Jim Bob is the stage name for James Morrison, the London born writer and musician best known as the singer of indie punk band Carter USM.
Jim Bob was born James Neil Morrison in the city of London, on 22 November 1960. He changed his name because he did not want to be mistaken for, in his own words, "a fat, dead, crap poet" – in other words, the former singer of The Doors.
He played in various bands during the 1980s, one of which was Jamie Wednesday who were performing between 1984 and 1987. In 1987 Jamie Wednesday split up just before a gig at the London Astoria. Morrison and Les "Fruitbat" Carter filled in, playing along to a backing tape, and Carter USM was born. In fact, Jim and Les had known each other since the late 1970s, when their bands The Ballpoints (featuring Jim on vocals) and Dead Clergy (Les on bass and vocals) used to rehearse at the same studio behind Streatham station. When The Ballpoints' bassist quit at the end of 1980, Les joined the band, who then went on to play several gigs under the name of Peter Pan's Playground.
19 Kids and Counting (formerly 17 Kids and Counting and 18 Kids and Counting) is an American reality television show on TLC. The show is about the Duggar family, which consists of parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their 19 children—nine girls and ten boys (including two sets of fraternal twins), who all have names beginning with the letter "J". The series began on September 29, 2008. Season nine ended on March 27, 2012.
The family lives in Tontitown, Arkansas, and originally appeared in several TLC and Discovery Health one-hour specials, most of which focused on four of Michelle's last five deliveries. Jim Bob has one older sister, Deanna, who (along with her daughter Amy) occasionally appears on the show. Michelle has six siblings. Jim Bob and Michelle met in the early 1980s when Jim Bob, along with another church member, were sent for a follow-up visit after Michelle had experienced a religious conversion. Jim Bob and Michelle were married on July 21, 1984.
The Duggars elected to delay having children and practiced birth control. It was three years before Josh, their eldest child, was born. They then resumed using birth control; despite precautions, they conceived again but Michelle had a miscarriage. On December 9, 2011, Michelle revealed that they had named the miscarried child Caleb, even though they did not know whether the baby was a boy or a girl. Believing the miscarriage was due to the contraceptive, the Duggars quit birth control and embraced the Quiverfull movement. As they explained, they "decided to allow God to determine the number of children" they would have. Shortly thereafter, Michelle became pregnant again, this time with her first set of twins, Jana and John-David. Thereafter, Michelle has given birth approximately every year and a half.
James Robert "Jim Bob" Duggar (born July 18, 1965) is a real estate agent, and television personality on the reality series 19 Kids and Counting. He is a former state legislator who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002.
Duggar was born in Springdale, Arkansas. He is the son of Jimmy Lee (1936–2009), who operated several local businesses, and Mary Duggar (born 1941), a homemaker and ice cream store owner. Duggar has an older sister, Deanna.
From 1999 to 2002, Duggar served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for the sixth district, which included part of northern Washington County, Arkansas. Duggar was vice chair of the House Corrections and Criminal Law Subcommittee and also participated in the Insurance and Commerce Committee and Judiciary Committee.
He also ran in the Republican Party of Arkansas primary election for the United States Senate in 2002, but lost to Tim Hutchinson. Duggar sought the Republican nomination to the Arkansas State Senate District 35 seat in 2006, but lost to candidate Bill Pritchard by 200 votes. He is a licensed realtor, and owns several commercial properties in his local area as an investor.
Calvin Grant Shofner (born April 7, 1932), known professionally as Cal Smith, is an American country musician, most famous for his 1974 hit "Country Bumpkin."
Smith was born on April 7, 1932, in Gans, Oklahoma, and was raised in Oakland, California. He began his music career performing at the Remember Me Cafe in San Francisco at the age of 15, but he was not financially successful at first. Throughout the 1950s, he was not able to continue his music career, so he worked at various other jobs, including truck driving and bronco busting. He appeared on the California Hayride television show in the mid-1950s before serving two years in the military.
After his discharge, he began playing in a band in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1961, country music legend Ernest Tubb heard the band play and, after an audition, hired Smith to play guitar for the Texas Troubadours. Thus, Smith is heard playing in most of Tubb's 1960s recordings. His first solo single was 'Tear Stained Pillow/Eleven Long Years on the local Plaid label. Smith's stage name began to catch on after he released his second solo single, "I'll Just Go Home," in 1966 for Kapp Records, and he first cracked the Billboard charts with his second single, "The Only Thing I Want."
Robert Lane "Bob" Saget (born May 17, 1956) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and television host. Although he is best known for his family-friendly roles as Danny Tanner in Full House and the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos, Saget is also known for his very vulgar stand-up routine.
Saget was born in Philadelphia to Jewish parents. His father, Benjamin, was a supermarket executive, and his mother, Rosalyn, was a hospital administrator. Saget lived in Norfolk, Virginia, and Encino, California, before moving back to Philadelphia and graduating from Abington Senior High School. Saget originally intended to become a doctor, but his Honors English teacher, Elaine Zimmerman, saw his creative potential and urged him to seek a career in films.
He attended Temple University's film school, where he created Through Adam's Eyes, a black-and-white film about a boy who received reconstructive facial surgery, and was honored with an award of merit in the Student Academy Awards. He graduated with a B.A. in 1978. Saget intended to take graduate courses at the University of Southern California but quit a few days later. Saget describes himself at the time in an article by Glenn Esterly in the 1990 Saturday Evening Post: "I was a cocky, overweight twenty-two-year-old. Then I had a gangrenous appendix taken out, almost died, and I got over being cocky or overweight." Saget talked about his burst appendix on Anytime with Bob Kushell, saying that it happened on the Fourth of July, at the UCLASS Medical Center and that they at first just iced the area for seven hours before taking it out and finding that it had become gangrenous. Saget credits the band Autistico for getting him through the tough times.
