Style may refer to:

Style (fiction), an aspect of literary composition

Style (visual arts), in art and painting style can refer either to the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint (and how) or to the physical techniques employed

Design, the process of creating something

Fashion, a prevailing mode of expression, e.g., clothing

Format, various terms that refer to the style of different things

Genre, a loose set of criteria for a category or composition

Human physical appearance

Style, in specific fields, may also refer to:

Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensed

Style (botany), a stalk structure in female flower parts

Style (manner of address), titles or honorifics, including Chinese courtesy names

Music

Style is all these different music meanings:...

Music genre, music that shares a certain "basic musical language"

"Style" (Orbital song), a 1999 single by Orbital

"Style" (2007 song), from the Tamil film Sivaji: The Boss

Style (Cameo album), an album by Cameo released in 1983

Style (Namie Amuro album), an album by Namie Amuro released in 2003

Style (Luna Sea album), an album by Luna Sea released in 1996

Styles P, one third of the group The LOX or one fourth of the supergroup, D-Block

Style (Swedish band), Swedish 80s band, famous for songs like "Telefon" and "Dover-Calais"

"Style", a song from the movie Robin and the 7 Hoods

"Style", a song and single by Kana Nishino

Film and television

Style (2001 film), a Hindi film starring Sharman Joshi, Riya Sen, Sahil Khan and Shilpi Mudgal

Style (2004 film), a Burmese film

Style (2006 film), a Telugu film starring Lawrence Raghavendra and Prabhu Deva Sundaram

Style Network, an NBCUniversal-owned cable and satellite television network

Style with Elsa Klensch, a CNN fashion series hosted by Elsa Klensch from 1980 to 2000

Style (TV series), a 2009 Korean television series

Literature, linguistics, and rhetoric

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a novel by Agatha Christie

Style guide in writing

Stylistics (linguistics), in linguistics, variation in the language use of an individual, such as formal/informal style

Style, a 1998 fashion book by Elsa Klensch

Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, a 1990 writing guide by Joseph M. Williams

Style: An Anti-Textbook, a 1974 monograph by Richard A. Lanham

Style, a book by Sir Walter Raleigh

"Style", a pseudonym of author Neil Strauss

Style (magazine), a South African women's magazine that was published between the 1980s and 2006

Other uses

Cascading Style Sheets, in web design

The part of a sundial that casts the shadow (= gnomon).

VIP Style Awards, an annual awards ceremony named after VIP magazine

See also

Stile, a step used for crossing a fence

Stylus, a writing instrument

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Neil Darrow Strauss (born October 13, 1973), also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles, is an American and Kittitian author, journalist and ghostwriter. He is best known for his best-selling book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, where he describes his experiences in the seduction community in an effort to become "a pick-up artist." He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also writes regularly for The New York Times.

Education and initial career

After graduating from high school at the Latin School of Chicago, Strauss attended Vassar College. While in school he began his career writing for Ear, an avant-garde magazine, and editing his first book, Radiotext(e), an anthology of radio-related writings for the postmodern publisher Semiotext(e). He moved on to the Village Voice, where he did everything from copy-editing to fact-checking before becoming a regular reporter and critic. He was invited by Jon Pareles to become a music critic at The New York Times where he wrote the Pop Life column and front-page stories on Wal-Mart’s CD-editing policies, music censorship, radio payola, and the lost wax figures of country-music stars.

He was then invited by Jann Wenner to become a contributing editor at Rolling Stone where he wrote cover stories on Kurt Cobain, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Orlando Bloom, the Wu-Tang Clan, Gwen Stefani, Stephen Colbert, and Marilyn Manson.

He won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his coverage of Kurt Cobain's suicide for Rolling Stone and his profile of Eric Clapton in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section. Strauss also contributed to Esquire, Maxim, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Details, and The Source in addition to writing liner notes for albums by Nirvana and others. He has also appeared in Beck's music video Sexx Laws which also featured Jack Black, and as a guest star on the season six finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The Game and the seduction community

After leaving The New York Times to ghostwrite Jenna Jameson's memoirs, Strauss joined a sub-culture of pick-up artists known as the seduction community, publishing an article in the New York Times about his experiences in 2004. In 2005, he published The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Regan Books, 2005), a book about his transformation into "Style", a pickup artist under the tutelage of Mystery. In addition to documenting his experiences with pickup artists like Mystery, Steve P, Rasputin (Hypnotica) and Ross Jeffries, it also describes his seductive interactions with celebrities including Britney Spears, Tom Cruise, and Courtney Love. Strauss writes of his distrust of pickup artists "Tyler Durden" and "Papa", the co-founders of Real Social Dynamics.

