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Clio, California
Clio is a census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States. The population was 90 at the 2000 census.
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The Wash
:For other meanings see Wash.
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2Pac
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Akon
Akon (born Aliaune Badara Akon Thiam), (), is a Senegalese-American R&B; singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, businessman, and philanthropist.
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AOL
AOL Inc. (), formerly known as America Online and logo typeset as "Aol.", is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services.
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Ashley Massaro
Ashley Marie Massaro (born May 26, 1979) is an American model and inactive professional wrestler best known for her work with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and her appearance on . She first joined WWE after winning the Raw Diva Search 2005. After an initial rivalry with Vince's Devils, an alliance of female villains, Massaro became the valet for the WWE Tag Team Champions Paul London and Brian Kendrick. Her most high profile matches were a WWE Women's Championship match against Melina Perez at WrestleMania 23 and a Playboy Bunnymania Lumberjill match at WrestleMania XXIV. She left WWE in mid-2008.
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Bad Azz (rapper)
Bad Azz is a rapper and member of Tha Dogg Pound Gangsta Clique, also known as DPGC.
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Bo Buchanan
Beaufort Oglethorpe "Bo" Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.
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Brandy Norwood
Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), known professionally as Brandy, is an American R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer, television entertainer, actress, and film producer. In 2009, she introduced her rap alter-ego '''Bran'Nu'''.
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C-Murder
Corey Miller (born March 9, 1971), better known by his stage name C-Murder, is an American rapper. C-Murder is the brother of both Master P and Silkk the Shocker. C-Murder has released eight albums altogether on three different labels, No Limit Records, TRU Records, and Asylum Records. His first platinum album was released in 1998 entitled, Life or Death. He is currently serving life imprisonment following his conviction for a second degree murder committed in 2002.
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Cal Worthington
Calvin Coolidge "Cal" Worthington (born November 27, 1920 in Shidler, Oklahoma) is a well-known car dealer throughout the West Coast of the United States. He is best known for his unique radio and television advertisements for the Worthington Dealership Group. He was usually joined by "his dog Spot", except that "Spot" was never a dog. Often, Spot was either a tiger, a seal, an elephant or a bear. Spot was officially retired in the mid 1980s, however he is mentioned in some commercials today.
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Choppa
Darwin Turner, better known by his stage name Choppa, is a New Orleans rapper formerly signed to Master P's No Limit Records. His most successful single was "Choppa Style", which was a typical example of bounce music and was released twice one recorded with Master P himself after inking with his label. He started his own record label Street Balla Records in 2003. In 2004 he was signed to Body Head Entertainment, the label on which he released his 2005 album Da Real Choppa and is also a member of Roy Jones Jr.'s hip hop group Body Head Bangerz. He appeared with Mike Jones and 5th Ward Weebie on the 2004 Dirty South compilation released by Swishahouse The Day Hell Broke Loose 2 AKA Major Without A Major Deal on the song "Throwed". In the song he specifically acknowledges "Body Head" and he also appeared at the end of the music video for "Still Tippin'" where a short segment of "Throwed" is shown. He is also the brother of fellow New Orleans rapper Baby Boy da Prince.
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Currensy
Shante Anthony Franklin better known by his stage name Curren$y, is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Daz Dillinger
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Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and film producer. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas, and Herman Boone.
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DJ Pooh
:''Not to be confused with MC Pooh.
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Dr. Dre
Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), primarily known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to those record labels, such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. As a producer he is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West Coast G-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats.
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E-40
Earl Stevens (born November 15, 1967), better known by his stage name E-40, is an American rapper from Vallejo, California. It is assumed the stage name Earl carries, comes from (as made mention on his album "My Ghetto Report Card", on "they might be taping") E-40 stating "I got my name from drinking beer". He is also part of the Bay Area rap group The Click and the founder of Sick Wid It Records. His solo debut album, Federal, was released in 1992, and The Click's debut album "Down & Dirty" came out in 1992. E-40's 1995 solo album In a Major Way opened him up to a wider audience. He has released over ten albums, including those with his group The Click; he has also appeared on numerous movie soundtracks and has guest appearances on a host of other rap albums. Starting in 1998, he worked with rappers outside San Francisco and rose to even higher mainstream popularity in 2006 with his single "Tell Me When to Go" which was produced by Lil Jon.
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E-A-Ski
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
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En Vogue
En Vogue is an American female R&B; vocal group from Oakland, California assembled by music producers Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy.
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Fiend (rapper)
Ricky Jones, better known as Fiend is an American rapper and producer best known for his time spent with Master P's No Limit Records. Fiend was also briefly a member of DMX's label, Ruff Ryders Entertainment.
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Gap Band
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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is the mayor of San Francisco and as of 2010 is the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California. He was elected mayor in 2003 succeeding Willie Brown and became San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007 with 72 percent of the vote.
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Goldie Loc
Keiwan Deshawn Spillman (born January 16, 1980 in Long Beach, California) better known by his stage name Goldie Loc is a rapper who was once a member of Tha Eastsidaz with Snoop Dogg and Tray Deee.
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Ice Cube
'''O'Shea Jackson (born June 15, 1969), better known by his stage name Ice Cube''', is an American rapper, actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.
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Jerry Stiller
Gerald Isaac "Jerry" Stiller (born June 8, 1927) is an American comedian and actor.
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Jessica Mauboy
Jessica Hilda Mauboy (born 4 August 1989), is an Australian R&B; singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Darwin, Northern Territory, Mauboy auditioned for the fourth series of Australian Idol (2006) at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career, when she later became the runner-up of the season. Two weeks after Idol ended, she subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia.
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Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. (October 2, 1937 March 29, 2005) was an American lawyer best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal of O. J. Simpson for the alleged murder of his former wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop musician and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez. Timberlake became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the boy band 'N Sync, whose launch was financed by Lou Pearlman.
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Kane & Abel (group)
Kane & Abel is a rap duo formed by twin brothers Daniel and David Garcia.
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Katy Perry
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Krazy (rapper)
Krazy, born Michael Wilson, is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. He released three independent albums, I Shed Tears for the World, My Krazy World, and Recognize Game, then signed with No Limit Records in 2000 and joined 504 Boyz for the group's debut album, Goodfellas. He appeared on Mr. Marcelo's Brick Livin' and on C-Murder's Trapped in Crime. His final album, Breather Life, was released on August 7, 2001 by No Limit subsidiary Soulja Army Records. The album reached #91 on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums and #31 on the Top Independent Albums charts.
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Krizz Kaliko
Samuel William Christopher Watson (born March 7 1974 in Kansas City, Missouri) better known by his stage name Krizz Kaliko, is an American rapper and singer. He is a long time collaborator with fellow hometown native, Tech N9ne, and is signed to the label that Tech co-owns, Strange Music.
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Kurupt
Ricardo Emmanuel Brown (born November 23, 1972), better known by his stage names Kurupt, also known as Kurupt Tha Kingpin, Kurupt Young Gotti or Young Gotstra is an American rapper and former Executive Vice President of Death Row Records. He is a member of the rap group Tha Dogg Pound, and is mostly known for his work with Death Row Records.
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Lady of Rage
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Lil Jon
Jonathan Mortimer Smith (born January 27, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is a music producer, rapper and occasional disc jockey who was a member of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. He is often recognized for his hype shouts of "Yeah!", "What?", and "Okay!". Lil Jon formed the group in 1997, and the group released several albums between then and 2004.
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Lil Ric
Lil Ric is an American rapper from Richmond, California, formally of No Limit and Noo Trybe Records. He released his debut album, Deep N tha Game, in 1995 through No Limit, but left the label in 1995 just at it was beginning to take off. He later joined Noo Trybe and released 1998's ''It's Like Armageddon''. Lil Ric has worked with numerous other Californian rappers including Laroo, JT the Bigga Figga, Keak da Sneak and San Quinn.
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Lil' C-Style
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Lil' Half Dead
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Lil' Jon
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Lil' ½ Dead
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Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is the National Representative of the Nation of Islam. He is an advocate for black interests and a critic of American society. Farrakhan has been both widely praised and criticized for his often controversial political views and rhetorical style. In 1996, he was awarded the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights founded by Libya's de facto leader Muammar al-Gaddafi.
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Mac (rapper)
McKinley Phipps (born July 30, 1977 ), better know by his stage name Mac, is an American rapper from New Orleans' 3rd Ward, and would grow to be one of the most critically acclaimed on Master P's No Limit Records, both as a solo rapper and as a member of the 504 Boyz rap group.
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Maria Kanellis
Maria Louise Kanellis (born February 25, 1982), or simply Maria, is a singer-songwriter, model, and former professional wrestler, best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment. Kanellis's career began as a contestant on the reality show Outback Jack in 2004. In the same year, she placed fifth in the Raw Diva Search, but was later hired by WWE as a backstage interviewer. Kanellis began competing in the ring as a wrestler in 2005. She also posed for the April 2008 cover of Playboy magazine, which was incorporated into a storyline on Raw. She released her debut album Sevin Sins on April 13, 2010 on iTunes.
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Melina Perez
Melina Nava Perez (born March 9, 1979), better known simply as Melina, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestling on its Raw brand.
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Mercedes (singer)
Raquel Miller (born 1978), better known by her stage name Mercedes, is a former American R&B; singer from Louisiana. She released one album entitled "Rear End" in 1999 on Master P's No Limit Records. The album, like most of No Limit's releases, featured other No Limit performing artists such as Mystikal, Mac, Mia X, Silkk the Shocker and Master P. After releasing the album, Mercedes reportedly retired from music business less than a year later to attend law school.
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Mia X
Mia Young (born in New Orleans), known by her stage name Mia X, was the first female rapper to sign to No Limit Records. From 1995 to 1998, Mia X released three albums for No Limit: Good Girl Gone Bad, Unlady Like and Mama Drama. Unlady Like was certified gold by the RIAA for sales exceeding 500,000 copies.
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Mo B. Dick
Ruhi Anubis Yazid, better known as Mo B. Dick is an American singer and producer who is a member of the production team The Medicine Men, formerly called Beats By the Pound, which produced most of No Limit Records releases from 1995 to 1999. He released his debut album, Gangsta Harmony, April 13, 1999 on Priority Records . In 1999 all the members except Carlos Stephens left the label to form Overdose Entertainment and became known as The Medicine Men . He later released a second album, Perverted XXXcursions (2009) Onher and iNher iNherTainment . Also has a third new album called Blacklight Matinee (2010) coming out real soon .
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Mr. Marcelo
Mr. Marcelo is an American rapper who was briefly signed to No Limit Records in 2000. Taking his name from New Orleans mobster, Carlos Marcello, Mr. Marcelo released his debut album, Brick Livin' through No Limit Records on July 25, 2000. Though it received good reviews, the album failed to make it very high on the charts, only making it to #172 on the Billboard 200 and #43 on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums. After leaving No Limit, Mr. Marcelo continued to release albums independently including 2001's Streetz Got Luv 4 Me. Despite the split, the album still had many of No Limit's top selling artists featured on it.
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Nate Dogg
Nathaniel Dwayne Hale (born August 19, 1969), better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, is an American musician.
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Neil Strauss
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 , 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.
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Pharell
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Pharrell
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QDT
QDT is a production supergroup, featuring DJ Quik, Snoop Dogg and Teddy Riley. QDT stands for Quik-Dogg-Teddy.
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R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), best known by the stage name R. Kelly, is an American R&B; singer, songwriter and record producer. Debuting in 1992 with the group Public Announcement, Kelly went solo in 1993 with the album 12 Play. He is known for a collection of hit singles including "Bump n' Grind", "I Believe I Can Fly", "Gotham City", "Ignition (Remix)", "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", "The World's Greatest", "I'm A Flirt", and the hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet".
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Ray J
William Raymond Norwood Jr. (born January 17, 1981), better known by his stage name Ray J, is an American singer, record producer and actor.
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Ray Lewis
Ray Anthony Lewis (born May 15, 1975) is an American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). Since being drafted by the Ravens in 1996, he has been selected to eleven Pro Bowls and been named an Associated Press All-Pro nine times. He won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2000 and 2003; he was the sixth player to win the award multiple times. He was also the second linebacker to win the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award and the first linebacker to win the award on the winning Super Bowl team.
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RBX
Eric Dwayne Collins, better known by his stage name RBX (standing for "Reality Born Unknown"), is a rapper and R&B; singer from Long Beach, California. Contrary to popular belief, Collins is not related to funk legend Bootsy Collins, although the two are close friends.
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Ricky Williams
Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams, Jr. (born May 21, 1977 in San Diego, California) is an American football running back for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints fifth overall in the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Texas, where he was a two-time All-American (1997 and 1998) and won the 1998 Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding player in college football.
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Robert S. Woods
Robert Sosebee Woods (born March 13, 1948) is an American actor best known for playing Bo Buchanan on the ABC soap One Life to Live, a role for which he won a 1983 Daytime Emmy Award for Lead Actor.
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Romeo Miller
Percy Romeo Miller, Jr. (born August 19, 1989), better known by his stage name Romeo (previously '''Lil' Romeo'), is an American entertainer, actor, and basketball player. He is the son of entertainment mogul and entrepreneur Master P and nephew of C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker. He has so far released five studio albums and two compilation albums. His sixth album Get Low LP'' was released on March 3, 2009. He attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California. He was awarded a full athletic scholarship to play basketball at the University of Southern California.
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Ron Mercer
Ronald (Ron) Eugene Mercer (born May 18, 1976 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a former American basketball player at the University of Kentucky who also had a career in the National Basketball Association; the last time he played was for the New Jersey Nets in 2005.
