Nebraska (i/nəˈbræskə/) is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. Its state capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River.
The state is crossed by many historic trails, but it was the California Gold Rush that first brought large numbers here, and it became a state in 1867. Certain landmarks still compete for the notional distinction 'Where the West Begins'.
There are wide variations between winter and summer temperatures, and violent thunderstorms and tornadoes are common. The state is characterized by treeless prairie, ideal for cattle-grazing, and it is a major producer of beef, as well as pork, maize and soybeans. Nebraska is overwhelmingly rural, as the 8th least-densely populated state of the United States.
Ethnically, the largest group are German-Americans, and the state has the biggest Czech-American population per head. During the Great Migration, many African Americans came to Omaha, and they continue to campaign for improved conditions. More recently, Native American activism has increased, with a drive for self-determination in a climate of co-operation with state officials on regional issues. It is traditionally a Republican-voting state.
Plot
The fact-based true story of the rapid rise to fame and untimely death of Jessica Savitch - one of America's first female news anchors.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, accident, accidental-death, accidental-drowning, cocaine, death-of-unborn-child, divorce, drowning, drug-addict
Mel Korn: Everything will be alright.::Jessica Savitch: How can everything be alright Mel? There is no script! There's no script!::Mel Korn: Follow your instincts, what you know... and smile.
[after Jessica's off-air tirade]::Lady in control room: I haven't seen anything like her or that in my life. You talk about better living through chemistry.::Engineer Craig: Whatever she's on, that is a keeper.
Plot
It's Christmas Eve 1971 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and the regulars of the local gay bar "The Blue Jay" are celebrating. Not much has changed since Stonewall and its not all "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men" but the times are a changin.
Keywords: alcohol, bar, barroom-brawl, bartender, beating, belief-in-god, blood-on-face, brawl, christmas-decorations, christmas-eve
They're cool, flip, witty and charming, talented, creative, intelligent and lonely.
Plot
A laconic drifter, who calls himself Nebraska, is hired as a ranch hand by Marthy Hillman and his wife Kay who are under pressure from a ruthless landowner, named Bill Carson, who extorts money from the ranchers. When Carson sets his sights on Kay, Nebraska eventually decides not to stay out of it and plans to save Hillman from Carson's men and rescue Kay.
Keywords: bar-shootout, cowboy, pistol, ranch, rifle, shootout, spaghetti-western, wild-west
Plot
Kate Diamond owns the Roaring Falls Trading Post from where she directs her gang's gun-smuggling to the Indians. After she short-changes smuggler Stacey, his men attempt to steal the hidden guns, and attack her foreman Nebraska, but he is saved by Jimmy and "Cannonball" on their way to file a homestead claim at Canyon City. Jimmy renews a long acquaintance with Sheriff Harris and his daughter Jessica. The sheriff is wounded by half-breed Danny when he finds a rifle hidden in the latter's wagon, but Jimmy captures the outlaw, a go-between for Kate and the Indians.Wounded and in bed, Sheriff Harris ask Jimmy not to tell Jessica that she is only adopted and that Nebraska is really her father, although he believes her to be dead. Danny is allowed to escape and Jimmy follows him to Kate's trading post where she kills him, pretending self-defense in order to allay Jimmy's suspicions. Kate persuades Jessica to take Harris to another doctor in Lansing, so she can secretly hide the guns in the wagon and get through the blockade Jimmy has set up on all the roads.
Keywords: adopted-daughter, b-movie, b-western, capture, clue, contraband, daughter, doctor, escape, father-daughter-relationship
HE'S THE BAD-MEDICINE MAN OF UNTAMED INDIAN TERRITORY! Singin' Jimmy throws a six-gun band on every renegade of the wild frontier (original poster)
SINGIN' JIMMY'S SLINGIN' LEAD...in trigger round-up of frontier smuggler gang! (original poster)
Gun-Justice...for Frontier Renegades!
GUN-TROUBLE IN INDIAN TERRITORY! Singin' Jimmy Blasts Ruthless Smuggler Gang!
Plot
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Keywords: based-on-novel, based-on-play, buddy, cattle, character-name-in-title, cowboy, foreman, friendly-rival, friendship, frontier-justice
The All-Time Best-Selling Love Story of the West... Now On the Screen In Spectacular Technicolor!
Steve Andrews: A fine way to treat a lady!::Virginian: How was I to know she was a lady? She was with you, wasn't she?
Virginian: When you call me that, smile.::Trampas: With a gun against my belly, I always smile.
I saw her standin on her front lawn just twirlin her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died
From the town of lincoln nebraska with a sawed-off .410 on my lap
Through to the badlands of wyoming I killed everything in my path
I can't say that Im sorry for the things that we done
At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun
The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the judge he sentenced me to death
Midnight in a prison storeroom with leather straps across my chest
Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor neck back
You make sure my pretty baby is sittin right there on my lap
They declared me unfit to live said into that great void my sould
Be hurled
They wanted to know why I did what I did
Yeah what are you waiting for
Why don't you just hurry up and go
Come on tear up and sweat for me
And kiss me
One more time
Because we knew you were better
Yes when you were out there on your own
And somewhere inside you
You were always getting up the nerve
Planning out your exit
Taking one deep breath to fake your forgiveness
And then walking out to fight fear
And her glorious roar
Yeah so go then
Just leave myself to me
Cause I got where I am
By getting back on my feet
Look at me I'm tough as nails
And sure I can stand up and sing back the wind
But my strength is in my soul
And unlike you my love
My soul it lives
Under my skin
Under my skin
Under my skin
Under your nerves baby
Hey I've been under your hands haven't I?
