Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
name	George Wendt
birth name	George Robert Wendt III
birth date	October 17, 1948
birth place	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
occupation	Actor
years active	1978–present
spouse	Bernadette Birkett
weight	278 lbs.
website	}}

George Robert Wendt III (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor, best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show ''Cheers''.

Early life

Wendt was born in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, the son of Loretta M. (née Howard) and George Robert Wendt, a navy officer and realtor. His maternal grandfather was photographer Tom Howard. He is of German and Irish descent. He attended Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He was expelled from the University of Notre Dame after a semester with a 0.00 GPA and later attended the Jesuit Rockhurst College in Kansas City, where he graduated with a B.A. in economics.

Career

Wendt is a 1975 alumnus of The Second City, which he discovered shortly after college. A viewing had inspired him to join and on his first day of employment, he showed up promptly at 11:30AM as he was instructed. The woman working there handed him a broom and said "Welcome to the theater, kid"; thus, his first job in show business was sweeping the floors. Second City was also where he met his future wife, Bernadette Birkett, who played Cliff's Halloween date in the third season of ''Cheers'' and later in the series played the voice of Norm's never-seen wife, Vera. In 1989, Wendt appeared as the eponymous protagonist in a BBC TV dramatization of Ivan Goncharov's novel ''Oblomov''. He has also appeared twice on the original British edition of ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?''.

George Wendt appeared in the 1980 movie ''My Bodyguard''. He played a handyman working behind the check-in counter at the Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago (now the Omni Ambassador East).

In 1981 George appeared on an episode of the TV series ''Taxi'' as an exterminator.

Wendt starred as Private Roche in a 1982 episode of ''M*A*S*H'', where he suffered from having a pool ball stuck in his mouth for much of the episode.

George Wendt first appeared on the NBC sketch show ''Saturday Night Live'' in a Season 11 (1985–1986) episode where he shared hosting duties with director Francis Ford Coppola. In 1988 he played the part of "Witten" in the New Zealand-made movie, "Never Say Die". In the early 1990s, Wendt made cameo appearances on several episodes of ''SNL'' as Bob Swerski, one of the Chicago Superfans (along with castmembers Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Robert Smigel, and one-time host, Joe Mantegna). Also, Wendt is the uncle of current ''SNL'' writer and cast member Jason Sudeikis. In 1991, Wendt played the father in Michael Jackson's music video, ''Black or White''. In 1994 he appeared in the movie ''Man Of The House'' as Chet Bronski, the stepfather of Norman (Zachary Browne), and played on this stage with Chevy Chase, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Farrah Fawcett. He also played the role of "Old Man Dunphy's" closeted homosexual friend Joey in the 1999 film, ''Outside Providence''.

Following his success on ''Cheers'', Wendt starred in the short-lived ''The George Wendt Show'', which featured him as a garage mechanic with a radio show, based on the NPR radio show ''Car Talk''. ''The George Wendt Show'' aired from March through April, 1995.

Wendt has since appeared as himself on ''Seinfeld'' and has reprised the character Norm Peterson on the ''The Simpsons'' episode "Fear of Flying", two episodes of ''Family Guy'' "Road to Rupert" and "Three Kings" as well as the ''Frasier'' episode "Cheerful Goodbyes". In 2003, Wendt appeared as a celebrity fisherman in the music video for Corba Verde's "Riot Industry" along with Rudy Ray Moore (of "Dolemite" fame) and The Minutemen's Mike Watt. He appeared in several episodes of The WB's ''Sabrina, The Teenage Witch'' in 2001 as the title character's boss. He also was the host of the A&E; reality show, ''House of Dreams'' in 2004. In January 2006, Wendt was seen again on television screens as part of the cast of ''Modern Men''.

He has also appeared on ''The Larry Sanders Show'' as a guest on the show. In May 2006, Wendt was seen yet again on television. He made several appearances on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' where he performed short skits. His appearance on ''Late Night'' was in all likelihood because the show was having a week long event in his home town of Chicago. He starred in a 2006 episode of ''Masters of Horror'' entitled "Family", directed by John Landis and played Santa Claus in the ABC Family original movie ''Santa Baby''. Wendt performed alongside Richard Thomas in ''Twelve Angry Men'' in October 2006 in the Eisenhower Theatre in Washington, D.C.. After the show opened, Wendt was interviewed by local movie critic Arch Campbell for a piece on the NBC Washington affiliate WRC. Wendt was asked, "What should people do when they see you around town?" After hesitating for a moment, Wendt held his thumbs up and replied, "If their impulse is to buy me a beer, then by all means, follow that impulse." In Spring 2007, Wendt performed in ''12 Angry Men'' in Los Angeles. Wendt appeared as an American GI in the 2007 Christmas Special episode of British sitcom ''The Green Green Grass''.