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Sacha Baron Cohen
actor
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Silkk the Shocker
Vyshonn King Miller (born June 18, 1975) better known by his stage name Silkk The Shocker (Formally Silkk), is an American rapper, actor and business entrepreneur. Along with his brother Corey Miller, he was signed as a teenager to No Limit Records, which was owned by his oldest brother, Percy Miller and rose to fame in the mid-late 1990s, releasing his first record The Shocker in 1996 using the alias Silkk, He's the paternal uncle of rapper/actor Romeo.
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Singh Is Kinng
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Snoop Dogg
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Soopafly
Priest Joseph Brooks, better known by his stage name Soopafly, is a hip hop producer and rapper from Long Beach, California.
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Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
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Soulja Slim
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Stanley Williams
Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was the co-founder of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1971. In 1979 he was convicted of four murders committed in the course of robberies, and he remained in prison for the rest of his life. Later on in his life, he became an author of several books including anti-gang and violence literature and children's books. In December 2005, he was executed.
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Tech N9ne
Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971; Kansas City, Missouri), better known by his stage name Tech N9ne, is an American rapper. With a career spanning over 20 years, Tech N9ne is widely regarded as one of the most successful independent artists in contemporary rap and hip-hop music history.
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The D.O.C.
Tracy Lynn Curry (born June 20, 1968), known as The D.O.C., is an American rapper from Dallas, Texas. He was a member of the Fila Fresh Crew and a creative force behind the rap group N.W.A.
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The Game (rapper)
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The Gap Band
The Gap Band is an American funk band, who rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. Comprising brothers Charlie, Ronnie and Robert Wilson, the band first formed as the Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band in 1967 in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The group shortened its name to The Gap Band in 1973.
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The Lady of Rage
Robin Yvette Allen (born June 11, 1968), better known by her stage name The Lady of Rage, is an American rapper and actress best known for collaborations with several Death Row Records artists, including Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg on the seminal albums The Chronic and Doggystyle. She is considered "one of the most skillful female MCs" with a "mastery of flow" and "hard-core lyrics".
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The Neptunes
The Neptunes are a record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who are credited with contributing the sound for some successful hip hop, R&B; and pop artists in the late-1990s and 2000s.
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The-Dream
Terius Youngdell Nash (born August 18, 1981), better known by his stage name The-Dream, is an American R&B; and pop singer, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Rockingham, North Carolina, and raised by his mother Reva Nash until her death at age 35. The-Dream moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was raised by his grandfather.
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Touré
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Tray Deee
Tray Deee (born Tracy Lamar Davis on April 27, 1966 in Long Beach, California) is a rapper who was once signed to Death Row Records and later signed with Snoop Dogg's label Dogghouse Records (now Doggystyle Records). He joined the Platinum-selling group Tha Eastsidaz, which consisted of himself, Snoop Dogg, and Goldie Loc. Simultaneously and after the Eastsidaz project he was affiliated with car club-street Band, the IV Life Family and their related record label IV Life Records, that later signed him.
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Tre-8
Tre-8 is an American rapper who was one of the first rappers to release an album for the No Limit/Priority partnership. His debut album, Ghetto Stories was released on October 31, 1995 and managed to make it to #84 on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums. Tre-8 soon left the label to join Smoke 1 Entertainment, where he would release his next five albums. On May 13, 2008 Tre-8 released his eighth album.
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Trina
Katrina Laverne Taylor (born December 3, 1978 ), better known by her stage name Trina, is an American rapper and songwriter. Trina first gained notoriety in 1998 with her appearance with Trick Daddy's "Nann nigga". Since then Trina has made a name for herself as a female MC and has released five studio albums.
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TRU (group)
TRU (The Real Untouchables) was an American hip hop group from Richmond to New Orleans, which originally consisted of Master P, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, King George, Big Ed, Cali G, Sonya C, Chilee Powdah and Milkman, before being shortened to just Master P, C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker. The group's first two releases, 1993's ''Who's Da Killer?'' and 1994's Understanding the Criminal Mind, were released independently through In-a-minute Records. In 1995, the group was shortened to include just the three Miller brothers and the trio released their third album True on No Limit Records, which was just getting started. It was followed by Tru 2 da Game in 1997 and Da Crime Family in 1999. However by 2003 No Limit had fallen on hard times and was shut down. TRU returned in 2004 on Koch Records, released their sixth and final album, The Truth.
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Vietnam War
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Wiz Khalifa
Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), better known by the stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He released his debut album, Show and Prove, in 2006, and signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2007. His techno-influenced single, "Say Yeah", received urban radio airplay, charting on the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Tracks charts in 2008. Khalifa parted with Warner Bros. and released his second album, Deal or No Deal, in November 2009. He released the mixtape Kush and Orange Juice as a free download in April 2010, which became a top trending item on Twitter and Google; he then signed with Atlantic Records.
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Wash, The (2001)
"Wash, The (2001)" Actors
- Eminem
- Dr. Dre
- Snoop Dogg
- Angell Conwell
- Tom
- Dj Pooh
- George Wallace
- Alex Thomas
- Bruce Bruce
- Arif S. Kinchen
- Marcia Wright
- Shaquille O'neal
- Bishop Don Juan
- Kent Masters King
- Iva La'shawn
"Wash, The (2001)" Director
- Lifehouse
- Pearl Jam
- Bon Iver
- Satellite Soul
- Parmalee
- Monoral
- Loyalists
- Astrid Van Der Veen
- Absynthe Minded
- Calexico
karaoke
Never meant to waste your time
Never meant to fall out of line
I was trying to get closer to you
Now it seems with every step
It feels like I'm losing my breath
I don't know what else I can do
But you wash over me
You wash over me like rain
And you wash over me
You wash over me like sunshine
Oh I never had to choose
Living a life with you
Or chasing lies only half true
When our love would be
A world alone with you and me
Than hiding behind these walls
When you wash over me
You wash over me like rain
And you wash over me
You wash over me like sunshine
And you wash over me
You wash over me like rain
And you fall over me
You crawl over me like sunshine
Like sunshine
Everything in the world was falling through
All I knew was it led to you my sunshine
All my life never found my place
Until I felt the sunlight on my face, my sunshine
Never meant to waste your time
Never meant to fall out of line
I was trying to get closer to you
And now it seems with every step
It feels like I'm losing my breath
Oh I don't know what else I can do
But you wash over me
You wash over me like rain
And you wash over me
You wash over me like sunshine
And you wash over me
You wash over me like rain
When you fall into me
You crawl into me, like sunshine
Like sunshine
Like sunshine
Oh please let it rain today
This city is so filthy, like my mind in ways
And oh where's the time, like a clean new taste
Smiling eyes before me, inches from my face
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Sin the sale, buying just a need
Oh who planted all the devils seeds?
And what the truth and truth that lies at home
It's on the inside and I can't get it off
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
What's clean is pure, but hey I'm white on the outside, though I stray
What she don't know today might kill us both tomorrow
Bring it back someway bring it back, back, back
To the clean form, to the pure form
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Climb
Is all we know
When thaw
Is not below us
No can't grow up
In that iron ground
Claire all too sore for sound
Is hardly shown
Scraped
Across the foam
Like they stole it
And oh how they hold it
Claire we nearly forfeit
I I'm growing like the quickening hues
I I'm telling darkness from lines on you
Over havens fora full and swollen morass young habitat!
All been living alone where the ice snap and the hold clast are known
Home
Were savage high
Come
We finally cry
Oh and we don it
Because it's right
Claire I was too sore for sight
I were sewing up through the latchet greens
I un-peel keenness honey bean for bean
Same white pillar tone as with the bone street sand is thrown where she
Stashed us at
See him sitting with his head down low
He can't figure what it's all about
His emotion, it is never known
You can't hear what he cannot let out
See a mirror in a young girl's hand
She doesn't like what she can see
Looking deeper than appearance can
The heartache paints a picture of deceit
This is life
This is still our only chance
I will look up to the sky
Hear the music, I can dance
And all I want is a place
Where I can hang out with my friends
Where the music is loud enough
The nighttime never ends
And all I need is an arm
Around my shoulder on my way
Did you say that the love of God
Can hold my heart
Can wash my fears away?
See them walk together hand in hand
The rules are changing every time they blink
What life is teaching they don't understand
So it's easier if they try not to think
Seen the fury, they have seen the fire
He controls the air and sky and sea
Life is hanging by a tiny wire
Every now and then I think about you Wondered how I’d ever live without
you Whenever I think I figured it out my reasons turn to shame so I wash
em down forget it now I wanted you to stay but I watched myself fall away
from you So lay me down if you’re broken hearted and let the sunlight
shine in I’ll hold you close if I think you’re falling so we wont burn out in
the end I still have your pictures I still wonder how you are I’ve heard
about you and how you fell apart and I know you’ve been wasting for so
long now and I’m sorry that I did nothing to turn you around I just
watched myself (watched myself) fall away from you lay me down if you’re
broken hearted and let the sunlight shine in I’ll hold you close if I think
you’re falling so we won’t burn out in the end Shouldn’t I learn a thing or
two shouldn’t I wake up next to you shouldn’t I be the one that said to
hold you hold you shouldn’t I shouldn’t I shouldn’t I shouldn’t I hold you
hold you lay me down if you’re broken hearted and let the sunlight shine
in I’ll hold you close if I think you’re falling so we wont burn out in the
end lay me down if you’re broken hearted and let the sunlight shine in I’ll
hold you close if I think you’re falling so we wont burn out in the end in
If all goes slow it´s gonna be okay
There´s nothing more to read I say
If all goes slow and every other way
I fall for you so close my day
There´s nothing more to do
In this coming of darkest time
I want to go wherever you´ve gone before
I want to smell every smell that surrounded you before
I´ll drink the water that you used to wash your feet
I want to play with the mud that you stepped on before...
If all I want is spending night and day
Watching you go through your way
If all I want is nothing much to pay
Will you still be afraid to stay
There´s nothing more to do
In this coming of darkest time
I want to go wherever you´ve gone before
I want to smell every smell that surrounded you before
I´ll drink the water that you used to wash your feet
[Chorus:]
(Done with things that give you [?]
All hands on deck in the fishbowl
Knowing it's always staying wet in the fishbowl
There's decisions which aren't kept in the fishbowl
The fishbowl of thinking wishful
[Verse 1:]
The rise and fall of the tide, it's walls
Colliding in a violent size of jaws
Didn't surprise much at all that a time when war
Was more than a silent storm on an island shore
Unless you found oars then were sure to drown for
The tears from the sky downpour that began to shout more
Harder than outlaws urged destructive house call
They said it was the TV couch fault
About all this talk will only make our mouths sore
Thought they were right, we're only a southpaw
The drought after the brawl was finding any landmarks
Underwater camcorder showed the world transform
No leads and answers for the earth's [?] short
We can't burn or stand firm live in a damn fort
[Chorus:]
(Done with things that give you [?])
All hands on deck in the fishbowl
Knowing it's always staying wet in the fishbowl
There's decisions which aren't kept in the fishbowl
The fishbowl of thinking wishful
(Done with things that give you [?])
Wash our sins away
(Done with things that give you [?])
It came to wash our sins away
[Verse 2:]
It's like the ground is a cork
And if you don't hand your plan we'll leave a man and woman short
Hold onto a raft if you can manage to work yourself
In the advantage of a rescue boat's antenna, hope
What happens the most is to paddle and float
Gotta battle the coast that's radder than folks out of battery volts
We know if this tragedy's vote is to let all the students with faculty go
Winter rain after will be snow so
Swim to a place, year-round in beach mode
Before it turns cold enough to freeze the whole east coast
Skin and bones molded in to frozen people
The water has soaked us in evil, our mother's vino
Is gambling on every one of our lives for the casino
[Chorus:]
(Done with things that give you [?])
All hands on deck in the fishbowl
Knowing it's always staying wet in the fishbowl
There's decisions which aren't kept in the fishbowl
The fishbowl of thinking wishful
(Done with things that give you [?])
When it washed our sins away
(Done with things that give you [?])
When it washed our sins away
[Verse 3:]
Anything is legal, survival's the only steelo
But millions could be found at the bottom where the trees grow
And as part of [?] through tidal waves and seagulls
People leave and keep holding em out [?]
Trying not to keep [?] the way on this beat goes
Without music as the keynote enough to free bones for good
Zero input, your swim foot becomes a t-bone
To someone emotional like a freakshow
But peace know how to reach those
If the water continues to reload will we ever see home?
Sky cloaked in black clouds, liquid from each post
Of the planet get the heave-ho onto all our egos
History rewrote itself back to the core
Bolts of light that were meant to strike at our vocal cords
And no one existed to know what to make of it
Except the who had created this this love through hatredness
[Chorus:]
(Done with things that give you [?])
All hands on deck in the fishbowl
Knowing it's always staying wet in the fishbowl
There's decisions which aren't kept in the fishbowl
The fishbowl of thinking wishful
(Done with things that give you [?])
Washed our sins away
(Done with things that give you [?])
Washed our sins away
(Done with things that give you [?])