And I'm sorry to say
That your body
It just don't work for me nomore
Cause you've got me sick in the throat
Because it knows that I've been up here lying
Just trying to save face by smiling
When inside my heart looks like a disaster?
Like blown out semi tires
All over Nebraska
And I am
So far from a sure fire bet
You could give me a mile head start and
I'd still lose the race
Yeah so go then
Just leave myself to me
Cause I got where I am
By getting right back up on my feet
Look at me I'm tough as nails
And sure I can stand up here and sing back the wind
But my strength is in my soul
And unlike you my love
Unlike you
My soul it lives
Under my skin
Under my skin
Under my skin
Yeah so what are you waiting for boy
Why don't you just hurry up pack up all your stuff and
Come on tear up and sweat for me
And kiss me one more time
sing to me
sing to me
just twirlin' her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir
and ten innocent people died
hey mike i wish i could help you figure something out
but it's been too long since we spoke
your sarcasm radiates unhappiness
so withdrawn and rooted deep inside
are you content at twenty-seven
were you hopeful at 17?
a void the size of oceans stretches out between us
i guess our blood is suppose to be a bridge
can you pull yourself up from this self hatred
can you pull yourself up
frustrations driven you to angry dreams
let nebraska disappear in golden flames of grain
i know you can't imagine having company right now
there's a world of tired faces that understand this pain
there's a better life waiting on the outside
of these decaying walls
your bitterness doesn't surprise me
as these pointless days go screaming by
rejected sour eyes can't imagine blue skies
i wish you could find something to live for
besides the agony of bleeding towards the last breath
i truly believe that you want more than this (this is killing you)
that what you want is very simple
somehow so complex to get
It seems like I should know better
I guess I don't know much
When I'm alone I'm everything
But I'm not well beneath it all
Stop staring over my shoulder
Just let me breathe in peace now
Cause all I ask for is a....date
One date to shine
One date to leave it all behind
One date, yea!
One date to myself
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
It seems like I should know better
I guess I don't know much
When I'm alone I'm everything
But I'm not well beneath it all
Stop staring over my shoulder
Just let me breathe in peace now
Cause all I ask for is a....
One date to shine
One date to leave it all behind
One date, yea!
One date to myself
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
One date to shine
One date to leave it all behind
One date, yea, yea, yea!
One date to myself
There's a train running through Nebraska
There's a cold running through my veins
And as far as I can see
It's all white there could no one be
There's a boy running through Nebraska
And it's cold in the kitchen I make some tea
For the rainy day's sake
And as far as my thoughts go
I see you running down the streets in some
Doomed town far away
And I ran my lonely way
I would die to catch on the train today
But you ran down the other way
(for the guilt of the wrongly prayed prayers)
There's a fire running through Nebraska
And it's cold in the kitchen I make some tea
For them rainy days I'd have loved to spend with you
I was lucky enough to escape in the nick of
Time will mitigate all wounds but I
Miss you anyway
And I ran my lonely way
I would've died to catch you on the train
That day
But we're both hurt
If there was just somehow
I think I should go now
I'm going to Nebraska
I'm leaving tomorrow
I'll purchase grasslands
Good luck to you all
If there was just somehow
Switch off the whole town
Undo the tied wound
To redo it all
I'm going to Nebraska
Cause my head's in the grasslands
Though my feet are not even
To stand in the ground
I'm going to Nebraska
I'm leaving tomorrow
I'll purchase some aspirin
Good luck to you all
If there was just somehow
Switch off the power
And re-root the wiring
We'd all have a ball
I'm going to Nebraska
Cause I long for the grasslands
Get a job as a ranch hand
Good luck to you all
I'm catching a greyhound
I'm bent on the eastbound
Can't wait for my new town
Good luck to you all
I'm catching a greyhound
I'm bent on the eastbound
Won't be coming back 'round
Good luck to you all
Superthick chunks of a broken life and reality
At the dinner table come to me
I said goodbye my friend my exit's here,
The road's so long, a million miles or so,
Too much for me I got to go,
My navigator's here.
They say it's nice this time of year,
They say it's nice this time of year,
They say it's nice this time of year on Jupiter,
Except for the meteors (if you dont mind the meteors)
And Nebraska's so flat that I don't care,
I'll never use this map, have I made it clear
I don't know jack but I'll stay sincere,
Whoa-oh my navigator's here
Superthick chunks of broken light in the Milky Way
You never know if they're burning bright
In Anchorage the sun's up about half the night,
Half the day and most of the time
The sun burns bright all the time
Then the winter comes
And They say it's nice this time of year,
They say it's nice this time of year,
They say it's nice this time of year in Anchorage,
Except for the Polar bears (if you don't mind the frozen bears)
And Nebraska's so flat that I don't care
I'll never use this map, have I made it clear
I don't know jack but I'll stay sincere
Whoa-oh my navigator's here
(Talk-box solo)
They say it's nice this time of year,
They say it's nice this time of year,
They say it's nice this time of year on Jupiter
Except for the meteors (if you don't mind the meteors)
(2x)
And Nebraska's so flat that I don't care
I'll never use this map, have I made it clear
I don't know jack but I'll stay sincere
Whoa-oh my navigator's here