George starred in the Broadway play ''Hairspray'' as the character of Edna Turnblad until November 2008. He appeared with his former ''Cheers'' co-star ''John Ratzenberger'' as a talent scout on ''Last Comic Standing'' during Season 6. He briefly appeared as Santa Claus in ''A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!''.

On October 1, 2009, Wendt appeared on the ''The Colbert Report'' the day before the IOC announced which city will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. In their way of supporting Chicago's bid for the games, Wendt and Stephen Colbert humorously insulted the three other bidding cities, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, and Tokyo, all while drinking Chicago's favorite Old Style beer.

George Wendt also starred as Santa Claus in ''Santa Buddies'' released in 2009.

Wendt also had a small roll in the film ''Opposite Day'' released in 2009.

Wendt appeared in a production of ''Hairspray'' as Edna Turnblad at the Charlottetown Festival in Prince Edward Island, Canada, which took place between September 8 and October 9, 2010.

George played Santa in ''Elf the Musical'' on Broadway. The show opened November 14, 2010 and ran through January 2, 2011.

Wendt will star once again in a production of ''Hairspray'' as Edna Turnbladt at Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg, Canada from August 2, 2011 to August 21, 2011.

Wendt also guest starred in the TV series ''Hot In Cleveland'' as Yoder, based on his character Norm in ''Cheers''. His first of two scenes took place in an Amish bar, where everyone in the bar yelled "Yoder!," referencing what the cast of ''Cheers'' would yell whenever he walked in.

Pop culture references

Wendt is mentioned in an episode of the animated television series ''Animaniacs'' by survey takers who are bothering the Warner siblings Yakko, Wakko, and Dot while they are in a shopping mall. The survey takers go through just about every variation of a question concerning Wendt, beans and movies before the Warners are able to get rid of them.

The character Morn, who always sits quietly at Quark's bar in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', is an anagram for Norm, the Cheers character played by Wendt. The Norm character also appears in the Family Guy episode "Three Kings", in the retelling of Stand by Me (film).

Wendt is among the thespians who participated in a poster campaign touting live theatre in Chicago. Other celebrities included John Mahoney, John Malkovich, Terry Kinney and Martha Plimpton.

In 2008, Wendt's character on Cheers was referenced in the movie "The Rocker", when Jeff Garlin's character is briefly called Norm.

Wendt also appeared as the loudmouthed father of Macaulay Culkin's character, in Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video.

He also starred in the musical ''Bye Bye Birdie'' as the hot-headed father of Kim MacAfee.

He also appeared in the Soul Asylum music video for the song "Black Gold" in the 1990s.

In an episode of ''How I Met Your Mother'' (which airs on CBS, the current owners of ''Cheers'') titled "Swarley", the episode ends with Barney Stinson walking into the bar and everyone yelling "SWARLEY!" in a reference to the Cheers regulars yelling "NORM!" whenever he arrived at the bar. This is reinforced when the bartender plays the ''Cheers'' theme song.

In 2011, Wendt starred in drag as Edna Turnblad in the musical Hairspray held at Rainbow Stage (an outdoor domed theatre) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

References

External links

George Wendt cast bio on The WB

2009 interview with Bullz-Eye.com

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Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
Name	George Wallace
Order	45th Governor of Alabama
Term start	January 14, 1963
Term end	January 16, 1967
Lieutenant	James B. Allen
Predecessor	John Malcolm Patterson
Successor	Lurleen Burns Wallace
Term start2	January 18, 1971
Term end2	January 15, 1979
Lieutenant2	Jere Beasley
Predecessor2	Albert Brewer
Successor2	Fob James
Term start3	January 17, 1983
Term end3	January 19, 1987
Lieutenant3	Bill Baxley
Predecessor3	Fob James
Successor3	H. Guy Hunt
Birth date	August 25, 1919
Birth place	Clio, Alabama
Death date	September 13, 1998
Death place	Montgomery, Alabama
Resting place	Greenwood Cemetery Montgomery, Alabama
Party	Democratic American Independent Party (1968)
Spouse	Lurleen Wallace (deceased)Cornelia Ellis Snively (divorced)Lisa Taylor (divorced)
Profession	Politician, lawyer
Religion	Methodist
Signature	George Wallace Signature.svg
Alma mater	University of Alabama
Branch	United States Army Air Force
Serviceyears	1942-1945
Battles	World War II
Rank	Staff Sergeant }}

George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S. president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once.

A 1972 assassination attempt left him paralyzed; he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is best known for his Southern populist, pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he renounced later in life.

Early life

The first of four children, Wallace was a native of Barbour County, Alabama. He was born in the town of Clio, in rural southeast Alabama, to George Corley Wallace and Mozell Smith Wallace. He was the third of four generations to have the name George Wallace, but as neither parent liked the name "Junior", he was called George C. to distinguish him from his father, George, and his grandfather, Dr. Wallace. Wallace's father had dropped out of college to pursue a life of farming when prices were high during World War I; Mozell had to sell their farmland to pay existing mortgages when George Sr. died in 1937. George, like his parents, became a life-long Methodist.

