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Sherman commonly refers to:

• Sherman (name), a surname and given name (and list of persons with the name)
  • William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891), American Civil War General
• M4 Sherman, a tank

Sherman may also refer to:

Places[link]

United States[link]

• Sherman, Texas, a city
• Sherman Island (California)
• Mount Sherman, Colorado
• Sherman, Connecticut, a town
• Sherman, Illinois, a village
• Sherman, Maine, a town
• Sherman, Michigan, an unincorporated community
• Sherman, Minnesota, an unincorporated place in McLeod County, Minnesota
• Sherman, Mississippi, a town
• Sherman, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Sherman (town), New York
  • Sherman (village), New York
• Sherman, South Dakota, a town
• Sherman, Washington, a ghost town
• Sherman, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Sherman, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town
• Sherman, Dunn County, Wisconsin, a town
• Sherman, Iron County, Wisconsin, a town
• Sherman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, a town

Elsewhere[link]

• Sherman Island (Antarctica)
• Fort Sherman, a former United States Army base at the Panama Canal
• Sherman Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario), Canada

Fictional characters[link]

• Sherman, the pet boy of the dog Mister Peabody on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
• Sherman, the eponymous character in the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon

Other uses[link]

• Sherman (constructor), a former American racing car constructor
• Sherman (Pacific Electric), a former railroad in California, USA
• 21621 Sherman, a main-belt asteroid
• USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720), a United States Coast Guard cutter
• The Sherman (Omaha, Nebraska), an apartment building on the National Register of Historic Places
• Sherman Mine, an abandoned open pit mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada
• Sherman Mine (Colorado), a mine on Mount Sherman
• Sherman (US Supreme Court case), an 1888 United States Supreme Court case

See also[link]

• Sherman County (disambiguation)
• Sherman Township (disambiguation)
• Sherman Antitrust Act, a 1890 US act
• Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890 US act
• General Sherman (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Sherman"
• All pages with titles containing "Sherman"
• Sharman (disambiguation)
• Shearman (disambiguation)
• Shurman

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Skip Bayless
Born	John Edward Bayless II (1951-12-04) December 4, 1951 (age 60) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Education	Vanderbilt University
Occupation	Television Sports Commentator (ESPN) commentator, sportswriter, sportswriter
Notable credit(s)	ESPN First Take (see Cold Pizza) 1st and 10
Website
http://www.espnmediazone.com/bios/Talent/SkipBayless-Bio.htm Skip Bayless on ESPN

Skip Bayless (born John Bayless II on December 4, 1951) is a sports journalist and television personality. Bayless regularly appears on ESPN2's ESPN First Take and its afternoon show 1st and 10. Bayless previously wrote regular columns for ESPN.com and its "Page 2" section. He is perhaps best known for his strong opinions and sometimes controversial stances on professional athletes.

Schooling and family[link]

Bayless was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The first child of John and Levita Bayless, he was named John Edward Bayless II on his birth certificate, but his father immediately began calling him Skip or Skipper. The name stuck, and Skip Bayless was never called John by his parents. He eventually had his name legally changed to Skip. His brother is the chef, restaurateur and TV personality Rick Bayless.

Bayless as a junior, along with Jerry Waugh, Jim Hill, and Tony Robinson led Junior Varsity (JV)'s Northwest Classen High School basketball team. ^[1]

Bayless averaged 1.4 points per game as a senior playing basketball at Northwest Classen High School. ^[2]

Bayless graduated from Northwest Classen High School and Vanderbilt University where he majored in English and History and was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma.

Bayless is a member of the inaugural class of the Vanderbilt Student Media Hall of Fame.^[3]

Writing career[link]

Bayless went directly from Vanderbilt to The Miami Herald, where he wrote sports features for two years before being hired away by the Los Angeles Times. There, he was best known for investigative stories on the Dodgers' clubhouse resentment of "golden boy" Steve Garvey and his celebrity wife Cyndy and on Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom's behind-the-scenes decisions to start different quarterbacks each week (James Harris, Pat Haden or Ron Jaworski). Bayless also won the Eclipse Award for his coverage of Seattle Slew's Triple Crown.

At 25, Bayless was hired by The Dallas Morning News to write its lead sports column, and two years later, the rival Dallas Times Herald hired him away by making him one of the country's highest paid sports columnists—prompting The Wall Street Journal to do a story on the development. Bayless was voted Texas sportswriter of the year three times.

In 1989, Bayless wrote God's Coach, about the rise and fall of Tom Landry's Dallas Cowboys. Following the Cowboys' Super Bowl victory in 1993, Bayless wrote The Boys, which broke the story that coach Jimmy Johnson and owner Jerry Jones were not "best friends" and correctly predicted that Jones would fire Johnson no matter how much success the team had. (Jones fired Johnson after the Cowboys won another Super Bowl the following year.)^{[clarification needed]}

Following a third Cowboys Super Bowl win in four seasons, Bayless wrote the third and final book of his Cowboys trilogy, Hell-Bent: The Crazy Truth About the "Win or Else" Dallas Cowboys. After covering the Cowboys through the 1996 season, Bayless chose to leave Dallas after 17 years and become the lead sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune. In his first year in Chicago, Bayless won the Lisagor Award for excellence in sports column writing and was voted Illinois sportswriter of the year.

