Plot
In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead. It's up to her husband Roger, to find out whodunit as the police chase him through the halls of WBN.
Keywords: 1930s, accordion, actor, actress, announcer, applause, audience, backstage, baseball-bat, box-office-flop
At station WBN, the hits just keep on coming.
Penny Henderson: I told Dexter not to smoke. If you ask me, they oughta put warning labels on those packages.
Claudette: Caught me at a bad time, kid. I'm in.::Roger: So am I.::Claudette: Nobody enters my dressing room uninvited! What the hell do you think that star means?::Roger: You're Jewish?
Claudette: I'm Claudette Katzenback, the va-va-va-voom girl with the va-va-va-voom voice. Who the hell are you?::Lieutenant Cross: I'm Lt. Cross, the Chicago cop with the sh-sh-short temper.
Katzenback: Now you listen to me, Junior, don't you think that I don't know what's going on, because I do know, and now you know that I know.::Walt Whalen Junior: Listen, I don't know what you know that I know, but I do know that you don't know what you think you know.::Katzenback: Oh no?::Walt Whalen Junior: No.
Milt Lackey: Retire? Who'd support my mother and father?
[last lines]::Announcer: And that's it from WBN in Chicago. If it wasn't clear before, it's certainly clear now; There'll never be anything quite like... radio.
Milt Lackey: [pointing to his outstretched finger] That's it. That's the only thing I got that still works.
Milt Lackey: In what other business can a man my age walk out on stage, smoke a cigar, tell a few jokes, sing a few songs, and use the same color lipstick that Dolores del Rio uses?
Zoltan: [stabbing a knife into a watermelon] The knife in the back. [Grabs a mallet] The sound of the human head smashing. [Smashes the watermelon and pauses] Hmmm... something is not quite right.::Morgana: Try honeydew.::Zoltan: Good idea!
Wild Writer: What if the wife smashes him over the head, with a frying pan, and then chops him up into hundreds of tiny pieces with her shiny new carving knife?::Father Writer: No, I don't think so.::Son Writer: It's a family show!::Wild Writer: Okay, then what if she does it to the whole family?
In the broadcasting industry (especially in North America), a network affiliate (or affiliated station) is a local broadcaster which carries some or all of the television program or radio program line-up of a television or radio network, but is owned by a company other than the owner of the network. This distinguishes such a television station or radio station from an owned-and-operated station (O&O), which is owned by its parent network.
Notwithstanding this distinction, it is common in informal speech (even for networks or O&Os themselves) to refer to any station, O&O or otherwise, that carries a particular network's programming as an affiliate, or to refer to the status of carrying such programming in a given market as "affiliation".
In the United States, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations limit the number of network-owned stations as a percentage of total market size. As such, networks tend to have O&Os only in the largest media markets (e.g. New York City and Los Angeles), and rely on affiliates to carry their programming in other markets. However, even the largest markets may have network affiliates in lieu of O&Os. For instance, Tribune Broadcasting's WPIX serves as the New York City affiliate for the CW Television Network, which does not have an O&O in that market. On the other hand, several other TV stations in the same market — WABC (ABC), WCBS (CBS), WNBC (NBC), WNJU (Telemundo), WNYW (Fox), WWOR-TV (MyNetworkTV), WPXN (ION), WXTV (Univision) and WFUT (TeleFutura) — are O&Os.
Steve Denton (born September 5, 1956, in Kingsville, Texas) is a former professional tennis player for the ATP Tour. He is currently the head men's tennis coach at Texas A&M University.
After becoming an all-American at the University of Texas in 1978, Denton spent nine seasons playing for the ATP Tour. He won the 1982 US Open doubles championship with Kevin Curren, ranking No. 2 in doubles and No. 11 in singles in the world tennis rankings. He won a total of 20 professional doubles titles, and appeared in the singles final of the Australian Open in 1981 and 1982. In 1984, his 138 miles per hour (222 km/h) serve broke the world record, which would not be broken until 13 years later. After retiring from the pros, he moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, coaching several local junior tennis teams. In 2001, he debuted his college coaching career at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where he led his teams to three conference championships and a first-ever NCAA tournament appearance. In 2006, he resigned to become the head coach at Texas A&M University.