Wallace was fascinated with politics from the age of 10, winning a contest to serve as a page for the Alabama Senate in 1935 and confidently predicting that he would one day be governor. Wallace became a regionally successful boxer in high school, then went directly to law school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1937. He was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity. After receiving a LL.B. degree in 1942, he entered pilot cadet training in the Air Force. He washed out, became a staff sergeant and flew B-29 combat missions over Japan in 1945. He served under General Curtis LeMay, who would be his running mate in the 1968 presidential race. While in the service, Wallace nearly died of spinal meningitis, but prompt medical attention with sulfa drugs saved him. He was left with partial hearing loss and nerve damage; he was medically discharged with a disability pension.

Entry into politics

In 1938, at age nineteen, Wallace contributed to his grandfather's successful campaign for probate judge. Late in 1945, he was appointed as one of the assistant attorney generals of Alabama, and in May 1946, he won his first election as a member to the Alabama House of Representatives. At the time, he was considered a moderate on racial issues. As a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, he did not join the Dixiecrat walkout at the convention, despite his opposition to President Harry S. Truman's proposed civil rights program, which he considered an infringement on states' rights. In his 1963 inauguration as governor, Wallace excused this action on political grounds.

In 1953, he was elected Circuit Judge in the Third Judicial Circuit of Alabama. Here he became known as "the fightin' lil' judge," a reference to his boxing days. He gained a reputation for fairness regardless of the race of the plaintiff, and J. L. Chestnut, a black lawyer, recalled, "Judge George Wallace was the most liberal judge that I had ever practiced law in front of. He was the first judge in Alabama to call me 'Mister' in a courtroom." On the other hand, "Wallace was the first Southern judge to issue an injunction against removal of segregation signs in railroad terminals." Wallace blocked federal efforts to review Barbour County voting lists, for which he was cited for criminal contempt of court in 1959. Wallace also granted probation to some blacks, which may have cost him the 1958 gubernatorial election.

Failed run for governor

He was defeated by John Patterson in Alabama's Democratic gubernatorial primary election in 1958, which at the time was the decisive election, the general election still almost always being a mere formality. This was a political crossroads for Wallace. Patterson ran with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization Wallace had spoken against, while Wallace was endorsed by the NAACP. After the election, aide Seymore Trammell recalled Wallace saying, "Seymore, you know why I lost that governor's race?... I was outniggered by John Patterson. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be outniggered again."

In the wake of his defeat, Wallace "made a Faustian bargain," said Emory University professor Dan Carter. "In order to survive and get ahead politically in the '60s, he sold his soul to the devil on race." He adopted hard-line segregationism, and used this stand to court the white vote in the next gubernatorial election. When a supporter asked why he started using racist messages, Wallace replied, "You know, I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floor."

Governor of Alabama

Segregation

thumb|right|Wallace standing against desegregation while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama in 1963.Wallace was elected governor in a landslide victory in November 1962. He took the oath of office on January 14, 1963, standing on the gold star marking the spot where, 102 years earlier, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America. In his inaugural speech, he used the line for which he is best known: The lines were written by Wallace's new speechwriter, Asa Earl Carter.

To stop desegregation by the enrollment of black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, he stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. This became known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door". After being confronted by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and the Alabama National Guard, he stood aside.

Wallace again attempted to stop four black students from enrolling in four separate elementary schools in Huntsville in September 1963. After intervention by a federal court in Birmingham, the four children were allowed to enter on September 9, becoming the first to integrate a primary or secondary school in Alabama.

Wallace disapproved vehemently of the desegregation of the state of Alabama and wanted desperately for his state to remain segregated. In his own words: "The President (John F. Kennedy) wants us to surrender this state to Martin Luther King and his group of pro-Communists who have instituted these demonstrations."

Economics and education

The principal achievement of Wallace's first term was an innovation in Alabama industrial development that several other states later copied: he was the first Southern governor to travel to corporate headquarters in Northern and Northeastern states to offer tax abatements and other incentives to companies willing to locate plants in Alabama.

He also initiated a junior college system that is now spread throughout the state, preparing many students to complete four-year degrees at Auburn University, UAB, or the University of Alabama.

The University of South Alabama, a new state university in Mobile, was chartered in 1963 during Wallace's first year in office as governor.

Democratic presidential primaries of 1964

In November 15–20 of 1963, in the City of Dallas, Texas, George C. Wallace announced that he had intended to challenge the then 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, for the Democratic Party's nomination as candidate for U.S. President for the November 1964 general election.

Building upon his newfound public image following the University of Alabama controversy, Wallace entered the Democratic primaries on the advice of a public relations expert from Wisconsin. He ran on an "outsider" image, campaigning on his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, support of states' rights, and a "law and order" platform. In Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Indiana, he won a third of the vote in each state.