You can steal my happiness
for a while
'cause I know I'll get it back and then I'll be alright
Can't you be a little more
than someone
who will never ever understand
And now you've forgot
about the fight
but I still remember your hurting words
and it hurts
I know someday the pain will pass
and leave
and you will fill my life with love
yeah, love
so you can wash all my love
so you can wash all my love
so you can wash all my love for him
And you can watch my face
so my eyes will burn
inside my head
But those tears will dry
fly away
making a cloud to rain again
rain on me
so you can wash all my love
so you can wash all my love
so you can wash all my love for him
so you can wash all my love
so you can wash all my love
I wasn't really thinking of love
When I met you
I was only thinking about
The next gig, favorite dish, reminisce
Something called me when you arrived
And it choked me
What was it that then struck me out
Another thing, a big thing, don't explain
I wasn't really thinking about anything
I thought we're just hanging out
But I'll put it all aside
I won't run for that's all I've ever done
I wasn't really thinking of love
When I met you
I was only thinking about
The next gig, favorite dish, reminisce
You didn't really spoke it out loud
But you said it
What was it we we're talking about
Another thing, a big thing, don't explain
I wasn't really thinking about anything
I thought we're just hanging out
But I'll put it all aside
I won't run for that's all I've ever done
Baby I feel so complete
You fake it so real
A picture beautiful and clean
I wash the dirt of my hands
The guilt of my face
The credits are rolling of the screen
And that's it.
I wasn't really thinking about anything
I thought we're just hanging out
But I'll put it all aside
Light shines through darker days
Eyes close and lose their way
Slip away the night
While the whole town's asleep
Caught between the space
Where you wanted to be
Death acts and life reacts
Spent time turning looking back
Clues along the track
Leave the following kind
The ground that seems to be new
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Intro
- Walk Away
- Like The First Time? (Trapped)
- Sixoclock_
- Feel The Sun
- Haze
- Rewritten
- The Full Effect?
- Like It Is (_Flow)
- High Hopes
- Just Like A Gun
- These Games
- survive.
- Letting It Go
- Who Am I?
- Sunbleed
- Crawling (alternate version)
- One Step Closer
- drug (05 mix)
- The Brightest (05 mix)
- Shape_
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Bon Iver - Wash. (Deluxe)
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- Duration: 4:55
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Buy: itunes.apple.com Directed by Isaac Gale Cinematography by Justin Vernon Edited by JoLynn Garnes Filmed at Hidden Beach in Byron Bay, Australia
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Bon Iver - Wash
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- Duration: 4:59
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
All music copyright to Bon Iver 2011 Check out my music on facebook www.facebook.com Climb is all we know when thaw is not below us no, can't grow up in that iron ground Claire, all too sore for sound bet is hardly shown scraped across the foam like they stole it and oh, how they hold it Claire, we nearly forfeit I... I'm growing like the quickening hues I... I'm telling darkness from lines on you over havens fora full and swollen morass, young habitat! all been living alone, where the ice snap and the hold clast are known home we're savage high come we finally cry oh and we don it because it's right Claire, I was too sore for sight I... we're sewing up through the latchet greens I... un-peel keenness, honey, bean for bean same white pillar tone as with the bone street sand is thrown where she stashed us at all been living alone, where the cracks at in the low part of the stoning
http://wn.com/Bon_Iver_Wash
The Wash Trailer
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 08 Nov 2012
With the rent due and his car booted Sean (Dr. Dre) has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg) suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash the first order of business is impressing Mr. Washington (George Wallace) the gun-t oting dominoes-playing owner of The Wash. Unaware that the two are roomies Mr. Washington hires Sean as Dee Locs supervisor. Comic tensions flare between the two especially when Dee Loc suspects Sean of trying to slow his roll with the side hustles hes got going on in the car wash parking lot...and with the ladies in the locker room. But there are bigger things to worry about at The Wash. One is the menacing phone calls from a disgruntled employee and the other is figuring out how to get money to pay off the kidnappers whove snatched Mr. Washington! If Sean Dee Loc and the rest of the gang dont settle their differences and get Mr. Washington back the good times at The Wash will soon come to an end
http://wn.com/The_Wash_Trailer
Snoop Dogg Feat. Dr. Dre - The Wash
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- Duration: 3:21
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
Snoop Dogg Feat. Dr. Dre - The Wash, off the soundtrack, The Wash.
http://wn.com/Snoop_Dogg_Feat_Dr_Dre_The_Wash
Eminem's Threats - The Wash Movie
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- Duration: 5:14
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Eminem threatens Mr. Washington on the telephone, in The Wash movie.
http://wn.com/Eminem's_Threats_The_Wash_Movie
Funniest parts of The Wash
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- Duration: 6:09
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
hilarious
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DJ Pooh in "The Wash" Funniest Scene in the Movie!
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Hilarious scene by DJ Pooh from "The Wash" "It's the people from the census bureau!"
http://wn.com/DJ_Pooh_in_The_Wash_Funniest_Scene_in_the_Movie!
The Wash BUST IT!
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- Duration: 1:12
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
So funny you'll pee yourself!
http://wn.com/The_Wash_BUST_IT!
the wash funny scene
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- Duration: 1:30
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
haha the guys tht wanna get the money haha
http://wn.com/the_wash_funny_scene
CAR WASH
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- Duration: 3:43
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Innocent high school cheer team washes cars for fund raising. Shout outs to Standard Functions: www.facebook.com Special Thanks to: Phil Tran Tommy Trinh Daniel Kwan Annie Ly Peter Sudarso: www.facebook.com Hot Cheerleaders: Arika Sato: www.youtube.com www.facebook.com Claudia Judith Moran: www.youtube.com www.facebook.com Denise Christine: www.facebook.com Sexy Music: www.youtube.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JKFilms Merchandise and Unco Same Hats: www.justkiddingfilms.bigcartel.com FOLLOW US twitter.com FRIEND US: www.facebook.com JUSTKIDDINGFILMS WEBSITE: www.justkiddingfilms.net JustKiddingFilms http
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How to Wash Your Car with only One Bucket of Water
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- Duration: 0:25
- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/How_to_Wash_Your_Car_with_only_One_Bucket_of_Water
Unknown Mystery Creatures Washing Ashore in Hawaii by the Millions - July 15, 2012
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- Duration: 2:29
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
sheilaaliens.net "The south shore of Oahu is being invaded by something strange from sea, that even has sand crabs running for cover. "It's the first time I've seen this, I've never seen it before," says beach goer Bruce Kuwana. "It's really weird, it looks like you want to eat it like a little berry," says beach goer Sonya Lake. "There are probably millions I'd say," says beach goer Scott Paddock. If you look closely the entire shoreline is dotted with tiny, purple creatures all curled up. "Looks like it has about it 6 legs on each side," says Lake. "Yeah it's like an avatar crab." "When something washes up like this you don't know what to expect, maybe Tsunami stuff," says Kuwana. It's something many have never seen before. And no one we found knew what they were. "I definitely want to know where they came from and what they are all about," says Paddock. Even the biologists at the Waikiki Aquarium are scratching their heads. They've been getting reports of the pea-sized crabs from Kahala to Ala Moana, all this week. "The lifeguard called and asked what these things were because she had reports of surfers were actually have these things crawl up on their boards and onto them," says Norton Chan, Waikiki Aquarium Biologist. He can't find a specific name for the animal - all he knows is they are some type of crab still in the larvae stage. "What you are seeing is a swimming stage probably a few more molts before they settle into their actual crab stage itself," says Chan ...
http://wn.com/Unknown_Mystery_Creatures_Washing_Ashore_in_Hawaii_by_the_Millions_July_15,_2012
South Pacific - I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair - Complete Audio
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Mitzi Gaynor filmed this number to this track, but it was highly edited for the released film. Oscar Hammerstein was on location in Hawaii and thought the number wasn't working as well as it had on Broadway. Director Josh Logan told him that people had been washing their hair in films for years, so it didn't have the novelty effect it had on stage. Here's the complete audio track with some footage from the trailer and a behind-the-scenes short added (thanks to HistoryofWidescreen and mikeystar5 for that). Apparently these lyrics were never recorded: You can't light a fire when the wood's all wet, You can't make a butterfly strong, You can't fix an egg when it ain't quite good, And you can't fix a man when he's wrong, You can't put back a petal when it falls from a flower, Or sweeten up a fellow when he starts turnin' sour... ,
http://wn.com/South_Pacific_I'm_Gonna_Wash_That_Man_Right_Out_Of_My_Hair_Complete_Audio
The most expensive car wash in the world
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- Duration: 1:58
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Full story: Read more at swns.com This is the man who built up Britain's most expensive car wash -- from his mum's GARAGE. Car fanatic Gurcharn Sahota, 30, started cleaning neighbours' motors for FREE with a bucket and sponge when he was a teenager. Gurcharn has now built his own Formula 1 style pit garage where wealthy drivers pay up to £7000-a-time for a luxury car wash. He travels with up to 100 different cleaning fluids that need special clearance at customs. The wax alone he uses costs a cool £8200 a tub.
http://wn.com/The_most_expensive_car_wash_in_the_world
Oil filters & point wash
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- Duration: 7:45
- Updated: 06 Nov 2012
Using oil paints to increase shadow contrast and create colour variations
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Pearl Jam - Wash
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- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
Studio version of Wash, a b-side to Pearl Jam's single, Alive. Also appeared on Lost Dogs.
http://wn.com/Pearl_Jam_Wash
Pot Legal in Colorado and Washington, but Feds Still Loom
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- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Democrats may be high on President Obama's re-election victory today, but constituents in Colorado and Washington state are feeling the buzz a little stronger than everyone else. The western states have become the first ever in America to legalize pot for recreational use. Washington has permitted medical marijuana use since 1998 and Colorado since 2000, but the historic votes by each state mark the first time voters have allowed for casual pot consumption. Under the ballot measures, anyone 21 or older can possess up to an ounce from licensed vendors, which the states plan to tax. But for the stoner set, election night was not free of buzz-kills. A measure that would decriminalize recreational marijuana failed in Oregon. And experts point out that in Colorado and Washington, the legalization push will run up against federal marijuana prohibitions, leaving the ultimate status of pot use in those states up in the air.
http://wn.com/Pot_Legal_in_Colorado_and_Washington,_but_Feds_Still_Loom
The Wash Funny Scenes
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- Duration: 0:57
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
The Wash Funny Scenes Follow the steps and trail properly you will be sucessful!!! Best Ways and Tips to earn $$$ dd0e1gjaqp0ybycgzg7ks4av6q.hop.clickbank.net shootz.ebaycert.hop.clickbank.net http You will see!!! It takes a couple of weeks not days but you will have to be patience. Good Things Are Coming!!!!
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Flight TRAILER (2012) Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis Movie HD
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Subscribe to TRAILERS: bit.ly Subscribe to COMING SOON: bit.ly Flight TRAILER (2012) Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis Movie HD An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling. movieclips movie clips "denzel washington" "robert zemeckis" "john goodman" "james badge dale" "done cheadle" "bruce greenwood" "melissa leo" "based on a true story" "back to the future" castaway "man on fire" "american gangster"
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Christina Aguilera- Car Wash
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- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
this is Christina's 2004 video called 'Car Wash'. Enjoy!
http://wn.com/Christina_Aguilera_Car_Wash
Batmobile Car Wash (extended version)
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- Duration: 1:30
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
Because you fans demanded it!!! Marisha Ray, the host of Super Power Beat Down, washes the 66 Batmobile in this exciting extended video! Be sure to follow Marisha on twitter twitter.com And like her on facebook www.facebook.com Make sure to go to superpowerbeatdown.com and vote every month for who you think should win! like us on facebook: www.facebook.com follow us on twitter: twitter.com The concept of the SPBD web series is to take two super powered legends and make them battle! Every month we will release a new episode, where viewers will be able to vote to determine the winner. The show is hosted by Marisha Ray, with two debaters, Damian Beurer and Andy Liegl. Together they battle with their sci-fi/fantasy knowledge and comic wit to see who they think the winner will be.
http://wn.com/Batmobile_Car_Wash_extended_version
Wash Your Balls!! Axe commercial
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- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
funny axe commercial for all guys
http://wn.com/Wash_Your_Balls!!_Axe_commercial
Ewan Dobson - Wash Away - Solo Guitar
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- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
CD & Guitar Tabs available at www.candyrat.com Also available on itunes and amazon Visit Ewan Dobson at http and www.myspace.com On-line Guitar Instructional "In The Style of Ewan Dobson Volume 1 and 2" www.dc-musicschool.com
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Photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
12 Nov 2012
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Photo: AP / Mónica G. Prieto
12 Nov 2012
NATO is ready to help member state Turkey as the 20-month conflict in Syria is increasingly spilling across the border, the alliance's chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. "Turkey can rely on NATO...
Photo: AP / Osama Faisal
10 Nov 2012
DOHA, Qatar -- Syriaâs biggest political opposition bloc Friday elected a Christian, George Sabra, as president, a move Sabra said showed that the Muslim-majority nation will not allow its national...
Photo: US Army / by Pfc. Cameron Boyd
11 Nov 2012
KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistan hopes to persuade Afghan insurgent groups, including the lethal Haqqani network, to pursue peace but worries resistance from political factions opposed to the Taliban could...