We wanted to find love
We wanted success
Until nothing was enough
Until my middle name was excess
And somehow I lost touch
When you went out of sight
When you got lost into the city
Got lost into the night
I was in need of help
Heading to black out
'Til someone told me run on in honey
Before somebody blows your goddam' brains out
You shop-lifted as a child
I had a model's smile
You carried all my hopes
Until something broke inside
But now we float
Take life as it comes
So will we die of shock?
Die without a trial
Die on Good Friday
While holding each other tight
This is kind of about you
This is kind of about me
We just kind of lost our way
But we were looking to be free
But one day we'll float
We wanted to find love
We wanted success
Until nothing was enough
Until my middle name was excess
And somehow I lost touch
When you went out of sight
When you got lost into the city
Got lost into the night
I was in need of help
Heading to black out
'Til someone told me run on in honey
Before somebody blows your goddam' brains out
You shop-lifted as a child
I had a model's smile
You carried all my hopes
Until something broke inside
But now we float
Take life as it comes
So will we die of shock?
Die without a trial
Die on Good Friday
While holding each other tight
This is kind of about you
This is kind of about me
We just kind of lost our way
But we were looking to be free
But one day we'll float
Take life as it comes
We wanted to find love
We wanted success
Until nothing was enough
Until my middle name was ";excess";
And somehow I lost touch
When you went out of sight
When you got lost into the city
Got lost into the night
I was in need of help
Heading to blackout
Till someone told me ";Run on in, honey,
Before somebody blows your goddamn brains out";
You shoplifted as a child
I had a model's smile
You carried all my hopes
Until something broke inside
But now we float
Take life as it comes
We float
Take life as it comes
So will we die of shock
Die without a trial
Die on Good Friday
While holding each other tight
This is kind of about you
This is kind of about me
We just kind of lost our way
We were looking to be free
But one day, we'll float
Take life as it comes
We'll float
Take life as it comes
But one day, we'll float
Take life as it comes
But one day, we'll float
Take life as it comes
Oh, one day...
Hold on
Hold on
Looking for a reason to go on
Alone again
On my own again
Now everything has turned
From right to wrong
Oh, trying to keep afloat
I'm on a sinking boat
Trying to keep afloat
Begining to find
I'm low on time
Floating on the ocean in a storm
The shore is gone
And the end has drowned
But hope only shines
The brighter in the night
Oh, fighting to keep afloat
The world's a sinking boat
Fighting to keep afloat
Oh I'm watching it pass me by
It's flashing before my eyes
I'd die for another try
But the world is sinking
Let it all go
Dodododododododo
Ladies, Gentlemen
Ladies, Gentlemen
Ladies, Gentlemen
Ladies, Gentlemen
Oh, Boy
This goes out to all the hot clubs
New dress codes for players and thugs
All the ghetto men that I love
Oh, Boy
I've seen them post it up by the bar
Yeah, Yeah, You know who you are
What's this thing that I'm feeling
You see how I'm acting
The way my body's reacting
I from my front to my back end
I think I'm gonna ovaload
I think I'm gonna ovaload
You see how I'm acting
The way my body's reacting
It's from my front to my back end
I think I'm gonna ovaload
I think I'm gonna ovaload
Oh, boy
I'm so tipsy won't cha come get me
I'm to forward you got to forgive me
Turning me on 'cause damn you so sexy
Oh, boy
We don't know each other then we should
But the more we talk, the more we gonna catch up
Promise me that were gonna keep in touch
Won't cha come bring me the phone
Me and my friends getting me alone
Everybody head straight for home
Head straight for first base to home
You see how I'm acting
The way my body's reacting
I from my front to my back end
I think I'm gonna ovaload
I think I'm gonna ovaload
You see how I'm acting
The way my body's reacting
It's from my front to my back end
I think I'm gonna ovaload
I think I'm gonna ovaload
Oh, boy
To the left, to the left
To the right, to the right
From the front, to my back and
Oh, boy
To the left, to the left
To the right, to the right
From the front, to my back and
Won't cha come bring me the phone
Me and my friends getting me alone
Everybody head straight for home
Head straight for first base to home
You see how I'm acting
The way my body's reacting
I from my front to my back end
I think I'm gonna ovaload
I think I'm gonna ovaload
You see how I'm acting
The way my body's reacting
It's from my front to my back end
I think I'm gonna ovaload
I think I'm gonna ovaload
Ladies, Gentlemen
Ladies, Gentlemen
Ladies, Gentlemen
Ladies, Gentlemen
Marco Cecconi, Michela D'Orlando
Sinister as the day of my birth
death descends, shades the stormy north
Snow covered peaks will be painted with stains red of blood
as the anthem begins
Echoes the chanting, the oath has been taken
under the ominous sky
Chaos has begun
Guitar Solo: Marco
Evil I serve
beware of his command
Evil I serve
upon my word I swear
Evil I serve
I scorn the light of the scorching sun.