The book made a month-long appearance in the New York Times bestsellers list in September–October 2005, and reached the #1 position on Amazon.com immediately after its release in the United States. Strauss appeared on various TV shows, including The View and ABC Primetime, and he participated in many book signings. It was optioned to be made into a film by Spyglass Entertainment, with Chris Weitz adapting and producing.

After publishing the book, Strauss temporarily retired as a pickup artist and settled with a longtime girlfriend Lisa Leveridge, who played guitar in Courtney Love's all-female band The Chelsea.

An article in the Sunday Mirror, suggested that Leveridge broke up with Strauss in February 2006 to date Robbie Williams. Strauss denied the Williams rumor, but confirmed his breakup with Leveridge on his mailing list a few months later.

His follow-up book, a controversial graphic novel How to Make Money Like a Porn Star, came out in 2006 on September 26. By 2006 Neil Strauss also came out with "Shoot", a short film about becoming a rockstar that he co-wrote, directed and performed in. That same year, in collaboration with Dave Navarro and Entourage writer Cliff Dorfman, he created a one-hour TV drama The Product for FX. In 2007, he released a follow-up to The Game, Rules of the Game, a two-book boxed set.

Strauss has continued to be involved with pick up artistry through his dating coaching company Stylelife Academy. Stylelife was founded in 2007 and whilst most of the coaching is done by employed coaches other than himself, Strauss does make appearances at yearly conferences and in some video products sold by the company.

Emergency and subsequent writing

On March 4, 2009, The New York Times wrote that Strauss (along with rock biographer Anthony Bozza) had started his own publishing company, Igniter, as a subimprint of HarperCollins. Igniter's first title, the Times reported, will be "The World According to Bozo the Clown."

Strauss's book, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life (Harper, 2009), for which he spent three years amongst survivalists, tax-dodgers, billionaire businessmen, and the government itself, was hailed by Rolling Stone as an "escape plan" for the current world crisis. It entered the New York Times bestseller list at #3. The rights to the movie were picked up by Columbia, with Robert Downey Jr. attached as a producer and likely star. In 2010, Strauss received the James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin.

Neil Strauss's latest book entitled Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness was also a New York Times bestseller. Released March 15, 2011, the book is a compilation of more than 200 celebrity vignettes conducted throughout Strauss's career as a pop culture journalist.

Bibliography

Radiotext(e) editor, with Dave Mandl (1993)

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell with Marilyn Manson (1998) ISBN 0-06-098746-4

The Dirt with Mötley Crüe (2001) ISBN 0-06-098915-7

Don't Try This At Home with Dave Navarro (2004) ISBN 0-06-039368-8 ISBN 0-06-098853-3

How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale with Jenna Jameson (2004) ISBN 0-06-053909-7

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005) ISBN 0-06-055473-8

How to Make Money Like a Porn Star, illustrated by Bernard Chang (2006) ISBN 0-06-088405-3

Rules of the Game (2007) ISBN 0-06-154045-5

Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life (2009) ISBN 0-06-089877-1

Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness (2011) ISBN 0-06-154367-5

References

External links

Neil Strauss - Official Website

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Alexa Chung (born 5 November 1983) is an English television presenter, model and contributing editor at British Vogue.

She currently hosts Gonzo with Alexa Chung for MTV UK, and is scheduled to host Thrift America for PBS in 2011. Previously, Chung was the host of MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung.

At present, she is the face of Lacoste's "Joy of Pink" fragrance and Superga's Italian sneakers.

Early life

Alexa Chung was born in Privett, Hampshire, England to a half Chinese half English father, Philip, a graphic designer, and her English mother, Gillian (née Burgess), a housewife. She is the youngest of four children and has two brothers, Jamie and Dominic, and one sister, Natalie.

She attended the local comprehensive school, Perins College, and later the sixth form Peter Symonds College, Winchester (2000–2002). She had been accepted by King’s College London to read English, but was scouted by a modelling agency before attending.

==Modelling== Chung was approached in the comedy tent at Reading Festival at the age of 16 and was taken on by the London-based Storm Model Management. She modelled for teen magazines such as Elle Girl and CosmoGIRL! and worked for companies including Fanta, Sony Ericsson, Sunsilk, Urban Outfitters and Tampax. She appeared in music videos for artists including The Streets, Westlife, Delta Goodrem, Reuben and Holly Valance and starred as Jake in a scripted reality show called Shoot Me, broadcast on Fashion TV in 2005.

