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Louisiana
Louisiana (
i/luːˌiːziˈænə/ or i/ˌluːziˈænə/; French: État de Louisiane, [lwizjan] (
listen); Louisiana Creole: Léta de la Lwizyàn) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Louisiana is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by population is East Baton Rouge Parish, and the largest by land area is Cameron Parish.
Much of the state was formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. These contain a rich southern biota; typical examples include birds such as ibis and egrets. There are also many species of tree frogs, and fish such as sturgeon and paddlefish. In more elevated areas, fire is a natural process in the landscape, and has produced extensive areas of longleaf pine forest and wet savannas. These support an exceptionally large number of plant species including many species of orchids and carnivorus plants.
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Sherwood Forest
Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood. Continuously forested since the end of the Ice Age, Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve today encompasses 423 hectares (1,045 acres) surrounding the village of Edwinstowe, the site of Thoresby Hall. The wooded forest of today is a remnant of a much larger royal hunting forest, named as the "shire wood" of Nottinghamshire, which in fact extended into several neighbouring counties (shires), bordered on the west along the River Erewash and the Forest of East Derbyshire.
The Forestry Commission manages most of the forest and provides walks and trails and a host of other activities. Part of the forest was opened as a country park to the public in 1969 by Nottinghamshire County Council, which manages a small part of the forest under lease from the Thoresby Estate. In 2002, a portion of Sherwood Forest was designated a National Nature Reserve by English Nature. In 2007, Natural England officially incorporated the Budby South Forest, Nottinghamshire's largest area of dry lowland heath, into the Nature Reserve, nearly doubling its size from 220 to 423 hectares (540 to 1,050 acres). Some portions of the forest still retain many very old oaks, especially in the portion known as the Dukeries, south of the town of Worksop, which was so called because it used to contain five ducal residences in proximity to one another. The River Idle, a tributary of the Trent, is formed in Sherwood Forest from the confluence of several minor streams.
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Alan Oppenheimer
Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American character actor and voice actor. He has performed numerous roles on live-action television since the 1960s, and has had an active career doing voice work in cartoons since the 1970s.
Oppenheimer was born in New York City, New York on April 23, 1930, the son of Irene (nee Rothschild) and Louis E. Oppenheimer, who was a stockbroker.
As a character actor, Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing a Nazi in Hogan's Heroes, to playing an Israeli secret agent as well as a double-agent KAOS scientist on Get Smart, to being the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in The Six Million Dollar Man (Martin Balsam played the role in the pilot telemovie. Oppenheimer took over as Rudy starting with the second film, "Wine, Women and War" and kept playing up until the introduction of the bionic woman in 1975, whereupon Martin E. Brooks took over as Wells until cancellation). He was the original Mickey Malph (Ralph Malph's dad) on Happy Days. He also played recurring role during the first two seasons of the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere, as Helen Rosenthal's husband Ira. He had a recurring role as Mayor Alvin B. Tutweiler in the comedy series Mama's Family.
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Alan Rafkin
Alan Rafkin (July 23, 1928, – August 6, 2001) was an American Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and actor for television.
Born in New York City, Rafkin attended Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey.
Alan Rafkin was one of the most prolific sitcom directors of all time. His resume' includes such series as The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M.A.S.H., Murphy Brown, Get Smart, and Coach.
According to his autobiography Cue the Bunny on the Rainbow (its title is taken from a direction on Captain Kangaroo), Rafkin directed episodes of over 80 different sitcom series. He won an Emmy for an episode of "One Day At A Time". During his career he worked with legendary producers such as Sheldon Leonard, Danny Thomas, and Norman Lear. Rafkin had endearing relationships with many of his actors including Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart and Redd Foxx. At the same time he had volatile relationships with several others including Demond Wilson and Craig T. Nelson. The volume and longevity of his work would certainly place him as one of the most "in demand" directors of his era.[citation needed]
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".
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Barnet Kellman
Barnet Kellman is a television and film director, television producer and film actor.
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Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model.
She is known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown (1988–1998), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal (2004–2008), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Her first film was The Group (1965), which was based on Mary McCarthy's novel of the same name. She starred in several major films throughout the mid 1960s to early 1980s such as The Sand Pebbles, Carnal Knowledge, The Wind and the Lion, and Gandhi and received an Academy Award nomination for her role in Starting Over. Her later career includes character roles in Miss Congeniality and Sweet Home Alabama.
Bergen was born in Beverly Hills, California. Her mother, Frances Bergen (née Westerman), was a Powers model who was known professionally as Frances Westcott. Her father, Edgar Bergen, was a ventriloquist, comedian, and actor. Her paternal grandparents were Swedish-born immigrants who anglicized their surname, which was originally Berggren. As a child, Candice was irritated at being referred to as Charlie McCarthy's little sister, Charlie McCarthy being her father's star dummy.
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Charles Kimbrough
Charles Kimbrough (born May 23, 1936) is an American character actor known for having played the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. In 1990, his performance in the role earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series".
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Kimbrough has extensive stage experience. In 1971, he was nominated for a Tony for best featured actor in a musical as Harry in Stephen Sondheim's Company. In 1984, he performed in the original Broadway cast of Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. He also starred in the original Broadway production of A.R. Gurney's comedy Sylvia.
He is married to actress and fellow Company cast mate Beth Howland, known for her television work as Vera Louise Gorman-Novak on the sitcom Alice. He studied theater and drama at Indiana University Bloomington, and graduated in 1958. To younger audiences, he is probably best known for supplying the voice of Victor, the most mature gargoyle in Disney's 1996 animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a role he reprised in its direct-to-video sequel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II and will also reprise in the upcoming English version of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.
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Colleen Dewhurst
Colleen Rose Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 — August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress known for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway." In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the 'Queen of Off-Broadway'. This title was not due to my brilliance but rather because most of the plays I was in closed after a run of anywhere from one night to two weeks. I would then move immediately into another." She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O’Neill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live television, and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. She was also renowned for her television work playing Marilla Cuthbert in the Kevin Sullivan TV movie adaptations of the Anne of Green Gables series and her reprisal of the role in the subsequent TV series Road to Avonlea (marketed as just Avonlea in the US).
Dewhurst was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Ferdinand Augustus "Fred" and Frances Marie (née Woods) Dewhurst, a businessman and homemaker, respectively. Her father had been a "well-known athlete in Canada, where he had played football with the Ottawa Rough Riders". Her mother was a practitioner of Christian Science, which her daughter would also adopt. Her family moved to Massachusetts in 1928 or 1929, staying in Boston, Dorchester, Auburndale, and West Newton. Later they moved to New York City. After her parents separated, she and her mother relocated to Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, where she graduated from Riverside High School in 1942. She went on to attend Milwaukee-Downer College.
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Concetta Tomei
Concetta Tomei (born December 30, 1945) is an American theatre, film and television character actress, best known for her roles as Maj. Lila Garreau on the ABC series China Beach (1988–1991) and as Lynda Hansen on the NBC series Providence (1999–2002).
Tomei was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She earned a degree in education from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and worked four years as a teacher before deciding to pursue her love of theatre at the Goodman Theatre School in Chicago, Illinois. She earned a BFA and moved to Houston, Texas, where she worked for the Alley Theatre for two years before moving to New York City. In the Milwaukee area, she studied at Sunset Playhouse with Alan Furlan.
Tomei appeared in the original cast of several pioneering Off-Broadway productions, including Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine and Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart. She appeared opposite Kevin Kline in the New York Shakespeare Festival's Richard III (winning New York's Bayfield Shakespearean award for her performance) and starred with David Bowie in the Broadway production of The Elephant Man, continuing in the national tour.
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Connie Chung
Connie Chung, full name: Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (Chinese: 宗毓華; pinyin: Zōng Yùhuá; Cantonese Yale: Jung Yukwa; born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist who has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. She was criticized for what was perceived as insensitivity with regard to an interview about the Oklahoma City bombing and her tactics to get Newt Gingrich's mother to admit her unguarded thoughts about Hillary Clinton.
She is married to talk show host Maury Povich and they have one adopted son, Matthew Jay Povich.
The youngest of ten children (of whom she and four others, all girls, survived) of a high-ranking Chinese diplomat, she was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and went on to receive a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969. She has been married to talk show host Maury Povich since 1984. Chung converted to Judaism upon her marriage to Povich. Chung announced that she was reducing her workload in 1991 in the hopes of getting pregnant. Together, they have one son whom they adopted on June 20, 1995, Matthew Jay Povich. He attended the Allen-Stevenson School and now attends the Riverdale Country School.
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Dan Quayle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle (
/ˈkweɪl/; born February 4, 1947) served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush (1989–1993). He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana.
Quayle was born in Indianapolis but spent most of his childhood living in Arizona. He married Marilyn Tucker in 1972 and obtained his J.D. from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1974. He practiced law in Huntington, Indiana with his wife before being elected to the United States Congress in 1976, aged 29. In 1980, Quayle was elected to the Senate.
In 1988, Vice President George H. W. Bush was nominated for the presidency by the Republican Party and asked his party to nominate Quayle as his vice presidential running mate. Although this choice was met with some dismay, the Bush/Quayle ticket won the 1988 election over Democrats Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. As vice president, Quayle made official visits to 47 countries and was appointed chairman of the National Space Council. He secured re-nomination for vice-president in 1992 but the Bush/Quayle ticket was defeated by Democrat Bill Clinton and his vice-presidential running mate, Al Gore.
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Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin (May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006) was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and his portrayal in the film A Christmas Story of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his son overhears. He appeared as the tough-talking, funny detective in the 1950s television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. From 1959-1961, McGavin starred in the NBC western series Riverboat, first with Burt Reynolds and then with Noah Beery, Jr., and in later years, he had a recurring role in the sitcom Murphy Brown, as the title character's father, for which he received an Emmy Award.
McGavin was born William Lyle Richardson in Spokane, Washington, a son of Grace Watson (née Bogart) and Reed Daniel Richardson. He graduated from Puyallup High School.
In magazine interviews in the 1960s, he said his parents divorced when he was very young. His father, not knowing what else to do, put him in an orphanage at the age of 11. McGavin began to run away, sleeping on the docks and in warehouses. He lived in three orphanages. The last was the Dyslin Boys Ranch in Pierce County, Washington, a boys' home, which turned out to be a safe haven. Farm chores were assigned, and he lived with several other boys who had also been abandoned. McGavin commented that the owners of the home helped him develop a sense of pride and responsibility that turned his life around. McGavin did not serve in the military during World War II because he had bad knees, though he did make a training film for the military on venereal disease.
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Deep Throat
Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post in 1972 about the involvement of United States President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal. Thirty-one years after Nixon's resignation, Deep Throat was revealed to be former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt.
Deep Throat was first introduced to the public in the 1974 book All the President's Men, written by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film two years later. According to the authors, Deep Throat was a key source of information behind a series of articles on a scandal which played a leading role in introducing the misdeeds of the Nixon administration to the general public. The scandal would eventually lead to the resignation of President Nixon as well as prison terms for White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, Egil Krogh, White House Counsel Charles Colson and John Dean, and presidential adviser John Ehrlichman.
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Demi Moore
Demi Guynes Kutcher ( /dəˈmiː/ də-MEE; born November 11, 1962), known professionally as Demi Moore, is an American actress, film producer, film director, former songwriter and model. Born in Roswell, New Mexico to teenage parents who divorced before she was born, Moore dropped out of high school at age 16 to begin modeling in Europe, and posed for a nude pictorial in Oui magazine in 1980. After making her movie debut in 1981, she appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and established her career with such films as St. Elmo's Fire (1985) and About Last Night... (1986). Following the successes of Ghost (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), and Disclosure (1994), Moore became Hollywood's highest-paid actress, receiving an unprecedented sum of $12.5 million for Striptease (1996).
Moore took her professional name from her first husband, musician Freddy Moore, and is the mother of three daughters from her second marriage to actor Bruce Willis. She married her third husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, in 2005, and separated from him in November 2011.
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Diane English
Diane English (born May 18, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, known for creating the sitcom Murphy Brown. She also served as writer and executive producer of the sitcom My Sister Sam.
English was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Anne and Richard English, who was an electrical engineer. She graduated from Nardin Academy in Buffalo, New York, and then from Buffalo State College in 1970.
In 1986, she became the executive producer of the Pam Dawber sitcom My Sister Sam, which ran for two seasons on CBS and co-starred Rebecca Schaeffer. In 1988, she created the CBS television series Murphy Brown, for which she won one Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and two for Outstanding Comedy Series. In 1992, English stirred up controversy when the title character of Murphy Brown decided to have a child out of wedlock. Vice President Dan Quayle strongly voiced his disapproval of this decision, opining that English was mocking the importance of a father's role in the rearing of a child. Quayle was also joined in his protest by English's brother Richard English, who is a Baptist preacher in Western New York. Several years later, President Bill Clinton stated that Quayle made some valid points in his remarks.
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Faith Daniels
Faith Daniels (born March 9, 1957; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) became nationally known for her role in anchoring some of America's most popular news and talk show programs.
She began her national news career when she joined CBS News as the anchor of the CBS Morning News in the spring of 1985. At age 27, she was one of the youngest national news anchors ever. She joined NBC in June 1990 as the news anchor for Today and became anchor of (the now-defunct) News at Sunrise.
In 1991, she became the first journalist to host her own national daily talk show,[citation needed]A Closer Look, which aired on NBC at noon or 12:30 ET. Two years later she joined the successful news magazine Dateline NBC, where she worked from 1993 to 1995. She had a cameo role in a 1992 Murphy Brown episode as a guest at Murphy's baby shower along with Katie Couric, Paula Zahn, Mary Alice Williams, and Joan Lunden.
Now off camera, Daniels is an active supporter of the National Council for Adoption; however, she did return to public view by playing the part of the candidates' debate moderator in Robin Williams's 2006 movie Man of the Year.
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Faith Ford
Faith Ford (born September 14, 1964) is an American television and film actress, known for having played the roles of Corky Sherwood on Murphy Brown and Hope Fairfield-Shanowski on Hope & Faith.
Ford was born as Alexis Ford in Alexandria, Louisiana, the daughter of Pat, a schoolteacher, and Charles Ford, an insurance agent. Ford lived in nearby Pineville and began acting while attending Pineville High School. She moved to New York City at the age of 17 and began to model and find commercial work.
In 1983, Ford gained her first television role on ABC's One Life to Live; her first major role was on the NBC soap opera Another World, where she played Julia Shearer (a role previously played by Kyra Sedgwick) for several years.
Ford was let go by the producers and soon moved to Hollywood, where she gained a regular role on the short-lived sitcom, The Popcorn Kid, a five-episode appearance on thirtysomething and later her role on Murphy Brown. After a nine-year run, the series ended, and Ford began to work in TV-movies. In 1998 she executive produced her own short-lived sitcom Maggie Winters. Ford also appeared on The Norm Show with Norm Macdonald, Laurie Metcalf and Artie Lange from 1999 to 2001.
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Garry Marshall
Garry Kent Marshall (born November 13, 1934) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. His notable credits include creating Happy Days and The Odd Couple and directing Nothing In Common, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day, and The Princess Diaries.
Marshall was born in the New York City borough of the Bronx, the son of Marjorie Irene (née Ward), a tap dance teacher who ran a tap dance school, and the late Anthony Wallace Marshall (1906–99), a director of industrial films and later a producer. He is the brother of actress/director Penny Marshall and Ronny Marshall Hallin, a TV producer. His father was of Italian descent, his family having come from San Martino sulla Marrucina, Chieti, Abruzzo, and his mother was of English and Scottish ancestry; His father changed his last name from "Masciarelli" to "Marshall" before Garry was born. Marshall was baptized Presbyterian and also raised in the Lutheran religion for a time. He attended De Witt Clinton High School and Northwestern University, where he wrote a sports column for The Daily Northwestern, and is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
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Gary Dontzig
Gary Dontzig is an American television producer, screenwriter, and actor. In 1991 he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.[citation needed]
Gary Dontzig at the Internet Movie Database
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Grant Shaud
Grant Shaud (born Edward Shaud III; February 27, 1961) is an American actor known for having played the character of Miles Silverberg on the 1990s TV sitcom Murphy Brown.
Grant Shaud was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Ann Barbara (née Dougherty) and Edward Shaud, Jr. His family was Irish Catholic. He attended Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1979. In 1983, he graduated with a Journalism degree from the University of Richmond where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
In 1984, Shaud moved to New York City to begin working in theater. His first acting role in television was as a guest character named Jack on Kate & Allie. In 1988, he began as Miles Silverberg on Murphy Brown. He lived with co-star Jane Leeves before and during her guest stint on the show, in which she concurrently played his girlfriend. He left in 1996 with his "boss" role on the show being taken over by Lily Tomlin.
In recent years he has also done some voice-over work in animation, most notably in the film Antz and the television series Batman: The Animated Series. He had a guest role in The Drew Carey Show as a character named Jack, who believed himself to be the devil. He also played Alex Rosetti in the sitcom Madigan Men, starring Gabriel Byrne.
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Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing Tom Hanks' title character’s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film, The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films including Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Mimi Leder's Pay it Forward. He made his Broadway debut in 2008 in a short-lived revival of David Mamet's play, American Buffalo, starring John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer.
Osment was born in Los Angeles, California; the son of Theresa Osment (née Seifert), a teacher, and Michael Eugene Osment, a theater and film actor, both natives of Alabama. Osment was raised Roman Catholic. He has one sibling, a sister, actress and singer-songwriter Emily Osment, who is almost four years his junior. Osment's parents described his childhood as a “good old-fashioned Southern upbringing”. His father said that when Osment was learning to speak, he deliberately avoided using baby talk when communicating with his son.
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Jane Leeves
Jane Elizabeth Leeves (born 18 April 1961) is an English film, stage, and television actress, comedienne and dancer.
Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in the 1983 popular British comedy television show The Benny Hill Show. Leeves moved to the United States, where she performed in small roles until she secured a recurring part in the television sitcom Murphy Brown. In 1986-1988, Leeves garnered her first leading role in the short-lived sitcom Throb and, in 1993, achieved wider fame as Daphne Moon on the television sitcom Frasier for the entire run of the series, from 1993 until 2004, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards during the show's run. She received further recognition for her performances in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Music of the Heart (1999) and The Event (2003).
More recently she has worked in television production, but beginning in June 2010, Leeves returned to acting, as Joy on TV Land's sitcom Hot in Cleveland.
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Janet Carroll
Janet Carroll (December 24, 1940 – May 22, 2012) was an American film, stage and television character actress.
Janet Carroll's career spanned more than four decades and included major roles in Broadway musicals and Hollywood productions, but was perhaps most recognized for her portrayal of the oblivious mother of Joel (Tom Cruise) in the 1983 film Risky Business.
Carroll was born and raised in Chicago, where she received formal theatrical training and began acting professionally in the late 1960s, appearing in numerous productions in local theaters. She then became a regular at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, where she acted during five seasons.
Vocally, she began classical training at age 12 with Dr. Greta Allum in Chicago. Over the years she continued building and expanding her voice and repertoire in formal study with Douglas Susu-Mago. With a fluent 3½ octave vocal range she was able to sing everything from opera to jazz and Broadway style to gospel music and dixieland genre.
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Jay Thomas
Jay Thomas (born July 12, 1948) is an American actor, comedian and radio talk show host.
Thomas was born Jon Thomas Terrell in Kermit, Texas, the son of Katharine "Kathy" (née Guzzino) and T. Harry Terrell, Sr. He was raised in his Italian American mother's Catholic religion (his father was Protestant).
He attended Jesuit High School in New Orleans, where he grew up. He holds a masters degree in sociology from Jacksonville University. He also attended and played college football at Central Piedmont Community College. He lives in Southern California and is the father of three sons, Samuel, Jacob and J.T.
Thomas fathered J.T. in an out-of-wedlock relationship and the child was adopted by another family. Jay Thomas and his son, known as John Harding, are reunited and have spoken about their reunion on the Dr. Phil Show. John Harding is the lead singer of the band JTX.
Thomas is perhaps best known for his recurring roles. The first on the sitcom Mork and Mindy, on which he played Remo DaVinci, the Italian deli-owner, from 1979 until 1981. He then played the hockey-player-turned-travelling-ice show-skater second husband, Eddie LeBec, of Carla on Cheers (1987–1989). He appeared on Murphy Brown as a tabloid talk show host, Jerry Gold, who was also one of Murphy's love interests (1989–1998). Thomas won 2 Emmy Awards in 1990 and 1991 for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series" for his portrayal of Jerry Gold on Murphy Brown.
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Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923) is an American character actress of stage, television and film.
She is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker, the long-suffering, yet devoted wife of Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor) and mother of Gloria Stivic (played by Sally Struthers), on the 1970s situation comedy All in the Family. Stapleton was also seen occasionally on the All in the Family follow-up series, Archie Bunker's Place, but, tired of the role, asked to be written out after the first season.
Born in New York City, the daughter of Joseph E. Murray (a billboard advertising salesman) and Marie Stapleton Murray (a singer), she attended Hunter College. She began her career in 1941 in summer stock, aged 18, and made her New York debut in American Gothic, an Off-Broadway play.
She was featured on Broadway in several hit musicals, such as Damn Yankees, Funny Girl, Bells Are Ringing, and Juno. She guest starred in many television series, including the role of Rosa Criley in the 1963 episode "The Bride Wore Pink" on NBC's medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour.
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Jeffrey Ventimilia
Jeffrey Ventimilia is an American television writer. Ventimilia wrote The Simpsons episode "Simpson Tide" (with Joshua Sternin as his co-writer) and the teleplay of the episode "'Round Springfield", based on a story idea by Al Jean and Mike Reiss. Other credits include Murphy Brown, That '70s Show, and The Critic. In 2002, he and Sternin created a show for Fox called The Grubbs, starring Randy Quaid. Due to negative critical reaction, the show was canceled before it went on air. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2004 film Surviving Christmas and the 2010 film Tooth Fairy.
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Joan Lunden
Joan Lunden (born September 19, 1950) is an American journalist, author and television host. She was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America (GMA) from 1980 through 1997 and is the author of 8 books. Lunden has appeared on the Biography program and Biography Channel.
Lunden was born as Joan Elise Blunden in Fair Oaks, California, the daughter of Gladyce Lorraine (née Somervill) and Erle Murray Blunden, who was a physician. She has a liberal arts degree from Sacramento State University. She also studied Spanish and anthropology at the former Mexico City campus of Universidad de Las Americas. She was a visiting instructor at Montclair State College in New Jersey, where she taught a course in broadcast journalism.
She began her broadcasting career in Sacramento, California, where she worked for KCRA-TV and Radio as co-anchor of the daily noon television news program. She also produced the noon news broadcast and hosted KCRA's television specials.
Lunden joined GMA in the fall of 1976 as a feature news/consumer reporter, and later became fill-in co-host when former co-host Sandy Hill left to work on ABC's coverage of the Winter Olympics. Lunden's popularity with viewers led to her quick promotion to co-host with David Hartman, the program's original host. Later she would spend the majority of her career hosting with ABC's Charlie Gibson. An Entertainment Weekly national viewer poll named her "television's favorite morning anchor" during her years at GMA.The program lost more than a million daily viewers when Lunden retired from the morning news shift, according to TV Guide.
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Joe Regalbuto
Joe Regalbuto (born August 24, 1949) is an American actor and director known for his role as Frank Fontana on the CBS television comedy Murphy Brown.
Regalbuto graduated from New Milford High School in New Milford, New Jersey in 1967.
Regalbuto also starred in the 1986 TV movie Fuzz Bucket and the short-lived series Street Hawk. He played a supporting role in the critically acclaimed film Missing in 1982. Also in 1982, Regalbuto played Darius, in the cult sci-fi/fantasy The Sword and the Sorcerer. In 2008, he had a small role in the movie Bottle Shock.
Late in the series, Regalbuto directed more than 20 episodes of Murphy Brown. He also has directed episodes of Titus, The George Lopez Show, Wizards of Waverly Place and other television programs. Regalbuto also was an early spokesman for DirecTV when it first came out.
In 2002, he appeared on the final season (5th) of the Ally McBeal TV series, episode 10, "One Hundred Tears", as Harvey Hall, a man who believed he could fly, using wings of his own making.
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Joshua Sternin
Joshua Sternin is an American television producer and writer.
Among Sternin's producer credits include 23 episodes of Murphy Brown in 1996 through 1997 and as writer for 10 of them, as well as producer for 64 episodes of That 70's Show in 1998 through 2001 and as a writer for 8 of them. In 2002, he and Jeffrey Ventimilia created a show for Fox called The Grubbs, starring Randy Quaid. Due to negative critical reaction, the show was canceled before it went on air.
Sternin wrote The Simpsons episode "Simpson Tide" (with Ventimilia as his co-writer) and the teleplay of the episode "'Round Springfield", based on a story idea by Al Jean and Mike Reiss. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2004 film Surviving Christmas and the 2010 film Tooth Fairy. His most recent work was the 2010 film Yogi Bear.
In 2009, Sternin was nominated for a Streamy Award for Best Directing for a Comedy Web Series for Overkill: A Love Story.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed $464 million worldwide. After receiving Golden Globe Awards and Academy Award nominations for Steel Magnolias (1989) and Pretty Woman, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich (2000). Her films My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Mystic Pizza (1988), Notting Hill (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), Valentine's Day (2010), The Pelican Brief (1993), Ocean's Eleven (2001), and Ocean's Twelve (2004) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $2.4 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.