Bayless eventually had a highly publicized dispute with the Tribune's executive editor, Ann Marie Lipinski, over limiting all Tribune columns to just 650 or so words. Bayless quit over the policy and was immediately hired by Knight Ridder Corporation to write for its flagship newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News.^[4] While in San Jose, Bayless became a fixture on ESPN's Rome is Burning and in a weekly Sunday Morning SportsCenter debate with Stephen A. Smith, "Old School/Nu Skool." ESPN hired Bayless full-time in 2004 to team with Woody Paige on ESPN2's Cold Pizza and to write columns for ESPN.com. In 2007, Bayless stopped writing columns to concentrate on what is now called ESPN First Take (formerly Cold Pizza) and on ESPN's afternoon show, First and 10.

Radio and television[link]

Skip Bayless has occasionally substituted as host for syndicated radio program The Jim Rome Show. He has also previously contributed to ESPN as a recurring panelist on The Sports Reporters, NFL Prime Monday (now ESPN Monday Night Countdown) in the 1990s, and Jim Rome is Burning. For three years (1998–2001), Bayless was a contributor at major championships for the Golf Channel.

KTCK Sports Radio 1310 "The Ticket"[link]

In 1994 Bayless left his show at KLIF in Dallas to help start the city's first sports talk radio station, KTCK Sports Radio 1310, "The Ticket." For two years Bayless was the primary host on the 6–9 a.m. morning show as "the Ticket" became one of the country's most successful sports stations. Bayless also was an original investor and when the ownership decided to accept a lucrative offer to sell the station, the new owners bought out Bayless' contract. He immediately became a regular on ESPN Radio's first national show, The Fabulous Sports Babe, and later co-hosted a weekend show on ESPN Radio with Larry Beil. He was also a regular on Chet Coppock's show on Sporting News Radio.

[edit] Cold Pizza/ESPN First Take

Bayless is featured in debate segments on what is now known as ESPN First Take (formerly Cold Pizza), and the segments are re-aired as First and 10 in the afternoons. Bayless debates the day's 10 hottest sports topics with a rotation of sportswriters and ex-athletes including Stephen A. Smith, Rob Parker, Jon Ritchie, Lomas Brown, Hugh Douglas, Kordell Stewart, Greg Anthony, Jalen Rose, Marcellus Wiley, Shaun King, and 2 Live Stews (Ryan and Doug Stewart). Terrell Suggs, Donovan McNabb, Chad Ochocinco, Donnie Wahlberg, and rappers Lil Wayne, Bow Wow, Wale have also taken on Bayless. Recently, Bayless has been tagged with the nickname "Skip Tebow" by many of his guests based on his unrelenting support of New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow. Bayless openly embraces the nickname.

Bayless is a regular twitter user, and he tweets on the topics and points he made on the ESPN First Take show. He also posts the Podcast from the show regularly from his twitter account.

Bayless has a "I Heart @RealSkipBayless" shirt. This shirt is given to the fans of the show, or if someone who comes to the show and loses a bet to Bayless. The person who loses the bet has to appear on the show and wear the shirt. So far, the shirt is undefeated.

Bayless lists his top five NBA players as of June 15, 2011: Dwyane Wade, Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, and Carmelo Anthony.^[5]

Cultural references[link]

Bayless, along with Woody Paige and Jay Crawford, appeared in a cameo role in the film Rocky Balboa. The three are seen on their First and 10 segment discussing a possible fight between a retired Balboa and current heavyweight champion Mason Dixon. Bayless opines that Balboa "was completely overrated" and mocks his age.

He appears in the ESPN 30 for 30 film Pony Excess, the story about the Southern Methodist University football scandal, covering the Mustangs while writing for both Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald.

Bibliography[link]

• God's Coach: The Hymns, Hype, and Hipocrisy of Tom Landry's Cowboys, Simon and Schuster, 1990. ISBN 0-671-70581-4.
• The Boys: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys' Season on the Edge, Simon and Schuster, 1993. ISBN 0-671-79359-4.
• Hell-Bent: The Crazy Truth About the "Win or Else" Dallas Cowboys, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. ISBN 0-06-018648-8.