After four years, Chung quit modelling with the intention of beginning an art foundation or fashion journalism course, having become disillusioned. She had developed a “distorted body image” and “low self-esteem” through modelling.

After becoming a TV personality, Chung made a return to occasional modelling. In 2008, she was the face of both Australian fashion label Antipodium's SS 2008 collection and Oxfam's ethical fashion range, Revamped. In September 2008, Chung walked the catwalk as part of the Vivienne Westwood Red Label Spring/Summer 2009 show at London Fashion Week. In early 2009, she became the face of British high street giant New Look. Chung then joined London-based modelling agency, Select, and, in April 2009, she modelled Wren's Holiday 2009 collection, alongside her friend Tennessee Thomas.

In July 2009, Chung moved to Next Model Management and became the face of DKNY Jeans. Chung was the face of South Korean brand MOGG's SS10 campaign. In January 2010, she became the main model of the SS10 Pepe Jeans London campaign and later reprised her role for the FW10 campaign. She was announced as the first celebrity face of Lacoste in June 2010, appearing in both the TV and print advertising campaigns for their "Joy of Pink" fragrance. In January 2011, Chung was announced as the face of Italian sneaker brand Superga (brand), in a campaign to mark their 100th anniversary.

TV career

In April 2006, then-model Chung was offered the job of co-host on Popworld on Channel 4, a music show known for its irreverent and awkward style of interviews. Chung and co-host Alex Zane also presented a weekly radio show called Popworld Radio in conjunction with the TV programme. The last show aired in July 2007, after Channel 4 decided not to recommission the programme, which had been on air for nearly seven years.

Following this, Chung signed a year-long "golden handcuffs" deal with Channel 4 in August 2007, worth £100,000. As part of this deal, she guest presented Big Brother’s Big Mouth and appeared as a panellist on quiz show 8 out of 10 Cats. She hosted a number of T4 Movie Specials, 4Music Specials, T4 Holiday Mornings along with T4's coverage of many music festivals.

In January 2008, Chung became one of the four anchor T4 presenters. She hosted T4’s Vanity Lair, a reality show investigating the concept of "beauty". When the show was mentioned in a later interview, "Chung raises her eyebrows, indicating embarrassment". As well as her work on T4, she became a long-time host of Channel 4’s early morning music programme Freshly Squeezed, beginning in September 2007.

In addition to her Channel 4 commitments, Chung presented the ITV1 series Get a Grip (2007) and BBC Three's The Wall (2008).

In mid-2008, Chung began to host more fashion-oriented programming. She was the "roving reporter" on Channel 4's "Gok's Fashion Fix". On the programme, Chung roadtested the latest fashion trends with members of the public, and interviewed fashion designers such as Roberto Cavalli, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier, Margherita Missoni and Christian Lacroix. She described it as 'pretty much my dream job'. Chung also hosted a T4 fashion and music show called Frock Me, with fashion designer Henry Holland.

She was awarded the Elle Style Award for Best TV Presenter in 2009. Also in 2009, she received Glamour's award for Best TV Presenter at the magazine's annual award ceremony.

Chung left Channel 4, and the United Kingdom, in April 2009 in order to pursue a stateside career. She presented It's On with Alexa Chung for MTV. The live, daily show - billed as TRL's replacement- featured celebrity talk, live music and online interaction with viewers. The show was cancelled in December 2009.

She returned to UK TV screens in April 2010 with a second series of the T4 fashion and music series Frock Me. In October 2010, she began hosting Gonzo with Alexa Chung, an informal UK chat show previously hosted by Zane Lowe, for MTV Rocks.

In January 2011, she co-hosted NBC's "2011 Golden Globe Arrivals Special" with Carson Daly and Natalie Morales. The live show featured interviews with television and movie stars as well as segments devoted to fashion on the red carpet.

Alexa Chung presented the iTunes Festival in July 2011, she said of this "I like music, I like Camden, I like Dave Berry. It's a simple equation; iTunes Festival for ITV2 is going to be an amazing experience for everyone. I'm incredibly excited about the line up and rather pleased I get to spend my July interviewing awesome bands”

Chung is the host of PBS's Thrift America, a series exploring flea markets, consignment stores and garage sales across America. It is due to air in Fall 2011.

Print journalist

Chung wrote a monthly column for British women’s magazine Company from October 2007 to June 2008. She then wrote a weekly newspaper column for England's The Independent from November 2008 to June 2009, entitled 'Girl About Town' and later 'New York Doll'.

