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Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Teller) are American illusionists and entertainers who have performed together since the late 1970s, and are known for their numerous stage and television shows. Their current Las Vegas show is an amalgam of illusion and comedy. Penn Jillette is a raconteur; Teller generally does not speak while performing, although his voice can occasionally be heard during their performance. They specialize in gory tricks, exposing frauds, and performing clever pranks. More recently they have become associated with atheism, scientific skepticism, and libertarianism, particularly through their television show Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.
Penn Jillette and Teller were introduced to one another by Weir Chrisimer, and they performed their first show together at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival on 19 August 1975. From the late 1970s through 1981, Penn, Teller, and Chrisimer performed as a trio called "The Asparagus Valley Cultural Society" which played in San Francisco at the Phoenix Theater. This act was sillier and less "edgy" than today's Penn & Teller act.[citation needed] Chrisimer helped to develop some bits that continued, most notably Teller's "Shadows" trick, which involves a single red rose.
Lloyd "Skip" Martin (May 14, 1916, Robinson, Illinois – February 12, 1976, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and music arranger.
Martin was active principally as an arranger for some of the most popular swing jazz bands of the 1930s and 1940s. He worked with Count Basie, Charlie Barnet (1939–40), Benny Goodman (1941), and Glenn Miller (1941–42); doubling as a reedist with the last three. In the Goodman orchestra he played alto sax alongside Gus Bivona and recorded with the legendary trumpeter Cootie Williams in the early 1940s as well.
Later in the 1940s he worked with Les Brown (memorably the big-band chart for I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm), then moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s, where he did extensive work as a staff and freelance orchestrator, studio conductor (e.g. Astaire's Royal Wedding) and popular song arranger (often for Tony Martin, The Pied Pipers, the Andrews and De Castro sister groups, or Barbara Ruick).
Martin also recorded three albums as a leader and produced material for West Coast jazz and swing concept albums (e.g. 1959's Scheherajazz with Gus Bivona) for Somerset Records. In 1963 he joined Nelson Riddle on a dream team of arrangers working on the Sinatra-Burke compilation albums for the ambitious Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre project, featuring the singing members of the Rat Pack, plus Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Jo Stafford.
Mike Hammer - Deadly Collection - 1987 with Micky Dolenz
Mike Hammer, My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Mike Hammer Kill Devil
Penn & Teller Fool Us season 2 Mike Hammer
Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997) | S1 Ep1 : The Prodigal Son | SD | Crime Series | Streetz TV
Mike Hammer in Park the Body
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mike hammer kiss me deadly full film
"Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" TV Intro (1984)
Mike Hammer - Intro
INTRO (MIKE HAMMER)
Mike Hammer Comedy Magic Show - Las Vegas
Skip Martin "The Music From Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" 1959 Crime Jazz FULL ALBUM
The New Mike Hammer-Hammerettes
Actors: Scott Vickrey (editor), Bert Remsen (actor), Joyce Brothers (actress), James Hong (actor), Chuck McCann (actor), Armand Mastroianni (director), Pamela Anderson (actress), Kim Delgado (actor), Jason Schombing (actor), T.J. Castronovo (actor), Brian Brophy (actor), Erica Yohn (actress), Ron Ramin (composer), Rob Estes (actor), Geoff Meed (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Mystery,Actors: Stacy Keach (actor), Grady Hunt (costume designer), Michelle Phillips (actress), Jim Carrey (actor), Don Stroud (actor), Royce D. Applegate (actor), Lynda Carter (actress), Paul Petersen (actor), Edward Winter (actor), Michael Bower (actor), Nancy Hopton (miscellaneous crew), Ron Ramin (composer), Deanna Esmaeel (miscellaneous crew), John Calvin (actor), Louis H. Goldstein (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Mike is asked by a Las Vegas entertainer to come to Vegas. Mike refuses, he is then knocked out and dropped (literally) into Las Vegas. He is led to believe that the entertainer had him shanghaied, which the entertainer denies. Later the entertainer is blown up (literally) and someone has planted evidence that points to Mike. Mike then sets out to try and clear his name but everyone he goes to get information is killed and he is again the suspect. Can Mike find someone who can clear him and can he keep that person alive long enough to do so?
Keywords: brothel, casino, character-name-in-title, desert, explosion, false-accusation, frame-up, las-vegas-nevada, mike-hammer, parachuteActors: Jennifer Adams Kelley (actress), Robert Warnock (actor), Steven Warren Hill (actor), Mark Christensen (actor), Philip Kelley (actor), Dennis Kytasaari (actor), Chris Brainerd (director), Chris Brainerd (actor), Paul Grossman (actor), Paul Vnuk (actor), Jamie Jorgenson (actress),
Plot: A multitude of familiar spies, secret agents and detectives are gathered together in a remote country mansion for mysterious reasons. The going gets rough when they begin dying one by one...
Keywords: agatha-christie, british-secret-service, butler, clue, country-mansion, death, detective, dinner, dinner-guest, dinner-murderActors: Dionne Warwick (actress), Grady Hunt (costume designer), Lauren Hutton (actress), Stacy Keach (actor), Frank McRae (actor), Stephen Macht (actor), Don Stroud (actor), Tom Everett (actor), Mickey Rooney (actor), Bruce Boxleitner (actor), Dabney Coleman (actor), Vince Edwards (actor), John Karlen (actor), Charles A. Tamburro (miscellaneous crew), Ray Danton (director),
Plot: A kidnapping in Central Park followed by a near-kidnapping in Mike Hammer's neighborhood from a movie set brings Hammer into the fray. Hired to protect the young girl who was the near victim, Hammer follows the film crew to Hollywood. Once there, the girl is kidnapped and Hammer sets off in a mad search for her. In route he is led into an underground led by killers, gamblers, and a grim reminder of the Vietnam War.