Wallace was known for stirring up crowds with his oratory. The Huntsville Times interviewed Bill Jones, Wallace's first press secretary, who recounted "a particularly fiery speech in Cincinnati in 1964 that scared even Wallace." "Wallace angrily shouted to a crowd of 1000 that 'little pinkos' were 'running around outside' protesting his visit, and continued, after thunderous applause, Wallace said, "When you and I start marching and demonstrating and carrying signs, we will close every highway in the country." The audience leapt to their feet "and headed for the exit." Jones said, "It shook Wallace. He quickly moved to calm them down."

At graduation in the Spring of 1964, Bob Jones University honored Wallace with an honorary doctorate. At the commencement, Bob Jones, Jr. read the following citation as a tribute to Wallace:

First Gentleman of Alabama

Term limits in the Alabama Constitution prevented Wallace from seeking a second term in 1966. Therefore, Wallace had his wife, Lurleen Wallace, run for the office as a surrogate candidate. Largely due to the work of Wallace's supporters, the Alabama restriction was later repealed.

Mrs. Wallace won the election in the fall of 1966 and was inaugurated in January 1967. However, she died in office on May 7, 1968, of cancer, during her husband's second presidential campaign. She was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Albert Brewer, reducing Wallace's influence until his new bid for election in his own right in November 1970.

1968 third party presidential run

Wallace ran for President in the 1968 election as the American Independent Party candidate. He hoped to force the House of Representatives to decide the election by receiving enough electoral votes, presumably giving him the role of a power broker. Wallace hoped that southern states could use their clout to end federal efforts at desegregation. His platform contained generous increases for beneficiaries of Social Security and Medicare. Wallace's foreign policy positions set him apart from the other candidates in the field. "If the Vietnam War was not winnable within 90 days of his taking office, Wallace pledged an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. . . . Wallace also called foreign aid money 'poured down a rat hole' and demanded that European and Asian allies pay more for their defense."

Richard Nixon worried that Wallace might split the conservative vote and allow the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, to win. Some Democrats feared Wallace's appeal to blue-collar workers and union members would hurt Humphrey in Northern states like Ohio, New Jersey, and Michigan. Wallace ran a "law and order" campaign similar to Nixon's, further incensing Republicans.

In Wallace's 1998 obituary, ''Huntsville Times'' political editor John Anderson summarized the impact from the 1968 campaign, saying, "His startling appeal to millions of alienated white voters was not lost on Richard Nixon and other GOP strategists. First Nixon, then Ronald Reagan, and finally George H.W. Bush successfully adopted a toned-down version of Wallace's anti-busing, anti-federal government platform to pry low and middle-income whites from the Democratic New Deal coalition." Dan Carter, a professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta offered, "George Wallace laid the foundation for the dominance of the Republican Party in American society through the manipulation of racial and social issues in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the master teacher and Richard Nixon and the Republican leadership that followed were his students."

Wallace considered Happy Chandler, the former baseball commissioner and governor of Kentucky, as his running mate in his 1968 campaign for the Presidency as a third party candidate; as one of Wallace's aides put it, "We have all the nuts in the country; we could get some decent people–-you working one side of the street and he working the other side." Wallace invited Chandler, but when the press published the prospect, Wallace's supporters objected: Chandler had supported the hiring of Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Wallace retracted the invitation, and (after considering Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders) chose Air Force General Curtis LeMay. LeMay was considered instrumental in the establishment of the modern U.S. Air Force, and an expert in military affairs. His four-star military rank, experience at Strategic Air Command and presence advising President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis were considered foreign-policy assets to the Wallace campaign. By 1968, LeMay had retired and was serving as chairman of the board of an electronics company, but the company threatened to dismiss him if he took a leave of absence to run for vice president. To keep LeMay on the ticket, Wallace backer and Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt set up a million-dollar fund to reimburse LeMay for any income lost in the campaign. At this time, LeMay was best known to the American public as an enthusiastic proponent of the use of nuclear weapons in war. Campaign aides tried to persuade him to avoid questions relating to the topic, but when asked about it at his first interview, he attempted to dispel American "phobias about nuclear weapons" and discussed radioactive land crabs at Bikini atoll. The issue became a drag on Wallace's candidacy for the rest of the campaign.

In 1968, when Wallace pledged that "If some anarchist lies down in front of my automobile, it will be the last automobile he will ever lie down in front of," and asserted that the only four letter words of which hippies did not know were w-o-r-k and s-o-a-p; his rhetoric became famous. He accused Humphrey and Nixon of wanting to radically desegregate the South. Wallace said, "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats."

