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Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Her second studio album, Folklore, was released. It was less commercially successful in the US but produced three international singles: "Powerless (Say What You Want)", "Try", and "Força" (the theme of the 2004 European Football Championship). Her third studio album, Loose was her biggest success worldwide. It produced the number-one hits "Promiscuous", "Maneater", "Say It Right" and "All Good Things (Come to an End)". After a three-year break, she released her first full-length Spanish album, Mi Plan. For Mi Plan, Furtado received the Latin Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. Furtado's fourth English-language studio album, The Spirit Indestructible, is set for release on September 18, 2012.
Michio Kaku (加来 道雄, Kaku Michio?, born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, a co-founder of string field theory, a futurist, and a "communicator" and "popularizer" of science. He has written several books about physics and related topics; he has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film; and he writes extensive online blogs and articles. He has written two New York Times best sellers, Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011). He has hosted several TV specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery Channel, and the Science Channel.
Kaku was born in San Jose, California to Japanese immigrant parents. His grandfather came to the United States to take part in the clean-up operation after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake[citation needed]. His father was born in California but was educated in Japan and spoke little English. Both his parents were put in the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, where they met and where his two brothers were born.
Actors: William Butler (writer), Victoria De Mare (actress), Mindy Robinson (actress), Charles Band (producer), Charles Band (director), Timothy A. Bennett (actor), Mindy Robinson (actress), Tommy Chong (actor), John Karyus (actor), Gary Busey (actor), Sonny Carl Davis (actor), Peter Stickles (actor), Leroy Patterson (miscellaneous crew), Leroy Patterson (miscellaneous crew), Amy Paffrath (actress),
Plot: It's a War of the Colossal Freaks when serial killing cookie, GINGERDEAD MAN, tracks down the lone survivor of his murderous rampage, SARAH LEIGH (Robin Sydney), to take care of unfinished business. But his devious plans go up in smoke when Sarah meets LARNELL (John Patrick Jordan), who has a pint-sized problem of his own. The EVIL BONG, EEBEE, has been unleashed once again. Bodies begin to pile up as Gingerdead Man carves a path for them. Their only salvation is to turn to help from the dastardly Bong. It's one tough cookie versus one bad trip mother when the two Titans of Terror hash out a war in the Bong World. The stakes have never been higher.
Keywords: bong, gingerbread-manActors: Amy Irving (actress), Michael Ontkean (actor), Viveca Lindfors (actress), John Herzfeld (writer), Allan Rich (actor), Alex Rocco (actor), Bill Baldwin (actor), Raymond Serra (actor), Tony Munafo (actor), Robert Markowitz (director), Joe Wizan (producer), John Boxer (costume designer), Danford B. Greene (editor), Thom Christopher (actor), Barry Miller (actor),
Genres: Drama, Music, Romance,Actors: Frank Cady (actor), Franklin Parker (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Nacho Galindo (actor), Ralph Byrd (actor), Sumner Getchell (actor), Ned Glass (actor), Dick Gordon (actor), Edward Hearn (actor), Darryl Hickman (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Frank Mills (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Charles Perry (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery,Actors: Ernie Adams (actor), Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Roy Brent (actor), Frank Albertson (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Jimmie Dodd (actor), David Durand (actor), Ben Erway (actor), William Gould (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Robert F. Hill (actor), Harry Holman (actor),
Plot: Tommy Banning ('Bobby Jordan (I)' (qv)) and his pals,"Pig" ('Huntz Hall' (qv)), "Ape" ('Norman Abbott (I)' (qv)) and "String" ('Gabriel Dell (I)' (qv)) have jobs in a department store where store executive Frank Moulto ('Frank Albertson (I)' (qv)) is romantically attracted to Sheila Banning ('Evelyn Ankers' (qv)), Tommy's sister. Frank is also secretly involved with a gang of truck hijackers. When a load of silk is to be hi-jacked, he tries to involve Tommy in the theft, but Tommy rejects his proposition. Frank frames Tommy with the theft of some jewelry. Tommy is jailed and his friends are fired. Tommy is befriended by Jerry ('Don Terry (I)' (qv)), who also has an interest in Sheila, but Sheila remains loyal to Frank without knowing of his criminal activities. Released on bail, Tommy follows Frank to a warehouse where the gang is plotting to hi-jack one of the store's trucks. Tommy rounds up his pals and they return to the warehouse and the slug'em donnybrook is on.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, archive-footage, arrest, b-movie, bail, brawl, brother, brother-sister-relationship, crookActors: Ernie Adams (actor), Eddie Parker (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), John Bagni (actor), Edward Norris (actor), Paul Fix (actor), William Forrest (actor), William Gould (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), William Hall (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Sid Melton (actor), Jed Prouty (actor),
Plot: Steve Bell ('Tommy Kelly (I)' (qv)), Tommy 'Billy Halop' (qv)), Pig 'Huntz Hall' (qv)), Ape ('Bernard Punsly' (qv)) and String ('Gabriel Dell (I)' (qv) are run out of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell ('Virginia Brissac' (qv)) and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward ('Jed Prouty' (qv)). Steve's brother Don Bell ('Dick Hogan')is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall-guy in the next hijacking.