In June 2009, she was made a contributing editor of British Vogue and has interviewed designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Christopher Kane for the publication.

Fashion icon status

Chung is a muse to many fashion designers because of her distinctive personal style. She frequently appears on best dressed lists, is a regular cover girl for Vogue, Elle and Harper's Bazaar and is often seen in the front row at fashion shows.

In 2009, the designer handbag company Mulberry created a much sought-after bag named after and inspired by Chung, called the "Alexa".

In February 2010, Chung collaborated with J.Crew's Madewell on a womenswear line which was unveiled during New York Fashion Week.

Vogue's Anna Wintour has described Chung as "a phenomenon" while the New York Times has declared her "the Kate Moss of the new generation". Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld has described her as "beautiful and clever..a modern girl".

In December 2010, Bryan Ferry, on behalf of the British Fashion Council, presented Chung with the British Style Award which "recognises an individual who embodies the spirit of British fashion and is an international ambassador for the UK as a leading creative hub for fashion" at a ceremony at the Savoy Theatre in London.

Personal life

Chung was in a relationship with Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner from April 2007 until July 2011. She lived with fashion photographer David Titlow (born September 10, 1963), twenty years her senior, for three and a half years until their break-up in 2006. Following that split, she briefly dated Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins and Klaxons keyboard player James Righton. She also dated the Horrors frontman Faris Badwan for six months in late 2006 and early 2007 and they have remained friends.

Filmography

Thrift America (2011)

NBC's 2011 Golden Globe Arrivals Special (2011)

Gonzo for MTV Rocks (2010)

Frock Me with TK Maxx (2010)

Channel 4 NME Awards Backstage (2010)

Autotune the News (2009)

It's On with Alexa Chung (2009)

Freshly Squeezed (2007–2009)

T4 Weekends (2008–2009)

T4 Holiday Mornings (2007–2009)

T4 Movie Specials (2006–2009)

4Music Specials (2006–2009)

T4 on the Beach coverage (2006–2008)

Gok's Fashion Fix (2008)

Frock Me (2008)

The Wall (2008)

Vanity Lair (2008)

T4 NME Awards coverage (2008)

V Festival coverage (2007–2008)

The Devil Wears Primark (2008)

Big Brother's Big Mouth (2007)

Fashion Rocks is Coming (2007)

T in the Park coverage (2007)

Get a Grip (2007)

Popworld (2006–2007)

Rip Curl Festival coverage (2006)

Shoot Me (2005)

References

External links

ELLEuk.com Meets Alexa Chung

Alexa Chung Today I'm Wearing Photo Blog

The Guardian - We Can Do It! interview

The Observer - Who's Hot Now

The Telegraph - The One To Watch

The Guardian - She's the One

The Independent - Television's Hottest Property

The Times - Small Screen Goddess

It's On with Alexa Chung

Alexa Chung - News and Pictures

The Internet Fashion Database

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Alex Boyé is a British-born Latter-day Saint singer and actor of Nigerian descent.

Boyé was born in London, England. He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) at age 16. He served as a missionary in the England Bristol Mission. He was then the lead singer in the boy band Awesome, which sold over 500,000 CDs while on contract with Universal Records Europe. In 1999 Boye left the band to begin a solo career, releasing his first solo album in 2000 which made it to number 12 on the European charts. In 2000 Boyé moved to Utah. He has since been involved in many musical and theatrical productions.

Boyé has been an actor for the Hale Center Theatre in multiple productions and has played the role of Frederick Douglass in Frank Wildhorn's Civil War both at Hale Center and at Rogers Memorial Theatre in Centerville, Utah. He played the role of Aminadab in Lightsone Films' production of David and Goliath. He was a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for about five years, but appears to have now gone to a solo career. Recently he participated as a featured soloist in a concert connected with the rededication of the St. George Catholic Church. In 2005 Boye received an award from the LDS Booksellers Association for his album "Testimony".

Boyé married his wife Julie in the Salt Lake Temple.

Boyé's hit single "Crazy For You" has been played by radio stations nationwide. His recent Be Still My Soul: Classic Hymns and Folksongs has also been a major success.

He also sang "Born To Be A Scout", the feature song from the B-movie "Scout Camp". Songs by Boye have also appeared in other movies such as Baptists at Our Barbecue and Church Ball.