Roberts had become one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, topping the Hollywood Reporter's annual "power list" of top-earning female stars from 2005 to 2006. Her fee for 1990's Pretty Woman was $300,000; in 2003, she was paid an unprecedented $25 million for her role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). As of 2010, Roberts's net worth was estimated to be $140 million.
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Julius Carry
Julius J. Carry III (March 12, 1952 – August 19, 2008) was an American actor. Carry appeared primarily in numerous television roles, including Dr. Abraham Butterfield on Doctor, Doctor and the bounty hunter Lord Bowler in the The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. He also portrayed the main villain Sho'nuff in the cult classic film The Last Dragon. In addition to that movie he was also a supporting actor in the Rudy Ray Moore film Disco Godfather, and appeared in the film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. He also appeared on shows such as Murphy Brown, Family Matters, A Different World, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, and Boy Meets World.
Carry was immortalized via one of his best known characters Sho'Nuff from the movie The Last Dragon rapper Busta Rhymes in the music video for his single Dangerous, dressing as Sho'Nuff for one scene, repeating lines from the film.
His final appearance as an actor was in the season one episode "Eating The Young" on the CBS series The Unit. It aired in 2006.
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Katie Couric
Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and author. She serves as special correspondent for ABC News, contributing to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials. Starting on September 6, 2012, she will host Katie, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. She has anchored the CBS Evening News, reported for 60 Minutes, and hosted Today and reported for Dateline NBC. She was the first solo female anchor of a weekday evening news program on one of the three traditional USA broadcast networks. Couric's first book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives was a New York Times best-seller.
As of May 2012, Couric also has a web show for ABC News, entitled Katie's Take, airing weekly on Yahoo.
Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Elinor Tullie (née Hene), a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric Jr., a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Her mother was Jewish, but Couric was raised Presbyterian. Couric's maternal grandparents, Bert Hene and Clara L. Froshin, were the children of Jewish immigrants from Germany. In a report for Today, she traced her paternal ancestry back to a French orphan who immigrated to the U.S. in the nineteenth century and became a broker in the cotton business.
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Lee Shallat Chemel
Lee Shallat-Chemel sometimes credited as Lee Shallat (born on June 15, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film, television director and television producer.
She began her professional directorial career at the South Coast Repertory theatre in Costa Mesa, CA, while working at the same time as the head of the theatre's conservatory program. She also directed at the Grove Shakespeare Festival in Garden Grove, CA and the Matrix Theatre in Hollywood, CA. After a meeting with producer Gary David Goldberg, she made her television directorial debut in 1984 on the NBC television show Family Ties. Her career has included directing a multitude of shows including: Diff'rent Strokes, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Suddenly Susan, Becker, Sydney, George Lopez, That's So Raven, Arrested Development, The Middle and among other series. She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards, in 1992, 1994 and 1995. From 1996 to 1997, she directed twenty-three out of the first twenty-four episodes of Spin City.
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Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960s when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in. Her career has spanned television, comedy recordings, Broadway, and motion pictures, enjoying acclaimed success in each medium. She has won many awards including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award. Tomlin's humor is often sharp and insightful in the traditions of standup comedians, but also frequently endearing, slightly wacky, and generally quite "family friendly" in the tradition of television comediennes such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and Eve Arden.
Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Lillie Mae (née Ford), a housewife and nurse's aide, and Guy Tomlin, a factory worker. Tomlin's parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. She is a 1957 graduate of Cass Technical High School. Tomlin attended Wayne State University, where her interest in the theater and performing arts began. After college, Tomlin began doing stand-up comedy in nightclubs in Detroit and later in New York City. Her first television appearance was on The Merv Griffin Show in 1965.
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Marcia Wallace
Marcia Karen Wallace (born November 1, 1942) is an American character actress, comedienne and game show panelist, primarily known for her roles in television situation comedies. She is perhaps best known for her roles as receptionist Carol Kester on the 1970s sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, and as the voice of Edna Krabappel on the animated series The Simpsons, for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992.
Wallace moved from Iowa to New York the day that she graduated from college. After performing in summer stock and teaching English as a substitute teacher in the Bronx, she began her performing career in 1968, appearing for a year Off-Broadway with the improvisational group, The Fourth Wall. Afterwards, she made several other appearances in improvisational shows, and, after losing 100 pounds (45 kg) from her previous weight of 230, appeared in a nude production of Dark of the Moon at the avant-garde Mercer Arts Center. She also did commercials and studied with renowned acting teacher Uta Hagen.
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Marian Seldes
Marian Hall Seldes (born August 23, 1928) is an American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Seldes was born in New York City, the daughter of Alice "Amanda" Wadhams (Hall), a socialite, and Gilbert Seldes, a journalist, author, and editor. Her uncle was journalist George Seldes. Seldes's paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and her mother was from a "prominent WASP family," the "Episcopalian blue-blooded Halls." Seldes had a brother, Timothy, and grew up in a creative environment, studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Her mother's sister, Marian Wells Hall (died 1972), was a prominent American interior decorator.
Trained for the stage, Seldes made her Broadway theatre debut in 1948 in a production of Medea. She went on to an illustrious career in which she has earned five Tony Award nominations, winning her first time out in 1967 for A Delicate Balance. In addition to performing in live theatre, Seldes began acting in television in 1952 in a Hallmark Hall of Fame production that marked the first of many guest star roles. She also has performed in a number of motion pictures and in radio plays. In the mid-sixties, Seldes recorded five albums for Folkways Records of famous works of literature. Between 1974 and 1982, she appeared in 179 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. In 1992 she appeared as Murphy Brown's eccentric Aunt Brooke.
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Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn (born December 8, 1959) is a Canadian-born writer, conservative-leaning political commentator, and cultural critic. He has written five books, including America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller. He is published in newspapers and magazines, appears on shows such as those of Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, and Sean Hannity.
Steyn, a Canadian citizen, now resides mainly in New Hampshire in the United States. He is married, with three children.
Steyn was born in Toronto. He was baptized a Catholic and later confirmed in the Anglican Church; he has stated that "the last Jewish female in my line was one of my paternal great-grandmothers" and that "both my grandmothers were Catholic". Steyn's great-aunt was artist Stella Steyn. Steyn was educated at the King Edward's School, Birmingham, in the United Kingdom. This is the same school that author J. R. R. Tolkien attended and where Steyn was assigned a Greek dictionary that had also been used by Tolkien. He left school in 1978 at 18 and worked as a disc-jockey before becoming musical theatre critic at the newly established The Independent in 1986. He was appointed film critic for The Spectator in 1992. After writing predominantly about the arts, Steyn's focus shifted to political commentary and moved to the conservative broadsheet The Daily Telegraph (which stopped carrying his column in 2006).
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Mary Alice Williams
Mary Alice Williams (born March 12, 1949) is a former co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today and a former anchor and news division Vice President on CNN. Mary Alice Williams is a highly acclaimed broadcast journalist who brings to her Purchase College Journalism students a wealth of experience in the field. Her investigative work on such topics as foreign policy, ethics, technology and health have made her a respected authority and recognized voice for public information.
As one of the primary architects behind the design of the first worldwide television network, Williams oversaw the construction of CNN’s New York Bureau at the World Trade Center prior to the launch of Cable News network (CNN) in 1980 and served as New York Bureau Chief overseeing the planning and operation of the network’s second largest bureau with responsibility for seven hours of original programming per day. She was also one of the channel’s principal anchors. In 1982, Williams was appointed Vice president, becoming one of the highest ranking female executives in American television. She contributed to CNN’s award winning program lineup and played a major role in the network’s development and globalization. She was a critical member of CNN’s political anchor team co-hosting Inside Politics with Bernard Shaw.
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Michael Patrick King
Michael Patrick King (born September 14, 1954) is an American director, writer and producer for television shows.
King was born to an Irish American family in Scranton, Pennsylvania and was raised as a Roman Catholic. In the 1980s King moved to New York, did stand-up comedy, and wrote plays. He also was a member of a comedy improv group called The Broadway Local which mostly performed at Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. They were considered to be the in-house Improv group there.
He eventually moved to Los Angeles, where he found work writing for the television series Murphy Brown, and was nominated for several Emmys. He has written for another HBO show, The Comeback, as well as for broadcast shows Will & Grace, Good Advice and Cybill. But he is best known for his work on the HBO series Sex and the City, which was created by Darren Star. King wrote all the season premieres and finales of Sex and the City (except its Pilot, written by Star, and the fifth season finale, which King co-wrote with Cindy Chupack). King also directed the show's film adaptation, and its follow-up, Sex and the City 2. He is featured on The Other Network Writers Room, an audio series for aspiring comedy writers.
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Murphy Brown
Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television newsmagazine.
The program was well known for "torn-from-the-headlines" stories and blatant political satire. It achieved a high level of political notoriety in the 1992 presidential election when Dan Quayle mentioned the show in a campaign speech, afterwards known as the "Murphy Brown speech".
The show began in the Monday 9/8PM timeslot and remained there until its final season when it was moved to Wednesday at 8:30/7:30PM. The series finale aired in its original Monday timeslot.
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic, who, in the show's first episode, returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic. Over forty and single, she is sharp-tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered "one of the boys", having shattered any and all "glass ceilings" encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.
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Pat Corley
Pat Corley (June 1, 1930 – September 11, 2006) was an American actor. He was known for his role as bar owner Phil on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown from 1988–1996. He also had a recurring role as Chief Coroner Wally Nydorf on the television drama Hill Street Blues (1981–1987). Additionally, he had supporting roles in a number of films, including Night Shift (1982), Against All Odds (1984), and Mr. Destiny (1990).
Corley was born Cleo Pat Corley in Dallas, Texas, the son of Ada Lee (née Martin) and R.L. Corley. He got his start in the entertainment business as a teenage ballet dancer for the Stockton Ballet where he performed for three seasons. While serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Corley helped put on entertainment shows for the brass while stationed in France. After his honorable discharge, he entered Stockton College on the G.I. Bill where he met his future 2nd wife, Iris Carter, a younger student, champion debater and a locally acclaimed actress.
After moving to New York City he worked as a waiter, attended the esteemed American Theatre Wing, studied under Uta Hagen and auditioned for plays. Corley and his wife toured in summer stock in Indiana and New Jersey with his young daughter Troy in tow. His first Broadway appearance was in James Baldwin's Blues for Mr. Charlie, a production by the Actor's Studio, where Corley had been accepted as a member. Early in his career he shared the stage with future stars Al Pacino and James Earl Jones in the Off-Broadway play The Peace Creeps. In the 1970s Corley appeared in several Broadway productions including Of Mice and Men with James Earl Jones and Sweet Bird of Youth with Christopher Walken.
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Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and businessman who politically aligns himself with the Christian Right in the United States.
He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment Inc., Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, CBN Asia and Regent University. He is the host of The 700 Club, a Christian TV program airing on channels throughout the United States and on CBN network affiliates worldwide.
The son of U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Robertson is a Southern Baptist and was active as an ordained minister with that denomination for many years, but holds to a charismatic theology not traditionally common among Southern Baptists. He unsuccessfully campaigned to become the Republican Party's nominee in the 1988 presidential election. As a result of his seeking political office, he no longer serves in an official role for any church. His media and financial resources make him a recognized, influential, and controversial public voice for conservative Christianity in the United States.
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Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer, and comedian, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor. In 1982, Reubens put up a show about a character he had been developing during the last few years. The show was called The Pee-wee Herman Show and it ran for five sellout months with HBO producing a successful special with it. Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and for the next decade Reubens would be completely committed to his character, doing all of his public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee. In 1985 Pee-wee's Big Adventure, directed by the then-unknown Tim Burton, was a financial success and, despite receiving mixed reviews, it developed into a cult film. Big Top Pee-wee, 1988's sequel, was less successful than its predecessor. Between 1986 and 1990, Reubens starred as Pee-wee in the CBS Saturday-morning children's program Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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Paula Cale
Paula Korologos Cale (born June 2, 1970 in Great Falls, Virginia) is an American actress best known for her role as Joanie Hansen on the television series Providence.
Born Paula Korologos in Great Falls, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC, she is Greek American and a practicing member of the Mormon faith. She is the youngest of three children, with a sister, Ann, and brother, Philip.
Her father, Tom C. Korologos, worked as a top Capitol Hill lobbyist; a Congressional liaison during the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations; and worked closely with President George W. Bush. From 2004 to 2007, he served as the US Ambassador to Belgium. Her mother, Joy, was a homemaker and chairwoman of the Fairfax County School Board, who died in 1997 from a brain cancer melanoma.
Cale attended Langley High School and interned in the Ronald Reagan-era White House. Following her graduation in 1988, she studied to be a teacher for one year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, then transferred to the prestigious Goodman School of Theatre at DePaul University in Chicago, where she won a scholarship to study drama and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting 1993.
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Paula Zahn
Paula Ann Zahn (born February 24, 1956) is an American journalist, newscaster, former news anchor on ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, and CNN. On July 24, 2007, she announced her resignation from CNN. The final broadcast of Paula Zahn Now aired August 2, 2007. In January 2009, Discovery Communications announced that Zahn had entered into a development deal for a newsmagazine series, On the Case with Paula Zahn. The series, which profiles real crime stories, premiered October 18, 2009 on the Investigation Discovery cable channel.
Zahn was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a schoolteacher/artist mother and an IBM sales executive father. She initially grew up in Canton, Ohio, with her parents and three siblings. The family relocated to Naperville, Illinois, as her father's job required them to move frequently. She once joked that "IBM" really stood for "I've been moved". She attended Washington Junior High School in Naperville and later graduated from Naperville Central High School in 1974. She also competed in several beauty pageants, making the semi-finals of the 1973 Miss Teenage America Pageant. Zahn continued her education at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri on a cello scholarship, and received firsthand knowledge of the news business by working as an intern at WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Zahn then spent the next 10 years working at local stations around the country, including WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, KFMB-TV in San Diego, California, KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas, WHDH-TV (then WNEV) in Boston, Massachusetts, and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, California.
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Peter Bonerz
Peter Bonerz (born August 6, 1938 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) is an American actor and director who is best known as the character Dr. Jerry Robinson on The Bob Newhart Show.
Bonerz grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Marquette University High School, gaining his first theatrical experience with the Prep Players under rigid conditions. At Marquette University he participated in the Marquette University Players under the Rev. John J. Walsh, S.J. After graduating with a bachelor of science degree in 1960, he decided to seek a career in theater, beginning with The Premise, an improv group in New York. After compulsory service as a draftee in the US Army, he joined The Committee, an improv troupe in San Francisco.
His first network television appearance was in 1965 on The Addams Family in the Season Two episode "Morticia, The Writer". He had several more TV appearances in the late 1960s and also had a number of roles in several films, including Medium Cool (1969) and Catch-22 (1970). In 1971, Bonerz was part of an ensemble cast in the short-lived improvisational television show "Story Theatre" with such folks as Alan Alda and Valerie Harper. In 1972, he landed the popular supporting role of Dr. Jerry Robinson, the eccentric orthodontist on The Bob Newhart Show, whose most frequent comic foil was Marcia Wallace as Carol, the sharp-tongued secretary. He also directed 29 episodes. The show ran for six seasons, with ratings among the top 20 in the first three seasons.
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Peter Tolan
Peter James Tolan III (born July 5, 1958) is an American television producer, director, and screenwriter.
Tolan was born in Scituate, Massachusetts where he was a perrenial favorite in the high school's dramatic productions. Before leaving to pursue a career in Hollywood, Tolan founded a theater group called YPST (Young People's Summer Theatre). The group performed Broadway musicals and rehearsed at a local church. Within three years, the productions became so popular that additional rehearsal space had to be acquired and a second production added to accommodate the ever increasing enrollment. Tolan attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst for four years before dropping out to directly pursue theater. From college Tolan went to Minneapolis' Brave New Workshop (founded by improv great Dudley Riggs) at the suggestion of stage legend Stubby Kay who appeared with Tolan as a guest star in a UMass theater production. The legend amongst acquaintances is that Peter swept floors at the theater until he was finally invited to rehearse with the troupe. While in Minneapolis, Tolan collaborated with then "up and coming" comedians such as Louie Anderson and Ken Ober who remained a long time friend. In the mid 80's, Tolan moved to New York City where he and fellow writer-performer Linda Wallem formed a double act called Wallem & Tolan and began performing on the cabaret circuit in New York City at such venues as the Manhattan Punch Line. Wallem and Tolan's forte was cleverly written sketch material which included partially written, partially improvised banter between the two, often with comic twists and surprise endings. Broadway veteran Martin Charnin caught the act and worked with the duo to present it as an Off Broadway called Laughing Matters in 1989.
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Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly ( /ˈfɪlɨs ˈʃlæfli/; born August 15, 1924) is a Constitutional lawyer, American politically conservative activist and author who founded the Eagle Forum. She is known for her opposition to modern feminism and for her campaign against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Her self-published book, A Choice, Not An Echo, was published in 1964 from her home in Alton, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from her native St. Louis. She formed Pere Marquette Publishers company. She has co-authored books on national defense and was highly critical of arms-control agreements with the former Soviet Union.
Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in the 1970s and the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, St. Louis. As of 2012[update], she is still the president of the organizations, and also has a presence on the lecture circuit. Since 1967, she has published a newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report.
Schlafly's great-grandfather Stewart, a Presbyterian, came from Scotland to New York in 1851 and moved westward through Canada before settling in Michigan. Her grandfather, Andrew F. Stewart, was a master mechanic with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. Schlafly's father, John Bruce Stewart, was a machinist and salesman of industrial equipment, principally for Westinghouse. He became unemployed in 1932 during the Great Depression and could not find permanent work until World War II. He was granted a patent in 1944 for a rotary engine.
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Robert Pastorelli
Robert Joseph Pastorelli (June 21, 1954 – March 8, 2004) was an American actor. He had many roles on TV, in movies, and on the stage, including the seven years he played the portly painter Eldin Bernecky on the television series Murphy Brown. His last role was as an oddball hit man in Be Cool, reuniting him with Michael star John Travolta. Pastorelli died of a heroin overdose in 2004.
Pastorelli was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the son of Dotty, an artist, and Ledo Pastorelli, an insurance salesman. Pastorelli was of Italian descent. His sister, Gwen Pastorelli, is an opera singer and a real estate agent. He was a 1972 graduate of Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey. A near-fatal car crash on his 19th birthday cost him his dream of boxing professionally.
Pastorelli was found dead in his home at Hollywood Hills in 2004; a syringe, a spoon and a plastic bag with white powder were discovered near his body. His death occurred at the time the authorities were reopening the investigation into the March 1999 shooting death of his then-girlfriend, 25-year-old Charemon Jonovich, at their home. Pastorelli, who knew of the investigation, had been considered a person of interest. The investigation into Jonovich's death, initially ruled an accident or undetermined, was closed after Pastorelli's death; the cause of death on her death certificate was changed to homicide.[citation needed] The Coroner's Office later reported that Pastorelli died of "acute cocaine-morphine (heroin) toxicity".[citation needed]
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Robin Thomas
Robin Thomas (born February 12, 1949) is an American film and television actor.
He was born Robin Thomas Grossman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His best-known television roles are as Mark Singleton in the soap opera Another World (1983–85), and as Geoffrey Wells on the 1980s series Who's the Boss?. He has also had recurring roles in series such as Murphy Brown (as Jake Lowenstein), Matlock (as a prosecutor) and The Division (as Louis Perillo).
Thomas's best-known film roles were as Steve Carlson in the 1986 film About Last Night... and as Vice Principal Phil Gills in the 1987 comedy Summer School. Thomas has made many guest appearances on TV shows, including Misfits of Science, Midnight Caller, Party of Five, and Queer as Folk.
Two of his biggest screen roles were in Missing Brendan, with Edward Asner, and Ambulance Girl, in which he co-starred with Kathy Bates and Gordon Pinsent.
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Rose Marie
Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.
A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, records, theater, night clubs, and television. Her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show. She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on CBS's The Doris Day Show and was also a frequent panelist on the game show Hollywood Squares.
Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New York City, New York, to Italian-American Frank Mazzetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak. At the age of three, she started performing under the name "Baby Rose Marie." At five, Rose Marie became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films.
Rose Marie was a nightclub performer in her teenage years before becoming a radio comedian. She was billed then as "The Darling of the Airwaves." According to her autobiography, Hold the Roses, she was assisted in her career by many members of organized crime, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She performed at the opening night of the Flamingo Hotel which was built by Siegel.
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Russ Woody
Russ Woody is an American author, television producer and writer.
Woody grew up in Walnut Creek, California In 1979, He graduated from California State University, Chico with a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Speech and Drama.
Since the early 1980s, He has amassed a number of producing and writing credits in television in the series Benson, Fantasy Island, Webster, Newhart, Valerie's Family, St. Elsewhere, Hill Street Blues, Parenthood, Good Sports, Room for Two, Double Rush, Mad About You, The Drew Carey Show, Cybill, Style & Substance, Becker, True Jackson, VP, Notes from the Underbelly, The Middle and Murphy Brown, for which a won a Primetime Emmy Award as a part of the show's writing team. As well as working as a production assistant on Bosom Buddies and Family Ties.
In 2009, Woody wrote his first novel entitled The Wheel of Nuldoid, a book he co-authored Norman Felchle.
Woody currently lives Los Angeles and Ventura with his wife, Catherine, his sons, Henry and Joe.
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Scott Bakula
Scott Stewart Bakula ( /ˈbækjʊlə/; born October 9, 1955) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He also had a prominent role as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise. Bakula also guest starred in seasons two and three of NBC's Chuck as the title character's father Stephen Bartowski.
Bakula's most recent role was on Desperate Housewives as the lawyer named Trip which happened to be his chief engineer's nickname in Enterprise.
Bakula was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Sally and Stewart J. Bakula, a concert pianist/lawyer. He graduated from Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Missouri, in 1973. During high school, he was active in soccer, tennis, and theatre. Also during high school, he had the lead roles in Godspell and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at First Presbyterian Church in Kirkwood. He also played Tevye in an Independent Theatre Production of Fiddler on the Roof at Kirkwood High. Bakula attended college at the University of Kansas until his sophomore year. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta while attending the University.
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Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his left-wing political and social activism (including humanitarian work). He is a two-time Academy Award winner for his roles in Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008), as well as the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for the former and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the latter.
Penn began his acting career in television with a brief appearance in a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie, directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in 1981's Taps and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, Penn emerged as a prominent leading actor with the 1995 drama film Dead Man Walking, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination and the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Penn received another two Oscar nominations for Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and I Am Sam (2001), before winning his first Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 for Mystic River and a second one in 2008 for Milk. He has also won a Best Actor Award of the Cannes Film Festival for She's So Lovely (1997), and two Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival for Hurlyburly (1998) and 21 Grams (2003).
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Steve Zuckerman
Steve Zuckerman is an American television director.
Since 1987, He has amassed a number television credits including Full House, The Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Empty Nest, Friends, The Drew Carey Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, Zoey 101, According to Jim and among other series.
He began his career in theater. He went on to direct the play Unexpected Tenderness in 1994.
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Steven Peterman
Steven Peterman is an American television producer, screenwriter, and actor.
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Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. Although he reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombing in World War II, the Nuremberg trials, combat in the Vietnam War,Watergate, the Iran Hostage Crisis, and the murders of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr., and The Beatles musician John Lennon, he was known for extensive TV coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of a Moon-rock award. Cronkite is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the way it is," followed by the date on which the appearance is aired.
Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena (née Fritsche, August 1892 - November 1993), and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite (September 1893 - May 1973), a dentist. He had remote Dutch ancestry on his father's side, the family surname originally being Krankheyt.
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Yuppie
Yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly mobile professional") is a term that refers to a member of the upper middle class or upper class in their 20s or 30s. It first came into use in the early 1980s and largely faded from American popular culture in the late 1980s, due to the 1987 stock market crash and the early 1990s recession.[citation needed] However it has been used in the 2000s and 2010s, in places such as in National Review, The Weekly Standard and Details.
Yuppies are mocked for their conspicuous personal consumption and hunger for social status among their peers. Cornell University economist Robert H. Frank, author of Luxury Fever, has remarked, "When people were denouncing yuppies, they had considerably lower incomes than yuppies, so the things yuppies spent their money on seemed frivolous and unnecessary from their vantage point." Pro-skateboarder and businessman Tony Hawk has said that yuppies give "us visions of bright V-neck sweaters with collars underneath, and all that was vile in the eighties", and he has also remarked that a "bitchin’ tattoo cannot hide your inner desire to be Donald Trump."
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Murphy Brown
Murphy Brown is a very selfish, stubborn, extremely hot-tempered but also talented, resourceful, clever and caring middle-aged reporter who works for FYI News Network and at the same time tries to raise her child as an unmarried, working woman. Her friends and co-workers, Corky, Jim, Frank and Miles, try to balance between her outbursts of anger and her family, personality or even financial crises. It's a difficult life for Murphy but she's got the guts to live it...