See also[link]

• Rick Bayless – celebrity chef and brother of Skip Bayless

References[link]

External links[link]

• Skip Bayless ESPN Bio
• Skip Bayless at the Internet Movie Database

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie in 2007
Born	Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (1966-10-07) October 7, 1966 (age 45) Wellpinit, Washington
Occupation	Poet, Short-Story Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Nationality	Spokane/Coeur d'Alene/American
Genres	Native American literature, Humor, Documentary fiction
Literary movement	Indigenous Nationalism
Notable work(s)	• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Smoke Signals (film) • Reservation Blues • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven • War Dances
Notable award(s)	American Book Award 1996 National Book Award 2007 PEN/Faulkner 2010

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a poet, writer, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington.^[1]

His combinations of poetry, short stories, novels, and films have won several awards. Some of his best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1994), a book of short stories, and Smoke Signals (1998), a film of his screenplay based on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

His first novel, Reservation Blues, received one of the fifteen 1996 American Book Awards.^[2] His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature^[3] and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie).^[4] His collection of short stories and poems, entitled War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.^[5]

Life[link]

Childhood[link]

Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966^[6] on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. His father, Sherman Joseph Alexie, was of Coeur d'Alene descent and his mother, Lillian Agnes Cox, of Colville, Flathead, Spokane and white descent.^[7] He was born with hydrocephalus, a condition that occurs when there is an abnormally large amount of cerebral fluid in the cranial cavity.^[8] Because of the hydrocephalus, Alexie underwent brain surgery when he was only six months old.^[7] It was a surgery that he was not expected to survive.^[7] The doctors said that if by chance he were to make it through the surgery, he was expected to suffer from permanent mental disabilities.^[7] However, Alexie's surgery was successful and surprised everyone by surviving with highly advanced mental faculties.^[8] Alexie grew up in Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian reservation, in a rough environment with challenging circumstances.^[8] His father was an alcoholic who often left the house for days at a time.^[8] To support her six children, Alexie's mother, Lillian, sewed quilts and worked as a clerk at the Wellpinit Trading Post.^[8]

Alexie's life at the reservation school was also challenging because he was constantly teased by other kids on the reservation. They called him "The Globe" because he had a large head due to the hydrocephalus.^[8] It also didn't help that he had to wear government-issued glasses.^[8] Until the age of seven, Alexie suffered from seizures and bedwetting and had to take strong drugs to control them.^{[9] [8]} He was excluded from many of the activities that are rites of passage for young Indian males because of his health problems.^[9] Despite this rough upbringing, Alexie excelled academically. He loved to read and he read everything he could get his hands on, including auto repair manuals.^[10] By the age of twelve he had read every book in the entire library at his school.^[8] It was clear he was looking for a greater challenge in his education.

Education[link]

In order to better his education, Alexie made the decision to leave the reservation and attend Reardan High School in Reardan.^[8] The school was thirty miles off the reservation and Alexie was the only student of Native heritage among mostly white students.^[9] He excelled at this new school and became a star player on the basketball team, not to mention the only Indian.^{[8] [9]} The team was ironically called the Reardan High Indians.^[8] Along with the basketball team, Alexie was also class president and a member of the debate team.^[8]

His successes in high school won him a scholorship in 1985 to Gonzaga University, a Roman Catholic school in Spokane. ^{[8] [9]} Originally Alexie enrolled in the pre-med program at Gonzaga with hopes of becoming a doctor.^[9] However, he became squeamish in his anatomy classes.^[9] After an unsuccessful try at medicine, Alexie switched to law, but that didn’t work out either.^[9] The pressure of succeeding in college became too much for Alexie and he began drinking heavy amounts of alcohol to cope.^[11] Though he was not happy with his choice of career path, Alexie found comfort in literature classes.^[9] In 1987 he dropped out of Gonzaga University and enrolled at Washington State University (WSU).^[9]

At Washington State, Alexie enrolled in a creative-writing course taught by Alex Kuo. Kuo was also of Indian descent. Alexie was at a low point in his life and Kuo served as a mentor to him.^[7] Kuo gave Alexie an anthology entitled Songs of This Earth on Turtle’s Back by Joseph Bruchac, which is a book that changed his life.^{[7] [9]} The book inspired Alexie to start writing. He was inspired from reading works of poetry that were written by other Native Americans.^[7] With his new appreciation of poetry, Alexie started work on his first collection, The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems, which was published in 1992 through Hanging Loose Press.^{[12] [7]} With the success of his first published work of poetry, Alexie stopped drinking alcohol and quit school just three credits short of a degree. However in 1995 he was awarded a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University.^[9]

Today[link]

In 2005, Alexie became a founding Board Member of Longhouse Media, a non-profit organization that is committed to teaching filmmaking skills to Native American youth, and to use media for cultural expression and social change. Mr. Alexie has long supported youth programs and initiatives dedicated to uplifting at-risk Native youth.^[13]

Alexie is married to Diane Tomhave, who is of Hidatsa, Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi heritage. They live in Seattle with their two sons.^[12]

Literary Works[link]

Alexie's stories have been included in several prestigious short story anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories 2004, edited by Lorrie Moore; and Pushcart Prize XXIX of the Small Presses. Additionally, a number of his pieces have been published in various literary magazines and journals, as well as online publications.

