But by far his most popular character with his audience was blustery bus driver Ralph Kramden, who lived with his tart but tenderhearted wife, Alice, in a two-room Brooklyn walkup, one apartment beneath his best friend, sense-challenged sewer worker Ed Norton ("The first time I took the test for the sewer I flunked---I couldn't even float!") and his likewise tart wife, Trixie. Partially inspired by the earlier radio hit The Bickersons and largely drawn from Gleason's harsh Brooklyn childhood ("Every neighbourhood in Brooklyn had its R ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The Sixties has also come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, in western countries, particularly Britain, France, the United States and West Germany. Social upheaval was not limited to just these na ...

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• 1960s - Events and trends
• 1960s - Technology
• 1960s - Science
• 1960s - War peace and politics
• 1960s - Economics
• 1960s - Culture
• 1960s - Others
• 1960s - Big changes during the Sixties
• 1960s - In the United States
• 1960s - In other Western countries
• 1960s - In non-Western countries
• 1960s - People
• 1960s - World leaders
• 1960s - Writers and intellectuals
• 1960s - Sports figures
• 1960s - Entertainers
• 1960s - Further Viewing

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1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) 1916 - Events. January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water Lilies'. January 5 - Heavy rain - allegedly caused by rainmaker Charles Hatfield - begins; it will cause flooding around San Diego, California January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli January 13/14 - ...

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• 1916 - Events
• 1916 - March-June
• 1916 - July-August
• 1916 - October-December
• 1916 - Unknown dates
• 1916 - Ongoing events
• 1916 - Disputed events
• 1916 - Births
• 1916 - January-March
• 1916 - April-June
• 1916 - July-December
• 1916 - Deaths
• 1916 - Nobel Prizes

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See also: 1915 in film 1916 1917 in film years in film film 1916 in film - Events. November 19 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers). 1916 in film - Births. January 3 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist (d. 1994) January 3 - Maxene Andrews, singer, actr ...

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• 1916 in film - Events
• 1916 in film - Births
• 1916 in film - Short film series
• 1916 in film - Deaths
• 1916 in film - Top grossing films
• 1916 in film - Other movies released

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Many of the trends of the 1960s were due to the demographic changes brought about by the baby boom generation, the height of the Cold War, and the dissolution of European colonial empires. The rise in social revolution, civil rights movements, human rights movement, anti-War movements, and the Counterculture movement are only some of the characteristics that defined the 1960s. Many experts attribute the 1960s "counter-culture revolution" as being the result of the major social and political factors that rose in the 1950s like brinksmanship, ...

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1960s, 1960s - Events and trends, 1960s - Technology, 1960s - Science, 1960s - War peace and politics, 1960s - Economics, 1960s - Culture, 1960s - Others, 1960s - Big changes during the Sixties, 1960s - In the United States, 1960s - In other Western countries, 1960s - In non-Western countries, 1960s - People, 1960s - World leaders, 1960s - Writers and intellectuals, 1960s - Sports figures, 1960s - Entertainers, 1960s - Further Viewing

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Billiards - English. English (called "side" in the United Kingdom) normally refers to sidespin put on a cueball by hitting it to the left or right of center. Generally, english is used to change the angle of deflection of the cueball after it contacts a rail. English also affects the direction an object ball takes on impact, as well as the path of travel of the cueball af ...

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Billiards, Billiards - Equipment, Billiards - Billiard balls, Billiards - Tables, Billiards - Cues, Billiards - The mechanical bridge, Billiards - Chalk, Billiards - Position play, Billiards - Shooting techniques/mechanics, Billiards - English, Billiards - Follow, Billiards - Draw, Billiards - Slide, Billiards - The stop shot, Billiards - The tangent line, Billiards - Throw, Billiards - The semi-massé or curve shot, Billiards - The massé, Billiards - Swerve, Billiards - Deflection squirt, Billiards - The jump shot, Billiards - Types of games carom and pocket, Billiards - Straight billiards or straight rail, Billiards - Balkline, Billiards - Three cushion billiards, Billiards - Eight ball, Billiards - Nine ball, Billiards - One pocket, Billiards - Bank Pool, Billiards - Snooker, Billiards - Billiards and pocket billiards games, Billiards - Billiards, Billiards - Pocket billiards, Billiards - Other variants, Billiards - Notable pool and billiards enthusiasts, Billiards - Glossary of pool and billiards terms, Billiards - More information, Billiards - Patents

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Boxing, nicknamed the "sweet science" and also called pugilism or prizefighting, is a sport where two participants of similar weight attack each other with their fists in a series of two to three-minute intervals called "rounds". In both Amateur and Professional divisions, the combatants (called boxers or fighters) avoid their opponent's punches whilst trying to land punches of their own. Points are awarded for clean, solid blows to the legal area on the front of the opponent's body above the waistline, with hits to the ...