Cast
- Candice Bergen
- Faith Ford
- Grant Shaud
- Joe Regalbuto
- John Hostetter
- Charles Kimbrough
- Robert Pastorelli
- Lily Tomlin
- Ritch Brinkley
- Garry Marshall
- Pat Corley
- Christopher Rich
- Scott Bakula
- Janet Carroll
- Alan Oppenheimer
- Pat Finn
- Jane Leeves
- Jay Thomas
- Ernest-Frank Taylor
- Season 1
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Episode 1: Respect
The title is based on the R&B; song "Respect" written By (and sung by) Otis Redding, but became a big...
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Episode 2: Devil with a Blue Dress On
Murphy: You know, a lot of things went through my head in the last fifty-six minutes, but the same t...
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Episode 3: Nowhere to Run
The title is based on the 1965 song "Nowhere to Run" by Martha & the Vandellas for Motown Records....
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Episode 4: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
The title comes from the 1970 song "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" (1970) by Stevie Wonder rec...
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Episode 5: Murphy's Pony
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Episode 6: Baby Love
The title is from the 1964 song "Baby Love" recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label and was th...
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Episode 7: Set Me Free
The title is based on the song "Set Me Free" by Ray Davies and sung by The Kinks in 1965....
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Episode 8: And So He Goes
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Episode 9: I Would Have Danced All Night
The title is based on the song "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the Lerner and Loewe musical/mov...
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Episode 10: Kyle
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Episode 11: Off the Job Experience
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Episode 12: Why Do Fools Fall in Love?
The title comes from the song Why Do Fools Fall in Love sung by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers in 195...
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Episode 13: Soul Man
The title is based on the song "Soul Man" written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter in 1967 for Atlant...
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Episode 14: It's How You Play the Game
The title is based on the proverb: "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game."...
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Episode 15: Mama Said
The title is from the song of the same name performed by The Shirelles and reached #4 on the Billboa...
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Episode 16: Moscow on the Potomac
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Episode 17: My Dinner with Einstein
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Episode 18: Funnies Girl
The title comes from the musical/movie Funny Girl with book by Isobel Lennart, music by Jule Styne, ...
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Episode 19: The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown
The title is a variation on the musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". The original Broadway producti...
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Episode 20: The Summer of '77
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Episode 21: The Bickners
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Episode 22: The Morning Show
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- Season 2
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Episode 1: The Brothers Silverberg
The title is from the novel The Brothers Karamazov by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky which is ...
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Episode 2: Anchors Away
The title is from the official song of the United States' Navy....
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Episode 3: The Memo That Got Away
The title is based on the song "The Man that Got Away" written for the 1954 version of the movie _A ...
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Episode 4: TV or not TV
The title is from the To Be or Not Be soliloquy from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet....
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Episode 5: Miles' Big Adventure
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Episode 6: Buddies Schmuddies
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Episode 7: Whose Garbage Is It Anyway?
The title is from the play/movie _Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)_ (qv)....
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Episode 8: And the Whiner Is...
The title is based on the phrase said by the presenter at the annual Oscars (R) put on by the Academ...
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Episode 9: Roasted
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Episode 10: Brown Like Me: Part 1
The title is a parody of the racial tolerance movie _Black Like Me (1964)_ (qv)....
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Episode 11: Brown Like Me: Part 2
The title is a parody of the racial tolerance movie _Black Like Me (1964)_ (qv)....
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Episode 12: The Strike
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Episode 13: Here's to You, Mrs. Kinsella
The episode's title references the line "Here's to you Mrs. Robinson" from the song "Mrs. Robinson" ...
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Episode 14: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
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Episode 15: Subpoena Envy
The title is a comic form of the female psychological disorder 'penis envy'....
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Episode 16: I Want My FYI
The title is from the 1980's advertising slogan "I Want My MTV!" used for the MTV video playing stat...
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Episode 17: Frankly Speaking
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Episode 18: The Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting
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Episode 19: Bad Girls
The title is from the 1979 Donna Summer disco song "Bad Girls" co-written by Summer and the Brooklyn...
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Episode 20: Heart of Gold
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Episode 21: On the Road Again
Per the title, "On the Road Again" is a song made famous by 'Willie Nelson' (qv) from the movie _Hon...
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Episode 22: But First a Word from Our Sponsor
The title is a cue from the announcer at the break of a television show just prior to the next comme...
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Episode 23: Frank's Appendectomy
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Episode 24: Fax or Fiction
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Episode 25: The Bitch's Back
The title is from the 1974 song "The Bitch is Back" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin reaching #4 on t...
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Episode 26: Goin' to the Chapel: Part 1
Corky: [panicking over her upcoming wedding] Murphy, you may not know this but I'm a virgin.::[Corky...
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Episode 27: Goin' to the Chapel: Part 2
The title is a line from the song "Chapel of Love" written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil S...
- Season 3
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Episode 1: The 390th Broadcast
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Episode 2: Brown and Blue
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Episode 3: Loco Hero
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Episode 4: Strike Two
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Episode 5: The Gold Rush
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Episode 6: Bob & Murphy & Ted & Avery
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Episode 7: The Last Laugh
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Episode 8: Rootless People
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Episode 9: The Bummer of 42
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Episode 10: Trouble in Sherwood-Forrest
The title references the home and hiding place of the legendary Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men...
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Episode 11: Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle All the Way
The title is a parody of the first line of the winter/Christmas classic Jingle Bells....
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Episode 12: Retreat
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Episode 13: Eldin Imitates Life
The title is a variation on the common truism: Art imitates life....
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Episode 14: Contractions
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Episode 15: Hoarse Play
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Episode 16: The Novel
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Episode 17: Terror on the 17th Floor
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Episode 18: On Another Plane: Part 1
'Brittany Murphy' (qv)'s TV debut....
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Episode 19: On Another Plane: Part 2
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Episode 20: Driving Miss Crazy
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Episode 21: Everytime It Rains... You Get Wet
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Episode 22: Corky's Place
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Episode 23: Small
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Episode 24: The Usual Suspects
The title is based on the movie _Casablanca (1942)_ (qv) and the quotation made by Captain Renault, ...
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Episode 25: Q & A on FYI
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Episode 26: Uh-Oh: Part 1
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- Season 4
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Episode 1: Uh-Oh: Part 2
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Episode 2: Uh-Oh: Part 3
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Episode 3: I'm as Much of a Man as I Ever Was
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Episode 4: Male Call
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Episode 5: The Square Triangle
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Episode 6: Full Circle
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Episode 7: The Smiths Go to Washington
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Episode 8: It Came from College
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Episode 9: The Queen of Soul
Per the title, 'Aretha Franklin' (qv), an American singer is commonly referred to as "The Queen of S...
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Episode 10: Inside Murphy Brown
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Episode 11: Mission Control
Per the title, mission control usually refers to the NASA control center in Houston Texas for manned...
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Episode 12: Be It Ever So Humboldt
The title is a line from the traditional song Home Sweet Home. "Be it ever so humble, There's no pla...
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Episode 13: Love Is Blonde
The title is based on a line for William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice": For I am much ...
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Episode 14: Anchor Rancor
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Episode 15: Guess Who's Coming to Luncheon
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Episode 16: Lovesick
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Episode 17: Heartfelt
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Episode 18: Send in the Clowns
The title is from the song of the same name by 'Stephen Sondheim' (qv), from the 1973 musical A Litt...
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Episode 19: Murphy Buys the Farm
The term in the the title is from the euphemism "bought the farm" which usually applies to a soldier...
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Episode 20: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
The title is the cry of a child playing Hide and Seek to find those that are hiding from him/her....
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Episode 21: Rage Before Beauty
The title is a parody of the common proverb: "Age before beauty."...
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Episode 22: Phil's Not So Silent Partner
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Episode 23: He-Ho, He-Ho, It's Off to Lamaze We Go
Murphy: I already know how to breathe and I am the last person who needs lessons on how to push....
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Episode 24: On the Rocks
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Episode 25: A Chance of Showers
The episode "A Chance of Showers" (episode 4.25) featured cameos by actual newscasters 'Katie Couric...
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Episode 26: Birth 101
[after giving birth]::Murphy: Oh god, my body's making milk. It's like one day discovering you can g...
- Season 5
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Episode 1: You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato: Part 1
Rocker 'Todd Rundgren' (qv) used the Dan Quayle sound byte about and mentioning Murphy Brown in his ...
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Episode 2: You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato: Part 2
In the final episode of season four, Murphy Brown gave birth to her child, Avery. Around that time V...
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Episode 3: Life After Birth
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Episode 4: Black, White & Brown
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Episode 5: I Never Sang for My Husband
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Episode 6: Night of Living News
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Episode 7: A Year to Remember
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Episode 8: Midnight Plane to Paris
The title is based on the song "Midnight Train to Georgia," a 1973 number-one hit single by Gladys K...
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Episode 9: Me Thinks My Parents Doth Protest Too Much
The title is based on a quote from 'William Shakespeare (I)' (qv)'s play 'Hamlet': The lady doth pro...
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Episode 10: Winners Take All
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Episode 11: Till Death or Next Thursday Do We Part
The title is based on the Christian wedding ceremony and the promise to be true "until death do us p...
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Episode 12: I'm Dreaming of a Brown Christmas
The episode's title reference the line "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" from the song "White Chri...
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Episode 13: Games Mother Play
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Episode 14: The British Invasion
Per the title, the British invasion usually refers to Rock and Roll music dating from the appearance...
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Episode 15: Back to the Ball
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Episode 16: The Intern
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Episode 17: Trickster, We Hardly Knew Ye
The title comes from the song "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye," a popular Irish nineteenth century traditio...
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Episode 18: The World According to Avery
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Episode 19: Bump in the Night
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Episode 20: To Market, to Market
The title was based on a nursery rhyme of the same name....
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Episode 21: Two for the Road
The title is from a song made famous by Perry Como, "Make it one for ma baby an' one more for the ro...
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Episode 22: Murphy and the Amazing Leaping Man
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Episode 23: The Egg & I
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Episode 24: Ship of Phil's
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Episode 25: One
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- Season 6
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Episode 1: The More Things Change
The title is from the old proverb: "The more things change, the more they stay the same."...
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Episode 2: Angst for the Memories
The title is from the song "Thanks for the Memories" sung by 'Bob Hope (I)' (qv) and 'Shirley Ross (...
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Episode 3: Black and White and Read All Over
The title comes from the classic joke (What's black and white and red all over?) whose answer is "A ...
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Episode 4: Political Correctness
The title refers to a philosophy that language, behavior and ideas must minimize social and institut...
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Episode 5: The Young & the Rest of Us
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Episode 6: Ticket to Writhe
The title is based on the 1965 song "Ticket to Ride" by The Beatles reaching #1 on the US Billboard ...
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Episode 7: I Don't Know You from Madam
The title is from the expression: "I don't know you from Adam."...
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Episode 8: All the Life That's Fit to Print
The title comes from the motto of The New York Times "All the News That's Fit to Print."...
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Episode 9: Bah Humboldt
The title is from the sour exclamation of Ebenezer Scrooge from the Charles Dickens' classic A Chris...
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Episode 10: Reaper Madness
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Episode 11: It's Not Easy Being Brown
The title refers to common phrase "It's not easy being green" which was also the basis of a song by ...
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Episode 12: To Have and Have Not
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Episode 13: Sox and the Single Girl
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Episode 14: A Piece of the Auction
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Episode 15: The Thrill of the Hunt
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Episode 16: The Deal of the Art
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Episode 17: The Anchorman
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Episode 18: Fjord Eyes Only
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Episode 19: Crime Story
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Episode 20: The Fifth Anchor
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Episode 21: Anything But Cured
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Episode 22: The Tip of the Silverburg
The title comes from the expression "the tip of the iceberg" meaning that there is more to it since ...
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Episode 23: It's Just Like Riding a Bike
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Episode 24: My Movie with Louis
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Episode 25: The More Things Stay the Same
The title is from the old proverb: "The more things change, the more they stay the same."...
- Season 7
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Episode 1: Brown vs. the Board of Education
Per the title, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) was a landmark decision of the United St...
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Episode 2: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?
The title is a line from the Simon and Garfunkel song Mrs. Robinson that was written for the 'Dustin...
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Episode 3: Loose Affiliations
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Episode 4: Be Careful What You Wish For
The title is based upon the warning to be wary of magical gifts, "Be careful what you wish for"....
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Episode 5: Burger, She Wrote
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Episode 6: Humboldt IV: Judgment Day
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Episode 7: Frank Cuts Loose
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Episode 8: Reporters Make Strange Bedfellows
The title refers to the common expression "Politics makes strange bedfellows" commenting on the odd ...
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Episode 9: Prelude to a Kiss
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Episode 10: Bye Bye Bernecky
The title is based on the musical _Bye Bye Birdie (1963)_ (qv) with book by Michael Stewart, lyrics ...
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Episode 11: The Secret Life of Jim Dial
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Episode 12: Brown in Toyland
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Episode 13: The Best and Not-So-Brightest
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Episode 14: Rumble in the Alley
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Episode 15: Requiem for a Crew Guy
The title refers to the 'Rod Serling' (qv) movie _Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)_ (qv)....
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Episode 16: I Want My MTV-Jay
The title is from the 1980's advertising slogan "I Want My MTV!" used for the MTV video channel....
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Episode 17: Specific Overtures
The title is based on the work Pacific Overtures (1976) with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a...
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Episode 18: A Rat's Tale
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Episode 19: It's Miller Time
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Episode 20: McGovern: Unclothed
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Episode 21: The Good Nephew
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Episode 22: FYI of the Hurricane
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Episode 23: Model Relationships
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Episode 24: Make Room for Daddy
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Episode 25: Retrospective: Part 1
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Episode 26: Retrospective: Part 2
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- Season 8
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Episode 1: Altered States
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Episode 2: The Awful Truth
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Episode 3: Fearless Frank
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Episode 4: Murphy's Law
Per the title, Murphy's Laws are a series of axioms based on the principle that whatever can happen ...
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Episode 5: Sex or Death
The title is based on the ultimate choice between life or death....
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Episode 6: Miller's Crossing
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Episode 7: The Feminine Critique
The title is from the book The Feminine Mystique, written by Betty Friedan which brought to light th...
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Episode 8: Bad Company
The title is from the movie _Bad Company (1972)_ (qv)....
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Episode 9: The Ten Percent Solution
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Episode 10: The Humboldt Doldt
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Episode 11: Dick and Dottie
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Episode 12: All in the Family
The title is from the landmark sitcom _"All in the Family" (1968)_ (qv) which brought the issues of ...
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Episode 13: If You're Going to Talk the Talk
The title is based on the expression: If You're Going to Talk the Talk, then You're Going to Have to...
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Episode 14: My Fair Miller
The title comes from the Lerner and Loewe musical/movie _My Fair Lady (1964)_ (qv) which was based o...
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Episode 15: Old Flames
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Episode 16: Up in Smoke
The title is the same as the Cheech and Chong movie _Up in Smoke (1978)_ (qv)....
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Episode 17: Aftermath
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Episode 18: Trick or Retreat
The title is a variation of the Halloween custom of trick or treating....
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Episode 19: All Singing! All Dancing! All Miserable!
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Episode 20: The Bus Stops Here
The title is based on Harry Truman's philosophy about being President: "The Buck Stops Here!"...
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Episode 21: When A. Lansing Loves a Woman
The title is a variation on the song title "When a Man Loves a Woman" recorded by Percy Sledge in 19...
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Episode 22: Casa Nova
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Episode 23: Stepping Out
The title is from the song "Steppin' Out With My Baby" written by 'Irving Berlin (I)' (qv) for the m...
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Episode 24: Miles Away
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- Season 9
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Episode 1: Executive Decision
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Episode 2: Power Play
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Episode 3: A Comedy of Eros
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Episode 4: Son of Dottie
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Episode 5: Office Politics
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Episode 6: Phil's Dead - Long Live Phil's
Per the title, it is based on the proclamation upon the death of the reining monarch: "The King is d...
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Episode 7: That's the Way the Corky Crumbles
The title comes from the old expression: "That's the way the cookie crumbles."...
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Episode 8: Defending Your Life
The title is from the 'Meryl Streep' (qv) fantasy movie _Defending Your Life (1991)_ (qv)....
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Episode 9: Underdogs
When the gang gets the TV Q's and they see how low Miller's is, they think that he's on his way out ...
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Episode 10: Nobody's Perfect
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Episode 11: A One Night Stan
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Episode 12: Seperation Anxiety
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Episode 13: Montezuma's Retreat
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Episode 14: The Big Thaw
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Episode 15: Who Do You Truss?
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Episode 16: You Don't Know Jackal
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Episode 17: Blind Date
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Episode 18: Oh, Danny Boy
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Episode 19: Desperate Times
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Episode 20: And That's the Way It Was?
The title is the nightly sign-off used by 'Walter Cronkite' (qv) when he did the _"CBS Evening News ...
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Episode 21: How to Marry a Billionaire
The title is from the comedy _How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)_ (qv) which starred 'Marilyn Monroe'...
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Episode 22: Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow
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Episode 23: Mama Miller
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Episode 24: When One Door Closes...
The title comes from the quote by Alexander Graham Bell, "When one door closes, another opens; but w...
- Season 10
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Episode 1: Murphy Redux
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Episode 2: A Butcher, a Faker, a Bummed-Out Promo Maker
The title comes from a line in the nursery rhyme "Rub a dub dub": "A butcher, a baker, a candlestick...
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Episode 3: Ectomy, Schmectomy
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Episode 4: Operation: Murphy Brown
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Episode 5: Florence Night-en Corky
Per the title, Florence Nightingale, who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneer...
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Episode 6: Waiting to Inhale
The title is based on the women's movie _Waiting to Exhale (1995)_ (qv)....
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Episode 7: Petty Woman
The title comes from the 'Julia Roberts (I)' (qv)/'Richard Gere' (qv) romance _Pretty Woman (1990)_ ...
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Episode 8: From Here to Jerusalem
The title is based on the World War II romance movie _From Here to Eternity (1953)_ (qv) starring 'B...
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Episode 9: Tempus Fugit
Per the title, the term Tempus fugit is Latin meaning "time flees" or "time flies" and is frequently...
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Episode 10: I Hear a Symphony
The title is from the 1965 song "I Hear a Symphony" recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label an...
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Episode 11: From the Terrace
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Episode 12: The Last Temptation of Murphy
The title is based on the controversial religious-based movie _The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)_...
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Episode 13: Turpis Capillus Annus (Bad Hair Day)
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Episode 14: Wee Small Hours
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Episode 15: Then and Now
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Episode 16: Opus One
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Episode 17: Seems Like Gold Times
The title is from the 'Neil Simon (I)' (qv) comedy _Seems Like Old Times (1980)_ (qv)....
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Episode 18: Second Time Around
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Episode 19: A Man and a Woman
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Episode 20: Dial and Substance
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Episode 21: Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 1
The title is from the 1971 song "Never Can Say Goodbye" written by Clifton Davis and recorded by The...
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Episode 22: Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 2
The last show of the series....
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Murphy's crazy secretaries (Part 1) Murphy Brown Tribute
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- Duration: 11:57
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Murphy Brown's crazy secretaries (season 1) Part 1. Tribute to one of the best TV comedies. If you liked the video, please subscribe to my OTHER channel - www.youtube.com
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Murphy Brown's crazy secretaries (season 1) Part 1. Tribute to one of the best TV comedies. If you liked the video, please subscribe to my OTHER channel - www.youtube.com
Bette Midler on "Murphy Brown"
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- Duration: 2:56
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
Bette Midler in final episode of Murphy Brown
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Bette Midler in final episode of Murphy Brown
- published: 01 Feb 2009
- views: 56612
- author: Mihai Carneol
'Murphy Brown' Reunion
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- Duration: 9:14
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
Harry Smith took a look back with Candice Bergen and the cast of the 1990s hit show "Murphy Brown."
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Harry Smith took a look back with Candice Bergen and the cast of the 1990s hit show "Murphy Brown."
- published: 03 Nov 2009
- views: 17242
- author: CBS
Murphy Brown Comic Scene
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- Duration: 1:09
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Murphy Brown Comic Scene
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Murphy Brown, Aretha Franklin "Duet"
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- Duration: 6:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
At the "FYI" studio Murphy Brown anxiously awaits her opportunity to interview singer Aretha Franklin. So momentous is this assignment that Murphy wangles extra airtime from her co-anchors. Unfortunately, she gets a LOT more airtime than she ever expected when Aretha's limosine is delayed by unexpected traffic... The episode's highlight is when the famous Queen of Soul enters an already emptied studio - and sings for her one remaining, but most appreciative fan...
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At the "FYI" studio Murphy Brown anxiously awaits her opportunity to interview singer Aretha Franklin. So momentous is this assignment that Murphy wangles extra airtime from her co-anchors. Unfortunately, she gets a LOT more airtime than she ever expected when Aretha's limosine is delayed by unexpected traffic... The episode's highlight is when the famous Queen of Soul enters an already emptied studio - and sings for her one remaining, but most appreciative fan...
- published: 15 Dec 2009
- views: 23515
- author: ParadiesTeam
'Murphy Brown' Reunion Interview: Sitcom Stars at TV Land Awards
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- Duration: 6:27
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
The cast of the hit '90s sitcom reunited at the TV Land Awards. For more on this story go here: abcn.ws
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The cast of the hit '90s sitcom reunited at the TV Land Awards. For more on this story go here: abcn.ws
- published: 20 Apr 2012
- views: 2458
- author: ABCNews
Murphy's crazy secretaries (Part 2) Murphy Brown Tribute
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- Duration: 11:58
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Second part of the 'Murphy Brown crazy secretaries vault' - Season 1. Tribute to one of the best TV comedies. In case you liked the video, please subscribe to my other channel -www.youtube.com
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Second part of the 'Murphy Brown crazy secretaries vault' - Season 1. Tribute to one of the best TV comedies. In case you liked the video, please subscribe to my other channel -www.youtube.com
- published: 08 Feb 2012
- views: 9393
- author: murphybrownfan
Murphy Brown
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- Duration: 2:31
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
Steven Culp appearance 1989
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seinfeld - the key
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- Duration: 0:47
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
seinfeld season 3 episode 23, the key. Kramer's on Murphy Brown.
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seinfeld season 3 episode 23, the key. Kramer's on Murphy Brown.
- published: 06 Sep 2007
- views: 23609
- author: eldrun
Murphy Brown
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- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
How not to do live TV.
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Kelly Bishop in Murphy Brown
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- Duration: 6:17
- Updated: 20 Jun 2011
Kelly Bishop from Gilmore Girls, Dirty Dancing, and a Chorus Line as Miles Silverburg's mother, Connie, on Murphy Brown. No copyright infringement intended. For entertainment purposes only.
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Kelly Bishop from Gilmore Girls, Dirty Dancing, and a Chorus Line as Miles Silverburg's mother, Connie, on Murphy Brown. No copyright infringement intended. For entertainment purposes only.
- published: 25 Feb 2011
- views: 3439
- author: zombieshoes76
Caroline on Murphy Brown Age 1
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- Duration: 5:23
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
1993 Caroline Hamilton on CBS this Morning for her role as the baby Avery on Murphy Brown for two seasons.
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1993 Caroline Hamilton on CBS this Morning for her role as the baby Avery on Murphy Brown for two seasons.
- published: 10 Nov 2010
- views: 8374
- author: Kathy Reed Hamilton
Murphy Brown vs. Captain Hollywood - Axel F 2003
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- Duration: 2:55
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Videoclip: Murphy Brown vs. Captain Hollywood - Axel F 2003 Label: www.ministryofsound.de
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Videoclip: Murphy Brown vs. Captain Hollywood - Axel F 2003 Label: www.ministryofsound.de
- published: 03 Feb 2009
- views: 57550
- author: ministryofsoundde
Olivia Newton-John on Murphy Brown
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
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Sesame Street: Murphy Brownbag With Cookie And Murphy Brown
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- Duration: 1:57
- Updated: 22 Sep 2012
If you're watching videos with your preschooler and would like to do so in a safe, child-friendly environment, please join us at www.sesamestreet.org Cookie Monster and Murphy discuss lunch. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
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If you're watching videos with your preschooler and would like to do so in a safe, child-friendly environment, please join us at www.sesamestreet.org Cookie Monster and Murphy discuss lunch. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
- published: 04 Jun 2010
- views: 24039
- author: SesameStreet
Murphy Brown - Closing Theme
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- Duration: 0:32
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Murphy Brown - Closing Theme
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Kevin Conroy On Murphy Brown
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- Duration: 1:09
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Kevin Conroy
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![Take 6 - Like The Whole World's Watching [Murphy Brown]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121228010056im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GPq3R2PLpQ8/default.jpg "Take 6 - Like The Whole World's Watching [Murphy Brown]")
Take 6 - Like The Whole World's Watching [Murphy Brown]
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- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
I'm posting this out of love for my all time favorite group. I had to share w/ T6 fans worldwide who may not have known about these tracks (I just found out) - Enjoy! Buy the CD in you can find it: "Growing Pains and other Hit TV Themes", 1988
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I'm posting this out of love for my all time favorite group. I had to share w/ T6 fans worldwide who may not have known about these tracks (I just found out) - Enjoy! Buy the CD in you can find it: "Growing Pains and other Hit TV Themes", 1988
- published: 08 Mar 2010
- views: 6264
- author: VoxWack
Tour Smithfield Foods and Murphy-Brown: Hog Farm
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- Duration: 2:09
- Updated: 09 May 2012
Smithfield Foods encourages you to take a tour of one of Murphy-Brown's hog farms from farrowing barn to finished production, and see how pigs are humanely raised and treated at these farms. NOTE: The contact information displayed at the end of this video is outdated. To contact us, please shoot us an email at information@smithfieldfoods.com, find us on Facebook or Twitter, or contact us through our corporate website at www.smithfieldfoods.com.