Notes

Sources

Mormon Times Dec. 11, 2009

Denver Post article on Boye

Bio from Boyé's website

LDS Musicworld entry on Boyé

St. Louis American, July 26, 2008

Article on Boyé from 2006

discogs entry for Boye

Mormons in Music bio of Boye

External links

Official website

The Boye Family Jewels (blog)

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Johnny Bravo is an American animated television series created by Van Partible for Cartoon Network. The series stars a muscular beefcake young man named Johnny Bravo who dons a pompadour hairstyle and an Elvis Presley-like voice and has a forward, woman-chasing personality. Plots typically revolve around him trying to get a woman that he has targeted throughout the episode to fall in love with him. He is often beaten up or stunned by his target or companions, or is ditched by them in the end.

The series was originally part of a series of shorts on Cartoon Network's animation showcase series World Premiere Toons (also known as the What a Cartoon! Show.) The popularity of the shorts led to the network commissioning a full series for the show, which premiered on July 7, 1997. The series was renewed for multiple following seasons and finally ended its official run on August 27, 2004.

The series was the second series to be spun from World Premiere Toons, and is the second series under Cartoon Cartoons (a collective name for early Cartoon Network original series). A spin-off of the series, JBVO, was unsuccessful and ran for one season. Many of the writers and directors on the series went on to become famous for their own projects (writer Seth MacFarlane for Family Guy and writer/director Butch Hartman for The Fairly OddParents). Johnny Bravo is today regarded as a classic Cartoon Network series, the title character is labeled as "iconic", and his catchphrases ("Oohh, Mama!") are relatively common in popular culture. Reruns of the show are played on Boomerang.

History

The series takes its roots from a senior thesis project creator Van Partible did for Loyola Marymount University, about an Elvis Presley impersonator. Mess O' Blues (1993) was shown by Partible's animation professor at the college to a friend working for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons at the time. The studio loved the film and asked him to develop it into a pitch for a seven-minute short. Partible sold the project to Hanna-Barbera shortly afterward. The short would be aired on Cartoon Network's new animation showcase, World Premiere Toons. Also known as the What a Cartoon! Show, the series' short cartoons (three per half-hour episode) mirrored the structure of a theatrical cartoon, with each film being based on an original storyboard drawn and written by its artist/creator.

Partible initially roomed with Craig McCracken (creator of The Powerpuff Girls), Paul Rudish (a designer on that series) and Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter's Laboratory.) The only two cartoonists fresh out of college were Partible and Seth MacFarlane. Partible changed his character from Mess O' Blues around so that "he would be more of this '50s iconic James Dean-looking character that talked like Elvis". Partible picked voice actor Jeff Bennett to play Johnny Bravo solely based on his young, hyped Elvis impression.

The short, Johnny Bravo, premiered on World Premiere Toons on March 26, 1995, and involved Johnny trying to score with a zookeeper girl by capturing a runaway gorilla. Partible, with a small team of animators, animated the short themselves in-house at Hanna-Barbera using digital ink and paint (the latter shorts and seasons 1 and early season 2 of the series would instead use the traditional ink and paint and film camera.) Two more shorts on the program followed (Jungle Boy in "Mr. Monkeyman", and Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women) and the shorts were so popular that Cartoon Network commissioned a first season of series based around Johnny Bravo, consisting of 13 episodes.

The crew of the first season of Johnny Bravo consisted of several writers, animators, and directors from World Premiere Toons, including the aforementioned MacFarlane and Hartman, Steve Marmel, and John McIntyre. Veteran cartoonist and animation legend Joseph Barbera was also a creative consultant and a mentor for the first season of the series. Partible stated in a 1997 interview that the goal of the series was to have "animation reminiscent of the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons".

The series premiered on July 7, 1997 and the first season completed in December of that year. The series was put on hiatus, until it was picked up for an unexpected second season in 1999. During that season, the show undertook a major creative re-tooling, in which new characters were introduced, re-designs of characters with new personalities were prevalent, and the tone and humor of the show changed considerably. Some of the changes the show experienced during the re-tooled version were the heavy emphasis on Johnny's stupidity, the removal of the Jungle Boy characters and new catchphrases. Some viewers did not take kindly to the changes while others thought the show greatly improved and took off with a slapstick style. The show kept this format until the series' third season ended in 2002. The series sat in limbo once again until it was renewed for a fourth season in 2003, which aired in 2004. The final season of the series returned to the humor of the original shorts and first season of the series (Although the Jungle Boy characters from the first season never returned). The show was cancelled officially in late 2004. Reruns premiered on Cartoon Network's sister network Boomerang and the series returned for a short time to Cartoon Network in November 2009.