Seahawks take on look of playoff contender
13 Nov 2012
The News Tribune
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MSNBC
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13 Nov 2012
Sacramento Bee
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Navigating the battle of the teenage messy room
13 Nov 2012
The News & Observer
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Pants resembling those of two-year-old girl who vanished from beach wash up on nearby shore
13 Nov 2012
The Daily Mail
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MSNBC
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The Examiner
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Look up wash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Wash may refer to:
- Arroyo (creek), also called a wash, a dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain
- WASH, a water, sanitation and hygiene advocacy campaign initiated by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
- WASH-FM, a Clear Channel Communications radio station
- Wash (distilling), the liquid produced by the fermentation step in the production of distilled beverages
- Wash (painting), a light covering of diluted paint on a painting
- "Wash" (Prison Break episode)
- Wash, California, former name of Clio, California
- The Wash, the square-mouthed estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia in England
- The Wash (film), a hip-hop styled film
- The Wash (1985 film), by Philip Kan Gotanda, based on his play The Wash
- "Wash" (song), a song by Pearl Jam
- "Wash.", A song by Bon Iver from the album Bon Iver, Bon Iver
- Wash (Firefly), a character on Firefly
See also[link]
- Car wash (disambiguation)
- Washer (disambiguation)
- Washing
- Washington (disambiguation), various uses commonly abbreviated as "Wash."
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 Snoop Dogg performing at the Snoop Dogg Supafest in April 2011. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. |
| Born | (1971-10-20) October 20, 1971 (age 40) |
| Origin | Long Beach, California, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupations | Rapper |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Death Row, No Limit, Priority, Star Trak, Geffen, Doggystyle |
| Associated acts | Tha Dogg Pound, Tha Eastsidaz, 213, Dr. Dre, Warren G, Nate Dogg, 2Pac, Pharell, R. Kelly, Ice Cube, Akon, Game, Brandy Norwood, Eminem, Wiz Khalifa |
| Website | snoopdogg.com |
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg (formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school. Shortly after graduation, he was arrested for cocaine possession and spent six months in Wayside County Jail. His music career began in 1992 after his release when he was discovered by Dr. Dre. He collaborated on several tracks on Dre's solo debut, The Chronic and on the titular theme song to the film Deep Cover.
Snoop's debut album Doggystyle, was released in 1993 under Death Row Records making a debut at No.1 on both the Billboard 200 and R&B charts. Selling almost a million copies in the first week of its release, Doggystyle quickly became certified 4× platinum in 1994 and spawned several hit singles, including "What's My Name" and "Gin & Juice". In 1994, Snoop released a soundtrack on Death Row Records for the short film Murder Was The Case, starring himself. In early 1996, Snoop Dogg was cleared of charges over his bodyguard's 1993 murder of Philip Woldemariam. His second album, late 1996's Tha Doggfather, also debuted at No.1 on both charts with "Snoop's Upside Ya Head" as the lead single. The album sold only half as well, being certified double platinum in 1997.
Tha Doggfather was his last release for Death Row before he signed with No Limit Records, where he recorded his next three albums. Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told in 1998, No Limit Top Dogg in 1999 (making it his last album of the 90s), and Tha Last Meal in 2000, which was his last No Limit Records album. Snoop then signed with Priority/Capitol/EMI Records in 2002, where he released his album Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss. Then he signed with Geffen Records in 2004 for his next three albums R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, and Ego Trippin'. Malice 'n Wonderland (2009) and Doggumentary (2011), his most recent release, were on Priority.
In addition to music, Snoop Dogg has starred in motion pictures and hosted several television shows: Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood and Dogg After Dark. He also coaches a youth football league and high school football team. He has run into many legal troubles, some of which caused him to be legally banned from the UK and Australia, although the UK ban was later reversed after a long legal battle.[1] He is the cousin of Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger, RBX and Lil' ½ Dead and the cousin of R&B singers Brandy and Ray J. Starting September 2009, Snoop was hired by EMI as the chairman of a reactivated Priority Records.[2]
Life and career[link]
Early life[link]
Named after his stepfather, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Sr. (December 10, 1948 – November 9, 1985, Los Angeles), Calvin Broadus was born October 20, 1971 at the Los Altos Hospital in Long Beach, California, the second of three sons of Beverly Broadus (née Tate; born April 27, 1951, McComb, Mississippi).[3][4][5] His father, Vernall Varnado (born December 13, 1949, Magnolia, Mississippi),[3] was a Vietnam veteran, singer, and mail carrier who was said to be frequently absent from his life.[6] Broadus' parents nicknamed him "Snoopy" as a child because of his appearance, but usually addressed him as Calvin at home.[7][8] His mother and stepfather divorced in 1975. At an early age, Broadus began singing in Golgotha Trinity Baptist Church and playing piano; when he was in sixth grade, he began rapping.[9][10] He attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School, and was convicted for cocaine possession, serving six months at the Wayside County Jail.[7]
As a teenager, Snoop Dogg frequently ran into trouble with the law. Snoop Dogg was a member of the Rollin' 20 Crips gang in the Eastside of Long Beach,[11][12] although he stated in 1993 that he never joined a gang.[9] Shortly after graduating from high school, he was arrested for possession of cocaine.[7] Snoop Dogg's conviction caused him to be frequently in and out of prison for the first three years after he graduated from high school. Snoop, along with his cousins Nate Dogg and Lil' ½ Dead and friend Warren G, recorded home made tapes as a group called 213, named after the Long Beach area code at the time. One of his early solo freestyles over En Vogue's "Hold On" had made it to a mixtape which was heard by influential producer Dr. Dre, who phoned to invite him to an audition. Former N.W.A member The D.O.C. taught him how to structure his lyrics and separate the thematics into verses, hooks and chorus.[13]
[edit] 1992–93: Doggystyle
When he began recording, Broadus took the stage name Snoop Doggy Dogg. Dr. Dre began working with Snoop Dogg, first on the theme song of the 1992 film Deep Cover, and then on Dr. Dre's debut solo album The Chronic with the other members of his former starting group, Tha Dogg Pound. The huge success of Snoop Dogg's debut Doggystyle was partially because of this intense exposure.[7]
To fuel the ascendance of West Coast G-funk hip hop, the singles "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" and "Gin and Juice" reached the top ten most-played songs in the United States, and the album stayed on the Billboard charts for several months.[7] Gangsta rap became the center of arguments for censorship and labeling, with Snoop Dogg often used as an example of violent and misogynistic musicians.[14] Doggystyle, much like The Chronic, featured a host of rappers signed to or affiliated with the Death Row label including Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, Nate Dogg and others. Rolling Stone music critic Touré asserted that Snoop had a relatively soft vocal delivery compared to other rappers: "Snoop's vocal style is part of what distinguishes him: where many rappers scream, figuratively and literally, he speaks softly."[9]
A short film about Snoop Dogg's murder trial called Murder Was The Case, was released in 1994, along with an accompanying soundtrack. On July 6, 1995, Doggy Style Records, Inc., a record label founded by Snoop Dogg, was registered with the California Secretary of State as business entity number C1923139.[15]
[edit] 1996–97: Tha Doggfather
After Snoop Dogg was acquitted of murder charges on February 20, 1996, he and the mother of his son and their kennel of 20 pit bulls moved into a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) home in the hills of Claremont, California and by August 1996 Doggy Style Records, a subsidiary of Death Row Records, signed The Gap Band's Charlie Wilson as one of the record label's first artists.[16]
However, by the time Snoop Dogg's second album, Tha Doggfather, was released in November 1996, the price of living (or sometimes just imitating) the gangsta life had become very evident. Among the many notable hip hop industry deaths and convictions were the death of Snoop Dogg's friend and labelmate 2Pac and the racketeering indictment of Death Row co-founder Suge Knight.[7] Dr. Dre had left Death Row earlier in 1996 because of a contract dispute, so Snoop Dogg co-produced Tha Doggfather with Daz Dillinger and DJ Pooh.
This album featured a distinct change of style as compared to Doggystyle, and the leadoff single, "Snoop's Upside Ya Head", featured a collaboration with Gap Band frontman Charlie Wilson. While the album sold reasonably well, it was not as successful as its predecessor. However, Tha Doggfather had a somewhat softer approach to the G-funk style. The immediate aftermath of Dr. Dre's withdrawal from Death Row Records, realizing that he was subject to an iron-clad time-based contract (i.e., that Death Row practically owned anything he produced for a number of years), Snoop Dogg refused to produce any more tracks for Suge Knight, other than the insulting "Fuck Death Row", until his contract expired.[11] In an interview with Neil Strauss in 1998, Snoop Dogg stated that though he had been given lavish gifts by his former label they had withheld royalty payments to the artist.[17]
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that after Tha Doggfather, Snoop Dogg began "moving away from his gangsta roots toward a calmer lyrical aesthetic":[7] for instance, Snoop participated in the 1997 Lollapalooza concert tour, which featured mainly alternative rock music. Troy J. Augusto of Variety noticed that Snoop's set at Lollapalooza attracted "much dancing, and, strangely, even a small mosh pit" in the audience.[18]
[edit] 1998–2000: No Limit, Top Dogg and Tha Last Meal
Snoop signed with Master P's No Limit Records (distributed by Priority/EMI Records) in 1998 and debuted on the label with Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told that year. His other albums from No Limit were No Limit Top Dogg in 1999 (selling over 1,503,865 copies) and Tha Last Meal in 2000 (selling over 1,000,000).[7] In 2001, his autobiography, Tha Doggfather, was published.
[edit] 2002: Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
In 2002 he released the album Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$, on Priority/Capitol/EMI Records, selling over 1,300,000 copies. The album featured the hit singles "From tha Chuuuch to da Palace" and "Beautiful", featuring guest vocals by Pharrell. By this stage in his career, Snoop Dogg had left behind his "gangster" image and embraced a "pimp" image.
[edit] 2004–05: R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece
In 2004, Snoop signed to Geffen Records/Star Trak Entertainment both of which are distributed through Interscope Records; Star Trak is headed by producer duo The Neptunes, which produced several tracks for Snoop's 2004 release R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece. "Drop It Like It's Hot" (featuring Pharrell), the first single released from the album, was a hit and became Snoop Dogg's first single to reach number one. His third release was "Signs", featuring Justin Timberlake and Charlie Wilson, which entered the UK chart at #2. This was his highest entry ever in the UK chart. The album sold 1,724,000 copies in the U.S. alone, and most of its singles were heavily played on radio and television. Snoop Dogg joined Warren G and Nate Dogg to form the group 213 and released album The Hard Way in 2004. Debuting at No.4 on the Billboard 200 and No.1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, it included single "Groupie Luv". Together with fellow rappers Lil' Jon, Xzibit and David Banner, Snoop Dogg appeared in the music video for Korn's "Twisted Transistor".
[edit] 2006: Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
Snoop Dogg's appeared on two tracks from Ice Cube's 2006 album Laugh Now, Cry Later, including the single "Go to Church", and on several tracks on Tha Dogg Pound's Cali Iz Active the same year. Also, his latest song, "Real Talk", was leaked over the Internet in the summer of 2006 and a video was later released on the Internet. "Real Talk" was a dedication to former Crips leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams and a diss to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California. Two other singles on which Snoop made a guest performance were "Keep Bouncing" by Too $hort (also with will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas) and "Gangsta Walk" by Coolio.
Snoop's 2006 album, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, debuted on the Billboard 200 at No.5 and has sold over 850,000 copies. The album and the second single "That's That Shit" featuring R. Kelly were well received by critics. In the album, he collaborated in a video with E-40 and other West Coast rappers for his single "Candy (Drippin' Like Water)".
[edit] 2007–08: Ego Trippin'
In July 2007, Snoop Dogg also made history by becoming the first artist to release a track as a ringtone prior to its release as a single, which was "It's the D.O.G." On July 7, 2007, Snoop Dogg performed at the Live Earth concert, Hamburg.[19] Snoop Dogg has ventured into singing for Bollywood with his first ever rap for an Indian movie Singh Is Kinng; the title of the song is also "Singh is Kinng". He also appears in the movie as himself.[20] The album featuring the song was released on June 8, 2008 on Junglee Music Records.[21] He released his ninth studio album, Ego Trippin' (selling 400,000 copies in the U.S.), along with the first single, "Sexual Eruption". The single peaked at No.7 on the Billboard 100, featuring Snoop using autotune. The album featured production from QDT (Quik-Dogg-Teddy).
[edit] 2009–10: Malice n Wonderland and More Malice
Snoop was appointed an executive position at Priority Records. His tenth studio album, Malice n Wonderland, was released on December 8, 2009. The first single from the album, "Gangsta Luv", featuring The-Dream, peaked at No.35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted at No.23 on the Billboard 200, selling 61,000 copies its first week, making it his lowest charting album. His third single, "I Wanna Rock", peaked at No.41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Snoop features on the latest Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach. The fourth single from Malice n Wonderland, titled "Pronto", featuring Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, was released on iTunes on December 1, 2009. Snoop re-released the album under the name More Malice.
[edit] 2011–12: Doggumentary
Snoop collaborated with Katy Perry on the first single from her second mainstream album, "California Gurls", which was released on May 11, 2010. Snoop can also be heard on the track "Flashing" by Dr. Dre and on Curren$y's song "Seat Change". He was also featured on a new single from Australian singer Jessica Mauboy, titled "Get 'em Girls" (released September 2010). Snoop's latest effort was backing American recording artist, Emii, on her second single entitled "Mr. Romeo" (released October 26, 2010 as a follow-up to "Magic"). Snoop also collaborated with American comedy troupe The Lonely Island in their song "Turtleneck & Chain", in their 2011 album Turtleneck & Chain.
Snoop Dogg's newest studio album is Doggumentary. The album went through several tentative titles including Doggystyle 2: Tha Doggumentary and Doggumentary Music: 0020 before being released under the final title Doggumentary during March 2011.[22] Snoop was featured on Gorillaz' latest album Plastic Beach on a track called: "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach" with the The Hypnotic Brass, he also completed another track with them entitled "Sumthing Like This Night" which does not appear on Plastic Beach, yet does appear on Doggumentary. He also appears on the latest Tech N9ne album All 6's and 7's (released June 7, 2011) on a track called "Pornographic" which also features E-40 and Krizz Kaliko.