Themes[link]

All of Alexie’s poetry, short stories and novels all assert the same themes: despair, poverty, and alcoholism among the lives of the Native American people.^[11] According to Sarah A. Quirk from the Dictionary of Library Biography, Alexie asks three questions across all of his works: "What does it mean to live as an Indian in this time? What does it mean to be an Indian man? Finally, what does it mean to live on an Indian reservation?"^[7] The protagonists in most of his literary works exhibit a constant struggle with themselves and their own sense of powerlessness among white American society.^[11]

Influences[link]

Alexie’s writings are meant to evoke sadness, but at the same time he uses humor and pop culture that leaves the readers with a sense of respect, understanding, and compassion.^[11] Alexie’s influences for his literary works do not rely solely on “traditional” Indian forms, but instead he “blends elements of popular culture, Indian spirituality, and the drudgery of poverty-ridden reservation life to create his characters and the world they inhabit,” according to Quirk.^[7] As mentioned, Alexie uses humor in all of his works. According to Quirk, he does this as a "means of cultural survival for American Indians-survival in the face of the larger American culture's stereotypes of American Indians and their concomitant distillation of individual tribal characteristics into one pan-Indian consciousness."^[7]

Poetry[link]

Alexie’s career began with the publishing of his first two collections of poetry in 1992, entitled, I Would Steal Horses and The Business of Fancydancing.^[7] In these poems Alexie uses humor to express the struggles of contemporary Indians on reservations. Common themes include: alcoholism, poverty and racism.^[7] Although he uses humor to express his feelings, the underlying message is very somber and serious. The Business of Fancydancing was very well received, selling over 10,000 copies.^[9] Alexie actually refers to his writing as “fancydancing,” which is the name given to the changes made to the traditional dances by Native American veterans from World War II.^[10] To him, it is the mental, emotional, and spiritual outlet that he finds in his writings.^[11] Leslie Ullman commented on The Business of Fancydancing in the Kenyon Review where she wrote that Alexie “weaves a curiously soft-blended tapestry of humor, humility, pride and metaphysical provocation out of the hard realities…: the tin-shack lives, the alcohol dreams, the bad luck and burlesque disasters, and the self-destructive courage of his characters.”^[11]

Alexie’s other works of poetry include:

• Old Shirts and New Skins (1993)^[11]
• First Indian on the Moon (1993)^[11]
• Seven Mourning Songs For the Cedar Flute I Have Yet to Learn to Play (1994)^[11]
• Water Flowing Home (1994)^[11]
• The Summer of Black Widows (1996)^[11]
• The Man Who Loves Salmon (1998)^[11]
• One Stick Song (2000)^[11]
• Face (2009), Hanging Loose Press (April 15, 2009) hardcover, 160 pages, ISBN 978-1-931236-71-3 ^[11]

Fiction[link]

Short Stories[link]

Although well reviewed as a poet, Alexie published his first prose work, entitled The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, in 1993.^[7] The book consists of a series of short stories that are interconnected throughout the book. There are no dominant characters, but instead, several prominent characters that appear in other works by Alexie. According to Sarah A. Quirk, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven can be considered a bildungsroman with dual protagonists, “Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, moving from relative innocence to a mature level on experience.”^[7]

Ten Little Indians is a collection of “nine extraordinary short stories set in and around the Seattle area, featuring Spokane Indians from all walks of urban life,” according to Christine C. Menefee of the School Library Journal.^[11] In this collection, Alexie “challenges stereotypes that whites have of Native Americans and at the same time shows the Native American characters coming to terms with their own identities.”^[11]

War Dances is a collection of short stories, poems, and short works. It won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The collection, however, received mixed reviews.^[11]

Other short stories by Alexie include:

• The Toughest Indian in the World (2000) (collection of short stories)^[14]
• What You Pawn I Will Redeem (2003), published in The New Yorker[1]

Novels[link]

In his first developed novel, Reservation Blues(1995), Alexie expanded the characters of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. He expands on the characters Thomas Builds-the-Fire, Victor Joseph, and Junior Polatkin who have grown up on the Spokane Indian reservation. While in the short story collection they were in their teens, Reservation Blues show the boys in their thirties.^[15] Verlyn Klinkenborg of the Los Angeles Times wrote in a review of Reservation Blues from 1995, "you can feel Alexie's purposely divided attention, his alertness to a divided audience, Native American and Anglo."^[15] Klinkenborg goes on to say that Alexie is "willing to risk didacticism whenever he stops to explain the particulars of the Spokane and, more broadly, the Native American experience to his readers."^[15]