Major media outlets observed the support Wallace received from extremist groups such as White Citizens' Councils. It has been noted that members of such groups had permeated the Wallace campaign by 1968 and, while Wallace did not openly seek their support, nor did he refuse it. Indeed, at least one case has been documented of the pro-Nazi and white supremacist Liberty Lobby distributing a pro-Wallace pamphlet entitled "Stand up for America" despite the campaign's denial of such a connection.

While Wallace carried five Southern states and won almost ten million popular votes, Nixon received 301 electoral votes, more than needed to win the election. Wallace remains the last non-Democratic, non-Republican candidate to win any electoral votes. He was the first person to accomplish this since Harry F. Byrd, an independent segregationist candidate in the 1960 presidential election. (John Hospers in 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1976, Lloyd Bentsen in 1988 and John Edwards in 2004 all received one electoral vote from faithless electors, but none "won" these votes.) Wallace also received the vote of one North Carolina elector who was pledged to Nixon.

Many found Wallace an entertaining campaigner. To "hippies" who called him a fascist, he replied, "I was killing fascists when you punks were in diapers." Another quote: "They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia."

Wallace decried the Supreme Court opinion in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, which ordered immediate desegregation of Southern schools - he said the new Burger court was "no better than the Warren court" and called the justices "limousine hypocrites."

Second term as governor

In 1970, Wallace faced incumbent Governor Albert Brewer, who was the first gubernatorial candidate since Reconstruction to openly court black voters. Brewer unveiled a progressive platform and worked to build an alliance between blacks and the white working class. He said of Wallace's out of state trips, "Alabama needs a full-time governor."

To weaken the prospects of a Wallace presidential campaign in 1972, President Nixon backed Brewer and arranged an Internal Revenue Service investigation in the Wallace campaign. In the primary, Brewer got the most votes but failed to win an outright majority, triggering a run-off election.

In what Former President Jimmy Carter calls "one of the most racist campaigns in modern southern political history," the Wallace campaign aired TV ads with slogans such as "Do you want the black block electing your governor?" and circulated an ad showing a white girl surrounded by seven black boys, with the slogan "Wake Up Alabama! Blacks vow to take over Alabama." Wallace called Brewer "Sissy Britches" and promised not to run for president a third time.

Wallace defeated Brewer in the runoff. The day after the election, he flew to Wisconsin to campaign for the White House. Wallace, whose presidential ambitions would have been destroyed by a defeat, has been said to have run "one of the nastiest campaigns in state history," using racist rhetoric while proposing few ideas of his own.

Democratic presidential primaries of 1972 and assassination attempt

On 13 January 1972, Wallace declared himself a candidate, entering the field with George McGovern, 1968 nominee Hubert Humphrey, and nine other Democratic opponents. In Florida's primary, Wallace carried every county to win 42 percent of the vote. When running, Wallace claimed he was no longer for segregation, and that he had always been a moderate. Though no longer in favor of segregation, Wallace was opposed to desegregation busing during his campaign. This was a position Nixon, who had instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables, would oppose early on as President.

For the next four months, Wallace's campaign went extremely well among conservatives. However, Wallace was shot five times by Arthur Bremer while campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, on May 15, 1972, at a time when he was receiving high ratings in the opinion polls. Bremer was seen at a Wallace rally in Wheaton, Maryland, earlier that day and two days earlier at a rally in Dearborn, Michigan. Wallace was hit in the abdomen and chest, and as one of the bullets lodged in Wallace's spinal column, Wallace was left paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life. A five-hour operation was needed that evening and Wallace received several pints of blood to survive. Three others were wounded in the shooting and also survived. Bremer's diary, ''An Assassin's Diary'', published after his arrest shows the assassination attempt was motivated by a desire for fame, not by politics, and that President Nixon had been an earlier target. Bremer was sentenced to sixty-three years in prison on August 4, 1972, later reduced to fifty-three years two months later. Bremer served thirty-five years and was released on parole on November 9, 2007. Wallace forgave Bremer 23 years later, in August 1995, and wrote to him, but Bremer never replied. Bremer's actions inspired the screenplay (1972) for the 1976 movie ''Taxi Driver'' which in turn inspired the assassination attempt on the life of President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr. in 1981. The 1975 film ''Nashville (film)'' also featured a character, played by David Hayward, of whom many believe was based on Bremer.

Following the assassination attempt, Wallace was visited at the hospital by Democratic Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, a representative from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn who at the time was the nation's only African American female member of Congress. Despite their ideological differences and the opposition of Chisholm's constituents, Chisholm felt that to visit Wallace was the humane thing to do.

Following the shooting, Wallace won primaries in Maryland and Michigan, but his near assassination effectively ended his campaign. From his wheelchair, Wallace spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Miami on July 11, 1972.

Since Wallace was out of Alabama for more than twenty days while he was recovering in Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, the state constitution required Lieutenant Governor Jere Beasley to serve as acting governor from June 5 until Wallace's return to Alabama on July 7. Wallace never returned to Maryland. He continued serving as governor, and easily won the gubernatorial primary election of 1974.