[edit] 2012–present: Reincarnated
On February 4, 2012, Snoop Dogg announced a new documentary alongside his new upcoming studio album entitled Reincarnated.[23] Snoop Dogg is set to headline the Osheaga Festival in Montreal, Canada this summer. [24]
Other ventures[link]
Media appearances[link]
Snoop Dogg has appeared on television and in films throughout his career. In 1998, Snoop had a cameo appearance in the film Half Baked as the "Scavenger Smoker".[25] In 2000, Snoop (as "Michael J. Corleone") directed Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, a pornographic film produced by Hustler. The film, combining hip hop with x-rated material, was a huge success and won "Top Selling Release of the Year" at the 2002 AVN Awards.[26] Snoop then directed Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp in 2002 (using the nickname "Snoop Scorsese").[27]
In 2001, Snoop lent his voice to the animated show King of the Hill, in which he played a white pimp named Alabaster Jones.[28] He played a lead character in the movie The Wash with Dr. Dre. He portrayed a drug dealer in a wheelchair in the film Training Day, featuring Denzel Washington.[29] In 2001, Snoop starred in the horror film Bones, with him playing a murdered mobster who returns from the dead to exact his revenge against those who murdered him.
In 2002, Snoop hosted, starred in, and produced his own MTV sketch comedy show entitled Doggy Fizzle Televizzle. Snoop was filmed for a brief cameo appearance in the television movie It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002), but his performance was omitted from the final cut of the movie.[30] On November 8, 2004, Snoop Dogg was starred in the episode "Two of a Kind" of NBC's series Las Vegas.[31]
In 2004, Snoop appeared on the Showtime series The L Word as the character "Slim Daddy". He also notably played the drug dealer-turned-informant character of Huggy Bear, in the 2004 remake film of the 1970s TV-series of the same name, Starsky & Hutch. He appeared as himself in the episode "MILF Money" of Weeds,[32] and made an appearance on the TV shows Entourage[33] and Monk,[34] for which he recorded a version of the theme, in July 2007.
Snoop founded his own production company, Snoopadelic Films, in 2005. Their debut film was Boss'n Up, a film inspired by Snoop Dogg's album R&G, starring Lil Jon and Trina.[35]
In December 2007, his reality show Snoop Dogg's Father Hood premiered on the E! channel.[36] Snoop Dogg joined the NBA's Entertainment League.[37] On March 30, 2008 he appeared at WrestleMania XXIV as a Master of Ceremonies for a tag team match between Maria and Ashley Massaro as they took on Beth Phoenix and Melina.[38]
On May 8 and May 9, 2008, Snoop appeared as himself on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, with a new opening theme recorded by the artist presented for both episodes. In the episodes, Snoop performs at the bachelorette party for character Adriana Cramer, and credits Bo Buchanan with helping him get his start in show business.[39][40] On February 24, 2010, Snoop Dogg reprised his role, performing his song "I Wanna Rock" from his new album, Malice n Wonderland, as well as once again performing a special remixed, vocal rendition of the show's opening theme.[41] In recent interviews he has explained that, as a child, One Life to Live was one of his favorite shows, and he still regards the show fondly. He has also stated that he has always been a particular fan of Robert S. Woods, who has portrayed the character of Bo Buchanan since 1979.
In 2009, Snoop Dogg appeared in Sacha Baron Cohen's film Brüno as himself performing a rap addition to the song "Dove Of Peace".[42] On October 19, 2009, Snoop Dogg was the guest host of WWE Raw.
In July 2009, Snoop revealed his desire to appear in the popular soap opera Coronation Street while touring in the UK. However ITV bosses were said to be less keen.[43]
In 2010, Snoop Dogg appeared in an episode of I Get That a Lot on CBS as a parking-lot attendant.
In June 2010, Snoop created a music video for True Blood accompanying a song he wrote for one of the main characters of the show entitled "Oh Sookie."[44][45]
In March 2011, Snoop participated in Comedy Central's Roast of Donald Trump with other comedians and media personalities.[46]
January 2, 2012, appeared on the The Price Is Right and raised $72,000 for his charity, Snoop Youth Football League.
Endorsements[link]
- St. Ides
- Snoop Dogg 40 Oz Malt liquor
- Adidas Originals
- Boost Mobile cell phone
- Chrysler 300
- Colt 45 Blast
- Metro PCS Samsung Galaxy 4G
- Orbit Gum
- AOL commercial with Jerry Stiller
- Cal Worthington's Ford dealership in Long Beach, California
- "Snoop Doggs" – foot-long hot dogs manufactured in Massachusetts, a joint venture with Platinum One Media[47]
- "Snoop Dogg Board Company (SDBC)" – skateboards and Luggage fabrication company (with Pentagon Distribution)
- "Snooperbowl" and "Snoop Youth Football league"[48]
- "Chronic Candy" – candy that tastes like marijuana (from Switzerland and is currently banned in some cities of US)
- Love Don't Live Here No More, Doggy Tales Vol.1 – love novel (co-written by David E. Talbert, published by Atria and Snoopadelic Films) ISBN 0-7432-7363-X[49]
- Tha Doggfather : The Times, Trials, And Hardcore Truths Of Snoop Dogg – autobiography (published by William Morrow) Hardcover ISBN 0-688-17158-3, Paperback ISBN 0-06-107607-4[50]
- Fear & Respect (project cancelled as of March 1, 2006) – PlayStation 2 video game (developed by Midway Games)
- "Doggy Biscuitz" – shoe brand (in partnership with Pony International)[51]
- "Snoop Dogg Clothing" – streetwear (distributed at Macy's)
- "WRFF" – unique design scooters (in cooperation with Salton, Inc.)[52]
- "Hip Hop Gaming League" – a celebrity online gaming competition (hosted by Global Gaming League)[53]
- "Snoop Dogg figures" (Vital Toys, SOTA Toys)[54]
- "Snoop Dogg Boxing" – mobile phone game (Sony Pictures Mobile)
- "Snoop Dogg Pet Accessory Line" (in conjunction with Jakks Pacific)[55]
- Snoop Dogg is a celebrity voice of a TomTom GPS navigation system.[56][57] He stated on George Lopez's talk show Lopez Tonight that he is tired of hearing directions from the same woman.
- In August 2008, Snoop Dogg announced the launch of a new streetwear line called Rich & Infamous, via a partnership with Robert Thorne Co. The line was unveiled during the Magic Tradeshow in Las Vegas.[58]
- "Hack is Wack" – Promoting Norton AntiVirus.[59]
- "Coffee Cup With A Cause" with 7 Eleven.[60]
- "Serious Pimp" clothing line.[61]
- "iFizzle" iPhone Application.[62]
- "Vybe Mobile"[63]
- "Pepsi Max" – Zero Calories[64]
Style and rap skills[link]
Kool Moe Dee ranks Snoop at No.33 in his book There's a God on the Mic, and says he has "an ultra-smooth, laidback delivery",[65] and "flavor-filled melodic rhyming".[66] Peter Shapiro describes Snoop's delivery as a "molasses drawl"[67] and Allmusic notes his "drawled, laconic rhyming" style.[7] Kool Moe Dee refers to Snoop's use of vocabulary, saying he "keeps it real simple...he simplifies it and he's effective in his simplicity".[68]
Snoop is known to freestyle some of his lyrics on the spot for some songs – in the book How to Rap, Lady of Rage says, "Snoop Dogg, when I worked with him earlier in his career, that's how created his stuff... he would freestyle, he wasn't a writer then, he was a freestyler,"[69] and The D.O.C. states, "Snoop's [rap] was a one take willy, but his shit was all freestyle. He hadn't written nothing down. He just came in and started busting. The song was "Tha Shiznit"—that was all freestyle. He started busting and when we got to the break, Dre cut the machine off, did the chorus and told Snoop to come back in. He did that throughout the record. That's when Snoop was in the zone then."
Peter Shapiro says that Snoop debuted on "Deep Cover" with a "shockingly original flow – which sounded like a Slick Rick born in South Carolina instead of South London"[70] and adds that he "showed where his style came from by covering Slick Rick's 'La Di Da Di'".[67] Referring to Snoop's flow, Kool Moe Dee calls him "one of the smoothest, funkiest flow-ers in the game".[66] How to Rap also notes that Snoop is known to use syncopation in his flow to give it a laidback quality,[71] as well as 'linking with rhythm' in his compound rhymes,[72] using alliteration,[73] and employing a "sparse" flow with good use of pauses.[74]
Snoop re-popularized the use of -izzle speak, particularly in the pop and hip-hop music industry.[75]
Personal life[link]
Broadus's father left the family when Broadus was three months old. Snoop married his high school sweetheart, Shante Taylor, on June 12, 1997. On May 21, 2004, he filed for divorce from Shante, citing irreconcilable differences.[76] The couple renewed their wedding vows on January 12, 2008.[77] R&B singers Brandy and Ray J are his first cousins.[78] In 2002, the rapper announced he was giving up marijuana, one of his image trademarks, for good.[79] According to his IMDb biography, Snoop is a fan of the thrash metal band Metallica[80] and performed their song "Sad But True" on the band's 2003 MTV Icon Special which is available on YouTube.[81] A DNA test read by George Lopez on Lopez Tonight revealed Snoop Dogg to be of 0% East Asian, 23% Native American, 6% European, and 71% African descent.[82]
Snoop is an avid fan of hometown teams Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Lakers. Snoop is also an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan.[83] and is often seen wearing Pittsburgh Steelers apparel. Snoop has mentioned that his love for the Steelers began in the 1970s during the team's dynasty years while watching the team with his grandfather growing up in L.A.[84] In the 2005 offseason, Snoop mentioned that he wanted to be an NFL head coach, "probably for the Steelers".[85] The following year, he was in attendance for the Steelers' victory in Super Bowl XL and later in Super Bowl XLIII. He is also a fan of the Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys, often wearing a No.5 jersey, and has been seen at Raiders training camps.[86] He did his own free style rap based on his similarities with Tony Romo.[87][88] He is also a fan of the USC Trojans Football team. He has also shown affection for the New England Patriots, as he has been seen performing at the Gillette Stadium and picked the Patriots as the favorite to win Super Bowl XXXIX against the Eagles.[89][90] On August 6, 2009, Snoop visited the training camp of the Baltimore Ravens at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.[91] He was invited by Ray Lewis the day after his concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
A certified football coach, Snoop Dogg has been head coach for his son's youth football teams and the John A. Rowland High School team.[92][93]
Snoop Dogg is an avid hockey fan; he sported a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey (with the name and number 'GIN AND JUICE' 94 on the back) and a jersey of the now-defunct Springfield (MA) Indians of the American Hockey League in his 1994 music video, "Gin And Juice". On the E! show, Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood, Snoop Dogg and his family received lessons on playing hockey from the Anaheim Ducks, then returning to the Honda Center to cheer on the Ducks against the Vancouver Canucks in the episode Snow in da Hood.[94]
In 2009, it was revealed that Snoop Dogg was a member of the Nation of Islam. On March 1, 2009, he made an appearance at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day holiday, where he praised minister Louis Farrakhan. Snoop claimed to be a member of the Nation of Islam, but he declined to give the date on which he joined. He also donated $1,000 to the organization.[95][96][97]
Snoop claimed in a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone magazine that unlike other hip hop artists who've superficially adopted the pimp persona, he was an actual professional pimp in 2003 and 2004, saying "That shit was my natural calling and once I got involved with it, it became fun. It was like shootin' layups for me. I was makin' 'em every time." He goes on to say that upon the advice of some of the other pimps he knew, he eventually gave up pimping to spend more time with his family.[98]
Legal issues[link]
Shortly after graduating from high school, he was arrested for possession of cocaine.[7]
While recording Doggystyle in August 1993, Snoop Dogg was arrested in connection with the death of Phillip Woldermarian, a member of a rival gang who was shot and killed by Snoop's bodyguard, McKinley Lee; Snoop was charged with murder along with Lee as he was driving the vehicle from which the shooting had commenced. Snoop and Lee were defended by Johnnie Cochran.[99] Both Snoop and Lee were acquitted; Lee was acquitted on grounds of self-defense, but Snoop Dogg remained entangled in the legal battles around the case for three years.[100]
In July 1993, Snoop was stopped for a traffic violation and a firearm was found by police while conducting a search of his car. In February 1997, he pleaded guilty to possession of a handgun and was ordered to record three public service announcements, pay a $1,000 fine, and serve three years' probation.[101][102]
In May 1998, Snoop Dogg was fined and arrested for a misdemeanor of marijuana possession.[103]
In October 2001, Snoop Dogg was arrested again for a misdemeanor of marijuana possession.[103] In 2002 he pleaded no contest and was fined a total of $398.30 and received a suspended 30-day jail sentence.[104]
Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, and The Game were sued for assaulting a fan on stage at a May 2005 concert at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, Washington. The accuser, Richard Monroe, Jr., claimed he was beaten by the artists' entourage while mounting the stage.[105] He alleged that he reacted to an "open invite" to come on stage. Before he could, Snoop’s bodyguards grabbed him and he was beaten unconscious by crewmembers, including the rapper and producer Soopafly; Snoop and The Game were included in the suit for not intervening. The lawsuit focuses on a pecuniary claim of $22 million in punitive and compensatory damages, battery, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.[106] The concerned parties appeared in court in April 2009.