Feel the will, utter the raving words
swear the oath to my rightful lord
Eve of the blooding, I'm leaving this world sick of light
to return nevermore
Stronger then ever, uncanny like never before
is the power I feel
Chaos has begun.
Guitar Solo: Marco
Evil I serve
beware of his command
Evil I serve
upon my word I swear
Evil I serve
to scorn the light of the scorching sun
Eve of the blooding, the change is not complete
and goodness overcomes me
memories are talking to me
They speak to me, they scream to me, they tell me things
They say I've gone astray...
They say "You've gone astray"
Maleficent fate.
But echoes the anthem arcane from the depth
Evil I serve
beware of his command
Evil I serve
I've gone too far from the scorching sun
Sinister is his warning upon the wind
my Lord has come to torment me, grinning at my agony
He knows I crave for light... He knows I crave for the scorching sun
Sinister and ominous was the day of my beginning
the darkest day, the final pain, slowly ends and fades
and I crave for light... I crave for the scorching sun
Sinister and evil-hearted as I am from my beginning
I crave for light... I crave for the sun to shine.
Avoliitto Lyrics
by Amanda Polk 2009
If you ever hear this
Don't expect it to bring you back
But there's a couple things I need to say
Just wanted you to know that
I can't say, I don't miss you sometimes
And if I said I didn't love you, that would be a lie
And though you may never believe the truth
What I did, I did it for you
I had to let you go, avoliitto
Had to let you fly away
Wanna let you know, avoliitto
I'm setting you free today
I had to let you go, avoliitto
Had to let you fly away
Wanna let you know, avoliitto
I'll keep your memory
Oh, avoliitto
If you ever hear this
Don't expect you to forgive me
But there's so much that I could say
But it's not so easy
To realize, I may never see you again
In my mind we had so much time, never thought it would end
And though you may never believe the truth
What I did, I did it for you
I had to let you go, avoliitto
Had to let you fly away
Wanna let you know, avoliitto
I'm setting you free today
I had to let you go, avoliitto
Had to let you fly away
Wanna let you know, avoliitto
I'll keep your memory
Oh, avoliitto
Oh...
Avoliitto, avoliitto
You will never know...
Oh...
Avoliitto, avoliitto
You will never know...
Oh...
Avoliitto, avoliitto
The blood runs red
As the green grass grows
Under clear blue sky
The golden sunshine swallowed by the black of night
Familiar scenes of color schemes
Painted too far outside the lines
Then with age the colors fade
Making it hard to read the signs
The blue for calm
The green for growth
The red for rage
Clear to the point the words are splashed across the page
We shield our eyes
We hide our fears
We keep it bottled up inside
While chasing thrills
The bottle spills
Leaving behind stains we can't hide
Resistance is weakened as it begins to take it's toll
Securities threatened as it begins to spread out of control
Balancing between the triumph and the tragedy
Just accept a little personal responsibility
On different wavelengths
Our reactions
Are perceived
The small portion of the spectrum that we really see
We won't back down
We stand our ground
We learn to fight amongst ourselves
While all around us
Empty canvass
Collects dust upon the shelves
Resistance is weakened as it begins to take it's toll
Securities threatened as it begins to spread out of control
Balancing between the triumph and the tragedy