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• Boxing - Origins
• Boxing - London Prize Ring rules 1839
• Boxing - Marquess of Queensberry rules 1867
• Boxing - Amateur boxing
• Boxing - Amateur boxing history
• Boxing - Professional boxing
• Boxing - Evolution of professional boxing
• Boxing - Equipment
• Boxing - Length of bouts
• Boxing - Technique
• Boxing - Stance and movement
• Boxing - Punches
• Boxing - Defense
• Boxing - Tactics and strategy
• Boxing - Boxing legends
• Boxing - British boxing legends
• Boxing - International Boxing Hall of Fame
• Boxing - List of boxing history
• Boxing - Medical concerns
• Boxing - Impact of boxing on the English language
• Boxing - Boxing in popular culture
• Boxing - Resources

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Billiards is a family of games played on a table, with a stick, known as a cue stick, which is used to strike balls, moving them around the table. All billiard games are generally regarded to have evolved into indoor games from outdoor stick and ball games.[1] The word billiard may have evolved from the French word 'billart' which means mace, the forerunner to the modern cue. The word pool generally refers to pocket billiard gam ...

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• Billiards - Equipment
• Billiards - Billiard balls
• Billiards - Tables
• Billiards - Cues
• Billiards - The mechanical bridge
• Billiards - Chalk
• Billiards - Position play
• Billiards - Shooting techniques/mechanics
• Billiards - English
• Billiards - Follow
• Billiards - Draw
• Billiards - Slide
• Billiards - The stop shot
• Billiards - The tangent line
• Billiards - Throw
• Billiards - The semi-massé or curve shot
• Billiards - The massé
• Billiards - Swerve
• Billiards - Deflection squirt
• Billiards - The jump shot
• Billiards - Types of games carom and pocket
• Billiards - Straight billiards or straight rail
• Billiards - Balkline
• Billiards - Three cushion billiards
• Billiards - Eight ball
• Billiards - Nine ball
• Billiards - One pocket
• Billiards - Bank Pool
• Billiards - Snooker
• Billiards - Billiards and pocket billiards games
• Billiards - Billiards
• Billiards - Pocket billiards
• Billiards - Other variants
• Billiards - Notable pool and billiards enthusiasts
• Billiards - Glossary of pool and billiards terms
• Billiards - More information
• Billiards - Patents

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Art Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor in film, stage, television, and radio. Born Arthur William Matthew Carney in Mount Vernon, New York, he gained lifelong fame for his portrayal of upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the popular television comedy show The Honeymooners. Art Carney also had many screen and stage roles, including the portrayal on Broadway of Felix Unger in The Odd Couple (opposite Walter Matthau a ...

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• Art Carney - External link

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Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, founded in 1942. It was acquired by EMI in 1955 and is now part of the EMI Group. Capitol Records - History. The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the time the biggest record store in Los Angeles, California). Wallichs Music City record store opened in 1940 and was locate ...

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• Capitol Records - History
• Capitol Records - Record altering
• Capitol Records - The Capitol Tower

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Sheriff Buford T. Justice was the character played by Jackie Gleason in the movies Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. As a foul mouthed Texas county sheriff, he chased the Bandit, played by Burt Reynolds across country on several occassions. According to Smokey and the Bandit II, he had two brothers, Gaylord Justice and Reginald Van Justice. He also had an idiot son whom he only called Junior. Buford T. Justice is ...

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Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City with about 2.5 million inhabitants. An independent city prior to 1898, Brooklyn developed out of the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore, named after Breukelen in the Netherlands. Were it still a city, and not a borough, it would be the fourth-largest city in the United States after New York City itself, Los Angeles and Chicago. Despite being part of the City of New York, Brooklyn in character is its own city, as opposed to the Bronx which historically and characteristically could be better ...

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• Brooklyn - Geography
• Brooklyn - History
• Brooklyn - Six Dutch towns
• Brooklyn - Toward a united City of Brooklyn
• Brooklyn - Brooklyn as New York borough
• Brooklyn - Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
• Brooklyn - Demographics
• Brooklyn - Law government and politics
• Brooklyn - Sports and recreation
• Brooklyn - Baseball
• Brooklyn - Hockey
• Brooklyn - Football
• Brooklyn - Basketball
• Brooklyn - Brooklyn in Art and Literature
• Brooklyn - Symbols and nicknames
• Brooklyn - Brooklyn sites and institutions

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Batman was the title of an exceptionally popular 1960s TV series based on the comic-book character Batman that aired on ABC TV for 2 1/2 seasons from 12 January 1966 to 14 March 1968. Batman TV series - The series. The series was produced in the United States of America and debuted at 7:30, Wednesday evening, January 12, 1966 on ABC television, at a time when other popular TV series included The Monkees and Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. The Batman series set a standard that identi ...