On April 26, 2006, Snoop Dogg and members of his entourage were arrested after being turned away from British Airways' first class lounge at Heathrow Airport. Snoop and his party were not allowed to enter the lounge because some of the entourage were flying first class, other members in economy class. After the group was escorted outside, they vandalized a duty-free shop by throwing whiskey bottles. Seven police officers were injured in the midst of the disturbance. After a night in jail, Snoop and the other men were released on bail on April 27, but he was unable to perform at the Premier Foods People's Concert in Johannesburg on the same day. As part of his bail conditions, he had to return to the police station in May. The group has been banned by British Airways for "the foreseeable future."[107][108] When Snoop Dogg appeared at a London police station on May 11, he was cautioned for affray under Section 4 of the Public Order Act for use of threatening words or behavior.[109] On May 15, the Home Office decided that Snoop Dogg should be denied entry to the United Kingdom for the foreseeable future due to the incident at Heathrow as well as his previous convictions in the United States for drugs and firearms offenses.[110][111] Snoop Dogg's visa card was rejected by local authorities on March 24, 2007 because of the Heathrow incident.[112] A concert at London's Wembley Arena on March 27 went ahead with Diddy (with whom he toured Europe) and the rest of the show. However the decision affected four more British performances in Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow[113] and Budapest (due to rescheduling).[114] As of March 2010, Snoop Dogg has been allowed back into the UK.[1]
On September 27, 2006, Snoop Dogg was detained at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California by airport security, after airport screeners found a collapsible police baton in Snoop's carry-on bag. The baton was confiscated but Snoop was allowed to board the flight. He has been charged with various weapons violations stemming from this incident. Donald Etra, Snoop's lawyer, told deputies the baton was a prop for a musical sketch. Snoop was sentenced to three years' probation and 160 hours of community service starting on September 20, 2007.[115]
Snoop Dogg was arrested again on October 26, 2006 at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California while parked in a passenger loading zone. Approached by airport security for a traffic infraction, he was found in possession of marijuana and a firearm, according to a police statement. He was transported to Burbank Police Department Jail, booked, and released on $35,000 bond. He faced firearm and drug possession charges on December 12 at Burbank Superior Court.[116]
He was again arrested on November 29, 2006, after performing on The Tonight Show, for possession of marijuana and a firearm.[117]
Snoop was arrested again on March 12, 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden after performing in a concert with P. Diddy in Stockholm's Globe Arena after he and a female companion reportedly "reeked" of marijuana. They were released four hours later after providing a urine sample. The results on urine determined whether charges would be pressed. However the rapper denied all charges.[118][119]
On April 26, 2007, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship banned him from entering the country on character grounds, citing his prior criminal convictions. He had been scheduled to appear at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards on April 29, 2007.[120] Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship lifted the ban in September 2008 and had granted him visa to tour Australia. DIAC said "In making this decision, the department weighed his criminal convictions against his previous behaviour while in Australia, recent conduct – including charity work – and any likely risk to the Australian community ... We took into account all relevant factors and, on balance, the department decided to grant the visa."[121]
Snoop Dogg's many legal issues forced San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom to withdraw his plan to issue a proclamation to the rapper.[122]
Snoop Dogg was banned from Parkpop, a festival in the Netherlands on June 27, 2010, where he was scheduled to perform. The mayor and law enforcement officials asked organizers of the festival to find an artist more “open and friendly” to play the event.[123]
Snoop Dogg was arrested again on January 7, 2012 for possession of Marijuana charge after Border control agents discovered a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus. Snoop Dogg was stopped at the same Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint where country singer Willie Nelson was arrested for marijuana possession in 2010. The agents conducted a routine inspection of his tour bus at the U.S.– Mexico border checkpoint, east of El Paso, Texas and thought they smelled marijuana. Snoop Dogg was issued a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, released and given a court date of Friday, January 20, 2012.[citation needed]
Discography[link]
Main article: Snoop Dogg discography
- Doggystyle (1993)
- Tha Doggfather (1996)
- Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (1998)
- No Limit Top Dogg (1999)
- Tha Last Meal (2000)
- Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss (2002)
- R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (2004)
- Tha Blue Carpet Treatment (2006)
- Ego Trippin' (2008)
- Malice n Wonderland (2009)
- Doggumentary (2011)
- Reincarnated (2012)
Filmography[link]
Main article: Snoop Dogg filmography
- 1994: Murder Was the Case (Platinum)
- 1998: Caught Up
- 1998: Half Baked (cameo appearance)
- 1998: Da Game of Life
- 1998: Hot Boyz
- 1998: Ride
- 1999: Whiteboyz
- 1999: Urban Menace
- 2000: Tha Eastsidaz
- 2000: Up in Smoke Tour
- 2001: Baby Boy
- 2001: Training Day
- 2001: King of the Hill (voice)
- 2001: Bones
- 2001: The Wash
- 2003: Malibu's Most Wanted
- 2003: Old School
- 2004: Starsky & Hutch
- 2004: Soul Plane
- 2004: Volcano High
- 2005: Boss'n Up
- 2005: Racing Stripes (voice)
- 2006: The Tenants
- 2006: Weeds: Himself
- 2006: Hood of Horror
- 2007: Arthur and the Invisibles (voice)
- 2007: Monk
- During the opening credits, he covered the title song by Randy Newman "It's a Jungle out There".
- 2007: The Boondocks
- 2008: Singh Is Kinng (as Himself)
- 2008: Snoop Dogg's Father Hood (as Himself)
- 2009: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (voice)
- 2009: Dogg After Dark: Himself
- 2009: Xavier: Renegade Angel (voice)
- 2009: Brüno (cameo appearance)
- 2009: Falling Up
- 2010: Down for Life
- 2010: One Life to Live as Calvin Broadus
- 2010: Straight Outta L.A. (as Himself)
- 2010: Freaknik: The Musical
- 2010: Malice n Wonderland as Malice
- 2010: Big Time Christmas as Himself
- 2011: 90210 (TV series) as Himself
- 2011: Roast of Donald Trump
Awards[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg was also a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[124]
Further reading[link]
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- Snoop Dogg (1999). Tha Doggfather: The Times, Trials, and Hardcore Truths of Snoop Dogg. New York, N.Y., U.S.: William Morrow and Company. ISBN 0-688-17158-3
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| Name | Snoop Dogg |
| Alternative names | Broadus, Cordozar Calvin, Jr. |
| Short description | Rapper, actor |
| Date of birth | 1971-10-20 |
| Place of birth | Long Beach, California |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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Not to be confused with MC Pooh.
| DJ Pooh | |
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| Born | Mark Jordan (1969-04-14) April 14, 1969 (age 43) Los Angeles, California |
| Other names | Pooh |
| Years active | 1984 - present |
DJ Pooh (born Mark Jordan on April 14, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is an American record producer,[1] rapper, screenwriter[2] and film director.[3][4]
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Biography[link]
He usually collaborates with rapper Ice Cube. He has also produced albums for Del tha Funkee Homosapien, LL Cool J, Tha Dogg Pound (most notably "New York, New York"), King Tee and the late 2Pac.[1] In 1996, DJ Pooh provided the bulk of the production for Snoop's second album, The Dogg father. The album was criticized as a let-down at the time of its release, yet still managed to sell double-platinum.
DJ Pooh began in film by producing the drive-by shooting sequence in the 1991 film, Boyz n the Hood. He then went on in 1995 to help write the film Friday, in which he portrays the character "Red".
Pooh plays all three "Mack" characters in the video for the Ice Cube song "Who's the Mack?", AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted.[5]
He has also written, produced and directed his own films, which include the 2000 film 3 Strikes and 2001's The Wash, which stars Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
Pooh has been credited as co-producer and writer to the successful game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Discography[link]
Main article: DJ Pooh production discography
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Bad Newz Travels Fast
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Filmography[link]
- Friday - Red - co-writer
- The Wash as Slim (Director, producer and writer)
- 3 Strikes as Trick Turner/Taxi Driver (Director and writer)
- Freaknik: The Musical as Doela Man (voice only)
References[link]
External links[link]
- DJ Pooh at the Internet Movie Database
- DJ Pooh on Myspace
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| Name | Pooh, Dj |
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| Date of birth | April 14, 1969 |
| Place of birth | Los Angeles, California |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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| Denzel Washington | |
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 Denzel Washington in 2000 |
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| Born | Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (1954-12-28) December 28, 1954 (age 57) Mount Vernon, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, director, producer |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Spouse | Pauletta Washington (1983–present) |
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr. Philip Chandler for six years. He has received much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas and Herman Boone.
Washington has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe awards, and a Tony Award.[1] He is notable for winning the Best Supporting Actor for Glory in 1989; and the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001 for his role in the film Training Day.[2]
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Early life[link]
Denzel Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, New York on December 28, 1954. His mother, Lennis "Lynne", was a beauty parlor-owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and a local department store, S. Klein.[3][4][5]
Washington attended grammar school at Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968. When he was 14, his parents' marriage fell apart and his mother sent him to a private preparatory school, Oakland Military Academy, in New Windsor, New York. "That decision changed my life," Washington later said, "because I wouldn’t have survived in the direction I was going. The guys I was hanging out with at the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined in the penitentiary. They were nice guys, but the streets got them."[6] After Oakland, Washington next attended Mainland High School, a public high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, from 1970–71.[3] Washington was interested in attending Texas Tech University: "I grew up in the Boys Club in Mount Vernon, and we were the Red Raiders. So when I was in high school, I wanted to go to Texas Tech in Lubbock just because they were called the Red Raiders and their uniforms looked like ours."[7] Washington earned a B.A. in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977.[8] At Fordham he played collegiate basketball as a freshman guard[9] under coach P. J. Carlesimo.[10] After a period of indecision on which major to study and dropping out of school for a semester, Washington worked as a counselor at an overnight summer camp, Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut. He participated in a staff talent show for the campers and a colleague suggested he try acting.[11]
Returning to Fordham that fall with a renewed purpose and focus, he enrolled at the Lincoln Center campus to study acting and was given the title roles in both Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and Shakespeare's Othello. Upon graduation he attended graduate school at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, where he stayed for one year before returning to New York to begin a professional acting career.[12]
Career[link]
Early work[link]
Washington spent the summer of 1976 in St. Mary's City, Maryland in summer stock theater performing Wings of the Morning, the Maryland State play. He also filmed a series of commercials in the Fruit of the Loom ensemble, as Grapes. Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington made his professional acting debut in the 1977 made-for-television film Wilma with his first Hollywood appearance in the 1981 film Carbon Copy. Washington shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Award for playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the Off-Broadway Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldier's Play which premiered November 20, 1981.[13]
A major career break came when he starred as Dr. Phillip Chandler in the television hospital drama St. Elsewhere which ran from 1982 to 1988 on NBC. He was one of only a few African American actors to appear on the series for its entire six-year run. Washington also appeared in several television, film and stage roles such as the films A Soldier's Story (1984), Hard Lessons (1986) and Power (1986). In 1987 Washington starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1989 Washington won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a defiant self-possessed ex-slave soldier in the film Glory. Also that year he appeared in the film The Mighty Quinn, and as the conflicted and disillusioned Reuben James, a British soldier who, despite a distinguished military career, returns to a civilian life where racism and inner city life leads to vigilantism and violence in For Queen and Country.
1990s[link]
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Washington's signature in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre
1991, Washington starred as Bleek Gilliam in the Spike Lee film Mo' Better Blues. In 1992, he starred as Demetrius Williams in the romantic drama Mississippi Masala. Washington was reunited with Lee to play one of his most critically acclaimed roles as the title character of 1992's Malcolm X. His performance as the black nationalist leader earned him another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The next year he played the lawyer of a gay man with AIDS in the 1993 film Philadelphia. During the early and mid 1990s, Washington starred in several successful thrillers, including The Pelican Brief and Crimson Tide, as well as in comedy Much Ado About Nothing and alongside Whitney Houston in the romantic drama The Preacher's Wife.[citation needed]
In 1998, Washington starred in Spike Lee's film, He Got Game. Washington played a father serving a six year prison term who is propositioned by the warden to a temporary parole on the terms that he must convince his top-ranked high-school basketball player son (Ray Allen), into signing with the governor's alma mater, Big State. The film also marked the third time that Spike Lee and Washington worked on a film together.[14]
In 1999, Washington starred in The Hurricane a film about boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter whose conviction for triple murder was overturned after he had spent almost 20 years in prison. A former reporter who was angry at seeing the film portray Carter as innocent despite the overturned conviction began a campaign to pressure Academy Award voters not to award the film Oscars.[15] Washington did receive a Golden Globe Award in 2000 and a Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for the role.
He also presented the Arthur Ashe ESPY Award to Loretta Claiborne for her courage and appeared as himself in the end of The Loretta Claiborne Story film.[citation needed]
2000s[link]
In 2000, Washington appeared in the Disney film Remember the Titans which grossed over $100 million at the United States box office.[16]
When Washington won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Movie in 2000, as he noted: "No African-American has won best actor in the Golden Globes since Sidney Poitier, until I did".[17] That made him the first Black actor to win the award in 36 years.[18]
He won an Academy Award for Best Actor in his next film, the 2001 cop thriller Training Day as Detective Alonzo Harris, a rogue Los Angeles cop with questionable law-enforcement tactics. Washington was the second African-American performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, the first being Sidney Poitier who happened to receive an Honorary Academy Award the same night that Washington won. Washington holds the record (five so far) for most Oscar nominations by an actor of African descent, along with Morgan Freeman since 2009.
After appearing in 2002's box office success, the health care-themed John Q., Washington directed his first film, a well-reviewed drama called Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred.
