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William Karnet Willis (October 5, 1921 – November 27, 2007) was one of the dominant American football players of the 1940s and 1950s, and is an inductee in the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame. Willis was one of the first African American football players to play professional football. He was signed to a contract with the Cleveland Browns of the AAFC a full year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers. His success helped open the doors of professional sports for other African Americans. Willis married Odessa Porter in 1947 and had three sons, William, Jr., Clement and Dan.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Willis was the son of Clement and Willana Willis. His father died when he was four years old, and he was raised by his grandfather and mother. He attended Columbus East High School where he both ran track and played football. In football he chose to play on the line so as not to be compared to his older brother, Claude, who had been an All State fullback in the same high school a few years earlier. Playing on the line, Bill Willis received Honorable Mention All-State honors in his senior year. Bill's son, Bill Willis Jr. was born in Cleveland Ohio when he played for the Cleveland Browns.
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States that have ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
African Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States. However, some immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American or South American nations, or their descendants, may be identified or self-identify with the term.
African-American history starts in the 16th century with African slaves who quickly rose up against the Spanish explorer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón and progresses to the present day, with Barack Obama as the 44th and current President of the United States. Between those landmarks there have been events and issues, both resolved and ongoing, including slavery, racism, Reconstruction, development of the African-American community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United States, racial segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Actors: Ismail Merchant (producer), Nathalie Richard (actress), Barbara Hershey (actress), Macha Méril (actress), Jane Birkin (actress), Virginie Ledoyen (actress), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Isaach De Bankolé (actor), Dominique Blanc (actress), Jean-Claude Drouot (actor), Tammy Arnold (actress), Dominic Gould (actor), James Ivory (director), James Ivory (writer),
Plot: This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story. Jones here is portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero and now successful author who obviously drinks too much and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road that leaves all of them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual acceptance begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her sexuality is definitely not the normal for American teens and gives her a bad reputation and outcasts her. Meanwhile her brooding brother struggles with his own inner turmoils about his early desertion in life. Only within the tight knit confines of his family is he comfortable to even speak.
Keywords: 1970s, adopted-son, ambulance, author, based-on-novel, critically-acclaimed, culture-clash, expatriate, father-daughter-relationship, forgeryActors: Holbrook N. Todd (editor), Ray Bennett (actor), Robert Emmett Tansey (writer), Sam Newfield (director), Victor Adamson (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Bud McClure (actor), Tim McCoy (actor), Joe McGuinn (actor), Lee Prather (actor), Hal Price (actor), Nora Lane (actress), Sigmund Neufeld (producer), Joseph O'Donnell (writer),
Plot: Marshal Tim Smith is sent to Rawhide to battle rustlers. When the outlaw gang attempts to kill the new Marshal, they get the wrong man. Tim puts his identification on the dead man and poses as a known outlaw. This gets him into the gang where he is given the job of posing as the new Marshal.
Keywords: action-hero, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, chase, crook, deceit, deception, fight, frontier, gang, gunfighterActors: Rhea Mitchell (actress), Tom Chatterton (actor), William H. Clifford (writer), Thomas H. Ince (writer), William Ehfe (actor), George Osborne (actor), George Osborne (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,Away beyond the blue
One star belongs to you
And every breath I take
I'm closer to that place
Yeah, baby
I'm gonna meet you there
On the outskirts of the sky
Yeah, baby
I'm gonna meet you there
And we will fly
Away beyond the blue
One star belongs to you
This life is but a dream
Go gently down the stream...
Is nind se, Prabhu, kya mujheuthaoge?
(From this steep, Lord will you wake me?
Is swapan se, Prabhu, kya mujhe jagoge?
From this dream, Lord will you wake me?
Tum hi mai dubu, Turn hi mai uthu,
In thee I dive, in thee I rise,
Tere sagar me, Tum hi me
In thy sea, in Thee.)
Tere sagar me, Tum hi me