In 1992, asked to comment on the 20th anniversary of his attempted assassination, Wallace said, "I've had 20 years of pain."

Democratic presidential primaries of 1976

Wallace announced his fourth bid for the presidency in November 1975. The campaign was plagued by voter concern about his health, as well as the media's use of images that portrayed him as helpless. His supporters complained that such coverage was motivated by bias, citing the discretion used in coverage of Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralysis, before television became commercially available. In the Southern primaries and caucuses, Wallace carried only Mississippi, South Carolina and his home state of Alabama. If the popular vote in all primaries and caucuses were combined, Wallace would have placed third behind Jimmy Carter and California Governor Jerry Brown. After the primaries were completed and he had lost several Southern primaries to former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, Wallace dropped out, in June 1976. He eventually endorsed Carter, and later claimed that he had facilitated a Southerner's nomination; however, no position advocated by Wallace was included in the 1976 Democratic platform.

Final term as governor

Change of positions

Wallace announced that he was a born-again Christian in the late 1970s, and apologized to black civil rights leaders for his earlier segregationist positions. He said that while he had once sought power and glory, he realized he needed to seek love and forgiveness. In 1979, Wallace said of his stand in the schoolhouse door: "I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over." His final term as Governor (1983–1987) saw a record number of black appointments to government positions. Also in his final term, Wallace was the first governor to appoint two black members in the same cabinet, a number that has been equalled but never surpassed. In the 1982 Alabama gubernatorial Democratic primary, Wallace's main opponents were Lieutenant Governor George McMillan and Alabama House Speaker Joe McCorquodale. In the primary, McCorquodale was eliminated, and the vote went to a runoff with Wallace holding a slight edge over McMillan. Wallace won the Democratic nomination by a margin of 51 to 49 percent.

In the general election, his opponent was Montgomery Republican mayor Emory Folmar. Polling experts said this was the best chance since Reconstruction for a Republican to be elected Alabama governor. However, it was Wallace who made the victory speech on Election Night.

George Wallace achieved four gubernatorial terms across three decades, totaling 16 years in office.

Marriages and children

Wallace's first wife, Lurleen Burns Wallace, died shortly after becoming the first (and, as of 2011, only) woman to be elected as governor of Alabama in 1966. (In 1961, in keeping with the custom of the time to shield patients from the emotional impact of discussion of cancer, Wallace had withheld information from her that a uterine biopsy had found possibly precancerous cells.) They had four children together: Bobbi Jo (1944) Parsons, Peggy Sue (1950) Kennedy, George III, known as George Junior (1951), and Lee (1961) Dye, who was named after Robert E. Lee. After her death the couple's younger children, aged 18, 16, and 6, were sent to live with family members and friends for care (their eldest daughter had already married and left home). Their son, commonly called George Wallace, Jr., is a Republican active in Alabama politics. He was twice elected State Treasurer as a Democrat, and twice elected to the state Public Service Commission.

On January 4, 1971, Wallace wed the former Cornelia Ellis Snively (1939–2009), a niece of former Alabama Governor Jim Folsom, known as "Big Jim". The attractive "C'nelia" had been a performer and was nicknamed "the Jackie Kennedy of the rednecks." Her mother, the colorful and notorious Ruby Folsom, commented when told of the marriage: "Why, George ain't titty high." The couple had a bitter divorce in 1978. A few months after the divorce, she told ''Parade'' magazine, "I don't believe George needs a family. He just needs an audience. The family as audience wasn't enough for his ego." The second Mrs. Wallace died on January 8, 2009, at the age of 69.

In 1981, Wallace married Lisa Taylor, a country music singer; they divorced in 1987.

Final years

In 1996, when asked by a reporter which contemporary American political figure he most admired, he paused thoughtfully for a moment, smiled, and said: "Myself."

At a restaurant a few blocks from the State Capitol, Wallace became something of a fixture. In constant pain, he was surrounded by an entourage of old friends and visiting well-wishers and continued this ritual until a few weeks before his death. Wallace died of septic shock from a bacterial infection in Jackson Hospital in Montgomery on September 13, 1998. He suffered from respiratory problems in addition to complications from his gun-shot spinal injury. He is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery.

The George Wallace Tunnel on Interstate 10 which traverses the Mobile Bay is named in his honor. Wallace was the subject of a documentary, ''George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire'', shown by PBS on ''The American Experience'' in 2000. The TNT cable network also produced a movie ''George Wallace'' in 1997, which was a John Frankenheimer film starring Gary Sinise.