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Smithfield Foods encourages you to take a tour of one of Murphy-Brown's hog farms from farrowing barn to finished production, and see how pigs are humanely raised and treated at these farms. NOTE: The contact information displayed at the end of this video is outdated. To contact us, please shoot us an email at information@smithfieldfoods.com, find us on Facebook or Twitter, or contact us through our corporate website at www.smithfieldfoods.com.
- published: 22 Jul 2009
- views: 94878
- author: SmithfieldFoods
CHARLES SHAUGHNESSY - MURPHY BROWN
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- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Charles Shaughnessy, o sr. Sheffield de The Nanny, participa na sitcom Murphy Brown with subtitles (portuguese/Brazil)
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Charles Shaughnessy, o sr. Sheffield de The Nanny, participa na sitcom Murphy Brown with subtitles (portuguese/Brazil)
- published: 29 Aug 2009
- views: 6474
- author: Miirani
Murphy's crazy secretaries (Part 3)
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- Duration: 8:35
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Part 3. Season 2. MB Tribute.
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Murphy's crazy secretaries (Part 4)
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- Duration: 8:03
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Part 4. Season 2. MB Tribute.
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Murphy's crazy secretaries (Part 5)
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- Duration: 7:23
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Part 5. Seasons 3 and 4. Murphy Brown Tribute.
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Part 5. Seasons 3 and 4. Murphy Brown Tribute.
- published: 11 Apr 2012
- views: 4183
- author: murphybrownfan
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Murphy Brown, Aretha Franklin "Duet"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:02
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
At the "FYI" studio Murphy Brown anxiously awaits her opportunity to interview singer Aretha Franklin. So momentous is this assignment that Murphy wangles extra airtime from her co-anchors. Unfortunately, she gets a LOT more airtime than she ever expected when Aretha's limosine is delayed by unexpected traffic... The episode's highlight is when the famous Queen of Soul enters an already emptied studio - and sings for her one remaining, but most appreciative fan...
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At the "FYI" studio Murphy Brown anxiously awaits her opportunity to interview singer Aretha Franklin. So momentous is this assignment that Murphy wangles extra airtime from her co-anchors. Unfortunately, she gets a LOT more airtime than she ever expected when Aretha's limosine is delayed by unexpected traffic... The episode's highlight is when the famous Queen of Soul enters an already emptied studio - and sings for her one remaining, but most appreciative fan...
- published: 22 Dec 2010
- views: 23532
- author: mvhuse
'Murphy Brown' Reunion
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:14
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Harry Smith took a look back with Candice Bergen and the cast of the 1990s hit show "Murphy Brown."
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Harry Smith took a look back with Candice Bergen and the cast of the 1990s hit show "Murphy Brown."
- published: 22 Dec 2010
- views: 17260
- author: mvhuse
I Am Your Child - Barry Manilow
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- Duration: 4:46
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
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Natural Woman - Candice Bergen Tribute
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
This is a tribute to the lovely Miss Candice Bergen. I did more a slide show than a motion picture video, because my program refused to work with the clips. I am pretty pleased with the outcome nonetheless.
Hope you enjoy!!!
comments are very welcome!
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This is a tribute to the lovely Miss Candice Bergen. I did more a slide show than a motion picture video, because my program refused to work with the clips. I am pretty pleased with the outcome nonetheless.
Hope you enjoy!!!
comments are very welcome!
- published: 22 Dec 2010
- views: 38723
- author: mvhuse
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Candice Bergen Wins Best Actress TV Series - Golden Globes 1989
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- Duration: 2:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Harry Hamlin, Linda Grey, and James Brolin present the award for Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy. Candice Bergen wins the Golden Globe for her show Murphy Brown and thanks her fellow
nominees, director, cast, crew, writers, Diane English, CBS, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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Harry Hamlin, Linda Grey, and James Brolin present the award for Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy. Candice Bergen wins the Golden Globe for her show Murphy Brown and thanks her fellow
nominees, director, cast, crew, writers, Diane English, CBS, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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- published: 28 Feb 2010
- views: 9915
- author: Gisele candido
Eisner Show1
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- Duration: 7:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Michael Eisner interviews Candice Bergen.
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60th Annual Emmy Awards - Candice Bergen/Alec Baldwin
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- Duration: 2:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Candice Bergen presented the award in the category " Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series". Alec Baldwin was the winner.
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Candice Bergen presented the award in the category " Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series". Alec Baldwin was the winner.
- published: 28 Feb 2010
- views: 6355
- author: Gisele candido
Candice Bergen on Smile Train
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Candice Bergen Supports The Smile Train
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Denny Crane and Shirley ( A Thrill a Moment)
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Lovely
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Four Tops Murphy Brown Music Video
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- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
PRODUCED FOR MURPHY BROWN SYNDICATION LAUNCH. CHUCK SABATINO PRODUCER AND BASS, GARY BIVONA PRODUCER AND TRUMPET, GEORGE PERILLI DRUMS, TOM PETERSON SAX.
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PRODUCED FOR MURPHY BROWN SYNDICATION LAUNCH. CHUCK SABATINO PRODUCER AND BASS, GARY BIVONA PRODUCER AND TRUMPET, GEORGE PERILLI DRUMS, TOM PETERSON SAX.
- published: 18 Apr 2010
- views: 1734
- author: Gisele candido
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Murphy Brown, Aretha Franklin "Duet"
At the "FYI" studio Murphy Brown anxiously awaits her opportunity to interview singer Aret...
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Murphy Brown, Aretha Franklin "Duet"
At the "FYI" studio Murphy Brown anxiously awaits her opportunity to interview singer Aretha Franklin. So momentous is this assignment that Murphy wangles extra airtime from her co-anchors. Unfortunately, she gets a LOT more airtime than she ever expected when Aretha's limosine is delayed by unexpected traffic... The episode's highlight is when the famous Queen of Soul enters an already emptied studio - and sings for her one remaining, but most appreciative fan...
- published: 22 Dec 2010
- views: 23532
- author: mvhuse
9:14
'Murphy Brown' Reunion
Harry Smith took a look back with Candice Bergen and the cast of the 1990s hit show "Murph...
published: 22 Dec 2010
author: mvhuse
'Murphy Brown' Reunion
Harry Smith took a look back with Candice Bergen and the cast of the 1990s hit show "Murphy Brown."
- published: 22 Dec 2010
- views: 17260
- author: mvhuse
3:37
Natural Woman - Candice Bergen Tribute
This is a tribute to the lovely Miss Candice Bergen. I did more a slide show than a motion...
published: 22 Dec 2010
author: mvhuse
Natural Woman - Candice Bergen Tribute
This is a tribute to the lovely Miss Candice Bergen. I did more a slide show than a motion picture video, because my program refused to work with the clips. I am pretty pleased with the outcome nonetheless.
Hope you enjoy!!!
comments are very welcome!
- published: 22 Dec 2010
- views: 38723
- author: mvhuse
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4:05
Toby Gale - "Showdown"
This music video was made by Crowns & Owls, a Leeds based film production company.
www.cro...
published: 19 Apr 2012
author: Crowns & Owls
Toby Gale - "Showdown"
This music video was made by Crowns & Owls, a Leeds based film production company.
www.crownsandowls.com
www.crownsandowls.tumblr.com
www.tobygale.com
CAST
Son - Rueben Crossland Jones
Father – Trevor Jones
Mother – Gayle Dennis
Opponent – Jacob Steers
Opponent’s Father- Simon Hirst
Referee- Frank Ryan
Boxer – Giovanni Marrocco
CREW
Written, produced, shot and directed by Crowns & Owls.
Production Assistant – Louis Bleazard
Costume – Katie Brown
Gaffer – Jamie Starke
Focus Puller – Adam Conlon
1st A/C – James Rhodes
Steadicam Operator - Matt Burton
Sparks – Giles Smith and Michael Battcock
Grip – Krishna Muthurangu
SPECIAL THANKS
Provision Leeds, Production Light and Sound, Harvey & Austin Ascott, Left Eye Blind, Murphy's Mill, Hunslet Boxing Club, John Taylor from Silsden Road Forest (Tilhill Forestry Ltd), Matt Burton, SPL College & Leeds college of Art and Design.
www.crownsandowls.com
5:05
This Is My Body
*If the video won't play on your mobile device, WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.co...
published: 10 Jul 2012
author: Jason Stefaniak
This Is My Body
*If the video won't play on your mobile device, WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ME8sR-bnY
**Subtitled Version (English): https://vimeo.com/48314213
Views = Power, so please share, tweet, email and spread this video! Ask your friends and family to do the same and if you have a favorite women's group or political organization, share it with them too!
Read the monologue and post your own videos @: www.Facebook.com/ThisIsMyBody
Created by Jason Stefaniak and Siobhan O'Loughlin
www.JasonStefaniak.com www.SiobhanOloughlin.com
Thank you to all of the generous "This Is My Body" donors:
Christa Harmon. Maureen Hassenbohler. Lisa Rojas. Lauren McDade. Stephanie Cox. Rachel Fauber. Liz Estela. Scott Berjot-Stafiej. Faith Goodiel. Kristina Ticknor. Brendan Leahy. Megan and Tito Colon. Garrett Mannchen. Katrina Rojas. Kristan and Papo Rojas. Gerry Rojas. Dana Facchine. Jason Kwon. Kathryn Ticknor. Kiel McLaughlin. Beth Goodiel. Jess Bass. AnnaRose King. Brie Aines. Andrew Daugherty. Mitch Troescher. Chris Ciancimino. Gloria and Darrin Frizelle. Krista Armentrout. Melissa Brown. Sam Margolis. Deb Moriarty. Brad Snyder. Lisa Marie. Lisa Simmons. Patrick Martinez. Diane Ambrosio. Alexis Riley. Bill Logan. Mary and Pablo Rojas. Sarah Elfreth. Joyce Wu. Becca Epstein. Lauren Seserko. Ivona Stanoeva. Isadora Guerreiro. Janice Murphy. Annie Fleming.
33:37
Bomb Flow Episode 6 "The Rise of Blue Balls"
With a rough fall for Chuck Jones(Evan Garcia) the bomb flow crew returns to Chile with mo...
published: 25 Dec 2011
author: BombFlowTV
Bomb Flow Episode 6 "The Rise of Blue Balls"
With a rough fall for Chuck Jones(Evan Garcia) the bomb flow crew returns to Chile with more fire than ever. Starting at the Rio Claro, and continuing down to the classics such as the nevado, and the palguin right around Pucon, the classics are all accounted for. Then heading south to an erupting volcano+nilahue falls, and the Rio Florin this episode will blow your mind... and that doesnt account for the off-water antics! Check it out!
BROWN
Edit:Evan Garcia
Cinematography:Evan Garcia, Anton Immler, Logan Grayling, Nick Murphy
Graphics: Anton Immler
Shot on Canon EOS 7D, GoPro HD, HD2
3:17
SHOAH - HD
...going to reflect.
Shot with the naked Canon HV40 and edited with Sony Vegas.
Kennet...
published: 26 Dec 2009
author: Matty Brown
SHOAH - HD
...going to reflect.
Shot with the naked Canon HV40 and edited with Sony Vegas.
Kenneth Treister is the sculptor/architect of this amazing work of art located in Miami Beach, Florida...Here's a link to his portfolio. http://www.studio32.net/WWW/Portfolio/KennethTreister/index.html
Shot (non-archival footage) and edited by Matthew Brown
Music by John Murphy from the film 'Sunshine'
2:26
Candice Bergen Wins Best Actress TV Series - Golden Globes 1989
Harry Hamlin, Linda Grey, and James Brolin present the award for Actress in a TV Series Mu...
published: 28 Feb 2010
author: Gisele candido
Candice Bergen Wins Best Actress TV Series - Golden Globes 1989
Harry Hamlin, Linda Grey, and James Brolin present the award for Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy. Candice Bergen wins the Golden Globe for her show Murphy Brown and thanks her fellow
nominees, director, cast, crew, writers, Diane English, CBS, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
License Golden Globe Awards Clips Here:
http://dickclarklicensing.com/Default.aspx?&sk;=DCMA&q;=Golden+Globe+Awards
- published: 28 Feb 2010
- views: 9915
- author: Gisele candido
7:52
Eisner Show1
Michael Eisner interviews Candice Bergen....
published: 28 Feb 2010
author: Gisele candido
Eisner Show1
Michael Eisner interviews Candice Bergen.
- published: 28 Feb 2010
- views: 2711
- author: Gisele candido
2:29
60th Annual Emmy Awards - Candice Bergen/Alec Baldwin
Candice Bergen presented the award in the category " Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Se...
published: 28 Feb 2010
author: Gisele candido
60th Annual Emmy Awards - Candice Bergen/Alec Baldwin
Candice Bergen presented the award in the category " Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series". Alec Baldwin was the winner.
- published: 28 Feb 2010
- views: 6355
- author: Gisele candido
2:24
Candice Bergen on Smile Train
Candice Bergen Supports The Smile Train...
published: 28 Feb 2010
author: Gisele candido
Candice Bergen on Smile Train
Candice Bergen Supports The Smile Train
- published: 28 Feb 2010
- views: 4419
- author: Gisele candido
2:52
Denny Crane and Shirley ( A Thrill a Moment)
Lovely...
published: 01 Apr 2010
author: Gisele candido
Denny Crane and Shirley ( A Thrill a Moment)
Lovely
- published: 01 Apr 2010
- views: 10785
- author: Gisele candido
4:29
Four Tops Murphy Brown Music Video
PRODUCED FOR MURPHY BROWN SYNDICATION LAUNCH. CHUCK SABATINO PRODUCER AND BASS, GARY BIVON...
published: 18 Apr 2010
author: Gisele candido
Four Tops Murphy Brown Music Video
PRODUCED FOR MURPHY BROWN SYNDICATION LAUNCH. CHUCK SABATINO PRODUCER AND BASS, GARY BIVONA PRODUCER AND TRUMPET, GEORGE PERILLI DRUMS, TOM PETERSON SAX.
- published: 18 Apr 2010
- views: 1734
- author: Gisele candido
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4:05
Toby Gale - "Showdown"
This music video was made by Crowns & Owls, a Leeds based film production company.
www.cro...
published: 19 Apr 2012
author: Crowns & Owls
Toby Gale - "Showdown"
This music video was made by Crowns & Owls, a Leeds based film production company.
www.crownsandowls.com
www.crownsandowls.tumblr.com
www.tobygale.com
CAST
Son - Rueben Crossland Jones
Father – Trevor Jones
Mother – Gayle Dennis
Opponent – Jacob Steers
Opponent’s Father- Simon Hirst
Referee- Frank Ryan
Boxer – Giovanni Marrocco
CREW
Written, produced, shot and directed by Crowns & Owls.
Production Assistant – Louis Bleazard
Costume – Katie Brown
Gaffer – Jamie Starke
Focus Puller – Adam Conlon
1st A/C – James Rhodes
Steadicam Operator - Matt Burton
Sparks – Giles Smith and Michael Battcock
Grip – Krishna Muthurangu
SPECIAL THANKS
Provision Leeds, Production Light and Sound, Harvey & Austin Ascott, Left Eye Blind, Murphy's Mill, Hunslet Boxing Club, John Taylor from Silsden Road Forest (Tilhill Forestry Ltd), Matt Burton, SPL College & Leeds college of Art and Design.
www.crownsandowls.com
5:05
This Is My Body
*If the video won't play on your mobile device, WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.co...
published: 10 Jul 2012
author: Jason Stefaniak
This Is My Body
*If the video won't play on your mobile device, WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ME8sR-bnY
**Subtitled Version (English): https://vimeo.com/48314213
Views = Power, so please share, tweet, email and spread this video! Ask your friends and family to do the same and if you have a favorite women's group or political organization, share it with them too!
Read the monologue and post your own videos @: www.Facebook.com/ThisIsMyBody
Created by Jason Stefaniak and Siobhan O'Loughlin
www.JasonStefaniak.com www.SiobhanOloughlin.com
Thank you to all of the generous "This Is My Body" donors:
Christa Harmon. Maureen Hassenbohler. Lisa Rojas. Lauren McDade. Stephanie Cox. Rachel Fauber. Liz Estela. Scott Berjot-Stafiej. Faith Goodiel. Kristina Ticknor. Brendan Leahy. Megan and Tito Colon. Garrett Mannchen. Katrina Rojas. Kristan and Papo Rojas. Gerry Rojas. Dana Facchine. Jason Kwon. Kathryn Ticknor. Kiel McLaughlin. Beth Goodiel. Jess Bass. AnnaRose King. Brie Aines. Andrew Daugherty. Mitch Troescher. Chris Ciancimino. Gloria and Darrin Frizelle. Krista Armentrout. Melissa Brown. Sam Margolis. Deb Moriarty. Brad Snyder. Lisa Marie. Lisa Simmons. Patrick Martinez. Diane Ambrosio. Alexis Riley. Bill Logan. Mary and Pablo Rojas. Sarah Elfreth. Joyce Wu. Becca Epstein. Lauren Seserko. Ivona Stanoeva. Isadora Guerreiro. Janice Murphy. Annie Fleming.
33:37
Bomb Flow Episode 6 "The Rise of Blue Balls"
With a rough fall for Chuck Jones(Evan Garcia) the bomb flow crew returns to Chile with mo...
published: 25 Dec 2011
author: BombFlowTV
Bomb Flow Episode 6 "The Rise of Blue Balls"
With a rough fall for Chuck Jones(Evan Garcia) the bomb flow crew returns to Chile with more fire than ever. Starting at the Rio Claro, and continuing down to the classics such as the nevado, and the palguin right around Pucon, the classics are all accounted for. Then heading south to an erupting volcano+nilahue falls, and the Rio Florin this episode will blow your mind... and that doesnt account for the off-water antics! Check it out!
BROWN
Edit:Evan Garcia
Cinematography:Evan Garcia, Anton Immler, Logan Grayling, Nick Murphy
Graphics: Anton Immler
Shot on Canon EOS 7D, GoPro HD, HD2
3:17
SHOAH - HD
...going to reflect.
Shot with the naked Canon HV40 and edited with Sony Vegas.
Kennet...
published: 26 Dec 2009
author: Matty Brown
SHOAH - HD
...going to reflect.
Shot with the naked Canon HV40 and edited with Sony Vegas.
Kenneth Treister is the sculptor/architect of this amazing work of art located in Miami Beach, Florida...Here's a link to his portfolio. http://www.studio32.net/WWW/Portfolio/KennethTreister/index.html
Shot (non-archival footage) and edited by Matthew Brown
Music by John Murphy from the film 'Sunshine'
photo: Creative Commons / Axou
24 Dec 2012
Steve Jobs was controversial in life, and now his high-tech mega-yacht is associated with a controversy long after his death. The former Apple CEO's ship was impounded in Amsterdam in the middle of a financial battle over a disputed bill. Phillippe Starck, a French product designer and architect, has alleged that Jobs' heirs owe him 3 million euros for his work on Venus, the 256-foot yacht Jobs commissioned before his death ... ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
27 Dec 2012
Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra, File
26 Dec 2012
Cairo • The official approval of Egypt’s disputed, Islamist-backed constitution Tuesday held out little hope of stabilizing the country after two years of turmoil and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi may now face a more immediate crisis with the economy falling deeper into distress ... Join the Discussion. The battle over the constitution left Egypt deeply polarized at a time when the government is increasingly cash-strapped ... The U.S ... " ... ....(size: 5.7Kb)
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
27 Dec 2012
Imperial adventures are nothing new in the Middle East. Neither is their glorification, as Peter O’Toole’s pained Lawrence of Arabia eternally reminds us. But for a decade or so now, things have been heating up, as if to coincide with climate change and fears of declining petroleum reserves ... The Belly for Belligerence? ... The question loomed over beltway intelligentsia like an ephemeral Gordian knot ... We’re All Hawks Now ... While George W ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
Huffington Post
22 Dec 2012
Bush's reelection campaign in 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle <a href=""http.//news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19920521&id=b1tWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NfADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6921,388223"" target="_hplink">scoffed</a> at the "Murphy Brown situation," referring to a television character who had a child out of wedlock....(size: 9.7Kb)
STL Today
21 Dec 2012
Christmas is still days away, but TV viewers have already been able to get into the spirit and celebrate over and over with our closest fictional friends — Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and her pals on “New Girl,” the Hecks on “The Middle,” the star-crossed couples on “Glee” and more ... • On “Murphy Brown,” Murphy (Candice Bergen) persuaded everyone at the office not to exchange gifts, then bought lavish presents for everyone ... ....(size: 3.7Kb)
Huffington Post
21 Dec 2012
Bush's reelection campaign in 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle <a href=""http.//news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19920521&id=b1tWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NfADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6921,388223"" target="_hplink">scoffed</a> at the "Murphy Brown situation," referring to a television character who had a child out of wedlock....(size: 7.7Kb)
Canberra Times
21 Dec 2012
Waiting game ... houses in Badgerys Creek. Photo ... ... The meeting was addressed by Barry Murphy, the former chief executive of the Federal Airports Corporation, and Chris Brown, an adviser on the recent joint report. Both Murphy and Brown back an airport for its economic stimulus. Murphy is enthusiastic about the creation of a "Sydney West Airport Partnership" to update the voluminous work already prepared into a proposal for Badgerys Creek....(size: 12.5Kb)
Detroit news
20 Dec 2012
Neal Rubin Comments. Zoom. Joe Nipote was able to return the kindness to Ray Bucciarelli after writing Delta Airlines. (Joenipote.com) ... In fact, it's almost like you can't avoid them ... Among other things, he spent four seasons as mechanic Frankie Waters in "Viper," 18 episodes as the voice of a cartoon ghost in "The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper," and 27 seconds as one of Candice Bergen's hopeless secretaries in "Murphy Brown." ... 13....(size: 11.7Kb)
New York Post Online
19 Dec 2012
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said today that CEO Lisa Gersh is stepping down after just five months atop the domestic diva’s rapidly shrinking empire ... Getty Images. Lisa Gersh ... “I call it the Murphy Brown syndrome,” said Michael Kupinski, a media analyst with Noble Financial Partners, referring to the ’90s TV show that starred Candice Bergen as a sharp-tongued news anchor who had trouble retaining assistants ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
Huffington Post
19 Dec 2012
Bush's reelection campaign in 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle <a href=""http.//news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19920521&id=b1tWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NfADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6921,388223"" target="_hplink">scoffed</a> at the "Murphy Brown situation," referring to a television character who had a child out of wedlock....(size: 8.5Kb)
Huffington Post
16 Dec 2012
Bush's reelection campaign in 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle <a href=""http.//news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19920521&id=b1tWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NfADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6921,388223"" target="_hplink">scoffed</a> at the "Murphy Brown situation," referring to a television character who had a child out of wedlock....(size: 10.5Kb)
Huffington Post
12 Dec 2012
Bush's reelection campaign in 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle <a href=""http.//news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19920521&id=b1tWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NfADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6921,388223"" target="_hplink">scoffed</a> at the "Murphy Brown situation," referring to a television character who had a child out of wedlock....(size: 7.9Kb)
The Hollywood Reporter
12 Dec 2012
share. "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Red Tails" and "Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds" will also compete for best picture. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced nominations for the annual Image Awards on Tuesday.our editor recommends ... 1 on NBC ... The Life and Music of James Brown"; - RJ Smith (Gotham Books) ... B ... Vali Chandrasekaran, Robert Carlock - "30 Rock" - Murphy Brown Lied to Us (NBC) ... ....(size: 22.5Kb)
The Examiner
11 Dec 2012
Dobama Theater. Ghosts of War. January 16 – 27, 2013. 2340 Lee Road. Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118. Performed at Dobama’s Home on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights. Dobama Theatre proudly announces this season’s GYM production of the Playwrights’ GYM, GHOSTS OF WAR by Christopher Johnston, directed by Charles Kartali ... His film and television credits include Batman, The Russia House, Nightbreed, Doing Time on Maple Drive, and Murphy Brown ... ....(size: 5.6Kb)
Chicago Tribune
11 Dec 2012
MOTION PICTURE. Motion Picture. "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Fox Searchlight Pictures). "Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company). "Flight" (Paramount Pictures). "Red Tails" (Lucasfilm). "Tyler Perry's Good Deeds" (Lionsgate). Actor in a Motion Picture ... Suraj Sharma - "Life of Pi" (20th Century Fox) ... The Life and Music of James Brown" - RJ Smith (Gotham Books) ... Vali Chandrasekaran, Robert Carlock - "30 Rock" - Murphy Brown Lied to Us (NBC)....(size: 16.6Kb)
Springfield News-Sun
07 Dec 2012
Girls basketball. Thursday's results. Bellbrook 54, Eaton 34. Coldwater 34, St. Henry 33. Covington 53, Franklin-Monroe 48. Delphos St. John’s 48, Parkway 39. Dixie 53, Northridge 30. Fort Loramie 63, Houston 12. Fort Recovery 63, Marion Local 60. Greeneview 54, Triad 25. Madison 65, Carlise 26. Miami Valley 65, Emm ... Totals ... Brown 2, Ward 7, McClellan 8, Wesley 8, Murphy 2, T. Brown 3 ... Brown 1, Ward 1, Henderson 1); Thurgood 1 (Curtiss 1) ... 12 ... F....(size: 9.4Kb)
| Murphy Brown | |
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| 240px The cast of Murphy Brown |
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| Format | Sitcom |
| Created by | Diane English[1] |
| Starring | Candice Bergen Faith Ford Pat Corley (1988-1996) Grant Shaud (1988-1996) Joe Regalbuto Robert Pastorelli (1988-1994) Charles Kimbrough Lily Tomlin (1996-1998) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 247 (List of Episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 26 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | November 14, 1988 – May 18, 1998 |
Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television newsmagazine.[2]
Contents |
Overview[link]
The program was well known for "torn-from-the-headlines" stories and blatant political satire. It achieved a high level of political notoriety in the 1992 presidential election when Dan Quayle mentioned the show in a campaign speech, afterwards known as the "Murphy Brown speech".[3]
The show began in the Monday 9/8PM timeslot and remained there until its final season when it was moved to Wednesday at 8:30/7:30PM. The series finale aired in its original Monday timeslot.