Today, the series is often labeled a classic of the late 1990s Cartoon Network cartoons (the collective Cartoon Cartoons). For a short time, a live-action film was rumored to be in production. The catchphrases of the show are relatively common in popular culture. After the series ended in 2004, The #5 Kellogg's Chevrolet was given a special paint scheme with Johnny Bravo on the hood. It was driven by Kyle Busch in the 2005 Sharpie 500 NASCAR race. On the long lasting impact of the show, writer/director Butch Hartman states:

A large majority of the show's creative team has gone on to create many successful television series throughout the 1990s and 2000s, most notably writer Seth MacFarlane, who is the creator of the popular animated series Family Guy. Shortly after the series' first season was completed, writer/director Butch Hartman left to work on Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons, from which those shorts spun off his own success, The Fairly OddParents. Steve Marmel, writer for Johnny Bravo, has been a producer and writer for The Fairly OddParents since its premiere in 2001. In addition to Johnny Bravo, director John McIntyre directed episodes of several other Cartoon Cartoons, and more recently served as a supervising director on Cartoon Network's original series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

The show is currently airing on Boomerang every Saturday & Sunday at 10:00 PM EST And all week long at 9:30/9:30 PM EST.

In 2009, IGN ranked Johnny bravo #71 for its Top 100 Animated Series list.

Cast

Jeff Bennett as Johnny Bravo, various others

Brenda Vaccaro as Bunny Bravo

Mae Whitman as Little Suzy

Tom Kenny as Carl

Larry Drake as Pops

Brian Tochi as Master Hamma

Cody Dorkin as Jungle Boy

Mark Hamill as King Raymond, Himself, various others

Characters

Johnny Bravo (voiced by Jeff Bennett impersonating Elvis Presley) - Jonathan "Johnny " Bravo is the muscular main protagonist of the series. His middle name was rumored to be Boston. He has incredibly narcissistic and dim-witted traits, though still hardly the only questionable figure in town, which lead to a severely incorrigible inability to attract women, becoming a running gag throughout the series. He claims to dislike his "best friend", Carl Chryniszzswics. Johnny can also be interpreted as a male representation of the "dumb blonde" with the notable exception during Cartoon Network's first 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Award Show Program Special: Live in Stereo, during which Johnny served as the host and was very witty and suave. The character is memorable for his incredibly quick movements (usually done while trying to impress women), which were accompanied by the loud crack of a whip sound effect. Johnny's catch phrases are "She wants me!" and "Ohhh Mama!" after women beat him up for refusing to leave them alone. He dresses in a very big skin tight black t-shirt and very small jeans. Johnny's personality and his overall physical appearance are based on a relatively unknown personal trainer from England called Shane Dickens. Three running gags are his trademark sunglasses, which he always wears, never revealing his eyes; breaking the fourth wall and Johnny being beaten up by women, who reject him. The name "Johnny Bravo" dates back to an episode of The Cheyenne Show, and was also Greg Brady's would-be stage name in an episode of The Brady Bunch. However, Van Partible stated in an interview for Cartoon Network that he also derived the name from his full given name, "Efrem Giovanni Bravo Partible." It has also been said that his birthday is on Valentine's Day and he likes Kung-Fu chick shows. When voicing Johnny Bravo, Jeff Bennett made his voice sound like that of Elvis Presley.

Bunny Bravo (voiced by Brenda Vaccaro) - Bunny "Momma" Bravo is Johnny's mother. She has had a lively past and sometimes reveals a surprising hidden talent. The show's original format portrays her as a calm, nurturing woman, but was made into a louder, more extroverted character once the show was retooled. She's very dedicated to her son, but as a result of her awareness of his low intellect and womanizer attitude, does not always treat him and his problems seriously. Like Johnny, Bunny has her own trademark sunglasses which always cover her eyes. Bunny hopes that Johnny will find that special someone he's been looking for. Bunny is mostly referred in the show as "Momma" by Johnny, who pronounces it in an Elvis-esque manner.

Little Suzy (voiced by Mae Whitman) - Little Suzy (or simply known as just "Suzy") is a little red-haired, intelligent girl from the neighborhood (often called "Little Neighbor girl" by Johnny), who is very cunning and talkative. In many episodes, Suzy is shown to have a major crush on Johnny (Although the feeling is not mutual). Her parents were never shown, but she is often shown to be related to big time celebrities. For example, it was revealed in an episode during her birthday that Farrah Fawcett is her cousin. She also has a crush on an 8-year-old country music singer Lonnie Dash. In the early series, Suzy was more of a cute-type character with a round head, while in the retooled series, she is thin-looking and more grown up. Suzy has many interests (such as selling lemonade and participating in the Buttercup Scouts) and has proven to be very successful in most of those interests. It is very obvious that Johnny finds Suzy annoying as he won't even go to her birthday parties or school dances.