Between 2003 and 2004, Washington appeared in a series of thrillers that performed generally well at the box office, including Out of Time, Man on Fire, and The Manchurian Candidate.[19] In 2006, he starred in Inside Man, a Spike Lee-directed bank heist thriller co-starring Jodie Foster and Clive Owen, and Déjà Vu released in November 2006.
In 2006, Denzel worked alongside multi-talented Irish off-rock band The Script on their new project combining music and Hollywood. The hybrid of genres was critically acclaimed but didn't receive much mainstream attention due to a legal conflicts between The Script's record label and Denzel's studio commitments.
In 2007, he co-starred with Russell Crowe, for the second time after Virtuosity in 1995, in American Gangster. Washington directed and starred in the drama The Great Debaters with Forest Whitaker. Washington next appeared in the 2009 film The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a remake of the 1974 thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, directed by Tony Scott as New York City subway security chief Walter Garber opposite John Travolta.[20]
Return to theater[link]
Washington was last seen onstage in the summer of 1990 in the title role of the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Richard III and in 2005, after a 15-year hiatus, he appeared onstage again in another Shakespeare play as Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway. The production's limited run was a consistent sell-out averaging over 100% attendance capacity nightly despite receiving mixed reviews.[21]
2010s[link]
In February 2009, Washington began filming The Book of Eli, a post-Apocalyptic drama set in the near future which was released in January 2010. Also the same year, he starred as a veteran railroad engineer in the action film Unstoppable, about an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train carrying a dangerous cargo. The film was directed by Tony Scott, and was the fifth collaboration between the two, after previous films Crimson Tide (1995), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009).
On June 13, 2010, Washington won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in the play Fences.[22][23] Washington co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in the 2012 film Safe House, and will star in The Matarese Circle.
Personal life[link]
On June 25, 1983, Washington married Pauletta Pearson, whom he met on the set of his first screen work, the television film Wilma. The couple have four children: John David (b. July 28, 1984), who signed a football contract with the St. Louis Rams in May 2006 and is currently playing with the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League (John David also played college football at Morehouse);[24] Katia (b. November 27, 1987), who graduated from Yale University with a Bachelors of Arts in 2010; and twins Olivia and Malcolm (b. April 10, 1991) (Malcolm attends the University of Pennsylvania). In 1995, the couple renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating.[25]
Washington is a devout Christian,[26] and has considered becoming a preacher. He stated in 1999, "A part of me still says, ‘Maybe, Denzel, you’re supposed to preach. Maybe you’re still compromising.’ I’ve had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I’ve been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.”[27] In 1995 he donated 2.5 million dollars to help build the new West Angeles Church of God in Christ facility in Los Angeles.[28]
Washington has served as the national spokesperson for Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1993.[29] As such, he has been featured in several public service announcements and awareness campaigns for the organization.[30] In addition, he has served as a board member for Boys & Girls Clubs of America since 1995.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia named Washington as one of three people (the others being directors Oliver Stone and Michael Moore) with whom they were willing to negotiate for the release of three defense contractors that the group had held captive from 2003 to 2008.[31]
On May 18, 1991, Washington was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Fordham University, for having "impressively succeeded in exploring the edge of his multifaceted talent".[32] In 2011 he donated $2 million to Fordham for an endowed chair of the theatre department, as well as $250,000 for a theatre-specific scholarship to Fordham. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities from Morehouse College on May 20, 2007.[33]
In 2008, Washington visited Israel with a delegation of African American artists in honor of the Jewish state's 60th birthday.[34]
Washington is a fan of the New York Yankees. He is good friends with former manager Joe Torre. He is also good friends with comedians Jerry Seinfeld and George Wallace.
Filmography[link]
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- ^ Ingram, E. Renée (2005). Buckingham County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 0-7385-1842-5.
- ^ "Denzel Washington: 'I Try To Send A Good Message'". Parade Magazine. December 12, 1999. http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/1999/edition_12-12-1999/Denzel_Washington.
- ^ "Leach OK with star power". Florida Times-Union. http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/123007/col_-230127235.shtml. Retrieved December 31, 2007.
- ^ "Denzel Washington Returns to Acting Roots". Fordham.edu. 2003-10-28. http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_545.asp. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- ^ Spurs Coach Sticks Neck Out for Calesimo[dead link]
- ^ "Pro Basketball" Notebook; Chicago's Jordan-Jackson-Pippen Triangle, page 2". New York Times. 1998-03-22. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E7D61538F931A15750C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- ^ Paisner, Daniel A Hand to Guide Me (Meredith Books, 2006), p. 17. ISBN 978-0-696-23049-3
- ^ Denzel Washington Biography, AllMovie.com. accessdate=February 13, 2008
- ^ A Soldier's Play, Lortel Archives
- ^ "Going Fourth Denzel Washington And Spike Lee On Their Quartet Of Movies. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GOING+FOURTH+DENZEL+WASHINGTON+AND+SPIKE+LEE+ON+THEIR+QUARTET+OF...-a0143596899. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- ^ Reisinger, Sue. "Ex-Reporter Rains on Denzel's Parade", Miami Herald, April 3, 2000, via GraphicWitness.com
- ^ "Remember the Titans (2000)". Box Office Mojo. 2001-01-28. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rememberthetitans.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- ^ From the archive (March 23, 2000). "All ready for a storm". Herald Scotland. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/all-ready-for-a-storm-1.243614. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
- ^ "Denzel Washington and Halle Berry Win Golden Globe Awards". Jet. February 7, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=KT0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58&dq=golden+globe+black+actor&hl=en&ei=tPZlTdXRDcP68AaOoJjGCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=golden%20globe%20black%20actor&f=false. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
- ^ "Denzel Washington Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=denzelwashington.htm. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
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- ^ "A Big-Name Brutus in a Cauldron of Chaos", by Ben Brantley, The New York Times, April 4, 2005.
- ^ Farley, Christopher John (May 4, 2010). "2010 Tony Award Nominations: Denzel Washington, Scarlett Johansson Earn Nods". The Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/05/04/2010-tony-award-nominations-denzel-washington-scarlett-johansson-earn-nods/. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ^ "BWW TV: 2010 Tony Winners- Washington & Davis", by BroadwayWorld, BroadwayWorld.com, June 14, 2010.
- ^ "Denzel Washington's son among Rams signees". ESPN. May 1, 2006. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft06/news/story?id=2429264. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
- ^ "Denzel Washington and Wife Celebrate 27th Wedding Anniversary in Italy", LoveTripper.com, June 28, 2009
- ^ Ojumu, Akin (March 24, 2002). "The Observer Profile: Denzel Washington". The Observer. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/screen/story/0,6903,673083,00.html. Retrieved February 11, 2008.
- ^ "Denzel Washington: 'I Try to Send A Good Message'". Parade Magazine. December 12, 1999. http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/1999/edition_12-12-1999/Denzel_Washington.
- ^ "Magic gives $5 mil., Denzel gives $2.5 mil. to build new West Angeles COGIC facility in Los Angeles", Jet, November 6, 1995 (link to headline only)
- ^ "Board". Bgca.org. http://www.bgca.org/whoweare/Pages/Board.aspx. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- ^ "BE GREAT Alumni". Bgca.org. http://www.bgca.org/whoweare/alumni/Pages/BEGREATAlumni.aspx. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- ^ "Colombian rebels ask Denzel Washington to help broker hostage exchange". CBC Arts. November 10, 2006. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2006/11/10/colombia-denzel.html. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
- ^ "COMMENCEMENTS: Fordham Graduates Urged to Defend the Poor". New York Times. May 19, 1991. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/19/nyregion/commencements-fordham-graduates-urged-to-defend-the-poor.html.
- ^ "Morehouse Celebrates an 'End of an Era' with a Special Commencement Message from Dr. Walter E. Massey", Morehouse College press release, May 15, 2007
- ^ Eichner, Itamar (2/6/2008). "Denzel Washington to visit Israel". ynetNews.com. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3503307,00.html. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
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| Name | Washington, Denzel |
| Alternative names | Washington, Denzel Hayes, Jr. |
| Short description | Actor, screenwriter, director, producer |
| Date of birth | December 28, 1954 |
| Place of birth | Mt. Vernon, New York, United States |
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| Robert Zemeckis | |
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 Zemeckis at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. |
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| Born | Robert Lee Zemeckis (1951-05-14) May 14, 1951 (age 61) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Spouse | Mary Ellen Trainor (1980–2000) Leslie Harter Zemeckis (2001–present) |
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1951) is a Lithuanian American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future film series, as well as the Academy Award-winning live-action/animation epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump,[1] for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
His films are characterized by an interest in state-of-the-art special effects, including the early use of match moving in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and the pioneering performance capture techniques seen in The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007) and A Christmas Carol (2009). Though Zemeckis has often been pigeonholed as a director interested only in effects,[2] his work has been defended by several critics, including David Thomson, who wrote that "No other contemporary director has used special effects to more dramatic and narrative purpose."[3]
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Early life[link]
Zemeckis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Lithuanian American father and an Italian American mother, and grew up on the south side.[4] He was raised in a working-class Roman Catholic family, and attended Fenger High School. Zemeckis has said that "the truth was that in my family there was no art. I mean, there was no music, there were no books, there was no theater....The only thing I had that was inspirational, was television—and it actually was."[5] As a child, Zemeckis loved television and was fascinated by his parents' 8 mm film home movie camera. Starting off by filming family events like birthdays and holidays, Zemeckis gradually began producing narrative films with his friends that incorporated stop-motion work and other special effects.
Along with enjoying movies, Zemeckis remained an avid TV watcher. "You hear so much about the problems with television," he said, "but I think that it saved my life."[5] Television gave Zemeckis his first glimpse of a world outside of his blue-collar upbringing;[5] specifically, he learned of the existence of film schools on an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. After seeing Bonnie and Clyde with his father and being heavily influenced by it,[2] Zemeckis decided that he wanted to go to film school.
His parents disapproved of the idea, Zemeckis later said, "But only in the sense that they were concerned....for my family and my friends and the world that I grew up in, this was the kind of dream that really was impossible. My parents would sit there and say, 'Don't you see where you come from? You can't be a movie director.' I guess maybe some of it I felt I had to do in spite of them, too."[5]
USC education and early films[link]
Zemeckis applied only to University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, and got into the Film School on the strength of an essay and a music video based on a Beatles song. Not having heard from the university itself, Zemeckis called and was told he had been rejected because of his average grades. The director gave an "impassioned plea" to the official on the other line, promising to go to summer school and improve his studies, and eventually convinced the school to accept him.[5] Arriving at USC that Fall, Zemeckis encountered a program that was, in his words, made up of "a bunch of hippies [and] considered an embarrassment by the university."[5] The classes were difficult, with professors constantly stressing how hard the movie business was. Zemeckis remembered not being much fazed by this, citing the "healthy cynicism" that had been bred into him from his Chicago upbringing.[5]
While at USC, Zemeckis developed a close friendship with the writer Bob Gale, who was also a student there. Gale later recalled, "The graduate students at USC had this veneer of intellectualism ... So Bob and I gravitated toward one another because we wanted to make Hollywood movies. We weren't interested in the French New Wave. We were interested in Clint Eastwood and James Bond and Walt Disney, because that's how we grew up."[6] He graduated from USC in 1973.[7]
As a result of winning a Student Academy Award at USC for his film, A Field of Honor, Zemeckis came to the attention of Steven Spielberg. Spielberg said, "He barged right past my secretary, and sat me down and showed me this student film ... and I thought it was spectacular, with police cars and a riot, all dubbed to Elmer Bernstein's score for The Great Escape."[6] Spielberg became Zemeckis's mentor and executive produced his first two films, both of which Zemeckis co-wrote with Bob Gale. He later executive produced other Zemeckis films, including the Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
1978's I Wanna Hold Your Hand (starring Nancy Allen) and 1980's Used Cars (starring Kurt Russell) were well-received critically, with Pauline Kael going into particular rhapsody over the latter film, but both were commercially inert. (I Wanna Hold Your Hand was the first of several Zemeckis films to incorporate historical figures and celebrities into his movies; in the film, he used archival footage and doubles to simulate the presence of The Beatles.) After the failure of his first two films, and the Spielberg-directed 1941 in 1979 (for which Zemeckis and Gale had written the screenplay), the pair gained a reputation for writing "scripts that everyone thought were great [but] somehow didn't translate into movies people wanted to see."[6]
[edit] Breakthrough films and Forrest Gump
As a result of his reputation within the industry, Zemeckis had trouble finding work in the early 1980s, though he and Gale kept busy. They wrote scripts for other directors, including Car Pool for Brian De Palma and Growing Up for Spielberg; neither ended up getting made. Another Zemeckis-Gale project, about a teenager who accidentally travels back in time to the 1950s, was turned down by every major studio.[8] The director was jobless until Michael Douglas hired him in 1984 to film Romancing the Stone. A romantic adventure starring Douglas and Kathleen Turner, Romancing was expected to flop (to the point that, after viewing a rough cut of the film, the producers of the then-in-the-works Cocoon fired Zemeckis as director),[8] but the film became a sleeper hit. While working on Romancing the Stone, Zemeckis met composer Alan Silvestri, who has scored all of his subsequent pictures.