Characters[link]
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic, who, in the show's first episode, returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic. Over forty and single, she is sharp-tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered "one of the boys", having shattered any and all "glass ceilings" encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or more sympathetic) media personalities.
Her colleagues at FYI include stuffy veteran anchor Jim Dial (Charles Kimbrough), who affectionately addresses Murphy as "Slugger" and reminisces about the glory days of Murrow and Cronkite. Murphy's best friend and sometime competitor is investigative reporter Frank Fontana (Joe Regalbuto), the only person who addresses her as "Murph". Though a daredevil reporter, insecurities regarding fame and (especially) his personal relationships have him in psychotherapy for the majority of the series. In early seasons, there was a running gag about Frank's toupée, which he hated, but which producers insisted he wear on the show.
In the pilot, there were two "new" members of the FYI team introduced to Murphy. A new executive producer was appointed during her stay at Betty Ford: Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud), a yuppie overachiever who was 25 and fresh from public television. Naive and neurotic despite his lightning intellect, Miles is the perfect object for Murphy's skewering wit. Corky Sherwood (Faith Ford) was Murphy's replacement during her "sabbatical". A former Miss America from the (fictional) town of Neebo, Louisiana, Corky is the bane of the other journalists with her perky personality—and utter lack of sophistication when it comes to world affairs. Due to overwhelming audience reaction, management decides to retain her services after Murphy's return.
The FYI team also frequently socializes at Phil's, a bar-and-grill across the street from their office/studio in Washington, D.C. Phil, the bar owner, was played by Pat Corley. Phil's was portrayed as a Washington institution, whose owner knew everything about everybody who had ever been anybody in the capital—ranging from what brand of lingerie J. Edgar Hoover preferred to the identity of Deep Throat (unknown to the public at the time of the series' production).
Brown was unmarried, but had a home life as well: she hired a laid-back, New Age philosophy-dispensing house painter named Eldin Bernecky (Robert Pastorelli) to repaint her house. He had so many grand ideas that he was in her employ for six seasons. Being a highly talented artist, his renovations were often delayed when struck by the urge to paint socially-relevant murals throughout the house.
In 2010, Murphy Brown was ranked #25 on the TV Guide Network special, 25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time.[4]
Recurring characters[link]
A number of recurring characters also appeared during the show's run:
- John Hostetter played John, the unflappable stage manager in 62 episodes.
- Janet Carroll appeared as Doris Dial, anchorman Jim Dial's equally stoic wife, in several episodes. In the final season the role of Doris was portrayed by Concetta Tomei.
- Jay Thomas appeared in several episodes as tabloid talk show host Jerry Gold, who became a friend of Murphy's and an occasional love interest, despite their significantly different journalistic values.
- Colleen Dewhurst appeared in a number of episodes as Murphy's opinionated museum curator mother, Avery Brown. Dewhurst won several Emmy Awards for her appearances. When Dewhurst died in 1991, the writers chose to have her character die as well, and dedicated the episode to the memory of Dewhurst. Murphy, who was pregnant at the time of her mother's death, named her son Avery in her mother's memory the following season.
- Darren McGavin appeared in several episodes as Murphy's driven father, newspaper publisher Bill Brown. Bill shared an adversarial relationship with his ex-wife Avery—especially after marrying a fresh-faced twentysomething who taught yoga. McGavin earned an Emmy nomination in 1990 for his performance as Bill Brown.
- Scott Bakula appeared as reporter (and occasional love interest for Murphy) Peter Hunt.
- Jane Leeves appeared in a number of episodes as Miles' girlfriend Audrey Cohen. Though they were headed for marriage, the relationship ended when Leeves joined the cast of Frasier as Martin Crane's physiotherapist and Niles' love interest, Daphne.
- Robin Thomas appeared as Jake Lowenstein, underground leftist radical and Murphy's ex-husband. Murphy and Jake had another brief relationship, and Jake was the father of her child.
- Christopher Rich played Miller Redfield, an empty-headed, pretty-boy reporter with a local affiliate who had semi-regular appearances on the show, first as a substitute anchor when Jim was on leave, and also when the team went on strike.
- Paula Cale appeared as McGovern, a conservative young reporter based on MTV's Kennedy. She was added to the program when management tried to appeal to a younger demographic.
- Alan Oppenheimer appeared as news-division executive Gene Kinsela.
- Garry Marshall appeared as micro-managing network president Stan Lansing. His frequent and impromptu whims were the bane of the staff.
- Jean Stapleton appeared a few times, playing Miles' grandmother, Nana Silverberg.
- Rose Marie appeared as Frank Fontana's mother.
- Paul Reubens appeared in several episodes as Lansing's sociopathic nephew Andrew J. Lansing, III. He is introduced as one of Murphy's 93 secretaries du jour and, with Carol Kester (Marcia Wallace), was one of only two who measure up to Murphy's standards. Like Carol, Andrew is lured away from Murphy by another job by the end of the episode; in his case, he is promoted to a network executive position through nepotism. He periodically appears in later episodes in that capacity, mostly as his uncle's "black-ops" expert.
- Julia Roberts appeared in one episode, having a crush on Frank.
- Marian Seldes appeared as Murphy's eccentric and often-married aunt Brooke.
- In the show's final seasons, when the younger Avery Brown was of school age, he was portrayed by Haley Joel Osment, replacing child actor Dylan Christopher.
- Julius Carry appeared as Mitchell Baldwin, the new boss who replaced Gene Kinsela. Baldwin, an African-American, used the team's liberal-Caucasian guilt to railroad through changes in FYI′s format and content.
The early seasons[link]
The first season saw Murphy relearning her job without the use of two crutches—alcohol and cigarettes. In an early episode, she complained the only vice she had left herself was chewing yellow number-two pencils. It also set up the series-long running gag of Murphy's battles with the off-beat and sometimes downright bizarre characters that would be sent by Personnel to act as her secretary.
Like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the action was divided between the FYI suite of offices and Murphy's Georgetown townhouse. Reality often blended with fiction with the many cameos of then-current media and political personalities. The most prominent was when Murphy Brown was asked to guest star as herself in the pilot of a sitcom entitled Kelly Green, about a female investigative journalist. Life imitated art when, after a less-than stellar performance, Murphy was berated by television journalist Connie Chung (herself in a Murphy Brown cameo appearance) for crossing the line and compromising her credibility.
Subsequent seasons saw the emergence of story arcs involving network politics with Gene Kinsella, Frank and Murphy's rivalry and Eldin's ongoing infatuation with Corky. A standout event was Miss Sherwood's marriage to Louisiana lawyer Will Forrest. During the brief engagement, a horrified Corky comes to the realization that she will now be "Corky Sherwood-Forrest". In the wedding episode, maid-of-honor Murphy, dressed as an antebellum belle in a hoop-skirted nightmare of a bridemaid's dress, rages her way through the entire affair while thwarting the press's attempts to photograph the nuptials (mirroring the Sean Penn/Madonna wedding a few years earlier).
Murphy becomes a single mother[link]
In the show's 1991–1992 season, Murphy became pregnant. When her baby's father (ex-husband and current underground radical Jake Lowenstein) expressed his unwillingness to give up his own lifestyle to be a parent, Murphy chose to have the child and raise it alone. Another major fiction-reality blending came at Murphy's baby shower: the invited guests were journalists Katie Couric, Joan Lunden, Paula Zahn, Mary Alice Williams and Faith Daniels, who treated the fictional Murphy and Corky as friends and peers.
At the point where she was about to give birth, she had stated that "several people do not want me to have the baby. Pat Robertson; Phyllis Schlafly; half of Utah!" Right after giving birth to her son, Avery, Murphy sang the song "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin. This storyline made the show a subject of political controversy during the 1992 American presidential campaign. On May 19, 1992, then Vice President Dan Quayle spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. During his speech,[5] he criticized the Murphy Brown character for "ignoring the importance of fathers by birthing a child alone".[6][7][8][9]
Quayle's remarks caused a public discussion on family values, culminating in the 1992–93 season premiere, "You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato", where the television characters reacted to Quayle's comments and produced a special episode of FYI showcasing and celebrating the diversity of the modern American family. Because Quayle's actual speech made little reference to Murphy Brown's fictional nature (other than the use of the word character), the show was able to use actual footage from his speech to make it appear that, within the fictional world of the show, Quayle was referring to Murphy Brown personally, rather than to the fictional character. At the end, Brown helps organize a special edition of FYI focusing on different kinds of families then arranges a retaliatory prank in which a truckload of potatoes is dumped in front of Quayle's residence, while a disc jockey commenting on the incident notes the Vice President should be glad people were not making fun of him for misspelling "fertilizer", (On June 15, 1992, at a spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, Quayle had erroneously corrected an elementary school student's spelling of "potato" to "potatoe".) When Candice Bergen won another Emmy that year, she thanked Dan Quayle. The feud was cited by E! as #81 on its list of "101 Reasons the '90s Ruled."[10]
However, political commentator and cultural critic Mark Steyn observed that the producers didn't seem to have a clue what to do with her son Avery commenting, "In the five years since little Avery's birth ushered in the Clinton era, Murphy Brown has been on CBS every week, Dan Quayle has been back in Indiana (and Arizona). But Avery? As soon as he was born, Muphy made another 'lifestyle choice': she stuck him at the back of the closet under the Emmy Awards and the commendations from single-parent outreach groups and mouldering editorials hailing the show for its courage, and the poor kid hasn't been seen since."[11]
In 2002, Bergen said in an interview that she personally agreed with much of Quayle's speech, calling it "a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable" and adding that "nobody agreed with that more than I did."[12]
Quayle would eventually display a sense of humor about the incident—after the controversy died down, he appeared for an interview on an independent Los Angeles TV station and for his final question was asked what his favorite TV show was. He responded with "Murphy Brown—Not!" The station would later use the clip of Quayle's response to promote its showing of Murphy Brown re-runs in syndication.
Later years[link]
The fifth season would continue on after the departure of series-creator and showrunner Diane English. Murphy's struggles with parenthood would be highlighted, as would the revolving-door of nanny characters mirroring her office tribulations. Corky's marriage would unravel and end in divorce as she and Will grew apart. (Right before the wedding, Forrest had decided to abandon the practice of law and follow his true calling—creative writing.) This tragedy would see Corky become less the Pollyanna as she began to model herself after role-model Murphy.
The show would go on, and FYI would see several changes in on- and off-camera staff: Peter Hunt, McGovern and Miller Redfield would temporarily join the regulars at the anchor desk. The network would move FYI to a new studio with a trendy exterior "Window on America". A significant story-arc would see the network squelch an FYI expose on the tobacco industry, leading to the resignation of first Dial, then the remainder of the cast. They would all go to work reorganizing the poorly-performing news division of a fledging network. In the end, Miles would face down the network; the "suits" relented, the staffers returned and the story aired. For his courage in standing up to the network brass, Miles would be promoted to the news division's headquarters in New York—to the detriment of his new marriage to Corky.
Shaud left the series in 1996, and was replaced by Lily Tomlin as executive producer Kay Carter-Shepley for the show's final two seasons. Kay proved that she had just as little journalistic experience as Miles Silverberg when he started with the show; the only experience Kay had in television—in spite of her venerable connections—was producing daytime game shows. Where Murphy had terrorized the younger Miles, the Machiavellian Kay often emerged victorious in her dealings with Murphy.
In the show's final season, a year-long story arc aired in which Murphy battled breast cancer. The show's handling of the subject was credited with a 30 percent increase in the number of women getting mammograms. The storyline was not without controversy; an episode in which she used medical marijuana to relieve side effects of chemotherapy was attacked by conservative groups, and a women's health group protested an episode in which Murphy, while shopping for prosthetic breasts, uttered the line "Should I go with Demi Moore or Elsie the Cow?"
However, Bergen was presented an award from the American Cancer Society in honor of her role in educating women on the importance of breast cancer prevention and screening.[13]
In the show's final episode, Murphy met and interviewed God (played by Alan King) and Edward R. Murrow in a dream while undergoing surgery. Computer editing was used to insert footage of the real Murrow, who died in 1965, into the show. Diane English, who created the show, made a cameo appearance as a nurse who delivered the results to Murphy after her surgery. At the end of the episode, Murphy walks through her house seemingly alone, only to have Eldin appear at the end, offering to "touch-up" her house.
Episodes[link]
Main article: List of Murphy Brown episodes
Main crew[link]
Main directors[link]
- Peter Bonerz (93 episodes, 1991–1998)
- Barnet Kellman (76 episodes, 1988–1998)
- Lee Shallat Chemel (26 episodes, 1992–1994)
- Joe Regalbuto (20 episodes, 1993–1998)
- Alan Rafkin (11 episodes, 1994–1995)
- Steve Zuckerman (11 episodes, 1997–1998)
- Peter Baldwin (6 episodes, 1991–1992)
- Eric Schotz (2 episodes, 1995)
Writers[link]
- Diane English (Head Writer/showrunner) (110 episodes, 1988–1998)
- Gary Dontzig (24 episodes, 1989–1994)
- Steven Peterman (24 episodes, 1989–1994)
- Tom Palmer (16 episodes, 1990–1997)
- Bill Diamond (16 episodes, 1993–1997)
- Korby Siamis (15 episodes, 1988–1994)
- Norm Gunzenhauser (15 episodes, 1989–1998)
- Rob Bragin (15 episodes, 1993–1997)
- Tom Seeley (14 episodes, 1989–1998)
- Michael Saltzman (13 episodes, 1993–1996)
- Sy Dukane (12 episodes, 1989–1991)
- Denise Moss (12 episodes, 1989–1991)
- Peter Tolan (11 episodes, 1991–1993)
- Michael Patrick King (10 episodes, 1991–1993)
- Joshua Sternin (10 episodes, 1995–1997)
- Jeffrey Ventimilia (10 episodes, 1995–1997)
- Russ Woody (9 episodes, 1988–1998)
- Eileen Heisler (8 episodes, 1993–1995)
- DeAnn Heline (8 episodes, 1993–1995)
- Adam Belanoff
DVD releases[link]
Warner Home Video released the first season of Murphy Brown on DVD in Region 1 on February 8, 2005. Due to low sales and high music costs, no future releases are planned.[14] Should a surge in sales arise, however, the studio would "happily consider" releasing additional season sets.[15]
Awards and nominations[link]
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Bergen won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series five times over the course of the series, a record for a television actress in a continuing role. After her fifth Emmy, Bergen voluntarily withdrew her name from the Emmy nominations.
Awards won[link]
- Outstanding Comedy Series (1990, 1992)
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Candice Bergen (1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995)
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series – Diane English (1989)
- Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series – Colleen Dewhurst (1989, 1991)
- Outstanding Editing for a Series – Multi-Camera Production – Tucker Wiard (1989)
- Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Jay Thomas (1990, 1991)
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series – Gary Dontzig & Steven Peterman (1990)
- Outstanding Costume Design for a Series – Bill Hargate (1991)
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing in a Comedy Series – Barnet Kellman (1991)
- Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Martin Sheen (1992)
- Best TV Series-Comedy/Musical (1992) 1 win
- Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series-Comedy Candice Bergen (1989, 1992) 2 wins
Awards nominated[link]
- Outstanding Comedy Series (1989, 1991, 1993) 3 nominations
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Candice Bergen (1991, 1993) 2 nominations
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Faith Ford (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994) 5 nominations
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Jay Thomas (1992)
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Charles Kimbrough (1990)
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Joe Regalbuto (1989)
- Best TV Series-Comedy/Musical (1989, 1991–1993) 4 nominations
- Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series-Comedy Candice Bergen (1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996) 6 nominations
- Best Supporting Actress on TV Faith Ford (1991, 1992) 2 nominations
- Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Comedy Series (1995)
- Outstanding Female Actor in a Comedy Series Candice Bergen (1995, 1996)
References[link]
- ^ Carter, Bill (September 21, 1992). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Television; Riding Murphy Brown's Coattails". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/21/business/the-media-business-television-riding-murphy-brown-s-coattails.html?scp=8&sq=murphy%20brown&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ "Top Emmys to 'Exposure' and 'Murphy Brown'". New York Times. August 31, 1992. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/31/news/top-emmys-to-exposure-and-murphy-brown.html?scp=6&sq=murphy%20brown&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ "This just in: ‘Murphy Brown’ cast assembles". MSNBC. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23369283. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
- ^ "25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time" (in English). September 19, 2010. TV Guide Network.
- ^ "Hoover Institution Commonwealth Club Database". Hoohila.stanford.edu. http://hoohila.stanford.edu/commonwealth/programView.php?programID=1255. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ Excerpts from Dan Quayle's speech, at Forerunner.com
- ^ Rosenthal, Andrew (September 4, 1992). "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Murphy Brown; Get Ready, America: Murphy Responds". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/04/us/the-1992-campaign-murphy-brown-get-ready-america-murphy-responds.html?scp=10&sq=murphy%20brown&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ Carter, Bill (July 20, 1992). "Back Talk From 'Murphy Brown' to Dan Quayle". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/20/arts/back-talk-from-murphy-brown-to-dan-quayle.html?scp=9&sq=murphy%20brown&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ "Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown". New York Time. June 1, 1992. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975627,00.html. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
- ^ "Reasons the '90s Ruled 101 – 81", TV.com
- ^ Steyn, Mark (January 1998). "Murphy Brownout". The American Spectator (Arlington, Virginia): 38–39. http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmSpectator-1998jan-00038.
- ^ Associated Press. "Bergen: Quayle Was Right About Murphy", July 11, 2002
- ^ James, Caryn (October 1, 1997). "TELEVISION REVIEW; Breast Cancer Brings 'Murphy Brown' Close To Real-Life Tragedy". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/01/arts/television-review-breast-cancer-brings-murphy-brown-close-to-real-life-tragedy.html?scp=1&sq=murphy%20brown&st=cse. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
- ^ "Boy Meets World DVD news: Trade Mag Explains Why No More Seasons for Boy Meets World, Who's The Boss, Night Court, Airwolf & More!". TVShowsOnDVD.com. http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5868. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Site News DVD news: HTF/WB Chat for TV-on-DVD". TVShowsOnDVD.com. http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News/7285. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
External links[link]
- Murphy Brown at the Internet Movie Database
- Murphy Brown at TV.com
- "Reflections on Urban America" (Dan Quayle's Murphy Brown speech) available in the Commonwealth Club of California records at the Hoover Institution Archives.
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| Bette Midler | |
|---|---|
 Midler backstage at the Grammy Awards, February 1990 |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | The Divine Miss M |
| Born | (1945-12-01) December 1, 1945 (age 66) |
| Origin | Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. Territory |
| Genres | Vocal, pop, adult contemporary, comedy |
| Occupations | Singer, actress, comedian, author, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals-mezzo soprano, ukulele |
| Years active | 1965–present |
| Labels | Atlantic (1972–1997) Warner Bros. (1998–2001) Columbia (2002–present) |
| Associated acts | Barry Manilow |
| Website | bettemidler.com |
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys. During her more than forty-year career, Midler has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.[1] Her voice type is categorized as deep mezzo soprano.[2]
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Early life and family[link]
Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents moved from Paterson, New Jersey to Honolulu before she was born, and hers was one of the few Jewish families in a mostly Asian neighborhood.[3] Her mother, Ruth (née Schindel), was a seamstress and housewife, and her father, Fred Midler, worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter.[4] She was named after actress Bette Davis, though Davis pronounced her first name in two syllables, and Midler uses one, /ˈbɛt/.[5] She was raised in Aiea and attended Radford High School, in Honolulu.[6] She was voted "Most Talkative" in the 1961 school Hoss Election, and in her Senior Year (Class of 1963), "Most Dramatic".[7] Midler majored in drama at the University of Hawaii, but left after three semesters.[8] She earned money in the 1966 film Hawaii as an extra,[5] playing an uncredited seasick passenger named Miss David Buff.
Midler married Martin von Haselberg on December 16, 1984, about six weeks after their first meeting. Their daughter, Sophie Frederica Alohilani Von Haselberg, was born on November 14, 1986.[9]
Career[link]
Theater work[link]
In the summer of 1965, Midler relocated to New York City, using the money from her work in the film Hawaii. She landed her first professional onstage role in Tom Eyen's Off-Off-Broadway plays in 1965, Miss Nefertiti Regrets and Cinderella Revisited, a children's play by day and an adult show by night.[10] From 1966 to 1969, she played the role of Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway.[5] After Fiddler, she joined the original cast of Salvation in 1969.[11]
In the summer of 1970, Midler began singing in the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in the city.[5] During this time, she became close to her piano accompanist, Barry Manilow, who produced her first album in 1972, The Divine Miss M.[10] It was during her time at the Continental Baths that she built up a core following. In the late 1990s, during the release of her album Bathhouse Betty, Midler commented on her time performing there, "Despite the way things turned out [with the AIDS crisis], I'm still proud of those days. I feel like I was at the forefront of the gay liberation movement, and I hope I did my part to help it move forward. So, I kind of wear the label of 'Bathhouse Betty' with pride".[12]
In 1971, Midler starred in the first professional production of The Who's rock opera Tommy, with director Richard Pearlman and the Seattle Opera.[13] It was during the run of Tommy that Midler first appeared on The Tonight Show.
[edit] 1972–1980: The Divine Miss M and success
Midler released her debut album, The Divine Miss M, on Atlantic Records, in December 1972. It reached Billboard's Top 10 and became a million-selling Platinum-certified album,[14] earning Midler the 1973 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.[15] It featured three hit singles, with "Do You Want To Dance?", "Friends", and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", which became Midler's first No. 1 Adult Contemporary hit. "Bugle Boy" became a very successful rock cover of the classic swing tune originally introduced and popularized in 1941 by the famous Andrews Sisters, of whom Midler has repeatedly referenced as her idols and inspiration, as far back as her first appearances on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Midler told Carson in an interview that she always wanted to move like the sisters, and Patty Andrews once remembered, "When I first heard the introduction on the radio, I thought it was our old record. When Bette opened at the Amphitheater in Los Angeles, Maxene and I went backstage to see her. Her first words were, 'What else did you record?'"[16] During another one of Midler's concerts, Maxene went on stage and presented her with an honorary bugle. Bette recorded other Andrews Sisters hits, including "In the Mood" and "Lullaby of Broadway."[16]
Her self-titled follow-up album was released at the end of 1973. It reached Billboard's Top 10 and eventually sold close to a million copies in the United States alone.[17] Midler returned to recording with the 1976 and 1977 albums, Songs for the New Depression and Broken Blossom.
In 1974, she received a Special Tony Award for her contribution to Broadway,[18] with Clams on the Half Shell Revue playing at the Minskoff Theater. From 1975–1978, she also provided the voice of Woody the Spoon on the PBS educational series Vegetable Soup. In 1977, Midler's first television special, Ol' Red Hair is Back, premiered, featuring guest stars Dustin Hoffman and Emmett Kelly. It went on to win the Emmy Award[19] for Outstanding Special — Comedy-Variety or Music.[20]
In 1979, Midler made her first motion picture, starring in the 1960s-era rock and roll tragedy The Rose, as a drug-addicted rock star modeled after Janis Joplin.[5] That year, she also released her fifth studio album, Thighs and Whispers. Midler's first foray into disco was a commercial and critical failure and went on to be her all-time lowest charting album, peaking at No. 65 on the Billboard album chart.[21] Soon afterward, she began a world concert tour, with one of her shows in Pasadena being filmed and released as the concert film Divine Madness (1980).
