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David Roland Cook (born December 20, 1982) is an American rock singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after winning the seventh season of the reality television show American Idol. Prior to Idol he released an independent album entitled Analog Heart, followed by his post-Idol major-label debut David Cook which was released on November 18, 2008 and has since been certified platinum by the RIAA. His second major album This Loud Morning was released on June 28, 2011.
Cook was born in Houston, Texas, raised in Blue Springs, Missouri, and currently owns homes in Kansas City, Missouri and Los Angeles, California. His parents are Beth Foraker (née Frye) and Stanley Cook. He is the middle of three brothers – Adam Cook being older and Andrew younger. He is of German, Irish, and English descent.
Cook's interest in music began at a young age. He began singing in second grade, when his elementary school music teacher gave him a part in a school Christmas performance. He proceeded to perform in virtually every Christmas and PTA program. He received his first guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, at the age of 13. He also participated in choir and drama programs in middle school and high school. At Blue Springs South High School, he performed in musicals, including The Music Man, West Side Story, and Singin' in the Rain. In addition to this, he was an active member in the Blue Springs South High School National Forensics League (or NFL), where he qualified for the national tournament twice for duo interpretation, an event that relies on performance and interpretation of a literary work.
Actors: Adam Baldwin (actor), Ben Cross (actor), Henry Czerny (actor), Rick Parker (miscellaneous crew), Ron Oliver (miscellaneous crew), Byron A. Martin (miscellaneous crew), Randy Kennedy (miscellaneous crew), Nick Rotundo (editor), Ruth Secord (costume designer), Dave Thomas (actor), Paul Zaza (composer), Ellen Dubin (actress), Shannon Tweed (actress), Lenore Zann (actress), Peter R. Simpson (producer),
Plot: Mark Cahill is a good family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. Mark also happens to be a hit man who is haunted by his last victim, a blonde, who keeps appearing in his bedroom at the worst of times. His life becomes even more complicated when he becomes caught up in the schemes of two business partners, one of the partner's spouse and her boyfriend(s).
Keywords: adulterous-wife, adultery, affair, assumed-dead, attempted-murder, bare-breasts, bare-butt, bathtub, blonde, bloodActors: Lynton Brent (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Richard Cramer (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), John Gallaudet (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Henry Hall (actor),
Plot: Republic, in pre-production trade announcements, had John Wayne slated as the star of this film but cooler heads, once the script was read, realized that Wayne wasn't exactly the dual-role, twin brothers type. The film opens by establishing that, as young boys, David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, Tom goes to New Mexico to live with his Uncle Hardtack while David remains behind to care for their mother. The grown Tom becomes an outlaw while brother David becomes a government lawman. David is charged with apprehending Tom and also two other renegades, Hardman and Marsden, both bitter enemies of Tom. Unable to arrest Tom in his home territory because he is in league with crooked sheriff McDaniels. Tom is lured home by a fake telegram telling him his mother is dying and put in jail. David, posing as Tom, goes to Mesa City, New Mexico and undertakes a campaign to obtain evidence to convict Hardman and Marsden. He persuades the latter to pool their interests in one gang, under his leadership. Tom had been romancing Phyllis O'Conover, an entertainer at the Bonanza Cafe, and Phyllis' older sister, Julie, has been working hard to break up the romance. David, posing as Tom, has to continue the pursuit of Phyllis, but finds himself falling in love with Julie. Julie learns Tom's real identity and agrees to marry him but Phyllis, thinking her sister is taking from her the man she believes to be Tom Cook, threatens suicide. The broken-hearted Julie urges David to marry Phyllis and David, much against his own desires, carries out Julie's wishes. Meanwhile, Hardman, Marsden and McDaniel have discovered David's real identity and plot to get rid of him. And in another meanwhile, Tom escapes, returns to town and, finding that Phyllis has married David, kills her for what seems to him to be her unfaithfulness, never mind that she thought David was Tom. Some days, a good girl just can't get a break. Tom and the other outlaws are lined up against David in a gun battle when Pima, Tom's Indian servant, who has long hated him for his cruelties, brings a large force of Indians to David's aid. Tom attempts to kill David, but Uncle Hardtack shoots him first. Some days, a bad guy just can't get a break either.
Keywords: adult-illiteracy, american-indian, arrow-in-the-back, assumed-identity, b-western, beating, budding-romance, campfire, cavalry, civil-weddingI'm taken just the way you are
Imperfect words inside the perfect song
I feel you closer than you are
But I've been waiting far too long, too long
It's my declaration to anyone who's listening
You're my inspiration as I stand alone against the world
'Cause you love and you bleed and you stole my soul to set me free
It's my declaration
Do you care what I believe 'cause I'm still breathing
Or that I wear your heart upon my sleeve?
Sometimes I think you never knew
The only truth I see is you, is you
It's my declaration to anyone who's listening
You're my inspiration as I stand alone against the world
'Cause you love and you bleed and you stole my soul to set me free
It's my declaration
Are there any words to say that I would ever mean enough?
When the light runs from the day will the darkness be too much?
Will I ever be enough?
It's my declaration to anyone who's listening
You're my inspiration as I stand alone against the world
'Cause you love and you bleed and you stole my soul to set me free
It's my declaration
So tell me you can hear these words tonight