Keywords: actress, character-name-in-title, filmmaking, first-person-narrative, gambler, grand-canyon, kidnapping, los-angeles-california, mike-hammer, new-yorkActors: Stacy Keach (actor), Don Stroud (actor), Gary Nelson (director), Grady Hunt (costume designer), Kirk Cameron (actor), Daniel H. Blatt (producer), Robert Singer (producer), John Hancock (actor), Danny Goldman (actor), Earle Hagen (composer), Richard Romanus (actor), Terry Terrill (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Downing (writer), Louis H. Goldstein (miscellaneous crew), Denny Miller (actor),
Plot: Hammer is asked to be a bodyguard for a high-rolling poker player, a job which he refuses. The game is robbed by two masked gunmen. The men parachute down to the ground but are stopped by Hammer's friend Captain Pat Chambers. However, he is shot in the back by a third gunman and put in hospital seriously wounded. Pat was tipped off about a drug deal but his informant is then killed. When drugs are found in Pat's car, it is part of a plan to frame him. Hammer is determined to clear him, find the shooters and the drug dealers as the bodies pile up.
Keywords: body-building, dirty-money, drugs, fistfight, fitness-gym, investigation, mike-hammer, murder, narration, neo-noirActors: Don Stroud (actor), Tom Atkins (actor), Delta Burke (actress), Michelle Phillips (actress), Gary Nelson (director), Grady Hunt (costume designer), Lana Wood (producer), Stacy Keach (actor), Jonathan Banks (actor), Charlie Picerni (actor), Timothy Stack (actor), Bert Rosario (actor), Madison Arnold (actor), Earle Hagen (composer), Ric Mancini (actor),
Plot: Hammer is called before a Grand Jury by the only girl he ever proposed to, Chris Jameson. She wants him to protect her as she is to testify in a case against the Vance Helicopter Company for selling secrets to countries on the banned list. Chris also tells Hammer that he has a daughter, Michelle. When Chris is murder in the Grand Jury room Hammer is determined to find her killers and his daughter. There is a twist when Jack Vance tries to hire Hammer, and another one when he finds out his daughter appears to have been a porn star. However, his daughter has disappeared. There are more twists and turns before Hammer brings the case to a conclusion.
Keywords: courier, courier-service, death, detective, father-daughter-relationship, grand-jury, illegitimate-daughter, mike-hammer, murder, porn-industryActors: Bill Conti (composer), Larry Cohen (writer), Marlene Willoughby (actress), Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Candida Royalle (actress), Al Cerullo (miscellaneous crew), Paul Sorvino (actor), Alan King (actor), Roger Caine (actor), Larry Pine (actor), Armand Assante (actor), Bobby Astyr (actor), Samantha Fox (actress), Jim McCarthy (miscellaneous crew), Brandon Pender (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: An old friend of a private detective is murdered. The detective, Mike Hammer, will make every effort to find out the killer. At each step he does, there is someone taking advantage of his progress.
Keywords: adulterous-wife, adultery, apartment-building, assault, attraction, bare-breasts, bare-butt, based-on-novel, beating, bedroomActors: Charles A. Tamburro (actor), John Considine (actor), Kevin Dobson (actor), John Alderman (actor), Charles Hallahan (actor), Nelson Riddle (composer), Charlie Picerni (actor), Cindy Pickett (actress), Floyd Levine (actor), Larry A. Thompson (producer), John Woodcock (editor), Katia Christine (actress), Renata Vanni (actress), Asher Brauner (actor), Robert Hamner (producer),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Marlin Skiles (composer), Jeffrey Sayre (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), Victor Saville (producer), Robert Bray (actor), George White (director), Fred Essler (actor), George Cisar (actor), Booth Colman (actor), Claire Carleton (actress), Peter Mamakos (actor), Frank Mills (actor), John Dennis (actor), Victor Saville (miscellaneous crew), Frank Sullivan (editor),
Plot: A private detective helps a prostitute being assaulted, and notices that she is wearing a very unique ring. She is later found murdered and there is no trace of the ring, which turns out to be part of a cache of jewelry stolen by the Nazis during World War II and smuggled out of France after the wary by an American army colonel. The private eye decides to try to find the ring, is hired by the former colonel to find the rest of the jewels, and runs up against a murderous French gang that is also looking for the jewels.
Keywords: american, b-movie, based-on-novel, beach-house, blonde, collaboration, collection, confession, deaf-mute, detectiveActors: Ronald R. Rondell (actor), Frank Richards (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Joe Besser (actor), Roy Engel (actor), Preston Foster (actor), Jim Hayward (actor), Colin Kenny (actor), Nestor Paiva (actor), Gil Perkins (actor), Tom Powers (actor), John Qualen (actor), Alan Reed (actor), Wally Rose (actor),
Plot: It's nearly Christmas, but Mike Hammer is on the vengeance trail when Jack, his wartime buddy, is murdered. Hotheaded Hammer sets out to find the killer, working his way through an increasingly large pile of suspects (and corpses). Along the way, he meets a new love interest, psychologist Charlotte Manning, a treacherous Santa, a gangster named Kalecki, and two weird sisters, the Bellamy twins.
Keywords: 3-dimensional, based-on-novel, death-of-friend, femme-fatale, hero-kills-a-woman, mike-hammer, murder, murderess, private-detective, private-eye