In 1979, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Rose, a role for which she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical).[5] The film's acclaimed soundtrack album sold over two million copies in the United States alone, earning a Double Platinum certification.[14] The single version of the song held the No. 1 position on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart for five consecutive weeks and reached No. 3 on Billboard's Hot 100. It earned Midler her first Gold single[14] and won the Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.[15]
[edit] 1981–89: Wind Beneath My Wings and Beaches
In 1981, Midler worked on the troubled comedy project Jinxed!. However, during production, there was friction with co-star Ken Wahl and the film's director, Don Siegel.[citation needed] Released in 1982, the film was a major flop.[citation needed] Midler did not appear in any other films until 1986. During those four years, she concentrated on her music career and in 1983, released the album No Frills, produced by Chuck Plotkin, who was best known for his work with Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. The album included three single releases: the ballad "All I Need To Know", a cover of Detroit native Marshall Crenshaw's "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" – which Midler fell in love with after flipping his 45 of "Someday Someway"[citation needed] – and Midler's take on the Rolling Stones cover "Beast of Burden". The rock and New Wave album became Midler's third lowest charting album in the U.S.
Midler performed on USA for Africa's 1985 fund-raising single "We Are the World", and participated at the Live Aid event at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.[22] Also in 1985, she signed a multi-picture deal with Touchstone Pictures. She was subsequently cast by director Paul Mazursky in Down and Out in Beverly Hills, beginning a successful comedic acting career.[5] She followed that role with Ruthless People (1986), Outrageous Fortune (1987), and Big Business (1988).[5] Later in 1988, Midler lent her voice to the animated character Georgette, a snobbish poodle, in Disney's Oliver & Company, and had a hit with the tearjerker Beaches, co-starring Barbara Hershey.[5] The accompanying soundtrack remains Midler's all-time biggest selling disc, reaching No. 2 on Billboard's album chart and with U.S. sales of four million copies. It featured her biggest hit, "Wind Beneath My Wings", which went to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, achieved Platinum status,[14] and won Midler her third Grammy Award – for Record of the Year – at the 1990 telecast.[15]
1990–2000: Chart comeback[link]
In 1990, Midler's single "From A Distance" topped the charts and achieved platinum status. The next year, Midler co-starred with Woody Allen in Scenes from a Mall, again for Mazursky. She earned another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for 1991's For the Boys, directed by Mark Rydell, who also directed The Rose. For the latter, she was awarded another Golden Globe for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical).[20] She turned down the lead role in 1992's Sister Act, which instead went to Whoopi Goldberg.[23] In 1993, she starred with Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy in the movie, Hocus Pocus, as Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson, the head witch of the Sanderson Sisters.[5][24]
Midler's other films include Stella (1990), The First Wives Club (1996), and The Stepford Wives (2004).[5] Her television work includes an Emmy-nominated version of the stage musical Gypsy and a guest appearance as herself in Fran Drescher's The Nanny. In 1997, Midler, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton, was a recipient of the Women in Film Crystal Award, which honors "outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry".[25]
Midler won an Emmy Award in 1992 for her performance on the next-to-last episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in May 1992, during which she sang an emotion-laden "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" to Johnny Carson. That night, Midler began singing "Here's That Rainy Day", Carson's favorite song; Carson joined in a few lyrics later.[26] She appeared on Seinfeld in the episode "The Understudy", which was the season finale of that show's sixth season in 1995.
Her 1997 HBO special Diva Las Vegas earned her a third Emmy Award, for Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program.[20]
In 1995 and 1999, she reached the top of the US Dance Charts with remixes of her hits "To Deserve You"[27] on Atlantic and "I'm Beautiful"[28] on Warner Brothers Records. "To Deserve You" reached No. 2 and "I'm Beautiful" reached No. 1.
2000–01[link]
Midler has guest-starred in various sitcoms over the years, including The Simpsons in the episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled" (she is first seen traversing a highway picking up trash when she is approached by Bart and Lisa with a request for Midler to appear on a show to revive Krusty's dying career). In 2000, Midler starred in her own sitcom, Bette. Airing on CBS, initial ratings were high but soon declined and the show did not last a full season, being cancelled in early 2001. During the show's short lifespan, Bette's daughter (played by Lindsay Lohan in the pilot, then by Marina Malota starting with the third episode) and her husband were recast (Robert Hays succeeded Kevin Dunn in the final episode aired). The show was also reportedly rocked by backstage turmoil. Also in 2001, Bette or Bust, a book chronicling Midler's "Divine Miss Millennium Tour", was released.
Music[link]
Midler has won three Grammy Awards.,[29] Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "The Rose" and Record of the Year for "Wind Beneath My Wings". Two of her recordings, "Wind Beneath My Wings" and "From a Distance" won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. "From a Distance" became her longest running No. 1 – six consecutive weeks – on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. When the American Film Institute announced "The 100 Years of the Greatest Songs" on June 22, 2004, two of Midler's recordings were selected by the board: "Wind Beneath My Wings" (No. 44) and "The Rose" (No. 83). However, after years of erratic record sales, Midler was dropped from the Warner Brothers label in 2001, after nearly three decades with Warner Music Group.
After a reported long-standing feud with Barry Manilow, the two joined forces after many years in 2003 to record Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook. Of the project, Manilow said he'd had a dream that he was recording with Midler again, so he called her up with the idea and she agreed that it was due time to work together again. Manilow duetted with Midler on the song "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", after a little dialogue between the two artists at the start of the track. Now signed to Columbia Records, the album was an instant success, being certified gold in only a few weeks. One of the Clooney Songbook selections, "This Ole House", became Midler's first Christian radio single shipped by Rick Hendrix and his positive music movement. The album was nominated for a Grammy the following year.[30]
In 2003–04, Midler toured the U.S. in her new show, Kiss My Brass, to sell-out audiences. In early 2005, an Australian tour, Kiss My Brass Down Under, was equally successful. Midler joined forces again with Manilow for another tribute album, Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook. Released in October 2005, the album sold 55,000 copies the first week of release, returned Midler to the Top 10,[31] and was nominated for a Grammy Award.[32]
Grammy Awards[link]
| Year | Award | Performance | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Best New Artist | — | Won |
| Album of the Year | The Divine Miss M | Nominated | |
| Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" | Nominated | |
| 1981 | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | "The Rose" | Won |
| Record of the Year | Nominated | ||
| 1990 | Record of the Year | "Wind Beneath My Wings" | Won |
| Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Nominated | ||
| 1991 | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | "From a Distance" | Nominated |
| Record of the Year | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook | Nominated |
| 2007 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album | Cool Yule | Nominated |
- The year given is the year of the ceremony.
- In 1981 the album In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record won the Grammy for Best Recording for Children, Midler was one of the various artists featured. This Grammy was awarded to the producers, David Levine and Lucy Simon.
- "Wind Beneath My Wings" also won the Grammy for Song of the Year. This Grammy was awarded to the songwriters, Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar.
- In 1990 Midler's version of "From a Distance" won the Grammy for Song of the Year. This Grammy was awarded to the songwriter, Julie Gold.
Ongoing work[link]
In 2006, Midler released a new Christmas album, Cool Yule, featuring the title song (written by Steve Allen) and a duet of "Winter Wonderland"/"Let It Snow" with Johnny Mathis. Midler starred in the 2007 film Then She Found Me, directed by Helen Hunt and starring Hunt, Matthew Broderick, and Colin Firth, and appeared on the American Idol season 6 finale, singing "Wind Beneath My Wings" live at the Kodak Theatre.
On December 6, 2007, Midler's album Cool Yule received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.[33]
Midler had a Vegas show entitled Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The show comprised The Staggering Harlettes, 20 female dancers called The Caesar Salad Girls and a 13-piece band. The show debuted on February 20, 2008, and played its final performance on January 31, 2010, after a two-year run.[34] The show was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding variety,music or comedy special in 2011.[35]
A new "best of" album, Jackpot: The Best Bette, was released in 2008 and reached No. 66 on the U.S. charts, and No. 6 in the UK, where it was certified Platinum for sales of over 300,000 copies.[36]
In June 2009, Midler appeared on the Bravo TV show My Life on the D-List with Kathy Griffin. In December 2009, Midler appeared in the Royal Variety Performance, an annual British charity event attended by Queen Elizabeth II. She performed "In My Life" and "Wind Beneath My Wings" as the closing act.[37]
In 2010, Midler voiced the character Kitty Galore in the animated film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore. The film was a modest success, grossing $112 million worldwide.[38] In November 2010, Midler released Memories of You, another compilation of lesser known tracks from her catalog. She promoted the album to her UK fans on Daybreak and The Graham Norton Show, on the latter of which she also performed "Dreamland" from For the Boys.[citation needed]
Midler is one of the producers of the Broadway production of the musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert which opened in February 2011.[39]
Midler will be co-starring alongside Billy Crystal in the movie Parental Guidance due to be released in 2012. Midler also auctioned her outfits and achievements from her 40-year career in November 2011 in order to raise money for the New York Restoration Project.
Midler has an estimated net worth of $175 million.[40]
In June 2012, she is slated to receive the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York in recognition of her having "captivated the world" with her "stylish presentation and unmistakable voice".[41]
Charity work[link]
In 1995, Midler founded the New York Restoration Project (NYRP), a non-profit organization with the goal of revitalizing neglected neighborhood parks in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods of New York City.[5] These include Highbridge Park, Fort Washington Park, and Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan and Roberto Clemente State Park and Bridge Park in the Bronx.[42]
In 1999, the city planned to auction 114 community gardens for commercial development. Midler led a coalition of greening organizations to save them. NYRP took ownership of 60 of the most neglected plots. Today, Midler and her organization work with local volunteers and community groups to ensure that these gardens are kept safe, clean and vibrant. In 2003, Midler opened Swindler Cove Park, a new 5-acre (20,000 m2) public park on the Harlem River shore featuring specially designed educational facilities and the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse, the first community rowing facility to be built on the Harlem River in more than 100 years. The organization offers free in-school and after-school environmental education programming to students from high-poverty Title I schools.[42]
Discography[link]
Main article: Bette Midler discography
- 1972: The Divine Miss M
- 1973: Bette Midler
- 1976: Songs for the New Depression
- 1977: Live at Last
- 1977: Broken Blossom
- 1979: Thighs and Whispers
- 1983: No Frills
- 1990: Some People's Lives
- 1995: Bette of Roses
- 1998: Bathhouse Betty
- 2000: Bette
- 2003: Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook
- 2005: Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook
- 2006: Cool Yule
Tours[link]
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Filmography[link]
Film[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Hawaii | Passenger | uncredited |
| 1969 | Goodbye, Columbus | Wedding Guest | uncredited, cut scene |
| 1972 | Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers | unknown | voice |
| 1974 | Thorn, TheThe Thorn | Virgin Mary | Also known as The Divine Mr. J; blocked distribution of film |
| 1979 | Rose, TheThe Rose | Mary Rose Foster | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award New Star Of The Year - Actress Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role |
| 1980 | Divine Madness! | Herself/ Divine Miss M. |
concert film Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1982 | Jinxed! | Bonita Friml | |
| 1986 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Barbara Whiteman | Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1986 | Ruthless People | Barbara Stone | American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture |
| 1987 | Outrageous Fortune | Sandy Brozinsky | American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1988 | Beaches | C. C. Bloom | |
| 1988 | Oliver & Company | Georgette | voice |
| 1988 | Big Business | Sadie Shelton/Sadie Ratliff | American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture |
| 1989 | Lottery, TheThe Lottery | Short film | |
| 1990 | Stella | Stella Claire | |
| 1991 | For the Boys | Dixie Leonard | Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress |
| 1991 | Scenes from a Mall | Deborah Fifer | |
| 1992 | Hijinx | ... The Ringmaster | |
| 1993 | Gypsy | Mama Rose | Television film Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie |
| 1993 | Hocus Pocus | Winifred 'Winnie' Sanderson | Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | Doris Saphron | uncredited American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture |
| 1996 | First Wives Club, TheThe First Wives Club | Brenda Cushman | National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |
| 1997 | That Old Feeling | Lilly Leonard | |
| 1999 | Get Bruce | Herself | |
| 1999 | Fantasia 2000 | Herself / Hostess | (segment "Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102") |
| 2000 | What Women Want | Dr. J.M. Perkins | uncredited |
| 2000 | Isn't She Great | Jacqueline Susann | |
| 2000 | Drowning Mona | Mona Dearly | |
| 2004 | Stepford Wives, TheThe Stepford Wives | Bobbie Markowitz | |
| 2007 | Then She Found Me | Bernice Graves | |
| 2008 | Women, TheThe Women | Leah Miller | |
| 2010 | Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | Kitty Galore | |
| 2012 | Parental Guidance | Diane Decker | To be released December 25, 2012 |
Television[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1976 | Vegetable Soup | Woody the Spoon | Voice role |
| 1976 | The Bette Midler Show | Herself | Television special |
| 1977 | Ol' Red Hair is Back | Herself | Television special Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Special Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program |
| 1984 | Art Or Bust | Herself/ Divine Miss M. |
Television special |
| 1984 | Video Music Awards | Herself/ co-host |
Awards Show |
| 1989 | Lottery, TheThe Lottery | Music teacher | Created to demonstrate special effects; shot entirely and shown only at Disney-MGM Studios in Florida |
| 1990 | Earth Day Special | Mother Nature | |
| 1993 | Simpsons, TheThe Simpsons | Herself | "Krusty Gets Kancelled" |
| 1995 | Seinfeld | Herself | "The Understudy" |
| 1997 | Diva Las Vegas | Herself/ Divine Miss M. |
Television special Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Special |
| 1997 | Nanny, TheThe Nanny | Herself | "You Bette Your Life" |
| 1998 | Murphy Brown | Herself | "Never Can Say Goodbye" |
| 1999 | Jackie's Back | Herself | |
| 2000–01 | Bette | Bette | 18 episodes TV Guide Award - Actress of the Year in a New Series Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy |
| 2008 | Strictly Come Dancing | Herself | Performed Wind Beneath My Wings |
| 2009 | Loose Women | Herself | Guest Host |
| 2009 | Dancing on Ice | Herself | Performed |
| 2009 | Strictly Come Dancing | Herself | Performed The Rose |
| 2009 | One Show, TheThe One Show | Herself | Guest |
| 2009 | Royal Variety Performance, TheThe Royal Variety Performance | Herself | Performed |
| 2009 | Marriage Ref, TheThe Marriage Ref | Herself | Guest |
| 2009 | Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List | Herself | Guest / toured Las Vegas nightlife w/Kathy |
| 2010 | Showgirl Must Go On, TheThe Showgirl Must Go On | Herself | HBO TV Special (December 31) |
| 2010 | Paul O'Grady's Christmas | Herself | Guest |
See also[link]
- List of number-one hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
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- ^ a b c "Awards for Bette Midler". imdb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000541/awards. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
- ^ "Thighs and Wispers". betteontheboards.com. http://www.betteontheboards.com/boards/album-09.htm. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
- ^ "'We Are The World' Tune Brings Out The Best of America's 46 Stars". Jet (Google Books): p. 16. February 18, 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=CbMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16&dq=jackson+%22we+are+the+world%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=3&ei=E4EmSvWKIZj2MPnR0ZUL#v=onepage&q=jackson%20%22we%20are%20the%20world%22&f=false. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
- ^ Lynn Hirschburg (October 8, 2000). "Meta-Midler". New York Times: p. 14. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/magazine/meta-midler.html?scp=4&sq=johnny%20carson%20midler&st=nyt&pagewanted=1. Retrieved 2011-07-25.
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Further reading[link]
- A View From A Broad 1981
- The Saga of Baby Divine (Crown Publishers, 1984), ISBN 978-0-517-55040-3
- Bette: An Intimate Biography of Bette Midler by George Mair (Birch Lane Press, 1995), ISBN 1-55972-272-X
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| Aretha Franklin | |
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 Franklin performing at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Aretha Louise Franklin |
| Born | (1942-03-25) March 25, 1942 (age 70) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Genres | Soul, jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, funk, rock |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter, pianist |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Labels | Columbia (1960–1966) Atlantic (1967–1979) Arista (1980–2003) Aretha Records (2004–) |
| Associated acts | Sweet Inspirations, Carolyn Franklin, Erma Franklin, Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston, George Benson, George Michael, Michael McDonald, Eurythmics, Luther Vandross |
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century, Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday. Franklin's Columbia period wasn't as successful as hoped and in late 1966, Franklin switched over to Atlantic Records, where she began recording a string of popular hits including "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Think", "Chain of Fools" and what later became her signature song, "Respect".
After a brief lull in 1969, Franklin continued to record a string of popular singles throughout the early 1970s, reaching her peak as an albums artist with 1970's Spirit in the Dark, 1971's Young, Gifted & Black and the 1972 gospel record, Amazing Grace, which later became one of the best-selling gospel albums of all time and was the biggest-selling album in gospel music for over 25 years. Franklin's success in Atlantic peaked after the release of the singles, "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)", "I'm in Love" and "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" and the 1976 soundtrack to the movie, Sparkle and Franklin left the label in 1980 to sign with Clive Davis' Arista Records label where she switched over from soul and funk music to a more conservative urban adult contemporary sound in the albums, Aretha and Love All the Hurt Away, before regaining commercial success with the 1982 album, Jump to It, produced by R&B hitmaker Luther Vandross. In 1984, Franklin added modern day pop rock and dance elements to her sound, which was integral to the success of her 1985 album, Who's Zoomin' Who?, which spawned the hits "Freeway of Love", "Who's Zoomin' Who" and the Eurythmics featured "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves". The 1986 release of Aretha featured her last number-one hit single with the George Michael duet "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me". Afterwards Franklin returned to a lull in her career until the release of 1998's A Rose Is Still a Rose, which incorporated modern day contemporary R&B and which the title track returned Franklin to the top 40 of the pop charts.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" list,[1] as well as the ninth greatest artist of all time.[2] She has won 18 Grammys and received two honorary Grammys. In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Franklin is planned to be inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in August 2012.
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Early life (1942-1960)[link]
Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Barbara (née Siggers) and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. Franklin's father, Clarence, otherwise known as "C. L." Franklin, was a rising itinerant preacher, who moved to Memphis from Shelby, Mississippi. Within two years after Aretha's birth, however, Franklin's father again moved, this time up north to Buffalo, New York. The initial reasoning behind Franklin's move to Buffalo was because Franklin sought to find better opportunities and reach a bigger church audience as compared to the South. However, it was debated Franklin moved after word reached about him impregnating a teenage member of his Memphis church and he moved north to avoid the scandal and a possible court case.
Franklin wasn't six yet when her father moved to and eventually settled in Detroit where he built his own church, the New Bethel Baptist Church. Following the move, Franklin's parents separated after a contentious marriage, with Barbara Franklin settling in Buffalo, New York where she became a nurse. Aretha would later recall spending time with her mother at her house in Buffalo during summertime visits though it had been debated Franklin's mother had abandoned her, a charge Franklin has constantly denied. Franklin wasn't yet ten when her mother died suddenly in Buffalo. While she and her siblings attended her funeral, it was said their father either couldn't or refuse to attend. Shortly after her mother was buried, Aretha started singing solos at her father's church.[4] Her father's local celebrity in Detroit helped to attract attention to Franklin's home. Franklin remembered seeing several celebrities and prominent public figures at her house. Among those that would later influenced her music and vocal style included gospel musicians Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward and The Caravans founder Albertina Walker, while other musicians such as Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson and fellow preacher Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also became prominent visitors. Franklin began playing the piano at a young age and knew much of how to play by ear. Franklin recalled that when it came to musical taste, her father wasn't strict, allowing Franklin to listen to a variety of genres including blues, jazz and R&B.
By the mid-fifties, Franklin's father was recording for JVB Records, becoming one of the few preachers to record an album full of sermons, which also included musical performances by the minister along with his choir. In 1956, Franklin started bringing his daughter with him to perform on the gospel circuit. That year, Franklin's father recorded his 14-year-old daughter's gospel performances at a local church and helped Franklin reach a deal with JVB Records where she recorded the album, Songs of Faith, and also released her first single, "Never Grow Old", which would later be reissued by Checker Records numerous times. Franklin's performances on the gospel circuit continued until she reached 17, by then Franklin had a desire to record pop music, something always frowned upon in the ministry. However, her father C. L. approved of her decision, and did the same with his eldest daughter Erma, and helped both daughters reach deals with several record labels outside of Detroit. Prior to signing her first deal, Motown CEO Berry Gordy pursued both Erma and Aretha to sign with Motown. C. L. Franklin, however, passed on the offer thinking the label was too local to promote their talents. Eventually, Aretha settled for Columbia Records.
Music career[link]
Early recordings (1960-1966)[link]
Franklin's first Columbia single, "Today I Sung the Blues", was released in September 1960, becoming her first charted success, it eventually reached #10 on Billboard's R&B chart. Her debut album Aretha followed in January of the following year, recorded with the Ray Bryant Combo. Franklin's second single, "Operation Heartbreak", repeated the R&B chart success of Franklin's debut single, reaching #7, followed by another R&B top ten single, "Won't Be Long". Franklin's recordings were often compared to that of Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday, singers Franklin admired. Columbia CEO and founder John Hammond, upon hearing Franklin, felt she had what it took to be the next Billie Holiday and recorded Franklin strictly in jazz-influenced pop.
Later Hammond acknowledged that he felt the label didn't understand Franklin's background in gospel music and failed to bring that aspect out in her first secular recordings.[5] Later in 1961, Franklin had her first top 40 single on the pop chart with a ballad rendition of "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody". While Franklin would later say she enjoyed her tenure on Columbia Records, most of the records were considered to be not artistically satisfying to Aretha's style and would later be forgotten about following Franklin's rise to stardom with her earthier R&B recordings with Atlantic. Franklin was placed on the list of jazz magazine Downbeat's top ten best jazz vocalists in 1961, 1962 and 1963. One of her most significant recordings during her early Columbia period was the ballad, "Skylark", recorded in 1962. The song previewed what was to come of Franklin as parts of her gospel singing was showcased in the song.
After a well received tribute album to Dinah Washington, Columbia Records switched paths from their early hopes of jazz stardom to more commercial pop music for Franklin as well as some blues music. The latter music showed up in Franklin's 1964 hit, "Runnin' Out of Fools". Afterwards, Franklin was given covers of Motown hits and other girl group sounding hit singles to record as well as original songs such as "One Step Ahead" and "Cry Like a Baby", which was a top 30 R&B recording and was one of the first hits written by the team of Ashford & Simpson. Following this, Franklin and Columbia opted not to renew their contract. Under the advice of her then-husband and manager, Ted White, Franklin decided to sign with top R&B label, Atlantic Records, signing with them in December 1966. Following her success with Atlantic, Columbia began reissuing Franklin's Columbia material and releasing Columbia recordings that Franklin hadn't released before she left the label in an attempt to capitalize on her success.
Success with Atlantic (1967-1976)[link]
After signing with Atlantic, Franklin was sent to the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record her first songs with the label alongside the respected Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. It was in Muscle Shoals that Franklin cut her first Atlantic recording, the blues ballad "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)".[5] While busy recording another song at the studio, Franklin's husband and one of the musicians got into a drunken argument over Franklin, leading to the couple returning to their house in New York, where they hid for several weeks. Eventually, Franklin returned to record at New York's Atlantic Studios to finish her vocals on the song, "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man". "I Never Loved a Man" would be released in February 1967 and become Franklin's first significant hit single, reaching #9 on the pop chart and #1 on the R&B chart. The b-side, "Do Right Woman", helped Aretha's first Atlantic single to become a double-sided hit on the R&B chart, where it peaked at #37.
In April, Atlantic issued her second single, the Otis Redding song, "Respect"[5], which was re-arranged by the song's producers Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin and Aretha into a gospel-sounding shouter with Franklin later incorporating call and response vocals with her two sisters, Erma and Carolyn present. With Wexler's allowance, Franklin added in the ad-lib, "r-e-s-p-e-c-t, find out what it means to me, r-e-s-p-e-c-t, take care, TCB", which led to her sisters afterwards shouting out, "sock it to me" repeatedly. Franklin would later insist the song's alleged sexual overtones were not what people insisted saying it was simply a female's response to her lover to show her respect. The song became a simultaneous #1 hit on the pop and R&B charts. Both songs helped its parent album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, to reach the top ten of the pop albums chart. Franklin's version of "Respect" later was hailed as a 1960s anthem. Franklin's hit streak continued throughout 1967 and 1968 with songs such as "Baby I Love You", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools".[5] "Respect" later won Franklin her first two Grammys. She eventually won eight consecutive Grammys under the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category.[6]
During a 1967 performance in a Chicago dance, deejay Pervis Spann crowned Franklin a tiara and announced her as "Lady Soul". Franklin's hit streak continued with songs such as "Think" (also referred sometimes as "Freedom" due to Franklin's repeats of the word), "Ain't No Way", "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone", "The House That Jack Built" and "I Say a Little Prayer". Due to Franklin's earthier hits, her rendition of the latter song generated mild controversy due to her recording what had been strictly a sweet pop song recorded by Franklin's friend Dionne Warwick, however, the song turned out to be a huge success, eventually becoming a bigger hit in the UK where it reached #4. Franklin's albums such as Lady Soul (taken from the title she was given to in 1967) and Aretha Now became successful albums with Lady Soul boasting three top ten singles. Though she wouldn't take part in the civil rights movement of that time period, Franklin's songs, including "Respect" and "Think", were often used as a means of protest. Franklin insists however that she recorded the songs for fun as she was allowed to freely experiment with vocal styles in the studio. Around this time, Franklin used other background singers, including New Jersey backing group The Sweet Inspirations, to help her on recordings.