Alexie's young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a coming-of-age story that began as a memoir of Alexie's life and family on the Spokane Indian reservation.^[11] The novel focuses on a fourteen year old Indian named Arnold Spirit. The novel is semi-autobiographical in that it includes many of the events and characteristics of Alexie's life.^[11] For example, Arnold was born with hydrocephalus, and was teased a lot as a child, as was Alexie. Also, the story centers around Arnold's transfer to Reardan High School, the same high school that Alexie transferred to as a teenager.^[11] The novel received great reviews. Bruce Barcott from the New York Times Book Review observed, "Working in the voice of a 14-year-old forces Alexie to strip everything down to action and emotion, so that reading becomes more like listening to your smart, funny best friend recount his day while waiting afer school for a ride home."^[11]

Other Novels by Sherman Alexie include:

• Indian Killer (1996)^[11]
• Flight (2007)^[11]

Films[link]

In 1998 Alexie broke barriers by creating the first all-Indian movie, Smoke Signals.^[11] Alexie based the screenplay off of his collection of short stories The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.^[11] The film was directed by Chris Eyre, a filmmaker Cheyenne-Arapaho heritage and it was produced and acted by Native Americans.^[9] It tells the story of two young Native Americans, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who leave the reservation on a road trip to retrieve the body of Victor’s dead father.^[11] The film took top honors at the Sundance Film Festival.^[11]

Other film projects include:

• The Business of Fancydancing (writer and director, 2002)
• 49? (writer, 2003)
• The Exiles (presenter, 2008)

Awards and honors[link]

1992

• National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship

1993

• PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction for the story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven^[7]

1994

• Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award^[7]

1996

• American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation) for Reservation Blues^[2]
• Granta Magazine: Twenty Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40
• New York Times Notable Book for Indian Killer
• People Magazine: Best of Pages

1999

• The New Yorker: 20 Writers for the 21st Century

2007

• National Book Award, Young People's Literature, for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian^[3]

2009

• American Library Association Odyssey Award as the year's "best audiobook for children or young adults", read by Alexie (Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, LLC, 2008, ISBN 1-4361-2490-5)^[4]

2010

• PEN/Faulkner Award for War Dances^[5]
• Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award
• Puterbaugh Award", the first American Puterbaugh fellow
• California Young Reader Medal for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian^[16]

Translators of Sherman Alexie's works[link]

Alexie's works have been translated into many languages. His translators include:

• Czech - Jiri Hruby, Lubos Snizek
• Hebrew - Lia Nirgad
• Hungarian - Zoltán Holbok
• Japanese - Mizuhito Kanehara
• Punjabi - Gurjap Toor
• Swahili - Kudus Babatunde Akinwande
• Swedish - Ingela Jernberg
• Persian - Amir Mehdi Haghighat
• Tamil - Velupillai Prabhakaran
• French - Valérie Le Plouhinec
• Finnish - Jussi Hirvi
• Dutch - Aleid van Eekelen-Benders

See also[link]

	Poetry portal
	Literature portal

• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
• Native American Renaissance
• Native American studies

References[link]

Sources[link]

• Nygren, Åse. "A World of Story-Smoke: A Conversation with Sherman Alexie." MELUS 30.4 (Winter 2005): 149-169.
• West, Dennis, and Joan M. West. "Sending Cinematic Smoke Signals: An Interview with Sherman Alexie". Cineaste 23.41998 29-33.
• Alexie, Sherman; Bill Clinton and Tom Lehrer. "A Dialogue on Race with President Clinton". News Hour (July 9, 1998).

External links and further reading[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Sherman Alexie

• Fallsapart.com, Official Sherman Alexie Site
• Sherman Alexie at the Internet Movie Database
• Voice of the New Tribes article by Duncan Campbell in "The Guardian" January 3, 2003
• Berglund, Jeff and Jan Roush, eds. Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays, (2010) ISBN 978-1-60781-008-7.

Interviews

• Identity Theory, Robert Capriccioso interviews Sherman Alexie
• Iowa Review Joelle Fraser interviews Sherman Alexie
• OPB.org, Interview on Oregon Public Broadcasting radio show Think Out Loud (aired October 8, 2009)
• National Book Foundation "Interview With Sherman Alexie" as 2007 Award winner, by Rita Williams-Garcia

Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman at the London Palladium in 2002 during the premiere of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Stage Musical.

The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928).

The Sherman Brothers wrote more motion-picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history.^[1] Film scores of the Sherman Brothers include Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, Charlotte's Web and The Aristocats.

Life and work[link]

Sons of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Robert and Richard Sherman began writing songs together in 1951 on a challenge from their father, Tin Pan Alley songwriter Al Sherman. The brothers wrote together and with different songwriting partners throughout the rest of the decade.

In 1958, Robert founded the music publishing company Music World Corporation, which later enjoyed a landmark relationship with Disney's BMI-affiliated publishing arm, Wonderland Music Company. That same year, the Sherman Brothers had their first top-ten hit with "Tall Paul," sung by Mouseketeer Judy Harriet on the Surf Records label and then covered by Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. The success of this song yielded the attention of Walt Disney, who eventually hired the Sherman Brothers as Staff Songwriters for Walt Disney Studios. The first song they wrote on personal assignment by Walt Disney was "Strummin' Song" in 1961. It was used in the Annette Funicello made-for-television movie called The Horsemasters.