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After Romancing, the director suddenly had the clout to direct his time-traveling screenplay, which was titled Back to the Future. Starring Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, and Christopher Lloyd, the 1985 film was wildly successful upon its release, and was followed by two sequels, released as Back to the Future Part II in 1989 and Back to the Future Part III in 1990. Before the Back to the Future sequels were released, Zemeckis collaborated with Disney and directed another film, the madcap 1940s-set mystery Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which painstakingly combined traditional animation and live action; its US$70 million budget made it one of the most expensive films made up to that point. The film was both a financial and critical success, and won four Academy Awards. In 1990, Zemeckis commented, when asked if he would want to make non-comedies, "I would like to be able to do everything. Just now, though, I’m too restless to do anything that’s not really zany."[8]
In 1992, Zemeckis directed the black comedy Death Becomes Her, starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis. Although his next film would have some comedic elements, it was Zemeckis's first with dramatic elements, and was also his biggest commercial and critical success to date, 1994's Forrest Gump. Starring Tom Hanks in the title role, and borrowing to some extent from Woody Allen's earlier Zelig, Forrest Gump tells the story of a man with a low I.Q., who unwittingly participates in some of the major events of the twentieth century, falls in love, and interacts with several major historical figures in the process. The film grossed $677 million worldwide and became the top grossing U.S. film of 1994; it won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Hanks as Best Actor, and Zemeckis as Best Director. In 1997, Zemeckis directed Contact, a long-gestating project based on Carl Sagan's 1985 novel of the same name. The film centers around Eleanor Arroway, a scientist played by Jodie Foster, who believes she has made contact with extraterrestrial beings.
Work in the 2000s and interest in digital filmmaking[link]
In 1999, Zemeckis donated $5 million towards the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts at USC, a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) center that houses production stages, an immense 60-system digital editing lab, and a 50-seat screening room. When the Center opened in March 2001, Zemeckis spoke in a panel about the future of film, alongside friends Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Of those (including Spielberg) who clung to celluloid and disparaged the idea of shooting digitally, Zemeckis said, "These guys are the same ones who have been saying that LPs sound better than CDs. You can argue that until you're blue in the face, but I don't know anyone who's still buying vinyl. Film, as we have traditionally thought of it, is going to be different. But the continuum is man's desire to tell stories around the campfire. The only thing that keeps changing is the campfire."[9] The Robert Zemeckis Center currently hosts many film school classes, much of the Interactive Media Division, and Trojan Vision, USC's student television station, which has been voted the number one college television station in the country.
In 1996, Zemeckis had begun developing a project titled The Castaway with Tom Hanks and writer William Broyles, Jr.. The story, which was inspired by Robinson Crusoe, is about a man (Hanks) who becomes stranded on a desert island and undergoes a profound physical and spiritual change.[10] While working on The Castaway, Zemeckis also became attached to a Hitchcockian thriller titled What Lies Beneath, the story of a married couple experiencing an extreme case of empty nest syndrome that was based on an idea by Steven Spielberg.[11] Because Hanks's character needed to undergo a dramatic weight loss over the course of The Castaway (which was eventually retitled Cast Away), Zemeckis decided that the only way to retain the same crew while Hanks lost the weight was to shoot What Lies Beneath in between. He shot the first part of Cast Away in early 1999, and shot What Lies Beneath in fall 1999, completing work on Cast Away in early 2000.[11] Zemeckis later quipped, when asked about shooting two films back-to-back, "I wouldn't recommend it to anyone."[10] What Lies Beneath, starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer, was released in July 2000 to mixed reviews, but did well at the box office, grossing over $155 million domestically. Cast Away was released that December and grossed $233 million domestically; Hanks received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Chuck Noland.
In 2004, Zemeckis reteamed with Hanks and directed The Polar Express, based on the children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. The Polar Express utilized the computer animation technique known as performance capture, whereby the movements of the actors are captured digitally and used as the basis for the animated characters. As the first major film to use performance capture, The Polar Express caused The New York Times to write that, "Whatever critics and audiences make of this movie, from a technical perspective it could mark a turning point in the gradual transition from an analog to a digital cinema."[12]
In February 2007, Zemeckis and Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook announced plans for a new performance capture film company devoted to CG-created, 3-D movies.[13] The company, ImageMovers Digital, created films using the performance capture technology, with Zemeckis directing most of the projects and Disney distributed and marketed the motion pictures worldwide. Zemeckis used the performance capture technology again in his film, Beowulf, which retells the Anglo-Saxon epic poem of the same name and stars Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, and Anthony Hopkins. Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer Neil Gaiman, who co-wrote the adaptation with Roger Avary, described the film as a "cheerfully violent and strange take on the Beowulf legend."[14] The film was released on November 16, 2007, to mixed reviews.
In July 2007, Variety announced that Zemeckis had written a screenplay for A Christmas Carol, based on Charles Dickens' 1843 short story of the same name, with plans to use performance capture and release it under the aegis of ImageMovers Digital. Zemeckis wrote the script with Jim Carrey in mind, and Carrey agreed to play a multitude of roles in the film, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, and the three ghosts who haunt Scrooge.[15] The film began production in February 2008, and was released on November 6, 2009, again to mixed reviews.[16] Actor Gary Oldman also appeared in the film.[17]
In August 2008, Movies IGN revealed in an interview with Philippe Petit that Zemeckis is working with Petit to turn Petit's memoir To Reach the Clouds into a feature film.[18] Robert Zemeckis was either seriously considered to, or attached to direct the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Zemeckis is an avid supporter of 3-D Digital Cinema, and has stated that, starting with the 3-D presentations of Beowulf, all of his future films will be done in 3-D using digital motion capture. He has reportedly backed away from that statement and has said that the decision to use 3-D will be on a film-by-film basis.
On August 19, 2009, it was reported that Zemeckis and his company were in talks with Apple Corps ltd to remake the animated film Yellow Submarine in 3-D once again utilizing performance capture. However, on March 12, 2010, with Zemeckis' biggest Disney ally gone, former Chairman Dick Cook, and amid drastic cost-cutting by the new management team, Disney announced that it was ending its relationship with ImageMovers Digital.[19]
Despite this, Zemeckis has expressed wishes to return to direct the long-awaited sequel to Disney's 1988 classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which will now remain a combination of 2-D animation and live-action. Peter S. Seaman and Jeffrey Price, the writers of the first film are now working on a new script.[20]
On April 20, 2011, it was reported that Zemeckis would make his return to filmmaking with Flight, a drama for Paramount with Denzel Washington.[21]
Personal life[link]
Zemeckis has said that, for a long time, he sacrificed his personal life in favor of a career. "I won an Academy Award when I was 44 years old," he explained, "but I paid for it with my 20s. That decade of my life from film school till 30 was nothing but work, nothing but absolute, driving work. I had no money. I had no life."[5] In the early 1980s, Zemeckis married actress Mary Ellen Trainor, with whom he had a son, Alexander. He described the marriage as difficult to balance with filmmaking,[5] and his relationship with Trainor eventually ended in divorce. In 2001, he married actress Leslie Harter and they have two children. According to cfidarren.com, Zemeckis is rated an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Private Pilot.
Politics[link]
According to campaign donation records, Robert Zemeckis has frequently contributed to the political candidates affiliated with the Democratic Party, as well as PACs that support the interests of aircraft owners and pilots, family planning interests, and a group that advocates for Hollywood women.[22]
Recurring collaborators[link]
Among the actors that have collaborated with Zemeckis on his films, other filmmakers, writers, and producers have also collaborated with Zemeckis in multiple instances. This includes Steven Spielberg, Bob Gale, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke, Arthur Schmidt, Dean Cundey and Neil Canton. Also, music composer Alan Silvestri has been responsible for every film score for Zemeckis' films since Romancing the Stone.
Contact and What Lies Beneath aren't listed for a lack of collaborations.
| Actor | I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) |
Used Cars (1980) |
Romancing the Stone (1984) |
Back to the Future (1985) |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) |
Back to the Future Part II (1989) |
Back to the Future Part III (1990) |
Death Becomes Her (1992) |
Forrest Gump (1994) |
Cast Away (2000) |
The Polar Express (2004) |
Beowulf (2007) |
A Christmas Carol (2009) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eddie Deezen |  N |
N |
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| Pat Buttram | N |
N |
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| Tom Hanks |
N |
N |
N |
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| Bob Hoskins | N |
N |
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| Christopher Lloyd | N |
N |
N |
N |
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| Robin Wright | N |
N |
N |
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| Michael J. Fox | N |
N |
N |
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| Crispin Glover | N |
N |
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| Kathleen Turner | N |
N |
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| Charles Fleischer | N |
N |
N |
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| James Tolkan | N |
N |
N |
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| Dub Taylor |
N |
N |
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| Lea Thompson | N |
N |
N |
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| Thomas F. Wilson | N |
N |
N |
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| Marc McClure | N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
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| Wendie Jo Sperber | N |
N |
N |
N |
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| Joe Flaherty | N |
N |
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| Daryl Sabara | N |
N |
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| Deborah Harmon | N |
N |
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| Mary Ellen Trainor | N |
N |
N |
N |
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| Leslie Zemeckis | N |
N |
N |
Filmography[link]
Director filmography[link]
| Year | Film | Oscar Nominations | Oscar Wins | BAFTA Nominations | BAFTA Wins | Golden Globe Nominations | Golden Globe Wins | Notes |
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| 1978 | I Wanna Hold Your Hand | Also co-writer | ||||||
| 1980 | Used Cars | Also co-writer | ||||||
| 1984 | Romancing the Stone | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 1985 | Back to the Future | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | Also co-writer | ||
| 1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1989 | Back to the Future Part II | 1 | 1 | 1 | Also story | |||
| 1990 | Back to the Future Part III | Also story | ||||||
| 1992 | Death Becomes Her | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | 13 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 3 | Academy Award for Best Director |
| 1997 | Contact | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 1999 | The Pursuit of Happiness: Smoking, Drinking and Drugging in the 20th Century | [23] | ||||||
| 2000 | What Lies Beneath | |||||||
| Cast Away | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2004 | The Polar Express | 3 | Also co-writer | |||||
| 2007 | Beowulf | |||||||
| 2009 | A Christmas Carol | Also writer | ||||||
| 2012 | Flight | |||||||
| Total | 32 | 12 | 21 | 4 | 18 | 5 | 71 nominations, 21 wins |
Other[link]
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 1941 | Co-writer |
| 1989–1996 | Tales from the Crypt | Executive producer |
| 1996 | The Frighteners | Executive producer |
| 1999 | House on Haunted Hill | Co-producer |
| 2003 | Matchstick Men | Executive producer |
| 2006 | Monster House | Executive producer |
| 2011 | Mars Needs Moms | Producer |
| Real Steel |
References[link]
- ^ Gleiberman, Owen (1994-07-15). "Movie Review: Forrest Gump". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302943,00.html. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
- ^ a b Kehr, Dave (2000-12-17). "FILM: 'Cast Away' Director Defies Categorizing". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807EED6133FF934A25751C1A9669C8B63. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
- ^ Thomson, David. “Robert Zemeckis,” The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. 2002 ed. ISBN 0-375-70940-1 p. 958-959.
- ^ Kunk, Deborah J. (1988-06-26). "THE MAN WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT". St. Paul Pioneer Press. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PD&s_site=twincities&p_multi=SP&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB5D76FD2F5639C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Robert Zemeckis Interview". Academy of Achievement: A Museum of Living History, 1996-06-29. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/zem0int-1. Retrieved 2007-01-22.
- ^ a b c Shone, Tom. Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Summer. New York: Free Press, 2004. ISBN 0-7432-3568-1 p. 123-125.
- ^ Notable Alumni, USC School of Cinematic Arts.
- ^ a b c Horowitz, Mark. "Back with a Future," American Film, July/Aug. 1988. p. 32-35.
- ^ Hayes, Dade, and Dana Harris. "Helmers mull digital around state-of-art campfire," Variety, 2001-03-05.
- ^ a b Fall Movie Preview: December, Entertainment Weekly, 2000-08-18. Retrieved on 2007-09-11.
- ^ a b Petrikin, Chris. "Pairing for Zemeckis: Fox, DW near to sharing next two projects", Variety, 1998-10-14. Retrieved on 2007-09-11.
- ^ Kehr, Dave (2004-10-24). "FILM: The Face That Launched A Thousand Chips". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/movies/24kehr.html. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
- ^ Reuters (2007-02-05). "Disney, "Polar Express" director in animation deal". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0545679120070206. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ^ Goldstein, Hilary (2006-07-21). "Comic-Con 2006: Neil Gaiman's Future Movies". IGN. http://movies.ign.com/articles/720/720459p1.html. Retrieved 2007-01-13.
- ^ Fleming, Michael. "Jim Carrey set for 'Christmas Carol': Zemeckis directing Dickens adaptation", Variety, 2007-07-06. Retrieved on 2007-09-11.
- ^ McClintock, Pamela (2008-02-07). "Studios rush to fill '09 schedule". Variety. http://www.variety.com/VR1117980473.html?query=christmas+carol+carrey.
- ^ geeksofdoom.com/2008/07/03/gary-oldman-to-play-three-roles-in-robert- zemeckis-a-christmas-carol/
- ^ Aftab, Kaleem "Man on Wire Q&A"
- ^ "Disney to Close Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital Studio". AWN. http://www.awn.com/news/business/disney-close-zemeckis-imagemovers-digital-studio.
- ^ http://toontownantics.blogspot.com/2010/07/roger-rabbit-2-in-3d.html
- ^ Zemeckis To Direct Flight - The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ Robert Zemeckis. Newsmeat.
- ^ Andy Meisler (August 29, 1999). "TELEVISION/RADIO; Getting Down to What Makes America High". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/29/arts/television-radio-getting-down-to-what-makes-america-high.html?src=pm. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
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