had its share of controversial moments during its run. When the show was picked up by NBC and expanded to ninety minutes, NBC reportedly had wanted several changes to the format (including replacing the stable of "aging" characters like Bobby Bitman with "younger" versions of themselves played by the same actors, and putting most of the stable and recurring characters and sketches in the first forty five minutes of the show while saving experimental pie ...

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Second City Television, Second City Television - Performers, Second City Television - History, Second City Television - Premise, Second City Television - Controversy, Second City Television - Significance, Second City Television - Special and Musical Guests, Second City Television - Features

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Researchers questioning the official account of 9/11 - 9/11 Family Steering Committee. The Family Steering Committee (FSC) was made up of family members who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001 and who helped bring about the creation of the 9/11 Commission. They later submitted a series of questions and provided testimony to the Commission. Most of the questions were never answered, but remain archived on the FSC website, Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission. See also:

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In 1985, on Flight 847 between Athens and Rome, her plane was hijacked. Derickson took a karate kick to the chest from one of the hijackers as he forced her to go with him into the cockpit. The other hijacker—who was holding a grenade with the pin removed—started kicking open the door. Once inside, they pistol-whipped the pilot and flight engineer. The two hijackers spoke almost no English, but Derickson was able to speak with one of them in German, eventually gaining their trust. This put her at the center of the drama for the ne ...

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Uli Derickson, Uli Derickson - Early life, Uli Derickson - Flight 847, Uli Derickson - Aftermath, Uli Derickson - Movie, Uli Derickson - Trial, Uli Derickson - Death

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The miniseries stars Charles Malik Whitfield as Otis Williams, Leon as David Ruffin, D.B. Woodside as Melvin Franklin, Terron Brooks as Eddie Kendricks, and Christian Payton as Paul Williams. Also featured were Charles Ley as Dennis Edwards, J. August Richards as Richard Street, Obba Babatunde as Berry Gordy, Vanessa Bell Calloway as Johnnie Mae Matthews and Mel Jackson as Norman Whitfield. As the miniseries was based upon Otis Williams' book, it comes from his perspective: the focus of the story tended to be on Williams and his best ...

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The Temptations miniseries, The Temptations miniseries - About the miniseries, The Temptations miniseries - Differences from factual events, The Temptations miniseries - Epilogue

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The Smurfs - Johan & Pirlouit. Peyo wrote a Franco-Belgian comics serial in Le Journal de Spirou called "Johan & Pirlouit" (translated to English as Johan and Peewit). The setting lies in the Middle Ages in Europe. Johan serves as a brave young page to the king, and Peewit (pronounced Pee-Wee) functions as his faithful, if boastful and cheating, midget sidekick. Johan rides off to defend the meek on his trusty horse, while Peewit gallops sporadically behind on his goat, named Biquette. The pair feel driven by their duty to their king, and b ...

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The Smurfs, The Smurfs - History, The Smurfs - Johan & Pirlouit, The Smurfs - Schtroumpf/Smurf Origins, The Smurfs - Comic Series, The Smurfs - Animated Series, The Smurfs - Smurf Figurines, The Smurfs - Smurfs on Ice, The Smurfs - Later Years, The Smurfs - Rumors, The Smurfs - Satanic Rumors, The Smurfs - The Smurfs & Communism, The Smurfs - Smurf Universe, The Smurfs - The Smurfs, The Smurfs - Smurf Language, The Smurfs - Smurf Village, The Smurfs - List of Smurfs, The Smurfs - The Smurfs in Other Languages, The Smurfs - Similar Creatures, The Smurfs - In the arts, The Smurfs - See Also

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The Office UK - Series 1. Series 1 of The Office was first broadcast in the U.K between 9 July and August 20, 2001. In which we are introduced to the staff of Wernham Hogg. David learns that the branch must either economise or be merged with Swindon. Dawn gets a 'hilarious' practical joke played on her by David - and it all ends in tears. And Tim keeps putting Gareth's stapler in ...

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The Office UK, The Office UK - Main Characters, The Office UK - David Brent Ricky Gervais, The Office UK - Tim Canterbury Martin Freeman, The Office UK - Gareth Keenan Mackenzie Crook, The Office UK - Dawn Tinsley Lucy Davis, The Office UK - Other Characters, The Office UK - Episodes, The Office UK - Series 1, The Office UK - Series 2, The Office UK - Specials, The Office UK - Awards, The Office UK - Cast, The Office UK - Main cast, The Office UK - Minor cast incomplete

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The station went on the air in 1948 as WBEN-TV, three years after its owner, the Buffalo Evening News applied for a license. The station operated out of studios on the 18th floor of Hotel Statler until 1960, when it moved to studios at 2077 Elmwood Avenue originally built for WBUF-TV (Channel 17), Buffalo's one time NBC affiliate. One early show, running from the late 1940s until 1970, was Meet the Millers featuring Bill and Mildred Miller and their cooking and househ ...

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WIVB, WIVB - History, WIVB - Programs, WIVB - News, WIVB - News reporters and journalists, WIVB - Current reporters, WIVB - Former reporters

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The story became a successful mini-series on the ABC television network in 1988 in which several main characters were played by different actors than in The Winds Of War. The series at the time was praised as stunning, but long as it had to be broken into two segments, chapters I-VII and VIII-XII. Former concentration camp internee Branko Lustig was production designer on the series. The visual design and cinema ...

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War and Remembrance, War and Remembrance - The Miniseries, War and Remembrance - Making the miniseries, War and Remembrance - Awards, War and Remembrance - Trivia

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He has played the lead role in Scrubs since the show first aired in 2001. He also appeared in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery and in productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Macbeth at New York City's Public Theater. He got the part of John "J.D." Dorian on the sitcom Scrubs in 2001. Zach has been nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy for his role as the offbeat doctor. The s ...

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Zach Braff, Zach Braff - Early life, Zach Braff - Career, Zach Braff - Private life, Zach Braff - Filmography, Zach Braff - Film, Zach Braff - Television

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