While at Disney, the Sherman Brothers wrote more motion-picture musical scores than any other songwriters in the history of film. They also wrote what is perhaps their best-known song, "it's a small world (after all)" for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Since then, some have claimed that this has become the most translated and performed song on Earth, although this is largely due to the fact that it is played continuously at Disney's theme park "it's a small world" attractions of the same name.^[2]

In 1965, the Sherman Brothers won two Academy Awards for Mary Poppins, which includes the songs "Feed The Birds," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," and the Oscar-winning "Chim Chim Cher-ee." Since Mary Poppins' premiere, the Shermans have subsequently earned nine Academy Award nominations, two Grammy Awards, four Grammy Award nominations, and 23 gold- and platinum-certified albums.

Robert and Richard Sherman worked directly for Walt Disney, completing the scores for the live-action musical films The Happiest Millionaire and The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band until Disney's death in 1966. Since leaving the company, the brothers have worked freelance as songwriters on scores of motion pictures, television shows, theme-park exhibits, and stage musicals.

Their first non-Disney assignment came with Albert R. Broccoli's motion picture production Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968, which garnered the brothers their third Academy Award Nomination.

In 1970, the Shermans returned to Disney for a brief stint where they completed work on The Aristocats and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. The latter film garnered the brothers their fourth and fifth Oscar nominations. 1972 saw the release of Snoopy Come Home, for which the brothers received a Grammy nomination.

In 1973, the Sherman Brothers also made history by becoming the only Americans ever to win First Prize at the Moscow Film Festival for Tom Sawyer, for which they also authored the screenplay.

In 1976, “The Slipper and the Rose” was picked to be the Royal Command Performance of the year. The performance was attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. A modern musical adaptation of the classic Cinderella story, "Slipper", also featured songs, score, and screenplay by the Sherman Brothers. Two further Academy Award nominations were garnered by the brothers for the film. That same year the Sherman Brothers received their star on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame" directly across from Grauman's Chinese Theater.

The Sherman Brothers' numerous other Disney and non-Disney top box office film credits include The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970), The Parent Trap (1961), The Parent Trap (1998), Charlotte's Web (1973), The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), Snoopy, Come Home (1972), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), and Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992).

Outside the motion-picture realm, their Tony Award-nominated smash hit Over Here! (1974) was the biggest-grossing original Broadway musical of that year. The Sherman Brothers have also written numerous top selling songs including "You're Sixteen," which reached Billboard's Hot 100 top 10 twice: first with Johnny Burnette in 1960 and then at #1 with Ringo Starr more than thirteen years later. Other top-ten hits include "Pineapple Princess," "Let's Get Together," and more.

In 2000, the Sherman Brothers wrote the song score for the Disney film The Tigger Movie. This film marked the brothers' first major motion picture for the Disney company in over 28 years.

In 2002, Chitty hit the London stage, receiving rave reviews. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is currently the most successful stage show ever produced at the London Palladium, boasting the longest run in that century-old theater's history. On April 28, 2005, a second Chitty company premiered on Broadway (New York City) at the Foxwoods Theatre. The Sherman Brothers wrote an additional six songs specifically for the new stage productions. A successful third company of Chitty is currently touring throughout the United Kingdom.

In 2003, four Sherman Brothers' musicals ranked in the Top 10 Favorite Children's Films of All Time in a British nationwide poll reported by the BBC. Most notably, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) topped the list at #1.

In later years, with Robert's move to London, the brothers wrote many new songs for the stage musical presentations of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins, produced collaboratively by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh.

For their contributions to the motion picture industry, the Sherman brothers have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6918 Hollywood Blvd. and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 9, 2005. On November 16, 2006, Mary Poppins premiered at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.

On November 17, 2008 the Sherman Brothers received the National Medal of Arts which is the highest honor conferred upon artists or patrons of the arts by the United States Government. The award was presented by United States President George W. Bush in an East Room ceremony at The White House.

On May 22, 2009, The Boys: the Sherman Brothers’ Story, a critically acclaimed documentary film about the pair, was theatrically released. The film was directed and produced by their sons, Gregory V. Sherman and Jeff Sherman, and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

In October 2009, Disney released a 59 track, two CD compendium of their work for the studio spanning forty-two years. The CD is titled "The Sherman Brothers Songbook".

On March 11, 2010, the Sherman Brothers were presented with a Window on Mainstreet Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in honor of their contribution to Disney theme parks. On May 17, 2010, the Sherman Brothers received the "Career Achievement Award" at The Theatre Museum's 2010 Awards Gala in New York City.

Later achievements[link]

• In 2000, the Sherman Brothers wrote the award winning score to The Tigger Movie which achieved number-one status in both theatrical box office and video sales.