Notes

References

External links

Governor Wallace's Schoolhouse Door speech archived at the University of Alabama

George Wallace article at the Encyclopedia of Alabama

George Wallace - Daily Telegraph obituary

Oral History Interview with George Wallace from Oral Histories of the American South

Caught on Tape: The White House Reaction to the Shooting of Alabama Governor and Democratic Presidential Candidate George Wallace from History's News Network: http://hnn.us/articles/45104.html

George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire PBS ''American Experience'' documentary, including complete transcript, teacher tools and links

Cornelia Wallace's Obituary on Decatur Daily

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name	Trista Sutter (née Rehn)
birth date	October 28, 1972
birth place	Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
residence	Vail, Colorado
spouse	Ryan Sutter (2003–present)
children	Maxwell (July 2007), Blakesley (April 2009)
parents	Stan and Roseanne }}

Trista Nicole Sutter (née Rehn) (born October 28, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was the runner-up on season 1 of the ABC reality television show ''The Bachelor'', before becoming the star of the first season of its companion show ''The Bachelorette''.

Trista has also appeared on ABC's ''Dancing with the Stars'' and NBC's ''Fear Factor''.

''The Bachelor''

Trista appeared as a contestant on season 1 of ABC's ''The Bachelor''. She finished runner-up after bachelor Alex Michel selected Amanda Marsh as the winner ahead of Trista in the show's finale.

''The Bachelorette''

After her appearance on ''The Bachelor'', Trista was selected to be featured in the gender-reversed spin-off ''The Bachelorette''. She chose Ryan Sutter as the winner, and the couple were married on December 6, 2003. They were paid $1 million by ABC for affording the network the right to televise their wedding ceremony, which was broadcast as the finale of a three-episode special called ''Trista & Ryan's Wedding'', which drew over 26 million viewers, making it one of the most-widely viewed episodes in the history of reality television.

Television appearances

Trista appeared opposite actor Jason Alexander in a KFC commercial. She also has appeared in country music singer Brad Paisley's music video "Celebrity" in 2003 with Alexander, Little Jimmy Dickens, and William Shatner.

She was the first celebrity contestant to be voted off season 1 of the US TV show ''Dancing with the Stars''.

On June 10, 2011 Trista and Ryan Sutter appeared in a Hands Only CPR PSA campaign from the American Heart Association and the Ad Council.

Personal life

The Sutters now live in Eagle County, Colorado, where Ryan is a firefighter in Vail, Colorado.

In February 2007, the Sutters told ''People'' magazine that they were expecting their first child in summer of 2007. During her seventh month of pregnancy, Trista was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. In July 2007, Maxwell Alston was born four weeks early stemming from pregnancy complications via c-section after a failed induction/stalled labor. Maxwell was first revealed to the public on the cover of ''Us Weekly'' magazine and made his first on-camera appearance in a video diary series Trista recorded for Momlogic.com.

Trista was ranked #7 on the ''Maxim'' Hot 100 Women of 2003.

On October 14, 2008, Trista and Ryan announced to ''Life and Style'' magazine that she was pregnant with their second child. Trista said that if the baby was another boy, they might adopt a girl. In April 2009, Trista delivered daughter Blakesley Grace via C-section. In April 2009, she also confirmed that she plans to undergo the Essure permanent birth control procedure.

References

External links

Trista Rehn profile at NNDB

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name	Adam Schlesinger
background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
origin	New York, NY,United States
instrument	Bass guitar, guitar, piano, drums
genre	Power pop, rock
occupation	Bassist, songwriter, producer
associated acts	Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, Tinted Windows
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Adam Schlesinger is an American songwriter, composer and record producer. He has been nominated for Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy (3 noms, 1 win), and Golden Globe Awards. He is also a winner of the ASCAP Pop Music Award.

He is the bassist for the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy and Tinted Windows. He is an owner of Scratchie Records and Stratosphere Sound, a recording studio in New York City. Schlesinger grew up in Manhattan and Montclair, New Jersey.

Awards and nominations

Schlesinger was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for writing the title track of the Tom Hanks-directed film ''That Thing You Do!'' as well as two other songs for the film. Fountains of Wayne was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2003 for Best New Artist and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Stacy's Mom".

Schlesinger and David Javerbaum were nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score for his music for the musical Cry-Baby.

Schlesinger and Javerbaum also received a 2009 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music And Lyrics, for their song "Much Worse Things", performed by Elvis Costello and Stephen Colbert on the television special and album "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!" The album, co-written by Schlesinger and Javerbaum, and co-produced by Schlesinger and Steven M. Gold, also won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

Schlesinger and Molly Boylan received a 2011 Daytime Emmy nomination for the song "I Wonder" from Sesame Street.

Songwriting

In films

Schlesinger wrote and co-produced the title song to Tom Hanks' directorial debut, ''That Thing You Do!''. He composed and produced several original songs, including ''Way Back into Love'', for the 2007 film ''Music and Lyrics'', starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. His music has also been featured in films such as ''Shallow Hal'' (which he scored with Ivy); ''Robots''; ''There's Something About Mary''; ''Me, Myself & Irene''; ''Josie and the Pussycats''; ''Scary Movie''; ''Art School Confidential''; ''Fever Pitch''; ''The Manchurian Candidate''; ''Because of Winn-Dixie''; ''Orange County''; ''Two Weeks Notice'';, and others.