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• Batman TV series - The series
• Batman TV series - Genesis of the series
• Batman TV series - Plot summary
• Batman TV series - Popularity
• Batman TV series - Trivia
• Batman TV series - Cast
• Batman TV series - Regular cast
• Batman TV series - Notable guest cast
• Batman TV series - Cameos
• Batman TV series - Bit parts before they were famous
• Batman TV series - Last appearances on screen
• Batman TV series - Parodies
• Batman TV series - External links

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A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits, especially on television. The format is basically television's version of the Music Hall format. Variety in the UK evolved in theatres and Music Halls, and later in Working Men's Clubs. Most of the early top performers on television and radio did an apprenticeship either in stage variety, or during World War II in ENSA. In the UK, the ultimate accolade for a variety artiste for decades was to be asked to do the annual Royal Command Performa ...

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Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger) (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an extremely popular Jewish American comedian, whose career spanned vaudeville, radio, television, and film, but who made his biggest mark in television. His greatest success was as the headliner for Texaco Star Theater on NBC from 1948 to June 14, 1955 (also known as the Buick-Berle Show when Buick became its sponsor in 1953). Berle was originally one of several rotating hosts for the program, but was selected as the permanent emcee in the fall of 1948 ...

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• Milton Berle - Work on Broadway

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Abbott and Costello (William (Bud) Abbott, 1897-1974); Louis Costello, 1906-1959) were an American comedy duo whose work in radio, film, and television made them one of the most popular and respected teams in American comedy history, whose burlesque-leavened style of a scheming straight man and a context-challenged laughgetting naif was one of the most singular styles of the art. The two comedians first became a team in 1935 at the Eltinge burlesque theater on 42nd Street in New York, with Costello having become a comic after f ...

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• Abbott and Costello - Filmography

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See also: 1986 in television, other events of 1987, 1988 in television and the list of years in television. For the United States network television schedule, please see 1987-88 United States network television schedule. 1987 in television - Events. January 5 - Remington Steele returns to NBC after a six-month hiatus during which series star Pierce Brosnan won the film role of James Bond, only to lose it when NBC unexpectedly renewed the series. Steele adopts a TV-movie len ...

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• 1987 in television - Events
• 1987 in television - Debuts
• 1987 in television - Television shows
• 1987 in television - Ending this year
• 1987 in television - Made for television movies
• 1987 in television - Changes of network affiliation
• 1987 in television - Births
• 1987 in television - Deaths

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Though the cast ultimately proved to be one of the film's greatest strengths, Friedkin had problems with casting choices from the start. He was strongly opposed to the choice of Hackman for the lead, and actually first considered Jackie Gleason and a New York columnist, Jimmy Breslin, who had never acted before. However, Gleason at the time was considered box office poison by the studio after Gigot had flopped, and Breslin refused to get behind the wheel of a car, which was required of Popeye's character for an integral car chase scene. Steve McQueen ...

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The French Connection, The French Connection - Casting challenges, The French Connection - Additional details

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The Hustler was later made into a 1961 film starring Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson, Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats, Piper Laurie and George C. Scott. The movie was adapted by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen from the novel by Walter Tevis. It was directed by Rossen. ...

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The Hustler, The Hustler - The Novel, The Hustler - The Film, The Hustler - Awards

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The show is set in a town called Bedrock in the Stone Age era, but with a society identical to that of the United States in the mid-to-late 20th century. The setting is in a fantasy world where dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, wooly mammoths and other extinct animals coexist with cavemen, who use technology equivalent to that of the 20th century, largely through the use of various animals. The characters drive automobiles made out of stone or wood and animal skins and powered by gasoline, although foot power is required to start the v ...

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The Flintstones, The Flintstones - Overview, The Flintstones - History, The Flintstones - Music, The Flintstones - Cultural References, The Flintstones - Trivia, The Flintstones - Cast, The Flintstones - Flintstones series and spin-offs, The Flintstones - Television series, The Flintstones - Theatrical animated feature, The Flintstones - Television specials and telefilms, The Flintstones - Home video releases, The Flintstones - VHS, The Flintstones - DVD, The Flintstones - The Flintstones in other languages

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