Carl Chryniszzswics (voiced by Tom Kenny) - Carl Chryniszzswics aka Carl Shocker is a local nerd who is considered by many (especially Johnny) to be extremely annoying. He is Johnny's "best friend". He is a local genius and geek, who is very intelligent, but somewhat eccentric and timid. He was introduced after the show's retooling following the end of the first season, and seems to be Johnny's only friend, although Johnny often denies that. Carl sometimes uses Johnny for his experiments' sake. Carl really likes Johnny and he continues to hang out with him, even after all of the mean things that Johnny does to Carl and says about him. Carl remained in the show after the return to the original style, but was relegated to smaller roles.

Pops (voiced by Larry Drake) — The greedy owner of a local diner. He often gives tips and advice to Johnny; however, his advice often turns out to be useless, sometimes provoking trouble for Johnny. His diner's chili is made from rather suspicious ingredients and he serves food made from many animals, such as possums, pandas, cougars, seals, horses, and bald eagles. Like Carl, Pops was introduced in season two after the show's drastic retooling and remained even after the return to the original format, although he was relegated to brief cameo roles.

Master Hamma (voiced by Brian Tochi) — A Japanese martial arts instructor. Johnny has taken, and failed, several of his martial arts classes and frequently ruins Hamma's life trying to learn his lessons. Like Carl and Pops, Master Hamma was introduced after the series was retooled. His rival is another martial arts instructor named Panteen Claw who has a daughter named Ting.

Jungle Boy (voiced by Cody Dorkin) - A little boy with incredible strength, who lived in the jungle with talking animals (similar to Tarzan). He shares a bitter rivalry with King Raymond (voiced by Mark Hamill, similar to Kerchak). His appearances on the series were short-lived and he and the other animals were removed from the show after Season 1.

Episodes

Hallmarks

The series had many recognizable hallmarks, whether it is running gags or the humor revolving around Bravo's bravado itself.

Pop culture references

The series was abounding in pop culture references. The original short that preceded the series, Mess O' Blues, was based around an Elvis Presley impersonator. Even from the first season, creator Van Partible intended for the show’s middle segment to be a form of "Johnny Bravo Meets...", intended as a parody of The New Scooby-Doo Movies. An entire episode of the first season of the show is based around homages to "The Twilight Zone’’ (or, as the show dubs it, The Zone, Where Normal Things Don't Happen Very Often.) In that episode, which consisted of three Twilight Zone parodies, opened and closed by the words of a narrator, and would consist of Johnny encountering something strange, for example, being at the mercy of a boy who can seemingly alter reality at will, or fighting a personal war with a clown trying to damage a plane's wing (only to discover he was one of two clowns kept to "balance" the plane) - the episode also included a talking doll that attempted to commit murder.

Johnny makes a references to Johnny Carson' Tonight Show, in an episode when he enters a bar announcing, "Heeeeerrreeee's Johnny!"

Johnny sings the first few lines of the Depeche Mode song "Just Can't Get Enough" in "A Johnny Bravo Christmas", as well as several other songs, films, and other TV shows. Also in the intro video the text "Johnny Bravo" can be seen written in the same font and style as the Back to the Future logo. As a testament to the show's pop culture references (which lasted for the show's entire seven-year long run), one of the Village People can be seen in the background of "The Island of Beautiful Men" in the series’ third pilot episode, Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women.

Humor

Much of the humor of the series revolves around the antics and dimwitted-ness of Johnny himself. The entire series revolves around Bravo's undying desire to go on a date with a woman, and most women beat him up when he asks them. In turn, Bravo asks them in a very confident, almost cocky manner. Johnny also has been seen to do absurd things just to see a woman. Though narcissistic, Johnny has a relatively innocent nature, which, in conjunction with his lack of intelligence, can occasionally land him in the middle of others' dastardly plots (where he often remains oblivious even as they unfold). When Johnny enjoys something, usually something he tastes or sees, he often exclaims enjoyment by saying, "Mmm, (object)-y!" This joke was introduced and was most prevalent in the second season. This is similar to one of Homer Simpson and Pee-wee Herman's catch phrases.