Keywords: 1940s, archive-footage, b-movie, black-out, brakeman, brother, car-chase, cigarette-smoking, dead-end-kids, death-of-brotherActors: Bernard W. Burton (editor), Paul Kelly (actor), Clarence Muse (actor), George Offerman Jr. (actor), Jack C. Smith (actor), Virginia Brissac (actress), Theresa Harris (actress), Helen Parrish (actress), Ken Goldsmith (producer), Vera West (costume designer), William Nigh (director), Paul E. Burns (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Frank Faylen (actor),
Plot: This entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys" series is minus "The Little Tough Guys" and has only four members of "The Dead End Kids" gang. Consequently, "The Little Tough Guys" are not working for a finance company,and, for that matter, neither are the "Dead End Kids" as a group. Tommy Clark is the only one of the group that includes Pig, aka Albert , Ape and String, gainfully employed in any manner and he is working for a crooked finance company that charges the borrowers 36% interest (compounded) and more, and is constantly repossessing radios, furniture, taxi cabs and anything else the poor people of the slums buy on time payments. Tommy, who went to work for the company because the job paid more than a trainee's job he was offered in the District Attorney's office, finally sees the light and turns "stolen" evidence from the finance company over to the D.A's office.
Keywords: 1940s, archive-footage, bowery-manhattan-new-york-city, collector, crook, crusader, district-attorney, evidence, finance, friendshipActors: Vera West (costume designer), Hal E. Chester (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Charles R. Moore (actor), Bernard W. Burton (editor), Edward Pawley (actor), Joe May (director), Charles Sullivan (actor), Evelyn Ankers (actress), Eily Malyon (actress), Ken Goldsmith (producer), John Harmon (actor), Shemp Howard (actor),
Plot: Tommy ('Billy Halop' (qv)), "Pig ('Huntz Hall' (qv))," "String('Gabriel Dell (I)' (qv))," and "Ape ('Bernard Punsly' (qv))" are all inmates of a reform school, along with little "Pesky" ('Bobs Watson' (qv)),and they are orphan sons of deceased members of the Valentine Gang which was wiped out by Spike the Butcher (edward Pawley') and his gang a few years earlier. The only survivor of the Valentine gang was Valentine and he was sent to prison. Later the boys are paroled to the custody of a man using the name of James J. Ryan ('Barton MacLane' (qv)), but Ryan is really Valentine, who has served his sentence, and is living quietly on a stock ranch with his wife Mary Ryan ('Gladys George' (qv)). Ryan (now reformed) is trying to raise $50,000 to build a trade school to help unfortunate boys. But Tom isn't all reformed yet and meets up with a stranger who enlists him in a conspiracy to steal the money. The stranger turns out to be none other than Spike the Butcher, the man responsible for killing Tom's and the other four boy's fathers. Tom raises a stink when he learns who Spike the Butcher really is, but Spike locks Tom and the others in a basement and goes off to kill Valentine/Ryan and steal the trade-school money.
Keywords: 1940s, adoption, b-movie, basement, benefit, california, chauffeur, conspiracy, criminal, crookActors: Tom Steele (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Eddie Parker (actor), James Flavin (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Shemp Howard (actor), Bobby Jordan (actor), Victor Jory (actor), Milton Kibbee (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Milburn Stone (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama,Actors: Bobby Jordan (actor), Joe King (actor), Henry Armetta (actor), Cliff Clark (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Hal E. Chester (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Martin Faust (actor), David Gorcey (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Spade Cooley (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Arthur Loft (actor),
Plot: The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
Keywords: farm-worker, little-tough-guysActors: Samuel S. Hinds (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Eddie Hall (actor), David Gorcey (actor), Jack Carr (actor), Hal E. Chester (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Mark Daniels (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Hooper Atchley (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Robert Homans (actor),
Plot: The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
Keywords: little-tough-guys, sequel