Franklin's hit streak was more modest throughout 1969 while Aretha battled personal problems including her filing for divorce from Ted White after eight years of an acrimonious marriage. After a break from the studio, she returned in mid-1969 and recorded "Share Your Love with Me" and the self-penned composition "Call Me", which was released in late 1969 and early 1970 respectively and returned Franklin to #1 on the R&B chart. Franklin also reinvented her style of dress and, as was the trend at the time, she wore an Afro hairstyle and adapted traditional African garb, influenced by the black nationalist movement that had started in the late 1960s. Franklin's success continued with her hit renditions of rock songs such as "The Weight", "Let It Be" and "Eleanor Rigby". Franklin's next album, Spirit in the Dark, included the hits "Spirit in the Dark" and "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", which became a hit in the UK where Franklin promoted the single. The following year, Franklin became the first black artist to perform at Bill Graham's Fillmore West[7] where she later released a live album from the performance. Following these triumphs, Franklin was beginning to be referred to as "The Queen of Soul", a title which she's kept since.
Following the release of the 1971 hits, "Spanish Harlem" and the self-penned number "Rock Steady", Franklin issued the acclaimed Young, Gifted and Black album in early 1972 and had a follow-up hit with the ballad, "Day Dreaming". The album was also noted for Franklin recording the first cover of an Elton John song with Elton's song, "Border Song". Later in 1972, Franklin released her first gospel album in sixteen years with the Amazing Grace album, which became her most successful album in Atlantic Records, later reportedly selling over two million copies making it at that time the best-selling gospel album of all time. That record has since passed but Franklin's album still remains a huge seller. Franklin's success continued the following year with the release of the ballad, "Angel", which was co-penned by her sister Carolyn. The song was co-produced by Franklin and Quincy Jones, who together produced the concept album, Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), which had initially started off as a jazz album. Though some noted the album for its risky experimentation of different styles, it wasn't totally received well by the Atlantic staff and some fans didn't know what to make of its direction. Following its release, Franklin began producing her own Atlantic albums after a renegotiation of her contract with the label. One of the first albums she released following her new deal was Let Me In Your Life, in 1974. The album returned Franklin, who was now adapting a more glamorous figure, to the top 40 thanks to the hits, "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" and "I'm in Love" and a sensual cover of the Marvin Gaye single, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing".
By the release of 1974's With Everything I Feel in Me and 1975's You, however, Franklin's success had started to peak. Having relocated to Los Angeles, Franklin's recordings suffered from dismal promotion and changing musical tastes as soul music started to lose its popularity with pop fans in the emergence of different genres such as hard rock, heavy metal, funk and disco. The albums weren't hits and no song from any of those albums were huge hits, leading to a fallout between Franklin and Atlantic Records, which had started with the label's embrace of British hard rock group Led Zeppelin and softer R&B vocalist Roberta Flack, no longer making Franklin the top priority artist she had been since signing with the label. To make matters worse, in 1976, her eight-year streak of winning a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, was broken by Natalie Cole. However, that year, Franklin found renewed success with the Curtis Mayfield production, Sparkle, which spawned the #1 R&B hit, "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" and going gold.
Fallout with Atlantic and first Arista recordings (1977-1984)[link]
However, the success wouldn't last long. Franklin's next three albums, the Lamont Dozier and Carole Bayer Sager-produced Sweet Passion, the Mayfield produced Almighty Fire and the Van McCoy-produced La Diva tanked on the charts and no single released from those albums charted on the Hot 100 during this tumultuous period. Franklin continued performing in the US and worldwide but was now building a reputation on living comfortably off royalties so that she only performed on occasion rather than as normal procedure. Aretha would later win the masters off her post-1974 Atlantic recordings. Following the release of La Diva in 1979, Atlantic decided not to renew her contract.
In 1980, Franklin gained something of a new audience after a cameo appearance in The Blues Brothers film where she appeared as the wife of Matt "Guitar" Murphy and engages in a brief war of words with Dan Aykroyd's and John Belushi's characters Elwood and Jake Blues, over Murphy leaving his restaurant to perform with them again in which Franklin afterwards performed "Think". Afterwards, Franklin signed a contract with Clive Davis' Arista Records label. Later in 1980, she issued the Aretha album, which featured a minor hit, "United Together", which became a #3 R&B hit. The music on Aretha and its 1981 follow-up, Love All the Hurt Away, furthered Franklin away from earthy soul and into a more glossier and conservative form of R&B music labeled as urban contemporary. The title track off her 1981 album produced another R&B hit with duet vocals provided by George Benson.
In 1982, Franklin returned to the top of the R&B charts with the Jump to It album boasted by the success of the title track, which became her first number-one R&B single in five years. The album also became her first to go gold after her first two Arista albums had failed to reach that position. The album was produced by then R&B hitmaker Luther Vandross, who was then called in to produce Franklin's follow-up, 1983's Get It Right. However, that record failed, selling less than 200,000 copies, despite the title track becoming another number-one R&B hit for Franklin.
Success with Arista (1985-1998)[link]
Following its release and the subsequent death of her minister father, C. L., in 1984, Franklin laid low for a few months before returning to the studio in her native Detroit to record her next Arista album which was later titled, Who's Zoomin' Who? The inspiration behind the making of the album was due to Aretha listening to the radio and liking what she heard and opted for "a younger sound".[8] This album was produced by rising producer Narada Michael Walden. The album included dance, pop and modern rock elements and would return Franklin to the top ten of the pop charts. "Freeway of Love" became her biggest hit in years reaching #3 on the pop chart and #1 R&B while the follow-up, "Who's Zoomin' Who" reached #7 pop and #2 R&B and was co-penned by Franklin, partly because she inspired the song title. A third single, "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves", featuring the Eurythmics, peaked at #18 on the pop charts. The videos for "Freeway of Love" and "Sisters" made Franklin popular with music video audiences and her success was compared to another sixties R&B contemporary, Tina Turner's own groundbreaking success years after leaving Ike Turner.
Franklin followed up this success with the Aretha album in 1986. The album spawned another series of hits including "Jimmy Lee", a cover of the Rolling Stones hit "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and the #1 George Michael duet, "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me" later going gold. To help promote the album, Franklin filmed a Showtime concert TV special. Around this time, Franklin also contributed her voice to several TV networks including a theme song for ABC TV titled "Together" in 1986[9] and the hit series, "A Different World", where her rendition of the theme song remained part of the show from its second season in 1988 through its fifth season in 1992. However, Franklin's success was not as long lasting. Due to an accident in a plane she suffered in 1983, Franklin missed schedule for performances overseas which caused a pain for Arista promoters overseas. Also a problem was Franklin's vocals, which was starting to hamper after years of cigarette smoking. Franklin started adapting to a raspier, low tone starting with performances in 1982 and 1983. In spite of this, she remained a popular concert draw. In 1987, Franklin recorded her first gospel album in fifteen years, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, in hopes of having similar success with that record as she had had with Amazing Grace. However, the album failed to find an audience. Franklin returned to the pop charts in 1989 with the release of the Elton John duet, "Through the Storm" and the subsequent release of the album of the same name. However, the album failed to become a success and a much publicized duet with fellow label mate and chart-topping singer Whitney Houston titled "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" failed to bring much notice peaking below the top 40.
Franklin's attempt at revamping her sound with new jack swing productions in the 1991 album, What You See Is What You Sweat was badly received and was another commercial failure. Following this, Franklin quit chain smoking and spent the next several years reviving parts of her vocal style. In 1994, she contributed to the Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit soundtrack recording the dance song, "A Deeper Love", which became Franklin's biggest single in years reaching #5 in the UK. Later that year, following the release of an Arista best-of, Franklin recorded the Babyface compositions, "Honey" and "Willing to Forgive", with the latter single becoming her first top 40 single in five years. Franklin later contributed vocals to the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack recording the song "It Hurts Like Hell" and following a couple years on the road, recorded the hit album, A Rose Is Still a Rose, which success was mainly due to the success of its title track, which became her last top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100 nearly 40 years after recording her first one. Throughout 1998, Franklin had success with TV performances including the 1998 Grammys when she performed Luciano Pavarotti's rendition of the opera ballad, "Nessun Dorma", generating a standing ovation at the end of her performance, and a show-stopping performance at VH-1's Divas Live.
Later work (1999-present)[link]
In 1999, Franklin issued her autobiography, Aretha: From These Roots. Franklin would not release her next album until 2003 when she issued the album, So Damn Happy. In between then, she contributed to albums and songs by several artists including K-Ci and JoJo on a song titled "Angel", and Mary J. Blige on the song, "Don't Waste Your Time", featured on Blige's 1999 album, Mary. The So Damn Happy album featured a minor R&B hit with "Wonderful", which later nabbed Franklin another Grammy. After the release of So Damn Happy, Franklin decided to not renew her contract with Arista after 23 years with the label. In 2004, she began work on her album, A Woman Falling Out of Love, due to be the first release off her dormant Aretha's Records, in 2005. In the meantime, Arista released a duets compilation, 2007's Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen, which featured another minor R&B hit with the Fantasia duet, "Put You Up on Game". That same year, Franklin issued her first Christmas album, This Christmas, Aretha, which was initially released as a Borders Group exclusive and was later issued on the DMI label.
In 2008, she won her 18th career Grammy in the gospel category on the song "Never Break My Faith" with Mary J. Blige. A year after, she received news for performing at the inauguration for then newly elected President Barack Obama performing the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee", with her attire, including her church hat, becoming a popular item online and the subject of several internet memes. The following year, Franklin received an honorary music degree from Yale.[10] By 2010, Franklin announced that she had sold her rights to movie producers to produce a biopic on her in which would be loosely based off Franklin's 1999 memoirs, Aretha: From These Roots. Franklin had initially planned for Halle Berry to play her in the featured role but Berry turned down her offer in January 2011. Franklin has since picked singer Audra McDonald to play her.
In May 2011, commemorating on her 50th anniversary since the release of her first non-gospel recording, Franklin issued her 38th studio release, A Woman Falling Out of Love through WalMart. Franklin recorded two duets with longtime friend, Ronald Isley of The Isley Brothers, recording "The Way We Were" on Aretha's album, while recording "You've Got a Friend" on Isley's record, Mr. I. Later in September, Franklin contributed duet vocals to the Tony Bennett rendition of "How Do You Keep The Music Playing" off his Duets II album.
Personal life[link]
Children[link]
Aretha, by her own admission grew up fast as a child and discovered boys at the age of thirteen, getting pregnant just three months after becoming a teenager. A relationship with one boy led to the birth of her first son, Clarence, named after her father, on March 28, 1956, just three days after she turned 14. In January 1957, before reaching 15, Franklin had another son, Edward, with another boy.[11] She never identified by name the father of either child. Her grandmother, Rachel, raised the boys while Aretha pursued her singing career. Rachel lived in a guest house behind C.L. Franklin's LaSalle Street home. (The Franklin family moved from their home on Boston Street in Detroit's North End section to LaSalle Street during the late 1950s.)
Franklin had a third son, Ted White, Jr. (sometimes referred to as Teddy Richards), with her manager and former family friend Ted White, Sr., born in 1964. Teddy is the musical director and guitarist of his mother's touring band.[12] A relationship with road manager Ken Cunningham produced a fourth son, Kecalf, who was named after the first initials of their parents' names.[13] Kecalf, her youngest-born child, was born three days after his mother's 28th birthday. In 2010, Aretha's son Edward was attacked by three people at a Detroit gas station near Plymouth Road and Evergreen.[14][15] Kecalf Franklin, Aretha's youngest son, is currently a rapper and produces gospel recordings.[16]
Marriages[link]
Against her father's wishes, Aretha married her first husband, Ted White, in front of a justice of the peace in Ohio in 1961 when she was nineteen. White later replaced Aretha's father as her manager in 1967. According to close friends, White was physically abusive and it's suggested White's physical abuse and philandering were the cause of Franklin's heart-wrenching vocals on her best-known recordings during the Atlantic years. Her producer, Jerry Wexler once called Franklin "the lady of mysterious sorrows" since Aretha didn't tell anyone her personal story. Following a 1968 cover article in Time magazine in which her abusive marriage and a claim that her mother abandoned her at a young age led Franklin to not give any interviews to media groups and increasing her privacy.
After ending her affair with Ken Cunningham after a seven-year on-again, off-again relationship, Franklin married actor Glynn Turman on April 11, 1978 at her father's New Bethel Baptist Church with her father presiding over the ceremony. Aretha became a surrogate stepmother to Turman's three children from a previous marriage. Due to their schedules, however, it wasn't long before their marriage fell apart despite living together in Franklin's mansion in Encino. In late 1982, Franklin and Turman separated after only four years, eventually divorcing in early 1984. In early 2012, it was reported that Franklin was set to walk down the aisle a third time with her longtime companion Willie Wilkerson.[17][18] Franklin and Wilkerson had plans to marry in 1987 but later nixed those plans. Within a month after Aretha had announced the wedding this year, she nixed the plans again.
Relatives, other romances and friends[link]
Franklin's sisters Erma Franklin and Carolyn Franklin were professional singers and sang as backup for Aretha during her initial success at Atlantic. Her brother, the Reverend Cecil Franklin, took over as her manager after her divorce from Ted White was finalized. Cecil remained her manager until his death from cancer on December 26, 1989. Younger sister Carolyn preceded Cecil in death in early 1988 from breast cancer while Erma Franklin later died from throat cancer in 2002. Franklin's eldest half-brother, Vaughn (born December 24, 1934) and elder half-sister Carl Kelley (née Jennings; born 1940) are still alive. Kelley is C.L. Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a then 12-year-old congregant of New Salem Baptist Church of Memphis, Tennessee, where C.L. was pastor in the late 1930s and early 1940s.[19] Franklin was close to her minister father, C. L. Franklin. C. L. served as Franklin's first manager, a position he gave up to Ted White around 1967. Aretha was performing in Las Vegas on June 10, 1979 when her father was shot by attempted robbers at his LaSalle Street home in Detroit. Aretha and her family returned their father back to his home six months after the shooting left him in a coma. Aretha moved back to Detroit at the end of 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died in a nursing home on July 27, 1984.
Aretha's relationship with road manager Ken Cunningham was on and off from 1969 until a final breakup in 1976. During one breakup in 1971, Franklin, living back in northwest Detroit, had a brief liaison with Temptations star Dennis Edwards. The relationship inspired Franklin's hit, "Day Dreaming". Franklin and Edwards' romance cooled quickly but they've remained friends. Aretha is also friendly with many of her Detroit peers that went on to be music superstars including Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder. She was friendly with members of the Four Tops as well, later singing with them on several records in the 1980s. Franklin also had a close friendship with Sam Cooke after meeting as gospel performers. Following Cooke's death, Franklin recorded his songs "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "You Send Me".
Franklin grew close with Sweet Inspirations founder Cissy Houston, who sang background on Franklin's "Ain't No Way".[20] Due to this friendship, she was later made honorary aunt of Cissy's daughter, Whitney Houston, who often referred to Franklin as "Auntie Ree".[21] Franklin recalled meeting Whitney at either 8 or 9 years old when Whitney's mother brought her to a recording studio.[22] Sometime in the 1980s, a PR mistake listed Franklin as Houston's godmother. On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston died in Beverly Hills from unknown causes.[23] Aretha was devastated by her death and said it was "so stunning and unbelievable".[23] She planned to perform at the memorial service on February 18, but her representative claimed that Aretha was "ill" and was "not performing at the memorial service", though she later performed at New York's Radio City Music Hall on the same night.[24][25]
Weight issues, health problems, surgery and rumors of cancer[link]
Franklin acknowledged her issues with her weight in the past even telling an interviewer from Jet magazine that she was always trying to lose weight. Before undergoing surgery for an undisclosed ailment that halted her schedule in 2010, Franklin had begun losing weight. According to the singer in 2011, she said she had lost up to 85 lbs in weight following her surgery. In the past, Franklin had went through periods of yo-yo dieting, at one time, losing over 100 pounds showing off her weight loss on the cover of Ebony magazine in 1974. Franklin managed to keep the weight off until after 1982. After another slim period in the early '90s, and after quitting cigarettes cold turkey in 1991, Franklin's weight started to balloon up. In 2010, Franklin suffered a pain in her side which she said, "was so hard it almost brought me to my knees." After continuing a concert tour, the pain recurred, and she subsequently underwent surgery for an undisclosed ailment in October 2010, ending several engagements with Condoleeza Rice. At this time, rumors surfaced that she was suffering from pancreatic cancer. In discussing the events in 2011, she has said that this was not the case and that her doctor told her, "the surgery that you just had is going to add 15 to 20 more years to your life."[26]
Connection to the Civil Rights Movement[link]
Franklin’s music and civil rights involvement cannot be separated for it was through music, which Franklin was able to reach out to so many and empower those who had felt so long oppressed.
Aretha Franklin first became connected with the civil rights movement through her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin. Rev. Franklin was an influential preacher who traveled the country as well as recorded a weekly sermon for the radio station, WLAC, which reached 65 percent of the African-American population. It was these same tours that Aretha would begin her singing career.[27] Rev. Franklin would also introduce Aretha to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. starting a life long friendship between the two.
It was Franklin's soulful sound, which would become the driving anthem of the civil rights movement or as poet Nikki Giovanni put it “the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of the black America”.[28]
Through Franklin’s album ‘I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You’, hit ‘Respect’ rose to the top. Her strong voice asking for something as simple as respect reflects the cries of the civil rights movement. Her lyrics mirror that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. Most notably the lines “Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children”.[29] While the civil rights movement was already in motion before Franklin became a prominent figure she had now lent it a soundtrack.
Franklin did not have to do much to help propel the civil rights movement. “Her own sense of pride and her dignified stance, she represented the new black woman of the late 1960s”.[13] Franklin’s own sound and presence were enough to reflect the ideas of the movement and were what caused her to become a notable figure in the cause.
Franklin was not actively heading demonstrations or participating in sit-ins, but she was able to do her part and use her talent to help the movement. She would numerous times perform at rallies with King, lending her voice and fame to pull in crowds. Franklin is a registered Democrat.[30]
Awards and achievements[link]
- On June 28, 1968 she became the second African-American woman to appear on the cover of TIME magazine.[31]
- On August 1, 1968, she sang the National Anthem at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL.
- In 1985, then-Gov. James Blanchard of Michigan declared her voice “a natural resource” during a ceremony that marked her 25 years in show business.
- Aretha Franklin is one of three musicians, along with Madonna & Marvin Gaye, to have singles peak at each of the top 10 positions on the US Billboard Hot 100.
- On January 20, 1987, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[32]
- On March 29, 1987, Franklin sang "America the Beautiful" at WrestleMania III.
- In September 1999, she was awarded The National Medal of Arts by President Clinton.
- In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked her ninth on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[33]
- In 2005, she was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.
- In 2005, she became the second woman (Madonna being the first) to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
- In 2005, Franklin was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.[34]
- On February 6, 2006, she performed, along with Aaron Neville, "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XL.
- On May 13, 2006, she was presented with an honorary Doctor of Music degree by the Berklee College of Music.
- On April 1, 2007 Aretha sang "America the Beautiful" at WrestleMania 23.
- On May 14, 2007, she was presented with an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
- In 2007, Aretha Franklin's recording of "Respect" was voted a Legendary Michigan Song.[35]
- Is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority
- On February 8, 2008, Franklin was honored as MusiCares "Person of the Year".
- On February 14, 2008, Franklin was given the Vanguard award at the NAACP Image awards.
- On May 4, 2008, Franklin was given the Key to the City of Memphis at the 2008 "Memphis in May International Music Festival" by Mayor Dr. Willie Herenton during her performance onstage.
- On September 13, 2008, Franklin was ranked No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists list by Billboard.[36]
- November 2008, Franklin was named by Rolling Stone as the No. 1 all-time best singer of the rock era, according to the magazine's survey of 179 musicians, producers, Rolling Stone editors, and other music industry insiders.[37]
- On January 20, 2009, Franklin performed "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" during the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama.
- On May 23, 2010, Franklin received an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Yale University.[38]
- On June 1, 2010, Aretha Franklin's recording of "Chain Of Fools" was voted a Legendary Michigan Song.[35]
- On February 13, 2011, the Grammy Awards paid tribute to Franklin with a medley of her classics by fellow singers Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride and Yolanda Adams[39]
- On October 16, 2011, Franklin sang "Precious Lord (Take My Hand)" for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s memorial dedication ceremony in Washington, D.C.
- On August 14, 2012, Franklin will be inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Grammy Awards[link]
Franklin has won 18[40] performance Grammy Awards,[41] and two honorary Grammys: the Grammy Legend Award (1991) and the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1994).[42]
She holds the record[citation needed] for most Best Female R&B Vocal Performance awards, with eleven to her name (including eight consecutive awards from 1968 to 1975 – the first eight awarded in that category).
| Aretha Franklin's 18 Grammy Award Wins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Year | Category | Genre | Title |
| 1 | 1968 | Best Rhythm & Blues Recording | R&B | Respect |
| 2 | 1968 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Respect |
| 3 | 1969 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Chain Of Fools |
| 4 | 1970 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Share Your Love With Me |
| 5 | 1971 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Don't Play That Song For Me |
| 6 | 1972 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| 7 | 1973 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Young, Gifted and Black (album) |
| 8 | 1973 | Best Soul Gospel Performance | Gospel | Amazing Grace (album) |
| 9 | 1974 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Master Of Eyes |
| 10 | 1975 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing |
| 11 | 1982 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Hold On...I'm Comin' (album track) |
| 12 | 1986 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Freeway Of Love |
| 13 | 1988 | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Aretha (album) |
| 14 | 1988 | Best R&B Performance – Duo Or Group with Vocals | R&B | I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) (with George Michael) |
| 15 | 1989 | Best Soul Gospel Performance – Female | Gospel | One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (album) |
| * | 1991 | Living Legend Award | Special | |
| * | 1994 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Special | |
| 16 | 2004 | Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | Wonderful |
| 17 | 2006 | Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance | R&B | A House Is Not A Home |
| 18 | 2008 | Best Gospel-Soul Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group | Gospel | Never Gonna Break My Faith (with Mary J. Blige) |
Discography[link]
Further information: Aretha Franklin discography
LPs[link]
- Songs of Faith (1956)
- Aretha (1961)
- The Electrifying Aretha Franklin ' (1962)
- The Tender, the Moving, the Swinging Aretha Franklin' (1962)
- Laughing on the Outside (1963)
- Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington (1964)
- Runnin' Out of Fools (1964)
- Yeah!!! In Person (1965)
- Soul Sister (1966)
- Take It Like You Give It (1967)
- I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)
- Aretha Arrives (1967)
- Lady Soul (1968)
- Aretha Now (1968)
- Soul '69 (1969)
- This Girl's in Love with You (1970)
- Spirit in the Dark (1970)
- Young, Gifted and Black (1972)
- Amazing Grace (1972)
- Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) (1973)
- Let Me in Your Life (1974)
- With Everything I Feel in Me (1974)
- You (1975)
- Sparkle (1976)
- Sweet Passion (1977)
- Almighty Fire (1978)
- La Diva (1979)
- Aretha (1980)
- Love All the Hurt Away (1981)
- Jump to It (1982)
- Get It Right (1983)
- Who's Zoomin' Who? (1985)
- Aretha (1986)
- One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (1987)
- Through the Storm (1989)
- What You See Is What You Sweat (1991)
- A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998)
- So Damn Happy (2003)
- This Christmas, Aretha (2008)
- A Woman Falling Out of Love (2011)
Top 10 US Hot 100 singles[link]
| Year | Title | Peak |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" | 9 |
| 1967 | "Respect" | 1 |
| 1967 | "Baby I Love You" | 4 |
| 1967 | "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | 8 |
| 1967 | "Chain of Fools" | 2 |
| 1968 | "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" | 5 |
| 1968 | "Think" | 7 |
| 1968 | "The House That Jack Built" | 6 |
| 1968 | "I Say a Little Prayer" | 10 |
| 1971 | "Bridge Over Troubled Water" / "Brand New Me" | 6 |
| 1971 | "Spanish Harlem" | 2 |
| 1971 | "Rock Steady" | 9 |
| 1972 | "Day Dreaming" | 5 |
| 1973 | "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" | 3 |
| 1985 | "Freeway of Love" | 3 |
| 1985 | "Who's Zoomin' Who" | 7 |
| 1987 | "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (with George Michael) | 1 |
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All no. 1 hits in US R&B 100 singles[link]
| Year | Title |
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| 1967 | "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" |
| 1967 | "Respect" |
| 1967 | "Baby I Love You" |
| 1967 | "Chain of Fools" |
| 1968 | "(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone" |
| 1968 | "Think" |
| 1969 | "Share Your Love with Me" |
| 1970 | "Call Me" |
| 1970 | "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)" |
| 1971 | "Bridge Over Troubled Water" / "Brand New Me" |
| 1971 | "Spanish Harlem" |
| 1972 | "Day Dreaming" |
| 1973 | "Angel" |
| 1973 | "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" |
| 1974 | "I'm in Love" |
| 1976 | "Something He Can Feel" |
| 1977 | "Break It to Me Gently" |
| 1982 | "Jump to It" |
| 1983 | "Get It Right" |
| 1985 | "Freeway of Love" |
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Filmography[link]
Movies / Concerts / Documentaries[link]
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Motown 40: The Music Is Forever (1998) (ABC-TV documentary)
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- DIVAS LIVE (1998)
- Immaculate Funk (2000) (documentary)
- Rhythm, Love and Soul (2002)
- Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003) (documentary)
- Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty (2003) (documentary)
- From The Heart / The Four Tops 50th Anniversary and Celebration (2004)
- Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built (2007) (documentary)
Television[link]
- The Tonight Show / Johnny Carson
- The Mike Douglas Show
- In 1972, she had a role in the TV show Room 222
- Solid Gold (numerous appearances with the last in 1982 performing "Jump To It")
- Kelly & Company (Marilyn Turner and John Kelly, Detroit)
- Dayna (Dayna Eubanks, fomer Detroit newscaster)
- Rolonda Show (Rolonda Watts)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (numerous appearances including Oprah's 40th birthday, with Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight)
- Live with Regis and Kelly (numerous appearances)
- The View
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- ^ Natalie Cole broke Franklin's "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" winning streak with her 1975 single "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" (which, ironically, was originally offered to Franklin).