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Cletus is a KKK member who now presides a support group meeting to members of his chapter, The Proud White Klan of Georgia. This is because they are being collectively hated by the people in town. After being tired of experiencing bigotry against him, his family and friends he experiences a dream which inspires him to reform his chapter by doing a campaign of re branding. His first decision is to make multicolored robes so the people in town will find their association much more attractive. After proposing this, Dale another charismatic member of the Klan decides to create his own chapter, The White Pride Klansmen of Georgia. Once Cletus begins to take this re branding campaign to reform their image they fail until he decides to make a local television add. With the help of this medium he is able to recruit a couple more members and return his association to a situation in which the future holds great opportunity for them.
Keywords: bigotry, hatred, kkk, racism, racist, reversal, tolerance
Look who's hating
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Lucy Loo Loo and her kissing cuz'ins take you on a zany trip to the Redneck Academy Awards in this comedy short, 'Redneck Redcarpet'. You will meet the crazy cast of characters as they arrive in Holiday, Florida for their one of kind awards tailored for each Cuz'in. They arrive in luxury in a mini van as they show off their style secrets on the red carpet letting you know what they are wearing and where you can get it. This trashy trailer park will never be the same once Drunk Mama arrives with her moonshine to get the party started. The hillbillies collect their awards, say their thank-yous, and do a little gig keeping you entertained right up until the curtain call.
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In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter. After convincing his senior poker buddies that he is diabetic, in order to explain his frequent use of syringes, Ethan shoots up while trying to win poker money to fund his gardening hobby and drug use. Nearing eviction, Ethan gardens furiously in hopes of winning the $10,000 first prize in the "Garden of the Year" contest so he can pay his delinquent rent. Between sugar-munching binges and exchanges with a motley crew of neighbors, Ethan tries to grow the perfect "American cowslip", a beautiful, rare flower that will be the centerpiece of his garden and the floral representation of his life. When his efforts are thwarted by his landlord/high school football coach/next door neighbor, Trevor O'Hart, Ethan faces eviction and the loss of his beloved garden, his sanity and the camaraderie he shares with his best friend and poker buddy, Roe. Believing he has finally found true love, Ethan unknowingly expedites his own demise when he reciprocates the affections of Georgia, a beautiful seventeen-year old girl who lives across the street and dreams of leaving Blythe and her abusive father behind. Head to head in a hilarious battle of the gardens with Trevor, Ethan must rise to the occasion and fix the life that he has screwed up so badly and save Georgia. With a seemingly subconscious awareness of his impending death, he decides that if he's going down, then he's going down in style.
It takes a village to raise an addict...
Ethan Inglebrink: You know Billy?::Georgia: You mean the special kid?::Ethan Inglebrink: Yeah. He is special... He's also retarded!::Georgia: I think the proper term is "mentally challenged".::Ethan Inglebrink: You're telling me he's mentally challenged and retarded?... Tough break, huh?
[last lines]::Ethan Inglebrink: [voice-over] What a ride.
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All the myths about vampires are just that. Crosses, holy water, garlic-they do absolutely nothing! The only thing that can kill a vampire has been injected into Quinn, a rough and rugged hillbilly with a chip on his shoulder. Now he is wanted by both vampires and those who want to destroy them. Quinn's only hope of survival is Karel, a renegade vampire warrior who does the unthinkable--she falls in love with him.
Keywords: vampire
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Key bits and highlights from Stern's daily syndicated radio program brought to television. Very similar to the E! Entertainment Television show he has daily, with a few twists and turns.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, stuttering
Lampy: [as Radio is lowering him with his antenna] Be careful.::Radio: I haven't dropped you yet, have I?::Lampy: No, but... [his plug slips off and he falls]::Radio: Whoops.::Lampy: There's always a first time.
Blanky: Poor Kirby. He has upset tummy.
Lampy: Thanks a lot! Without that tube, Frankenstein can't help the animals!::Blanky: That was a very bad thing to do, Radio!::Radio: But Blanky, I...
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As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
Keywords: 1930s, alcoholic, audition, based-on-book, based-on-novel, blood, brother-in-law-brother-in-law-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, bus, chicken
The boy is on his way to becoming a man. The man is on his way to becoming a legend.
Highway Patrolman: [finds Marlene in the trunk of the car] Get out of there! It's against the law to ride in the trunk in this state. I don't suppose you've got any I.D., either?::Marlene: Idee? Idee 'bout what?
Red Stovall: What's a girl like you going to do in Nashville? Have you any money or friends? What are you gonna do, live in the streets?::Marlene: The Lord will provide.::Red Stovall: He'd better provide you a way of gettin' there, too.
Whit: Uncle Red, don't you think you have a problem with your drinking?::Red Stovall: Only when I can't get it.::Whit: I mean - don't you think you might need some help with your drinking?::Red Stovall: No, I do quite well all by myself.
Red Stovall: Mary was right to go back to her husband. What the hell did I have to offer a kid? Just honky-tonks and flop-houses. That's the life of a country singer, Hoss. Sound good to you?::Whit: It don't sound too hot when you put it like that, but it sure beats picking cotton and living in a sharecropper's shack.
Henry Axle: You don't think he should be doing this, do you?::Whit: Do you? Knowing it might kill him?::Henry Axle: Want me to level with you, pal? He's going to die anyway, and he knows it. And he knows that this is his last chance.::Whit: Last chance? For what?::Henry Axle: To be somebody. Did you ever feel like you wanted to be somebody? If he makes these recordings - who knows?