Sly adult humor is found in many early episodes of the show. In one episode, when Little Suzy calls Johnny to ask if he wants to come over, Johnny nonchalantly tells her to "[call] back in 15 years when [she is] a co-ed." In regard to the adult humor, Butch Hartman stated "...being concerned with the content of the episodes wasn’t our main focus", and creator Van Partible remembers that "No one was really watching Cartoon Network [...] As far as content, they were pretty lenient on all the kind of things that were going on."

Guest appearances

The series has had numerous guest stars, which include: Don Knotts, Jessica Biel, Alec Baldwin, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Rick Springfield, Luke Perry, Farrah Fawcett, Vendela Kirsebom, Adam West, Dionne Warwick, Jack Sheldon, Mick Jagger, Richard Simmons, Joey McIntyre, Mr. T, Mark Hamill, Shaquille O'Neal, Donny Osmond, Seth Green, Allyce Beasley, Curtis Armstrong, Chuck D, Jeffrey Tambor, Tia Carrere, and Laraine Newman. Initially, the goal of the first season of the show was to have popular 1970s icons (such as Osmond and Fawcett) to appear on the "Johnny Bravo Meets..." middle segment of the show, but guest stars were used informally after the second season began.

The episode featuring Adam West inspired Seth MacFarlane, who also wrote the episode, to incorporate a similar character into Family Guy. Other, more famous Hanna-Barbera characters have appeared in Johnny Bravo Episodes, including the cast of Scooby-Doo, Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw, Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, The Blue Falcon, Black Widow, and Huckleberry Hound.

"Damien's Day Out" controversy

In the second season of the show, the creators developed a Halloween-themed episode in which Johnny takes care of a baby left on Johnny's doorsteps. This episode was never replayed on Boomerang after its initial airing.

JBVO

JBVO was a short-lived television series on Cartoon Network. The series aired on Sundays from April 2, 2000 to May 21, 2001. It was hosted by Johnny Bravo, along with some infrequent guest stars such as Chicken (from Cow and Chicken). Callers would write in to the show via mail or through the Cartoon Network website to call the show and request a cartoon from Cartoon Network's cartoon library, which would then be played, with an exception of half hour-long shows. Notably, one caller of the show requested an episode of Dragon Ball Z. Being that it was a half hour long, Johnny regretfully had to fast-forward through the entire episode with Johnny providing only expositional commentary. Afterward, Johnny apologized to the caller for the inconvenience.

There was also a similar spin-off of the JBVO concept itself entitled Viva Las Bravo, a summer block that aired in 2005 and 2006 in certain European variants of Cartoon Network. Every day Johnny would announce three cartoons, with the one getting the highest votes via email or on CartoonNetworkHQ.net would be shown for two hours the next day. He would also constantly appear in commercial breaks, cracking jokes or answering humorous emails/phone calls.

DVD releases

Warner Bros. stated in an interview that they are "...in conversations with Cartoon Network" for DVD collections of various cartoons, among which is Johnny Bravo in 2006. Johnny Bravo: Season 1, a two-disc set featuring the complete first season which contains all 13 episodes, was released by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand (Region 4) on October 10, 2007. On November 4, 2009, the complete second season was released. MVD Company Limited also released Season 1-5 in 2009.

A Region 1 release of the first season, with different cover art and new special features, was released by Warner Home Video on June 15, 2010. The release is first in an official release of several Cartoon Cartoons on DVD, under the "Cartoon Network Hall of Fame" name.

Region 1

! Title !! Release date !! Episodes !! Description
! Johnny Bravo: Season One	June 15, 2010	Cartoon Network Halloween: "Bravo Dooby Doo" Cartoon Network Christmas: "A Johnny Bravo Christmas" Cartoon Network Halloween 2: Grossest Halloween Ever: "Frankenbravo" Cartoon Network Christmas 2: Christmas Rocks: "Twas the Night" References External links [[Category:1990s American animated television series">List of Johnny Bravo episodes#ep1	This two-disc release includes all thirteen episodes from the first season, A look-back documentary, pencil tests, and episode commentaries.

Other Releases

Scooby-Doo and the Toon Tour of Mysteries: "Bravo Dooby Doo", "Noir Johnny"

Cartoon Network Halloween: "Bravo Dooby Doo"

Cartoon Network Christmas: "A Johnny Bravo Christmas"

Cartoon Network Halloween 2: Grossest Halloween Ever: "Frankenbravo"

Cartoon Network Christmas 2: Christmas Rocks: "Twas the Night"

References

External links

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