- ^ "Aretha Franklin songs". http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/aretha-franklin/songs. – from the Bill Graham archives; requires free login.
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- ^ Patrick Goldstein (18 July 1986). "Writer`s Ballad Tapped For Abc-tv Fall Theme". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-07-18/features/8602120160_1_abc-tv-aretha-franklin-brock-walsh. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ Rosenthal, Lauren (May 24, 2010). "Univ. confers 3,243 degrees at 309th Commencement". Yale Daily News. http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/may/24/univ-confers-3243-degrees-at-309th-commencement. Retrieved November 30, 2010.
- ^ Nick Salvatore (2005). Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. Little Brown. pp. 203–204, 224. ISBN 0-316-16037-7. OCLC 56104283. http://books.google.com/books?id=bRDAQSK9DlkC&pg=PA203.
- ^ "Aretha Franklin gets engaged". NDTV. 3 January 2012. http://www.ndtv.com/article/music/aretha-franklin-gets-engaged-163296. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ a b Bego, Mark (1989). Aretha Franklin: The Queen Of Soul. New York: St.Martin's Press. p. page #s?. ISBN 0-306-8093-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=ErKigdCXUwoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Bego,+Mark.+Aretha+Franklin:+the+queen+of+soul&hl=en&ei=s3nhToWzL-je2QXPqYjMBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Bego%2C%20Mark.%20Aretha%20Franklin%3A%20the%20queen%20of%20soul&f=false.
- ^ "Aretha Franklin's 52-year-old son hospitalised after brutal attack at Detroit gas station". Daily Mail. 22 September 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1314055/Aretha-Franklins-son-Eddie-hospitalised-Detroit-gas-station-attack.html. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ "Aretha Franklin's son has been released from hospital after being beaten in Detroit". Action News. September 21, 2010. http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/homepage_showcase/aretha-franklin%27s-son-severely-beaten-in-detroit.
- ^ "Franklin previews new album at Detroit restaurant". Journal Register Company. 27 February 2010. http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2010/02/27/entertainment/srv0000007709849.txt. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ "Soul singer Aretha Franklin is engaged". CNN. January 2, 2012. http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/02/showbiz/aretha-franklin-engaged/?hpt=hp_c2.
- ^ "Aretha Franklin to get married this summer | Celebrity Buzz | a Chron.com blog". Blog.chron.com. 2012-01-02. http://blog.chron.com/celebritybuzz/2012/01/aretha-franklin-to-get-married-this-summer/. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ Salvatore, Nick, Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America, Little Brown, 2005, Hardcover ISBN 0-316-16037-7, pp. 61–62
- ^ Roger Friedman (17 February 2012). "Who Is Cissy Houston? A Primer". Showbiz411. http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/02/17/who-is-cissy-houston-a-primer. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ Whitall, Susan. "Aretha Franklin recalls meeting a young Whitney Houston". The Queen of Soul corrected one thing about her relationship to Houston. She says she wasn't Houston's godmother, but a sort of honorary aunt.. The Detroit News. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120217/ENT09/202170397/1361/Aretha-Franklin-recalls-meeting-a-young-Whitney-Houston. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
- ^ Whitall, Susan. "Aretha Franklin recalls meeting a young Whitney Houston". Aretha Franklin, who will sing at Whitney Houston's funeral Saturday, spoke to Al Roker on the "Today" show Friday morning about the first time she met Houston, as a wide-eyed 8- or 9-year-old.. The Detroit News. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120217/ENT09/202170397/1361/Aretha-Franklin-recalls-meeting-a-young-Whitney-Houston. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Singer Whitney Houston dies at 48 - CNN.com". CNN. February 12, 2012. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/11/showbiz/whitney-houston-dead/?hpt=hp_t1.
- ^ "At Houston funeral, stories of faith, courage and love - CNN.com". CNN. February 19, 2012. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/18/showbiz/whitney-houston-funeral/index.html?hpt=hp_c1.
- ^ "Aretha Franklin - Calls in Sick to Whitney Houston's Funeral, But Performs in NYC That Night". TMZ.com. 2012-02-19. http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/19/whitney-houston-funeral-aretha-frranklin/#.T0HXQnJSSkU. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ "Aretha Franklin Sets The Record Straight On Her Health". Access Hollywood. January 13, 2011. http://www.accesshollywood.com/aretha-franklin-sets-the-record-straight-on-her-health-i-dont-know-where-pancreatic-cancer-came-from_article_42228.
- ^ Carroll, Jillian (2004). Aretha Franklin. Chicago: Raintree. ISBN 0-7398-7029-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=7nhDFoq_iQEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Carroll,+Jillian.+Aretha+Franklin.&hl=en&ei=xXbhTui5Ks-msQLMyt32BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Carroll%2C%20Jillian.%20Aretha%20Franklin.&f=false.
- ^ Dobkin, Matt (2006). I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making Of A Soul Music Masterpiece. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-31828-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=lHJC0ne4zbAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=I+Never+Loved+A+Man+The+Way+I+Love+You:+Aretha+Franklin,+Respect,+and+the+Making+Of+A+Soul+Music+Masterpiece&hl=en&ei=03jhTtbkCeK3sQKRvKGLBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=I%20Never%20Loved%20A%20Man%20The%20Way%20I%20Love%20You%3A%20Aretha%20Franklin%2C%20Respect%2C%20and%20the%20Making%20Of%20A%20Soul%20Music%20Masterpiece&f=false.
- ^ Luther King, Jr., Martin. "I Have A Dream". I Have A Dream. http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/3504.html. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
- ^ On an ABC promo aired on July 27, 2010 announcing Franklin and Rice's appearing together in concert there was a segment in which Franklin was being interviewed and she said herself, "I am a Democrat".
- ^ "TIME Magazine Cover: Aretha Franklin". Time. June 28, 1968. http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19680628,00.html. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
- ^ "Aretha Franklin Biography". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. undated. Archived from the original on November 27, 2010. http://rockhall.com/inductees/aretha-franklin/bio/.
- ^ "The Immortals: The First Fifty". Rolling Stone Issue 946. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939214/the_immortals_the_first_fifty.
- ^ Category: Inductees. "Aretha Franklin". Michigan Rock and Roll Legends. http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/70-aretha-franklin. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ a b Category: Uncategorised. "Legendary Michigan Songs". Michigan Rock and Roll Legends. http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/legendary-michigan-songs-inductees. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists. Billboard.com. Retrieved on July 8, 2011.
- ^ Aretha Franklin greatest singer in rock era: poll. Music.yahoo.com (2008-11-11). Retrieved on July 8, 2011.
- ^ Franklin receives honorary doctorate from Yale. Newsone.com (2010-05-24). Retrieved on July 8, 2011.
- ^ Grammay Awards tribute to Aretha Franklin
- ^ According to NARAS rules,[where?] Special Grammy Awards (such as Lifetime Achievement) are not counted in a performer's tally.
- ^ "Past Winners Search: Aretha Franklin". Grammy.com. http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=Aretha+Franklin&title=&year=All&genre=All. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
- ^ Nechvatal, Zack (February 10, 2011). "Grammy Awards To Honor Aretha Franklin". Chicago, Illinois: WXRT/CBS Radio. Archived from the original on January 2, 2012. http://wxrt.radio.com/2011/02/10/grammy-awards-to-honor-aretha-franklin/. Retrieved January 2, 2012.
- ^ a b "Aretha Franklin: Biography". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 3, 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090503075231/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/arethafranklin/biography. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
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| Date of birth | March 25, 1942 |
| Place of birth | Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Kelly Bishop | |
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| Born | Carole Bishop (1944-02-28) February 28, 1944 (age 68) Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Spouse | Lee Leonard (1981-present) Peter Miller (divorced) |
Carole "Kelly" Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress and dancer, best known for her roles as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls, and as the mother of Jennifer Grey's character in the film Dirty Dancing. Bishop created the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical.
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Early life[link]
Bishop was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Jane Lenore (née Wahtola) and Lawrence Boden Bishop.[1] She grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she trained to be a ballet dancer, attending the American Ballet Theatre School and the San Jose Ballet School.[2] At eighteen, she headed to New York City and landed her first job dancing in a year-round ballet company at Radio City Music Hall. Bishop continued to dance in Las Vegas, summer stock and on television until she was cast in 1967 in Golden Rainbow, her first Broadway role.
Career[link]
Bishop's big break came when she was cast as the sexy, hard-edged Sheila in the Broadway production of A Chorus Line. Her performance earned her the 1976 Tony Award as "Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical)", as well as the 1976 Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Musical". She also acted in the Broadway productions of Six Degrees of Separation, Neil Simon's Proposals, the Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo and Bus Stop. It wasn't long before she was cast opposite Jill Clayburgh in Paul Mazursky's big-screen drama An Unmarried Woman (1978). In 1986, Bishop was initially cast in a much smaller part in the film Dirty Dancing, but was then called upon to play Mrs. Houseman when Lynne Lipton, the actress assigned the role, fell ill during the first week of shooting.
Bishop went on to play "mom" to several high-profile stars in numerous features: Howard Stern's in the Betty Thomas-directed comedy Private Parts (1997), and Tobey Maguire's in Wonder Boys (2000). Additional feature credits include Ich und Er (USA: Me and Him, 1988), Queens Logic (1991), Café Society (1995), Miami Rhapsody (1995) and Blue Moon (2002). On television, Bishop starred in the Mike Nichols' The Thorns opposite Tony Roberts and Marilyn Cooper. She played Lisa Ann Walter's mother on My Wildest Dreams. She has guest-starred on Kate & Allie, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Murphy Brown.
From 2000-07, Bishop starred in the CW Television Network series Gilmore Girls as wealthy New England matriarch Emily Gilmore, mother of Lorelai and grandmother of Rory.
Bishop was in Becky Shaw at the Second Stage Theatre in 2008. She then performed a briefly in the 2011 revival of Anything Goes alongside Sutton Foster and Joel Grey. She replaced Jessica Walters in the role of Evangeline Harcourt.
Bishop can be next seen starring in the recurring role of Fanny Flowers on Amy Sherman-Palladino's Bunheads[3], in which she reunites with Sutton Foster.
Personal life[link]
Bishop resides in South Orange, New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, TV talk show host Lee Leonard. She has no children.[4][5]
Filmography[link]
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 1966 | Step Out of Your Mind | Missy Linden | ||
| 1978 | An Unmarried Woman | Elaine | ||
| 1981 | Advice to the Lovelorn | Rita Borden | ||
| 1982 | O'Hara's Wife | Beth Douglas | ||
| 1985 | The Recovery Room | Kaye Brenner | ||
| 1986 | Solarbabies | Tutor Nover | ||
| 1987 | Dirty Dancing | Marjorie Houseman | ||
| 1988 | Ich und Er | Eleanor Aramis | ||
| 1991 | Queens Logic | Maria | ||
| 1993 | Six Degrees of Separation | Adele | ||
| 1995 | Miami Rhapsody | Zelda | ||
| Cafe Society | Mrs. Jelke | |||
| 1997 | Private Parts | Ray Stern | ||
| 1999 | My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception | Sylvia Wienstein | ||
| 2000 | Blue Moon | Peggy's Mother | ||
| Wonder Boys | Amanda Leer | |||
| 2011 | Friends with Kids | Marcy Fryman | ||
| A Novel Romance | Lily Sparks | |||
| Television | ||||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
| 1976 | Hawaii Five-O | Char | Episode: Oldest Profession - Latest Price | |
| 1983 | The New Odd Couple | Charity | Episode: Murray's Hot Date | |
| 1984 | Kate & Allie | Paulette | Episode: Baby | |
| 1987 | As the World Turns | Grace Wescott Andrews | ||
| 1988 | The Thorns | Ginger Thorn | 12 episodes | |
| 1989 | One Life to Live | Serena Wyman | ||
| 1990 | The Baby-Sitters Club | Flora | Episode: Claudia and the Secret Passage | |
| 1992 | ABC Afterschool Special | Roxanne Holden | Episode: Summer Stories: The Mall - Part 1 | |
| Law & Order | Marian Borland | Episode: Intolerance | ||
| Murphy Brown | Connie Silverberg | Episode: Me Thinks My Parents Doth Protest Too Much | ||
| 1995 | My Wildest Dreams | Gloria James | 5 episodes | |
| 2000–2007 | Gilmore Girls | Emily Gilmore | 154 episodes | |
| 2000–2009 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Julia Zimmer | 3 episodes | |
| 2009 | Army Wives | Jean Calhoun | Episode: Operation: Tango | |
| 2010 | Mercy | Lauren Kempton | 4 episodes | |
| The Good Wife | Mrs. Kent (voice) | Episode: VIP Treatment | ||
| 2012 | Bunheads | Fanny Flowers | ||
References[link]
- ^ "Profile at FilmReference.com". filmreference. 2008. http://www.filmreference.com/film/97/Kelly-Bishop.html. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
- ^ "Kelly Bishop Biography". Yahoo! Movies. 2008. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800292662/bio. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
- ^ "'Gilmore Girls' reunion: Kelly Bishop joins Amy Sherman-Palladino's new ABC Family show -- EXCLUSIVE". EW.com. http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/02/15/kelly-bishop-bunheads-amy-sherman-palladino/. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
- ^ "THEATER; Two Mature Lives on Stage and Screen, Now Playing in New Jersey", The New York Times, September 19, 1999. "She and her husband, Lee Leonard, the host of Jersey Talking on News 12 in Edison, have been living in South Orange for four years."
- ^ Worth-Baker, Marcia. "Mother's Always Right: Kelly Bishop has played the mother many times over", Maplewood Matters, accessed April 22, 2007. "Ask Kelly Bishop, South Orange resident and star of Gilmore Girls, what drew her to the role of Emily Gilmore, and she recalls, 'The pilot was simply the best script I ever read.'"
External links[link]
- Kelly Bishop at AllRovi
- Kelly Bishop at the Internet Broadway Database
- Kelly Bishop at the Internet Movie Database
- Kelly Bishop cast bio on The CW
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| Place of birth | Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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| Kevin Conroy | |
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| Born | (1955-11-30) November 30, 1955 (age 56) Westbury, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Kevin Conroy (born November 30, 1955) is an American stage, screen, and voice actor, known for his acclaimed voice role as Batman in the Emmy Award-winning 1990s Fox television show Batman: The Animated Series, as well as its various spin-off TV series and feature films that made up the DC Animated Universe.[1] More recently, he has voiced Batman in the acclaimed video games Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, as well as various films under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies banner.
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Early life[link]
Born in Westbury, New York, Conroy moved to Westport, Connecticut when he was about 11 years old. He moved to New York in 1973 when he earned a full scholarship to attend Juilliard's famous drama division, where he studied under actor John Houseman. While there, he almost ended up living with future Superman actor Christopher Reeve, but ended up rooming with Robin Williams who was in the same group as both Conroy and Kelsey Grammer.[2] In 1978, after graduating from Juilliard, he toured with The Acting Company, Houseman's acting group, and, in 1979, he went on the national tour of Ira Levin's Deathtrap.[3]
Career[link]
In 1980, he decided to try his hand in television, and moved out to California. He landed a role in the daytime soap opera Another World. He became associated with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, where he performed in productions of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. From 1980 to 1985, he acted in a variety of contemporary and classic theatre pieces, including the Broadway productions of Eastern Standard and Edward Albee's adaptation of Lolita. In 1984, he played the title role in Hamlet in the New York Shakespeare Festival. He returned to television in the 1985 TV movie Covenant, and had a role on another daytime soap drama, Search For Tomorrow. He was a series regular on Ohara in 1987, and on Tour of Duty from 1987 to 1988, before starring in a series of television movies. He has also guest starred on shows such as Cheers, Dynasty, Search For Tomorrow, and Matlock.[4]
He almost landed the part of Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings, but lost out to Tim Daly (who coincidentally, as a voice actor, later portrayed Superman in The WB's Superman: The Animated Series). He was confirmed to be performing on the fourth season of The Venture Bros. as Captain Sunshine, a caricature of Batman and Superman.[4]
Batman[link]
Vocally, Kevin Conroy is well known to audiences for his lead role in Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995). In 1991, Conroy was told by his agent that Warner Bros. was producing a new animated TV series and asked him if he would like to try out for the voice of Batman. Believing it would be like the 1960s Batman TV series, Conroy went in to audition. He was one of 150 actors who auditioned for the role. When asked about the character, the series producer Bruce Timm explained to Conroy that this interpretation of Batman would not be like the 1960s TV version, but rather based on a much more gothic story line similar to Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film. Conroy walked into the booth and ultimately won the audition. He continued to voice-play Batman in the subsequent spin-off series The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999), Batman Beyond (1999–2001), Justice League (2001–2004), and Justice League Unlimited (2004–2006), all of which take place in what is commonly referred to as the DC Animated Universe (DCAU). His tenure in the role also includes the DCAU films Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998), Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000), and Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003). He also voiced Batman for the character's guest appearances in the DCAU's Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, and The Zeta Project.
Conroy is well remembered by fans for being the first person in animation to use two distinct voices to portray Bruce Wayne and Batman, which was Conroy's idea.[3] In a tally of performances that include every episode, movie, and guest appearance made as Batman, Conroy has portrayed the character longer than any other actor in either live-action or animation. Apart from the DCAU, Conroy has also portrayed Batman in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies Batman: Gotham Knight (2008), Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009), Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010), and Justice League: Doom (2012).[4][5]
Additionally, he portrayed Batman in the video games The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1994), Batman: Vengeance (2001), Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu (2003), Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) and Batman: Arkham City (2011), as well as the 2001 revamp of Batman Adventure - The Ride, at the Warner Bros. Movie World theme park in Queensland, Australia. Conroy also voiced Batman alongside his DCAU co-star Mark Hamill as the Joker and Jason Hillhouse as Dick Grayson in a feature of a storyboard scene included in the 2005 Special Edition DVD of the 1989 Batman film. This scene depicted the origin of Robin, which wasn't filmed because the filmmakers ultimately felt it was out of place with the rest of the film. In the season four premiere of The Batman, an animated series unrelated to the DCAU, Conroy portrayed Robin's father, John Grayson. Conroy also voiced the Phantom Stranger and an alternate Batman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, another animated series unrelated to the DCAU.[6]
He also portrays Batman in the online video game DC Universe Online.
Personal life[link]
After the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, Conroy participated in relief efforts by volunteering to do cooking duties for officers and firefighters. During an audio commentary on Batman: Gotham Knight Conroy expressed his surprise at the reaction of the emergency service workers to his presence. At the behest of another cook, Conroy called out from the kitchen to the dining area in his "Batman voice", reciting a few lines, which were greeted by cheers and applause from emergency service personnel, many of whom had been fans of Batman: The Animated Series during its airing in the 1990s. Conroy confessed to being humbled and deeply flattered by the reaction.[7]
Credits[link]
- How to Pick Up Girls! (1978; TV movie) - Bartender
- Another World (1980–1981; TV series) - Jerry Grove #2
- Born Beautiful (1982; TV movie) - Stan
- Kennedy (1983; TV mini-series) - Ted Kennedy
- George Washington (1984; TV mini-series) - John Laurens
- Search for Tomorrow (1984–1985; TV series) - Chase Kendall
- Covenant (1985; TV movie) - Stephen
- Dynasty (1985–1986; TV series) - Bart Fallmont
- Ohara (1987; TV series) - Capt. Lloyd Hamilton
- Tour of Duty (1987–1988; TV series) - Capt. Rusty Wallace
- Killer Instinct (1988; TV movie) - Dr. Steven Nelson
- So Proudly We Hail (1990; TV movie) - Francis Crosby
- The Face of Fear (1990; TV movie) - Frank Dwight Bollinger
- Hi Honey - I'm Dead (1991; TV Movie) - Brad Stadler
- Battle in the Errogenous Zone (1992; TV movie) - Mondo Ray
- The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton (1992; TV movie) - Hunter Roy Evans
- Chain of Desire (1992) - Joe
- Rachel Gunn, R.N. (1992; TV series) - Dr. David Dunkle
- Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995; TV series) - Bruce Wayne/Batman and Dr. Thomas Wayne
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993; theatrical film) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1994; video game) - Batman (Sega CD version only)
- Island City (1994; TV movie) - Col. Tom Valdoon
- The Office (1995; TV series) - Steve Gillman
- Superman: The Animated Series (1997-1999; TV series) - Bruce Wayne/Batman (guest star; episodes: "World's Finest," "Knight Time," and "The Demon Reborn")
- The New Batman Adventures (1997–1999; TV series) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998; DTV film) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Crusaders of Might and Magic (1999; video game) - Drake
- Batman Beyond (1999–2001; TV series) - Bruce Wayne
- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000; DTV film) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- The Zeta Project (2001; TV series) - Bruce Wayne (guest star; episode: "Shadows")
- Batman: Vengeance (2001; video game) - Batman
- Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001; video game) - Fisherman
- Justice League (2001–2004; TV series) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Static Shock (2002-2004; TV series) - Bruce Wayne/Batman (guest star; episodes: "The Big Leagues," "Hard as Nails," "A League of Their Own," and "Future Shock")
- Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003; video game) - Lord Jack/Cleaner/Commando
- Lords of EverQuest (2003; video game) - Lord Palasa
- Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu (2003; video game) - Batman
- Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003; DTV film) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Justice League Unlimited (2004–2006; TV series) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- The Batman (2006; TV series) - John Grayson (guest star; episode: "A Matter of Family")
- Batman: Gotham Knight (2008; DTV film) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Ben 10: Alien Force (2008; TV series) - Alien X (Bellicus)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009; video game) - Bruce Wayne/Batman and Thomas Wayne
- Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009; DTV film) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- The Venture Bros (2009; TV series) - Captain Sunshine (guest star; episode: "Handsome Ransom")
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2010; TV series) - Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, Phantom Stranger
- Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010; DTV film) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- DC Universe Online (2011; online video game) - Batman
- Batman: Arkham City (2011; video game) - Bruce Wayne/Batman, Dr. Thomas Elliot/Hush
- Justice League: Doom (2012; DTV film) - Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Transformers: Prime (2012; TV series) -
Stage plays[link]
| Stage Play | Character played | Location performed | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accounts | ? | Hudson Guild | ? |
| Come Back Little Sheba | ? | Roundabout Theatre | ? |
| Deathtrap | ? | (on Broadway) | 1979 |
| Eastern Standard | ? | Golden Theatre (Broadway) | 1989 |
| The Greeks | Achilles | Hartford Stage | 1984 |
| Hamlet | Hamlet | New York Shakespeare Festival | 1984 |
| Hamlet | Hamlet | Old Globe Theatre, San Diego | ? |
| King Lear | ? | San Diego Shakespeare Festival | ? |
| The Last Yankee | Lenny Hamilton | Signature Theatre | 12/30/97 - 2/8/98 |
| Lolita | ? | (on Broadway) | ? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Lysander | New York Shakespeare Festival | 1984 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Lysander | Old Globe Theater, San Diego | 1982 |
| Mother Courage | ? | ? | ? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | ? | San Diego Shakespeare Festival | ? |
References[link]
- ^ "Top 10 Comic to TV Adaptations". IGN. http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/798/798709p3.html. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
- ^ http://panelsonpages.com/?p=15025
- ^ a b Murphy, Joel (2009-10-01). "One on One with Kevin Conroy". HoboTrashcan. http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2009/10/01/one-on-one-with-kevin-conroy/.
- ^ a b c "Prelude to a Kill...". Publick Nuisance. http://jacksonpublick.livejournal.com/.
- ^ Harvey, James (2008-02-29). "Kevin Conroy to play Batman in Batman: Gotham Knight". World's Finest Online. http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=82.
- ^ "Interview with Michael Jelenic.". http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1002/08/batmanbrave.htm.
- ^ Batman: Gotham Knight audio commentary.
External links[link]
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- Kevin Conroy talks life, Batman and video games
- Kevin Conroy at the Internet Movie Database
- Audio Interview w/ The Rafferty/Mills Connection Podcast (2009)
- HoboTrashcan - One on One with Kevin Conroy (2009)
| Preceded by Adam West |
Voice of Batman 1992-2006 |
Succeeded by Rino Romano |
| Preceded by Jeremy Sisto |
Voice of Batman 2008-present |
Succeeded by Various Others (concurrent) |
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Conroy, Kevin |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | 1955-11-30 |
| Place of birth | Westbury, New York, U.S. |
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