• The Sherman Brothers' classic motion picture Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was adapted into a London West End Musical in 2002 and premiered at the London Palladium on April 16, 2002, featuring many new songs and a reworked score by both Sherman Brothers. It was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Musical. The Sherman Brothers each received the Musical Theatre Award from the Variety Club of Great Britain that year as well for Chitty, which finished a record breaking three-and-a-half-year run at the Palladium, becoming the longest running show in the theater's century long history. In 2004, the premiere of Mary Poppins arrived on the stage. In 2005, Poppins was nominated for nine Olivier Awards. In 2005, Chitty went to Broadway and was nominated for nine Tonys and also began its nationwide (UK) tour.

• On June 9, 2005, both Shermans were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside Bill Withers, Steve Cropper, John Fogerty, Isaac Hayes, and David Porter.

• On November 16, 2006, the Cameron Mackintosh/Disney production of Mary Poppins made its Broadway premiere at the New Amsterdam Theater featuring the Sherman Brothers’ classic songs.

• In 2007, during the 40th-anniversary DVD rerelease of The Jungle Book London press junket, the Sherman Brothers were witnessed by press working on a new song for Inkas (see below) in the same Brown's Hotel room where The Jungle Book was originally penned by British writer Rudyard Kipling over a hundred years earlier.^[3]

• In February 2008, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang began a second UK tour. In 2008 and 2009, Poppins premiered in numerous cities throughout the world including Stockholm, Copenhagen, Budapest, Toronto, Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Helsinki. Full UK and US tours of Poppins also commenced in 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively.

• On May 21, 2011, the Sherman Brothers were each awarded honorary doctorate degrees in Fine Arts from their alma mater, Bard College. This was Robert's second honorary doctorate. His first was granted by Lincoln College on May 12, 1990.

Collaboration from afar[link]

From 2002, Robert Sherman lived in London, England. He moved from Beverly Hills, while Richard Sherman remained in California.

Major scores[link]

• The Parent Trap, 1961
• Adventures in Color
• A Symposium on Popular Songs, 1962
• In Search of the Castaways, 1962
• Summer Magic, 1963
• The Sword in the Stone, 1963
• Big Red, 1963
• Mary Poppins, 1964
• "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow", 1964
• The Happiest Millionaire, 1967
• The Jungle Book, 1967
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, 1968
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968
• The Aristocats, 1970
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 1971
• Snoopy, Come Home, 1972 (also performed songs "Me and You" and "Getting It Together" for the soundtrack)
• Charlotte's Web, 1973
• Tom Sawyer, 1973
• Huckleberry Finn, 1974
• The Slipper and the Rose, 1976
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, 1977
• The Magic of Lassie, 1978
• Magic Journeys, 1982
• Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, 1983
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, 1992
• The Mighty Kong, 1998
• Seasons of Giving, 1999
• The Tigger Movie, 2000

Motion picture screenplays[link]

• A Symposium on Popular Songs, 1962 (uncredited)
• Mary Poppins, 1964 (*treatment only, uncredited)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1973
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1974
• The Slipper and the Rose, 1976
• The Magic of Lassie, 1978
• Ferdinand the Bull, 1986 (*TV screenplay)
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (one of the songwriters)
• Inkas the Ramferinkas, 2013 (announced)

Stage musicals[link]

The London Palladium in 2004

Prince Edward Theatre in 2005

• Victory Canteen, 1971 (Ivar Theatre, L.A.)
• Over Here!, 1974 (Broadway, NY)
• Dawgs, 1983 (Variety Arts Center, L.A.)
• Busker Alley, 1995 (U.S. Tour)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2002 (London)
• Mary Poppins, 2004 (London)
• On the Record 2004-5 (U.S. Tour)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2005 (Broadway, NY)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2005 (UK Tour)
• Busker Alley, 2006 (Broadway, NY - *one night only)
• Mary Poppins, 2006 (Broadway, NY)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2007 (Singapore)
• Mary Poppins, 2008 (UK Tour)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2008 (Second UK Tour)
• Mary Poppins, 2008 (Stockholm)
• Mary Poppins, 2009 (US Tour)
• Mary Poppins, 2009 (Copenhagen)
• Mary Poppins, 2009 (Budapest)
• Mary Poppins, 2009 (Shanghai)
• Mary Poppins, 2009 (Australia)
• Mary Poppins, 2009 (South Africa)
• Mary Poppins, 2009 (Scheveningen)
• Mary Poppins, 2009 (Helsinki)

Theme park songs[link]

Other[link]

• The Spectrum Song - for Walt Disney's The Wonderful World of Color. Sung by Paul Frees as Ludwig Von Drake.