Songs performed by other artists

"Just The Girl" and "I'll Take My Chances" for The Click Five

"Hackensack" by Katy Perry

"Everybody Loves Music" by Nicki Minaj, Pat Monahan, and Ken Jeong on "The Billboard Music Awards"

"I Guess Its American" for Superdrag (co-written with John Davis)

"High School Never Ends" with Bowling For Soup (co-written with Jaret Reddick)

"I Am What I Am" for the Jonas Brothers

"1 800 Clap Your Hands", "Marisol", "You Get Me Through", and "Double Talk" by Emily Osment

"Work To Do" for America

Eight songs for Stephen Colbert's television special ''A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!'' performed by Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Feist, John Legend, Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello and Toby Keith (co-written with David Javerbaum).

"Barbie Eat A Sandwich" and "My Problems" with Care Bears On Fire

"A Little More Us" by Stereo Skyline

"Radiation Vibe" by Hem.

In theatre

Schlesinger and Daily Show Executive Producer David Javerbaum co-wrote the songs for the musical theater adaptation of the John Waters film ''Cry-Baby''. ''Cry-Baby'' debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, California, in November 2007. Previews for the Broadway run began at the Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2008. Its official opening night was April 24, 2008.

Schlesinger and Javerbaum also co-wrote the opening number of the 2011 Tony Awards ceremony, "It's Not Just For Gays Anymore", performed by Neil Patrick Harris.

In television

Schlesinger's television composing work includes theme music, songs, and/or score for "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!", "The 2011 Tony Awards", "Big Time Rush", "T.U.F.F. Puppy" (Nickelodeon), "Crank Yankers", "The Billboard Music Awards", "Bubble Guppies" (Nick Jr.), "The Howard Stern Show", "Sesame Street", Comedy Central's "Night Of Too Many Stars", Robert Smigel's cartoons for Saturday Night Live, The Comedy Awards (Comedy Central), "American Dreams", Stephen King's "Kingdom Hospital", "The In-Laws", "The Man Show", "Too Late With Adam Corolla", "The Dana Carvey Show", "John Leguizamo's House Of Buggin'", "My Kind Of Town", and others. His songs have also been licensed for use on numerous television shows including Scrubs, The Hills, Gossip Girl, Melrose Place, Felicity, Roswell, and others.

Production work

As a record producer and mixer, he has worked with Dashboard Confessional, Swirl 360, Tahiti 80, Motion City Soundtrack, Verve Pipe, Robert Plant, America, The Sounds, They Might Be Giants, Fastball, and many other artists, as well as producing or co-producing five Fountains of Wayne and five Ivy albums.

Side projects

Schlesinger is also in a side project band called Tinted Windows formed by guitarist James Iha, previously of The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle, singer Taylor Hanson of Hanson, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick. This new project will run alongside all the artists' main bands.

Personal life

He is a cousin of Jon Bernthal, an off-Broadway and TV actor, best known for his role on the AMC television series ''The Walking Dead''. Schlesinger is also the grandson of the late Murray Bernthal (1911–2010), an important musician and producer, long active in Syracuse, New York.

References

External links

PopGurls Interview: Adam Schlesinger

LAist Interview with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne

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Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
name	Zulay Henao
birth date	May 29, 1979
birth place	Medellín, Colombia
death date
occupation	Actress
years active	2005-present
website	}}

Zulay Henao (born May 29, 1979) is a Colombian-American film and television actress. She has appeared in movies like ''Grizzly Park'' as Lola, ''Feel the Noise'' as C.C, ''Illegal Tender'', and ''S.Darko'' as Baelyn.

Henao was born in Medellín, Colombia to Colombian parents. She and family emigrated to New Jersey. After high school she served three years with the U.S. Army. Henao enrolled at the New York Conservatory For Dramatic Arts to study acting.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
	''Film 101''	Unknown Role
	Gloria Rojas
		Mora
''Feel the Noise''	Carol "CC" Reyes
''Saturday Morning''	Unknown Role
	''The Heart Is a Hidden Camera''	Natasha
''Grizzly Park''	Lola
''Racing for Time''	Carmen	TV Movie
		Zulay Velez
''S. Darko''	Baelyn	Direct-to-video
''The Magnificent Cooly-T''	Angie
		Monica Hatcher
	Teresa Ames
2011	''Havana Heat''	Agent Brianna Evans	pre-production
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
	''Army Wives''	Delores Marino	Episode: "Only the Lonely"
''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''	Forensics Tech Casanueva	Episode: "Svengali"
2008		Christie
2009	''The Unusuals''	Rosa Trumble	Episode: "Crime Slut"

References

External links

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