Professional awards[link]

Academy Awards[link]

• 1965 Won Academy Award in the category of " Best Original Song" for "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins
• 1965 Won Academy Award in the category of "Best Substantially Original Score" for Mary Poppins
• 1969 Nominated Academy Award in the category of "Best Original Song" for "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• 1972 Nominated Academy Award in the category of "Best Original Song" for "The Age of Not Believing" from Bedknobs & Broomsticks
• 1972 Nominated Academy Award in the category of "Best Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score" for Bedknobs & Broomsticks
• 1974 Nominated Academy Award in the category of "Best Scoring Original Song Score And/Or Adaptation" for Tom Sawyer
• 1978 Nominated Academy Award in the category of "Best Original Song" for "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz" from The Slipper and the Rose
• 1978 Nominated Academy Award in the category of "Best Scoring Original Song Score And/Or Adaptation" for The Slipper and the Rose
• 1979 Nominated Academy Award in the category of "Best Original Song" for "When You're Loved" from The Magic of Lassie

Annie Awards[link]

• 2000 Nominated Annie in the category of "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production" for the song "Round My Family Tree" from The Tigger Movie
• 2003 "Winsor McCay Award" for lifetime achievement and contribution to animation

BAFTA Awards[link]

• 1977 Nominated "Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music" for The Slipper and the Rose

BMI[link]

• 1977 "Pioneer Award" awarded in Los Angeles, California.
• 1991 "Lifetime Achievement Award" awarded at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Christopher Award[link]

• 1964 "Christopher Award" for "Best Original Song Score" for Mary Poppins
• 1973 "Christopher Award" for "Best Original Song Score" for Tom Sawyer

Disney[link]

• 1985 "Mousecar" awarded at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California in front of 20 thousand people.
• 1990 "Disney Legends" awarded at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
• 2010 Main Street, U.S.A. Window presented at Disneyland in Anaheim, California in honor of the Sherman Brothers' contribution to Disney theme parks.

Golden Globes[link]

• 1965 Nominated Golden Globe in the category of "Best Original Score" for Mary Poppins
• 1969 Nominated Golden Globe in the category of "Best Original Score" for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• 1969 Nominated Golden Globe in the category of "Best Original Song" for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• 1974 Nominated Golden Globe in the category of "Best Original Score" for Tom Sawyer
• 1977 Nominated Golden Globe in the category of "Best Original Score" for The Slipper and the Rose

Golden Videocassette Award[link]

• 1984 Best Selling Video Cassette (of all time) for Mary Poppins

Grammy Awards[link]

• 1965 Won Grammy in the category of "Best Original Score for a Motion Picture or Television Show" for Mary Poppins
• 1972 Nominated Grammy in the category of "Best Original Score for a Children's Show" for Snoopy Come Home
• 1974 Nominated Grammy in the category of "Best Original Score for a Musical Show" for Over Here!

Laurel Awards[link]

• 1965 Won "Golden Laurel" in the category of "Best Song" "Chim Chim Cher-ee" for Mary Poppins
• 1965 2nd Place "Golden Laurel" in the category of Music Men"
• 1966 3rd place "Golden Laurel" in the category of "Best Song" "That Darn Cat!" for That Darn Cat!

Moscow Film Festival[link]

• 1973 First Place Award in the category of "Best Music" for Tom Sawyer

National Medal of Arts[link]

• 2008 National Medal of Arts awarded to Richard and Robert Sherman on November 17, 2008 at the White House by President George W. Bush. This is the highest honor the United States Government bestows on artists.^[4]

Olivier Awards[link]

• 2002 Nominated "Best Musical" for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Songwriters Hall of Fame[link]

• 2005 induction at the Marriott Hotel on Times Square in New York City.

Theatre Museum Award[link]

• 2010 Career Achievement Award presented on May 17, 2010 at The Players Club in New York City.

Variety Club Awards[link]

• 2003 Won "Best Musical" for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Walk of Fame[link]

• 1976 A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame awarded to "Richard & Robert Sherman" on November 17, 1976, located at 6914 Hollywood Blvd.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Greene, Katherine; and Richard Greene (2001). Inside the Dream: The Personal Story of Walt Disney. New York: Disney Editions. ISBN 0-7868-5350-6. 
• Peterson, Monique (2002). The Little Big Book of Pooh. New York: Disney Editions. ISBN 0-7868-5364-6. 
• Sherman, Robert B. (1998). Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond. Santa Clarita, Calif.: Camphor Tree. ISBN 0-9646059-3-7. 
• Tietyen, David (1990). The Musical World of Walt Disney. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. ISBN 0-88188-476-6. 

External links[link]

• Sherman Music
• WDW Radio interview with Richard M. Sherman
• Robert Sherman Art
• Inkas the Ramferinkas
• Music World Corporation
• Internet Movie Database entries:
  • Robert B. Sherman
  • Richard M. Sherman
• Internet Broadway Database entries:
  • Robert B. Sherman
  • Richard M. Sherman
• SoundUnwound entries:
  • Sherman Brothers
  • Robert B. Sherman
  • Richard M. Sherman